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THE REVIEW SHOW OCTOBER 2024 The Blue Hour Paula Hawkins Disturbing the Bones Andrew Davis & Jeff Biggers Edith Holler Edward Carey Dark as Night Lilja Sigardardóttir trans. Lorenzo Garcia The Great When Alan Moore Angélique Guillaume Musso   Identity Unknown Patricia Cornwell In Too Deep Andrew Lee Child Quick comment reviews: The labyrinth house murders Yukito Ayatsuji trans. Ho-Ling Wong Th...

CHRISTINE BOYER chats to Paul about her noir crime debut Black Maria, the American dream, honing style, short story v novel, psychogeography, regional fiction. BLACK MARIA: Business magnate Thomas Farney and Detective Felix Kosmatka both want the same thing: to catch the monster who brutally murdered Farney's young grandson. Thomas, brutal and savvy, didn't become wealthy by playing by t...

KATE SUMMERSCALE chats to Paul about her new history THE PEEPSHOW , 10 Rillington Place, misogyny & male violence, the cultural and wider societal impact of a notorious murder. THE PEEPSHOW : London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the...

KATE RHODES chats to Paul Burke about her new thriller THE STALKER , The Isles of Scilly mysteries, stalking, and Cambridge. THE STALKER Elly is an expert in stalking – an academic at Cambridge University and a popular media pundit. She knows the subject intimately: what motivates a stalker, how they behave, how to rehabilitate them. But now it’s personal. Someone is following her, making silent p...

Craig Sisterson chats to ATTICA LOCKE about her new novel Guide Me Home , screenwriting and TV, Crime Writers of Colour and Texas. Guide Me Home Texas Ranger Darren Mathews has handed in his badge. A choice made three years before, which served justice if not the law, means that he may now stand trial. And his mother - an intermittent and destructive force in his life - is the cause of his fall fr...

The review Show September 2024. The latest selection of new releases. Peter May The Black Loch  Simon Mason Missing Person: Alice & The Case of the Lonely Accountant  Doug Johnstone Living is a Problem  The Torments Michael J Malone  Murder in Constantinople AE Goldin  A Reluctant Spy David Goodman The Exopotamia Manuscript Maxim Jakubowski  The Best Crime Stories of the Year ed. Anthony Horow...

ABIR MUKHERJEE chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller HUNTED at the Liphook Millennium Centre 3/9/24. HUNTED IN A RACE AGAINST TIME, WHAT IF THE GREATEST THREAT WAS YOUR OWN CHILD? It’s a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall… In London, armed police storm Heathrow Airport and arrest Sajid Khan. His daughter Aliyah entered the USA with the suicide b...

CRIME SCENE @ Cardiff Central Library Hub Festival 7th September, 2024 Crime Crossover: MARIE ANNE COPE, GJ WILLIAMS, ABI BARDEN (GB Williams) Shaping a series: SARAH WARD, DAVID PENNY JACQUELINE HARRETT ALIS HAWKINS chats to Paul Burke about The Skeleton Army Produced by Junkyard Dog Crime Time Sponsors & thanks to: Cardiff Central Library Hub, Cardiff Council, Diamond Crime Books, the CWA, C...

ROXIE KEY chats to Paul about her new novel THE DEADLY SPARK , Brighton, diversity in crime fiction, THE DEADLY SPARK Deadly fires are lighting up Brighton, and the latest case is alarmingly close to home for DC Eve Starling. The blaze was deliberately set, and a mother and daughter didn’t make it out of the smoke.  Eve’s investigation takes her deep into her own uncomfortable past. When her key w...

ANTONIA SENIOR , writer, critic, journalist and podcaster chats to Paul about Spymasters - the book and the podcast, the Cambridge Five, historical fiction and Spymasters podcast Writer and journalist Antonia Senior interviews all the best writers on espionage. Each episode will bring you fascinating stories on spies, covert action and more – delving in to fact and fiction, past and present. Anton...

The review Show August   Featuring:  Steve Cavanagh Witness 8 ✓ Blood Like Mine Stuart Neville✓  Fire and Bones Kathy Reichs✓ Ruthless Anne Mette Hancock✓ Pursuit of Death Gunnar Staalesen✓ The Missing and the Dead E M Scott ✓ Holmes & Moriarty Gareth Rubin✓ Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction...

AVA GLASS chats to Paul about her new thriller THE TRAP , Emma Makepeace, meeting yr first spy and the FBI novel to come... THE TRAP : How far would you go to catch a killer? This is the question UK agent Emma Makepeace must ask herself when she is sent to Edinburgh for the upcoming global G7 Summit. The Russians are in town and Emma and her team know a high-profile assassination is being planned....

