Best CrimeTimeFM Podcasts (2025)

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JAKE ARNOTT In Person With Paul 57:38

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JAKE ARNOTT chats to Paul Burke about his new novel Blood Rival, Sophocles, Family, noir, tragedy, Blue Lights, Jim Thompson, James Ellroy, Cathi Unsworth, The Responder. BLOOD RIVAL It happened at a place where three roads meet. Junction 1A of the M25, heading east towards Gravesend. There’s a killer on the road. Lee Royle, the notorious ‘King of …

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DAVID JARVIS In Person With Paul 52:03

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DAVID JARVIS chats to Paul Burke about his new spy thriller, The Green Feathers, CHOGM, Five Eyes, Mike Kingdom, the zeitgeist and the lighter touch. The Green Feathers When a butterfly flaps its wings in the Caribbean, it causes storms in Europe. The British King and Prime Minister have arrived in Georgetown, Guyana, along with the leaders of the …

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THE REVIEW SHOW September 2025 8:49

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New Reviews on Crime Time FM The Man Who Died Seven Times Yasuhiko Nishizawa trans. by Jesse Kirkwood Evil in High Places Rory Clements Ask for Andrea Noelle W Ihli Deadman's Pool Kate Rhodes Persons of Interest Simon Dinsdale All Our Yestedays by Guy Hale Paul Burke edits Aspects of Crime Magazine and writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and…

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GUY HALE In Person With Paul 1:02:15

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GUY HALE chats to Paul Burke about The Shakespeare Murders, PUT OUT THE LIGHT, ALL OUR YESTERDAYS, The Comeback Trail, Stratford theatre, indie publishing and dodgy 70s cops. Put Out The Light, Paperback Act III Stratford-upon-Avon, Spring 1972 On the streets of Stratford four murders remain unsolved. For DC Toby Marlow there is only one potential …

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DONNA MORFETT In Person With Paul 33:01

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Donna Morfett chats to Paul Burke about THE MASQUERADE OF MURDER, Luton & Dunstable, revenge on the page, misogyny and self publishing. THE MASQUERADE OF MURDER DI Cora Snitton is barely catching her breath after the last case when another body turns up - this time, a suspected junkie dumped in an abandoned quarry. Her team is pulled into the chaos…

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JANE THYNNE In Person With Paul 1:13:43

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Jane Thynne chats to Paul Burke about new Clara Vine spy novel THE JUDGEMENT OF STARS, Nazi Astrology, the German Film industry, Hedy Lamarr, humour in the darkest moments. The Judgement of Stars Berlin, 1942. Clara Vine, the Anglo-German actress, is working undercover in Germany as an agent of British intelligence. During a hiatus in the filming o…

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ALEX GERLIS In Person With Paul 58:20

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ALEX GERLIS chats to Paul Burke about his WWII spy thriller THE SECOND TRAITOR, Operation Sea Lion, Hitler as military commander, German spies in England and Alan Furst. THE SECOND TRAITOR The countdown to invasion begins... It's September 1940, and British intelligence is on high alert: the Nazi invasion of Britain is imminent. The German navy is …

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FIONA FORSYTH In Person With Paul 56:52

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Fiona Forsyth chats to Paul Burke about her new historical thriller DEATH and the POET, Ghastly misogynists, Ovid, small town life in the ancient world, studying the classics. Death and the Poet 14 AD. When Dokimos the vegetable seller is found bludgeoned to death in the Black Sea town of Tomis, it’s the most exciting thing to have happened in the …

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THE REVIEW SHOW JULY '25 14:38

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The latest reviews - July 2025. Strange Houses Uketsu trans. Jim Rion Blood Caste Shylashri Shankar The Red Shore William Shaw The Inside Man by Trevor Wood The Verifiers by Jane Pek The Case of the Mad Doctor PD Lennon Home Before Dark Eva Björg Ægisdottir trans Victoria Cribb The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith Two Kinds of Strangers Steve Cavanagh…

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MARK ELLIS In Person With Paul 1:05:00

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MARK ELLIS chats to Paul Burke about his new historical crime thriller Death of an Officer and Boom Time an account of crime in WWII London. DEATH OF AN OFFICER: London. Spring 1943. While Europe continues to suffer under the iron fist of Nazi occupation, Britain remains battered but unbowed. DCI Frank Merlin, already contending with a booming wart…

