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Regular crime, thriller & mystery interviews, features and reviews. In Person with Paul hosted by Paul Burke, Barry's Blu-rays hosted by the editor of crimetime.co.uk and Financial Times Crime Fiction Critic, Barry Forshaw, and On the Sofa with Victoria hosted by best selling thriller writer Victoria Selman. Heads Together is a monthly magazine chat show featuring our trio of hosts and our latest venture is a review show, what's hot in crime fiction. Further information can be found at crimetime.fm Don’t Wait is the theme music and is courtesy of Southgate and Leigh: youtube.com/ukulelipa
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Newcastle Noir Special Episode 2
Panel discussions from the Newcastle Noir International Crime Writing Festival recorded live 8th-9th December at Newcastle Central Library and the Northern Crime Syndicate recorded at Tyneside Irish Centre.
1. Ann Cleeves and Marsali Taylor
2. Mari Hannah and Kate London
3. Katrin Júliusdottir
4 The Caledonian Crime Collective - Emma Christie, Marion Todd, Andrew James Grieg & Allan Martin
5. Philip Gwynne Jones and Chris Lloyd
6. Doug Johnstone and Trevor Wood*
7. The Northern Crime Syndicate - Trevor Wood, Emma Christie, Robert Rutherford, Chris , Jude O'Reilly & Rob Parker
*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.
Music courtesy of *Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson
GUY HALE
Apologies for occasional background noises but this shouldn't interfere with listening pleasure.
*Language unsuitable for children in excerpt 6.
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3 days ago
TOM MEAD In Person with Paul
*TOM MEAD* chats to Paul Burke about *THE MURDER WHEE**L, **DEATH AND THE CONJUROR** *Joseph Spector, the Golden Age era, true crime, theatre, magic and illusion.
*THE MURDER WHEEL*: 1938, London. Ambitious lawyer Edmund Ibbs has got his teeth into the case of a lifetime - defending the young woman accused of shooting her husband in the infamous 'Ferris Wheel Murder' case. Despite a plethora of evidence against his client, Ibbs is certain he can secure her acquittal.
But after a night of magic and illusion at London's Pomegranate Theatre, Ibbs finds himself behind bars, accused of a double murder. The renowned prestidigitator Professor Paolini and the operator of said notorious Ferris wheel are dead, and as far as Scotland Yard's Inspector Flint is concerned, all signs point to the lawyer's guilt.
Luckily for Ibbs, illusionist turned sleuth Joseph Spector also attended the theatre that night. Can Spector's eye for detail pierce the veil of deceit in a world of illusion and misdirection, where seeing is not always believing?
*Tom Mead* is an aficionado of Golden Age crime fiction. His short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Lighthouse, as well as Best Crime Stories of the Year (ed. Lee Child). Death and the Conjuror, his debut novel, featuring illusionist turned sleuth Joseph Spector, was highly acclaimed by the UK and US press and was one of Publishers Weekly's Mysteries of the Year. He lives in Derbyshire, England.
Recommendations (selected)
Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L Sayers, Fredric Brown, Ellery Queen, Soji Shimada, Seichi Yokomizo.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Mrs McGinty's Dead - Agatha Christie
The Red Widow Murders - John Dickson Carr
Green for Danger, Death of Jezebel - Christianna Brand
Mrs Bradley mysteries - Gladys Mitchell
*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.
Music courtesy of *Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson
GUY HALE
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5 days ago
VASEEM KHAN & LAUREN MUNOZ On The Sofa With Victoria
SEASON 5 EPISODE 8: VASEEM KHAN, Chair of the CWA & author of the BABY GANESH & MALIBAR HOUSE series & LAUREN MUÑOZ lawyer & author of SUDDENLY A MURDER join Victoria to explore the economic divide, labelling and race in Crime fiction. So a nice light episode!
Recommendations
PERSUASION JANE AUSTIN
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN SALMAN RUSHDIE
*Music courtesy of *Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.
GUY HALE
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Dec 2, 2023
MATT PHILLIPS In Person With Paul
*MATT PHILLIPS *chats to Paul Burke about his new noir - *A GOOD RUSH OF BLOOD**, *noir and social documentarian, character drives narrative, indie writing.
*A GOOD RUSH OF BLOOD*: A mother's sins haunt a teenage runaway in this scorching mystery of criminal conspiracy, street-level justice, and unlikely courage.
Creeley Nash has been running her entire life. That includes running drugs for a wannabe kingpin. On a drug run to Palm Springs--the town where Creeley escaped her no-good mother as a teen--she'll encounter a sun-drenched facade beneath which lurks a web of dark secrets. A Good Rush of Blood follows Creeley as she unravels the mystery of her estranged mother's murder conviction.
Peopled with bent cops, grizzled reporters, hardened drug dealers, eccentric sidekicks, and sexy librarians, this sweaty, fast-paced neo-noir finds stellar noir scribe Matt Phillips (Countdown, Know Me from Smoke) at the apex of his dirty, lethal game.
Matt Phillips lives in San Diego. His novels include Countdown, Know Me from Smoke, You Must Have a Death Wish, Redbone and Three Kinds of Fool. His short fiction has been featured in Shotgun Honey, Mystery Tribune, Retreats from Oblivion, and elsewhere.
Recommendations
Frank Zafiro - A Grifter's Song series
Patricia Highsmith, Donald Goines, David Goodis, Chester Himes, Dorothy B Hughes, Jim Thompson, Pablo D'stair, Stephen King & Elmore Leonard
Vern Smith - Scratching the Flint
*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.
Music courtesy of *Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson - Vacant Stare
GUY HALE
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Nov 28, 2023
REVIEW SHOW NOVEMBER 23
Paul Burke reviews a selection of November crime fiction releases. Including author elevator pitches from CL Pattison. Jane Jesmond, Alexandra Benedict, Paul Durston & Stephen Ronson.
Peter Murphy *A Week on Mount Olympus*
CL Pattison *The Florist*
Simon Maltman *Hunted*
Jane Jesmond* A Quiet Contagion*
Simon Gaul *White Suicide*
Alexandra Benedict *The Christmas Jigsaw Murders*
Robyn Gigl *Survivor's Guilt*
Paul Durston* If We were One*
Lee Goldberg *Calico*
Stephen Ronson *The Last Line*
Jack Grimwood *Arctic Sun*
Cathy Ace *The Corpse with the Opal Fingers*
Katherine Howe* A True Account*
Royston Reeves *The Weatherman*
*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.
Music courtesy of *Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.
GUY HALE
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CrimeFest 2023
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Nov 24, 2023
TOM BENJAMIN In Person With Paul
*TOM BENJAMIN *chats to Paul Burke about LAST TESTAMENT IN BOLOGNA, British private eye Daniel Leicester, the porticos of the ancient city, Giallo, AirBnB and tourism in a university town.
*LAST TESTAMENT IN BOLOGNA**: *When an old man makes a bequest to investigate the mysterious death of his son, English detective Daniel Leicester follows a trail leading to one of Bologna's wealthiest families - makers of some of the world's most coveted supercars - and discovers that beneath the glitz and glamour of the Formula One circuit lurk sinister interests that may be prepared to kill to keep their secrets. Time and tide wait for no man - or woman - and while biology obliges one of Faidate Investigations' team to finally undergo a long-delayed operation, history catches up with another. Shadowing a suspect along one of Bologna's blood-red porticoes or mixing with the glitterati in the paddock at Imola, the English detective comes to learn in Italy the past not only has a long tail, but its sting can be deadly.
*Tom Benjamin* grew up in the suburbs of north London and began his working life as a journalist before becoming a spokesman for Scotland Yard. He later moved into public health, where he developed Britain's first national campaign against alcohol abuse, Know Your Limits, and led drugs awareness programme FRANK. He now lives in Bologna. A Quiet Death in Italy is the first novel in his Daniel Leicester crime series, LAST TESTAMENT IN BOLOGNA is the fifth mystery.
Find Tom on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook at tombenjaminsays.
Recommendations:
Tobias Jones - Blood in the Altar, The de Luca Trilogy - Carlo Lucarelli, Loriano Machiavelli, William Boyd, Robert Harris - Officer and a Spy, Trevor Wood,
Naples 44 - Norman Lewis , Louise Fein - The London Bookshop Affair (Feb 24),
Victoria Dowd - Murder Most Cold, The Blazing World - Jonathan Healey,
True Crime Story - Joseph Knox, Byzantium Endures - Michael Moorcock.
*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.
Music courtesy of *Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.
GUY HALE
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CrimeFest 2023
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Nov 21, 2023
ROBERT GODDARD & SUK PANNU On The Sofa With Victoria S5 E7
Season 5 Episode 7: ROBERT GODDARD (CWA DIAMOND DAGGER WINNER, THE FINE ART OF UNCANNY PREDICTION) & SUK PANNU (MRS SIDHU'S DEAD AND SCONE): Robert Goddard & Sak Pannu join Victoria to discuss cosy crime and the 'Osman effect'. What do we mean by Cosy Crime? Why has it become so popular? And where does the future lie?
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **ALL THE LITTLE LIARS*
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Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
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Nov 18, 2023
NEWCASTLE NOIR SPECIAL - EPISODE ONE
*Crime Time FM from Newcastle Noir* - *Episode 1 Introductions*:
the when, where, who and how. Perspectives on the festival from people involved in the events.
Crime Time FM is proud to be the Official Podcast of Newcastle Noir.
*NEWCASTLE NOIR - NEWCASTLE CITY LIBRARY 6TH - 9TH DECEMBER.
**Information**. Click this link for the schedule and visitor info.
**Tickets here** £5 per panel, £50 for the 2023 Full Pass
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*Guests*
Festival Organiser - Jacky Collins, Dr. Noir.
NN Devotee - Ewa Sherman, translator, reviewer, all round book person.
NN volunteer Alanna Higginson, poet & events organiser.
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NN debutant author Marion Todd - DI Clare Mackay Series, latest A Blind Eye published by Canelo.
*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.
Music courtesy of *Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.
GUY HALE
Apologies for underestimating the length of the show in the introduction.
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Nov 14, 2023
The Crime Time FM Debate - Best Crime Fiction 2023
*The Crime Time FM Christmas Debate - Best Crime Fiction 2023:*
Eight top critics & writers pick their best reads of the year, argue eruditely for their choices and squabble - a little bit.
Laura Wilson - Guardian critic and best-selling author.
Jon Coates - Sunday Express deputy news editor and critic
Maxim Jakubowski - former publisher & CWA chair, author and critic.
Jake Kerridge - book critic at the Telegraph.
Barry Forshaw - author & critic with the Financial Times.
Ayo Onatade - critic Shots Mag/blog, CWA & HWA judge, Capital Crime committee.
Victoria Selman - bestselling author and podcast presenter.
Paul Burke - podcast presenter and critic.
The Book List - Crime Time has the full list of titles discussed, and those we didn't quite get to, just click this link.
*Music courtesy of *Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.
GUY HALE
Please note this episode was recorded in front of an audience at Waterstones in Islington, there is some background noise, apologies for any difficulties in hearing the debate.
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Nov 10, 2023
GUNNAR STAALESEN In Person With Craig
Norwegian crime writing legend *GUNNAR STAALESEN* chats to Craig Sisterson about his new hardboiled thriller Mirror Image, Varg Veum and Bergen, crime fiction as social commentary with humour, Joe Biden PI & wolf in a sanctuary.
*MIRROR IMAGE*: As Bergen PI Varg Veum investigates two different cases, it becomes clear that they are uncannily similar to harrowing events that took place thirty-six years earlier… A gripping instalment of the award-winning Varg Veum series, by one of the fathers of Nordic Noir.
Bergen Private Investigator Varg Veum is perplexed when two wildly different cases cross his desk at the same time. A lawyer, anxious to protect her privacy, asks Varg to find her sister, who has disappeared with her husband, seemingly without trace, while a ship carrying unknown cargo is heading towards the Norwegian coast, and the authorities need answers.
Varg immerses himself in the investigations, and it becomes clear that the two cases are linked, and have unsettling – and increasingly uncanny – similarities to events that took place thirty-six years earlier, when a woman and her saxophonist lover drove their car off a cliff, in an apparent double suicide.
As Varg is drawn into a complex case involving star-crossed lovers, toxic waste and illegal immigrants, history seems determined to repeat itself in perfect detail … and at terrifying cost...
*GUNNAR STAALESEN*: One of the fathers of Nordic Noir, Gunnar Staalesen was born in Bergen, Norway, in 1947. He made his debut at the age of twenty-two with Seasons of Innocence and in 1977 he published the first book in the Varg Veum series. He is the author of over twenty titles, which have been published in twenty-four countries and sold over four million copies. Twelve film adaptations of his Varg Veum crime novels have appeared since 2007, starring the popular Norwegian actor Trond Espen Seim. Staalesen has won three Golden Pistols (including the Prize of Honour) and Where Roses Never Die won the 2017 Petrona Award for Nordic Crime Fiction, and Big Sister was shortlisted in 2019. He lives with his wife in Bergen.
*Don Bartlett* completed an MA in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in 2000 and has since worked with a wide variety of Danish and Norwegian authors, including Jo Nesbø and Gunnar Staalesen’s Varg Veum series: We Shall Inherit the Wind, Wolves in the Dark and the Petrona award-winning Where Roses Never Die. He also translated Faithless, the previous book in Kjell Ola Dahl’s Oslo Detective series for Orenda Books. He lives with his family in a village in Norfolk.
Recommendations
Chester Himes, Raymond Chandler, Ross Mcdonald , Dashiell Hammett, Per Wahlöö & Maj Sjöwall
*Craig Sisterson* is a features writer and crime fiction expert from New Zealand who writes for newspapers and magazines in several countries. In recent years he's interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at festivals on three continents. He's been a judge of the McIlvanney Prize and Ned Kelly Awards, and is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir. He lives in London with his daughter. He is the author of SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME: The Pocket Essentials Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia & New Zealand.
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Nov 7, 2023
DONNA FREED, ANNA MOTZ & MATT JOHNSON #OnTheSofa Special from CAPITAL CRIME
*Season 5 Episode 6:* *Donna Freed* (Duplicity), *Matt Johnson* (No Ordinary Day) & *Anna Motz* (A Love That Kills) join Victoria in a panel recorded live at Capital Crime discussing why true crime is stranger than fiction.
DONNA FREED DUPLICITY
ANNA MOTZ A LOVE THAT KILLS
MATT JOHNSON NO ORDINARY DAY
FILM: A PLACE IN THE SUN
BOOK: THE AMERICAN TRAGEDY THEODORE DREISER
*VICTORIA SELMAN
Sunday Times bestselling author of **ALL THE LITTLE LIARS*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
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Nov 3, 2023
FEMI KAYODE In Person With Paul
*FEMI KAYODE *chats to Paul about his new Nigerian crime thriller *GASLIGHT*, Philip Taiwo, Light Seekers, eduction addiction,
*GASLIGHT*: Bishop Jeremiah Dawodu, pastor of a Nigerian megachurch, has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Folasade, the 'First Lady' of the church. The arrest was public, humiliating and sensational - sending shockwaves through Lagos - but throughout it all, Bishop Dawodu maintains his innocence.
Philip Taiwo, an acclaimed investigative psychologist, is asked by his sister, a member of the church's congregation, to clear the pastor's name. With no actual body, it looks to be a simple case and despite Philip's dislike of organised religion, he agrees to take it on as a favour to his sister. Then the First Lady's body is found in a nearby lake just as Philip's beloved family come under attack from someone warning him off the case, and he realises that nothing to do with this investigation will be straightforward.
Was it murder or suicide? I…
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Oct 31, 2023
THE REVIEW SHOW October 2023 28/10/23
The Latest Crime Fiction Releases Reviewed By Paul Burke - October 2023.
Books featured:
Loyalty Martina Cole
The Prey Yrsa Sigardardóttir
The North Light Hideo Yokoyama**
A frightfully Fatal Affair Hannah Hendy
The Due Date Niki Mackay
Crown Vic Lee Goldberg
Geneva Richard Armitage
The Beaver Theory Antti Tuomainen
White As Snow Llija Sigardardóttir
Stigma Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger
Dry Cleaning Trevor Mark Thomas
Wind Sprints Ralph Dennis
Luda Grant Morrison
The Defector Chris Hadfield
&
*Penguin Crime & Espionage reissues *- The Big Sleep & Farewell My Lovely Raymond Chandler, Games Without Rules Michael Gilbert, Maigret's Revolver Georges Simenon, Sleeping Dog Dick Lochte, Brat Farrar Josephine Tey, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carré, The Black Lizard Edogawa Rampo, Payment Deferred C.S. Forrester, The Mask of Dimitrios Eric Ambler & Other Paths to Glory Anthony Price.
*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is al…
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Oct 24, 2023
LAUREN NORTH, LESLEY KARA & NIKI MACKAY 24-10-23
Season 5 Episode 4: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS - All in the Mind - LAUREN NORTH, LESLEY KARA & NIKI MACKAY join Victoria Selman to discuss the enduring popularity of psychological thrillers and where the future lies for the genre.
Mentioned: Minette Walters The Sculptress, The Scold's Bridal, Susi Holliday The House, The Bees Laline Paul, Stephen King
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **ALL THE LITTLE LIARS*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
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CrimeFest 2023
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Oct 20, 2023
HARRIET CRAWLEY In Person With Paul
*HARRIET CRAWLEY* chats to Paul about her spy thriller come love story, *THE TRANSLATOR,* living in Russia,
*THE TRANSLATOR*: Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. His life is turned on its head when, after more than a decade, he discovers that his former lover, Marina Volina, is now the interpreter to the Russian President. At the embassy, Clive learns of a Russian plot to cut the undersea cables linking the US to the UK which would paralyse communications and collapse the Western economy. Marina stuns Clive with the news that she’s ready to help stop the attack, betraying her country for a new identity and a new life. Clive becomes the go-between, relaying Marina’s intelligence to MI6 back in London. What are the odds that two lovers, running the Moscow marathon with the FSB on their backs, can save Western Europe from economic meltdown?
*Harriet Crawley* has been…
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Oct 17, 2023
NICK TRIPLOW In Person With Paul
*NICK TRIPLOW* chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller *NEVER WALK AWAY*, *FRANK'S WILD YEARS*, Noir, British Film, Ted Lewis and the mother of all writing hangovers.
*NEVER WALK AWAY* A senior civil servant dies in suspicious circumstances. A sensitive file in his possession and evidence of contact with a human rights lawyer lead the authorities to believe he is a whistle-blower. This needs a police officer used to operating in the murky world between policing and intelligence.
DS Mark (Max) Lomax is a former Special Demonstration Squad officer – a Special Branch unit dedicated to infiltrating political and extremist groups, a world he thinks he has left far behind. Following a botched stakeout of a north London gangster, he finds himself on enforced leave and is called back into his old world of half-truths and conflicting agendas.
As he digs into the death of the civil servant, Max is obstructed at every turn, forcing him to turn to the people he once betrayed for help. With p…
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Oct 13, 2023
LEONORA NATTRASS In Person With Paul
*LEONORA NATTRASS * chats to PAUL BURKE about her historical mystery thriller SCARLET TOWN, Laurence Jago, 18th century history, rotten boroughs and sapient hog.*
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*SCARLET TOWN* 1796. A rigged election. A town at war. A murderer at large...
Disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago and his larger-than-life employer the journalist William Philpott have escaped America - and Philpott's near imprisonment for libel - by the skin of their teeth. They return to Laurence's home town of Helston, Cornwall, in the hope of rest and recuperation, but instead find themselves in the middle of a tumultuous election that has the inhabitants of the town at one another's throats.
Only two men may vote in this rotten borough, and when one of them dies in suspicious circumstances, Laurence is ordered to investigate on behalf of the town's patron, his old master the Duke of Leeds. But it is no easy matter, thanks to the machinations of the rival political factions, not to mention the riotous pe…
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Oct 10, 2023
ANNA MAZZOLA & GARETH RUBIN On THE Sofa With Victoria
Season 5 Episode Looking Back: ANNA MAZZOLA (The House of Whispers) & GARETH RUBIN (The Turnglass) exploring historical crime. The challenges of translating the past, the opportunities presented by an historical canvas and what makes it such a great pairing with crime.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **ALL THE LITTLE LIARS*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
RECOMMENDED: THE NAME OF THE ROSE UMBERTO ECO
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Oct 6, 2023
DOUG JOHNSTONE In Person With Paul
*DOUG JOHNSTONE *chats to Paul about his new novel *THE OPPOSITE OF LONELY*, the Skelfs, Sci-Fi, mathematical modelling and being the writer in residence at a funeral parlour.
*THE OPPOSITE OF LONELY*: Even death needs company…
The Skelf women are recovering from the cataclysmic events that nearly claimed their lives. Their funeral-director and private-investigation businesses are back on track, and their cases are as perplexing as ever.
Matriarch Dorothy looks into a suspicious fire at an illegal campsite and takes a grieving, homeless man under her wing. Daughter Jenny is searching for her missing sister-in-law, who disappeared in tragic circumstances, while grand-daughter Hannah is asked to investigate increasingly dangerous conspiracy theorists, who are targeting a retired female astronaut … putting her own life at risk.
With a body lost at sea, funerals for those with no one to mourn them, reports of strange happenings in outer space, a funeral crasher with a painful secret,…
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Oct 4, 2023
THE REVIEW SHOW September 2023
*PAUL BURKE* takes a look at some of the new crime fiction releases for September 2023 and apologises for any mispronunciations of names/languages.
*Books *(Links to Bookshop.org)
SHEEP'S CLOTHING Celia Dale - Daunt
THE PIT Peter Papathanasiou - MacLehose
NO RESERVE Felix Francis - Zaffre
THE TRAITOR Ava Glass - Penguin
THE BORGIA PORTRAIT David Hewson*
ALL THAT'S LEFT UNSAID Tracey Lien - HQ
THE TORRENT Dinuka McKenzie - Canelo
THE MAN WHO DIDN'T BURN Ian Moore - Duckworth
KILL SHOW Daniel Sweren-Becker - Hodder & Stoughton
EVERYBODY KNOWS Jordan Harper - Faber
BEFORE IT WENT ROTTEN Simon Matthews - Oldcastle Books*
**Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.
Music courtesy of *Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, ft. Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO ft. Kid Anderson. This episode is sponsored by Guy Hale.
*Featured Song: Late Blossom*
GUY HALE
*Direct from publish…
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Sep 29, 2023
ORENDA SPECIAL SEPTEMBER PART 2 JENNY LUND MADSEN PAUL E HARDISTY EVA BJORG ÆGISDÖTTIR In Person With Paul
*ORENDA SPECIAL:* featuring* Jenny Lund Madsen **Thirty Days of Darkness**, Paul E Hardisty **The Forcing**, Eva Björg Ægisdöttir **You Can't See Me** c**hat to Paul Burke about their latest novels.
JENNY LUND MADSEN trans. Megan E Turney* **Thirty Days of Darkness**
PAUL E HARDISTY **The Forcing**
EVA BJÖRG ÆGISDÖTTIR trans. Victoria Cribb **You Can't See Me
**ORENDA**
**Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.
Music courtesy of *Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.
GUY HALE
*Apologies to Megan E Turney for mispronouncing her name on the podcast and for English pronunciation of Danish/Icelandic names.
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*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
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CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Sep 29, 2023
ORENDA SPECIAL SEPT 23 PART 1 EVE SMITH In Person With Paul
*ORENDA SPECIAL:* September part 1 featuring *Eve Smith **One**, chatting to Paul Burke about her latest speculative thriller.
Eve Smith **One** *One law. One child. Seven million crimes…
A cataclysmic climate emergency has spawned a one-child policy in the UK, ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime. Compulsory abortion of 'excess' pregnancies and mandatory contraceptive implants are now the norm, and families must adhere to strict consumption quotas as the world descends into chaos.
Kai is a 25-year-old `baby reaper´, working for the Ministry of Population and Family Planning. If any of her assigned families attempt to exceed their child quota, she ensures they pay the price.
Until, one morning, she discovers that an illegal sibling on her Ministry hit-list is hers. And to protect her parents from severe penalties, she must secretly investigate before anyone else finds out.
Kai's hunt for her forbidden sister unearths much more than a dark family secret. As she stumbles acr…
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Sep 26, 2023
SHARI LAPENA & JACK JORDAN On The Sofa With Victoria
SEASON 5 EPISODE 2 SHARI LAPENA (EVERYONE HERE IS LYING) & JACK JORDAN(CONVICTION) join Victoria to discuss how crime authors keep their readers guessing, the art of smoke and mirrors and playing fair, why we all love a great twist and how to build and maintain suspense.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **ALL THE LITTLE LIARS*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Sep 21, 2023
ANDREW NETTE In Person With Paul
*ANDREW NETTE* chats new heist thriller ORPHAN ROAD, Gunshine State, pulp fiction and bodgies & widgies.
ORPHAN ROAD Gary Chance is an ex-Australian army driver and nightclub bouncer turned professional thief and in need of a job. An offer comes from a former employer, once notorious Melbourne social identity, now aging owner of a failing S&M club, Vera Leigh.
