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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: Golden Age detective fiction
Shelf Notes – Miss Christie Regrets by Guy Fraser-Sampson
This is the second book in the Hampstead Murders series which kicked off last year with Death In Profile. This time a murder has occurred inside the Burgh House museum and, handily, Detective Sergeant Karen Willis happens to be on … Continue reading
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Shelf notes – A is for Arsenic, the poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup
It is often said that poison is a woman’s weapon: a claim made from Sherlock Holmes to Game of Thrones. That may or may not be true – accurate data is hard to come by, especially when looking at historical … Continue reading
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Recent links I’ve loved…
Anyone with even half an eye on the media can’t have missed that it was the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie’s birth recently. This piece from the Irish Times which asked crime writers such as Sophie Hannah, Val McDermid, Linwood … Continue reading
Shelf Notes: The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh (based on the characters of Dorothy L Sayers*
After the successes of her previous additions to the Sayers canon, Jill Paton Walsh has revisited Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane in the 1950s. Now Duke of Denver, Peter has also inherited the post of Visitor at St Severin’s colleges … Continue reading
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