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John Rawlings Investigates: Books 13-16
(2020)(A book in the John Rawlings series)
An omnibus of novels by Deryn Lake
Our hero, the apothecary-detective John Rawlings, faces four new mysteries in this latest box set in the classic Georgian crime series from Deryn Lake
Based on real historic events and institutions such as the notorious and secretive Hellfire Club, Deryn Lake's accomplished series continues in these four gripping mysteries.
From a brutal murder in an inn to a vision about an evil woman at a wedding, a mystery over an inheritance of diamonds, and a dead body found in a river in the middle of civil unrest in the American colonies.
The Rawlings novels are richly atmospheric and compelling Georgian mysteries woven around the real characters of John Fielding, the phenomenal sightless magistrate known as the ‘Blind Beak’, whose Runners formed London’s early police force; and John Rawlings, the Apothecary reputed to have invented soda water.
‘A wealth of marvellous characters parade across the pages, their dialogue is lively and John Rawlings is proving to be a real charmer’ - Eastbourne Herald
‘An effervescent tale... the author organises her large cast and colourful background with skill and gusto through a racily readable drama’ - Felicia Lamb in the Mail on Sunday’s Night & Day Magazine
Deryn Lake started to write stories at the age of five, then graduated to novels but destroyed all her early work because, she says, it was hopeless. A chance meeting with one of the Getty family took her to Sutton Place and her first serious novel was born. Deryn was married to a journalist and writer, the late L. F. Lampitt, has two grown-up children, four beautiful and talented grandchildren, and one rather large cat. Deryn has lived near the famous battlefield of 1066 for the past 16 years where she enjoys her life as a woman about town. She is also the author of Fortune’s Soldier, Sutton Place, To Sleep No More, The King’s Women and Pour The Dark Wine.
Genre: Historical Mystery
Based on real historic events and institutions such as the notorious and secretive Hellfire Club, Deryn Lake's accomplished series continues in these four gripping mysteries.
From a brutal murder in an inn to a vision about an evil woman at a wedding, a mystery over an inheritance of diamonds, and a dead body found in a river in the middle of civil unrest in the American colonies.
The Rawlings novels are richly atmospheric and compelling Georgian mysteries woven around the real characters of John Fielding, the phenomenal sightless magistrate known as the ‘Blind Beak’, whose Runners formed London’s early police force; and John Rawlings, the Apothecary reputed to have invented soda water.
Praise for Deryn Lake’s John Rawlings Mysteries:
‘A wealth of marvellous characters parade across the pages, their dialogue is lively and John Rawlings is proving to be a real charmer’ - Eastbourne Herald
‘An effervescent tale... the author organises her large cast and colourful background with skill and gusto through a racily readable drama’ - Felicia Lamb in the Mail on Sunday’s Night & Day Magazine
Deryn Lake started to write stories at the age of five, then graduated to novels but destroyed all her early work because, she says, it was hopeless. A chance meeting with one of the Getty family took her to Sutton Place and her first serious novel was born. Deryn was married to a journalist and writer, the late L. F. Lampitt, has two grown-up children, four beautiful and talented grandchildren, and one rather large cat. Deryn has lived near the famous battlefield of 1066 for the past 16 years where she enjoys her life as a woman about town. She is also the author of Fortune’s Soldier, Sutton Place, To Sleep No More, The King’s Women and Pour The Dark Wine.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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