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TRUE CRIME QUEEN: ‘HOW I CREATE FEAR’

Most true-crime novelists aren’t afraid to spill a bit of blood on the pages of their book, but that’s not true of Ruth McIver.

The author, from Perth, prefers to create a more suspenseful and anxiety-inducing style of writing. In her hotly anticipated book, I Shot the Devil, that’s exactly what readers can expect.

“I am not really into incredible violence in my books, I prefer to create suggestive

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