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The Review Show - new releases October 2026 Bad Company Sara Paretsky  Chain Reaction Lee & Andrew Child  Galway Edge Ken Bruen  The Rouse China Mieville  Murder in London Matt Avery  Rear Window and Other Stories Cornell Woolrich Think of a Number Anderson Bodelsen The Killing Yards Jason Allison  Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel Paul Burke is the presenter of Crime Time FM. His first book Sp...

Sara Paretsky chats to Paul Burke about her new spy thriller Bad Company , Lily, CIA = bad dog, being a Chicago Pitbull and falling out of bed in Paris as inspiration for a novel. Bad Company The CIA forced Lily to retire before she was ready. She'd spent forty years as a field agent. She'd been skilled, resourceful, dedicated – everything that makes a good agent, but she'd rubbed t...

Tariq Ashkanani (Hollow Boys), Emma Styles (The Shark) and Essie Fox (Catherine/Dangerous) chat to Paul Burke about Underground fires, Byron and Vampires and Sharks in the mind and Capital Crime Festival.  Paul Burke is the presenter of Crime Time FM. His first book Spies on Screen will be published in October.  Apologies for mispronouncing Tariq Ashkanani names in the introduction.  Produced by J...

David Fennell chats to Paul Burke about his new crime thriller/comedy novel All Killers Aboard, crime and comedy, Martha andAgatha Christie and Roger Ackroyd, Wuthering Heights  ALL KILLERS ABOARD : On a luxury cruise from Southampton to New York, the annual gathering of the mysterious Midnight Chorus Society is in full swing. Unbeknownst to the rest of the innocent passengers, the deadly conventi...

Watching the Detectives authors In Person With Paul talking about their short story contributions to the anthology Julie Anderson Party Time Paul Durston A Place Like This Caroline England I Always Win Fiona Forsyth Ancilla David Jarvis Dutch Courage Roger RN Morris Take All Necessary Measures Talk about the Watching the Detectives crime fiction anthology. From ancient Rome to modern day northern...

Michael Amos Cody chats to Paul Burke about Avalon Moon , cultural mythology, education and young people, Walnut, North Carolina, the Appalachian mountains, saw mills and repurposing town, outsider/insider.  In Avalon Moon , a local man has gone missing and then is soon found dead in a highland meadow, side-by-side with an unknown woman. When another man and woman go missing and a female deputy is...

In a Crime Time FM/Verve Special Editor Jenna Gordon chats to author Laura Sims about her new novel, The Man , Vivian Maier, Diane Argus, Hitchcock and Highsmith, Rear Window, obsession, perspective and the male gaze.  The Man : From the highly acclaimed author of How Can I Help You comes a masterful domestic suspense novel that follows a 1960s housewife turned amateur photographer who begins to f...

The Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards Night coverage, including guests speakers and the awarding of the Daggers. The most respected crime awards in Britain. Introduction by hosts Victoria Selman and Gregg Mosse Address of the Chair Nadine Matheson Key Note Speech Denise Mina  The Daggers: The Red Herring - Fiona Veitch Smith (awarded by Nadine Matheson) The Emerging Dagger - Michael Ni...

Paul Burke takes a look at the new releases for the Summer. All Murderers Aboard by David Fennell The End of Vodka by Oscar de Muriel The Venetian Redemption by Philip Gwynne Jones The Tailor by Tim Sullivan Blood Enemy by Douglas Jackson The Pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee Atomic Coffin by Benedict Anning Liar Liar by Luca Veste The Night Stairs by Erin Kelly The Hotel Manager's Guide to Murder b...

CWA DAGGER SPECIALS - Paul Burke chats to Crime Writers Association Diamond Dagger Winner MARK BILLINGHAM , Bread & Circuses - agitprop, Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, Stand Up, TV writing, Tom Thorne, Declan Miller, taking control with fiction. Diamond Dagger sponsored by Karen Baugh Menuhin The most prestigious Dagger of all, awarded for a lifetime contribution to English-language crime writ...

CWA Daggers Special: Episode One The Shortlists - Interviews with five Dagger Shortlisted authors in the run up to Awards Night announcements on 2nd July. Nicci Cloke Her Many Faces - Twisted Dagger   Victoria Goldman Little Secrets - Whodunnit Dagger Rob McInroy Barvick Falls - Historical Dagger sponsored by Morgen Witzel in honour of Dr. Marilyn Livingstone. Michael Wood Waiting Short Story Dagg...

Season 10. Episode 6. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria  AMANDA PROWSE (15 Minutes) Amanda has published 45 books in a decade and discusses her unique way of writing complete stories in her head before committing a word to paper. While ELEANOR RAY [Elizabeth Mundy] (Everything is Beautiful) shares her more methodical approach to writing, particularly how having young children influences your writing style. R...

