Crime Time FM

Paul Burke takes a look at the new releases for the Summer.

All Murderers Aboard by David Fennell

The End of Vodka by Oscar de Muriel

The Venetian Redemption by Philip Gwynne Jones

The Tailor by Tim Sullivan

Blood Enemy by Douglas Jackson

The Pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee

Atomic Coffin by Benedict Anning

Liar Liar by Luca Veste

The Night Stairs by Erin Kelly

The Hotel Manager's Guide to Murder by Erlandur Arason

Can You Solve the Murder: The Forest of Death by Antony Johnston

Watching the Detectives ed. Paul Burke

Blink & Shoot by Paul D. Brazill

Paul Burke is the editor of Crime Time FM. His first book Spies on Screen From Silent to Streaming will be published this year.

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Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,  

CWA DAGGER SPECIALS - Paul Burke chats to Crime Writers Association Diamond Dagger Winner MARK BILLINGHAM, Bread & Circuses - agitprop, Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, Stand Up, TV writing, Tom Thorne, Declan Miller, taking control with fiction.

Diamond Dagger sponsored by Karen Baugh Menuhin

The most prestigious Dagger of all, awarded for a lifetime contribution to English-language crime writing.

The Shadow Step: It's Detective Miller's deadliest dance...

The Shadow Step: One taken simultaneously by a pair of dancers facing the same direction, one of them behind and slightly shifted leftwards ('in the shadow')
Typically, such a step perfectly demonstrates synchronized elegance. It showcases a couple in near telepathic harmony with one another. It does not normally end with someone stone-dead in a lake.
DS Declan Miller is a magnet for strange cases, but how can he catch a killer when the man confessing to the crime is clearly innocent? Things rapidly escalate when the murder that isn't really a murder at all attracts the unwanted attention of a drugs Queenpin, a deranged ex-squaddie and a lovesick gangland enforcer. Then a student is kidnapped...
Throw in a wobbly dog, a pair of ceramic leopards and the distracting smell from a local biscuit factory, and - if he wants to save a young man's life - Miller has little choice but to waltz all the way into the shadows.

Mark Billingham is one of the UK's most acclaimed and popular crime writers. A former actor, television writer and stand-up comedian, his series of novels featuring D.I. Tom Thorne has twice won him the Crime Novel Of The Year Award as well as the Sherlock Award for Best British Detective and been nominated for seven CWA Daggers. His standalone thriller IN THE DARK was chosen as one of the twelve best books of the year by the Times and his debut novel, SLEEPYHEAD was chosen by the Sunday Times as one of the 100 books that had shaped the decade. Each of his novels has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. A television series based on the Thorne novels was screened in Autumn 2010, starring David Morrissey as Tom Thorne and a BBC series based on the standalone thrillers IN THE DARK and TIME OF DEATH was shown in 2017. Mark is also a member of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. Performing alongside Val McDermid, Chris Brookmyre, Stuart Neville, Doug Johnstone and Luca Veste, this band of frustrated rockers murders songs for fun at literary festivals worldwide.

Paul Burke is the editor of Crime Time FM. His first book Spies on Screen: From Silent to Streaming will be published in 2026.

Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,  

CWA Daggers Special: Episode One The Shortlists -Interviews with five Dagger Shortlisted authors in the run up to Awards Night announcements on 2nd July.

Nicci Cloke Her Many Faces - Twisted Dagger 

Victoria Goldman Little Secrets - Whodunnit Dagger

Rob McInroy Barvick Falls - Historical Dagger sponsored by Morgen Witzel in honour of Dr. Marilyn Livingstone.

Michael Wood Waiting Short Story Dagger

Noelle W Ihli Such Quiet Girls - The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

Crime Time FM is the official podcast for the CWA Daggers.

Interviewer Paul Burke is the presenter of CTFM, his 1st book SPIES ON SCREEN will be published in September.

Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,  

Season 10. Episode 6. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria 

AMANDA PROWSE (15 Minutes) Amanda has published 45 books in a decade and discusses her unique way of writing complete stories in her head before committing a word to paper. While ELEANOR RAY [Elizabeth Mundy] (Everything is Beautiful) shares her more methodical approach to writing, particularly how having young children influences your writing style.

Recommended: The Lemony Snicket series. The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald.

Mentions: See the Stars Eleanor Ray, Will You Remember Me Amanda Prowse.

Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling thriller author. She has written a number of critically acclaimed novels including the hit Ziba MacKenzie series and Truly Darkly Deeply which was a Spring 2023 Richard & Judy Book Club pick.

Victoria has been shortlisted for the ThrillZone Award, 2025, the Fingerprint Thriller of the Year Award, 2023, CWA Short Story Dagger, 2022 and CWA Debut Dagger, 2017 and longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2023.

Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS

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

Twitter: @VictoriaSelman

Instagram: @VictoriaSelmanAuthor

Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,  

Season 10. Episode 5. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria 

Ruth Mancini (The Stranger on the Stairs) & Susan Barrett (All Cats are Grey) discuss how they use real crimes as inspiration for thier writing.

Recommended - Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner

Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling thriller author. She has written a number of critically acclaimed novels including the hit Ziba MacKenzie series and Truly Darkly Deeply which was a Spring 2023 Richard & Judy Book Club pick.

Victoria has been shortlisted for the ThrillZone Award, 2025, the Fingerprint Thriller of the Year Award, 2023, CWA Short Story Dagger, 2022 and CWA Debut Dagger, 2017 and longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2023.

Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS

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

Twitter: @VictoriaSelman

Instagram: @VictoriaSelmanAuthor

Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,  

Season 10. Episode 4. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria 

Maz Evans (Who Let the Dogs Out) & Luke Bateman (award-winning composer) discuss turning a novel into a musical.

