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Crime Time FMHEATHER MARTIN In Person With PaulDR HEATHER MARTIN chats to Paul Burke about her biography of Lee Child:THE REACHER GUY and the Jack Reacher novels. THE REACHER GUY (Constable) Lee Child is the enigmatic powerhouse behind the phenomenally successful Jack Reacher novels. With devoted fans across the globe, and over a hundred million copies of his books sold in more than forty languages, he is that rarity, a writer who is both critically acclaimed and adored by readers. And yet curiously little has been written about the man himself.The Reacher Guy shows...
2022-03-021h 02
Crime Time FMHANNAH KING In Person With PaulHANNAH KING chats to Paul Burke about her debut novel SHE AND I, her characters Keeley and Jude, class, being post troubles generation, judging others and how much is up to the reader to complete the novel SHE AND I : Keeley and Jude are closer than blood. They share everything: clothes, secrets, drinks - and blame. So when they wake up after a New Year's party to find Keeley's boyfriend stabbed to death beside them, they agree to share one more thing: the story they'll tell the police.But who...
2022-02-2453 min
Crime Time FMCRIME CRITICS On The Sofa With VictoriaCrime Critics On The Sofa Wth Victoria: Barry Forshaw Financial Times, Jake Kerridge The Telegraph and Jon Coates The Express discuss what makes a crime novel really stand out for them.BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the Financial Times Crime Fiction Critic.JAKE KERRIDGE writes about books and the like for The Telegraph and the like..JON COATES Journalist, book reviewer and travel writer, currently deputy news editor of the Sunday Express...
2022-02-2246 min
Crime Time FMPAUL VIDICH & TIM SHIPMAN In Person With PaulPAUL VIDICH Cold War spy thriller writer, TIM SHIPMAN Chief Political Commentator for The Sunday Times and Paul Burke discuss Vidich's new novel THE MATCHMAKER and all things spy fiction related. Including an exclusive announcement of the highest placed living author on Tim Shipman's 120 top spy writers (Spybrary)THE MATCHMAKER: Berlin, 1989. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee Committee, thinks she is in a normal marriage with a charming East German. But then her husband disappears and the CIA and Western German intelligence arrive at her door. Nothing about her...
2022-02-171h 11
Crime Time FMAMEN ALONGE In Person With PaulAMEN ALONGE chats to Paul Burke about his blistering debut A GOOD DAY TO DIE, Pretty Boy, London, Lagos, body count and character.A GOOD DAY TO DIE: Meet Pretty Boy. Vengeance is on his mind.His real name:UnknownHis code of conduct:Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.Never underestimate the enemy.Above all, survive. There is no glory in death.His mission:It's been ten years since Pretty Boy left the big...
2022-02-1559 min
Crime Time FMTHE BOOK REVIEW SHOW JANUARY/FEBRUARY 22Paul Burke reviews January and February crime fiction:A killing in November Simon Mason - Riverrun Faceless Vanda Symon - OrendaPayback Mike Lupica - No Exit PressAll Was Lost Stuart Maxwell - PushkinShe and I Hannah King - Bloomsbury RavenThe Long Weekend Gilly Macmillan - Century We Know You Remember Tove Alsterdal - Faber and FaberReal Easy Marie Rutkoski - Tinder One for Sorrow Helen Fields - Avon Her Last Holiday CL Taylor - AvonA Good Day to Die Amen...
2022-02-1432 min
Crime Time FMCATHERINE RYAN HOWARD & BRIAN MCGILLOWAY On The Sofa with VictoriaIRISH CRIME FICTION Brian McGilloway (BLOOD TIES out now and EMPTY ROOM March 31st) and Catherine Ryan Howard (56 DAYS) discuss what it is about Ireland that lends itself so well to crime.VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.comTwitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.Produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
2022-02-0851 min
Crime Time FMBARRY'S BLU-RAYS - Featuring an interview with TIM LUCASThe star guest for this month’s Barry’s Blu-rays is one of the pioneers of serious genre film criticism, TIM LUCAS is now in his 50th year as a published writer. He’s an award-winning biographer (MARIO BAVA - ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK), magazine founder/editor (VIDEO WATCHDOG), novelist (the cult classic THROAT SPROCKETS), and a popular silver disc audio commentator.The full text of Barry's interview with Tim Lucas is available on Crime Time.BARRY FORSHAW is fiction critic for the Financial Times and pr...
2022-02-0207 min
Crime Time FMHEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show January, 22.HEADS TOGETHER - the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the latest podcasts, crime writing festivals and the film Woman In A Cage, PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie serial killer thrillers. Her new literary crime novel Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several...
2022-02-0226 min
Crime Time FMDEAN KOONTZ In Person With PaulLiterary legend DEAN KOONTZ chats to Paul Burke about his new novel QUICKSILVER, humour, character, writing organically, keeping it fresh and the value of reading books. He gives us a sneak preview of his next novel, The Big Dark Sky, (summer 2022).QUICKSILVER Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery―abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of “strange magnetism.” It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a...
2022-01-291h 08
Crime Time FMJOHN MARRS & ADAM HAMDY On The Sofa With Victoria2/2: BOOKS TO FILM Adam Hamdy (Black 13, Red Wolves) and John Marrs (The One, What Lies Between Us) discuss adapting books to film. What's it like seeing your book come to life on the screen, how TV has changed the way we read and what authors can learn from film.VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
2022-01-2547 min
Crime Time FMFRANK GARDNER In Person With PaulFRANK GARDNER chats to Paul Burke about his explosive thriller OUTBREAK, out now in paperback, protagonist Luke Carlton, the zeitgeist and hitting the crocodiles closest to the canoe.OUTBREAK: Deep within the Arctic Circle, three scientists from the UK's Arctic Research Station trudge through a blizzard in search of shelter. They see a cabin ahead. It appears abandoned. No lights. No snowmobile outside. But as they push open the door, the smell hits them. Rank and foetid: there's something bad inside.Then movement. A man lies slumped, his face disfigured by livid pustules. Blood runs from...
2022-01-2256 min
Crime Time FMADAM LEBOR In Person With PaulADAM LEBOR chats to Paul Burke about DOHANY STREET, BALTHAZAR KOVACS, Hungary and how the world works. DOHANY STREET DISTRICT VIIIKOSSUTH SQUAREDOHANY STREET: Budapest's dark history finally catches up with Detective Balthazar Kovacs in the final instalment in Adam LeBor's Hungarian crime trilogy.Budapest, January 2016. The Danube is grey and half-frozen, covered with ice, and the city seems to have gone into hibernation. But not for Detective Balthazar Kovacs. Elad Harari, a young Israeli historian, has disappeared. There's no sign of violence but something feels very wrong.Harari was...