Season 10. Episode 5. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria  Ruth Mancini (The Stranger on the Stairs) & Susan Barrett (All Cats are Grey) discuss how they use real crimes as inspiration for thier writing. Recommended - Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling thriller author. She has written a number of cri...

Season 10. Episode 4. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria  Maz Evans (Who Let the Dogs Out) & Luke Bateman (award-winning composer) discuss turning a novel into a musical. Recommended - Luke: Simply the Quest by Maz Evans. Maz: East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling thriller author. She has written a number of critically acclaimed novels including...

Season 10. Episode 3. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria  Garry Disher (The Paul Hirsch series) and Dom Nolan (White City) discuss location as character.  Recommended: WILLIAM TREVOR, ALICE MONRO, ROBERT PENN WARREN, JOHN LE CARRÉ TINKER TAILOR, CORMAC MCCARTHY, ELMORE LEONARD. Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling thriller author. She has written a number of critically acclaimed...

Season 10 Episode 2: Anna Bailey & Tariq Ashkanani #OnTheSofaWithVictoria Anna Bailey (The Tall Bones) & Tariq Ashkanani (The Hollow Boys) discuss the importance of character development over plot in mystery writing.  Recommended Annie Proulx Close Range and Watchmen Alan Moore. Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling thriller author. She has written a number of...

Season 10, Episode One:  Industry Experts: Jack Butler (publisher) & Barbara Poelle (agent) #OnTheSofawithVictoria   Jack Butler, publishing director at Sphere Little Brown, and Barbara Powell, founder of One Word Literary, discuss comparative publishing trends in the UK and US. Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling thriller author. She has written a number of crit...

ANDREA MARA chats with Paul about her new psychological thriller SUCH A NICE GIRL, redundancy-serendipity, sisters, friends and family, TV and All Her Fault. SUCH A NICE GIRL : The morning after a glamorous, luxury wedding, you and your best friend go to wake your twenty-four-year-old daughters. You open the door to their shared room in the pool-house and find a lamp smashed on the floor, a blood...

Matthew Carr chats to Paul Burke about his latest historical crime thriller THE EMPEROR OF SEVILLE , Bernardo de Mendoza, sixteenth century Spain, Terrorism, financial thrillers and white ruff crime. The Emperor of Seville : Summer 1586. When the Genoese banker Sandro Grandoni is murdered at a trade fair in the Castilian town of Medina del Campo, the Valladolid Chancery appoints the magistrate Ber...

Paul Burke looks at new releases on the screen and fiction for April, 2026.  TV/Streaming Tehran - Amazon The Capture - BBC Gone - ITVx Hidden Assets - BBC Books: Letter to My Judge - George Simenon, Penguin Classics  One of Your Number LJ Shepherd (identified as Laura in the show but publishes as LJ Shepherd, apologies for the mistake). Pushkin Vertigo The Orphanage by the Lake -Daniel G Miller,...

ANTONIA SENIOR chats to Paul about her new history of the Cambridge Five STALIN'S APLOSTLES , Albania, radio games, spy rings, Burgess, Philby, Maclean, Cairncross and Blunt.   STALIN'S APOSTLES is a radical new look at the way five people allowed their obsession with Communist ideology to overshadow any sense of morality or decency - or loyalty to their country. Why did these gilded cha...

HEIDI PERKS chats to Paul Burke about her new Psychological thriller IT ENDS HERE , getting published, rejections and bestsellers,  It Ends Here - You are one of five strangers whose day will start with the worst phone call imaginable. Your loved one is in danger. They are part of a group trapped in a café in a sleepy marina town. The young barista on the early shift The bestselling novelist looki...

Samantha Dooey-Miles chats to Paul Burke about her debut thriller UNDER THE HAMMER , satire, the housing crisis, daytime TV, para-social relationships, marketing, stalkers, rage and humour. UNDER THE HAMMER Jemma would kill to end the housing crisis – one landlord at a time… Jemma has lost everything... Well, the very little she had. Her toxic boyfriend has run off with her best friend, leaving Je...

NEIL LANCASTER chats to Paul about his new police thriller The Dark Heart , DS Max Cragie, Scottish crime fiction, Max Connor, a love of spies, James Herriot and useful idiots.  THE DARK HEART : A DEADLY BOMBING - When renowned author Dr. Daniel Solomon is killed in a devastating explosion in York, authorities quickly attribute the attack to Islamic extremists. But as the investigation unfolds, it...

New crime fiction reviews for march 2026 by Paul Burke.  The Harvey Girl Dana Stabenov Beattie Cavendish and the Highland Hideaway Mary-Jane Riley  Stephen Leather Underdogs  Sharks Simone Buchholz trans. Rachel Ward Paper Sisters Rachel Canwell Glitz Elmore Leonard  Reaper Vanda Symon The Dangerous Stranger Simon Mason  Paul Burke is editor of Aspects of Crime and Crime Time FM, his first book  S...