Crime Time FM
400 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRegular crime, thriller & mystery interviews, features and reviews. In Person with Paul hosted by Paul Burke, Barry's Blu-rays hosted by the editor of crimetime.co.uk and Financial Times Crime Fiction Critic, Barry Forshaw, and On the Sofa with Victoria hosted by best selling thriller writer Victoria Selman. Heads Together is a monthly magazine chat show featuring our trio of hosts and our latest venture is a review show, what's hot in crime fiction. Further information can be found at crimetime.fm Don’t Wait is the theme music and is courtesy of Southgate and Leigh: youtube.com/ukulelipa
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LAURA SIMS In Person With Paul
July 02, 2024 05:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBLAURA SIMS chats to Paul about her new novel HOW CAN I HELP YOU, libraries, the discipline of poetry, HOW CAN I HELP YOU: No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urg...
Capital Crime #OnTheSofa Live
June 25, 2024 06:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBErin Kelly (THE HOUSE OF MIRRORS), Chris Whitaker (ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK) and Vanessa Walters (THE LAGOS WIFE) join moderator Victoria Selman (ALL THE LITTLE LIARS) at Capital Crime 2024 to discuss The Ties That Bind panel. Favourite reads, character, setting Recorded at CAPITAL CRIME 1ST JUNE 2024. Recommendations Tomorrow, Tomorrow Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Americanah, Half a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Binding - Bridget Collins To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ...
NATIONAL CRIME READING MONTH Special
June 21, 2024 12:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBNATIONAL CRIME READING MONTH Special In conjunction with The Reading Agency & The Crime Writers' Association Crime Time FM has complied excerpts of reading events taking place around the country this June. Tickets are still available for some of the remaining events - for details head to crimereading.com This show: Antony Johnston introduces Steve Cavanagh, Ilana Berry, Shawn Cosby and Stuart Neville. Stu Cummins, chats to CL Taylor and TM Logan. Paul Burke, Barry Forshaw and Victoria Selm...
THE REVIEW SHOW June 2024
June 18, 2024 12:00 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MBA round up of crime fiction for June 2024 by Paul Burke. Westport James Comey Head of Zeus A Killing in Paradise Elliot Sweeney Wildfire Armistice Day John Fullerton Partisan Press Eruption Michael Crighton & James Patterson Century Southern Man Greg Iles Hemlock Press The Bedlam Cadaver Robert J Lloyd Melville House Press A Divine Fury DV BISHOP Macmillan The Little Sparrow Murders Seícho Yokomizo trans. Bryan Karetnyk, Pushkin Vertigo The Mercy Chair MW Craven Constable French W...
JM HEWITT & MELANIE GOLDING #OnTheSofa With Victoria
June 11, 2024 05:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBV6 E8 #OnTheSofa Victoria is joined by authors MELANIE GOLDING (LITTLE DARLINGS) and JM HEWITT (THE PERFECT VILLAGE) who use folklore as inspiration for their novels. Recommendations David L Jones - The Ipswich Witch Su Bristow - Seal Skin Catriona Ward Sally Magnusson - The Ninth Child, The Sealwoman's Gift VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.c...
BEN PASTOR In Person With Paul
June 07, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBBEN PASTOR chats to Paul about her new literary historical crime novel THE VENUS OF SALÒ, Martin Bora, Totalitarianism, Rome, writing in English, growing up in a divided world, Shaun the Sheep. THE VENUS OF SALÒ October 1944, in the Republic of Salò, a German puppet state in the north of Italy and the last fascist stronghold in the country. After months of ferocious fighting on the Gothic Line, Colonel Martin Bora of the Wehrmacht is handed a new, red-hot case. Transferred to the town o...
In Person With Paul - Slaughterfest Special
May 31, 2024 05:00 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBPaul Burke talks to SIMON TOYNE (host) and JANE CASEY (panellist) about the 5th SLAUGHTERFEST in London on 11th June, 2024. Panels The Art of Detection True Detectives Murderous Motives & Clare Mackintosh & Lucy Foley in conversation with Ryan Turbridy Event is sold out but will appear on You Tube on 20th June to coincide with the release of Karin Slaughter's new novel THIS IS WHY WE LIED. Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literat...
