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2000s: Everyone loves a true crime podcast . . . until they have a starring role
Conviction
What you need to know before your trail
It’s just a normal morning for Anna McDonald. Gym kits, packed lunches, getting everyone up and ready. Until she opens the front door to her best friend, Estelle. Anna turns to see her own husband at the top of the stairs, suitcase in hand. They’re leaving together and they’re taking Anna’s two daughters with them.
Left alone in the big, dark house, Anna can’t think, she can’t take it in. With her safe, predictable world shattered, she distracts herself with a story: a true-crime podcast. There’s a sunken yacht in the Mediterranean, multiple murders and a hint of power and corruption. Then Anna realises she knew one of the victims in another life. She is convinced she knows what happened. Her past, so carefully hidden until now, will no longer stay silent.
This is a murder she can’t ignore, and she throws herself into investigating the case. But little does she know, her past and present lives are about to collide, sending everything she has worked so hard to achieve into freefall.
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Travel BookTrail style to Glasgow and Fort William
Anna has a comfortable life here in the West End of Glasgow. The story starts here and is centered here but it’s not long before events spiral out of control and she heads up to the Scottish Highlands in search of answers.
The links to locations can’t be explained as they really do give away the plot – but be prepared to visit Loch Lomond, Fort William and even Skibo Castle.
then it’s down to the Ile de Re
The Ile de Re is a chichi holiday resort off the west coast of France. It has a quirky history. It’s a long, flat island, basically a sandbank between La Rochelle and the Bay of Biscay. For most of its history, the island was cut off from the mainland and very poor. The economy depended on salt harvesting and criminal transportation. IT was from the island’s capital, Saint-Martin, that French prisoners left for the penal colonies of New Caledonia and Guiana. Dreyfus left for Devil’s Island from Saint-Martin. The author of Papillon, Henri Charriere, left on a prison ship in 1931.
But the island once known for its cobbled streets and nice homes had become a haven for the rich and famous. “Shops no longer sell horsemeat or hardware, they sell Gucci and Chanel: Locals have resisted and holiday homes have been burned to the ground. This is where the Dana docks in Saint- Martin….
There’s also time spent searching through Venice….
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Conviction
Destination: Glasgow, Scottish Highlands, Ile de Re, Venice Author/guide: Denise Mina Departure Time: 2000s
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