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North Georgia author MARK WESTMORELAND chats to Paul Burke about the Dooley brothers - Mack & Marshall, A Violent Gospel* and A Mourning Song*, Burt Reynolds - Smokey And The Bandit,

A VIOLENT GOSPEL: If there’s a bad idea in Tugalo County, chances are that Mack and Marshall Dooley are behind it. When the brothers heist a snake-handling church’s money-laundering operation, things go south in a hurry. This part of the north Georgia hills ain’t much, just hardscrabble folks trying to get by. It’s the perfect place to wash a load of cash -- and an even better place to make your enemies disappear. When Mack goes missing, Marshall cuts a deal with a local crime boss to rescue his brother. Navigating a storm of wild women and a literal nest of vipers, the Dooleys can’t trust anyone other than themselves to get out of the mess they’ve made.

A MOURNING SONG: Mack Dooley is a haunted man. After the events of A Violent Gospel left Mack at the bottom of a whiskey bottle, he’s back in A Mourning Song, forced to face his demons. When his brother resurfaces, Mack finds himself caught up in a turf war between the Bohannon crime family and a gang of white supremacists. Mack is furious with Marshall, but family is family, after all. In order to survive, he’ll have to set aside his disagreements with his brother so they can work together to run the Ghostface Devils out of Tugalo County.

Mark Westmoreland is a Georgia native who lives in Oklahoma with his wife and two dogs. He's a full-time Dawgs fan with a sideline as a writer. Sippin' bourbon and watching Burt Reynolds are two of his favorite pastimes. A Violent Gospel is his debut novella. You can find him hanging out on Twitter @ItsMarkYall.

Recommendations: Peter Ferris, Wiley Cash, James Lee Burke, Cormac McCarthy, William Boyle, Joe R Lansdale, Lee Durkee, Scott Blackburn, SA Cosby, Larry Brown, Harry Crews, Brian Panowich,  Wesley Brown, Eli Cranor & Chris Offutt.

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WOMEN IN CRIME: Season 3, Episode 8:
ARAMINTA HALL (Hidden Depths Jan '23), ERIN KELLY (The Skeleton Key) & CL TAYLOR (The Guilty Couple) chat to Victoria Selman about why women are drawn to crime fiction, reflections on violence in society, gaslighting, frenemies, media coverage and whether women have fair representation in the press.

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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Recommendations
SARAH WATERS FINGERSMITH
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH EDITH'S DIARY
BELINDA BAUER RUBBERNECKER

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THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE - BEST CRIME NOVELS OF 2022.
BARRY FORSHAW chairs a panel of top critics and writers Laura Wilson (Guardian critic, novelist) , Maxim Jakubowski (editor, publisher, writer, bookseller), Jake Kerridge (crime fiction critic for the Telegraph), Ayo Onatade (critic ShotsBlog) Victoria Selman (novelist and Crime Time presenter) and Paul Burke.

Book Choices:
Barry Forshaw
A Heart Full of Headstones – Ian Rankin
Blue Water – Leonora Nattras*
The Dark Flood – Deon Meyer (trans. K L Seegers)
The Lost Man of Bombay – Vaseem Khan
The Twyford Code – Janice Hallett
2023: The Shadows of London – Andrew Taylor*
Laura Wilson
The Book of the Most Precious Substance – Sara Gran
Queen High – C J Carey*
On Java Road – Lawrence Osborne
Wrong Place, Wrong Time – Gillian McAllister
The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill – C S Robertson
2023: Stay Buried – Kate Webb, The Skeleton Key - Erin Kelly, Charlotte Vassell - The Other Half, Strange Sally Diamond - Liz Nugent, The Only Suspect - Louise Candlish.

