Join the 'giants' of crime fiction criticism; Barry Forshaw, Maxim Jakubowski and Paul Burke as they discuss their best crime fiction books of 2020 published so far and what we still have to look forward to for the rest of the year.

Barry Forshaw’s books include Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, British Crime Film, British Gothic Cinema, Italian Cinema and Sex and Film. Other work: the Keating Award-winning Brit Noir. He writes for various newspapers and Blu-Ray companies and edits Crime Time

Maxim Jakubowski reviews books in Crime Time on a monthly basis. A crime writer in his own right, he is also a prolific editor and worked in publishing for several decades before creating the UK's first crime specialist bookshop Murder One, which he ran for 20 years.

Paul Burke writes The Verdict column for nbmagazine.co.uk online and features for the quarterly magazine, he also contributes interviews, articles and features to crimetime.co.uk and the European Literature Network. Paul has just started a blog Booksplainer.com for the stuff that falls through the cracks and random pieces. He has worked in the public, private and voluntary sector and is a consultant on community issues. Paul is a book collector, lover of literature in translation, a crime fiction aficionado and a member of the CWA.

The Great (Crime Fiction) Debate with Barry Forshaw, Maxim Jakubowski and Paul Burke