The Review Show '2023 - new crime fiction & a feature on Eric Ambler. The Novels: Joseph O'Connor My Father's House Harvill Secker Simon Scarrow Dead of Night Headline Gill Perdue If I Tell Penguin Elliot Sweeney The Next to Die Wildfire Kathleen Kent Black Wolf Head of Zeus Stuart MacBride The Dead of Winter Bantam Cloé Mehdi translator Howard Curtis Europa Editions Katy Brent How to Kill Men and Get Away with It HQ SR White Red Dirt Road Headline Simone Campos Nothing Can Hurt You translat...
Feb 20, 2023•30 min
SIMON MASON chats to Paul Burke about his new novel A BROKEN AFTERNOON , Oxford, Morse, publishing and THE BROKEN AFTERNOON : A DI RYAN WILKINS MYSTERY A SHOCKING DISAPPEARANCE A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, affluent area, her mother only a stones-throw away. A TRIGGERING RESPONSE Ryan Wilkins, one of the youngest ever Detective Inspectors in the Thames Valley force, dishonourably discharged three months ago, watches his former par...
Feb 13, 2023•59 min
KATJA IVAR chats to Paul Burke about her new novel Trouble , the third Hella Mauzer mystery, growing up in Russia and the US, Finland and women in the police force. TROUBLE : Helsinki, June 1953, at the heart of the Cold War. Hella, now a reluctant private investigator, has been asked by her former boss at the Helsinki murder squad to do a background check on a member of the Finnish secret services. Not the type of job Hella was hoping for, but she accepts it on the condition that she is given a...
Feb 11, 2023•47 min
Season 4 Episode 3: Multi award winning journalists turned novelist, Fiona Barton (The Widow) Saima Mir (The Khan) & Sarah Sultoon (Dirt) discuss what journalism teaches writers of fiction…& then plot a thriller live on the show! VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter ...
Feb 07, 2023•40 min
Louise Candlish chats to Paul Burke about her new thriller drama THE ONLY SUSPECT , unlovable character, twists & reveals, instant fame after fifteen years of hard graft and seeing your work on TV. THE ONLY SUSPECT : Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong man . Alex lives a comfortable life with his wife Beth in the leafy suburb of Silver Vale. Fine, so he’s not the most sociable guy on the street, he prefers to keep himself to himself, but he’s a good husband and an easy-going neighbour. That’s unt...
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 14 min
JANE HARPER chats to Craig Sisterson about her new novel Exiles , the return of Aaron Falk, his final bow, The Dry the film, Exiles : A mother disappears from a busy festival on a warm spring night. Her baby lies alone in the pram, her mother’s possessions surrounding her, waiting for a return which never comes. A year later, Kim Gillespie’s absence still casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather to welcome a new addition to the family. Joining the celebrations on a rare break fro...
Jan 31, 2023•52 min
MATTHEW GENTILE, director of AMERICAN MURDERER, starring Tom Pelphrey, Ryan Philippe, Based on a true story, this riveting thriller follows Jason Derek Brown (Tom Pelphrey), a charismatic con man bankrolling his extravagant lifestyle through a series of scams. On Brown's trail: Lance Leising (Ryan Phillippe), a dogged FBI special agent determined to put Brown behind bars. When Brown's funds run low and his past catches up with him, he plots his most elaborate scheme yet, pitting himself against ...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Season 4 episode 2: Jeff Lindsay (Dexter) Caroline Kepnes (YOU) & Andy McNab (The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success) discuss whether there's a psychopath in all of us- & why we might want there to be… VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in ...
Jan 24, 2023•39 min
Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for January 2023 - part 2. Books reviewed: In the Blink of an Eye Jo Callaghan Simon & Schuster The Library Suicides Fflur Dafydd Hodder & Stoughton In Too Deep Simon McCleave Avon Death and the Conjuror Tom Mead Head of Zeus Showstopper Peter Lovesey Sphere Bethulia Thorne Moore Diamond Crime A Winter Grave Peter May Quercus The Last Remains Elly Griffiths Quercus Resurrection David Gilman Head of Zeus Produced by Junkyard Dog Music co...
Jan 21, 2023•17 min
Icelandic authors JÓNÍNA LEÓSDÓTTIR, SÓLVEIG PÁLSDÓTTIR & translator QUENTIN BATES chat to Paul Burke about the novels DECEIT and HARM DECEIT : Reykjavík detective Soffía finds herself struggling to cope with a single-handed investigation into a spate of malicious acts taking place across the city, and enlists help from an unexpected direction. Her psychologist ex-husband Adam has advised the police before, but with Covid raging in the city, would prefer to stay holed up in his basement flat...
