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
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Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman

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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, an enigmatic artist, and his eyes are opened to a side of Bahrain most expats never experience, to questions he never thought to ask.
When his trusted informant becomes embroiled in a murder, Collins finds himself drawn deep into the conflict, his romance and loyalties upended. In an instant, he’s caught in the crosswinds of a revolution. He sets out to learn the truth behind the Arab Spring, win Almaisa’s love, and uncover the murky border where Bahrain’s secrets end and America’s begin.
Now optioned for film by Scott Delman of Shadowfox productions (Producer of HBO Max hit series Station Eleven).

I. S. Berry spent six years as an operations officer for the CIA and has lived and worked in Europe and the Middle East, including two years in Bahrain during the Arab Spring. She has a degree in Law from the University of Virginia, and is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, International Association of Crime Writers, and the Association of Former Intelligence Workers. The Peacock and The Sparrow was her debut novel, published in 2023. Berry currently lives in Virginia with her husband and son.

Recommended
The Little Drummer Girl John Le Carré, The Quiet American Graham Greene, The Innocent Ian McEwan, The Attack Yasmina Khadra, Joseph Kanon, David McCloskey & Paul Vidich.
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 Fiction will be out in late 2025.

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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 called Carrie turns up at Sajid’s door after travelling halfway across the world. She claims Aliyah is with her son Greg, and she knows where they could be.
Back in the US, Agent Shreya Mistry is closing in on the two fugitives. But the more she investigates, the more she realises this case is far from as simple as it seems.
Hunted by the authorities, the two parents are thrown together in a race against time to find their kids before the FBI does and stop a catastrophe that will bring the world to its knees.

ABIR MUKHERJEE is the bestselling author of the award-winning Wyndham & Banerjee series of crime novels set in 1920s India. His books have been translated into fifteen languages and won various awards including the CWA Dagger for best Historical Novel, the Prix du Polar Européen, and the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing. He also co-hosts the popular Red Hot Chilli Writers podcast which takes a wry look at the world of books, writing, and the creative arts, tackling everything from bestsellers to pop culture.
Abir grew up in Scotland and now lives in Surrey with his wife and two sons.
Website: abirmukherjee.com
Twitter, Threads & Instagram: @radiomukhers
Facebook: AuthorAbir

Recommendation
THE NAMESAKE JHUMPA LAHIRI

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 Fiction will be out in late 2025.

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ANDREW NETTE chats new heist thriller ORPHAN ROAD, Gunshine State, pulp fiction and bodgies & widgies.

ORPHAN ROAD Gary Chance is an ex-Australian army driver and nightclub bouncer turned professional thief and in need of a job. An offer comes from a former employer, once notorious Melbourne social identity, now aging owner of a failing S&M club, Vera Leigh.
A shadowy real estate developer is trying to squeeze Leigh out of a rapidly gentrifying city. But she has a rescue plan that involves one of Australia’s biggest heists, Melbourne’s Great Bookie Robbery. On April 21, 1976, a well organised gang stole as much as three million dollars, a fortune at the time, from a Melbourne bookmakers club. The money was never recovered. No one was charged. And everyone associated with the crime has since died, either by natural causes or violently.
Leigh maintains that money was not the only thing stolen that day. So was a stash of uncut South African diamonds. And she wants Chance’s help to retrieve them. Problem is, they are not the only ones looking.
The heist always goes wrong and the consequences, even half a century later, can be deadly.

ANDREW NETTE is an author of fiction and non-fiction, pulp scholar and lover of all things noir. He is the author of three novels, Ghost Money, a crime story set in Cambodia in the mid-nineties, and the heist thriller, Gunshine State and the sequel Orphan Road.
He is co-editor of Girl Gangs, Biker Boys & Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction & Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980, and Sticking it to the Man:Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1956 to 1980, forthcoming in 2019.
His short fiction has appeared in a number of print publications, including The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir (Three Rooms Press, 2017), Crime Scenes, an anthology of Australian crime fiction (Spineless Wonders, 2016), and Phnom Penh Noir (Heaven Lake Press, 2012). His online home is www.pulpcurry.com or you can follow him on Twitter @Pulpcurry

Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback (Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture).

Recommend - Books: Carter Brown, Philip Kerr, Ernesto Mello, Peter Temple, Wallace Stroby, Peter Corris The Dying Trade, Gabrielle Lord The Fortress. Film: The Beast of the City, Nightmare Alley, The Beguiled, Mr. Inbetween, Mystery Road, Limbo, Phoenix.

Guy Hale for info on Guy Hale and Hillside Global and the music of Mike Zito ft. Kid Anderson - Killing Me Softly.

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the

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DENISE MINA chats to Craig Sisterson about her new Marlowe novel THE SECOND MURDERER, revisiting the misogyny, racism,  Feminism

THE SECOND MURDERER:
"This is Marlowe."
"Mr. Philip Marlowe?" She asked.
I glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am, as if she had been waiting by the
phone for an appointed hour, following someone else's orders to the letter.
"What, d'you think we're a troupe of brothers? There is only me."
It's mid-September, a heatwave has descended on the parched hills of LA and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy twenty-two-year-old Chrissie Montgomery, set to inherit an enormous fortune, is missing.
She's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father, along with his sultry bottle blonde girlfriend, wants her found before that happens. They've hired Anna Riorden, Marlowe's nemesis, too. The search takes them to the roughest neighbourhoods of LA through dive bars and Skid Row. And that's before he finds the body at The Brody Hotel. Who will get to her first, Marlowe, Anne, or the men chasing her fortune? And does she want to be found?

DENISE MINA is the author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice and was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame in 2014. The Long Drop won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2017 as well as the Gordon Burn Prize and was named by The Times as one of the top ten crime novels of the decade. Conviction was the co-winner of the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2019 and was selected for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club. Denise has also written plays and graphic novels, and presented television and radio programmes. She lives and works in Glasgow.

Craig Sisterson is a features writer and crime fiction expert from New Zealand who writes for newspapers and magazines in several countries. In recent years he's interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at festivals on three continents. He's been a judge of the McIlvanney Prize and Ned Kelly Awards, and is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir. He lives in London with his daughter. He is the author of  SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME: The Pocket Essentials Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia & New Zealand.


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SEASON 5: EPISODE ONE - PUBLISHING GURUS, heavyweights Katherine Armstrong (Deputy Publishing Director - Simon & Schuster), Miranda Jewess - (Publishing Director Viper) and David Headley (leading literary agent - Goldsboro Books, DHH Literary Agency) join Victoria shedding light on the role of the advance in a book's success and what makes a publisher snap up a title.

Recommendation:
Publishing Rodeo Podcast
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
Goodnight Mr. Tom - Michelle Magorian
Danny the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl

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

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SARAH MOORHEAD chats to Paul Burke about her new speculative crime thriller   THE TREATMENT, Witness X, Liverpool, teaching, good & evil, Debut 20s and the godfather of the northern crime writing scene, young people today and Wizard of Oz meets Frankenstein.