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DAN FESPERMAN In Person With Paul 54:08

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DAN FESPERMAN chats to Paul Burke about his new spy novel PARIAH, Eastern Europe, fiction as the second draft of history, facades of democracy, comedy and Hollywood, The Baltimore Banner. Pariah: an adrenaline-fueled thriller about a disgraced comedian-turned-politician who takes on the role of a lifetime: infiltrating a corrupt Eastern European co…

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GJ WILLIAMS In Person With Paul 51:49

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GJ WILLIAMS chats to Paul Burke about her new historical crime thriller THE CYGNET PRINCE, third in the Tudor Rose Murders series, Tudor scandals, pretenders to the throne, the Kardashians of the Tudor period. THE CYGNET PRINCE: England 1562. Elizabeth's court is besieged by scandal and Catholic plots, when a young German prince arrives in England …

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SIMON McCLEAVE In Person With Paul 48:40

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SIMON MCCLEAVE chats to Paul Burke about his new novels - THE ABERSOCH KILLINGS and FIVE DAYS IN PROVENCE, Anglesey and Snowdonia and writing TV. The Abersoch Killings Keep your enemies close and your family closer… At his beachside mansion, with his large family and beautiful wife, Jack Rush celebrated his step-daughter’s wedding: an extravagant, …

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The CWA Daggers Awards Evening 2025 1:18:40

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The Crime Writers Association Awards Evening hosted by Victoria Selman and Imran Mahmood. Vaseem Khan outgoing Chair Nadine Matheson new Chair Mick Herron Diamond Dagger winner Maxim Jakubowski introducing Red Herring recipient Janet Laurence Dea Parkin Emerging writer dagger - Winner Ashland by Joe Eurell Vicki Goldie introducing the Dagger in the…

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ASIA MACKAY AND SAM HOLLAND #OnTheSofaWithVictoria 27:32

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Season 8, Episode 5: Serial Killers. Asia Mackay (Killing it & A SERIAL KILLER'S GUIDE TO MARRIAGE) and Sam Holland (The Echo Man & THE COUNTDOWN KILLER) chat with Victoria Selman about the worst kinds of killers and having fun doing it. Are sex scenes tougher to write than murder. Do serial killers have a high IQ. Avoiding the dilemma of killing 3…

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Rev RICHARD COLES, TE KINSEY, MARNIE RICHES #OnTheSofaWithVictoria 27:49

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Season 8 Episode 4, Cosy Crime Rev. Richard Coles, TE 'Tim' Kinsey. Marnie Riches Desert island books: Tiger Margery Allingham. Daughter Laura Shepherd Robinson. A Big Boy Chris Brookmyre VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways: http://www.vict…

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THE REVIEW SHOW June 2025 19:41

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The Review Show June 2025 Into the Fire GD Wright The White Crow by Michael Robotham Actually I'm a Murderer by Terry Deary A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor Broken Jon Atli Jonasson Fortress of Evil Javier Cercas Rush Beth Lewis Make a Home of Me Vanessa Santos Can You Solve the Murder by Antony Johnston The Woman Who Laughed Simon Mason King…

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MARK BILLINGHAM In Person With Paul 57:57

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Mark Billingham chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller What the Night Brings, donuts, longevity, opening scenes and please don't do spoilers! Bonus: Mark Billingham chats to Philip Gwynne Jones at Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival in Aberystwyth. Two pals have a chat. What the Night Brings"Three dead coppers, Tom, maybe four by lunchtime." The targeted…

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CWA SPECIALS 2025, Part 1, THE WHODUNNIT DAGGER 1:05:43

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The Crime Writers Association Whodunnit Dagger A CWA Specials Part 1 The Whodunnit Dagger celebrates books where the sex, swearing, and bloodletting take place offstage–books that focus on the intellectual challenge at the heart of a good mystery, and which revolve around often quirky characters. Books in this category include cosy crime, tradition…

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REME KONE & SM GOVETT #OnTheSofaWithVictoria 37:36

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Season 8 Episode 3: Debut crime novelists with a screenplay/film background Remi Kone Innocent Guilt & SM 'Sarah' Govett Believe. Recommends: The Death of Grass John Christopher, The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and g…

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FIONA CUMMINS In Person With Paul 59:54

