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HEADS TOGETHER - the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM . PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the latest podcasts, crime writing festivals and the film Woman In A Cage, PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network. VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie serial killer...

Literary legend DEAN KOONTZ chats to Paul Burke about his new novel QUICKSILVER , humour, character, writing organically, keeping it fresh and the value of reading books. He gives us a sneak preview of his next novel, The Big Dark Sky, (summer 2022). QUICKSILVER Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery―abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing hi...

2/2: BOOKS TO FILM Adam Hamdy (Black 13, Red Wolves) and John Marrs (The One, What Lies Between Us) discuss adapting books to film. What's it like seeing your book come to life on the screen, how TV has changed the way we read and what authors can learn from film. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/ T...

ADAM LEBOR chats to Paul Burke about DOHANY STREET, BALTHAZAR KOVACS, Hungary and how the world works. DOHANY STREET DISTRICT VIII KOSSUTH SQUARE DOHANY STREET: Budapest's dark history finally catches up with Detective Balthazar Kovacs in the final instalment in Adam LeBor's Hungarian crime trilogy. Budapest, January 2016. The Danube is grey and half-frozen, covered with ice, and the cit...

FRANK GARDNER chats to Paul Burke about his explosive thriller OUTBREAK , out now in paperback, protagonist Luke Carlton, the zeitgeist and hitting the crocodiles closest to the canoe. OUTBREAK : Deep within the Arctic Circle, three scientists from the UK's Arctic Research Station trudge through a blizzard in search of shelter. They see a cabin ahead. It appears abandoned. No lights. No snowm...

Season 2, episode 1. WRITING KILLER TWISTS with JEFFERY DEAVER (The Final Twist/Colter Shaw) , JANE CASEY (Maeve Kerrigan)  & LIZ NUGENT (Our Little Cruelties), how to write killer twists and keep them coming. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/ Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from our listene...

Apologies to anyone recieving an early unedited download. This has now been rectified. HOLIDAY SPECIAL PETER PAPATHANASIOU chats with Craig Sisterson about his dark outback thriller THE STONING. THE STONING : A small town in outback Australia wakes to an appalling crime. A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to death. Suspicion instantly falls on the refugees at the new detenti...

HEADS TOGETHER Cooking the Christmas Dinner episode. Last of the year HEADS TOGETHER - the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM . PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss their podcasts during 2021.  PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network. VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thri...

THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE: BEST CRIME FICTION OF 2021 Panellists: LAURA WILSON (novelist & Guardian crime fiction critic), MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI (publisher, critic, novelist & CWA Chair), AYO ONATADE (critic for Shotsblog & book prize judge), JAKE KERRIDGE (crime fiction critic for the Telegraph), VICTORIA SELMAN (novelist and podcast presenter) and PAUL BURKE (critic and podcast edit...

HB LYLE (BEN) chats with Paul Burke about his latest historical thriller THE YEAR OF THE GUN , Sherlock Holmes and the Irregulars, Nabukov, historical accuracy in fiction and how Wiggins narrowly avoids going down with the Titanic (very minor spoiler alert). THE YEAR OF THE GUN 1912. Released from the Secret Service, Wiggins sets out for New York and his lost lover Bela. But after an altercation o...

THE SEASON FINALE THE PLOT THICKENS: Building tension and suspense. Lisa Jewell (THE NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED), Louise Candlish (THE HEIGHTS) and Mark Edwards (HOLLOWS). VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/ Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join...

RAZORBLADE TEARS - WINNER OF THE CRIME TIME FM CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2021        SA COSBY chats with Craig Sisterson about his novel RAZORBLADE TEARS, Winning the CTFM Novel Award, being the 'bard of broken men',  TV rights and entertaining readers. Razorblade Tears : Ike Randolph left jail fifteen years ago, with not so much as a speeding ticket since. But a Black man with cops at the...

