Welcome to my website.

Here you can find out more about my writing.

I hope you enjoy my latest novel, The Detective’s Daughter, out on the 1st of May this year.

If you belong to a book group do invite me along to discuss my books with me. I would like to hear your experience of my story.

vanishingCover_lrgFirst Edition of A Kind of Vanishing

ISBN: 9780954930950

Published: 21st June 2007

A child disappears. A woman grows up harbouring a terrible secret. Her daughter wants to know the truth.
It is the summer of 1968, the day Senator Robert Kennedy is shot. Two nine-year-old girls are playing hide and seek in the ruins of a deserted village. Alice has discovered a secret…

2nd edition of A Kind of Vanishing

“Lesley Thomson is a class above and A Kind of Vanishing is a novel to treasure.” Ian Rankin

Winner of People’s Book Prize for Fiction 2010
Second Edition with Afterword by author published March 2011  TO ORDER

Lesley supports The Parkinson’s Disease Society. If you are able, please do make a donation towards improving the lives of people living with this disease.



To order The Detective’s Daughter go to your nearest bookshop or library. Failing that: click here

A wonderful, absorbing, intelligent detective story. The Detective’s Daughter takes you on a journey through time, loss and memory. The characters – particularly Stella – will stay with you for a very long time.’ Elly Griffths

 

Lesley will be at Crime For Christmas

October 23rd, 2012

A festive day in the country!

Come along to the Crime For Christmas event at Much Ado Books in Alfriston and hear sixteen of the UK’s leading crime-writers discussing writing, reading and each other’s work. Authors will be signing copies of their books.

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Book Swap is Three!

August 7th, 2012

Lesley joined Amy Shindler (comedy writer and actor – plays Brenda Tucker in The Archers) on the book-swapping sofa at the Old Fire Station in Windsor on Thursday August 16th. Lesley swapped Have Mercy On Us All by the wonderful Fred Vargus for the last in Gore Vidal’s political trilogy Narratives of Empire.

This is a good night out once a month in Windsor and you can catch a road show version at the Cheltenham Literary Festival hosted as usual by the feisty and maker of a great cup of tea: Scott Pack (MD The Friday Project) If you want to know more Read on…and see Gallery on this site for picture.

 

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Lesley at the Chamber of Commerce – Brighton

March 7th, 2012

Lesley joins the panel of reviewers for the Chamber of Commerce Book Club in Brighton on Wednesday 7th March. The event if chaired by creative industries consultant:  Lisa Holloway. The book reviewed is Outliers: the Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.

 

 

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