The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and its Codes of Practice set out the rules and safeguards for policing in England and Wales and includes the role of the appropriate adult. The role of the appropriate adult is to safeguard the rights, entitlements and welfare of juveniles (under 18s) and vulnerable people. The criminal…
My Writing Life ~ The Start of #NaNoWriMo
Today’s post is the first of a new series of posts journalling my writing life. I will write a weekly post on how the past weeks writing process has gone. I will post the good, the bad and the downright ugly. And there will be plenty of ugly days and weeks when my ill-health gets…
Feed Your Creativity With a Walk
Today I have a short video for you. Do you sometimes get stumped and feel that you need to give the old creativity a bit of a shove? Well, here’s an answer. Go for a walk and see what difference it makes. Take that problem out with you and come back with it resolved. Find…
Recently Read – From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty
From Here to Eternity (Traveling the world to find the good death) by Caitlin Doughty The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with “dignity.” Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for…
Writing Crime – Pathologist or Coroner?
As you may know, I run a consulting service where you can send me policing questions or a manuscript to read through and one of the most common misconceptions I see popping up is the one between pathologist and coroner. It is as though the two titles are interchangeable or completely mistaken. That the coroner…
What’s Your Revision Process Like? – Ian Patrick
Today I’m thrilled to welcome crime author Ian Patrick to the blog to talk about his revision process. Educated in Nottingham, Ian left school at sixteen. After three years in the Civil Service he moved to London for a career in the Metropolitan Police. He spent twenty-seven years as a police officer, the majority as…