Helen Saxton Author
@deadherringuk.bsky.social
#truecrime and #crimefiction #writer 🎭 📖
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#TrueCrime author saying 👋🏻 on @bsky.app!
📕 #AmandaKnox - Crime, Trial, Release and Controversy (out now)
📕 #JeremyBamber - Murder and Turmoil at White House Farm (out May 2026)
both through @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
Would love to chat 💬
#TrueCrime #writer #TrueCrimeCommunity #CrimeStories
📕 #AmandaKnox - Crime, Trial, Release and Controversy (out now)
📕 #JeremyBamber - Murder and Turmoil at White House Farm (out May 2026)
both through @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
Would love to chat 💬
#TrueCrime #writer #TrueCrimeCommunity #CrimeStories
Lesser known (to me, at the time of reading) classic whodunnit trilogy by James Anderson nestling amongst the fake plant and wooden giraffe 🦒🍃🕵️
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Lesser known (to me, at the time of reading) classic whodunnit trilogy by James Anderson nestling amongst the fake plant and wooden giraffe 🦒🍃🕵️
Michael Crichton and scented candles don't seem to go together, but here we are! 🕯️🦖
Jurassic Park has got to epitomise the phrase 'the book was way better than the film', agreed?
Other favourites are Timeline and Pirate Latitudes 🕰️🏴☠️
#shelfie #thebookwasbetter #booktoscreen #jurassicpark
Jurassic Park has got to epitomise the phrase 'the book was way better than the film', agreed?
Other favourites are Timeline and Pirate Latitudes 🕰️🏴☠️
#shelfie #thebookwasbetter #booktoscreen #jurassicpark
December 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Michael Crichton and scented candles don't seem to go together, but here we are! 🕯️🦖
Jurassic Park has got to epitomise the phrase 'the book was way better than the film', agreed?
Other favourites are Timeline and Pirate Latitudes 🕰️🏴☠️
#shelfie #thebookwasbetter #booktoscreen #jurassicpark
Jurassic Park has got to epitomise the phrase 'the book was way better than the film', agreed?
Other favourites are Timeline and Pirate Latitudes 🕰️🏴☠️
#shelfie #thebookwasbetter #booktoscreen #jurassicpark
Small sandstone hippo guarding the precious and well-read Kate Atkinson set (I have her two latest on my to read pile, I am quite behind...) and a few more knocking around somewhere, I must gather them all together for completeness 📚
#shelfie #amreading #tbrpile #TBR
#shelfie #amreading #tbrpile #TBR
December 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Small sandstone hippo guarding the precious and well-read Kate Atkinson set (I have her two latest on my to read pile, I am quite behind...) and a few more knocking around somewhere, I must gather them all together for completeness 📚
#shelfie #amreading #tbrpile #TBR
#shelfie #amreading #tbrpile #TBR
Nestling behind a cocktail glass (Christmas present from student days) is the sublime set of Alan Bradley gems about the magnificent Flavia De Luce, alongside Mark Gatiss's trilogy about Edwardian secret agent, Lucifer Box.
Haven't revisited these in a while, maybe I'll dust them off again in 2026!
Haven't revisited these in a while, maybe I'll dust them off again in 2026!
December 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Nestling behind a cocktail glass (Christmas present from student days) is the sublime set of Alan Bradley gems about the magnificent Flavia De Luce, alongside Mark Gatiss's trilogy about Edwardian secret agent, Lucifer Box.
Haven't revisited these in a while, maybe I'll dust them off again in 2026!
Haven't revisited these in a while, maybe I'll dust them off again in 2026!
I'm going to go on a little pre (and post) Christmas tour of my bookshelves, starting with my miscellaneous 'biographies by comedians I like' shelf 😍
Bonus points if you recognise where you might have seen this handsome pigeon (minus his santa hat) on your TV screens...
Bonus points if you recognise where you might have seen this handsome pigeon (minus his santa hat) on your TV screens...
