Alison Belsham
In 2016, Alison Belsham pitched her first crime novel, The Tattoo Thief , at the Pitch Perfect event at the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival and won. It was translated into 15 languages, was a No 1 bestseller in Italy and is the first instalment of the internationally acclaimed Tattoo Thief trilogy. Alison also writes in collaboration with her brother Nick Higgins – the first of their action thriller series set in Afghanistan, Death in Kabul , will be published in March 2022. Now she is embarking on a new crime series set in Canterbury, featuring DI Lexi Bennett, newly appointed to lead the Major Incident Team after a spell working with the FBI’s specialist serial killer unit.
Alison divides her time between London and Edinburgh, where she is a co-founder of the Edinburgh Writers’ Forum, providing professional development and networking for writers.