Crime Time FM
403 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days 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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THE CWA GOLD DAGGER ON CRIME TIME FM
July 04, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBCWA DAGGERS EPISODE 2: THE GOLD DAGGER Paul Burke chats to the shortlisted authors for the CWA Gold Dagger - Best Crime Novel Of The Year 2022 This award is for the best crime novel by an author of any nationality, originally written in English and first published in the UK during the judging period. The broadest definition of the crime novel applies. Eligible books include thrillers, mysteries, police procedurals, psychological suspense novels and spy fiction. The Shortlist Vaseem Kh...
CWA STEEL DAGGER SPECIAL ON CRIME TIME FM
July 03, 2023 18:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBEpisode 1 of the CWA DAGGERS Specials on Crime Time FM - The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. Victoria Selman chats to Eva Glass, Linwood Barclay & John Brownlow about being shortlisted for the Steel Dagger & writing a thrilling thriller. The other shortlisted authors are MW Craven, Robert Galbraith & Alan Parks. Ian Fleming said there was one essential criterion for a good thriller, ‘one simply has to turn the pages’. Eligible books in this category are thrillers set in any period and include,...
MW 'MIKE' CRAVEN In Person With Paul
June 30, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBMW Mike CRAVEN chats to Paul Burke about his new high octane thriller FEARLESS, Lee Child, Tilly & Poe, Fluke, TV rights, Michael Connelly and the amygdala. FEARLESS: Ben Koenig is a ghost. He doesn't exist any more. Six years ago it was Koenig who headed up the US Marshal's elite Special Ops group. They were the elite unit who hunted the bad guys - the really bad guys. They did this so no one else had to. Until the day Koenig disappeared. He told no one why and he left no forwarding addr...
REVIEW SHOW JUNE '23
June 29, 2023 13:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBPaul Burke presents another bumper review show featuring crime fiction titles and a couple of wild card picks released this month (mostly anyway). The selection is heavy on the noir, psychological thrillers and in translation novels. *Apologies for any mangling of German, Italian. French, Japanese or Russian names. The Red House Roz Watkins End of the Game Holly Watt Dead Lands Núria Bendicho trans. by Maruxa Relaño & Martha Tennent Black Fell Mari Hannah First Blood Amélie Northomb tra...
SHEILA BUGLER - CANELO CRIME Special - In Person With Paul
June 22, 2023 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBSHEILA BUGLER chats to Paul Burke about BLACK VALLEY FARM, why writing is torture but she loves it, getting it down on the page and avoiding writers block, being mentored by Martin Waites and writing about Ireland, (the next novel). BLACK VALLEY FARM The truth could ruin everything. A decade ago, the bodies of nine people were discovered at Black Valley Farm. The only suspect vanished without a trace. Clare has spent ten years living a lie, but a new podcast on the murders threatens to bri...
CLÉMENCE MICHALLON In Person With Paul
June 21, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 47.3 MBCLÉMENCE MICHALLON chats to Paul Burke about her psychological thriller THE QUIET TENANT, true crime, serial killers, victims and survivors and Seinfeld. THE QUIET TENANT He took you and you have been his for five years. But you have been careful. Waiting for him to mess up. It has to be now. Aidan Thomas is a hardworking family man and a respected member of his community. He's the kind of man who always lends a hand and has a good word for everyone. He's also a kidnapper and serial killer...
DREDA SAY MITCHELL & RYAN CARTER In Person With Paul
June 16, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBDREDA SAY MITCHELL MBE & RYAN CARTER (Tony Mason) chat to Paul Burke about their new psychological thriller BELIEVE ME, new ways of publishing, the Groucho Club, writing partners BELIEVE ME: One woman’s mysterious death has led to a lifetime of pain. Can her daughter find out why? While working on a property dispute, lawyer Gabby is shocked to discover a name more familiar than her own on the title deeds: her mother’s. But her mother died twenty-five years ago from an undiagnosed illness at...
BELINDA BAUER & CLARE MACKINTOSH On The Sofa With Victoria
June 13, 2023 06:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MB#OnTheSofa With Victoria. Season 4, Episode 10: So you're published. Now what? Belinda Bauer (Exit, Snap) & Clare Mackintosh (Game of Lies , July 2023) reveal the realities of being a writer and how it compares to the dream. The pressure of coming up with shiny new ideas- to a schedule. And even how writing affects our reading. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoria...
