That evening, my server, who said she was "just filling in tonight," made a startling confession.

Louise Mensch was the perfect politico - until she made a startling confession to James Murdoch, says Matthew Norman.

That jolting escape in the snowstorm occurred about the same time as Brother Haluin makes the startling deathbed confession of his youthful sins, never before confessed.

That same morning, a fellow detective in the squad made a startling confession.

She learned of the theft when her husband made the startling deathbed confession in 1985.

He requested an audience with the assistant warden and made a startling confession.

As we chatted over lunch, my friend, who is still serving and must therefore remain nameless, made the startling confession that Britain was facing strategic defeat in southern Iraq.

In a startling confession from a modernist, Ms. Vinoly said that she still owns an inlaid vase she bought when she was 12.

But on the afternoon of Billy's funeral, Dennis makes a startling confession to his daughter, who is also the novel's narrator: "Eva never died.

When O'Shea meets Marvin, he makes a startling unsolicited confession.