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Double Edged
Martine Dubois is a disgraced cop whose main sin was to trust a partner she should not have trusted.
When spymaster Philip Marsden, who has a painful past of his own, recruits Martine as an agent, it’s her chance to find redemption, and a chance for both of them to find love – unless duty kills them first.
When spymaster Philip Marsden, who has a painful past of his own, recruits Martine as an agent, it’s her chance to find redemption, and a chance for both of them to find love – unless duty kills them first.
47 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2013
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About the author
Narrelle M. Harris
65 books120 followersI grew up in a home bursting with books. My father was in the Royal Australian Air Force – we moved roughly every three years – and my parents were passionate advocates of reading and the importance of access to a library of ideas, no matter where we lived.
Between a childhood spent on the move yet steeped in literature, and a naturally dramatic personality, it’s no surprise I became a storyteller.
At home, and at libraries all over Australia, I read everything from Little Golden Books to The World Book Encyclopaedia. As my family moved so frequently, my companions wherever I went were the Pevensies of Narnia, a horse named Flicka and the Hardy Boys. I grew up with the characters created by Diana Wynne Jones as they too learned independence and responsibility. Miss Marple and the Dragonriders of Pern were always at my side.
Writers like Eric Frank Russell and Lois McMaster Bujold were as influential on my character and my writing as surely as Shakespeare and the Brontes. I’m still always picking up new influences, from modern writers like Emily Larkin and Neil Gaiman as well as classics by PG Wodehouse and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Before you figure I am always and forever reading, I’m a traveller too. My early years spent moving from state to state led to itchy feet. After moving out of the family home, I lived in Perth, then met Tim Richards and we decided to have adventures of our own. We moved to Egypt to teach English as a Foreign Language, then went on to Poland.
After we finished teaching, we kept travelling: we’ve been to the UK and US, to Thailand, Germany, Hungary, Syria, Jordan, France, Italy, Slovenia, Czech, and Canada – and we’re not done travelling yet.
The places I’ve visited – London, Hungary, Canada – often appear in my work, but the home of my heart is the place I write about most often.
Melbourne, Australia. The town we chose to live in always. The city I love so much she is practically a character in her own right in books like The Opposite of Life and short stories like Near Miss. I even researched the Marvellous Melbourne of the 1890s for my Holmes♥Watson romance, The Adventure of the Colonial Boy.
Given my background and all my literary influences, it’s hardly astonishing that my storytelling is eclectic: crime, adventure, fantasy, horror and romance – separately or combined.
For all the different genres I write in, everything I write generally includes the same tone and the same type of themes. They are full of the families one is born with and the families we make for ourselves. The protagonists all face challenges they’ve made for themselves as well as external threats that test them. They’re full of people who’ve made mistakes who seek to learn and to make better choices.
Whether you’re reading a vampire adventure in modern Melbourne, a Holmesian mystery in London or a racy lesbian romance in the Middle East, you’ll find humour, heart, friendships and love.
Awards
Jane: In 2017, my ghost/crime story Jane won the Athenaeum Library’s Body in the Library prize at the Scarlet Stiletto Awards, hosted by Sisters in Crime Australia.
Other nominations and shortlistings include:
Fly By Night (nominated for a Ned Kelly Award 2004)
Witch Honour (shortlisted for the George Turner Prize as Witching Ways in 1998)
Witch Faith (shortlisted for the George Turner Prize in 1999)
Walking Shadows (Chronos Awards; Davitt Awards in 2012)
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Narrelle's erotica published as NM Harris is listed on Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Between a childhood spent on the move yet steeped in literature, and a naturally dramatic personality, it’s no surprise I became a storyteller.
At home, and at libraries all over Australia, I read everything from Little Golden Books to The World Book Encyclopaedia. As my family moved so frequently, my companions wherever I went were the Pevensies of Narnia, a horse named Flicka and the Hardy Boys. I grew up with the characters created by Diana Wynne Jones as they too learned independence and responsibility. Miss Marple and the Dragonriders of Pern were always at my side.
Writers like Eric Frank Russell and Lois McMaster Bujold were as influential on my character and my writing as surely as Shakespeare and the Brontes. I’m still always picking up new influences, from modern writers like Emily Larkin and Neil Gaiman as well as classics by PG Wodehouse and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Before you figure I am always and forever reading, I’m a traveller too. My early years spent moving from state to state led to itchy feet. After moving out of the family home, I lived in Perth, then met Tim Richards and we decided to have adventures of our own. We moved to Egypt to teach English as a Foreign Language, then went on to Poland.
