Rebecca Bradley

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Writing Crime – The Offence of Manslaughter

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Last week we looked at the offence of murder. At the offence wording and what you have to prove to charge someone with the offence. But what if you can’t prove those points, but you still have a dead body and you still have someone in your custody who you believe is responsible for that…

The 3 Books of Sue Featherstone

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Today I welcome Sue Featherstone to the blog to talk about her 3 books. Sue is a former journalist and public relations practitioner turned academic. Her career started in local newspapers before switching to PR to become internal communications manager with a large utility company. She completed a degree in English Literature as a mature…

Recently Read – The Little Big Things by Henry Fraser

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The Little Big Things by Henry Fraser The memoir of the year by Henry Fraser, motivational speaker and mouth artist with a foreword by J.K. Rowling. Being challenged in life is inevitable, but being defeated is optional… Henry Fraser was 17 years old when a tragic accident severed his spinal cord. Paralysed from the shoulders…

The 3 Books of Sandy Day

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Today I welcome Sandy Day to the blog to talk books. Sandy is the Canadian author of Fred’s Funeral. She graduated from Glendon College, York University, with a degree in English Literature sometime in the last century. Sandy is a trained facilitator for the Toronto Writers Collective’s creative writing workshops. She is a developmental editor…

Writing Crime – The Offence of Murder

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We have looked at a lot policing policies, rules and procedures, but what we have not looked at are the actual offences for which you can and will be locking your bad guys up for in your crime fiction. The offences that you need to know to be able to have grounds for arrest and…