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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: Edinburgh
Life lately…
Life lately has been so busy. We were idly thinking about moving house but couldn’t find anything that worked for us and at heart we were reluctant to leave the neighbourhood where we live. The Colonies are a lovely place; … Continue reading
Friday Five – fab things you might have missed…
I love travel and I love giraffes and I want to visit this hotel, Giraffe Manor in Kenya. It’s a Scottish hunting lodge-style house from the 1930s with its own herd of Rothschild giraffes roaming the grounds. Look at the … Continue reading
Posted in Recent links I've loved
Tagged Edinburgh, Elena Ferrante, Giraffe Manor, Joanna Cannon, Paris, Stockbridge
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Advent calendar 21st December – A book set where you live
Living in Edinburgh, I have a multitude of books to choose for this category. Rebus roams the streets solving crime, as does Isabel Dalhousie while Jean Brodie visits Cramond – formerly a village now a suburb – on the edge … Continue reading
Laptop and latte – the best cafes for writers, Edinburgh and beyond
JK Rowling famously wrote Harry Potter in Edinburgh cafes (although not in as many as claim to be the birthplace of Harry P. I suspect) while other writers can’t imagine in other than complete silence or away from their desk … Continue reading
Posted in My Writing, Places to go, Travel
Tagged Archerfield, cafe culture, California, Culross, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife, Gallery of Modern Art, how I write, Stockbridge
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Friday Favourites
This week’s selection of things that have interested me this week include the most beautiful bookshop I’ve ever seen; a fascinating lunch party in the 1920s, the intriguing life of a New York heiress and the sad tale of how … Continue reading
Posted in Recent links I've loved
Tagged 1920s, architecture, bookshop, Edinburgh, Hugette Clark, the Algonquin Round Table
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