THE TREATMENT: The future of law enforcement has arrived, courtesy of private health contractor Janus Justice. Their ground-breaking ‘Offender Treatment Programme’ has been hailed as the most effective way of tackling crime yet.
As offenders move through the four-tiered system, their needs are dealt with, each tier more drastic in its methods:
Tier One: Low-risk crimes. Physical therapy encouraged
Tier Two: Trauma and addiction. Emotional and psychological reasons for offending are examined
Tier Three: Aversion therapy & moral punishment
Tier Four: Siberia, where all hope is lost
But Grace Gunnarsson, one of Janus’ most highly regarded rehabilitation psychiatrists, has uncovered a terrible flaw in the system, one that is allowing people to get away with murder...

SARAH MOORHEAD - Born in Liverpool, Sarah Moorhead has told stories since childhood and uses writing as bubblegum for her over-active brain – to keep it out of trouble. Fascinated by meaning, motivation and mystery, she studied Theology at university.
Over the last twenty seven years, apart from teaching in secondary school, Sarah has attained a black belt in kickboxing, worked as a chaplain, established a Justice and Peace youth group, and written articles for newspapers and magazines about her work in education and religion. She still lives in her beloved hometown.

RECOMMENDATIONS
Susan Greenfield, John York, Will Storr, Lisa Kron, Stuart Turton, Anthony Burgess
Fiona Cumming - Into the Dark , All of Us are Broken

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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LEIGH RUSSELL chats to Paul about GS20, the latest Geraldine Steel novel WITHOUT TRACE  the art of writing a series, the new Poppy novels and dreaming of penning a successful comic novel one day.

WITHOUT TRACE She opened her mouth to scream, but he slapped something across her lips. The gag tasted of salt and mould, rough sacking on her tongue.With a terrifying certainty, she knew she was going to die.
DI Geraldine Steel knows people go missing all the time; sometimes because they don't want to be found. So when her partner Ian asks her to look into the disappearance of his football-buddy's girlfriend, her first instinct is to reassure him there's no need for concern.
Until she's called to a suspected murder, and all her instincts tell her she's right about the identity of the victim.
The young woman has earth and leaf mould and fragments of twigs in her long fair hair, her nose, her mouth, under her finger nails, clinging to her clothes. It's as if she'd been completely encased in earth. And yet she was found on the pavement, at the side of a suburban road, where she wasn't in contact with any soil or mud.
Had she managed to escape a living grave?
Without a crime scene, the investigation focuses on her boyfriend. But Ian insists his friend is incapable of murder, and Steel is torn. Without evidence, she knows their case is weak. But without evidence, can she let a possible killer go free?
She needs to find out what really happened. Where did the assault occur? Why are there traces of DNA from two other unidentified sources on the body? What reason could there be to attack a popular young woman who never did anyone any harm? And why bury her body so carelessly that she was able to escape?
Then another young woman is reported missing. Unless he has an accomplice, they have an innocent man in custody. And Steel is running out of time . . .

LEIGH RUSSELL has sold over one and a half million crime fiction novels. Her Geraldine Steel titles published by No Exit Press have appeared on many bestseller lists, and reached #1 on kindle. Leigh's work has been nominated for several major awards, including the CWA New Blood Dagger and CWA Dagger in the Library, and her books have been optioned by major television production company Avalon Television. She chairs the CWA Debut Dagger Award judges and is a Consultant Royal Literary Fellow.
Find out more about Leigh on her website http://www.leighrussell.co.uk where news, reviews and interviews are posted, with a schedule of Leigh's appearances. You can contact Leigh via her website, where you can subscribe to her newsletter and follow her on Twitter and facebook.

Recommendations - Graham Greene, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguru, Ian McEwan, Jean Plaidy, Ben Aaronovich, Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus.

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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VICTORIA SELMAN chats to Paul Burke about ALL THE LITTLE LIARS, Psychological depth in thrillers, what readers want, On The Sofa, victims and survivors and so much more...

ALL THE LITTLE LIARS: What REALLY happened at Turtle Lake? You think you know. Think again.
California, 2003
A thirteen-year-old girl disappears from a party at Carlsbad's Turtle Lake. Discovered on the trunk of a nearby cottonwood tree is the word 'LIAR' graffitied in blood.
What you know . . .
Three teenagers went to the lake that night but only two came back. Later, they confess to murdering their friend.
. . . is only part of the story
But did they really kill her? And if not, why say they did?
Told across two timelines and tapping into a horrific crime, All the Little Liars is a novel about sisterly love and toxic friendship that asks: how much would you sacrifice to belong?

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

Recommendations
Danya Kukafta Notes on an Execution
Clémence Michallon The Quiet Tenant
Ivy Pochoda These Women
Victor E. Frankl Man's Search for Meaning
Anything by Jeffery Deaver
Mentioned - Chaos Tom O'Neill

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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SJ PARRIS chats to Paul Burke about ALCHEMY, Giordano Bruno, religion, heresy, politics,  science and alchemy in the sixteenth century world, Hilary Mantel & Sophia 1599.

ALCHEMY: Prague, 1588.A COURT IN TURMOIL
The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, wants to expand the boundaries of human knowledge, and his court is a haven for scientists, astrologers and alchemists. His abiding passion is the feverish search for the philosopher’s stone and thus immortality. The Catholic Church fears he has pushed too far, into the forbidden realm of heresy – and the greatest powers in Christendom are concerned about the imperial line of succession.
A MURDERED ALCHEMIST
Giordano Bruno is sent to his court by Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I’s spymaster. His task: to contact the famous English alchemist and mystic John Dee, another of Walsingham’s spies. But Bruno’s arrival in Prague coincides with the brutal murder of a rival alchemist – and John Dee himself has disappeared.
AN UNFORGIVING ENEMY
Ordered by the emperor to find the killer, Bruno’s investigations bring him face to face with an old enemy from the Inquisition. But could the real danger lie elsewhere? Amidst the jostling factions at court and the religious tensions brewing in the city, Bruno has to track down a murderer as elusive as the elixir of life itself.

SJ PARRIS is the pen name of Stephanie Merritt who began reviewing books for national newspapers while she was reading English literature at Queens’ College, Cambridge. After graduating, she went on to become Deputy Literary Editor of The Observer in 1999. She continues to work as a feature writer and critic for the Guardian and the Observer and from 2007-2008 she curated and produced the Talks and Debates program on issues in contemporary arts and politics at London’s Soho Theatre. She has appeared as a panelist on various Radio Four shows and on BBC2’s Newsnight Review, and is a regular chair and presenter at the Hay Festival and the National Theatre. She has been a judge for the Costa Biography Award, the Orange New Writing Award and the Perrier Comedy Award. She lives in the south of England with her son.

Recommendations
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
Hilary Mantel
A Perfect Spy John le Carré
THE FRAUD ZADIE SMITH

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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Paul Burke reviews the latest titles in crime fiction and one wild card pick, authors Amanda Cassidy and Caro Ramsey tell us about thier new novels.

