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How My Probation Career Influenced My Writing

How My Probation Career Influenced My Writing

It’s always hard to know, isn’t it, which came first? The chicken or the egg. And that’s how I feel about my life as a crime writer, and my previous one as a probation officer. Let’s say my probation career was the chicken. I went into the job in my early twenties, burning with a […]

August 20, 2016 | By Ruth Dugdall | 1 Reply More

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