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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 sec...

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 fin...

THE JOURNEY OF A BOOK : STEF BIERWERTH (publisher - Quercus), BETHAN FERGUSON (Head of Customer Insight - Hachette) & DAVID HEADLEY (agent, bookseller, festival organiser et al) discuss the journey of a book from submitted manuscript to positioning on the bookshop shelf.  Why a great book may just not be right for the market and how much book covers matter to sales. VICTORIA SELMAN Sunday Time...

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...

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 Me...

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 populatio...

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 ar...

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...

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 th...

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir (NIGHT  SHADOWS) & Will Dean (BAD APPLES) discuss Nordic Noir with Victoria, it's appeal, landscape as a character and the psychological element of Scandinavian fiction. Expect chills... VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from our liste...

The Review Show Addendum - Salving my conscience for a few print reviews on books I never got round to when I read them. Brief comments on some of the great crime novels of late 2021 early 22. Reviews The Dark Flood Deon Meyer trans. KL Seegers Lemon Kwon Yeo-sun trans. Janet Hong I Am the Tiger John Arvide Lindquist trans. Marlaine Delargy Night Hunters Oliver Bottini trans. Jamie Bulloch Rizzio...

Paul Burke reviews May's new crime fiction releases: Click the relevant link to order the book of your choice through Bookshop.org THE ISLAND Adrian McKinty TO KILL A TROUBADOUR Martin Walker THE COMPANION Lesley Thomson THE DARK TIDE Simon McCleave KILLING ME SOFTLY Guy Hale DO NO HARM Jack Jordan THE SANCTUARY Andrew Hunter Murray LACUNA Fiona Snyckers MARINA BAY SINS , RICH KILL, POOR KILL...

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'v...

JOACHIM B SCHMIDT chats to Paul Burke about his new novel KALMANN , set in Iceland, translated from the German by Jamie Lee Searle.  KALMANN is the self-appointed Sheriff of Raufarhöfn. Day by day, he treks the wide plains which surround the almost deserted village, hunts Arctic foxes and lays bait in the sea ― to catch the gigantic Greenland sharks he turns into the Icelandic fermented delicacy,...

HISTORICAL CRIME FICTION: Laura Shepherd-Robinson (DAUGHTERS OF NIGHT) & Abir Mukherjee (THE SHADOWS OF MEN) discuss tackling research, brining a period to life, and escaping with awards through the Calcutta sewage system. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from...

KATHY WANG chats to Paul Burke about her spy thriller IMPOSTER SYNDROME , Silicon Valley, perceptions of women in power, satire and writing a good villain. IMPOSTER SYNDROME : Julia Lerner is one of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley and an icon to professional women across the country. She is the COO of Tangerine, one of America's biggest technology companies. She is also a Russian s...

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: Donn...

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 TRIA...

POLICE PROCEDURALS (COP THRILLERS) . Caz Frear (SWEET LITTLE LIES) and William Shaw (DS CUPIDI and BREEN & TOZER) discuss procedurals, the rise of the armchair detective and riding in Peter James' police car. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from our list...

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...

JAMES WOLFF chats to Paul Burke about his two novels BESIDE THE SYRIAN SEA & HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY , frequencies of conflict, spies are real people and what makes a literary spy novel. BESIDE THE SYRIAN SEA : Jonas works for the UK secret service as an intelligence analyst. When his father is kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS gunmen in Syria, he takes matters into his own hands and be...

CHRIS RICKABY & BARNEY THOMPSON, aka BEN CREED chat to Paul Burke about A TRAITOR'S HEART their new historical thriller featuring post WWII Leningrad and detective Revol Rossel. A TRAITOR'S HEART Winter, 1952: Leningrad's icy streets are haunted by a murderer. The name is whispered everywhere – Koshchei has returned , the people say, Koshchei the Immortal . Koshchei, named after...

THRILLERS: SHARI LAPENA (NOT A HAPPY FAMILY) & GYTHA LODGE (LIE BESIDE ME) discuss THRILLER WRITING on The Sofa With Victoria. What makes a good thriller, raising the stakes and building suspense. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on...

JOSEPH KNOX chats to Paul Burke about his novel TRUE CRIME STORY , male violence and misogyny, the pitfalls of making yourself a malign presence in your own fiction and insomnia. TRUE CRIME STORY In the early hours of Saturday 17 December 2011, Zoe Nolan, a nineteen-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for...

In 2 separate interviews authors Heather Young THE DISTANT DEAD and Peter Murphy TO BECOME AN OUTLAW discuss their new novels. Heather Young is author of two novels, The Lost Girls and  THE DISTANT DEAD (EDGAR NOMINATED). Heather lives with her family in Mill Valley, California. THE DISTANT DEAD: A body burns in the desert... Does the boy who found it know more than it seems?  Sal Prentiss, orphan...