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Krystian Bala: When Fact and Fiction Collide

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Crime writer Mark Billingham tells the story of how the contents of a novel led to the author's being convicted of murder. He visits the Polish city of Wroclaw to meet Krystian Bala, a novelist and philosophy graduate who was found guilty of orchestrating the murder of a local businessman in 2007.