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WELCOME APRIL 2023

” You only have to browse the TV schedules or the shelves of your local book shop to appreciate our enormous fascination with crime. Whether in fact or fiction, we can't stop devouring tales of lawbreakers and (and punishment), examining notorious , the stories of and the remarkable tale of a . It all begins on page 36, and do also check out the visit to a in our regular piece (page 84).

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