Harriet Smart

Dancing Master's Daughters

1 - A Tempting Proposal (Jun-2015)

The Northminster Mysteries

1 - The Butchered Man (Nov-2011)
2 - The Dead Songbird (Jun-2013)
3 - The Shadowcutter (Apr-2015)
4 - The Hanging Cage (Jan-2016)
5 - The Ghosts of Ardenthwaite (Dec-2016)

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  Reckless Griselda
  

  • Mar-2010
  • / Historical
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  On an impetuous journey to stop her father making an unsuitable marriage, Griselda Farquarson meets dashing Tom Thorpe. They fall instantly in love and into trouble. After she indulges in a sensual clandestine encounter with him, Griselda is forced ...

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  The Daughters of Blane
  

  • Jun-2010
  • / Historical
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  Three young ladies with more beauty and charm than Isobel, Leonora and Vivien Buchanan, daughters of the laird of Blane, would be hard to find; their marriage prospects are exceptional. Indeed, in the summer of 1890, Isobel is already engaged to a du...

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  Green Grow the Rushes
  

  • Nov-2010
  • / Romance
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  In the summer of 1900, a group of young people are brought together in the decaying splendour of the Quarro, a Scottish country house owned by the down-at-heel Lennox family. As their lives touch, new alliances are formed - some doomed to failure and...

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  The Butchered Man
  

  • Nov-2011
  • / Historical Mystery
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  The Northminster Mysteries - 1
  

  Book One in an exciting new Victorian detective series from former Headline author Harriet Smart. England 1840, and police surgeon Felix Carswell enters a murky world of professional gamblers and jilted lovers to solve the case of The Butchered Man....

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  The Lark Ascending
  

  • Jun-2013
  • / Historical
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  When Chris Adam recieves a proposal from wealthy young Guy Lindsay, her family are delighted - this would be a fine match indeed for a daughter of the Manse. Chris is tempted, for she is attracted to Guy, but her vocation is to be a composer, and ins...

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  The Dead Songbird
  

  • Jun-2013
  • / Historical Mystery
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  The Northminster Mysteries - 2
  

  “Death is too good for a whore like you. But He may show you mercy yet. BE PREPARED”Celebrated singer Anna Morgan has come to Northminster to escape a troubled past and sing at the city's Handel Festival. But when she continues to receive the poi...

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  The Shadowcutter
  

  • Apr-2015
  • / Historical
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  The Northminster Mysteries - 3
  

  Police surgeon Felix Carswell has joined Major Giles Vernon and his convalescent wife, Laura, for a few days in the elegant spa town of Stanegate �" it’s a welcome holiday from the summer stench of Northminster. But no sooner has he arrived than a...

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  A Tempting Proposal
  

  • Jun-2015
  • / Historical
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  Dancing Master's Daughters - 1
  

  Adela Ross is reduced to singing in Macreadies’ sordid supper club in Edinburgh to keep bread on the table and a roof over her head.Sir William Urquhart must marry within a month or forfeit the estates and fortune left to him by his uncle.When Adel...

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  The Hanging Cage
  

  • Jan-2016
  • / General Fiction
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  The Northminster Mysteries - 4
  

  Summoned to the bleak market town of Whithorne in the midst of a winter storm, Major Giles Vernon and police surgeon Felix Carswell are embroiled in another challenging investigation.A beautiful young heiress has been found dead in her bed, and altho...

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  The Ghosts of Ardenthwaite
  

  • Dec-2016
  • / General Fiction
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  The Northminster Mysteries - 5
  

  Something is amiss at Ardenthwaite. Ghostly apparitions have been seen, so terrifying that the mistress of the house and the servants have deserted the place. Colonel Parham, the tenant, asks his landlord Felix Carswell and Major Giles Vernon to dete...

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