MICHAEL ROBOTHAM chats to Craig Sisterson about his new thriller STORM CHILD , Evie Cormac, writing away from home, the secret award, German TV adaptations... STORM CHILD The storm is coming... The most painful of Evie Cormac's memories have been locked away, ever since she was held prisoner as a child - a child whose rescue captured hearts and headlines. Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven&apo...

Sunday Times bestseller, VICTORIA SELMAN chats to Financial Times critic, BARRY FORSHAW about her writing journey and latest novel; the critically acclaimed true crime inspired thriller, All The Little Liars just released in paperback, (15/8). VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://ww...

Season 6 Episode 8: Serial Killers MARNIE RICHES (THE SILENT DEAD) & CHRIS CARTER (THE DEATH WATCHER) criminal/forensic psychology, criminologists, killer profiles, reasons to kill or none.   Recommendations Seven The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris The Whisper Man Alex North VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS W...

The latest crime, thriller and mystery releases - July 2024. Tim Weaver The Missing Family Michael Joseph Emma Bamford Eye of the Beholder Simon & Schuster Charlotte Philby The End of Summer Borough Press Joseph Knox Imposter Syndrome Double Day Atsuhiro Yoshida Goodnight Tokyo Europa Editions trans. Haydn Trowell Gauz Comrade Papa MacLehose Press trans. Frank Wynne Sarah Ward The Vanishing Ac...

Emma Viskic , Dinuka McKenzie , Charity Norman & Helen Fitzgerald in conversation with Craig Sisterson. All contributed to the anthology DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER 2 . DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER 2 features a cohort of criminally good Australian and New Zealand crime and mystery writers. Once again we have a mix of legendary figures, award-winners, bestsellers, and an array of fresh perspectives and risi...

Trevor Wood chats to Sarah Moorhead about his new police thriller The Silent Killer, early on set Alzheimer's, family, humour, homelessness and Glastonbury (see pic). THE SILENT KILLER : THE CLOCK IS TICKING. THERE'S NO ESCAPE. DCI Jack Parker has faced down hardened villains and raving, drug-addled lunatics. He's disarmed a machete-wielding psychopath and broken devastating news of...

JAMES LEE BURKE chats to Paul Burke about his career, Dave Robicheaux, Flags on the Bayou , Clete , Louisiana, the Diamond Dagger, voices, fentanyl, Knights Errant and cooking for Davy Crockett.  Clete Clete Purcel - private investigator, ex-member of the New Orleans Police Department, and war veteran with a hard shell and just a few soft spots - is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partn...

Paul Burke introduces a special show dedicated to the CWA Dagger Awards Evening 4/7/24. Victoria Selman and Imran Mahmood host the evening celebration of all things crime. Lisa Jewell delivers a thought provoking and challenging the key note speech, James Lee Burke and Lynda la Plante accept the life time achievement awards. CWA Chair Vaseem Khan talks about the power of story and all short listed...

LAURA SIMS chats to Paul about her new novel HOW CAN I HELP YOU , libraries, the discipline of poetry, HOW CAN I HELP YOU : No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wak...

Erin Kelly (THE HOUSE OF MIRRORS), Chris Whitaker (ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK) and Vanessa Walters (THE LAGOS WIFE) join moderator Victoria Selman (ALL THE LITTLE LIARS) at Capital Crime 2024 to discuss The Ties That Bind panel. Favourite reads, character, setting Recorded at CAPITAL CRIME 1ST JUNE 2024. Recommendations   Tomorrow, Tomorrow Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin  Americanah, Half a Yellow Su...

NATIONAL CRIME READING MONTH Special In conjunction with The Reading Agency & The Crime Writers' Association Crime Time FM has complied excerpts of reading events taking place around the country this June. Tickets are still available for some of the remaining events - for details head to crimereading.com This show: Antony Johnston introduces Steve Cavanagh, Ilana Berry, Shawn Cosby and St...

A round up of crime fiction for June 2024 by Paul Burke. Westport James Comey Head of Zeus A Killing in Paradise Elliot Sweeney Wildfire  Armistice Day John Fullerton Partisan Press Eruption Michael Crighton & James Patterson Century   Southern Man Greg Iles Hemlock Press The Bedlam Cadaver Robert J Lloyd Melville House Press A Divine Fury DV BISHOP Macmillan The Little Sparrow Murders Seícho...

V6 E8 #OnTheSofa Victoria is joined by authors MELANIE GOLDING (LITTLE DARLINGS) and JM HEWITT (THE PERFECT VILLAGE) who use folklore as inspiration for their novels. Recommendations David L Jones - The Ipswich Witch Su Bristow - Seal Skin Catriona Ward Sally Magnusson - The Ninth Child, The Sealwoman's Gift VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author...