by faith | Feb 7, 2018 | Articles by Anna
From the Newgate Calendar to Serial and Making a Murderer, we have long been fascinated by true crime – by what leads people to commit a terrible deeds, and by what happens to a person when, rightfully or wrongfully, they are convicted. In real life, there are often...
by faith | Feb 7, 2018 | Articles by Anna
In December 1836, a bricklayer found a torso resting in a pool of frozen blood beneath a paving stone on the Edgware Road, London. Over the next few months, the remaining body pieces were found, and in May 1837 two people were tried: James Greenacre was convicted of...
by faith | Feb 7, 2018 | News
The Unseeing has won the Edgar Award in the US for ‘Best Paperback...
by faith | Feb 7, 2018 | Articles by Anna
I’ve spent quite a bit of time in prison. Admittedly, not as an inmate, but as a solicitor visiting clients. My first training ‘seat’ was in the Home Office Prisons Team, defending cases brought by prisoners in person. Later, I left Government to bring claims...
by faith | Feb 5, 2018 | Articles by Anna
At the end of August, Percy Bysshe Shelley spoke to me from the grave. Via Twitter. On Mary Shelley’s birthday, I’d tweeted that she’d out-gothed us all by keeping Shelley’s heart after he died. Up pops Shelley to correct me. No, he says, the heart couldn’t have...
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