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SEASON 5 EPISODE 8: VASEEM KHAN, Chair of the CWA & author of the BABY GANESH & MALIBAR HOUSE series & LAUREN MUÑOZ lawyer & author of SUDDENLY A MURDER join Victoria to explore the economic divide, labelling and race in Crime fiction. So a nice light episode! Recommendations PERSUASION JANE AUSTIN MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN SALMAN RUSHDIE Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Co...

MATT PHILLIPS chats to Paul Burke about his new noir - A GOOD RUSH OF BLOOD , noir and social documentarian, character drives narrative, indie writing. A GOOD RUSH OF BLOOD : A mother's sins haunt a teenage runaway in this scorching mystery of criminal conspiracy, street-level justice, and unlikely courage. Creeley Nash has been running her entire life. That includes running drugs for a wanna...

Paul Burke reviews a selection of November crime fiction releases. Including author elevator pitches from CL Pattison. Jane Jesmond, Alexandra Benedict, Paul Durston & Stephen Ronson. Peter Murphy A Week on Mount Olympus CL Pattison The Florist Simon Maltman Hunted Jane Jesmond A Quiet Contagion Simon Gaul White Suicide Alexandra Benedict The Christmas Jigsaw Murders Robyn Gigl Survivor's...

TOM BENJAMIN chats to Paul Burke about LAST TESTAMENT IN BOLOGNA, British private eye Daniel Leicester, the porticos of the ancient city, Giallo, AirBnB and tourism in a university town.  LAST TESTAMENT IN BOLOGNA : When an old man makes a bequest to investigate the mysterious death of his son, English detective Daniel Leicester follows a trail leading to one of Bologna's wealthiest families...

Season 5 Episode 7: ROBERT GODDARD (CWA DIAMOND DAGGER WINNER, THE FINE ART OF UNCANNY PREDICTION) & SUK PANNU (MRS SIDHU'S DEAD AND SCONE): Robert Goddard & Sak Pannu  join Victoria to discuss cosy crime and the 'Osman effect'. What do we mean by Cosy Crime? Why has it become so popular? And where does the future lie? VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL TH...

Crime Time FM from Newcastle Noir - Episode 1 Introductions : the when, where, who and how. Perspectives on the festival from people involved in the events. Crime Time FM is proud to be the Official Podcast of Newcastle Noir. NEWCASTLE NOIR - NEWCASTLE CITY LIBRARY 6TH - 9TH DECEMBER. Information . Click this link for the schedule and visitor info. Tickets here £5 per panel, £50 for the 2023 Full...

The Crime Time FM Christmas Debate - Best Crime Fiction 2023: Eight top critics & writers pick their best reads of the year, argue eruditely for their choices and squabble - a little bit. Laura Wilson - Guardian critic and best-selling author. Jon Coates - Sunday Express deputy news editor and critic Maxim Jakubowski - former publisher & CWA chair, author and critic. Jake Kerridge - book c...

Norwegian crime writing legend GUNNAR STAALESEN chats to Craig Sisterson about his new hardboiled thriller Mirror Image, Varg Veum and Bergen, crime fiction as social commentary with humour, Joe Biden PI & wolf in a sanctuary. MIRROR IMAGE : As Bergen PI Varg Veum investigates two different cases, it becomes clear that they are uncannily similar to harrowing events that took place thirty-six y...

Season 5 Episode 6: Donna Freed (Duplicity), Matt Johnson (No Ordinary Day) & Anna Motz (A Love That Kills) join Victoria in a panel recorded live at Capital Crime discussing why true crime is stranger than fiction. DONNA FREED DUPLICITY ANNA MOTZ A LOVE THAT KILLS MATT JOHNSON NO ORDINARY DAY FILM: A PLACE IN THE SUN BOOK: THE AMERICAN TRAGEDY THEODORE DREISER  VICTORIA SELMAN Sunday Times be...

FEMI KAYODE chats to Paul about his new Nigerian crime thriller GASLIGHT , Philip Taiwo, Light Seekers, eduction addiction,  GASLIGHT : Bishop Jeremiah Dawodu, pastor of a Nigerian megachurch, has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Folasade, the 'First Lady' of the church. The arrest was public, humiliating and sensational - sending shockwaves through Lagos - but thro...

The Latest Crime Fiction Releases Reviewed By Paul Burke - October 2023. Books featured: Loyalty Martina Cole The Prey Yrsa Sigardardóttir The North Light Hideo Yokoyama** A frightfully Fatal Affair Hannah Hendy The Due Date Niki Mackay Crown Vic Lee Goldberg Geneva Richard Armitage The Beaver Theory Antti Tuomainen White As Snow Llija Sigardardóttir Stigma Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger Dry C...

Season 5 Episode 4: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS - All in the Mind - LAUREN NORTH, LESLEY KARA & NIKI MACKAY join Victoria Selman to discuss the enduring popularity of psychological thrillers and where the future lies for the genre. Mentioned: Minette Walters The Sculptress, The Scold's Bridal, Susi Holliday The House, The Bees Laline Paul, Stephen King VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling...

