Kelly Rimmer

Kelly Rimmer is an Australian author of romance fiction and historical fiction. She has stated that a historical fiction author needs research and daydreaming. She plots her books before she begins to write them.

Rimmer lives in New South Wales, Australia. She owns a bookshop, Collins Booksellers Orange, which she purchased in 2022.

Reception The Warsaw Orphan (2021) was a New York Times bestseller, as was the audiobook of The Things We Cannot Say (Harlequin Audio, 2020).

Several of Rimmer's books have been Apple Books bestsellers: A Mother's Confession (2017), Before I Let You Go (2018), The Things We Cannot Say (2019), and The German Wife (2022).

Truths I Never Told You (2020) and The Warsaw Orphan (2021) were Publishers Weekly bestsellers.

Truths I Never Told You (2020) received a starred review from Publishers Weekly; it said, "Rimmer’s suspenseful narrative will enthrall and move readers".

Selected works

Me without You. Bookouture, 2014. The Secret Daughter. Bookouture, 2015. When I Lost You. Ickenham, 2016. A Mother's Confession. Bookouture, 2016. Before I Let You Go. Graydon House, 2018. The Things We Cannot Say. Hachette Australia, 2019. Truths I Never Told You. Headline Review, 2020. The Warsaw Orphan. Graydon House, 2021. The German Wife. Graydon House, 2022. The Paris Agent. Harlequin, 2023.

Start up in the City series

Unexpected. HQN Books, 2019. Unspoken. HQN Books, 2019. Undone. HQN Books, 2020.