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Eva Björg Ægisdóttir (NIGHT  SHADOWS) & Will Dean (BAD APPLES) discuss Nordic Noir with Victoria, it's appeal, landscape as a character and the psychological element of Scandinavian fiction. Expect chills... VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from our liste...

The Review Show Addendum - Salving my conscience for a few print reviews on books I never got round to when I read them. Brief comments on some of the great crime novels of late 2021 early 22. Reviews The Dark Flood Deon Meyer trans. KL Seegers Lemon Kwon Yeo-sun trans. Janet Hong I Am the Tiger John Arvide Lindquist trans. Marlaine Delargy Night Hunters Oliver Bottini trans. Jamie Bulloch Rizzio...

Paul Burke reviews May's new crime fiction releases: Click the relevant link to order the book of your choice through Bookshop.org THE ISLAND Adrian McKinty TO KILL A TROUBADOUR Martin Walker THE COMPANION Lesley Thomson THE DARK TIDE Simon McCleave KILLING ME SOFTLY Guy Hale DO NO HARM Jack Jordan THE SANCTUARY Andrew Hunter Murray LACUNA Fiona Snyckers MARINA BAY SINS , RICH KILL, POOR KILL...

Debut author Tom Watson chats to Paul Burke about his dystopian thriller METRONOME , 1984, featuring on BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS, hiking in the Peak District and Sheep. METRONOME Not all that is hidden is lost. For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they must take for survival every eight hours. They'v...

JOACHIM B SCHMIDT chats to Paul Burke about his new novel KALMANN , set in Iceland, translated from the German by Jamie Lee Searle.  KALMANN is the self-appointed Sheriff of Raufarhöfn. Day by day, he treks the wide plains which surround the almost deserted village, hunts Arctic foxes and lays bait in the sea ― to catch the gigantic Greenland sharks he turns into the Icelandic fermented delicacy,...

HISTORICAL CRIME FICTION: Laura Shepherd-Robinson (DAUGHTERS OF NIGHT) & Abir Mukherjee (THE SHADOWS OF MEN) discuss tackling research, brining a period to life, and escaping with awards through the Calcutta sewage system. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from...

KATHY WANG chats to Paul Burke about her spy thriller IMPOSTER SYNDROME , Silicon Valley, perceptions of women in power, satire and writing a good villain. IMPOSTER SYNDROME : Julia Lerner is one of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley and an icon to professional women across the country. She is the COO of Tangerine, one of America's biggest technology companies. She is also a Russian s...

This HEADS TOGETHER SPECIAL features chat about the 15th CrimeFest held in Bristol recently - boy was it good to get back to meeting people again and discussing crime fiction. Naturally, we haven't forgotten the round up of books to look out for and our podcast updates but mostly this is a celebration of CRIMEFEST , a triumphant return after two years away. Guests/presenters on the show: Donn...

CLAIRE MCGOWAN chats to Paul Burke about her account of 8 missing women in Ireland who disappeared between 1993-98. THE VANISHING TRIANGLE speaks to the tragedy and lasting trauma of their cases but also how much these disappearance/murders reflect on society. Some of these women were probably murdered by people they knew but was there also a serial killer operating at the time? THE VANISHING TRIA...

POLICE PROCEDURALS (COP THRILLERS) . Caz Frear (SWEET LITTLE LIES) and William Shaw (DS CUPIDI and BREEN & TOZER) discuss procedurals, the rise of the armchair detective and riding in Peter James' police car. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from our list...

NICOLA UPSON chats to Paul Burke about DEAR LITTLE CORPSES , Josephine Tey, Margery Allingham, WWII, Golden Age crime, the Hitchcocks and Gielguds, not so cosy emotions and the fun of writing. DEAR LITTLE CORPSES : It takes a village to bury a child. 1 September, 1939. As the mass evacuation takes place across Britain, thousands of children leave London for the countryside, but when a little girl...

JAMES WOLFF chats to Paul Burke about his two novels BESIDE THE SYRIAN SEA & HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY , frequencies of conflict, spies are real people and what makes a literary spy novel. BESIDE THE SYRIAN SEA : Jonas works for the UK secret service as an intelligence analyst. When his father is kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS gunmen in Syria, he takes matters into his own hands and be...

CHRIS RICKABY & BARNEY THOMPSON, aka BEN CREED chat to Paul Burke about A TRAITOR'S HEART their new historical thriller featuring post WWII Leningrad and detective Revol Rossel. A TRAITOR'S HEART Winter, 1952: Leningrad's icy streets are haunted by a murderer. The name is whispered everywhere – Koshchei has returned , the people say, Koshchei the Immortal . Koshchei, named after...

