SEASON 5 EPISODE 8: VASEEM KHAN, Chair of the CWA & author of the BABY GANESH & MALIBAR HOUSE series & LAUREN MUÑOZ lawyer & author of SUDDENLY A MURDER join Victoria to explore the economic divide, labelling and race in Crime fiction. So a nice light episode! Recommendations PERSUASION JANE AUSTINMIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN SALMAN RUSHDIEMusic courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

MATT PHILLIPS chats to Paul Burke about his new noir - A GOOD RUSH OF BLOOD, noir and social documentarian, character drives narrative, indie writing.A GOOD RUSH OF BLOOD: A mother's sins haunt a teenage runaway in this scorching mystery of criminal conspiracy, street-level justice, and unlikely courage.Creeley Nash has been running her entire life. That includes running drugs for a wannabe kingpin. On a drug run to Palm Springs--the town where Creeley escaped her no-good mother as a teen--she'll encounter a sun-drenched facade beneath which lurks a web of dark secrets. A Good Rush of Blood follows Creeley as she unravels the mystery of her estranged mother's murder conviction.Peopled with bent cops, grizzled reporters, hardened drug dealers, eccentric sidekicks, and sexy librarians, this sweaty, fast-paced neo-noir finds stellar noir scribe Matt Phillips (Countdown, Know Me from Smoke) at the apex of his dirty, lethal game.Matt Phillips lives in San Diego. His novels include Countdown, Know Me from Smoke, You Must Have a Death Wish, Redbone and Three Kinds of Fool. His short fiction has been featured in Shotgun Honey, Mystery Tribune, Retreats from Oblivion, and elsewhere.RecommendationsFrank Zafiro - A Grifter's Song seriesPatricia Highsmith, Donald Goines, David Goodis, Chester Himes, Dorothy B Hughes, Jim Thompson, Pablo D'stair, Stephen King & Elmore LeonardVern Smith - Scratching the Flint Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson - Vacant StareGUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

Paul Burke reviews a selection of November crime fiction releases. Including author elevator pitches from CL Pattison. Jane Jesmond, Alexandra Benedict, Paul Durston & Stephen Ronson.Peter Murphy A Week on Mount Olympus CL Pattison The Florist Simon Maltman Hunted Jane Jesmond A Quiet ContagionSimon Gaul White Suicide Alexandra Benedict The Christmas Jigsaw Murders Robyn Gigl Survivor's GuiltPaul Durston If We were One Lee Goldberg CalicoStephen Ronson The Last LineJack Grimwood Arctic SunCathy Ace The Corpse with the Opal FingersKatherine Howe A True Account Royston Reeves The WeathermanPaul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

TOM BENJAMIN chats to Paul Burke about LAST TESTAMENT IN BOLOGNA, British private eye Daniel Leicester, the porticos of the ancient city, Giallo, AirBnB and tourism in a university town.  LAST TESTAMENT IN BOLOGNA: When an old man makes a bequest to investigate the mysterious death of his son, English detective Daniel Leicester follows a trail leading to one of Bologna's wealthiest families - makers of some of the world's most coveted supercars - and discovers that beneath the glitz and glamour of the Formula One circuit lurk sinister interests that may be prepared to kill to keep their secrets. Time and tide wait for no man - or woman - and while biology obliges one of Faidate Investigations' team to finally undergo a long-delayed operation, history catches up with another. Shadowing a suspect along one of Bologna's blood-red porticoes or mixing with the glitterati in the paddock at Imola, the English detective comes to learn in Italy the past not only has a long tail, but its sting can be deadly.Tom Benjamin grew up in the suburbs of north London and began his working life as a journalist before becoming a spokesman for Scotland Yard. He later moved into public health, where he developed Britain's first national campaign against alcohol abuse, Know Your Limits, and led drugs awareness programme FRANK. He now lives in Bologna. A Quiet Death in Italy is the first novel in his Daniel Leicester crime series, LAST TESTAMENT IN BOLOGNA is the fifth mystery.Find Tom on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook at tombenjaminsays.Recommendations:Tobias Jones - Blood in the Altar, The de Luca Trilogy - Carlo Lucarelli, Loriano Machiavelli, William Boyd, Robert Harris - Officer and a Spy, Trevor Wood,Naples 44  - Norman Lewis , Louise Fein - The London Bookshop Affair (Feb 24),Victoria Dowd - Murder Most Cold, The Blazing World - Jonathan Healey,True Crime Story - Joseph Knox, Byzantium Endures - Michael Moorcock.Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

