ROB PARKER chats to Paul about THE TROUBLED DEEP : A Cam Killick Norfolk Mystery, Ben Bracken, Audible Books, working with young minds, PTSD, loving location, knee injuries and kismet. THE TROUBLED DEEP : Nobody ever knew what happened to the Brindleys. One summer they were there - flashy, loud and beautiful - and then they were gone. A mother, father and two children, vanished into the East Anglian night. Some said the family never made it home from the party; their speeding car thrown off the ...
Jan 16, 2025•1 hr 2 min
#ONTHESOFA - Season 7 - The Final Episode . TM 'Tim' Logan, THE DREAM HOME, chats to Victoria Selman (ALL THE LITTLE LIARS) at Waterstones, Reading. Inspirations, the need to know but will the truth will set you free? every word should count, short chapters & the climax. T.M. Logan is a Sunday Times bestseller whose thrillers have sold more than two million copies in the UK and are published in 22 countries around the world. The Holiday was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and was adapted i...
Jan 14, 2025•54 min
WES BROWNE chats to Scott Blackburn & Paul Burke about his noir THEY ALL FALL THE SAME , (US Amazon link) why it wasn't called Spoon, the Appalachians, North Carolina, pizza and community. They All Fall the Same: Cannabis kingpin Burl Spoon has reigned over the Jackson County area for three decades, building a powerful backwoods empire. But behind a well-run organization, his personal life is crumbling - his daughter can't stay clean; his son has hated him since coming out; and after endurin...
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Johana Gustawsson & Thomas Enger chat to Paul at Newcastle Noir about their upcoming crime thriller SON , Psychoanalysis, memory, scheduling, SON Everyone here is lying… Expert on body language and memory, and consultant to the Oslo Police, psychologist Kari Voss sleepwalks through her days, and, by night, continues the devastating search for her young son, who disappeared on his birthday, seven years earlier. Still grieving for her dead husband, and trying to pull together the pieces of her...
Jan 02, 2025•47 min
THE REVIEW SHOW DECEMBER 2024 - New titles published end 2024 & early January 2025. Locked In Jussi Adler-Olsen After the Bridge Andrew J Field The Traitor Jørn Lier Horst The Ancients John Larison 2/1/25 The Broken River Chris Hammer 2/1/25 Lie of the Land Kerry Hadley-Price 6/1/25 The Less Unkind Rosaria Giorgi 28/1/25 Blood Sacrifice Douglas Jackson Losing Control Fiona Erskine Murder Mindfully Karsten Dusse 2/1/25 Dead Man’s Shoes Marion Todd 9/1/25 Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine...
Dec 29, 2024•14 min
ADAM HAMDY chats to Paul about his new thriller DEADBEAT, what would make an ordinary person commit murder, what would drive you that far, screenwriting, depp dive characters, the morality of true crime, judging heroes and villains. ADAM HAMDY DEADBEAT Peyton Collard was a good man once, but his life changed after a horrific car accident. Divorced, drunk, and severely damaged, Peyton is offered a life-changing sum of money to kill an evil man. But as he goes on a vigilante journey that leaves a ...
Dec 23, 2024•33 min
ALISON GAYLIN chats to Paul about her new hardboiled thriller BUZZ KILL , a Sunny Randall novel, Robert B Parker's Boston, writing psychological thrillers and a love of 70s conspiracy movies. BUZZ KILL Sunny Randall is hired to investigate the disappearance of an energy drink company’s CEO, Dylan. As she gets closer to finding Dylan, she learns not only of his bad behaviour toward numerous women, but of his bad behaviour within the business world – and his energy drink that, despite its marketin...
Dec 19, 2024•53 min
Newcastle Noir 10th Anniversary - The Panels Episode 2 of 3 Death in Paradise: Julie Anderson with Phoebe Morgan and Megan Davis A Kaleidoscope of Heroines: Jacky Collins with Harriet Tyce, Fiona Erskine and Marie Tierney Black Stage for Death: Frances Walker with Howard Linskey and Guy Hale Investigating Crime: Jacky Collins with Graham Bartlett, Trevor Wood and Mari Hannah Panel excerpts - there is a low level background noise to this show, the cost of recording in a hall live at an event. Sad...
Dec 16, 2024•59 min
The Newcastle Noir Review Show on Crime Time FM featuring Trevor Wood, Sam Holland, Antony Johnstone, Jo Furniss, Rob Parker, Michael Wood and Paul Burke . The panel select some of their favourite crime novels of 2024 and look ahead to 2025. Selected Books Stuart Neville Blood Like Mine Dom Nolan White City The Escape Room LD Smithson Spiral Cameron Ward Peepshow Kate Summerscale Three Inch Teeth CJ Box The Finder novellas Simon Mason Sanctuary Garry Disher The Twelve Murders of Christmas Sarah ...