A shadowy real estate developer is trying to squeeze Leigh out of a rapidly gentrifying city. But she has a rescue plan that involves one of Australia’s biggest heists, Melbourne’s Great Bookie Robbery. On April 21, 1976, a well organised gang stole as much as three million dollars, a fortune at the time, from a Melbourne bookmakers club. The money was never recovered. No one was charged. And everyone associated with the crime has since died, either by natural causes or violently.
Leigh maintains that money was not the only thing stolen that day. So was a stash of uncut South African diamonds. And she wants Chance’s help t…
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Sep 15, 2023
DENISE MINA In Person With Craig
*DENISE MINA* chats to Craig Sisterson about her new Marlowe novel *THE SECOND MURDERER**, *revisiting the misogyny, racism, Feminism
*THE SECOND MURDERER**:*
"This is Marlowe."
"Mr. Philip Marlowe?" She asked.
I glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am, as if she had been waiting by the
phone for an appointed hour, following someone else's orders to the letter.
"What, d'you think we're a troupe of brothers? There is only me."
It's mid-September, a heatwave has descended on the parched hills of LA and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy twenty-two-year-old Chrissie Montgomery, set to inherit an enormous fortune, is missing.
She's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father, along with his sultry bottle blonde girlfriend, wants her found before that happens. They've hired Anna Riorden, Marlowe's nemesis, too. The search takes them to the roughest…
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Sep 12, 2023
Katherine Armstrong, Miranda Jewess & David Headley On The Sofa With Victoria
*SEASON 5: EPISODE ONE - PUBLISHING GURUS, *heavyweights Katherine Armstrong (Deputy Publishing Director - Simon & Schuster), Miranda Jewess - (Publishing Director Viper) and David Headley (leading literary agent - Goldsboro Books, DHH Literary Agency) join Victoria shedding light on the role of the advance in a book's success and what makes a publisher snap up a title.
Recommendation:
Publishing Rodeo Podcast
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
Goodnight Mr. Tom - Michelle Magorian
Danny the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **ALL THE LITTLE LIARS*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh
**Crime Time*
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Sep 8, 2023
SARAH MOORHEAD In Person With Paul
*SARAH MOORHEAD *chats to Paul Burke about her new speculative crime thriller * **THE TREATMENT*, Witness X, Liverpool, teaching, good & evil, Debut 20s and the godfather of the northern crime writing scene, young people today and Wizard of Oz meets Frankenstein.
*THE TREATMENT**: *The future of law enforcement has arrived, courtesy of private health contractor Janus Justice. Their ground-breaking ‘Offender Treatment Programme’ has been hailed as the most effective way of tackling crime yet.
As offenders move through the four-tiered system, their needs are dealt with, each tier more drastic in its methods:
Tier One: Low-risk crimes. Physical therapy encouraged
Tier Two: Trauma and addiction. Emotional and psychological reasons for offending are examined
Tier Three: Aversion therapy & moral punishment
Tier Four: Siberia, where all hope is lost
But Grace Gunnarsson, one of Janus’ most highly regarded rehabilitation psychiatrists, has uncovered a terrible flaw in the system, one th…
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Sep 5, 2023
LEIGH RUSSELL In Person With Paul
*LEIGH RUSSELL *chats to Paul about GS20, the latest Geraldine Steel novel WITHOUT TRACE the art of writing a series, the new Poppy novels and dreaming of penning a successful comic novel one day.
*WITHOUT TRACE** *She opened her mouth to scream, but he slapped something across her lips. The gag tasted of salt and mould, rough sacking on her tongue.With a terrifying certainty, she knew she was going to die.
DI Geraldine Steel knows people go missing all the time; sometimes because they don't want to be found. So when her partner Ian asks her to look into the disappearance of his football-buddy's girlfriend, her first instinct is to reassure him there's no need for concern.
Until she's called to a suspected murder, and all her instincts tell her she's right about the identity of the victim.
The young woman has earth and leaf mould and fragments of twigs in her long fair hair, her nose, her mouth, under her finger nails, clinging to her clothes. It's as if she'd been completely encased…
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Aug 30, 2023
VICTORIA SELMAN - ALL THE LITTLE LIARS - In Person With Paul
*VICTORIA SELMAN* chats to Paul Burke about *ALL THE LITTLE LIARS*, Psychological depth in thrillers, what readers want, On The Sofa, victims and survivors and so much more...
*ALL THE LITTLE LIARS*: What REALLY happened at Turtle Lake? You think you know. Think again.
California, 2003
A thirteen-year-old girl disappears from a party at Carlsbad's Turtle Lake. Discovered on the trunk of a nearby cottonwood tree is the word 'LIAR' graffitied in blood.
What you know . . .
Three teenagers went to the lake that night but only two came back. Later, they confess to murdering their friend.
. . . is only part of the story
But did they really kill her? And if not, why say they did?
Told across two timelines and tapping into a horrific crime, All the Little Liars is a novel about sisterly love and toxic friendship that asks: how much would you sacrifice to belong?
*VICTORIA SELMAN*
*SundayTimes bestselling author of **ALL THE LITTLE LIARS*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website fo…
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Aug 28, 2023
SJ PARRIS In Person With Paul
*SJ PARRIS* chats to Paul Burke about *ALCHEMY*, Giordano Bruno, religion, heresy, politics, science and alchemy in the sixteenth century world, Hilary Mantel & Sophia 1599.
*ALCHEMY**: *Prague, 1588.A COURT IN TURMOIL
The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, wants to expand the boundaries of human knowledge, and his court is a haven for scientists, astrologers and alchemists. His abiding passion is the feverish search for the philosopher’s stone and thus immortality. The Catholic Church fears he has pushed too far, into the forbidden realm of heresy – and the greatest powers in Christendom are concerned about the imperial line of succession.
A MURDERED ALCHEMIST
Giordano Bruno is sent to his court by Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I’s spymaster. His task: to contact the famous English alchemist and mystic John Dee, another of Walsingham’s spies. But Bruno’s arrival in Prague coincides with the brutal murder of a rival alchemist – and John Dee himself has disappeared.
AN UNFO…
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Aug 24, 2023
The REVIEW SHOW Aug '23
Paul Burke reviews the latest titles in crime fiction and one wild card pick, authors Amanda Cassidy and Caro Ramsey tell us about thier new novels.
Novels:
A LINE IN THE SAND - Kevin Powers (Sceptre)
THE CONTINENTAL AFFAIR - Christine Mangan (Bedford Sq)
An Unnecessary Assassin - Ed. DG Penny (endpolio.org)
77 NORTH - DL Marshall (Canelo Crime)
THE RETURNED - Amanda Cassidy (Canelo Crime)*
GONE TONIGHT - Sarah Pekkanen (Orion)
THE HURRICANE BLONDE - Halley Sutton (Allison&Busby)
THE DEVIL STONE - Caro Ramsey ( Canongate)
WHITE FIRE - Adam Hamdy (PanMacmillan)
THE CITY OF THE LIVING - Nicola Lagioia (Europa Eds UK)
Left field pick: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS trans. Christopher B Atwood (Penguin classics)
STRAY DOG BLUES - Paul D. Brazill (Next Chapter)
*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.*
*Thank you to CANELO CRIME for sponsoring this episode of the Review Show.
*Produced b…
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Aug 22, 2023
ADRIAN MCKINTY In Person With Craig
Northern Ireland author *ADRIAN MCKINTY* chats to Craig Sisterson about the return of Sean Duffy in his new novel *THE DETECTIVE UP LATE**,* the mystery of sales v awards, pitching to the Beeb, giving it another go.
*THE DETECTIVE UP LATE*: Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn't be higher.
After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to do now is live. But in his final days in charge of Carrickfergus CID, a missing persons report captures his attention. A fifteen-year-old traveler girl has disappeared and no one seems to give a damn about it. Duffy begins to dig and uncovers a disturbing underground of men who seem to know her very well. T…
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Aug 19, 2023
GRAHAM HURLEY In Person With Paul
*GRAHAM HURLEY* chats to Paul about his new war novel *THE BLOOD OF OTHERS**,* the Spoils of War series, Operation Jubilee - the raid on Dieppe, reimagining WWII, Stalin, Mountbatten, writing 'ogres' and coming over from TV documentaries.
*THE BLOOD OF OTHERS*: Dieppe, August 1942. A catastrophe no headline dared admit.
Plans are underway for the boldest raid yet on Nazi-occupied France. Over six thousand men will storm ashore to take the port of Dieppe. Lives will change in an instant – both on the beaches and in distant capitals.
Annie Wrenne, working at Lord Mountbatten's cloak-and-dagger Combined Operations headquarters, is privy to the top secret plans for the daring cross-Channel raid.
Young Canadian journalist George Hogan, protege of influential Lord Beaverbrook, faces a crucial assignment that will test him to breaking point.
And Abwehr intelligence officer Wilhelm Schultz is baiting a trap to lure thousands of Allied troops to their deaths…
Three lives linked by Operatio…
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Aug 16, 2023
DAVID THOMSON In Person With Paul
*David Thomson* chats to Paul Burke about the completion of his fictional trilogy - *SUSPECTS* (film noir), *SILVER* *LIGHT* (Westerns) & *CONNECTICUT* (screwball comedy). We also chat the American dream, actors, how fiction sheds light on life and vice versa.
SUSPECTS: Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime - short biographies of some of the most famous characters in the history of film noir. Thomson sketches in whole lives, lives as intense as the dreams put up on the screen. Then these characters start to meet each other outside the films as if they were real people with real needs and passions. The book is becoming a novel. The names and faces are familiar to us. All these disparate characters come together to form a kind of society.
SILVER LIGHT: From 1865 to 1950, the American West, its rich, colourful characters, and its many faces - historical, mythic, and cinematic - are captured in the story of a reclusive, elderly photographer and her friend, a writer of Weste…
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Aug 11, 2023
NICOLA MONAGHAN In Person With Paul
*NICOLA MONAGHAN* chats to Paul Burke about her new thriller, *WISH YOU WERE HERE*, Dr. Sian Love, Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe, DNA.
*WISH YOU WERE HERE**:* DNA doesn't lie. But what if the truth is dangerous?
Former police officer and DNA expert Dr Sian Love has settled into running her own detective agency and cohabiting with her partner, Kris. Her life is thrown into chaos once again when a teenage girl shows up at her office, claiming to be Courtney Johnson - a child who went missing in Nottingham over fifteen years ago - but refusing to allow Sian to test her DNA.
Wary but intrigued, Sian reluctantly revives the undercover skills she learned in her days in the police force and begins investigating. But revisiting the past has consequences...
*NICOLA MONAGHAN* Nicola Monaghan is the author of the Sian Love mystery series including the critically acclaimed Dead Flowers and, now, Wish You Were Here. Her debut novel The Killing Jar won a Betty Trask Award, the Authors' Club First Nove…
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Jul 30, 2023
SAM LLOYD In Person With Paul
*SAM LLOYD* chats to PAUL BURKE about his new thriller *THE PEOPLE WATCHER*, hinterlands, The Hobbit, surviving rejection, fulfilling a dream, character and boiling a frog.
*THE PEOPLE WATCHER*: Meet Mercy Lake. She likes to fix things: broken toys, old appliances. People.
She watches them in the dead of night, identifies what their lives are lacking and gives it to them . . . quietly. So quietly, they don't even know she exists.
Then Mercy meets Louis. He believes that some of those she watches deserve punishment, not help. But when people start getting hurt, Mercy must decide if the ends can ever justify their increasingly violent means.
And soon, their activities draw the attention of the very person Mercy is desperate to avoid. Someone who will go to extreme lengths to make her pay for knowing their secret . . .
The People Watcher is a shiver-inducing, heart-pounding suspense thriller that will keep you up into the early hours - perfect for fans of Stephen King, Alex Michaelides…
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Jul 27, 2023
THE REVIEW SHOW July 2023
Paul Burke presents the latest review show featuring crime fiction titles released this month - mostly anyway. The selection is heavy on the noir and psychological thrillers with a couple of in translation novels and a de rigour pulp.
*Apologies for any mangling of French and Swiss German names.
Novels Reviewed
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell Century
The Honeymoon Kate Gray Welbeck
The Summer Girl Jenny Blackhurst Canelo Crime**
The Conspirators GW Shaw Quercus
The Bone Hacker Kathy Reichs Simon & Schuster
The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction Robert Goddard
Girls Friends Alex Dahl Head of Zeus***
The Stranger in the Seine Guillaume Musso trans. Rosie Eyre Weidenfeld and Nicolson*
The Ice Cream Man Big Boy Pete Stark House Press
The Murder of Anton Livius Hansjörg Schneider trans Astrid Freuler Bitter Lemon*
Dead Man Driving Lesley Kelly Sandstone Press****
*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagge…
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Jul 25, 2023
CANELO CRIME SPECIAL : MARION TODD & LOUISA SCARR On The Sofa With Victoria
*CANELO CRIME SPECIAL:*
Authors *LOUISA SCARR* *Out of the Ashes* & *MARION TODD* *A Blind Eye* join VICTORIA for a mid season special to discuss why readers love police procedurals, breaking free of tropes, and what makes a good detective.
CANELO CRIME
Mentions for:
Kate Atkinson, Joseph Knox, Russ Thomas, Jane Casey
*VICTORIA SELMAN
*SundayTimes bestselling author of* **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh
**Crime Time*
*Thank you to Canelo Crime sponsors of this episode of #OnTheSofa
*
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Jul 21, 2023
VERN SMITH In Person With Paul
*VERN SMITH *chats to Paul Burke about his crime novel SCRATCHING THE FLINT, editing the anthology JACKED, Toronto, corruption and policing.
SCRATCHING THE FLINT Set in pre-9/11 Toronto, detective noir Scratching the Flint takes place over twelve days during the spring of 2001. Smith's two-tone anti-fraud team of Alex Johnson and Cecil Bolan are back in their first full-length novel to investigate a vintage car theft ring à la MacGyver. When witnesses end up mocked and murdered, proof becomes a relative term to Cecil. Racked with guilt while the system sputters, he covertly assumes the role of not just investigating officer but also that of crown attorney, judge, and executioner, driving the case to a conclusion as brutal as the future.
*VERN SMITH* is the editor of Jacked, a new crime fiction anthology. He is author of the novels Under the Table and The Green Ghetto. His novelette, The Gimmick-a finalist for Canada's highest crime-writing honor, the Arthur Ellis Award-is the title…
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Jul 19, 2023
DV BISHOP In Person With Paul
Newly minted CWA Historical Dagger winner *DAVID DV BISHOP* chats to Paul Burke about his new historical thriller *RITUAL OF FIRE*, Renaissance Florence, Cesare Aldo, Savonarola, Aldo no 4 and smells.
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**RITUAL OF FIRE* Florence. Summer, 1538.
A night patrol finds a wealthy merchant hanged and set ablaze in the city’s main square. More than mere murder, this killing is intended to put the fear of God into Florence. Forty years earlier, puritanical monk Girolamo Savonarola was executed the same way. Does this new killing mean his fanatical disciples are reviving the monk’s regime of holy terror?
Cesare Aldo is busy hunting thieves in the Tuscan countryside, leaving Constable Carlo Strocchi to investigate the killing. When another merchant is burned alive in public, the rich start fleeing to their country estates. But the Tuscan hills can also be dangerous.
Growing religious fervour and a scorching heatwave drives the city ever closer to madness. Meanwhile, someone is stalking those…
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Jul 12, 2023
WALTER MOSLEY In Person With Paul (CWA DAGGERS Special)
*WALTER MOSLEY* - CWA DIAMOND DAGGER WINNER - chats to Paul Burke about *EVERY MAN A KING*, his writing, his characters, personal inspiration, American politics, good thoughts for writers and hope & belief.
The most prestigious Dagger of all, the *Diamond Dagger* is for a lifetime contribution to crime writing in the English language and is nominated by CWA members.
*WALTER MOSLEY* was born in LA in 1952. His African-American father Leroy from Louisiana joined the great migration north. His mother Ella, of Russian Jewish descent, was politically engaged which resonates in Mosley's work.
Mosley took up writing at 34 with Gone Fishin' but it was Devil in a Blue Dress that was first published to acclaim in 1990, winning the John Creasey New Blood Dagger in 1991. Set in LA in 1948, Easy Rawlins is facing a murder charge when he takes a job searching for a white woman. Then stone-cold killer Mouse arrives from Houston, he's more terrifying than any of the chiselled giants in Mosley's nove…
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Jul 6, 2023
AWARDS NIGHT, WINNERS & THE JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER
*EPISODE 3: CWA DAGGERS:
AWARD NIGHT, DAGGERS WINNERS & ILP JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER SHORTLIST INTERVIEWS
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*30MINS Coverage of GALA Night, inc. all winners, starts at 53mins if you've already listened to the show.
*This Dagger is for the best crime novel by a* first-time author* of any nationality with their first novel of any kind published in the UK in English during the judging period.
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*Paul Burke and Victoria Selman chat to the shortlisted authors for the John Creasey New Blood Dagger and the winners of all the Daggers are revealed following the announcements in London on 6th July, 2023.
John Creasey New Blood Dagger shortlist
Amanda Cassidy Breaking Canelo
Joey Hartstone The Local Pushkin Vertigo
Jack Lutz London in Black Pushkin Vertigo
Hayely Scrivenor Dirt Town Pan Macmillan
Patricia Wolf Outback Bonnier
Emma Styles No Country for Girls Sphere
**ALL WINNERS ANNOUNCED ON THIS EPISODE**
*Links:
**The CWA**
**The Daggers**
#CWADAGGERS
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*Paul Burke writes for Crime Ti…
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Jul 4, 2023
THE CWA GOLD DAGGER ON CRIME TIME FM
*CWA DAGGERS EPISODE 2: THE GOLD DAGGER*
*Paul Burke chats to the shortlisted authors for the CWA Gold Dagger -
Best Crime Novel Of The Year 2022
*This award is for the best crime novel by an author of any nationality, originally written in English and first published in the UK during the judging period. The broadest definition of the crime novel applies. Eligible books include thrillers, mysteries, police procedurals, psychological suspense novels and spy fiction.*
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*The Shortlist
Vaseem Khan The Bombay Hodder&Stoughton
Anna Mazzola The Clockwork Girl Orion
Simon Mason The Broken Afernoon Quercus
Simon Van der Velde The Silent Brother Northodox
George Dawes Green The Kingdoms of Savannah Headline
W Ryan The Winter Guest Bonnier *
*The winner of the Gold Dagger will be announced on 6th July *
and covered in the next episode of this series, now avaiable.
*Links:
**The CWA**
**The Daggers**
#CWADAGGERS
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*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literat…
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Jul 3, 2023
CWA STEEL DAGGER SPECIAL ON CRIME TIME FM
*Episode 1 of the CWA DAGGERS Specials on Crime Time FM -
The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.
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Victoria Selman chats to Eva Glass, Linwood Barclay & John Brownlow about being shortlisted for the Steel Dagger & writing a thrilling thriller.
The other shortlisted authors are MW Craven, Robert Galbraith & Alan Parks.
Ian Fleming said there was one essential criterion for a good thriller, ‘one simply has to turn the pages’.
Eligible books in this category are thrillers set in any period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction, psychological thrillers and action/adventure stories.
*The 2022 shortlist:
Linwood Barclay Take Your Breath Away Harper Collins
John Brownlow Agent Seventeen Hodder&Stoughton
MW Craven The Botanist Little Brown
Robert Galbraith Ink Black Heart Sphere
Eva Glass The Chase Penguin
Alan Parks May God Forgive Canongate *
VICTORIA SELMAN is the Sunday Times bestselling author of *Truly Darkly** Deeply
Links:
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**The Daggers**
The Daggers Award Winne…
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Jun 30, 2023
MW 'MIKE' CRAVEN In Person With Paul
*MW Mike CRAVEN* chats to Paul Burke about his new high octane thriller *FEARLESS*, Lee Child, Tilly & Poe, Fluke, TV rights, Michael Connelly and the amygdala.
*FEARLESS: *Ben Koenig is a ghost. He doesn't exist any more.
Six years ago it was Koenig who headed up the US Marshal's elite Special Ops group. They were the elite unit who hunted the bad guys - the really bad guys. They did this so no one else had to.
Until the day Koenig disappeared. He told no one why and he left no forwarding address. For six years he became a grey man. Invisible. He drifted from town to town, state to state. He was untraceable. It was as if he had never been.
But now Koenig's face is on every television screen in the country. Someone from his past is trying to find him and they don't care how they do it. In the burning heat of the Chihuahuan Desert lies a town called Gauntlet, and there are people in there who have a secret they'll do anything to protect. They've killed before and they will kill again.…
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Jun 29, 2023
REVIEW SHOW JUNE '23
Paul Burke presents another bumper review show featuring crime fiction titles and a couple of wild card picks released this month (mostly anyway). The selection is heavy on the noir, psychological thrillers and in translation novels.
*Apologies for any mangling of German, Italian. French, Japanese or Russian names.
*The Red House* Roz Watkins
*End of the Game* Holly Watt
*Dead Lands* Núria Bendicho trans. by Maruxa Relaño & Martha Tennent
*Black Fell* Mari Hannah
*First Blood* Amélie Northomb trans. by Alison Anderson
*The Widow Couderc* George Simenon trans. Sian Reynolds
*Silent Waters* LV Matthews
*Evil Intentions Come* Timothy J Lockhart
*No Ordinary Day* Matt Johnson & John Murray
*Tokyo Time* Dawn Farnham
*The Invisible Web* Oliver Bottini trans. Jamie Bulloch
*Tell Me What I Am* Una Mannion
*The Devil's Flute Murders* Seishi Yokomizo trans. Jim Rion
*The House on Via Gemito* by Domenico Starnone trans. Oonagh Stransky
*Voices of the Dead* Ambrose Parry
*Black River* Nilanjan…
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Jun 22, 2023
SHEILA BUGLER - CANELO CRIME Special - In Person With Paul
*SHEILA BUGLER* chats to Paul Burke about *BLACK VALLEY FARM*, why writing is torture but she loves it, getting it down on the page and avoiding writers block, being mentored by Martin Waites and writing about Ireland, (the next novel).
*BLACK VALLEY FARM*
The truth could ruin everything. A decade ago, the bodies of nine people were discovered at Black Valley Farm. The only suspect vanished without a trace. Clare has spent ten years living a lie, but a new podcast on the murders threatens to bring her carefully built life crashing down. Because someone else has listened to the podcast.Someone who knows Clare is lying, and who will stop at nothing to ensure the truth never comes to light.
*SHEILA BUGLER *grew up in a small town in the west of Ireland. After studying Psychology at University College Galway (now called NUI Galway) she left Ireland and worked as an EFL teacher, travelling to Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland and Argentina. She is the author of a series of crime novels featu…
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Jun 21, 2023
CLÉMENCE MICHALLON In Person With Paul
*CLÉMENCE MICHALLON* chats to Paul Burke about her psychological thriller *THE QUIET TENANT*, true crime, serial killers, victims and survivors and Seinfeld.
*THE QUIET TENANT** *He took you and you have been his for five years. But you have been careful. Waiting for him to mess up. It has to be now.
Aidan Thomas is a hardworking family man and a respected member of his community. He's the kind of man who always lends a hand and has a good word for everyone. He's also a kidnapper and serial killer who has murdered eight women. And there's a ninth, a woman he calls Rachel, imprisoned in a backyard shed where she fears for her life.
When Aidan's wife dies, he and his thirteen-year-old daughter, Cecilia, are forced to move. Aidan has no choice but to bring Rachel too, introducing her to Cecilia as a family friend who needs a place to stay. He knows that after five years of captivity, Rachel is too frightened of the consequences to attempt to escape. But Rachel is a fighter and a survivo…
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Jun 16, 2023
DREDA SAY MITCHELL & RYAN CARTER In Person With Paul
*DREDA SAY MITCHELL MBE & RYAN CARTER (Tony Mason) *chat to Paul Burke about their new psychological thriller BELIEVE ME, new ways of publishing, the Groucho Club, writing partners
*BELIEVE ME*: One woman’s mysterious death has led to a lifetime of pain. Can her daughter find out why?
While working on a property dispute, lawyer Gabby is shocked to discover a name more familiar than her own on the title deeds: her mother’s. But her mother died twenty-five years ago from an undiagnosed illness at forty, leaving Gabby with more questions about the mysterious Ocean Haven than she can find answers for.
Desperate to uncover the truth of her mother’s connection to this house, Gabby begins to investigate, creating tension in her fractured and distant family. So when she begins to uncover the dark and disturbing history of Ocean Haven, is there anyone at all she can turn to?
With her own fortieth birthday fast approaching, Gabby senses the onset of the same unexplained pains her mother e…
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Jun 13, 2023
BELINDA BAUER & CLARE MACKINTOSH On The Sofa With Victoria
#OnTheSofa With Victoria. Season 4, Episode 10: So you're published. Now what? Belinda Bauer (Exit, Snap) & Clare Mackintosh (Game of Lies , July 2023) reveal the realities of being a writer and how it compares to the dream. The pressure of coming up with shiny new ideas- to a schedule. And even how writing affects our reading.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
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Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
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Jun 11, 2023
JOHN SUTHERLAND In Person With Paul
*JOHN SUTHERLAND* chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller *THE FALLEN*, 25 years a policeman, hostage and crisis negotiation, fact and fiction
*THE FALLEN** *
ARE YOU READY TO SAVE A LIFE?
