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07 Feb 2022
CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD & BRIAN MCGILLOWAY On The Sofa with Victoria
00:51:29
IRISH CRIME FICTION Brian McGilloway (BLOOD TIES out now and EMPTY ROOM March 31st) and CatherineRyan Howard (56 DAYS) discuss what it is about Ireland that lends itself so well to crime.
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15 Feb 2022
AMEN ALONGE In Person With Paul
00:59:49
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-Watt University in Edinburgh, then worked as an engineer. He went on to take a screenwriting course at London Film Academy and, for a while, ran the family business, a sports media company that owned the global licensing rights for the Nigerian Football League. He changed careers since, and is currently training to become a solicitor. Amen lives in London with his wife and their son.
Recommendations: No Time To Die (Cinema) Yellowjackets (Showtime) The Man on the Street Trevor Wood (fiction)
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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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17 Feb 2022
PAUL VIDICH & TIM SHIPMAN In Person With Paul
01:11:09
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. The CIA are desperate to find the Matchmaker because of his close ties to the KGB. They believe he can establish the truth about a high-ranking Soviet defector. They need Anne because she's the only person who has seen his face - from a photograph that her husband mistakenly left out in his office - and she is the CIA's best chance to identify him before the Matchmaker escapes to Moscow. Time is running out as the Berlin Wall falls and chaos engulfs East Germany. But what if Anne's husband is not dead? And what if Anne has her own motives for finding the Matchmaker to deliver a different type of justice?
Paul Vidich has had a distinguished career in music and media. Most recently, he served as Special Advisor to AOL and was Executive Vice President at the Warner Music Group, in charge of technology and global strategy. He serves on the Board of Directors of Poets & Writers and The New School for Social Research. A founder and publisher of the Storyville App, Vidich is also an award-winning author of short fiction. His novels, An Honorable Man, The Good Assassin, The Coldest Warrior ,The Mercenary and The Matchmaker all available from No Exit Press.
Tim Shipman is the Chief Political Commentator of The Sunday Times, a contributor to Spybrary and a fan of all things spy related. Tim is the author of ALL OUT WAR: The Full Story of Brexit andFAll OUT: A Year of Political Mayhem. Tim's 120 Top Spy Writers
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Matchmaker No Exit Press direct or other buying services, paperback or eBook.
Recommendations
TV: Fauda Le Bureau The Sandbaggers Possibly looking forward to The IPCRESS File (ITV) and Slough House (Apple)
Novels: The Soul of Victor Tronko - David Quammen The Berlin Exchange - Joseph Kanon Graham Greene David Ig
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22 Feb 2022
CRIME CRITICS On The Sofa With Victoria
00:46:15
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
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24 Feb 2022
HANNAH KING In Person With Paul
00:53:36
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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18 Mar 2022
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show March, 22.
00:37:45
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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12 Jun 2022
Review Show Addendum - The Ones I Missed June22
00:08:55
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.
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05 Mar 2022
CHARLIE HIGSON In Person With Paul
00:59:57
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 start to slip out of his control. First, Lauren's father turns up, threatening to give the game away, and soon, McIntyre's having to contend with Albanian gangsters, Greek drug dealers, psychotic bodyguards, flat earthers and spoilt, wealthy teenagers looking for dangerous kicks. To further complicate things, Lauren's planning her own 'jailbreak'. It looks like things are going to be a lot harder than McIntyre's used to. Luckily, he has his team around him, a motley and colourful bunch, each with their own speciality. The intertwined stories come together as the various characters all converge on a glamorous summer party at Hepworth's spectacular villa. Can McIntyre play the different factions off against each other and get Lauren to safety without things going horribly wrong? Whatever Gets You Through The Night is a crime novel with a thrillingly dark heart about the truths that lurk beneath the picture post card surface of a sunny Mediterranean idyll.
CHARLIE HIGSON started writing when he was ten years old. After university he was a singer and painter and decorator before he started writing for television. He went on to create and star in the hugely successful comedy series The Fast Show. He is the author of the bestselling Young Bond books and the incredibly successful horror series, The Enemy. WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT is his first adult novel in 25 years. Charlie doesn't do Facebook, but you can tweet him @monstroso.
Recommended Tokyo (alt. title The Devil of Nanking ) Mo Harder Pop. 1280 Jim Thompson Elmore Leonard, George V Higgins, Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Chandler, Joe Ide,
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11 Mar 2022
ROBERT J LLOYD In Person With Paul
01:06:32
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 out. A disgraced Earl is released from the Tower of London, bent on revenge against the King, Charles II. Wary of the political hornet's nest they are walking into - and using evidence rather than paranoia in their pursuit of truth - Hooke and Hunt must discover why the boy was murdered, and why his blood was taken. Moreover, what does the cipher mean?
Robert Lloyd is the son of parents who worked in the British Foreign Office, grew up in South London, Innsbruck, and Kinshasa. He studied for a Fine Art degree, starting as a landscape painter, but it was while studying for his MA degree in The History of Ideas that he first read Robert Hooke's diary, detailing the life and experiments of this extraordinary man. After a 20-year career as a secondary school teacher, he has now returned to painting and writing. The Bloodless Boy is his debut novel. He is at work on a sequel.
Recommended: Lisa Jardine - Ingenious Pursuits (biography/history) Leonora Nattrass - The Black Drop (novel)
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14 Mar 2022
WILLIAM BOYLE In Person With Paul
00:56:45
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 OUTAn 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 him to cross paths with a tragedy that hits close to home. Fast forward five years: June 2001. The summer before New York City and the world changed for good. Charlie French is a low-level gangster-wannabe trying to make a name for himself. When he stumbles onto a bowling alley locker stuffed with a bag full of cash, he brings it to his only pal, Max Berry, for safekeeping while he cleans up the mess surrounding it. Bobby Santovasco - with no real future mapped out and the big sin of his past shining brightly in his rearview mirror - has taken a job working as an errand boy for Max Berry. On a recruiting run for Max's Ponzi scheme, Bobby meets Francesca Clarke, born in the neighborhood but an outsider nonetheless. They hit it off. Bobby gets the idea to knock off Max's safe so he and Francesca can escape Brooklyn forever. Little does he know what Charlie French has stashed there. Meanwhile, Bobby's former stepsister, Lily Murphy, is back home in the neighborhood after college, teaching a writing class in the basement of St. Mary's church. She's also being stalked by her college boyfriend. One of her students is Jack Cornacchia. When she opens up to him about her stalker, Jack decides to take matters into his own hands. Shoot the Moonlight Out is tragic and tender and funny and strange. A sense of loss is palpable - what has been lost and what will be lost - and Boyle's characters face down old ghosts with grim determination, as ripples of consequence radiate in dangerous directions.
William Boyle is from Brooklyn, New York. His debut novel, Gravesend, was published as #1,000 in the Rivages/Noir collection in France, shortlisted for the Prix Polar SNCF, nominated for the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger. Boyle is also the author of the Hammett Prize-nominated The Lonely Witness (No Exit Press), a book of short stories, Death Don't Have No Mercy and another novel, Tout est Brisè, released in France by Gallmeister. A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself was published to enormous praise, it was an Amazon Best Book in 2019. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
Recommendations Novels: Eli Cranor Don't Know Tough Lewis Shiner Outside the Gates of Eden Willy Vlautin Larry Brown
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21 Mar 2022
SOPHIE HANNAH, GILLIAN MCALLISTER & JP DELANEY On The Sofa With Victoria Part.1
00:50:41
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?
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25 Mar 2022
TED FLANAGAN In Person With Paul
01:07:17
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 have a few tricks up his sleeve in a last gambit to get out alive.
Ted Flanagan is a Paramedic and former daily newspaper reporter from central Massachusetts whose writing has appeared on Shotgun Honey and Cognoscenti, among other places. In addition, he served as a Recon Marine with 2nd Recon Battalion. He lives with his wife and kids outside of Worcester, Mass.
