ALAN 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 ...
Sep 05, 2021•48 min
AMBER 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 Ni...
Sep 05, 2021•50 min
HOLLY 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 t...
Sep 05, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Women in Translation Month Special SIMONE 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...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 14 min
HEADS 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 Z...
Aug 27, 2021•45 min
The 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 Horro...
Aug 25, 2021•23 min
THE 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 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 ...
Aug 23, 2021•33 min
DANIEL COLE chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller MIMIC and the coming TV series of his debut novel RAGDOLL. MIMIC 1989 - 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 Servi...
Aug 19, 2021•41 min
EMMA 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....
Aug 18, 2021•36 min
Episode 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 SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/ Twitter: @Vi...
Aug 10, 2021•31 min
STEVE 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 th...
Aug 08, 2021•51 min
PAUL 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 DUST JOHN SANFORD THE OLD MAN'S PLACE JOE THOMAS BRAZILIAN PSYCHO AA DHAND THE BLOOD DIVIDE SA COSBY RAZORBLADE TEARS HANSJÓRG SCHNEIDER THE BASEL KILLINGS DAN FESPERMAN. THE COVER WIFE EVA BJÖRG ÆGISDÓTTIR. GIRLS WHO LIE PRODUCED BY JUNKYARD DOG MUSIC COU...
Aug 05, 2021•18 min
JOE 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 ...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 14 min
HEADS 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 Onata...
Aug 02, 2021•31 min
Description 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 ...
Jul 26, 2021•38 min
John 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 th...
Jul 26, 2021•52 min
OLIVIA 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 Ly...
Jul 19, 2021•59 min
The 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 fi...
Jul 16, 2021•33 min
THE GREAT SUMMER CRIME TIME DEBATE BEST CRIME NOVELS 2010-2020 CHAIR: BARRY FORSHAW PANEL: AYO ONATADE, MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI, LAURA WILSON, VICTORIA SELMAN & PAUL BURKE Episode produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh CRIME TIME Produced by Junkyard Dog Crime Time Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 2024 Slaughterfes...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Episode 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 BILLINGHAM DEAD GROUND - MW CRAVEN 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 @Victoria...
Jul 12, 2021•46 min
LAURA 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, ye...
Jul 04, 2021•57 min
VASEEM 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 des...
Jul 04, 2021•47 min
GERARD 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 unof...
Jul 04, 2021•58 min
Episode 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 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 @VictoriaS...
Jun 29, 2021•37 min
HEADS 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 a...
Jun 28, 2021•25 min
Barry’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...
Jun 28, 2021•37 min
IMRAN 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 Cri...
Jun 28, 2021•58 min
JANE 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...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 1 min
JOE 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...
Jun 20, 2021•44 min
LEE 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...
Jun 19, 2021•53 min