2022-01-2257 min
Crime Time FMJEFFERY DEAVER, JANE CASEY, & LIZ NUGENT On The Sofa With VictoriaSeason 2, episode 1.WRITING KILLER TWISTS with JEFFERY DEAVER (The Final Twist/Colter Shaw) , JANE CASEY (Maeve Kerrigan) & LIZ NUGENT (Our Little Cruelties), how to write killer twists and keep them coming.VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.Produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate & LeighCrime Time
2022-01-0940 min
Crime Time FMPETER PAPATHANASIOU In Person With Craig SistersonApologies to anyone recieving an early unedited download. This has now been rectified. HOLIDAY SPECIALPETER PAPATHANASIOU chats with Craig Sisterson about his dark outback thriller THE STONING. THE STONING: A small town in outback Australia wakes to an appalling crime.A local schoolteacher is found taped to a tree and stoned to death. Suspicion instantly falls on the refugees at the new detention centre on Cobb's northern outskirts. Tensions are high, between whites and the local indigenous community, between immigrants and the townies....
2021-12-2856 min
Crime Time FMHEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show December 21 season finaleHEADS TOGETHER Cooking the Christmas Dinner episode.Last of the year HEADS TOGETHER - the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss their podcasts during 2021. PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers. Her new thriller Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime f...
2021-12-2446 min
Crime Time FMCRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE: THE BEST CRIME FICTION OF 2021THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE: BEST CRIME FICTION OF 2021Panellists: LAURA WILSON (novelist & Guardian crime fiction critic), MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI (publisher, critic, novelist & CWA Chair), AYO ONATADE (critic for Shotsblog & book prize judge), JAKE KERRIDGE (crime fiction critic for the Telegraph), VICTORIA SELMAN (novelist and podcast presenter) and PAUL BURKE (critic and podcast editor and presenter).Master of Ceremonies: BARRY FORSHAW (writer and crime fiction critic for the Financial Times).The panellists discuss their selections of the best crime writing of the year. This is a podcast of the TV debate broadcast on 2/12/21....
2021-12-201h 25
Crime Time FMHB LYLE In Person With PaulHB LYLE (BEN) chats with Paul Burke about his latest historical thriller THE YEAR OF THE GUN, Sherlock Holmes and the Irregulars, Nabukov, historical accuracy in fiction and how Wiggins narrowly avoids going down with the Titanic (very minor spoiler alert).THE YEAR OF THE GUN1912. Released from the Secret Service, Wiggins sets out for New York and his lost lover Bela. But after an altercation on board, he finds himself among the low-life of Britain's poorest city, Dublin.Wiggins falls in with gangster Patrick O'Connell and is soon driving the boss's girlfriend...
2021-12-1754 min
Crime Time FMLISA JEWELL, LOUISE CANDLISH & MARK EDWARDS On The Sofa With VictoriaTHE SEASON FINALE THE PLOT THICKENS: Building tension and suspense. Lisa Jewell (THE NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED), Louise Candlish (THE HEIGHTS) and Mark Edwards (HOLLOWS).VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.Produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate & LeighCrime TimeProduced by Junkyard Dog
2021-12-1345 min
Crime Time FMSA COSBY In Person With Craig Sisterson, A CTFM Special.RAZORBLADE TEARS - WINNER OF THE CRIME TIME FM CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2021 SA COSBY chats with Craig Sisterson about his novel RAZORBLADE TEARS, Winning the CTFM Novel Award, being the 'bard of broken men', TV rights and entertaining readers. Razorblade Tears: Ike Randolph left jail fifteen years ago, with not so much as a speeding ticket since. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.Ike is devastated to learn his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white...
2021-12-101h 06
Crime Time FMPAUL CLEAVE In Person With PaulPAUL CLEAVE chats to Paul Burke about his new psychological thriller THE QUIET PEOPLE, social media, elements of horror, Cameron and Lisa Murdoch, real life crime, and the Expanse.THE QUIET PEOPLE: Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful New Zealand crime writers, happily married and topping bestseller lists worldwide. They have been on the promotional circuit for years, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living.So when their challenging seven-year-old son Zach disappears, the police and the public naturally wonder...
2021-12-071h 05
Crime Time FMLUKE McCALLIN In Person With PaulLUKE McCALLIN chats to Paul Burke about his new historical thriller WHERE GOD DOES NOT WALK, Gregor Reinhardt, WWI, Bosnia, inspirational literature.WHERE GOD DOES NOT WALK: THE WESTERN FRONT, JULY 1918. Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion on the Western Front when one of his subordinates is accused of murdering a group of officers, and then subsequently trying to take his own life. Not wanting to believe his friend could have done what he is accused of, Reinhardt begins to investigate. He starts to uncover the outline...
2021-12-021h 12
Crime Time FMHEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show November 21HEADS TOGETHER - the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the latest podcasts, January 2022 releases, book-to-film-to-book?, TV adaptations of favourite detectives, these extraordinary times for crime fiction and the little fella...PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers. Her new thriller Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.BARRY FORSHAW is the editor...
2021-11-3031 min
Crime Time FMHANNAH ROBINSON, CHRIS MCDONALD & SIMON BEWICK On The Sofa With VictoriaBook Marketing Panel- On The Sofa With VictoriaWith over 180K books published every year and more than 20 titles released every hour, how do you ensure yours stands out from the crowd? Quercus Publicity Director, Hannah Robinson, Chris McDonald (Blood Brothers) & Simon Bewick (Bay Tales/Noir at The Bar) share their thoughts along with lessons learned from lockdown.VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! F...
2021-11-2843 min
Crime Time FMCHRIS OFFUTT In Person With PaulCHRIS OFFUTT chats to Paul Burke about THE KILLING HILLS, Kentucky, land and culture, spy fiction and photography.THE KILLING HILLS: Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, is home on a leave that is almost done. His wife is about to give birth, but they aren't getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder case, and local politicians are pushing for city police or the FBI to take the case. Are they convinced she can't handle it, or is there something else at...
2021-11-261h 04
Crime Time FMHEATHER YOUNG In Person With PaulHEATHER YOUNG chats to Paul Burke about her debut psychological thriller THE LOST GIRLS, storytelling, domestic abuse, ancient lands and family.THE LOST GIRLS: In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes forever from her family’s summer house on a remote Minnesota Lake. Sixty years later, Lucy, Emily’s quiet and watchful older sister, lives alone in the lake house. When Lucy dies, she leaves the house to her grandniece, Justine. The lake house offers Justine an escape from her manipulative boyfriend and a chance to give her daughters the home she never had. But the discovery of a note...
