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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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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 WalkDeath at the Beggar's OperaDeath at the Devil's Tavern
If you prefer village mysteries: The Mills of GodDead on CueThe Moonlit Door
If you want a haunting family saga: Sutton PlaceThe Silver SwanFortune's Soldier
If you like big standalone historicals: Pour The Dark WineThe King's WomenThe Prince's Women
If you want time-slip romance: As Shadows HauntingBanishmentTo Sleep No More

John Rawlings (Dinah Lampitt) books in order

Explore this series
  1. Book cover for "Death in the Dark Walk"

    Death in the Dark Walk

    by Dinah Lampitt

    1994John Rawlings, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Death at the Beggar's Opera"

    Death at the Beggar's Opera

    by Dinah Lampitt

    1995John Rawlings, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Death at the Devil's Tavern"

    Death at the Devil's Tavern

    by Dinah Lampitt

    1996John Rawlings, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "Death on the Romney Marsh"

    Death on the Romney Marsh

    by Dinah Lampitt

    1998John Rawlings, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Death in the Peerless Pool"

    Death in the Peerless Pool

    by Dinah Lampitt

    1999John Rawlings, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "Death at Apothecaries' Hall"

    Death at Apothecaries' Hall

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2000John Rawlings, Book 6
  7. Book cover for "Death in the West Wind"

    Death in the West Wind

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2001John Rawlings, Book 7
  8. Book cover for "Death at St. James's Palace"

    Death at St. James's Palace

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2002John Rawlings, Book 8
  9. Book cover for "Death in the Valley of Shadows"

    Death in the Valley of Shadows

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2003John Rawlings, Book 9
  10. Book cover for "Death in the Setting Sun"

    Death in the Setting Sun

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2004John Rawlings, Book 10
  11. Book cover for "Death and the Cornish Fiddler"

    Death and the Cornish Fiddler

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2006John Rawlings, Book 11
  12. Book cover for "Death in Hellfire"

    Death in Hellfire

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2007John Rawlings, Book 12
  13. Book cover for "Death and the Black Pyramid"

    Death and the Black Pyramid

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2009John Rawlings, Book 13
  14. Book cover for "Death at the Wedding Feast"

    Death at the Wedding Feast

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2011John Rawlings, Book 14
  15. Book cover for "Death on the Rocks"

    Death on the Rocks

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2014John Rawlings, Book 15
  16. Book cover for "Death at the Boston Tea Party"

    Death at the Boston Tea Party

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2016John Rawlings, Book 16
  17. Book cover for "Death on the River Thames"

    Death on the River Thames

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2022John Rawlings, Book 17

John Rawlings (Dinah Lampitt) books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Death in the Dark Walk"

    Death in the Dark Walk

    by Dinah Lampitt

    1994John Rawlings, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Death at the Beggar's Opera"

    Death at the Beggar's Opera

    by Dinah Lampitt

    1995John Rawlings, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Death at the Devil's Tavern"

    Death at the Devil's Tavern

    by Dinah Lampitt

    1996John Rawlings, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "Death on the Romney Marsh"

    Death on the Romney Marsh

    by Dinah Lampitt

    1998John Rawlings, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Death in the Peerless Pool"

    Death in the Peerless Pool

    by Dinah Lampitt

    1999John Rawlings, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "Death at Apothecaries' Hall"

    Death at Apothecaries' Hall

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2000John Rawlings, Book 6
  7. Book cover for "Death in the West Wind"

    Death in the West Wind

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2001John Rawlings, Book 7
  8. Book cover for "Death at St. James's Palace"

    Death at St. James's Palace

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2002John Rawlings, Book 8
  9. Book cover for "Death in the Valley of Shadows"

    Death in the Valley of Shadows

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2003John Rawlings, Book 9
  10. Book cover for "Death in the Setting Sun"

    Death in the Setting Sun

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2004John Rawlings, Book 10
  11. Book cover for "Death and the Cornish Fiddler"

    Death and the Cornish Fiddler

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2006John Rawlings, Book 11
  12. Book cover for "Death in Hellfire"

    Death in Hellfire

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2007John Rawlings, Book 12
  13. Book cover for "Death and the Black Pyramid"

    Death and the Black Pyramid

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2009John Rawlings, Book 13
  14. Book cover for "Death at the Wedding Feast"

    Death at the Wedding Feast

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2011John Rawlings, Book 14
  15. Book cover for "Death on the Rocks"

    Death on the Rocks

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2014John Rawlings, Book 15
  16. Book cover for "Death at the Boston Tea Party"

    Death at the Boston Tea Party

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2016John Rawlings, Book 16
  17. Book cover for "Death on the River Thames"

    Death on the River Thames

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2022John Rawlings, Book 17

Reverend Nick Lawrence Mystery (Dinah Lampitt) books in order

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  1. Book cover for "The Mills of God"

    The Mills of God

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2010Reverend Nick Lawrence Mystery, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Dead on Cue"

    Dead on Cue

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2012Reverend Nick Lawrence Mystery, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "The Moonlit Door"

    The Moonlit Door

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015Reverend Nick Lawrence Mystery, Book 3

Reverend Nick Lawrence Mystery (Dinah Lampitt) books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "The Mills of God"

    The Mills of God

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2010Reverend Nick Lawrence Mystery, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Dead on Cue"

    Dead on Cue

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2012Reverend Nick Lawrence Mystery, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "The Moonlit Door"

    The Moonlit Door

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015Reverend Nick Lawrence Mystery, Book 3

Sutton Place (Dinah Lampitt) books in order

Explore this series
  1. Book cover for "Fortune's Soldier"

    Fortune's Soldier

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015Sutton Place, Book 3
  2. Book cover for "Sutton Place"

    Sutton Place

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015Sutton Place, Book 1
  3. Book cover for "The Silver Swan"

    The Silver Swan

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015Sutton Place, Book 2

Sutton Place (Dinah Lampitt) books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Sutton Place"

    Sutton Place

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015Sutton Place, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Silver Swan"

    The Silver Swan

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015Sutton Place, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Fortune's Soldier"

    Fortune's Soldier

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015Sutton Place, Book 3

Dinah Lampitt collections, short stories, and related book types

Short Stories/Novellas

  1. Book cover for "The Anklets"

    The Anklets

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2017
  2. Book cover for "The Moonlit Baths"

    The Moonlit Baths

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2017
  3. Book cover for "The Wardrobe"

    The Wardrobe

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2017
  4. Book cover for "The Mermaid's Kiss"

    The Mermaid's Kiss

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2017
  5. Book cover for "The Staircase"

    The Staircase

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2017
  6. Book cover for "The Gemini Syndrome"

    The Gemini Syndrome

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2017

Short Story Collections

  1. Book cover for "Lovers Lost in Time"

    Lovers Lost in Time

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2018

Standalone Dinah Lampitt books

  1. Book cover for "As Shadows Haunting"

    As Shadows Haunting

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015
  2. Book cover for "Banishment"

    Banishment

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015
  3. Book cover for "Pour The Dark Wine"

    Pour The Dark Wine

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015
  4. Book cover for "The King's Women"

    The King's Women

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015
  5. Book cover for "To Sleep No More"

    To Sleep No More

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2015
  6. Book cover for "The Prince's Women"

    The Prince's Women

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2019
  7. Book cover for "Love Song of the Nightingale"

    Love Song of the Nightingale

    by Dinah Lampitt

    2025

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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