Ausma Zehanat Khan: Words & Music
Welcome to Words and Music and thank you for taking a moment out of your UK Book Tour to speak with me about your literary and musical influences! You’re having a very exciting week here in the UK with an interview on Radio 4s Woman’s Hour, book signings and a Blog...
LUKE MCCALLIN: WORDS & MUSIC
Welcome to Words and Music with Luke McCallin, author of the Reinhardt series. The latest, book three, The Ashes of Berlin, is now out in paperback and can be purchased at all good bookshops and via Amazon. Luke, could we start with a brief introduction to your...
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The Pitards by Georges Simenon (Trans by David Bellos)
Andy Lawrence
Disappointing novel offers few glimpses of Simenon’s greatness.
Denise Mina wins the McIlvanney for The Long Drop
It was revealed tonight at a champagne reception at Stirling Castle that the winner of The McIlvanney Prize 2017 is Denise Mina for The Long Drop, published by Harvill Secker. It’s the first time a woman has won the prize.
Noirwich Line-Up: The Writers speak to Crime Time
Formidable lineup for the Noirwich Crime Wriitng Festival
Human Face: Aline Templeton Talks to Crime Time
My latest book, Human Face (Allison & Busby) is coming out in January 2018. After writing nine DI Marjory Fleming books, I’m excited about this new venture. It all started with an image that somehow came to me: a woman, standing on a cliff edge; a man controlling a devil dog that forces her step by step back, and back, and back…
Val McDermid, Anthony Horowitz and Martina Cole for Noirwich
Val McDermid, Anthony Horowitz and Martina Cole amongst killer line-up at Noirwich Crime Writing Festival.The fastest growing crime festival in the UK and biggest in the east of England returns for fourth year in September
Second Killer Women Weekend
The Second Killer Women Weekend (follwing the highly successful debut) will be on 10am-6pm, 28 & 29 October 2017 at Browns Courtrooms, Covent Garden, London WC2.
Where in the Dark: Karen Millie-James talks to Crime Time
My latest novel follows the investigations of Cydney Granger, a corporate forensics specialist. The subject matter is one that I have considered writing for some time because I wanted to delve into the psychopathy of the Nazis and examine why they committed genocide on such an horrific scale…
Covering Pascal Garnier & Anthony Horowitz in the Financial Times
Barry Forshaw
Covering Pascal Garnier & Anthony Horowitz in the Financial Times…
Glass Houses: Louise Penny talks to Crime Time
I’ve been carrying around central theme of GLASS HOUSES for years. More than a decade in fact. I’ve been thinking about it, considering it, waiting for it to ripen. Waiting for the characters, the plot, all the elements to align. And finally, it has
Death at the President’s Lodging by Michael Innes; The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh
Ruth Morse
These two books are period pieces, and require some distance from today’s readers. Their archaic vocabulary habits, utter freedom from educating the young, except for admiring them as sportsmen, and the devotion of the college or country-house servants, recall a world of hierarchy and deference I would not wish to see again.
The Smack by Richard Lange
Michael Carlson
It’s a classic noir, where it’s almost impossible to get what you want, and in which every possible road out turns into a dead end
The Susan Effect by Peter Hoeg, trans. Martin Aitken
Ruth Morse
The ‘effect’ is extreme empathy, and while Susan Svendsen is a strong example of the surprising results of being an empath, if she is together with her twins their power is multiplied by three:
Guardian Thriller Roundup
Barry Forshaw
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter; The Late Show by Michael Connelly; My Name Is Nobody by Matthew Richardson; The Child by Fiona Barton; Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lemaitre; The Destroyers by Christopher Bollen
The Freedom Broker: KJ Howe talks to Crime Time
KJ Howe talks about the inspirations behind her debut novel The Freedom Broker
Continental Crimes, The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards
Ruth Morse
Martin Edwards, The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics) ISBN-13: 978-0712356961/Continental Crimes (British Library Crime Classics) ISBN-13: 978-0712356794
Detective drama featuring Belgium’s most eccentric criminologist
Professor T launches on More 4 (courtesy of Walter Presents) on Friday 18th August at 9pm. Belgium’s most neurotic and endearing detective: PROFESSOR T. This gripping crime thriller will air for the first time in the UK