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Emma Viskic , Dinuka McKenzie , Charity Norman & Helen Fitzgerald in conversation with Craig Sisterson. All contributed to the anthology DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER 2 . DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER 2 features a cohort of criminally good Australian and New Zealand crime and mystery writers. Once again we have a mix of legendary figures, award-winners, bestsellers, and an array of fresh perspectives and risi...

Trevor Wood chats to Sarah Moorhead about his new police thriller The Silent Killer, early on set Alzheimer's, family, humour, homelessness and Glastonbury (see pic). THE SILENT KILLER : THE CLOCK IS TICKING. THERE'S NO ESCAPE. DCI Jack Parker has faced down hardened villains and raving, drug-addled lunatics. He's disarmed a machete-wielding psychopath and broken devastating news of...

JAMES LEE BURKE chats to Paul Burke about his career, Dave Robicheaux, Flags on the Bayou , Clete , Louisiana, the Diamond Dagger, voices, fentanyl, Knights Errant and cooking for Davy Crockett.  Clete Clete Purcel - private investigator, ex-member of the New Orleans Police Department, and war veteran with a hard shell and just a few soft spots - is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partn...

Paul Burke introduces a special show dedicated to the CWA Dagger Awards Evening 4/7/24. Victoria Selman and Imran Mahmood host the evening celebration of all things crime. Lisa Jewell delivers a thought provoking and challenging the key note speech, James Lee Burke and Lynda la Plante accept the life time achievement awards. CWA Chair Vaseem Khan talks about the power of story and all short listed...

LAURA SIMS chats to Paul about her new novel HOW CAN I HELP YOU , libraries, the discipline of poetry, HOW CAN I HELP YOU : No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wak...

Erin Kelly (THE HOUSE OF MIRRORS), Chris Whitaker (ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK) and Vanessa Walters (THE LAGOS WIFE) join moderator Victoria Selman (ALL THE LITTLE LIARS) at Capital Crime 2024 to discuss The Ties That Bind panel. Favourite reads, character, setting Recorded at CAPITAL CRIME 1ST JUNE 2024. Recommendations   Tomorrow, Tomorrow Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin  Americanah, Half a Yellow Su...

NATIONAL CRIME READING MONTH Special In conjunction with The Reading Agency & The Crime Writers' Association Crime Time FM has complied excerpts of reading events taking place around the country this June. Tickets are still available for some of the remaining events - for details head to crimereading.com This show: Antony Johnston introduces Steve Cavanagh, Ilana Berry, Shawn Cosby and St...

A round up of crime fiction for June 2024 by Paul Burke. Westport James Comey Head of Zeus A Killing in Paradise Elliot Sweeney Wildfire  Armistice Day John Fullerton Partisan Press Eruption Michael Crighton & James Patterson Century   Southern Man Greg Iles Hemlock Press The Bedlam Cadaver Robert J Lloyd Melville House Press A Divine Fury DV BISHOP Macmillan The Little Sparrow Murders Seícho...

V6 E8 #OnTheSofa Victoria is joined by authors MELANIE GOLDING (LITTLE DARLINGS) and JM HEWITT (THE PERFECT VILLAGE) who use folklore as inspiration for their novels. Recommendations David L Jones - The Ipswich Witch Su Bristow - Seal Skin Catriona Ward Sally Magnusson - The Ninth Child, The Sealwoman's Gift VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author...

BEN PASTOR chats to Paul about her new literary historical crime novel THE VENUS OF SALÒ , Martin Bora, Totalitarianism, Rome, writing in English, growing up in a divided world, Shaun the Sheep.      THE VENUS OF SALÒ October 1944, in the Republic of Salò, a German puppet state in the north of Italy and the last fascist stronghold in the country. After months of ferocious fighting on the Gothic Li...

Paul Burke talks to SIMON TOYNE (host) and JANE CASEY (panellist) about the 5th SLAUGHTERFEST in London on 11th June, 2024. Panels The Art of Detection True Detectives Murderous Motives & Clare Mackintosh & Lucy Foley in conversation with Ryan Turbridy Event is sold out but will appear on You Tube on 20th June to coincide with the release of Karin Slaughter's new novel THIS IS WHY WE...

 #OnTheSofa Season 6 Episode 6. Closed Circle Mysteries and other puzzles. Victoria investigates how to craft the perfect puzzle with fellow authors, Claire Douglas The Wrong Sister and Claire McGowan Truth, Truth, Lie Recommendations and mentions: Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie, John Creasey, Save The Cat Jessica Brody, Barbara Vine, Sabine Durrant. The Secret History Donna Tartt, The Time Trave...

In a special edition guest presenter SCOTT BLACKBURN chats to HENRY WISE about his debut novel HOLY CITY * , MFA programmes, writing-working-family, begin with a million words. Available 6/4 in USA. HOLY CITY After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given w...

