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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...

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!' -...