Season 5 Episode 7: ROBERT GODDARD (CWA DIAMOND DAGGER WINNER, THE FINE ART OF UNCANNY PREDICTION) & SUK PANNU (MRS SIDHU'S DEAD AND SCONE): Robert Goddard & Sak Pannu  join Victoria to discuss cosy crime and the 'Osman effect'. What do we mean by Cosy Crime? Why has it become so popular? And where does the future lie? VICTORIA SELMANSundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARSAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.comTwitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoriaProduced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

Crime Time FM from Newcastle Noir - Episode 1 Introductions: the when, where, who and how. Perspectives on the festival from people involved in the events.Crime Time FM is proud to be the Official Podcast of Newcastle Noir.NEWCASTLE NOIR - NEWCASTLE CITY LIBRARY 6TH - 9TH DECEMBER.Information. Click this link for the schedule and visitor info. Tickets here £5 per panel, £50 for the 2023 Full Pass Guests Festival Organiser - Jacky Collins, Dr. Noir.NN Devotee - Ewa Sherman, translator, reviewer, all round book person.NN volunteer Alanna Higginson, poet & events organiser.&NN debutant author Marion Todd - DI Clare Mackay Series, latest A Blind Eye published by Canelo.Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Apologies for underestimating the length of the show in the introduction.Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

The Crime Time FM Christmas Debate - Best Crime Fiction 2023: Eight top critics & writers pick their best reads of the year, argue eruditely for their choices and squabble - a little bit. Laura Wilson - Guardian critic and best-selling author.Jon Coates - Sunday Express deputy news editor and criticMaxim Jakubowski - former publisher & CWA chair, author and critic.Jake Kerridge - book critic at the Telegraph.Barry Forshaw - author & critic with the Financial Times.Ayo Onatade - critic Shots Mag/blog, CWA & HWA judge, Capital Crime committee.Victoria Selman - bestselling author and podcast presenter.Paul Burke - podcast presenter and critic.The Book List - Crime Time has the full list of titles discussed, and those we didn't quite get to, just click this link.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Please note this episode was recorded in front of an audience at Waterstones in Islington, there is some background noise, apologies for any difficulties in hearing the debate.Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

Norwegian crime writing legend GUNNAR STAALESEN chats to Craig Sisterson about his new hardboiled thriller Mirror Image, Varg Veum and Bergen, crime fiction as social commentary with humour, Joe Biden PI & wolf in a sanctuary. MIRROR IMAGE: As Bergen PI Varg Veum investigates two different cases, it becomes clear that they are uncannily similar to harrowing events that took place thirty-six years earlier… A gripping instalment of the award-winning Varg Veum series, by one of the fathers of Nordic Noir.Bergen Private Investigator Varg Veum is perplexed when two wildly different cases cross his desk at the same time. A lawyer, anxious to protect her privacy, asks Varg to find her sister, who has disappeared with her husband, seemingly without trace, while a ship carrying unknown cargo is heading towards the Norwegian coast, and the authorities need answers.Varg immerses himself in the investigations, and it becomes clear that the two cases are linked, and have unsettling – and increasingly uncanny – similarities to events that took place thirty-six years earlier, when a woman and her saxophonist lover drove their car off a cliff, in an apparent double suicide.As Varg is drawn into a complex case involving star-crossed lovers, toxic waste and illegal immigrants, history seems determined to repeat itself in perfect detail … and at terrifying cost...GUNNAR STAALESEN: One of the fathers of Nordic Noir, Gunnar Staalesen was born in Bergen, Norway, in 1947. He made his debut at the age of twenty-two with Seasons of Innocence and in 1977 he published the first book in the Varg Veum series. He is the author of over twenty titles, which have been published in twenty-four countries and sold over four million copies. Twelve film adaptations of his Varg Veum crime novels have appeared since 2007, starring the popular Norwegian actor Trond Espen Seim. Staalesen has won three Golden Pistols (including the Prize of Honour) and Where Roses Never Die won the 2017 Petrona Award for Nordic Crime Fiction, and Big Sister was shortlisted in 2019. He lives with his wife in Bergen.Don Bartlett completed an MA in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in 2000 and has since worked with a wide variety of Danish and Norwegian authors, including Jo Nesbø and Gunnar Staalesen’s Varg Veum series: We Shall Inherit the Wind, Wolves in the Dark and the Petrona award-winning Where Roses Never Die. He also translated Faithless, the previous book in Kjell Ola Dahl’s Oslo Detective series for Orenda Books. He lives with his family in a village in Norfolk.RecommendationsChester Himes, Raymond Chandler, Ross Mcdonald , Dashiell Hammett, Per Wahlöö & Maj Sjöwall 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.Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