HARRIET CRAWLEY chats to Paul about her spy thriller come love story, THE TRANSLATOR, living in Russia, THE TRANSLATOR : Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. His life is turned on its head when, after more than a decade, he discovers that his former lover, Marina Volina, is now the i...

NICK TRIPLOW chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller NEVER WALK AWAY , FRANK'S WILD YEARS , Noir, British Film, Ted Lewis and the mother of all writing hangovers. NEVER WALK AWAY A senior civil servant dies in suspicious circumstances. A sensitive file in his possession and evidence of contact with a human rights lawyer lead the authorities to believe he is a whistle-blower. This needs a p...

LEONORA NATTRASS  chats to PAUL BURKE about her historical mystery thriller SCARLET TOWN , Laurence Jago, 18th century history, rotten boroughs and sapient hog. SCARLET TOWN 1796. A rigged election. A town at war. A murderer at large... Disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago and his larger-than-life employer the journalist William Philpott have escaped America - and Philpott's ne...

Season 5 Episode Looking Back: ANNA MAZZOLA (The House of Whispers) & GARETH RUBIN (The Turnglass) exploring historical crime. The challenges of translating the past, the opportunities presented by an historical canvas and what makes it such a great pairing with crime. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for...

DOUG JOHNSTONE chats to Paul about his new novel THE OPPOSITE OF LONELY , the Skelfs, Sci-Fi, mathematical modelling and being the writer in residence at a funeral parlour. THE OPPOSITE OF LONELY : Even death needs company… The Skelf women are recovering from the cataclysmic events that nearly claimed their lives. Their funeral-director and private-investigation businesses are back on track, and t...

PAUL BURKE takes a look at some of the new crime fiction releases for September 2023 and apologises for any mispronunciations of names/languages. Books (Links to Bookshop.org)   SHEEP'S CLOTHING Celia Dale - Daunt THE PIT Peter Papathanasiou - MacLehose NO RESERVE Felix Francis - Zaffre  THE TRAITOR Ava Glass - Penguin THE BORGIA PORTRAIT David Hewson* ALL THAT'S LEFT UNSAID Tracey Lien...

ORENDA SPECIAL: featuring Jenny Lund Madsen Thirty Days of Darkness , Paul E Hardisty The Forcing , Eva Björg Ægisdöttir You Can't See Me c hat to Paul Burke about their latest novels. JENNY LUND MADSEN trans. Megan E Turney* Thirty Days of Darkness PAUL E HARDISTY The Forcing   EVA BJÖRG ÆGISDÖTTIR trans. Victoria Cribb You Can't See Me ORENDA Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fic...

ORENDA SPECIAL: September part 1  featuring Eve Smith One , chatting to Paul Burke about her latest speculative thriller. Eve Smith One One law. One child. Seven million crimes…  A cataclysmic climate emergency has spawned a one-child policy in the UK, ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime. Compulsory abortion of 'excess' pregnancies and mandatory contraceptive implants are now th...

SEASON 5 EPISODE 2 SHARI LAPENA (EVERYONE HERE IS LYING)  & JACK JORDAN(CONVICTION) join Victoria to discuss how crime authors keep their readers guessing, the art of smoke and mirrors and playing fair, why we all love a great twist and how to build and maintain suspense. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website...

ANDREW NETTE chats new heist thriller ORPHAN ROAD , Gunshine State, pulp fiction and bodgies & widgies. ORPHAN ROAD Gary Chance is an ex-Australian army driver and nightclub bouncer turned professional thief and in need of a job. An offer comes from a former employer, once notorious Melbourne social identity, now aging owner of a failing S&M club, Vera Leigh. A shadowy real estate develope...

DENISE MINA chats to Craig Sisterson about her new Marlowe novel THE SECOND MURDERER , revisiting the misogyny, racism,  Feminism THE SECOND MURDERER : "This is Marlowe." "Mr. Philip Marlowe?" She asked. I glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am, as if she had been waiting by the phone for an appointed hour, following someone else's orders to the letter. "What,...

SEASON 5: EPISODE ONE - PUBLISHING GURUS, heavyweights Katherine Armstrong (Deputy Publishing Director - Simon & Schuster), Miranda Jewess - (Publishing Director Viper) and David Headley (leading literary agent - Goldsboro Books, DHH Literary Agency) join Victoria shedding light on the role of the advance in a book's success and what makes a publisher snap up a title. Recommendation: Publ...

SARAH MOORHEAD chats to Paul Burke about her new speculative crime thriller   THE TREATMENT , Witness X, Liverpool, teaching, good & evil, Debut 20s and the godfather of the northern crime writing scene, young people today and Wizard of Oz meets Frankenstein. THE TREATMENT : The future of law enforcement has arrived, courtesy of private health contractor Janus Justice. Their ground-breaking ‘O...