Creator of fiction that gives you all the feels. 

Emma writes explosive gangland thrillers as Maya Ross. 

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Current gangland books available:

The Anderson Family Trilogy

Blood Feud

Bad Blood

Blood Money

Crime fiction written as Emma Salisbury:

Emma writes about ordinary people and places them in extra-ordinary situations. About humdrum worlds that explode without warning. Think you can handle that? Then read on... 

SMALL ACTS OF MERCY, her psychological thriller set in a women’s prison, is out now. 

ONE GOOD REASON, her spin-off police procedural featuring DS Chris Ashcroft, was published June 2025. 

 Joffe Books Prize 2024 Finalist.

Emma has also self-published 12 police procedural novels which are available on Amazon. Featured in the Sunday Mail and on BBC Radio Scotland and Talk Radio Europe, her eBooks have regularly been in the top ten Hardboiled bestseller chart and she is a recipient of the Amazon All-Star bonus for being one of their most read authors in the UK. 

Emma is a registered author with the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Programme and is available for author events, festivals, book groups and writing workshops. Previous appearances include Portobello Book Festival, Fringe by the Sea, and Berwick on Tweed Festival.

Fans of Mark Billingham and Angela Marsons style police procedurals should try both of Emma's Manchester detective series. If you like hard-boiled crime writer Stuart MacBride and JD Kirk then her Scottish crime series is for you. 

Lovers of psychic detective fiction should try her standalone novel, THE SOUL COLLECTOR, which is free if you sign up for her newsletter!