Harriet Smart

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2010
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Dancing Master's Daughters

1 - A Tempting Proposal (Jun-2015)

The Northminster Mysteries

0.5 - Carswell’s First Case: Prequel Novella (May-2022)
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)
6 - The Echo at Rooke Court (Feb-2018)
7 - The Fatal Engine (Dec-2018)
8 - The Witches of Pitfeldry (Dec-2019)
9 - Moonshine and Mercury (Dec-2020)
10 - Tarleton's Coffer (Sep-2021)
10.5 - Mummer’s Night A Christmas Novella (Dec-2021)
11 - The Dolls at Heron's Reach (Apr-2022)
12 - The Wounded Oak (May-2023)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Reckless Griselda

    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 ...

  • The Daughters of Blane

    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...

  • Green Grow the Rushes

    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...

  • The Butchered Man

    The Northminster Mysteries - 1

    Northminster, 1840: a once-picturesque cathedral city, where dirty smoke stacks now rival ancient spires. When workmen make the shocking discovery of a mutilated corpse in a ditch outside the ancient walls, Giles Vernon and Felix Carswell are charged...

  • The Lark Ascending

    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...

  • The Dead Songbird

    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...

  • The Shadowcutter

    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 th...

  • A Tempting Proposal

    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...

  • The Hanging Cage

    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 a...



  • The Ghosts of Ardenthwaite

    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...

  • The Echo at Rooke Court

    The Northminster Mysteries - 6

    August, 1841 -- Felix Carswell returns from his blissful wedding journey and is at once called to the bedside of a young man fighting for his life. Fred Pierce has been seriously injured rescuing the occupants of a house from a fire, and Major Gile...

  • The Fatal Engine

    The Northminster Mysteries - 7

    As a harsh winter settles on Northminster, a reclusive inventor is found lying dead in his workshop in circumstances which suggest foul play, and Felix Carswell and Major Giles Vernon have a new investigation on their hands. They uncover a cut-throat...

  • The Witches of Pitfeldry

    The Northminster Mysteries - 8

    In the spring of 1842, Felix Carswell and Major Giles Vernon arrive in the picturesque village of Pitfeldry in the Scottish Highlands with their families, expecting a well-deserved holiday. But it is not long before they are forced back to work when ...

  • Moonshine and Mercury

    The Northminster Mysteries - 9

    In summer of 1842, the spa town of Stanegate is booming, thanks to the vision of Captain Carrington, the enterprising proprietor of the Hydropathic Institute. Fashionable visitors can take the latest cures, luxuriate in the opulent Roman Baths and...

  • Tarleton's Coffer

    The Northminster Mysteries - 10

    When Northminster’s most prominent bookseller, Arthur Tarleton, is found crushed under a marble column in his extraordinary library, Major Giles Vernon and Felix Carswell are called to investigate. Their chief suspect is Tarleton’s adopted son...

  • Mummer’s Night A Christmas Novella

    The Northminster Mysteries - 10.5

    On the third day of Christmas… Major Giles Vernon and Felix Carswell are called away from the Christmas hearth and their families to investigate a savage crime. In the bleak whaling town of Eastby, wealthy widow Anna Wetherby has been horribly m...

  • The Dolls at Heron's Reach

    The Northminster Mysteries - 11

    In August 1935, a shocking discovery is made at a secluded country house in the north of England: a horrific double murder has been committed in bizarre circumstances. Detective Chief Inspector Will Fairfax has recently transferred from Scotland Y...

  • Carswell’s First Case: Prequel Novella

    The Northminster Mysteries - 0.5

    Edinburgh, in the summer of 1839: Felix Carswell is at the start of a brilliant career, pursuing research into the structure of the heart, and assisting the celebrated Professor Logan. He has sealed his prospects by becoming engaged to Professor Loga...

  • The Wounded Oak

    The Northminster Mysteries - 12

    When walking in his gardens on a glorious spring morning, the debonair Rector of Swalecliffe, John Ravenell, is shot and almost killed by a hidden rifleman. This extraordinary event calls Major Giles Vernon and Felix Carswell to pursue another danger...



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Harriet Smart has published 19 books.

Harriet Smart does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wounded Oak, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Harriet Smart, Reckless Griselda, was published in March 2010.

Yes. Harriet Smart has 2 series.
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