Alison Belsham initially started writing with the ambition of becoming a screenwriter-and in 2000 was commended for her visual storytelling in the Orange Prize for Screenwriting. In 2001 she was shortlisted in a BBC Drama Writer competition. Life and children intervened but, switching to fiction, in 2009 her novel Domino was selected for the prestigious Adventures in Fiction mentoring scheme. In 2016 she pitched her first crime novel, The Tattoo Thief, at the Pitch Perfect event at the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival and was judged the winner.
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Series
Marni Mullins and Francis Sullivan
1. The Tattoo Thief (2018)
2. Her Last Breath (2019)
3. The Embalmer (2020)
1. The Tattoo Thief (2018)
2. Her Last Breath (2019)
3. The Embalmer (2020)
Detective Lexi Bennett
1. The Girls on Chalk Hill (2023)
2. The Girl's Last Cry (2023)
3. The Innocent Angels (2023)
1. The Girls on Chalk Hill (2023)
2. The Girl's Last Cry (2023)
3. The Innocent Angels (2023)
Books containing stories by Alison Belsham
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Crow Moon (2024)
(Martha Strangeways Investigation, book 1)
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