Death on the Rocks, Deryn Lake
Death on the Rocks, Deryn Lake
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Death on the Rocks

Author: Deryn Lake

Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes

Unabridged: 7 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 09/01/2014

Synopsis

Apothecary John Rawlings is intrigued when a letter arrives asking him to investigate an impostor claiming to be the long-lost step-son of a wealthy Bristol merchant in possession of his dead wife's diamond inheritance. John Rawlings' father, Sir Gabriel Kent joins him on the trip to take the healing waters at Hotwell where they socialize with the crème of Bristol society. But Rawlings is compelled to try and solve the mystery and so he must trawl through the underbelly of eighteenth-century society to unearth the sordid secrets at the heart of the investigation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by George

#15 in the 34 year old London Apothecary John Rawlings who is a widower raising his 5 year old daughter Rose as a single parent mystery series. two years have passed since #14 Death At the Wedding Feast and Rawlings has traveled to Bristol accepting request asking him to investigate an impostor claim......more

Goodreads review by Judy

This is the first book that I have read in this series. I did enjoy it but doubt that I will try to read the 14 previous ones. The story is set in Britain in the 1700’s with very good detail of the way life was then. Some of the descriptions of the sanitation conditions were difficult to read. The m......more

Goodreads review by Kim Campbell

Okay, I admit it, this book had me in tears! Not from the actual mystery but from the other things that happen in John Rawlings life. I really felt for him. Thank goodness the mystery was there to help us all take our minds off the tragic events surrounding his life.......more

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