After we finished teaching, we kept travelling: we’ve been to the UK and US, to Thailand, Germany, Hungary, Syria, Jordan, France, Italy, Slovenia, Czech, and Canada – and we’re not done travelling yet.
The places I’ve visited – London, Hungary, Canada – often appear in my work, but the home of my heart is the place I write about most often.
Melbourne, Australia. The town we chose to live in always. The city I love so much she is practically a character in her own right in books like The Opposite of Life and short stories like Near Miss. I even researched the Marvellous Melbourne of the 1890s for my Holmes♥Watson romance, The Adventure of the Colonial Boy.
Given my background and all my literary influences, it’s hardly astonishing that my storytelling is eclectic: crime, adventure, fantasy, horror and romance – separately or combined.
For all the different genres I write in, everything I write generally includes the same tone and the same type of themes. They are full of the families one is born with and the families we make for ourselves. The protagonists all face challenges they’ve made for themselves as well as external threats that test them. They’re full of people who’ve made mistakes who seek to learn and to make better choices.
Whether you’re reading a vampire adventure in modern Melbourne, a Holmesian mystery in London or a racy lesbian romance in the Middle East, you’ll find humour, heart, friendships and love.
Awards
Jane: In 2017, my ghost/crime story Jane won the Athenaeum Library’s Body in the Library prize at the Scarlet Stiletto Awards, hosted by Sisters in Crime Australia.
Other nominations and shortlistings include:
Fly By Night (nominated for a Ned Kelly Award 2004)
Witch Honour (shortlisted for the George Turner Prize as Witching Ways in 1998)
Witch Faith (shortlisted for the George Turner Prize in 1999)
Walking Shadows (Chronos Awards; Davitt Awards in 2012)
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Narrelle's erotica published as NM Harris is listed on Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
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December 11, 2016
I have a massive soft-spot for spies and romance—hello childhood obsession with MacGyver and the Scarlett Pimpernel—and so was intrigued when I discovered that Narrelle Harris had a set of erotic novellas about spies, well not just spies, Australian spies in fact. (Note: as always I’m slow to the party and the third novella Wilderness dropped in September so you have not one but three novellas to read once you are finished with this review).
I’ve previously read and greatly enjoyed both of Harris’s urban fantasy novels set in Melbourne, The Opposite of Life and Walking Shadows, so knew that Narrelle was not only capable of creating characters who jump out of the page and stick to your brain but also creating character friendships that I would happily read about forever (I mean seriously, Lissa and Gary are the Librarian and (daggy) Vampire that you didn’t realise you needed in your life).
In Double Edged Harris’s newest characters Philip and Martine quickly become the spies you’d not realised you wanted in your life, and with their blossoming relationship the couple you didn’t know you needed to ship. As to be expected when your main characters are both spies, one of them the legendary Grey Ghost, the path of Philip and Martine’s romance wanders a little off track and towards a potentially sticky end…..though how this ends up you’ll need to read the novella to find out.
Doubled Edged is a fun and absorbing read, and with its novella length, a quick read (though this is perhaps not necessarily a positive until you remember there are two more instalments available). Definitely a good way to spend an evening while Melbourne decides if summer is going to be a thing this year.
I’ve previously read and greatly enjoyed both of Harris’s urban fantasy novels set in Melbourne, The Opposite of Life and Walking Shadows, so knew that Narrelle was not only capable of creating characters who jump out of the page and stick to your brain but also creating character friendships that I would happily read about forever (I mean seriously, Lissa and Gary are the Librarian and (daggy) Vampire that you didn’t realise you needed in your life).
In Double Edged Harris’s newest characters Philip and Martine quickly become the spies you’d not realised you wanted in your life, and with their blossoming relationship the couple you didn’t know you needed to ship. As to be expected when your main characters are both spies, one of them the legendary Grey Ghost, the path of Philip and Martine’s romance wanders a little off track and towards a potentially sticky end…..though how this ends up you’ll need to read the novella to find out.
Doubled Edged is a fun and absorbing read, and with its novella length, a quick read (though this is perhaps not necessarily a positive until you remember there are two more instalments available). Definitely a good way to spend an evening while Melbourne decides if summer is going to be a thing this year.
June 18, 2013
A well-written short, explicit romance about a secret agent and her boss. I very much enjoyed the unfolding story as Martine and Philip carefully yet confidently drew closer together. Both characters are intriguing, competent and creative - I hope this isn't the last we see of them!
May 18, 2013
Excellent example of intelligent erotica, focusing on the exploits of a secret agent couple.
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