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MATTHEW GENTILE, director of AMERICAN MURDERER, starring Tom Pelphrey, Ryan Philippe, 

 Based on a true story, this riveting thriller follows Jason Derek Brown (Tom Pelphrey), a charismatic con man bankrolling his extravagant lifestyle through a series of scams. On Brown's trail: Lance Leising (Ryan Phillippe), a dogged FBI special agent determined to put Brown behind bars. When Brown's funds run low and his past catches up with him, he plots his most elaborate scheme yet, pitting himself against Leising in a deadly game of cat and mouse -- and becoming the most unlikely and elusive fugitive on the FBI's most-wanted list.  Written & directed by Matthew Gentile, produced by  Kara Baker, Carissa Buffel, Kevin Matusow, Gia Walsh. Release Date 30/1/23 EST & VOD, runtime 1h44m.

The Trailer: 

Noted: David Lean, Akira Kurosawa, The Godfather pt1&2, Dog Day Afternoon, Rashomon, Czech New Wave, Notorious, Lawrence of Arabia, Narrow Margin, Armored Truck Robbery, David Fincher, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, the Pamela Philips case.

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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 2022 .

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Season 4 episode 2: Jeff Lindsay (Dexter) Caroline Kepnes (YOU) & Andy McNab (The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success) discuss whether there's a psychopath in all of us- & why we might want there to be…
 
VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman

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CrimeFest 2023
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Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for January 2023 - part 2.

Books reviewed:
 In the Blink of an Eye  Jo Callaghan                                                Simon & Schuster
The Library Suicides Fflur Dafydd                                                    Hodder & Stoughton
In Too Deep Simon McCleave                                                             Avon
Death and the Conjuror Tom Mead                                                 Head of Zeus
Showstopper Peter Lovesey                                                                 Sphere
Bethulia Thorne Moore                                                                           Diamond Crime
A Winter Grave Peter May                                                                   Quercus
The Last Remains  Elly Griffiths                                                         Quercus
Resurrection David Gilman                                                                  Head of Zeus

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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 2022 .

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

Icelandic authors JÓNÍNA LEÓSDÓTTIR, SÓLVEIG PÁLSDÓTTIR & translator QUENTIN  BATES chat to Paul Burke about the novels DECEIT and HARM

DECEIT: Reykjavík detective Soffía finds herself struggling to cope with a single-handed investigation into a spate of malicious acts taking place across the city, and enlists help from an unexpected direction.
Her psychologist ex-husband Adam has advised the police before, but with Covid raging in the city, would prefer to stay holed up in his basement flat as he deals with challenges in both his working and private life.
He grudgingly agrees to work with Soffía, as the stakes in the investigation are continually raised.
Working out who bears a grudge that goes deep enough to lead to murder, they unravel complex family ties, lingering enmities and a dark past that the victims would prefer to keep secret, while Adam encounters a young woman in a race against the clock to find the father she has never seen, but for what purpose?

HARM: When wealthy doctor Ríkarður Magnússon goes to sleep in his luxurious caravan and doesn’t wake up, detectives Guðgeir Fransson and Elsa Guðrún are called to the Westman Islands to investigate what looks like murder.
Suspicion immediately falls on Ríkharður’s young, beautiful and deeply troubled girlfriend – but there are no easy answers in this case as they are drawn into family feuds, disgruntled friends and colleagues, and the presence of a group of fitness-obsessed over-achievers with secrets of their own.
As their investigation makes progress, Guðgeir and Elsa Guðrún are forced to confront their own preconceptions and prejudices as they uncover the sinister side of Ríkharður’s past.
Harm is the third novel featuring the soft-spoken Reykjavík detective Guðgeir Fransson to appear in English. Sólveig Pálsdóttir again weaves a complex web of intrigue that plays out in the Westman Islands, remote southern Iceland and Reykjavík while asking some searching questions about things society accepts at face value – and others it is not prepared to tolerate.

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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 2022 .

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

Season 4 episode 1: ALL RISE - STEVE CAVANAGH (Eddie Flynn series) & IMRAN MAHMOOD (All I Said Was True) discuss courtroom thrillers with Victoria Selman: Why we all love Atticus Finch, the courtroom as a cathedral and having a pint with Rumpole.

VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply
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.

Mentions:
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Aaron Sorkin To Kill a Mockingbird (adaptation for stage)
Perry Mason (fictional lawyer written by Erle Stanley Gardner)
John Grisham (bestselling legal thriller writer)
Petrocelli (fictional TV lawyer)

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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,  

Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for January 2023 and a few of the best titles from Nov/Dec 2022.

Books reviewed:
The Other Guest  - Heidi Perks.                                                      Century
The House at the End of the World  - Dean Koontz            Thomas & Mercer
The Night Watch - Neil Lancaster                                                 HQ
The Will - Rebecca Reid                                                                       Penguin
The Book of the Most Precious Substance - Sara Gran     Faber
The Elephant Conspiracy - Peter Hain                                        Muswell
Murder, Memoir, Murder - Anthony J Quinn                           Dalzell
Dead Man's Creek - Chris Hammer                                               Wildfire 
I'll Never Tell - Philippa East                                                               HQ
Jacked - ed. Vern Smith                                                                         Run Amok
Gone - ed Stephen J Golds                                                                  Red Dog

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CrimeFest 2023
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CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Winner 2019 - ROBERT GODDARD Chats to Paul Burke about THIS IS THE NIGHT THEY COME FOR YOU & THE FINE ART OF INVISIBLE DETECTION, Algeria, Paris 1961, character and 30 novels and counting...

