ROXIE KEY chats to Paul about her new novel THE DEADLY SPARK , Brighton, diversity in crime fiction, THE DEADLY SPARK Deadly fires are lighting up Brighton, and the latest case is alarmingly close to home for DC Eve Starling. The blaze was deliberately set, and a mother and daughter didn’t make it out of the smoke. Eve’s investigation takes her deep into her own uncomfortable past. When her key witness disappears, and with the killer always one step ahead, Eve is desperate to solve the case – wh...
Sep 04, 2024•39 min
ANTONIA SENIOR , writer, critic, journalist and podcaster chats to Paul about Spymasters - the book and the podcast, the Cambridge Five, historical fiction and Spymasters podcast Writer and journalist Antonia Senior interviews all the best writers on espionage. Each episode will bring you fascinating stories on spies, covert action and more – delving in to fact and fiction, past and present. Antonia can be found on X @Tonisenio r. Do please follow us on X @SpyMastersPod and spread the word. We w...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 7 min
The review Show August Featuring: Steve Cavanagh Witness 8 ✓ Blood Like Mine Stuart Neville✓ Fire and Bones Kathy Reichs✓ Ruthless Anne Mette Hancock✓ Pursuit of Death Gunnar Staalesen✓ The Missing and the Dead E M Scott ✓ Holmes & Moriarty Gareth Rubin✓ Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction contribution). He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2024. His first book An Encyclopedia of Spy Fict...
Aug 26, 2024•9 min
AVA GLASS chats to Paul about her new thriller THE TRAP , Emma Makepeace, meeting yr first spy and the FBI novel to come... THE TRAP : How far would you go to catch a killer? This is the question UK agent Emma Makepeace must ask herself when she is sent to Edinburgh for the upcoming global G7 Summit. The Russians are in town and Emma and her team know a high-profile assassination is being planned. But who is their target? There is only one way to find out. Emma must set a trap using herself as b...
Aug 22, 2024•55 min
MICHAEL ROBOTHAM chats to Craig Sisterson about his new thriller STORM CHILD , Evie Cormac, writing away from home, the secret award, German TV adaptations... STORM CHILD The storm is coming... The most painful of Evie Cormac's memories have been locked away, ever since she was held prisoner as a child - a child whose rescue captured hearts and headlines. Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven's mission is to guide her to something near normality. But today, on a Lincolnshire beach, seventeen bodies ...
Aug 16, 2024•47 min
Sunday Times bestseller, VICTORIA SELMAN chats to Financial Times critic, BARRY FORSHAW about her writing journey and latest novel; the critically acclaimed true crime inspired thriller, All The Little Liars just released in paperback, (15/8). VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS 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 T...
Aug 13, 2024•28 min
Season 6 Episode 8: Serial Killers MARNIE RICHES (THE SILENT DEAD) & CHRIS CARTER (THE DEATH WATCHER) criminal/forensic psychology, criminologists, killer profiles, reasons to kill or none. Recommendations Seven The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris The Whisper Man Alex North VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @VictoriaSelman We love to...
Aug 06, 2024•41 min
The latest crime, thriller and mystery releases - July 2024. Tim Weaver The Missing Family Michael Joseph Emma Bamford Eye of the Beholder Simon & Schuster Charlotte Philby The End of Summer Borough Press Joseph Knox Imposter Syndrome Double Day Atsuhiro Yoshida Goodnight Tokyo Europa Editions trans. Haydn Trowell Gauz Comrade Papa MacLehose Press trans. Frank Wynne Sarah Ward The Vanishing Act Canelo Crime Simon McCleave Last Night at the Villa Lucia Storm Andrey Kurkov Our Daily War Open B...
Jul 31, 2024•12 min
Emma Viskic , Dinuka McKenzie , Charity Norman & Helen Fitzgerald in conversation with Craig Sisterson. All contributed to the anthology DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER 2 . DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER 2 features a cohort of criminally good Australian and New Zealand crime and mystery writers. Once again we have a mix of legendary figures, award-winners, bestsellers, and an array of fresh perspectives and rising stars. Spend time with 22 of your favourite Aussie and Kiwi authors and characters, and meet some...
Jul 25, 2024•57 min
Trevor Wood chats to Sarah Moorhead about his new police thriller The Silent Killer, early on set Alzheimer's, family, humour, homelessness and Glastonbury (see pic). THE SILENT KILLER : THE CLOCK IS TICKING. THERE'S NO ESCAPE. DCI Jack Parker has faced down hardened villains and raving, drug-addled lunatics. He's disarmed a machete-wielding psychopath and broken devastating news of a loved one's death more times than he can remember. With a serial killer stalking the Newcastle streets and one o...