Novels:
A LINE IN THE SAND - Kevin Powers (Sceptre)
THE CONTINENTAL AFFAIR - Christine Mangan (Bedford Sq)
An Unnecessary Assassin - Ed. DG Penny (endpolio.org)
77 NORTH - DL Marshall (Canelo Crime)
THE RETURNED - Amanda Cassidy (Canelo Crime)*
GONE TONIGHT - Sarah Pekkanen (Orion)
THE HURRICANE BLONDE - Halley Sutton (Allison&Busby)
THE DEVIL STONE - Caro Ramsey ( Canongate)
WHITE FIRE - Adam Hamdy (PanMacmillan)
THE CITY OF THE LIVING - Nicola Lagioia (Europa Eds UK)
Left field pick: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS trans. Christopher B Atwood (Penguin classics)
STRAY DOG BLUES - Paul D. Brazill (Next Chapter)

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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Northern Ireland author ADRIAN MCKINTY chats to Craig Sisterson about the return of Sean Duffy in his new novel THE DETECTIVE UP LATE, the mystery of sales v awards,  pitching to the Beeb, giving it another go.

THE DETECTIVE UP LATE: Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn't be higher.
After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to do now is live. But in his final days in charge of Carrickfergus CID, a missing persons report captures his attention. A fifteen-year-old traveler girl has disappeared and no one seems to give a damn about it. Duffy begins to dig and uncovers a disturbing underground of men who seem to know her very well. The deeper he digs the more sinister it all gets. Is finding out the truth worth it if DI Duffy is going to get himself and his colleagues killed? Can he survive one last case before getting himself and his family out over the water?

ADRIAN MCKINTY: was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied politics and philosophy at Oxford University before moving to New York in the mid 1990s. His first novel Dead I Well May Be (loosely based on his experiences as an illegal immigrant in the US) was published in 2003. In 2012 after moving to Australia with his wife and children he began publication of the critically acclaimed Sean Duffy series. In 2019 after giving up writing Adrian had a global hit with his standalone novel The Chain. Adrian's books have won the Edgar Award, the Ned Kelly Award (3 times), The Anthony Award, Barry Award, Macavity Award and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. His books have been translated into over 40 languages.

Recommendations
SA Cosby Razorblade Tears, All the Sinners Bleed, Blacktop Wasteland.


Craig Sisterson is a features writer and crime fiction expert from New Zealand who writes for newspapers and magazines in several countries. In recent years he's interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at festivals on three continents. He's been a judge of the McIlvanney Prize and Ned Kelly Awards, and is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir. He lives in London with his daughter. He is the author of  SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME: The Pocket Essentials Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia & New Zealand.

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GRAHAM HURLEY chats to Paul about his new war novel THE BLOOD OF OTHERS, the Spoils of War series, Operation Jubilee - the raid on Dieppe, reimagining WWII, Stalin, Mountbatten, writing 'ogres' and coming over from TV documentaries.

THE BLOOD OF OTHERS: Dieppe, August 1942. A catastrophe no headline dared admit.
Plans are underway for the boldest raid yet on Nazi-occupied France. Over six thousand men will storm ashore to take the port of Dieppe. Lives will change in an instant – both on the beaches and in distant capitals.
Annie Wrenne, working at Lord Mountbatten's cloak-and-dagger Combined Operations headquarters, is privy to the top secret plans for the daring cross-Channel raid.
Young Canadian journalist George Hogan, protege of influential Lord Beaverbrook, faces a crucial assignment that will test him to breaking point.
And Abwehr intelligence officer Wilhelm Schultz is baiting a trap to lure thousands of Allied troops to their deaths…
Three lives linked by Operation Jubilee: the Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942. Over six thousand men will storm the heavily defended French beaches.
Less than half of them will make it back alive.

GRAHAM HURLEY is the author of the acclaimed Faraday and Winter crime novels and an award-winning TV documentary maker. Two of the critically lauded series have been shortlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for Best Crime Novel. His thriller Finisterre, set in 1944, was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.

Recommendations
The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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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

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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 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 Fiction will be out in late 2025.

Because this is recorded live there are occasional background noises and at one point a persistent seagull, hopefully it won't spoil the listening pleasure.

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David Thomson chats to Paul Burke about the completion of his fictional trilogy - SUSPECTS (film noir), SILVER LIGHT (Westerns) & CONNECTICUT (screwball comedy). We also chat the American dream, actors, how fiction sheds light on life and vice versa.

SUSPECTS: Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime - short biographies of some of the most famous characters in the history of film noir. Thomson sketches in whole lives, lives as intense as the dreams put up on the screen. Then these characters start to meet each other outside the films as if they were real people with real needs and passions. The book is becoming a novel. The names and faces are familiar to us. All these disparate characters come together to form a kind of society.

SILVER LIGHT: From 1865 to 1950, the American West, its rich, colourful characters, and its many faces - historical, mythic, and cinematic - are captured in the story of a reclusive, elderly photographer and her friend, a writer of Western comic books. Two characters dominate the novel's foreground: a Georgia O'Keeffe-like figure, photographer Susan Garth, shrewd, cantankerous, reclusive, and still self-reliant at 80, and her longtime friend Bark Blaylock, a western writer/filmmaker who may be Wyatt Earp's son. Silver Light artfully juxtaposes the brimming frontier of legend against a construct of the West as a constricted wilderness of the soul.

CONNECTICUT: an enchanting yet haunting celebration of screwball romantic comedies. Now a trilogy is completed with Connecticut. Why Connecticut? Because that lovely, liberal state has been set aside as the resting place for every disturbed person in the nation! At first, this seems like an opportunity for meeting up with the merry ghosts of Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, William Powell and Margaret Sullavan. We get glimpses of Bringing Up Baby, My Man Godfrey and The Lady Eve. But then the wild comedy darkens as we realize that Connecticut itself is on the edge of a demented and cruel war that challenges all its inmates to keep seeing the comic side of mishap and madness.
The trilogy is revealed not just as a set of dazzling stories. But a commentary on how far we have all been steered towards delightful but dangerous fantasies by the movies. Aren't we all screwball now? Is Connecticut safe to visit?

Recommendations: Chinatown, The Killing, In A Lonely Place, Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, Red River, The Searchers, Bringing Up Baby, Sullivan's Travels, My Man Godfrey, The Lady Eve.

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NICOLA MONAGHAN chats to Paul Burke about her new thriller, WISH YOU WERE HERE, Dr. Sian Love, Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe, DNA.

WISH YOU WERE HERE: DNA doesn't lie. But what if the truth is dangerous?
Former police officer and DNA expert Dr Sian Love has settled into running her own detective agency and cohabiting with her partner, Kris. Her life is thrown into chaos once again when a teenage girl shows up at her office, claiming to be Courtney Johnson - a child who went missing in Nottingham over fifteen years ago - but refusing to allow Sian to test her DNA.
Wary but intrigued, Sian reluctantly revives the undercover skills she learned in her days in the police force and begins investigating. But revisiting the past has consequences...

