Dinah Lampitt Books in Order
Browse the Dinah Lampitt books by Deryn Lake, with summaries, historical background, and quick help choosing the right standalone to start with.
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Dinah Lampitt books in publication order
37 books
Death in the Dark Walk
by Dinah Lampitt
1994
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.
Death at the Beggar's Opera
by Dinah Lampitt
1995
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.
Death at the Devil's Tavern
by Dinah Lampitt
1996
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.
Death on the Romney Marsh
by Dinah Lampitt
1998
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.
Death in the Peerless Pool
by Dinah Lampitt
1999
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.
Death at Apothecaries' Hall
by Dinah Lampitt
2000
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.
Death in the West Wind
by Dinah Lampitt
2001
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.
Death at St. James's Palace
by Dinah Lampitt
2002
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.
Death in the Valley of Shadows
by Dinah Lampitt
2003
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.
Death in the Setting Sun
by Dinah Lampitt
2004
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.
Death and the Cornish Fiddler
by Dinah Lampitt
2006
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.
Death in Hellfire
by Dinah Lampitt
2007
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.
Death and the Black Pyramid
by Dinah Lampitt
2009
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.
The Mills of God
by Dinah Lampitt
2010
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.
Death at the Wedding Feast
by Dinah Lampitt
2011
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.
Dead on Cue
by Dinah Lampitt
2012
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.
Death on the Rocks
by Dinah Lampitt
2014
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.
As Shadows Haunting
by Dinah Lampitt
2015
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.
Banishment
by Dinah Lampitt
2015
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.
Fortune's Soldier
by Dinah Lampitt
2015
Lady Horatia Waldegrave falls for Captain John Joseph Webbe Weston, heir to Sutton Place and its ancient curse. Their nineteenth-century romance becomes the trilogy's final test of whether love can outlast the shadow on the estate.
Pour The Dark Wine
by Dinah Lampitt
2015
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.
Sutton Place
by Dinah Lampitt
2015
A curse laid on the land at Sutton Place hangs over Richard Weston and his family as they rise at Henry VIII's court. Tudor ambition, Anne Boleyn's circle, and an older darkness combine in the first novel of this haunted historical trilogy.
The King's Women
by Dinah Lampitt
2015
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.
The Moonlit Door
by Dinah Lampitt
2015
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.
The Silver Swan
by Dinah Lampitt
2015
In the early eighteenth century, Elizabeth Weston flees Sutton Place with her daughter Melior Mary, leaving scandal behind her. As the family's old curse tightens again, love, inheritance, and dangerous choices shape the next turn of the saga.
To Sleep No More
by Dinah Lampitt
2015
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.
Death at the Boston Tea Party
by Dinah Lampitt
2016
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.
The Anklets
by Dinah Lampitt
2017
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.
The Gemini Syndrome
by Dinah Lampitt
2017
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.
The Mermaid's Kiss
by Dinah Lampitt
2017
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.
The Moonlit Baths
by Dinah Lampitt
2017
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.
The Staircase
by Dinah Lampitt
2017
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.
The Wardrobe
by Dinah Lampitt
2017
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.
Lovers Lost in Time
by Dinah Lampitt
2018
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.
The Prince's Women
by Dinah Lampitt
2019
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.
Death on the River Thames
by Dinah Lampitt
2022
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.
Love Song of the Nightingale
by Dinah Lampitt
2025
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.
