Lin Anderson: Forensic Fact meets Crime Fiction

Mon Nov 18 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC+00:00

Currie Library, 210 Lanark Road West, Currie, EH14 5NX, United Kingdom | Kirknewton

Pentlands Book Festival
Publisher/HostPentlands Book Festival
Lin Anderson: Forensic Fact meets Crime Fiction
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Lin is an author and screen writer whose Rhona MacLeod novels, Paths of the Dead and Follow the Dead were shortlisted in 2015 and 2018 for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year, and whose Driftnet was a Scottish No.1 bestseller. Her latest book is entitled Whispers of the Dead. She has a second mystery thriller series featuring private investigator Patrick de Courvoisier, set in glamorous Cannes.
Lin has recently co-written a children’s book, The Magic Flag Mystery, starring the real-life border collie Blaze from Skye. She has also written one non-fiction book: Braveheart - From Hollywood to Holyrood, telling the story of the making of the Braveheart movie.
In May 2017 Lin interviewed Diana Gabaldon at an Outlander ‘Writing the Past’ event at the National Museum of Scotland.
She is an award-winning scriptwriter, with her work broadcast internationally, receiving a Celtic Film Festival ‘best drama’ award. for her River Child film.

Lin is a former chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland; regularly chairs events at literary and science festivals and conferences, and gives talks on ‘Forensic Fact Meets Forensic Fiction’: entertaining audiences with amazing true-crime anecdotes and giving unique insights into her world of story-telling.
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