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The Casebook of Harriet George #2
A Spy in the Deep
More mystery, murder, and adventure on Mars...
Mars, 1816. For almost a year, Harriet George has been training to be a spy in the British-Martian Intelligence Service and things are not going well. She has been failing in tasks she knows she ought to be able to achieve. Now she has been given her first assignment, and Harriet knows that if she doesn’t succeed, it will also be her last.
Together with her brother-in-law, Bertrand, Harriet has been sent to Louros underwater hotel to retrieve a package from an informant. It’s supposed to be a straightforward task, but everything goes terribly wrong. If Harriet can’t figure out who is working against her, not only will she lose her job, she may not make it back to the surface alive.
Mars, 1816. For almost a year, Harriet George has been training to be a spy in the British-Martian Intelligence Service and things are not going well. She has been failing in tasks she knows she ought to be able to achieve. Now she has been given her first assignment, and Harriet knows that if she doesn’t succeed, it will also be her last.
Together with her brother-in-law, Bertrand, Harriet has been sent to Louros underwater hotel to retrieve a package from an informant. It’s supposed to be a straightforward task, but everything goes terribly wrong. If Harriet can’t figure out who is working against her, not only will she lose her job, she may not make it back to the surface alive.
- GenresFantasy
124 pages, Paperback
First published April 30, 2018
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About the author
Patrick Samphire
34 books188 followersPatrick Samphire is the author of the adult fantasy novels SHADOW OF A DEAD GOD, NECTAR FOR THE GOD, STRANGE CARGO, and the forthcoming LEGACY OF A HATED GOD, as well as the middle grade novels SECRETS OF THE DRAGON TOMB and THE EMPEROR OF MARS. He has published around twenty short stories and novellas.
Patrick has been writing stories since he was fourteen years old and thought it would be a good way of avoiding having to sit through English lessons at school. He was absolutely convinced that he would be famous by the time he was eighteen, but sadly, even infamy has eluded him.
He lives in Wales, surrounded by mountains, with his wife, their sons, and their cat.
When he's not writing, he designs websites and ebooks.
He will now stop talking about himself in the third person.
Patrick has been writing stories since he was fourteen years old and thought it would be a good way of avoiding having to sit through English lessons at school. He was absolutely convinced that he would be famous by the time he was eighteen, but sadly, even infamy has eluded him.
He lives in Wales, surrounded by mountains, with his wife, their sons, and their cat.
When he's not writing, he designs websites and ebooks.
He will now stop talking about himself in the third person.
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October 31, 2018
Underwater mysteries, murders, and mosasaurs, with an awesome girl spy on Regency-era Mars! I love this novella (and series) SO much. <3
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January 20, 2022Underwater mysteries, murder, and mosasaurs, with a fabulous girl-spy heroine.
This is the second novella in my The Casebook of Harriet George series, and it's out now!
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This is the second novella in my The Casebook of Harriet George series, and it's out now!
You can buy it here:
Kobo
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Smashwords
April 25, 2021
Really interesting novella - I read it as part of The Underwater Ballroom Society and it's gorgeously done. Harriet is a great narrator, snappy and feisty but not great at everything; she runs up against that a lot, and her reckoning with her insecurity about her abilities feels right for a seventeen-year-old. Her relationship with her brother-in-law is hilarious, and the references to the school and the setting (Mars! In Regency years! With different countries colonizing it!) have gotten me SUPER interested in the first installment.
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