Harriet Steel

Trouble in Nuala

Trouble in Nuala
Title: Trouble in Nuala
ASIN: B01K7VSGO8
Published: August 10, 2016
Author's Twitter: @harrietsteel1
In the opening book of this series set in the 1930s among the rolling green hills of colonial Ceylon, Inspector Shanti de Silva is not finding life in his new post in the sleepy town of Nuala as restful as he had hoped. An arrogant plantation owner with a lonely wife, a crusading lawyer, and a death in suspicious circumstances conspire to present him with a puzzle that he will need all his experience to solve and prove his worth to his new boss. If you love traditional-style mysteries, spiced with colourful characters and a dash of humour, don’t miss The Inspector de Silva Mysteries.

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Salvation

Salvation
Title: Salvation
ASIN: B00D4R873S
Published: January 18, 2014
Author's Twitter: @harrietsteel1
A story of illicit love, intrigue and adventure set in Shakespeare’s England. ‘The story literally thrives on excitement … I have no hesitation in recommending this book as an exciting romp through the hurly-burly of Elizabethan England.’ Historical Novel Society'

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City of Dreams

City of Dreams
Title: City of Dreams
ASIN: B00JUSQWMS
Published: April 21, 2014
Author's Twitter: @harrietsteel1
A love letter to a great city and a story of friendship, love and the endurance of the human spirit. Set in Paris during the dying years of the glittering Second Empire, the Franco-Prussian war, the Siege of Paris and the Commune, City of Dreams is a love letter to a great city and a story of friendship, love and the endurance of the human spirit. Anna, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a Russian furrier falls for dashing Frenchman, Emile Daubigny. They marry and she follows him to Paris. She believes that all her dreams of love and happiness have come true but Emile is not all he seems. Soon both Anna and the city she loves will struggle to survive.  

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Becoming Lola

Becoming Lola
Title: Becoming Lola
ASIN: B0062LPBDC
Published: January 18, 2014
Author's Twitter: @KendraHighley
Becoming Lola is the extraordinary, true story of a remarkable woman. Hell-bent on wringing every drop of excitement from life and love, Lola Montez, the 19th century’s most notorious adventuress, refused to be hampered by the conventions of her day, whatever the cost. Reputed to have taken hundreds of lovers, including the King of Bavaria and the composer, Franz Liszt, she was a dancer, an actress, an intrepid traveller and a business woman. In her short life, she blazed like a firecracker through the courts and capitals of Europe, becoming the second most famous woman in the western world after Queen Victoria.

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