Harriet Tyce (born November 1972) is a Scottish barrister and novelist, the author of Blood Orange (2019), The Lies you Told (2020), It ends at midnight (2022) and A Lesson in Cruelty (2024).

For nearly ten years she practised as a criminal barrister before changing her career path to creative writing and crime fiction.

Harriet Tyce was born in November 1972 and grew up in Edinburgh, the eldest of two children of Lord Nimmo Smith, retired judge, and Jennifer, an academic and classicist.

[2] Later she completed a master's in creative writing and crime fiction at the University of East Anglia, passing with distinction.

[6] Quibi and World Productions, the producers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, chose Blood Orange for development into a TV series.