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The latest edition of HEADS TOGETHER on CRIME TIME FM with Barry Forshaw , Victoria Selman and Paul Burke . Featuring new books, Barry's Blurays, SS Van Dine's Philo Vance on screen, writing to trend and branching out within the genre,  #OnTheSofa & #InPersonWith guests, Murder By The Book (CWA, University of Cambridge), Oxford Literary Festival and Tim's Improvements. Reviews:...

DOUGLAS JACKSON chats to Paul Burke about his new historical crime thriller Blood Roses , wartime Warsaw, series fiction, Ancient Rome, Caligula & The Angel of Death - Josef Mengele. BLOOD ROSES As the Nazis roll into Warsaw, a serial killer is unleashed… September 1939. A city ruled by fear. A population brutalised by restrictions and reprisals. Amid the devastation, another hunter begins to...

TARA MOSS chats to Paul Burke about THE WAR WIDOW , modelling, travelling, human rights activism, The Fictional Woman, CRPS, Journalism, post war Sydney & what did you do during the war granddad/grandma? THE WAR WIDOW It's 1946 and WWII may be over, but journalist Billie Walker's search for a missing young man will plunge her right back into the danger and drama she thought she'...

SOPHIE MORTON-THOMAS chats to Paul about her psychological suspense novel BIRD SPOTTING IN A SMALL TOWN, Fran and Tad, ornithology,  studying a masters in crime & thriller writing and getting enough sleep. BIRD SPOTTING IN A SMALL TOWN My feet are itching to walk to the shore, to leave the kids again, to sit with the birds and pretend none of this has happened. In a small, isolated town on the...

The Latest selection of Crime, Mystery and Thriller fiction reviewed by Paul Burke.  The Books: Every Trick in the Book Bernard O'Keefe (Muswell Press PB) Gathering Storm Lynne McEwan (Canelo, PB)* The Harlem Detectives Chester Himes intro. SA Cosby (Everyman HB) Taken Dinuka MacKenzie (Canelo PB) Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter Nicci French (Simon & Schuster HB) Every smile You Fake Dor...

TONY KENT chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller THE SHADOW NETWORK , Dempsey & Devlin, Chiltern Kills, and obsessive hobby, working on TV true crime, conspiracy, the ensemble cast, the law. THE SHADOW NETWORK How do you take down an enemy when no one believes they exist? When the lawyers of alleged war criminal Hannibal Strauss are caught up in a terror attack in The Hague, barrister Mich...

PAUL VIDICH & CHARLES CUMMING chat to Paul Burke about their latest novels BEIRUT STATION and KENNEDY 35 respectively. The Cold War, the luminal space, inherently political. BEIRUT STATION Lebanon, 2006. The Israel–Hezbollah war is tearing Beirut apart and the country is on the brink of chaos. The CIA and Mossad are targeting a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist. They turn to young Lebanese-America...

Former CIA analyst DAVID MCCLOSKEY chats to Paul Burke about his new exhilarating spy thriller MOSCOW X, Russia, Boyars, world views and ubiquitous technological surveillance. MOSCOW X A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its center? CIA operatives Sia and Max enter Russia to recruit Vladimir Putin’s moneyman. Sia works for a London firm that...

Barry Forshaw, Victoria Selman and Paul Burke talk January books and look forward to some titles later in the year, crime and thriller TV for 2024, a new seductive Miss Marple, character is king, the high concept, #OnTheSofa Season 6, out to lunch... Tim Sullivan Teacher  Simon Mason Lost and Never Found Seicho Matsumoto Point Zero Agnes Ravatn The Guests   Dan Malakin The Wreckage of Us Season 6...

EMMA CHRISTIE chats to Paul about her new psychological thriller IN HER SHADOW , The Caledonian Crime Collective, Portobello, psychological thrillers, Barcelona and a new found love for old movies. IN HER SHADOW Dave Kellock is a pillar of the community in Portobello, Edinburgh. A tireless volunteer who never misses a chance to help others, he's just been recognised on the King's Honours...

GARRY DISHER chats to Craig Sisterson about his new novel Day's End , 'Hirsch', right wing extremism, stories ripped from the news, rural noir,  backpackers & blue biro. DAY'S END : WHEN HATE RUNS DEEP, THE INNOCENT SUFFER Constable Paul Hirschausen's rural beat in the low hills of South Australia is wide. Daybreak to day's end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem...

S5E10 : LIVE recording in front of a studio audience - Victoria & Louise discuss their writing journeys, the challenge of setting books in the present day & where they get their ideas from! LOUISE CANDLISH - THE ONLY SUSPECT : 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 prefers to keep himsel...

JAMES NAUGHTIE & SHANE WHALEY chat to Paul THE SPY ACROSS THE WATER , the Flemyng trilogy, spy novels are all about character, James Jesus Angleton's wilderness of mirrors and Kim Philby's melancholy. THE SPY ACROSS THE WATER We live with our history, but it can kill us. Faces from the past appear from nowhere at a family funeral, and Will Flemyng, spy-turned-ambassador, is drawn int...

