Dirty Harriet - by C J Skuse (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Harriet Cullen is forty-four, child-free, and bafflingly happy, much to everyone else's confusion. When she inherits a small fortune, she quits her thankless care job, dumps her deadbeat boyfriend and reinvents herself online as The World's Biggest Karen, a TikTok firebrand taking down everyday rule-breakers with a ruthless honesty.

But there is one showdown Harriet has always avoided: the man who kidnapped her as a child.

Determined to start fresh with her f**k you money, Harriet moves to a quiet street on the Devon border, surrounded by her growing menagerie of rescued animals. Only she has not chosen this street by chance. Directly opposite lives Jeremy Oaten, the snaggle-toothed man who ruined her childhood and escaped justice. Now Harriet is back, and she intends to collect.

About the Author

C.J. Skuse is the West Country-based bestselling author of the Sweetpea series plus six other novels across young adult and adult crime fiction. She holds two First-Class Creative Writing degrees and a PhD by Publication, has won two major literary awards and is the pioneer the YA antiheroine trend. Her adult debut Sweetpea helped define the 'Sassy Noir' genre of adult crime fiction, and was adapted for television by See Saw Films and Sky Atlantic in 2024. A second series will be televised later this year.