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Hi, I’m Vanessa and welcome to my site.
In 2015, I won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect event and my first novel, Death Will Find Me, was published in February, 2019. The second Tessa Kilpatrick book will be out early next year and in the meantime, I’ll soon be launching a series of art crime thrillers.
You can find out more about me and what I’m up to by following the links at the top, and there are contact details below if you want to ask me any questions or invite me to talk at your bookshop, library or festival.
Tag Archives: crime fiction
Shelf notes – Death in Profile by Guy Fraser-Sampson*
The serial killer whose crimes are the focus of Death in Profile is not operating in the frozen wastes of Scandinavia or the the inner city backstreets. Rather, in the manner of the Golden Age crime novels that inspired … Continue reading
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Tagged crime fiction, Guy Fraser-Sampson, review
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It’s Friday! Things you might have missed…
You know how this works – here are some of my favourite things from this week to give you something to read with your coffee… Crime to the left of me, thrillers to the right…. Val McDermid on why crime … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Loos, crime fiction, Ian Rankin, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Sarah Hilary, strippers, Train travel, USA, Val McDermid
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Advent calendar 14th December – my literary guilty pleasure
I’m not entirely sure that I believe in guilty pleasures but sometimes you want to substitute the literary equivalent of the wholemeal scone and vegetable soup for something a little less penitential. Something that doesn’t require deep consideration and is … Continue reading
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Tagged crime fiction, Janet Evanovich
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Shelf notes – City of Strangers by Louise Millar*
This Euro-thriller by Louise Millar – apparently a new direction from a writer who I hadn’t previously encountered – is quite a difficult book to review. On the one hand it kept me reading while my bathwater went cold and … Continue reading
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Tagged crime fiction, Louise Millar, review, Scottish crime
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Shelf notes – recent acquisitions and some suggestions for your TBR pile
It’s that time of year when books are arriving at an astonishing rate, both proofs from publishers of titles to be published early next year and new titles that have caught my eye and which I’ve ordered from the wholesaler. … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Shelf Notes
Tagged Cathy Rentzenbrink, crime fiction, Denise Mina, Eva Holland, Jane Smiley, Joanna Cannon, Louise Millar, Mary Paulson-Ellis, memoir
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