Murderer's crime novel wins award and publishing deal


Murder, he wrote: Prisoner-writer Alaric Hunt and his award-winning crime thriller

Alaric Hunt’s Cuts Through Bone received US$10,000 prize from the Private Eye Writers of America, and a publishing deal.

ALARIC Hunt, a convicted murderer who has been jailed since 1988, pieced together a vision of the outside world gleaned from episodes of Law And Order and novels to write a serial killer thriller that would go on to win him both a literary award and a publishing deal, the New York Times has reported.

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