True Crime Fiction: Recent Episodes
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Your host is Mairi Campbell-Jack, long listed for the Crime Writing Associations debut dagger and a finalist on the Amazon Publishing New Voices Awards. Mairi guides you through the best of true crime and crime fiction podcasting and books. Regular reviews and guest interviews appear on the podcast and website, as well as a shop where you can buy reviewed books while supporting independent retailers and the pod. http://www.true-crime-fiction.com/podcast
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TCF previously did a review of the podcast Burn Wild, but we've come back with a much more detailed look at eco-terrorism and eco-action. This is the first part of what will be a three part series.
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Mairi thinks about the issues that are brought up by The Fact of a Body, an astounding book about forgiveness and the death penalty, She find that although it is a challenging read, it is one that digs deep.
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This wee we have some updates for you on three cases we have previously covered. West Cork, Sycamore Gap and the trial of Constance Martin and Mark Gordon. At the end we've got the original episodes of West Cork and Sycamore Gap.
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Finishing off our trilogy of programmes we take James Ellroy's true crime memoire My Dark Places and Richard Gadd's Baby Reindeer and compare the two asking what they tell us about masculinity and trauma.
Links are for Feast of Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jruf3jWqbtI&t=39s the James Ellroy documentary. As well as...
Darren mcGarvey's Trauma Industrial Complex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwdmv1X4dOA&t=50s
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Part two of our look at James Ellroy's memoire My Dark Places and comparing it to Netflix hit Baby Reindeer looks at Baby Reindeer, and some of the many questions around it. Next week there will be apart three where we compare the two.
Here is a Youtube link to the documentary mentioned in this episode Feast of Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jruf3jWqbtI&t=35s
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Mairi thinks about the true crime cannon and presents The Red Parts, and Jane: A Muder, as contenders. One is prose and one is poetry, and although poetry is not a type of writing often found in true crime the melding of the two togehter produce some wonderful writing.
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We wanted to compare the James Elroy memoire My Dark Places with Netflix hit Baby Reindeer. We realised quickly though there was too much to say for one episode so here is part one, and we will release part two on Baby Reindeer soon. To get part two early and ad free then please check out the patreon.
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Mairi delves into the story of Meghan Bahri, who run a successful charity for children with serious illnes and uncovers what different societal forces converge in Facticious Illness Disorder.
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Mairi and Phil take some time to delve into the case of Elaine O'Hara who was murdered by Graeme Dwyer, and ask if some of the tropes around the case are really ture?
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Mairi looks at the BBC podcast about eco terrorism in the 1990s as time and attitudes have moved on are those acts of arson as bad as they seemed at the time?
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Mairi thinks about what recent rulings in the case of Emma Caldwell and Sarah Everard mean for women and how society can work to make itself safer.
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Herkel Durkel is a Scots word that means to lie in a warm bed long after it is time to get up. This time Mairi and Phil use this leisure time to discuss the podcast Astray which looks at the stories of several backpackers, all of whom have gone missing in India.
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With a ruling from the High Court about Shamima Begum's British citizenship Mairi updates us on what has happened, and what may happen next. Including the original episode 108 The Crime and Punishment of Shamima Begum.
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Last month Carl Andre, who was aquitted of murdering his wife Anna Mendieta, died. We covered the case originally in episode 137 Death of an Artist. So what does Andre's death mean for this case, and also for Anna's legacy?
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This week Mairi delves into The Hunt for the Silver Killer. A true crime book which investigates is the murder/suicides of retiered couples in north west England is really the work of a serial killer.
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In the UK the case the Constance Martin, an aristocrat and her partner Mark Gordon, for the manslaughter of their baby daughter Victoria has been gripping the nation. Mairi and Phill discuss what we do and don't know about what happened, and what could come up, at the begining stages of the trial.
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Phil and Mairi are back discussing the popular Netflix documentary American Nightmare, and also discussing what the death of Ian Bailey means for the Sophie Toscan-du Plantier case.
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Mairi thinks about Belle Gibson, and Australian woman who conned the world into thinking she has cancer, and reflects on why so many young women fall for her type of schtik.
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Hurkle Durkle is an old Scots word that means to stay in a warm bed way past the time to get up. This winter Mairi and Phill are hurkelling and durkelling and chatting about the recent ITV hit Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, otherwise known as The Horizon Scandle.
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When the tree at Sycamore Gap in the north of England was felled, it prompted an outpouring of grief around the world. Mairi delves into the meaning behind the tree, in what is definately not a victimless crime.