Where to start with Dinah Lampitt
If you want Georgian mysteries: Death in the Dark Walk → Death at the Beggar's Opera → Death at the Devil's Tavern
If you prefer village mysteries: The Mills of God → Dead on Cue → The Moonlit Door
If you want a haunting family saga: Sutton Place → The Silver Swan → Fortune's Soldier
If you like big standalone historicals: Pour The Dark Wine → The King's Women → The Prince's Women
If you want time-slip romance: As Shadows Haunting → Banishment → To Sleep No More
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Death in the Dark Walk
by Dinah Lampitt
1994John Rawlings, Book 1
Death at the Beggar's Opera
by Dinah Lampitt
1995John Rawlings, Book 2
Death at the Devil's Tavern
by Dinah Lampitt
1996John Rawlings, Book 3
Death on the Romney Marsh
by Dinah Lampitt
1998John Rawlings, Book 4
Death in the Peerless Pool
by Dinah Lampitt
1999John Rawlings, Book 5
Death at Apothecaries' Hall
by Dinah Lampitt
2000John Rawlings, Book 6
Death in the West Wind
by Dinah Lampitt
2001John Rawlings, Book 7
Death at St. James's Palace
by Dinah Lampitt
2002John Rawlings, Book 8
Death in the Valley of Shadows
by Dinah Lampitt
2003John Rawlings, Book 9
Death in the Setting Sun
by Dinah Lampitt
2004John Rawlings, Book 10
Death and the Cornish Fiddler
by Dinah Lampitt
2006John Rawlings, Book 11
Death in Hellfire
by Dinah Lampitt
2007John Rawlings, Book 12
Death and the Black Pyramid
by Dinah Lampitt
2009John Rawlings, Book 13
Death at the Wedding Feast
by Dinah Lampitt
2011John Rawlings, Book 14
Death on the Rocks
by Dinah Lampitt
2014John Rawlings, Book 15
Death at the Boston Tea Party
by Dinah Lampitt
2016John Rawlings, Book 16
Death on the River Thames
by Dinah Lampitt
2022John Rawlings, Book 17
John Rawlings (Dinah Lampitt) books in chronological order

Death in the Dark Walk
by Dinah Lampitt
1994John Rawlings, Book 1
Death at the Beggar's Opera
by Dinah Lampitt
1995John Rawlings, Book 2
Death at the Devil's Tavern
by Dinah Lampitt
1996John Rawlings, Book 3
Death on the Romney Marsh
by Dinah Lampitt
1998John Rawlings, Book 4
Death in the Peerless Pool
by Dinah Lampitt
1999John Rawlings, Book 5
Death at Apothecaries' Hall
by Dinah Lampitt
2000John Rawlings, Book 6
Death in the West Wind
by Dinah Lampitt
2001John Rawlings, Book 7
Death at St. James's Palace
by Dinah Lampitt
2002John Rawlings, Book 8
Death in the Valley of Shadows
by Dinah Lampitt
2003John Rawlings, Book 9
Death in the Setting Sun
by Dinah Lampitt
2004John Rawlings, Book 10
Death and the Cornish Fiddler
by Dinah Lampitt
2006John Rawlings, Book 11
Death in Hellfire
by Dinah Lampitt
2007John Rawlings, Book 12
Death and the Black Pyramid
by Dinah Lampitt
2009John Rawlings, Book 13
Death at the Wedding Feast
by Dinah Lampitt
2011John Rawlings, Book 14
Death on the Rocks
by Dinah Lampitt
2014John Rawlings, Book 15
Death at the Boston Tea Party
by Dinah Lampitt
2016John Rawlings, Book 16
Death on the River Thames
by Dinah Lampitt
2022John Rawlings, Book 17
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Author bio
Dinah Lampitt was born in Ilford, Essex, on March 6, 1937, and grew up in a family full of stories, music, and strong personalities. Her father was Bavarian and famously eccentric. Her mother's side brought Welsh and English roots, including the bard Gwilym Lon and a family claim of kinship with Thomas Hardy.
She was writing stories almost as soon as she learned to write.
At school she liked English and History far more than sport. As a teenager she moved with her parents to a sixteenth-century cottage in Chiswick and fell hard for old houses, river walks, and the feeling that the past never really leaves. She later studied journalism at Regent Street Polytechnic.
Journalism gave her a practical way into writing. She worked on The Chemist and Druggist, at Woman, in the newsroom at The Times, and later at The Evening News. There she met assistant editor Bill Lampitt, whom she married. For a time, family life and two children pushed fiction into the background.
Then life changed. Bill died in 1982 after years of poor health, and Lampitt turned back to the writing ambition he had encouraged. Soon after, a chance meeting with a member of the Getty family led to a visit to Sutton Place in Surrey. The house, its history, and talk of a curse sparked Sutton Place, published in 1983.
She had found her subject.
Under her own name she wrote historical novels such as The Silver Swan, Pour The Dark Wine, The King's Women, As Shadows Haunting, and Banishment. Some are straight historical dramas. Some bring in romance, ghostly presences, or time-slip. Again and again, she returns to old houses, family legacies, desire, grief, and the way history keeps pressing into private lives.
Later, when historical fiction became a tougher market, a publishing friend suggested crime. Lampitt remembered a research job she had once done on the real eighteenth-century apothecary John Rawlings, and that became the seed of Death in the Dark Walk. Writing as Deryn Lake, she built the John Rawlings mysteries and later the Reverend Nick Lawrence books, starting with The Mills of God.
Those mysteries have the same things her standalone novels do, lively settings, readable period detail, and people whose emotional lives matter as much as the plot. In later years she lived in Sussex again, after a spell in Devon, and wrote full time. England's past, especially its houses, villages, courts, and river towns, stayed at the center of her imagination.
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