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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 

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The Latest Crime Fiction Releases Reviewed By Paul Burke - October 2023.
Books featured:
Loyalty Martina Cole
The Prey Yrsa Sigardardóttir
The North Light Hideo Yokoyama**
A frightfully Fatal Affair Hannah Hendy
The Due Date Niki Mackay
Crown Vic Lee Goldberg
Geneva Richard Armitage
The Beaver Theory Antti Tuomainen
White As Snow Llija Sigardardóttir
Stigma Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger
Dry Cleaning Trevor Mark Thomas
Wind Sprints Ralph Dennis
Luda Grant Morrison
The 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.

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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 King

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

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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.

Recommended
Katja Ivar, Leonardo Padura, James Woolf
Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart

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 

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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.

Recommendations
Endeavour
Robbie Morrison Cast a Cold Eye, Edge of the Grave
David Peace GB84
John le Carré The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Graham Greene Brighton Rock
Eoin 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 

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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.

Recommendations
Laura Shepherd Robinson, DV Bishop Abir Mukherjee, Vaseem Khan.
Joseph O'Conner Shadowlands

Scarlet 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 

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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 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

RECOMMENDED: THE NAME OF THE ROSE UMBERTO ECO

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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 

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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 - Daunt
THE PIT Peter Papathanasiou - MacLehose
NO RESERVE Felix Francis - Zaffre 
THE TRAITOR Ava Glass - Penguin
THE BORGIA PORTRAIT David Hewson*
ALL THAT'S LEFT UNSAID Tracey Lien - HQ
THE TORRENT Dinuka McKenzie - Canelo
THE MAN WHO DIDN'T BURN Ian Moore - Duckworth
KILL SHOW Daniel Sweren-Becker - Hodder & Stoughton
EVERYBODY KNOWS Jordan Harper - Faber
BEFORE IT WENT ROTTEN Simon Matthews - Oldcastle Books

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, ft. Jimmy Wayne - KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO ft. Kid Anderson. This episode is sponsored by Guy Hale.
Featured Song: Late Blossom
GUY HALE 

*Direct from publisher

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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 Me
ORENDA

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. 

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CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,