Dec 14, 2024•1 hr 25 min
Season 7 Episode 5 : Screenplay Writing . What can novelists learn from screenplay writers? How does writing for film, TV and streaming work. Alex Michaelides THE FURY (The Devil You Know & The Con is On) and Suk Pannu DEAD AND SCONE (Goodness, Gracious, Me & The Kumars at No.42) Share their extensive experience and knowledge of the industry/art. Desert Island Films: Vertigo dir. Alfred Hitchcock Star Wars: New Hope dir. George Lucas Casablanca dir. Michael Curtiz Memoirs: On Writing Ste...
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 1 min
CHRIS MCGINLEY chats to Paul about Once These Hills It’s 1898. Up on Black Boar Mountain in eastern Kentucky, life is quiet for the small settlement of farmers who work the land around their cabins. But when ten-year old Lydia King unearths an ancient, preserved body on the seep bog, a curse is let loose. At least that’s what some people believe. They might be right. Down in the valley, the Railroad uses convict labor to lay track, hell bent on timbering all of the hillside. Problem is, a trio o...
Dec 03, 2024•35 min
THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE 2024: Maxim Jakubowski, Ayo Onatade, Jake Kerridge, Victoria Selman, Paul Burke and compere Barry Forshaw discuss their crime fiction best books of the year. The full list of books is available on the Crime Time website from 2/12/24. Produced by Junkyard Dog Crime Time Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025 CrimeFest 2023 CWA Daggers 2023 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month & Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024 20...
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 13 min
SEASON 7 EPISODE 4: SUSPENSE Alice Feeney (Daisy Darker) & Claire Douglas (The Wrong Sister) join Victoria Selman to discuss, wait for it...suspense in Crime Fiction. 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 Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria ...
Nov 26, 2024•35 min
GJ Williams, AJ Aberford & Alec Marsh chat to Paul Burke about their latest novels. Coming into the Christmas period it's easy for the major players to get publicity but what about Indie authors are they squeezed out at this time of the year. Not on this platform. GJ Williams THE WOLF'S SHADOW Tudor Kardashians, Dr. Dee polymath, Tudor politics and intrigue. Legend Press. AJ Aberford THE CAR HORN REVOLUTION, Malta, conspiracy and corruption, humour. Hobeck Books. Alec Marsh CUT AND RUN, Fran...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 49 min
Crime Fiction Review November 2024. Victim Thomas Enger & Jørn Lier Horst Nothing But the Truth by Robyn Gigl Simon Kernick You All Die Tonight Revenge of Rome Simon Scarrow The Queen of Cups Murders GB Williams The Outsider Jane Casey When the Germans Come David Hewson Spydle Dr Gareth Moore & Laura Jane Ayres Secrets and Lies Quintin Jardine The Ghosts of Paris Tara Moss Silver Moon Rising A M Potter Men of Action Ed Robertson Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime F...
Nov 15, 2024•13 min
#OnTheSofa Season 7 Episode 3: Portrayal of gendered violence in fiction, particularly femicide, the murder of women on account of gender. Victoria is Joined by JOAN SMITH author of Unfortunately She Was a Nymphomaniac , ARAMINTA HALL One of the Good Guys and ADAM LEBOR the Danube Blues series. 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: @VictoriaSel...
Nov 12, 2024•29 min
DOMINIC NOLAN chats to Paul about WHITE CITY , character, tone, London and villains. WHITE CITY: It's 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs. An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious, the police red-faced. They have suspicions but no leads. Hunches but no proof. For two families, it is more than just a sensational headline, as their fa...
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr 25 min
MERLE NYGATE chats to Paul about her spy thriller HONOUR AMONG SPIES , Eli Amiran, screenwriting, research and HONOUR AMONG SPIES : At the heart of London's spy operations, Mossad head of station Eli carries the scars of a past disaster while grappling with the turbulent political landscape back home. His resolve to uphold his duty and keep his job is tested like never before. Desperate to tip the scales in the espionage game, Eli concocts a risky plan involving tampered drones destined for Russ...
Nov 04, 2024•58 min
Episode Two : On The Road With Victoria: Nicci French HAS ANYONE SEEN CHARLOTTE SALTER Live event at Waterstones Colchester with dynamic duo Nicci French (aka husband & wife writing team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French) and a fascinating discussion ranging from inspiration to AI. 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 t...
Oct 29, 2024•59 min
I S Berry chats to Paul Burke about her espionage thriller THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW , already an Edgar First Novel, Barry and ITW Award Winner in the US, just published in the UK. The only female former field agent writing spy fiction. THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain for his final tour, he’s anxious to dispense with his mission ― uncovering Iranian support for the insurgency. But then he meets Almaisa, a...