2021-11-2041 min
Crime Time FMALI LAND & WILL CARVER On The Sofa With VictoriaBEHIND THE MASK- Ali Land (GOOD ME BAD ME) & Will Carver (THE BERESFORD) discuss why we’re so fascinated by psychopaths, why they’re so often portrayed as highly cultured…and why Will Carver might be one.Will Carver has most recently published PSYCHOPATHS ANONYMOUSVICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.
2021-11-1535 min
Crime Time FMDOMINIC NOLAN In Person With VictoriaDOMINIC 'DOM' NOLAN chats with Victoria Selman about his new novel VINE STREET, 1930S Soho, obsession, history versus the past and believing in your work.VINE STREET: SOHO, 1935. SERGEANT LEON GEATS' PATCH.A snarling, skull-cracking misanthrope, Geats marshals the grimy rabble according to his own elastic moral code.The narrow alleys are brimming with jazz bars, bookies, blackshirts, ponces and tarts so when a body is found above the Windmill Club, detectives are content to dismiss the case as just another young woman who topped herself early.But Geats - a good man prepared...
2021-11-1157 min
Crime Time FMJOANNE HARRIS In Person With PaulJOANNE HARRIS chats to Paul Burke about her new novel A NARROW DOOR, being a schoolteacher, why genres fluid, misogyny and memory.A NARROW DOOR Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules.It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls.Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on...
2021-11-051h 00
Crime Time FMGREGORY GALLOWAY In Person With PaulGREGORY GALLOWAY chats to Paul Burke about his new novel JUST THIEVES, identity, fatalism and existential questions in the noir novel, Chandler, Cain and Get Carter.JUST THIEVES: Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves whose partnership extends beyond their professional lives. They do not steal randomly they steal according to order, hired by a mysterious handler. The jobs run routinely until they're tasked with taking a seemingly worthless trophy: an object that generates interest and obsession out of proportion to its apparent value. Just as the robbery is completed, the two...
2021-11-0554 min
Crime Time FMABIGAIL DEAN, SARAH SULTOON & JOSEPH KNOX On The Sofa With VictoriaTRUE CRIME EDITION: WHY COLD CASES ARE SO HOT- Abigail Dean (GIRL A) Sarah Sultoon (THE SOURCE) & Joseph Knox (TRUE CRIME STORY) discuss true crime, stretching the genre & the cold case they’d most like to solve. Victoria wonders what our true crime obsession says about us.VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.Select Re...
2021-11-0141 minCrime Time FMHEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show October 21THE THREE RONNIES EPISODEHEADS TOGETHER is the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, author duos, short stories and the latest podcasts .PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers. Her new thriller Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on...
2021-10-2837 min
Crime Time FMJS MONROE In Person With PaulJS MONROE (Jon Stock) chats with Paul Burke about his new psychological thriller THE MAN ON HACKPEN HILL, crop circles, Porton Down, and James Bond in No Time To Die.THE MAN ON HACKPEN HILL: In a world full of lies, the search for truth is a deadly game...It isn't unusual for crop circles to appear overnight on Hackpen Hill. In this part of Wiltshire, where golden wheat fields stretch for miles, the locals have got used to discovering strange mathematical patterns stamped into the earth. But this time, it's different. Not o...
2021-10-2553 min
Crime Time FMFELIX FRANCIS In Person With PaulFELIX FRANCIS chats to Paul Burke about his new psychological crime novel ICED, taking on his father's thriller legacy, the home fiction factory, tea with Agatha Christie and marbling.ICED: Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, head first, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour.Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on the frozen lake, he gets talked into helping out with the...
2021-10-2257 min
Crime Time FMJANE JESMOND In Person With PaulJANE JESMOND chats to Paul Burke about her debut thriller ON THE EDGE, Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier, free climbing a fear of heights.ON THE EDGE: Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes - the riskier the better. Both her work and personal life revolved around climbing, and the adrenaline high it gave her. Until she went too far and hurt the people she cares about. So she's given it all up now. Honestly, she has. And she's checked herself into a rehab centre to prove...
2021-10-2135 min
Crime Time FMCARA HUNTER & PHOEBE MORGAN On The Sofa With VictoriaEpisode 10: IMPERFECT LIVES- Cara Hunter (THE WHOLE TRUTH) & Phoebe Morgan (THE WILD GIRLS) discuss why readers can’t get enough of psychological suspense, the proliferation of ‘Girl’ titles and why a good murder makes for the perfect comfort read.VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.Produced by Junkyard Dogmusic courtesy of Southgate & Leigh
2021-10-1936 min
Crime Time FMLINWOOD BARCLAY In Person With PaulLINWOOD BARCLAY chats with Paul Burke about his new thriller FIND YOU FIRST, out in paperback now, character and humour, moral dilemmas in the crime novel and fresh out of college sending a manuscript to Ross Macdonald that sparked a long friendship.FIND YOU FIRST: It’s a deadly race against time…Tech billionaire Miles has more money than he can ever spend, but he can’t buy more time. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, he is forced to take a long, hard look at his past.Somewhere out there, Miles has children who do...
2021-10-1858 min
Crime Time FMPAUL'S REVIEWS ON CTFM episode 2PAUL BURKE REVIEWS: Paul sorted for Crime Time, NB Magazine, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network and presents Crime Time FM. He shares his thoughts on some of the new Crime, mystery and thriller releases.Books reviewed:RICCARDINO - ANDREA CAMILLERI MantleTHE MAN ON HACKPEN HILL - JS MONROE* Head of ZeusLEMON - KWON YEO-SUN Other Press (US) Head of Zeus (UK)THE ANTARCTICA OF LOVE - SARA STRINDSBERG MacLehose BAD APPLES - WILL DEAN* Point Blank WELCOME TO COOPER - TARIQ ASHKANANI* Thomas & Mercer
2021-10-1418 min
Crime Time FMFRANCESCO SIMEONI Interview Barry's Blu-raysIn the latest Barry's Blu-rays, Barry Forshaw gives his usual rundown of new discs from Eureka, Severin, Indicator, Kino Lorber & Imprint, plus an interview with Arrow's Francesco Simeoni.FRANCESCO SIMEONI is Director of Content and Distribution at Arrow FilmsArrow Films. BARRY FORSHAW is fiction critic for the Financial Times and provides extras for Blu-rays. Books include Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, the Keating Award-winning Brit Noir, British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (also a Keating winner), British Gothic Cinema, Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation, Sex and Film and BFI Classics: War of the...
