NOIR: Truth, Lies and Moral Ambiguity with the Scottish Writer Lisa Ballantyne

Lisa Ballantyne is the internationally bestselling author of five novels. Her debut, The Guilty One was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, Longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award, and was also a Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller. Her second novel, Good Bad Love, (published as Everything She Forgot in America) was a USA Today bestseller. She has been a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellow in France, supported by Scottish Book Trust and Creative Scotland. Her work has been translated into nearly thirty languages. Her most recent novel is The Innocent One, published in 2023. She lives in Glasgow.

The author will be at the Institut français d’Écosse to talk about the themes of her three novels: nature and nurture in Un Visage d’Ange, moral ambiguity in Le Piège de la Memoire and truth and lies in Au Loup.