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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...

Season 3, episode 3: CHARLOTTE PHILBY (EDITH & KIM) & LUKE JENNINGS (KILLING EVE, KILLING EVE: NO TOMORROW). A woman at the centre of the spy story, the PHILBY legacy, Edith Tudor Hart, Guy Burgess, Villanelle the psychopathic killer & brilliant terrible women. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for...

TREVOR WOOD chats to Paul Burke about his latest novel just out in paperback, DEAD END STREET , characters Jimmy, Deano and Gadge, PTSD and homelessness, The People's Kitchen, writing a new stand alone novel, the writer's journey and the editor who wanted Dog to have a girlfriend. DEAD END STREET : A group of vigilantes are carrying out a campaign of harassment against the homeless, houn...

JOHN BROWNLOW chats to Paul Burke about SEVENTEEN : LAST MAN STANDING , film script sitting, SEVENTEEN : LAST MAN STANDING : YOU'LL NEVER KNOW MY NAME. BUT YOU WON'T FORGET MY NUMBER. Behind the events you know are the killers you don't. When diplomacy fails, we're the ones who gear up. Officially we don't exist, but every government in the world uses our services. We&apos...

Series 3, Episode 2: VAL McDERMID ( 1989 ) & RUTH WARE ( The It Girl ) chat to Victoria Selman about HOOKING THE READER and KEEPING THEM INTERESTED, publishing then and now, Agatha Christie, the character in your mind and The Stasi Poetry Circle (Philip Oltermann). VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news...

ADAM HAMDY chats to Paul Burke about THE OTHER SIDE OF NIGHT , writing an original novel, the emotional journey you take the reader on, how characters convey meaning in a story, speculative thrillers, film and TV adaptation, page turning excitement and poetry. The Other Side of Night : This is David Asha's story, and that of his son, his wife and also, his best friend. You may think you know...

DAVID LAGERCRANTZ chats to Craig Sisterson about Dark Music (translated by Ian Giles), the influence of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a contemporary Holmes and Watson, the social novel, what is genius and not having the luxury to be weak (class and privilege). DARK MUSIC The launch of a new series inspired by Sherlock Holmes. A murder investigation brings together two unlikely allies in a race to uncover a...

Season 3, episode 1 . DAVID BALDACCI (DREAM TOWN) & LINWOOD BARCLAY (TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY) On The Sofa With Victoria. Thrillers: Two legends of the crime writing chat thrillers with Victoria. Learning from film, momentum, suspense vs shock, , chapter breaks, lean & mean-couch potato writing, the competition, and feeling sorry for Dan Brown. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author o...

THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY BLOODY SCOTLAND 15th - 18th September, 2022. A CRIME TIME FM SPECIAL  Victoria Selman and Paul Burke chat to Festival Director BOB MCDEVITT and Scottish crime writers SARAH SMITH (HEAR NO EVIL) & ABIR MUKHERJEE (WYNDHAM & BANERJEE series), about what makes Bloody Scotland so special, the McIlvanney Prize and Scottish Debut Novel Awards, what it takes to put on a succes...

LAURA WILSON chats to Paul Burke about her new YA novel MONOCHROME ,  Grace and the teenage world, Climate change, achromatopsia, writing with a renewed purpose & drunk tank pink. MONOCHROME In a world drained of colour, nothing is black and white. Early one morning, Grace wakes to find herself staring at an ashen sunrise in ominous grey skies. It's like watching a disaster movie, though...