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NADINE MATHESON chats to Paul Burke about her new crime thriller THE SHADOW CARVER , being the Chair of the CWA. serial killers, fraudsters, hurricanes in Grenada and troublesome domestic appliances. THE SHADOW CARVER : A killer who cuts straight to the bone … A CHILLING MURDER.  When a convicted killer is released and later found brutally murdered, DI Henley and the Serial Crimes Unit are pulled...

Howard Linskey chats to Paul about is new novel Muse Of Fire , love of Shakespeare, Heydrich, the SOE, the Globe, London - population 200,000! Picking up a theatre and moving it across the river.  Muse of Fire : William Shakespeare is moving up in the world, his name respected both at court and the theatre. Accepted by Queen Elizabeth, he is trusted to write plays for her, so long as she likes the...

Tracy Sierra chats to Paul Burke about her new Psychological thriller Warning Signs , true crime, tragedy through a lens, Nightwatching, place, James Joyce, danger least expected. Warning Signs : There’s something out there in the darkness. By morning, bones lie in the snow, picked clean. Zach knows the moods of the mountains – his mother taught him before she was gone. His father and the other me...

Louise Welsh chats to Paul about her new novel The CUT UP, Rilke, Glasgow, Scottish PEN, The Cutting Pen, academia and being decent people. THE CUT UP: It's hard to be good when living is expensive. And times are tough on the streets these days. Luckily for Rilke at Bowery Auctions the demand for no-questions-asked cash is at an all-time high, and business is booming. When Rilke hears his old...

SIMON BECKETT chats to Paul Burke about his new Dr. David Hunter novel THE BONE GARDEN , writing series fiction as standalones, the psychological, gothic thriller, The Chemistry of Death on TV and anniversaries - good or a bad thing? THE BONE GARDEN : Driving through the mountains in a fierce winter storm, David Hunter is forced to seek shelter at a remote village. But a one-night stop-over at the...

MALCOLM KEMPT chats to Paul Burke about A GIFT BEFORE DYING , the Arctic, Inuit culture, reading outside your genre and handing out guns to prisoners. A GIFT BEFORE DYING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, CAN JUSTICE STILL BE FOUND? After a botched high-profile murder investigation, Sergeant Elderick Cole is exiled to the remote, rugged landscape of Nunavut, a vast territory in the Arctic Circle known for...

BRIAN PRICE chats to Paul Burke about FATAL SHOT , Mel Cotton, Chemistry, Biology and the Science of Crime, Terry Pratchett and common science mistakes by crime writers. Fatal Shot : Pleasure or murder? Was journalist Jenny Pike seeking extreme pleasure or was she murdered? Mexton police and her partner are suspicious. Things just don't add up. Who would want Jenny killed and why? If she was...

SEASON 9 - EPISODE 5: SIR IAN RANKIN (John Rebus) & MARK BILLINGHAM (Tom Thorne) discuss the perks and pitfalls of series fiction & what they might have done differently if they had their time again. Desert Island books: The Maltese Falcon - Raymond Chandler, Tune In - Mark Lewishon , The Prime of Miss Jean Brody - Muriel Spark, Bleak House - Charles Dickens, Rivals - Jilly Cooper . VICTOR...

Joel Nedecky chats to Paul Burke about his new noir novel THE BROKEN DETECTIVE, Jake Joelsen, Winnipeg, noir spirit, teaching, social critique and family. THE BROKEN DETECTIVE Private investigator Jake Joelsen is going to prison for assaulting his sick mom's abusive boyfriend, but thanks to a suspended sentence, he has two weeks to earn as much money as possible so he can financially support...

Season 9, Episode 5: Holly Seddon 59 mins, Steve Cavanagh Eddie Flynn series & SR Masters The Drop #OnTheSofaWithVictoria VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS 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 @VictoriaSe...

SEASON 9 - EPISODE 4: VASEEM KHAN (Quantum of Menace) & GARETH RUBIN (Holmes & Moriarty) discuss the highs and lows of writing literary spin offs. Desert Island Books  Vaseem Khan Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie Gareth Rubin Viz Annual 1998 VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveawa...

SEASON 9 - EPISODE 3 : AA DHAND (Harry Virdee) & ALEX DAHL (Playdate/Stolen Girl) discuss what it's like seeing your novel come to life on the screen and tips for wannabe script writers. Desert Island Books Amit Dhand The Stand Stephen King Alex Dahl Gilead Marilynne Robinson VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS...

Season 9 Episode 2:   ABIGAIL DEAN (Girl A) & JENNIE GODFREY (The List of Suspicious Things) discuss true crime, second book syndrome and what it's like to have a smash hit debut. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We...