Maxim Jakubowski
The Maid – Nita Prose
How to Find Your Way in the Dark – Derek B Miller
Heat 2 – Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner
Shoot the Moonlight Out – William Boyle
Maror – Lavie Tidhar 
2023: Death and the Conjuror – Tom Mead

Ayo Onatade
City on Fire – Don Winslow
The Life of Crime – Martin Edwards
Confidence – Denise Mina
Breaking Point – Olivier Norek
Blue Water – Leonora Nattras*
The Devil Takes You Home - Gabino Iglesias
2023: The Shadows of London – Andrew Taylor*

Jake Kerridge
A Season in Exile – Oliver Harris
The Trees – Percival Everett
The Trenches – Parker Bilal
The Girls Are Good – Ilaria Bernadini
Murder Memoir Murder – Anthony J Quinn
2023: Tomas Nevinson – Javier Marias

Victoria Selman
The IT Girl – Ruth Ware
The Reunion – Polly Philips 
The Empty Room – Brian McGilloway 
Queen High – C J Carey* (also Laura)
Hunting Time – Jeffery Deaver
2023: The Things We Do To Our Friends – Heather Darwent, The Quiet Tenant - Clémence Michallon.

Paul Burke
Racing the Light – Robert Crais
The Invisible – Peter Papathanasiou 
River Clyde – Simone Buchholz (trans. Rachel Ward)
House of Ashes – Stuart Neville
Small Deaths – Rijula Das
2023: White Riot – Joe Thomas, All the Sinners Bleed - SA Cosby

* Books on more than 1 list

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JEROME CHARYN chats to Maxim Jakubowski (writer, editor, publisher, bookshop owner & critic) & Paul Burke about his new novel BIG RED, Hollywood the real capital of America, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, graphic novels, the essence of noir and the female Samson.

BIG RED: NARRATED BY A STARRY-EYED LESBIAN, BIG RED REIMAGINES THE TRAGIC CAREER OF RITA HAYWORTH AND HER INDOMITABLE HUSBAND, ORSON WELLES.
Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Red re-envisions the life of one of America's most enduring icons: Gilda herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red hair and hypnotic dancing helped make her the quintessential movie star of the 1940s.
With narrator Rusty Redburn - a feisty second-string gossip columnist from Kalamazoo tasked with spying on Hayworth by Columbia movie mogul Harry 'The Janitor' Cohn - as our guide, we follow the meteoric rise and heartrending demise of the actress, encountering her exploitative father, Eduardo; her controlling husband, 'boy genius' Orson Welles; and notorious journalist Louella Parsons, among many others. Mixing his trademark screwball comedy and unerring tragedy, Jerome Charyn, with his 'polymorphous imagination' (Jonathan Lethem) reanimates film classics such as Cover Girl, Gilda, and The Lady from Shanghai.
An insightful, tender portrait of a seemingly halcyon age before blockbusters and film franchises, Big Red promises to consume both Hollywood cinephiles and neophytes alike.

Jerome Charyn is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction. Among other honors, he has received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and his novels have been selected as finalists for the Firecracker Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Charyn lives in New York.

Recommendations (Film): Chinatown, The Lady From Shanghai, Duel In The Sun, Chimes At Midnight, Citizen Kane, Touch Of Evil, The Magnificent Ambersons, Double Indemnity, The Third Man, Decision To Leave, Gold Diggers of 1933, On The Waterfront, The Stranger, Vertigo.
Books: James Ellroy, No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy, City of Nets Otto Friedrich.

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Season 3 episode 7: VASEEM KHAN  (The Lost Man of Bombay) & JANICE HALLETT (The Twyford Code) discuss cosy crime with Victoria Selman. Golden Age Crime, screenplay to novel, warmth and humour in the murder mystery, every novel needs an elephant, write a cosy on the spot.

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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Mentions:
Alexander McCall Smith
Agatha Christie's Poirot & Marple
Sophie Hannah
TE Kinsey Lady Hardcastle Mysteries
Hannibal Lector
MC Beaton Agatha Raisin
Midsomer Murders
Richard Osman

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JAMES GRADY chats to Paul Burke about THIS TRAIN, Six Days of the Condor, Three Days of the Condor, the US mid-terms, gauging the pulse of the nation, realism, rebellion & redemption and enjoying life and art to the full.