Claire McGowan & Claire Douglas #OnTheSofa With Victoria
May 28, 2024 05:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MB#OnTheSofa Season 6 Episode 6. Closed Circle Mysteries and other puzzles. Victoria investigates how to craft the perfect puzzle with fellow authors, Claire Douglas The Wrong Sister and Claire McGowan Truth, Truth, Lie Recommendations and mentions: Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie, John Creasey, Save The Cat Jessica Brody, Barbara Vine, Sabine Durrant. The Secret History Donna Tartt, The Time Traveller's Wife Audrey Niffenegger. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LIT...
HENRY WISE In Person With Scott Blackburn (guest presenter)
May 24, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBIn a special edition guest presenter SCOTT BLACKBURN chats to HENRY WISE about his debut novel HOLY CITY*, MFA programmes, writing-working-family, begin with a million words. Available 6/4 in USA. HOLY CITY After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, raze...
DAN MALAKIN In Person With Paul
May 22, 2024 08:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBDAN MALAKIN chats to Paul Burke about his new novel THE WRECKAGE OF US, (available 6/6/24), cyber crime, Bridport prize, THE BOX, sci-fi, high concept ideas, work-life balance. THE WRECKAGE OF US It's always the husband... Isn't it? Astrid Webb is missing. The police have found her car crashed near the woods, the driver's door open, the seat spotted with blood. But there's no sign of Astrid herself, a sick woman who rarely left her house, who surely couldn't have left the scene of the acci...
WILLIAM SHAW In Person With Paul
May 17, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBWILLIAM SHAW chats to Paul about his new novel THE WILD SWIMMERS, music journalism, respecting the arts, CJ Sansom (RIP), Breen & Tozer, Alexandra Cupidi and unbridled wealth. THE WILD SWIMMERS If only Alexandra Cupidi had turned south instead of north, she would have found the dead woman. Instead it is her vulnerable daughter Zoë who stumbles across Mimi Greene's lifeless body on the shoreline. A regular wild swimmer with a group of close friends, it's out of character for Mimi to have be...
Cara Hunter & Victoria Selman #OnTheSofa at the OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL 2024
May 14, 2024 05:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBAin't That Truth: Where Crime Fact Meets Crime Fiction Season 6 Episode 5 Victoria Selman & Cara Hunter chaired by Triona Adams Live from the Oxford Literary Festival: Victoria and Cara Hunter explore our our apparently unquenchable thirst for true crime and ask why the genre is often stranger than fiction. Cara Hunter Murder in the Family: LUKE RYDER’S MURDER HAS NEVER BEEN SOLVED. In October 2003, Luke Ryder was found dead in the garden of the family home in London, leaving behind a wea...
THE REVIEW SHOW May 2024
May 10, 2024 05:00 - 8 minutes - 6.13 MBNew crime fiction titles for May 2024. novels: Fiona McPhillips When We Were Silent John Connolly The Instruments of Darkness Aslak Nore Sea Cemetery Emiko Jean The Next Girl Kellye Garrett Missing White Woman Jennifer Lee Thompson Vigilante City Dark Deeds Down Under Vol.2 eds. Craig Sisterson and Lindy Cameron Olivier Norek Between Two Worlds Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagg...
DUGALD BRUCE-LOCKHART In Person With Paul
May 07, 2024 05:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBDUGALD BRUCE-LOCKHART chats to Paul Burke about his new novel SECOND SKIN, spy fiction, acting directing & memoir, going away to find himself and losing the plot, Greece, THE LIZARD. SECOND SKIN: Five years after a murderous encounter on the island of Paros, Alastair Haston’s world is upended by a startling discovery: a son he never knew existed. Desperate to learn more, he travels to Athens, but his pursuit is intercepted when MI6 intervenes, coercing him into a high-stakes espionage missi...
