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 the murder of a British engineer who was found with eighteen arrows stuck in his body, Kamil agrees to take the case, as long as Anjoli can accompany him. When they arrive in Mumbai, they find someone is on a gr ..read more

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 young woman comes to him with a peculiar quest, Dash sees a chance at redemption. Madeline Ironwood is the daughter of Ken Ironwood, a notorious smuggler and murderer who disappeared 20 years ago. Ken ..read more

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 Cat Among the Pigeons & Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie (Poirot) Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction contribution). He is also ..read more

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 just a gleam in developers' eyes. For Riya, it's a desert purgatory that spreads out between her family back home in India and her unknown future. As political tensions run high, international arms dealers, Am ..read more

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's peaceful life shatters when the Nazis invade their homeland, igniting World War II. With terrifying brutality, the Nazis confiscate their business, evict them from their home, and strip away their rights, threatenin ..read more

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. A CASE OF MATRICIDE: Chief Inspector Gorski returns … In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, a mysterious stranger stalks the streets; an elderly woman believes her son is planning to do away with her; a prominent manufacturer drops dead. Between visits to the town’s hostelries, Chief Inspector Georges Gorski ponders the connections, if any, between these events, while all the time grappling with his own domestic and existe ..read more

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 help: the body of Rosa's shy teenage sister, Natalia, has been dragged, lifeless, from the Thames. Alex can't help but think of her own missing little sister. She knows how a lack of answers can eat yo ..read more

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 East Ham Golem Barbara Nadal, Allison & Busby Holy City Henry Wise No Exit Press Dragon Man & Snapshot Garry Disher, Viper Box Nine Jack O’Connell, No Exit Press Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazin ..read more

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 elite Chinese study centre based out of St Felix's College. The scapegoat - Meanwhile, the centre's newly recruited head stumbles on its more sinister purpose: recruiting Chinese and sympathetic British st ..read more

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 Murder at Mount Fuji Shizuko Natsuki Gloss Kyra Wilder As ever apologies for any language mangling along the way. Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature ..read more