DAN MALAKIN chats to Paul Burke about his new novel THE WRECKAGE OF US , (available 6/6/24), cyber crime, Bridport prize, THE BOX, sci-fi, high concept ideas, work-life balance. THE WRECKAGE OF US It's always the husband... Isn't it? Astrid Webb is missing. The police have found her car crashed near the woods, the driver's door open, the seat spotted with blood. But there's no...

WILLIAM SHAW chats to Paul about his new novel THE WILD SWIMMERS , music journalism, respecting the arts, CJ Sansom (RIP), Breen & Tozer, Alexandra Cupidi and unbridled wealth. THE WILD SWIMMERS If only Alexandra Cupidi had turned south instead of north, she would have found the dead woman. Instead it is her vulnerable daughter Zoë who stumbles across Mimi Greene's lifeless body on the sh...

Ain't That Truth: Where Crime Fact Meets Crime Fiction Season 6 Episode 5 Victoria Selman & Cara Hunter chaired by Triona Adams Live from the Oxford Literary Festival: Victoria and Cara Hunter explore our our apparently unquenchable thirst for true crime and ask why the genre is often stranger than fiction. Cara Hunter Murder in the Family: LUKE RYDER’S MURDER HAS NEVER BEEN SOLVED.  In O...

New crime fiction titles for May 2024. novels: Fiona McPhillips When We Were Silent John Connolly The Instruments of Darkness  Aslak Nore Sea Cemetery  Emiko Jean The Next Girl Kellye Garrett Missing White Woman Jennifer Lee Thompson Vigilante City Dark Deeds Down Under Vol.2 eds. Craig Sisterson and Lindy Cameron Olivier Norek Between Two Worlds Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time,...

DUGALD BRUCE-LOCKHART chats to Paul Burke about his new novel SECOND SKIN , spy fiction, acting directing & memoir, going away to find himself and losing the plot, Greece, THE LIZARD . SECOND SKIN : Five years after a murderous encounter on the island of Paros, Alastair Haston’s world is upended by a startling discovery: a son he never knew existed. Desperate to learn more, he travels to Athen...

JOSEPH KANON chats to Paul Burke about his new spy thriller SHANGHAI , SHANGHAI Daniel Lohr, sensing that the Nazis are closing in on the Jews, leaves his dying father in Berlin and boards a ship to Shanghai. His passage is dependent upon him delivering a package to his shady uncle, his father’s brother, upon arrival. Daniel has no idea what the package contains. On board is Leah, also fleeing the...

CHRIS HARDING THORNTON chats to Paul Burke about her new novel LITTLE UNDERWORLD , being a seventh generation Nebraskan, noir, PICKARD COUNTY ATLAS   and music.     LITTLE UNDERWORLD : Omaha, 1930. When ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely murders the man who assaulted his fourteen-year-old daughter, the last person he wants to see is local crooked cop Frank Tvrdik. Luckily, Frank isn’t interested in the li...

On The Sofa With Victoria - Season 6 Episode 4: ROBERT RUTHERFORD (SEVEN DAYS) & ROBERT GOLD (TWELVE). Few Crime genres grab our attention quite so much as the thriller. Victoria is joined by authors Robert Gold and Robert Rutherford to unpick what makes some thrillers more thrilling than others. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https:/...

DAVID HEWSON chats to Paul Burke about BAPTISTE: THE AXE MUST FALL, The Killing, Nic Costa, Pieter Vos, Venice, Shakespeare, Audible, writing the official prequel to the hit television show and Kopfkino. BAPTISTE: THE AXE MUST FALL. France, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead aft...

The latest selection of crime fiction reviews for April, all 100 words a piece, and with a couple of authors pitches on their new books. Harlen Coben - Think Twice (Century) Don Winslow - City in Ruins (Hemlock) Lesley Kara - The Other Tenant (Bantam) Caz Frear - Five Bad Seeds (Simon & Schuster) Alis Hawkins The Skeleton Army (Canelo) Paul Carlucci - The Voyageur (Swift Press) Rachel McLean -...

JULIE ANDERSON chats to Paul Burke about her latest thriller THE MIDNIGHT MAN , first in a new historical crime series, Whitehall machinations, the birth of the NHS, finding the post war history of Clapham community, the Clapham Literary Festival, The South London Women & Children's Hospital, the locked room mystery and old British movies. THE MIDNIGHT MAN : Winter 1946 - One cold dark ni...

On The Sofa With Victoria - Season 6 Episode 3: ELLERY LLOYD (THE CLUB) + NICCI FRENCH (HAS ANYONE SEEN CHARLOTTE SALTER) Victoria is joined by husband and wife teams, Nicci French (Sean French & Nicci Gerrard) and Ellery Lloyd (Paul Vlitos & Collette Lyons) to discuss the challenges of writing collaboratively. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon A...