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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....

Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for January 2023 - part 2. Books reviewed:  In the Blink of an Eye  Jo Callaghan                                                Simon & Schuster The Library Suicides Fflur Dafydd                                                    Hodder & Stoughton In Too Deep Simon McCleave                                                             Avon...

Icelandic authors JÓNÍNA LEÓSDÓTTIR, SÓLVEIG PÁLSDÓTTIR & translator QUENTIN  BATES chat to Paul Burke about the novels DECEIT and HARM DECEIT : Reykjavík detective Soffía finds herself struggling to cope with a single-handed investigation into a spate of malicious acts taking place across the city, and enlists help from an unexpected direction. Her psychologist ex-husband Adam has advised the...

Season 4 episode 1: ALL RISE - STEVE CAVANAGH (Eddie Flynn series) & IMRAN MAHMOOD (All I Said Was True) discuss courtroom thrillers with Victoria Selman: Why we all love Atticus Finch, the courtroom as a cathedral and having a pint with Rumpole. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: htt...

Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for January 2023 and a few of the best titles from Nov/Dec 2022. Books reviewed: The Other Guest   - Heidi Perks.                                                      Century The House at the End of the World   - Dean Koontz            Thomas & Mercer The Night Watch - Neil Lancaster                                                 HQ The Will...

CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Winner 2019 - ROBERT GODDARD Chats to Paul Burke about THIS IS THE NIGHT THEY COME FOR YOU & THE FINE ART OF INVISIBLE DETECTION , Algeria, Paris 1961, character and 30 novels and counting... This is the Night They Come for You : On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office...

Season 3 Finale: JEFFERY DEAVER (Lincoln Rhyme/Colter Shaw) joins Victoria Selman in this End of Season (very) Special: Pulling the rug from under your reader so often they’ll be sending you their chiropractor’s bills, Hamilton tees & ‘getting a character in’. Unmissable! HUNTING TIME JEFFREY DEAVER : THERE ARE TWO FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF SURVIVAL. #1: NEVER BE WITHOUT A MEANS OF ESCAPE. Allison...

SIMON STEPHENSON chats to Paul Burke about his novel Sometimes People Die , Working in the NHS, scriptwriting in Hollywood, entering writing competitions, editing, medical serial killers through time and the murder house. SOMETIMES PEOPLE DIE : The year is 1999 . Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young Scottish doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a senio...

Indie publisher DIAMOND CRIME is based in South Wales but with a UK writer base. Five of their authors chat about their latest novels and the experience of being part of a small but close-knit writer led imprint. Topics include; violence in crime fiction, a world without Agatha Christie, the psychological thriller, writing character and series versus stand alone? Jacqueline Harrett - The Whisperin...

North Georgia author MARK WESTMORELAND chats to Paul Burke about the Dooley brothers - Mack & Marshall, A Violent Gospel * and A Mourning Song*, Burt Reynolds - Smokey And The Bandit, A VIOLENT GOSPEL : If there’s a bad idea in Tugalo County, chances are that Mack and Marshall Dooley are behind it. When the brothers heist a snake-handling church’s money-laundering operation, things go south in...