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FIONA CUMMINS chats to Paul Burke about SOME OF US ARE LIARS, Saul Anguish, Essex inspiration, Sisters, celebrity and being the best writer you can be. SOME OF US ARE LIARS When Jen Miller entrusts her youngest child to the care of her beloved sisters, she has no idea of the devastating tragedy that is about to unfold. To celebrate her sister's wed…

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JANICE HALLETT & MAZ EVANS #OnTheSofaWithVictoria S8E2 35:05

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OnTheSofaWithVictoria Season 8 Episode 2: Writing for adults and children JANICE HALLETT The Examiner, The Appeal & MAZ EVANS That'll Teach Her. Recommends: East of Eden John Steinbeck, Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news …

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THOMAS TRANG In Person With Paul 55:36

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THOMAS TRANG chats to Paul Burke about Dark Neon Dirt, LA heists, Caravaggio, Hollywood money, Elmore Leonard and Andor. DARK NEON DIRT Shaun Nguyen is a Vietnamese war orphan who made it to America. But danger was never far behind – from the Chinatown gangs he ran with in New York, to his years in Iraq dodging bullets and defusing bombs. Nguyen le…

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Clare Leslie Hall & Guy Morpuss #OnTheSofaWithVictoria 23:58

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SEASON 8: CLARE LESLIE HALL BROKEN COUNTRY & GUY MORPUSS A TRIAL IN THREE ACTS #OnTheSofaWithVictoria Mentioned: The Go Between LP Hartley, Atonement Ian McEwan, Graham Bartlett. Recommendations: I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith, An Instance of the Finger Post Iain Pairs VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon …

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GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL 2025 Episode 3 1:10:08

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Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival - Episode 3 recorded at the Ceredigion Museum and Aberystwyth Library featuring interviews with authors and excerpts of live panels. Featuring: Interviews - Sarah Bax Horton, Mari Hannah & Sarah Todd Taylor and a brief panel excerpt featruing Jacky Collins with Mari Hannah & Clare Mackintosh. Interview Mari Hannah Gwyl Cri…

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THE REVIEW SHOW May 2025 17:31

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Reviews of the new releases in crime fiction May, 2025. Featuring: A Beautiful Way to Die Eleni Kyriacou The Doorman Chris Pavone Going Home in the Dark Dean Koontz Two Adam Lapid Mysteries Jonathan Dunsky Kill Pill David Barbaree A Death in the Afternoon Julie Anderson The Lady in the Park David Reynolds Death by Intent Jacqueline Harrett The Gold…

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Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival Special Episode 2 from Aberystwyth 1:26:38

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Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival Special Episode 2 recorded at the Ceredigion Museum and Aberystwyth Library featuring interviews with authors and excerpts of live panels. Featuring: LJ Shepherd, Jacqueline Harrett, Diamond Crime panel, Heidi Amsinck, Foreign Fields panel, Gwenllian Williams, Vaseem Khan (sneak appearance by Abir Mukherjee), Arresting Fun…

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MICHAEL AMOS CODY In Person With Paul 1:08:10

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MICHAEL AMOS CODY chats to Paul Burke about his STREETS OF NASHVILLE, new country music, North Carolina, MTV, tragic inspiration for the novel, why done it not whodunnit and Runion. In Streets of Nashville, Ezra MacRae has a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of songs and their writers, and he has moved from the North Carolina mountains to Nashville's M…

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JEREMY VINE In Person With Paul 1:03:55

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JEREMY VINE chats to Paul Burke about his new murder mystery Murder on Line One, regional radio, celebrity, Agatha Christie and washing our clothes. MURDER ON LINE ONE There's a killer on the airwaves … and they're calling for you. Darkness looms over sunny Sidmouth, when an unsolved murder comes to the attention of late-night radio talk show host …

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GEORGINA CLARKE In Person With Paul 48:20

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GEORGINA CLARKE chats to Paul Burke about her new historical mystery VIPER IN THE NEST, Lizzie Hardwicke, Georgian England, VIPER IN THE NEST: London, June 1759. When a charmless civil servant takes his own life, few are interested in his death. But Lizzie Hardwicke, who plies her trade in the brothels of London whilst also working as an undercover…

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RAYMOND BENSON In Person With Paul 53:10

