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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.
Author Archives: vanessa
Shelf notes: In The Woods by Tana French
It’s a well-worn trope that crime writing isn’t taken as seriously as other genres – even a writer such as John Banville dismisses the crime novels that he writes under the pseudonym of Benjamin Black. However, as Allan Massie writes … Continue reading
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Tagged crime fiction, Irish fiction, literary snobbery, review, Tana French
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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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Tagged crime fiction, Dorothy L Sayers, Golden Age detective fiction, Jill Paton Walsh, review, Shelf Notes
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Dear Francesca – on epilepsy and motherhood
Dear Francesca Forgive me if I’m sticking my nose in, but in your Times column* last weekend you asked ‘can I be a good mother if I suffer from seizures?’ and your words took me back almost sixteen years to … Continue reading
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Tagged epilepsy, family, National Epilepsy Week
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I was this kid…
I remember summer evenings where I’d still manage to read even after I’d been told to turn out my light. Probably why I wear glasses – or at least that’s what I tell my son….
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Kerry Wilkinson, author of the Jessica Daniel crime novels – interview and book giveaway
Although I read a fair amount of crime novels, the Jessica Daniel series by Kerry Wilkinson had rather passed me by until Kerry’s publicist sent me a copy of Scarred For Life, the latest title in the series. I really … Continue reading