The latest crop of new crime fiction releases January 2024 reviewed by Paul Burke. The novels featured: Mari Hannah The Longest Goodbye *18/1 James Henry The Winter Visitors *1/2 Chris Hammer Cover the Bones *4/1 Tim Sullivan The Teacher *18/1 Ruth Mancini The Woman on the Ledge *4/1 Stephanie Sowden Directions for Dark Things *25/1 CS Robertson The Trials of Marjorie Crowe *18/1 Riley Sager The O...

MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI, publisher, editor, bookseller, writer & critic chats to Paul Burke about his new novel Just a Girl with a Gun . "Less sex Jakubowski" Cornelia c'est moi... Just a Girl with a Gun  Killing Eve meets Mr and Mrs Smith In the neon-lit world of seduction and secrets, Cornelia, a mesmerizing stripper, finds herself pulled into a sinister web spun by the enigmatic org...

S9 E8: LIZZY BARBER & JP DELANEY #OnTheSofaWithVictoria Location, location, location. JP Delaney (THE NEW WIFE) & Lizzy Barber (NANNY WANTED) join Victoria to discuss the importance of place in Crime Fiction. Why different stories need different settings, the link between character and place and how to evoke atmosphere.  VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIAR...

SHELLEY BURR chats to Craig Sisterson about her novels WAKE and MURDER TOWN *, winning awards, getting published, women crime writers leading the way down under. *referred to as Ripper in the interview, it's Austrialian title MURDER TOWN : Gemma Guillory has lived in Rainier her entire life. She knows the tiny town's ins and outs like the back of her hand, the people like they are her fa...

TED FLANAGAN EVERY HIDDEN THING , of Worcester (Woosta) Mass,, and PAUL BURKE chat about some of their favourite crime novels of 2023 and gives us a couple of titles to look out for in 2024, Translation, EVERY HIDDEN THING Big city politics, nasty secrets, a dirty cop, and a deranged sociopath set the stage for a riveting journey deep into the urban jungle. The last scion of a once-powerful politi...

The REVIEW SHOW DECEMBER 23The latest crime fiction titles December 2023 Books God is a Killer Max Thrax (Alpha edition) Ravage & Son Jerome Charyn Yule Island Johana Gustawsson Spyhunter HB Lyle Crime of Passion Samantha Lee Howe (Short stories) The House of the Coptic Woman Ashraf El-Ashmawi Dead Sweet Katrin Júliusdottir The Wiregrass Adrian Hyland Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fi...

Newcastle Noir Episode 3: TOO CLOSE TO HOME panel coverage Lisa Gray TO DIE FOR, Victoria Selman ALL THE LITTLE LIARS, Liv LV Matthews SILENT WATERS & Simon Van Der Velde  THE SILENT BROTHER - moderator Frances Walker. How often do we expect danger to lurk beyond the safety of our own home and circle of friends and colleagues? Yet when evil emerges among those closest to us, we’re left asking...

Christmas Collection: Episode 2  True Crime - Martin Brunt Sky's Chief Crime Correspondent chats about his book No One Ever Got  Cracked Over the Head for No Reason & former policeman Matt Johnson shares his experience of writing NO ORDINARY   DAY  In Person With Paul. Matt Johnson & John Murray - NO ORDINARY DAY : On 17 April 1984, as demonstrators gathered outside the Libyan embassy...

Christmas Specials Part 1 - CHRIS FROST, ROBERT RUTHERFORD & STEPHEN J GOLDS In Person With Paul - feel for location. character is king, heart and drive, high concept, transgression,  subverting the Christmas murder mystery, Indie publishing.  Chris Frost THE KILLER'S CHRISTMAS LIST - out now (20mins+) Robert Rutherford SEVEN DAYS - coming April (15mins+) Stephen J Golds THE DYING, THE DE...

TERRY HAYES chats to Paul Burke about THE YEAR OF THE LOCUST , off earth mining, epic adventure tales, the limits in fiction, screenwriting and whether there'll be a Pilgrim II.   THE YEAR OF LOCUST - If, like Kane, you're a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again - by whatever means necess...

Panel discussions from the Newcastle Noir International Crime Writing Festival recorded live 8th-9th December at Newcastle Central Library and the Northern Crime Syndicate recorded at Tyneside Irish Centre. 1. Ann Cleeves and Marsali Taylor 2. Mari Hannah and Kate London 3. Katrin Júliusdottir, Michael J Malone, Essie Fox 4 The Caledonian Crime Collective - Emma Christie, Marion Todd, Andrew James...

TOM MEAD chats to Paul Burke about THE MURDER WHEE L, DEATH AND THE CONJUROR Joseph Spector, the Golden Age era, true crime, theatre, magic and illusion. THE MURDER WHEEL : 1938, London. Ambitious lawyer Edmund Ibbs has got his teeth into the case of a lifetime - defending the young woman accused of shooting her husband in the infamous 'Ferris Wheel Murder' case. Despite a plethora of ev...