THRILLERS: SHARI LAPENA (NOT A HAPPY FAMILY) & GYTHA LODGE (LIE BESIDE ME) discuss THRILLER WRITING on The Sofa With Victoria. What makes a good thriller, raising the stakes and building suspense. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on...

JOSEPH KNOX chats to Paul Burke about his novel TRUE CRIME STORY , male violence and misogyny, the pitfalls of making yourself a malign presence in your own fiction and insomnia. TRUE CRIME STORY In the early hours of Saturday 17 December 2011, Zoe Nolan, a nineteen-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for...

In 2 separate interviews authors Heather Young THE DISTANT DEAD and Peter Murphy TO BECOME AN OUTLAW discuss their new novels. Heather Young is author of two novels, The Lost Girls and  THE DISTANT DEAD (EDGAR NOMINATED). Heather lives with her family in Mill Valley, California. THE DISTANT DEAD: A body burns in the desert... Does the boy who found it know more than it seems?  Sal Prentiss, orphan...

DON WINSLOW chats to Paul Burke about his new novel CITY ON FIRE , Rhode Island, the Iliad, Helen of Troy, borders, gangsters, Africa, Jane Austen and getting set up by Ken Bruen. CITY ON FIRE : Providence, RI, 1986. Twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ryan is a hard-working longshoreman, loving husband, loyal friend, and occasional “muscle” for the Irish crime syndicate that oversees much of the city. He...

ALIS HAWKINS (Not One of Us), GAIL 'GB' WILLIAMS (The Chair) & PHILIP GWYNNE JONES (Vengeance in Venice) chat to Victoria and Paul about all things Welsh crime fiction and the Gwyl Crime Cyrmu Festival - 27-29th April & 2-4th May. Featuring: The Daniel Morgan murder, Mark Billingham, Ann Cleave, Mark Ellis, Elly Griffiths, Cathy Ace, Vaseem Khan, Abir Mukherjee, Chris Lloyd, Matt...

AUSTRALIAN CRIME FICTION : CHRIS HAMMER (SCRUBLANDS & OPAL COUNTRY) & EMMA VISKIC (THOSE WHO PERISH out April - CALEB ZELIC SERIES) discuss the appeal of Outback Noir, aka Southern Cross Crime, aka Dingo Noir On The Sofa With Victoria. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We...

Part 2 - The Golden Decade . GETTING CARTER author NICK TRIPLOW chats to Paul Burke about Ted Lewis and Brit Noir as No Exit Press reissue 2 of his classic novels Jack Carter's Law and Billy Rags . In this second part we discuss the novels of Ted Lewis from Plender to GBH, the film Yellow Submarine, tv cop show  Z Cars and Mary Whitehouse. NICK TRIPLOW GETTING CARTER : Ted Lewis and the Birth...

Part 1 - GETTING CARTER . Author NICK TRIPLOW chats to Paul Burke about Ted Lewis and Brit Noir as No Exit Press reissue 2 Lewis novels Jack Carter's Law and Billy Rags , ( Plender & GBH came out last year). In this first part Nick talks about his biography of Lewis, the author's background, influences and debut crime novel Jack's Return Home, filmed as Get Carter. GETTING CARTE...

TIMOTHY J LOCKHART chats to Paul Burke about UNLUCKY MONEY , Norfolk Virginia, hardboiled crime and Brit Grit. UNLUCKY MONEY When Chinese American private-eye Wendy Lu takes on her first murder case, she doesn’t realize how dangerous it’s going to be. Probing into the murder of Susan Fontaine, the wife of her client, wealthy real-estate developer Whit Fontaine—the primary suspect in the case—Wendy...

HIGH CONCEPT - PSYCHE SUSPENSE PART 2 Sophie Hannah (The Couple at the Table), Gillian McAllister (Wrong Place, Wrong Time) and JP Delaney (The Girl Before) discuss high concept thrillers with Victoria Selman. What is high concept and why are we so gripped by the premise of some novels? The difference between high concept and big concept. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS...

Part II: BOGDAN HRIB chats to Paul Burke about RESILIENCE , Romanian crime fiction, politics in Eastern Europe, translation Romanian to English and vice versa and coffee culture. RESILIENCE Stelian Munteanu has had enough of fixing other people’s problems: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work. But when a notorious Romanian businessman asks him to inves...

BOGDAN HRIB chats to Paul Burke about RESILIENCE , Romanian crime fiction, politics in Eastern Europe, translation Romanian to English and vice versa and coffee culture. RESILIENCE Stelian Munteanu has had enough of fixing other people’s problems: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work. But when a notorious Romanian businessman asks him to investigate th...