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Mark Billingham chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller What the Night Brings , donuts, longevity, opening scenes and please don't do spoilers! Bonus: Mark Billingham chats to Philip Gwynne Jones at Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival in Aberystwyth. Two pals have a chat. What the Night Brings "Three dead coppers, Tom, maybe four by lunchtime." The targeted murder of four officers is only...

The Crime Writers Association Whodunnit Dagger  A CWA Specials Part 1 The Whodunnit Dagger celebrates books where the sex, swearing, and bloodletting take place offstage–books that focus on the intellectual challenge at the heart of a good mystery, and which revolve around often quirky characters. Books in this category include cosy crime, traditional crime, and Golden Age-inspired mysteries. Inte...

Season 8 Episode 3: Debut crime novelists with a screenplay/film background Remi Kone Innocent Guilt & SM 'Sarah' Govett Believe . Recommends: The Death of Grass John Christopher, The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselman...

FIONA CUMMINS chats to Paul Burke about SOME OF US ARE LIARS , Saul Anguish, Essex inspiration, Sisters, celebrity and being the best writer you can be.  SOME OF US ARE LIARS When Jen Miller entrusts her youngest child to the care of her beloved sisters, she has no idea of the devastating tragedy that is about to unfold. To celebrate her sister's wedding, global superstar Winter Kellaway thro...

OnTheSofaWithVictoria Season 8 Episode 2: Writing for adults and children JANICE HALLETT The Examiner, The Appeal & MAZ EVANS That'll Teach Her. Recommends: East of Eden John Steinbeck, Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes  VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselman...

THOMAS TRANG chats to Paul Burke about Dark Neon Dirt , LA heists, Caravaggio, Hollywood money, Elmore Leonard and Andor. DARK NEON DIRT Shaun Nguyen is a Vietnamese war orphan who made it to America. But danger was never far behind – from the Chinatown gangs he ran with in New York, to his years in Iraq dodging bullets and defusing bombs. Nguyen learnt how to survive. By all means necessary. Now...

SEASON 8: CLARE LESLIE HALL BROKEN COUNTRY & GUY MORPUSS A TRIAL  IN THREE ACTS #OnTheSofaWithVictoria  Mentioned: The Go Between LP Hartley, Atonement Ian McEwan, Graham Bartlett. Recommendations: I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith, An Instance of the Finger Post Iain Pairs VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website...

Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival - Episode 3 recorded at the Ceredigion Museum and Aberystwyth Library featuring interviews with authors and excerpts of live panels.  Featuring: Interviews - Sarah Bax Horton, Mari Hannah & Sarah Todd Taylor and a brief panel excerpt featruing Jacky Collins with Mari Hannah & Clare Mackintosh. Interview Mari Hannah  Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival Wales' only inter...

Reviews of the new releases in crime fiction May, 2025. Featuring: A Beautiful Way to Die Eleni Kyriacou  The Doorman Chris Pavone  Going Home in the Dark Dean Koontz Two Adam Lapid Mysteries Jonathan Dunsky  Kill Pill David Barbaree  A Death in the Afternoon Julie Anderson The Lady in the Park David Reynolds  Death by Intent Jacqueline Harrett   The Golden Age of Murder Martin Edwards Motives Unk...

Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival Special Episode 2 recorded at the Ceredigion Museum and Aberystwyth Library featuring interviews with authors and excerpts of live panels.  Featuring: LJ Shepherd, Jacqueline Harrett, Diamond Crime panel, Heidi Amsinck, Foreign Fields panel, Gwenllian Williams, Vaseem Khan (sneak appearance by Abir Mukherjee), Arresting Fun panel, Philip Gwynne Jones. Gwyl Crime Cymru Fes...

MICHAEL AMOS CODY chats to Paul Burke about his STREETS OF NASHVILLE , new country music, North Carolina, MTV, tragic inspiration for the novel, why done it not whodunnit and Runion. In Streets of Nashville , Ezra MacRae has a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of songs and their writers, and he has moved from the North Carolina mountains to Nashville's Music Row with the dream of becoming part of...

JEREMY VINE chats to Paul Burke about his new murder mystery Murder on Line One , regional radio, celebrity, Agatha Christie and washing our clothes. MURDER ON LINE ONE There's a killer on the airwaves … and they're calling for you. Darkness looms over sunny Sidmouth, when an unsolved murder comes to the attention of late-night radio talk show host Edward Temmis. Recently sacked from his...

GEORGINA CLARKE chats to Paul Burke about her new historical mystery VIPER IN THE NEST , Lizzie Hardwicke, Georgian England,  VIPER IN THE NEST : London, June 1759. When a charmless civil servant takes his own life, few are interested in his death. But Lizzie Hardwicke, who plies her trade in the brothels of London whilst also working as an undercover sleuth for the magistrate, can see no reason w...