Jul 17, 2024•52 min
JAMES LEE BURKE chats to Paul Burke about his career, Dave Robicheaux, Flags on the Bayou , Clete , Louisiana, the Diamond Dagger, voices, fentanyl, Knights Errant and cooking for Davy Crockett. Clete Clete Purcel - private investigator, ex-member of the New Orleans Police Department, and war veteran with a hard shell and just a few soft spots - is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete leaves his car at the local car wash, only to...
Jul 12, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Paul Burke introduces a special show dedicated to the CWA Dagger Awards Evening 4/7/24. Victoria Selman and Imran Mahmood host the evening celebration of all things crime. Lisa Jewell delivers a thought provoking and challenging the key note speech, James Lee Burke and Lynda la Plante accept the life time achievement awards. CWA Chair Vaseem Khan talks about the power of story and all short listed authors and winners are announced.* Full list of winners here: Daggers Award Winners Paul Burke wri...
Jul 07, 2024•1 hr 1 min
LAURA SIMS chats to Paul about her new novel HOW CAN I HELP YOU , libraries, the discipline of poetry, HOW CAN I HELP YOU : No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges. ...
Jul 02, 2024•43 min
Erin Kelly (THE HOUSE OF MIRRORS), Chris Whitaker (ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK) and Vanessa Walters (THE LAGOS WIFE) join moderator Victoria Selman (ALL THE LITTLE LIARS) at Capital Crime 2024 to discuss The Ties That Bind panel. Favourite reads, character, setting Recorded at CAPITAL CRIME 1ST JUNE 2024. Recommendations Tomorrow, Tomorrow Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Americanah, Half a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Binding - Bridget Collins To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Scien...
Jun 25, 2024•55 min
NATIONAL CRIME READING MONTH Special In conjunction with The Reading Agency & The Crime Writers' Association Crime Time FM has complied excerpts of reading events taking place around the country this June. Tickets are still available for some of the remaining events - for details head to crimereading.com This show: Antony Johnston introduces Steve Cavanagh, Ilana Berry, Shawn Cosby and Stuart Neville. Stu Cummins, chats to CL Taylor and TM Logan. Paul Burke, Barry Forshaw and Victoria Selman...
Jun 21, 2024•50 min
A round up of crime fiction for June 2024 by Paul Burke. Westport James Comey Head of Zeus A Killing in Paradise Elliot Sweeney Wildfire Armistice Day John Fullerton Partisan Press Eruption Michael Crighton & James Patterson Century Southern Man Greg Iles Hemlock Press The Bedlam Cadaver Robert J Lloyd Melville House Press A Divine Fury DV BISHOP Macmillan The Little Sparrow Murders Seícho Yokomizo trans. Bryan Karetnyk, Pushkin Vertigo The Mercy Chair MW Craven Constable French Windows Anto...
Jun 18, 2024•15 min
V6 E8 #OnTheSofa Victoria is joined by authors MELANIE GOLDING (LITTLE DARLINGS) and JM HEWITT (THE PERFECT VILLAGE) who use folklore as inspiration for their novels. Recommendations David L Jones - The Ipswich Witch Su Bristow - Seal Skin Catriona Ward Sally Magnusson - The Ninth Child, The Sealwoman's Gift VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter...
Jun 11, 2024•37 min
BEN PASTOR chats to Paul about her new literary historical crime novel THE VENUS OF SALÒ , Martin Bora, Totalitarianism, Rome, writing in English, growing up in a divided world, Shaun the Sheep. THE VENUS OF SALÒ October 1944, in the Republic of Salò, a German puppet state in the north of Italy and the last fascist stronghold in the country. After months of ferocious fighting on the Gothic Line, Colonel Martin Bora of the Wehrmacht is handed a new, red-hot case. Transferred to the town of Salò o...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Paul Burke talks to SIMON TOYNE (host) and JANE CASEY (panellist) about the 5th SLAUGHTERFEST in London on 11th June, 2024. Panels The Art of Detection True Detectives Murderous Motives & Clare Mackintosh & Lucy Foley in conversation with Ryan Turbridy Event is sold out but will appear on You Tube on 20th June to coincide with the release of Karin Slaughter's new novel THIS IS WHY WE LIED. Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature...
May 31, 2024•40 min
#OnTheSofa Season 6 Episode 6. Closed Circle Mysteries and other puzzles. Victoria investigates how to craft the perfect puzzle with fellow authors, Claire Douglas The Wrong Sister and Claire McGowan Truth, Truth, Lie Recommendations and mentions: Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie, John Creasey, Save The Cat Jessica Brody, Barbara Vine, Sabine Durrant. The Secret History Donna Tartt, The Time Traveller's Wife Audrey Niffenegger. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIAR...
