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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: The Pierced Heart by Lynn Shepherd
Lynn Shepherd’s The Pierced Heart blends Bram Stoker’s Dracula with a Victorian detective story in an ambitious but successful novel. To summarise, an Austrian nobleman offers a substantial donation to the University of Oxford and renowned investigator Charles Maddox is … Continue reading
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Tagged crime fiction, Dracula, Gothic, Lynn Shepherd, review, Victorian
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Author interview – Chris Ewan, author of The Good Thief’s Guide series, Safe House and Dark Tides
Chris Ewan is the best-selling author of The Good Thief’s Guides Series, Safe House and, most recently, Dark Tides, published in paperback last month. I first came across his work years ago when The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam was … Continue reading
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Tagged advice to writers, Chris Ewan, crime fiction, crime writing, interview
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Recent Links I’ve Loved
It’s time for a round-up of things that have caught my eye recently – an eclectic collection. Commercial women’s fiction, the much-derided chick-lit, is unfairly sneered at. As Lizzy Kremer, an agent with David Higham Associates, points out in this … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, architecture, crime fiction, fiction, Kate Mosse, politics, Scotland, writing
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Winning, validation, and fortune cookies
Last weekend I became a writer, and an award-winning one at that, and I learnt never to doubt a fortune cookie prediction. In lots of ways, it was quite a turning point. I told you last week that I’d been … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Bloody Scotland, crime fiction, fortune cookies, Pitch Perfect, writing
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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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