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This week Mairi updates you on developments in two cases which have previously been covered in TCF. I Am Not Nicholas, the Knight/Rossi apparent case of mistaken identity, and the Delphi muderers on Down the Hill.
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Mairi has spend a lot of time thinking about Ted Bundy, and has come up with some comparisons to her own hidden disability.
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Mairi delves into one of her favourite mysteries, who killed the princes in the tower, and what does Phillipa Langlesy's new evidence mean for all of us interested.
Text availible here https://true-crime-fiction.com/2023/12/22/crime-in-culture-the-princes-in-the-tower-a-true-crime-book-by-phillipa-langley/
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The case of Cindy James' stalking is incredibly complex, twisty and turney. The idea that she faked it though... what does that mean for real stalking survivors?
If anyone needs resources to cope with stalking the Suzy Lamplugh Trust is excellent https://www.suzylamplugh.org/
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Who put Bella in the Wych Elm is a mystery from Worchestershire, England which has been puzzling people for over 50 years, and it's still no closer to being solved.
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Mairi reviews all the episodes in the last year that have Scotland as their setting. We travel from Glasgow, to Tayport Beach, Edinburgh and Newbattle.
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Allen Bridge started The Apology Line in 1980s Manhatten, and it kind of brings out exactly the sort of thing you would expect.
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Want to know the similarity between a cancer fraudster and Joan of Arc. Listen here.
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Maine Fawkes in back again, and this time he is about to start telling you how to work with the media as a true artist.
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Mairi read The Woman in Me by Britney Spears and thinks about what crimes have been committed.
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What can the murder of Sandra Rivette by Lord Lucan tell us about class in Britain?
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Mairi looks at the phenominon of sons who are convinced their fathers are serial killers and finds something much more ancient underneath.
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Mairi has stayed up all night watching and thinking about the Reckoning to get her thoughts on it to you.
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Mairi links up recent crimes with ones which are essentially foundational myths of American True Crime.
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Mairi listens to this podcast about the death of an up and coming feminist artist in New York in the 80s, and finds that women as a whole lost when this life was extinguised
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Does how we police crime matter as much as the results that we get? Is the question explored in Mr Lyttle Meets Mr Big. There are bound to be various opinions on this matter!
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Mairi delves into Shadow of Doubt which examines a familial abuse case in Australia. It is not an easy listen, and it brings up tricky questions about doubt, and what it's usefulness is.
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Mairi find that the podcast accompanying the TV drama adds an extra element that is most welcome.
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Your next episode of Maine Fawkes terrible, terrible self help book.
Other episodes can be found in the pod, or here https://true-crime-fiction.com/self-help-for-serial-killers-let-your-creativity-bloom/
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In the aftermath of the verdict on Lucy Letby's crimes against infants Mairi wonders about what motivated her, and if we will ever really know. Plus recommends The Patient as an excellent piece of crime based entertainment.
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Think Twice Michael Jackson is a true crime podcast where two Michael Jackson fans work to reconcile their feelings towards the artist now that his crimes against children are undeniable. Mairi asks some questions about what this means about celebrity and criminal behaviour.
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Mairi listens to three different podcasts on the murder of Elizabeth Short, comparing them and finds that they are of different qualities.
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Across the globe indigenous people continue to suffer the effects of colonialisim. We look at three reviews of crime fiction and true crime which tackles what happened in the past, and how idegenous peoples are still suffering today.
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Crime of the century - no. Funniest true crime podcast out there - yes!
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Mairi thinks about what conclutions can be drawn from the lack of podcasts focusing on the murder of Peter Farquhar and the abuse of Ann More-Martin.
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Mairi has a few thoughts after Nancy Jo Sales popped up in The Guardian this week, linking women's interest in true crime to the rise of use of dating apps.
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Mairi explores the satanic panic's arrival in New Zealand with the Peter Ellis case, and it's terrible consequences.
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Mairi chats to DV Bishop, author of the Ceasera Aldo mysteries about queer detective fiction. Past, present and future.
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War time London, and women are turning up dead - but they're not being killed by the enemy.
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Mairi listens to a sobering account of what life was like for many of the young army recruit at Deepcut Barracks.
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For PRIDE month Mairi drops a bonus episode where she explores homosexuality and crime looking at one of the most famous trials for homosexuality, that of Oscar Wilde, and right up to the modern day, with the tragic deaths of four young boys, ignored by the police.