JOHN SUTHERLAND In Person With Paul
June 11, 2023 11:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBJOHN SUTHERLAND chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller THE FALLEN, 25 years a policeman, hostage and crisis negotiation, fact and fiction THE FALLEN ARE YOU READY TO SAVE A LIFE? WHY HER? Becca Palmer has just lost her job as assistant to Simon Jones MP - the highly-regarded Policing Minister, tipped as a future Prime Minister. But Becca claims that Simon was more than her boss, that she is in love with him. WHY HERE? When a heartbroken Becca leaves the Home Office, she heads to Westm...
ÅSA LARSSON & trans. Frank Perry In Person With Paul
June 07, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBÅSA LARSSON and translator Frank Perry chat to Paul Burke about THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS, translation, moving a whole town - Kiruna, good soil for a writer to dig in THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live when he asks Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that has long since passed the statute of limitations. A body found in a freezer at the home of the deceased alcoholic, Henry Pekkari, has been identified as a man who disappeared withou...
TIM SULLIVAN In Person With Paul
June 02, 2023 15:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBTIM SULLIVAN chats to Paul Burke about his novel THE MONK, DS George Cross, autism, the monastic life and killing your darlings. THE MONK To find a murderer, you need a motive . . . THE DETECTIVE - DS George Cross has always wondered why his mother left him when he was a child. Now she is back in his life, he suddenly has answers. But this unexpected reunion is not anything he's used to dealing with. When a disturbing case lands on his desk, he is almost thankful for the return to normality...
PHOEBE MORGAN, JONATHAN WHITELAW & PAUL BURKE On The Sofa With Victoria
May 30, 2023 07:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBSEASON 4 EPISODE 10: Industry Insiders Crime critics Jonathan Whitelaw and Paul Burke and publisher Phoebe Morgan join Victoria 'On The Sofa' to reveal what makes a novel stand out from the pile. Writing community, take note! Recommendations So Shall You Reap Donna Leon None of This is True Lisa Jewell (July) Games and Rituals Katherine Heiny Murder in the Family Cara Hunter (July) Notes on an Execution Danka Kukafka The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle Force of Hate Graham Bartlett VI...
TOM BENN In Person With Paul
May 29, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBTOM BENN chats to Paul Burke about his quasi-crime novel OXBLOOD, teaching creative writing, book prizes, being/not being a film maker and avoiding the nostalgic postcard. Oxblood: Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once ruled Manchester's underworld; now the men are dead, leaving three generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence, harbouring an unregistered baby and the ghost of a murdered lover. Over the course of a few days, Nedra, Carol and Jan must e...
REVIEW SHOW April-May 23
May 25, 2023 19:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBPaul Burke reviews a selection of the April and May crime fiction releases. Click the attached links to order any of these crime novels from Bookshop.org James Swallow Dark Horizon James Wolff The Man in the Corduroy Suit David Beckler A Nuclear Reaction Daniel Weizmann The Last Songbird Guy Hale All the World's a Stage Tim Glister A Game of Deceit Kate Rhodes A Brutal Tide Heather Critchlow Unsolved David Hewson The Medici Murders Kjell Ola Dahl The Lazarus Solution trans, Don Bartlett...
HEATHER CRITCHLOW & TIM WEAVER On The Sofa With Victoria
May 16, 2023 06:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBIf you wanted to disappear, how would you do it? Tim Weaver (David Raker series) and Heather Critchlow (Unsolved) join Victoria On The Sofa to discuss missing persons in Crime Fiction and going off the grid...then Heather Disappears VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply 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 Twitter...
CTFM @CRIMEFEST Bristol Episode 2
May 13, 2023 15:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBCrime Time FM the official podcast of CrimeFest 2023: Episode 2 - A Genre As Wide As A Sea. Victoria Selman and Paul Burke chat to CrimeFest David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Jo Furnish & Kate Simants, Cathy Ace, Jen Faulkner & Heather Fitt and David Penny about their novels, the festival and panels. For more information, tickets and news: CrimeFest Participating Authors Programme Produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh Crime Time CrimeFest is sponsored by SPECSAVERS (hea...
CTFM @CRIMEFEST 2023 in Bristol
May 11, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBCrime Time FM the official podcast of CrimeFest 2023: Episode 1 - Join The Party Victoria Selman and Paul Burke chat to CrimeFest featured guest authors Elly Griffiths and Mark Billingham and participating authors Kate Rhodes, Tim TE Kinsey and Caroline England (aka CE Rose) about their novels, the festival and panels. For more information, tickets and news: CrimeFest Participating Authors Programme Produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh Crime Time CrimeFest ...
