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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...

STELLA RIMINGTON chats to Paul about zeitgeisty new thriller THE HIDDEN HAND , the Chinese threat, Liz Carlyle, Manon Tyler, MI5, retirement, sexism, James Bond and John Buchan. THE HIDDEN HAND : A historic institution is hiding a very modern threat. The student - Li Min, a Chinese student, is forced by her government to transfer from Harvard to Oxford University, where she is recruited to an elit...

The Review Show January 2025. The latest round up of new releases in the world of crime fiction. The Big Empty Robert Crais Murder for Busy People Tony Parsons Black Tag Simon Mayo A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage Asia Mackay The Last Days of Kira Mullen Nicci French The House with Nine Locks Philip Gray Oromay Baalu Girma  These Violent Delights Micah Nemerever The Queen of Fives Alex Hay Murd...

KIM SHERWOOD chats to Paul Burke about A SPY LIKE ME , Double or Nothing, Ian Fleming, the Double 'O' series, loving Bond and living the dream, George Baker. A SPY LIKE ME Six days. A bomb goes off at the BBC. But this is just the beginning. In six days' time, terrorists will strike again. Three agents. With James Bond captured, three of MI6's toughest Double O agents race from...

ROB PARKER chats to Paul about THE TROUBLED DEEP : A Cam Killick Norfolk Mystery, Ben Bracken, Audible Books, working with young minds, PTSD, loving location, knee injuries and kismet. THE TROUBLED DEEP : Nobody ever knew what happened to the Brindleys. One summer they were there - flashy, loud and beautiful - and then they were gone. A mother, father and two children, vanished into the East Angli...

#ONTHESOFA - Season 7 - The Final Episode . TM 'Tim' Logan, THE DREAM HOME, chats to Victoria Selman (ALL THE LITTLE LIARS) at Waterstones, Reading. Inspirations, the need to know but will the truth will set you free? every word should count, short chapters & the climax. T.M. Logan is a Sunday Times bestseller whose thrillers have sold more than two million copies in the UK and are p...

WES BROWNE chats to Scott Blackburn & Paul Burke about his noir THEY ALL FALL THE SAME , (US Amazon link) why it wasn't called Spoon, the Appalachians, North Carolina, pizza and community. They All Fall the Same: Cannabis kingpin Burl Spoon has reigned over the Jackson County area for three decades, building a powerful backwoods empire. But behind a well-run organization, his personal lif...

Johana Gustawsson & Thomas Enger chat to Paul at Newcastle Noir about their upcoming crime thriller SON , Psychoanalysis, memory, scheduling, SON Everyone here is lying… Expert on body language and memory, and consultant to the Oslo Police, psychologist Kari Voss sleepwalks through her days, and, by night, continues the devastating search for her young son, who disappeared on his birthday, sev...

THE REVIEW SHOW DECEMBER 2024 - New titles published end 2024 & early January 2025. Locked In Jussi Adler-Olsen After the Bridge Andrew J Field  The Traitor Jørn Lier Horst   The Ancients John Larison   2/1/25 The Broken River Chris Hammer    2/1/25 Lie of the Land Kerry Hadley-Price    6/1/25 The Less Unkind Rosaria Giorgi    28/1/25 Blood Sacrifice Douglas Jackson  Losing Control Fiona Erski...

ADAM HAMDY chats to Paul about his new thriller DEADBEAT, what would make an ordinary person commit murder, what would drive you that far, screenwriting, depp dive characters, the morality of true crime, judging heroes and villains. ADAM HAMDY DEADBEAT Peyton Collard was a good man once, but his life changed after a horrific car accident. Divorced, drunk, and severely damaged, Peyton is offered a...

ALISON GAYLIN chats to Paul about her new hardboiled thriller BUZZ KILL , a Sunny Randall novel, Robert B Parker's Boston, writing psychological thrillers and a love of 70s conspiracy movies. BUZZ KILL Sunny Randall is hired to investigate the disappearance of an energy drink company’s CEO, Dylan. As she gets closer to finding Dylan, she learns not only of his bad behaviour toward numerous wo...

Newcastle Noir 10th Anniversary - The Panels Episode 2 of 3   Death in Paradise: Julie Anderson with Phoebe Morgan and Megan Davis A Kaleidoscope of Heroines: Jacky Collins with Harriet Tyce, Fiona Erskine and Marie Tierney Black Stage for Death: Frances Walker with Howard Linskey and Guy Hale Investigating Crime: Jacky Collins with Graham Bartlett, Trevor Wood and Mari Hannah Panel excerpts - the...

The Newcastle Noir Review Show on Crime Time FM featuring Trevor Wood, Sam Holland, Antony Johnstone, Jo Furniss, Rob Parker, Michael Wood and Paul Burke . The panel select some of their favourite crime novels of 2024 and look ahead to 2025. Selected Books Stuart Neville Blood Like Mine Dom Nolan White City The Escape Room LD Smithson Spiral Cameron Ward Peepshow Kate Summerscale Three Inch Teeth...

Season 7 Episode 5 : Screenplay Writing . What can novelists learn from screenplay writers? How does writing for film, TV and streaming work. Alex Michaelides THE FURY (The Devil You Know & The Con is On) and Suk Pannu DEAD AND SCONE (Goodness, Gracious, Me & The Kumars at No.42) Share their extensive experience and knowledge of the industry/art. Desert Island Films: Vertigo dir. Alfred Hi...

CHRIS MCGINLEY chats to Paul about Once These Hills It’s 1898. Up on Black Boar Mountain in eastern Kentucky, life is quiet for the small settlement of farmers who work the land around their cabins. But when ten-year old Lydia King unearths an ancient, preserved body on the seep bog, a curse is let loose. At least that’s what some people believe. They might be right. Down in the valley, the Railro...

THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE 2024: Maxim Jakubowski, Ayo Onatade, Jake Kerridge, Victoria Selman, Paul Burke and compere Barry Forshaw discuss their crime fiction best books of the year.  The full list of books is available on the Crime Time website from 2/12/24. Produced by Junkyard Dog Crime Time Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023...

SEASON 7 EPISODE 4: SUSPENSE Alice Feeney (Daisy Darker) & Claire Douglas (The Wrong Sister) join Victoria Selman to discuss, wait for it...suspense in Crime Fiction. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from...