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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...

WOMEN IN CRIME: Season 3, Episode 8: ARAMINTA HALL (Hidden Depths Jan '23), ERIN KELLY (The Skeleton Key) & CL TAYLOR (The Guilty Couple) chat to Victoria Selman about why women are drawn to crime fiction, reflections on violence in society, gaslighting, frenemies, media coverage and whether women have fair representation in the press. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Tru...

THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE - BEST CRIME NOVELS OF 2022. BARRY FORSHAW chairs a panel of top critics and writers Laura Wilson (Guardian critic, novelist) , Maxim Jakubowski (editor, publisher, writer, bookseller), Jake Kerridge (crime fiction critic for the Telegraph), Ayo Onatade (critic ShotsBlog) Victoria Selman (novelist and Crime Time presenter) and Paul Burke. Book Choices : Barry Forsha...

JEROME CHARYN chats to Maxim Jakubowski (writer, editor, publisher, bookshop owner & critic) & Paul Burke about his new novel BIG RED , Hollywood the real capital of America, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, graphic novels, the essence of noir and the female Samson. BIG RED : NARRATED BY A STARRY-EYED LESBIAN, BIG RED REIMAGINES THE TRAGIC CAREER OF RITA HAYWORTH AND HER INDOMITABLE HUSBAND, O...

Season 3 episode 7: VASEEM KHAN  (The Lost Man of Bombay) & JANICE HALLETT (The Twyford Code) discuss cosy crime with Victoria Selman. Golden Age Crime, screenplay to novel, warmth and humour in the murder mystery, every novel needs an elephant, write a cosy on the spot. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website fo...

JAMES GRADY chats to Paul Burke about THIS TRAIN , Six Days of the Condor, Three Days of the Condor, the US mid-terms, gauging the pulse of the nation, realism, rebellion & redemption and enjoying life and art to the full. THIS TRAIN races us through America's heartland, carrying secrets. There is treasure in the cargo car, along with an invisible puppeteer. There is a coder named Nora, M...

MIKE LUPICA chats to Paul Burke about FALLOUT (Jesse Stone) & REVENGE TOUR (Sunny Randall). Spenser, 'follow the money', the Parkersphere & the Robert B Parker legacy. FALLOUT : Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team's biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult - the t...

GEORGINA CLARKE chats to Jenna Gordon about her new historical crime novel THE DAZZLE OF THE LIGHT , the post WWI landscape in 1920,  the Forty Thieves, historical accuracy, reflecting on the present through the past - the role of women, class & inequality, dressmaking and Halloween cocktails THE DAZZLE OF THE LIGHT : Ruby Mills is ruthlessly ambitious, strikingly beautiful - and one of the Fo...

Season 3. Episode 6. Series Fiction . Mari Hannah (Kate ) and Ian Rankin (Rebus, A Heart Full of Headstones) talk to Victoria about writing a long running series. Keeping a series and characters fresh, continuity, craving over night success, bent cops and why you should never work with children or animals. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: ht...

GUY HALE chats to Paul Burke about his new novel Blood on the Tracks , character Jimmy Wayne, The Come Back Trail sextet, humour, Basil Exposition and Shakespeare. BLOOD ON THE TRACKS Jimmy Wayne is headed for LA to make the new album that will hopefully make him a star. In a quiet, deserted canyon a few miles outside Blackjack lie the bodies of his victims who inspired each song – all his secrets...

STUART MACBRIDE chats to Paul Burke about his latest chilling thriller NO LESS THE DEVIL , protagonists and antagonists, NO LESS THE DEVIL   : 'We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.' It's been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass...

Track: Hanging Around Taken from the the Soundtrack album KILLING ME SOFTLY , the music of Jimmy Wayne, recorded by Mike Zito feat. Kid Anderson Inspired by the writing of Guy Hale Thank you to Guy and the musicians for permission to use this music. THIS MUSIC IS UNDER COPYRIGHT AND SHOULD NOT BE SHARED OR COPIED TO ANY OTHER FORMAT PLEASE. You can buy the album and Guy Hale's books at Hillsi...

SEASON 3, EPISODE 5: LOCKED ROOM MYSTERIES. LUCY FOLEY (The Paris Apartment) and ELLY GRIFFITHS (Bleeding Heart Yard) discuss the lure of the locked room mystery. Is it a locked room or a closed circle mystery? Why covid had to appear in the new Ruth Galloway mysteries, contributing to an Agatha Christie short stories collection (Marple) & Boris Johnson's unruly mop top. VICTORIA SELMAN S...

Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for September and October. A tour of the world of crime fiction from America to Asia via Europe and Australia. Across 2 millennia Books reviewed: Double or Nothing Kim Sherwood Sleep When You're Dead Jude O'Reilly Wolf Pack Will Dean Act of Oblivion Robert Harris The Iron Way Tim Leach Blackstone Fell Martin Edwards Dark Deeds Down Unde...

HEADS TOGETHER: The Thong Episode. The recommended crime titles for October, festivals and podcasts, 2nd novels, queens of crime and the thong. BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the Financial Times Crime Fiction Critic. His latest book SIMENON: the Man, the Books, the Films published by Oldcastle Books is a must read for serious follow...

Season 3, Episode 3 - SELF PUBLISHING with ZOE SHARP (The Last Time She Died) & DAVID PENNY (A Death of Promise). The why and How of self-publishing, the benefits and pitfalls, how do you go about marketing your books, what works & what doesn't, snobbery in the publishing industry, Amazon, Ian Rankin and advertising in a public toilet. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of...

ANTONY JOHNSTON, (THE COLDEST CITY - ATOMIC BLONDE) chats to Paul Burke about the third novel in the Brigitte Sharp series THE PATRIOS NETWORK . Writing screenplays, games, comics and novels. The making of Atomic Blonde (fr. The Coldest City). Classic Cold War spy fiction and Berlin. THE PATRIOS NETWORK : When a renegade British officer steals plans for a high-tech weapon that could plunge whole c...