KELLYE GARRETT In Person With Craig
May 09, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBKellye Garrett chats to Craig Sisterson about her novel Like a Sister, Crime Writers of Color, winning a Lefty Award, screenwriting and writing humour. LIKE A SISTER: She found out her sister was back in New York from Instagram. She found out about her death from the New York Daily News. But she’s the only one convinced it wasn’t an accident . . . Desiree Pierce, a Black reality TV star, is found dead on a playground in the Bronx. Her death is quickly declared an overdose by the police an...
NEIL HUMPHREYS In Person With Paul
May 07, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBNEIL HUMPHREYS chats to Paul Burke about his new novel LOST WOMEN, living in Singapore, working class roots, serendipity, Inspector Stanley Low and fridging. LOST WOMEN ‘This impressive police procedural presents an unflattering but authentic picture of the multiracial megacity‘ Times Crime Club. Humphrey's latest thriller is prescient, dark and challenges some of the world's worst fears. Alan Edwards had expected to see more blood. His initial reaction had surprised him. He’d never seen ...
ASHLEY KALAGIAN BLUNT In Person With Paul
May 05, 2023 08:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBASHLEY KALAGIAN BLUNT chats to Paul Burke about her latest novel DARK MODE, the Armenian Genocide, screaming plants, the dark web, stalking and living in Australia. DARK MODE A riveting psychological thriller drawn from true events, Dark Mode delves into the terrifying reality of the dark web, and the price we pay for surrendering our privacy one click at a time. Is it paranoia – or is someone watching? For years, Reagan Carsen has kept her life offline. No socials. No internet presence. No...
OnTheSofaRoadshow Finale - Brighton
May 02, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBPOLICE THRILLERS: PETER JAMES, WILLIAM SHAW, GRAHAM BARTLETT & SIMON TOYNE chat to Victoria Selman. Why we don't say police procedurals, the Master Forger's story, could a bot write a crime novel... Live from the Friends Meeting House, the Lanes, Brighton. Victoria will be at Waterstones Brighton at 7pm on 18th May for a discussion on serial killers and their portrayal in popular culture with author and ex Chief Superintendent, Graham Bartlett & leading criminologist, Peter Squires. Tickets...
CRIME TIME FM at GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL - EPISODE 3
April 30, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBCrime Time FM at Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival Episode 3: Welsh Crime Fiction - language, location, character. Paul Burke chats to two festival authors and a committee member: Sarah Ward - The Birthday Girl Welcome to Eldey, an island with deadly secrets. Mona: a carefree artist, staying at the Cloister to work on her illustrations. Beth: the harried mother of a toddler, on the remote Welsh island for a weekend with her family. Charlotte: a reluctant stepmother who wanted a romantic getaway ...
CRIME TIME FM at GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL - EPISODE 2
April 24, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBCRIME TIME FM is the official podcast of GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL. In this second episode welcome at some of the panels and interview some of the writers taking par in them. Featuring The Effects of Crime Panel - Rosie Claverton, Trevor Wood, Matt Johnson & Jen Phipps. Interview - Matt Johnson and literary agent Broo Docherty Barry Forshaw chatting to Mari Hannah Leslie Scase reading from his novel Sabrina's Teardrop Historical Crime Fiction Panel - Barry Forshaw, Douglas Skelton and Chri...
CRIME TIME FM at GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL E1
April 21, 2023 20:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBCRIME TIME FM is the official podcast of GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL. In this first episode I introduce the festival and chat to authors, committee members and organisers about upcoming events and we get a peek at the National Library of Wales tour. Featuring Chloe Tilson Alis Hawkins Mark Ellis Jacky Collins Bev Jones Gail Williams Chris Lloyd Nia Dafydd and Fflur dafydd Produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh Crime Time Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Ficti...
JAKE LAMAR In Person With Paul
April 19, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBJAKE LAMAR chats to Paul Burke about his jazz noir novel VIPER'S DREAM, Paris, Chester Himes, radio plays, Harlem and jazz. VIPER'S DREAM for fans of Colson Whitehead and Chester Himes, Viper's Dream is a gritty, daring look at the vibrant jazz scene of mid-century Harlem, and one man's dreams of making it big and finding love in a world that wants to keep him down. 1936. Clyde 'The Viper' Morton boards a train from Alabama to Harlem to chase his dreams of being a jazz musician. When his t...
