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Doug Carmichael has spent 15 years behind bars in a Scottish jail for the murder of his partner Linda. He is now eligible for parole and must undergo a series of interviews with a forensic psychologist, Fiona MacDonald, who is acting on behalf of the Parole Board.
The interactions between Doug and Fiona draw us into Doug’s prison life with the grim, funny, sad, infuriating, smart, stupid and scary men with whom he shares his days. Aware that he’s being psychologically dissected, Doug starts to engage in verbal duels with Fiona. These duels are weighted in Fiona’s favour, but he succeeds in hiding some of himself from her analytical scrutiny and occasionally disconcerts her.
This is no stereotypical relationship between criminal and forensic psychologist. Far from seeking to minimise his guilt, Doug never wavers from his original confession; he killed Linda. This leaves Fiona’s conventional role redundant; Doug doesn’t need to be pushed to confront his guilt. Oddly, it is Fiona who starts to explore the evidential anomalies of the case.
Con – the gripping sequel to Perilaus II.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B351JZLK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fantastic Books Publishing
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 17, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2.4 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 345 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1914060328
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled

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After a career in medicine and university teaching, Mark P. Henderson retired to North Derbyshire in 2002 and started to write fiction, edit manuscripts, teach creative writing, and collect and tell Peak District folktales. His publications, through five different publishing houses, comprise an anthology of short stories (Rope Trick, 2008), a children’s story (Fenella and the Magic Mirror, 2009), a study of the evolution of a local legend (Murders in the Winnats Pass, 2010), a collection of 62 traditional stories (Folktales of the Peak District, 2011), a collection of puns in verse and prose (Cruel and Unusual PunNishments, 2016), a one-act play (Forget it, it’s History, 2017), five novels and a novella (National Cake Day in Ruritania, 2018; The Engklimastat, 2019; Perilaus II, 2021; Con, 2022; Black Harry, 2023; and The Cat of Doom, 2020), and a novelette (The Definitive Biography of St Arborius of Glossopdale and his Thin Dog, 2019). His compilation of folktale films recorded in situ in collaboration with Tim Knebel of “Peak in the Past” and his colleagues (http://www.peakinthepast.co.uk; scroll down to “Folktales”), is available for free download and the set is due for completion in 2023. A second folktale collection, Elusive Tales of the Peak District, was published in September 2023. A collection of medical anecdotes he has edited, Tales from the Medicine Cabinet, was published in April 2024.