WHY HER?
Becca Palmer has just lost her job as assistant to Simon Jones MP - the highly-regarded Policing Minister, tipped as a future Prime Minister. But Becca claims that Simon was more than her boss, that she is in love with him.
WHY HERE?
When a heartbroken Becca leaves the Home Office, she heads to Westminster Bridge, intending to take her own life. Which is where hostage negotiator Alex Lewis meets her for the first time. It is his job to try to talk her back from the edge.
WHY NOW?
In the negotiation that follows, Becca suggests that she may know something about the Policing Minister that she shouldn't. Something that could prompt a serious fall from grace were it to come out.
But can Alex save Becca - and get to the bottom of an alleged conspiracy that goes deep inside the highest levels…
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Jun 7, 2023
ÅSA LARSSON & trans. Frank Perry In Person With Paul
*ÅSA LARSSON* and translator Frank Perry chat to Paul Burke about *THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS*, translation, moving a whole town - Kiruna, good soil for a writer to dig in
*THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS* forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live when he asks Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that has long since passed the statute of limitations. A body found in a freezer at the home of the deceased alcoholic, Henry Pekkari, has been identified as a man who disappeared without a trace in 1962: the father of Swedish Olympic boxing champion Börje Ström. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case - she has enough to worry about. But how can she ignore a dying man's wish?
When the post-mortem confirms that Pekkari, too, was murdered, Rebecka has a red-hot investigation on her hands. But what does it have to do with the body kept in his freezer for decades?
Meanwhile, the city of Kiruna is being torn down and moved a few kilometres east, to make way for…
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Jun 2, 2023
TIM SULLIVAN In Person With Paul
*TIM SULLIVAN* chats to Paul Burke about his novel *THE MONK*, DS George Cross, autism, the monastic life and killing your darlings.
*THE MONK* To find a murderer, you need a motive . . .
THE DETECTIVE - DS George Cross has always wondered why his mother left him when he was a child. Now she is back in his life, he suddenly has answers. But this unexpected reunion is not anything he's used to dealing with. When a disturbing case lands on his desk, he is almost thankful for the return to normality.
THE QUESTION - The body of a monk is found savagely beaten to death in a woodland near Bristol. Nothing is known about Brother Dominic's past, which makes investigating difficult. How can Cross unpick a crime when they don't know anything about the victim? And why would someone want to harm a monk?
THE PAST - Discovering who Brother Dominic once was only makes the picture more puzzling. He was a much-loved and respected friend, brother, son – he had no enemies. Or, at least, none that are…
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May 30, 2023
PHOEBE MORGAN, JONATHAN WHITELAW & PAUL BURKE On The Sofa With Victoria
*SEASON 4 EPISODE 10:* Industry Insiders
Crime critics Jonathan Whitelaw and Paul Burke and publisher Phoebe Morgan join Victoria 'On The Sofa' to reveal what makes a novel stand out from the pile. Writing community, take note!
Recommendations
So Shall You Reap Donna Leon
None of This is True Lisa Jewell (July)
Games and Rituals Katherine Heiny
Murder in the Family Cara Hunter (July)
Notes on an Execution Danka Kukafka
The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle
Force of Hate Graham Bartlett
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
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CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
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May 29, 2023
TOM BENN In Person With Paul
*TOM BENN* chats to Paul Burke about his quasi-crime novel *OXBLOOD*, teaching creative writing, book prizes, being/not being a film maker and avoiding the nostalgic postcard.
*Oxblood*: Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once ruled Manchester's underworld; now the men are dead, leaving three generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence, harbouring an unregistered baby and the ghost of a murdered lover.
Over the course of a few days, Nedra, Carol and Jan must each confront the true legacy of the men who have defined their lives; and seize the opportunity to break the cycle for good.
*TOM BENN's* first novel The Doll Princess was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Portico Prize, and longlisted for the CWA's John Creasey Dagger. Benn's creative nonfiction has appeared in the Paris Review and he won the BFI's iWrite scheme for emerging screenwriters. His first film Real Gods Require Blood premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival…
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May 25, 2023
REVIEW SHOW April-May 23
Paul Burke reviews a selection of the April and May crime fiction releases. Click the attached links to order any of these crime novels from Bookshop.org
James Swallow Dark Horizon
James Wolff The Man in the Corduroy Suit
David Beckler A Nuclear Reaction
Daniel Weizmann The Last Songbird
Guy Hale All the World's a Stage
Tim Glister A Game of Deceit
Kate Rhodes A Brutal Tide
Heather Critchlow Unsolved
David Hewson The Medici Murders
Kjell Ola Dahl The Lazarus Solution trans, Don Bartlett
Marco Malvaldi Foul Deeds and Fine Dining trans. Howard Curtis
Margot Douaihy Scorched Grace
Martin Cruz Smith Independence Square
Mark Dawson The house in the Woods
A Place to Bury Strangers
Stella Remington The Devil's Bargain
Jo Nesbo Killing Moon trans. Sean Kinsella
Alex Khan Until Death
Antonia Lassa Skin Deep trans. Jacky Collins
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May 16, 2023
HEATHER CRITCHLOW & TIM WEAVER On The Sofa With Victoria
If you wanted to disappear, how would you do it? *Tim Weaver* (David Raker series) and *Heather Critchlow* (Unsolved) join Victoria On The Sofa to discuss missing persons in Crime Fiction and going off the grid...then Heather Disappears
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
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**Crime Time*
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CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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May 13, 2023
CTFM @CRIMEFEST Bristol Episode 2
*Crime Time FM the official podcast of CrimeFest 2023: Episode 2 - A Genre As Wide As A Sea. *
Victoria Selman and Paul Burke chat to *CrimeFest David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Jo Furnish & Kate Simants, Cathy Ace, Jen Faulkner & Heather Fitt *and *David Penny* about their novels, the festival and panels.
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May 11, 2023
CTFM @CRIMEFEST 2023 in Bristol
*Crime Time FM the official podcast of CrimeFest 2023: Episode 1 - Join The Party *
Victoria Selman and Paul Burke chat to *CrimeFest* featured guest authors *Elly Griffiths* and *Mark Billingham* and participating authors *Kate Rhodes*, *Tim TE Kinsey* and *Caroline England* (aka CE Rose) about their novels, the festival and panels.
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CrimeFest 2023
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May 9, 2023
KELLYE GARRETT In Person With Craig
*Kellye Garrett* chats to Craig Sisterson about her novel *Like a Sister*, Crime Writers of Color, winning a Lefty Award, screenwriting and writing humour.
*LIKE A SISTER*: She found out her sister was back in New York from Instagram.
She found out about her death from the New York Daily News.
But she’s the only one convinced it wasn’t an accident . . .
Desiree Pierce, a Black reality TV star, is found dead on a playground in the Bronx. Her death is quickly declared an overdose by the police and the media – tragic, but not a crime.
Lena Scott, Desiree’s sister, knows that can’t be true. Torn apart by Desiree’s partying and by their father, a wealthy and influential hip-hop mogul, the sisters haven’t spoken in years. But some things about Desiree couldn’t have changed, even with time.
Nobody is listening to her, but Lena is determined not to let anyone brush off her sister’s death. She will find justice, even if it means uncovering the family’s darkest secrets – o…
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May 7, 2023
NEIL HUMPHREYS In Person With Paul
*NEIL HUMPHREYS *chats to Paul Burke about his new novel *LOST WOMEN*, living in Singapore, working class roots, serendipity, Inspector Stanley Low and fridging.
LOST WOMEN ‘This impressive police procedural presents an unflattering but authentic picture of the multiracial megacity‘ Times Crime Club.
Humphrey's latest thriller is prescient, dark and challenges some of the world's worst fears.
Alan Edwards had expected to see more blood. His initial reaction had surprised him. He’d never seen a murder victim before, let alone one with its throat sliced open. And yet, Edwards remained unexpectedly calm. He shone his torch through the windscreen. The flies were already hovering outside the lorry. The maggots would soon follow.
NEIL HUMPHREYS grew up in Dagenham and went to University in Manchester. He now lives in Singapore, where he writes for various publications and broadcasts on TV and radio. He has published many award-winning children’s books, travelogues and several novel…
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May 5, 2023
ASHLEY KALAGIAN BLUNT In Person With Paul
*ASHLEY KALAGIAN BLUNT* chats to Paul Burke about her latest novel *DARK MODE*, the Armenian Genocide, screaming plants, the dark web, stalking and living in Australia.
*DARK MODE* A riveting psychological thriller drawn from true events, Dark Mode delves into the terrifying reality of the dark web, and the price we pay for surrendering our privacy one click at a time.
Is it paranoia – or is someone watching? For years, Reagan Carsen has kept her life offline. No socials. No internet presence. No photos. Safe. Until the day she stumbles on a shocking murder in a Sydney laneway. The victim looks just like her.
Coincidence? As more murders shake the city and she’s increasingly drawn out from hiding, Reagan is forced to confront her greatest fear.
She’s been found.
*Ashley Kalagian Blunt* is the author of How to Be Australian and My Name Is Revenge, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards and was a finalist in the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Awar…
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May 2, 2023
OnTheSofaRoadshow Finale - Brighton
*POLICE THRILLERS: PETER JAMES, WILLIAM SHAW, GRAHAM BARTLETT & SIMON TOYNE chat to Victoria Selman. *Why we don't say police procedurals, the Master Forger's story, could a bot write a crime novel...
Live from the Friends Meeting House, the Lanes, Brighton.
*Victoria will be at Waterstones Brighton at 7pm on 18th May for a discussion on serial killers and their portrayal in popular culture with author and ex Chief Superintendent, Graham Bartlett & leading criminologist, Peter Squires.*
Tickets are £5 and available here: https://www.waterstones.com/events/murder-monsters-and-mayhem-victoria-selman-and-graham-bartlett/brighton
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Apr 30, 2023
CRIME TIME FM at GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL - EPISODE 3
*Crime Time FM at Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival Episode 3:* Welsh Crime Fiction - language, location, character. Paul Burke chats to two festival authors and a committee member:
*Sarah Ward - The Birthday Girl*
Welcome to Eldey, an island with deadly secrets.
Mona: a carefree artist, staying at the Cloister to work on her illustrations.
Beth: the harried mother of a toddler, on the remote Welsh island for a weekend with her family.
Charlotte: a reluctant stepmother who wanted a romantic getaway with her husband.
One of them is a serial killer who poisoned four of her friends at her eleventh birthday party.
They all fit the profile. Who will risk everything to kill again?
*Wini Davies* Emeritus Professor of German (University of Aberystwyth), Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival committee member.
*Fflur Dafydd - The Library Suicides*
Twins Ana and Nan are lost after the death of their mother. Everyone knows who drove Elena, the renowned novelist, to suicide - her long-term literary critic, Eben. Bu…
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Apr 24, 2023
CRIME TIME FM at GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL - EPISODE 2
CRIME TIME FM is the official podcast of GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL.
In this second episode welcome at some of the panels and interview some of the writers taking par in them.
Featuring
The Effects of Crime Panel - Rosie Claverton, Trevor Wood, Matt Johnson & Jen Phipps.
Interview - Matt Johnson and literary agent Broo Docherty
Barry Forshaw chatting to Mari Hannah
Leslie Scase reading from his novel Sabrina's Teardrop
Historical Crime Fiction Panel - Barry Forshaw, Douglas Skelton and Chris Lloyd
Interviews - Douglas Skelton
James Oswald
Cosy Crime Panel - Jacky Collins, RW Green and Cathy Ace
GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL
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*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .
Please note that as programme was recorded live at the festival there are background noises we hope this adds to the atmosphere and doesn't detract from…
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Apr 21, 2023
CRIME TIME FM at GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL E1
CRIME TIME FM is the official podcast of GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL.
In this first episode I introduce the festival and chat to authors, committee members and organisers about upcoming events and we get a peek at the National Library of Wales tour.
Featuring
Chloe Tilson
Alis Hawkins
Mark Ellis
Jacky Collins
Bev Jones
Gail Williams
Chris Lloyd
Nia Dafydd
and
Fflur dafydd
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*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .*
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CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Apr 19, 2023
JAKE LAMAR In Person With Paul
*JAKE LAMAR *chats to Paul Burke about his jazz noir novel *VIPER'S DREAM*, Paris, Chester Himes, radio plays, Harlem and jazz.
*VIPER'S DREAM* for fans of Colson Whitehead and Chester Himes, Viper's Dream is a gritty, daring look at the vibrant jazz scene of mid-century Harlem, and one man's dreams of making it big and finding love in a world that wants to keep him down.
1936. Clyde 'The Viper' Morton boards a train from Alabama to Harlem to chase his dreams of being a jazz musician. When his talent fails him, he becomes caught up in the dangerous underbelly of Harlem's drug trade. In this heartbreaking novel, one man must decide what he is willing to give up and what he wants to fight for.
'Viper's Dream is one Long High, sweeping us through Harlem from the 1930s to the 1960s on riffs of melancholy poetry cut through with the hardboiled beats of gangsters and their streets, leaving us hooked on a pure, true Jazz Noir Classic' - *David Peace
JAKE LAMAR* was born in 1961 and grew up…
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Apr 14, 2023
CALLUM McSORLEY In Person With Paul
*CALLUM McSORLEY* chats to Paul Burke about his new Glasgow set crime novel *SQUEAKY CLEAN**, *Glasgow, humour in crime, what it's like when your mum see your novel in a bookshop.
*SQUEAKY CLEAN*: Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up.
No one thinks very much at all about carwash employee Davey Burnet, until one day he takes the wrong customer's motor for a ride. One kidnapping later, he and the carwash are officially part of Glasgow's criminal underworld, working for a psychopath who enjoys playing games like 'Keep Yer Kneecaps' with any poor bastard who crosses him.
Can Davey escape from the gang's clutches with his kneecaps and life intact? Perhaps this polis Ally McCoist who keeps nosing around the carwash could help. That's if she doesn't get herself killed first.
CALLUM McSORLEY is a writer based in Glasgow whose short stories have appeared in Gutter Magazine, Monstrous Regiment and New Writing Scotland. Squeaky Clean…
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Apr 11, 2023
DAVID BALDACCI & GREGG HURWITZ On The Sofa With Victoria
Season 4 Episode 7: DAVID BALDACCI (Simple Lives) & GREGG HURWITZ (Orphan X) writing big, discuss keeping a thriller thrilling, James Bond & sneaking onto demolition ranges & the save the cat moment.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
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Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh
Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Apr 8, 2023
MARCH 23 REVIEW SHOW
THE REVIEW SHOW ON CTFM presented by Paul Burke. The latest crime titles for March and early April 2023.
Click any link to buy a book from Bookshop.org
Christopher Fowler tribute & Bryant and May's Peculiar London
Kate Simants Freeze
LC North The Ugly Truth
Aoife Clifford When We Fall
Abigail Burdess Mother's Day
Owen Matthews White Fox
Donna Leon So Shall You Reap
Yukito Ayatsuji The Mill House Murders
Nicola Williams Until Proven Innocent
Isabelle Schuler Lady MacBethad
Louise Swanson End of Story
Robert Gold Eleven Liars
Megan Miranda The Only Suvivors
Nick Curran I Know Who You Were
Amulya Malladi A Death in Denmark
Blessin Adams Great and Horrible News
Josep M Argemi trans. Tiago Miller The Angel of Santa Sofia
Emilienne Malfatto May the Tigris Grieve for You
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*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .*
*Prod…
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Apr 4, 2023
ELI CRANOR In Person With Craig Sisterson
*ELI CRANOR* chats to Craig Sisterson about his new novel *OZARK DOGS*, Romeo & Juliet meets the McCoys and the Hatfield's, Kudzu and the real South, narrating your own book.
*OZARK DOGS*: After his son is convicted of murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Ozark junkyard outfitted to be an armory.
He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a long-overdue blood debt.
Headed by rancorous patriarch Bunn and smooth-talking, erudite Evail, the Ledfords have never forgotten what the Fitzjurls family did to them, and they will not be satisfied until they have taken an eye for an eye. As they seek revenge, and as Jeremiah desperately searches for his granddaughter, their narratives collide in this immer…
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Apr 3, 2023
PENGUIN CRIME CLASSICS 75 - SIMON WINDER, BARRY FORSHAW & PAUL BURKE
Simon Winder, Penguin Press publishing director, Barry Forshaw, Financial Times crime fiction and Paul Burke discuss Penguin Modern Classics Crime & Espionage -
Reviving the iconic green Penguin Crime paperbacks, first published 75 years ago, this new series celebrates the endless variety and unique appeal of one of fiction's great genres.
Call for the Dead John le Carré
SS-GB Len Deighton
Maigret and the Headless Corpse George Simenon
In a Lonely Place Dorothy B Hughes
Cotton Comes to Harlem Chester Himes
The Franchise Affair Josephine Tey
Beast in the Shadows Edogawa Rampo
Journey into Fear Eric Ambler
The Drowing Pool Ross Macdonald
The Night of the Hunter Davis Grubb
*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.
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Mar 31, 2023
SARAH SULTOON, RONNIE TURNER & VANDA SYMON In Person With Paul
*SARAH SULTOON - DIRT , RONNIE TURNER - SO PRETTY & VANDA SYMON - EXPECTANT *chat to Paul Burke about their latest novels. * *
EXPECTANT
A pregnant Sam Shephard investigates the murder of an expectant mother in Dunedin, as it becomes clear that the killer is ready to strike again … Queen of New Zealand Crime, Vanda Symon, returns with a shocking, twisty new Sam Shephard thriller…
*Vanda Symon* is a crime writer, health researcher and radio host from Dunedin, New Zealand, and the chair of the Otago Southland branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors. The Sam Shephard series, which includes Overkill, The Ringmaster, Containment and Bound, hit number one on the New Zealand bestseller list, and has also been shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award. Overkill was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger. All four books have been ebook bestsellers. Vanda currently lives in Dunedin, with her husband and and a very demanding cat.
SO PRETTY
A young man arrives in a small tow…
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Mar 28, 2023
JANICE HALLETT On The Sofa With Victoria - live recording Waterstones, Trafalgar Square
Descriptor: Season 4 Episode 6: Live podcast recording as part of the On The Sofa Roadshow. The rise of the epistolary novel and its challenges. Why we’re all armchair detectives. And what goes into making a page turner
*Final Roadshow Event*: Tickets here↓
Join Peter James, Graham Bartlett, Simon Toyne & William Shaw #OnTheSofa With Victoria Selman at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton 13th April. *To get tickets click → **Eventbrite**.
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*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
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Mar 23, 2023
ALIS HAWKINS In Person With Paul
*ALIS HAWKINS* chats to Paul Burke about her new literary historical mystery *A BITTER REMEDY** *(Canelo Crime), Welsh history, the Teifi Valley Coroner, Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival and a strange male affliction or is it...
*A BITTER REMEDY*: Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow…
Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man’s guardian blames the college for his death and threatens a scandal, Basil Rice, a Jesus College fellow with a secret to hide, is forced to act and finds himself drawn into Sidney Parker’s sad life.
The mystery soon attracts the attention of Rhiannon ‘Non’ Vaughan, a young Welsh polymath and one of the young women newly admitted to university lectures. But when neither the college principal nor the powerful ladies behind Oxford’s new female halls will allow her to become involv…
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Mar 21, 2023
JOHN LINCOLN In Person With Paul
*JOHN LINCOLN (WILLIAMS)* chats to Paul Burke about his new novel GREY IN THE DARK, a journey in American crime fiction, CLR James and South Wales.
GREY IN THE DARK: Too many people loved Kelly Rowland. One of them killed her, but was it the man in prison for her murder? Gethin Grey and the Last Resort Legals team investigate another miscarriage of justice, taking them from post-industrial dereliction of the South Wales Valleys to the gated communities of the Cardiff docklands.
Gethin Grey is back in the game. His wife may have left him and he's struggling with life as a single father, but now he's got his biggest case in years. The brutal murder of a young woman called Kelly Rowland has been the talk of the South Wales valleys. Even the conviction of a neighbour, a builder called Morgan Hopkins, failed to stop the gossip. There were too many other suspects still around, among them a pair of coppers: brother and sister.
So Gethin was delighted when Morgan's family stumped up the money…
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Mar 17, 2023
Kate Hamer, Peter Swanson, Tove Alsterdal & Charlotte Vassell - FABER SPECIAL - chat In Person With Paul
*KATE HAMER, PETER SWANSON, TOVE ALSTERDAL & CHARLOTTE VASSELL* chat to Paul Burke in a special episode featuring four FABER authors who have just published a new thriller/crime novel.
*KATE HAMER **The Lost Girls **
'Reads like a shiver down the spine.' ANNA BAILEY
PETER SWANSON **The Kind Worth Saving**
*'Smart, surprising, cool and fun, with a deeply satisfying ending. I loved it!' -- Gillian McAllister (The Kind Worth Killing)
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TOVE ALSTERDAL trans. Alice Menzies **You Will Never Be Found**
*'Strong characters, a great sense of place and plot twists galore.' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB (We Know You Remember )
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CHARLOTTE VASSELL **The Other Half**
*'Delicious, searing . . . What a great new voice she is in detective fiction!' S. J. BENNETT*
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*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .*
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Mar 14, 2023
ABIGAIL DEAN, FIONA CUMMINS & CARA HUNTER On The Sofa With Victoria
Season 4 Episode 5: Live recorded in Whitley Bay. Why True crime is Stranger Than Fiction: ABIGAIL DEAN, FIONA CUMMINS & CARA HUNTER join Victoria in an event at Bay Tales.
*Final Roadshow Event*: Tickets here↓
Join Peter James, Graham Bartlett, Simon Toyne & William Shaw #OnTheSofa With Victoria Selman at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton 13th April. *To get tickets click → **Eventbrite**.
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*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
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Mar 10, 2023
VERVE VOICES EPISODE 1 ROBYN GIGL chats to Jenna Gordon
*CRIME TIME FM is pleased to support the 1st podcast by VERVE BOOKS. We hope you'll continue to follow and enjoy our podcasts but why not check this out too:
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VERVE Voices is the brand-new in-house podcast from indie fiction publisher VERVE Books. In this episode, editor Jenna Gordon interviews attorney, speaker and activist Robyn Gigl on her debut novel, BY WAY OF SORROW, published by VERVE Books in the UK on 16th March 2023.
BY WAY OF SORROW is the first book in Gigl's 'ground-breaking' (New York Times) own-voices legal thriller series featuring unforgettable protagonist Erin McCabe. The book sees Erin tackle the complexities of race, gender, power and public perception as she defends Sharise Barnes, a sex worker accused of murder.
Buy the book from our website, or wherever you usually get your books.
You can find Robyn Gigl online at robyngigl.com or on Twitter @robyngigl.
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Mar 7, 2023
JULIA BARTZ In Person With Paul
JULIA BARTZ chats to Paul Burke about her psychological thriller THE WRITING RETREAT, therapy, inspiration,
THE WRITING RETREAT Five attendees are selected for a month-long writing retreat at the remote estate of Roza Vallo, the controversial high priestess of feminist horror. Alex, a struggling writer, is thrilled.
Upon arrival, they discover they must complete an entire novel from scratch, and the best one will receive a seven-figure publishing deal. Alex’s long-extinguished dream now seems within reach.
But then the women begin to die.
Trapped, terrified yet still desperately writing, it is clear there is more than a publishing deal at stake at Blackbriar Estate. Alex must confront her own demons – and finish her novel – to save herself.
This unhinged, propulsive, claustrophobic closed-door thriller will pull you in and spit you out…
*Julia Bartz* is a Brooklyn-based writer and practicing therapist. She is the author of the popular Psychology Today blog ‘My Pleasure: The…
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Mar 3, 2023
JOHN SAYLES In Person With Paul
JOHN SAYLES chats to Paul Burke about his historical novel *JAMIE MacGILLIVRAY**,* the dialogue of Peter Cooke & Dudley Moore, British grub, perspectives of history and historical fiction.
*JAMIE MacGILLIVRAY*: It begins in the highlands of Scotland in 1746, at the Battle of Culloden, the last desperate stand of the Stuart 'pretender' to the throne of the Three Kingdoms, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and his rabidly loyal supporters. Vanquished with his comrades by the forces of the Hanoverian (and Protestant) British crown, the novel's eponymous hero, Jamie MacGillivray, narrowly escapes a roadside execution only to be recaptured by the victors and shipped to Marshalsea Prison (central to Charles Dickens's Hard Times) where he cheats the hangman a second time before being sentenced to transportation and indentured servitude in colonial America 'for the term of his natural life.' His travels are paralleled by those of Jenny Ferguson, a poor, village girl swept up on false charges by the Engl…
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Mar 1, 2023
HEADS TOGETHER February 2023 featuring William Shaw
*HEADS TOGETHER* - the OFF TO THE SEASIDE Episode - the watchlist, podcast updates, Barry's Blu-rays, the Dahl issue and a special feature with Paul and Victoria chatting to William Shaw about the Crime Time FM #OnTheSofa Roadshow Finale in BRIGHTON, The Friends Meeting House on 13th March 6PM.
