Deadly (Kate Parker) Books in Order
Part ofKate Parker Books in OrderSee the Deadly books by Kate Parker in order, with summaries, series background, reading order tips, and where to start Olivia’s story.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
14 books
Deadly Scandal
by Kate Parker
2016
In 1937 London, Olivia Denis refuses to accept her husband’s death as suicide. Her search for answers leads from society reporting into German embassy secrets and a dangerous world of spies.
Deadly Wedding
by Kate Parker
2016
At a country-house wedding, Olivia finds a wealthy patriarch stabbed soon after changing his will. Family grudges, poisonings, and a mission to Nazi Vienna pull her into danger on two fronts.
Deadly Fashion
by Kate Parker
2017
Olivia’s assignment at a Mayfair fashion house turns deadly when a German resistance leader is found murdered. The investigation links haute couture, political assassination, and Britain’s fragile prewar future.
Deadly Deception
by Kate Parker
2019
When Olivia finds her father beside the body of a man believed drowned years earlier, she must clear him. The trail leads through coastal secrets, collaborators, and a French assassin.
Deadly Travel
by Kate Parker
2020
A murdered Kindertransport chaperone sends Olivia to Berlin in 1939. She must find a killer, uncover a traitor, and help rescue a spy’s endangered family before the Nazis close in.
Deadly Cypher
by Kate Parker
2021
At Bletchley Park, a young linguist has been murdered inside Britain’s secret codebreaking operation. Olivia takes her place and must decide whether the killer is a jealous lover, a mole, or worse.
Deadly Darkness
by Kate Parker
2021
Newlywed Olivia Redmond hopes for a quiet country honeymoon, but a blackout reveals a murdered Arctic explorer. Village secrets, blackmail, and Nazi spies turn her retreat into another deadly hunt.
Deadly Broadcast
by Kate Parker
2022
During the Phony War, Olivia investigates the murder of a BBC engineer at Broadcasting House. The victim’s ties to blackmail, sabotage, and IRA intelligence make almost everyone a suspect.
Deadly Rescue
by Kate Parker
2022
Olivia has one weekend to get a Nobel Prize-winning chemist and his research out of Denmark. A murder traps the party in Copenhagen as German invasion plans move closer.
Deadly Manor
by Kate Parker
2023
Escaping the Blitz for a country-house visit, Livvy hopes Adam can recover from wartime injuries. Then two guests are murdered, and the manor’s polite gathering turns into a nest of secrets.
Deadly Gamble
by Kate Parker
2024
In neutral Lisbon, Livvy is sent to meet a double agent selling secrets to Britain. When he falls to his death, she must protect his daughter and uncover what he meant to reveal.
Deadly Performance
by Kate Parker
2024
Wartime London’s West End offers glamour during the blackout, until a hated theater director is poisoned on opening night. When Olivia’s editor is arrested, she digs into backstage secrets.
Deadly Village
by Kate Parker
2025
With her baby in tow, Olivia seeks quiet in the Cotswold village of Chipping Ford. A murdered gossip, chilly neighbors, and old blackmail force her back into investigation mode.
Deadly Ruse
by Kate Parker
2026
Olivia is sent to Trent Park House under the cover of teaching art to captured German generals. Murder, stolen jewels, and a familiar officer force her to untangle lies inside a wired mansion.
Series background & context
The Deadly series follows Olivia Denis, later Olivia Redmond, from the nervous years before World War II into the war itself. At the start, she is a young London widow whose husband’s death has been written off too neatly. Olivia refuses to accept that answer, and the choice changes her life.
She becomes a society reporter, which sounds safe until you see the rooms she has to enter. Drawing rooms, embassies, fashion houses, radio studios, country estates, and codebreaking offices all become places where people lie politely while something dangerous happens nearby.
This is cozy mystery with espionage pressing in at the windows.
The early books lean into the late 1930s, when Europe knows war is coming but daily life still tries to pretend otherwise. Olivia moves through London parties and newspaper offices while Nazi agents, British intelligence work, refugees, and government secrets creep closer. Her personal life matters, too. Her relationship with Adam Redmond gives the series warmth, even when the war keeps pulling them apart.
As the books continue, the settings widen. Olivia travels to Vienna, Berlin, Denmark, Lisbon, and other wartime pressure points, and she also works closer to home at places like Bletchley Park and Broadcasting House. Parker uses those locations as more than scenery. The setting usually creates the problem, whether it is a Kindertransport mission, a murdered codebreaker, or a double agent with secrets to sell.
Olivia is not a superhero spy. She asks questions, notices clothing and social habits, gets underestimated, and uses that to her advantage. Her newspaper work gives her a reason to be curious, while her intelligence assignments give the plots a sharper edge.
The through-line is survival with a conscience. Olivia often has to solve a murder while deciding whom she can protect, whom she can trust, and what truth will cost. The books are best read in order because Olivia’s life changes as the war changes, but each case also has its own murder, suspects, and resolution.
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