2021-10-1311 min
Crime Time FMDAVID HESKA WANBLI WEIDEN In Person With Craig SistersonDAVID HESKA WANBLI WEIDEN chats with Craig Sisterson about WINTER COUNTS, his character Virgil Wounded Horse, the Rosebud Native American Reservation, and why he receives the grand total of $1.29/quarter in rent for his land from cattle farmers.Winter Counts: If you have a problem, if no one else can help, there’s one person you can turn to. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Native American Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own pun...
2021-10-1356 min
Crime Time FMKIA ABDULLAH In Person With PaulKIA ABDULLAH chats with Paul Burke about her new thriller NEXT OF KIN, Atlas & Boots, growing up in Tower Hamlets, diversity in publishing, libraries, thrilling but keeping it real.NEXT OF KIN: ON AN ORDINARY WORKING DAY…Leila Syed receives a call that cleaves her life in two. Her brother-in-law’s voice is filled with panic. His son’s nursery has called to ask where little Max is.YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE…Leila was supposed to drop Max off that morning. But she forgot.Racing to the carpark, she grasps the horr...
2021-10-1145 minCrime Time FMHEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show September, 21.HEADS TOGETHER is the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, NDAs, Bloody Scotland, and the latest podcasts all in the company of special guest presenter CRAIG SISTERSON.PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers. Her new thriller Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author...
2021-10-0829 min
Crime Time FMLAUREN NORTH In Person With PaulLAUREN NORTH chats to Paul Burke about her latest psychological thriller SAFE AT HOME, motherhood, village life and why: 'Don't worry.' Isn't very helpful advice.SAFE AT HOME Anna James is an anxious mother. So when she has to leave eleven-year-old Harrie home alone one evening, she can't stop worrying about her daughter. But nothing bad ever happens in the sleepy village of Barton St Martin.Except something goes wrong that night, and Anna returns to find Harrie with bruises she won't explain. The next morning a local businessman is reported missing and...
2021-10-0843 min
Crime Time FMCASS GREEN & STU TURTON On The Sofa With VictoriaSTRETCHING THE BOUNDARIES: Speculative fiction. CASS GREEN (The Killer Inside) & STU TURTON (The Devil and the Dark Water)VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.Produced by Junkyard Dogmusic courtesy of Southgate & LeighCrime TimeProduced by Junkyard DogCrime Time...
2021-10-0541 min
Crime Time FMFIONA CUMMINS & DAVID FENNELL On The Sofa With VictoriaSTRANGER AFTER STRANGER – Fiona Cummins (WHEN I WAS TEN) & David Fennell (THE ART OF DEATH) discuss why we’re so intrigued by serial killers, what makes a good thriller and which fictional murderer they’d be most afraid to be stranded on a desert island with. Victoria concedes whichever they choose, it won’t be a party.VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join...
2021-09-2133 min
Crime Time FMJOHN L WILLIAMS In Person With PaulJOHN L WILLIAMS talks to Paul Burke about his account of the Lynette White murder in 1988 and the 'Cardiff Three' miscarriage of justice: BLOODY VALENTINEThe tragic story of Britain's worst miscarriage of justice as seen on TV in the BBC Wales documentary series A Killing in Tiger Bay, in which John took part.Bloody Valentine is the story of the murder of a young woman called Lynette White in the Cardiff docklands (aka Tiger Bay) on Valentine's Day 1988. It's also the story of the miscarriage o...
2021-09-1949 min
Crime Time FMSIMON SCARROW In Person With PaulSIMON SCARROW chats to Paul Burke about his new to paperback thriller BLACKOUT, the importance of teaching and understanding history, challenging views of the past, writing historical fiction, Cato and Macro and how telling a joke could get you executed in Nazi Germany.BLACKOUT: Berlin, December 1939As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia in the capital is intensified by a rigidly enforced blackout that plunges the city into oppressive darkness every night, as the bleak winter sun sets.When a young woman is murdered, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke is under...
2021-09-1853 min
Crime Time FMNIKKI SMITH In Person With PaulNIKKI SMITH chats to Paul Burke about her new psychological thriller LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO.LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO: Two people can keep a secret . . . if one of them is dead.Sisters Jo and Caroline are used to hiding things from each other. They've never been close - taking it in turns to feel on the outside of their family unit, playing an endless game of favourites.Jo envies Caroline's life - things have always come so easy to her. Then a family inheritance falls entirely to Jo, and suddenly now...
2021-09-1838 min
Crime Time FMSAMANTHA DOWNING On The Sofa With Victoria CTFMBonus Episode: THE CORKSCREW EFFECT- Sunday Times bestseller, Samantha Downing (MY LOVELY WIFE) discusses what makes a great twist, pantsing and trying to out twist yourself. Victoria doesn’t see any of it coming.VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.Produced by Junkyard Dogmusic courtesy of Southgate & LeighProduced by Ju...
2021-09-0929 min
Crime Time FMCJ TUDOR & CATRIONA WARD On The Sofa With VictoriaHE’S BEHIND YOU- C.J. (CAZ) Tudor, (THE CHALK MAN) & Catriona Ward (THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET) discuss the difference between crime and horror, giving monsters a human face and tapping into childhood fears. Victoria excuses herself to switch on the lights.VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.Produced by Junkyard Dog
2021-09-0738 min
Crime Time FMAMBER MARKS In Person With PaulAMBER MARKS chats with Paul Burke about BECOMING MR NICE: THE HOWARD MARKS ARCHIVE. The man, the myth, the drugs smuggler, the campaigner, and an extraordinary collection of documents that shed light on his life.BECOMING MR NICE: Welcome to the personal archives of Britain's biggest dope smuggler. For 40 years Howard Marks traversed the globe: an international businessman who became an inmate in America's toughest penitentiary before standing for election in the United Kingdom. Becoming Mr Nice reveals an extraordinary montage of previously unseen material from his r...
2021-09-0649 min
Crime Time FMALAN JOHNSON In Person With PaulALAN JOHNSON chats to Paul Burke about his debut thriller THE LATE TRAIN TO GIPSY HILL. Inspirational teachers, the library education. Character and plot and why Hull isn't the money laundering capital of Europe.THE LATE TRAIN TO GIPSY HILL: A woman hiding a deadly secret. And the man who went in search of adventure, but found himself in danger ...Gary Nelson has a routine for the commute to his rather dull job in the city. Each day, he watches as a woman on the train applies her make up in a ritual he now knows...
2021-09-0647 min
Crime Time FMHOLLY WATT In Person With PaulHOLLY WATT chats with Paul Burke about THE HUNT AND THE KILL. Casey Benedict, don't give up the day job, darkness in fiction, the Arab Spring, #MeToo, prizes and why covid means Salman Rushdie won't be at your book launch. THE HUNT AND THE KILL When acclaimed undercover journalist Casey Benedict is asked to interview a young woman with cystic fibrosis, the patient's doctor alerts her to the looming threat of antibiotic-resistant infections, tipping her off about a potential new wonder drug. If the rumours are true, this new antibiotic could...