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RAYMOND BENSON chats to Paul Burke about writing James Bond (6 novels, 3 novelizations and 3 short stories), The James Bond Companion, fantasy spy fiction, Films & Novels, Tom Clancy, The Union, favourite Fleming and Legacy. News: Coming later this year The Hook and the Eye as part of the ever expanding Bond franchise Raymond Benson is writing a no…

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REVIEW SHOW APRIL 25 20:02

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New Crime Fiction for April 2025 reviewed by Paul Burke The Secret Room by Jane Casey ✓ Out of the Dark by Heidi Amsinck✓ Death and Other Occupational Hazards by Veronika Dapunt✓ 10 Marchfield Square by Nicola Whyte✓ Lovers of Franz K by Burnham Sönmez, trans. from the Kurdish by Sami Hêzil. ✓ Sting of the Nettle by Colin Bostock-Smith✓ The Childre…

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GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL 2025 PREVIEW SHOW 21:18

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Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival Wales' only international crime writing festival returns to Aberystwyth 25th-27th April, 2025. Guests include Mark Billingham, Elly Griffiths, Mari Hannah, Chris Lloyd, Clare Mackintosh, Zoe Sharp, Graham Bartlett, Vaseem Khan, Abir Mukherjee, Alis Hawkins, Nicola Williams, Louise Mumford, Phil Rowlands. Ayo Onatade, Dr. N…

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LAURA MCCLUSKEY In Person With Craig 41:28

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Laura McCLUSKEY chats to Craig Sisterson about her new crime thriller THE WOLF TREE, the Scottish lighthouse mystery, film and book, writing the sequel, THE WOLF TREE A mysterious death. On a small island off the coast of Scotland, an isolated community is grieving. Eighteen-year-old Alan Ferguson was found at the foot of the lighthouse – an appare…

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AJAY CHOWDHURY In Person With Craig 45:21

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AJAY CHOWDHURY chats to Craig Sisterson about his new novel THE SHADOW, THE SHADOW: A ritual killing. An ancient curse. What's myth... and what's murder? After a bruising encounter with a terrorist group, Detective Kamil Rahman has decided to hand in his resignation to the Met and set up a detective agency with his friend Anjoli. But when his boss …

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NICK KOLAKOWSKI In Person With Paul 1:03:16

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NICK KOLAKOWSKI chats to Paul Burke about his new California PI novel WHERE THE BONES LIE, training wheels, heist novels, the private eye, voice versus pastiche and AI. WHERE THE BONES LIE: For Dash Fuller, Hollywood’s underbelly is home. He’s spent years making the film industry’s worst secrets disappear, and it’s left him a cynical burnout with a…

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The Review Show March 2025 15:45

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The Review Show March 2025. New crime fiction. Paperboy Callum McSorley When Shadows Fall Neil Lancaster Green Ink Stephen May Hunkeler’s Secret Hansjörg Schneider Murder Below Deck Orlando Murrin William Boyle Saint of the Narrows Street The Cost Morgan Cry The Cambridge Siren Jim Kelly Born to Lose Marek Z Turner Flicking the Bic Tia Ja’nae Words…

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TANIA MALIK In Person With Paul 50:12

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TANIA MALIK chats to Paul about her novel, just out in the UK, HOPE YOU ARE SATISFIED, Dubai, the immigrant experience, spooks, smugglers and tourists. HOPE YOU ARE SATISFIED: 1990. Twenty-five-year-old Riya works for Discover Arabia, a tour guide company in the far-flung outpost of Dubai. In the months leading up to the first Gulf War, the city's …

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Tod Lending #OnTheSofaWithVictoria 32:38

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Tod Lending #OnTheSofaWithVictoria. A special featuring THE UMBRELLA MAKER'S SON, the Holocaust, interior character, documentary film and storytelling. THE UMBRELLA MAKER'S SON: Born to a secure, middle-class Polish Jewish family, seventeen-year-old Reuven works alongside his father, an artisan businessman whose shop creates the finest handmade umb…

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Graeme Macrae Burnet In Person With Paul 46:38

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Graeme Macrae Burnet chats to Paul Burke about the concluding volume of the Gorsky trilogy A CASE OF MATRICIDE, Simenon, Zola, small town France & Kilmarnock. *Cryptic intro explained - Graeme was on Benbecula because Polygon will publish a new novella by him Benbecula. The next in Polygon’s Darkland Tales series, which sees Scottish authors reimag…

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ANNA SHARPE In Person With Craig Sisterson 46:33

