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Episode 1 of the CWA DAGGERS Specials on Crime Time FM - The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. Victoria Selman chats to Eva Glass, Linwood Barclay & John Brownlow about being shortlisted for the Steel Dagger & writing a thrilling thriller. The other shortlisted authors are MW Craven, Robert Galbraith & Alan Parks. Ian Fleming said there was one essential criterion for a good thriller, ‘one sim...

MW Mike CRAVEN chats to Paul Burke about his new high octane thriller FEARLESS , Lee Child, Tilly & Poe, Fluke, TV rights, Michael Connelly and the amygdala. FEARLESS: Ben Koenig is a ghost. He doesn't exist any more. Six years ago it was Koenig who headed up the US Marshal's elite Special Ops group. They were the elite unit who hunted the bad guys - the really bad guys. They did thi...

Paul Burke presents another bumper review show featuring crime fiction titles and a couple of wild card picks released this month (mostly anyway). The selection is heavy on the noir, psychological thrillers and in translation novels. *Apologies for any mangling of German, Italian. French, Japanese or Russian names. The Red House Roz Watkins End of the Game Holly Watt Dead Lands Núria Bendicho tran...

SHEILA BUGLER chats to Paul Burke about BLACK VALLEY FARM , why writing is torture but she loves it, getting it down on the page and avoiding writers block, being mentored by Martin Waites and writing about Ireland, (the next novel). BLACK VALLEY FARM The truth could ruin everything. A decade ago, the bodies of nine people were discovered at Black Valley Farm. The only suspect vanished without a t...

CLÉMENCE MICHALLON chats to Paul Burke about her psychological thriller THE QUIET TENANT , true crime, serial killers, victims and survivors and Seinfeld. THE QUIET TENANT He took you and you have been his for five years. But you have been careful. Waiting for him to mess up. It has to be now. Aidan Thomas is a hardworking family man and a respected member of his community. He's the kind of m...

DREDA SAY MITCHELL MBE & RYAN CARTER (Tony Mason) chat to Paul Burke about their new psychological thriller BELIEVE ME, new ways of publishing, the Groucho Club, writing partners BELIEVE ME : One woman’s mysterious death has led to a lifetime of pain. Can her daughter find out why? While working on a property dispute, lawyer Gabby is shocked to discover a name more familiar than her own on the...

#OnTheSofa With Victoria. Season 4, Episode 10: So you're published. Now what? Belinda Bauer (Exit, Snap) & Clare Mackintosh (Game of Lies , July 2023) reveal the realities of being a writer and how it compares to the dream. The pressure of coming up with shiny new ideas- to a schedule. And even how writing affects our reading. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkl...

JOHN SUTHERLAND chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller THE FALLEN , 25 years a policeman, hostage and crisis negotiation, fact and fiction THE FALLEN ARE YOU READY TO SAVE A LIFE? WHY HER? Becca Palmer has just lost her job as assistant to Simon Jones MP - the highly-regarded Policing Minister, tipped as a future Prime Minister. But Becca claims that Simon was more than her boss, that she is i...

ÅSA LARSSON and translator Frank Perry chat to Paul Burke about THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS , translation, moving a whole town - Kiruna, good soil for a writer to dig in THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live when he asks Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that has long since passed the statute of limitations. A body found in a freezer at the ho...

TIM SULLIVAN chats to Paul Burke about his novel THE MONK , DS George Cross, autism, the monastic life and killing your darlings. THE MONK To find a murderer, you need a motive . . . THE DETECTIVE - DS George Cross has always wondered why his mother left him when he was a child. Now she is back in his life, he suddenly has answers. But this unexpected reunion is not anything he's used to deal...

SEASON 4 EPISODE 10: Industry Insiders  Crime critics Jonathan Whitelaw and Paul Burke and publisher Phoebe Morgan join Victoria 'On The Sofa' to reveal what makes a novel stand out from the pile.  Writing community, take note! Recommendations So Shall You Reap Donna Leon None of This is True Lisa Jewell (July) Games and Rituals Katherine Heiny Murder in the Family Cara Hunter (July) Not...

TOM BENN chats to Paul Burke about his quasi-crime novel OXBLOOD , teaching creative writing, book prizes, being/not being a film maker and avoiding the nostalgic postcard. Oxblood : Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once ruled Manchester's underworld; now the men are dead, leaving three generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence, harbouring an unregistere...

Paul Burke reviews a selection of the April and May crime fiction releases. Click the attached links to order any of these crime novels from Bookshop.org James Swallow Dark Horizon James Wolff The Man in the Corduroy Suit David Beckler A Nuclear Reaction Daniel Weizmann The Last Songbird Guy Hale All the World's a Stage Tim Glister A Game of Deceit Kate Rhodes A Brutal Tide Heather Critchlow...