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Season 4 episode 1: ALL RISE - STEVE CAVANAGH (Eddie Flynn series) & IMRAN MAHMOOD (All I Said Was True) discuss courtroom thrillers with Victoria Selman: Why we all love Atticus Finch, the courtroom as a cathedral and having a pint with Rumpole. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear from our listeners! Find m...
Jan 10, 2023•39 min
Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for January 2023 and a few of the best titles from Nov/Dec 2022. Books reviewed: The Other Guest - Heidi Perks. Century The House at the End of the World - Dean Koontz Thomas & Mercer The Night Watch - Neil Lancaster HQ The Will - Rebecca Reid Penguin The Book of the Most Precious Substance - Sara Gran Faber The Elephant Conspiracy - Peter Hain Muswell Murder, Memoir, Murder - Anthony J Quinn Dalzell Dead Man's Creek - Chris Hammer Wildfire...
Jan 09, 2023•17 min
CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Winner 2019 - ROBERT GODDARD Chats to Paul Burke about THIS IS THE NIGHT THEY COME FOR YOU & THE FINE ART OF INVISIBLE DETECTION , Algeria, Paris 1961, character and 30 novels and counting... This is the Night They Come for You : On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him ...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Season 3 Finale: JEFFERY DEAVER (Lincoln Rhyme/Colter Shaw) joins Victoria Selman in this End of Season (very) Special: Pulling the rug from under your reader so often they’ll be sending you their chiropractor’s bills, Hamilton tees & ‘getting a character in’. Unmissable! HUNTING TIME JEFFREY DEAVER : THERE ARE TWO FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF SURVIVAL. #1: NEVER BE WITHOUT A MEANS OF ESCAPE. Allison Parker is on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah, and Colter Shaw has been hired by her eccent...
Dec 27, 2022•58 min
SIMON STEPHENSON chats to Paul Burke about his novel Sometimes People Die , Working in the NHS, scriptwriting in Hollywood, entering writing competitions, editing, medical serial killers through time and the murder house. SOMETIMES PEOPLE DIE : The year is 1999 . Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young Scottish doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a senior house officer in the struggling east London hospital of St Luke’s. Amid the maelstrom of sick pati...
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Indie publisher DIAMOND CRIME is based in South Wales but with a UK writer base. Five of their authors chat about their latest novels and the experience of being part of a small but close-knit writer led imprint. Topics include; violence in crime fiction, a world without Agatha Christie, the psychological thriller, writing character and series versus stand alone? Jacqueline Harrett - The Whispering Trees & The Nesting Place Jennifer Lee Thompson - Vile City & Butcher City Gwyneth Steddy ...
Dec 21, 2022•55 min
North Georgia author MARK WESTMORELAND chats to Paul Burke about the Dooley brothers - Mack & Marshall, A Violent Gospel * and A Mourning Song*, Burt Reynolds - Smokey And The Bandit, A VIOLENT GOSPEL : If there’s a bad idea in Tugalo County, chances are that Mack and Marshall Dooley are behind it. When the brothers heist a snake-handling church’s money-laundering operation, things go south in a hurry. This part of the north Georgia hills ain’t much, just hardscrabble folks trying to get by....
Dec 18, 2022•1 hr 13 min
WOMEN IN CRIME: Season 3, Episode 8: ARAMINTA HALL (Hidden Depths Jan '23), ERIN KELLY (The Skeleton Key) & CL TAYLOR (The Guilty Couple) chat to Victoria Selman about why women are drawn to crime fiction, reflections on violence in society, gaslighting, frenemies, media coverage and whether women have fair representation in the press. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.v...
Dec 13, 2022•42 min
THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE - BEST CRIME NOVELS OF 2022. BARRY FORSHAW chairs a panel of top critics and writers Laura Wilson (Guardian critic, novelist) , Maxim Jakubowski (editor, publisher, writer, bookseller), Jake Kerridge (crime fiction critic for the Telegraph), Ayo Onatade (critic ShotsBlog) Victoria Selman (novelist and Crime Time presenter) and Paul Burke. Book Choices : Barry Forshaw A Heart Full of Headstones – Ian Rankin Blue Water – Leonora Nattras* The Dark Flood – Deon Meyer ...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 28 min
JEROME CHARYN chats to Maxim Jakubowski (writer, editor, publisher, bookshop owner & critic) & Paul Burke about his new novel BIG RED , Hollywood the real capital of America, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, graphic novels, the essence of noir and the female Samson. BIG RED : NARRATED BY A STARRY-EYED LESBIAN, BIG RED REIMAGINES THE TRAGIC CAREER OF RITA HAYWORTH AND HER INDOMITABLE HUSBAND, ORSON WELLES. Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Red re-envisions the life of...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Season 3 episode 7: VASEEM KHAN (The Lost Man of Bombay) & JANICE HALLETT (The Twyford Code) discuss cosy crime with Victoria Selman. Golden Age Crime, screenplay to novel, warmth and humour in the murder mystery, every novel needs an elephant, write a cosy on the spot. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to hear fr...