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I'm going to go on a little pre (and post) Christmas tour of my bookshelves, starting with my miscellaneous 'biographies by comedians I like' shelf 😍
Bonus points if you recognise where you might have seen this handsome pigeon (minus his santa hat) on your TV screens...
Bonus points if you recognise where you might have seen this handsome pigeon (minus his santa hat) on your TV screens...
🕵️♀️ Do you have a #TrueCrime enthusiast in your life?
🎁 Have you by any chance forgotten to buy them a Christmas gift?
Perfect for stuffing into a stocking 👇
🎁 Have you by any chance forgotten to buy them a Christmas gift?
Perfect for stuffing into a stocking 👇
Amanda Knox
In November 2007 the body of British student Meredith Kercher was discovered in her bedroom in Perugia, Italy. She had been brutally killed. Over the…
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🕵️♀️ Do you have a #TrueCrime enthusiast in your life?
🎁 Have you by any chance forgotten to buy them a Christmas gift?
Perfect for stuffing into a stocking 👇
🎁 Have you by any chance forgotten to buy them a Christmas gift?
Perfect for stuffing into a stocking 👇
Currently reading the final proofs from @penandswordbooks.bsky.social of Jeremy Bamber: Murder and Turmoil at White House Farm. It's been a while since I've re-visited it and phew, it's not bad! 😅
December 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Currently reading the final proofs from @penandswordbooks.bsky.social of Jeremy Bamber: Murder and Turmoil at White House Farm. It's been a while since I've re-visited it and phew, it's not bad! 😅
10 things you may (or may not) like to know about me 👇
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
10 things you may (or may not) like to know about me 👇
Could not be happier to see two of my favourites together! 😍🕵️♀️
#agathachristie #mrmen #nostalgic #firstbooks #childhoodreading #raisingreaders
#agathachristie #mrmen #nostalgic #firstbooks #childhoodreading #raisingreaders
Mr. Poirot and Little Miss Marple
Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are joining the world of Mr. Men Little Miss in a charming and amusing re-telling of a handful of Agatha Christie’s most famous stories.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Could not be happier to see two of my favourites together! 😍🕵️♀️
#agathachristie #mrmen #nostalgic #firstbooks #childhoodreading #raisingreaders
#agathachristie #mrmen #nostalgic #firstbooks #childhoodreading #raisingreaders
#BackToSchool this week! 📚✏️📆
I posted this a couple of years ago on World Book Day and realise I missed out #ToKillAMockingbird which I was one of my set texts for #GCSE (to long ago to think about 😩😂)
What books did you study and fall in love with?
I posted this a couple of years ago on World Book Day and realise I missed out #ToKillAMockingbird which I was one of my set texts for #GCSE (to long ago to think about 😩😂)
What books did you study and fall in love with?
September 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
#BackToSchool this week! 📚✏️📆
I posted this a couple of years ago on World Book Day and realise I missed out #ToKillAMockingbird which I was one of my set texts for #GCSE (to long ago to think about 😩😂)
What books did you study and fall in love with?
I posted this a couple of years ago on World Book Day and realise I missed out #ToKillAMockingbird which I was one of my set texts for #GCSE (to long ago to think about 😩😂)
What books did you study and fall in love with?
My initial book contained chapters on #AmandaKnox and #JeremyBamber (since developed into books in their own right) but also the #MendendezBrothers, #LizzieBorden, #DarlieRoutier and #JonBenetRamsey
All are controversial cases in their own way. Any thoughts or opinions?
All are controversial cases in their own way. Any thoughts or opinions?
September 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
My initial book contained chapters on #AmandaKnox and #JeremyBamber (since developed into books in their own right) but also the #MendendezBrothers, #LizzieBorden, #DarlieRoutier and #JonBenetRamsey
All are controversial cases in their own way. Any thoughts or opinions?
All are controversial cases in their own way. Any thoughts or opinions?