This is the Night They Come for You: On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France.
To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country's feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots. They are instructed to pursue a former agent, now on the run after twenty years in prison for his part in a high-level corruption scandal. But their search will lead them inexorably towards a greater mystery, surrounding a murder that took place in Paris more than fifty years ago.
Uncovering the truth may be his responsibility, but Taleb is well aware that no-one in Algeria wants to be reminded of the dark deeds carried out in the struggle for independence - or in the violence that has racked the nation since. Before long, he will face a choice he has long sought to avoid, between self-preservation and doing the right thing.

The fine Art of Invisible Detection: Umiko Wada has recently had quite enough excitement in her life. With her husband recently murdered and a mother who seems to want her married again before his body is cold, she just wants to keep her head down.
As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasingly uncomplicated, filled with coffee runs, diary management and paperwork.
That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case which turns out to be dangerous enough to get him killed. A case which means Wada will have to leave Japan for the first time and travel to London.
Following the only lead she has, Wada quickly realises that being a detective isn't as easy as the television makes out. And that there's a reason why secrets stay buried for a long time. Because people want them to stay secret. And they're prepared to do very bad things to keep them that way...

Robert Goddard's first novel, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller. Since then, his books have captivated readers worldwide with their edge-of-the-seat pace and their labyrinthine plotting. He has won awards in the UK, the US and across Europe and his books have been translated into over thirty languages. In 2019, he won the Crime Writers’ Association’s highest accolade, the Diamond Dagger, for a lifetime achievement in Crime Writing.

Recommendation:
Junichiro Tanizaki (novelist)

Mentions:
Murder in Memoriam Didier Daeninckx (novel)
The Battle for Algiers (film)
Films of Jacques Tati
Pepe Le Moko (film)


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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 2022 .

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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,  

Season 3 Finale: JEFFERY DEAVER (Lincoln Rhyme/Colter Shaw) joins Victoria Selman in this End of Season (very) Special: Pulling the rug from under your reader so often they’ll be sending you their chiropractor’s bills, Hamilton tees & ‘getting a character in’. Unmissable!

HUNTING TIME JEFFREY DEAVER: THERE ARE TWO FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF SURVIVAL.
#1: NEVER BE WITHOUT A MEANS OF ESCAPE.
Allison Parker is on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah, and Colter Shaw has been hired by her eccentric boss, entrepreneur Marty Harmon, to find and protect her. Though he’s an expert at tracking missing persons―even those who don’t wish to be found―Shaw has met his match in Allison, who brings all her skills as a brilliant engineer designing revolutionary technology to the game of evading detection.
#2: NEVER BE WITHOUT ACCESS TO A WEAPON.
The reason for Allison’s panicked flight is soon apparent. She’s being stalked by her ex-husband, Jon Merritt. Newly released from prison and fueled by blinding rage, Jon is a man whose former profession as a police detective makes him uniquely suited for the hunt. And he’s not alone. Two hitmen are also hot on her heels―an eerie pair of thugs who take delight not only in murder but in the sport of devising clever ways to make bodies disappear forever. Even if Shaw manages to catch up with Allison and her daughter, his troubles will just be beginning.
SHAW IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER RULE #3:
NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING.
As Shaw ventures further into the wilderness, the truth becomes as hard to decipher as the forest’s unmarked trails…and peril awaits at every turn.

VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply
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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Crime Time

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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,  

SIMON STEPHENSON chats to Paul Burke about his novel Sometimes People Die, Working in the NHS, scriptwriting in Hollywood, entering writing competitions, editing, medical serial killers through time and the murder house.

SOMETIMES PEOPLE DIE: The year is 1999. Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young Scottish doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a senior house officer in the struggling east London hospital of St Luke’s.
Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, over-worked staff and underfunded wards a darker secret soon declares itself: too many patients are dying.
Which of the medical professionals our protagonist has encountered is behind the murders? And can our unnamed narrator’s version of the events be trusted?

SIMON STEPHENSON originally trained as a doctor and worked in London and Scotland. He previously wrote Let Not the Waves of the Sea, a memoir about the loss of his brother in the Indian ocean tsunami. It won Best First Book at the Scottish Book Awards, was a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4, and a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year.
His first novel, Set My Heart to Five, has been optioned by Working Title Films. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a screenwriter. He originated and wrote the film The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, and wrote on Pixar’s Luca.

Recommendations:
Iain Banks - The Crow Road
Jack Jordan, Jed Mercurio

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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 2022 .

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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,  

Indie publisher DIAMOND CRIME is based in South Wales but with a UK writer base. Five of their authors chat about their latest novels and the experience of being part of a small but close-knit writer led imprint. Topics include; violence in crime fiction, a world without Agatha Christie, the psychological thriller, writing character and series versus stand alone?

Jacqueline Harrett - The Whispering Trees & The Nesting Place
Jennifer Lee Thompson - Vile City & Butcher City
Gwyneth Steddy - Do Sleeping Dogs Lie?
GB Williams Play the Game & Breaking Free
Phil Rowlands - Timeslip, Single Cell & Siena

Diamond Books

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