Paul Burke reviews a selection of the April and May crime fiction releases. Click the attached links to order any of these crime novels from Bookshop.org James Swallow Dark Horizon James Wolff The Man in the Corduroy Suit David Beckler A Nuclear Reaction Daniel Weizmann The Last Songbird Guy Hale All the World's a Stage Tim Glister A Game of Deceit Kate Rhodes A Brutal Tide Heather Critchlow Unsolved David Hewson The Medici Murders Kjell Ola Dahl The Lazarus Solution trans, Don Bartlett Marco Ma...
May 25, 2023•17 min
If you wanted to disappear, how would you do it? Tim Weaver (David Raker series) and Heather Critchlow (Unsolved) join Victoria On The Sofa to discuss missing persons in Crime Fiction and going off the grid...then Heather Disappears 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 @Vict...
May 16, 2023•35 min
Crime Time FM the official podcast of CrimeFest 2023: Episode 2 - A Genre As Wide As A Sea. Victoria Selman and Paul Burke chat to CrimeFest David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Jo Furnish & Kate Simants, Cathy Ace, Jen Faulkner & Heather Fitt and David Penny about their novels, the festival and panels. For more information, tickets and news: CrimeFest Participating Authors Programme Produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh Crime Time CrimeFest is sponsored by SPECSAVERS (hea...
May 13, 2023•44 min
Crime Time FM the official podcast of CrimeFest 2023: Episode 1 - Join The Party Victoria Selman and Paul Burke chat to CrimeFest featured guest authors Elly Griffiths and Mark Billingham and participating authors Kate Rhodes , Tim TE Kinsey and Caroline England (aka CE Rose) about their novels, the festival and panels. For more information, tickets and news: CrimeFest Participating Authors Programme Produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh Crime Time CrimeFest is sponsored...
May 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Kellye Garrett chats to Craig Sisterson about her novel Like a Sister , Crime Writers of Color, winning a Lefty Award, screenwriting and writing humour. LIKE A SISTER : She found out her sister was back in New York from Instagram. She found out about her death from the New York Daily News. But she’s the only one convinced it wasn’t an accident . . . Desiree Pierce, a Black reality TV star, is found dead on a playground in the Bronx. Her death is quickly declared an overdose by the police and the...
May 09, 2023•45 min
NEIL HUMPHREYS chats to Paul Burke about his new novel LOST WOMEN , living in Singapore, working class roots, serendipity, Inspector Stanley Low and fridging. LOST WOMEN ‘This impressive police procedural presents an unflattering but authentic picture of the multiracial megacity‘ Times Crime Club. Humphrey's latest thriller is prescient, dark and challenges some of the world's worst fears. Alan Edwards had expected to see more blood. His initial reaction had surprised him. He’d never seen a murd...
May 07, 2023•1 hr 4 min
ASHLEY KALAGIAN BLUNT chats to Paul Burke about her latest novel DARK MODE , the Armenian Genocide, screaming plants, the dark web, stalking and living in Australia. DARK MODE A riveting psychological thriller drawn from true events, Dark Mode delves into the terrifying reality of the dark web, and the price we pay for surrendering our privacy one click at a time. Is it paranoia – or is someone watching? For years, Reagan Carsen has kept her life offline. No socials. No internet presence. No pho...
May 05, 2023•57 min
POLICE THRILLERS: PETER JAMES, WILLIAM SHAW, GRAHAM BARTLETT & SIMON TOYNE chat to Victoria Selman. Why we don't say police procedurals, the Master Forger's story, could a bot write a crime novel... Live from the Friends Meeting House, the Lanes, Brighton. Victoria will be at Waterstones Brighton at 7pm on 18th May for a discussion on serial killers and their portrayal in popular culture with author and ex Chief Superintendent, Graham Bartlett & leading criminologist, Peter Squires. Tick...
May 02, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Crime Time FM at Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival Episode 3: Welsh Crime Fiction - language, location, character. Paul Burke chats to two festival authors and a committee member: Sarah Ward - The Birthday Girl Welcome to Eldey, an island with deadly secrets. Mona: a carefree artist, staying at the Cloister to work on her illustrations. Beth: the harried mother of a toddler, on the remote Welsh island for a weekend with her family. Charlotte: a reluctant stepmother who wanted a romantic getaway with her...
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 6 min
CRIME TIME FM is the official podcast of GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL. In this second episode welcome at some of the panels and interview some of the writers taking par in them. Featuring The Effects of Crime Panel - Rosie Claverton, Trevor Wood, Matt Johnson & Jen Phipps. Interview - Matt Johnson and literary agent Broo Docherty Barry Forshaw chatting to Mari Hannah Leslie Scase reading from his novel Sabrina's Teardrop Historical Crime Fiction Panel - Barry Forshaw, Douglas Skelton and Chris ...
