Book One in the Pippa Rafferty Mystery Series

DEAD CALM

Book One in The Pippa Rafferty Mysteries

Every paradise has its secrets.

Travel writer Pippa Rafferty arrives in Santorini on assignment, expecting to write about a luxurious villa, long lunches overlooking the caldera, hidden cafés and an easy story to take home.

Instead, a guest is found dead.

As rumours spread through the whitewashed villages, Pippa begins to notice the quiet details everyone else overlooks. And the story she came to write becomes something else entirely.

DEAD CALM blends destination fiction with a classic whodunnit, set among the villages, terraces and dramatic coastline of Santorini.



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BITTER GROVE

Book Two in The Pippa Rafferty Mysteries

Some histories refuse to stay buried.

Travel writer Pippa Rafferty arrives on the Amalfi Coast expecting sunshine, lemon groves and an enviable assignment at a beautiful family estate.

Instead, she finds a household under strain.

Old loyalties are shifting. Money and inheritance are creating fractures. And when a death turns unease into suspicion, the elegant façade begins to crack.

Pippa has no intention of becoming involved. But as conversations contradict one another and long-held secrets surface, she begins to realise that what happened at the estate may be tied to much more than one terrible night.


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A Taste of DEAD CALM

Every journey has a beginning.

Read the opening pages of DEAD CALM and join Pippa as she arrives in Santorini for an assignment that isn't going to unfold quite as expected.

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What readers are saying...

  • "Dead Calm is exactly the kind of book that reminds you why we travel. It captures the excitement of discovering somewhere new, slowing down, getting wonderfully lost and embracing the unexpected. Add a cleverly woven mystery and you'll find it very hard to put down."

    Monique D

  • "Come for the sunsets. Stay for the seafood. Keep turning the pages because suddenly you have to know who did it. Dead Calm serves up Santorini at its most beautiful, with a mystery that lingers long after the last page."

    Bianca Thrathen
    Food Writer & Reviewer

  • "After travelling through Greece together, I smiled at how many little details found their way into Pippa's world. Kat has captured the joy of getting wonderfully lost, sharing long lunches, watching sunsets and discovering places you'd never find in a guidebook. I already can't wait to see where Pippa takes us next."

    Andrea
    Travel Buddy & Friend

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