Meet the Authors: Suzy Aspley and Elisabeth Wolf
McLintock Hall, Balfron, G63 0TX
Sunday 6th September 2026
Suzy Aspley is a former journalist whose debut novel Crow Moon was published by Orenda Books in 2024. It was the first in a series of gothic thrillers featuring journalist Martha Strangeways and set in remote and rural parts of Scotland. Originally from the north-east, Suzy has lived in Scotland for more than thirty years and draws inspiration from the landscapes in which her novels are set.
She won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect competition in 2019, Crow Moon was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland and Theakston's McDermid debut prizes.
Her second novel in the Martha Strangeways series The Bone Mother, was released on May 7th 2026.
She can be found on twitter @writer_suzy
On instagram @suzyaspleybooks and her website is www.suzyaspleywriter.com
Elisabeth Wolf is a writer of contemporary gothic fiction, creating classic tales that utilise the genre’s most beloved tropes – crumbling mansions, vulnerable heroines, windswept landscapes and dark, brooding antiheroes. “Gothic novels sit right at the intersection between dangerous romance and spine-tingling horror, and it’s this combination that makes them so irresistible,” she explains. “Who wants a happy ending when you could have Mr Rochester instead?”
Elisabeth has lived in Edinburgh for the last eight years, and splits her time between the Scottish capital and London, where her two sons live. When she’s not travelling up and down the East Coast Line or chained to her desk, she spends her time malingering in graveyards and eating ice cream. She’ll judge any gelateria on the quality of its pistachio, and is also an enthusiastic home ice cream maker herself.
Her gothic novel, Winterbourne, was published by Black & White in 2026. She has also had eight crime novels published, writing as Alison Belsham.
All welcome; however, content recommended for audiences age 14+ due to subject. No unaccompanied children under 14 years.
She won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect competition in 2019, Crow Moon was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland and Theakston's McDermid debut prizes.
Her second novel in the Martha Strangeways series The Bone Mother, was released on May 7th 2026.
She can be found on twitter @writer_suzy
On instagram @suzyaspleybooks and her website is www.suzyaspleywriter.com
Elisabeth Wolf is a writer of contemporary gothic fiction, creating classic tales that utilise the genre’s most beloved tropes – crumbling mansions, vulnerable heroines, windswept landscapes and dark, brooding antiheroes. “Gothic novels sit right at the intersection between dangerous romance and spine-tingling horror, and it’s this combination that makes them so irresistible,” she explains. “Who wants a happy ending when you could have Mr Rochester instead?”
Elisabeth has lived in Edinburgh for the last eight years, and splits her time between the Scottish capital and London, where her two sons live. When she’s not travelling up and down the East Coast Line or chained to her desk, she spends her time malingering in graveyards and eating ice cream. She’ll judge any gelateria on the quality of its pistachio, and is also an enthusiastic home ice cream maker herself.
Her gothic novel, Winterbourne, was published by Black & White in 2026. She has also had eight crime novels published, writing as Alison Belsham.
All welcome; however, content recommended for audiences age 14+ due to subject. No unaccompanied children under 14 years.