Oct 24, 2024•1 hr 6 min
JOSIE LLOYD chats to Paul Burke about MISS BEETON'S MURDER AGENCY , Mrs Beaton, breast cancer, comedy, cosy crime, making drunk promises to run marathons. Miss Beeton's Murder Agency : Alice Beeton never meant to wind up single and childless on the wrong side of fifty. Like her distant relative Mrs Beeton – yes, that Mrs Beeton – she had hoped to have her own spic-and-span household by now. In reality, she lives in an immaculate but dingy basement flat in a rather shabby block in Kensington with...
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Season Seven #OnTheSofa Episode One: On The Road With Victoria: Lisa Jewell NONE OF THIS IS TRUE & Mark Edwards THE DARKEST WATERS. Live event at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road with legends Lisa Jewell and Mark Edwards talking about everything from killing people in sand to Marvel superheroes. 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: @Victor...
Oct 15, 2024•55 min
THE REVIEW SHOW OCTOBER 2024 The Blue Hour Paula Hawkins Disturbing the Bones Andrew Davis & Jeff Biggers Edith Holler Edward Carey Dark as Night Lilja Sigardardóttir trans. Lorenzo Garcia The Great When Alan Moore Angélique Guillaume Musso Identity Unknown Patricia Cornwell In Too Deep Andrew Lee Child Quick comment reviews: The labyrinth house murders Yukito Ayatsuji trans. Ho-Ling Wong The Forest of Lost Souls Dean Koontz Here One Minute ...Gone the Next Alex Lake And And There There Were...
Oct 11, 2024•13 min
CHRISTINE BOYER chats to Paul about her noir crime debut Black Maria, the American dream, honing style, short story v novel, psychogeography, regional fiction. BLACK MARIA: Business magnate Thomas Farney and Detective Felix Kosmatka both want the same thing: to catch the monster who brutally murdered Farney's young grandson. Thomas, brutal and savvy, didn't become wealthy by playing by the rules or kowtowing to authority. Felix, smart but green, still believes in the integrity of law and order.....
Oct 08, 2024•57 min
KATE SUMMERSCALE chats to Paul about her new history THE PEEPSHOW , 10 Rillington Place, misogyny & male violence, the cultural and wider societal impact of a notorious murder. THE PEEPSHOW : London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. But they have already investigated a double...
Oct 01, 2024•57 min
KATE RHODES chats to Paul Burke about her new thriller THE STALKER , The Isles of Scilly mysteries, stalking, and Cambridge. THE STALKER Elly is an expert in stalking – an academic at Cambridge University and a popular media pundit. She knows the subject intimately: what motivates a stalker, how they behave, how to rehabilitate them. But now it’s personal. Someone is following her, making silent phone calls and sending her ominous notes. The message is always the same – me or you . Elly can’t tr...
Sep 24, 2024•40 min
Craig Sisterson chats to ATTICA LOCKE about her new novel Guide Me Home , screenwriting and TV, Crime Writers of Colour and Texas. Guide Me Home Texas Ranger Darren Mathews has handed in his badge. A choice made three years before, which served justice if not the law, means that he may now stand trial. And his mother - an intermittent and destructive force in his life - is the cause of his fall from grace. And yet it is his mother's reappearance that may also be his salvation. A black girl at an...
Sep 19, 2024•45 min
The review Show September 2024. The latest selection of new releases. Peter May The Black Loch Simon Mason Missing Person: Alice & The Case of the Lonely Accountant Doug Johnstone Living is a Problem The Torments Michael J Malone Murder in Constantinople AE Goldin A Reluctant Spy David Goodman The Exopotamia Manuscript Maxim Jakubowski The Best Crime Stories of the Year ed. Anthony Horowitz & Otto Penzler The American Mission Matthew Palmer Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime T...
Sep 16, 2024•13 min
ABIR MUKHERJEE chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller HUNTED at the Liphook Millennium Centre 3/9/24. HUNTED IN A RACE AGAINST TIME, WHAT IF THE GREATEST THREAT WAS YOUR OWN CHILD? It’s a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall… In London, armed police storm Heathrow Airport and arrest Sajid Khan. His daughter Aliyah entered the USA with the suicide bomber, and now she’s missing, potentially plotting another attack. But then a mysterious woman calle...
Sep 12, 2024•1 hr 5 min
CRIME SCENE @ Cardiff Central Library Hub Festival 7th September, 2024 Crime Crossover: MARIE ANNE COPE, GJ WILLIAMS, ABI BARDEN (GB Williams) Shaping a series: SARAH WARD, DAVID PENNY JACQUELINE HARRETT ALIS HAWKINS chats to Paul Burke about The Skeleton Army Produced by Junkyard Dog Crime Time Sponsors & thanks to: Cardiff Central Library Hub, Cardiff Council, Diamond Crime Books, the CWA, Crime Cymru and David Penny, Potter a'i Gwmni and to Preeti and Gordon of the library. Paul Burke wri...
Sep 08, 2024•1 hr
