THE TRAITORS’ Harriet Tyce has seen her book sales increase by 95% – as fans speculated about her true intention of signing up to the BBC show.
Harriet was the latest faithful to be banished from the castle tonight after her plan to oust a Traitor backfired on her.
At breakfast, in tonight’s episode, Harriet revealed her true identity as a published crime author as she tried to prove Rachel was a Traitor.
However, her plan backfired and she was voted out instead, but her appearance on the show has seen her success soar in the book world.
Harriet is a Scottish novelist and the author of Blood Orange. The Lies You Told, It Ends at Midnight and A Lesson in Cruelty.
Her next book Witch Trial, about two girls accused of murder, is set to be released next month.
Her first novel became a Richard and Judy choice and became popular during COVID in 2020.
And according to The Book Seller, her sales have increased by an astonishing 95.6% since the first episode of The Traitors aired.
The publication says copies purchased have shot up from typically 181 copies to 354, with her recent novel A Lesson in Cruelty credited for the increase.
Meanwhile, in the first week of January, The Lies You Told recorded 263 copies – 93.4% more than the previous week.
Fans of the show have since speculated about why she appeared on the show and believe it might have been a ploy to sell more of her books.
A fan took to Reddit and posted: “Don’t misinterpret me but I am now really questioning why Harriet applied and got selected.
“Obviously, it will serve her career as now 8 millions people know she is a published author and if only 1% of these go and buy her books that will still be 80,000 copies.”
Another poster replied: “My vibe was that she wanted to make the jump to something more like one of those “historic crime” shows.
“You know, where they tell the story of the crime. The way she was talking in the questioning had a real vibe of one of those shows where they’re like “and then the victim made a fateful mistake, turning into the alleyway”.
A second said: “100% and they played it fantastically. She won’t be forgotten quickly, and that will change into sales.
“She’s already made more money this way than trying to win.”
While a third added: “On paper tonight sounds like a classic Traitors episode but it just felt off to me and this is why – it felt like Harriet was putting on a performance where she didn’t care if she banished Rachel or got herself banished, she just wanted to get a lot of screen time and some big moments to help promote her book.
“TV shows start to go downhill when people are applying for them for the opportunities that come afterwards rather than the show itself, I hope this isn’t the start of a trend.”
A fourth said: “It ruins the game having someone on like that. She clearly cared more about the publicity than winning.”
However, a fifth explained: “I got the impression she genuinely liked the deductive side of the game and cared more about being right (and being seen to be right) than about actually winning.
“Not sure she needs or wants the publicity given that she’s already pretty wealthy.”
Harriet practised as a criminal barrister for nearly ten years, before changing her career path to writing crime fiction.