PAUL CLEAVE chats to Paul Burke about his new psychological thriller THE QUIET PEOPLE , social media, elements of horror, Cameron and Lisa Murdoch, real life crime, and the Expanse. THE QUIET PEOPLE : Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful New Zealand crime writers, happily married and topping bestseller lists worldwide. They have been on the promotional circuit for years, joking that no one know...

LUKE McCALLIN chats to Paul Burke about his new historical thriller WHERE GOD DOES NOT WALK , Gregor Reinhardt, WWI, Bosnia, inspirational literature. WHERE GOD DOES NOT WALK : THE WESTERN FRONT, JULY 1918. Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion on the Western Front when one of his subordinates is accused of murdering a group of officers, and then subsequently trying to...

HEADS TOGETHER - the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM . PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the latest podcasts, January 2022 releases, book-to-film-to-book?, TV adaptations of favourite detectives, these extraordinary times for crime fiction and the little fella... PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the Europe...

Book Marketing Panel - On The Sofa With Victoria With over 180K books published every year and more than 20 titles released every hour, how do you ensure yours stands out from the crowd? Quercus Publicity Director, Hannah Robinson, Chris McDonald (Blood Brothers) & Simon Bewick (Bay Tales/Noir at The Bar) share their thoughts along with  lessons learned from lockdown. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Au...

CHRIS OFFUTT chats to Paul Burke about THE KILLING HILLS , Kentucky, land and culture, spy fiction and photography. THE KILLING HILLS : Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, is home on a leave that is almost done. His wife is about to give birth, but they aren't getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder case, and local politi...

HEATHER YOUNG chats to Paul Burke about her debut psychological thriller THE LOST GIRLS , storytelling, domestic abuse, ancient lands and family. THE LOST GIRLS : In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes forever from her family’s summer house on a remote Minnesota Lake. Sixty years later, Lucy, Emily’s quiet and watchful older sister, lives alone in the lake house. When Lucy dies, she leaves the...

BEHIND THE MASK -  Ali Land (GOOD ME BAD ME) & Will Carver (THE BERESFORD) discuss why we’re so fascinated by psychopaths, why they’re so often portrayed as highly cultured…and why Will Carver might be one. Will Carver has most recently published PSYCHOPATHS ANONYMOUS VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com...

DOMINIC 'DOM' NOLAN chats with Victoria Selman about his new novel VINE STREET , 1930S Soho, obsession, history versus the past and believing in your work. VINE STREET : SOHO, 1935. SERGEANT LEON GEATS' PATCH. A snarling, skull-cracking misanthrope, Geats marshals the grimy rabble according to his own elastic moral code. The narrow alleys are brimming with jazz bars, bookies, blacks...

JOANNE HARRIS chats to Paul Burke about her new novel A NARROW DOOR , being a schoolteacher, why genres fluid, misogyny and memory. A NARROW DOOR Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules. It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled bl...

GREGORY GALLOWAY chats to Paul Burke about his new novel JUST THIEVES , identity, fatalism and existential questions in the noir novel, Chandler, Cain and Get Carter. JUST THIEVES : Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves whose partnership extends beyond their professional lives. They do not steal randomly they steal according to order, hired by a mysterious handler. T...

TRUE CRIME EDITION: WHY COLD CASES ARE SO HOT- Abigail Dean (GIRL A) Sarah Sultoon (THE SOURCE) & Joseph Knox (TRUE CRIME STORY) discuss true crime, stretching the genre & the cold case they’d most like to solve. Victoria wonders what our true crime obsession says about us. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselman...

THE THREE RONNIES EPISODE HEADS TOGETHER is the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM . PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, author duos, short stories and the latest podcasts . PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network. VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series k...

JS MONROE (Jon Stock) chats with Paul Burke about his new psychological thriller THE MAN ON HACKPEN HILL , crop circles, Porton Down, and James Bond in No Time To Die. THE MAN ON HACKPEN HILL : In a world full of lies, the search for truth is a deadly game... It isn't unusual for crop circles to appear overnight on Hackpen Hill. In this part of Wiltshire, where golden wheat fields stretch for...