Tessa Harris

Tessa Harris is a British writer of historical fiction.

Biography
Harris was born in Lincolnshire and attended Oxford University.

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. She has also written the three-book Constance Piper series set in Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel. Her novel Beneath a Starless Sky won the Historical Fiction category of the 2021 International Book Awards.