*William Shaw* is an award-winning music journalist and the author of several non-fiction books. Prior to becoming a crime writer, he worked at ZigZag and as a journalist for The Observer, The New York Times, Wired, Arena, and The Face. His recent works include police mystery novels set in1960s London, featuring DS Breen and WPC Tozer. Shaw's other police series opened with Salt Lane (May 2018) featuring DS Alexandra Cupidi. William Shaw lives in Brighton.
Join Peter James, Graham Bartlett, Simon Toyne & William Shaw #OnTheSofa With Victoria Selman at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton 13th April, tickets from Eventbrite.
PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, Crime T…
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Feb 27, 2023
CAIMH 'CK' McDONNELL In Person With Paul
*CAIMH 'CK'McDONNELL* chats to Paul Burke about *LOVE WILL TEAR US APART*, the Stranger Times series, comedy writing, having.p a fecund imagination.
*LOVE WILL TEAR US APART*: Love can be a truly terrible thing.
Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead.
Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now, against all odds, it seems he may actually be proved right; but what lengths will he go to in an attempt to rescue her?
With Banecroft distracted, the shock resignation of assistant editor, Hannah Willis, couldn't have come at a worse time. It speaks volumes that her decision to reconcile with her philandering ex-husband is only marginally less surprising than Banecroft and his wife getting back together. In this time of crisis, is her decision to swan off to a fancy new-age retreat run by a celebrity cult really the best thing for anyone?
As if that wasn't…
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Feb 24, 2023
CHRIS LLOYD In Person With Paul
*CHRIS LLOYD* chats to Paul Burke about his new historical thriller *Paris Requiem*, Eddie Giral, wartime Paris, living in Catalonia, the little people of history.
*PARIS REQUIEM*: Paris, September 1940. After three months under Nazi Occupation, not much can shock Detective Eddie Giral. That is, until he finds a murder victim who was supposed to be in prison. Eddie knows, because he put him there. The dead man is not the first or the last criminal being let loose onto the streets. But who is pulling the strings, and why?
This question will take Eddie from jazz clubs to opera halls, from old flames to new friends, from the lights of Paris to the darkest countryside - pursued by a most troubling truth: sometimes to do the right thing, you have to join the wrong side...
*CHRIS LLOYD* is the author of The Unwanted Dead (Orion), winner of the Historical Writer's Association Gold Crown Award. Paris Requiem is his first novel to also be published in America. He lived in Catalonia for over t…
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Feb 21, 2023
PETER JAMES & GRAHAM BARTLETT On The Sofa With Victoria
Season 4 Episode 4: PETER JAMES (Roy Grace) & ex Chief Superintendent GRAHAM BARTLETT (Jo Howe series) prove why truth is just as strange (& funny) as fiction! Passport forgeries, lunch with ex cons & being taken for an FBI agent.
Join Peter James, Graham Bartlett, Simon Toyne & William Shaw #OnTheSofa With Victoria Selman at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton 13th April, tickets from Eventbrite.
Peter James Looking Good Dead. New stage play, dates and details
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
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Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
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Feb 20, 2023
THE REVIEW SHOW February 2023
The Review Show '2023 - new crime fiction & a feature on Eric Ambler.
The Novels:
Joseph O'Connor My Father's House Harvill Secker
Simon Scarrow Dead of Night Headline
Gill Perdue If I Tell Penguin
Elliot Sweeney The Next to Die Wildfire
Kathleen Kent Black Wolf Head of Zeus
Stuart MacBride The Dead of Winter Bantam
Cloé Mehdi translator Howard Curtis Europa Editions
Katy Brent How to Kill Men and Get Away with It HQ
SR White Red Dirt Road Headline
Simone Campos Nothing Can Hurt You translated by Rahul Bery Now Pushkin Vertigo
James Barry The Blow Up Brash Books
John Anthony Moccia Crapped Out Stark House Press
Stephen O'Shea The Sorcerer and the Assassin Brash Books
Eric Ambler Passage of Arms, The Light of Day, A Kind of Anger Penguin Modern Classics
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Feb 13, 2023
SIMON MASON In Person With Paul
*SIMON MASON *chats to Paul Burke about his new novel A BROKEN AFTERNOON, Oxford, Morse, publishing and
*THE BROKEN AFTERNOON*:
A DI RYAN WILKINS MYSTERY
A SHOCKING DISAPPEARANCE
A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, affluent area,
her mother only a stones-throw away.*
*A TRIGGERING RESPONSE
Ryan Wilkins, one of the youngest ever Detective Inspectors in the Thames Valley force, dishonourably discharged three months ago, watches his former partner DI Ray Wilkins deliver a press conference, confirming a lead.
A DARK WEB
Ray begins to delve deeper, unearthing an underground network of criminal forces in the local area. But while Ray's investigation stalls Ryan brings his unique talents to unofficial and quite illegal inquiries which will bring him into a confrontation with the very officials who have thrown him out of the force.
*SIMON MASON* has pursued parallel careers as a publisher and an author, whose YA crime novels Running…
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Feb 11, 2023
KATJA IVAR In Person With Paul
*KATJA IVAR* chats to Paul Burke about her new novel *Trouble*, the third Hella Mauzer mystery, growing up in Russia and the US, Finland and women in the police force.
*TROUBLE*: Helsinki, June 1953, at the heart of the Cold War. Hella, now a reluctant private investigator, has been asked by her former boss at the Helsinki murder squad to do a background check on a member of the Finnish secret services. Not the type of job Hella was hoping for, but she accepts it on the condition that she is given access to the files concerning the roadside death of her father in 1942, at a time when Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany in its attack against the Soviet Union. German troops were sent to Finland, the Gestapo arrived in Helsinki and German influence on local government was strong, including demands for the deportation of local Jews. Colonel Mauzer, his wife and other family members were killed by a truck in a hit and run incident. An accident, file closed, they said. But not for Hella…
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Feb 7, 2023
FIONA BARTON, SAIMA MIR & SARAH SULTOON On The Sofa With Victoria
Season 4 Episode 3: Multi award winning journalists turned novelist, Fiona Barton (The Widow) Saima Mir (The Khan) & Sarah Sultoon (Dirt) discuss what journalism teaches writers of fiction…& then plot a thriller live on the show!
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
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Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Feb 3, 2023
LOUISE CANDLISH In Person With Paul
*Louise Candlish* chats to Paul Burke about her new thriller drama *THE ONLY SUSPECT**,* unlovable character, twists & reveals, instant fame after fifteen years of hard graft and seeing your work on TV.
*THE ONLY SUSPECT*: Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong man*.*
Alex lives a comfortable life with his wife Beth in the leafy suburb of Silver Vale. Fine, so he’s not the most sociable guy on the street, he prefers to keep himself to himself, but he’s a good husband and an easy-going neighbour.
That’s until Beth announces the creation of a nature trail on a local site that’s been disused for decades and suddenly Alex is a changed man. Now he’s always watching. Questioning. Struggling to hide his dread . . .
As the landscapers get to work, a secret threatens to surface from years ago, back in Alex’s twenties when he got entangled with a seductive young woman called Marina, who threw both their lives into turmoil.
And who sparked a police hunt for a murder suspect that was never qu…
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Jan 31, 2023
JANE HARPER In Person With Craig Sisterson
*JANE HARPER* chats to Craig Sisterson about her new novel Exiles, the return of Aaron Falk, his final bow, The Dry the film,
Exiles: A mother disappears from a busy festival on a warm spring night.
Her baby lies alone in the pram, her mother’s possessions surrounding her, waiting for a return which never comes.
A year later, Kim Gillespie’s absence still casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather to welcome a new addition to the family.
Joining the celebrations on a rare break from work is federal investigator Aaron Falk, who begins to suspect that all is not as it seems.
As he looks into Kim’s case, long-held secrets and resentments begin to come to the fore, secrets that show that her community is not as close as it appears.
Falk will have to tread carefully if he is to expose the dark fractures at its heart, but sometimes it takes an outsider to get to the truth...
*Jane Harper* is the author of four internationally bestselling Australian mysteries, including…
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Jan 27, 2023
MATTHEW GENTILE In Person With Paul
MATTHEW GENTILE, director of AMERICAN MURDERER, starring Tom Pelphrey, Ryan Philippe,
Based on a true story, this riveting thriller follows Jason Derek Brown (Tom Pelphrey), a charismatic con man bankrolling his extravagant lifestyle through a series of scams. On Brown's trail: Lance Leising (Ryan Phillippe), a dogged FBI special agent determined to put Brown behind bars. When Brown's funds run low and his past catches up with him, he plots his most elaborate scheme yet, pitting himself against Leising in a deadly game of cat and mouse -- and becoming the most unlikely and elusive fugitive on the FBI's most-wanted list. Written & directed by Matthew Gentile, produced by Kara Baker, Carissa Buffel, Kevin Matusow, Gia Walsh. Release Date 30/1/23 EST & VOD, runtime 1h44m.
The Trailer:
Noted: David Lean, Akira Kurosawa, The Godfather pt1&2, Dog Day Afternoon, Rashomon, Czech New Wave, Notorious, Lawrence of Arabia, Narrow Margin, Armored Truck Robbery, David Fincher, Robert Altman, Fra…
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Jan 24, 2023
CAROLINE KEPNES, JEFF LINDSAY & ANDY McNAB On The Sofa With Victoria
Season 4 episode 2: Jeff Lindsay (Dexter) Caroline Kepnes (YOU) & Andy McNab (The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success) discuss whether there's a psychopath in all of us- & why we might want there to be…
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
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Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Jan 21, 2023
JANUARY 2023 REVIEW SHOW Pt 2
Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for January 2023 - part 2.
Books reviewed:
In the Blink of an Eye Jo Callaghan Simon & Schuster
The Library Suicides Fflur Dafydd Hodder & Stoughton
In Too Deep Simon McCleave Avon
Death and the Conjuror Tom Mead Head of Zeus
Showstopper Peter Lovesey Sphere
Bethulia Thorne Moore Diamond Crime
A Winter Grave Peter May Quercus
The Last Remains Elly Griffiths Quercus
Resurrection David Gilman Head of Zeus
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*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .*
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Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Jan 17, 2023
Jónína Leósdóttir, Sólveig Pálsdóttir & Quentin Bates In Person With Paul
Icelandic authors JÓNÍNA LEÓSDÓTTIR, SÓLVEIG PÁLSDÓTTIR & translator QUENTIN BATES chat to Paul Burke about the novels DECEIT and HARM
DECEIT: Reykjavík detective Soffía finds herself struggling to cope with a single-handed investigation into a spate of malicious acts taking place across the city, and enlists help from an unexpected direction.
Her psychologist ex-husband Adam has advised the police before, but with Covid raging in the city, would prefer to stay holed up in his basement flat as he deals with challenges in both his working and private life.
He grudgingly agrees to work with Soffía, as the stakes in the investigation are continually raised.
Working out who bears a grudge that goes deep enough to lead to murder, they unravel complex family ties, lingering enmities and a dark past that the victims would prefer to keep secret, while Adam encounters a young woman in a race against the clock to find the father she has never seen, but for what purpose?
HARM: When we…
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Jan 10, 2023
STEVE CAVANAGH & IMRAN MAHMOOD On The Sofa With Victoria
Season 4 episode 1: ALL RISE - STEVE CAVANAGH (Eddie Flynn series) & IMRAN MAHMOOD (All I Said Was True) discuss courtroom thrillers with Victoria Selman: Why we all love Atticus Finch, the courtroom as a cathedral and having a pint with Rumpole.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
Mentions:
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Aaron Sorkin To Kill a Mockingbird (adaptation for stage)
Perry Mason (fictional lawyer written by Erle Stanley Gardner)
John Grisham (bestselling legal thriller writer)
Petrocelli (fictional TV lawyer)
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Jan 9, 2023
JANUARY 2023 REVIEW SHOW Pt 1
Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for January 2023 and a few of the best titles from Nov/Dec 2022.
Books reviewed:
The Other Guest - Heidi Perks. Century
The House at the End of the World - Dean Koontz Thomas & Mercer
The Night Watch - Neil Lancaster HQ
The Will - Rebecca Reid Penguin
The Book of the Most Precious Substance - Sara Gran Faber
The Elephant Conspiracy - Peter Hain Muswell
Murder, Memoir, Murder - Anthony J Quinn Dalzell
Dead Man's Creek - Chris Hammer Wildfire
I'll Never Tell - Philippa East HQ
Jacked - ed. Vern Smith Run Amok
Gone - ed Stephen J Golds Red Dog
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Jan 4, 2023
ROBERT GODDARD In Person With Paul New Year Special
CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Winner 2019 - *ROBERT GODDARD* Chats to Paul Burke about *THIS IS THE NIGHT THEY COME FOR YOU** &* *THE FINE ART OF INVISIBLE DETECTION*, Algeria, Paris 1961, character and 30 novels and counting...
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**This is the Night They Come for You*: On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France.
To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country's feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots. They are instructed to pursue a former agent, now on the run after twenty years in prison for his part in a high-level corruption scandal. But their search will lead them inexorably towards a greater mystery, surrounding a murder that to…
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Dec 27, 2022
JEFFERY DEAVER On The Sofa With Victoria
*Season 3 Finale: JEFFERY DEAVER* (Lincoln Rhyme/Colter Shaw) joins Victoria Selman in this End of Season (very) Special: Pulling the rug from under your reader so often they’ll be sending you their chiropractor’s bills, Hamilton tees & ‘getting a character in’. Unmissable!
*HUNTING TIME JEFFREY DEAVER*: THERE ARE TWO FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF SURVIVAL.
#1: NEVER BE WITHOUT A MEANS OF ESCAPE.
Allison Parker is on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah, and Colter Shaw has been hired by her eccentric boss, entrepreneur Marty Harmon, to find and protect her. Though he’s an expert at tracking missing persons―even those who don’t wish to be found―Shaw has met his match in Allison, who brings all her skills as a brilliant engineer designing revolutionary technology to the game of evading detection.
#2: NEVER BE WITHOUT ACCESS TO A WEAPON.
The reason for Allison’s panicked flight is soon apparent. She’s being stalked by her ex-husband, Jon Merritt. Newly released from pris…
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Dec 23, 2022
SIMON STEPHENSON In Person With Paul
*SIMON STEPHENSON* chats to Paul Burke about his novel *Sometimes People Die*, Working in the NHS, scriptwriting in Hollywood, entering writing competitions, editing, medical serial killers through time and the murder house.
*SOMETIMES PEOPLE DIE*: The year is 1999*.* Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young Scottish doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a senior house officer in the struggling east London hospital of St Luke’s.
Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, over-worked staff and underfunded wards a darker secret soon declares itself: too many patients are dying.
Which of the medical professionals our protagonist has encountered is behind the murders? And can our unnamed narrator’s version of the events be trusted?
*SIMON STEPHENSON* originally trained as a doctor and worked in London and Scotland. He previously wrote Let Not the Waves of the Sea, a memoir about the loss of his brother in the Indian ocean tsunami. It won Best First…
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Dec 21, 2022
DIAMOND CRIME SPECIAL On Crime Time FM
Indie publisher DIAMOND CRIME is based in South Wales but with a UK writer base. Five of their authors chat about their latest novels and the experience of being part of a small but close-knit writer led imprint. Topics include; violence in crime fiction, a world without Agatha Christie, the psychological thriller, writing character and series versus stand alone?
*Jacqueline Harrett* - The Whispering Trees & The Nesting Place
*Jennifer Lee Thompson* - Vile City & Butcher City
*Gwyneth Steddy* - Do Sleeping Dogs Lie?
*GB Williams* Play the Game & Breaking Free
*Phil Rowlands* - Timeslip, Single Cell & Siena
Diamond Books
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Dec 18, 2022
MARK WESTMORELAND In Person With Paul
North Georgia author *MARK WESTMORELAND* chats to Paul Burke about the Dooley brothers - Mack & Marshall, *A Violent Gospel** and *A Mourning **Song*,* Burt Reynolds - Smokey And The Bandit,
*A VIOLENT GOSPEL*: If there’s a bad idea in Tugalo County, chances are that Mack and Marshall Dooley are behind it. When the brothers heist a snake-handling church’s money-laundering operation, things go south in a hurry. This part of the north Georgia hills ain’t much, just hardscrabble folks trying to get by. It’s the perfect place to wash a load of cash -- and an even better place to make your enemies disappear. When Mack goes missing, Marshall cuts a deal with a local crime boss to rescue his brother. Navigating a storm of wild women and a literal nest of vipers, the Dooleys can’t trust anyone other than themselves to get out of the mess they’ve made.
*A MOURNING SONG*: Mack Dooley is a haunted man. After the events of A Violent Gospel left Mack at the bottom of a whiskey bottle,…
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Dec 13, 2022
ARAMINTA HALL, ERIN KELLY & CL TAYLOR OnTheSofa With Victoria
WOMEN IN CRIME: Season 3, Episode 8:
ARAMINTA HALL (Hidden Depths Jan '23), ERIN KELLY (The Skeleton Key) & CL TAYLOR (The Guilty Couple) chat to Victoria Selman about why women are drawn to crime fiction, reflections on violence in society, gaslighting, frenemies, media coverage and whether women have fair representation in the press.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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SARAH WATERS FINGERSMITH
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH EDITH'S DIARY
BELINDA BAUER RUBBERNECKER
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Dec 9, 2022
THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE - 2022 BEST CRIME NOVELS
THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE - BEST CRIME NOVELS OF 2022.
BARRY FORSHAW chairs a panel of top critics and writers Laura Wilson (Guardian critic, novelist) , Maxim Jakubowski (editor, publisher, writer, bookseller), Jake Kerridge (crime fiction critic for the Telegraph), Ayo Onatade (critic ShotsBlog) Victoria Selman (novelist and Crime Time presenter) and Paul Burke.
*Book Choices*:
*Barry Forshaw*
A Heart Full of Headstones – Ian Rankin
Blue Water – Leonora Nattras*
The Dark Flood – Deon Meyer (trans. K L Seegers)
The Lost Man of Bombay – Vaseem Khan
The Twyford Code – Janice Hallett
2023: The Shadows of London – Andrew Taylor*
*Laura Wilson
*The Book of the Most Precious Substance – Sara Gran
Queen High – C J Carey*
On Java Road – Lawrence Osborne
Wrong Place, Wrong Time – Gillian McAllister
The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill – C S Robertson
2023: Stay Buried – Kate Webb, The Skeleton Key - Erin Kelly, Charlotte Vassell - The Other Half, Strange Sally…
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Dec 7, 2022
JEROME CHARYN In Person With MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI & PAUL BURKE
JEROME CHARYN chats to Maxim Jakubowski (writer, editor, publisher, bookshop owner & critic) & Paul Burke about his new novel BIG RED, Hollywood the real capital of America, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, graphic novels, the essence of noir and the female Samson.
BIG RED: NARRATED BY A STARRY-EYED LESBIAN, BIG RED REIMAGINES THE TRAGIC CAREER OF RITA HAYWORTH AND HER INDOMITABLE HUSBAND, ORSON WELLES.
Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Red re-envisions the life of one of America's most enduring icons: Gilda herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red hair and hypnotic dancing helped make her the quintessential movie star of the 1940s.
With narrator Rusty Redburn - a feisty second-string gossip columnist from Kalamazoo tasked with spying on Hayworth by Columbia movie mogul Harry 'The Janitor' Cohn - as our guide, we follow the meteoric rise and heartrending demise of the actress, encountering her exploitative father, Eduardo; her controlling husband, 'boy genius' Orso…
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Nov 29, 2022
VASEEM KHAN & JANICE HALLETT On The Sofa With Victoria
Season 3 episode 7: VASEEM KHAN (The Lost Man of Bombay) & JANICE HALLETT (The Twyford Code) discuss cosy crime with Victoria Selman. Golden Age Crime, screenplay to novel, warmth and humour in the murder mystery, every novel needs an elephant, write a cosy on the spot.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Mentions:
Alexander McCall Smith
Agatha Christie's Poirot & Marple
Sophie Hannah
TE Kinsey Lady Hardcastle Mysteries
Hannibal Lector
MC Beaton Agatha Raisin
Midsomer Murders
Richard Osman
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CrimeFest 2023
CW…
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Nov 24, 2022
JAMES GRADY In Person With Paul
*JAMES GRADY* chats to Paul Burke about *THIS TRAIN*, Six Days of the Condor, Three Days of the Condor, the US mid-terms, gauging the pulse of the nation, realism, rebellion & redemption and enjoying life and art to the full.
*THIS TRAIN* races us through America's heartland, carrying secrets. There is treasure in the cargo car, along with an invisible puppeteer. There is a coder named Nora, Mugzy, the yippy dog, and Ross, the too-curious poet. On board, it's a countdown to murder...
On this train there is a silver madman, a targeted banker, and crises of conscience. This train harbors the "perfect" couple's conspiracies, the chaos of being a teenager, and parenthood alongside the wows of being nine. There is a widow and a wannabe, and the sleaziest billionaire.
On this train, there is the suicide ticket, the bomb, sex, love, and loneliness. The heist. Revenge. Redemption. This Train is a ticking clock, roaring through forty-seven fictional hours of non-stop suspense and action, throu…
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Nov 21, 2022
MIKE LUPICA In Person With Paul
*MIKE LUPICA* chats to Paul Burke about FALLOUT (Jesse Stone) & REVENGE TOUR (Sunny Randall). Spenser, 'follow the money', the Parkersphere & the Robert B Parker legacy.
*FALLOUT*: Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team's biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult - the teen was the nephew of his colleague, Suitcase Simpson, and Jesse had been coaching the young shortstop. As he searches for answers he is stonewalled at every turn, and it seems that someone is determined to keep him from digging further.
Jesse is further shocked by the murder of former Paradise police chief, Charlie Farrell. Farrell had been looking into a series of scam calls that preyed upon the elderly. But how do these 'ghost calls' connect to his murder? When threats - and gunshots - appear on Jesse's own doorstep, the race to find answers is on.
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REVENGE TOUR* PI Sunny Randall's landlord and former client…
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Nov 17, 2022
GEORGINA CLARKE In Person With Jenna - a CTFM Special
GEORGINA CLARKE chats to Jenna Gordon about her new historical crime novel THE DAZZLE OF THE LIGHT, the post WWI landscape in 1920, the Forty Thieves, historical accuracy, reflecting on the present through the past - the role of women, class & inequality, dressmaking and Halloween cocktails
THE DAZZLE OF THE LIGHT: Ruby Mills is ruthlessly ambitious, strikingly beautiful - and one of the Forty Thieves' most talented members.
Harriet Littlemore writes the women's section in a local newspaper. She's from a 'good' London family and engaged to an up-and-coming Member of Parliament - but she wants a successful career of her own.
After witnessing Ruby fleeing the scene of a robbery, Harriet develops a fascination with the elusive young thief that extends beyond journalistic interest. As their personal aspirations bring them into closer contact than society's rules usually allow, Ruby and Harriet's stories become increasingly intertwined.
Their magnetic dynamic, fraught with envy and desire,…
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Nov 14, 2022
MARI HANNAH & IAN RANKIN On The Sofa On With Victoria
*Season 3. Episode 6. Series Fiction*. Mari Hannah (Kate ) and Ian Rankin (Rebus, A Heart Full of Headstones) talk to Victoria about writing a long running series. Keeping a series and characters fresh, continuity, craving over night success, bent cops and why you should never work with children or animals.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
Recommendations
Michael Connelly, Reginald Hill, Donna Leon & Mick Herron
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*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Nov 14, 2022
GUY HALE In Person With Paul
*GUY HALE* chats to Paul Burke about his new novel Blood on the Tracks, character Jimmy Wayne, The Come Back Trail sextet, humour, Basil Exposition and Shakespeare.
*BLOOD ON THE TRACKS* Jimmy Wayne is headed for LA to make the new album that will hopefully make him a star. In a quiet, deserted canyon a few miles outside Blackjack lie the bodies of his victims who inspired each song – all his secrets are buried in that dry and arid ground. Can he leave his past behind or will the ghosts of his past come back to haunt him?
First in the Come Back Trail Series:
*KILLING ME SOFTLY* In the town of Blackjack, Nevada, washed-up singer Jimmy Wayne is down on his luck, playing covers to a limited and uninterested audience in a third-rate casino. One morning he awakens to find that everything has changed. Not only has he accidentally murdered Wendy, his girlfriend, but he's also written the best song he's ever produced. Is it the act of killing that helps him create his finest work? And if…
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Nov 8, 2022
STUART MacBRIDE In Person With Paul
*STUART MACBRIDE* chats to Paul Burke about his latest chilling thriller *NO LESS THE DEVIL*, protagonists and antagonists,
*NO LESS THE DEVIL* : 'We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.'
It's been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast.
Now isn't the time to get distracted with other cases, but Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh doesn't have much choice. When Benedict Strachan was just eleven, he hunted down and killed a homeless man. No one's ever figured out why Benedict did it, but now, after sixteen years, he's back on the streets again - battered, frightened, convinced a shadowy 'They' are out to get him, and begging Lucy for help.
It sounds like paranoia, but what if he's right? What if he really is caught up in something bigger and darker than Lucy's ever dealt with befo…
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Nov 2, 2022
GUY HALE *bonus* The Music of Jimmy Wayne
Track:* Hanging Around*
Taken from the the Soundtrack album KILLING ME SOFTLY, the music of Jimmy Wayne, recorded by Mike Zito feat. Kid Anderson
Inspired by the writing of Guy Hale
Thank you to Guy and the musicians for permission to use this music.
