#BackToSchool this week! 📚✏️📆

I posted this a couple of years ago on World Book Day and realise I missed out #ToKillAMockingbird which I was one of my set texts for #GCSE (to long ago to think about 😩😂)

What books did you study and fall in love with?

My initial book contained chapters on #AmandaKnox and #JeremyBamber (since developed into books in their own right) but also the #MendendezBrothers, #LizzieBorden, #DarlieRoutier and #JonBenetRamsey

All are controversial cases in their own way.  Any thoughts or opinions?

The @edfringe.bsky.social is over for another year, I hope everyone had a blast! This time 3 years ago we'd just finished our last performance of In Her Defence 🥲

Why not find out more about my characters Catherine and Philip and even check out the script? 👇📖

https://tinyurl.com/mt2tw242

Who's your favourite #Poirot? 🕵️‍♀️

#agathachristie #crimefiction #detectives

One of the things I loved most about writing In Her Defence was (very loosely) hiding several #AgathaChristie references within the dialogue 🕵️‍♀️🔎📖

Can you work out what they refer to? 🗝️💭

#CrimeFictionFans #Inspiration

What's In Her Defence all about?

#TheatreScripts #playwright #agathachristie #meettheauthor #OneAct #Playwriting

3 years ago *to the minute*, we stepped out for our first performance of In her Defence at the @edfringe.bsky.social 🎭 🤩

One of the most thrilling weeks of my life, oh how I wish we were there now!!

Check out the play (and the ⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews) here 👇

#edfringe 

https://f.mtr.cool/zhlbmnpapu

Oh the research! I'm so glad it was obvious 🫡

#bookreview #authorlife #amandaknox #truecrimewriter #crimeresearch

What do you think happened? 

None of us can really know for sure, but that doesn’t stop us from having opinions. I’ve got mine too, of course, but I was happy to see this reviewer felt my book came across as neutral ⚖️

#AmandaKnox #truecrimewriter #truecrimeauthor

The absolute bliss of being allowed to sit quietly for hours and just read on holiday... two very different books but still finished each of them in pretty much one sitting 🤩

Throwback to last year chatting to Jim on @kennetradio.bsky.social about art, writing, music and of course my #amandaknox book 📻 📘🎨🎼

https://tinyurl.com/3xe7w6wk

I discuss the Hanratty case in my book on #JeremyBamber as an example of suspected wrongful conviction (backed by John Lennon), later confirmed by DNA. Some still believe he's innocent, showing forensic “slam dunks” aren't always final.

Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of killing her baby, Azaria. Years later, evidence proved a dingo took her, as Lindy always maintained. Yet, many still doubt her. Once we’ve made up our minds, can facts change them?
#AzariaChamberlain #TrueCrime #ConfirmationBias

I’ve been thinking (or overthinking, which I tend to do!) about this a lot recently.  Am I right…?

It’s easy to see why successful appeals (recently, Peter Sullivan for example), could give a much-needed boost in morale to other ongoing campaigns against alleged miscarriages of justice. 🧵

It seems like only yesterday I was ploughing through this pile of research books and last week the proofs of my very own arrived in my inbox!  

I've been through with a fine tooth comb and was pleasantly proud re-reading it again for the first time since submission at the end of May...