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Mairi, reads Mary Turner-Thompsons The Bigamist. It is available to buy on the TCF non-fiction reviewed shelf of Bookshop.org with profits going to help support independent bookshops and the podcast. https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/tcf-reviewed-non-fiction
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Mairi delves into a case she thought she knew, and finds all is not as she imagined.
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Mairi delves into Wondery's latest podcast, a conundrum about the police sergent who fell in love with a bank robber.
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Maine Fawkes takes us again through his deprived biography come self-help book and his terrible personal philosophy.
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Mairi has watched Fred and Rose West: The Glasgow Girls and compares it to other true crime programs about the horrendous murders.
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A bumper episode of crimes and crime fiction that has taken place the length and breadth of England. Only on the podcast feed.
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Mairi finds a great true crime podcst hidden away on the BBC radio player.
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Mairi reviews a book by hte lawyer for many of Jeffrey Epsteins victims.
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Mairi watched We Need to Talk About Crosby, and makes some comparisons with the case of Jimmy Saville.
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Mairi delves into the case of Shamima Begum a British girl who as a teenager left to join the Isis Caliphate, and now has been stripped of her British Citizenship.
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For St Patrick's Day we have mashed all TCFs Irish true crime episodes together, with and an interview with The Troubles podcast.
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Mairi dives into this podcast, which looks at the very real crimes, behind the very fake haunting of 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville.
For more episodes about family anihilation check out TCF review of Father Wants Us Dead https://true-crime-fiction.com/2022/09/05/father-wants-us-dead-a-true-crime-podcast-about-john-list/
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For this year's International Woman's Day Mairi has remastered last years bonus special, and interview with author, CJ Cooper.
All CJs books are availible to buy in the TCF bookshop.
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This episode Mairi gives a quick run down of what she has been watching and reading in crime fiction and true crime, covering The Unforgotten Series 5 and this article in Saturday's Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/04/women-men-gender-violence
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This is a sad tale, in which there are no happy endings, just difficult questions,
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Mairi review a book, part memoire of the carear of Anne Bremner, who has attended some of the most well known trials in modern US history.
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Mairi discovers that Audry Gillen has done for Bible John what Hallie Rubenhold did for Jack the Ripper and some suprising conclusions.
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A release now with enhanced mastering of one of TCF's earlies podcast reviews. The popular, and well crafter West Cork, from Audible.
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Mairi publishes her 100th episode and thanks you all for listening!
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It's a new year, but the same old Maine Fawkes, and his terrible, terrible self help book.
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It was very tough to make this selection, but Mairi brings you a run down of the best books reviewed by TCF in 2022. All books are availible to buy in the TCF bookshop where profits help independent book retailers and keep the pod going.
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Mairi reviews some of the best true crime podcasts of the last year to be reviewed by TCF,
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Mairi delves into this historical murder, and wonders what it tells us about today.
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Mairi find a really well balanced podcast, just a pity it's about Fred and Rose West.
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Mairi discusses probably one of the least enjoyed topics in true crime, but it is very important to talk about.
If anything in this post has affected you please visit Childline or Stop It Now!
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Mairi has loved this book so much she has become evangelical.
All books reviewed can be bought in the TCF bookshop, where profits go to support independent bookshops, and to help keep this podcast going https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/TCF
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In a land full of mystery the Unknown Bairn is relatively modern, but Davie Donaldson wants to unravell it before it is too late.
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While the first five mins of this will appear to be a podcast about doughnuts, it is not. Mairi and crime fiction author CJ Cooper discuss a classic crime book.
All books reviewed are availible to buy via the True Crime Fiction bookshop. https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/classic-crime-book-club
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Mairi muses on the role of crime fiction in addressing the consequences of colonialisim.
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Mairi reviews the new true crime podcast fro The Guardian, and finds questions about neuro-diversity abound.
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Mairi reviews the debut novel of one of her fave podcasters.
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All books reviewed can be bought at the TCF bookshop, with profits going to independent retailers and the pod. https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/tcf-reviewed-fiction
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Mairi reviews the Booker Longlisted crime fiction that masquerades as true crime.
All books reviewed on TCF are availible to buy in the TCF bookshop https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/tcf-reviewed-fiction
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Mairi delves into this historical true crime podcast, which shows us how little things have changed.
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Mairi chats with Jack about all things crime fiction, London, and flawed detectives
You can buy a copy of London Black here https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/tcf-reviewed-fiction
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I promise you, it's gonna be good to get in on the ground of this series.
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Maine Fawkes carrys on guiding you through your journey to become, just like him. You know you want to.
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We all occasionally turn to people for advice on our love lives. Don't turn to these people.