JOSEPH KANON In Person With Paul
May 03, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBJOSEPH KANON chats to Paul Burke about his new spy thriller SHANGHAI, SHANGHAI Daniel Lohr, sensing that the Nazis are closing in on the Jews, leaves his dying father in Berlin and boards a ship to Shanghai. His passage is dependent upon him delivering a package to his shady uncle, his father’s brother, upon arrival. Daniel has no idea what the package contains. On board is Leah, also fleeing the Nazis. She and Daniel conduct a passionate but brief shipboard affair, but are separated as soo...
CHRIS HARDING THORNTON In Person With Paul
May 03, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 49.1 MBCHRIS HARDING THORNTON chats to Paul Burke about her new novel LITTLE UNDERWORLD, being a seventh generation Nebraskan, noir, PICKARD COUNTY ATLAS and music. LITTLE UNDERWORLD: Omaha, 1930. When ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely murders the man who assaulted his fourteen-year-old daughter, the last person he wants to see is local crooked cop Frank Tvrdik. Luckily, Frank isn’t interested in the lifeless body in Jim’s car. Frank has a proposition: he’ll make the dead man disappear if Jim helps ta...
ROBERT GOLD & ROBERT RUTHERFORD On The Sofa With Victoria
April 30, 2024 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBOn The Sofa With Victoria - Season 6 Episode 4: ROBERT RUTHERFORD (SEVEN DAYS) & ROBERT GOLD (TWELVE). Few Crime genres grab our attention quite so much as the thriller. Victoria is joined by authors Robert Gold and Robert Rutherford to unpick what makes some thrillers more thrilling than others. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @Vict...
DAVID HEWSON In Person With Paul
April 26, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBDAVID HEWSON chats to Paul Burke about BAPTISTE: THE AXE MUST FALL, The Killing, Nic Costa, Pieter Vos, Venice, Shakespeare, Audible, writing the official prequel to the hit television show and Kopfkino. BAPTISTE: THE AXE MUST FALL. France, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead after bloody clothes are found close to an illicit party near an abandoned chateau. Baptiste belie...
THE REVIEW SHOW APRIL 2024
April 23, 2024 09:00 - 10 minutes - 7.56 MBThe latest selection of crime fiction reviews for April, all 100 words a piece, and with a couple of authors pitches on their new books. Harlen Coben - Think Twice (Century) Don Winslow - City in Ruins (Hemlock) Lesley Kara - The Other Tenant (Bantam) Caz Frear - Five Bad Seeds (Simon & Schuster) Alis Hawkins The Skeleton Army (Canelo) Paul Carlucci - The Voyageur (Swift Press) Rachel McLean - The Dorset Crime Series (Hera) Seícho Matsumoto - Inspector Imanishi Investigates, trans Beth Cary...
JULIE ANDERSON In Person With Paul
April 19, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBJULIE ANDERSON chats to Paul Burke about her latest thriller THE MIDNIGHT MAN, first in a new historical crime series, Whitehall machinations, the birth of the NHS, finding the post war history of Clapham community, the Clapham Literary Festival, The South London Women & Children's Hospital, the locked room mystery and old British movies. THE MIDNIGHT MAN: Winter 1946 - One cold dark night, as a devastated London shivers through the transition to post-war life, a young nurse goes missing f...
ELLERY LLOYD + NICCI FRENCH On The Sofa With Victoria
April 16, 2024 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBOn The Sofa With Victoria - Season 6 Episode 3: ELLERY LLOYD (THE CLUB) + NICCI FRENCH (HAS ANYONE SEEN CHARLOTTE SALTER) Victoria is joined by husband and wife teams, Nicci French (Sean French & Nicci Gerrard) and Ellery Lloyd (Paul Vlitos & Collette Lyons) to discuss the challenges of writing collaboratively. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.co...
STIG ABELL In Person With Paul
April 10, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBSTIG ABELL chats to Paul Burke about his new crime novel DEATH IN A LONELY PLACE, rural idyll as vest of Vipers, identity, writing a series, love of genre fiction and how crime fiction is a tonic for the soul. DEATH IN A LONELY PLACE In a quiet village, darkness is closing in… A rural paradise… Detective Jake Jackson moved to the countryside for a quieter life. And he finally seems to have his wish – spending his days immersed in nature, and his evenings lazing by the fire. A terrifying sec...
