Crime Time FM

New crime fiction reviews for march 2026 by Paul Burke. 
The Harvey Girl Dana Stabenov
Beattie Cavendish and the Highland Hideaway Mary-Jane Riley 
Stephen Leather Underdogs 
Sharks Simone Buchholz trans. Rachel Ward
Paper Sisters Rachel Canwell
Glitz Elmore Leonard 
Reaper Vanda Symon
The Dangerous Stranger Simon Mason 

Paul Burke is editor of Aspects of Crime and Crime Time FM, his first book 
SPIES ON SCREEN: FROM SILENT TO STREAMING 
will be published in September 

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NADINE MATHESON chats to Paul Burke about her new crime thriller THE SHADOW CARVER, being the Chair of the CWA. serial killers, fraudsters, hurricanes in Grenada and troublesome domestic appliances.
THE SHADOW CARVER: A killer who cuts straight to the bone … A CHILLING MURDER. 
When a convicted killer is released and later found brutally murdered, DI Henley and the Serial Crimes Unit are pulled into a deadly investigation with links to other recent attacks – all the victims are connected by the vicious signature left behind by the killer. A KILLER LURKS
Henley and her team begin to connect the dots between the killings, and realise the murders are part of something more sinister. Each victim has been chosen with a deadly precision, their deaths carved out with a shocking cruelty. THE HUNT IS ON …
As the rampage continues and the case spirals into a terrifying hunt for the killer, the line between predator and prey begins to blur. Henley and the SCU are running out of time … Can they outsmart a monster before they strike again
Nadine Matheson is an author, host of 'The Conversation with Nadine Matheson' Podcast and a former criminal defence lawyer. 
Her bestselling debut crime fiction novel, The Jigsaw Man, was won by HQ (HarperCollins) in a six-publisher auction and has been translated into fifteen languages. The fourth book in the series, The Shadow Carver, is available now.
Recommended: Guide Me Home Attica Locke (book three in the Highway 59 series).
Paul Burke is the editor of Crime Time FM, Aspects of Crime, CWA Gold Dagger judge. His first book EYES ONLY: SPIES ON SCREEN FROM SILENT TO STREAMING will be published in September 2026.
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Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,

Howard Linskey chats to Paul about is new novel Muse Of Fire, love of Shakespeare, Heydrich, the SOE, the Globe, London - population 200,000! Picking up a theatre and moving it across the river. 
Muse of Fire: William Shakespeare is moving up in the world, his name respected both at court and the theatre. Accepted by Queen Elizabeth, he is trusted to write plays for her, so long as she likes them...
When one of the queen's ladies-in-waiting is found dead, almost everyone suspects murder. But who stood to gain? And are the rumours that she was with child true?
Sir Robert Cecil, Elizabeth's spymaster, senses an opportunity to finally rid himself of his bitter rival, the Earl of Essex, who was seen with the girl before she died, and tasks Will to uncover the truth.
But Shakespeare knows that the Earl of Southampton, his patron, is allied to the Earl of Essex. Will is caught between powerful foes. But this time, he must choose a side if he is to survive.
The Bard turns sleuth once more in this fascinating second instalment in the investigations of William Shakespeare.
Howard Linskey is a former journalist whose works include crime series and standalones set in the north-east, including the DC Ian Bradshaw series published by Penguin, and two espionage novels. He also writes historical fiction and non-fiction. His books have been published in nine countries. Originally from County Durham, he lives in Herts with his wife and daughter.
Recommended: Stan Barstow. Trevor Wood,, Mari Hannah, Robert Scragg, The Chrysalids John Wymdham.
Paul Burke is the editor of Crime Time FM and Aspects of Crime, his first book Eyes Only: Spy Films from Silent to Streaming will be published in September, 2026.
Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,

Tracy Sierra chats to Paul Burke about her new Psychological thriller Warning Signs, true crime, tragedy through a lens, Nightwatching, place, James Joyce, danger least expected.
Warning Signs: There’s something out there in the darkness.
By morning, bones lie in the snow, picked clean.
Zach knows the moods of the mountains – his mother taught him before she was gone. His father and the other men on the ski weekend think they know better though.
Drinking and boasting, they laugh in the face of the icy conditions.
But Zach understands what danger looks like. Can he survive the wilderness, and all the monsters within it?

Tracy Sierra was born and raised in the Colorado mountains. She is an attorney who currently lives in New England in an antique colonial-era home complete with its own secret room. When not writing, she spends time with her husband and two children. Nightwatching is her debut novel.
Recommended: In a Lonely Place Dorothy B Hughes, The Dead James Joyce, Night of the Hunter (Film), 
Dead Weight Hildur Knútsdóttir trans. Mary Robinette Kowal (pub. August 2026).
Paul Burke is the editor of CTFM and Aspects of Crime. 
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Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,

Louise Welsh chats to Paul about her new novel The CUT UP, Rilke, Glasgow, Scottish PEN, The Cutting Pen, academia and being decent people.
THE CUT UP: It's hard to be good when living is expensive. And times are tough on the streets these days. Luckily for Rilke at Bowery Auctions the demand for no-questions-asked cash is at an all-time high, and business is booming.
When Rilke hears his old acquaintance Les is fresh out of prison, his inclination is to stay well out of his way. Letting sleeping dogs lie is one thing - but when one of Bowery's customers winds up dead on their tarmac, Rilke needs a bit of help from his friends to tidy things up. If only his friends didn't have such a habit of making things worse.
Louise Welsh is an award-winning author of ten novels. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award. In 2018, she was named the Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. In 2022 she published The Second Cut, which was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Crime Book of the Year and named by The Times as their Crime Book of the Year.
@louisewelsh00
Recommendations Kate Summerscale The Peepshow, Denise Mina The Long Drop, Merlin Holland After Oscar, Neil M Gunn Blood Hunt, Pat Barker.

Paul Burke is editor of Aspects of Crime and Crime Time FM, CWA Gold Dagger Judge.
Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,