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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: non-fiction
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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Tagged Agatha Christie, crime, Golden Age detective fiction, Kathryn Harkup, non-fiction, poison
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The Year After by Martin Davies and The Great Silence by Juliet Nicolson
A period to which I’d never given much thought, and one which is glossed over in the main, is that immediately after the end of World War One. There’s a great deal of writing, both fiction and non-fiction about the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, fiction, Juliet Nicolson, Martin Davies, non-fiction, review
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