The @edfringe.bsky.social is over for another year, I hope everyone had a blast! This time 3 years ago we'd just finished our last performance of In Her Defence 🥲
Why not find out more about my characters Catherine and Philip and even check out the script? 👇📖
https://tinyurl.com/mt2tw242
Why not find out more about my characters Catherine and Philip and even check out the script? 👇📖
https://tinyurl.com/mt2tw242
August 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The @edfringe.bsky.social is over for another year, I hope everyone had a blast! This time 3 years ago we'd just finished our last performance of In Her Defence 🥲
Why not find out more about my characters Catherine and Philip and even check out the script? 👇📖
https://tinyurl.com/mt2tw242
Why not find out more about my characters Catherine and Philip and even check out the script? 👇📖
https://tinyurl.com/mt2tw242
August 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
One of the things I loved most about writing In Her Defence was (very loosely) hiding several #AgathaChristie references within the dialogue 🕵️♀️🔎📖
Can you work out what they refer to? 🗝️💭
#CrimeFictionFans #Inspiration
Can you work out what they refer to? 🗝️💭
#CrimeFictionFans #Inspiration
August 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
One of the things I loved most about writing In Her Defence was (very loosely) hiding several #AgathaChristie references within the dialogue 🕵️♀️🔎📖
Can you work out what they refer to? 🗝️💭
#CrimeFictionFans #Inspiration
Can you work out what they refer to? 🗝️💭
#CrimeFictionFans #Inspiration
What's In Her Defence all about?
#TheatreScripts #playwright #agathachristie #meettheauthor #OneAct #Playwriting
#TheatreScripts #playwright #agathachristie #meettheauthor #OneAct #Playwriting
August 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
What's In Her Defence all about?
#TheatreScripts #playwright #agathachristie #meettheauthor #OneAct #Playwriting
#TheatreScripts #playwright #agathachristie #meettheauthor #OneAct #Playwriting
3 years ago *to the minute*, we stepped out for our first performance of In her Defence at the @edfringe.bsky.social 🎭 🤩
One of the most thrilling weeks of my life, oh how I wish we were there now!!
Check out the play (and the ⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews) here 👇
#edfringe
https://f.mtr.cool/zhlbmnpapu
One of the most thrilling weeks of my life, oh how I wish we were there now!!
Check out the play (and the ⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews) here 👇
#edfringe
https://f.mtr.cool/zhlbmnpapu
August 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
3 years ago *to the minute*, we stepped out for our first performance of In her Defence at the @edfringe.bsky.social 🎭 🤩
One of the most thrilling weeks of my life, oh how I wish we were there now!!
Check out the play (and the ⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews) here 👇
#edfringe
https://f.mtr.cool/zhlbmnpapu
One of the most thrilling weeks of my life, oh how I wish we were there now!!
Check out the play (and the ⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews) here 👇
#edfringe
https://f.mtr.cool/zhlbmnpapu
Oh ok then, just one more! Throwback to reviews of In Her Defence at @edfringe.bsky.social 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
#edfringe #theatrereview
#edfringe #theatrereview
Theatre review: In Her Defence from Dead Herring at theSpace on North Bridge
Theatre review of In Her Defence (Helen Saxon) from Dead Herring at theSpace on North Bridge - reviewer: Robin Strapp
www.britishtheatreguide.info
August 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Oh ok then, just one more! Throwback to reviews of In Her Defence at @edfringe.bsky.social 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
#edfringe #theatrereview
#edfringe #theatrereview
@edfringe.bsky.social is in full swing; I've got huge #FOMO! Looking back to reviews of my first play In Her Defence in 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
#edfringe #theatrereviews #edfringereviews #agathachristie
#edfringe #theatrereviews #edfringereviews #agathachristie
In Her Defence, theSpace on North Bridge, Review
“I specialise in murders of quiet, domestic interest.” Agatha Christie ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’ was first published in 1920 and a century on, Agatha Christie is still the world’s best-selling crime fiction writer while her play ‘The Mousetrap’ holds the record as the longest running show on stage.
