CRIME & MYSTERY. AUSTRALIAN. Tips for Parole Officers (I wish I'd known when I became one):1. Don't smuggle heroin into prison. 2. Don't drink vodka to relieve stress. 3. Don't French kiss a colleague to get your boyfriend jealous. 4. Don't snort speed. 5. Don't spend more time with murderers than with your son. 6. Don't invite crack-head clients to your party. Relieved to have put all the troubles of her recent past behind her, Krissie is revelling in her newfound happiness with toddler son, Robbie, and boyfriend, Chas. Krissie's new job quickly brings her into contact with Jeremy Bagshaw, an English toff imprisoned for a gruesome-murder he swears he's innocent of, Jeremy is charming to Krissie, who becomes increasingly convinced he's doing time for a crime he didn't commit. A cracking good read, full of vitality, humour, irreverence and mischief, My Last Confession confirms Helen Fitzgerald as a brilliant new talent.