Recommendations Tod Goldberg The Low Desert Cara Blue Adams You Never Get it Back Richard Price Clockers David Peace Elmore Leonard Charles Portis Olga Tokarczuk The Book of Jacob William Giraldi Hold the Dark Horace McCoy They Shoot Horses Don't They
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Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine and the European Literature Network.
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28 Mar 2022
BOGDAN HRIB In Person With Paul PART 1
00:47:43
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 Thriller festival in Râsnov, Romania. Two of his previous books in the Stelian Munteanu series have been translated into English.
Recommendations George Arion Attack in the Library Bogdan Teodorescu Sword Anamaria Ionescu Zodiac Teodora Matei Living Candles Oana Stoica-Mujea Barry Forshaw Euro Noir Sólveig Pálsdóttir Jérôme Leroy
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08 Apr 2022
TIMOTHY J LOCKHART In person With Paul
00:55:09
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-McKenna Associates is using criminal-syndicate money to finance the casino the firm wants to build. Now she is forced to use everything she’s learned just to stay alive.
Timothy J. Lockhart is a lawyer and former U.S. Navy officer who worked with the CIA, DIA, and Office of Naval Intelligence. In addition to his novels Smith, Pirates, A Certain Man’s Daughter and Unlucky Money (all from Stark House Press), he has written articles and book reviews for a variety of publications, including Naval Intelligence Quarterly, Naval War College Review, and The Virginian-Pilot. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia, with his wife and daughter.
Recommendations Crime: George V Higgins The Friends of Eddie Coyle James M Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice Elmore Leonard Glitz Elliott Chaze Black Wings Has My Angel Charles Williams, Daniel Woodrell, Megan Abbott, Jim Thompson, Vicki Hendricks, Ted Lewis, Derek Raymond, Mark Timlin. Nick Triplow Getting Carter Military history: Ian W Toll Pacific Crucible (vol1 of trilogy)
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12 Apr 2022
NICK TRIPLOW In Person With Paul - Part 1 Getting Carter.
00:42:49
Part 1 - GETTING CARTER. Author NICK TRIPLOW chats to Paul Burke about Ted Lewis and Brit Noir as No Exit Press reissue 2 Lewis novelsJack 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 never heard of. Born in Manchester in 1940, he grew up in the tough environs of post-war Humberside, attending Hull College of Arts and Crafts before heading for London. His life described a cycle of obscurity to glamour and back to obscurity, followed by death at only 42. He sampled the bright temptations of sixties London while working in advertising, TV and films and he encountered excitement and danger in Soho drinking dens, rubbing shoulders with the 'East End boys' in gangland haunts. He wrote for Z Cars and had some nine books published. Alas, unable to repeat the commercial success of Get Carter, Lewis's life fell apart, his marriage ended and he returned to Humberside and an all too early demise. Getting Carter 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 Triplow is the author of the south London crime novel Frank's Wild Years and the social history books The Women They Left Behind, Distant Water and Pattie Slappers. His acclaimed short story, Face Value, was a winner in the 2015 Northern Crime competition. Originally from London, now living in Barton upon Humber, Nick studied English and Creative Writing at Middlesex University and, in 2007, earned a distinction at Sheffield Hallam University's MA in Creative Writing. Since completing his biography of British noir pioneer, Ted Lewis, Nick has been working on new fiction.
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13 Apr 2022
NICK TRIPLOW In Person With Paul - Part 2 The Golden Decade
00:50:50
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 Lawand 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 TRIPLOWGETTING 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. 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. It's Christmas and Jack Carter's the top man in a crime syndicate headed by two brothers, Gerald and Les Fletcher. He's also a worried man. The fact that he's sleeping with Gerald's wife, Audrey, and that they plan on someday running away together with a lot of the brothers' money, doesn't have Jack concerned. Instead it's an informant - one of his own men - that has him losing sleep. The grass has enough knowledge about the firm to not only bring down Gerald and Les but Jack as well. Jack doesn't like his name in the mouth of that sort.
Billy Rags It's the 1960s and Billy Cracken is a hard man to keep locked up. An austere and troubled childhood has given way to life as a hardened criminal and now status as one of the most feared prisoners in England. He has been moved from one maximum security prison to the next. Guards and inmates alike fear and begrudgingly respect the powerfully-built Cracken. But a life doing his porridge, even if as a minor celebrity, isn't the one he wants. A girlfriend and a child await Cracken on the outside and he'll stop at nothing to get to them. While plotting his escape he crosses a powerful mobster who vows to make Cracken's life hell, and if nothing else succeeds at making his escape all the more difficult, something the ever-rebellious Cracken defiantly relishes. Billy Rags is a fascinating look into the lives of British inmates serving time in a maximum security prison. Lewis manages once again to tell an exciting, action-filled story with a soul - demonstrated most clearly in a series of brilliant flashbacks to Billy's childhood and in the end conjures a character that will remind readers of both Tom Hardy in Bronson and Lee Marvin in Point Blank.
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24 Apr 2022
GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL Welsh Crime Fiction
00:51:28
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...
For festival tickets: GWYL CRIME CYMRU https://gwylcrimecymrufestival.co.uk/
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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26 Apr 2022
DON WINSLOW In Person With Paul
01:10:42
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, Savages, and The Winter of Frankie Machine – several of which have been made into movies or are in development. A former investigator, anti-terrorist trainer, and trial consultant, Winslow lives half the year in Southern California and the other half in Rhode Island.
Recommendations: Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People by Noel Mostert Jane Austen The Romantic Poets The Guards Ken Bruen
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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 soul bound to Lovelock by guilt and duty. After his death, she delves into his past for clues to who killed him. For Sal's grief seems shaded with fear, and Nora suspects he knows more than he's telling about his teacher's death.
Peter Murphy spent a career in the law, as an advocate, teacher, and judge in England and the United States, and served for several years as counsel at the Yugoslavian War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. He has written and published nine novels: He lives in Cambridgeshire.
To Become An Outlaw: 1964, Apartheid South Africa. Danie du Plessis, the son of a conservative Afrikaner family, is poised to start a glittering legal academic career at one of South Africa's leading universities, when he falls in love with a student, Amy Coetzee. But there's a problem: he's white, she's not. Facing arrest, imprisonment and ruin, the couple flee South Africa, and settle in Cambridge, where friends find them positions at the University. They marry and have two children, and have seemingly put the past, and South Africa, behind them. But in 1968 Art Pienaar enters their lives, and, insisting that they have a duty to fight back, enlists their help in increasingly dangerous schemes to undermine the South African regime. When Pienaar and a notorious drug dealer, Vince Cummings, are found murdered together, Danie's activities come to light, and he and his family find themselves in mortal danger. Danie is also threatened with criminal prosecution on behalf of a government desperate to maintain good relations with the apartheid regime. Danie knows he's sailed close to the wind. But has he become an outlaw? Can Ben Schroeder persuade a jury that the answer is no?
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16 May 2022
CAZ FREAR & WILLIAM SHAW On The Sofa With Victoria
00:47:11
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.
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06 May 2022
BEN CREED In Person With Paul
01:06:35
CHRIS RICKABY & BARNEY THOMPSON, aka BEN CREED chat to Paul Burke about A TRAITOR'S HEARTtheir 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 'Vassya' Vasilievna, the two men must hunt Koshchei down. On the trail, they uncover more riddles, including one centred on the ruins of Hitler's bunker, the Fuhrer's own copy of a Renaissance manual for tyrants, and secret code hidden within that leads to a weapon of unimaginable power. A weapon coveted by the scheming plotters of Stalin's Kremlin. What Rossel and Nikitin do not know is that the mystery and the murderer are inextricably linked. And to save themselves they must not only catch Koshchei but also uncover the identity of another ghost – a ghost hiding among the remnants of Hitler's once all-powerful Third Reich.