Nov 29, 2022•32 min
JAMES GRADY chats to Paul Burke about THIS TRAIN , Six Days of the Condor, Three Days of the Condor, the US mid-terms, gauging the pulse of the nation, realism, rebellion & redemption and enjoying life and art to the full. THIS TRAIN races us through America's heartland, carrying secrets. There is treasure in the cargo car, along with an invisible puppeteer. There is a coder named Nora, Mugzy, the yippy dog, and Ross, the too-curious poet. On board, it's a countdown to murder... On this trai...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 22 min
MIKE LUPICA chats to Paul Burke about FALLOUT (Jesse Stone) & REVENGE TOUR (Sunny Randall). Spenser, 'follow the money', the Parkersphere & the Robert B Parker legacy. FALLOUT : Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team's biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult - the teen was the nephew of his colleague, Suitcase Simpson, and Jesse had been coaching the young shortstop. As he searc...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr
GEORGINA CLARKE chats to Jenna Gordon about her new historical crime novel THE DAZZLE OF THE LIGHT , the post WWI landscape in 1920, the Forty Thieves, historical accuracy, reflecting on the present through the past - the role of women, class & inequality, dressmaking and Halloween cocktails THE DAZZLE OF THE LIGHT : Ruby Mills is ruthlessly ambitious, strikingly beautiful - and one of the Forty Thieves' most talented members. Harriet Littlemore writes the women's section in a local newspape...
Nov 17, 2022•49 min
Season 3. Episode 6. Series Fiction . Mari Hannah (Kate ) and Ian Rankin (Rebus, A Heart Full of Headstones) talk to Victoria about writing a long running series. Keeping a series and characters fresh, continuity, craving over night success, bent cops and why you should never work with children or animals. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @...
Nov 15, 2022•40 min
GUY HALE chats to Paul Burke about his new novel Blood on the Tracks , character Jimmy Wayne, The Come Back Trail sextet, humour, Basil Exposition and Shakespeare. BLOOD ON THE TRACKS Jimmy Wayne is headed for LA to make the new album that will hopefully make him a star. In a quiet, deserted canyon a few miles outside Blackjack lie the bodies of his victims who inspired each song – all his secrets are buried in that dry and arid ground. Can he leave his past behind or will the ghosts of his past...
Nov 14, 2022•56 min
STUART MACBRIDE chats to Paul Burke about his latest chilling thriller NO LESS THE DEVIL , protagonists and antagonists, NO LESS THE DEVIL : 'We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.' It's been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast. Now isn't the time to get distracted with other cases,...
Nov 08, 2022•59 min
Track: Hanging Around Taken from the the Soundtrack album KILLING ME SOFTLY , the music of Jimmy Wayne, recorded by Mike Zito feat. Kid Anderson Inspired by the writing of Guy Hale Thank you to Guy and the musicians for permission to use this music. THIS MUSIC IS UNDER COPYRIGHT AND SHOULD NOT BE SHARED OR COPIED TO ANY OTHER FORMAT PLEASE. You can buy the album and Guy Hale's books at Hillside-Global.com Produced by Junkyard Dog Crime Time Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cym...
Nov 02, 2022•6 min
SEASON 3, EPISODE 5: LOCKED ROOM MYSTERIES. LUCY FOLEY (The Paris Apartment) and ELLY GRIFFITHS (Bleeding Heart Yard) discuss the lure of the locked room mystery. Is it a locked room or a closed circle mystery? Why covid had to appear in the new Ruth Galloway mysteries, contributing to an Agatha Christie short stories collection (Marple) & Boris Johnson's unruly mop top. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website ...
Nov 01, 2022•40 min
Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for September and October. A tour of the world of crime fiction from America to Asia via Europe and Australia. Across 2 millennia Books reviewed: Double or Nothing Kim Sherwood Sleep When You're Dead Jude O'Reilly Wolf Pack Will Dean Act of Oblivion Robert Harris The Iron Way Tim Leach Blackstone Fell Martin Edwards Dark Deeds Down Under ed. Craig Sisterson & Lindy Cameron Small Deaths Rijula Das The Invisible Peter Papathanasiou A Good Rea...
Oct 27, 2022•36 min
