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The latest Blu-ray and DVD releases from BARRY FORSHAW - LINE OF DUTY to Rupert Davies' MAIGRET. Also an interview with KIM NEWMAN about his novel due in November SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT, also horror, Hollywood and modelling villains on Elon Musk. SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT : Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he shou...

  THE GREAT SUMMER CRIME TIME DEBATE BEST CRIME NOVELS 2010-2020 CHAIR: BARRY FORSHAW PANEL: AYO ONATADE, MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI, LAURA WILSON, VICTORIA SELMAN & PAUL BURKE Episode produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh CRIME TIME Produced by Junkyard Dog Crime Time Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2...

Episode 4: ADVENTURES WITH FRIENDS- Mark Billingham (Tom Thorne) & M.W Craven (Washington Poe) discuss series fiction, keeping track of your characters and why they’d like to be stranded on a desert island with Harry Bosch. RABBIT HOLE - MARK BILLINGHAM DEAD GROUND - MW CRAVEN VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmana...

LAURA LIPPMAN talks to Paul Burke about her new novel DREAM GIRL , Baltimore, #Me TOO and racism and why being a writer is a little like playing for a living. DREAM GIRL : Gerry Anderson has been having trouble sleeping. He's unwell - bed-bound - and has only his night nurse and his personal assistant for company. But what's really troubling him are the phone calls. Phone calls from a wo...

VASEEM KHAN talks to Paul Burke about his new book THE DYING DAY , Persis Wadia, Ashwin Chopra, Indian independence, modern day Mumbai and an inherited elephant. THE DYING DAY : for over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy , has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the...

GERARD BRENNAN talks to Paul Burke about his new novel SHOT , feisty PSNI detective Shannon McNulty, the writer's lot, Northern Ireland Arts Council and music. SHOT : You can't choose your family -aa major career obstacle for DS Shannon McNulty when she takes up a post with the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The move back to her hometown of Warrenpoint following a decade on the forc...

Episode 2: WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE?- Sarah Vaughan ( ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL ) & Harriet Tyce ( BLOOD ORANGE ) - discuss courtroom dramas, the lure of the wig and gown, and why British writers shouldn’t be talking about the gavel. Victoria takes note and re-records her introduction. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanau...

HEADS TOGETHER is the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM . PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the THEAKSTONS CRIME WRITING FESTIVAL, the CWA DAGGER AWARDS, and Victoria's next novel with Quercus. PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for magazines/websites including Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network. VICTORIA SELMAN...

Barry’s Blu-rays Special.  As well as a new to video films round up  Barry talks to MICHAEL MACKENZIE about his novels, Italian cinema, The Years of Lead, Dario Argento, and up-coming Arrow Films DVDs. MICHAEL MACKENZIE is the McIlvanney Prize-nomined author of THE LIBRARY MURDERS , CRUEL SUMMER and IN THE SILENCE and is an Arrow Films Video senior producer. BARRY FORSHAW is fiction critic for the...

IMRAN MAHMOOD chats to Paul Burke about his new novel I KNOW WHAT I SAW , being a barrister and the state of British justice, his first novel YOU DON'T KNOW ME on TV and memory. IMRAN MAHMOOD is a practicing barrister with almost 30 years' experience fighting cases in court. He hails from Liverpool but now lives in London with his wife and daughters. His debut novel You Don't Know M...

JANE THYNNE (CJ CAREY) talks to Paul Burke about her new thriller WIDOWLAND , the personal inspiration behind the novel, Philip Kerr, feminism and editing history. WIDOWLAND To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. London, 1953, Coronation year - but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II. Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great B...

JOE THOMAS, author of BRAZILIAN PSYCHO chats to DAVID PEACE about his new novel TOKYO REDUX , the final part of his Tokyo trilogy, also why David's fiction focuses on real events, how his writing has developed over the years, key influences such as Derek Raymond and Jean-Patrick Manchette, crime fiction as social critique and living in Tokyo. TOKYO REDUX Tokyo, 1949, President Shimoyama, Head...

LEE DURKEE chats to Paul Burke about his novel THE LAST TAXI DRIVER published in the UK by Oldcastle Books. In a brutally honest interview Lee talks about his fictional driver, Lou, and the life of a taxi driver in North Mississippi, the enemy - Uber, racism and Shakespeare. THE LAST TAXI DRIVER is a darkly comic novel about a day in the life of an exhausted, middle-aged cabbie about to lose his j...