CALLUM McSORLEY In Person With Paul
April 14, 2023 10:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBCALLUM McSORLEY chats to Paul Burke about his new Glasgow set crime novel SQUEAKY CLEAN, Glasgow, humour in crime, what it's like when your mum see your novel in a bookshop. SQUEAKY CLEAN: Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up. No one thinks very much at all about carwash employee Davey Burnet, until one day he takes the wrong customer's motor for a ride. One kidnapping later, he and the carwash are officially part of Glasgow's c...
DAVID BALDACCI & GREGG HURWITZ On The Sofa With Victoria
April 11, 2023 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBSeason 4 Episode 7: DAVID BALDACCI (Simple Lives) & GREGG HURWITZ (Orphan X) writing big, discuss keeping a thriller thrilling, James Bond & sneaking onto demolition ranges & the save the cat moment. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply 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 Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the...
MARCH 23 REVIEW SHOW
April 08, 2023 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBTHE REVIEW SHOW ON CTFM presented by Paul Burke. The latest crime titles for March and early April 2023. Click any link to buy a book from Bookshop.org Christopher Fowler tribute & Bryant and May's Peculiar London Kate Simants Freeze LC North The Ugly Truth Aoife Clifford When We Fall Abigail Burdess Mother's Day Owen Matthews White Fox Donna Leon So Shall You Reap Yukito Ayatsuji The Mill House Murders Nicola Williams Until Proven Innocent Isabelle Schuler Lady MacBethad Louise Swa...
ELI CRANOR In Person With Craig Sisterson
April 04, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBELI CRANOR chats to Craig Sisterson about his new novel OZARK DOGS, Romeo & Juliet meets the McCoys and the Hatfield's, Kudzu and the real South, narrating your own book. OZARK DOGS: After his son is convicted of murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Ozark junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to ...
PENGUIN CRIME CLASSICS 75 - SIMON WINDER, BARRY FORSHAW & PAUL BURKE
April 03, 2023 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBSimon Winder, Penguin Press publishing director, Barry Forshaw, Financial Times crime fiction and Paul Burke discuss Penguin Modern Classics Crime & Espionage - Reviving the iconic green Penguin Crime paperbacks, first published 75 years ago, this new series celebrates the endless variety and unique appeal of one of fiction's great genres. Call for the Dead John le Carré SS-GB Len Deighton Maigret and the Headless Corpse George Simenon In a Lonely Place Dorothy B Hughes Cotton Comes to Ha...
SARAH SULTOON, RONNIE TURNER & VANDA SYMON In Person With Paul
March 31, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBSARAH SULTOON - DIRT , RONNIE TURNER - SO PRETTY & VANDA SYMON - EXPECTANT chat to Paul Burke about their latest novels. EXPECTANT A pregnant Sam Shephard investigates the murder of an expectant mother in Dunedin, as it becomes clear that the killer is ready to strike again … Queen of New Zealand Crime, Vanda Symon, returns with a shocking, twisty new Sam Shephard thriller… Vanda Symon is a crime writer, health researcher and radio host from Dunedin, New Zealand, and the chair of the Ot...
JANICE HALLETT On The Sofa With Victoria - live recording Waterstones, Trafalgar Square
March 28, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBDescriptor: Season 4 Episode 6: Live podcast recording as part of the On The Sofa Roadshow. The rise of the epistolary novel and its challenges. Why we’re all armchair detectives. And what goes into making a page turner Final Roadshow Event: Tickets here↓ Join Peter James, Graham Bartlett, Simon Toyne & William Shaw #OnTheSofa With Victoria Selman at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton 13th April. To get tickets click → Eventbrite. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly D...
ALIS HAWKINS In Person With Paul
March 23, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBALIS HAWKINS chats to Paul Burke about her new literary historical mystery A BITTER REMEDY (Canelo Crime), Welsh history, the Teifi Valley Coroner, Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival and a strange male affliction or is it... A BITTER REMEDY: Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow… Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young ma...
JOHN LINCOLN In Person With Paul
March 21, 2023 08:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBJOHN LINCOLN (WILLIAMS) chats to Paul Burke about his new novel GREY IN THE DARK, a journey in American crime fiction, CLR James and South Wales. GREY IN THE DARK: Too many people loved Kelly Rowland. One of them killed her, but was it the man in prison for her murder? Gethin Grey and the Last Resort Legals team investigate another miscarriage of justice, taking them from post-industrial dereliction of the South Wales Valleys to the gated communities of the Cardiff docklands. Gethin Grey i...
