Yes, you can be guilty of murder even if you didn’t fire the fatal shot. Two strangers involved in a shootout were arrested. one has been released for lack of evidence, the other awaits sentencing after being found guilty of murder.
After the abolition of the double jeopardy laws in the UK, it is noe possible […]

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Yet again, the British Government is targeting gang culture.
Time to get on my soapbox I think.
Why do kids or adults for that matter join gangs?
Experience from the US points to their being many underlying causes for gang membership.

A sense of belonging, usually stemming from lack of parental control due to the breakdown of the traditional family […]

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The 2008 Symposium on the Book in Canada takes place on Saturday July 12 Details at the website below.
Symposium on the book Website
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It’s just been announced that Andy McNab, he of SAS fame is to appear at the Theakstons Old Peculier Harrogate Crime Festival.The details are on his website.
http://greymansland.com/andymcnabnews/?p=139
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Here’s the list:
 Simon Beckett (The Chemistry of Death)
Mark Billingham (Buried)
Benjamin Black (Christine Falls)
Christopher Brookmyre (A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Pencil)
Sophie Hannah (Hurting Distance)
John Harvey (Darkness and Light)
Reginald Hill (The Death of Dalziel)
Susan Hill (The Risk of Darkness)
Graham Hurley (One Under)
Peter James (Not Dead Enough)
Simon Kernick (Relentless)
Patrick Lennon (Corn Dolls)
Stuart MacBride (Dying Light)
Alexander McCall […]

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Just a short post today as I’ve succumbed to the dreaded ‘flu’ virus. Wouldn’t you know it, work coming out of my ears, a temperature  of 103 so I am attempting to work from my sick-bed and it’s slow going.
Still I’m not as bad off as some. Take this guy from Australia.
“Eight years after going […]

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I thought I’d document the latest piece of PC madness. At least that’s what most of these comments seem to say about the blog  post below.
If you’re writing British Police Procedural set in the present and set in the West Midlands, this may be of interest to you.
Is there anything like this in the States […]

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I couldn’t have written a better plot.
Crime writer, former member of a criminal gang was shot and died on the operating table. motive, police suspect revenge.
Read the full article here
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Changing times in the publishing world.
Just read a great blog post by Nicci French on reactions to the digitisation of media and the future of publishing.
Nicci French Blog
 Is this the end of the book as we know it?
 Some argue that this change away from traditional methods gives more power to the author in question, freeing […]

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There’s a video clip of the famous crime gangland leader on MSNBC.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4327893/
 Update: the video has been moved  but it’s still a good crime news site.
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