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DOUG JOHNSTONE chats to Paul about his new novel THE OPPOSITE OF LONELY , the Skelfs, Sci-Fi, mathematical modelling and being the writer in residence at a funeral parlour. THE OPPOSITE OF LONELY : Even death needs company… The Skelf women are recovering from the cataclysmic events that nearly claimed their lives. Their funeral-director and private-investigation businesses are back on track, and t...

PAUL BURKE takes a look at some of the new crime fiction releases for September 2023 and apologises for any mispronunciations of names/languages. Books (Links to Bookshop.org)   SHEEP'S CLOTHING Celia Dale - Daunt THE PIT Peter Papathanasiou - MacLehose NO RESERVE Felix Francis - Zaffre  THE TRAITOR Ava Glass - Penguin THE BORGIA PORTRAIT David Hewson* ALL THAT'S LEFT UNSAID Tracey Lien...

ORENDA SPECIAL: featuring Jenny Lund Madsen Thirty Days of Darkness , Paul E Hardisty The Forcing , Eva Björg Ægisdöttir You Can't See Me c hat to Paul Burke about their latest novels. JENNY LUND MADSEN trans. Megan E Turney* Thirty Days of Darkness PAUL E HARDISTY The Forcing   EVA BJÖRG ÆGISDÖTTIR trans. Victoria Cribb You Can't See Me ORENDA Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fic...

ORENDA SPECIAL: September part 1  featuring Eve Smith One , chatting to Paul Burke about her latest speculative thriller. Eve Smith One One law. One child. Seven million crimes…  A cataclysmic climate emergency has spawned a one-child policy in the UK, ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime. Compulsory abortion of 'excess' pregnancies and mandatory contraceptive implants are now th...

SEASON 5 EPISODE 2 SHARI LAPENA (EVERYONE HERE IS LYING)  & JACK JORDAN(CONVICTION) join Victoria to discuss how crime authors keep their readers guessing, the art of smoke and mirrors and playing fair, why we all love a great twist and how to build and maintain suspense. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website...

ANDREW NETTE chats new heist thriller ORPHAN ROAD , Gunshine State, pulp fiction and bodgies & widgies. ORPHAN ROAD Gary Chance is an ex-Australian army driver and nightclub bouncer turned professional thief and in need of a job. An offer comes from a former employer, once notorious Melbourne social identity, now aging owner of a failing S&M club, Vera Leigh. A shadowy real estate develope...

DENISE MINA chats to Craig Sisterson about her new Marlowe novel THE SECOND MURDERER , revisiting the misogyny, racism,  Feminism THE SECOND MURDERER : "This is Marlowe." "Mr. Philip Marlowe?" She asked. I glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am, as if she had been waiting by the phone for an appointed hour, following someone else's orders to the letter. "What,...

SEASON 5: EPISODE ONE - PUBLISHING GURUS, heavyweights Katherine Armstrong (Deputy Publishing Director - Simon & Schuster), Miranda Jewess - (Publishing Director Viper) and David Headley (leading literary agent - Goldsboro Books, DHH Literary Agency) join Victoria shedding light on the role of the advance in a book's success and what makes a publisher snap up a title. Recommendation: Publ...

SARAH MOORHEAD chats to Paul Burke about her new speculative crime thriller   THE TREATMENT , Witness X, Liverpool, teaching, good & evil, Debut 20s and the godfather of the northern crime writing scene, young people today and Wizard of Oz meets Frankenstein. THE TREATMENT : The future of law enforcement has arrived, courtesy of private health contractor Janus Justice. Their ground-breaking ‘O...

LEIGH RUSSELL chats to Paul about GS20, the latest Geraldine Steel novel WITHOUT TRACE  the art of writing a series, the new Poppy novels and dreaming of penning a successful comic novel one day. WITHOUT TRACE She opened her mouth to scream, but he slapped something across her lips. The gag tasted of salt and mould, rough sacking on her tongue. With a terrifying certainty, she knew she was going t...

VICTORIA SELMAN chats to Paul Burke about ALL THE LITTLE LIARS , Psychological depth in thrillers, what readers want, On The Sofa, victims and survivors and so much more... ALL THE LITTLE LIARS : What REALLY happened at Turtle Lake? You think you know. Think again. California, 2003 A thirteen-year-old girl disappears from a party at Carlsbad's Turtle Lake. Discovered on the trunk of a nearby...

SJ PARRIS chats to Paul Burke about ALCHEMY , Giordano Bruno, religion, heresy, politics,  science and alchemy in the sixteenth century world, Hilary Mantel & Sophia 1599. ALCHEMY : Prague, 1588.A COURT IN TURMOIL The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, wants to expand the boundaries of human knowledge, and his court is a haven for scientists, astrologers and alchemists. His abiding passion is the...