On the Sofa with Victoria: Sarah Pinborough & Alex North Episode : ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN- Sarah Pinborough ( BEHIND HER EYES ) & Alex North ( THE WHISPER MAN ) discuss supernatural crime crossovers, Scooby Doo and ‘that’ ending. Victoria keeps calling Alex ‘Steve’. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/...

James Wolff talks about his new novel HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY, growing up in the Middle East, spy fiction and the meaning of treachery. HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY : Things are looking bad for disgraced spy August Drummond. In emotional free fall after the death of his wife, fired for a series of security breaches... and now his neighbour on the flight to Istanbul won't stop talking. The on...

SAIMA MIR author of THE KHAN talks to Paul Burke about her debut novel, her unforgettable characters Jia and Akbar Khan, being a journalist, Bradford, family, sexism, racism and how to navigate the world. THE KHAN : Successful London lawyer Jia Khan is a long way from the grubby Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father, Akbar Khan, led the Pakistani community and ran the local organi...

In a spectacularly wide ranging discussion TOM BRADBY talks to Paul Burke about his new novel TRIPLE CROSS , his character Kate Henderson, what makes a great modern spy novel and the relationship between Western democracies and Russia & China that underpin his writing. He also tells us about his friend and mentor Gerald Seymour, screenwriting, chronic insomnia and mental well-being. TOM BRADBY...

Barry’s Blu-rays the second episode in our regular feature for CrimeTimeFM. BARRY FORSHAW on the best of crime film and TV on DVD and Blu-ray. Barry gives us his insights into the world of crime drama based on the commentaries and sleeve notes he writes for new releases and reissues. This episode features Arrow's 4 Noir Classic - The Dark Mirror, Secret Beyond The Door, Force Of Evil & Th...

Irish novelist and screenwriter JO SPAIN talks to Paul Burke about her new novel THE PERFECT LIE , her most intricate and exciting stand alone thriller to date. Jo also tells us about her TV series Harry Wild and, a host of projects in the pipeline and the writers who inspires her, not to mention the art of the psychological thriller and Lapland. Jo Spain is the author of the bestselling Tom Reyno...

HENRY PORTER talks to Paul Burke about his new spy novel THE OLD ENEMY , Putin's Russia, Trump and the threat of white supremacists in the US, the Paul Samson spy series, inspiration versus hard work and his grandfather's hunting rifle. Henry Porter has spent most of his career as a journalist, during which time he has covered the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Bosnian Civil War, and, more...

New Zealand crime writer VANDA SYMON Chats to Paul Burke about her new Sam Shephard novel, BOUND , fourth in the Dunedin set series. Also 'Yeah-Noir', writing as a young mother, misogyny, science & the modern detective and Ngaio Marsh. Bound : The New Zealand city of Dunedin is rocked when a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman is murdered in his luxurious home while his wi...

TIM GLISTER talks to Paul Burke about his new novel RED CORONA and the 8 books that set him on the path to becoming a spy writer. Red Corona: It’s 1961 and the white heat of the Space Race is making the Cold War even colder. Richard Knox is a secret agent in big trouble. He’s been hung out to dry by a traitor in MI5, and the only way to clear his name could destroy him. Meanwhile in a secret Russi...

 Mystery Writers of America Edgar award winner  ROSALIE KNECHT talks to Paul Burke about her two novels WHO IS VERA KELLY and  2021 Sue Grafton Memorial Award  winner - VERA KELLY IS NOT A MYSTERY , about her wonderful creation Vera Kelly, New York in the 60s, CIA and US foreign policy, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Noir fiction, black humour in the novel, sexism, misogyny, satire and social work...

Barry’s Blu-rays Listen to the first episode in a new regular feature for CrimeTimeFM. BARRY FORSHAW on the best of crime film and TV on DVD and Blu-ray. Barry gives us his insights into the world of crime drama based on the commentaries and sleeve notes he writes for new releases and reissues. The first episode features Maigret and Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing , as well as the ground-breaking Da...

ACE ATKINS talks to BARRY FORSHAW about his new Spenser novel SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME . 49th in Robert B Parker's Spenser series featuring the hardboiled Boston PI, his wingman Hawk and new feisty protege, Mattie. Published by No Exit Press and available now direct or from bookshop.org and good book outlets, as are all the Ace Atkins titles in the Spenser series.  bookshop.org The trio battl...