Kate Parker books in order

Two deaths in the London diplomatic corps lead a determined woman seeking justice into the cross hairs of a Nazi spy.

Autumn 1937 – Olivia Denis is the carefree young wife of a Foreign Office dignitary when her world is shattered. Police discover her husband fatally shot near the German embassy and declare it suicide.

Olivia knows better. When she learns a German embassy clerk was murdered the same night, she is certain her husband is not the traitor others claim. However, someone in the British government is.

Using her new position as a reporter for a powerful newspaper publisher, Olivia infiltrates London’s elegant society to hunt for the killer. But someone watching Olivia is ready to strike if she gets too close to the biggest secret of all. Can Olivia survive her search for the truth?

It’s a challenge finding a killer when everyone in the family wanted the old man dead.

Spring, 1938. Olivia Denis is ridiculed by her aristocratic, wealthy cousins. A weekend spent in their ancient mansion for an extravagant wedding feels like torture.

On the morning of the wedding, the bride’s grandfather is found brutally murdered. Then the family discovers the old earl had changed his will the day before, pitting his children and grandchildren against one another. Now everyone in the household is a suspect and only Olivia has experience investigating murder.

Her search for the killer is complicated when Olivia must travel to occupied Vienna to help her employer’s relatives escape the new Nazi government. With war on the horizon and attacks on her family increasing, can Olivia find a way to save lives in two countries?

A Nazi-trained assassin with an assignment to take out anti-appeasement leaders in Britain adds one more name to the list. Olivia Denis.

September, 1938. Olivia Denis wins a plum assignment from her newspaper covering a glamorous French fashion designer providing frocks for Britain’s elite. While there, she finds herself rubbing shoulders with the fabulously wealthy, advising the aristocracy, and tripping over the body of a German anti-Nazi resistance leader.

In her search for a killer, Olivia discovers that an assassin with links to the London fashion house is targeting prominent British politicians. Now Olivia must find the assassin before Britain loses the leaders who can best protect it from the Nazi menace.

As she digs for the truth inside the designer’s studio, Olivia finds herself in the assassin’s crosshairs. Can Olivia survive a killer waiting in the shadows for the right moment to remove her...permanently?

How long can Britain hold out against Nazi aggression when traitors hide along the vulnerable south coast?

Olivia Denis discovers her father kneeling over the body of a man who supposedly drowned in the Channel years before. Scotland Yard suspects her father of the murder, but certain of his innocence, Olivia can’t let her maddening, disapproving father hang.

Against her father’s wishes, Olivia supports a counter-espionage mission to prove his innocence. Soon she finds herself tracking a French assassin whose deadly assignments could tip the balance of power against Britain.

Can Olivia catch the assassin and identify the location of a nest of traitors before they stop her...permanently?

Travel to Berlin in 1939 is treacherous. Carrying out two clandestine missions in the enemy capital could prove deadly.

When a Quaker Kindertransport chaperone is murdered in the East End of London, Britain’s counterintelligence spymaster tasks Olivia Denis to join the group rescuing children from Nazi Germany. Olivia must find not only a killer, but a traitor relaying sensitive material to the enemy. Once they reach Berlin, Olivia discovers she must also rescue the family of an imprisoned British spy before she leaves the next day.

An attack convinces Olivia the family’s two young sons are in grave danger, but where to hide them? Can she protect the boys before they become the traitor’s next victims?

As Britain prepares for an imminent invasion, the murder of a celebrated Arctic explorer leads to the discovery of a web of Nazi spies on the south coast.

July, 1939. Newlywed Olivia Denis Redmond plans to spend a peaceful honeymoon in the country before war rips her soldier husband away. But when she finds a dead body in the midst of a blackout, Olivia is drawn into the investigation.

Since the police inspector isn’t interested in clues pointing to espionage and blackmail, Olivia must unlock secrets hidden for years in this idyllic village and face the wrath of an unseen enemy. As danger stalks her, can Olivia expose a cunning killer before she becomes the next victim?

Could a murder at Bletchley Park cost Britain the war?

November, 1939. The British government has assembled a small group of intellectuals at an estate north of London as part of a top-secret codebreaking effort. Everything about it is clandestine. The facility is ringed with a veil of silence until one of the young female linguists is murdered.

Britain's counterintelligence spymaster tasks Olivia Redmond with finding the killer and the motive. Olivia is sent in alone, without clues or suspects.

Did the murder victim uncover a mole? Could Britain's program to break German enigma cyphers be compromised?

If Olivia fails, it could mean the destruction of Britain.

The phony war has dragged out past Christmas into a dark and dreary New Year, 1940.

In the blackout, someone murdered BBC engineer Frank Kennedy, making him more popular dead than alive. A blackmailer and bully, he sold out his friends, assaulted his Broadcasting House colleagues, and sabotaged his employer.

Kennedy was also a government informant against the IRA. Despite arrests of members, the IRA is still planning more attacks against British civilians. Attacks Frank Kennedy might have been involved in.