CHRIS RICKABY worked in advertising for 20 years. He has written and produced various TV programmes for ITV and 5 and created a cross platform novel called Shuffle. Chris is from Newcastle. BARNEY THOMPSON harboured ambitions of becoming a conductor and studied under the legendary conducting professor Ilya Musin at the St Petersburg Conservatory, before diverting to a career in journalism. He has worked at The Times and the Financial Times, and is now editor and writer at the UN Refugee Agency.
Recommendation: KOLYMA TALES Varlam Shalamov KOLYMSKY HEIGHTS Lionel Davidson THE NORTHUMBRIANS Dan Jackson THE BERNIE GUNTHER SERIES Philip Kerr
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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 in their power to stop Jonas, and he finds himself tested to the limit as he fights to keep the negotiations alive and play his enemies off against each other. As the book races towards a thrilling confrontation in the Syrian desert, Jonas will have to decide how far he is willing to go to see his father again.
HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY: Things are looking bad for disgraced spy August Drummond. In emotional free fall after the death of his wife, fired for a series of security breaches... and now his neighbour on the flight to Istanbul won't stop talking. The only thing keeping August sane is the hunch that there's something not quite right about the nervous young man several rows ahead - a hunch confirmed when August watches him throw away directions to a European cemetery seconds before being detained by Turkish police. A reckless August decides to go to the cemetery, where he meets a mysterious figure from the dark heart of the Islamic State and quickly finds himself drawn into a shadowy plot to murder an Iranian scientist in Istanbul. But nothing is what it seems, and before long August realises he has gone too far to turn back. As he struggles to break free from the clutches of Islamic State and play off British intelligence against their Turkish counterparts, he will find his resourcefulness, ingenuity and courage tested to the very limit of what he can endure.
James Wolff lives in London. He has been working for the British government for the last 10 years. His article for Crime Reads can be read here
Recommendations: Edward Wilson Envoy Alan Judd A Fine Madness Len Deighton The Berlin Trilogy
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13 May 2022
NICOLA UPSON In Person With Paul
00:58:12
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 shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger in 2018 for Nine Lessons and longlisted in 2021 for The Dead of Winter.
Recommendations: JOSEPHINE TEY'S CRIME NOVELS CHRISTIANNA BRAND GREEN FOR DANGER NOEL STREATFEILD SAPLINGS MOLLY PANTER-DOWNES ONE FINE DAY
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25 May 2022
CLAIRE MCGOWAN In Person With Paul
00:49:21
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 and shame that left these women’s bodies unfound, their fates unknown, their assailants unpunished. McGowan reveals an Ireland not of leprechauns and craic but of outdated social and sexual mores, where women and their bodies were of secondary importance to perceived propriety and misguided politics—a place of well-buttoned lips and stony silence, inadequate police and paramilitary threat. Was an unknown serial killer at large or was there something even more insidious at work? In this insightful, sensitively drawn account, McGowan exposes a system that failed these eight women—and continues to fail women to this day.
Claire McGowan grew up in a small village in Northern Ireland, and now lives in London. She also writes women's fiction under the name Eva Woods. You can find out more about Claire and her books at http://www.ink-stains.co.uk
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27 May 2022
HEADS TOGETHER SPECIAL CRIMEFEST 22
00:52:48
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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08 Jun 2022
Crime Time FM Review Show - June 22
00:23:15
Paul Burke reviews May's new crime fiction releases:
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06 Jun 2022
TOM WATSON In Person With Paul
00:48:24
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 to grips with the decisions that haunt her past, she realises her biggest choice is yet to come.
TOM WATSON is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia, where he was the recipient of the Curtis Brown Prize in memory of Giles Gordon. His debut novel, Metronome, was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and his short fiction has been shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize and awarded runner-up for the Seán Ó Faoláin Prize. He lives in London.
Recommendations Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
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14 Jun 2022
EVA BJÖRG ÆGISDOTTIR & WILL DEAN On The Sofa With Victoria
00:31:01
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...
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21 Jun 2022
ALAN PARKS In Person With Paul
01:02:20
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 business, commissioning videos, photography and artwork for household names including New Order, All Saints, The Streets and Enya. This background has played a significant role in the creation of Parks’ crime novels. The atmosphere and tone of his novels are partly created by using notebooks full of visual references he makes for each story. The main inspiration for the books comes from wandering around Glasgow itself.
Recommendations: Caitlin Wahrer - Damage James Ellroy Philip Kerr - The Berlin Trilogy William McIlvanney - Laidlaw Trilogy A McCarthy & H Kingsley Long - No Mean City
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24 Jun 2022
LAURIE PETROU In Person With Paul
00:49:50
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 stunning literary thriller - beautifully written with realistic yet incredibly flawed characters. A fascinating study of friendship, family, grief and ambition all woven together. Loved it' - Catherine Cooper, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalet
LAURIE PETROU is an award-winning author, and Associate Professor at the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University. She lives in Niagara with her family. Stargazer is her fourth book.
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28 Jun 2022
KATE BENDELOW & GRAHAM BARTLETT On The Sofa With Victoria
00:39:35
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.
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01 Jul 2022
JACK LUTZ In Person With Paul
00:44:54
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. 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 working?
JACK LUTZ lives in London with his wife and daughter. He is fascinated by the city he calls home and loves to read about and explore it; The idea for this book came to him while changing trains on the Tube. London in Black is his first novel.
Recommendations Five Minds - Guy Morpuss (Viper) The Adventures of Isobel - Candas Jane Dorsey (Pushkin Press)
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04 Jul 2022
VICTORIA SELMAN In Person With Paul
00:59:05
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?
VICTORIA SELMAN is the author of the critically acclaimed Ziba MacKenzie series and her debut novel, Blood for Blood, was shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Debut Dagger Award. Her latest psychological thriller TRULY DARKLY DEEPLY (UK Link) is a Sunday Times Bestseller. She read Modern History at Oxford University and holds certificates in criminal profiling and criminal psychology. Victoria Selman has written for the Independent and co-hosts Crime Time FM with Paul Burke.
USA 6/27 - TRULY DARKLY DEEPLY (UNION SQUARE BOOKS) - US Link Already a bestseller in the UK, this twisty, true crime-inspired mystery thriller is perfect for fans of page-turning crime books like The Last Thing He Told Me or Before I Go to Sleep, or readers of serial killer books about Ted Bundy and other infamous murderers.
Recommendations: The Quiet Tenant Clemence Michallon Vine Street Dominic Nolan Victor Frankel Man's Search for Meaning Katherine Ryan Howard 56 Days
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22 Jul 2022
THE REVIEW SHOW JULY '22
00:23:34
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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07 Jul 2022
MARK OLSHAKER On The Sofa With Victoria (Special)
00:26:49
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.
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12 Jul 2022
STEF BIERWERTH, BETHAN FERGUSON & DAVID H HEADLEY On The Sofa With Victoria
00:32:29
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.
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15 Jul 2022
GORDON KERR In Person With Paul
00:49:37
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 John Herbert King to betray their country during the war to end all wars and delving into the mysterious web of espionage and subterfuge surrounding the Cambridge Spy Ring that spied for the Soviet Union from the nineteen-thirties until the early Nineteen-Fifties. People commit treason for many reasons - some seek adventure, some seek reward, some are motivated by political philosophy, while others are sucked into it by their own foolishness. British Traitors provides a fascinating look at the lives and impulses of those who chose to betray their country.
Gordon Kerr worked in bookselling and publishing before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of several titles including A Short History of Europe, A Short History of Africa, A Short History of China, A Short History of Brazil, A Short History of the First World War,A Short History of the Vietnam War, A Short History of the Middle East, A Short History of Religion and The War That Never Ended. He divides his time between Dorset and Southwest France.
