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Book Details
Deadly Village: A World War II Mystery (The Deadly Series)
Historical Cozy Mystery
13th in Series
Setting – Cotswold village of Chipping Ford
Publisher : JDP Press
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : August 19, 2025
Number of Pages ~300
ISBN-13 : 979-8992015249
ASIN : B0FJGJMGQZ
In a village steeped in secrets, one woman’s past is the key to solving a murder.
Olivia Redmond thought she’d left danger behind in blitzed-out London. But the quiet Cotswold village of Chipping Ford offers little refuge–especially when a local gossip turns up dead. With a baby to care for and the villagers turning frosty, Olivia’s only ally is a young bobby overwhelmed by his first murder case.
As a former newspaper reporter and covert asset for Britain’s intelligence chief, Olivia knows how to uncover the truth. The deeper she digs, the uglier it gets: blackmail, betrayal, and decades of whispered sins. And as the village closes ranks, Olivia must choose–keep the peace or expose the secrets that could shatter everything.
Perfect for readers of historical mysteries with sharp heroines and tangled moral landscapes, Deadly Village is the exciting thirteenth book in the World War II mystery Deadly Series. If you like research based history and clean reads, then you’ll love USA Today Bestselling Author Kate Parker’s page-turning mystery.
Author Details
Kate Parker has long wanted to build a time travel machine. However, after several false starts, she gave up and created time travel by going back in time inside her books. Since she’s fond of murder mysteries, it is probably best that all of her travel is inside books or police from various ages would be hunting her. When not recreating old time buildings and fashions, she can be found with a modern computer and modern air conditioning in North Carolina with her daughter and a 115 lb. puppy who could just crash through any time barrier.
Author Links
Website – http://www.kateparkerbooks.com
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/Author.Kate.Parker
Purchase Links – Amazon – B&N – Apple – Kobo
Character Interview
Hello, I’m Olivia Redmond, called Livvy by my friends. I’m a new mother in my early thirties,
with a baby son called Stevie. I was a working woman even after I married my husband, Adam,
although this is unusual for my time. It’s now 1942, and if you’ve been reading about my
adventures in the Deadly Series from the beginning, you’ve seen me hard at work since 1937.
Now that Stevie is here, even my publisher boss Sir Henry won’t use me for any work except an
occasional column on raising a baby during a war.
I’m afraid of German bombs dropping on my darling baby or my wonderful husband being
killed while serving in the army. That is because they are the two most important people in
my world. That is the reason I was very glad to move out of my father’s house near Ealing in
London and into my friend Esther’s house in a Cotswold village far from any targets of German
bombers. Now that my baby Stevie and I are safe, I can focus all my worries on Adam, my
husband.
My boss, Sir Henry, hired me as a reporter for his London daily newspaper in 1937. Since
then, he’s discovered I have a talent for finding bodies and detecting murderers. This is good,
since he also discovered I don’t have any ability for writing copy. I’m a horrible cook and an
impatient seamstress, but I sketch very well and I love to dance and I speak three languages
more or less fluently. Also, I quickly learned I can play various parts to keep myself out of
trouble while I was still in school and I’ve sharpened the skill since.
The only reason my employment as a spy for Britain’s spymaster, Sir Malcolm, is a secret is
because of the Official Secrets Act. I don’t like secrets. I prefer to be honest with my loved ones.
I lie when I’m investigating murders, but that isn’t a secret. And the suspects lie to me, so I
think it’s only fair.
I have three families. The first one, the one I was born into, consisted of my father, an official
in the Foreign Office, my mother, who died of the Spanish flu when I was six, and me, their only
child. My father can’t stand noise or small talk, so we’ve never enjoyed each other’s company.
My current family is my husband Adam, a major in the British army, our infant son, Stephen,
and me. I love them more than anything. And my third family is the one I live with now in
Chipping Ford in the Cotswolds. My best friend Esther, daughter of my boss, Sir Henry, her two
young children, their nanny, and their cook, as well as Stevie and me. When my father couldn’t
stand having a newborn in the house, Esther offered to have Stevie and me move in with her.
She saved my father’s sanity and my nerves.
Fun, now that I have a baby and no husband within a hundred miles, looks different than it
did before the war. Before the war, we used to go out dancing. We’d eat out in good
restaurants. There were concerts and plays and art exhibits. Now, fun is listening to the wireless
or getting a letter from Adam. It’s walking Stevie down the lane in his pram. It’s dreaming of fun
after the war with Adam when we can live together the same as normal people did before the
war.
If I could change anything? The first thing I would do is send down a lightning bolt on Hitler.
Then I would end the war. It doesn’t take much to make me happy.
My author, Kate Parker, is terrific. She follows me on my wild adventures and never makes
me look foolish. She doesn’t have any adventures herself, being rather sedentary, but she
enjoys me enjoying myself. Her husband was a wonderful man, and so she has designed Adam
to be a good guy. Her children are magnificent, and so I have high hopes for Stevie to follow in
their footsteps. The only thing I find worrisome is that Kate says writers lie for a living with a big
smile on her face.
Kate Parker is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the Deadly Series. Deadly Village is number
13 in the series set primarily in Britain during World War II.
TOUR PARTICIPANTS
September 2 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT
September 2 – Reading, Writing & Stitch-Metic – AUTHOR GUEST POST
September 2 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT
September 3 – Novels Alive – REVIEW
September 3 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT
September 4 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW
September 4 – MJB Reviewers – SPOTLIGHT
September 4 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW
September 5 – Baroness Book Trove – SPOTLIGHT
September 5 – Sarandipity’s – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
September 5 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – SPOTLIGHT
September 6 – Reading Is My SuperPower – AUTHOR GUEST POST
September 6 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – SPOTLIGHT
September 6 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
September 7 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
September 7 – fundinmental – SPOTLIGHT
September 8 – Sarah Can’t Stop Reading Books – SPOTLIGHT
Giveaway
The Prize is a $25 Amazon Gift Card – US only.