THIS MUSIC IS UNDER COPYRIGHT AND SHOULD NOT BE SHARED OR COPIED TO ANY OTHER FORMAT PLEASE.
You can buy the album and Guy Hale's books at Hillside-Global.com
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CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
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Nov 1, 2022
LUCY FOLEY & ELLY GRIFFITHS On The Sofa With Victoria
SEASON 3, EPISODE 5: LOCKED ROOM MYSTERIES.
LUCY FOLEY (The Paris Apartment) and ELLY GRIFFITHS (Bleeding Heart Yard) discuss the lure of the locked room mystery. Is it a locked room or a closed circle mystery? Why covid had to appear in the new Ruth Galloway mysteries, contributing to an Agatha Christie short stories collection (Marple) & Boris Johnson's unruly mop top.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Oct 27, 2022
THE REVIEW SHOW September/October '22
Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for September and October. A tour of the world of crime fiction from America to Asia via Europe and Australia. Across 2 millennia
Books reviewed:
Double or Nothing Kim Sherwood
Sleep When You're Dead Jude O'Reilly
Wolf Pack Will Dean
Act of Oblivion Robert Harris
The Iron Way Tim Leach
Blackstone Fell Martin Edwards
Dark Deeds Down Under ed. Craig Sisterson & Lindy Cameron
Small Deaths Rijula Das
The Invisible Peter Papathanasiou
A Good Reason to Die Morgan Audic
Vera Kelly Lost and Found Rosalie Knecht
A Helping Hand Celia Dale
Caged Little Birds Lucy Banks
Woman in the Library Sulari Gentill
A Heart Full of Headstones Ian Rankin
Death Has a Thousand Faces Maxim Jakubowski
The Fly on the Wheel Katherine Cecil Thurston
Last Times Victor Serge
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Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh
Crime Time
*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is editor of Crime Ti…
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Oct 24, 2022
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show October 22
*HEADS TOGETHER: The Thong Episode. *The recommended crime titles for October, festivals and podcasts, 2nd novels, queens of crime and the thong.
*BARRY FORSHAW* is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the Financial Times Crime Fiction Critic. His latest book *SIMENON: the Man, the Books, the Films *published by Oldcastle Books is a must read for serious followers of crime fiction.
*VICTORIA SELMAN* is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie serial killer thrillers. Her new literary stand alone psychological novel *Truly, Darkly, Deeply,* published by Quercus, is now a Sunday Times Bestseller.
*PAUL BURKE *edits Crime Time FM and writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover and Crime Time and about literature in translation for the European Literature Network. He is a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022.
*The October Watchlist:
Laura Wilson - Blue Water Leonora Nattrass
Ayo Onatade - " "
Barry Forshaw - A Heart Full of Headstones I…
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Oct 18, 2022
ZOE SHARP & DAVID PENNY On The Sofa With Victoria
Season 3, Episode 3 - SELF PUBLISHING with ZOE SHARP (The Last Time She Died) & DAVID PENNY (A Death of Promise). The why and How of self-publishing, the benefits and pitfalls, how do you go about marketing your books, what works & what doesn't, snobbery in the publishing industry, Amazon, Ian Rankin and advertising in a public toilet.*
VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Oct 17, 2022
ANTONY JOHNSTON In Person With Paul
ANTONY JOHNSTON, (THE COLDEST CITY - ATOMIC BLONDE) chats to Paul Burke about the third novel in the Brigitte Sharp series THE PATRIOS NETWORK. Writing screenplays, games, comics and novels. The making of Atomic Blonde (fr. The Coldest City). Classic Cold War spy fiction and Berlin.
THE PATRIOS NETWORK: When a renegade British officer steals plans for a high-tech weapon that could plunge whole cities into darkness, elite MI6 hacker Brigitte Sharp is sent to get them back. But her mission goes badly wrong.
Meanwhile a ‘deepfake’ video of a senior US politician calling for race war in Europe sends a flood of Americans to join neofascist militias on the continent. The Russians nurse a ruthless grudge against a fugitive whistleblower. In the wings, the Chinese flex their muscles. Everything seems connected…but how?
In her toughest challenge yet, Bridge ventures undercover into the heart of the mysterious Patrios network. Her task? To make sense of the growing chaos before darkness a…
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Oct 3, 2022
CHARLOTTE PHILBY & LUKE JENNINGS On The Sofa With Victoria
Season 3, episode 3: *CHARLOTTE PHILBY* (EDITH & KIM) &* LUKE JENNINGS* (KILLING EVE, KILLING EVE: NO TOMORROW). A woman at the centre of the spy story, the PHILBY legacy, Edith Tudor Hart, Guy Burgess, Villanelle the psychopathic killer & brilliant terrible women.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Sep 29, 2022
TREVOR WOOD In Person With Paul
*TREVOR WOOD *chats to Paul Burke about his latest novel just out in paperback, *DEAD END STREET*, characters Jimmy, Deano and Gadge, PTSD and homelessness, The People's Kitchen, writing a new stand alone novel, the writer's journey and the editor who wanted Dog to have a girlfriend.
*DEAD END STREET*: A group of vigilantes are carrying out a campaign of harassment against the homeless, hounding them both verbally and physically to get them off the streets.
Jimmy Mullen is approached by his friend Gadge, who wants to confront the people behind it but Jimmy has finally got his life back on track. He's working at a hostel for 18 to 25-year-olds and he's reluctant to get involved in anything dodgy.
Gadge decides to go it alone but is attacked by two of the vigilantes. The police find him unconscious in an alley, covered in blood. Problem is, there's a dead body in the alley too and it's his blood that Gadge is covered in. He's also got the murder weapon in his hand.
Convinced that Gadge…
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Sep 24, 2022
JOHN BROWNLOW In Person With Paul
*JOHN BROWNLOW* chats to Paul Burke about *SEVENTEEN**: LAST MAN* *STANDING*, film script sitting,
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**SEVENTEEN**: LAST MAN STANDING*: YOU'LL NEVER KNOW MY NAME.
BUT YOU WON'T FORGET MY NUMBER.
Behind the events you know are the killers you don't.
When diplomacy fails, we're the ones who gear up.
Officially we don't exist, but every government in the world uses our services.
We've been saving the world, and your ass, for 100 years.
Sixteen people have done this job before me.
I am 17. The most feared assassin in the world.
But to be the best you must beat the best.
My next target is 16, just as one day 18 will hunt me down.
It's a dog-eat-dog world and it gets lonely at the top.
Nobody gets to stay for long.
But while we're here, all that matters is that we win.
JOHN BROWNLOW is a filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist. Born in Lincoln, UK, after studying maths and English at Oxford he produced and directed more than a dozen documentaries for British TV. In the early 2000s he turned t…
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Sep 19, 2022
VAL McDERMID & RUTH WARE On The Sofa With Victoria
Series 3, Episode 2: VAL McDERMID (1989) & RUTH WARE (The It Girl) chat to Victoria Selman about HOOKING THE READER and KEEPING THEM INTERESTED, publishing then and now, Agatha Christie, the character in your mind and The Stasi Poetry Circle (Philip Oltermann).
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Sep 14, 2022
ADAM HAMDY In Person With Paul
*ADAM HAMDY* chats to Paul Burke about *THE OTHER SIDE OF NIGHT**, *writing an original novel, the emotional journey you take the reader on, how characters convey meaning in a story, speculative thrillers, film and TV adaptation, page turning excitement and poetry.
*The Other Side of Night*: This is David Asha's story, and that of his son, his wife and also, his best friend.
You may think you know what this story is, but it is more, much more.
Its a story of love and loss, lies and suspicion, secrets and history.
A story about a loving family torn apart by tragedy, which leaves a child completely alone and the repercussions of actions which haunt the past and present.but also the future...
Adam Hamdy takes us on an exploration of love, sacrifice and endless possibilities.
Remarkable. Adam Hamdy may have created a completely new crime genre. -- *Anthony Horowitz
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A strange, compelling, and ultimately moving head-spinner of a novel -- *John Connolly*
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Adam Hamdy* is a Sunday Times, K…
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Sep 11, 2022
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ In Person With Craig Sisterson
*DAVID LAGERCRANTZ* chats to Craig Sisterson about *Dark Music *(translated by Ian Giles), the influence of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a contemporary Holmes and Watson, the social novel, what is genius and not having the luxury to be weak (class and privilege).
*DARK MUSIC* The launch of a new series inspired by Sherlock Holmes. A murder investigation brings together two unlikely allies in a race to uncover a shadowy international conspiracy.
Professor Hans Rekke: born into a wealthy Stockholm family, world authority on interrogation techniques, capable of vertiginous feats of logic and observation . . . But he might just fall apart when the going gets tough, leading to substance abuse and despair.
Micaela Vargas: community police officer, born to Chilean political refugees in a tough suburb, with two brothers on the shady side of the law.
Vargas feels she has something to prove. She's tenacious and uncompromising, but she needs Rekke's unique mind to help her solve the case. Rekke has it al…
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Sep 5, 2022
DAVID BALDACCI & LINWOOD BARCLAY On The Sofa With Victoria
*Season 3, episode 1*. *DAVID BALDACCI* (DREAM TOWN) & *LINWOOD BARCLAY* (TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY) On The Sofa With Victoria.
Thrillers: Two legends of the crime writing chat thrillers with Victoria. Learning from film, momentum, suspense vs shock, , chapter breaks, lean & mean-couch potato writing, the competition, and feeling sorry for Dan Brown.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Sep 4, 2022
BLOODY SCOTLAND Special on Crime Time FM
*THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY BLOODY SCOTLAND 15th - 18th September, 2022.
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*A CRIME TIME FM SPECIAL *
Victoria Selman and Paul Burke chat to Festival Director BOB MCDEVITT and Scottish crime writers SARAH SMITH (HEAR NO EVIL) & ABIR MUKHERJEE (WYNDHAM & BANERJEE series), about what makes Bloody Scotland so special, the McIlvanney Prize and Scottish Debut Novel Awards, what it takes to put on a successful hybrid festival, a star studded cast which includes John Connolly, Dean Koontz, Sir Ian Rankin, Sara Paretsky, Ann Cleeves et al, and the Scotland vs England rivalry on the pitch.*
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BLOODY SCOTLAND
BLOODY SCOTLAND DIGITAL PASS
To book tickets over the phone simply call *01786 274000*. Lines open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm.
The McIlvanney Prize Shortlist:
Liam McIlvanney The Heretic
Alan Parks May God Forgive
Louise Welsh The Second Cut
Ambrose Parry A Corruption of Blood
Bloody Scotland Crime Debut Of The Year shortlist:
Tariq Ashkanani Welcome to Cooper
Frankie Boyle Meantime
Sarah Smith Hear…
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Sep 3, 2022
LAURA WILSON In Person With Paul (Jamie Costello)
*LAURA WILSON* chats to Paul Burke about her new YA novel *MONOCHROME*, Grace and the teenage world, Climate change, achromatopsia, writing with a renewed purpose & drunk tank pink.
*MONOCHROME*
In a world drained of colour, nothing is black and white. Early one morning, Grace wakes to find herself staring at an ashen sunrise in ominous grey skies. It's like watching a disaster movie, though her family don't seem to think anything is wrong. Grace is one of a handful of people in the country who are seeing the world in shades of grey. But this is only the beginning of the 'greyout', or Monochrome Effect, that is rapidly sweeping the world.
Loss of colour vision is traced to polluted water systems; microplastics covered in harmful bacteria have been poured into the ocean for years. With failing harvests and stay-at-home orders in a world on the brink of a major ecological disaster, there appears to be no cure - until one day Grace sees a single flash of red.
She agrees to join a governm…
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Sep 2, 2022
JOHN VERCHER In Person With Paul AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT
*JOHN VERCHER* chats to Paul Burke about his new novel *AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT*, identity, racism, Mixed Marshal Arts, mental health - CTE/Alzheimer's and carers, noir/tragedy and propulsive storytelling, and fear for the dog (Loki)
*AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT**: *How do you save yourself when you’re the person you trust least of all?
Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace is a biracial Black MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, who is facing the comeback fight of his life. He is also losing his battle with pugilistic dementia- a struggle he can no longer deny.
In the nursing home of his father, a white man suffering from Alzheimer's, Xavier witnesses shocking episodes that expose ugly truths about his past and his family.
And as the big fight draws near, a sparring session with a younger competitor goes horribly wrong, leaving Xavier faced with a dangerous dilemma: throw his match or suffer the deadly consequences.
After the Lights Go Out is a propulsive exploration of biracial identity, the…
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Sep 1, 2022
THE REVIEW SHOW AUGUST '22
Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for August. From a top notch comedy thriller-come-meta-fiction to a slice of southern rural noir, from a dysfunctional family drama to a tense heist, and from the US and Mexico to the UK with brief spells in Crete and Dublin.
Books reviewed:
Anthony Horowitz. A Twist of the Knife top cosy /comedy
Gabino Iglesias The Devil Takes You Home top noir
Jean Hanff Korelitz The Latecomer top drama
John Trinian The Big Grab & The Savage Breast
Wiley Cash This Dark Road to Mercy
RG Adams The Last House
Alan Johnson One of Our Ministers is Missing top beach read
Ace Atkins (Robert B Parker Spenser series) Bye Bye Baby laudable swansong
Andrea Mara Hide an Seek
Deborah Masson From the Ashes
John Vercher After the Lights Go Out* top literary noir
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*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger…
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Aug 28, 2022
JANET EVANOVICH In Person With Paul
*JANET EVANOVICH* chats to Paul Burke about *THE RECOVERY AGENT*, *GAME ON,* Stephanie Plum and Gabriela Rose, humour and sex, The Mummy, Midnight Run, Teslas and having a mouth like a truck driver.
*THE RECOVERY AGENT *Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she’s hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any kind. She’s reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But Gabriela’s latest job isn’t for some bamboozled billionaire, it’s for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can’t come up with a lot of money fast.
Inspired by an old family legend, Gabriela sets off for the jungles of Peru in pursuit of the Ring of Solomon and the lost treasure of Cortez. But this particular job comes with a huge problem attached to it - Gabriela’s ex-husband, Rafer. It’s Rafer who has the map that possibly points the way to the treasure…
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Aug 25, 2022
ENDINGS an On The Sofa With Victoria Special featuring Dominic Nolan
BEGINNINGS, MIDDLES & ENDS: An On The Sofa With Victoria Special.
PART 3: ENDINGS
Victoria Selman chats to Dominic Nolan about novel endings. The importance of the twist in a crime novel, why first sentences stand out more than last, or do they/, what makes a satisfying ending?
*DOMINIC NOLAN* is the British the author of 3 crime fictions. His latest VINE STREET is a superb London set historical mystery, it is available now in paperback.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
&…
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Aug 24, 2022
MIDDLES an On The Sofa With Victoria Special featuring Dominic Nolan
BEGINNINGS, MIDDLES & ENDS: An On The Sofa With Victoria Special.
PART 2: MIDDLES
Victoria Selman chats to Dominic Nolan about the middle of the novel. Why are middles challenging for authors? What do readers want? What are the tools that help make a good middle?
*DOMINIC NOLAN* is the British the author of 3 crime fictions. His latest VINE STREET is a superb London set historical mystery, it is available now in paperback.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
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Aug 23, 2022
BEGINNINGS On The Sofa With Victoria Special featuring Dominic Nolan
BEGINNINGS, MIDDLES & ENDS: An On The Sofa With Victoria Special.
PART 1: BEGINNINGS
Victoria Selman chats to Dominic Nolan about novel openings, what makes a great opening, how to hook your readers and getting a character in.
*DOMINIC NOLAN* is the British the author of 3 crime fictions. His latest VINE STREET is a superb London set historical mystery, it is available now in paperback.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply*
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CrimeFest 2023
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Aug 20, 2022
SHERRYL CLARK In Person With Paul
*SHERRYL CLARK* chats to Paul Burke about her new Judi Westerholme novel *MAD, BAD AND DEAD*. Melbourne, poetry, structure and pace, the innocents caught up in crime, keeping it grounded and Finland.
*MAD, BAD AND DEAD*: A dead employee. A missing child. Anonymous phone calls in the dead of night. Judi Westerholme's troubles aren't over yet... Already struggling to juggle co-running Candlebark's pub/bistro along with her new childcare responsibilities, Judi does not need her life to become any more complicated. Yet, as usual, complications arrive in spades: she starts receiving threatening, late-night phone calls before discovering one of her employees, Kate, shot dead in her bed. Judi finds herself caught up in a murder investigation, as well as the hunt for the Kate's fourteen year old daughter, who has been missing since the murder. Add in the uncertainty of her relationship with Melbourne-based D.S. Heath and the fact that her estranged mother's nursing home keeps urging her to vi…
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Aug 18, 2022
MARK ELLIS In Person With Paul
*MARK ELLIS* chats to Paul Burke about the latest Frank Merlin mystery *DEAD IN THE WATER*, wartime London, the American army in the UK, what makes good historical writing and the richest man in the world at the time Calouste Gulbenkian.
*DEAD IN THE WATER*: Summer, 1942. The Second World War rages on but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side.
In a bombed-out London swarming with gangsters and spies, DCI Frank Merlin continues his battle against rampant wartime crime. A mangled body is found in the Thames just as some items of priceless art go mysteriously missing. What sinister connection links the two?
Merlin and his team follow a twisting trail of secrets and lies as they investigate a baffling and deadly puzzle .
MARK ELLIS is a thriller writer from Swansea and a former barrister and entrepreneur. Mark grew up under the shadow of his parents' experience of the Second World War. His father served in the wartime navy and died a young man. His mother told him st…
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Aug 15, 2022
TOM VAUGHAN MACAULAY In Person With Paul
TOM VAUGHAN MACAULAY chats to Paul Burke about his new novel COUNTDOWN TO A KILLING, meta-fiction, writing with a full time career as a lawyer, the modern epistolary novel and quirky characters.
COUNTDOWN TO A KILLING: Wen Li, an anxious young woman who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, is tormented by an incessant fear that she might have homicidal impulses. Wen falls for her self-absorbed colleague, Lomax Clipper, who is writing a whodunnit in his spare time. Lomax is pining for Italy and a Sicilian woman he met while on secondment, despite his recurring nightmare about someone being killed on a picturesque street in Palermo. Wen and Lomax both loathe their boss, Julian Ponsonby, who, unbeknown to them, is struggling… as is Fifi de Angelis, a vulnerable man who has been ostracised by his family.Packed with humour, heartache and suspense, this contemporary take on the epistolary novel interweaves the different perspectives of characters whose lives become increasingly ent…
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Aug 9, 2022
POLLY PHILLIPS, HARRIET TYCE & TM LOGAN On The Sofa With Victoria
TOXIC FRIENDSHIPS: In the season 2 finale POLLY PHILLIPS (THE REUNION), HARRIET TYCE (IT ENDS AT MIDNIGHT), TM LOGAN (THE CURFEW), discuss bringing out the worst in each other, long held resentments, trigger events, gaslighting, crabs in a bucket and the white sock incident (wince).
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply** *
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Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
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Aug 6, 2022
BEV JONES (B.E.JONES) In Person With Paul
*BEVERLEY JONES*, aka B.E. Jones, chats to Paul Burke about her novels *The Beach House* and *The Wilderness* and the Firebird Pictures/Amazon Prime adaptation of *The Wilderness* starring Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson Cohen . Shout outs for Ferndale and Storyville Books in Pontypridd.
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**THE BEACH HOUSE*: When Grace Jensen returns to her home one day, she finds a body in a pool of blood and a menacing gift left for her.
The community of Lookout Beach is shocked by such a brutal intrusion in their close-knit neighbourhood - particularly to a family as successful and well-liked as the Jensens - and a police investigation to find the trespasser begins.
But Grace knows who's after her. She might have changed her name and moved across the world, deciding to hide on the Oregon coast, but she's been waiting seventeen years for what happened in the small Welsh town where she grew up to catch-up with her.
Grace might seem like the model neighbour and mother, but nobody in Lookout Beach - n…
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Aug 1, 2022
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show August 22
*HEADS TOGETHER* - the WE ARE NO LONGER REAL PEOPLE Episode - with a special feature on *St. Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend*. Paul Burke chats to Sarah Hilary about this unique event 12th-14th August in Oxford.
*BOOKING for ST. HILDA'S*
For general details and full programme here
To attend in person here
To join in online here
SARAH HILARY is a best selling author and winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award. Her stand alone psychological novel FRAGILE was published in 2021.
PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, Crime Time and the European Literature Network. He is a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022.
VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie serial killer thrillers. Her new literary crime novel Truly, Darkly, Deeply has just been published by Quercus.
BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the FT Crime Fiction Critic. His latest book SIMENON: the Man,…
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Jul 31, 2022
SCOTT BLACKBURN In Person With Paul
*SCOTT BLACKBURN* chats to Paul Burke about his Southern Rural Noir* **IT DIES WITH YOU* character, influences, the amazing Mountainview MFA (JOHN VERCHER, TED FLANAGAN), picking an agent, getting out there and selling your book.
*IT DIES WITH YOU *For nearly a decade, twenty-nine-year-old Hudson Miller has made his living in the boxing ring, but a post-fight brawl threatens to derail his career. Desperate for money, Hudson takes a gig as a bouncer at a dive bar. That's when life delivers him another hook to the jaw: his estranged father, Leland, has been murdered in what appears to be a robbery-gone-bad at his salvage yard, Miller's Pull-a-Part. Soon after his father's funeral, Hudson learns he's inherited the salvage yard, and he returns to his Bible-belt hometown of Flint Creek, North Carolina, to run the business. But the business is far more than junk cars and scrap metal. It was the site of an illegal gun-running ring. And the secrets don't end there; a grisly discovery is made…
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Jul 26, 2022
BARRY FORSHAW In Person With Paul
BARRY FORSHAW chats to Paul Burke about *SIMENON: THE MAN, THE BOOKS, THE FILMS**. *A 21st Century re-examination of SIMENON, Maigret and the Romans Durs novels, a wide ranging discussion of everything from Simenon's place in French literature to Robert Newton and Spartacus.
*SIMENON: THE MAN, THE BOOKS, THE FILMS* The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; Andre Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of our times'. Celebrated crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw's informed and lively study draws together Simenon's extraordinary life and his work on both page and screen. By the time of Simenon's death in 1989, his French detective Maigret had become an institution, rivalled only by Sherlock Holmes. The pipe-smoking Inspector of Police is a quietly spoken observer of human nature who uses the techniques of psychology on those he encounters (both the guilty and the innocent) - with no rush to moral…
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Jul 23, 2022
CRIME TIME FM ORION INCIDENT ROOM SPECIAL HARROGATE 2022
THE ORION INCIDENT ROOM ON CRIME TIME FM FEATURING:
CATE QUINN BLOOD SISTERS
JOE IDE THE GOODBYE COAST
OSCAR DE MURIEL THE SIGN OF THE DEVIL
&
MJ ARLIDGE CAT AND MOUSE
Four top Orion authors discuss their latest novels with Paul Burke as the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writers Festival gets under way.
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*Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network.*
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CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
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Jul 22, 2022
THE REVIEW SHOW JULY '22
Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for July. From surprisingly entertaining financial thriller to the daring wartime rescue of a cow, via a Californian sniper, a Japanese locked room, a couple of serial killers with a plan and a narcissistic pensioner. With apologies for any mispronunciations of Japanese, Spanish, French or even English!
THE FRACTURED TREE Justin Wheatley 7/10
THE ACCOMPLICE Steve Cavanagh 9.5
LISTEN TO ME Tess Gerritsen. 8
ALL I SAID WAS TRUE Imran Mahmood 8
THE APARTMENT UPSTAIRS Lesley Kara 8
THE ROPE JUGGLER Judson Blake 7
THE BIG DARK SKY Dean Koontz 7
THE SILK PAVILION Sarah Walton 9
SUN DAMAGE Sabine Durrant 8
MOVIELAND Lee Goldberg 9
THE LOCAL Joey Hartstone 8
HAWK MOUNTAIN Conner Habib 8
DEATH ON GOKUMON ISLAND Seishi Yokomizo 8 trans. Louise Heal Kawai
A FOREBODING OF PETRELS Steve Burrows 7
APPOINTMENT WITH VENUS Jerrard Tickell 8
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Jul 19, 2022
KARIN SLAUGHTER An In Person Special With Craig Sisterson
*KARIN SLAUGHTER* chats to Craig Sisterson about her new novel GIRL FORGOTTEN, twenty years of crime writing, the Netflix series of PIECES OF HER, crime fiction as a perfect vehicle for writing about social issues, particularly violence against women, male authors who write strong female characters & the Aussie series Neighbours & British student audience.
*GIRL FORGOTTEN*:
*A girl with a secret…*
Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for prom night, the highlight of any high school experience. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, she will be dead.
*A murder that remains a mystery…*
Forty years later, Emily’s murder remains unsolved. Her friends closed ranks, her family retreated inwards, the community moved on. But all that’s about to change.
