Deryn Lake Books in Order

Fresh from his apprenticeship, apothecary John Rawlings finds a murdered girl in Vauxhall Gardens and is briefly treated as the prime suspect. Clearing his name only places him deeper inside his first investigation.

During a performance at Drury Lane, the leading actor crashes to his death on stage. John Rawlings and Sir John Fielding dig into backstage rivalries, bruised egos, and private obsessions to find out who turned drama into murder.

Celebrating at the Devil's Tavern, John Rawlings comes across a corpse fished from the Thames and recognizes him as a missing bridegroom. The dead man's tangled family soon gives John more suspects than answers.

Called to a patient near the lonely Romney Marsh, John Rawlings stumbles into espionage as well as murder. A dead French spymaster, a coded paper, and a circle of local suspects make this one of his most atmospheric cases.

A summer swim ends in shock when John Rawlings discovers a woman's body hidden in the Peerless Pool. The trail leads him from London's pleasure grounds to darker places, including child theft and private madhouses.

An outbreak of food poisoning at a livery dinner leaves one apothecary dead and others under suspicion. Because John Rawlings knows the trade from the inside, he is perfectly placed to uncover vendettas and poison close to home.

On honeymoon in Devon, John Rawlings and Emilia expect romance and travel, not a battered corpse hanging from a ship's figurehead. A missing young man, local legend, and coastal secrets turn the trip into a grim inquiry.

At Sir John Fielding's investiture, a nobleman falls down the great staircase at St. James's Palace and dies. John Rawlings must investigate a killing that unfolded in front of a crowd, with the blind magistrate as the key witness.

A terrified wine merchant begs John Rawlings for help, convinced an obsessive former lover means to kill him. When the danger proves real, John is pulled into a case of jealousy, old secrets, and fatal fixation.

John Rawlings's settled family life is shaken when his wife joins a performance at Gunnersbury House. A guest is murdered at the royal entertainment, and John finds suspicion falling squarely on himself.

Recently widowed, John Rawlings travels to Cornwall with his daughter and his old flame Elizabeth, hoping for a change of scene. The disappearance of a local child turns the trip into a mournful and deeply personal investigation.

John Rawlings goes undercover to investigate Sir Francis Dashwood and the scandalous Hellfire Club. Aristocratic excess soon gives way to murder, and the deeper he goes, the harder it becomes to separate performance from real danger.

On a coach journey west, John Rawlings falls in with prizefighter Jack Beef, known as the Black Pyramid, and a suspicious group of fellow travellers. A killing at an inn traps everyone in a tense search for the murderer.

New vicar Nick Lawrence arrives in Lakehurst expecting parish worries, not murder. But when killings shake the village and taunting notes are left behind, Nick and DI Dominic Tennant have to find the hand behind the terror.

John Rawlings heads to Devon to see Elizabeth and their newborn twins, only to find celebration turning to slaughter at a society wedding. With Rose's eerie warning hanging over events, the case grows darker by the hour.

Lakehurst's amateur dramatic world is thrown into chaos when a flamboyant actor takes over a castle pageant. After a corpse turns up on opening night, Reverend Nick Lawrence finds himself drawn into another very public village scandal.

A wealthy Bristol man suspects that the stepson who has returned to claim an inheritance is an impostor and asks John Rawlings to prove it. Then a fatal fall turns the identity puzzle into a murder investigation.

A modern musician and a famous mistress of George III begin to sense one another across two centuries. Their strange connection turns into a time-slip story about longing, choice, and the ways love can echo through history.

When actress Nicola Hall undergoes regressive hypnosis, she is swept back into the life of a young woman in the seventeenth century. Modern danger and old desires collide as she faces love, duty, and a life-altering choice.

Four Seymour children make reckless wishes and grow up in the dangerous orbit of Henry VIII's court. Their rise brings status and power, but every triumph carries a price in this Tudor family saga.

Set during the Hundred Years' War, this novel looks at Joan of Arc, the Dauphin Charles, and the women who helped shape the fate of France. Court politics, prophecy, faith, and ambition all press in on the story.

A medieval fair should bring the Sussex village of Lakehurst together, but it ends in horror when an orphan boy is killed with an arrow. Reverend Nick Lawrence and DI Dominic Tennant uncover grief, secrets, and malice close to home.

Three love stories unfold in the same Sussex village across the medieval, Stuart, and Georgian eras. Witchcraft, smuggling, and heartbreak link the lives together in a haunting novel shaped by reincarnation.

John Rawlings reaches Boston in 1773 after shipwreck, delay, and political unrest. When a fellow traveller is found dead after the Tea Party, he must investigate in a city already close to open rebellion.

Young archaeologist Alison Pope joins a dig in Turkey and finds herself unsettled by both a charming colleague and visions no one else can see. Ancient desire and modern uncertainty meet at the ruins of Knidos.

Photographer Elizabeth Lacey has hidden a set of unsettling pictures for years, each one showing the same ghostly boys growing older. When her lover discovers them, the secret she has tried to contain starts pushing dangerously into the open.

Major Hugh Delamare marries the much younger Millicent and takes her to his island home, hoping for a calm new life. After a strange accident at sea, marriage, pregnancy, and folklore twist into something eerie and unsettling.

In fashionable Bath, Lady Arabella Wynter thinks she has seen a ghost in her father's new house. What follows is a short romantic time-slip that reaches back past the Georgian world toward the city's Roman past.

Helena has spent years haunted by a dream of a staircase and the man waiting at the top of it. A trip to Paris forces her to choose between ordinary life and a mystery that feels as if it has been calling her forever.

Rebecca and Greg think they have found the perfect flat in a converted Victorian house, complete with an enormous mirrored wardrobe. Then an old arsenic murder begins to echo into the present, and Rebecca fears the house remembers everything.

This collection gathers Deryn Lake's time-slip and supernatural romances in one volume. Ghosts, old houses, ancient ruins, and impossible connections thread through stories where the past refuses to stay quiet.

This historical novel follows Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie, through failed ambitions, restless love affairs, and the long shadow of the Jacobite cause. It gives equal weight to the women around him and to the bond with his daughter Charlotte.

Back in London after his American venture, John Rawlings buys a house beside the Thames and expects a quieter life. Instead, a child's claim that she was pushed and a theatre-side death pull him into another tangled Georgian murder case.

Delia Paget takes a wardrobe job with a touring theatre company and starts seeing visions linked to the great singer Jenny Lind. Past and present romances begin to mirror each other in a rich, music-filled time-slip tale.