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Anna Sharpe (Anna Mazzola) chats to Craig Sisterson about her new legal thriller Notes on a Drowning, contemporary v historical fiction, misogyny, childhood reading and condensing the law. Notes on a Drowning Alex knows she risks getting fired from her law firm if she takes on another unpaid case, but when she hears Rosa's desperate voice at the ot…

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The Review Show February 25 14:44

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The Latest Crime Fiction releases February 2025 Presumed Guilty Scott Turow, Swift HB Nobody's Fool Harlen Coben, Century HB The Trials of Lila Dalton LJ shepherd, Pushkin PB The Marshal of Snowdonia Simon McCleave, Stamford PB A Trial in Three Acts Guy Morpuss, Viper HB The Unrecovered Richard Strachan, Raven Bloomsbury HB The Story of a Murder Ha…

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DAME STELLA RIMINGTON In Person With Paul 1:05:22

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STELLA RIMINGTON chats to Paul about zeitgeisty new thriller THE HIDDEN HAND, the Chinese threat, Liz Carlyle, Manon Tyler, MI5, retirement, sexism, James Bond and John Buchan. THE HIDDEN HAND: A historic institution is hiding a very modern threat. The student - Li Min, a Chinese student, is forced by her government to transfer from Harvard to Oxfo…

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The Review Show January 2025 13:44

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The Review Show January 2025. The latest round up of new releases in the world of crime fiction. The Big Empty Robert Crais Murder for Busy People Tony Parsons Black Tag Simon Mayo A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage Asia Mackay The Last Days of Kira Mullen Nicci French The House with Nine Locks Philip Gray Oromay Baalu Girma These Violent Delights…

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KIM SHERWOOD In Person With Paul 1:03:32

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KIM SHERWOOD chats to Paul Burke about A SPY LIKE ME, Double or Nothing, Ian Fleming, the Double 'O' series, loving Bond and living the dream, George Baker. A SPY LIKE ME Six days. A bomb goes off at the BBC. But this is just the beginning. In six days' time, terrorists will strike again. Three agents. With James Bond captured, three of MI6's tough…

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ROB PARKER In Person With Paul 1:01:45

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ROB PARKER chats to Paul about THE TROUBLED DEEP: A Cam Killick Norfolk Mystery, Ben Bracken, Audible Books, working with young minds, PTSD, loving location, knee injuries and kismet. THE TROUBLED DEEP: Nobody ever knew what happened to the Brindleys. One summer they were there - flashy, loud and beautiful - and then they were gone. A mother, fathe…

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T M Logan #OnTheSofaWith Victoria 53:34

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#ONTHESOFA - Season 7 - The Final Episode. TM 'Tim' Logan, THE DREAM HOME, chats to Victoria Selman (ALL THE LITTLE LIARS) at Waterstones, Reading. Inspirations, the need to know but will the truth will set you free? every word should count, short chapters & the climax. T.M. Logan is a Sunday Times bestseller whose thrillers have sold more than two…

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WES BROWNE In Person With Paul & Scott 1:15:06

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WES BROWNE chats to Scott Blackburn & Paul Burke about his noir THEY ALL FALL THE SAME, (US Amazon link) why it wasn't called Spoon, the Appalachians, North Carolina, pizza and community. They All Fall the Same: Cannabis kingpin Burl Spoon has reigned over the Jackson County area for three decades, building a powerful backwoods empire. But behind a…

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Johana Gustawsson & Thomas Enger In Person With Paul - Newcastle Noir 47:12

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Johana Gustawsson & Thomas Enger chat to Paul at Newcastle Noir about their upcoming crime thriller SON, Psychoanalysis, memory, scheduling, SON Everyone here is lying… Expert on body language and memory, and consultant to the Oslo Police, psychologist Kari Voss sleepwalks through her days, and, by night, continues the devastating search for her yo…

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The REVIEW SHOW DECEMBER 24 13:40

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THE REVIEW SHOW DECEMBER 2024 - New titles published end 2024 & early January 2025. Locked In Jussi Adler-Olsen After the Bridge Andrew J Field The Traitor Jørn Lier Horst The Ancients John Larison 2/1/25 The Broken River Chris Hammer 2/1/25 Lie of the Land Kerry Hadley-Price 6/1/25 The Less Unkind Rosaria Giorgi 28/1/25 Blood Sacrifice Douglas Jac…