Recommended - Luke: Simply the Quest by Maz Evans. Maz: East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling thriller author. She has written a number of critically acclaimed novels including the hit Ziba MacKenzie series and Truly Darkly Deeply which was a Spring 2023 Richard & Judy Book Club pick.

Victoria has been shortlisted for the ThrillZone Award, 2025, the Fingerprint Thriller of the Year Award, 2023, CWA Short Story Dagger, 2022 and CWA Debut Dagger, 2017 and longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2023.

Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS

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

Twitter: @VictoriaSelman

Instagram: @VictoriaSelmanAuthor

Produced by Junkyard Dog

Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,  

Season 10. Episode 3. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria 

Garry Disher (The Paul Hirsch series) and Dom Nolan (White City) discuss location as character. 

Recommended: WILLIAM TREVOR, ALICE MONRO, ROBERT PENN WARREN, JOHN LE CARRÉ TINKER TAILOR, CORMAC MCCARTHY, ELMORE LEONARD.

Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling thriller author. She has written a number of critically acclaimed novels including the hit Ziba MacKenzie series and Truly Darkly Deeply which was a Spring 2023 Richard & Judy Book Club pick.

Victoria has been shortlisted for the ThrillZone Award, 2025, the Fingerprint Thriller of the Year Award, 2023, CWA Short Story Dagger, 2022 and CWA Debut Dagger, 2017 and longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2023.

Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS

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

Twitter: @VictoriaSelman

Instagram: @VictoriaSelmanAuthor

Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,  

Season 10 Episode 2: Anna Bailey & Tariq Ashkanani #OnTheSofaWithVictoria

Anna Bailey (The Tall Bones) & Tariq Ashkanani (The Hollow Boys) discuss the importance of character development over plot in mystery writing. 

Recommended Annie Proulx Close Range and Watchmen Alan Moore.

Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling thriller author. She has written a number of critically acclaimed novels including the hit Ziba MacKenzie series and Truly Darkly Deeply which was a Spring 2023 Richard & Judy Book Club pick.

Victoria has been shortlisted for the ThrillZone Award, 2025, the Fingerprint Thriller of the Year Award, 2023, CWA Short Story Dagger, 2022 and CWA Debut Dagger, 2017 and longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2023.

Recommended Mary Oliver poetry, The House of Leaves Mark Z Danielewski, Heated Rivalry Rachel Reid, Project Hail Mary Andy Weir, Dorty 20 Bill Schweigart

Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS

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

Twitter: @VictoriaSelman

Instagram: @VictoriaSelmanAuthor

Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,  

Season 10, Episode One: 

Industry Experts: Jack Butler (publisher) & Barbara Poelle (agent) #OnTheSofawithVictoria  

Jack Butler, publishing director at Sphere Little Brown, and Barbara Powell, founder of One Word Literary, discuss comparative publishing trends in the UK and US.

Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling thriller author. She has written a number of critically acclaimed novels including the hit Ziba MacKenzie series and Truly Darkly Deeply which was a Spring 2023 Richard & Judy Book Club pick.

Victoria has been shortlisted for the ThrillZone Award, 2025, the Fingerprint Thriller of the Year Award, 2023, CWA Short Story Dagger, 2022 and CWA Debut Dagger, 2017 and longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2023.

Recommended Mary Oliver poetry, The House of Leaves Mark Z Danielewski, Heated Rivalry Rachel Reid, Project Hail Mary Andy Weir, Dorty 20 Bill Schweigart

Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS

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

Twitter: @VictoriaSelman

Instagram: @VictoriaSelmanAuthor

Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,  

ANDREA MARA chats with Paul about her new psychological thriller SUCH A NICE GIRL, redundancy-serendipity, sisters, friends and family, TV and All Her Fault.

SUCH A NICE GIRL: The morning after a glamorous, luxury wedding, you and your best friend go to wake your twenty-four-year-old daughters. You open the door to their shared room in the pool-house and find a lamp smashed on the floor, a blood stain on the carpet, a ringing phone - and both girls are nowhere to be seen.
The police come and you discover something shocking. Something inexplicable. Is one of your daughters trying to kill the other? And that’s when you and your best friend begin to unravel what's really going on between the girls.
You need to work together to find your daughters, testing your friendship to its limits. And you can’t help but wonder: which girl is the killer and which is the victim?

Andrea Mara is a crime novelist from Dublin, Ireland, where she lives with her husband and three children. It Should Have Been You was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller in the UK, and an Irish Times number one bestseller in Ireland. Her 2024 novel, Someone In The Attic, was a number one bestseller on Kindle and spent ten weeks in the Irish Times bestseller charts. The paperback was a UK Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Her 2023 book, No One Saw A Thing was a Sunday Times, Irish Times and Kindle Number 1 bestseller. Hide And Seek (July 2022) spent five weeks in the Irish Times bestseller charts and was shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the year at the A Post Irish Book Awards. All Her Fault (July 2021) was Sunday Times Crime Novel of the Month, a Sunday Times and Irish Times Top Ten Bestseller, and Kindle Top Five bestseller. It was shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year in the A Post Irish Book Awards and has been adapted for TV, starring Sarah Snook (Succession) and Dakota Fanning (Ripley). Her first book, The Other Side of the Wall, was shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award 2018 and was an Amazon number one bestseller in Irish Crime.

SUCH A NICE GIRL IS PUBLISHED 7/5 

Recommended: Araminta Hall Unreliable Narrator

Paul Burke is the editor of Aspects of Crime and Crime Time FM. His first book Spies on Screen From Silent to Streaming will be published in September.

Produced by Junkyard Dog

Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,