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DAN MALAKIN chats to Paul Burke about his new novel THE WRECKAGE OF US, (available 6/6/24), cyber crime, Bridport prize, THE BOX, sci-fi, high concept ideas, work-life balance. THE WRECKAGE OF US It's always the husband... Isn't it?Astrid Webb is missing. The police have found her car crashed near the woods, the driver's door open, the seat spotted with blood. But there's no sign of Astrid herself, a sick woman who rarely left her house, who surely couldn't have left the scene of the accident...

WILLIAM SHAW chats to Paul about his new novel THE WILD SWIMMERS, music journalism, respecting the arts, CJ Sansom (RIP), Breen & Tozer, Alexandra Cupidi and unbridled wealth. THE WILD SWIMMERS If only Alexandra Cupidi had turned south instead of north, she would have found the dead woman.Instead it is her vulnerable daughter Zoë who stumbles across Mimi Greene's lifeless body on the shoreline. A regular wild swimmer with a group of close friends, it's out of character for Mimi to have be...

Ain't That Truth: Where Crime Fact Meets Crime FictionSeason 6 Episode 5 Victoria Selman & Cara Hunter chaired by Triona AdamsLive from the Oxford Literary Festival: Victoria and Cara Hunter explore our our apparently unquenchable thirst for true crime and ask why the genre is often stranger than fiction.Cara Hunter Murder in the Family: LUKE RYDER’S MURDER HAS NEVER BEEN SOLVED. In October 2003, Luke Ryder was found dead in the garden of the family home in London, leaving behind a w...

New crime fiction titles for May 2024. novels:Fiona McPhillips When We Were SilentJohn Connolly The Instruments of Darkness Aslak Nore Sea Cemetery Emiko Jean The Next GirlKellye Garrett Missing White WomanJennifer Lee Thompson Vigilante CityDark Deeds Down Under Vol.2 eds. Craig Sisterson and Lindy Cameron Olivier Norek Between Two WorldsPaul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger ...

DUGALD BRUCE-LOCKHART chats to Paul Burke about his new novel SECOND SKIN, spy fiction, acting directing & memoir, going away to find himself and losing the plot, Greece, THE LIZARD.SECOND SKIN: Five years after a murderous encounter on the island of Paros, Alastair Haston’s world is upended by a startling discovery: a son he never knew existed.Desperate to learn more, he travels to Athens, but his pursuit is intercepted when MI6 intervenes, coercing him into a high-stakes espionage missi...

CHRIS HARDING THORNTON chats to Paul Burke about her new novel LITTLE UNDERWORLD, being a seventh generation Nebraskan, noir, PICKARD COUNTY ATLAS and music. LITTLE UNDERWORLD: Omaha, 1930. When ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely murders the man who assaulted his fourteen-year-old daughter, the last person he wants to see is local crooked cop Frank Tvrdik. Luckily, Frank isn’t interested in the lifeless body in Jim’s car. Frank has a proposition: he’ll make the dead man disappear if ...