Season 5 Episode 6: Donna Freed (Duplicity), Matt Johnson (No Ordinary Day) & Anna Motz (A Love That Kills) join Victoria in a panel recorded live at Capital Crime discussing why true crime is stranger than fiction.DONNA FREED DUPLICITYANNA MOTZ A LOVE THAT KILLSMATT JOHNSON NO ORDINARY DAYFILM: A PLACE IN THE SUNBOOK: THE AMERICAN TRAGEDY THEODORE DREISER VICTORIA SELMANSunday Times bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARSAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.comTwitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoriaProduced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

FEMI KAYODE chats to Paul about his new Nigerian crime thriller GASLIGHT, Philip Taiwo, Light Seekers, eduction addiction,  GASLIGHT: Bishop Jeremiah Dawodu, pastor of a Nigerian megachurch, has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Folasade, the 'First Lady' of the church. The arrest was public, humiliating and sensational - sending shockwaves through Lagos - but throughout it all, Bishop Dawodu maintains his innocence.Philip Taiwo, an acclaimed investigative psychologist, is asked by his sister, a member of the church's congregation, to clear the pastor's name. With no actual body, it looks to be a simple case and despite Philip's dislike of organised religion, he agrees to take it on as a favour to his sister. Then the First Lady's body is found in a nearby lake just as Philip's beloved family come under attack from someone warning him off the case, and he realises that nothing to do with this investigation will be straightforward.Was it murder or suicide? Is someone framing the Bishop or the First Lady?FEMI KAYODE trained as a clinical psychologist in Nigeria, before starting a career in advertising. He has created and written several prime-time TV shows. His debut novel, Lightseekers, was selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times, was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. He lives in Windhoek, Namibia with his family.Recommendations Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus The Fall Of The House Of Usher Netflix (Edgar Allan Poe) Mentions: A Stone for Danny Fisher - Harold Robbins, The Naked Face - Sidney Sheldon, Ola Rotimi, James Hadley Chase, Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe, My Sister the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite. Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

The Latest Crime Fiction Releases Reviewed By Paul Burke - October 2023.Books featured:Loyalty Martina ColeThe Prey Yrsa SigardardóttirThe North Light Hideo Yokoyama**A frightfully Fatal Affair Hannah HendyThe Due Date Niki MackayCrown Vic Lee GoldbergGeneva Richard ArmitageThe Beaver Theory Antti TuomainenWhite As Snow Llija SigardardóttirStigma Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas EngerDry Cleaning Trevor Mark ThomasWind Sprints Ralph Dennis Luda Grant MorrisonThe Defector Chris Hadfield&Penguin Crime & Espionage reissues - The Big Sleep & Farewell My Lovely Raymond Chandler, Games Without Rules Michael Gilbert, Maigret's Revolver Georges Simenon, Sleeping Dog Dick Lochte, Brat Farrar Josephine Tey, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carré, The Black Lizard Edogawa Rampo, Payment Deferred C.S. Forrester, The Mask of Dimitrios Eric Ambler & Other Paths to Glory Anthony Price. Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE *Apologies for the abuses of Finnish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Japanese names contained here in - I do try!** Correction the chair faces the north.Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

Season 5 Episode 4: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS - All in the Mind - LAUREN NORTH, LESLEY KARA & NIKI MACKAY join Victoria Selman to discuss the enduring popularity of psychological thrillers and where the future lies for the genre.Mentioned: Minette Walters The Sculptress, The Scold's Bridal, Susi Holliday The House, The Bees Laline Paul, Stephen KingVICTORIA SELMANSundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARSAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.comTwitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoriaProduced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

HARRIET CRAWLEY chats to Paul about her spy thriller come love story, THE TRANSLATOR, living in Russia, THE TRANSLATOR: Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. His life is turned on its head when, after more than a decade, he discovers that his former lover, Marina Volina, is now the interpreter to the Russian President. At the embassy, Clive learns of a Russian plot to cut the undersea cables linking the US to the UK which would paralyse communications and collapse the Western economy. Marina stuns Clive with the news that she’s ready to help stop the attack, betraying her country for a new identity and a new life. Clive becomes the go-between, relaying Marina’s intelligence to MI6 back in London. What are the odds that two lovers, running the Moscow marathon with the FSB on their backs, can save Western Europe from economic meltdown?Harriet Crawley has been a journalist, writer, and art dealer, worked in television and radio, and stood for the Westminster and European Parliaments. For almost twenty years Harriet had one foot in Moscow where she launched a technical publishing business for a Russian oil and gas company. She speaks five languages and this is her fifth book.RecommendedKatja Ivar, Leonardo Padura, James Woolf Shuggie Bain Douglas StuartPaul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

