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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SHERRYL CLARK In Person With Paul
August 20, 2022 16:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBSHERRYL CLARK chats to Paul Burke about her new Judi Westerholme novel MAD, BAD AND DEAD. Melbourne, poetry, structure and pace, the innocents caught up in crime, keeping it grounded and Finland. MAD, BAD AND DEAD: A dead employee. A missing child. Anonymous phone calls in the dead of night. Judi Westerholme's troubles aren't over yet... Already struggling to juggle co-running Candlebark's pub/bistro along with her new childcare responsibilities, Judi does not need her life to become any mo...
MARK ELLIS In Person With Paul
August 18, 2022 13:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBMARK ELLIS chats to Paul Burke about the latest Frank Merlin mystery DEAD IN THE WATER, wartime London, the American army in the UK, what makes good historical writing and the richest man in the world at the time Calouste Gulbenkian. DEAD IN THE WATER: Summer, 1942. The Second World War rages on but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side. In a bombed-out London swarming with gangsters and spies, DCI Frank Merlin continues his battle against rampant wartime crime. A mangl...
TOM VAUGHAN MACAULAY In Person With Paul
August 15, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBTOM VAUGHAN MACAULAY chats to Paul Burke about his new novel COUNTDOWN TO A KILLING, meta-fiction, writing with a full time career as a lawyer, the modern epistolary novel and quirky characters. COUNTDOWN TO A KILLING: Wen Li, an anxious young woman who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, is tormented by an incessant fear that she might have homicidal impulses. Wen falls for her self-absorbed colleague, Lomax Clipper, who is writing a whodunnit in his spare time. Lomax is pining for...
POLLY PHILLIPS, HARRIET TYCE & TM LOGAN On The Sofa With Victoria
August 09, 2022 04:00 - 47 minutes - 33 MBTOXIC FRIENDSHIPS: In the season 2 finale POLLY PHILLIPS (THE REUNION), HARRIET TYCE (IT ENDS AT MIDNIGHT), TM LOGAN (THE CURFEW), discuss bringing out the worst in each other, long held resentments, trigger events, gaslighting, crabs in a bucket and the white sock incident (wince). 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 ...
POLLY PHILLIPS, HARRIET TYCE & TM LOGAN On The Sofa With Victoria
August 09, 2022 04:00 - 47 minutes - 33 MBTOXIC FRIENDSHIPS: In the season 2 finale POLLY PHILLIPS (THE REUNION), HARRIET TYCE (IT ENDS AT MIDNIGHT), TM LOGAN (THE CURFEW), discuss bringing out the worst in each other, long held resentments, trigger events, gaslighting, crabs in a bucket and the white sock incident (wince). 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 ...
BEV JONES (B.E.JONES) In Person With Paul
August 06, 2022 12:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBBEVERLEY JONES, aka B.E. Jones, chats to Paul Burke about her novels The Beach House and The Wilderness and the Firebird Pictures/Amazon Prime adaptation of The Wilderness starring Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson Cohen . Shout outs for Ferndale and Storyville Books in Pontypridd. THE BEACH HOUSE: When Grace Jensen returns to her home one day, she finds a body in a pool of blood and a menacing gift left for her. The community of Lookout Beach is shocked by such a brutal intrusion in their c...
HEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show August 22
August 01, 2022 19:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBHEADS TOGETHER - the WE ARE NO LONGER REAL PEOPLE Episode - with a special feature on St. Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend. Paul Burke chats to Sarah Hilary about this unique event 12th-14th August in Oxford. BOOKING for ST. HILDA'S For general details and full programme here To attend in person here To join in online here SARAH HILARY is a best selling author and winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award. Her stand alone psychological novel FRAGILE was published in ...
SCOTT BLACKBURN In Person With Paul
July 31, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBSCOTT BLACKBURN chats to Paul Burke about his Southern Rural Noir IT DIES WITH YOU character, influences, the amazing Mountainview MFA (JOHN VERCHER, TED FLANAGAN), picking an agent, getting out there and selling your book. IT DIES WITH YOU For nearly a decade, twenty-nine-year-old Hudson Miller has made his living in the boxing ring, but a post-fight brawl threatens to derail his career. Desperate for money, Hudson takes a gig as a bouncer at a dive bar. That's when life delivers him anot...