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Crime Time FMSIMONE BUCHHOLZ In Person With PaulWomen in Translation Month SpecialSIMONE BUCHHOLZ chats to Paul Burke about HOTEL CARTAGENA, Chastity Riley, HOTEL CARTAGENA: Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who is being targeted by a young man whose life and family have been destroyed by Hoogsmart's actions.With the police looking on from outside their colleagues' lives at stake...
2021-08-311h 14Crime Time FMHEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show August 21HEADS TOGETHER is the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, The film version of The Dry, Victoria and Barry's upcoming books, Bloody Scotland, the latest podcasts, Sherlock on film, the Da Vinci Code and why we all deserve a Blue Peter Badge for services to... PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers. Her new thriller...
2021-08-2744 min
Crime Time FMJONATHAN RIGBY INTERVIEW Barry's Blu-rays SpecialThe latest Blu-ray and DVD releases from BARRY FORSHAW, including Murder By Decree, the silent version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Hatchet For The Honeymoon and Private Hell 36. Also an interview with JONATHAN RIGBY, actor, writer, and film and DVD commentator. They discuss Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Hammer Horror, Richard Pascoe (horror by day, Shakespeare by night), and how to commentate on less successful movies.Jonathan Rigby's books include:American Gothic: Sixty Years Of Horror CinemaEnglish Gothic: A Century Of Horror CinemaChristopher Lee: The Authorised Screen HistoryEuro Gothic: Classics Of...
2021-08-2522 min
Crime Time FMALEX MICHAELIDES & STEVE WATSON On The Sofa With Victoria CTFMTHE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW- S.J. Watson (BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP) & Alex Michaelides (THE SILENT PATIENT) discuss the role of psychiatrists in crime fiction and why there is nothing more frightening than the human mind. Victoria ties herself in knots with the right terms.VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.Crime...
2021-08-2432 min
Crime Time FMDANIEL COLE In Person With PaulDANIEL COLE chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller MIMIC and the coming TV series of his debut novel RAGDOLL.MIMIC1989 - DS Benjamin Chambers and DC Adam Winter are on the trail of a twisted serial killer with a passion for recreating the world's greatest works of art through the bodies of his victims. But after Chambers almost loses his life, the case goes cold - their killer lying dormant, his collection unfinished.1996 - Jordan Marshall has excelled within the Metropolitan Police Service, fuelled by a loss that defined...
2021-08-1941 min
Crime Time FMEMMA HAUGHTON In Person With PaulEMMA HAUGHTON chats with Paul Burke about her debut adult thriller THE DARK, 24 hour night, why writing YA fiction was a good grounding for crime and the dentist.THE DARK: In the most inhospitable environment - cut off from the rest of the world - there's a killer on the loose.A&E doctor Kate North has been knocked out of her orbit by a personal tragedy. So when she's offered the opportunity to be an emergency replacement at the UN research station in Antarctica, she jumps at the chance. The previous doctor, Jean-Luc...
2021-08-1835 min
Crime Time FMINDUSTRY INSIDERS: KATHERINE AMRSTRONG, DAVID HEADLEY & MIRANDA JEWESS On The Sofa With Victoria CTFMEpisode 5: LIFTING THE CURTAIN - Publishing gurus: Katherine Armstrong (Simon & Schuster) Miranda Jewess (Viper) & literary agent, David Headley (Goldsboro/Capital Crime) discuss what’s hot, trends and where the future lies while Victoria tries to keep up.https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/https://serpentstail.com/https://www.goldsborobooks.com/ VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the cha...
2021-08-1031 min
Crime Time FMSTEVE CAVANAGH In Person With Paul CTFMSTEVE CAVANAGH chats to Paul Burke about his new Eddie Flynn novel THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE, the death penalty, #BlackLivesMatter, Ross Macdonald and Clarence Darrow's cigar. THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE: A DEADLY PROSECUTOR - They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States.A TWISTED RITUALISTIC KILLING - When a young woman, Skylar Edwards, is found murdered in Buckstown, Alabama, a corrupt sheriff arrests the last person to see her alive, Andy Dubois. It doesn't s...
2021-08-0950 min
Crime Time FMPAUL'S REVIEWS Episode 1 CTFMPAUL BURKE REVIEWS: Crime Time, NB Magazine, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network and Crime Time FM shares his thoughts on some of the new Crime, mystery and thriller releases.WILL CARVER THE BERESFORD PJ WOLFSON BODIES ARE DUSTJOHN SANFORD THE OLD MAN'S PLACEJOE THOMAS BRAZILIAN PSYCHOAA DHAND THE BLOOD DIVIDESA COSBY RAZORBLADE TEARSHANSJÓRG SCHNEIDER THE BASEL KILLINGSDAN FESPERMAN. THE COVER WIFEEVA BJÖRG ÆGISDÓTTIR. GIRLS WHO LIEPRODUCED BY JUNKYARD DOGMUSIC COURTESY...
2021-08-0518 min
Crime Time FMJOE THOMAS In Person With Paul CTFMJOE THOMAS chats to Paul Burke about his new novel BRAZILIAN PSYCHO, São Paulo, the craft of writing, Harold 'Tanky' Challenor and how a flatscreen TV started a deadly riot."Brazilian Psycho is a riveting and explosive masterpiece of political crime fiction that deserves to share the shelf with American Tabloid, The Power of the Dog and A Brief History of Seven Killings and confirms Joe Thomas as one of our very best contemporary crime writers." DAVID PEACE Brazilian Pscyho Brazil, 1 January 2003: President Luis I...
2021-08-021h 13Crime Time FMHEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show JULY 21HEADS TOGETHER is the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and novel of the year - We Begin at the End, Crime fiction and the Booker prize and a special word from Brian McGilloway.Watchlist:Razorblade Tears - SA Cosby (Barry Forshaw, Maxim Jakubowski, Craig Sisterson)Little Rebel - Jérôme Leroy (Paul Burke, Sonja Van Der Westhuizen)The Nameless Ones - John Connolly (Ayo Onatade)The Marlow Murder Club - R...
2021-08-0231 min
Crime Time FMCHRIS WHITAKER & DOM NOLAN On The Sofa With Victoria CTFMDescription Episode 4: WHERE THE HEART IS- Chris Whitaker (WE BEGIN AT THE END) & Dominic Nolan (AFTER DARK) discuss creating strong characters, getting dialogue right and the importance of place. While Victoria shows herself up with her rubbish geography and why she’d like to be stuck on an island with Robinson Crusoe.We Begin at the End won the CWA Gold Dagger 2021 and the Theakston's Old Peculier Novel of the Year 2021. Congratulations Chris.Mentioned by Chris Whitaker, the website where you can hear regional accents: http://dialectarchive.com/VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Au...