Paul Burke reviews the latest titles in crime fiction and one wild card pick, authors Amanda Cassidy and Caro Ramsey tell us about thier new novels. Novels: A LINE IN THE SAND - Kevin Powers (Sceptre) THE CONTINENTAL AFFAIR - Christine Mangan (Bedford Sq) An Unnecessary Assassin - Ed. DG Penny ( endpolio.org ) 77 NORTH - DL Marshall (Canelo Crime) THE RETURNED - Amanda Cassidy (Canelo Crime)* GONE...

Northern Ireland author ADRIAN MCKINTY chats to Craig Sisterson about the return of Sean Duffy in his new novel THE DETECTIVE UP LATE , the mystery of sales v awards,  pitching to the Beeb, giving it another go. THE DETECTIVE UP LATE : Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern I...

GRAHAM HURLEY chats to Paul about his new war novel THE BLOOD OF OTHERS , the Spoils of War series, Operation Jubilee - the raid on Dieppe, reimagining WWII, Stalin, Mountbatten, writing 'ogres' and coming over from TV documentaries. THE BLOOD OF OTHERS : Dieppe, August 1942. A catastrophe no headline dared admit. Plans are underway for the boldest raid yet on Nazi-occupied France. Over...

David Thomson chats to Paul Burke about the completion of his fictional trilogy - SUSPECTS (film noir), SILVER   LIGHT (Westerns) & CONNECTICUT (screwball comedy). We also chat the American dream, actors, how fiction sheds light on life and vice versa. SUSPECTS : Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime - short biographies of some of the most famous characters in the history of film...

NICOLA MONAGHAN chats to Paul Burke about her new thriller, WISH YOU WERE HERE , Dr. Sian Love, Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe, DNA. WISH YOU WERE HERE : DNA doesn't lie. But what if the truth is dangerous? Former police officer and DNA expert Dr Sian Love has settled into running her own detective agency and cohabiting with her partner, Kris. Her life is thrown into chaos once again when a teenag...

SAM LLOYD chats to PAUL BURKE about his new thriller THE PEOPLE WATCHER , hinterlands, The Hobbit, surviving rejection, fulfilling a dream, character and boiling a frog. THE PEOPLE WATCHER : Meet Mercy Lake. She likes to fix things: broken toys, old appliances. People. She watches them in the dead of night, identifies what their lives are lacking and gives it to them . . . quietly. So quietly, the...

Paul Burke presents the latest review show featuring crime fiction titles released this month - mostly anyway. The selection is heavy on the noir and psychological thrillers with a couple of in translation novels and a de rigour pulp. *Apologies for any mangling of French and Swiss German names. Novels Reviewed None of This is True by Lisa Jewell Century The Honeymoon Kate Gray Welbeck The Summer...

CANELO CRIME SPECIAL: Authors LOUISA SCARR Out of the Ashes   & MARION TODD A Blind Eye join VICTORIA for a mid season special to discuss why readers love police procedurals, breaking free of tropes, and what makes a good detective. CANELO CRIME Mentions for: Kate Atkinson, Joseph Knox, Russ Thomas, Jane Casey VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author...

VERN SMITH chats to Paul Burke about his crime novel SCRATCHING THE FLINT , editing the anthology JACKED , Toronto, corruption and policing. SCRATCHING THE FLINT Set in pre-9/11 Toronto, detective noir Scratching the Flint takes place over twelve days during the spring of 2001. Smith's two-tone anti-fraud team of Alex Johnson and Cecil Bolan are back in their first full-length novel to invest...

Newly minted CWA Historical Dagger winner DAVID DV BISHOP chats to Paul Burke about his new historical thriller RITUAL OF FIRE , Renaissance Florence, Cesare Aldo, Savonarola, Aldo no 4 and smells. RITUAL OF FIRE Florence. Summer, 1538. A night patrol finds a wealthy merchant hanged and set ablaze in the city’s main square. More than mere murder, this killing is intended to put the fear of God int...

WALTER MOSLEY - CWA DIAMOND DAGGER WINNER - chats to Paul Burke about EVERY MAN A KING , his writing, his characters, personal inspiration, American politics, good thoughts for writers and hope & belief. The most prestigious Dagger of all, the Diamond Dagger is for a lifetime contribution to crime writing in the English language and is nominated by CWA members. WALTER MOSLEY was born in LA in...

EPISODE 3: CWA DAGGERS: AWARD NIGHT, DAGGERS WINNERS & ILP JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER SHORTLIST INTERVIEWS 30MINS Coverage of GALA Night, inc. all winners, starts at 53mins if you've already listened to the show. This Dagger is for the best crime novel by a first-time author of any nationality with their first novel of any kind published in the UK in English during the judging period....

CWA DAGGERS EPISODE 2: THE GOLD DAGGER Paul Burke chats to the shortlisted authors for the CWA Gold Dagger - Best Crime Novel Of  The Year 2022 This award is for the best crime novel by an author of any nationality, originally written in English and first published in the UK during the judging period. The broadest definition of the crime novel applies. Eligible books include thrillers, mysteries,...