NICOLA MONAGHAN Nicola Monaghan is the author of the Sian Love mystery series including the critically acclaimed Dead Flowers and, now, Wish You Were Here. Her debut novel The Killing Jar won a Betty Trask Award, the Authors' Club First Novel Prize and the Waverton Good Read. She taught creative writing for many years and is currently writing a thriller about that experience, as well as studying for her PhD at the University of Nottingham. www.nicolamonaghan.com

Recommendations
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Liz Nugent - Strange Sally Diamond & Our Little Cruelties
Chuck Palahniuk, Irvine Welsh, Tana French & Kate Atkinson

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SAM LLOYD chats to PAUL BURKE about his new thriller THE PEOPLE WATCHER, hinterlands, The Hobbit, surviving rejection, fulfilling a dream, character and boiling a frog.

THE PEOPLE WATCHER: Meet Mercy Lake. She likes to fix things: broken toys, old appliances. People.
She watches them in the dead of night, identifies what their lives are lacking and gives it to them . . . quietly. So quietly, they don't even know she exists.
Then Mercy meets Louis. He believes that some of those she watches deserve punishment, not help. But when people start getting hurt, Mercy must decide if the ends can ever justify their increasingly violent means.
And soon, their activities draw the attention of the very person Mercy is desperate to avoid. Someone who will go to extreme lengths to make her pay for knowing their secret . . .

The People Watcher is a shiver-inducing, heart-pounding suspense thriller that will keep you up into the early hours - perfect for fans of Stephen King, Alex Michaelides and Catherine Ryan Howard.

Sam Lloyd grew up in Hampshire, where he learned his love of storytelling. These days he lives in Surrey with his wife, three young sons and a dog that likes to howl. His first thrillers, The Memory Wood and The Rising Tide, were published to huge critical acclaim in 2020 and 2021

Recommendations
Katherine Ryan Howard The Trap

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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Paul Burke presents the latest review show featuring crime fiction titles released this month - mostly anyway. The selection is heavy on the noir and psychological thrillers with a couple of in translation novels and a de rigour pulp.
*Apologies for any mangling of French and Swiss German names.

Novels Reviewed

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell Century
The Honeymoon Kate Gray Welbeck
The Summer Girl Jenny Blackhurst Canelo Crime**
The Conspirators GW Shaw Quercus
The Bone Hacker Kathy Reichs Simon & Schuster 
The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction Robert Goddard
Girls Friends Alex Dahl Head of Zeus***
The Stranger in the Seine Guillaume Musso trans. Rosie Eyre Weidenfeld and Nicolson*
The Ice Cream Man Big Boy Pete Stark House Press
The Murder of Anton Livius Hansjörg Schneider trans Astrid Freuler Bitter Lemon*
Dead Man Driving Lesley Kelly Sandstone Press****

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

**Sponsored by Canelo Crime - thank you.

***Publication of this novel has been delayed  until April next year. Apologies for getting anyone's hopes up if you've listened to this review, you can pre-order of course . I've withdrawn this review now.

**** Sadly Sandstone press demised recently, the publication of this novel has been delayed probably to September/October. Apologies for misleading anyone.  Best wishes for all the authors and staff  concerned .

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CANELO CRIME SPECIAL:
Authors LOUISA SCARR Out of the Ashes  & MARION TODD A Blind Eye join VICTORIA for a mid season special to discuss why readers love police procedurals, breaking free of tropes, and what makes a good detective.

CANELO CRIME

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VERN SMITH chats to Paul Burke about his crime novel SCRATCHING THE FLINT, editing the anthology JACKED, Toronto, corruption and policing.

SCRATCHING THE FLINT Set in pre-9/11 Toronto, detective noir Scratching the Flint takes place over twelve days during the spring of 2001. Smith's two-tone anti-fraud team of Alex Johnson and Cecil Bolan are back in their first full-length novel to investigate a vintage car theft ring à la MacGyver. When witnesses end up mocked and murdered, proof becomes a relative term to Cecil. Racked with guilt while the system sputters, he covertly assumes the role of not just investigating officer but also that of crown attorney, judge, and executioner, driving the case to a conclusion as brutal as the future.

VERN SMITH is the editor of Jacked, a new crime fiction anthology. He is author of the novels Under the Table and The Green Ghetto. His novelette, The Gimmick-a finalist for Canada's highest crime-writing honor, the Arthur Ellis Award-is the title track to his second collection of fiction. A Windsor, Ontario native and longtime resident of downtown Toronto, he now lives on the outskirts of Chicago.

JACKED Edited by award-winning crime-fiction author Vern Smith, JACKED runs the gamut in crime fiction. From hard-boiled to humorous to gritty noir to straight-up mystery, the anthology promises to please the most diverse and discriminating reading audience. With offerings from heavy-hitters like Matt Witten, Andrew Miller, Meagan Lucas, Eric Beetner, and Allison Whittenberg, and equally impressive contributions by relative newcomers to crime fiction, like Paul Alexander, Zephaniah Sole, and Meredith Craig, JACKED is a debut anthology not to be missed.

Recommendations:
AB Patterson - Harry Kenmore PI: At Your Service (others in series)
Alex Cizak, Andrew Miller, Scotch Rutherford - LA Stories: Three Grindhouse Novellas
Uncle B Publications

Mentioned:
Donald Goines
Clarence Cooper jr
Evelyn Lau

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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Newly minted CWA Historical Dagger winner DAVID DV BISHOP chats to Paul Burke about his new historical thriller RITUAL OF FIRE, Renaissance Florence, Cesare Aldo, Savonarola, Aldo no 4 and smells.

RITUAL OF FIRE Florence. Summer, 1538.
A night patrol finds a wealthy merchant hanged and set ablaze in the city’s main square. More than mere murder, this killing is intended to put the fear of God into Florence. Forty years earlier, puritanical monk Girolamo Savonarola was executed the same way. Does this new killing mean his fanatical disciples are reviving the monk’s regime of holy terror?
Cesare Aldo is busy hunting thieves in the Tuscan countryside, leaving Constable Carlo Strocchi to investigate the killing. When another merchant is burned alive in public, the rich start fleeing to their country estates. But the Tuscan hills can also be dangerous.
Growing religious fervour and a scorching heatwave drives the city ever closer to madness. Meanwhile, someone is stalking those powerful men who forged lifelong bonds in the dark days of Savonarola.
Unless Aldo and Strocchi work together, all of Florence will be consumed by an inferno of death and destruction.

DV BISHOP is the pseudonym of award-winning writer David Bishop. His love for the city of Florence and the Renaissance period meant there could be only one setting for his crime fiction. The first book in the Cesare Aldo series, City of Vengeance, won the Pitch Perfect competition at the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival and the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Fiction Book. It was also shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Bishop was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship while writing that novel. He teaches creative writing at Edinburgh Napier University. Ritual of Fire is his third Cesare Aldo novel.

