Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes crime fiction aficionado and book lover Ali Karim and Barry Forshawn at Capital Crime in London. Ali Karim is the Assistant Editor of Shots eZine, writes and reviews for many Crime/Thriller magazines; an associate member of the CWA, ITW and PWA. Karim contributed to DISSECTING HANNIBAL LECTER, ed. Benjamin Szumskyj [McFarland Press THE GREENWOOD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITISH CRIME FICTION, ed. Barry Forshaw, and ITW 100 THRILLER NOVELS, ed. David Morrell and Hank Hagner [Oceanview Publishing]. Karim is a CWA Gold Dagger Judge and awarded 2011 David Thompson Memorial Award and The Don Sandstrom Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement in Fandom in 2013 Bouchercon Albany. Barry Forshaw is a writer, broadcaster and journalist whose books include British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, Brit Noir, British Gothic Cinema, Nordic Noir, Sex and Film, Euro Noir, Death in a Cold Climate: Scandinavian Crime Fiction and BFI Classics: War of the Worlds along with books on Italian cinema, film noir and the first UK biography of Stieg Larsson, The Man Who Left Too Soon. He has written on books and films for many newspapers and magazines; he also edits Crime Time, and is one of the talking heads for the ITV Crime Thriller author profiles. He records documentaries on crime fiction and film for a variety of BBC producers for both TV and radio, along with much work for foreign broadcasters. He has been Vice Chair of the Crime Writers' Association. As well as his specialist area of books (in most genres), he writes on film (booklets for special edition DVDs) and all aspects of the arts (popular and serious). He is winner of the Keating Award for Non-Fiction for British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood)

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