Hannah Howe: 22 books

Written by Hannah Howe, author of the Amazon #1 Sam Smith Mystery Series, Saving Grace, the courtroom drama of the year. The Western Mail 2 August 1876 Sensation in the Charles Petrie Case! Readers may recall that a young banker, by name Mr Charles Petrie, with every opportunity...

“If you like psychological detective stories with a touch of humour and romance, you will love Sam Smith.” Love Hurts. For Derwena de Caro, songstress, female icon, teenage dream, success brought drugs, alcohol and a philandering boyfriend. It also brought wealth, fame and a stalker, or...

“If you like psychological detective stories with a touch of humour and romance, you will love Sam Smith.” "I love breaking the rules." - Cardiff Jack. Someone was murdering prostitutes, placing their bodies in the Bay and covering them with roses. To the media, he was...

Someone had posted a dead rat through Jana Jakubowska’s letterbox, and scrawled obscene graffiti on her garden wall. Harmless pranks, or something more sinister? Her boyfriend, Tom Renwick, hired me to find out. During my investigation, I met Jana’s charming four-year-old daughter, Krystyna,...

Some people will stop at nothing in their pursuit of wealth and power. Indeed, the greedy will often resort to murder. “You’ve been through a stressful time recently,” my fiancé, Dr Alan Storey, said. “I’m off to Bulgaria to attend a psychology conference so why don’t youaccompany...

“If you like psychological detective stories with a touch of humour and romance, you will love Sam Smith.” It had been a week since the incident at the abandoned quarry, a week since I’d shot and killed someone, a week since my ex-husband had been murdered. It had been an emotional week....

Hired by multimillionaire Jeremy Loudon, my task was simple - find his missing briefcase. Loudon claimed that his briefcase held ten thousand pounds, his winnings from a poker game. However, as the trail unravelled and led to Europe my suspicions deepened. What was in Loudon's briefcase, beyond the...

“If you like psychological detective stories with a touch of humour and romance, you will love Sam Smith.” Someone was out to murder me. I had no idea who, when or why, but with a snowstorm gripping the city and with a determined assassin closing in, I faced the most dangerous moment of...

When the biggest villain in the country makes you an offer you can’t refuse, what should you do? In my case, I decided to accept that offer, made by Mr Vincent Vanzetti. Vanzetti hired me to find his missing daughter, Vittoria, while threatening reprisals should I fail in my task. While searching...

Book Six in the Sam Smith Mystery Series. Secrets and Lies - Suicide or Murder? Most of the people I encounter are hiding a secret and many of them are adept at telling lies. However, how do you learn the truth about someone who's no longer with us? Author, Barclay Quinton wrote...

The man in my office held a dark secret, a secret to kill for. That man was Tony Ryland, husband of local madam, Maria de Costa. Unfortunately for me, truth and justice, Tony Ryland was dead. What was Ryland doing in my office? Who had murdered him? What was the nature of his dark secret? The...

Mind Games, book eleven in the Sam Smith Mystery Series. Each book in the series contains a complete story and can be read as a stand-alone. A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Sasha Pryce, a teenage chess prodigy, presented me with a problem. She wanted me to track down Steve Chapin,...

A Parcel of Rogues is book thirteen in the Amazon #1 (private detective chart) Sam Smith Mystery Series. Each book in the series contains a complete story and can be read as a stand-alone. Print length, 236 pages. Also contains two bonus chapters, Ann's War: Betrayal, book one in the Ann's War Mystery...

"Morgan Brooks is a fine man," Alan said, "a great psychologist and my mentor. He's invited us to spend Christmas with him and his family. Should we accept?" Of course, I said, "Yes." And so, I met Morgan Brooks in snowy Boston, on my first trip to America. I also...