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Season 3, episode 3: CHARLOTTE PHILBY (EDITH & KIM) & LUKE JENNINGS (KILLING EVE, KILLING EVE: NO TOMORROW). A woman at the centre of the spy story, the PHILBY legacy, Edith Tudor Hart, Guy Burgess, Villanelle the psychopathic killer & brilliant terrible women. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for...

TREVOR WOOD chats to Paul Burke about his latest novel just out in paperback, DEAD END STREET , characters Jimmy, Deano and Gadge, PTSD and homelessness, The People's Kitchen, writing a new stand alone novel, the writer's journey and the editor who wanted Dog to have a girlfriend. DEAD END STREET : A group of vigilantes are carrying out a campaign of harassment against the homeless, houn...

JOHN BROWNLOW chats to Paul Burke about SEVENTEEN : LAST MAN STANDING , film script sitting, SEVENTEEN : LAST MAN STANDING : YOU'LL NEVER KNOW MY NAME. BUT YOU WON'T FORGET MY NUMBER. Behind the events you know are the killers you don't. When diplomacy fails, we're the ones who gear up. Officially we don't exist, but every government in the world uses our services. We&apos...

Series 3, Episode 2: VAL McDERMID ( 1989 ) & RUTH WARE ( The It Girl ) chat to Victoria Selman about HOOKING THE READER and KEEPING THEM INTERESTED, publishing then and now, Agatha Christie, the character in your mind and The Stasi Poetry Circle (Philip Oltermann). VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news...

ADAM HAMDY chats to Paul Burke about THE OTHER SIDE OF NIGHT , writing an original novel, the emotional journey you take the reader on, how characters convey meaning in a story, speculative thrillers, film and TV adaptation, page turning excitement and poetry. The Other Side of Night : This is David Asha's story, and that of his son, his wife and also, his best friend. You may think you know...

DAVID LAGERCRANTZ chats to Craig Sisterson about Dark Music (translated by Ian Giles), the influence of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a contemporary Holmes and Watson, the social novel, what is genius and not having the luxury to be weak (class and privilege). DARK MUSIC The launch of a new series inspired by Sherlock Holmes. A murder investigation brings together two unlikely allies in a race to uncover a...

Season 3, episode 1 . DAVID BALDACCI (DREAM TOWN) & LINWOOD BARCLAY (TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY) On The Sofa With Victoria. Thrillers: Two legends of the crime writing chat thrillers with Victoria. Learning from film, momentum, suspense vs shock, , chapter breaks, lean & mean-couch potato writing, the competition, and feeling sorry for Dan Brown. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author o...

THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY BLOODY SCOTLAND 15th - 18th September, 2022. A CRIME TIME FM SPECIAL  Victoria Selman and Paul Burke chat to Festival Director BOB MCDEVITT and Scottish crime writers SARAH SMITH (HEAR NO EVIL) & ABIR MUKHERJEE (WYNDHAM & BANERJEE series), about what makes Bloody Scotland so special, the McIlvanney Prize and Scottish Debut Novel Awards, what it takes to put on a succes...

LAURA WILSON chats to Paul Burke about her new YA novel MONOCHROME ,  Grace and the teenage world, Climate change, achromatopsia, writing with a renewed purpose & drunk tank pink. MONOCHROME In a world drained of colour, nothing is black and white. Early one morning, Grace wakes to find herself staring at an ashen sunrise in ominous grey skies. It's like watching a disaster movie, though...

JOHN VERCHER chats to Paul Burke about his new novel AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT , identity, racism, Mixed Marshal Arts, mental health - CTE/Alzheimer's and carers, noir/tragedy and propulsive storytelling, and fear for the dog (Loki) AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT : How do you save yourself when you’re the person you trust least of all? Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace is a biracial Black MMA fight...

Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for August. From a top notch comedy thriller-come-meta-fiction to a slice of southern rural noir, from a dysfunctional family drama to a tense heist, and from the US and Mexico to the UK with brief spells in Crete and Dublin. Books reviewed: Anthony  Horowitz.    A Twist of the Knife                                                     top cosy /c...

JANET EVANOVICH chats to Paul Burke about THE RECOVERY AGENT , GAME ON, Stephanie Plum and Gabriela Rose, humour and sex, The Mummy, Midnight Run, Teslas and having a mouth like a truck driver. THE RECOVERY AGENT Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she’s hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any ki...

BEGINNINGS, MIDDLES & ENDS: An On The Sofa With Victoria Special. PART 3: ENDINGS Victoria Selman chats to Dominic Nolan about novel endings. The importance of the twist in a crime novel, why first sentences stand out more than last, or do they/, what makes a satisfying ending? DOMINIC NOLAN is the British the author of 3 crime fictions. His latest VINE STREET is a superb London set historical...