Other TCF episodes about love and crime can be found at the links below...
Sweet Bobby https://true-crime-fiction.com/2022/01/17/sweet-bobby-a-true-crime-podcast/
Bad Bad Thing https://true-crime-fiction.com/2021/11/06/bad-bad-thing-a-true-crime-podcast/
The Orgasm Cult https://true-crime-fiction.com/2021/04/10/the-orgasim-cult-a-true-crime-podcast/
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Mairi reviews the latest book by the nicest man in crime. Which is availible to buy in the TCF bookshop. https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/TCF
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Mairi ponders murderbilia.
Text available here https://true-crime-fiction.com/2022/08/08/muderbellia-a-true-crime-podcast-about-true-crime-collectables/
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Mairi chats with Tom Mead, author of Death and the Conjuror, about locked room mysteries, and the golden age of crime writing.
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Mairi finds that nothing is as it seams in this quiet English backwater.
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Death and the Conjuror is available to pre-order in the TCF bookshop https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/TCF
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Here at TCF we have put together a quick run-down of all the best crime fiction and true crime that we have reviewed which touch on the LGBTIQ+ experience.
Happy Pride friends and followers.
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When Neville Presho decides to leave Toraigh Island in Ireland for New Zeland, little does he expect his house to vanish, and then be caught in a web of injustice.
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Mairi delves into motherhood, and what it means inspired by a modern true crime classic.
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Mairi delves into the reasons why people find it so hard to believe survivors of domestic abuse. If you, or anyone you know, is effected by this issue please use a safe computer and follow this link https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help
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Mairi delves into a TCF favourite subject, women and crime, this time with BBC's ever popular Lucy Worsley.
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Mairi interviews Amy, and they chat about her debut Girl, 11 as well as never lighting up a room.
Girl 11 is available to buy in the TCF bookshop, all profits go to support independent bookshops and the pod. https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/tcf-reviewed-fiction
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Mairi reviews Girl, 11, crime fiction debuet of Amy Suiter-Clark text is available here https://true-crime-fiction.com/2022/03/18/girl-11-a-crime-fiction-book-about-a-true-crime-podcaster/
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Camilla Macpherson is a writer and lawyer who lives in The Hague in the Netherlands. She recently won the Crime Writer’s Association Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition. Crime fiction is her favourite genre, and she has a particular interest in writers of the Golden Age.
Her debut novel, Pictures at an Exhibition, was a work of literary fiction revolving around the masterpieces of the National Gallery during the Second World War. It was published by Random House in 2012 and has since been translated into Dutch, German and Polish. She has also been recognized in a number of writing competitions, including: the Promis Prize in the London Writers Competition; the Wundor short fiction prize for her novella The Inaugural Iraq Garden tour; and the Fish Publishing short story competition. She is also a previous finalist in the Daily Mail First Novel Award and quarter-finalist in the Amazon/Penguin Breakthrough Novel Award 2009.
She is currently working on a detective story set in the Netherlands in 1940.
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In this true crime book we are taken on a decades long hunt for clues as to where a missing son has gone, and can he be connected to a body found in the woods?
Ripple is availible to buy in the TCF bookshop https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/TCF
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The search for justice in one man's murder extends over decades and entertwines with some of Britain's biggest scandles.
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I had a lovely chat with Dea Parkin, secretary of the Crime Writers Association about what the CWA can do for both writers and readers - as well as general crime, mystery and the all important award season.
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Mairi reviews the sequel to Errant Blood by CF Peterson, and see the highlands through different eyes.
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Suspect delves into a complex murder, which will make you question how much we can really rely on DNA evidence.
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Main tells us about the all important Shadow Artist, and how if you can't make it with the big boys, you can still help.
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Mairi delves into a very difficult true crime book.
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Mairi reviews this true crime podcast and finds an extrodinary friend.
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Mairi reviews this updated Boy's Own Adventure style story. Text can be read here https://true-crime-fiction.com/my-reviews/
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Mairi looks at two seasons of Billy Jensons and Alexis Linkletter's new true crime podcast. Season one covers LISK, and season two a truely terrifying stalker. Text is availible here https://true-crime-fiction.com/2021/08/07/unravelled-a-true-crime-podcast/
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Mairi chats with crime fiction author CJ Cooper, about women and crime for international women's day. The reading list to accompany this episode can be found here https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/TCF
This episode brings up some difficult subjects so UK resources for anyone effected are below.
Refuge UK domestic abuse helpline https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/
List of sexual abuse helplines, includes women, men and lgbt+ people https://sexualabusesupport.campaign.gov.uk/
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At first listening The Trojan Horse Affair podcast appears quite straight forward, but it's only when complaints roll in that we hear another side of the story.
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Mairi reviews this unique true crime podcast, rarely do you get so immediate with those involved in crime.
If anything in this post has effected you please contact https://www.survivorsuk.org/
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In the latest installment of the SFSK story we get to hear about Fawke's first murder in his own words. To get early episodes and SFSK bonus material please check out the Fiction tier on the True Crime Fiction Pateon.
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Mairi reviews Dirt Town, the first reviewed book which she cried at. Availible to buy in the TCF Bookshop https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/TCF
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True Crime Fiction is one years old today! Hurrah. So Mairi reviews some of the best of the last 12 months.
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Mairi reviews the second book in the Ceaser Aldo series, which can be pre-ordered or purchased here https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/TCF
And you can listen to Mairi's interview with DV Bishop at episode 13 of the podcast.
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Mairi narrates week one of CWA Longlisted and Amazon New Voices finalist, Self Help for Serial Killers: Let Your Creativity Bloom, and Maine Fawkes starts his journey of twisted self discovery.
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Harsh reality looks in depth at one relaity tv show, and uncovers an ethically murky world, and focuses on the life of Miriam Rivera before, during and after filming.
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Mairi find a refreshingly flawed female lead, in Ivy Boscowen.
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Mairi discovers this excellent podcast about a very sophisticated catfishing scam.
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Slithering into your podcast feeds, is this twisty thriller, well worth a read.
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Mairi is releasing her debut novel Self Help for Serial Killers: Let Your Creativity Bloom month-by-month, chapter-by-chapter via the podcast. Longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger, and a finalist in the Capital Crime and Amazon Publishing New Voices Awards new chapters will be released at the begining of every month, with a Patreon tier availible for those of you who don't want to wait that long!
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Mairi delves into one of the sadest and most baffling cases of it's time.
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Mairi reviews two podcasts both of which try to find out who Ghislaine Maxwell really is.
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In the Immaculate Deception Mairi discoveres shame, pride and fraud.
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Mairi delves into this book which weaves folklore and crime together.
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Two podcasts on exactly the same crime, both reporting at the same time! Well I never.
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Mairi explores the boundaries between one classic and crime fiction, and finds the latest work on Dostoyevsky a little lacking.
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TCF will be open for submissions in January 2022. For more information please listen to this announcement and also check the webpage
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Love triangles rarely work out well.
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Mairi dives deep into this story of undercover work on Britain's biggest drugs bust.
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This podcast is as close to perfect as true crime podcasting can get.
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Mairi delves into Death as a Living, a true crime memoire about the mean streets of Dayton Ohio, and thinks a bit about the responsibility of writers when it comes to issues of race.
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Mairi reviews and investigation into Ireland's vanishing triangle, and area of land where eight women disapered in the 90s.
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Mairi has some news! And she reviews Two Faced the new series of the excellent Happy Face.
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Mairi review's Dragged Into The Light were journalist Tony Russo investigates the dark side of an online cult.
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Mairi introduces you to Inklusion, a new project to make literature more accessible https://www.inklusionguide.org/ and reviews paradise a true crime podcast from the bbc.
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Mairi argues that this investigation of the manosphere and it's toxic sub-cultures is indeed true crime.
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Mairi chats to Daniel Seton, Commissioning Editor at Pushkin Press about crime fiction in the UK and what we can learn from other cultures, particularly Japan, as well as Agatha Christie, what makes a good book, genre boundaries and books narrated by balloons.
Mairi's novel, Self Help for Serial Killers: Let Your Creativity Bloom, is also part of the Capital Crime and Amazon New Voices Award, where the public can vote on their fave opening chapters of as yet unpublished authors. If you'd like to investigate and consider voting for Self Help for Serial Killers, there is more information here (you have to scroll a lot for this one). https://www.capitalcrime.org/new-voices-awards-entry/?fbclid=IwAR2F_Jqkr0zqrXCuUJyGQCpOFmSYnjurQPtcIb0g8bC3SgBi4W9BFePHucQ#:~:text=Capital%20Crime%20is%20running%20an%20exciting%20new%20competition%2C,crime%2C%20mystery%20or%20thriller%20novel%20to%20our%20system
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Mairi reviews the latest from Oyinkan Braithwaite, and finds a biblical tale.
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Mairi reviews unravelled a new true crime podcast by Alexis Linkletter and true crime royalty Billy Jensen.