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr 10 min
CRIME TIME FM is the official podcast of GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL. In this first episode I introduce the festival and chat to authors, committee members and organisers about upcoming events and we get a peek at the National Library of Wales tour. Featuring Chloe Tilson Alis Hawkins Mark Ellis Jacky Collins Bev Jones Gail Williams Chris Lloyd Nia Dafydd and Fflur dafydd Produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh Crime Time Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover...
Apr 21, 2023•51 min
JAKE LAMAR chats to Paul Burke about his jazz noir novel VIPER'S DREAM , Paris, Chester Himes, radio plays, Harlem and jazz. VIPER'S DREAM for fans of Colson Whitehead and Chester Himes, Viper's Dream is a gritty, daring look at the vibrant jazz scene of mid-century Harlem, and one man's dreams of making it big and finding love in a world that wants to keep him down. 1936. Clyde 'The Viper' Morton boards a train from Alabama to Harlem to chase his dreams of being a jazz musician. When his talent...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 27 min
CALLUM McSORLEY chats to Paul Burke about his new Glasgow set crime novel SQUEAKY CLEAN , Glasgow, humour in crime, what it's like when your mum see your novel in a bookshop. SQUEAKY CLEAN : Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up. No one thinks very much at all about carwash employee Davey Burnet, until one day he takes the wrong customer's motor for a ride. One kidnapping later, he and the carwash are officially part of Glasgow's crimin...
Apr 14, 2023•52 min
Season 4 Episode 7: DAVID BALDACCI (Simple Lives) & GREGG HURWITZ (Orphan X) writing big, discuss keeping a thriller thrilling, James Bond & sneaking onto demolition ranges & the save the cat moment. 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 i...
Apr 11, 2023•37 min
THE REVIEW SHOW ON CTFM presented by Paul Burke. The latest crime titles for March and early April 2023. Click any link to buy a book from Bookshop.org Christopher Fowler tribute & Bryant and May's Peculiar London Kate Simants Freeze LC North The Ugly Truth Aoife Clifford When We Fall Abigail Burdess Mother's Day Owen Matthews White Fox Donna Leon So Shall You Reap Yukito Ayatsuji The Mill House Murders Nicola Williams Until Proven Innocent Isabelle Schuler Lady MacBethad Louise Swanson End ...
Apr 08, 2023•27 min
ELI CRANOR chats to Craig Sisterson about his new novel OZARK DOGS , Romeo & Juliet meets the McCoys and the Hatfield's, Kudzu and the real South, narrating your own book. OZARK DOGS : After his son is convicted of murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Ozark junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to ...
Apr 04, 2023•51 min
Simon Winder, Penguin Press publishing director, Barry Forshaw, Financial Times crime fiction and Paul Burke discuss Penguin Modern Classics Crime & Espionage - Reviving the iconic green Penguin Crime paperbacks, first published 75 years ago, this new series celebrates the endless variety and unique appeal of one of fiction's great genres. Call for the Dead John le Carré SS-GB Len Deighton Maigret and the Headless Corpse George Simenon In a Lonely Place Dorothy B Hughes Cotton Comes to Harle...
Apr 03, 2023•40 min
SARAH SULTOON - DIRT , RONNIE TURNER - SO PRETTY & VANDA SYMON - EXPECTANT chat to Paul Burke about their latest novels. EXPECTANT A pregnant Sam Shephard investigates the murder of an expectant mother in Dunedin, as it becomes clear that the killer is ready to strike again … Queen of New Zealand Crime, Vanda Symon, returns with a shocking, twisty new Sam Shephard thriller… Vanda Symon is a crime writer, health researcher and radio host from Dunedin, New Zealand, and the chair of the Otago S...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Descriptor: Season 4 Episode 6: Live podcast recording as part of the On The Sofa Roadshow. The rise of the epistolary novel and its challenges. Why we’re all armchair detectives. And what goes into making a page turner Final Roadshow Event : Tickets here↓ Join Peter James, Graham Bartlett, Simon Toyne & William Shaw #OnTheSofa With Victoria Selman at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton 13th April. To get tickets click → Eventbrite . VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Da...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 10 min
ALIS HAWKINS chats to Paul Burke about her new literary historical mystery A BITTER REMEDY (Canelo Crime), Welsh history, the Teifi Valley Coroner, Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival and a strange male affliction or is it... A BITTER REMEDY : Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow… Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man’s ...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 17 min
JOHN LINCOLN (WILLIAMS) chats to Paul Burke about his new novel GREY IN THE DARK , a journey in American crime fiction, CLR James and South Wales. GREY IN THE DARK : Too many people loved Kelly Rowland. One of them killed her, but was it the man in prison for her murder? Gethin Grey and the Last Resort Legals team investigate another miscarriage of justice, taking them from post-industrial dereliction of the South Wales Valleys to the gated communities of the Cardiff docklands. Gethin Grey is ba...
