All Expenses Paid is a zippy chiller inviting us into the glam world of two young female social media influencers, outsiders monetising their perfect lives with a constant flow of online product endorsement content to generate likes, comments and shares.

One of the more controversial climaxes of the publishing industry year used to be the annual Literary Review’s Bad Sex Award — which appears to have taken a permanent vacation in 2020 when the magazine claimed people had been ‘subjected to too many bad things’ during the Covid pandemic.

When I am writing crime fiction, I am inevitably faced with the precarious balancing act of trying to ensure my hard-boiled double-espresso novel doesn’t become a dreaded decaffeinated cosy crime story.

The controversy surrounding Richard Gadd’s award-winning Netflix TV show, Baby Reindeer, intensified recently when an American judge in California ruled that the show was incorrectly marketed by the streamer as a ‘true story’.

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