Karen Campbells Life of Crime.
A former Glasgow policewoman, now based in Dumfries & Galloway, southwest Scotland, Karen Campbell has managed to forge a career in crime to become one of Scotland’s best-known novelists.
The creator of gritty urban thrillers has recently turned attention to new subjects. Her historical novel The Sound of the Hours is set in a small Tuscan town during the Second World War, while Rise tells the story of a young woman forced to run for her life in the Scottish countryside.
Karen is also currently working as writer in residence at Dumfries & Galloway Council, where she is writing, Here Is Our Story, which documents council workers’ response to Covid.
She is a regular contributor to the Wigtown Book Festival and in 2020 was commissioned by the festival to write an original short story, “The Ghosts of Wigtown”. A supernatural tale, it is inspired by the women’s history tour in Wigtown, Scotland’s National Book Town. Read the story HERE.
The Wigtown Women’s Walk can be found HERE.
The Ghosts of Wigtown: A new tale of the supernatural written exclusively for Wigtown Book Festival by Karen Campbell.