*One final chance to uncover a killer…*
Andrea Oliver arrives in town with a simple assignment: to protect a judge receiving death threats. But her assignment is a cover. Because, in reality, Andrea is here to…
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Jul 15, 2022
GORDON KERR In Person With Paul
GORDON KERR author of BRITISH TRAITORS: Betrayal & Treachery in the Twentieth Century chats to Paul Burke about soy hysteria pre-WWI, the men and women who betrayed their country for money and ideology, The Cambridge spies, Lord Haw Haw and George Blake, not to mention his novel A Partisan Heart.
BRITISH TRAITORS Capital punishment for murder was suspended in Great Britain in 1965, an Act finally made permanent in 1969, but remained as the punishment for treason until as recently as 1998, demonstrating how seriously we take the crime of betraying your country. But even with the threat of the noose hanging over them, many still chose the path of treachery during the cataclysmic events of last century.
British Traitors examines the lives and motivations of a number of the perpetrators of this most heinous of crimes, following the footsteps of Fascist traitors such as William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) and John Amery to the gallows, investigating what drove men such as Wilfred Macartney and Jo…
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Jul 12, 2022
STEF BIERWERTH, BETHAN FERGUSON & DAVID H HEADLEY On The Sofa With Victoria
*THE JOURNEY OF A BOOK*: STEF BIERWERTH (publisher - Quercus), BETHAN FERGUSON (Head of Customer Insight - Hachette) & DAVID HEADLEY (agent, bookseller, festival organiser et al) discuss the journey of a book from submitted manuscript to positioning on the bookshop shelf. Why a great book may just not be right for the market and how much book covers matter to sales.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
Sunday Times Bestselling Author of **Truly Darkly Deeply ** *
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Jul 7, 2022
MARK OLSHAKER On The Sofa With Victoria (Special)
*MARK OLSHAKER* (MINDHUNTER) chats to Victoria about *TRULY, DARKLY, DEEPLY*, serial killers and profiling the criminal mind.
*Mark Olshaker* (born February 28, 1951) is an American author from Washington DC who frequently collaborates with FBI agent John E Douglas in writing books about criminal and investigative psychology. In 1995, they formed Mindhunters Inc. and later released MIndhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, which was made into a Netflix series Mindhunter in 2017.
*VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of **Truly Darkly Deeply** *
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Jul 3, 2022
VICTORIA SELMAN In Person With Paul
Sunday Times Bestselling author and Richard & Judy pick *VICTORIA SELMAN* chats to Paul Burke about her new psychological thriller *TRULY, DARKLY, DEEPLY*, (*UK link*), serial killers and their families, Mindhunter and losing a beloved pet.
*TRULY, DARKLY, DEEPLY** (US link) *Twelve-year-old Sophie and her mother, Amelia-Rose, move to London from Massachusetts where they meet the charismatic Matty Melgren, who quickly becomes an intrinsic part of their lives. But as the relationship between the two adults fractures, a serial killer begins targeting young women with a striking resemblance to Amelia-Rose.
When Matty is eventually sent down for multiple murder, questions remain as to his guilt -- questions which ultimately destroy both women. Nearly twenty years later, Sophie receives a letter from Battlemouth Prison informing her Matty is dying and wants to meet. It looks like Sophie might finally get the answers she craves. But will the truth set her free -- or bury her deeper?
*VICTO…
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Jul 1, 2022
JACK LUTZ In Person With Paul
*Jack Lutz* chats to Paul Burke about his new novel *LONDON IN BLACK*, dystopian murder mysteries, London's past, thriller pace, Cleopatra's Needle and a guest appearance by Jack's Mum's cat.
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**LONDON IN BLACK*: THE ATTACKS WON’T STOP. NEITHER WILL SHE.
LONDON 2027
Terrorists deploy London Black, a highly sophisticated nerve gas, at Waterloo Station. For ten percent of the population - the ‘Vulnerables’ - exposure means near-certain death. Only a lucky few survive.
LONDON 2029
Copy-cat strikes plague the city, its Vulnerable inhabitants kept safe by regular Boost injections. As the anniversary of the first attacks draws near, DI Lucy Stone, a guilt-ridden Vulnerable herself, is called to investigate a gruesome murder of a scientist. Her investigation soon unearths the possibility that he was working on an antidote – one that Lucy desperately needs, as her Boosts become less and less effective.
But is the antidote real? And can Lucy solve the case before her Boosts stop worki…
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Jun 27, 2022
KATE BENDELOW & GRAHAM BARTLETT On The Sofa With Victoria
*Police Advisors*: Kate Bendelow - THE REAL CSI (Fact) DEFINITELY DEAD (Fict.) & Graham Bartlett - BAD FOR GOOD (Fict) discuss weaving authenticity into crime fiction and common mistakes writers make.
*Kate Bendelow* has been a serving Crime Scene Investigator with Greater Manchester Police for fifteen years, during which time she has worked on countless crime scenes ranging from burglary and armed robbery, to rape, arson and murder. Kate also delivers lectures to writers seeking inside knowledge and is a creative writer and performance poet.
*Graham Bartlett* is former detective and Chief Superintendent of Brighton Police. He is now a crime fiction and police advisor to authors and TV writers.
For more information on Police Advisors Graham and Kate and courses check out: https://policeadvisor.co.uk/events/
VICTORIA SELMAN
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Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
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Jun 24, 2022
LAURIE PETROU In Person With Paul
Canadian author *LAURIE PETROU* chats to Paul Burke about her new novel *STARGAZER*, Toxic Friendships, the limits of art and canoes.
*STARGAZER* Diana Martin has lived her life in the shadow of her sadistic older brother. She quietly watches the family next door, enthralled by celebrity fashion designer Marianne Taylor and her feted daughter, Aurelle.
She wishes she were a 'Taylor girl'.
By the summer of 1995, the two girls are at university together, bonded by a mutual desire to escape their wealthy families and personal tragedies and forge new identities.
They are closer than lovers, intoxicated by their own bond, falling into the hedonistic seduction of the woods and the water at a remote university that is more summer camp than campus.
But when burgeoning artist Diana has a chance at fame, cracks start to appear in their friendship. To what lengths is Diana willing to go to secure her own stardom?
SELECTED AS ONE OF COSMOPOLITAN'S HOTTEST NEW BEACH READS FOR SUMMER 2022
'A stun…
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Jun 21, 2022
ALAN PARKS In Person With Paul
*ALAN PARKS* chats to Paul Burke about his new novel May God Forgive, winning an Edgar, Glasgow and boredom in the music business.
*MAY GOD FORGIVE* Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack on a hairdresser's has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high.
When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A crowd gathers outside the courthouse but as the police drive the young men to prison, the van is rammed by a truck, and the men are grabbed and bundled into a car. The next day, the body of one of them is dumped in the city centre. A note has been sent to the newspaper: one down, two to go.
Detective Harry McCoy has twenty-four hours to find the kidnapped boys before they all turn up dead, and it is going to mean taking down some of Glasgow's most powerful people to do it . . .
*Alan Parks* worked in the music business for twenty years before he turned to crime writing. Initially he managed up- and-coming bands before moving into the creative side of the…
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Jun 13, 2022
EVA BJÖRG ÆGISDOTTIR & WILL DEAN On The Sofa With Victoria
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir (NIGHT SHADOWS) & Will Dean (BAD APPLES) discuss Nordic Noir with Victoria, it's appeal, landscape as a character and the psychological element of Scandinavian fiction. Expect chills...
VICTORIA SELMAN
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Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
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Jun 12, 2022
Review Show Addendum - The Ones I Missed June22
*The Review Show Addendum *- Salving my conscience for a few print reviews on books I never got round to when I read them. Brief comments on some of the great crime novels of late 2021 early 22.
*Reviews*
The Dark Flood Deon Meyer trans. KL Seegers
Lemon Kwon Yeo-sun trans. Janet Hong
I Am the Tiger John Arvide Lindquist trans. Marlaine Delargy
Night Hunters Oliver Bottini trans. Jamie Bulloch
Rizzio Denise Mina
The Stoning Peter Papathanasiou
The Commandments Óskar Guðmundsson trans. Quentin Bates
River Clyde Simone Buchholz trans Rachel Ward
You can order any of these books through Bookshop.org by clicking the relevant link above, thank you.
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Jun 8, 2022
Crime Time FM Review Show - June 22
Paul Burke reviews May's new crime fiction releases:
Click the relevant link to order the book of your choice through Bookshop.org
THE ISLAND Adrian McKinty
TO KILL A TROUBADOUR Martin Walker
THE COMPANION Lesley Thomson
THE DARK TIDE Simon McCleave
KILLING ME SOFTLY Guy Hale
DO NO HARM Jack Jordan
THE SANCTUARY Andrew Hunter Murray
LACUNA Fiona Snyckers
MARINA BAY SINS, RICH KILL, POOR KILL, & BLOODY FOREIGNERS Neil Humphreys
THE PHARMACIST Rachelle Atalla
UNTIL I FIND YOU Anna Smith
THE FINAL ROUND Bernard O'Keeffe
&
DAUGHTER Liz Webb
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Jun 6, 2022
TOM WATSON In Person With Paul
Debut author *Tom Watson* chats to Paul Burke about his dystopian thriller *METRONOME*, 1984, featuring on BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS, hiking in the Peak District and Sheep.
*METRONOME* Not all that is hidden is lost.
For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they must take for survival every eight hours. They've kept busy - Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with his sculptures and maps - but something is not right.
Shipwrecks have begun washing up, and their supply drops have stopped. And on the day they're meant to be collected for parole, the Warden does not come. Instead there's a sheep. But sheep can't swim.
As days pass, Aina begins to suspect that their prison is part of a peninsula, and that Whitney has been keeping secrets. And if he's been keeping secrets, maybe she should too. Convinced they've been abandoned, she starts investigating ways she might escape. As she comes…
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Jun 3, 2022
JOACHIM B SCHMIDT In Person With Paul
*JOACHIM B SCHMIDT* chats to Paul Burke about his new novel *KALMANN*, set in Iceland, translated from the German by Jamie Lee Searle.
*KALMANN* is the self-appointed Sheriff of Raufarhöfn. Day by day, he treks the wide plains which surround the almost deserted village, hunts Arctic foxes and lays bait in the sea ― to catch the gigantic Greenland sharks he turns into the Icelandic fermented delicacy, hákarl. There is nothing anyone need worry about. Kalmann has everything under control. Inside his head, however, the wheels sometimes spin backwards. One winter, after he discovers a pool of blood in the snow, the swiftly unfolding events threaten to overwhelm him. But he knows that his native wisdom and pure-hearted courage will see him through. There really is no need to worry. How can anything go wrong with Kalmann in charge? He knows everything a man needs to know about life – well almost.
*Joachim B. Schmidt*, born in 1981, emigrated from Switzerland to Iceland in 2007. He is…
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May 30, 2022
LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON & ABIR MUKHERJEE On The Sofa With Victoria
HISTORICAL CRIME FICTION:
*Laura Shepherd-Robinson* (DAUGHTERS OF NIGHT) & *Abir Mukherjee* (THE SHADOWS OF MEN) discuss tackling research, brining a period to life, and escaping with awards through the Calcutta sewage system.
VICTORIA SELMAN
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Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
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Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
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Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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May 29, 2022
KATHY WANG In Person With Paul
*KATHY WANG* chats to Paul Burke about her spy thriller IMPOSTER SYNDROME, Silicon Valley, perceptions of women in power, satire and writing a good villain.
IMPOSTER SYNDROME: Julia Lerner is one of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley and an icon to professional women across the country. She is the COO of Tangerine, one of America's biggest technology companies. She is also a Russian spy. Julia has been carefully groomed to reach the upper echelons of the company and use Tangerine's software to covertly funnel information back to Russia's largest intelligence agency.
Alice Lu works as a low-level analyst within Tangerine, having never quite managed to climb the corporate ladder. One afternoon, when performing a server check, Alice discovers some unusual activity and is burdened with two powerful but distressing suspicions: Tangerine's privacy settings aren't as rigorous as the company claims they are and the person abusing this loophole might be Julia Lerner herself. Now, she m…
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May 27, 2022
HEADS TOGETHER SPECIAL CRIMEFEST 22
This *HEADS TOGETHER SPECIAL* features chat about the 15th CrimeFest held in Bristol recently - boy was it good to get back to meeting people again and discussing crime fiction.
Naturally, we haven't forgotten the round up of books to look out for and our podcast updates but mostly this is a celebration of *CRIMEFEST*, a triumphant return after two years away. Guests/presenters on the show: Donna Moore CrimeFest organiser, Ayo Onatade Shotsblog/critic, Victoria Selman author, Barry Forshaw FT critic, Luke McCallin author and Paul Burke.
CRIMEFEST - The CrimeFest Awards, The CWA Dagger Awards Shortlist, Panels, interviews and events. Top guests including Robert Goddard, Andrew Child, Zoe Sharp, Martin Edwards, Anne Cleeve, Saima Mir, Barry Forshaw, Holly Watt, Tim Glister, Mark Ellis, Vaseem Khan, Kia Abdullah et al. Click the link to find out more CrimeFest
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May 25, 2022
CLAIRE MCGOWAN In Person With Paul
*CLAIRE MCGOWAN* chats to Paul Burke about her account of 8 missing women in Ireland who disappeared between 1993-98. THE VANISHING TRIANGLE speaks to the tragedy and lasting trauma of their cases but also how much these disappearance/murders reflect on society. Some of these women were probably murdered by people they knew but was there also a serial killer operating at the time?
*THE VANISHING TRIANGLE* Ireland in the 1990s seemed a safe place for women. With the news dominated by the Troubles, it was easy to ignore non-political murders and sexual violence, to trust that you weren’t going to be dragged into the shadows and killed. But beneath the surface, a far darker reality had taken hold.
Through questioning the society and circumstances that allowed eight young women to vanish without a trace―no conclusion or conviction, no resolution for their loved ones―bestselling crime novelist Claire McGowan delivers a candid investigation into the culture of secrecy, victim-blaming…
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May 16, 2022
CAZ FREAR & WILLIAM SHAW On The Sofa With Victoria
*POLICE PROCEDURALS (COP THRILLERS)*. Caz Frear (SWEET LITTLE LIES) and William Shaw (DS CUPIDI and BREEN & TOZER) discuss procedurals, the rise of the armchair detective and riding in Peter James' police car.
VICTORIA SELMAN
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Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
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Crime Time
*TRULY, DARKLY, DEEPLY** - VICTORIA SELMAN *coming 7/7/22
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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May 13, 2022
NICOLA UPSON In Person With Paul
*NICOLA UPSON* chats to Paul Burke about *DEAR LITTLE CORPSES*, Josephine Tey, Margery Allingham, WWII, Golden Age crime, the Hitchcocks and Gielguds, not so cosy emotions and the fun of writing.
*DEAR LITTLE CORPSES*: It takes a village to bury a child.
1 September, 1939. As the mass evacuation takes place across Britain, thousands of children leave London for the countryside, but when a little girl vanishes without trace, the reality of separation becomes more desperate and more deadly for those who love her.
In the chaos and uncertainty of war, Josephine struggles with the prospect of change. As a cloud of suspicion falls across the small Suffolk village she has come to love, the conflict becomes personal, and events take a dark and sinister turn.
NICOLA UPSON's debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels whose main character is Josephine Tey, who - along with Agatha Christie - was one of the masters of Britain's Golden Age of crime writing. She was…
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May 10, 2022
JAMES WOLFF In Person With Paul
JAMES WOLFF chats to Paul Burke about his two novels *BESIDE THE SYRIAN SEA** *&* **HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY*, frequencies of conflict, spies are real people and what makes a literary spy novel.
*BESIDE THE SYRIAN SEA*: Jonas works for the UK secret service as an intelligence analyst. When his father is kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS gunmen in Syria, he takes matters into his own hands and begins to steal the only currency he has access to: secret government intelligence. He heads to Beirut with a haul of the most sensitive documents imaginable and recruits an unlikely ally – an alcoholic Swiss priest named Father Tobias. Despite barely surviving his previous contact with ISIS, Tobias agrees to travel into the heart of the Islamic State and inform the kidnappers that Jonas is willing to negotiate for his father’s life. When the British and American governments realise they may be dealing with betrayal on a scale far greater than that of Edward Snowden, they try everything…
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May 6, 2022
BEN CREED In Person With Paul
CHRIS RICKABY & BARNEY THOMPSON, aka *BEN CREED* chat to Paul Burke about *A TRAITOR'S HEART** *their new historical thriller featuring post WWII Leningrad and detective Revol Rossel.
*A TRAITOR'S HEART *Winter, 1952: Leningrad's icy streets are haunted by a murderer. The name is whispered everywhere – Koshchei has returned, the people say, Koshchei the Immortal. Koshchei, named after a sinister figure from Slavic folklore, is an invisible killer who cuts out the tongue of his victims and replaces it with a scroll of paper containing a few lines of what seems to be Italian verse.
Three thousand kilometres away in a labour colony above the Arctic Circle, threatened by the Thieves who rule the camp, former militia lieutenant Revol Rossel is close to death. As helicopter blades whip the snow into hallucinatory flurries, Rossel watches the arrival of a saviour he hates: Major Nikitin, the man who once cut off the former virtuoso violinist's fingers.
Along with skilled aviator Tanya 'Vas…
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May 2, 2022
SHARI LAPENA & GYTHA LODGE On The Sofa With Victoria
*THRILLERS: SHARI LAPENA (NOT A HAPPY FAMILY) & GYTHA LODGE (LIE BESIDE ME)* discuss THRILLER WRITING on The Sofa With Victoria. What makes a good thriller, raising the stakes and building suspense.
VICTORIA SELMAN
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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May 1, 2022
JOSEPH KNOX In Person With Paul
*JOSEPH KNOX* chats to Paul Burke about his novel TRUE CRIME STORY, male violence and misogyny, the pitfalls of making yourself a malign presence in your own fiction and insomnia.
TRUE CRIME STORY In the early hours of Saturday 17 December 2011, Zoe Nolan, a nineteen-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for three months.
She was never seen again.
Seven years after her disappearance, struggling writer Evelyn Mitchell finds herself drawn into the mystery. Through interviews with Zoe's closest friends and family, she begins piecing together what really happened in 2011. But where some versions of events overlap, aligning perfectly with one another, others stand in stark contrast, giving rise to troubling inconsistencies.
Shaken by revelations of Zoe's secret life, and stalked by a figure from the shadows, Evelyn turns to crime writer Joseph Knox to help make sense of a case where everyone has some…
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Apr 29, 2022
HEATHER YOUNG & PETER MURPHY In Person With Paul
In 2 separate interviews authors Heather Young THE DISTANT DEAD and Peter Murphy TO BECOME AN OUTLAW discuss their new novels.
*Heather Young* is author of two novels, The Lost Girls and THE DISTANT DEAD (EDGAR NOMINATED). Heather lives with her family in Mill Valley, California.
THE DISTANT DEAD: A body burns in the desert... Does the boy who found it know more than it seems?
Sal Prentiss, orphaned and burdened with a terrible secret, just wants a place to belong. Sal lives with his uncles on a desolate ranch in the hills, and finds himself at the centre of a brutal murder mystery when he discovers the body of his maths teacher, charred almost beyond recognition, half a mile from his uncles' compound.
In the seven months he worked at Lovelock's middle school, the quiet and seemingly unremarkable Adam Merkel had formed a bond with Sal and was one of the few people to look out for the boy.
Nora Wheaton, the school's social studies teacher, sensed a kindred spirit in Adam - another sou…
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Apr 26, 2022
DON WINSLOW In Person With Paul
*DON WINSLOW* chats to Paul Burke about his new novel CITY ON FIRE, Rhode Island, the Iliad, Helen of Troy, borders, gangsters, Africa, Jane Austen and getting set up by Ken Bruen.
*CITY ON FIRE**:
*Providence, RI, 1986.
Twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ryan is a hard-working longshoreman, loving husband, loyal friend, and occasional “muscle” for the Irish crime syndicate that oversees much of the city. He yearns for something more and dreams of starting over fresh, someplace far away.
But when a modern-day Helen of Troy triggers a war between rival mob factions, Danny is embroiled in a conflict he can’t escape. Now it is up to him to step into the breach to protect his family, the friends who are closer to him than brothers, and the only home he’s ever known.
*Don Winslow* is the author of nineteen acclaimed, award-winning, international bestsellers – including the No. 1 international bestseller The Cartel, winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, The Power of the Dog, Sava…
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Apr 24, 2022
GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL Welsh Crime Fiction
*ALIS HAWKINS (Not One of Us), GAIL 'GB' WILLIAMS (The Chair) & PHILIP GWYNNE JONES (Vengeance in Venice) chat to Victoria and Paul about all things Welsh crime fiction and the Gwyl Crime Cyrmu Festival - 27-29th April & 2-4th May.
Featuring:
The Daniel Morgan murder, Mark Billingham, Ann Cleave, Mark Ellis, Elly Griffiths, Cathy Ace, Vaseem Khan, Abir Mukherjee, Chris Lloyd, Matt Johnson and many more...
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*For festival tickets:
**GWYL CRIME CYMRU**
https://gwylcrimecymrufestival.co.uk/
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*For information on Welsh crime writers:
**CRIME CYMRU**
https://crime.cymru/*
*Recommendations*
*Wilderness - B.E. Jones
The Lake Vyrney Killings - Simon McCleave (DI Ruth Hunter series)
Hard Return Rosie Claverton (Amy Lane mysteries)
Fortuna's Deadly Shadow & Fatal Solution - Leslie Scase
Victoria Selman is the author of the Ziba McKenzie Serial killer novels and Truly, Darkly, Deeply coming in July.
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**Paul Burke wri…
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Apr 18, 2022
EMMA VISKIC & CHRIS HAMMER On The Sofa With Victoria
*AUSTRALIAN CRIME FICTION*: CHRIS HAMMER (SCRUBLANDS & OPAL COUNTRY) & EMMA VISKIC (THOSE WHO PERISH out April - CALEB ZELIC SERIES) discuss the appeal of Outback Noir, aka Southern Cross Crime, aka Dingo Noir On The Sofa With Victoria.
VICTORIA SELMAN
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Apr 13, 2022
NICK TRIPLOW In Person With Paul - Part 2 The Golden Decade
*Part 2 - The Golden Decade*. GETTING CARTER author *NICK TRIPLOW* chats to Paul Burke about Ted Lewis and Brit Noir as No Exit Press reissue 2 of his classic novels* Jack Carter's Law* and *Billy Rags**.* In this second part we discuss the novels of Ted Lewis from Plender to GBH, the film Yellow Submarine, tv cop show Z Cars and Mary Whitehouse.
*NICK TRIPLOW* GETTING CARTER: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir is a meticulously researched and riveting account of the career of a doomed genius. Long-time admirer Nick Triplow has fashioned a thorough, sympathetic and unsparing narrative. Required reading for noirists, this book will enthral and move anyone who finds irresistible the old cocktail of rags to riches to rags. Nick is also the author of the novel Frank's Wild Years.
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Jack Carter's Law* * Ted Lewis *returns to his greatest invention, a smooth-operating hardcase named Jack Carter, who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant... London. The late 1960s. I…
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Apr 12, 2022
NICK TRIPLOW In Person With Paul - Part 1 Getting Carter.
Part 1 - GETTING CARTER. Author NICK TRIPLOW chats to Paul Burke about Ted Lewis and Brit Noir as No Exit Press reissue 2 Lewis novels Jack Carter's Law and Billy Rags, (Plender & GBH came out last year). In this first part Nick talks about his biography of Lewis, the author's background, influences and debut crime novel Jack's Return Home, filmed as Get Carter.
GETTING CARTER: The story of Ted Lewis carries historical and cultural resonances for our own troubled times Get Carter are two words to bring a smile of fond recollection to all British film lovers of a certain age. The cinema classic was based on a book called Jack's Return Home, and many commentators agree contemporary British crime writing began with that novel. The influence of both book and film is strong to this day, reflected in the work of David Peace, Jake Arnott and a host of contemporary crime & noir authors. But what of the man who wrote this seminal work? Ted Lewis is one of the most important writers you've neve…
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Apr 8, 2022
TIMOTHY J LOCKHART In person With Paul
*TIMOTHY J LOCKHART* chats to Paul Burke about UNLUCKY MONEY, Norfolk Virginia, hardboiled crime and Brit Grit.
UNLUCKY MONEY When Chinese American private-eye Wendy Lu takes on her first murder case, she doesn’t realize how dangerous it’s going to be. Probing into the murder of Susan Fontaine, the wife of her client, wealthy real-estate developer Whit Fontaine—the primary suspect in the case—Wendy fights to prove he was framed. Wendy used to be a cop but quit after a rookie mistake caused the death of her partner. Now she leads a more traditional life, dealing with her guilt, feeling she has disappointed her parents. Yet despite hostility from Fontaine’s arrogant business partner, opposition from the police, and violent threats on her life, she perseveres in the case.And that’s when Wendy discovers things that Fontaine, his partner Tom McKenna, and even Ryan Connolly, the police detective in charge of the murder investigation, would like to keep secret—that Fontaine-McK…
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Apr 4, 2022
SOPHIE HANNAH, GILLIAN McALLISTER & JP DELANEY On The Sofa With Victoria Part.2
*HIGH CONCEPT - PSYCHE SUSPENSE PART 2*
Sophie Hannah (The Couple at the Table), Gillian McAllister (Wrong Place, Wrong Time) and JP Delaney (The Girl Before) discuss high concept thrillers with Victoria Selman. What is high concept and why are we so gripped by the premise of some novels? The difference between high concept and big concept.
