Our Queen of Crime at Bloody Scotland

Posted: Monday Jun 24, 2024

13-15 September 2024

UK booklovers (and those travelling to the brilliant Bloody Scotland festival), here's your chance to meet 3x Ngaios finalist, and Traitors NZ star Vanda Symon in your neck of the woods!

Vanda will be travelling further than anyone ever has to appear onstage in Stirling, and is the author of a tremendous series of crime novels that have been shortlisted for awards on three continents and praised as "Chillingly intense with a finely honed sense of place" (Craig Robertson) and "taut, pacy thrillers with a wonderful sense of place" (Liam McIlvanney). Val McDermid calls Vanda "New Zealand’s modern Queen of Crime" while Ian Rankin notes "the Edinburgh of the South has never been more deadly".

Ideal for fans of Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves, Vanda's Detective Sam Shephard novels star a wonderful, likable and fallible heroine and a fascinating cast of recurring characters. Check them out for yourself and grab the chance to meet Vanda in the UK this year!

- The Wickedest Link (with Chris Brookmyre, Elly Griffiths, Mark Billingham, Tony Kent, Lilja Sigurðardóttir, Vaseem Khan and Marion Todd): https://bloodyscotland.com/the-wickedest-link/ (Fri 13 Sept, 10pm)

- Kiwi crime (with Michael Bennett): https://bloodyscotland.com/kiwi-crime-vanda-symon-and.../ (Sat 14 Sept, 4pm)