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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...