Harriet suddenly sprang into my life when I needed to differentiate between my crime writing and my historical novels in a hurry. A contract was on offer, all that was needed was a pseudonym.Harriet took me by surprise, but as her novels were written in an entirely different style to my crime novels she has grown to have a much loved identity of her own in my life.

She also grew to have a wide range in the type of novels she produced.Her current one published in October 2009 is a contemporary women’s suspense novel, The Man Who Came Back, in which the narrator Emma Cardale is torn between Jack Scarlet, with whom she lives so happily, and Tom Burdock, the husband of her best friend Laura who was murdered seven years previously, and who is still widely suspected of her murder. But when Tom turns up on Emma’s doorstep, a nightmare scenario opens up before her.

Harriet’s first novel was a historical romance, Look for me by Moonlight, set in the Kentish hopfields at the end of the nineteenth century. She has since written family sagas (included a series on World War One set in a Sussex rectory) and a series of two-period novels, where a story in the present day is generated by a mystery from the past. Tomorrow's Garden centres on an old rose garden which while under restoration reveals dramatic stories from the past. Catching the Sunlight, based on a Hungarian legend, combines a modern love story in England with one from Budapest during the Second World War, and The Windy Hill explores what happens when a girl finds the script of an old cookery book amongst her late aunt's possessions, and a poignant love story and drama of World War I come to light.

At one time, Harriet found herself saddled with two younger sisters, Alice Carr and Laura Daniels, both of whom have now disappeared, although I hope that the memory of their novels still linger. Indeed, Harriet’s new novel The Man Who Came Back is written much in Laura Daniels’ style and is now available in trade paperback.

If you are interested in historical novels, why not take a look at www.historicalnovelsociety.org

Harriet's novels:

The Man Who Came Back
Applemere Summer
The Stationmaster's Daughter
The Windy Hill
Catching the Sunlight
Tomorrow's Garden
Quinn
To My Own Desire
Into the Sunlight
Not in our Stars
All published by Severn House

Look for me by Moonlight
When Nightingales Sang
The Sun in Glory
The Wooing of Katie May
The Girl from Gadsby's
All published by Headline

If you are interested in purchasing Harriet 's work please visit our Amazon page as a number of her novels are still available.