Janet Laurence, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (203p) ISBN 978-0-312-10451-1
English cookery writer Darina Lisle takes on her fifth murder case, after Recipe for Death , while making plans for her marriage to Detective Inspector William Pigram of the CID. Invited to write a cookbook using products packaged by importer Finer...
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Janet Laurence, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-15105-8
Give three out of five stars to the fare in this lively culinary mystery from Laurence (Death and the Epicure). English cookbook writer and sometime amateur detective Darina Lisle is drawn into the back-stabbing world of series television when she...
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Janet Laurence, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-18551-0
The versatile and accomplished author of the Darina Lisle mysteries gets a new historical series off to a propitious start with this engrossing tale. Arriving in 18th-century London in search of greater fame and fortune, Venetian artist Canaletto is
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Janet Laurence. History/Mystery (IPG, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-752470-01-6
Set in 1903 England, this series debut from Laurence (The Mermaid’s Feast) starts stronger than it ends. Wealthy Chauncey Seldon has retained fellow American Ursula Grandison to accompany his younger daughter, Belle, on a visit to her married sister,
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Janet Laurence, Author, Janet Lawrence, Author Doubleday Books $14.95 (181p) ISBN 978-0-385-26626-0
Jealousy and malice in the food world lead to murder in this promising English debut. Darina Lisle, a rising young cook and caterer, takes a large step forward in her career when she is hired by the Society of Historical Gastronomes to prepare the...
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Janet Laurence, Author, Janet Lawrence, Author Doubleday Books $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-41912-3
British food writer Laurence introduced caterer/sleuth Darina Lisle in A Deepe Coffyn . In this, her third appearance, the 28-year-old heroine attempts a career move after her earnest beau, Det. Sgt. William Pigram, introduces her to the Hotel...
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Janet Laurence, Author, Janet Lawrence, Author Doubleday Books $17 (238p) ISBN 978-0-385-46796-4
In her fourth appearance (following Hotel Morgue ), British cookbook columnist Darina Lisle judges a cookery competition at London's Savoy Hotel and becomes involved in a complex murder plot that casts suspicion on a broad array of culinary figures.
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Janet Laurence. History/Mystery (IPG, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7509-6302-2
Laurence's second historical whodunit (after 2013's Deadly Inheritance) featuring independent American amateur sleuth Ursula Grandison and British PI Thomas Jackman shares many of the first book's shortcomings. Things get off to a slow start as...
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