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Abir Muckerjee
Vaseem Khan
Andrew Taylor
Anna Mazzola

Mentioned:
The Bitter Remedy Alis Hawkins
Gallileo's Daughter Dava Sobel
Forbidden Friendships:  Homosexuality & Male Culture in Renaissance Florence - Michael Rocke

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WALTER MOSLEY - CWA DIAMOND DAGGER WINNER - chats to Paul Burke about EVERY MAN A KING, his writing, his characters, personal inspiration, American politics, good thoughts for writers and hope & belief.

The most prestigious Dagger of all, the Diamond Dagger is for a lifetime contribution to crime writing in the English language and is nominated by CWA members.

WALTER MOSLEY was born in LA in 1952. His African-American father Leroy from Louisiana joined the great migration north. His mother Ella, of Russian Jewish descent, was politically engaged which resonates in Mosley's work. 
Mosley took up writing at 34 with Gone Fishin' but it was Devil in a Blue Dress that was first published to acclaim in 1990, winning the John Creasey New Blood Dagger in 1991. Set in LA in 1948, Easy Rawlins is facing a murder charge when he takes a job searching for a white woman. Then stone-cold killer Mouse arrives from Houston, he's more terrifying than any of the chiselled giants in Mosley's novels.
Devil in a Blue Dress was filmed in 1995 starring Denzil Washington as Easy and Jennifer Beal as Mosley's first femme fatale Daphne Monet, Don Cheadle chills the blood as Mouse. Yet there are too few screen incarnations of Mosley books. Lawrence Fishburne played Socrates Fortlow in 1998's Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned and The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey starring Samuel Jackson appeared on Apple TV+ in 2022. Mosley has worked as a scriptwriter on, amongst other shows, Snowfall, 2018, and Star Trek Discovery, 2019.
In all Mosley has written 60+ books; crime, literary, sci-fi and erotic fiction, two graphic novels, two plays, short stories and six nonfiction titles. He has often written features for the New Yorker and The Nation.
Mosley's fiction centres on irresistibly engaging antiheroes, one would be an achievement but five such is remarkable - PI Easy Rawlins (15 novels), ex-con Socrates Fortlow (3), New York bad man making amends Leonid McGill (6), Fearless Jones (3) and ex-cop Joe King Oliver (2).
The novels are about race, rampant capitalism and inequality in American society. Mosley lives in LA and Brooklyn and engages with the history of both places. He chronicles America, post-WWII to the present day, the story of African-American America and the lives of the poorest people in society.
Mosley has received acclaim throughout his career including the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2016. Down the River unto the Sea, 2018, won an Edgar the following year and Mosley was the first black male recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2020. There's also the PEN America Lifetime Achievement Award, the NAACP Image Award (3 times) and a Grammy and this list is by no means exhaustive.
In June 2018 Mosley with Kellye Garrett and Gigi Pandian set up Crime Writers of Color, a collective for authors from underrepresented backgrounds, now with over 350 members internationally. The organisation won the prestigious Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgars in April.
He has no intention of putting down his pen...

Recommendations 
Killer Of Sheep - D. Charles Burnett
A Woman Under The Influence - D. John Cassavetes 

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge

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EPISODE 3: CWA DAGGERS:
AWARD NIGHT, DAGGERS WINNERS & ILP JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER SHORTLIST INTERVIEWS

30MINS Coverage of GALA Night, inc. all winners, starts at 53mins if you've already listened to the show.

This Dagger is for the best crime novel by a first-time author of any nationality with their first novel of any kind published in the UK in English during the judging period.

Paul Burke and Victoria Selman chat to the shortlisted authors for the John Creasey New Blood Dagger and the winners of all the Daggers are revealed following the announcements in London on 6th July, 2023.

 John Creasey New Blood Dagger shortlist
Amanda Cassidy Breaking    Canelo
Joey Hartstone The Local    Pushkin Vertigo
Jack Lutz London in Black    Pushkin Vertigo
Hayely Scrivenor Dirt Town   Pan Macmillan
Patricia Wolf Outback   Bonnier
Emma Styles No Country for Girls   Sphere

*ALL WINNERS ANNOUNCED ON THIS EPISODE*

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CWA DAGGERS EPISODE 2: THE GOLD DAGGER
Paul Burke chats to the shortlisted authors for the CWA Gold Dagger -
Best Crime Novel Of  The Year 2022

This award is for the best crime novel by an author of any nationality, originally written in English and first published in the UK during the judging period. The broadest definition of the crime novel applies. Eligible books include thrillers, mysteries, police procedurals, psychological suspense novels and spy fiction.

The Shortlist

Vaseem Khan The Bombay   Hodder&Stoughton
Anna Mazzola The Clockwork Girl   Orion
Simon Mason The Broken Afernoon   Quercus
Simon Van der Velde The Silent Brother   Northodox
George Dawes Green The Kingdoms of Savannah   Headline
W Ryan The Winter Guest   Bonnier 

The winner of the Gold Dagger will be announced on 6th July
and covered in the next episode of this series, now avaiable.

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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 – whatever the cost.
But Eve has no idea how close she is to the flames, and playing with fire can get you burned...

Roxie Key: I'm a crime thriller author from Northampton, where I live with my wife Laura and daughter Hallie.
I've always been a writer... although the stories I wrote as a child about my pets will never see the light of day, I knew from a young age that one day I wanted to see my name on a book cover. I studied Creative & Media Writing at Middlesex University and then went on to become a copywriter for a global brand.
When I'm not writing (or mumming!), I can usually be found reading, painting, gaming or playing the bass guitar.

Recommendations 
Robert Rutherford Seven Days
Mentions: Claire Mackintosh, Mari Hannah, Jane Casey.

Roxie will be appearing at Kemptown Books with RUTH WARE on 24th September at 7pm.

 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 Fiction will be out in 2025.

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Episode 1 of the CWA DAGGERS Specials on Crime Time FM -
The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.

Victoria Selman chats to Eva Glass, Linwood Barclay & John Brownlow about being shortlisted for the Steel Dagger & writing a thrilling thriller.
The other shortlisted authors are MW Craven, Robert Galbraith & Alan Parks.

Ian Fleming said there was one essential criterion for a good thriller, ‘one simply has to turn the pages’.
Eligible books in this category are thrillers set in any period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction, psychological thrillers and action/adventure stories.

The 2022 shortlist:

Linwood Barclay Take Your Breath Away   Harper Collins
John Brownlow Agent Seventeen   Hodder&Stoughton
MW Craven The Botanist   Little Brown
Robert Galbraith Ink Black Heart   Sphere 
Eva Glass The Chase   Penguin
Alan Parks May God Forgive   Canongate  

VICTORIA SELMAN is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply

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The Daggers Award Winners are announced on 6th July in London.

