The Symbol of No Escape
A South African Story
Published on 24. March 2016
192 pages
978-1-4828-6162-4 (ISBN)
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South Africa needs no introduction to the global narratives of violence and crimes against women and children. With reported sexual offences exceeding 60000 and incidents of murder totalling 17805 for the 2014/2015 period, our countrys notoriety in this arena contributes to the landscape within which The Symbol of No Escape plays out.
As forensic thriller The Symbol of No Escape is an emergent property of qualities that not too many authors are able to harness. These include Dr Tanya Robinsons practical experience and extensive work with the abused child, her knowledge in forensic psychopathology and her laudable scholarly credentials that underpins each page with legitimacy whilst powerfully infusing the characters of protagonist Dr Claire and villain Dann Carmen. The reader is systematically drawn in and absorbed in the lifeworld of Dr Claire, a profiler and expert assessor who is tasked to create a profile that would help close the case against depraved child serial murderer and family killer, Dann Carmen. His crimes are brutal and bizarre, yet Dr Claires assertion that Dann instils no fear in me paves the way for explicating her goal which is to establish what contributed to him becoming a monster (Marcel Van der Watt, University of South Africa, Department of Police Practice).
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Doctor Robinson is a dynamic, passionate young writer. She rates amongst the youngest candidates in South Africa that has completed her first PhD at age twenty-five and has subsequently completed two additional PhD studies prior to her thirty-sixth birthday, adding significant value in her field of interest pertaining to forensic investigation and social science. Moreover, Doctor Robinson has mastered six degrees during the aforesaid period in social science and education, whilst participating full-time in clinical and forensic private practice, standing as expert witness in many forensic matters. She is a well renowned academic author and a keen writer of fiction. She has immense passion for criminal justice and has often brought alive what remains unspoken to the foreground and dedicates this book to all the children who have been affected by abuse, have been abused, or have fallen victim to abuse or death. This is the first book where Robinson brings fictional characters alive to deliver the message of forensic psychopathology within a criminal world. This forensic thriller is captivating, and Robinson has poured her intense experience into fiction to bring alive the story of Dann Carmen.
