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Helen Saxton Author
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#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
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
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
December 20, 2025 at 12:30 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
December 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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!
December 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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...
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🕵️‍♀️ 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 👇

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…
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December 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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
10 things you may (or may not) like to know about me 👇
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 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?
September 4, 2025 at 10:02 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?
September 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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
August 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Who's your favourite #Poirot? 🕵️‍♀️

#agathachristie #crimefiction #detectives
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
August 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
August 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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
August 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Oh ok then, just one more! Throwback to reviews of In Her Defence at @edfringe.bsky.social 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

#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
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August 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Oh the research! I'm so glad it was obvious 🫡

#bookreview #authorlife #amandaknox #truecrimewriter #crimeresearch
August 19, 2025 at 9:31 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
August 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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
😊 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

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
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
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
August 13, 2025 at 9:30 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 🧵
August 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM