Karen Campbell

Karen Campbell
Born	1967 Paisley, Scotland
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Scottish
Genre	Fiction
Website
www.karencampbell.co.uk

Karen Campbell (born 1967, Paisley, Scotland) is a Scottish writer of contemporary fiction. Her first four novels are police procedurals, set in Glasgow, featuring Sgt. Anna Cameron and Cath and Jamie Worth. Her fifth novel, published in 2013, breaks away from the crime series.^[1] It tells the story of Abdi, a Somali asylum-seeker newly arrived in Glasgow with his young daughter, and of recently widowed Deborah, who has been assigned as mentor to help them settle in. The novel was selected as the BBC Radio Four Book at Bedtime in April 2013.

Background[]

Karen Campbell was born in Paisley and brought up in Glasgow. Both her mother and father worked in Strathclyde Police, and following a degree at Glasgow University, she also joined the police, where she met her husband.

Karen studied for the Creative Writing master's degree at Glasgow University. She is a vegetarian^[2] and lives in Galloway with her husband and two daughters.

Bibliography[]

• The Twilight Time (2008)
• After The Fire (2009)
• Shadowplay (2010)
• Proof of Life (2011)
• This is Where I Am (2013)
• Rise (2015)
• The Sound of the Hours (2019)

External links[]

• Karen Campbell's homepage
• Reviews at Euro Crime
• Radio interview, 2009^{[permanent dead link]}
• The Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow
• Sunday Mail article about Karen's time in the police
• Review of Proof of Life

References[]

This article about a Scottish writer, poet or playwright is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t