BARRY FORSHAW In Person With Paul
July 26, 2022 11:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBBARRY FORSHAW chats to Paul Burke about SIMENON: THE MAN, THE BOOKS, THE FILMS. A 21st Century re-examination of SIMENON, Maigret and the Romans Durs novels, a wide ranging discussion of everything from Simenon's place in French literature to Robert Newton and Spartacus. SIMENON: THE MAN, THE BOOKS, THE FILMS The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; Andre Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of ...
CRIME TIME FM ORION INCIDENT ROOM SPECIAL HARROGATE 2022
July 23, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBTHE ORION INCIDENT ROOM ON CRIME TIME FM FEATURING: CATE QUINN BLOOD SISTERS JOE IDE THE GOODBYE COAST OSCAR DE MURIEL THE SIGN OF THE DEVIL & MJ ARLIDGE CAT AND MOUSE Four top Orion authors discuss their latest novels with Paul Burke as the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writers Festival gets under way. Produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh Crime Time Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. Produced by Junkyard D...
THE REVIEW SHOW JULY '22
July 22, 2022 18:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBPaul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for July. From surprisingly entertaining financial thriller to the daring wartime rescue of a cow, via a Californian sniper, a Japanese locked room, a couple of serial killers with a plan and a narcissistic pensioner. With apologies for any mispronunciations of Japanese, Spanish, French or even English! THE FRACTURED TREE Justin Wheatley 7/10 THE ACCOMPLICE Steve Cavanagh ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER An In Person Special With Craig Sisterson
July 19, 2022 15:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBKARIN SLAUGHTER chats to Craig Sisterson about her new novel GIRL FORGOTTEN, twenty years of crime writing, the Netflix series of PIECES OF HER, crime fiction as a perfect vehicle for writing about social issues, particularly violence against women, male authors who write strong female characters & the Aussie series Neighbours & British student audience. GIRL FORGOTTEN: A girl with a secret… Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for prom night, the highlight of any high school expe...
GORDON KERR In Person With Paul
July 15, 2022 14:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBGORDON KERR author of BRITISH TRAITORS: Betrayal & Treachery in the Twentieth Century chats to Paul Burke about soy hysteria pre-WWI, the men and women who betrayed their country for money and ideology, The Cambridge spies, Lord Haw Haw and George Blake, not to mention his novel A Partisan Heart. BRITISH TRAITORS Capital punishment for murder was suspended in Great Britain in 1965, an Act finally made permanent in 1969, but remained as the punishment for treason until as recently as 1998, ...
STEF BIERWERTH, BETHAN FERGUSON & DAVID H HEADLEY On The Sofa With Victoria
July 12, 2022 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBTHE JOURNEY OF A BOOK: STEF BIERWERTH (publisher - Quercus), BETHAN FERGUSON (Head of Customer Insight - Hachette) & DAVID HEADLEY (agent, bookseller, festival organiser et al) discuss the journey of a book from submitted manuscript to positioning on the bookshop shelf. Why a great book may just not be right for the market and how much book covers matter to sales. VICTORIA SELMAN Sunday Times Bestselling Author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website fo...
MARK OLSHAKER On The Sofa With Victoria (Special)
July 07, 2022 06:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBMARK OLSHAKER (MINDHUNTER) chats to Victoria about TRULY, DARKLY, DEEPLY, serial killers and profiling the criminal mind. Mark Olshaker (born February 28, 1951) is an American author from Washington DC who frequently collaborates with FBI agent John E Douglas in writing books about criminal and investigative psychology. In 1995, they formed Mindhunters Inc. and later released MIndhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, which was made into a Netflix series Mindhunter in 2017. VIC...
VICTORIA SELMAN In Person With Paul
July 04, 2022 00:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBSunday Times Bestselling author and Richard & Judy pick VICTORIA SELMAN chats to Paul Burke about her new psychological thriller TRULY, DARKLY, DEEPLY, (UK link), serial killers and their families, Mindhunter and losing a beloved pet. TRULY, DARKLY, DEEPLY (US link) Twelve-year-old Sophie and her mother, Amelia-Rose, move to London from Massachusetts where they meet the charismatic Matty Melgren, who quickly becomes an intrinsic part of their lives. But as the relationship between the two ...
JACK LUTZ In Person With Paul
July 01, 2022 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBJack Lutz chats to Paul Burke about his new novel LONDON IN BLACK, dystopian murder mysteries, London's past, thriller pace, Cleopatra's Needle and a guest appearance by Jack's Mum's cat. LONDON IN BLACK: THE ATTACKS WON’T STOP. NEITHER WILL SHE. LONDON 2027 Terrorists deploy London Black, a highly sophisticated nerve gas, at Waterloo Station. For ten percent of the population - the ‘Vulnerables’ - exposure means near-certain death. Only a lucky few survive. LONDON 2029 Copy-cat strikes pla...
