It is with sadness that I write this post today but the time has come for me to close the consulting service I have run for the past couple of years. The service I have provided to crime writers so they can authenticate their work has provided me a great pleasure, but over the past […]
Writing Crime – Formal Identification of the Deceased
This is a short post today. It’s an important subject but there’s not a lot to say on the matter. It’s on subjects like this that you think people know what happens, but I received the question as part of my consulting service, about how the formal identification of a deceased person was carried out […]
Writing Crime – The Appropriate Adult
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 […]
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 […]
Writing Crime – The Identification of a Body
Hello and welcome back to the Writing Crime series. It’s been a while since I wrote one of these posts. A couple of reasons, one was that I went on holiday and then I’ve not been too well. I might update you on my health in another post. But when I’m ill my writing is […]
Writing Crime – Does Your Crime Fiction Need to be Factually Correct?
This Writing Crime series has focused on being a series of posts about policing and facts about policing so that crime writers can make their fiction as realistic as possible. But, today I have a question for you and it is this; Do you need to make your fiction factually realistic if you have a […]
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