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BEHIND THE MASK-  Ali Land (GOOD ME BAD ME) & Will Carver (THE BERESFORD) discuss why we’re so fascinated by psychopaths, why they’re so often portrayed as highly cultured…and why Will Carver might be one.

Will Carver has most recently published PSYCHOPATHS ANONYMOUS

VICTORIA SELMAN

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DOMINIC 'DOM' NOLAN chats with Victoria Selman about his new novel VINE STREET, 1930S Soho, obsession, history versus the past and believing in your work.

VINE STREET: SOHO, 1935. SERGEANT LEON GEATS' PATCH.
A snarling, skull-cracking misanthrope, Geats marshals the grimy rabble according to his own elastic moral code.
The narrow alleys are brimming with jazz bars, bookies, blackshirts, ponces and tarts so when a body is found above the Windmill Club, detectives are content to dismiss the case as just another young woman who topped herself early.
But Geats - a good man prepared to be a bad one if it keeps the worst of them at bay - knows the dark seams of the city.
Working with his former partner, mercenary Flying Squad sergeant Mark Cassar, Geats obsessively dedicates himself to finding a warped killer - a decision that will reverberate for a lifetime and transform both men in ways they could never expect.

VINE STREET is Dominic Nolan's third novel, following his widely acclaimed books PAST LIFE and AFTER DARK

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JOANNE HARRIS chats to Paul Burke about her new novel A NARROW DOOR, being a schoolteacher, why genres fluid, misogyny and memory.

A NARROW DOOR
Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules.
It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls.
Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.
But Rebecca is here to make her mark. She'll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. After all...
You can't keep a good woman down.

JOANNE HARRIS is the internationally renowned and award-winning author of eighteen novels, plus novellas, scripts, short stories, libretti, lyrics, articles, and most recently, a self-help book for writers, TEN THINGS ABOUT WRITING. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and is Chair of the Society of Authors.
Her hobbies are listed in Who's Who as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion'. She is active on Twitter, where she writes stories and gives writing tips as @joannechocolat; she posts weekly writing seminars on YouTube; she performs in a live music and storytelling show with the #Storytime Band; and she works from a shed in her garden at her home in Yorkshire.

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Mycelium Running Paul Stamets
Pieces of Light Charles Fernyhough

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CrimeFest 2023
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GREGORY GALLOWAY chats to Paul Burke about his new novel JUST THIEVES, identity, fatalism and existential questions in the noir novel, Chandler, Cain and Get Carter.

JUST THIEVES: Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves whose partnership extends beyond their professional lives. They do not steal randomly they steal according to order, hired by a mysterious handler. The jobs run routinely until they're tasked with taking a seemingly worthless trophy: an object that generates interest and obsession out of proportion to its apparent value. