Crime Scene - The Boy in the Attic - Crimes against our Children

New Post for www.writing.ie Crime Scene

Writing about crime, fictional or real-life, carries with it a responsibility. A responsibility which is inherent in all good writing, the search to write a truth. Violent crimes are emotive and disturbing, especially when the innocent victim is a young adult, or a child. We ask ourselves why and how this can happen? But the questions multiply again, when the person, or persons, who committed the crime, are little more than children themselves.  To read more click...... HERE

Other related Crime Scene posts for March 2012

Why are we so interested in Crime? HERE

The explosion of Irish Crime Fiction/New Crime Scene Book Club HERE

Getting inside the Killer Head, with Frances de Plino HERE

Mel Sherrat talks about her novel, 'Taunting the Dead' HERE

Dublin Book Festival - True Crime : Criminal Minds

On Thursday March 3^rd, Abigail Rieley will be taking part in a panel talking true crime. Along with Emer Connolly and Barry Cummins, she'll be talking to host John Mooney about her work and stories in the  Gutter Bookshop in Templebar.

After a couple of years covering the courts her first book The Devil in the Red Dress was published. There couldn’t be a better story for a first book – the housewife who shopped for a hitman over the Internet but ended up with a Las Vegas poker dealer instead. Then last year her second book Death on the Hill looked at the trial of Eamonn Lillis, convicted last January of killing his wife, model turned producer Celine Cawley.

It should be an intriguing night for anyone interested in the genre of Crime.

John Mooney talking to Abigail Reiley, Emer Connolly and Barry Cummins on Thursday, March 3^rd at the Gutter Bookshop  - Time 6.30 - Admission Free -
No Booking necessary.

(part of the Dublin Book Festival)