Christobel Kent Books in Order

After her older sister Kate dies suddenly, Rose returns from a carefree life abroad to help the widower she barely knows. In a remote, crumbling house that holds no trace of Kate, small clues suggest her death was anything but simple.

Decades after investigating a free-spirited commune outside Florence, Sandro Cellini is pulled back when two bodies are found nearby. As he traces the scattered former residents, buried secrets from his own past resurface and put those closest to him at risk.

Georgie heads out for a long-promised ladies' night, determined to feel like her old self again. One drink too many leaves her with a blank space in her memory and a creeping sense that something dangerous has followed her home.

Bridget runs a quiet dress shop and guards the secret of the music teacher who abused her as a teenager. When he walks back into her life with a new young pupil, one desperate choice shatters her careful routine and endangers her family.

When Beth vanishes from the village pub where she works, everyone assumes she has run off with a man. Her friend Natalie and elderly regular Victor are not convinced, and their search through gossip, half-truths and buried violence turns dangerously real.

In an isolated Fenland farmhouse, Fran wakes in the night to find her husband's side of the bed empty. By dawn Nathan is dead in a drainage ditch, and as the police close in, Fran must untangle his secrets as well as her own.

As a teenager, Esme survived the massacre of her family in a crooked house on an Essex estuary. Years later, living under a new name, she returns for a wedding and discovers the village has been keeping its own dark account of that night.

At a lavish new residence carved out of a Florentine palazzo, Sandro Cellini steps into a dead man's security job. An old torture chamber, a suspicious death and a murdered resident force him to sift through moneyed grudges behind polished stone walls.

When charismatic political leader Niccolo Rosselli collapses and his partner Flavia disappears, Sandro Cellini is asked to look past the party's glossy image. Following Flavia's trail to a bleak seaside town, he uncovers private obsessions that make the public struggle feel almost secondary.

August heat empties Florence, leaving a corpse unnoticed on a roundabout and a pregnant young wife whose husband has vanished. While Sandro Cellini hunts the missing man, bank clerk Roxana puzzles over an absent customer, until their stories collide in an unexpected storm.

Still finding his feet as a private investigator, Sandro Cellini looks into the death of Loni Meadows, glamorous director of an artists' retreat in a Tuscan castle. Among jealous residents and uneasy staff, nearly everyone had a reason to see her gone.

In wet November Florence, disgraced ex-cop Sandro Cellini takes on his first case, the supposed suicide of Jewish architect Claudio Gentileschi. As he retraces Claudio's last hours, a young Englishwoman goes missing and Sandro stumbles into a web of corruption and grief.

Fifteen years after a little girl vanished from a crowded Florentine swimming pool, another body is discovered at a similar pool on a winter night. Event planner Celia Donnelly finds her work entangled with the reopened case and with memories she tried to forget.

After a year of upheaval, Rose Fell moves to the coastal village of Grosso near Genoa, hoping for a quiet reset. Writing about reclusive film star Elvira Vitale, she is instead drawn into the investigation when a girl is found dead and a local woman disappears.

In a restored farmhouse beside an ancient Tuscan wood, five old university friends and their families gather for a late-September holiday after a shared tragedy. Watching from her terrace, lifelong local Anna Viola senses unresolved wartime shadows as tensions in the house slowly rise.

Gina Donovan arrives in Florence for a brief escape from her young family and is swept into the city's expatriate circle. Invited to elegant Frances Richardson's famous garden party, she finds that beneath the charm and sunshine lies a scandal that could turn deadly.