Kate Palmer Books in Order

Nursing work at Seaview Grange turns unsettling when a former opera singer is found poisoned. Unconvinced by the ruling of an overdose, Kate Palmer investigates with retired detective Woody Forrest and finds no shortage of possible motives.

Shortly after moving to a Cornish village, nurse Kate Palmer encounters the murder of a prominent local woman. Her patients’ gossip supplies clues, while a warning left at her home makes the investigation dangerously personal.

When a groom collapses and dies at a village wedding, nurse Kate Palmer notices troubling behavior among the guests. Threatening letters and other disrupted ceremonies suggest a wider mystery that could endanger the man she loves.

A body discovered beneath Angie’s new tea rooms draws nurse Kate Palmer into another village mystery. A wealthy family’s buried secrets complicate efforts to clear her sister, and Angie’s disappearance makes finding the killer urgent.

Kate Palmer discovers a strangled man in her cottage garden and learns he was her husband Woody’s old enemy. Evidence points toward Woody, forcing Kate to investigate the victim’s family before her husband is arrested.

After arguing with a notorious village gossip at the summer fete, Kate Palmer discovers her body on the beach. Clearing her own name means investigating neighbors with their own reasons for wanting the dead woman silenced.

A television production brings excitement to Tinworthy until its writer and producer dies on set. When suspicion falls on her sister Angie, Kate Palmer investigates old romances, professional grudges, and another death threatening to reinforce the accusation.