THIS TRAIN races us through America's heartland, carrying secrets. There is treasure in the cargo car, along with an invisible puppeteer. There is a coder named Nora, Mugzy, the yippy dog, and Ross, the too-curious poet. On board, it's a countdown to murder...
On this train there is a silver madman, a targeted banker, and crises of conscience. This train harbors the "perfect" couple's conspiracies, the chaos of being a teenager, and parenthood alongside the wows of being nine. There is a widow and a wannabe, and the sleaziest billionaire.
On this train, there is the suicide ticket, the bomb, sex, love, and loneliness. The heist. Revenge. Redemption. This Train is a ticking clock, roaring through forty-seven fictional hours of non-stop suspense and action, through the challenges of now: Racism. Sexism. Global warming. What it means to be alive.

James Grady's first novel Six Days Of The Condor became the classic Robert Redford movie Three Days Of The Condor and the current Max Irons TV series Condor. Grady has received Italy's Raymond Chandler Medal, France's Grand Prix Du Roman Noir and Japan's Baka-Misu literature award, two Regardie's magazine short story awards, and been a Mystery Writers of America Edgar finalist. He's published more than a dozen novels and three times that many short stories, been a muckraker journalist and a scriptwriter for film and television. In 2008, London's Daily Telegraph named Grady as one of "50 crime writers to read before you die." In 2015, The Washington Post compared his prose to George Orwell and Bob Dylan.

RECOMMENDATIONS
JAMES GRADY NOVELS:
Mad Dogs
The Nest Day of the Condor
Last Days of the Condor
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Catch 22 Joseph Heller
The Philosophy of Modern Music Bob Dylan
Dark Matter Blake Crouch
Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter

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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 .

Notes
Jack Anderson - Political Sleaze Busting Journalist
Lee Metcalf - US Senator 
Kurt Vonnegut, Albert Camus, Graham Greene, Edward Hopper, James Baldwin, Adam Diment.
Marias Massacre 1870

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MIKE LUPICA chats to Paul Burke about FALLOUT (Jesse Stone) & REVENGE TOUR (Sunny Randall). Spenser, 'follow the money', the Parkersphere & the Robert B Parker legacy.

FALLOUT: Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team's biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult - the teen was the nephew of his colleague, Suitcase Simpson, and Jesse had been coaching the young shortstop. As he searches for answers he is stonewalled at every turn, and it seems that someone is determined to keep him from digging further.
Jesse is further shocked by the murder of former Paradise police chief, Charlie Farrell. Farrell had been looking into a series of scam calls that preyed upon the elderly. But how do these 'ghost calls' connect to his murder? When threats - and gunshots - appear on Jesse's own doorstep, the race to find answers is on.

REVENGE TOUR PI Sunny Randall's landlord and former client, famous novelist Melanie Joan Hall, is being threatened and blackmailed, and it is up to Sunny and her best friend Spike to ensure her protection. But as Sunny looks into the identity of Melanie Joan's stalker, she learns that much of the author's past is a product of her amazing imagination, and her loyalty to her old friend is challenged. 
At the same time, Sunny's aging ex-cop father, Phil, is threatened by a shady lawyer settling an old score. Fighting crimes on two fronts, Sunny must use all of her savvy, and the help of her friends, in order to protect those she loves.

Mike Lupica is a prominent sports writer. His syndicated column “Shooting from the Lip” appears every Sunday across America. He began his career covering the New York Knicks for the New York Post at age 23. For the past fifteen years, he has been a TV anchor for ESPN & hosts his own program, The Mike Lupica Show on ESPN2. Mike Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells, collaborated with William Goldman on Wait Till Next Year. He is a very successful children/YA author. His crime writing career began with a trilogy featuring Peter Finley. Now he writes the Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall mysteries in the Robert B Parker series and will soon take on Spenser.