BEGINNINGS, MIDDLES & ENDS: An On The Sofa With Victoria Special. PART 2: MIDDLES Victoria Selman chats to Dominic Nolan about the middle of the novel. Why are middles challenging for authors? What do readers want? What are the tools that help make a good middle?  DOMINIC NOLAN is the British the author of 3 crime fictions. His latest VINE STREET is a superb London set historical mystery, it i...

BEGINNINGS, MIDDLES & ENDS: An On The Sofa With Victoria Special. PART 1: BEGINNINGS Victoria Selman chats to Dominic Nolan about novel openings, what makes a great opening, how to hook your readers and getting a character in. DOMINIC NOLAN is the British the author of 3 crime fictions. His latest VINE STREET is a superb London set historical mystery, it is available now in paperback. VICTORIA...

SHERRYL CLARK chats to Paul Burke about her new Judi Westerholme novel MAD, BAD AND DEAD . Melbourne, poetry, structure and pace, the innocents caught up in crime, keeping it grounded and Finland. MAD, BAD AND DEAD : A dead employee. A missing child. Anonymous phone calls in the dead of night. Judi Westerholme's troubles aren't over yet... Already struggling to juggle co-running Candleba...

MARK ELLIS chats to Paul Burke about the latest Frank Merlin mystery DEAD IN THE WATER , wartime London, the American army in the UK, what makes good historical writing and the richest man in the world at the time Calouste Gulbenkian. DEAD IN THE WATER : Summer, 1942. The Second World War rages on but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side. In a bombed-out London swarming with...

TOM VAUGHAN MACAULAY chats to Paul Burke about his new novel COUNTDOWN TO A KILLING , meta-fiction, writing with a full time career as a lawyer, the modern epistolary novel and quirky characters. COUNTDOWN TO A KILLING : Wen Li, an anxious young woman who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, is tormented by an incessant fear that she might have homicidal impulses. Wen falls for her self-abs...

TOXIC FRIENDSHIPS: In the season 2  finale POLLY PHILLIPS (THE REUNION), HARRIET TYCE (IT ENDS AT MIDNIGHT),  TM LOGAN (THE CURFEW), discuss bringing out the worst in each other, long held resentments, trigger events, gaslighting, crabs in a bucket and the white sock incident (wince). VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS...

BEVERLEY JONES , aka B.E. Jones, chats to Paul Burke about her novels The Beach House and The Wilderness and the Firebird Pictures/Amazon Prime adaptation of The Wilderness starring Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson Cohen . Shout outs for Ferndale and Storyville Books in Pontypridd. THE BEACH HOUSE : When Grace Jensen returns to her home one day, she finds a body in a pool of blood and a menacing g...

HEADS TOGETHER - the WE ARE NO LONGER REAL PEOPLE Episode - with a special feature on St. Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend . Paul Burke chats to Sarah Hilary about this unique event 12th-14th August in Oxford. BOOKING for ST. HILDA'S For general details and full programme here To attend in person here To join in online here SARAH HILARY is a best selling author and winner of the Theakstons...

SCOTT BLACKBURN chats to Paul Burke about his Southern Rural Noir IT DIES WITH YOU character, influences, the amazing Mountainview  MFA (JOHN VERCHER, TED FLANAGAN), picking an agent, getting out there and selling your book. IT DIES WITH YOU For nearly a decade, twenty-nine-year-old Hudson Miller has made his living in the boxing ring, but a post-fight brawl threatens to derail his career. Despera...

BARRY FORSHAW chats to Paul Burke about SIMENON: THE MAN, THE BOOKS, THE FILMS . A 21st Century re-examination of SIMENON, Maigret and the Romans Durs novels, a wide ranging discussion of everything from Simenon's place in French literature to Robert Newton and Spartacus. SIMENON: THE MAN, THE BOOKS, THE FILMS The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of cri...

THE ORION INCIDENT ROOM ON CRIME TIME FM FEATURING: CATE QUINN BLOOD SISTERS JOE IDE THE GOODBYE COAST OSCAR DE MURIEL THE SIGN OF THE DEVIL & MJ ARLIDGE CAT AND MOUSE Four top Orion authors discuss their latest novels with Paul Burke as the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writers Festival gets under way. Produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh Crime Time Paul Burke...

Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for July. From surprisingly entertaining financial thriller to the daring wartime rescue of a cow, via a Californian sniper, a Japanese locked room, a couple of serial killers with a plan and a narcissistic pensioner. With apologies for any mispronunciations of Japanese, Spanish, French or even English! THE FRACTURED TREE Justin Wheatley         ...