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19 Jul 2022
KARIN SLAUGHTER An In Person Special With Craig Sisterson
00:52:38
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 find justice for Emily – and to uncover the truth before the killer decides to silence her too… Karin Slaughter is one of the world’s most popular storytellers. Published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe, her novels have all been Sunday Times bestsellers. Slaughter lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and is the founder of the Save the Libraries project―a not-for-profit organization established to support libraries and library programming. Her standalone novel Pieces of Her is now a Netflix series, and the Grant County and Will Trent series are in development for television.
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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23 Jul 2022
CRIME TIME FM ORION INCIDENT ROOM SPECIAL HARROGATE 2022
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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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26 Jul 2022
BARRY FORSHAW In Person With Paul
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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 condemnation. Simenon's non-Maigret standalone books are among the most commanding in the genre, and, as a trenchant picture of French society, his concise novels collectively offer up a fascinating analysis. And his influence on an army of later crime writers is incalculable. Alongside his own considerable insights, Barry Forshaw has interviewed people who worked either with Simenon or on his books: publishers, editors, translators, and other specialist writers. He has created a literary prism through which to appreciate one of the most distinctive achievements in the whole of crime fiction.
Barry Forshaw is one of the UK's leading experts on crime fiction and film. Books include Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide, Nordic Noir, Italian Cinema, American Noir and British Crime Film. Other work: Sex and Film, British Gothic Cinema, Euro Noir, Historical Noir, BFI War of the Worlds and the Keating Award-winners British Crime Writing Encyclopedia and Brit Noir. He writes for various newspapers, is the Financial Time crime fiction critic, contributes Blu-ray extras, broadcasts, chairs events and edits Crime Time. crimetime.co.uk
Book Recommendations
Maigret: The Saint-Fiacre Affair (L'Affaire Saint-Fiacre) Maigret's Doubts (Les Scrupules de Maigret) Pietr the Latvian (Pietr-le-Letton) Maigret Defends Himself (Maigret Se Défend) My Friend Maigret (Mon Ami Maigret) Maigret and the Hotel Majestic (The Cellars of the Majestic, Fr. Les Caves du Majestic)
Romans Durs discussed: The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (L'Homme qui Regardait Passer les Trains) The Strangers in the House (Les Inconnus dans la Maison) The Mahé Circle (Le Cercle des Mahé) Pedigree (Pedigree) The Snow was Dirty (La Neige Était Sale)
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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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03 Mar 2023
JOHN SAYLES In Person With Paul
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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 English and also sent in chains to the New World. The novel follows Jamie and Jenny through servitude, revolt, escape, and romantic entanglements pawns in a deadly game. The two continue to cross paths with each other and with some of the leading figures of the era - the devious Lord Lovat, future novelist Henry Fielding, the artist William Hogarth, a young and ambitious George Washington, the doomed General James Wolfe, and the Lenape chief feared throughout the Ohio Valley as Shingas the Terrible.
John Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996). He has written seven novels, the most recent being Yellow Earth (2020) and A Moment in the Sun (2011).
Recommendations José Latour Martin Limón John le Carré The Pigeon Tunnel Walter Mosley Film: Emily The Criminal Diana Gabaldon
Mentions: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown Howard Zinn The Lady Vanishes Zadie Smith A Moment in the Sun - John Sayles James Dickie Bruce Springsteen Bill Forsyth
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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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31 Jul 2022
SCOTT BLACKBURN In Person With Paul
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SCOTT BLACKBURN chats to Paul Burke about his Southern Rural NoirIT 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 at the yard that thrusts Hudson into the fight of his life. Reeling for answers, Hudson joins forces with his father's former employee, 71-year-old, beer-guzzling Vietnam vet Charlie Shoaf, and a feisty teenage girl, Lucy Reyes, who's fiercely seeking justice for her own family tragedy. With a murderer on the loose and no answers from the local cops, the trio of outcasts launch an investigation. The shocking truth they uncover will shake Flint Creek to its very core.
Scott Blackburn is an English instructor and a 2017 graduate of the Mountainview MFA program. He lives in High Point, North Carolina with his wife and two children. When he is not writing and teaching, Scott enjoys training in combat sports such as boxing, Muay Thai, and Ju-jitsu, in which he holds a black belt.
Recommendations: Wiley Cash Michael Farris Smith Chris Offutt Daniel Woodrell Tom Franklin Mark Westmoreland A Violent Gospel Ted Flanagan Every Hidden Thing John Vercher After the Lights Go Out Peter Farris The Devil Himself Eli Cranor Don't Know Tough Tiffany Quay Tyson The Past is Never
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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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01 Aug 2022
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show August 22
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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, the Books, the Films has just been released by Oldcastle Books.
The Watchlist: Laura Wilson The Partisan - Patrick Worrall Barry Forshaw The Lost Man of Bombay - Vaseem Khan Maxim Jakubowski Winter Work - Dan Fesperman Jake Kerridge A Season in Exile - Oliver Harris Ayo Onatade All I Said was True - Imran Mahmood Victoria Selman Lying Beside You - Michael Robotham Craig Sisterson No Country For Girls - Emma Styles Sonja van der Westhuizen More Than You'll Ever Know - Katie Gutierrez Erin Britton Bryant and May's Peculiar London - Christopher Fowler Paul Burke TheAccomplice - Steve Cavanagh
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03 Feb 2023
LOUISE CANDLISH In Person With Paul
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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 quite what it seemed. It still isn’t. No one else could have done it. Could they?
Louise Candlish is the Sunday Times bestselling author of sixteen novels. Our House, a #1 bestseller, won the Crime & Thriller Book of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards, was longlisted for the 2019 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award. It is now a major ITV drama made by Death in Paradise producers Red Planet Pictures. Louise lives in London with her husband and daughter. Visit her at LouiseCandlish.com or connect with her on Twitter @Louise_Candlish.
Recommended Maybe Next Time Cesca Major (end of March) The Honeymoon Kate Gray Broadchurch White Lotus 2
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04 Jan 2023
ROBERT GODDARD In Person With Paul New Year Special
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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... 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 took place in Paris more than fifty years ago. Uncovering the truth may be his responsibility, but Taleb is well aware that no-one in Algeria wants to be reminded of the dark deeds carried out in the struggle for independence - or in the violence that has racked the nation since. Before long, he will face a choice he has long sought to avoid, between self-preservation and doing the right thing.
The fine Art of Invisible Detection: Umiko Wada has recently had quite enough excitement in her life. With her husband recently murdered and a mother who seems to want her married again before his body is cold, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasingly uncomplicated, filled with coffee runs, diary management and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case which turns out to be dangerous enough to get him killed. A case which means Wada will have to leave Japan for the first time and travel to London. Following the only lead she has, Wada quickly realises that being a detective isn't as easy as the television makes out. And that there's a reason why secrets stay buried for a long time. Because people want them to stay secret. And they're prepared to do very bad things to keep them that way...
Robert Goddard's first novel, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller. Since then, his books have captivated readers worldwide with their edge-of-the-seat pace and their labyrinthine plotting. He has won awards in the UK, the US and across Europe and his books have been translated into over thirty languages. In 2019, he won the Crime Writers’ Association’s highest accolade, the Diamond Dagger, for a lifetime achievement in Crime Writing.
Recommendation: Junichiro Tanizaki (novelist)
Mentions: Murder in Memoriam Didier Daeninckx (novel) The Battle for Algiers (film) Films of Jacques Tati Pepe Le Moko (film)
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24 Feb 2023
CHRIS LLOYD In Person With Paul
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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 twenty years, falling in love with the people, the country, the language and Barcelona Football Club. Chris now lives in Wales, where he is at work on his next novel.
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06 Aug 2022
BEV JONES (B.E.JONES) In Person With Paul
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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. 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 - not even her devoted husband Elias - knows the real her. Or how much blood is on her hands.
THE WILDERNESS: LOVE CAN HURT. BETRAYAL CAN KILL. Shattered by the discovery of her husband's affair, Liv knows they need to leave the chaos of New York to save their marriage. Maybe the road trip they'd always planned, exploring America's national parks - just the two of them - would help heal the wounds. But what Liv hasn't told her husband is that she has set him three challenges on their trip - three opportunities to prove he's really sorry. If he fails? Well, it's dangerous out there in the wilderness; accidents happen all the time. And if it's easy to die, then it's also easy to kill.
BEVERLEY 'B.E.' JONES is a former journalist and police press officer, now a novelist and book obsessive. She was born in a small village in the South Wales valleys, north of Cardiff and started her journalism career with Trinity Mirror newspapers before becoming a broadcast journalist with BBC Wales Today. She has worked on all aspects of crime reporting (as well as community news and features) producing stories and content for newspapers and live TV. Most recently she worked as a press officer for South Wales Police, dealing with the media and participating in criminal investigations, security operations and emergency planning. Perhaps unsurprisingly she channels these experiences of 'true crime,' and her insight into the murkier side of human nature, into her dark, psychological thrillers set in and around South Wales and now further afield.
Recommendations SAMANTHA DOWNING - For Your Own Good & My Lovely Wife
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09 Aug 2022
POLLY PHILLIPS, HARRIET TYCE & TM LOGAN On The Sofa With Victoria
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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).
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15 Aug 2022
TOM VAUGHAN MACAULAY In Person With Paul
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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 entangled. Told through interwoven correspondence, emails and WhatsApp messages, with the suspense around an impending murder steadily building, Countdown to a Killing is a deep exploration of multiple perspectives and points of view of individuals who are inextricably bound. The key themes of love, sexuality, ethnicity, mental health and acceptance are sensitively explored in a unique linear yet multi-layered and metafictional narrative. Packed with humour, heartache and a cast of expertly-crafted characters, this contemporary take on the epistolary novel will have you laughing and crying in equal measure.
TOM VAUGHAN MACAULAY is a solicitor. His first novel, Being Simon Haines, was published in 2017 to high critical acclaim. The novel was selected as a Best Book for Summer by Alex Wade, writing in The Times, Law, while Justin Warshaw, writing in The Times Literary Supplement, described it as a ‘grand narrative of a young man on the cusp of the realization of a dream’. Edward Fennell, writing in The Times, the Brief premium, asked whether it would become ‘the defining novel for [Tom's] generation about what it means to be a driven corporate lawyer’. Countdown to a Killing is his second novel. www.tomvaughanmacaulay.com
Recommendations: The Five Hallie Rubenhold
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18 Aug 2022
MARK ELLIS In Person With Paul
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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 stories of watching the heavy bombardment of Swansea from the safe vantage point of a hill in Llanelli, and of attending tea dances in wartime London under the bombs and doodlebugs. In consequence, Mark has always been fascinated by World War II and, in particular, the Home Front and the fact that while the nation was engaged in a heroic endeavour, crime flourished. Murder, robbery, theft and rape were rife. Mark is author of the DCI Frank Merlin series, Mark is also a member of the Crime Writer's Association and Crime Cymru.
Recommendations: Nigh and the City - Gerald Kersh. Film by Jules Dassin A Place of Greater Safety - Hilary Mantel The Accursed Kings - Maurice Druon My Friend Maigret - Georges Simenon
(mentioned Citizens - Simon Schama Hereward the Wake - Charles Kingsley)
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23 Aug 2022
BEGINNINGS On The Sofa With Victoria Special featuring Dominic Nolan
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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.
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20 Aug 2022
SHERRYL CLARK In Person With Paul
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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 visit, and Judi might finally be at breaking point.
Sherryl Clark has had 40 children's and YA books published in Australia, and several in the US and UK, plus collections of poetry and four verse novels. She has taught writing at Holmesglen TAFE and Victoria University. She completed a Master of Fine Arts program at Hamline University, Minnesota, and has just finished a PhD in creative writing. Her three adult crime novels are TRUST ME I'M DEAD, DEAD AND GONE & MAD, BAD AND DEAD.
Recommendations Garry Disher - the Paul Hirsch mysteries Emma Viskic - Those Who Perish Vikki Petraitis - The Unbelieved Catherine Lee - Dark Justice
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24 Aug 2022
MIDDLES an On The Sofa With Victoria Special featuring Dominic Nolan
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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.
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25 Aug 2022
ENDINGS an On The Sofa With Victoria Special featuring Dominic Nolan
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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.
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14 Sep 2022
ADAM HAMDY In Person With Paul
00:59:39
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
A strange, compelling, and ultimately moving head-spinner of a novel -- John Connolly Adam Hamdy is a Sunday Times, Kindle, and international bestselling author and screenwriter. Adam writes the Scott Pearce series of contemporary espionage thrillers [Black 13, Red Wolves], and has written two Private books with James Patterson [Private Moscow, Private Rogue]. He is the author of the Pendulum trilogy, a trilogy of conspiracy thriller novels. James Patterson described Pendulum as ‘one of the best thrillers of the year’, and the novel was a finalist for the Glass Bell Award for contemporary fiction. Pendulum was chosen as book of the month by Goldsboro Books and was selected for BBC Radio 2 Book Club. Prior to embarking on his writing career, Adam was a strategy consultant and advised global businesses in the medical systems, robotics, technology and financial services sectors. The Other Side of Night is out in hardback 15/9/22.
The Other Side of Nightis like no crime novel I’ve ever read. The pages almost turn themselves and when I was finished I couldn’t stop thinking about the story’s incredible twists, turns, and surprises. -- James Patterson
Recommendations Anthony Horowitz A Twist of the Knife Steve Cavanagh The Accomplice
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29 Aug 2022
JANET EVANOVICH In Person With Paul
00:59:49
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, and he’s not about to let Gabriela find it without him. Rafer is as relaxed as Gabriela is driven, and he has a lifetime’s experience getting under his ex-wife’s skin. But when they aren’t bickering about old times the two make a formidable team, and it’s going to take a team to defeat the vicious drug lord who has also been searching for the fabled ring. A drug lord who doesn’t mind leaving a large body count behind him to get it.
GAME ON Stephanie Plum returns to hunt down a master cyber-criminal operating out of Trenton in the 28th book in the wildly popular series. When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartment, she wishes she didn’t keep her gun in the cookie jar in her kitchen. And when she finds out the intruder is fellow apprehension agent Diesel, six feet of hard muscle and bad attitude whom she hasn’t seen in more than two years, she still thinks the gun might come in handy. Turns out Diesel and Stephanie are on the trail of the same fugitive: Oswald Wednesday, an international computer hacker as brilliant as he is ruthless. Stephanie may not be the most technologically savvy sleuth, but she more than makes up for that with her dogged determination, her understanding of human nature, and her willingness to do just about anything to bring a fugitive to justice. Unsure if Diesel is her partner or her competition in this case, she’ll need to watch her back every step of the way as she sets the stage to draw Wednesday out from behind his computer and into the real world.
Janet Evanovich is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, the co-authored Fox and O’Hare series, the Knight and Moon series, and the Lizzy and Diesel series as well as twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels, Troublemaker graphic novel, and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author.
Recommendations/Mentions Lee Goldberg Robert B Parker - Spenser series Sara Paretsky Sue Grafton Film: Midnight Run
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06 Sep 2022
DAVID BALDACCI & LINWOOD BARCLAY On The Sofa With Victoria
00:36:12
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.