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MW Mike CRAVEN chats to Paul Burke about his new high octane thriller FEARLESS, Lee Child, Tilly & Poe, Fluke, TV rights, Michael Connelly and the amygdala.

FEARLESS: Ben Koenig is a ghost. He doesn't exist any more.
Six years ago it was Koenig who headed up the US Marshal's elite Special Ops group. They were the elite unit who hunted the bad guys - the really bad guys. They did this so no one else had to.
Until the day Koenig disappeared. He told no one why and he left no forwarding address. For six years he became a grey man. Invisible. He drifted from town to town, state to state. He was untraceable. It was as if he had never been.
But now Koenig's face is on every television screen in the country. Someone from his past is trying to find him and they don't care how they do it. In the burning heat of the Chihuahuan Desert lies a town called Gauntlet, and there are people in there who have a secret they'll do anything to protect. They've killed before and they will kill again.
Only this time they've made a mistake. They've dismissed Koenig as just another drifter - but they're wrong. Because Koenig has a condition, a unique disorder that makes it impossible for him to experience fear. And now they're about to find out what a truly fearless man is capable of. Because Koenig's coming for them. And hell's coming with him . . .

MW CRAVEN - Multi-award winning author M. W. Craven was born in Carlisle but grew up in Newcastle. He joined the army at sixteen, leaving ten years later to complete a social work degree. Seventeen years after taking up a probation officer role in Cumbria, at the rank of assistant chief officer, he became a full-time author. The Puppet Show, the first book in his Cumbria-set Washington Poe series, was published by Little, Brown in 2018 and went on to win the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in 2019. It has now been translated into twenty-one languages. Black Summer, the second in the series, was longlisted for the 2020 Gold Dagger as was book three, The Curator. The fourth in the series, Dead Ground, was published last June, became an instant Sunday Times bestseller and won the 2022 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.The latest book in the series, The Botanist, published in June, also became an instant Sunday Times bestseller.

Recommended 
Sweet Thing David Swinson 
IQ Series Joe Ice
Robert Crais Elvis Cole

Website: mwcraven.com
Twitter: @MWCravenUK

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Paul Burke presents another bumper review show featuring crime fiction titles and a couple of wild card picks released this month (mostly anyway). The selection is heavy on the noir, psychological thrillers and in translation novels.
*Apologies for any mangling of German, Italian. French, Japanese or Russian names.

The Red House Roz Watkins
End of the Game Holly Watt
Dead Lands Núria Bendicho trans. by Maruxa Relaño & Martha Tennent
Black Fell Mari Hannah
First Blood Amélie Northomb trans. by Alison Anderson
The Widow Couderc George Simenon trans. Sian Reynolds
Silent Waters LV Matthews
Evil Intentions Come Timothy J Lockhart
No Ordinary Day Matt Johnson & John Murray
Tokyo Time Dawn Farnham
The Invisible Web Oliver Bottini trans. Jamie Bulloch
Tell Me What I Am Una Mannion
The Devil's Flute Murders Seishi Yokomizo trans. Jim Rion
The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone trans. Oonagh Stransky
Voices of the Dead Ambrose Parry
Black River Nilanjana Roy
The Price Darren O'Sullivan
Our American Friend Anna Pitoniak

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SHEILA BUGLER chats to Paul Burke about BLACK VALLEY FARM, why writing is torture but she loves it, getting it down on the page and avoiding writers block, being mentored by Martin Waites and writing about Ireland, (the next novel).

BLACK VALLEY FARM
The truth could ruin everything. A decade ago, the bodies of nine people were discovered at Black Valley Farm. The only suspect vanished without a trace. Clare has spent ten years living a lie, but a new podcast on the murders threatens to bring her carefully built life crashing down.  Because someone else has listened to the podcast.Someone who knows Clare is lying, and who will stop at nothing to ensure the truth never comes to light.

SHEILA BUGLER grew up in a small town in the west of Ireland. After studying Psychology at University College Galway (now called NUI Galway) she left Ireland and worked as an EFL teacher, travelling to Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland and Argentina. She is the author of a series of crime novels featuring DI Ellen Kelly. The novels are set in South East London, an area she knows and loves. She now lives in Eastbourne, on the beautiful East Sussex coast. Eastbourne is the location for her series of crime novels featuring investigative journalist Dee Doran. When she’s not writing, Sheila does corporate writing and storytelling, she runs creative writing courses, is a tutor for the Writers Bureau and is a mentor on the WoMentoring programme. She reviews crime fiction for crimesquad.com and she is a regular guest on BBC Radio Sussex. She is married with two children. Black Valley Farm is her new novel.

Recommendations
Laura Lippman Prom Mom
Hayley Scrivenor Dirt Town

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CLÉMENCE MICHALLON chats to Paul Burke about her psychological thriller THE QUIET TENANT, true crime, serial killers, victims and survivors and Seinfeld.

THE QUIET TENANT He took you and you have been his for five years. But you have been careful. Waiting for him to mess up. It has to be now.
Aidan Thomas is a hardworking family man and a respected member of his community. He's the kind of man who always lends a hand and has a good word for everyone. He's also a kidnapper and serial killer who has murdered eight women. And there's a ninth, a woman he calls Rachel, imprisoned in a backyard shed where she fears for her life.
When Aidan's wife dies, he and his thirteen-year-old daughter, Cecilia, are forced to move. Aidan has no choice but to bring Rachel too, introducing her to Cecilia as a family friend who needs a place to stay. He knows that after five years of captivity, Rachel is too frightened of the consequences to attempt to escape. But Rachel is a fighter and a survivor. And when Emily, a local restaurant owner, develops a crush on the handsome widower, she finds herself drawn into Rachel and Cecilia's orbit, coming dangerously close to discovering Aidan's secret.
The Quiet Tenant explores the psychological impact of Aidan's crimes on the women in his life through the voices of Rachel, Cecilia, and Emily - and the bonds between those women that give them the strength to fight back. Both a searing thriller and an astute study of trauma, survival, and the dynamics of power, The Quiet Tenant is an electrifying debut by a major talent.

CLÉMENCE MICHALLON was born in France. She received an MS in Journalism from Columbia University in New York, and started working as a journalist for the Independent in 2018. She has interviewed artists from Judd Apatow to Ben Platt and authors such as Rumaan Alam, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Curtis Sittenfeld. Her essays, features, and reporting have covered true-crime, celebrity culture, and literature.
She moved to New York City in 2014 and became a US citizen in 2022. She now divides her time between New York and Rhinebeck with her husband and their dog Claudine. The Quiet Tenant is her debut thriller.

You can find her on Instagram @Clemencemichallon, where she often posts about crime novels, mysteries, and thrillers, and on Twitter @Clemence_Mcl.

