MWT is apparently tapping into a rich and popular vein, with his book and TV appearances about true crime.

Is our growing obsession with true crime a problem?

From series like Making a Murderer to podcasts like Serial - true crime seems to be everywhere these last few years.

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So why is it that we are so intrigued - is it pure morbid curiosity?

British psychologist Emma Kenny, who regularly features in crime documentaries, agrees that we have a natural tendency to be voyeurs and be attracted to darker things.

This, of course, is nothing new and can be seen throughout human history.

She points to crime's prevalence in other forms of entertainment too - including the dramas we watch and the books we read.

Emma says that watching crime shows can trigger chemical reactions in our bodies while we watch, while also affirming our moral views about right and wrong.

She says an interest in the genre is nothing bad but warns people, including myself, about watching too much.

"I think that for anybody who's watching this kind of stuff you really need to know why you're watching it, I think. Because you don't want to desensitize yourself too much," she tells me.

"Life is best spent around good people doing good things, exposing yourself to the best things in the world that you can expose yourself to… we should never be desensitized to the horror."

From personal experience I object to the word TRUE!

Remember when his whole time was devoted to child protection?
Follow the money, FOLLOW THE MONEY!!

'M' wrote:
Remember when his whole time was devoted to child protection?
Follow the money, FOLLOW THE MONEY!!

The same applies to every children's charity I can think of, sadly.

I've become quite addicted to True Crime podcasts but that's mainly because I love listening to them in the car as I now can't stand radio stations and hearing the news all the time.

## mind you at present I'm listening to a 'talking book' on the Russian Revolution and the decades before it and after..absolutely riveting.

But as for a certain ex-PC cum Chewing Gum Removal Specialist and his podcasts..is there much money in it?

In the USA media companies are churning out superb podcasts about murders..one is a series on Serial Killers (so many in the US..weird).

Why do we like them?

And PLEASE help : I look after an elderly lady and visit the library for her..she's a nightmare as she can read a book in one day but she lurves Murder Mysteries and especially ones set in London by female authors !!

She's read every Agatha Christie and every Ruth Rendell (who I love as well) but we need new books all the time.

Now there are a series of writers from the Nordic countries churning them out but they're not bloody well set in LONDON !!

## last night I began watching a documentary and suddenly reALised it was MWT !!!!(that fuzzzy hair). Switched off ASAP.

hedda wrote:
I've become quite addicted to True Crime podcasts but that's mainly because I love listening to them in the car as I now can't stand radio stations and hearing the news all the time.

## mind you at present I'm listening to a 'talking book' on the Russian Revolution and the decades before it and after..absolutely riveting.

But as for a certain ex-PC cum Chewing Gum Removal Specialist and his podcasts..is there much money in it?

In the USA media companies are churning out superb podcasts about murders..one is a series on Serial Killers (so many in the US..weird).

Why do we like them?

And PLEASE help : I look after an elderly lady and visit the library for her..she's a nightmare as she can read a book in one day but she lurves Murder Mysteries and especially ones set in London by female authors !!

She's read every Agatha Christie and every Ruth Rendell (who I love as well) but we need new books all the time.

Now there are a series of writers from the Nordic countries churning them out but they're not bloody well set in LONDON !!

## last night I began watching a documentary and suddenly reALised it was MWT !!!!(that fuzzzy hair). Switched off ASAP.

I think your friend might like the "David Raker series, set mostly in London.
I am half way through this one at the moment... www.amazon.co.uk/You-Were-Gone-mourned-Bestseller/dp/0718189000

True crime programmes are good if they are made correctly.
Mark Will.i.am Thomas bores me to death with his 40 years police experience(which he has repeatedly claimed since he was in his late 30s)....and LOL,PMSL,ROFL etc this clown was not featured whatsoever in last nights Jill Dando programme even though he claims he KNOWS THE IDENTITY OF THE SHOOTER....nobody else does..just Marky Mark.
That doc by the way was clearly pushing yet again the theory that Barry George really did it..which he did NOT.

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
hedda wrote:
I've become quite addicted to True Crime podcasts but that's mainly because I love listening to them in the car as I now can't stand radio stations and hearing the news all the time.

## mind you at present I'm listening to a 'talking book' on the Russian Revolution and the decades before it and after..absolutely riveting.

But as for a certain ex-PC cum Chewing Gum Removal Specialist and his podcasts..is there much money in it?

In the USA media companies are churning out superb podcasts about murders..one is a series on Serial Killers (so many in the US..weird).

Why do we like them?

And PLEASE help : I look after an elderly lady and visit the library for her..she's a nightmare as she can read a book in one day but she lurves Murder Mysteries and especially ones set in London by female authors !!

She's read every Agatha Christie and every Ruth Rendell (who I love as well) but we need new books all the time.

Now there are a series of writers from the Nordic countries churning them out but they're not bloody well set in LONDON !!

## last night I began watching a documentary and suddenly reALised it was MWT !!!!(that fuzzzy hair). Switched off ASAP.

I think your friend might like the "David Raker series, set mostly in London.
I am half way through this one at the moment... www.amazon.co.uk/You-Were-Gone-mourned-Bestseller/dp/0718189000

thanks Honey but I forgot to mention one detail...they have to be FEMALE authors