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02 Sep 2022
JOHN VERCHER In Person With Paul AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT
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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 price that athletes pay to entertain, and one man's battle to reconcile his past- even when he can't hold on to his present.
John Vercher lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife and two sons. He has a Bachelor’s in English from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Mountainview Master of Fine Arts program. He is a contributing writer for WBUR Boston’s Cognoscenti, and NPR features his essays on race, identity, and parenting. His debut novel, THREE-FIFTHS, was named one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune, CrimeReads, and Booklist. It was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Strand Magazine Critics’ Awards for Best First Novel. John's second novel AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT is available now. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram @jverchwrites.
Recommendation Chet'la Sabree Field Study (honourable mentions) James Hannaham Delicious Foods Smith Henderson Fourth of July Creek Leonard Gardner Fat City William Boyle Shoot the Moonlight Out Eli Cranor Don't Know Tough Ted Flanagan Every Hidden Thing Scott Blackburn It Dies With 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 .
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01 Sep 2022
THE REVIEW SHOW AUGUST '22
00:23:21
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 Judge 2022 .
Coming in September: Robert Harris, Peter Papathanasiou, Will Dean, Rijula Das, Tim Leach...
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04 Sep 2022
BLOODY SCOTLAND Special on Crime Time FM
00:36:08
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY BLOODY SCOTLAND 15th - 18th September, 2022.
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.
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 No Evil George Paterson The Girl, the Crow, the Writer & the Fighter Amanda Mitchison The Wolf Hunters
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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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23 Dec 2022
SIMON STEPHENSON In Person With Paul
01:08:00
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 Book at the Scottish Book Awards, was a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4, and a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. His first novel, Set My Heart to Five, has been optioned by Working Title Films. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a screenwriter. He originated and wrote the film The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, and wrote on Pixar’s Luca.
Recommendations: Iain Banks - The Crow Road Jack Jordan, Jed Mercurio
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03 Sep 2022
LAURA WILSON In Person With Paul (Jamie Costello)
00:58:45
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 government-run study with other teenagers who experience intermittent 'colour episodes'. They are promised that they are the key to reversing the damage, but Grace soon realises that the reality is much more complicated, shocking, and dangerous than she could have ever imagined . . .
LAURA WILSON/JAMIE COSTELLO lives in London. Under her own name, Laura Wilson, she is the author of six educational books on historical subjects for eight-to-twelve-year-olds, and thirteen critically acclaimed psychological thrillers, including the DI Stratton series. Her books have been shortlisted for many awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, and she has won both the CWA Historical Mystery Award and the French Prix du Polar Europeen. She was the Programming Chair for the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival in 2009, and co-programmes the Killer Women Crime Writing Festival. She is also the Guardian's crime fiction reviewer.
RECOMMENDATIONS Drunk Tank Pink Adam Alter The Changes Trilogy Peter Dickinson JG Ballard Chatterton Square EH Young The Book of the Most Precious Substance Sara Gran Five Survive Holly Jackson (pub. 8/12/22)
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29 Nov 2022
VASEEM KHAN & JANICE HALLETT On The Sofa With Victoria
00:32:16
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.
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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11 Sep 2022
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ In Person With Craig Sisterson
00:47:00
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 all - wealth, reputation - but also a tendency to throw it all away. He needs Vargas to help him get back on an even keel so he can focus his mind on finding the killer before they're both silenced for good.
David Lagercrantz was born in 1962, and is an acclaimed Swedish author and journalist. In 2015 The Girl in the Spider's Web, his continuation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, became a worldwide bestseller, two further novels in the series followed. He is also the author of the acclaimed and bestselling I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and Fall of Man in Wilmslow, on the death and life of Alan Turing. Dark Music is the first in a new contemporary crime series.
Translator: Ian Giles translates all three Scandinavian languages into English. He is currently Chair of the Swedish-English Literary Translators’ Association. In 2015, Ian was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger for his translation of Andreas Norman’s Into A Raging Blaze. Ian currently lives in Edinburgh.
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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20 Sep 2022
VAL McDERMID & RUTH WARE On The Sofa With Victoria
00:45:22
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).
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04 Oct 2022
CHARLOTTE PHILBY & LUKE JENNINGS On The Sofa With Victoria
00:42:05
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.
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24 Sep 2022
JOHN BROWNLOW In Person With Paul
01:02:00
JOHN BROWNLOW chats to Paul Burke about SEVENTEEN: LAST MANSTANDING, film script sitting, 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 to screenwriting, and wrote the film SYLVIA about Sylvia Plath, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig. He also wrote the TV series FLEMING, about Ian Fleming's work in wartime intelligence, and the TV adaptation of Jessie Burton's best-selling novel THE MINIATURIST. His debut novel, SEVENTEEN, was published in 2022, and the sequel is due to be published in 2023. John holds British and Canadian citizenship and lives in Ontario, Canada.
Film & TV Recommendations Everything, Everywhere, All At Once White Lotus Better Call Saul Leftovers Watchmen Severance kleo (Paul's comment)
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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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29 Sep 2022
TREVOR WOOD In Person With Paul
01:12:16
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 has been set up, and feeling guilty that he didn't back him up in the first place, Jimmy returns to the streets to try and find out who's behind his friend's difficulties. Unfortunately, he's about to discover that Gadge has a lot of enemies to choose from.
TREVOR WOOD: has lived in Newcastle for twenty-five years and considers himself an adopted Geordie. He's a successful playwright who has also worked as a journalist and spin-doctor for the City Council. Prior to that he served in the Royal Navy for sixteen years. Trevor holds an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) from UEA. The Man on the Street, his first novel, was published to widespread critical acclaim and won the 2020 CWA New Blood Dagger. One Way Street and Dead End Street complete the trilogy.
Recommendations Helen Fitzgerald Worst Case Scenario Needless Alley Natalie Marlow TV - The Capture
Paul Stewart's Trainspotting tour https://edinburghstreettours.co.uk Invisible Cities Charity https://invisible-cities.org Imagining Homelessness in a City of Care https://notanatlas.org/maps/
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18 Oct 2022
ZOE SHARP & DAVID PENNY On The Sofa With Victoria
00:43:02
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.
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17 Oct 2022
ANTONY JOHNSTON In Person With Paul
01:02:13
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 and bloodshed engulf Europe. If a powerful enemy doesn’t get her first...
ANTONY JOHNSTON is a New York Times bestselling writer. The Charlize Theron movie Atomic Blonde is based on his graphic novel; his Brigitte Sharp thriller novels are critically acclaimed; and his first videogame, Dead Space, redefined its genre. Antony’s books, graphic novels, and videogames include The Exphoria Code, The Tempus Project, The Fuse, Daredevil, Shang-Chi, Shadow of Mordor, the Alex Rider graphic novels and the adaptation of Alan Moore‘s ‘lost screenplay’ Fashion Beast. He also hosts the podcast Writing And Breathing.
Recommendations Ian Fleming Moonraker John Birmingham The Cruel Stars Greg Rucka Queen & Country (graphic novel) The Sandbaggers (TV) Mick Herron, John le Carré, Len Deighton (spy classics)
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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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24 Oct 2022
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show October 22
00:32:15
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 Ian Rankin Craig Sisterson - " " Maxim Jakubowski - Queen High CJ Carey (Jane Thynne) Victoria Selman - " " Sonja van der Westhuizen - The Tattoo Murder Akimitsu Takagi trans. Deborah Boehm Erin Britton - " " Paul Burke - Wolf Pack Will Dean
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27 Oct 2022
THE REVIEW SHOW September/October '22
00:35:51
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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Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is editor of Crime Time FM and also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .
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01 Nov 2022
LUCY FOLEY & ELLY GRIFFITHS On The Sofa With Victoria
00:39:51
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.