May 28, 2024•37 min
In a special edition guest presenter SCOTT BLACKBURN chats to HENRY WISE about his debut novel HOLY CITY * , MFA programmes, writing-working-family, begin with a million words. Available 6/4 in USA. HOLY CITY After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, razed f...
May 24, 2024•1 hr 3 min
DAN MALAKIN chats to Paul Burke about his new novel THE WRECKAGE OF US , (available 6/6/24), cyber crime, Bridport prize, THE BOX, sci-fi, high concept ideas, work-life balance. THE WRECKAGE OF US It's always the husband... Isn't it? Astrid Webb is missing. The police have found her car crashed near the woods, the driver's door open, the seat spotted with blood. But there's no sign of Astrid herself, a sick woman who rarely left her house, who surely couldn't have left the scene of the accident ...
May 22, 2024•56 min
WILLIAM SHAW chats to Paul about his new novel THE WILD SWIMMERS , music journalism, respecting the arts, CJ Sansom (RIP), Breen & Tozer, Alexandra Cupidi and unbridled wealth. THE WILD SWIMMERS If only Alexandra Cupidi had turned south instead of north, she would have found the dead woman. Instead it is her vulnerable daughter Zoë who stumbles across Mimi Greene's lifeless body on the shoreline. A regular wild swimmer with a group of close friends, it's out of character for Mimi to have bee...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Ain't That Truth: Where Crime Fact Meets Crime Fiction Season 6 Episode 5 Victoria Selman & Cara Hunter chaired by Triona Adams Live from the Oxford Literary Festival: Victoria and Cara Hunter explore our our apparently unquenchable thirst for true crime and ask why the genre is often stranger than fiction. Cara Hunter Murder in the Family: LUKE RYDER’S MURDER HAS NEVER BEEN SOLVED. In October 2003, Luke Ryder was found dead in the garden of the family home in London, leaving behind a wealth...
May 14, 2024•55 min
New crime fiction titles for May 2024. novels: Fiona McPhillips When We Were Silent John Connolly The Instruments of Darkness Aslak Nore Sea Cemetery Emiko Jean The Next Girl Kellye Garrett Missing White Woman Jennifer Lee Thompson Vigilante City Dark Deeds Down Under Vol.2 eds. Craig Sisterson and Lindy Cameron Olivier Norek Between Two Worlds Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 202...
May 10, 2024•9 min
DUGALD BRUCE-LOCKHART chats to Paul Burke about his new novel SECOND SKIN , spy fiction, acting directing & memoir, going away to find himself and losing the plot, Greece, THE LIZARD . SECOND SKIN : Five years after a murderous encounter on the island of Paros, Alastair Haston’s world is upended by a startling discovery: a son he never knew existed. Desperate to learn more, he travels to Athens, but his pursuit is intercepted when MI6 intervenes, coercing him into a high-stakes espionage mis...
May 07, 2024•57 min
JOSEPH KANON chats to Paul Burke about his new spy thriller SHANGHAI , SHANGHAI Daniel Lohr, sensing that the Nazis are closing in on the Jews, leaves his dying father in Berlin and boards a ship to Shanghai. His passage is dependent upon him delivering a package to his shady uncle, his father’s brother, upon arrival. Daniel has no idea what the package contains. On board is Leah, also fleeing the Nazis. She and Daniel conduct a passionate but brief shipboard affair, but are separated as soon as...
May 03, 2024•1 hr 16 min
CHRIS HARDING THORNTON chats to Paul Burke about her new novel LITTLE UNDERWORLD , being a seventh generation Nebraskan, noir, PICKARD COUNTY ATLAS and music. LITTLE UNDERWORLD : Omaha, 1930. When ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely murders the man who assaulted his fourteen-year-old daughter, the last person he wants to see is local crooked cop Frank Tvrdik. Luckily, Frank isn’t interested in the lifeless body in Jim’s car. Frank has a proposition: he’ll make the dead man disappear if Jim helps take dow...
May 03, 2024•1 hr 11 min
On The Sofa With Victoria - Season 6 Episode 4: ROBERT RUTHERFORD (SEVEN DAYS) & ROBERT GOLD (TWELVE). Few Crime genres grab our attention quite so much as the thriller. Victoria is joined by authors Robert Gold and Robert Rutherford to unpick what makes some thrillers more thrilling than others. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com Twitter: @Victo...
Apr 30, 2024•38 min
DAVID HEWSON chats to Paul Burke about BAPTISTE: THE AXE MUST FALL, The Killing, Nic Costa, Pieter Vos, Venice, Shakespeare, Audible, writing the official prequel to the hit television show and Kopfkino. BAPTISTE: THE AXE MUST FALL. France, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead after bloody clothes are found close to an illicit party near an abandoned chateau. Baptiste believes h...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 6 min