MORGAN GREENE In Person With Paul
April 09, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBMORGAN GREENE chats to Paul Burke about his new crime thriller SAVAGE RIDGE, the why-dunnit not the who-dunnit, rural locations, indie and trad publishing. SAVAGE RIDGE Ten years ago, in the pine-shaded town of Savage Ridge, Nick, Emmy, and Pete murder their high school classmate, Sammy Saint John. His body is never found, and no arrests are made. The three friends make a pact to leave Savage Ridge and never return… Now, each is drawn home, seemingly by chance or fate. But it’s neither: Pri...
PHILIP GWYNNE JONES in Person With Paul
April 05, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBPHILIP GWYNNE JONES chats to Paul Burke about The Venetian Candidate (paperback now) and The Venetian Sanctuary (Hardback July), Venice, honorary consuls and Italy. The Venetian Candidate - To tell the truth is a revolutionary act. Battered by floods and crushed by overtourism, the city of Venice faces an uncertain future. The election of a new Mayor, therefore, has never felt more important. As the candidates jostle for position and alliances are made and promises broken, Andrea Mazzon, a ...
KRYSTAL SUTHERLAND & CATRIONA WARD On The Sofa With Victoria 2/4
April 02, 2024 04:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBSeason 6 Episode 2: More Than Meets The Eye KRYSTAL SUTHERLAND (THE INVOCATIONS) + CATRIONA WARD (THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET). Victoria is joined by authors Catriona Ward and Krystal Sutherland to discuss adding horror and supernatural ingredients to the Crime Fiction cauldron. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman ...
STUART TURTON In Person With Sarah
March 28, 2024 06:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBSpecial Edition: SARAH MOORHEAD chats to STUART TURTON about his new high concept thriller THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD, write what you know - rubbish, writing is unique to every person - don't box us in. THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fis...
THE REVIEW SHOW March 2024
March 25, 2024 12:00 - 13 minutes - 9.53 MBPaul Burke takes a look at some of the new releases in crime fiction for March, 24. The Case of the Bereaved Butler Cathy Ace A Night at the Shore Tony Knighton The Assassin Tom Fletcher Out of the Darkness Alex Gray Close to Death Anthony Horowitz (Pub. 11/4) Requiem Bell David Michael Nolan Deliver Me Malin Persson Giolito The Croaking Raven Guy Hale The Innocents Bridget Walsh (11/4 release) Also: Rachel Wolf tells us about her new crime thriller Five Nights. Paul Burke writes for...
GRAHAM BARTLETT In Person With Paul
March 21, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBGRAHAM BARTLETT chats to Paul Burke about his new police thriller CITY ON FIRE, the third Jo Howe novel. Brighton and policing in a modern city, dialing up the drama, Brighton's rebel soul, meeting readers, supporting 150+ writers with policing matters. CITY ON FIRE After losing her sister to an overdose, Chief Superintendent Jo Howe is desperate to tackle the world of drugs that consumes the shadowy backstreets of Brighton. Operation Eradicate is her response but not everyone sees it as a...
ALEX FORBES & RICHARD NAIFF On The Sofa With Victoria
March 19, 2024 01:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBSEASON 6 EPISODE 1: RICHARD NAIFF (WATERSTONES BRIGHTON) & ALEX FORBES (FOURBEARS BOOKS) What's Going to Be Hot in Crime This Year? Victoria is joined by booksellers, Alex Forbes + Richard Naiff as they peer into their crystal balls to reveal what's going to be hot in Crime this year. Mentioned in the show: Mick Herron, Agatha Christie, Tess Gerritsen, David McCloskey, Matthew Richardson. Gillian McAllister, Sarah Pinsborough, CJ Sansom, Lauren North, Cara Hunter. Gillian Flynn, Paula Ha...