KATE BENDELOW & GRAHAM BARTLETT On The Sofa With Victoria
June 28, 2022 01:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBPolice Advisors: Kate Bendelow - THE REAL CSI (Fact) DEFINITELY DEAD (Fict.) & Graham Bartlett - BAD FOR GOOD (Fict) discuss weaving authenticity into crime fiction and common mistakes writers make. Kate Bendelow has been a serving Crime Scene Investigator with Greater Manchester Police for fifteen years, during which time she has worked on countless crime scenes ranging from burglary and armed robbery, to rape, arson and murder. Kate also delivers lectures to writers seeking inside knowle...
LAURIE PETROU In Person With Paul
June 24, 2022 14:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBCanadian author LAURIE PETROU chats to Paul Burke about her new novel STARGAZER, Toxic Friendships, the limits of art and canoes. STARGAZER Diana Martin has lived her life in the shadow of her sadistic older brother. She quietly watches the family next door, enthralled by celebrity fashion designer Marianne Taylor and her feted daughter, Aurelle. She wishes she were a 'Taylor girl'. By the summer of 1995, the two girls are at university together, bonded by a mutual desire to escape their we...
ALAN PARKS In Person With Paul
June 21, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBALAN PARKS chats to Paul Burke about his new novel May God Forgive, winning an Edgar, Glasgow and boredom in the music business. MAY GOD FORGIVE Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack on a hairdresser's has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high. When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A crowd gathers outside the courthouse but as the police drive the young men to prison, the van is rammed by a truck, and the men are grabbed and bundled into a car. ...
EVA BJÖRG ÆGISDOTTIR & WILL DEAN On The Sofa With Victoria
June 14, 2022 03:00 - 31 minutes - 21.3 MBEva Björg Ægisdóttir (NIGHT SHADOWS) & Will Dean (BAD APPLES) discuss Nordic Noir with Victoria, it's appeal, landscape as a character and the psychological element of Scandinavian fiction. Expect chills... VICTORIA SELMAN 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 chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria. Produced b...
Review Show Addendum - The Ones I Missed June22
June 12, 2022 15:00 - 8 minutes - 6.17 MBThe Review Show Addendum - Salving my conscience for a few print reviews on books I never got round to when I read them. Brief comments on some of the great crime novels of late 2021 early 22. Reviews The Dark Flood Deon Meyer trans. KL Seegers Lemon Kwon Yeo-sun trans. Janet Hong I Am the Tiger John Arvide Lindquist trans. Marlaine Delargy Night Hunters Oliver Bottini trans. Jamie Bulloch Rizzio Denise Mina The Stoning Peter Papathanasiou The Commandments Óskar Guðmundsson trans. Quentin...
Crime Time FM Review Show - June 22
June 08, 2022 18:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBPaul Burke reviews May's new crime fiction releases: Click the relevant link to order the book of your choice through Bookshop.org THE ISLAND Adrian McKinty TO KILL A TROUBADOUR Martin Walker THE COMPANION Lesley Thomson THE DARK TIDE Simon McCleave KILLING ME SOFTLY Guy Hale DO NO HARM Jack Jordan THE SANCTUARY Andrew Hunter Murray LACUNA Fiona Snyckers MARINA BAY SINS, RICH KILL, POOR KILL, & BLOODY FOREIGNERS Neil Humphreys THE PHARMACIST Rachelle Atalla UNTIL I FIND YOU Anna Smith TH...
TOM WATSON In Person With Paul
June 06, 2022 13:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBDebut author Tom Watson chats to Paul Burke about his dystopian thriller METRONOME, 1984, featuring on BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS, hiking in the Peak District and Sheep. METRONOME Not all that is hidden is lost. For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they must take for survival every eight hours. They've kept busy - Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with his sculptures and maps - but...
JOACHIM B SCHMIDT In Person With Paul
June 03, 2022 12:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBJOACHIM B SCHMIDT chats to Paul Burke about his new novel KALMANN, set in Iceland, translated from the German by Jamie Lee Searle. KALMANN is the self-appointed Sheriff of Raufarhöfn. Day by day, he treks the wide plains which surround the almost deserted village, hunts Arctic foxes and lays bait in the sea ― to catch the gigantic Greenland sharks he turns into the Icelandic fermented delicacy, hákarl. There is nothing anyone need worry about. Kalmann has everything under control. Inside ...
LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON & ABIR MUKHERJEE On The Sofa With Victoria
May 31, 2022 03:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBHISTORICAL CRIME FICTION: Laura Shepherd-Robinson (DAUGHTERS OF NIGHT) & Abir Mukherjee (THE SHADOWS OF MEN) discuss tackling research, brining a period to life, and escaping with awards through the Calcutta sewage system. VICTORIA SELMAN 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 chat using #OnTheSofaWithVicto...
KATHY WANG In Person With Paul
May 29, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBKATHY WANG chats to Paul Burke about her spy thriller IMPOSTER SYNDROME, Silicon Valley, perceptions of women in power, satire and writing a good villain. IMPOSTER SYNDROME: Julia Lerner is one of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley and an icon to professional women across the country. She is the COO of Tangerine, one of America's biggest technology companies. She is also a Russian spy. Julia has been carefully groomed to reach the upper echelons of the company and use Tangerine's so...
HEADS TOGETHER SPECIAL CRIMEFEST 22
May 27, 2022 13:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBThis HEADS TOGETHER SPECIAL features chat about the 15th CrimeFest held in Bristol recently - boy was it good to get back to meeting people again and discussing crime fiction. Naturally, we haven't forgotten the round up of books to look out for and our podcast updates but mostly this is a celebration of CRIMEFEST, a triumphant return after two years away. Guests/presenters on the show: Donna Moore CrimeFest organiser, Ayo Onatade Shotsblog/critic, Victoria Selman author, Barry Forshaw FT cr...
CLAIRE MCGOWAN In Person With Paul
May 25, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBCLAIRE MCGOWAN chats to Paul Burke about her account of 8 missing women in Ireland who disappeared between 1993-98. THE VANISHING TRIANGLE speaks to the tragedy and lasting trauma of their cases but also how much these disappearance/murders reflect on society. Some of these women were probably murdered by people they knew but was there also a serial killer operating at the time? THE VANISHING TRIANGLE Ireland in the 1990s seemed a safe place for women. With the news dominated by the Trouble...
CAZ FREAR & WILLIAM SHAW On The Sofa With Victoria
May 16, 2022 22:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBPOLICE PROCEDURALS (COP THRILLERS). Caz Frear (SWEET LITTLE LIES) and William Shaw (DS CUPIDI and BREEN & TOZER) discuss procedurals, the rise of the armchair detective and riding in Peter James' police car. VICTORIA SELMAN 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 chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria. Produced b...
NICOLA UPSON In Person With Paul
May 13, 2022 08:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBNICOLA UPSON chats to Paul Burke about DEAR LITTLE CORPSES, Josephine Tey, Margery Allingham, WWII, Golden Age crime, the Hitchcocks and Gielguds, not so cosy emotions and the fun of writing. DEAR LITTLE CORPSES: It takes a village to bury a child. 1 September, 1939. As the mass evacuation takes place across Britain, thousands of children leave London for the countryside, but when a little girl vanishes without trace, the reality of separation becomes more desperate and more deadly for tho...
JAMES WOLFF In Person With Paul
May 10, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBJAMES WOLFF chats to Paul Burke about his two novels BESIDE THE SYRIAN SEA & HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY, frequencies of conflict, spies are real people and what makes a literary spy novel. BESIDE THE SYRIAN SEA: Jonas works for the UK secret service as an intelligence analyst. When his father is kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS gunmen in Syria, he takes matters into his own hands and begins to steal the only currency he has access to: secret government intelligence. He heads to Beirut ...
BEN CREED In Person With Paul
May 06, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBCHRIS RICKABY & BARNEY THOMPSON, aka BEN CREED chat to Paul Burke about A TRAITOR'S HEART their new historical thriller featuring post WWII Leningrad and detective Revol Rossel. A TRAITOR'S HEART Winter, 1952: Leningrad's icy streets are haunted by a murderer. The name is whispered everywhere – Koshchei has returned, the people say, Koshchei the Immortal. Koshchei, named after a sinister figure from Slavic folklore, is an invisible killer who cuts out the tongue of his victims and replaces...
