Andrew Hankinson

An untrue true crime story: Penance, by Eliza Clark, reviewed

A teasing piece of crime fiction weaves together real and invented murders in a satire on the true crime genre and its devotees

Eliza Clark. [Robin Silas Christian] 
issue 15 July 2023

Remember the teenage girl who was murdered in Crow-on-Sea in 2016? A horrific story. Google it. Or the journalist Alec Z. Carelli, the guy who went to school with Louis Theroux, Adam Buxton and Giles Coren and wrote a book about it? Remember how it was pulled because of the controversy over the way he obtained some of his material? Well, the publisher has decided to release that book after all.

There will be no upset loved ones –except perhaps those who were affected by the true crimes mentioned

None of this is true.

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