2021-07-2737 min
Crime Time FMJOHN VERCHER In Person With Paul CTFMJohn Vercher THREE-FIFTHS interviewed by Paul Burke. John Vercher is a writer currently living in the Philadelphia area with his wife and two sons. He holds a Bachelor's in English from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Mountainview Master of Fine Arts program.His fiction has appeared on Akashic Books' Mondays are Murder and Fri-SciFi. and he is a contributing writer for Cognoscenti, the thoughts and opinions page of WBUR Boston. Two of his essays published there on race, identity, and parenting were picked up by NPR, and...
2021-07-2651 min
Crime Time FMOLIVIA KIERNAN In Person With Paul CTFMOLIVIA KIERNAN chats with Paul Burke about her new novel THE MURDER BOX, Frankie Sheehan, Ireland, police procedurals and finding out what kind of person you are during covid period.THE MURDER BOX: At first, Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan believes the murder mystery game sent to her office is a birthday gift from one of her colleagues. But when Frankie studies the game's contents, she notices a striking resemblance between the 'murder victim' and missing twenty-two-year-old Lydia Callin.As Frankie and her team investigate, a series of grisly crimes connected to the game...
2021-07-2058 min
Crime Time FMKIM NEWMAN INTERVIEW Barry's Blu-rays SpecialThe latest Blu-ray and DVD releases from BARRY FORSHAW - LINE OF DUTY to Rupert Davies' MAIGRET. Also an interview with KIM NEWMAN about his novel due in November SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT, also horror, Hollywood and modelling villains on Elon Musk.SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT: Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies, and is a genial, cricket-playing member of the British filmland colony on the shores of the Pacific. Both understand that these streets are dark with something...
2021-07-1632 minCrime Time FMTHE GREAT SUMMER CRIME TIME DEBATE THE GREAT SUMMER CRIME TIME DEBATEBEST CRIME NOVELS 2010-2020CHAIR: BARRY FORSHAWPANEL: AYO ONATADE, MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI, LAURA WILSON, VICTORIA SELMAN & PAUL BURKEEpisode produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate and LeighCRIME TIMEProduced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 20242024 Slaughterfest,
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Crime Time FMMARK BILLINGHAM & MW CRAVEN On The Sofa With Victoria CTFMEpisode 4: ADVENTURES WITH FRIENDS- Mark Billingham (Tom Thorne) & M.W Craven (Washington Poe) discuss series fiction, keeping track of your characters and why they’d like to be stranded on a desert island with Harry Bosch.RABBIT HOLE - MARK BILLINGHAMDEAD GROUND - MW CRAVENVICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria....
2021-07-1345 min
Crime Time FMLAURA LIPPMAN In Person With Paul CTFMLAURA LIPPMAN talks to Paul Burke about her new novel DREAM GIRL, Baltimore, #Me TOO and racism and why being a writer is a little like playing for a living.DREAM GIRL: Gerry Anderson has been having trouble sleeping. He's unwell - bed-bound - and has only his night nurse and his personal assistant for company. But what's really troubling him are the phone calls. Phone calls from a woman claiming to be the 'real' Aubrey.But that can't be. Aubrey's just a character Gerry made up in a book, years ago.
2021-07-0557 min
Crime Time FMVASEEM KHAN In Person With Paul CTFMVASEEM KHAN talks to Paul Burke about his new book THE DYING DAY, Persis Wadia, Ashwin Chopra, Indian independence, modern day Mumbai and an inherited elephant.THE DYING DAY: for over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero, John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia's desk.Uncovering a series of complex riddles written in verse, Persis - together...
2021-07-0447 min
Crime Time FMGERARD BRENNAN In Person With Paul CTFMGERARD BRENNAN talks to Paul Burke about his new novel SHOT, feisty PSNI detective Shannon McNulty, the writer's lot, Northern Ireland Arts Council and music.SHOT: You can't choose your family -aa major career obstacle for DS Shannon McNulty when she takes up a post with the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The move back to her hometown of Warrenpoint following a decade on the force in London coincides with the untimely death of her gangster uncle, Brendan. Now Shannon must balance an unofficial investigation into her uncle's shooting with her first case for the PSNI. Swift...
2021-07-0458 min
Crime Time FMHARRIET TYCE & SARAH VAUGHAN On the sofa with Victoria CTFMEpisode 2: WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE?- Sarah Vaughan (ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL) & Harriet Tyce (BLOOD ORANGE) - discuss courtroom dramas, the lure of the wig and gown, and why British writers shouldn’t be talking about the gavel. Victoria takes note and re-records her introduction.VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria.Crime Time
2021-06-2937 minCrime Time FMHEADS TOGETHER CTFM Magazine Show episode 1 JUNE 21HEADS TOGETHER is the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the THEAKSTONS CRIME WRITING FESTIVAL, the CWA DAGGER AWARDS, and Victoria's next novel with Quercus.PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for magazines/websites including Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.VICTORIA SELMAN is the author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers.BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time and the FT crime fiction critic.TICKETS TO THE...
2021-06-2825 min
Crime Time FMMICHAEL MACKENZIE Interview Barry's Blu-rays SpecialBarry’s Blu-rays Special. As well as a new to video films round up Barry talks to MICHAEL MACKENZIE about his novels, Italian cinema, The Years of Lead, Dario Argento, and up-coming Arrow Films DVDs.MICHAEL MACKENZIE is the McIlvanney Prize-nomined author of THE LIBRARY MURDERS, CRUEL SUMMER and IN THE SILENCE and is an Arrow Films Video senior producer.BARRY FORSHAW is fiction critic for the Financial Times and provides extras for Blu-rays. Books include Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, the Keating Award-winning Brit Noir, British Crime Writin...
2021-06-2837 min
Crime Time FMIMRAN MAHMOOD In Person With Paul CTFMIMRAN MAHMOOD chats to Paul Burke about his new novel I KNOW WHAT I SAW, being a barrister and the state of British justice, his first novel YOU DON'T KNOW ME on TV and memory. IMRAN MAHMOOD is a practicing barrister with almost 30 years' experience fighting cases in court. He hails from Liverpool but now lives in London with his wife and daughters. His debut novel You Don't Know Me was chosen by Simon Mayo as a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice for 2017 and longlisted for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the...
