Deryn Lake

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1994
  • Latest Book:
    May 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A John Rawlings Mystery

1 - Death in the Dark Walk (Jan-1994)
2 - Death at the Beggar's Opera (Jan-1995)
3 - Death at the Devil's Tavern (Jan-1996)
4 - Death on the Romney Marsh (Jan-1998)
5 - Death in the Peerless Pool (Jan-1999)
6 - Death at Apothecaries' Hall (Oct-2000)
7 - Death in the West Wind (Sep-2001)
8 - Death at St. James's Palace (Nov-2002)
9 - Death in the Valley of Shadows (Nov-2003)
10 - Death in the Setting Sun (Mar-2005)
11 - Death and the Cornish Fiddler (Apr-2006)
12 - Death in Hellfire (Mar-2008)
13 - Death and the Black Pyramid (Jul-2009)
14 - Death at the Wedding Feast (Dec-2011)
15 - Death on the Rocks (Apr-2014)
16 - Death at the Boston Tea Party (Aug-2016)
17 - Death on the River Thames (May-2022)

A Nick Lawrence Mystery

1 - The Mills of God (Jul-2010)
2 - Dead on Cue (Feb-2013)
3 - The Moonlit Door (Mar-2015)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Death in the Dark Walk

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 1

    Having just finished his indentures, Rawlings is celebrating at Vaux Hall Pleasure Gardens when he trips over the body of a young girl. Summoned to the magistrate's office as prime suspect, Rawlings not only clears his own name but impresses Fielding...

  • Death at the Beggar's Opera

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 2

    John Rawlings, the apothecary with a talent for detective work, and John Fielding, the phenomenal blind magistrate whose Runners formed London's early police force, make a welcome return in this evocative Georgian mystery. John Rawlings is among the ...

  • Death at the Devil's Tavern

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 3

    John Rawlings, the exuberant young apothecary, is celebrating in The Devil's Tavern, a popular if notorious haunt for sailors and smugglers. Stumbling across a corpse that has been fished out of the Thames, he identifies it as Sir William Hartfield, ...

  • Death on the Romney Marsh

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 4

    Summoned to attend a patient in a house near the lonely Romney Marsh, Rawlings does not suspect that he is walking into a web of conspiracy, intrigue and mystery. Until he discovers a body near a deserted church, bearing a coded document. Rawlings re...

  • Death in the Peerless Pool

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 5

    John Rawlings, London's most colourful apothecary and occasional sleuth, is relaxing at the popular swimming baths, the Peerless Pool, when his peace is shattered by the alarming discovery of a drowned woman. The victim is identified as Hannah Rankin...

  • Death at Apothecaries' Hall

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 6

    The scene was an exact replica of the one that had taken place twenty-four hours earlier. John Rawlings stood in the shop at Apothecaries' Hall buying the herb known as true-love. The only difference was that both he and the shop owner were buzzing w...

  • Death in the West Wind

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 7

    Devon, April 1759...Newlyweds John Rawlings and Emilia are spending their honeymoon touring the mysterious county of Devon. Arriving in the remote hamlet of Sidmouth, where John wants to sample the health-giving benefits of sea bathing, he and his br...

  • Death at St. James's Palace

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 8

    Death at St James's Palace is the eighth novel the highly acclaimed Georgian mystery series featuring sleuthing apothecary, John Rawlings. In 1761, famous magistrate John Fielding is to be honoured with a knighthood. Founder of the Runners, London's ...

  • Death in the Valley of Shadows

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 9

    Preparing to become a father for the very first time, Apothecary John Rawlings leaves the heavily pregnant Emilia occupied with maternal matters and turns his attention to his business, rather neglected of late. Working in the shop one early afternoo...



  • Death in the Setting Sun

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 10

    John Rawlings has never been happier. His apothecary business is doing well and he is blissfully content with his charming wife and adorable little daughter. Little does he know that his settled life is soon to be tragically shaken off course . . .An...