VICTORIA SELMAN
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Mar 30, 2022
BOGDAN HRIB In Person With Paul - Part 2
*Part II:* *BOGDAN HRIB* chats to Paul Burke about RESILIENCE, Romanian crime fiction, politics in Eastern Europe, translation Romanian to English and vice versa and coffee culture.
RESILIENCE Stelian Munteanu has had enough of fixing other people’s problems: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work.
But when a notorious Romanian businessman asks him to investigate the death of his daughter in the north of England, he reluctantly gets involved once more. This time it turns into a tangled web of shady business dealings and international politics.
Moving rapidly between London, Newcastle, Bucharest and Iasi, Resilience shows just how easy and dangerous it is to fall prey to fake news and social media manipulation.
Translated by Marina Sofia.
*Bogdan Hrib has worked as a journalist photographer and publisher of both academic books and fiction. He is the vice-president of the Romanian Crime Writers Club and the director of the International Mys…
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Mar 28, 2022
BOGDAN HRIB In Person With Paul PART 1
*BOGDAN HRIB* chats to Paul Burke about RESILIENCE, Romanian crime fiction, politics in Eastern Europe, translation Romanian to English and vice versa and coffee culture.
RESILIENCE Stelian Munteanu has had enough of fixing other people’s problems: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work.
But when a notorious Romanian businessman asks him to investigate the death of his daughter in the north of England, he reluctantly gets involved once more. This time it turns into a tangled web of shady business dealings and international politics.
Moving rapidly between London, Newcastle, Bucharest and Iasi, Resilience shows just how easy and dangerous it is to fall prey to fake news and social media manipulation.
Translated by Marina Sofia.
*Bogdan Hrib has worked as a journalist photographer and publisher of both academic books and fiction. He is the vice-president of the Romanian Crime Writers Club and the director of the International Mystery and Th…
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Mar 25, 2022
TED FLANAGAN In Person With Paul
*TED FLANAGAN* chats to Paul Burke about *EVERY HIDDEN THING*, being a paramedic, local journalism, the Ribbon Creek Incident and the correct pronunciation of Woosta.
*EVERY HIDDEN THING*: The last scion of a once-powerful political family, Worcester mayor John O'Toole has his sights set on vastly higher aspirations. When night shift paramedic Thomas Archer uncovers a secret that could upend the mayor's career, O'Toole is set on silencing him, and sends Eamon Conroy, a brutal former cop, to ensure the truth remains under wraps. But O'Toole doesn't stop there. With bribes, buried secrets, and personal attacks, he wreaks havoc on Archer's life in an attempt to save himself. Archer's troubles continue to mount when domestic terrorist and militia member Gerald Knak, who blames Archer for his wife's recent death, sets in motion a deadly plan for revenge. With two forces of evil aligned against him, Archer doesn't stand a chance. But things aren't always what they seem - and he may just hav…
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Mar 21, 2022
SOPHIE HANNAH, GILLIAN MCALLISTER & JP DELANEY On The Sofa With Victoria Part.1
*HIGH CONCEPT - PSYCHE SUSPENSE PART 1*
Sophie Hannah (The Couple at the Table), Gillian McAllister (Wrong Place, Wrong Time) and JP Delaney (The Girl Before) discuss high concept thrillers with Victoria Selman. What is high concept and why are we so gripped by the premise of some novels?
VICTORIA SELMAN
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Mar 18, 2022
ALTERNATIVE ULSTER NOIR - TAKEOVER
The Alternative Ulster Noir Collective takeover Crime Time FM for an episode of mayhem and good craic from Northern Ireland. Simon Maltman chats to the other contributors to the Alternative Ulster Noir: NI Crime Stories Inspired by NI Music.
ALTERNATIVE ULSTER NOIR: A collection of seven new NI crime short stories inspired by NI music.
Enjoy a diverse anthology of work from some of the best NI thriller writers featuring Colin Bateman, Stuart Neville, Sharon Dempsey, Gerard Brennan, Kelly Creighton and James Murphy. Curated and edited by Simon Maltman, with one of his own new stories included. This collection was inspired by local artists including The Undertones, Van Morrison, Ash, Snow Patrol, Therapy? and more.
Produced by Simon Maltman & Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
*Paul Burke (who isn't here but will be back next week - hopefully) writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine and the European Literature Network and edits/presents Crime T…
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Mar 18, 2022
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show March, 22.
*HEADS TOGETHER* - the monthly magazine show on *CRIME TIME FM*. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the latest podcasts, crime writing festivals, character, originality and new Blu-rays of TV classics OUT & FOX.
PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.
VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie serial killer thrillers. Her new literary crime novel Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.
BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the FT Crime Fiction Critic.
The Watchlist:
Tove Alsterdal We Know You Remember
Javier Cercas Even the Darkest Night
Amen Alonge A Good Day to Die
Stuart Neville The House of Ashes
CM Ewan The Interview
Charlie Higson Whatever Gets You Through the Night
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**Crime Time*…
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Mar 14, 2022
WILLIAM BOYLE In Person With Paul
*WILLIAM BOYLE* chats to Paul Burke about his novel *SHOOT THE MOONLIGHT OUT**,* Noir, Haunted Catholicism, watching Blue Velvet at twelve and Oxford, Mississippi.
*SHOOT THE MOONLIGHT OUT** *An explosive crime drama, evokes a mystical Brooklyn where the sidewalks are cracked, where Virgin Mary statues tilt in fenced front yards, and where smudges of moonlight reflect in puddles even on the blackest nights.
Southern Brooklyn, July 1996. Fire hydrants are open and spraying water on the sizzling blacktop. Punk kids have to make their own fun. Bobby Santovasco and his pal Zeke like to throw rocks at cars getting off the Belt Parkway. They think it's dumb and harmless until it's too late to think otherwise. Then there's Jack Cornacchia, a widower who lives with his high school age daughter Amelia and reads meters for Con Ed but also has a secret life as a vigilante, righting neighborhood wrongs through acts of violence. A simple mission to strong-arm a Bay Ridge con man, Max Berry, leads…
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Mar 11, 2022
ROBERT J LLOYD In Person With Paul
*ROBERT J LLOYD* chats to Paul Burke about his philosophical historical crime novel BLOODLESS BOY, scientist/detective Robert Hooke and getting published with a helping hand from Christopher Fowler.
BLOODLESS BOY: The City of London, 1678. New Year's Day. The body of a young boy, drained of his blood and with a sequence of numbers inscribed on his skin, is discovered on the snowy bank of the Fleet River. With London gripped by hysteria, where rumors of Catholic plots and sinister foreign assassins abound, Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey, the powerful Justice of Peace for Westminster, is certain of Catholic guilt in the crime. He enlists Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments of the Royal Society, and his assistant, Harry Hunt, to help his enquiry. Sir Edmund confides to Hooke that the bloodless boy is not the first to have been discovered. He also presents Hooke with a cipher that was left on the body. That same morning Henry Oldenburg, the Secretary of the Royal Society, blows his brains o…
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Mar 7, 2022
JENNIFER REESE & MARK OLSHAKER On The Sofa With Victoria
*PROFILING: Criminologist Jennifer Reese & Mark Olshaker (Mindhunter) discuss the portrayal of serial killers in popular culture and what drives our fascination with them.
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"Are we as bad as the worst things we have done?"
Is Dexter a serial killer?
Did life imitate art? The birth of profiling in fiction.
The police officer at your elbow test.
VICTORIA SELMAN
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Mar 5, 2022
CHARLIE HIGSON In Person With Paul
*CHARLIE HIGSON* chats to Paul Burke about his new adult novel *WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT,* character, Pantocrator, comedy is the spice of life and shaking up the Tupperware box.
*WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT*: Most people travel to Corfu to escape the real world for a couple of weeks and embrace the fantasy of olive trees, sandy beaches, and little fishing boats bobbing on sparkling blue water under a warm sun.
But not McIntyre. McIntyre's a fixer, specialising in getting people out of places they don't want to be with the minimum of fuss, publicity and violence. The job in Corfu should be easy - spring, Lauren, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, from the luxury compound of the tech billionaire, Julian Hepworth. Hepworth's young, handsome and charismatic - he's also a suspected paedophile, who, under the guise of training a girls' tennis team, has set up an abusive cult.
But as McIntyre sets up his operation in the exclusive north eastern corner of the island, things quickly…
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Mar 2, 2022
HEATHER MARTIN In Person With Paul
*DR HEATHER MARTIN* chats to Paul Burke about her biography of Lee Child:
*THE REACHER GUY* and the Jack Reacher novels.
*THE REACHER GUY* (Constable) Lee Child is the enigmatic powerhouse behind the phenomenally successful Jack Reacher novels. With devoted fans across the globe, and over a hundred million copies of his books sold in more than forty languages, he is that rarity, a writer who is both critically acclaimed and adored by readers. And yet curiously little has been written about the man himself.
The Reacher Guy shows us for the first time the young man behind the invention of Jack Reacher. Through parallels drawn between Child and his literary creation, it tells the story of how a lost and lonely boy from Birmingham with a ferocious appetite for reading grew up to become a high-flying TV executive, before coming full circle and establishing himself as an internationally bestselling author.
Heather Martin explores Child's lifelong fascination with America - and shows how the…
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Feb 24, 2022
HANNAH KING In Person With Paul
*HANNAH KING* chats to Paul Burke about her debut novel *SHE AND I*, her characters Keeley and Jude, class, being post troubles generation, judging others and how much is up to the reader to complete the novel
*SHE AND I* : Keeley and Jude are closer than blood. They share everything: clothes, secrets, drinks - and blame. So when they wake up after a New Year's party to find Keeley's boyfriend stabbed to death beside them, they agree to share one more thing: the story they'll tell the police.
But who is their story really meant to protect?
As the murder investigation begins to send uncomfortable ripples through their community, the history of the girls' claustrophobic relationship comes under scrutiny, will the girls find there's such a thing as sharing too much?
*Hannah King *is a writer from Co. Down, where she lives with her partner and their dogs. She and I is her first novel.
Recommendations
Afterlife
Roald Dahl
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Feb 21, 2022
CRIME CRITICS On The Sofa With Victoria
Crime Critics On The Sofa Wth Victoria: *Barry Forshaw* Financial Times, *Jake Kerridge* The Telegraph and *Jon Coates* The Express discuss what makes a crime novel really stand out for them.
BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the Financial Times Crime Fiction Critic.
JAKE KERRIDGE writes about books and the like for The Telegraph and the like..
JON COATES Journalist, book reviewer and travel writer, currently deputy news editor of the Sunday Express
VICTORIA SELMAN
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023…
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Feb 17, 2022
PAUL VIDICH & TIM SHIPMAN In Person With Paul
PAUL VIDICH Cold War spy thriller writer, TIM SHIPMAN Chief Political Commentator for The Sunday Times and Paul Burke discuss Vidich's new novel THE MATCHMAKER and all things spy fiction related. Including an exclusive announcement of the highest placed living author on Tim Shipman's 120 top spy writers (Spybrary)
THE MATCHMAKER: Berlin, 1989. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee Committee, thinks she is in a normal marriage with a charming East German. But then her husband disappears and the CIA and Western German intelligence arrive at her door. Nothing about her marriage is as it seems.
Anne had been targeted by the Matchmaker - a high level East German counterintelligence officer - who runs a network of Stasi agents. These agents are his 'Romeos' who marry vulnerable women in West Berlin to provide them with cover as they report back to the Matchmaker. Anne has been married to a spy, and now he has disappeared, and is presumably dead.…
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Feb 15, 2022
AMEN ALONGE In Person With Paul
*AMEN ALONGE* chats to Paul Burke about his blistering debut A GOOD DAY TO DIE, Pretty Boy, London, Lagos, body count and character.
*A GOOD DAY TO DIE*: *Meet Pretty Boy. Vengeance is on his mind.*
*His real name:*
Unknown
*His code of conduct:*
Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.
Never underestimate the enemy.
Above all, survive. There is no glory in death.
*His mission:*
It's been ten years since Pretty Boy left the big city - today he's back. No one knows why, but it's clear that revenge is on his mind: he is determined to make the person responsible for his exile from the London scene finally pay. But his plans seem derailed when he takes possession of a bracelet, unaware that its original owner has set a high price for its safe return. Suddenly, the hunter becomes the hunted and Pretty Boy will have to find out if it is indeed a 'good day to die'.
AMEN ALONGE was born in Lagos and moved to London as a teenager almost twenty years ago. He took a Master's Degree at Heriot-Wat…
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Feb 14, 2022
THE BOOK REVIEW SHOW JANUARY/FEBRUARY 22
*Paul Burke reviews January and February crime fiction:*
A killing in November Simon Mason - Riverrun
Faceless Vanda Symon - Orenda
Payback Mike Lupica - No Exit Press
All Was Lost Stuart Maxwell - Pushkin
She and I Hannah King - Bloomsbury Raven
The Long Weekend Gilly Macmillan - Century
We Know You Remember Tove Alsterdal - Faber and Faber
Real Easy Marie Rutkoski - Tinder
One for Sorrow Helen Fields - Avon
Her Last Holiday CL Taylor - Avon
A Good Day to Die Amen Alonge - Quercus
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Crime Time
Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine and the European Literature Network and edits/presents Crime Time FM.
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Feb 7, 2022
CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD & BRIAN MCGILLOWAY On The Sofa with Victoria
*IRISH CRIME FICTION*
*Brian McGilloway* (BLOOD TIES out now and EMPTY ROOM March 31st) and *Catherine* *Ryan Howard* (56 DAYS) discuss what it is about Ireland that lends itself so well to crime.
VICTORIA SELMAN
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Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Feb 2, 2022
BARRY'S BLU-RAYS - Featuring an interview with TIM LUCAS
The star guest for this month’s Barry’s Blu-rays is one of the pioneers of serious genre film criticism, *TIM LUCAS* is now in his 50th year as a published writer. He’s an award-winning biographer (*MARIO BAVA - ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK*), magazine founder/editor (*VIDEO WATCHDOG*), novelist (the cult classic *THROAT SPROCKETS*), and a popular silver disc audio commentator.
The full text of Barry's interview with Tim Lucas is available on Crime Time.
BARRY FORSHAW is fiction critic for the Financial Times and provides extras for Blu-rays. Books include Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, the Keating Award-winning Brit Noir, British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (also a Keating winner), British Gothic Cinema, Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation, Sex and Film and BFI Classics: War of the Worlds. He edits Crime Time.
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Feb 2, 2022
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show January, 22.
*HEADS TOGETHER* - the monthly magazine show on *CRIME TIME FM*. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the latest podcasts, crime writing festivals and the film Woman In A Cage,
PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.
VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie serial killer thrillers. Her new literary crime novel Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.
BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the FT Crime Fiction Critic.
The Watchlist:
The Twyford Code Janice Hallett
Real Easy Marie Rutkoski
Lights Out in Lincolnwood Geoff Rodkey
The Maid Nita Prose
Opal Country Chris Hammer
When Ghosts Come Home Wiley Cash
The Heretic Liam McIlvanney
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Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gw…
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Jan 29, 2022
DEAN KOONTZ In Person With Paul
Literary legend *DEAN KOONTZ* chats to Paul Burke about his new novel QUICKSILVER, humour, character, writing organically, keeping it fresh and the value of reading books. He gives us a sneak preview of his next novel, The Big Dark Sky, (summer 2022).
QUICKSILVER
Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery―abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of “strange magnetism.” It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life.
During a shoot-out at a forlorn dude ranch, he finally meets his destined companions: Bridget Rainking, a beauty as gifted in foresight as she is with firearms, and her grandpa Sparky, a romance novelist wi…
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Jan 24, 2022
JOHN MARRS & ADAM HAMDY On The Sofa With Victoria
2/2: BOOKS TO FILM Adam Hamdy (Black 13, Red Wolves) and John Marrs (The One, What Lies Between Us) discuss adapting books to film. What's it like seeing your book come to life on the screen, how TV has changed the way we read and what authors can learn from film.
VICTORIA SELMAN
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Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Jan 22, 2022
FRANK GARDNER In Person With Paul
FRANK GARDNER chats to Paul Burke about his explosive thriller OUTBREAK, out now in paperback, protagonist Luke Carlton, the zeitgeist and hitting the crocodiles closest to the canoe.
OUTBREAK: Deep within the Arctic Circle, three scientists from the UK's Arctic Research Station trudge through a blizzard in search of shelter. They see a cabin ahead. It appears abandoned. No lights. No snowmobile outside. But as they push open the door, the smell hits them. Rank and foetid: there's something bad inside.
Then movement. A man lies slumped, his face disfigured by livid pustules. Blood runs from his nostrils; his chest glistens blackly. The team's medic, Dr Sheila Mackenzie, pushes forward to examine him when the convulsions start. Blood, bile and mucus spray into the air. The doctor knows it's too late - she's been contaminated . . .
Within hours, a full-scale operation to contain this contagion is underway. Samples are rushed to the laboratories at Porton Down on high alert. What they di…
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Jan 22, 2022
ADAM LEBOR In Person With Paul
ADAM LEBOR chats to Paul Burke about DOHANY STREET, BALTHAZAR KOVACS, Hungary and how the world works.
DOHANY STREET
DISTRICT VIII
KOSSUTH SQUARE
DOHANY STREET: Budapest's dark history finally catches up with Detective Balthazar Kovacs in the final instalment in Adam LeBor's Hungarian crime trilogy.
Budapest, January 2016. The Danube is grey and half-frozen, covered with ice, and the city seems to have gone into hibernation. But not for Detective Balthazar Kovacs. Elad Harari, a young Israeli historian, has disappeared. There's no sign of violence but something feels very wrong.
Harari was working in the archives of the city's Jewish Museum, investigating the fate of the assets of the Hungarian Jews murdered in the Holocaust. It's clear that his research is setting off alarm bells at one of the country's most powerful companies.
The more Balthazar digs into the case, the more he is certain that shadowy forces are in play. Someone wants Harrari out of the picture. And the pressure is…
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Jan 8, 2022
JEFFERY DEAVER, JANE CASEY, & LIZ NUGENT On The Sofa With Victoria
Season 2, episode 1.
*WRITING KILLER TWISTS* with JEFFERY DEAVER (The Final Twist/Colter Shaw) , JANE CASEY (Maeve Kerrigan) & LIZ NUGENT (Our Little Cruelties), how to write killer twists and keep them coming.
VICTORIA SELMAN
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Dec 28, 2021
PETER PAPATHANASIOU In Person With Craig Sisterson
Apologies to anyone recieving an early unedited download. This has now been rectified.*
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*HOLIDAY SPECIAL
PETER PAPATHANASIOU chats with Craig Sisterson about his dark outback thriller **THE STONING.*
*THE STONING*: A small town in outback Australia wakes to an appalling crime.
A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to death. Suspicion instantly falls on the refugees at the new detention centre on Cobb's northern outskirts. Tensions are high, between whites and the local indigenous community, between immigrants and the townies.
Still mourning the recent death of his father, Detective Sergeant George Manolis returns to his childhood hometown to investigate. Within minutes of his arrival, it's clear that Cobb is not the same place he left. Once it thrived, but now it's a poor and derelict dusthole, with the local police chief it deserves. And as Manolis negotiates his new colleagues' antagonism, and the simmering anger of a community destroyed by alcohol and drugs, t…
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Dec 24, 2021
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show December 21 season finale
HEADS TOGETHER Cooking the Christmas Dinner episode.
Last of the year *HEADS TOGETHER* - the monthly magazine show on *CRIME TIME FM*. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss their podcasts during 2021.
PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.
VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers. Her new thriller Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.
BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the FT Crime Fiction Critic.
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Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
& Gerard Brennan
Crime Time
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Dec 20, 2021
CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE: THE BEST CRIME FICTION OF 2021
*THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE: BEST CRIME FICTION OF 2021
Panellists: LAURA WILSON (novelist & Guardian crime fiction critic), MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI (publisher, critic, novelist & CWA Chair), AYO ONATADE (critic for Shotsblog & book prize judge), JAKE KERRIDGE (crime fiction critic for the Telegraph), VICTORIA SELMAN (novelist and podcast presenter) and PAUL BURKE (critic and podcast editor and presenter).
Master of Ceremonies: BARRY FORSHAW (writer and crime fiction critic for the Financial Times).
The panellists discuss their selections of the best crime writing of the year.
This is a podcast of the TV debate broadcast on 2/12/21.
The full list of books can be found at **Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Dec 17, 2021
HB LYLE In Person With Paul
*HB LYLE* (BEN) chats with Paul Burke about his latest historical thriller THE YEAR OF THE GUN, Sherlock Holmes and the Irregulars, Nabukov, historical accuracy in fiction and how Wiggins narrowly avoids going down with the Titanic (very minor spoiler alert).
THE YEAR OF THE GUN
1912. Released from the Secret Service, Wiggins sets out for New York and his lost lover Bela. But after an altercation on board, he finds himself among the low-life of Britain's poorest city, Dublin.
Wiggins falls in with gangster Patrick O'Connell and is soon driving the boss's girlfriend around town. Molly wants O'Connell to support her Irish nationalist cause - a cause needing guns to defeat the British - and then they go to find them in America.
Finally, Wiggins can solve the mystery of Bela - and meet his old mentor, Sherlock Holmes in a story of escalating intrigue, danger and violence.
*HB LYLE* lives in South London with his partner and their twin daughters. After a career in
feature film development…
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Dec 12, 2021
LISA JEWELL, LOUISE CANDLISH & MARK EDWARDS On The Sofa With Victoria
*THE SEASON FINALE *
THE PLOT THICKENS: Building tension and suspense. Lisa Jewell (THE NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED), Louise Candlish (THE HEIGHTS) and Mark Edwards (HOLLOWS).
VICTORIA SELMAN
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Dec 9, 2021
SA COSBY In Person With Craig Sisterson, A CTFM Special.
*RAZORBLADE TEARS** - WINNER OF THE CRIME TIME FM CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2021 *
*SA COSBY* chats with Craig Sisterson about his novel RAZORBLADE TEARS, Winning the CTFM Novel Award, being the 'bard of broken men', TV rights and entertaining readers.
*Razorblade Tears*: Ike Randolph left jail fifteen years ago, with not so much as a speeding ticket since. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.
Ike is devastated to learn his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Though he never fully accepted his son, Ike is broken by his death.
Derek's father Buddy Lee was as ashamed of Derek being gay as Derek was of his father's criminal past. But Buddy Lee - with seedy contacts deep in the underworld - needs to know who killed his only child.
Desperate to do better by them in death than they did in life, two hardened ex-cons must confront their own prejudices about their sons - and each other - as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their…
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Dec 7, 2021
PAUL CLEAVE In Person With Paul
PAUL CLEAVE chats to Paul Burke about his new psychological thriller THE QUIET PEOPLE, social media, elements of horror, Cameron and Lisa Murdoch, real life crime, and the Expanse.
THE QUIET PEOPLE: Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful New Zealand crime writers, happily married and topping bestseller lists worldwide. They have been on the promotional circuit for years, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living.
So when their challenging seven-year-old son Zach disappears, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying all this time…
Are they trying to show how they can commit the perfect crime?
Electrifying, taut and immaculately plotted, The Quiet People is a chilling, tantalisingly twisted thriller that will keep you gripped and guessing to the last explosive page.
PAUL CLEAVE is Christchurch born and raised. Paul wanted to write horror but realised…
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Dec 2, 2021
LUKE McCALLIN In Person With Paul
LUKE McCALLIN chats to Paul Burke about his new historical thriller *WHERE GOD DOES NOT WALK*, Gregor Reinhardt, WWI, Bosnia, inspirational literature.
*WHERE GOD DOES NOT WALK**: *THE WESTERN FRONT, JULY 1918. Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion on the Western Front when one of his subordinates is accused of murdering a group of officers, and then subsequently trying to take his own life. Not wanting to believe his friend could have done what he is accused of, Reinhardt begins to investigate. He starts to uncover the outline of a conspiracy at the heart of the German army, a conspiracy aimed at ending the war on the terms of those who have a vested interest in a future for Germany that resembles her past.
The investigation takes him from the devastated front lines of the war, to the rarefied heights of Berlin society, and into the hospitals that treat those men who have been shattered by the stress and strain of the war. Along the way, Reinhardt comes t…
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Nov 30, 2021
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show November 21
*HEADS TOGETHER* - the monthly magazine show on *CRIME TIME FM*. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the latest podcasts, January 2022 releases, book-to-film-to-book?, TV adaptations of favourite detectives, these extraordinary times for crime fiction and the little fella...
PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.
VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers. Her new thriller Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.
BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the FT Crime Fiction Critic.
