PAUL 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 thei...
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 5 min
LUKE 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, Reinhar...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 13 min
HEADS 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...
Nov 30, 2021•31 min
Book Marketing Panel - On The Sofa With Victoria With 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 SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.co...
Nov 28, 2021•43 min
CHRIS 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...
Nov 26, 2021•1 hr 5 min
HEATHER 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 boy...
Nov 20, 2021•41 min
BEHIND 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 ANONYMOUS 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...
Nov 15, 2021•35 min
DOMINIC '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...
Nov 11, 2021•57 min
JOANNE 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 regi...
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr 1 min
GREGORY 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 ...
Nov 05, 2021•55 min
TRUE 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 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 @Victori...
Nov 01, 2021•42 min
THE THREE RONNIES EPISODE HEADS 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 ...
Oct 28, 2021•38 min
JS 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...
Oct 25, 2021•54 min
FELIX 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 t...
Oct 22, 2021•58 min
JANE 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 herse...
Oct 21, 2021•36 min
Episode 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 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 u...
Oct 18, 2021•36 min
LINWOOD 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, ...
Oct 18, 2021•58 min
PAUL 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 Mantle THE MAN ON HACKPEN HILL - JS MONROE* Head of Zeus LEMON - 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 AS...
Oct 14, 2021•18 min
In 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 Films Arrow 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...
Oct 13, 2021•12 min
DAVID 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...
Oct 13, 2021•56 min
KIA 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...
Oct 11, 2021•45 min
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 publi...
Oct 08, 2021•29 min
LAUREN 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...
Oct 08, 2021•44 min
STRETCHING THE BOUNDARIES: Speculative fiction. CASS GREEN (The Killer Inside) & STU TURTON (The Devil and the Dark Water) 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 Dog music courtesy of Southgate & Leigh Crime Time Produced by Junkyard ...
Oct 04, 2021•41 min
STRANGER 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 SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com/ Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from...
Sep 20, 2021•34 min
JOHN L WILLIAMS talks to Paul Burke about his account of the Lynette White murder in 1988 and the 'Cardiff Three' miscarriage of justice: BLOODY VALENTINE The 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 ...
Sep 19, 2021•50 min
SIMON 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 1939 As 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, ...
Sep 18, 2021•54 min
NIKKI 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 su...
Sep 18, 2021•39 min
Bonus 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 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...
Sep 08, 2021•29 min
HE’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 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 jo...
Sep 06, 2021•39 min
