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Janet Laurence
Full Series List in Order
Canaletto & Fanny
1 - Canaletto and the Case of the Westminster Bridge (Jul-1998)2 - Canaletto and the Case of the Privy Garden (1998)
A Darina Lisle Mystery
1 - A Deepe Coffyn (1989)2 - A Tasty Way to Die (1990)
3 - Hotel Morgue (1991)
4 - Recipe for Death (1992)
5 - Death and the Epicure (1993)
6 - Death at the Table (Jan-1995)
7 - Death a La Provencale (1995)
8 - Diet for Death (1996)
9 - Appetite for Death (1998)
Book List in Order: 17 titles
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A Deepe Coffyn
- 1989
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The Society of Historical Gastronomes is gathering for a weekend symposium on food from the past. Darina Lisle has been asked to cater for the occasion and has prepared a multitude of exquisite dishes â€" from salmagundis to a deepe coffyn - culled f...
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A Tasty Way to Die
- 1990
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When Darina Lisle agrees to help out in her old schoolfriend's rapidly expanding catering company, The Wooden Spoon, she expects to be kept frantically busy, with cookery demonstrations, cocktail parties and elaborate private dinners. But she doesn't...
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Hotel Morgue
- 1991
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Darina Lisle is lunching at the Hotel Morgan - nicknamed Hotel Morgue for its dilapidated condition - when she seizes the chance to save the dying West Country hotel from ruin. William Pigram cannot believe she is serious and, as the hotel takes up m...
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Death at the Table
- Jan-1995
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FINAL COURSE The table is set, the wine is breathing, and television viewers are invited to delight in Darina Lisle's next episode of her top-rated food series, "Table for Four." Death was not on the menu until Darina's charming costar, Australian...
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Death a La Provencale
- 1995
- / Amateur Sleuth
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While cookery expert Darina Lisle and her husband, Detective Inspector William Pigram, are honeymooning in the South of France they are invited to lunch by Darina's old friend and fellow cookery writer Helen Mansard, who now lives in the area with he...
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To Kill the Past
- Feb-1995
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Felicity Frear does not know who she is, cannot remember how she came to be lying in a hospital bed, burned and blinded. The news of her closest relatives' death in the car crash that nearly killed her does not bring grief, though she knows it should...
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Diet for Death
- 1996
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Darina Lisle is accompanying her recently widowed mother for a reviving stay at the Conifers Spa health farm, hoping it will enable her to lose some of the weight gained since her honeymoon in the south of France. Weight is not the only challenge bei...
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Appetite for Death
- 1998
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Darina Lisle is surprised to hear from an old school friend, even more when she discovers why. Jemima Ealham wants her to find out who the father of her toddler nephew is. Sophie, Rory’s mother, died giving birth without revealing her son’s paren...
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Canaletto and the Case of the Privy Garden
- 1998
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In 1747 Canaletto, the acclaimed Italian vedute artist, stumbles across the body of a stabbed girl in a London alley. He can’t shake off the mystery of her end or the violent mutilation of her face. Perhaps because she reminds him of his apprentice...
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Canaletto and the Case of the Westminster Bridge
- Jul-1998
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In this first installment of a new series, the creator of fictional sleuth Darina Lisle introduces famed Italian artist Canaletto who, while traveling through England, finds himself eating dinner with Jane Austen, as well as discovering he has a tale...
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Deadly Inheritance
- Apr-2012
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Accompanying American heiress Belle Seldon on a visit to her ancestral family home in Somerset, Ursula Grandison soon discovers that the decaying stately Mountstanton House and its inhabitants has many secrets, including a crumbling marriage and a mi...
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A Fatal Freedom
- Oct-2015
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The second in a series of Edwardian murder mysteries set in London with a clever and determined female sleuth
London 1903: American Ursula Grandison is once again involved with murder, this time in London. As she struggles to make a living in a ... -
Canaletto and the Case of Bonnie Prince Charlie
- Nov-2016
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Canaletto is commissioned by the Duke of Beaufort to paint Badminton, his Gloucestershire seat. Canaletto is delighted to leave London as he fears a smallpox epidemic. He is less delighted to be enlisted as a spy by William Pitt, Paymaster General. T...
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The Mermaid's Feast
When Darina Lisle was offered a free cruise on the Empress of India it was hard to decide what was the most exciting. The two weeks on a luxury liner? The opportunity to advise the cruise company on their menus? Or the promise of the uninterrupted...