SHARI LAPENA & GYTHA LODGE On The Sofa With Victoria
May 02, 2022 22:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBTHRILLERS: SHARI LAPENA (NOT A HAPPY FAMILY) & GYTHA LODGE (LIE BESIDE ME) discuss THRILLER WRITING on The Sofa With Victoria. What makes a good thriller, raising the stakes and building suspense. VICTORIA SELMAN 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 chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria. Produced by Junkyard ...
SHARI LAPENA & GYTHA LODGE On The Sofa With Victoria
May 02, 2022 22:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBTHRILLERS: SHARI LAPENA (NOT A HAPPY FAMILY) & GYTHA LODGE (LIE BESIDE ME) discuss THRILLER WRITING on The Sofa With Victoria. What makes a good thriller, raising the stakes and building suspense. VICTORIA SELMAN 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 chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria. Produced by Junkyard ...
JOSEPH KNOX In Person With Paul
May 01, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBJOSEPH KNOX chats to Paul Burke about his novel TRUE CRIME STORY, male violence and misogyny, the pitfalls of making yourself a malign presence in your own fiction and insomnia. TRUE CRIME STORY In the early hours of Saturday 17 December 2011, Zoe Nolan, a nineteen-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for three months. She was never seen again. Seven years after her disappearance, struggling writer E...
JOSEPH KNOX In Person With Paul
May 01, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBJOSEPH KNOX chats to Paul Burke about his novel TRUE CRIME STORY, male violence and misogyny, the pitfalls of making yourself a malign presence in your own fiction and insomnia. TRUE CRIME STORY In the early hours of Saturday 17 December 2011, Zoe Nolan, a nineteen-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for three months. She was never seen again. Seven years after her disappearance, struggling writer E...
HEATHER YOUNG & PETER MURPHY In Person With Paul
April 29, 2022 14:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBIn 2 separate interviews authors Heather Young THE DISTANT DEAD and Peter Murphy TO BECOME AN OUTLAW discuss their new novels. Heather Young is author of two novels, The Lost Girls and THE DISTANT DEAD (EDGAR NOMINATED). Heather lives with her family in Mill Valley, California. THE DISTANT DEAD: A body burns in the desert... Does the boy who found it know more than it seems? Sal Prentiss, orphaned and burdened with a terrible secret, just wants a place to belong. Sal lives with his uncl...
DON WINSLOW In Person With Paul
April 26, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBDON WINSLOW chats to Paul Burke about his new novel CITY ON FIRE, Rhode Island, the Iliad, Helen of Troy, borders, gangsters, Africa, Jane Austen and getting set up by Ken Bruen. CITY ON FIRE: Providence, RI, 1986. Twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ryan is a hard-working longshoreman, loving husband, loyal friend, and occasional “muscle” for the Irish crime syndicate that oversees much of the city. He yearns for something more and dreams of starting over fresh, someplace far away. But when a mod...
GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL Welsh Crime Fiction
April 24, 2022 12:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBALIS HAWKINS (Not One of Us), GAIL 'GB' WILLIAMS (The Chair) & PHILIP GWYNNE JONES (Vengeance in Venice) chat to Victoria and Paul about all things Welsh crime fiction and the Gwyl Crime Cyrmu Festival - 27-29th April & 2-4th May. Featuring: The Daniel Morgan murder, Mark Billingham, Ann Cleave, Mark Ellis, Elly Griffiths, Cathy Ace, Vaseem Khan, Abir Mukherjee, Chris Lloyd, Matt Johnson and many more... For festival tickets: GWYL CRIME CYMRU https://gwylcrimecymrufestival.co.uk/ For info...
EMMA VISKIC & CHRIS HAMMER On The Sofa With Victoria
April 18, 2022 22:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBAUSTRALIAN CRIME FICTION: CHRIS HAMMER (SCRUBLANDS & OPAL COUNTRY) & EMMA VISKIC (THOSE WHO PERISH out April - CALEB ZELIC SERIES) discuss the appeal of Outback Noir, aka Southern Cross Crime, aka Dingo Noir On The Sofa With Victoria. VICTORIA SELMAN 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 chat using #OnTheS...
NICK TRIPLOW In Person With Paul - Part 2 The Golden Decade
April 13, 2022 19:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBPart 2 - The Golden Decade. GETTING CARTER author NICK TRIPLOW chats to Paul Burke about Ted Lewis and Brit Noir as No Exit Press reissue 2 of his classic novels Jack Carter's Law and Billy Rags. In this second part we discuss the novels of Ted Lewis from Plender to GBH, the film Yellow Submarine, tv cop show Z Cars and Mary Whitehouse. NICK TRIPLOW GETTING CARTER: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir is a meticulously researched and riveting account of the career of a doomed genius. Long...