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and
SEINFELD


Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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DREDA SAY MITCHELL MBE & RYAN CARTER (Tony Mason) chat to Paul Burke about their new psychological thriller BELIEVE ME, new ways of publishing, the Groucho Club, writing partners

BELIEVE ME: One woman’s mysterious death has led to a lifetime of pain. Can her daughter find out why?
While working on a property dispute, lawyer Gabby is shocked to discover a name more familiar than her own on the title deeds: her mother’s. But her mother died twenty-five years ago from an undiagnosed illness at forty, leaving Gabby with more questions about the mysterious Ocean Haven than she can find answers for.
Desperate to uncover the truth of her mother’s connection to this house, Gabby begins to investigate, creating tension in her fractured and distant family. So when she begins to uncover the dark and disturbing history of Ocean Haven, is there anyone at all she can turn to?
With her own fortieth birthday fast approaching, Gabby senses the onset of the same unexplained pains her mother experienced all those years ago. Is she being paranoid, or is she about to die in the same way? Or is Ocean Haven hiding a secret about her mother’s past—and Gabby’s future—that she hasn’t yet dared imagine?

DREDA SAY MITCHELL & RYAN CARTER Dreda was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours’ List, 2020. She scooped the CWA’s John Creasey Dagger Award for best first-time crime novel in 2004, the first time a Black British author has received this honour.
Ryan and Dreda write across the crime and mystery genre – psychological thrillers, gritty gangland crime and fast-paced action books. Spare Room, their first psychological thriller, was a #1 UK and US Amazon Bestseller. Dreda is a passionate campaigner and speaker on social issues and the arts. She has appeared on television, including Celebrity Pointless, Celebrity Eggheads, BBC 1 Breakfast, Sunday Morning Live, Newsnight, The Review Show and Front Row Late on BBC 2. Ryan and Dreda performed a specially commissioned monologue on the ground-breaking Sky Arts Art 50 on Sky TV.
Dreda is a trustee of the Royal Literary Fund and an ambassador for The Reading Agency. Some of their books are currently in development as TV and film adaptations.
Dreda’s parents are from the beautiful Caribbean island of Grenada.

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#OnTheSofa With Victoria. Season 4, Episode 10: So you're published. Now what? Belinda Bauer (Exit, Snap) & Clare Mackintosh (Game of Lies , July 2023) reveal the realities of being a writer and how it compares to the dream. The pressure of coming up with shiny new ideas- to a schedule. And even how writing affects our reading.

VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply
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JOHN SUTHERLAND chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller THE FALLEN, 25 years a policeman, hostage and crisis negotiation, fact and fiction

THE FALLEN
ARE YOU READY TO SAVE A LIFE?
WHY HER?
Becca Palmer has just lost her job as assistant to Simon Jones MP - the highly-regarded Policing Minister, tipped as a future Prime Minister. But Becca claims that Simon was more than her boss, that she is in love with him.
WHY HERE?
When a heartbroken Becca leaves the Home Office, she heads to Westminster Bridge, intending to take her own life. Which is where hostage negotiator Alex Lewis meets her for the first time. It is his job to try to talk her back from the edge.
WHY NOW?
In the negotiation that follows, Becca suggests that she may know something about the Policing Minister that she shouldn't. Something that could prompt a serious fall from grace were it to come out.
But can Alex save Becca - and get to the bottom of an alleged conspiracy that goes deep inside the highest levels of government - before it's too late?

JOHN SUTHERLAND is a father of three who lives with his wife and children in south London. For more than twenty-five years he served as an officer in the Metropolitan Police, rising to the rank of Chief Superintendent before his retirement on medical grounds in 2018. John is a sought after public speaker and commentator on a broad range of issues, who regularly appears on TV and radio and writes for major newspapers. His first book, BLUE, written and published while he was still serving in the Met, was a Sunday Times bestseller. It tells the remarkable stories of his policing life and describes his long road to recovery following the serious nervous breakdown that ended his operational policing career.

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Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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ÅSA LARSSON and translator Frank Perry chat to Paul Burke about THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS, translation, moving a whole town - Kiruna, good soil for a writer to dig in

THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live when he asks Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that has long since passed the statute of limitations. A body found in a freezer at the home of the deceased alcoholic, Henry Pekkari, has been identified as a man who disappeared without a trace in 1962: the father of Swedish Olympic boxing champion Börje Ström. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case - she has enough to worry about. But how can she ignore a dying man's wish?
When the post-mortem confirms that Pekkari, too, was murdered, Rebecka has a red-hot investigation on her hands. But what does it have to do with the body kept in his freezer for decades?
Meanwhile, the city of Kiruna is being torn down and moved a few kilometres east, to make way for the mine that has been devouring the city from below. With the city in flux, the tentacles of organized crime are slowly taking over . . .

Åsa Larsson was born and grew up in Kiruna, Sweden. She is a qualified lawyer and made her debut in 2003 with The Savage Altar, which was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Association prize for best debut novel. Its sequel, The Blood Spilt, was chosen as Best Swedish Crime Novel of 2004, as was The Second Deadly Sin in 2011. Her novels were adapted for television and shown on More 4.
The sixth and final book in the Rebecka Martinsson series, The Sins of Our Fathers, was named Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, and is the winner of the Adlibris Suspense Award, the Storytel Award.

FRANK PERRY's translations have won the Swedish Academy Prize for the introduction of Swedish literature abroad and the prize of the Writer's Guild of Sweden for drama translation. His translation of Lina Wolff's Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs was the 2017 winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and was awarded the triennial Bernard Shaw Prize for best literary translation from Swedish.

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Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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TIM SULLIVAN chats to Paul Burke about his novel THE MONK, DS George Cross, autism, the monastic life and killing your darlings.

THE MONK To find a murderer, you need a motive . . .
THE DETECTIVE - DS George Cross has always wondered why his mother left him when he was a child. Now she is back in his life, he suddenly has answers. But this unexpected reunion is not anything he's used to dealing with. When a disturbing case lands on his desk, he is almost thankful for the return to normality.
THE QUESTION - The body of a monk is found savagely beaten to death in a woodland near Bristol. Nothing is known about Brother Dominic's past, which makes investigating difficult. How can Cross unpick a crime when they don't know anything about the victim? And why would someone want to harm a monk?
THE PAST - Discovering who Brother Dominic once was only makes the picture more puzzling. He was a much-loved and respected friend, brother, son – he had no enemies. Or, at least, none that are obvious. But looking into his past reveals that he was a very wealthy man, that he sacrificed it all for his faith. For a man who has nothing, it seems strange that greed could be the motive for his murder. But greed is a sin after all...

Tim Sullivan is a crime writer, screenwriter and director who has worked on major feature films such as the fourth Shrek, Flushed Away, Letters to Juliet, A Handful of Dust, Jack and Sarah, and the TV series Cold Feet. His crime series featuring the socially awkward but brilliantly persistent DS George Cross has topped the book charts and been widely acclaimed. Tim lives in North London with his wife Rachel, the Emmy Award-winning producer of The Barefoot Contessa and Pioneer Woman. To find out more about the author, please visit TimSullivan.co.uk. 

