A Death in Cornwall is the 24th installment of Silva’s Gabriel Allon series and the fifth novel in the series to be set in Cornwall. The first novel in the series is The Kill Artist. In this book, Gabriel goes by the alias Giovanni Rossi and meets Timothy Peel when he is a troubled youth. Their relationship leads to Timothy becoming a police officer, a job that he has held for eight years at the start of A Death in Cornwall. In the second novel of the series, The English Assassin, Don Anton Orsati sends Christopher Keller to kill Gabriel. Christopher doesn’t go through with the murder and instead becomes close friends with Gabriel. In A Death in Cornwall, Timothy and Christopher save Gabriel’s life. The signadora is another Corsican character who first appears in The English Assassin. She and Orsati appear in various other books, such as The English Girl, before rejoining Gabriel in A Death in Cornwall. Anna Rolfe also appears for the first time in The English Assassin. The death of her father, who stole art from Jewish people during the Holocaust, connects her to Gabriel’s ongoing efforts to recover paintings and artifacts taken by the Nazis.