NICK TRIPLOW In Person With Paul - Part 1 Getting Carter.
April 12, 2022 15:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBPart 1 - GETTING CARTER. Author NICK TRIPLOW chats to Paul Burke about Ted Lewis and Brit Noir as No Exit Press reissue 2 Lewis novels Jack Carter's Law and Billy Rags, (Plender & GBH came out last year). In this first part Nick talks about his biography of Lewis, the author's background, influences and debut crime novel Jack's Return Home, filmed as Get Carter. GETTING CARTER: The story of Ted Lewis carries historical and cultural resonances for our own troubled times Get Carter are two wo...
TIMOTHY J LOCKHART In person With Paul
April 08, 2022 17:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBTIMOTHY J LOCKHART chats to Paul Burke about UNLUCKY MONEY, Norfolk Virginia, hardboiled crime and Brit Grit. UNLUCKY MONEY When Chinese American private-eye Wendy Lu takes on her first murder case, she doesn’t realize how dangerous it’s going to be. Probing into the murder of Susan Fontaine, the wife of her client, wealthy real-estate developer Whit Fontaine—the primary suspect in the case—Wendy fights to prove he was framed. Wendy used to be a cop but quit after a rookie mistake caused th...
SOPHIE HANNAH, GILLIAN McALLISTER & JP DELANEY On The Sofa With Victoria Part.2
April 04, 2022 22:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBHIGH CONCEPT - PSYCHE SUSPENSE PART 2 Sophie Hannah (The Couple at the Table), Gillian McAllister (Wrong Place, Wrong Time) and JP Delaney (The Girl Before) discuss high concept thrillers with Victoria Selman. What is high concept and why are we so gripped by the premise of some novels? The difference between high concept and big concept. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman ...
BOGDAN HRIB In Person With Paul - Part 2
March 30, 2022 17:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBPart II: BOGDAN HRIB chats to Paul Burke about RESILIENCE, Romanian crime fiction, politics in Eastern Europe, translation Romanian to English and vice versa and coffee culture. RESILIENCE Stelian Munteanu has had enough of fixing other people’s problems: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work. But when a notorious Romanian businessman asks him to investigate the death of his daughter in the north of England, he reluctantly gets involved once more...
BOGDAN HRIB In Person With Paul PART 1
March 28, 2022 15:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBBOGDAN HRIB chats to Paul Burke about RESILIENCE, Romanian crime fiction, politics in Eastern Europe, translation Romanian to English and vice versa and coffee culture. RESILIENCE Stelian Munteanu has had enough of fixing other people’s problems: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work. But when a notorious Romanian businessman asks him to investigate the death of his daughter in the north of England, he reluctantly gets involved once more. This t...
TED FLANAGAN In Person With Paul
March 25, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBTED FLANAGAN chats to Paul Burke about EVERY HIDDEN THING, being a paramedic, local journalism, the Ribbon Creek Incident and the correct pronunciation of Woosta. EVERY HIDDEN THING: The last scion of a once-powerful political family, Worcester mayor John O'Toole has his sights set on vastly higher aspirations. When night shift paramedic Thomas Archer uncovers a secret that could upend the mayor's career, O'Toole is set on silencing him, and sends Eamon Conroy, a brutal former cop, to ensu...
SOPHIE HANNAH, GILLIAN MCALLISTER & JP DELANEY On The Sofa With Victoria Part.1
March 21, 2022 23:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBHIGH CONCEPT - PSYCHE SUSPENSE PART 1 Sophie Hannah (The Couple at the Table), Gillian McAllister (Wrong Place, Wrong Time) and JP Delaney (The Girl Before) discuss high concept thrillers with Victoria Selman. What is high concept and why are we so gripped by the premise of some novels? VICTORIA SELMAN 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 Twitte...
SOPHIE HANNAH, GILLIAN MCALLISTER & JP DELANEY On The Sofa With Victoria
March 21, 2022 23:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBHIGH CONCEPT - PSYCHE SUSPENSE PART 1 Sophie Hannah (The Couple at the Table), Gillian McAllister (Wrong Place, Wrong Time) and JP Delaney (The Girl Before) discuss high concept thrillers with Victoria Selman. What is high concept and why are we so gripped by the premise of some novels? VICTORIA SELMAN 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 Twitte...