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Belatedly caught up with exemplary work by my colleagues across the ocean, Constantine Nasr & Steve Haberman, on a concise Roger Corman documentary for the Blu-ray of Day the World Ended (Shout Blu-rays are bloody hard to obtain in the UK - sent to me by Randy Broecker)

I wrote of M.R. Mackenzie in the Financial Times: 'One of the most consistently accomplished writers on the current scene'. I asked him to talk to Crime Time about his new one, The Secrets We Keep... crimetime.co.uk/the-secrets-we…

On Crime Time, Paul Burke (who is writing his own encyclopaedia on the subject) on the best of current espionage fiction... crimetime.co.uk/spy-political-…

Covering in the FT: The Darkest Winter/Carlo Lucarelli, We Are All Guilty Here/Karin Slaughter, The Girl in Cell A/Vaseem Khan, The Man Made of Smoke/Alex North, Never Flinch/Stephen King, S J Parris, Linwood Barclay, Taku Ashib crimetime.co.uk/may-crime-in-t…

Book chat for the weekend podfollow.com/1556906895 Some of most popular paul vidich new novel coming June UK THE POET'S GAME Tim Shipman No Exit Press Barry Forshaw Oldcastle Books Don Winslow unretiring for new collection of shorts Oct HarperCollinsUK Dom Nolan Headline Books

For the BFI set of Richard Loncraine's Slade in Flame, I've contributed an essay: Britain and the Beat: UK Pop Music Films in the UK (congrats to Vic Pratt & Ben Stoddart Ben Stoddart)

Released on Monday!

For the deluxe new Hammer package of Shatter (starring Stuart Whitman and the matchless Peter Cushing), I supplied an essay on Seventies Crime Movies. It was a golden era, and Shatter is an entry in a notably fruitful period for the genre... crimetime.co.uk/shatter-and-70…

Written an essay for the new disc of The Black Torment from 88! (which will hopefully appeal to the likes of eugenio ercolani, Troy Howarth, ericmcnaughton, Ramsey Campbell, EMMA DARK 🎬 , Chris O'Neill Graham Humphreys and co.

Enjoyed providing a booklet essay and commentaries (the latter with KIm Newman Kim Newman) for TERROR IN THE FOG: THE WALLACE KRIMI AT CCC, from Eureka Entertainment ; also on board: Tim Lucas Jonathan Rigby et al

Excellent evening with two stars of international writing, Carlo Lucarelli and Burhan Sonmez. Carlo and I were reminiscing about the programme we did for BBC TV: Timeshift: Italian Noir (available on YouTube!) The Crime Writers’ Association Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧 Paul Burke westcamel francesco simeone

Crime-heavy week for me: Carlo Lucarelli Tuesday, Hatchards Authors of the year Party Wednesday (w. crime luminaries) and the CWA Dagger Shortlist announced today – see Crime Time link below.. it's the hardknock life for me keeping up with all this... crimetime.co.uk/2025-cwa-dagge…

Un bicchiere di vino with Carlo Lucarelli. Wrote in the FT: 'The Darkest Winter -- set in the Bologna of 1944 -- finds the thuggish Black Brigades fighting the SS for control of the city, while the conflicted Commissario De Luca struggles to solve three simultaneous murders...'

Relished writing a booklet essay for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (from Arrow Video) Michael Mackenzie 💿 M.R. Mackenzie ✍️ sergio angelini Matthew Booth Raphael Messina FunCityEditions Second Sight Eureka Entertainment Deckard

Carlo Lucarelli is the King of Italian Noir - but am I inimitable?!?

In the ever-stimulating company of @PaulVidich, whose The Poet's Game maintains his impeccable standards (our usual bonding over Graham Greene). In the lively disputatious company of Antonia Senior Antonia Senior Andrew Rosenheim, Merle Nygate, Ed Needham jakekerridge et al

Admirers of Hammer Films are relishing a series of deluxe silver disc reissues of some of the studio’s key films. Now we have the film that inaugurated their matchless run of horror product, though The Quatermass Xperiment is, in fact, science fiction... dvdchoices.co.uk

Best of Summer Crime in the FT (Urtext): The Woman Who Laughed/Simon Mason; King of Ashes/S. A. Cosby; The Secrets We Keep/M. R. Mackenzie; A Schooling in Murder/Andrew Taylor; The Stranger in Room Six/Jane Corry; The Red Shore/William Shaw + Lisa Jewell crimetime.co.uk/the-best-of-su…

Karin Slaughter interviewed by Lee Child in Mayfair about her new book, We Are All Guilty Here. The Slaughter/Child badinage demonstrated their long friendship, and the review-proof Lee Child even called me out from the stage as an ‘eminent reviewer’! crimetime.co.uk/karin-slaughte…