Part II: BOGDAN HRIB chats to Paul Burke about RESILIENCE , Romanian crime fiction, politics in Eastern Europe, translation Romanian to English and vice versa and coffee culture. RESILIENCE Stelian Munteanu has had enough of fixing other people’s problems: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work. But when a notorious Romanian businessman asks him to investigate the death of his daughter in the north of England, he reluctantly gets involved once more. Th...
Mar 30, 2022•51 min
BOGDAN HRIB chats to Paul Burke about RESILIENCE , Romanian crime fiction, politics in Eastern Europe, translation Romanian to English and vice versa and coffee culture. RESILIENCE Stelian Munteanu has had enough of fixing other people’s problems: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work. But when a notorious Romanian businessman asks him to investigate the death of his daughter in the north of England, he reluctantly gets involved once more. This time i...
Mar 28, 2022•48 min
TED FLANAGAN chats to Paul Burke about EVERY HIDDEN THING , being a paramedic, local journalism, the Ribbon Creek Incident and the correct pronunciation of Woosta. EVERY HIDDEN THING : The last scion of a once-powerful political family, Worcester mayor John O'Toole has his sights set on vastly higher aspirations. When night shift paramedic Thomas Archer uncovers a secret that could upend the mayor's career, O'Toole is set on silencing him, and sends Eamon Conroy, a brutal former cop, to ensure t...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 7 min
HIGH CONCEPT - PSYCHE SUSPENSE PART 1 Sophie Hannah (The Couple at the Table), Gillian McAllister (Wrong Place, Wrong Time) and JP Delaney (The Girl Before) discuss high concept thrillers with Victoria Selman. What is high concept and why are we so gripped by the premise of some novels? VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @Vic...
Mar 21, 2022•51 min
The Alternative Ulster Noir Collective takeover Crime Time FM for an episode of mayhem and good craic from Northern Ireland. Simon Maltman chats to the other contributors to the Alternative Ulster Noir: NI Crime Stories Inspired by NI Music. ALTERNATIVE ULSTER NOIR : A collection of seven new NI crime short stories inspired by NI music. Enjoy a diverse anthology of work from some of the best NI thriller writers featuring Colin Bateman, Stuart Neville, Sharon Dempsey, Gerard Brennan, Kelly Creigh...
Mar 18, 2022•47 min
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, character, originality and new Blu-rays of TV classics OUT & FOX. 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, Dee...
Mar 18, 2022•38 min
WILLIAM BOYLE chats to Paul Burke about his novel SHOOT THE MOONLIGHT OUT , Noir, Haunted Catholicism, watching Blue Velvet at twelve and Oxford, Mississippi. SHOOT THE MOONLIGHT OUT An explosive crime drama, evokes a mystical Brooklyn where the sidewalks are cracked, where Virgin Mary statues tilt in fenced front yards, and where smudges of moonlight reflect in puddles even on the blackest nights. Southern Brooklyn, July 1996. Fire hydrants are open and spraying water on the sizzling blacktop. ...
Mar 14, 2022•57 min
ROBERT J LLOYD chats to Paul Burke about his philosophical historical crime novel BLOODLESS BOY, scientist/detective Robert Hooke and getting published with a helping hand from Christopher Fowler. BLOODLESS BOY : The City of London, 1678. New Year's Day. The body of a young boy, drained of his blood and with a sequence of numbers inscribed on his skin, is discovered on the snowy bank of the Fleet River. With London gripped by hysteria, where rumors of Catholic plots and sinister foreign assassin...
Mar 11, 2022•1 hr 7 min
PROFILING: Criminologist Jennifer Reese & Mark Olshaker (Mindhunter) discuss the portrayal of serial killers in popular culture and what drives our fascination with them. "Are we as bad as the worst things we have done?" Is Dexter a serial killer? Did life imitate art? The birth of profiling in fiction. The police officer at your elbow test. VICTORIA SELMAN Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman...
Mar 07, 2022•43 min
CHARLIE HIGSON chats to Paul Burke about his new adult novel WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT, character, Pantocrator, comedy is the spice of life and shaking up the Tupperware box. WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT : Most people travel to Corfu to escape the real world for a couple of weeks and embrace the fantasy of olive trees, sandy beaches, and little fishing boats bobbing on sparkling blue water under a warm sun. But not McIntyre. McIntyre's a fixer, specialising in getting people out...
Mar 05, 2022•1 hr
DR 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 him...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 3 min
HANNAH 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...
Feb 24, 2022•54 min
Crime 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 Sund...
Feb 22, 2022•46 min
PAUL 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 Ge...
Feb 17, 2022•1 hr 11 min
AMEN 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: Unknown His 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 city - today he's back. No one knows why, but it's clear that revenge is on his...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr
Paul Burke reviews January and February crime fiction: A killing in November Simon Mason - Riverrun Faceless Vanda Symon - Orenda Payback Mike Lupica - No Exit Press All Was Lost Stuart Maxwell - Pushkin She and I Hannah King - Bloomsbury Raven The Long Weekend Gilly Macmillan - Century We Know You Remember Tove Alsterdal - Faber and Faber Real Easy Marie Rutkoski - Tinder One for Sorrow Helen Fields - Avon Her Last Holiday CL Taylor - Avon A Good Day to Die Amen Alonge - Quercus Produced by Jun...
Feb 14, 2022•33 min
IRISH 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 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 co...
Feb 07, 2022•51 min
The 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 Financ...
Feb 02, 2022•8 min
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 FORS...
Feb 02, 2022•27 min
Literary 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 compell...
Jan 29, 2022•1 hr 8 min
2/2: 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 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 i...
Jan 24, 2022•47 min
FRANK 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 ba...
Jan 22, 2022•56 min
ADAM LEBOR chats to Paul Burke about DOHANY STREET, BALTHAZAR KOVACS, Hungary and how the world works. DOHANY STREET DISTRICT VIII KOSSUTH SQUARE DOHANY 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 hi...
Jan 22, 2022•57 min
Season 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 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...
Jan 09, 2022•41 min
Apologies to anyone recieving an early unedited download. This has now been rectified. HOLIDAY SPECIAL PETER 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 c...
Dec 28, 2021•56 min
HEADS 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 ...
Dec 24, 2021•47 min
THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE: BEST CRIME FICTION OF 2021 Panellists: 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 Fina...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 25 min
HB 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 GUN 1912. 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 wit...
Dec 17, 2021•54 min
THE SEASON FINALE THE PLOT THICKENS: Building tension and suspense. Lisa Jewell (THE NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED), Louise Candlish (THE HEIGHTS) and Mark Edwards (HOLLOWS). 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 &...
Dec 12, 2021•45 min
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 husband...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 6 min