Recommendations
The Godwulf Manuscript, Cold Service & Backstory - Robert B Parker
A Heart Full of Headstones - Ian Rankin
Violent Ends - Neil Broadhurst
Triple Cross - James Patterson

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GEORGINA CLARKE chats to Jenna Gordon about her new historical crime novel THE DAZZLE OF THE LIGHT, the post WWI landscape in 1920,  the Forty Thieves, historical accuracy, reflecting on the present through the past - the role of women, class & inequality, dressmaking and Halloween cocktails

THE DAZZLE OF THE LIGHT: Ruby Mills is ruthlessly ambitious, strikingly beautiful - and one of the Forty Thieves' most talented members.
Harriet Littlemore writes the women's section in a local newspaper. She's from a 'good' London family and engaged to an up-and-coming Member of Parliament - but she wants a successful career of her own.
After witnessing Ruby fleeing the scene of a robbery, Harriet develops a fascination with the elusive young thief that extends beyond journalistic interest. As their personal aspirations bring them into closer contact than society's rules usually allow, Ruby and Harriet's stories become increasingly intertwined.
Their magnetic dynamic, fraught with envy and desire, tells a compulsive, cinematic story about class, morality and the cost of being an independent woman in 1920s London.

Georgina Clarke has a degree in theology and completed a PhD in history part-time, while working as a parish priest. Her love of the past is at the heart of her fiction: her Lizzie Hardwicke crime series (published by Canelo) is set in the mid-eighteenth century, and her latest novel - The Dazzle of the Light - unfolds in 1920s London and is inspired by the real-life activities of the women-led Forty Thieves crime syndicate. In 2021, Georgina began working as a tutor at The Queen’s Foundation in Birmingham, training clergy. When she's not working, she enjoys dressmaking, running and mooching around old houses She lives in Worcester with her husband, son and two lively cats.

Recommendations
Jane Harper The Dry, The Lost Man
Diane Setterfield Once Upon a River
Clare Chambers Small Pleasures

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Jenna Gordon joined VERVE Books in an editorial capacity in 2020. She works remotely from Scotland and is a voracious reader of compulsive, character-driven fiction. Aside from books, her other loves include podcasts, long walks, spin classes, TV dramas with 6-10 episodes, red wine and cats.

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 3. Episode 6. Series Fiction. Mari Hannah (Kate ) and Ian Rankin (Rebus, A Heart Full of Headstones) talk to Victoria about writing a long running series. Keeping a series and characters fresh, continuity, craving over night success, bent cops and why you should never work with children or animals.

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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Recommendations
Michael Connelly, Reginald Hill, Donna Leon & Mick Herron

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GUY HALE chats to Paul Burke about his new novel Blood on the Tracks, character Jimmy Wayne, The Come Back Trail sextet, humour, Basil Exposition and Shakespeare.

BLOOD ON THE TRACKS Jimmy Wayne is headed for LA to make the new album that will hopefully make him a star. In a quiet, deserted canyon a few miles outside Blackjack lie the bodies of his victims who inspired each song – all his secrets are buried in that dry and arid ground. Can he leave his past behind or will the ghosts of his past come back to haunt him?

First in the Come Back Trail Series:

KILLING ME SOFTLY In the town of Blackjack, Nevada, washed-up singer Jimmy Wayne is down on his luck, playing covers to a limited and uninterested audience in a third-rate casino. One morning he awakens to find that everything has changed. Not only has he accidentally murdered Wendy, his girlfriend, but he's also written the best song he's ever produced. Is it the act of killing that helps him create his finest work? And if it is, should he go for a full album? Wrestling for his desire for success, his grasp of morality and haunted by his past mistakes, Jimmy starts searching for the most terrible people he has ever known.

GUY HALE is based in England and is branching out from an adventurous background in the music industry. He has two transatlantic recording labels under his belt along side song writing credits for prominent blues musicians such as Kid Anderson, Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia. Most would stop there but not Guy. During the global pandemic Guy began his journey in fiction writing with a novel steeped in inspiration from his adventures on the road in America. Now working exclusively with Hillside Global Ltd and Whitefox Publishing Ltd on a set of novels titled “The Comeback Trail”. Blood on the Tracks follows “Killing Me Softly”...

Hillside Global/Guy Hale

Recommendations
Music:
John Blues Boyd - What My Eyes Have Seen
Mike Zito Blues For The Southside
                       Resurrection
Books:
Minnie Driver Managing Expectations
Gore Vidal Essays and Fiction
Imran Mahmood All I Said was True
Victoria Selman Truly Darkly Deeply
Vaseem Khan The Lost Man of Bombay

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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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