Michael Dobbs podcasts about Old Enemies

Listen to Michael Dobbs podcast about his writing habits and the influences for his newest book, Old Enemies with a helicopter abduction, ransom for a wealthy son, and the reunion of old lovers.

Interview with Amanda Kyle Williams, author of The Stranger You Seek

Get behind the curtain in this interview with Amanda Kyle Williams as she talks about the conception and the writing of her new book, The Stranger You Seek.

Alan Glynn discusses his newest, Bloodland

Find out who and what influenced Alan Glynn when writing his newest book, Bloodland

A Q&A with Peter May

Peter May is the author of fifteen novels and an honorary member of the Chinese Crime Writers’ Association. Read an interview with him about his latest book, The Blackhouse, which has just been selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club.

A Q&A with Sam Eastland

Sam Eastland, resident of the UK and the US, is the creator of Inspector Pekkala, the most famous detective in Soviet-era Russia. Pekkala struggles to balance the hard line Soviet world with his own morals and loyalty to the deceased Tsar. Read an interview with Eastland about how he grapples with Pekkala’s permanent outsider status.

A Q&A with Neil Cross

Meet Neil Cross, straight talking author of several novels including Luther: The Calling, Always the Sun and Burial, as well as the bestselling memoir Heartland. He has been lead scriptwriter for the two most recent seasons of the acclaimed BBC spy drama series Spooks and continues to write widely for the screen.

Listen to the Luther: The Calling podcast

Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. He’s a murder detective. A near-genius. He’s brilliant; he’s intense; he’s instinctive. He’s obsessional. He’s dangerous.

A Q&A with Casey Hill

Casey Hill is the pseudonym for husband and wife writing duo Kevin and Melissa Hill. A desire to delve into the darker side of people’s lives led the two to team up in 2010 to write Taboo, the first in a series of forensic thrillers featuring CSI investigator Reilly Steel.

Explore the genesis of The Lost Kings

Bruno Hare introduces us to the wild lands that inspired his first novel, The Lost Kings, a rollicking tale of adventure and derring-do set on the far frontiers of Empire in the best tradition of Kipling and Rider Haggard.

A Q&A with C.J. Box

C. J. Box is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen novels including the Joe Pickett series.

Mike Stafford caught up with him while he was on a flying visit to the UK…

A Q & A with Michael Gregorio

Michael Jacob and Daniela De Gregorio write together as Michael Gregorio. They have created a series of crime novels whose central character is the Prussian magistrate, Hanno Stiffeniis. The series includes Critique of Criminal Reason, Days of Atonement, A Visible Darkness and Unholy Awakening, out this month in paperback.

Neil Cross discusses Luther: The Calling

Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther.

Meet Neil Cross…

A Q&A with Thomas Enger

Thomas Enger (b. 1973) previously worked as a journalist. Burned is his first novel. As well as writing, he also composes music. He lives in Oslo and is currently at work on Pierced, the next novel in the Henning Juul Series.

Malcolm Pryce discusses The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still

Author Malcolm Pryce discusses his new book (published on Monday), his detective hero, Louie Knight, and his inspiration for characters and location.

An interview with James Forrester, author of The Roots of Betrayal

Watch an interview with James Forrester, author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England which was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller, and the highly acclaimed Sacred Treason, as he immerses us in his latest Elizabethan crime mystery.

Stella Rimington on Rip Tide, Part Two

Stella Rimington discusses her latest Liz Carlyle novel, her real-life role in MI5, and her love for reading thrillers.

Tom Rob Smith on The Secret Speech

Tom Rob Smith’s follow-up to wildly successsful debut novel Child 44 is republished this month.

Watch out for a competition to win amazing signed, limited edition numbered bound copies of his latest novel, Agent 6, next week on Bookdagger!

Stella Rimington on Rip Tide, Part One

Stella Rimington’s Rip Tide is published via Bloomsbury later this month.

Watch the author discussing her latest Liz Carlyle novel, and the differences between her protagonist’s fictional role in MI5, and her own experiences.

Blood Line

Bestselling author Lynda La Plante discusses the plot of her latest thriller, Bloodline.

An interview with N. J. Cooper

Mike Stafford interviews Natasha Cooper, the author of, among many others, Fault Lines, Prey To All and Out of the Dark. In 2002 she was shortlisted for the Dagger in the Library, an award that ‘goes to the author whose work has given most pleasure to readers’.