Crime Writing

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• Michael Robotham: ghosting and crime

  15 Aug 2015

  Australian writer who worked in the United Kingdom as a journalist, and as ghostwriter for politicians and celebrities including Rolf Harris. He has been a bestselling crime fiction writer since 2002… Audio

• Craig Sisterson - Kiwi Crime Writing

  9 Aug 2015

  The founder of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, Craig Sisterson, reflects on this year's crop of finalists and the state of Kiwi crime writing. Craig regularly reviews crime novels and… Audio

• New Zealand Crime

  1 Jul 2012

  Three of New Zealand's most prominent crime writers - Paul Cleave, Vanda Symon and Paul Thomas - discuss how their stories are affected by their distinctly New Zealand setting. Audio

• The Vault - Dame Ngaio Marsh

  5 Aug 2011

  The familiar voice of Dame Ngaio Marsh – leading crime fiction writer and Shakespearian producer. She sends a personal message on an acetate disc and reveals the tricks of her trade as a dramatist and… Audio, Gallery

• Joanne Drayton : Ngaio Marsh

  30 Aug 2008

  Biographer of Dame Ngaio Marsh,whose books have sold more copies than any other New Zealand author. Audio

• Paul Cleave: life of crime

  7 Sep 2013

  Christchurch author Paul Cleave has written six internationally bestselling crime novels. His seventh novel, Joe Victim (Penguin, ISBN: 9788-0-143-57042-4), is the sequel to his 2006 debut, The… Audio

• Peter Graham: crime and punishment

  12 Nov 2011

  Former Hong Kong barrister who returned to New Zealand to write about crime, and has just published So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme and the Murder that Shocked the World. Audio

• The Bassett Road machine-gun murders: NZ's gangster killings

  25 Nov 2013

  It was December 7th 1963 and for the first time New Zealanders were reading about a violent criminal underworld in our own backyard. But the murders of George Walker and Kevin Speight would take… Audio

• A History of Crime

  8 Jun 2014

  In her first novel 'A History of Crime - The Southern Double-Cross', Dinah Holman takes us back to the New Zealand of the 1880s when dubious land deals were being done by unscrupulous speculators and… Audio

• Lucy Sussex - Crime Blockbuster

  26 Jul 2015

  New Zealand-born Lucy Sussex has written Blockbuster!, the story of Fergus Hume and his book 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab ', the biggest and fastest-selling detective novel of the 1800s and… Audio

• Drowning City

  23 Mar 2014

  Ben Atkins has just had Random House publish his first novel - he's just 19 but you wouldn't know it from his noir crime-story set in the Prohibitionist Depression-era USA. It's called Drowning City.

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• Crime novelist Ben Sanders

  9 Jun 2013

  Ben Sanders is young writer in a hurry. At the tender age of 22 he's already published two best-selling crime novels and his third was released just this week. Called 'Only the Dead', it continues the… Audio

• A Year To Learn A Woman

  30 Nov 2008

  Paddy Richardson talks about her psychological thriller, A Year To Learn A Woman Audio

• Chapter and Verse - Paddy Richardson

  11 Dec 2011

  Traces of Red: Television ratings have dropped and glamorous television journalist Rebecca Thorne has lost her edge. In a bid to save her flailing career she begins to dig into the case of a convicted… Audio

• Crime writing

  31 Aug 2014

  Craig Sisterton is one of the judges of the 2014 Dame Ngaio Marsh Best Crime Novel Award, being announced at the Christchurch WORD Festival. How is crime writing defined these days? And who's won this… Audio

• Camilla Läckberg: Sweden and crime writing

  18 May 2014

  Just what is it about Sweden and crime writing? One person who is a star in the genre is Camilla Läckberg. She has sold more than 10 million books in 55 countries, outselling even Steig Larson of the… Audio

• Author Lee Child discusses losing his job and finding Jack Reacher

  31 Aug 2014

  Lee Child is the man behind the Jack Reacher character. He has a new book, another in the Jack Reacher series, called Personal. Reacher is on a mission to hunt down a sniper, who he put away in prison… Audio

• James Lee Burke : evil and redemption

  1 Oct 2011

  American crime writer based in Montana and Louisiana; his thirtieth novel is Feast Day of Fools. Audio

• Peter Temple: top Australian crime writer

  17 May 2008

  Former journalist and lecturer who has won five Ned Kelly Awards for crime fiction, most recently for The Broken Shore. Audio

• Peter Temple: truth and consequences

  24 Dec 2009

  Australian crime writer and former print journalist and editor, who has won widespread acclaim for his novels The Broken Shore and Truth. Audio

• Kate Atkinson: love and loss

  6 Sep 2008

  Acclaimed British crime writer (her latest is When Will There be Good News?), visiting NZ for the Christchurch Writers Festival. Audio

• Neil Cross: criminals and spies

  10 Apr 2010

  Suspense novelist (Burial, Captured) and screenwriter (Spooks, Luther). Audio

• Val McDermid: crime and journalism

  28 Aug 2010

  Scottish writer and former journalist who was the 2010 recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award. Audio

• Feature author Peter James

  30 Aug 2010

  British author Peter James speaks with Jim about crime and writing. With over five million sales worldwide of his books on it, there's a bit to say. Audio

• British crime writer R.J. Ellory

  21 Sep 2010

  Roger Ellory was orphaned at 7 and arrested for poaching at 17. He lost contact with his brother and it was the public profile his career as a crime writer gave him that led to them reconnecting. He… Audio