Welcome to Aspects of Crime, a new website, magazine and podcast for all things crime – fact and fiction. We will bring you top interviews, articles, reviews and short stories from your favourite writers and the best up-and-comers in the crime field. This is a fast growing genre, more relevant than ever with the way the world is right now. Whether you want to lean into the kind of writing that explores the modern malaise or want some escapism – it’s all here.
So, the best of contemporary crime writing and plenty of reflection on the classics – non-fiction, murder, mystery and suspense. Our aim is to inform and to make it fun for writers and readers alike.
So, Aspects of Crime will be a conduit for writers and readers to connect. We believe our unique author platforms are a great way to help writers achieve that connection and promote their work. Check the platforms out if you’re a writer looking to spread the word, we want to help.
Let us entertain you.
Please do sign-up to our mailing list or subscribe to the magazine. Annual subscriptions are available at only £9.99/$9.99. Single issues are available from only £1.99.
Hello from the Editor
Hello, I’m Paul Burke, the editor of Aspects of Crime. I worked in industry and the voluntary sector for many years before turning my reading habit into a job. I now write about books full-time, mostly crime fact and fiction. Since 2018 I have been an interviewer, reviewer and writer of articles and features for magazines and online publications, including in the past Monocle and NB Books. I currently write for Crime Fiction Lover, Crime Time and the European Literature Network. I am the editor/presenter of the Crime Time FM podcast and am a judge for the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger and the Spymasters Podcast Book Prize. In the past I have been a judge for the British Book Awards, The Nibbies. I’m currently at work on my first book An Encyclopedia of Spy Fiction, which, if it doesn’t finish me off, will be published in Autumn 2026.
I love crime writing, fact and fiction, across the genre and on screen too for that matter. From Golden Age gems to Noir to contemporary, The Maltese Falcon, LA Confidential, The Slow Horses, Val McDermid, Walter Mosley, Abir Mukherjee, Kate Summerscale, Nicholas Shakespeare, Ben McIntyre, SA Cosby, Anna Mazzola, Kellye Garrett, Vaseem Khan, Charles Cumming, MW Craven, Charlotte Philby, Abigail Dean, Chris Lloyd… (I could go on.)
