 Laurence's first crime novel, 'A Deepe Coffyn', was published in 1989, the first of ten contemporary novels featuring cookery writer Darina Lisle and policeman William Pigram.She also wrote one non-series mystery fiction book, 'To Kill The Past'.Laurence has also written four historical crime novels - three books where the detective is a fictionalised Canaletto (the Italian artist), and one set in early Edwardian times.