edinburghguide.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
@edfringe.bsky.social is in full swing; I've got huge #FOMO! Looking back to reviews of my first play In Her Defence in 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
#edfringe #theatrereviews #edfringereviews #agathachristie
#edfringe #theatrereviews #edfringereviews #agathachristie
Oh the research! I'm so glad it was obvious 🫡
#bookreview #authorlife #amandaknox #truecrimewriter #crimeresearch
#bookreview #authorlife #amandaknox #truecrimewriter #crimeresearch
August 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Oh the research! I'm so glad it was obvious 🫡
#bookreview #authorlife #amandaknox #truecrimewriter #crimeresearch
#bookreview #authorlife #amandaknox #truecrimewriter #crimeresearch
What do you think happened?
None of us can really know for sure, but that doesn’t stop us from having opinions. I’ve got mine too, of course, but I was happy to see this reviewer felt my book came across as neutral ⚖️
#AmandaKnox #truecrimewriter #truecrimeauthor
None of us can really know for sure, but that doesn’t stop us from having opinions. I’ve got mine too, of course, but I was happy to see this reviewer felt my book came across as neutral ⚖️
#AmandaKnox #truecrimewriter #truecrimeauthor
August 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
What do you think happened?
None of us can really know for sure, but that doesn’t stop us from having opinions. I’ve got mine too, of course, but I was happy to see this reviewer felt my book came across as neutral ⚖️
#AmandaKnox #truecrimewriter #truecrimeauthor
None of us can really know for sure, but that doesn’t stop us from having opinions. I’ve got mine too, of course, but I was happy to see this reviewer felt my book came across as neutral ⚖️
#AmandaKnox #truecrimewriter #truecrimeauthor
The absolute bliss of being allowed to sit quietly for hours and just read on holiday... two very different books but still finished each of them in pretty much one sitting 🤩
August 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The absolute bliss of being allowed to sit quietly for hours and just read on holiday... two very different books but still finished each of them in pretty much one sitting 🤩
😊 Indulge me with one last throwback! Last November I got to meet so many amazing local authors at this event organised by @wberkslibraries.bsky.social
#localauthors #locallibrary #authortalks #truecrime #truecrimeauthor
#localauthors #locallibrary #authortalks #truecrime #truecrimeauthor
Local authors swap top tips at library showcase
‘It went extremely well and we are looking forward to hosting it again next year’ .
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August 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
😊 Indulge me with one last throwback! Last November I got to meet so many amazing local authors at this event organised by @wberkslibraries.bsky.social
#localauthors #locallibrary #authortalks #truecrime #truecrimeauthor
#localauthors #locallibrary #authortalks #truecrime #truecrimeauthor
Does anyone else pay particular attention as to when they reach page 100, 200, 300 etc. of the book they are reading and, more importantly, do a quick check to see if anything of note happened on that page? Or just me?!
August 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Does anyone else pay particular attention as to when they reach page 100, 200, 300 etc. of the book they are reading and, more importantly, do a quick check to see if anything of note happened on that page? Or just me?!
Throwback to last year chatting to Jim on @kennetradio.bsky.social about art, writing, music and of course my #amandaknox book 📻 📘🎨🎼
https://tinyurl.com/3xe7w6wk
https://tinyurl.com/3xe7w6wk
August 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Throwback to last year chatting to Jim on @kennetradio.bsky.social about art, writing, music and of course my #amandaknox book 📻 📘🎨🎼
https://tinyurl.com/3xe7w6wk
https://tinyurl.com/3xe7w6wk
I was in talks w/ Fox Nation last week to share my expertise about the #AmandaKnox case in a new documentary they are making. Unfortunately we couldn't get the logistics to work (they are in New York, I'm not!) and despite trying to hook me up with a film crew in London it's not happening for now 🧵
August 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I was in talks w/ Fox Nation last week to share my expertise about the #AmandaKnox case in a new documentary they are making. Unfortunately we couldn't get the logistics to work (they are in New York, I'm not!) and despite trying to hook me up with a film crew in London it's not happening for now 🧵