True Crime Fiction

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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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