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Mairi reviews Chasing the Bogeyman, a book which attempts to meld crime fiction with true crime.
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Mairi reviews Australian Western Dust of the Bones, and finds there is much still to uncover.
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Mairi reviews Thunderbay by Canadaland, which ended up taking her on a personal journey.
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Mairi, reviews Triflers Need Not Apply, a book about Belle Gunnes, and American/Norwegian serial killer, and thinks about how often women's crime goes unrecognised.
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Mairi listens to Body of Proof, and will tell you exactly why it is like a see-saw.
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Mairi reviews Written in Bone, the sequel to Sue Blacks much loved All That Remains, and it does not disapoint, but is it really true crime?
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True crime for those who want the thrills and shocks, but don't want the blood, the gore, the bodies. Some spoilers.
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Mairi reviews the book tipped to be THE crime fiction read of the summer, and finds much to enjoy and ponder.
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Dropped the episode early, because being patient and waiting is hard! I've reviewed Down the Hill, a really excellent podcast about the murder of two teenagers in Delphi, Indiana. The written version is availible at http://www.true-crime-fiction.com/blog
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Mairi chats with Oisin about his podcast The Troubles, understanding and knowledge about the troubles, Irish and Northern Irish history, media analyasis, Brexit and much more. You can find Oisin's book recommendation for listeners here https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/TCF and his podcast on any of the fine places you listen to them. As usual, outtakes at the end.
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Jim Cosgrove investigates the mysterious death of a neighbourhood boy decades ago.
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Mairi reviews the latest Ambrose Parry, released on 19th August, and finds some old friends, and new favourites. Written review here https://true-crime-fiction.com/2021/04/30/a-corruption-of-blood-a-crime-fiction-book/
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Mairi delves into the podcast Who Killed Emma, which is gaining attention and awards, and it's easy to see why. Written post here https://true-crime-fiction.com/2021/04/13/who-killed-emma-a-true-crime-podcast/
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Mairi chats with DV Bishop about his crime fiction debuet, historical research, protagonists, graphic fiction and his recommendation The Lonlieness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine, which can be found in the TCF shop https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/TCF. Listen to the end to hear the outtakes.
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Mairi delves into the BBC podcast The Orgasim Cult, and finds horror. Text review here https://true-crime-fiction.com/2021/04/10/the-orgasim-cult-a-true-crime-podcast/
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Mairi reviews Death's Kiss by Josh Reynolds and published in June by Aconyte. Death's Kiss can be pre-ordered through the TCF Bookshop. https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/TCF
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Mairi and CJ chat about her new book The Verdict, juries, writing, persavernace and much more.
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Mairi reviews The Halifax Slasher, by Audible, and is a little dissapointed. Written text availible here https://true-crime-fiction.com/2021/01/09/the-halifax-slasher-a-true-crime-podcast/
There is also information on up coming author interviews with CJ Cooper and DV Bishop, if you'd like to read their books before their interviews, you can buy them in the TCF bookshop which will support independent retailers and this pod. https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/TCF
Mairi reveals the two crime fiction authors who will be interviewed next month, and how you can submit a question to them, along with a review of true crime podcast Bad Bridget.
The written review can be found here https://true-crime-fiction.com/2021/01/23/true-crime-podcast-review-bad-bridgets/ and if you want to read the books of the two authors before they are interviewed you can see them in the TCF bookshop where all purchases go towards indepent bookshops and the pod. https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/TCF
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Mairi loved this book so much she couldn't wait to share it and so has dropped a wee bonus episode. Text can be read here.
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Mairi reflects on recent news in the UK, and runs down her top five true crime weekly podcasts.
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Mairi updates everyone on the TCF Shop, where you can now buy the books recommended and reviewed on the show, plus TCFs first guest author. She also reviews The Phantom Prince, a non-fiction book abut Ted Bundy, written by his long-term girlfriend Liz Kendall. Written text is availible here.
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Mairi reviews Killing for Company by Brian Masters, which examines the life and crimes of Scotish serial killer Des Neilson, and finds a different kind of true crime book.
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Mairi reviews West Cork, an Audible Original podcast which is bamboozling. Written text here.
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Mairi reviews the English language debut by CJ Cooper, The Book Club, and finds all is not what is seems. Text review available here.
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In this first episode host Mairi Campbell-Jack reviews Happy Face, a deep dive podcast in which Melissa Moore interrogates her own life as the daughter of serial killer Keith Hunter Jespersen, and what being her father's daughter means.