RAYMOND BENSON chats to Paul Burke about writing James Bond (6 novels, 3 novelizations and 3 short stories), The James Bond Companion, fantasy spy fiction, Films & Novels, Tom Clancy, The Union, favourite Fleming and Legacy. News: Coming later this year The Hook and the Eye  as part of the ever expanding Bond franchise Raymond Benson is writing a novel about American spy Felix Leiter due out i...

New Crime Fiction for April 2025 reviewed by Paul Burke  The Secret Room by Jane Casey ✓ Out of the Dark by Heidi Amsinck✓ Death and Other Occupational Hazards by Veronika Dapunt✓ 10 Marchfield Square by Nicola Whyte✓ Lovers of Franz K by Burnham Sönmez, trans. from the Kurdish by Sami Hêzil. ✓ Sting of the Nettle by Colin Bostock-Smith✓ The Children of Eve John Connolly✓ Marble Hall Murders Antho...

Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival Wales' only international crime writing festival returns to Aberystwyth 25th-27th April, 2025. Guests include Mark Billingham, Elly Griffiths, Mari Hannah, Chris Lloyd, Clare Mackintosh, Zoe Sharp, Graham Bartlett, Vaseem Khan, Abir Mukherjee, Alis Hawkins, Nicola Williams, Louise Mumford, Phil Rowlands. Ayo Onatade, Dr. Noir, Matt Johnson, Gwen Parrott and many more...

Laura McCLUSKEY chats to Craig Sisterson about her new crime thriller THE WOLF TREE, the Scottish lighthouse mystery, film and book, writing the sequel,  THE WOLF TREE A mysterious death. On a small island off the coast of Scotland, an isolated community is grieving. Eighteen-year-old Alan Ferguson was found at the foot of the lighthouse – an apparent suicide. Two detectives trapped on an island....

AJAY CHOWDHURY chats to Craig Sisterson about his new novel THE SHADOW , THE SHADOW: A ritual killing. An ancient curse. What's myth... and what's murder? After a bruising encounter with a terrorist group, Detective Kamil Rahman has decided to hand in his resignation to the Met and set up a detective agency with his friend Anjoli. But when his boss asks him to go to India to investigate...

NICK KOLAKOWSKI chats to Paul Burke about his new California PI novel WHERE THE BONES LIE , training wheels, heist novels, the private eye, voice versus pastiche and AI. WHERE THE BONES LIE : For Dash Fuller, Hollywood’s underbelly is home. He’s spent years making the film industry’s worst secrets disappear, and it’s left him a cynical burnout with a taste for bourbon and self-loathing. But when a...

The Review Show March 2025. New crime fiction. Paperboy Callum McSorley  When Shadows Fall Neil Lancaster  Green Ink Stephen May Hunkeler’s Secret Hansjörg Schneider Murder Below Deck Orlando Murrin William Boyle Saint of the Narrows Street The Cost Morgan Cry  The Cambridge Siren Jim Kelly Born to Lose Marek Z Turner  Flicking the Bic Tia Ja’nae Words Fail Me Frances McKendrick  Cat Among the Pig...

TANIA MALIK chats to Paul about her novel, just out in the UK, HOPE YOU ARE SATISFIED , Dubai, the immigrant experience, spooks, smugglers and tourists. HOPE YOU ARE SATISFIED : 1990. Twenty-five-year-old Riya works for Discover Arabia, a tour guide company in the far-flung outpost of Dubai. In the months leading up to the first Gulf War, the city's iconic skyline and global reputation are ju...

Tod Lending #OnTheSofaWithVictoria. A special featuring THE UMBRELLA MAKER'S SON , the Holocaust, interior character, documentary film and storytelling. THE UMBRELLA MAKER'S SON : Born to a secure, middle-class Polish Jewish family, seventeen-year-old Reuven works alongside his father, an artisan businessman whose shop creates the finest handmade umbrellas in Poland. But the family'...

Graeme Macrae Burnet chats to Paul Burke about the concluding volume of the Gorsky trilogy A CASE OF MATRICIDE , Simenon, Zola, small town France & Kilmarnock.  *Cryptic intro explained - Graeme was on Benbecula because Polygon will publish a new novella by him  Benbecula . The next in Polygon’s Darkland Tales series, which sees Scottish authors reimagining key moments from Scottish history, m...

Anna Sharpe (Anna Mazzola) chats to Craig Sisterson about her new legal thriller Notes on a Drowning , contemporary v historical fiction, misogyny, childhood reading and condensing the law. Notes on a Drowning   Alex knows she risks getting fired from her law firm if she takes on another unpaid case, but when she hears Rosa's desperate voice at the other end of the phone, she knows she has to...

The Latest Crime Fiction releases February 2025 Presumed Guilty Scott Turow, Swift HB Nobody's Fool Harlen Coben, Century HB The Trials of Lila Dalton LJ shepherd, Pushkin PB The Marshal of Snowdonia Simon McCleave, Stamford PB A Trial in Three Acts Guy Morpuss, Viper HB The Unrecovered Richard Strachan, Raven Bloomsbury HB The Story of a Murder Hallie Rubenhold, Doubleday Non-Fiction The Eas...