Kate Charles Books in Order

A London priest asks solicitor David Middleton-Brown to investigate blackmail threatening his career. As David examines the congregation's secrets, a death brings artist Lucy Kingsley into a case involving concealed relationships and parish tensions.

A new clergyman's evangelical reforms provoke hostility in a Norfolk parish with Anglo-Catholic traditions. His death sends David Middleton-Brown and Lucy Kingsley into an investigation where family secrets mingle with bitter disagreements over worship.

An ambitious new dean disrupts the established order at Malbury Cathedral, antagonizing colleagues with his plans. When death follows, David Middleton-Brown and Lucy Kingsley investigate a community divided by church politics, financial concerns, and hidden grievances.

A curate's death is initially attributed to a burglary, while the arrival of his female replacement intensifies parish divisions. Further suspicious events prompt David Middleton-Brown and Lucy Kingsley to investigate the dead man's life and associates.

A Norfolk church's beautiful interior conceals an increasingly troubled parish, where the rector's wife receives disturbing calls. David Middleton-Brown and Lucy Kingsley confront murder, unwelcome newcomers, and a missing child amid the community's closely guarded secrets.

Three women with very different lives become connected through Hal Phillips, the husband of a newly appointed archdeacon. Desire, frustration, and competing ambitions disturb apparently secure relationships, drawing the women toward an increasingly dangerous emotional entanglement.

Tessa Rowan's marriage to Rob Nicholls promises a fresh beginning, and pregnancy strengthens her hopes for their future. When his mother is killed, Tessa's determination to defend her husband confronts uncomfortable gaps in what she knows.

Sophie Lilburn struggles with isolation after moving to a cathedral town for her husband's teaching job. Elsewhere, an inheritance requires a missing sister to be found, connecting present family tensions with a disappearance from years earlier.

New curate Callie Anson encounters hostility from a clergyman who opposes women in ministry. When he is murdered and her mentor falls under suspicion, Callie becomes involved in a police investigation shaped by parish politics and prejudice.

Callie Anson's relationship with policeman Mark Lombardi encounters family opposition while her parish work brings new personal complications. Meanwhile, a murdered jogger and a missing girl lead investigators into mysteries involving strained relationships and concealed lives.

The sudden death of a celebrity couple's baby places Callie Anson amid grief, suspicion, and intrusive publicity. Policeman Mark Lombardi supports the bereaved family while the investigation exposes pressures behind their carefully presented public image.

These short mysteries explore the Church of England through eccentric clergy, scheming parishioners, and concealed motives. Callie Anson makes her first appearance in a Venice-set investigation, while other tales uncover crimes and human weaknesses beneath respectable religious surroundings.

A reunion at her theological college forces Callie Anson to face the former fiancé who hurt her. Meanwhile, Mark Lombardi assists an investigation into a teenager's murder, uncovering troubling tensions beneath apparently successful family lives.

Working for an unpleasant aunt during the London Blitz, a young woman seeks independence from her father. A tragedy presents an unexpected opportunity to change her circumstances, but taking it brings consequences she cannot simply leave behind.

Callie Anson prepares for marriage while trying to support vulnerable workers within her new parish. A woman's death at a London hotel draws police into an investigation that threatens to expose secrets behind respectable appearances.