Kate Parker's best selling 'Deadly' series follows intrepid lady sleuth, Olivia Redmond a society reporter for a London newspaper as she navigates the perils of World War II Europe while unmasking murderers and spies.

Hi, I'm your host Jenny Wheeler. And on Binge Reading this week, we've got Kate's latest book, Deadly Rescue, in her World War II spy mystery series.

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Links to the show discussion

Books Kate recommends:

Robert Barnard: Crime mysteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barnard

Emma Lathen: Wall Street mystery series: (Double authors -  economic analyst Mary Jane Latsis (July 12, 1927 – October 29, 1997) and attrorney Martha Henissart (born 1929). The pseudonym is constructed from two authors' names: "M" of Mary and "Ma" of Martha, plus "Lat" of Latsis and "Hen" of Henissart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Lathen#:~:text=Emma%20Lathen%20is%20the%20pen,and%20%22Hen%22%20of%20Henissart.

(Note in the podcast Kate spells their name with an "A" when it is actually an "E")

Where to find Kate Parker

Website: www,kateparkerbooks .com

Introducing mystery author Kate Parker

Kate Parker mystery author

Jenny Wheeler: Kate, you're a North Carolina USA based bestselling author, but most of your books, well, I think all of your books as far as I know, are set in the UK. So where did this love for the United Kingdom spring from?

Kate Parker: My mother had the entire collection of Agatha Christie murder mysteries. I grew up on that. And what I wanted to do more than anything else, and still do, would be to go to Great Britain in the 1930s to experience that world that she wrote about. And since I cannot build a time machine in my backyard, I haven't figured it out yet,

 I like to travel to Britain, but I also like to write.

Jenny Wheeler: That's fantastic. And you've certainly done that. You've got 16 books to your credit in three different series. The one we are talking about today, the 17th is part of your Deadly series and it's called Deadly Rescue. It's Book nine in the series, and set in War Time Britain, but quite a lot of the rest are set in 19th century Britain, aren't they?

Kate Parker: Yes. The first two series are set in the late Victorian era and the Edwardian era, so it's just the Deadly series that's set just before the war, and then now War Time Britain.

Jenny Wheeler: You've had particular breakthrough success with the Deadly Series, haven't you?

Kate Parker: Yes, it has been the, the biggest boost for me so far,

Things you'll learn in this episode

How a connection with Congo refugees in her local church sparked her interest in what happened to the World War II refugees fleeing Hitler's Germany - and helped lead to the Deadly seriesHow her Olivia character was inspired by a 1950s cartoon reporter named Brenda StarrKate wrote 18 books before she had one accepted by a...