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Season 4 Episode 7: DAVID BALDACCI (Simple Lives) & GREGG HURWITZ (Orphan X) writing big, discuss keeping a thriller thrilling, James Bond & sneaking onto demolition ranges & the save the cat moment. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitte...

THE REVIEW SHOW ON CTFM presented by Paul Burke. The latest crime titles for March and early April 2023. Click any link to buy a book from Bookshop.org Christopher Fowler tribute & Bryant and May's Peculiar London Kate Simants Freeze LC North The Ugly Truth Aoife Clifford When We Fall Abigail Burdess Mother's Day Owen Matthews White Fox Donna Leon So Shall You Reap Yukito Ayatsuji Th...

ELI CRANOR chats to Craig Sisterson about his new novel OZARK DOGS , Romeo & Juliet meets the McCoys and the Hatfield's, Kudzu and the real South, narrating your own book. OZARK DOGS : After his son is convicted of murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Ozark junkyard outfitted...

Simon Winder, Penguin Press publishing director, Barry Forshaw, Financial Times crime fiction and Paul Burke discuss Penguin Modern Classics Crime & Espionage -  Reviving the iconic green Penguin Crime paperbacks, first published 75 years ago, this new series celebrates the endless variety and unique appeal of one of fiction's great genres.  Call for the Dead John le Carré SS-GB Len Deigh...

SARAH SULTOON - DIRT , RONNIE TURNER - SO PRETTY & VANDA SYMON - EXPECTANT chat to Paul Burke about their latest novels.    EXPECTANT A pregnant Sam Shephard investigates the murder of an expectant mother in Dunedin, as it becomes clear that the killer is ready to strike again … Queen of New Zealand Crime, Vanda Symon, returns with a shocking, twisty new Sam Shephard thriller… Vanda Symon is a...

Descriptor: Season 4 Episode 6: Live podcast recording as part of the On The Sofa Roadshow. The rise of the epistolary novel and its challenges. Why we’re all armchair detectives. And what goes into making a page turner   Final Roadshow Event : Tickets here↓ Join Peter James, Graham Bartlett, Simon Toyne & William Shaw #OnTheSofa With Victoria Selman at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton 13th...

ALIS HAWKINS chats to Paul Burke about her new literary historical mystery A BITTER REMEDY (Canelo Crime), Welsh history, the Teifi Valley Coroner, Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival and a strange male affliction or is it... A BITTER REMEDY : Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow… Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found de...

JOHN LINCOLN (WILLIAMS) chats to Paul Burke about his new novel GREY IN THE DARK , a journey in American crime fiction, CLR James and South Wales. GREY IN THE DARK : Too many people loved Kelly Rowland. One of them killed her, but was it the man in prison for her murder? Gethin Grey and the Last Resort Legals team investigate another miscarriage of justice, taking them from post-industrial derelic...

KATE HAMER, PETER SWANSON, TOVE ALSTERDAL & CHARLOTTE VASSELL chat to Paul Burke in a special episode featuring four FABER authors who have just published a new thriller/crime novel. KATE HAMER The Lost Girls 'Reads like a shiver down the spine.' ANNA BAILEY PETER SWANSON The Kind Worth Saving 'Smart, surprising, cool and fun, with a deeply satisfying ending. I loved it!' -...

Season 4 Episode 5: Live recorded in Whitley Bay. Why True crime is Stranger Than Fiction: ABIGAIL DEAN, FIONA CUMMINS & CARA HUNTER join Victoria in an event at Bay Tales. Final Roadshow Event : Tickets here↓ Join Peter James, Graham Bartlett, Simon Toyne & William Shaw #OnTheSofa With Victoria Selman at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton 13th April. To get tickets click → Eventbrite . V...

CRIME TIME FM is pleased to support the 1st podcast by VERVE BOOKS. We hope you'll continue to follow and enjoy our podcasts but why not check this out too: VERVE Voices is the brand-new in-house podcast from indie fiction publisher VERVE Books. In this episode, editor Jenna Gordon interviews attorney, speaker and activist Robyn Gigl on her debut novel, BY WAY OF SORROW, published by VERVE Bo...

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...

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 Ch...

HEADS TOGETHER - the OFF TO THE SEASIDE Episode - the watchlist, podcast updates, Barry's Blu-rays, the Dahl issue and a special feature with Paul and Victoria  chatting to William Shaw about the Crime Time FM #OnTheSofa Roadshow Finale in BRIGHTON, The Friends Meeting House on 13th March 6PM. William Shaw is an award-winning music journalist and the author of several non-fiction books . Prio...

CAIMH 'CK'McDONNELL chats to Paul Burke about LOVE WILL TEAR US APART , the Stranger Times series, comedy writing, having.p a fecund imagination. LOVE WILL TEAR US APART : Love can be a truly terrible thing. Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead. Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times , has never believed his wife died despit...

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...

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...

The Review Show  '2023 - new crime fiction & a feature on Eric Ambler. The Novels: Joseph O'Connor My Father's House Harvill Secker Simon Scarrow Dead of Night Headline Gill Perdue If I Tell Penguin Elliot Sweeney The Next to Die Wildfire Kathleen Kent Black Wolf Head of Zeus Stuart MacBride The Dead of Winter Bantam Cloé Mehdi translator Howard Curtis Europa Editions Katy Brent...

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 Insp...

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 service...

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! VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victo...

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...

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 lo...

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...

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…   VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor....