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In a spectacularly wide ranging discussion TOM BRADBY talks to Paul Burke about his new novel TRIPLE CROSS , his character Kate Henderson, what makes a great modern spy novel and the relationship between Western democracies and Russia & China that underpin his writing. He also tells us about his friend and mentor Gerald Seymour, screenwriting, chronic insomnia and mental well-being. TOM BRADBY...

Barry’s Blu-rays the second episode in our regular feature for CrimeTimeFM. BARRY FORSHAW on the best of crime film and TV on DVD and Blu-ray. Barry gives us his insights into the world of crime drama based on the commentaries and sleeve notes he writes for new releases and reissues. This episode features Arrow's 4 Noir Classic - The Dark Mirror, Secret Beyond The Door, Force Of Evil & Th...

Irish novelist and screenwriter JO SPAIN talks to Paul Burke about her new novel THE PERFECT LIE , her most intricate and exciting stand alone thriller to date. Jo also tells us about her TV series Harry Wild and, a host of projects in the pipeline and the writers who inspires her, not to mention the art of the psychological thriller and Lapland. Jo Spain is the author of the bestselling Tom Reyno...

HENRY PORTER talks to Paul Burke about his new spy novel THE OLD ENEMY , Putin's Russia, Trump and the threat of white supremacists in the US, the Paul Samson spy series, inspiration versus hard work and his grandfather's hunting rifle. Henry Porter has spent most of his career as a journalist, during which time he has covered the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Bosnian Civil War, and, more...

New Zealand crime writer VANDA SYMON Chats to Paul Burke about her new Sam Shephard novel, BOUND , fourth in the Dunedin set series. Also 'Yeah-Noir', writing as a young mother, misogyny, science & the modern detective and Ngaio Marsh. Bound : The New Zealand city of Dunedin is rocked when a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman is murdered in his luxurious home while his wi...

TIM GLISTER talks to Paul Burke about his new novel RED CORONA and the 8 books that set him on the path to becoming a spy writer. Red Corona: It’s 1961 and the white heat of the Space Race is making the Cold War even colder. Richard Knox is a secret agent in big trouble. He’s been hung out to dry by a traitor in MI5, and the only way to clear his name could destroy him. Meanwhile in a secret Russi...

 Mystery Writers of America Edgar award winner  ROSALIE KNECHT talks to Paul Burke about her two novels WHO IS VERA KELLY and  2021 Sue Grafton Memorial Award  winner - VERA KELLY IS NOT A MYSTERY , about her wonderful creation Vera Kelly, New York in the 60s, CIA and US foreign policy, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Noir fiction, black humour in the novel, sexism, misogyny, satire and social work...

Barry’s Blu-rays Listen to the first episode in a new regular feature for CrimeTimeFM. BARRY FORSHAW on the best of crime film and TV on DVD and Blu-ray. Barry gives us his insights into the world of crime drama based on the commentaries and sleeve notes he writes for new releases and reissues. The first episode features Maigret and Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing , as well as the ground-breaking Da...

ACE ATKINS talks to BARRY FORSHAW about his new Spenser novel SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME . 49th in Robert B Parker's Spenser series featuring the hardboiled Boston PI, his wingman Hawk and new feisty protege, Mattie. Published by No Exit Press and available now direct or from bookshop.org and good book outlets, as are all the Ace Atkins titles in the Spenser series.  bookshop.org The trio battl...

Anthologist, novelist, historian NICK RENNISON talks to Paul Burke about the latest anthology of short stories in the rivals to Sherlock Holmes series - AMERICAN SHERLOCKS . 15 Mysteries from the Golden Age of American Crime Fiction, originally published during the same period as Conan Doyle was writing about Sherlock Holmes (late 19th/early twentieth century). Opening with proto-detective Uncle A...

Edward Wilson talks to Paul Burke about his new spy novel THE PORTRAIT OF THE SPY AS A YOUNG MAN . This novel goes back to the beginning for William Catesby, the Cold War spy, here on his first mission during WWII. The story follows the undergraduate who gives up his place at university to join the army as he is dropped into France to join the resistance. Knowing who the enemy is is not a simple m...

Cathi Unsworth chats to Paul Burke about her classic London novel BAD PENNY BLUES , (2009), just reissued by Strange Attractor Press. This new edition has a introduction on the importance of the novel by Greil Marcus  and an illuminating afterword by Cathi. Cathi tells Paul about her fictional account of the Hammersmith nude murders; 8 women were brutally killed between 1959 and 1965. Corruption,...

American spy author PAUL VIDICH talks to Paul Burke about his fascination with the Cold War and  about his new Moscow set thriller THE MERCENARY .  The fourth in the George Mueller series, published by NO EXIT PRESS , all are available now. THE MERCENARY: A CIA mole in the KGB, codename Gambit, is willing to trade top secret weapons intelligence for ex-filtration to the West. When Station Chief Ge...

Peter May talks to Paul Burke about his exciting new Enzo MacLeod thriller THE NIGHT GATE : A tale of a  modern day murder and a seventy year old corpse that comes to light at the same time, both lead back to the Nazi occupation of France in WWII, Vichy collaboration, one woman tasked with protecting French cultural heritage and Hitler and Goring’s obsession with the Mona Lisa . Peter also tells u...

Tony Parsons talks to Paul Burke about his new novel YOUR NEIGHBOUR’S WIFE . A twist on Fatal Attraction - A one night stand, a stalker, a marriage destroyed, a murder... Tony discusses his love of iconic thriller/chiller Rebecca, the death of print journalism, David Bowie on drugs, gambling the pension on becoming a crime writer and why Lee Child bosses it. Tony Parsons is a bestselling novelist...

Interview with crime writer and ex judge, Peter Murphy by Paul Burke about his latest legal thriller in the Ben Schroeder series, VERBAL Verbal opens with a brutal double murder in Sarajevo in 1983. The investigation leads us into a world of spies, fugitives, armed nationalists, drug trafficking and police fit up. As well as the Ben Schroeder historical series Peter talks about his contemporary Ju...

Interview  with Leigh Russell by Paul Burke on the publication of her new book, EVIL IMPULSE Leigh Russell is a million selling crime writer and discusses her much loved character DS Geraldine Steel. In Evil Impulse there’s not just a serial killer on the loose attacking women but Geraldine’s own safety is threatened when the past comes back to haunt her.  Leigh talks about getting into the mind o...