Pamela Vass is a west country author specialising in both fiction and non-fiction books that are inspired by the people and places of Devon and Cornwall.

Many remember the summer of 1952 when disaster struck the small fishing village of Lynmouth on the North Devon coast. During one August night flash floods destroyed scores of homes and claimed 34 lives. But suspicions circulated at the time of Government interference with the weather, suspicions that provide a gripping background for her mystery thriller, Seeds of Doubt. Were the floods an Act of God or an Act of Man?

Pamela’s career includes several years as Director of The Whodunnit Company offering murder mystery events in this country and abroad. Prior to this she was a social worker with Exeter Social Services and Barnardos New Families Project. This professional experience provides a strong foundation for Shadow Child, a gritty and realistic depiction of the challenges faced by a child abandoned by his mother. He never gives up searching for her, not as a child, not as an adult. But the past casts a long shadow and his quest for the truth threatens his very future.

An interest in historical research led to The Power of Three, an account of the nineteenth-century Devon inventor, Thomas Fowler. Tragically Fowler’s ground-breaking work on the principles later embodied in the modern computer was lost, but a combination of the research carried out by Pamela and the expertise of an international team has reinstated him as a significant figure in computing history.

Pamela followed this up with Breaking The Mould; The Suffragette Story in the South West. Not a tale of a sleepy rural backwater but of women prepared to protest at political meetings, recruit in the streets, join mass rallies in London, and suffer the agony of forced feeding in Holloway. All this … and the biggest sleepover the region has ever known!

Pamela enjoys sharing the stories behind her books and her time with The Whodunnit Company and welcomes invitations from groups as a speaker, either in person in the southwest or UK-wide via Zoom.