OnTheSofaWithVictoria - Season 9, Episode 1: Industry Insiders. Phoebe Morgan (Simon & Schuster) & Jack Butler (Little Brown) discuss the trends coming out of the Frankfurt Book Fair. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman...

RWR MCDONALD chats to Craig Sisterson about his new novel THE NANCYS AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING NECKLACE , tone, child narrator in adult story, fictionalising a small town in Otago, New Zealand, living in Melbourne, teaching creative writing, Faber academy. THE NANCYS AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING NECKLACE : Meet the Nancys…Tippy Chan is eleven years old, and she lives in a small town in a very qui...

VAL MCDERMID chats to Craig Sisterson, THE SILENT BONES , Karen Pirie, TV shows, Queen MacBeth, Allie Burns, building a career, editors, ground breaking fiction. THE SILENT BONES The truth is buried just beneath the surface . . . When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo ha...

Lilja Sigurdardóttir chats to Craig Sisterson on Crime Time FM about BLACK AS DEATH , trans. Lorenza Garcia, The Arora mysteries, Il Postino, Pablo Neruda and exile, AI and sci-fi, Christmas books in Iceland. BLACK AS DEATH A final reckoning… With the fate of her missing sister, Ísafold, finally uncovered, Áróra feels a fragile relief as the search that consumed her life draws to a close. But when...

JAKE ARNOTT chats to Paul Burke about his new novel Blood Rival , Sophocles, Family, noir, tragedy, Blue Lights, Jim Thompson, James Ellroy, Cathi Unsworth, The Responder. BLOOD RIVAL It happened at a place where three roads meet. Junction 1A of the M25, heading east towards Gravesend. There’s a killer on the road. Lee Royle, the notorious ‘King of Kent’, is dead, killed in a brutal act of road ra...

DAVID JARVIS chats to Paul Burke about his new spy thriller, The Green Feathers , CHOGM, Five Eyes, Mike Kingdom, the zeitgeist and the lighter touch. The Green Feathers When a butterfly flaps its wings in the Caribbean, it causes storms in Europe. The British King and Prime Minister have arrived in Georgetown, Guyana, along with the leaders of the other fifty-five countries in the Commonwealth, f...

New Reviews on Crime Time FM The Man Who Died Seven Times Yasuhiko Nishizawa trans. by Jesse Kirkwood   Evil in High Places Rory Clements  Ask for Andrea Noelle W Ihli  Deadman's Pool Kate Rhodes  Persons of Interest Simon Dinsdale All Our Yestedays by Guy Hale  Paul Burke edits Aspects of Crime Magazine and writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk...

GUY HALE chats to Paul Burke about The Shakespeare Murders, PUT OUT THE LIGHT , ALL OUR YESTERDAYS, The Comeback Trail, Stratford theatre, indie publishing and dodgy 70s cops. Put Out The Light , Paperback Act III Stratford-upon-Avon, Spring 1972 On the streets of Stratford four murders remain unsolved. For DC Toby Marlow there is only one potential killer: Oliver Lawrence. But nobody has seen Oli...

Donna Morfett chats to Paul Burke about THE MASQUERADE OF MURDER, Luton & Dunstable, revenge on the page, misogyny and self publishing. THE MASQUERADE OF MURDER DI Cora Snitton is barely catching her breath after the last case when another body turns up - this time, a suspected junkie dumped in an abandoned quarry. Her team is pulled into the chaos of the Luton Carnival, a vibrant event with a...

Jane Thynne chats to Paul Burke about new Clara Vine spy novel THE JUDGEMENT OF STARS, Nazi Astrology, the German Film industry, Hedy Lamarr, humour in the darkest moments. The Judgement of Stars Berlin, 1942. Clara Vine, the Anglo-German actress, is working undercover in Germany as an agent of British intelligence. During a hiatus in the filming of Goebbels’ latest propaganda film, the Sinking of...

ALEX GERLIS chats to Paul Burke about his WWII spy thriller THE SECOND TRAITOR , Operation Sea Lion, Hitler as military commander, German spies in England and Alan Furst. THE SECOND TRAITOR The countdown to invasion begins... It's September 1940, and British intelligence is on high alert: the Nazi invasion of Britain is imminent. The German navy is assembling a vast fleet in Rotterdam to ferr...

Fiona Forsyth chats to Paul Burke about her new historical thriller DEATH and the POET, Ghastly misogynists, Ovid, small town life in the ancient world, studying the classics. Death and the Poet 14 AD. When Dokimos the vegetable seller is found bludgeoned to death in the Black Sea town of Tomis, it’s the most exciting thing to have happened in the region for years. Now reluctantly settled into lif...