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Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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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 @Tonisenior. Do please follow us on X @SpyMastersPod and spread the word. We will be grateful for any and all support. Should you be an author, with a relevant new or backlist title, interested in appearing on the podcast do get in touch at spymasters@aspectsofhistory.com

Spymasters Aspects of History - the book.

Mentions (no particular order): SJ Parris, George Blake, Elizabeth Buchan, Calder Walton, the Cambridge Five, Edith Cavell, Mick Herron, David McCloskey, Merle Nygate, Patrick O'Brian, Hilary Mantel, Mary Renault.
Recommendations: Precipice Robert Harris, The CIA Hugh Wilford

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 Fiction will be out in 2025.

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 10: Industry Insiders 
Crime critics Jonathan Whitelaw and Paul Burke and publisher Phoebe Morgan join Victoria 'On The Sofa' to reveal what makes a novel stand out from the pile.  Writing community, take note!

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The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle
Force of Hate Graham Bartlett 

 VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply
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TOM BENN chats to Paul Burke about his quasi-crime novel OXBLOOD, teaching creative writing, book prizes, being/not being a film maker and avoiding the nostalgic postcard.

Oxblood: Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once ruled Manchester's underworld; now the men are dead, leaving three generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence, harbouring an unregistered baby and the ghost of a murdered lover.
Over the course of a few days, Nedra, Carol and Jan must each confront the true legacy of the men who have defined their lives; and seize the opportunity to break the cycle for good.

TOM BENN's first novel The Doll Princess was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Portico Prize, and longlisted for the CWA's John Creasey Dagger. Benn's creative nonfiction has appeared in the Paris Review and he won the BFI's iWrite scheme for emerging screenwriters. His first film Real Gods Require Blood premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short Film at the BFI London Film Festival. Oxblood was awarded the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Originally from Stockport, he teaches on the UEA Crime Fiction Creative Writing MA and lives in Norwich.

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Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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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 Malvaldi Foul Deeds and Fine Dining trans. Howard Curtis
Margot Douaihy Scorched Grace
Martin Cruz Smith Independence Square
Mark Dawson   The house in the Woods
                                   A Place  to Bury Strangers
Stella Remington The Devil's Bargain
Jo Nesbo Killing Moon trans. Sean Kinsella
Alex Khan Until Death
Antonia Lassa Skin Deep trans. Jacky Collins  

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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
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Twitter: @VictoriaSelman

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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.

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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.

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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 media – tragic, but not a crime.
Lena Scott, Desiree’s sister, knows that can’t be true. Torn apart by Desiree’s partying and by their father, a wealthy and influential hip-hop mogul, the sisters haven’t spoken in years. But some things about Desiree couldn’t have changed, even with time.
Nobody is listening to her, but Lena is determined not to let anyone brush off her sister’s death. She will find justice, even if it means uncovering the family’s darkest secrets – or putting her own life at risk.
Because there are two sides to every story – the one being told, and the one nobody wants you to know . . .

KELLYE GARRETT is the author of the upcoming suspense novel Like A Sister (Mulholland Books) and the acclaimed Detective by Day lightweight mysteries. The first, Hollywood Homicide, won the Anthony, Agatha, Lefty, and IPPY for best first novel. It’s also one of BookBub’s “Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.” The second, Hollywood Ending, was featured on the TODAY show’s Best Summer Reads of 2019 and was nominated for both Anthony and Lefty awards. She serves on Sisters in Crime’s national board and is a co-founder of Crime Writers of Color.

Winner Raven Award Mystery Writers of America Edgar 2023 -
crimewritersofcolor.com

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Craig Sisterson is a features writer and crime fiction expert from New Zealand who writes for newspapers and magazines in several countries. In recent years he's interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at festivals on three continents. He's been a judge of the McIlvanney Prize and Ned Kelly Awards, and is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir. He lives in London with his daughter. He is the author of  SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME: The Pocket Essentials Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia & New Zealand.

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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 murder victim before, let alone one with its throat sliced open. And yet, Edwards remained unexpectedly calm. He shone his torch through the windscreen. The flies were already hovering outside the lorry. The maggots would soon follow.

NEIL HUMPHREYS grew up in Dagenham and went to University in Manchester. He now lives in Singapore, where he writes for various publications and broadcasts on TV and radio. He has published many award-winning children’s books, travelogues and several novels.

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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 photos. Safe. Until the day she stumbles on a shocking murder in a Sydney laneway. The victim looks just like her.
Coincidence? As more murders shake the city and she’s increasingly drawn out from hiding, Reagan is forced to confront her greatest fear.
She’s been found.

Ashley Kalagian Blunt is the author of How to Be Australian and My Name Is Revenge, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards and was a finalist in the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award. Her writing appears in the Sydney Morning Herald, Overland, Griffith Review, Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings and more. Ashley teaches creative writing and co-hosts James and Ashley Stay at Home, a podcast about writing, creativity and health. Originally from Canada, she has lived and worked in South Korea, Peru and Mexico.

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Juan Gómez-Jurado Red Queen

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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.
Tickets are £5 and available here: https://www.waterstones.com/events/murder-monsters-and-mayhem-victoria-selman-and-graham-bartlett/brighton

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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 Fiction will be out in 2025.

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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 husband.
One of them is a serial killer who poisoned four of her friends at her eleventh birthday party.
They all fit the profile. Who will risk everything to kill again?

Wini Davies Emeritus Professor of German (University of Aberystwyth), Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival committee member.

Fflur Dafydd - The Library Suicides
Twins Ana and Nan are lost after the death of their mother. Everyone knows who drove Elena, the renowned novelist, to suicide - her long-term literary critic, Eben. But the twins need proof if they're going to get revenge.
Desperate to clear his name, Eben requests access to Elena's diaries at the National Library where the twins work, and they see an opportunity. With careful planning, the twins lock down the labyrinthine building, trapping their colleagues, the public and most importantly Eben inside. But as a rogue security guard starts freeing hostages, the plan unravels. And what began as a single-minded act of revenge blooms into a complex unravelling of loyalties, motives and what it is that makes us who we are.

GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL
 
Crime Cymru
 
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Crime Time

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .

Hoffai GWYL CRIME CYMRU  FESTIVAL  ddiolch i'n holl noddwyr: 
Thanks to The Lottery, Ceredigion Council, Museum and Aberystwyth Library, the Welsh Government, Literature Wales, Love Ceredigion, Arts Council of Wales and Aberystwyth.Gov.UK

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
2024 Slaughterfest,

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 Lloyd
Interviews - Douglas Skelton
                            James Oswald
Cosy Crime Panel  - Jacky Collins, RW Green and Cathy Ace

GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL
 
Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh
Crime Time

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .

Please note that as programme was recorded live at the festival there are background noises we hope this adds to the atmosphere and doesn't detract from the listening pleasure.

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
2024 Slaughterfest,

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 and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .

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
2024 Slaughterfest,