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07 Mar 2023
JULIA BARTZ In Person With Paul
00:53:14
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 New Science of Sex, Dating, and Self-Care’ and previously ran the Brooklyn literary blog ‘BookStalker’. Her fiction has been published in the South Dakota Review, FictionDaily and InDigest Magazine and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Writing Retreat is her first novel.
Recommendations HILMA AF KLINT (Artist) Natalie Goldberg Writing Down the Bones Deck Stephen King Misery Leah Konen You Should Have Told Me Megan Giddings Lakewood Andrea Bartz We Were Never Here
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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 .
Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfest,
21 Dec 2022
DIAMOND CRIME SPECIAL On Crime Time FM
00:55:25
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
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02 Nov 2022
GUY HALE *bonus* The Music of Jimmy Wayne
00:05:55
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.
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17 Nov 2022
GEORGINA CLARKE In Person With Jenna - a CTFM Special
00:49:23
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, tells a compulsive, cinematic story about class, morality and the cost of being an independent woman in 1920s London. Georgina Clarke has a degree in theology and completed a PhD in history part-time, while working as a parish priest. Her love of the past is at the heart of her fiction: her Lizzie Hardwicke crime series (published by Canelo) is set in the mid-eighteenth century, and her latest novel - The Dazzle of the Light - unfolds in 1920s London and is inspired by the real-life activities of the women-led Forty Thieves crime syndicate. In 2021, Georgina began working as a tutor at The Queen’s Foundation in Birmingham, training clergy. When she's not working, she enjoys dressmaking, running and mooching around old houses She lives in Worcester with her husband, son and two lively cats.
Recommendations Jane Harper The Dry, The Lost Man Diane Setterfield Once Upon a River Clare Chambers Small Pleasures
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Jenna Gordon joined VERVE Books in an editorial capacity in 2020. She works remotely from Scotland and is a voracious reader of compulsive, character-driven fiction. Aside from books, her other loves include podcasts, long walks, spin classes, TV dramas with 6-10 episodes, red wine and cats.
Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .
Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfest,
15 Nov 2022
MARI HANNAH & IAN RANKIN On The Sofa On With Victoria
00:39:41
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.
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08 Nov 2022
STUART MacBRIDE In Person With Paul
00:59:09
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 before? What if the Bloodsmith isn't the only monster out there? And what's going to happen when Lucy goes after them?
STUART MACBRIDE is the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson novels. He's also published standalones, novellas, and short stories, as well as a slightly twisted children's picture book for slightly twisted children. Stuart lives in the northeast of Scotland with his wife Fiona, cats Gherkin, Onion and Beetroot, some hens, some horses, and an impressive collection of assorted weeds. For more information visit: StuartMacBride.com Facebook.com/stuartmacbridebooks @StuartMacBride
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14 Nov 2022
GUY HALE In Person With Paul
00:55:52
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 it is, should he go for a full album? Wrestling for his desire for success, his grasp of morality and haunted by his past mistakes, Jimmy starts searching for the most terrible people he has ever known.
GUY HALE is based in England and is branching out from an adventurous background in the music industry. He has two transatlantic recording labels under his belt along side song writing credits for prominent blues musicians such as Kid Anderson, Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia. Most would stop there but not Guy. During the global pandemic Guy began his journey in fiction writing with a novel steeped in inspiration from his adventures on the road in America. Now working exclusively with Hillside Global Ltd and Whitefox Publishing Ltd on a set of novels titled “The Comeback Trail”. Blood on the Tracks follows “Killing Me Softly”...
Recommendations Music: John Blues Boyd - What My Eyes Have Seen Mike Zito Blues For The Southside Resurrection Books: Minnie Driver Managing Expectations Gore Vidal Essays and Fiction Imran Mahmood All I Said was True Victoria Selman Truly Darkly Deeply Vaseem Khan The Lost Man of Bombay
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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 .
Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfest,
21 Nov 2022
MIKE LUPICA In Person With Paul
01:00:12
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. REVENGE TOUR PI Sunny Randall's landlord and former client, famous novelist Melanie Joan Hall, is being threatened and blackmailed, and it is up to Sunny and her best friend Spike to ensure her protection. But as Sunny looks into the identity of Melanie Joan's stalker, she learns that much of the author's past is a product of her amazing imagination, and her loyalty to her old friend is challenged. At the same time, Sunny's aging ex-cop father, Phil, is threatened by a shady lawyer settling an old score. Fighting crimes on two fronts, Sunny must use all of her savvy, and the help of her friends, in order to protect those she loves.
Mike Lupica is a prominent sports writer. His syndicated column “Shooting from the Lip” appears every Sunday across America. He began his career covering the New York Knicks for the New York Post at age 23. For the past fifteen years, he has been a TV anchor for ESPN & hosts his own program, The Mike Lupica Show on ESPN2. Mike Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells, collaborated with William Goldman on Wait Till Next Year. He is a very successful children/YA author. His crime writing career began with a trilogy featuring Peter Finley. Now he writes the Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall mysteries in the Robert B Parker series and will soon take on Spenser.
Recommendations The Godwulf Manuscript, Cold Service & Backstory - Robert B Parker A Heart Full of Headstones - Ian Rankin Violent Ends - Neil Broadhurst Triple Cross - James Patterson
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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 .
Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfest,
24 Nov 2022
JAMES GRADY In Person With Paul
01:21:44
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, through the challenges of now: Racism. Sexism. Global warming. What it means to be alive.
James Grady's first novel Six Days Of The Condor became the classic Robert Redford movie Three Days Of The Condor and the current Max Irons TV series Condor. Grady has received Italy's Raymond Chandler Medal, France's Grand Prix Du Roman Noir and Japan's Baka-Misu literature award, two Regardie's magazine short story awards, and been a Mystery Writers of America Edgar finalist. He's published more than a dozen novels and three times that many short stories, been a muckraker journalist and a scriptwriter for film and television. In 2008, London's Daily Telegraph named Grady as one of "50 crime writers to read before you die." In 2015, The Washington Post compared his prose to George Orwell and Bob Dylan.
RECOMMENDATIONS JAMES GRADY NOVELS: Mad Dogs The Nest Day of the Condor Last Days of the Condor To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Catch 22 Joseph Heller The Philosophy of Modern Music Bob Dylan Dark Matter Blake Crouch Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter
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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 .
Notes Jack Anderson - Political Sleaze Busting Journalist Lee Metcalf - US Senator Kurt Vonnegut, Albert Camus, Graham Greene, Edward Hopper, James Baldwin, Adam Diment. Marias Massacre 1870
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09 Dec 2022
THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE - 2022 BEST CRIME NOVELS
01:28:21
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 Diamond - Liz Nugent, The Only Suspect - Louise Candlish.
Maxim Jakubowski The Maid – Nita Prose How to Find Your Way in the Dark – Derek B Miller Heat 2 – Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner Shoot the Moonlight Out – William Boyle Maror – Lavie Tidhar 2023: Death and the Conjuror – Tom Mead
Ayo Onatade City on Fire – Don Winslow The Life of Crime – Martin Edwards Confidence – Denise Mina Breaking Point – Olivier Norek Blue Water – Leonora Nattras* The Devil Takes You Home - Gabino Iglesias 2023: The Shadows of London – Andrew Taylor*
Jake Kerridge A Season in Exile – Oliver Harris The Trees – Percival Everett The Trenches – Parker Bilal The Girls Are Good – Ilaria Bernadini Murder Memoir Murder – Anthony J Quinn 2023: Tomas Nevinson – Javier Marias
Victoria Selman The IT Girl – Ruth Ware The Reunion – Polly Philips The Empty Room – Brian McGilloway Queen High – C J Carey* (also Laura) Hunting Time – Jeffery Deaver 2023: The Things We Do To Our Friends – Heather Darwent, The Quiet Tenant - Clémence Michallon.