The Watchlist:
Dolphin Junction - Mick Herron
Vine Street - Dominic Nolan
The Killing Hills - Chris Offutt
The Night Will be Long - Santiago Gamboa trans. Andrea Rosenberg
A Three Dog Problem SJ Bennett
Turf Wars Olivier Norek trans. Nick Caistor
January 2022 Crime Fiction:
Theo Clare, S…
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Nov 28, 2021
HANNAH ROBINSON, CHRIS MCDONALD & SIMON BEWICK On The Sofa With Victoria
*Book Marketing Panel*- On The Sofa With Victoria
With over 180K books published every year and more than 20 titles released every hour, how do you ensure yours stands out from the crowd? Quercus Publicity Director, Hannah Robinson, Chris McDonald (Blood Brothers) & Simon Bewick (Bay Tales/Noir at The Bar) share their thoughts along with lessons learned from lockdown.
VICTORIA SELMAN
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Nov 26, 2021
CHRIS OFFUTT In Person With Paul
CHRIS OFFUTT chats to Paul Burke about THE KILLING HILLS, Kentucky, land and culture, spy fiction and photography.
*THE KILLING HILLS*: Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, is home on a leave that is almost done. His wife is about to give birth, but they aren't getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder case, and local politicians are pushing for city police or the FBI to take the case. Are they convinced she can't handle it, or is there something else at work? She calls on Mick who, with his homicide investigation experience and familiarity with the terrain, is well suited to staying under the radar. As he delves into the investigation, he dodges his commanding officer's increasingly urgent calls while attempting to head off further murders. And he needs to talk to his wife. The Killing Hills is a novel of betrayal - sexual, personal, within and between the clans that populate the hollers - and the way it so often sh…
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Nov 20, 2021
HEATHER YOUNG In Person With Paul
HEATHER YOUNG chats to Paul Burke about her debut psychological thriller THE LOST GIRLS, storytelling, domestic abuse, ancient lands and family.
THE LOST GIRLS: In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes forever from her family’s summer house on a remote Minnesota Lake. Sixty years later, Lucy, Emily’s quiet and watchful older sister, lives alone in the lake house. When Lucy dies, she leaves the house to her grandniece, Justine. The lake house offers Justine an escape from her manipulative boyfriend and a chance to give her daughters the home she never had. But the discovery of a notebook, in which her great aunt has written the story of that devastating summer, forces Justine to realise there may be more to her inheritance than she first imagined. In a house haunted by the sorrows of the women who came before her, Justine must overcome their tragic legacy if she hopes to save herself and her children.
HEATHER YOUNG earned her law degree from the University of Virginia and practi…
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Nov 15, 2021
ALI LAND & WILL CARVER On The Sofa With Victoria
*BEHIND THE MASK*- Ali Land (GOOD ME BAD ME) & Will Carver (THE BERESFORD) discuss why we’re so fascinated by psychopaths, why they’re so often portrayed as highly cultured…and why Will Carver might be one.
Will Carver has most recently published PSYCHOPATHS ANONYMOUS
VICTORIA SELMAN
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
Crime Time
*Produced by Junkyard Dog
**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Nov 11, 2021
DOMINIC NOLAN In Person With Victoria
DOMINIC 'DOM' NOLAN chats with Victoria Selman about his new novel VINE STREET, 1930S Soho, obsession, history versus the past and believing in your work.
VINE STREET: SOHO, 1935. SERGEANT LEON GEATS' PATCH.
A snarling, skull-cracking misanthrope, Geats marshals the grimy rabble according to his own elastic moral code.
The narrow alleys are brimming with jazz bars, bookies, blackshirts, ponces and tarts so when a body is found above the Windmill Club, detectives are content to dismiss the case as just another young woman who topped herself early.
But Geats - a good man prepared to be a bad one if it keeps the worst of them at bay - knows the dark seams of the city.
Working with his former partner, mercenary Flying Squad sergeant Mark Cassar, Geats obsessively dedicates himself to finding a warped killer - a decision that will reverberate for a lifetime and transform both men in ways they could never expect.
VINE STREET is Dominic Nolan's third novel, following his widely acclaimed bo…
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Nov 5, 2021
JOANNE HARRIS In Person With Paul
*JOANNE HARRIS* chats to Paul Burke about her new novel A NARROW DOOR, being a schoolteacher, why genres fluid, misogyny and memory.
A NARROW DOOR
Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules.
It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls.
Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.
But Rebecca is here to make her mark. She'll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. After all...
You can't keep a good woman down.
*JOANNE *HARRIS is the internationally renowned and award-winning author of eighteen novels, plus novellas, scripts, short stories, libretti, lyrics, articles, and most recently, a self-help book for writers, TEN THINGS…
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Nov 5, 2021
GREGORY GALLOWAY In Person With Paul
*GREGORY GALLOWAY* chats to Paul Burke about his new novel JUST THIEVES, identity, fatalism and existential questions in the noir novel, Chandler, Cain and Get Carter.
JUST THIEVES: Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves whose partnership extends beyond their professional lives. They do not steal randomly they steal according to order, hired by a mysterious handler. The jobs run routinely until they're tasked with taking a seemingly worthless trophy: an object that generates interest and obsession out of proportion to its apparent value. Just as the robbery is completed, the two are involved in a freak car accident that sets off a chain of events and Frank disappears with the trophy. As Rick tries to find Frank, he is forced to confront his past, upending both his livelihood and his sense of reality. The narrative builds steadily into a powerful and shocking climax. Revelling in its con-artistry and double-crosses, Just Thieves is a nail-biting, noir-ish…
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Nov 1, 2021
ABIGAIL DEAN, SARAH SULTOON & JOSEPH KNOX On The Sofa With Victoria
TRUE CRIME EDITION: WHY COLD CASES ARE SO HOT- Abigail Dean (GIRL A) Sarah Sultoon (THE SOURCE) & Joseph Knox (TRUE CRIME STORY) discuss true crime, stretching the genre & the cold case they’d most like to solve. Victoria wonders what our true crime obsession says about us.
VICTORIA SELMAN
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
Select Recommendations:
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Denise Mina novels
Tana French novels
Doug Johnstone novels
Animal & Three Women - Lisa Taddeo
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
The Five Hallie Rubenhold
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Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2…
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Oct 28, 2021
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show October 21
THE THREE RONNIES EPISODE
*HEADS TOGETHER* is the monthly magazine show on *CRIME TIME FM*. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, author duos, short stories and the latest podcasts .
PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.
VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers. Her new thriller Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.
BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the FT Crime Fiction Critic.
The Watchlist:
Lemon Kwon Yeo-sun
56 Hours Katherine Ryan Howard
Silverview John le Carré
Riccardino Andrea Camilleri
Judas 62 Charles Cumming
The Hood Lavie Tidhar
The Study Graeme McCrea Burnett
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza
The Stoning Peter Papathanasiou
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Oct 25, 2021
JS MONROE In Person With Paul
*JS MONROE* (Jon Stock) chats with Paul Burke about his new psychological thriller THE MAN ON HACKPEN HILL, crop circles, Porton Down, and James Bond in No Time To Die.
THE MAN ON HACKPEN HILL: In a world full of lies, the search for truth is a deadly game...
It isn't unusual for crop circles to appear overnight on Hackpen Hill. In this part of Wiltshire, where golden wheat fields stretch for miles, the locals have got used to discovering strange mathematical patterns stamped into the earth.
But this time, it's different. Not only because this particular design of dramatic spiralling hexagons has never been seen before. But because of the dead body positioned precisely in the centre of the circle. DI Silas Hart, of Swindon Police, is at a loss.
Only Jim, a scientist at secretive government laboratory Porton Down, knows the chilling truth about the man on Hackpen Hill. And he wants Bella, a trainee journalist on her first ever story, to tell the world. But Silas has other ideas - and a…
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Oct 22, 2021
FELIX FRANCIS In Person With Paul
*FELIX FRANCIS *chats to Paul Burke about his new psychological crime novel ICED, taking on his father's thriller legacy, the home fiction factory, tea with Agatha Christie and marbling.
ICED: Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, head first, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour.
Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on the frozen lake, he gets talked into helping out with the horses. It is against his better judgement. Seven years before, Miles left horseracing behind and swore he would never return.
When he discovers something suspicious is going on in the races, something that may have a profound impact on his future life, Miles begins a search for answers. But someone is adamant to stop him - and they'll go to any lengths to do it . . .
*FELIX FRANCIS* studied Physics and Electronics at Lond…
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Oct 21, 2021
JANE JESMOND In Person With Paul
*JANE JESMOND* chats to Paul Burke about her debut thriller ON THE EDGE, Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier, free climbing a fear of heights.
ON THE EDGE: Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes - the riskier the better. Both her work and personal life revolved around climbing, and the adrenaline high it gave her. Until she went too far and hurt the people she cares about. So she's given it all up now. Honestly, she has. And she's checked herself into a rehab centre to prove it.
Yet, when Jen awakens to find herself drugged and dangling off the local lighthouse during a wild storm less than twenty-four hours after a 'family emergency' takes her home to Cornwall, she needs all her skill to battle her way to safety.
Has Jen fallen back into her old risky ways, or is there a more sinister explanation hidden in her hometown? Only when she has navigated her fragmented memories and faced her troubled past will she be able to piece together…
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Oct 18, 2021
CARA HUNTER & PHOEBE MORGAN On The Sofa With Victoria
Episode 10: IMPERFECT LIVES- Cara Hunter (THE WHOLE TRUTH) & Phoebe Morgan (THE WILD GIRLS) discuss why readers can’t get enough of psychological suspense, the proliferation of ‘Girl’ titles and why a good murder makes for the perfect comfort read.
VICTORIA SELMAN
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Oct 18, 2021
LINWOOD BARCLAY In Person With Paul
*LINWOOD BARCLAY* chats with Paul Burke about his new thriller FIND YOU FIRST, out in paperback now, character and humour, moral dilemmas in the crime novel and fresh out of college sending a manuscript to Ross Macdonald that sparked a long friendship.
FIND YOU FIRST: It’s a deadly race against time…
Tech billionaire Miles has more money than he can ever spend, but he can’t buy more time. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, he is forced to take a long, hard look at his past.
Somewhere out there, Miles has children who don’t know it, but they might be about to inherit the good and bad from him – possibly his fortune, or possibly something more sinister.
So, Miles decides to track them down. But a lethal killer is one step ahead of him. One by one, people are vanishing. Not just disappearing, every trace of them is wiped.
*Linwood Barclay *is an international bestselling crime and thriller author with over twenty critically acclaimed novels to his name, including the phenomena…
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Oct 14, 2021
PAUL'S REVIEWS ON CTFM episode 2
*PAUL BURKE *REVIEWS: Paul sorted for Crime Time, NB Magazine, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network and presents Crime Time FM. He shares his thoughts on some of the new Crime, mystery and thriller releases.
Books reviewed:
RICCARDINO - ANDREA CAMILLERI Mantle
THE MAN ON HACKPEN HILL - JS MONROE* Head of Zeus
LEMON - KWON YEO-SUN Other Press (US) Head of Zeus (UK)
THE ANTARCTICA OF LOVE - SARA STRINDSBERG MacLehose
BAD APPLES - WILL DEAN* Point Blank
WELCOME TO COOPER - TARIQ ASHKANANI* Thomas & Mercer
I KNOW YOU - CLAIRE MCGOWAN* Thomas & Mercer
BLACKOUT - SIMON SCARROW Headline
THE BONES OF WOLFE - JAMES CARLOS BLAKE No Exit Press
THE GOOD DEATH - SD SYKES Hodder & Stoughton
DUST OFF THE BONES - PAUL HOWARTH One, Pushkin Press
Exclusive to this podcast.
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Oct 13, 2021
FRANCESCO SIMEONI Interview Barry's Blu-rays
In the latest Barry's Blu-rays, Barry Forshaw gives his usual rundown of new discs from Eureka, Severin, Indicator, Kino Lorber & Imprint, plus an interview with Arrow's Francesco Simeoni.
FRANCESCO SIMEONI is Director of Content and Distribution at Arrow Films
Arrow Films.
BARRY FORSHAW is fiction critic for the Financial Times and provides extras for Blu-rays. Books include Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, the Keating Award-winning Brit Noir, British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (also a Keating winner), British Gothic Cinema, Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation, Sex and Film and BFI Classics: War of the Worlds. He edits Crime Time.
Check out Barry in conversation with Ace Atkins about his new Spenser novel SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME. Available now.
Buy Barry's latest book Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide
Other interviews in this series: Michael Mackenzie, Jonathan Rigby and Kim Newman.
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Oct 13, 2021
DAVID HESKA WANBLI WEIDEN In Person With Craig Sisterson
DAVID HESKA WANBLI WEIDEN chats with Craig Sisterson about WINTER COUNTS, his character Virgil Wounded Horse, the Rosebud Native American Reservation, and why he receives the grand total of $1.29/quarter in rent for his land from cattle farmers.
Winter Counts: If you have a problem, if no one else can help, there’s one person you can turn to. * *Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Native American Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way onto the reservation and finds Virgil’s nephew, his vigilantism becomes personal. Enlisting the help of his ex-girlfriend, he sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop.
Following a lead to Denver, they find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new…
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Oct 11, 2021
KIA ABDULLAH In Person With Paul
KIA ABDULLAH chats with Paul Burke about her new thriller *NEXT OF KIN*, Atlas & Boots, growing up in Tower Hamlets, diversity in publishing, libraries, thrilling but keeping it real.
*NEXT OF KIN*: ON AN ORDINARY WORKING DAY…
Leila Syed receives a call that cleaves her life in two. Her brother-in-law’s voice is filled with panic. His son’s nursery has called to ask where little Max is.
YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE…
Leila was supposed to drop Max off that morning. But she forgot.
Racing to the carpark, she grasps the horror of what she has done.
IS ABOUT TO COME TRUE…
What follows is an explosive, high-profile trial that will tear the family apart. But as the case progresses it becomes clear there’s more to this incident than meets the eye…
*KIA ABDULLAH* is an author and travel writer from London. She has written for The New York Times, the Guardian and the Telegraph, and is the author of Truth Be Told and Take It Back, which was named one of the best thrillers of the year by…
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Oct 8, 2021
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show September, 21.
*HEADS TOGETHER* is the monthly magazine show on *CRIME TIME FM*. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, NDAs, Bloody Scotland, and the latest podcasts all in the company of special guest presenter CRAIG SISTERSON.
PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.
VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers. Her new thriller Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.
BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the FT Crime Fiction Critic.
London based CRAIG SISTERSON is a crime fiction critic who writes for a number of publications and is the founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards in his native New Zealand. He is the author of the first extensive survey of the crime fiction of New Zealand and Australia: Southern Cross Crime.
*The Watchlist*
Ayo Onatade, Laura Wilson, Paul Burke, Maxim Jaku…
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Oct 8, 2021
LAUREN NORTH In Person With Paul
*LAUREN NORTH* chats to Paul Burke about her latest psychological thriller SAFE AT HOME, motherhood, village life and why: 'Don't worry.' Isn't very helpful advice.
SAFE AT HOME Anna James is an anxious mother. So when she has to leave eleven-year-old Harrie home alone one evening, she can't stop worrying about her daughter. But nothing bad ever happens in the sleepy village of Barton St Martin.
Except something goes wrong that night, and Anna returns to find Harrie with bruises she won't explain. The next morning a local businessman is reported missing and the village is sparking with gossip.
Anna is convinced there's a connection and that Harrie is in trouble. But how can she protect her daughter if she doesn't know where the danger is coming from?
LAUREN NORTH writes psychological suspense novels that delve into the darker side of relationships and families. She has a lifelong passion for writing, reading, and all things books. Lauren’s love of psychological suspense has grown s…
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Oct 4, 2021
CASS GREEN & STU TURTON On The Sofa With Victoria
STRETCHING THE BOUNDARIES: Speculative fiction. CASS GREEN (The Killer Inside) & STU TURTON (The Devil and the Dark Water)
VICTORIA SELMAN
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Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
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Sep 20, 2021
FIONA CUMMINS & DAVID FENNELL On The Sofa With Victoria
STRANGER AFTER STRANGER – Fiona Cummins (WHEN I WAS TEN) & David Fennell (THE ART OF DEATH) discuss why we’re so intrigued by serial killers, what makes a good thriller and which fictional murderer they’d be most afraid to be stranded on a desert island with. Victoria concedes whichever they choose, it won’t be a party.
VICTORIA SELMAN
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Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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Crime Time
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Sep 19, 2021
JOHN L WILLIAMS In Person With Paul
*JOHN L WILLIAMS *talks to Paul Burke about his account of the Lynette White murder in 1988 and the 'Cardiff Three' miscarriage of justice: *BLOODY VALENTINE*
The tragic story of Britain's worst miscarriage of justice as seen on TV in the BBC Wales documentary series* A Killing in Tiger Bay,* in which John took part.
*Bloody Valentine* is the story of the murder of a young woman called Lynette White in the Cardiff docklands (aka Tiger Bay) on Valentine's Day 1988.
It's also the story of the miscarriage of justice that came after, when three black men, 'the Cardiff Three', were wrongly convicted of her murder. It's a brutally frank tale of racism and police corruption, terrible misogynist violence and the grim realities of sex work. It's a book that got so close to the bone that the author was sued for libel by the police and received death threats from a variety of minor characters. It's an indelible portrait of life in the underbelly of Thatcher's Britain.
This new edition includes…
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Sep 18, 2021
SIMON SCARROW In Person With Paul
SIMON SCARROW chats to Paul Burke about his new to paperback thriller BLACKOUT, the importance of teaching and understanding history, challenging views of the past, writing historical fiction, Cato and Macro and how telling a joke could get you executed in Nazi Germany.
BLACKOUT: Berlin, December 1939
As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia in the capital is intensified by a rigidly enforced blackout that plunges the city into oppressive darkness every night, as the bleak winter sun sets.
When a young woman is murdered, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke is under pressure to solve the case, swiftly. Distrusted by his superiors for his failure to join the Nazi Party, Schenke walks a perilous line - for disloyalty is a death sentence.
The discovery of a second victim confirms Schenke's worst fears. He must uncover the truth before evil strikes again.
As the investigation takes him closer to the sinister heart of the regime, Schenke realises there is dange…
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Sep 18, 2021
NIKKI SMITH In Person With Paul
NIKKI SMITH chats to Paul Burke about her new psychological thriller LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO.
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO: Two people can keep a secret . . . if one of them is dead.
Sisters Jo and Caroline are used to hiding things from each other. They've never been close - taking it in turns to feel on the outside of their family unit, playing an endless game of favourites.
Jo envies Caroline's life - things have always come so easy to her. Then a family inheritance falls entirely to Jo, and suddenly now Caroline wants what Jo has. Needs it, even.
But just how far will she go to get it?
NIKKI SMITH: studied English Literature at Birmingham University before pursuing a career in finance, working in a variety of different companies including an investment bank and a trampoline park. She always had a passion for writing and in 2017 she had a 'now or never' moment and applied for a Curtis Brown Creative 3 month writing course which she absolutely loved. Later that year she had a short st…
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Sep 8, 2021
SAMANTHA DOWNING On The Sofa With Victoria CTFM
Bonus Episode: THE CORKSCREW EFFECT- Sunday Times bestseller, Samantha Downing (MY LOVELY WIFE) discusses what makes a great twist, pantsing and trying to out twist yourself. Victoria doesn’t see any of it coming.
VICTORIA SELMAN
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Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
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Sep 6, 2021
CJ TUDOR & CATRIONA WARD On The Sofa With Victoria
HE’S BEHIND YOU- C.J. (CAZ) Tudor, (THE CHALK MAN) & Catriona Ward (THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET) discuss the difference between crime and horror, giving monsters a human face and tapping into childhood fears. Victoria excuses herself to switch on the lights.
VICTORIA SELMAN
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Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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**Crime Time*
*Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023
& Newcastle Noir (December)*
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Sep 5, 2021
AMBER MARKS In Person With Paul
*AMBER MARKS* chats with Paul Burke about *BECOMING MR NICE: THE HOWARD MARKS ARCHIVE**. *The man, the myth, the drugs smuggler, the campaigner, and an extraordinary collection of documents that shed light on his life.
*BECOMING MR NICE*: Welcome to the personal archives of Britain's biggest dope smuggler.
For 40 years Howard Marks traversed the globe: an international businessman who became an inmate in America's toughest penitentiary before standing for election in the United Kingdom.
Becoming Mr Nice reveals an extraordinary montage of previously unseen material from his roller-coaster life, interwoven with his daughter's incisively researched and deadpan commentary. It includes surveillance footage, intelligence reports, phone transcripts, the business cards and letterheads used as trading fronts, driving licences and passport applications in multiple identities, and cryptic faxes from the Far East. But more than that, it offers a vista onto his many and varied experiences and esc…
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Sep 5, 2021
ALAN JOHNSON In Person With Paul
ALAN JOHNSON chats to Paul Burke about his debut thriller THE LATE TRAIN TO GIPSY HILL. Inspirational teachers, the library education. Character and plot and why Hull isn't the money laundering capital of Europe.
THE LATE TRAIN TO GIPSY HILL: A woman hiding a deadly secret. And the man who went in search of adventure, but found himself in danger ...
Gary Nelson has a routine for the commute to his rather dull job in the city. Each day, he watches as a woman on the train applies her make up in a ritual he now knows by heart. He's never dared to strike up a conversation . . . but maybe one day.
Then one evening, on the late train to Gipsy Hill, the woman invites him to take the empty seat beside her. Fiddling with her mascara, she holds up her mirror and Gary reads the words 'HELP ME' scrawled in sticky black letters on the glass.
From that moment, Gary's life is turned on its head. He finds himself on the run from the Russian mafia, the FSB and even the Metropolitan Police - all becaus…
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Sep 5, 2021
HOLLY WATT In Person With Paul
*HOLLY WATT* chats with Paul Burke about THE HUNT AND THE KILL. Casey Benedict, don't give up the day job, darkness in fiction, the Arab Spring, #MeToo, prizes and why covid means Salman Rushdie won't be at your book launch.
*THE HUNT AND THE KILL** *When acclaimed undercover journalist Casey Benedict is asked to interview a young woman with cystic fibrosis, the patient's doctor alerts her to the looming threat of antibiotic-resistant infections, tipping her off about a potential new wonder drug. If the rumours are true, this new antibiotic could save millions of lives, but no one wants to admit that the drug even exists.
As Casey investigates, she follows the trail from the Maldives to a game reserve in Zimbabwe, using her undercover skills to probe the truth and find out why the discovery of this new drug is being covered-up. When tragedy unexpectedly strikes, Casey suspects that someone is trying to silence her, but she is not prepared to let the story drop, no matter how much dang…
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Aug 31, 2021
SIMONE BUCHHOLZ In Person With Paul
*Women in Translation Month Special*
SIMONE BUCHHOLZ chats to Paul Burke about HOTEL CARTAGENA, Chastity Riley,
HOTEL CARTAGENA: Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who is being targeted by a young man whose life and family have been destroyed by Hoogsmart's actions.
With the police looking on from outside their colleagues' lives at stake and Chastity on the inside, increasingly ill from an unexpected case of sepsis, the stage is set for a dramatic confrontation and a devastating outcome for the team all live streamed in a terrifying bid for revenge.
Crackling with energy and populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, Hotel Cartagena is a searing, relevant thriller that will leave you breathless.
*Simone Buchholz* was born in Hanau in 197…
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Aug 27, 2021
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show August 21
*HEADS TOGETHER* is the monthly magazine show on *CRIME TIME FM*. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, The film version of The Dry, Victoria and Barry's upcoming books, Bloody Scotland, the latest podcasts, Sherlock on film, the Da Vinci Code and why we all deserve a Blue Peter Badge for services to...
PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.
VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers. Her new thriller Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.
BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the FT Crime Fiction Critic.
*The Watchlist*
Ayo Onatade & Laura Wilson: The Turnout by Megan Abbott
Barry Forshaw: 1979 Val McDermid
Victoria Selman: Samantha Downing
Maxim Jakubowski & Paul Burke: The Devil's Advocate Steve Cavanagh
Sonja Van Der Westhuizen: Chasing the Boogeyman Richard…
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Aug 25, 2021
JONATHAN RIGBY INTERVIEW Barry's Blu-rays Special
The latest Blu-ray and DVD releases from BARRY FORSHAW, including Murder By Decree, the silent version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Hatchet For The Honeymoon and Private Hell 36.
Also an interview with JONATHAN RIGBY, actor, writer, and film and DVD commentator. They discuss Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Hammer Horror, Richard Pascoe (horror by day, Shakespeare by night), and how to commentate on less successful movies.
Jonathan Rigby's books include:
American Gothic: Sixty Years Of Horror Cinema
English Gothic: A Century Of Horror Cinema
Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History
Euro Gothic: Classics Of Continental Horror Cinema.
BARRY FORSHAW is fiction critic for the Financial Times and provides extras for Blu-rays. Books include Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, the Keating Award-winning Brit Noir, British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (also a Keating winner), British Gothic Cinema, Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation, Sex and Film and BFI Classics: War of the Wo…
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Aug 23, 2021
ALEX MICHAELIDES & STEVE WATSON On The Sofa With Victoria CTFM
THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW- S.J. Watson (BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP) & Alex Michaelides (THE SILENT PATIENT) discuss the role of psychiatrists in crime fiction and why there is nothing more frightening than the human mind. Victoria ties herself in knots with the right terms.
VICTORIA SELMAN
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Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman
We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
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