NICK TRIPLOW chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller NEVER WALK AWAY, FRANK'S WILD YEARS, Noir, British Film, Ted Lewis and the mother of all writing hangovers.NEVER WALK AWAY A senior civil servant dies in suspicious circumstances. A sensitive file in his possession and evidence of contact with a human rights lawyer lead the authorities to believe he is a whistle-blower. This needs a police officer used to operating in the murky world between policing and intelligence.DS Mark (Max) Lomax is a former Special Demonstration Squad officer – a Special Branch unit dedicated to infiltrating political and extremist groups, a world he thinks he has left far behind. Following a botched stakeout of a north London gangster, he finds himself on enforced leave and is called back into his old world of half-truths and conflicting agendas.As he digs into the death of the civil servant, Max is obstructed at every turn, forcing him to turn to the people he once betrayed for help. With political reputations on the line, the case becomes less about uncovering the truth, than burying it for good.Nick Triplow is the author of the crime thriller Never Walk Away and South London crime noir, Frank’s Wild Years. His acclaimed biography of crime fiction pioneer, Ted Lewis, Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir, was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and HRF Keating Award. Nick studied English, Writing and Publishing at Middlesex University and gained a Masters in Creative Writing from Sheffield Hallam University. Originally from London, he lives in Barton-upon-Humber and is co-director of Hull Noir Crime Fiction Festival.RecommendationsEndeavour Robbie Morrison Cast a Cold Eye, Edge of the GraveDavid Peace GB84John le Carré The Spy Who Came in From the ColdGraham Greene Brighton RockEoin MacNamee The Ultras Hull Noir NICK TRIPLOW - for info/tickets for Nick Triplow's event. 18/11/23 Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell & Pressburger.Nick Triplow CTFM on Ted Lewis first of 2 shows featuring Getting Carter. Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

LEONORA NATTRASS  chats to PAUL BURKE about her historical mystery thriller SCARLET TOWN, Laurence Jago, 18th century history, rotten boroughs and sapient hog.SCARLET TOWN 1796. A rigged election. A town at war. A murderer at large...Disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago and his larger-than-life employer the journalist William Philpott have escaped America - and Philpott's near imprisonment for libel - by the skin of their teeth. They return to Laurence's home town of Helston, Cornwall, in the hope of rest and recuperation, but instead find themselves in the middle of a tumultuous election that has the inhabitants of the town at one another's throats.Only two men may vote in this rotten borough, and when one of them dies in suspicious circumstances, Laurence is ordered to investigate on behalf of the town's patron, his old master the Duke of Leeds. But it is no easy matter, thanks to the machinations of the rival political factions, not to mention the riotous performances of Toby the Sapient Hog.Then the second elector is poisoned and suspicion turns on the town doctor, the gentle Pythagoras Jago, Laurence's own cousin. Suddenly Laurence finds himself ensnared in generations of bad blood and petty rivalries, with his cousin's fate in his hands...Leonora Nattrass lectured on the literature and politics of the 18th century for almost ten years before running away to Cornwall, where she now lives in a seventeenth-century house with seventeenth-century draughts and knits the wool of her small flock of Ryeland sheep into elaborate jumpers.Her first novel Black Drop was a Times Book of the Year and her second Blue Water was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month and longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.RecommendationsLaura Shepherd Robinson, DV Bishop Abir Mukherjee, Vaseem Khan.Joseph O'Conner ShadowlandsScarlet Town Review on Crime Fiction Lover Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

Season 5 Episode Looking Back: ANNA MAZZOLA (The House of Whispers) & GARETH RUBIN (The Turnglass) exploring historical crime. The challenges of translating the past, the opportunities presented by an historical canvas and what makes it such a great pairing with crime.VICTORIA SELMANSundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARSAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.comTwitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoriaRECOMMENDED: THE NAME OF THE ROSE UMBERTO ECOProduced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