If you wanted to disappear, how would you do it? Tim Weaver (David Raker series) and Heather Critchlow (Unsolved) join Victoria On The Sofa to discuss missing persons in Crime Fiction and going off the grid...then Heather Disappears VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriase...

Crime Time FM the official podcast of CrimeFest 2023: Episode 2 - A Genre As Wide As A Sea. Victoria Selman and Paul Burke chat to CrimeFest David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Jo Furnish & Kate Simants, Cathy Ace, Jen Faulkner & Heather Fitt and David Penny about their novels, the festival and panels. For more information, tickets and news: CrimeFest Participating Authors Programme Produced by Jun...

Crime Time FM the official podcast of CrimeFest 2023: Episode 1 - Join The Party  Victoria Selman and Paul Burke chat to CrimeFest featured guest authors Elly Griffiths and Mark Billingham and participating authors Kate Rhodes , Tim TE Kinsey and Caroline England (aka CE Rose) about their novels, the festival and panels. For more information, tickets and news: CrimeFest Participating Authors Progr...

Kellye Garrett chats to Craig Sisterson about her novel Like a Sister , Crime Writers of Color, winning a Lefty Award, screenwriting and writing humour. LIKE A SISTER : She found out her sister was back in New York from Instagram. She found out about her death from the New York Daily News. But she’s the only one convinced it wasn’t an accident . . . Desiree Pierce, a Black reality TV star, is foun...

NEIL HUMPHREYS chats to Paul Burke about his new novel LOST WOMEN , living in Singapore, working class roots, serendipity, Inspector Stanley Low and fridging. LOST WOMEN ‘This impressive police procedural presents an unflattering but authentic picture of the multiracial megacity‘ Times Crime Club. Humphrey's latest thriller is prescient, dark and challenges some of the world's worst fear...

ASHLEY KALAGIAN BLUNT chats to Paul Burke about her latest novel DARK MODE , the Armenian Genocide, screaming plants, the dark web, stalking and living in Australia. DARK MODE A riveting psychological thriller drawn from true events, Dark Mode delves into the terrifying reality of the dark web, and the price we pay for surrendering our privacy one click at a time. Is it paranoia – or is someone wa...

POLICE THRILLERS: PETER JAMES, WILLIAM SHAW, GRAHAM BARTLETT & SIMON TOYNE chat to Victoria Selman. Why we don't say police procedurals, the Master Forger's story, could a bot write a crime novel... Live from the Friends Meeting House, the Lanes, Brighton. Victoria will be at Waterstones Brighton at 7pm on 18th May for a discussion on serial killers and their portrayal in popular cul...

Crime Time FM at Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival Episode 3:   Welsh Crime Fiction - language, location, character. Paul Burke chats to two festival authors and a committee member: Sarah Ward - The Birthday Girl   Welcome to Eldey, an island with deadly secrets. Mona: a carefree artist, staying at the Cloister to work on her illustrations. Beth: the harried mother of a toddler, on the remote Welsh island...

CRIME TIME FM is the official podcast of GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL. In this second episode welcome at some of the panels and interview some of the writers taking par in them. Featuring The Effects of Crime Panel - Rosie Claverton, Trevor Wood, Matt Johnson & Jen Phipps. Interview - Matt Johnson and literary agent Broo Docherty Barry Forshaw chatting to Mari Hannah Leslie Scase reading from his...

CRIME TIME FM is the official podcast of GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL. In this first episode I introduce the festival and chat to authors, committee members and organisers about upcoming events and we get a peek at the National Library of Wales tour. Featuring Chloe Tilson Alis Hawkins Mark Ellis Jacky Collins Bev Jones Gail Williams Chris Lloyd Nia Dafydd and Fflur dafydd Produced by Junkyard Dog Mu...

JAKE LAMAR chats to Paul Burke about his jazz noir novel VIPER'S DREAM , Paris, Chester Himes, radio plays, Harlem and jazz. VIPER'S DREAM for fans of Colson Whitehead and Chester Himes, Viper's Dream is a gritty, daring look at the vibrant jazz scene of mid-century Harlem, and one man's dreams of making it big and finding love in a world that wants to keep him down. 1936. Clyd...

CALLUM McSORLEY chats to Paul Burke about his new Glasgow set crime novel SQUEAKY CLEAN , Glasgow, humour in crime, what it's like when your mum see your novel in a bookshop.   SQUEAKY CLEAN : Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up. No one thinks very much at all about carwash employee Davey Burnet, until one day he takes the wro...