{"id":25968,"date":"2026-04-07T09:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/?post_type=event&p=25968"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:12:59","slug":"snlf-tuula-a-true-crime-tragedy-with-mark-bridgeman","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/?event=snlf-tuula-a-true-crime-tragedy-with-mark-bridgeman","title":{"rendered":"SNLF: Tuula – A True Crime Tragedy with Mark Bridgeman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When:<\/td>Fri 19-Jun-2026 @ 13:00<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\t\r\n\t
Where:<\/td>The Exchange, Sturminster Newton<\/a>
1 Old Market Hill
Sturminster Newton
Dorset
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Event Website:<\/td>https:\/\/sturlitfest.com\/<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\t
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Calendar:<\/td>Beyond Okeford Fitzpaine<\/td><\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

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A day ticket is available for all three crime events on Friday 19 June. For more information visit the SturLitFest website<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In December 1966, on the Island of Jersey, a beautiful and talented young Finnish girl stood waiting at a bus stop in the pouring rain. Several witnesses noticed her. Yet, when the next bus arrived she was gone. No one reported her missing, she had simply vanished. The following morning her battered body was found in a muddy field three miles away. Despite a huge homicide inquiry, Tuula\u2019s death has remained a mystery for 60 years. It is still the only unsolved murder in the Island\u2019s history \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n

Working with the exclusive help of the States of Jersey Police and Tuula\u2019s family in Finland, best selling true crime writer Mark Bridgeman has at last pieced together the truth about Tuula\u2019s murder and provided a solution to the mystery that has haunted Tuula\u2019s family for more than half a century.<\/p>\n

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Wiltshire born writer Mark followed in his father\u2019s footsteps and became a published author in 2019, with 16 bestselling titles now under his belt. Mark has appeared on ITV, Channel 5, Discovery+, the History Channel, and BBC TV & Radio. His stories have been dramatised on Canadian radio; and featured in newspaper serial form. Mark\u2019s collection of Yorkshire mysteries, The Dark Side of the Dales, recently featured on Channel 5\u2019s documentary series Manhunt. In 2023 Mark\u2019s title Erased became the first hybrid paperback with the trademark \u2018eback\u2019 logo.<\/p>\n

He has written peer reviewed articles for the Daily Telegraph, the Thomas Hardy Society Journal, and the West Highland Museum. A member of the Society of Authors, the Federation of Scottish Writers, and the ALCS, Mark also maintains a strong social media presence.<\/p>\n

Nominated for the John Bryne Award and the James Tait Black Award in 2022, for his adventure biography\u00a0The Nearly Man, the book is currently in development in the US for TV\/Film, in collaboration with leading Hollywood scriptwriter and producer Alan Roth.<\/p>\n

Mark\u2019s titles\u00a0Perthshire\u2019s Pound of Flesh and Blood Across The Water\u00a0have been among Waterstones Scotland\u2019s non-fiction best sellers of 2022 and 2023.\u00a0Perthshire\u2019s Pound of Flesh\u00a0was also Perth Waterstones bestselling title of 2022, selling more than twice as many copies as any other book.\u00a0The Scottish Murder Book\u00a0was released in October 2024 and\u00a0Nothing For Something: The Violet Charlesworth Story\u00a0in April 2025 (as featured on the BBC) was shortlisted for The Guardian\u2019s Top 20 non-fiction books of 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Event Code:<\/strong> [SNLF]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

19\/06\/2026 @ 13:00 – <\/p>\n

Best-selling true crime author Mark Bridgeman discusses his research into an unsolved murder on Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25889,"template":"","event-categories":[328,309,246],"class_list":["post-25968","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-beyond-okeford-fitzpaine","event-categories-on-stage","event-categories-talk"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/event\/25968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fevent-categories&post=25968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}