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 a loved one's death more times than he can remember. With a serial killer stalking the Newcastle streets and one of his closest colleagues lying in the mortuary following a hit and run he thinks things are about as ..read more

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 partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete leaves his car at the local car wash, only to return to find it ransacked by a group of thugs tied to the drug trade from Mexican cartels to ..read more

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 authors and winners are announced.* Full list of winners here: Daggers Award Winners Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Pun ..read more

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 wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges. That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist, joins the library staff. Pa ..read more

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 Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  The Binding - Bridget Collins  To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Science of Storytelling - Will Storr  In the Woods - Tana French Produced b ..read more

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 Stuart Neville. Stu Cummins, chats to CL Taylor and TM Logan. Paul Burke, Barry Forshaw and Victoria Selman throw in a few reads of their own. Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fict ..read more

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 Yokomizo trans. Bryan Karetnyk, Pushkin Vertigo The Mercy Chair MW Craven Constable French Windows Antoine Lourain Gallic Press In a Place of Darkness Stuart MacBride Transworld The Revenge ..read more

BEN PASTOR chats to Paul about her new literary historical crime novel THE VENUS OF SALÒ, Martin Bora, Totalitarianism, Rome, writing in English, growing up in a divided world, Shaun the Sheep.     THE VENUS OF SALÒ October 1944, in the Republic of Salò, a German puppet state in the north of Italy and the last fascist stronghold in the country. After months of ferocious fighting on the Gothic Line, Colonel Martin Bora of the Wehrmacht is handed a new, red-hot case. Transferred to the town of Salò on the shore of Lake Garda, he must investigate the theft of a precious painting o ..read more

JOSEPH KANON chats to Paul Burke about his new spy thriller SHANGHAI, SHANGHAI Daniel Lohr, sensing that the Nazis are closing in on the Jews, leaves his dying father in Berlin and boards a ship to Shanghai. His passage is dependent upon him delivering a package to his shady uncle, his father’s brother, upon arrival. Daniel has no idea what the package contains. On board is Leah, also fleeing the Nazis. She and Daniel conduct a passionate but brief shipboard affair, but are separated as soon as the ship docks in Shanghai. Will he ever see her again? Daniel is immediately plunged into his uncl ..read more

Paul Burke talks to SIMON TOYNE (host) and JANE CASEY (panellist) about the 5th SLAUGHTERFEST in London on 11th June, 2024. Panels The Art of Detection True Detectives Murderous Motives & Clare Mackintosh & Lucy Foley in conversation with Ryan Turbridy Event is sold out but will appear on You Tube on 20th June to coincide with the release of Karin Slaughter's new novel THIS IS WHY WE LIED. Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023. An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction wil ..read more