Tessa Harris is a British writer of historical fiction. [1] [2] [3]
Harris was born in Lincolnshire and attended Oxford University. [4]
She writes historical fiction and is the creator of the six-book Silkstone series featuring Dr Thomas Silkstone, an American anatomist and early forensic scientist. [5] She has also written the three-book Constance Piper series set in Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel. [6] [7] Her novel Beneath a Starless Sky won the Historical Fiction category of the 2021 International Book Awards. [8]
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