  • The Governor's Ladies

    The year is 1775 and the town of Boston, Massachusetts is seething with unrest, as the War of Independence is about to erupt. Having risen through the ranks to become a colonel, Thomas Gage has known many battles in his time. For years he believed he...

  • Death and the Cornish Fiddler

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 11

    The spring of 1765 brings a welcome sense of recovery to the recently widowed Apothecary John Rawlings, but his tentative peace of mind does not last for long: a young child disappears in strange circumstances at the Hellstone Floral Dance and a seem...

  • The King's Women

    France in the Middle Ages, is a country driven by power struggles and menaced by the might of England’s King Henry V. At the country’s head stood a frightened youth, the Dauphin Charles, who is destined to become the most victorious king of all â...

  • Death in Hellfire

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 12

    When John Rawlings is asked to investigate a secret club and some shady goings-on, he is intrigued. The disreputable Sir Francis Dashwood is believed to be involved, as well as some illustrious members of the British aristocracy. In disguise and acco...

  • Death and the Black Pyramid

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 13

    A John Rawlings Georgian mystery - Apothecary John Rawlings has been summoned to Devon by his beautiful but unpredictable mistress. Leaving his daughter Rose in the good care of her grandfather, Rawlings sets off for Exeter. His fellow stagecoach pas...

  • The Mills of God

    A Nick Lawrence Mystery - 1

    The sleepy, eccentric Sussex village of Lakehurst suddenly becomes a place of terror and night shadows. After dark, it is hardly safe to go out, to the consternation of the newly arrived Vicar, trendy young Nick Lawrence, and Inspector Dominic Tennan...

  • Death at the Wedding Feast

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 14

    Apothecary John Rawlings has travelled to Devon to be by the side of his mistress, Elizabeth di Lorenzi, who is due to give birth to their child. Leaving his shop -- and his new carbonated water business -- in good hands, John is presented with a...

  • Dead on Cue

    A Nick Lawrence Mystery - 2

    A new arrival to Lakehurst village can only mean trouble for Reverend Nick Lawrence . . . The residents of the sleepy Sussex village of Lakehurst are abuzz with the news of the arrival of Gerry Harlington, a flamboyant American actor and the new owne...

  • Death on the Rocks

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 15

    Apothecary John Rawlings is intrigued when a letter arrives asking him to investigate an impostor claiming to be the long-lost step-son of a wealthy Bristol merchant in possession of his dead wife's diamond inheritance. John Rawlings' father, Sir Gab...



  • The Moonlit Door

    A Nick Lawrence Mystery - 3

    A new puzzle for the Reverend Nick Lawrence... It is May in the sleepy village of Lakehurst, Sussex, and Nick Lawrence has organized a Medieval Fair, complete with maypole dancing, archers and Mr Grimm’s men, a group of Morris dancers. The fair ...

  • Death at the Boston Tea Party

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 16

    A new business opportunity in America leads to a case of cold-blooded murder for Apothecary John Rawlings 1773. Following a long and perilous journey, John Rawlings has arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, to pursue a new business venture. He finds ...

  • The Prince's Women

    'The world The Young Pretender inhabits is brought vividly to life' - Historical Novel SocietyIn this titillating but tender novel, based on eyebrow-raising letters found in the Royal Archives, comes the story of a man of Scottish legend. Charles Edw...

  • Death on the River Thames

    A John Rawlings Mystery - 17

    John Rawlings has returned to his beloved London after spending time in America where revolutionary trouble is dangerously brewing.Having made a substantial sum selling carbonated water, Rawlings buys a country house situated on the banks of the Tham...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Deryn Lake has published 23 books.

Deryn Lake does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death on the River Thames, was published in May 2022.

The first book by Deryn Lake, Death in the Dark Walk, was published in January 1994.

Yes. Deryn Lake has 2 series.
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