Britain’s counterintelligence spymaster orders newspaper reporter Olivia Redmond to find Kennedy’s killer and learn which of the many motives led to his murder. Olivia quickly learns how vicious Frank Kennedy was and halfway hopes his killer escapes hanging

Until his killer strikes again…

As the Phony War morphs into the Blitzkrieg, two British intelligence officers risk getting trapped behind enemy lines.

April, 1940. Hitler is invading Denmark on Tuesday. Olivia Redmond has only a weekend to bring a Nobel Prize winning chemist and his war-altering research to Britain. The scientist and his wife want to leave, but their troublesome daughter will do anything to stop her parents from departing.

The scientist’s wife was close friends with Olivia’s long dead mother and wants to talk about her, in stark contrast to Olivia’s father who won’t mention his wife. Olivia feels protective toward the invalid woman with her photos and details of Olivia’s mother’s life and wants to get her to safety.

When the daughter’s German fiancé is murdered, the police refuse to let anyone depart until they find the killer. If Olivia wants to escape Denmark with the chemist and his breakthroughs, she will have to unmask the killer before the Nazis stop her forever.

A dying man. The painting within her reach. What’s a thief to do?

In 1905, talented London milliner Emily Gates creates amazing hats for Society ladies, but to collect from those who don’t pay her bill, she burglarizes their homes. She needs every penny to send her deaf brother to school.

Late one night, she sneaks in to find Lord Kaldaire badly injured in his study. Unwilling to abandon him, she calls for help. When Kaldaire dies without revealing who attacked him, his widow agrees to keep Emily’s secrets ― if Emily will help find her husband’s killer.

A bigger danger is a Scotland Yard inspector who threatens to arrest Emily — unless she spies on her father’s family of swindlers and conmen. Worst of all are the attacks from an unknown assailant. What will Emily face first, jail or death?

A corpse in a corset. A dangerous gambling den. A perilous path between safety and evil.

London, 1905. Leading milliner Emily Gates' illegal shortcut through a private park in the rain brought her straight to a scantily clothed corpse. Then her route took her straight into the hands of the indefatigable Lady Kaldaire, who recognized the body as a relative of her longtime friend, the Duchess of Wallingford.

Lady Kaldaire blackmailed Emily before to find Lord Kaldaire's killer. Why not this murderer, too? Emily has plenty of reasons why not, but finding links between her father's nefarious family of crooks and conmen and the debauchery of the secretive Marlowe Club involves her in the investigation led by the handsome Inspector Russell of Scotland Yard.

Emily discovers more than she expects about the licentious world of the corpse through her aristocratic customers, including Georgia, heroine of the Victorian Bookshop Mysteries, now the Duchess of Blackford. Are the scandal rags correct, or has the victim been maligned by a mastermind who'll stop at nothing to gain everything?

Georgia Fenchurch appears to be an unassuming antiquarian bookseller in Victorian London, but the life she leads is as exciting as any adventure novel. For Georgia is a member of the Archivist Society, a secret association of private investigators led by the mysterious Sir Broderick.

When a frantic woman comes to Georgia claiming that her neighbor, Nicholas Drake, has been abducted by the notorious Duke of Blackford, Georgia and the Archivist Society agree to take the case. But Drake is no innocent—he is a thief who has been blackmailing many of the leading members of London society. 

To find Drake and discover who is behind his abduction, Georgia and her beautiful assistant, Emma, will have to leave the cozy confines of their bookshop and infiltrate the inner circles of the upper crust—with the help of the dashing but dubious Duke of Blackford himself.

But the missing thief and his abductor are not the only ones to elude Georgia Fenchurch. When she spies the man who killed her parents years ago, she vows to bring him to justice once and for all…at any cost.

Georgia Fenchurch is a demure Victorian spinster and part of the secretive investigative group the Archivist Society. She is both a quiet antiquarian bookseller and adventurous hunter of killers and thieves.

The enigmatic Duke of Blackford returns to Georgia’s life asking for her help and that of the Archivist Society in retrieving stolen blueprints. The plans are for an advanced battleship that will preserve Britain’s mastery of the seas. Spies from various countries are descending on London in the hunt for the blueprints, ready to enter into a bidding war.

Blackford wants Georgia to play an old love of his, newly widowed and returned from the colonies to move among high society. He sends her out to search in Mayfair’s glittering ballrooms and opulent drawing rooms. As they try to learn which spy has killed to gain the plans that will destroy Britain’s dominance on the oceans, Georgia receives messages saying her secret is known and she won’t live to find the killer.

These are clean reads, with no scary, on-stage violence, swearing, or sex.

When the Duke of Blackford enters her bookstore, Georgia knows the Archivist Society is in need of her services. The Tsar of Russia and his family are visiting Queen Victoria on the auspices of the engagement of the Russian princess Kira to the son of the Queen’s cousin. When Kira’s bodyguard is found dead on a train returning from Scotland, the Queen calls on Blackford to discreetly protect the princess and prevent an international incident.

The Russian royalty refuses help in finding the murderer, suspecting anarchists and demanding every extremist in London be hanged. But that is far from the English way. To get the job done, Georgia must go undercover as Kira’s English secretary. She soon discovers that anarchy isn’t the only motive in the case—and that someone is determined to turn royal wedding bells into a funeral dirge.