TESS GERRITSEN In Person With Paul
March 14, 2024 11:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBTESS GERRITSEN chats to Paul Burke about her new spy crime thriller THE SPY COAST, Maggie Bird, Danny, living in a CIA retirement town, voices come to me 'I'm not the woman used to be', MK Ultra, standing up for the older character and British TV. THE SPY COAST Maggie Bird is many things. A chicken farmer. A good neighbour. A seemingly average retiree living in the seaside town of Purity. She's also a darned good rifle shot. And she never talks about her past. But when an unidentified bod...
HEADS TOGETHER March '24
March 08, 2024 15:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBThe 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: Stig Abell Death in a Lonely Place Jane Casey Stranger in the Family Jonathan Whitelaw The Concert Hall Killer AJ...
DOUGLAS JACKSON In Person With Paul
March 04, 2024 06:00 - 54 minutes - 37.1 MBDOUGLAS 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 prowl. What are a few more deaths amid scores of daily executions? Former chief investigator Jan Ka...
TARA MOSS In Person With Paul
March 01, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBTARA 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'd left behind in Europe. War correspondent Billie Walker is happy to finally be back home in glamorous Sydney, for...
SOPHIE MORTON-THOMAS In Person With Paul
February 26, 2024 13:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBSOPHIE 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 North Norfolk coast, Fran's life is unravelling. As she fills her days cleaning the caravan park ...
The Review Show February 2024
February 22, 2024 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBThe 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 Dorothy Koomson (Headline Review HB) The Descent Paul E Hardisty (Orenda PB) To the River Vikki Wakefield (...
TONY KENT In Person With Paul
February 13, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBTONY 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 Michael Devlin immediately suspects all is not what it seems. Teaming up once more with Agent Joe Demps...
PAUL VIDICH & CHARLES CUMMING In Person With Paul
February 07, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.4 MBPAUL 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-American CIA agent, Analise, who has the perfect plan. However, Analise begins to suspect that Mossad has ...
DAVID McCLOSKEY In Person With Paul
January 31, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBFormer 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 conceals the wealth of the super-rich. Max’s family business in Mexico – a CIA front since the...
HEADS TOGETHER JANUARY 2024
January 26, 2024 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBBarry 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 #OnTheSofa - Ellery Lloyd & Nicci French, Alex Michaelides, Lynda la Plante, Karin Slaught...
EMMA CHRISTIE In Person With Paul
January 23, 2024 15:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBEMMA 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 List. Dave Kellock is also a fraud. A moment of panic, violence and blood twenty years ago plagues his d...
Emma Christie In Person With Paul
January 23, 2024 15:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBEMMA 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 List. Dave Kellock is also a fraud. A moment of panic, violence and blood twenty years ago plagues his d...
GARRY DISHER In Person With Craig
January 19, 2024 07:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBGARRY 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 that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson. But now, just as Hirsch has begun to feel he kn...
LOUISE CANDLISH & VICTORIA SELMAN #OnTheSofa Live Chat
January 16, 2024 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBS5E10: 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 himself to himself, but he’s a good husband and an easy-going neighbour. That’s until Beth announces the creati...
JAMES NAUGHTIE & SHANE WHALEY In Person With Paul
January 13, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBJAMES 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 into twin mysteries that threaten everything he holds dear. From Washington, he's pitched back into the Troubles...
THE REVIEW SHOW January 2024
January 10, 2024 14:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBThe 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 Only One Left *28/12/23 Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini trans. Gregory Dowling *25/1 Sam Blake...
MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI In Person With Paul
January 05, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBMAXIM 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 organization known only as ‘The Bureau’. Recruited for her hidden talents, she becomes an unlikely assassin, caught b...
LIZZY BARBER & JP DELANEY On The Sofa With Victoria
January 02, 2024 07:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBS9 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 LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselman...
SHELLEY BURR In Person With Craig
December 28, 2023 07:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBSHELLEY 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 family, their quirks as if they were her own. She knows her once charming town is now remembered for one reas...
TED FLANAGAN In Person With Paul Best of 2023
December 26, 2023 09:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBTED 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 political family, Worcester mayor John O'Toole has his sights set on vastly higher aspirations. When n...
The REVIEW SHOW DECEMBER 23
December 24, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.85 MBThe 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 Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023. ...