Opening Lines: Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Series 13, episode 0

John Yorke considers James Hogg's Gothic novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Presented as a found document, the confessions give a chilling insight into the mind of a murderer. This novel is a horror story, a mystery, a psychological study of religious extremism, and at its heart lurks a serial killer. Despite being first published in 1824 it still has all the contemporary resonance, in the view of renowned crime writer Ian Rankin, to make a 21st-century blockbuster movie

Cast (unconfirmed)

John Yorke