Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Me Without You | 2014 | Buy |
| The Secret Daughter | 2015 | Buy |
| When I Lost You | 2016 | Buy |
| A Mother’s Confession | 2016 | Buy |
| Before I Let You Go | 2018 | Buy |
| The Things We Cannot Say | 2019 | Buy |
| Truths I Never Told You | 2020 | Buy |
| The Warsaw Orphan | 2021 | Buy |
| Letting Go of You | 2022 | Buy |
| The German Wife | 2022 | Buy |
| The Paris Agent | 2023 | Buy |
| The Midnight Estate | 2026 | Buy |
Start Up in the City Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Unexpected | 2019 | Buy |
| Unspoken | 2019 | Buy |
| Undone | 2020 | Buy |
Kelly Rimmer is an Australian author who has published fifteen novels since 2014, working in contemporary women’s fiction and historical fiction. Her career shifted markedly toward historical novels from 2019 onward, with books set during World War II – particularly in Poland and Germany – reaching a wide international readership. The Things We Cannot Say (2019) is her most widely read novel and deals with a contemporary Australian woman uncovering her grandmother’s wartime story in Poland.
The dual-timeline structure is characteristic of her historical novels: a present-day protagonist, often dealing with personal difficulties, gradually uncovers events from the World War II era that cast new light on family history and inherited trauma. The Warsaw Orphan (2021) and The German Wife (2022) follow similar structures, while The Paris Agent (2023) moves toward a more thriller-inflected approach within the same World War II setting.
Her earlier contemporary novels, including Me Without You (2014) and Before I Let You Go (2018), are emotionally intense domestic dramas dealing with relationships, addiction, and family crisis. The Start Up in the City trilogy (2019-2020) is a lighter series of contemporary romance novellas. Rimmer’s historical fiction has been her main commercial focus since 2019, and readers new to her work typically start with The Things We Cannot Say.