Paul Burke Racing the Light – Robert Crais The Invisible – Peter Papathanasiou River Clyde – Simone Buchholz (trans. Rachel Ward) House of Ashes – Stuart Neville Small Deaths – Rijula Das 2023: White Riot – Joe Thomas, All the Sinners Bleed - SA Cosby
* Books on more than 1 list
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07 Dec 2022
JEROME CHARYN In Person With MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI & PAUL BURKE
01:16:24
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' Orson Welles; and notorious journalist Louella Parsons, among many others. Mixing his trademark screwball comedy and unerring tragedy, Jerome Charyn, with his 'polymorphous imagination' (Jonathan Lethem) reanimates film classics such as Cover Girl, Gilda, and The Lady from Shanghai. An insightful, tender portrait of a seemingly halcyon age before blockbusters and film franchises, Big Red promises to consume both Hollywood cinephiles and neophytes alike.
Jerome Charyn is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction. Among other honors, he has received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and his novels have been selected as finalists for the Firecracker Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Charyn lives in New York.
Recommendations (Film): Chinatown, The Lady From Shanghai, Duel In The Sun, Chimes At Midnight, Citizen Kane, Touch Of Evil, The Magnificent Ambersons, Double Indemnity, The Third Man, Decision To Leave, Gold Diggers of 1933, On The Waterfront, The Stranger, Vertigo. Books: James Ellroy, No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy, City of Nets Otto Friedrich.
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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 .
Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfest,
13 Dec 2022
ARAMINTA HALL, ERIN KELLY & CL TAYLOR OnTheSofa With Victoria
00:41:34
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.
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27 Dec 2022
JEFFERY DEAVER On The Sofa With Victoria
00:58:17
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 prison and fueled by blinding rage, Jon is a man whose former profession as a police detective makes him uniquely suited for the hunt. And he’s not alone. Two hitmen are also hot on her heels―an eerie pair of thugs who take delight not only in murder but in the sport of devising clever ways to make bodies disappear forever. Even if Shaw manages to catch up with Allison and her daughter, his troubles will just be beginning. SHAW IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER RULE #3: NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING. As Shaw ventures further into the wilderness, the truth becomes as hard to decipher as the forest’s unmarked trails…and peril awaits at every turn.
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18 Dec 2022
MARK WESTMORELAND In Person With Paul
01:12:35
North Georgia author MARK WESTMORELAND chats to Paul Burke about the Dooley brothers - Mack & Marshall, A Violent Gospel* andA 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, he’s back in A Mourning Song, forced to face his demons. When his brother resurfaces, Mack finds himself caught up in a turf war between the Bohannon crime family and a gang of white supremacists. Mack is furious with Marshall, but family is family, after all. In order to survive, he’ll have to set aside his disagreements with his brother so they can work together to run the Ghostface Devils out of Tugalo County.
Mark Westmoreland is a Georgia native who lives in Oklahoma with his wife and two dogs. He's a full-time Dawgs fan with a sideline as a writer. Sippin' bourbon and watching Burt Reynolds are two of his favorite pastimes. A Violent Gospel is his debut novella. You can find him hanging out on Twitter @ItsMarkYall.
Recommendations: Peter Ferris, Wiley Cash, James Lee Burke, Cormac McCarthy, William Boyle, Joe R Lansdale, Lee Durkee, Scott Blackburn, SA Cosby, Larry Brown, Harry Crews, Brian Panowich, Wesley Brown, Eli Cranor & Chris Offutt.
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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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21 Jan 2023
JANUARY 2023 REVIEW SHOW Pt 2
00:16:39
Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for January 2023 - part 2.
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10 Jan 2023
STEVE CAVANAGH & IMRAN MAHMOOD On The Sofa With Victoria
00:38:32
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.
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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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24 Jan 2023
CAROLINE KEPNES, JEFF LINDSAY & ANDY McNAB On The Sofa With Victoria
00:39:12
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…
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07 Feb 2023
FIONA BARTON, SAIMA MIR & SARAH SULTOON On The Sofa With Victoria
00:39:52
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!
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09 Jan 2023
JANUARY 2023 REVIEW SHOW Pt 1
00:17:05
Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for January 2023 and a few of the best titles from Nov/Dec 2022.
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17 Jan 2023
Jónína Leósdóttir, Sólveig Pálsdóttir & Quentin Bates In Person With Paul
01:01:03
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 wealthy doctor Ríkarður Magnússon goes to sleep in his luxurious caravan and doesn’t wake up, detectives Guðgeir Fransson and Elsa Guðrún are called to the Westman Islands to investigate what looks like murder. Suspicion immediately falls on Ríkharður’s young, beautiful and deeply troubled girlfriend – but there are no easy answers in this case as they are drawn into family feuds, disgruntled friends and colleagues, and the presence of a group of fitness-obsessed over-achievers with secrets of their own. As their investigation makes progress, Guðgeir and Elsa Guðrún are forced to confront their own preconceptions and prejudices as they uncover the sinister side of Ríkharður’s past. Harm is the third novel featuring the soft-spoken Reykjavík detective Guðgeir Fransson to appear in English. Sólveig Pálsdóttir again weaves a complex web of intrigue that plays out in the Westman Islands, remote southern Iceland and Reykjavík while asking some searching questions about things society accepts at face value – and others it is not prepared to tolerate.
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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 .
Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfest,
31 Jan 2023
JANE HARPER In Person With Craig Sisterson
00:52:01
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 The Dry. Her books are published in 40 territories and have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. Jane has won numerous top awards including the CWA Gold Dagger, the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year and the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year. The 2021 movie adaptation of The Dry, starring Eric Bana, is one of the highest grossing Australian films of all time. Jane worked as a print journalist for 13 years in both Australia and the UK, and now lives in Melbourne with her husband, daughter and son.
Recommendation: Benjamin Stevenson Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone.
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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Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfest,
27 Jan 2023
MATTHEW GENTILE In Person With Paul
01:15:08
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, Francis Ford Coppola, the Pamela Philips case.
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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 .
Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfest,
11 Feb 2023
KATJA IVAR In Person With Paul
00:46:33
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, whose unwelcome investigation leads to some who would prefer to see her stopped dead in her tracks.
Katja Ivar grew up in Russia and the U.S. She travelled the world extensively, from Almaty to Ushuaia, from Karelia to Kyushu, before finally settling in Paris where she lives with her husband and three children. She received a B.A. in Linguistics and a master's degree in Contemporary History from Sorbonne University. 'Evil Things' was her debut novel and the first in the Hella Mauzer series. 'Deep as Death' followed and now Trouble, (Bitter Lemon Press, paperback, see links to order).
Recommendations: Snowdrops AD Miller
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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 .
Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfest,
13 Feb 2023
SIMON MASON In Person With Paul
00:58:51
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 Girl, Kid Got Shot and Hey, Sherlock! feature the sixteen-year-old slacker genius Garvie Smith. A former Managing Director of David Fickling Books, where he worked with many wonderful writers, including Philip Pullman, he has also taught at Oxford Brookes University and is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford. At first he wrote books for adults, then books for children, which grew up at roughly the same rate his own children grew up, and now he is back writing books for adults again. He has written a work of non-fiction, The Rough Guide to Classic Novels. His novels have been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Branford Boase Prize for Best First Children's Novel, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Prize for Best Children's Book, and have won the Betty Trask for Best First Novel and the Crimefest Prize for Best YA Crime Novel.
Recommendations Annie Ernaux The Years (trans. Alison L Strayer) & Simple Passion (trans. Tanya Leslie)
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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 .
Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfest,
21 Feb 2023
PETER JAMES & GRAHAM BARTLETT On The Sofa With Victoria
00:27:24
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.
Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfest,
20 Feb 2023
THE REVIEW SHOW February 2023
00:29:56
The Review Show '2023 - new crime fiction & a feature on Eric Ambler.
Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfest,
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