DOUG JOHNSTONE chats to Paul about his new novel THE OPPOSITE OF LONELY, the Skelfs, Sci-Fi, mathematical modelling and being the writer in residence at a funeral parlour.THE OPPOSITE OF LONELY: Even death needs company…The Skelf women are recovering from the cataclysmic events that nearly claimed their lives. Their funeral-director and private-investigation businesses are back on track, and their cases are as perplexing as ever. Matriarch Dorothy looks into a suspicious fire at an illegal campsite and takes a grieving, homeless man under her wing. Daughter Jenny is searching for her missing sister-in-law, who disappeared in tragic circumstances, while grand-daughter Hannah is asked to investigate increasingly dangerous conspiracy theorists, who are targeting a retired female astronaut … putting her own life at risk. With a body lost at sea, funerals for those with no one to mourn them, reports of strange happenings in outer space, a funeral crasher with a painful secret, and a violent attack on one of the family, The Skelfs face their most personal – and perilous – cases yet. Doing things their way may cost them everything… Tense, unnerving and warmly funny, The Opposite of Lonely is the hugely anticipated fifth instalment in the unforgettable Skelfs series, and this time, danger comes from everywhere…DOUG JOHNSTONE is the author of sixteen novels, most recently THE OPPOSITE OF LONELY, the fifth in the Skelfs series, which has been optioned for TV. In 2021, The Big Chill, the second in the series, was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. In 2020, A Dark Matter, the first in the series, was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and the Capital Crime Amazon Publishing Independent Voice Book of the Year award. Black Hearts (Book four), will be published in 2022. Several of his books have been best sellers and award winners, and his work has been praised by the likes of Val McDermid, Irvine Welsh and Ian Rankin. He's taught creative writing and been writer in residence at various institutions, and has been an arts journalist for twenty years. Doug is a songwriter and musician with five albums and three EPs released, and he plays drums for the Fun Lovin' Crime Writers, a band of crime writers. He's also player-manager of the Scotland Writers Football Club. He lives in Edinburgh.Recommendations Adrian Tomine,  Iain Banks, Willy Vlautin, James Sallis. Megan Abbott, Jeff VanderMeer, Jordan Harper Everybody Knows.Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

PAUL BURKE takes a look at some of the new crime fiction releases for September 2023 and apologises for any mispronunciations of names/languages. Books (Links to Bookshop.org) SHEEP'S CLOTHING Celia Dale - DauntTHE PIT Peter Papathanasiou - MacLehoseNO RESERVE Felix Francis - Zaffre  THE TRAITOR Ava Glass - PenguinTHE BORGIA PORTRAIT David Hewson*ALL THAT'S LEFT UNSAID Tracey Lien - HQTHE TORRENT Dinuka McKenzie - CaneloTHE MAN WHO DIDN'T BURN Ian Moore - DuckworthKILL SHOW Daniel Sweren-Becker - Hodder & StoughtonEVERYBODY KNOWS Jordan Harper - Faber BEFORE IT WENT ROTTEN Simon Matthews - Oldcastle BooksPaul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, ft. Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO ft. Kid Anderson. This episode is sponsored by Guy Hale.Featured Song: Late BlossomGUY HALE *Direct from publisherProduced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

ORENDA SPECIAL: featuring Jenny Lund Madsen Thirty Days of Darkness, Paul E Hardisty The Forcing, Eva Björg Ægisdöttir You Can't See Me chat to Paul Burke about their latest novels.JENNY LUND MADSEN trans. Megan E Turney* Thirty Days of Darkness PAUL E HARDISTY The Forcing  EVA BJÖRG ÆGISDÖTTIR trans. Victoria Cribb You Can't See MeORENDA Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE *Apologies to Megan E Turney for mispronouncing her name on the podcast and for English pronunciation of Danish/Icelandic names. Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)

ORENDA SPECIAL: September part 1  featuring Eve Smith One, chatting to Paul Burke about her latest speculative thriller.Eve Smith One One law. One child. Seven million crimes… A cataclysmic climate emergency has spawned a one-child policy in the UK, ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime. Compulsory abortion of 'excess' pregnancies and mandatory contraceptive implants are now the norm, and families must adhere to strict consumption quotas as the world descends into chaos.Kai is a 25-year-old `baby reaper´, working for the Ministry of Population and Family Planning. If any of her assigned families attempt to exceed their child quota, she ensures they pay the price.Until, one morning, she discovers that an illegal sibling on her Ministry hit-list is hers. And to protect her parents from severe penalties, she must secretly investigate before anyone else finds out.Kai's hunt for her forbidden sister unearths much more than a dark family secret. As she stumbles across a series of heinous crimes perpetrated by the people she trusted most, she makes a catastrophic discovery that could bring down the government … and tear her family apart. ORENDAPaul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale author of The Comeback Trail trilogy, featuring Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir (December)