Kate Hamer, Peter Swanson, Tove Alsterdal & Charlotte Vassell - FABER SPECIAL - chat In Person With Paul
March 17, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBKATE HAMER, PETER SWANSON, TOVE ALSTERDAL & CHARLOTTE VASSELL chat to Paul Burke in a special episode featuring four FABER authors who have just published a new thriller/crime novel. KATE HAMER The Lost Girls 'Reads like a shiver down the spine.' ANNA BAILEY PETER SWANSON The Kind Worth Saving 'Smart, surprising, cool and fun, with a deeply satisfying ending. I loved it!' -- Gillian McAllister (The Kind Worth Killing) TOVE ALSTERDAL trans. Alice Menzies You Will Never Be Found 'Str...
ABIGAIL DEAN, FIONA CUMMINS & CARA HUNTER On The Sofa With Victoria
March 14, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBSeason 4 Episode 5: Live recorded in Whitley Bay. Why True crime is Stranger Than Fiction: ABIGAIL DEAN, FIONA CUMMINS & CARA HUNTER join Victoria in an event at Bay Tales. Final Roadshow Event: Tickets here↓ Join Peter James, Graham Bartlett, Simon Toyne & William Shaw #OnTheSofa With Victoria Selman at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton 13th April. To get tickets click → Eventbrite. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn....
VERVE VOICES EPISODE 1 ROBYN GIGL chats to Jenna Gordon
March 10, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBCRIME TIME FM is pleased to support the 1st podcast by VERVE BOOKS. We hope you'll continue to follow and enjoy our podcasts but why not check this out too: VERVE Voices is the brand-new in-house podcast from indie fiction publisher VERVE Books. In this episode, editor Jenna Gordon interviews attorney, speaker and activist Robyn Gigl on her debut novel, BY WAY OF SORROW, published by VERVE Books in the UK on 16th March 2023. BY WAY OF SORROW is the first book in Gigl's 'ground-breaking' ...
JULIA BARTZ In Person With Paul
March 07, 2023 06:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBJULIA BARTZ chats to Paul Burke about her psychological thriller THE WRITING RETREAT, therapy, inspiration, THE WRITING RETREAT Five attendees are selected for a month-long writing retreat at the remote estate of Roza Vallo, the controversial high priestess of feminist horror. Alex, a struggling writer, is thrilled. Upon arrival, they discover they must complete an entire novel from scratch, and the best one will receive a seven-figure publishing deal. Alex’s long-extinguished dream now ...
JOHN SAYLES In Person With Paul
March 03, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBJOHN SAYLES chats to Paul Burke about his historical novel JAMIE MacGILLIVRAY, the dialogue of Peter Cooke & Dudley Moore, British grub, perspectives of history and historical fiction. JAMIE MacGILLIVRAY: It begins in the highlands of Scotland in 1746, at the Battle of Culloden, the last desperate stand of the Stuart 'pretender' to the throne of the Three Kingdoms, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and his rabidly loyal supporters. Vanquished with his comrades by the forces of the Hanoverian (and Pro...
HEADS TOGETHER February 2023 featuring William Shaw
March 01, 2023 17:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBHEADS TOGETHER - the OFF TO THE SEASIDE Episode - the watchlist, podcast updates, Barry's Blu-rays, the Dahl issue and a special feature with Paul and Victoria chatting to William Shaw about the Crime Time FM #OnTheSofa Roadshow Finale in BRIGHTON, The Friends Meeting House on 13th March 6PM. William Shaw is an award-winning music journalist and the author of several non-fiction books. Prior to becoming a crime writer, he worked at ZigZag and as a journalist for The Observer, The New York ...
CAIMH 'CK' McDONNELL In Person With Paul
February 27, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBCAIMH 'CK'McDONNELL chats to Paul Burke about LOVE WILL TEAR US APART, the Stranger Times series, comedy writing, having.p a fecund imagination. LOVE WILL TEAR US APART: Love can be a truly terrible thing. Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead. Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now, against all odds, it seems he may actually be proved right; but wh...
