CRIME

by P.M. Newton

Seizure Doubles is a series of ebooks highlighting some of the excellent writing that has been published in Seizure, Australia's number one creative platform, bringing you the best and most cutting-edge writing we can get our hands on.

In CRIME, we feature P.M. Newton’s stunning essay, ‘The Sadistic Art of Murder’, regarding the rising violence in the crime genre, and Gretchen Shirm's observations over the public fascination with, and love for, the wrong kinds of men in film and television.

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29 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 21, 2013

About the author

Fresh from an Arts degree, P.M. Newton joined the New South Wales police force in 1982. She spent the next thirteen years working in and around Sydney in various departments – Drug Enforcement, Sexual Assault, Major Crime – first as an officer, then as a detective. When she had eventually had enough of meeting people for the first time on the worst day of their lives, Newton resigned from the Job to travel and live overseas, before returning to Sydney, where she works as a librarian and writes. The Old School is her first novel.