2021-06-2858 min
Crime Time FMJANE THYNNE In Person With Paul CTFMJANE THYNNE (CJ CAREY) talks to Paul Burke about her new thriller WIDOWLAND, the personal inspiration behind the novel, Philip Kerr, feminism and editing history.WIDOWLAND To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature.London, 1953, Coronation year - but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II. Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany was formalized. George VI and his family have been murdered and Edward VIII rules as King. Yet, in practice, all power is vested in Alfred Rosenberg, Britain's Protector. The role and status...
2021-06-231h 00
Crime Time FMDAVID PEACE In Person With JOE THOMAS CTFM SpecialJOE THOMAS, author of BRAZILIAN PSYCHO chats to DAVID PEACE about his new novel TOKYO REDUX, the final part of his Tokyo trilogy, also why David's fiction focuses on real events, how his writing has developed over the years, key influences such as Derek Raymond and Jean-Patrick Manchette, crime fiction as social critique and living in Tokyo. TOKYO REDUX Tokyo, 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst of the US Occupation, against the backdrop of widespread social, political and economic reforms...
2021-06-2044 min
Crime Time FMLEE DURKEE In Person With Paul CTFMLEE DURKEE chats to Paul Burke about his novel THE LAST TAXI DRIVER published in the UK by Oldcastle Books. In a brutally honest interview Lee talks about his fictional driver, Lou, and the life of a taxi driver in North Mississippi, the enemy - Uber, racism and Shakespeare. THE LAST TAXI DRIVER is a darkly comic novel about a day in the life of an exhausted, middle-aged cabbie about to lose his job to Uber, his girlfriend to lethargy, and his ability to stand upright to chronic back spasms. Lou - a lapsed novelist and UFO...
2021-06-1953 min
Crime Time FMSARAH PINBOROUGH and ALEX NORTH On The Sofa With Victoria CTFMOn the Sofa with Victoria: Sarah Pinborough & Alex NorthEpisode : ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN- Sarah Pinborough (BEHIND HER EYES) & Alex North (THE WHISPER MAN) discuss supernatural crime crossovers, Scooby Doo and ‘that’ ending. Victoria keeps calling Alex ‘Steve’.VICTORIA SELMANAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria. Produced by Jem & Son and Paul BurkeDon't Wait cour...
2021-06-1537 min
Crime Time FMJAMES WOLFF In Person with Paul CTFMJames Wolff talks about his new novel HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY, growing up in the Middle East, spy fiction and the meaning of treachery.HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY: Things are looking bad for disgraced spy August Drummond. In emotional free fall after the death of his wife, fired for a series of security breaches... and now his neighbour on the flight to Istanbul won't stop talking. The only thing keeping August sane is the hunch that there's something not quite right about the nervous young man several rows ahead - a hunch confirmed when August...
2021-06-1255 min
Crime Time FMSAIMA MIR In Person with Paul CTFMSAIMA MIR author of THE KHAN talks to Paul Burke about her debut novel, her unforgettable characters Jia and Akbar Khan, being a journalist, Bradford, family, sexism, racism and how to navigate the world.THE KHAN: Successful London lawyer Jia Khan is a long way from the grubby Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father, Akbar Khan, led the Pakistani community and ran the local organised crime syndicate. Often his Jirga rule - the old way - was violent and bloody, but it was always justice of a kind.Now, with her father...
2021-06-1157 min
Crime Time FMTOM BRADBY In Person with Paul CTFMIn a spectacularly wide ranging discussion TOM BRADBY talks to Paul Burke about his new novel TRIPLE CROSS, his character Kate Henderson, what makes a great modern spy novel and the relationship between Western democracies and Russia & China that underpin his writing. He also tells us about his friend and mentor Gerald Seymour, screenwriting, chronic insomnia and mental well-being.TOM BRADBY is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. As a broadcaster, he is best known as the current Anchor of ITV’s News at Ten. Tom has been with ITN for almost thirty years an...
2021-06-0259 min
Crime Time FMBARRY'S BLU-RAYS - Episode 2 CTFMBarry’s Blu-rays the second episode in our regular feature for CrimeTimeFM.BARRY FORSHAW on the best of crime film and TV on DVD and Blu-ray.Barry gives us his insights into the world of crime drama based on the commentaries and sleeve notes he writes for new releases and reissues. This episode features Arrow's 4 Noir Classic - The Dark Mirror, Secret Beyond The Door, Force Of Evil & The Big Combo, Colombia Noir No.3 Johnny O'Clock, The Dark Past, Convicted, Between Midnight and Dawn, Sniper & City of Fear, The Spy Who Came In From Th...
2021-06-0115 min
Crime Time FMJO SPAIN In Person With Paul CTFMIrish novelist and screenwriter JO SPAIN talks to Paul Burke about her new novel THE PERFECT LIE, her most intricate and exciting stand alone thriller to date. Jo also tells us about her TV series Harry Wild and, a host of projects in the pipeline and the writers who inspires her, not to mention the art of the psychological thriller and Lapland.Jo Spain is the author of the bestselling Tom Reynolds detective series and several No.1 bestselling standalone thrillers. Jo is a full-time screenwriter. Her first show, critically-acclaimed crime series 'Taken Down', aired in 2018. In 2021, she c...
2021-06-0153 min
Crime Time FMHENRY PORTER In Person with Paul CTFMHENRY PORTER talks to Paul Burke about his new spy novel THE OLD ENEMY, Putin's Russia, Trump and the threat of white supremacists in the US, the Paul Samson spy series, inspiration versus hard work and his grandfather's hunting rifle. Henry Porter has spent most of his career as a journalist, during which time he has covered the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Bosnian Civil War, and, more recently, the migrant crisis in Europe. All have inspired novels – the Berlin Wall prompted Brandenburg, Bosnia produced A Spy’s Life and the trek into...
2021-05-2448 min
Crime Time FMVANDA SYMON In Person With Paul CTFMNew Zealand crime writer VANDA SYMON Chats to Paul Burke about her new Sam Shephard novel, BOUND, fourth in the Dunedin set series. Also 'Yeah-Noir', writing as a young mother, misogyny, science & the modern detective and Ngaio Marsh.Bound: The New Zealand city of Dunedin is rocked when a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman is murdered in his luxurious home while his wife is bound and gagged, and forced to watch. But when Detective Sam Shephard and her team start investigating the case, they discover that the victim had links with some dubious...
2021-05-2350 min
Crime Time FMTIM GLISTER In Person With Paul CTFMTIM GLISTER talks to Paul Burke about his new novel RED CORONA and the 8 books that set him on the path to becoming a spy writer.Red Corona: It’s 1961 and the white heat of the Space Race is making the Cold War even colder. Richard Knox is a secret agent in big trouble. He’s been hung out to dry by a traitor in MI5, and the only way to clear his name could destroy him. Meanwhile in a secret Russian city, brilliant scientist Irina Valera makes a discovery that will...
