Jean Harrod
Author of Jess Turner series of international crime thrillers, and the new Grace Winter series set in North Yorkshire
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About me
Born and educated in the UK, Jean spent much of her life working overseas as a British diplomat in Embassies and High Commissions in Australia, Brussels, the Caribbean, China, East Berlin, Indonesia, Mauritius, and Switzerland. She has travelled extensively around the world and writes about all the countries she had lived in, or visited.
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My Latest Books
The first in a new series of Grace Winter thrillers, set in North Yorkshire
It Began with a Ghost Story
A dark, ghostly thriller based on a true North Yorkshire legend.
Do you believe in ghosts? Grace Winter didn’t until her world was turned upside down. Her mother died, and she inherited a house on the North York Moors that her family had kept a secret from her. When Grace takes a break from her job as a busy London doctor and visits the house for the first time with close friends Evie and Samantha the women find themselves caught up in a murder.
The Jess Turner Novels
Deadly Diplomacy
A gripping crime thriller set in Australia that will keep you up at night turning the pages.
Diplomat Jess Turner is the British Consul in Canberra. When a British businesswoman is brutally murdered in a Queensland resort, Jess travels to Brisbane to liaise with the police, and help the victim’s next of kin, her journalist sister, Susan.
Deadly Deceit
A stunningly original and fast-paced crime thriller set in the Caribbean. Between the pages lurk murder, voodoo, and people-smuggling.
Jess Turner is on temporary assignment in the Governor’s Office of the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean. The coral sands and turquoise seas are stunning, but things are not what they seem. The locals are upset about boatloads of illegal migrants arriving from nearby Haiti on their shores, and fearful of the voodoo they bring. Tensions run high. When the Governor is critically injured in a car crash and a brutal murder occurs, Jess is left reeling. What she uncovers sends shockwaves through the corridors of power in London.
Missing in Shanghai
A taut, fast-paced thriller, set in present-day London and in Shanghai in 1984. Entrapment, betrayal, and espionage lurk beneath the pages, with an ending you won’t see coming.
Diplomat Jess Turner is working on the China desk in the foreign & Commonwealth Office. It’s her job to ensure the State visit of the Chinese President runs smoothly. But tensions are running high. Jess uncovers shocking, secret events that happened in Shanghai in 1984. A British Ambassador died, and another diplomat, Marianne Henderson, went missing in the city and has never been seen again. Jess is warned off when she starts asking questions. But she is caught up in a chain of events she has no power to control. As she digs into the past, Jess finds herself in grave danger.
