Deadly Dance: Hilary Bonner Talks to Crime Time
The idea for Deadly Dance came from my chum Chris. I recognized immediately that he had come up with a cleverly chilling basis for a psychological thriller which was quite…
The Story Of Classic Crime In 100 Books By Martin Edwards
The all-conquering success of his massively enjoyable Golden Age of Murder must have created a problem for the writer Martin Edwards (currently chair of the Crime Writers Association): how to…
Fever By Deon Meyer, Trans. K. L. Seegers
This is a long book, and has its longueurs, especially in the middle. It’s a stand-alone, post-apocalyptic story narrated in the first person by one of the rare survivors, Nico…
From The Hound Of The Baskervilles To Strangers On A Train
The astonishing popularity of the British Library’s Crime Classics series – closing in on one million paperback sales – has surprised many people. Including me, to be honest, even though…
Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix
Subtitled ‘The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction’, Grady Hendrix’s loving and detailed study addresses a neglected (and even, let’s face it, despised) era of horror writing which…
The Pinocchio Brief: Abi Silver talks to Crime Time
In The Pinocchio Brief when Raymond Maynard, a brilliant 15-year-old student, is accused of the brutal murder of his teacher, his defence team (the veteran Judith Burton and youngster Constance…
DOWN for the COUNT: MARTIN HOLMEN talks to CRIME TIME
Noir, in its purest form, is an exaggeration of life itself, a wheel of fortune: For every one that goes up, one goes down, or, to quote an old favourite…
A Thousand Cuts by Thomas Mogford
It is April 1940 and a bomb has been detonated in the Dockyards of Gibraltar. This surprise attack on the British results in the death of two Navy servicemen. The…
Testimony by Scott Turow, Give Me the Child by Mel McGrath
Testimony by Scott Turow, Mantle, £18.99, 483 pages Decades after the bloody Bosnian conflict, issues of blame and responsibility remain troubling. Any novelist tackling the period is obliged to do…
Crime Time talks to Eric Brown, Michael Gregorio & Michael Jecks
We asked Severn House authors Eric Brown, Michael Gregorio and Michael Jecks to tell us a little more about the background to their new books. All three books are available…