Lin Anderson is best known as the creator of the best selling forensic scientist Dr Rhona MacLeod series of forensic thrillers, beginning in 2003 with Driftnet; number 19 in the series, The Dead and the Dying, is released in Aug 2025.

How did she begin and where is she going? Lin Anderson explores these questions in Forensic Fact Meets Fiction.

Lin has a second mystery thriller series featuring private investigator Patrick de Courvoisier, set in glamorous Cannes (think The Rockford Files meets James Bond), and is described as a Tartan Noir crime novelist and screenwriter.

Lin 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. Lin was born in Greenock to Scottish and Irish parents. A graduate of both Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, she taught computing in secondary schools before deciding to write full-time. She is a former Chair of The Society of Authors in Scotland and, alongside Alex Gray, is a founder of Bloody Scotland, the Stirling-based crime writing festival. Her work has been translated into multiple languages.

Lin is also an accomplished scriptwriter. The screenplay of her first film, Small Love (broadcast on Scottish Television in 2001 and 2002), earned her a TAPS Writer of the Year Award 2001 nomination, and the second, River Child, won both a Scottish BAFTA for Best Fiction and the Celtic Film Festival’s Best Drama prize. She professes herself to be a huge fan of the film Braveheart, even going so far as to write a book, Braveheart: From Hollywood to Holyrood (2004), about the making of it.

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