2021-05-1750 min
Crime Time FMROSALIE KNECHT In Person With Paul CTFM Mystery Writers of America Edgar award winner ROSALIE KNECHT talks to Paul Burke about her two novels WHO IS VERA KELLY and 2021 Sue Grafton Memorial Award winner - VERA KELLY IS NOT A MYSTERY, about her wonderful creation Vera Kelly, New York in the 60s, CIA and US foreign policy, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Noir fiction, black humour in the novel, sexism, misogyny, satire and social work.WHO IS VERA KELLY: New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a...
2021-05-1041 min
Crime Time FMBARRY'S BLU-RAYS episode 1 CTFMBarry’s Blu-rays Listen to the first episode in a new regular feature for CrimeTimeFM.BARRY FORSHAW on the best of crime film and TV on DVD and Blu-ray.Barry gives us his insights into the world of crime drama based on the commentaries and sleeve notes he writes for new releases and reissues. The first episode features Maigret and Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing, as well as the ground-breaking Danish drama of the same name, The Killing, The Adam Dalgliesh Chronicles, Swedish gem The Bridge , The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and much more... ...
2021-04-2820 min
Crime Time FMACE ATKINS With BARRY FORSHAW CTFM SpecialACE ATKINS talks to BARRY FORSHAW about his new Spenser novelSOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME. 49th in Robert B Parker's Spenser series featuring the hardboiled Boston PI, his wingman Hawk and new feisty protege, Mattie. Published by No Exit Press and available now direct or from bookshop.org and good book outlets, as are all the Ace Atkins titles in the Spenser series. bookshop.orgThe trio battle a depraved billionaire and his vicious female procurer, (remind you of anyone?)Ace tells Barry about:His initial reservations about becoming the new voice o...
2021-04-2142 min
Crime Time FMNICK RENNISON In Person With Paul CTFMAnthologist, novelist, historian NICK RENNISON talks to Paul Burke about the latest anthology of short stories in the rivals to Sherlock Holmes series - AMERICAN SHERLOCKS.15 Mysteries from the Golden Age of American Crime Fiction, originally published during the same period as Conan Doyle was writing about Sherlock Holmes (late 19th/early twentieth century). Opening with proto-detective Uncle Abner in The Doomsdorf Mystery and taking in the ubiquitous Nick Carter, and finishing with the thinking machine, Augustus SFX Van Dusan, via Madelyn Mack, Philo Gubb, Violet Strange, Jigger Masters et al.Locked room mysteries, bumbling...
2021-04-1346 min
Crime Time FMCATHI UNSWORTH In Person With Paul CTFMCathi Unsworth chats to Paul Burke about her classic London novel BAD PENNY BLUES, (2009), just reissued by Strange Attractor Press. This new edition has a introduction on the importance of the novel by Greil Marcus and an illuminating afterword by Cathi.Cathi tells Paul about her fictional account of the Hammersmith nude murders; 8 women were brutally killed between 1959 and 1965. Corruption, incompetence, and lack of care meant the women the were stigmatised as prostitutes - these crimes were never solved. This is a victim centred novel that really speaks to the tragedy and trauma o...
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Crime Time FMEDWARD WILSON In Person With Paul CTFMEdward Wilson talks to Paul Burke about his new spy novel THE PORTRAIT OF THE SPY AS A YOUNG MAN.This novel goes back to the beginning for William Catesby, the Cold War spy, here on his first mission during WWII. The story follows the undergraduate who gives up his place at university to join the army as he is dropped into France to join the resistance. Knowing who the enemy is is not a simple matter of the colour of the uniform. The experience of war is formative for the...
2021-04-0643 min
Crime Time FMPAUL VIDICH In Person With Paul CTFMAmerican spy author PAUL VIDICH talks to Paul Burke about his fascination with the Cold War and about his new Moscow set thriller THE MERCENARY. The fourth in the George Mueller series, published by NO EXIT PRESS, all are available now.THE MERCENARY:A CIA mole in the KGB, codename Gambit, is willing to trade top secret weapons intelligence for ex-filtration to the West. When Station Chief George Mueller is compromised the CIA send Alex Garin to rescue Gambit. But they are soon second guessing that decision, is Garin trustworthy, af...
2021-03-2651 min
Crime Time FMPETER MAY In Person With Paul CTFMPeter May talks to Paul Burke about his exciting new Enzo MacLeod thriller THE NIGHT GATE: A tale of a modern day murder and a seventy year old corpse that comes to light at the same time, both lead back to the Nazi occupation of France in WWII, Vichy collaboration, one woman tasked with protecting French cultural heritage and Hitler and Goring’s obsession with the Mona Lisa.Peter also tells us about the revered Chinese detective with 500 million fans, his affinity with the Hebrides and Lewis, writing the new normal into fiction, why...
2021-03-1956 min
Crime Time FMTONY PARSONS In Person With Paul CTFMTony Parsons talks to Paul Burke about his new novel YOUR NEIGHBOUR’S WIFE. A twist on Fatal Attraction - A one night stand, a stalker, a marriage destroyed, a murder...Tony discusses his love of iconic thriller/chiller Rebecca, the death of print journalism, David Bowie on drugs, gambling the pension on becoming a crime writer and why Lee Child bosses it.Tony Parsons is a bestselling novelist and an award-winning journalist. His books have been published in over forty languages and his multi-million selling novel Man and Boy won The Book of The Ye...
2021-03-0843 min
Crime Time FMPETER MURPHY In Person With Paul CTFMInterview with crime writer and ex judge, Peter Murphy by Paul Burke about his latest legal thriller in the Ben Schroeder series, VERBALVerbal opens with a brutal double murder in Sarajevo in 1983. The investigation leads us into a world of spies, fugitives, armed nationalists, drug trafficking and police fit up.As well as the Ben Schroeder historical series Peter talks about his contemporary Judge Walden novels reflecting on the experiences of a High Court Judge. As a defence counsel at the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague Peter met some extraordinary p...
2021-02-1950 min
Crime Time FMLEIGH RUSSELL In Person With Paul CTFMInterview with Leigh Russell by Paul Burke on the publication of her new book, EVIL IMPULSELeigh Russell is a million selling crime writer and discusses her much loved character DS Geraldine Steel. In Evil Impulse there’s not just a serial killer on the loose attacking women but Geraldine’s own safety is threatened when the past comes back to haunt her. Leigh talks about getting into the mind of a killer, producing novels during Covid and the social issues that underpin her work. As an added treat Southgate and Leigh, (featuring Leigh’s...
2021-02-1156 min