CHRIS LLOYD In Person With Paul
February 24, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBCHRIS LLOYD chats to Paul Burke about his new historical thriller Paris Requiem, Eddie Giral, wartime Paris, living in Catalonia, the little people of history. PARIS REQUIEM: Paris, September 1940. After three months under Nazi Occupation, not much can shock Detective Eddie Giral. That is, until he finds a murder victim who was supposed to be in prison. Eddie knows, because he put him there. The dead man is not the first or the last criminal being let loose onto the streets. But who is pul...
PETER JAMES & GRAHAM BARTLETT On The Sofa With Victoria
February 21, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBSeason 4 Episode 4: PETER JAMES (Roy Grace) & ex Chief Superintendent GRAHAM BARTLETT (Jo Howe series) prove why truth is just as strange (& funny) as fiction! Passport forgeries, lunch with ex cons & being taken for an FBI agent. Join Peter James, Graham Bartlett, Simon Toyne & William Shaw #OnTheSofa With Victoria Selman at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton 13th April, tickets from Eventbrite. Peter James Looking Good Dead. New stage play, dates and details VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTim...
THE REVIEW SHOW February 2023
February 20, 2023 17:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBThe Review Show '2023 - new crime fiction & a feature on Eric Ambler. The Novels: Joseph O'Connor My Father's House Harvill Secker Simon Scarrow Dead of Night Headline Gill Perdue If I Tell Penguin Elliot Sweeney The Next to Die Wildfire Kathleen Kent Black Wolf Head of Zeus Stuart MacBride The Dead of Winter Bantam Cloé Mehdi translator Howard Curtis Europa Editions Katy Brent How to Kill Men and Get Away with It HQ SR White Red Dirt Road Headline Simone Campos Nothing Can Hurt You tran...
SIMON MASON In Person With Paul
February 13, 2023 05:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBSIMON MASON chats to Paul Burke about his new novel A BROKEN AFTERNOON, Oxford, Morse, publishing and THE BROKEN AFTERNOON: A DI RYAN WILKINS MYSTERY A SHOCKING DISAPPEARANCE A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, affluent area, her mother only a stones-throw away. A TRIGGERING RESPONSE Ryan Wilkins, one of the youngest ever Detective Inspectors in the Thames Valley force, dishonourably discharged three months ago, watches his forme...
KATJA IVAR In Person With Paul
February 11, 2023 13:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBKATJA IVAR chats to Paul Burke about her new novel Trouble, the third Hella Mauzer mystery, growing up in Russia and the US, Finland and women in the police force. TROUBLE: Helsinki, June 1953, at the heart of the Cold War. Hella, now a reluctant private investigator, has been asked by her former boss at the Helsinki murder squad to do a background check on a member of the Finnish secret services. Not the type of job Hella was hoping for, but she accepts it on the condition that she is give...
FIONA BARTON, SAIMA MIR & SARAH SULTOON On The Sofa With Victoria
February 07, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBSeason 4 Episode 3: Multi award winning journalists turned novelist, Fiona Barton (The Widow) Saima Mir (The Khan) & Sarah Sultoon (Dirt) discuss what journalism teaches writers of fiction…& then plot a thriller live on the show! VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply 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 Twitter @V...
LOUISE CANDLISH In Person With Paul
February 03, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBLouise Candlish chats to Paul Burke about her new thriller drama THE ONLY SUSPECT, unlovable character, twists & reveals, instant fame after fifteen years of hard graft and seeing your work on TV. THE ONLY SUSPECT: Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong man. 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...
JANE HARPER In Person With Craig Sisterson
January 31, 2023 05:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBJANE HARPER chats to Craig Sisterson about her new novel Exiles, the return of Aaron Falk, his final bow, The Dry the film, Exiles: A mother disappears from a busy festival on a warm spring night. Her baby lies alone in the pram, her mother’s possessions surrounding her, waiting for a return which never comes. A year later, Kim Gillespie’s absence still casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather to welcome a new addition to the family. Joining the celebrations on a rare brea...
MATTHEW GENTILE In Person With Paul
January 27, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBMATTHEW GENTILE, director of AMERICAN MURDERER, starring Tom Pelphrey, Ryan Philippe, Based on a true story, this riveting thriller follows Jason Derek Brown (Tom Pelphrey), a charismatic con man bankrolling his extravagant lifestyle through a series of scams. On Brown's trail: Lance Leising (Ryan Phillippe), a dogged FBI special agent determined to put Brown behind bars. When Brown's funds run low and his past catches up with him, he plots his most elaborate scheme yet, pitting himself a...