When Georgia Fenchurch is called in to find Sir Edward Hale's missing son, she's soon embroiled in multiple mysteries. After discovering young Teddy's been taken by his mother, her worry lessens. But further investigation reveals other well-to-do women have disappeared. Have they been kidnapped? Killed? Or is there something even more sinister going on...

To muddle the mix further, the Duke of Blackford has asked to speak with Georgia when he returns to England. It's almost enough to distract any woman.

Once Lady Hale is found dead, Georgia knows the Archivist Society must focus their efforts on finding the truth behind her disappearance and rescuing her son. But then a villain from Georgia's own past resurfaces...

The only thing standing between Georgia and her fairy-tale wedding is a murder. Or two.When a young woman pleads for help from Georgia Fenchurch in locating a missing Crown investigator, Georgia resists. Her wedding is only a week away. Before she can say no, she's knocked to the ground by an assailant attempting to kill the young woman.Georgia now feels she must help. She soon finds herself up to her wedding veil in stolen treasure and coded letters. 

With the Duke of Blackford's help, Georgia follows a trail of missing men and dead bodies. Every victim had one thing in common, a desire to possess a fortune in gold. In between the society balls and social calls of late Victorian London, Georgia works on her last case before the big day. Will she stop a ruthless killer in time? Or will she discover that getting to the altar on time is going to be murder.

Old houses hide old secrets.

When Emma Winter agrees to help her childhood friend renovate her dreamhouse, she doesn’t expect electrical shorts, flying ladders, and frightened workmen. All of that can be explained. An attraction to an enigma can’t.

Adam Chadwick is the biggest puzzle of all. He’s a stranger in town, and he won’t tell Emma about his past. Is he behind the attacks at the old Victorian mansion? Or is something more sinister happening?

Elfstonbridge nestles in the Cotswolds of England at the end of a road that goes nowhere else. It is difficult to find, and few have reason to do so. Locally, the village is suspect, for strange things are said to happen there. But in the early years of the 19th Century, three men do arrive. Two come with purpose, one by accident, but they all become entangled with women of a certain age. These are their stories:

LADY ISABELLE’S RETICULE – Trying to outrun his nightmares, Major Pearce Ashton has become a rootless wanderer. When he misjudges a wayside tavern, he’s beaten and left for dead in the mysterious Wytchfell Forest… to be found by the reclusive Lady Isabelle Walstead. She wants Major Ashton “gone,” but first she must heal him, which she does with miraculous speed. To her chagrin, her unwanted guest feels that, with her, he’s come home.

SAVING SARGEANT FAIRWEATHER – Luke Fairweather, injured in the war with Napolean, arrives in Elfstonbridge hopeful that Dr. Shaw and his storied Knight’s Spring can give him a chance at a normal life. Jane Madison has always had a soft spot for soldiers. Afterall, her resident ghost had been one. She thought Sargeant Fairweather a fine man when she accepted him as a boarder. She hardly expected him to be accused of murder and need her help to avoid the gallows.

OF PEBBLES AND ROCKS – When Damian Hunt, Viscount Redleigh, brings his uncontrollable new stallion to Lucinda Jeffries for training, he begins to suspect her secretive training methods are something more sinister—perhaps supernatural—and they seem to be working on him as well as his horse. For her part, Lucinda is shocked by her reaction to the Viscount. Have they both found something they didn’t want was what they really needed?

Regency Christmas Romances that encompass everything from unexpected new loves to mature second chances. These are tales of mystery, of regret, and, most of all, of hope. The authors of the Christmas Revels series have chosen their favorite tales…and they hope these will be your favorites, too.

Included are :

THE SERGEANT'S CHRISTMAS BRIDE – Sergeant Jacob Burrows just wants a place to bed down for the night. He never expects to be confronted by a lady with a gun. Elizabeth FitzWalter intends to drive the stranger off her land, until she realizes he meets her most pressing need.

THE GNOME AND THE CHRISTMAS STAR – The Earl of Marle has an uncanny ability to judge political candidates, but he’s a failure in matters of the heart. After years spent caring for her late husband, the Dowager Viscountess Lyndon fiercely clings to her new independence. An unlikely meeting offers them both a second chance at happiness, but a Christmas miracle is needed to claim it.

YULETIDE TREACHERY – Frances Smith-Pressley doesn’t enjoy society, so when she’s dragged to a Christmas house party by her parents, she escapes to her favorite place, the library. There she confronts a masked man she later discovers is her host, the disfigured Earl of Wolfbrook. Brutally beaten and left for dead in France, Wolfbrook has included his potential assailants among his guests. Can unmasking a traitor lead two lonely people to love?

A PERFECTLY UNFORGETTABLE CHRISTMAS - Every day, Lucien Rollinsby endures a memory of Christmas Eve. Not even his lovely new neighbor can make him forget that horrible night five years ago. Caroline McAlasdair remembers that Christmas Eve, too. But if Lucien recalls her presence there, it will destroy their only chance at happiness, forever.