Mar 21, 2023•53 min
KATE HAMER, PETER SWANSON, TOVE ALSTERDAL & CHARLOTTE VASSELL chat to Paul Burke in a special episode featuring four FABER authors who have just published a new thriller/crime novel. KATE HAMER The Lost Girls 'Reads like a shiver down the spine.' ANNA BAILEY PETER SWANSON The Kind Worth Saving 'Smart, surprising, cool and fun, with a deeply satisfying ending. I loved it!' -- Gillian McAllister (The Kind Worth Killing) TOVE ALSTERDAL trans. Alice Menzies You Will Never Be Found 'Strong charac...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 32 min
Season 4 Episode 5: Live recorded in Whitley Bay. Why True crime is Stranger Than Fiction: ABIGAIL DEAN, FIONA CUMMINS & CARA HUNTER join Victoria in an event at Bay Tales. Final Roadshow Event : Tickets here↓ Join Peter James, Graham Bartlett, Simon Toyne & William Shaw #OnTheSofa With Victoria Selman at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton 13th April. To get tickets click → Eventbrite . VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply Amazon Author Page: https://amz...
Mar 14, 2023•55 min
CRIME TIME FM is pleased to support the 1st podcast by VERVE BOOKS. We hope you'll continue to follow and enjoy our podcasts but why not check this out too: VERVE Voices is the brand-new in-house podcast from indie fiction publisher VERVE Books. In this episode, editor Jenna Gordon interviews attorney, speaker and activist Robyn Gigl on her debut novel, BY WAY OF SORROW, published by VERVE Books in the UK on 16th March 2023. BY WAY OF SORROW is the first book in Gigl's 'ground-breaking' (New Yor...
Mar 10, 2023•34 min
JULIA BARTZ chats to Paul Burke about her psychological thriller THE WRITING RETREAT, therapy, inspiration, THE WRITING RETREAT Five attendees are selected for a month-long writing retreat at the remote estate of Roza Vallo, the controversial high priestess of feminist horror. Alex, a struggling writer, is thrilled. Upon arrival, they discover they must complete an entire novel from scratch, and the best one will receive a seven-figure publishing deal. Alex’s long-extinguished dream now seems wi...
Mar 07, 2023•53 min
JOHN SAYLES chats to Paul Burke about his historical novel JAMIE MacGILLIVRAY , the dialogue of Peter Cooke & Dudley Moore, British grub, perspectives of history and historical fiction. JAMIE MacGILLIVRAY : It begins in the highlands of Scotland in 1746, at the Battle of Culloden, the last desperate stand of the Stuart 'pretender' to the throne of the Three Kingdoms, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and his rabidly loyal supporters. Vanquished with his comrades by the forces of the Hanoverian (and Pro...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr 5 min
HEADS TOGETHER - the OFF TO THE SEASIDE Episode - the watchlist, podcast updates, Barry's Blu-rays, the Dahl issue and a special feature with Paul and Victoria chatting to William Shaw about the Crime Time FM #OnTheSofa Roadshow Finale in BRIGHTON, The Friends Meeting House on 13th March 6PM. William Shaw is an award-winning music journalist and the author of several non-fiction books . Prior to becoming a crime writer, he worked at ZigZag and as a journalist for The Observer, The New York Times...
Mar 01, 2023•43 min
CAIMH 'CK'McDONNELL chats to Paul Burke about LOVE WILL TEAR US APART , the Stranger Times series, comedy writing, having.p a fecund imagination. LOVE WILL TEAR US APART : Love can be a truly terrible thing. Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead. Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times , has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now, against all odds, it seems he may actually be proved right; but what...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 15 min
CHRIS LLOYD chats to Paul Burke about his new historical thriller Paris Requiem , Eddie Giral, wartime Paris, living in Catalonia, the little people of history. PARIS REQUIEM : Paris, September 1940. After three months under Nazi Occupation, not much can shock Detective Eddie Giral. That is, until he finds a murder victim who was supposed to be in prison. Eddie knows, because he put him there. The dead man is not the first or the last criminal being let loose onto the streets. But who is pulling...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Season 4 Episode 4: PETER JAMES (Roy Grace) & ex Chief Superintendent GRAHAM BARTLETT (Jo Howe series) prove why truth is just as strange (& funny) as fiction! Passport forgeries, lunch with ex cons & being taken for an FBI agent. Join Peter James, Graham Bartlett, Simon Toyne & William Shaw #OnTheSofa With Victoria Selman at the Friends Meeting House, Brighton 13th April, tickets from Eventbrite . Peter James Looking Good Dead . New stage play, dates and details VICTORIA SELMAN ...
Feb 21, 2023•27 min
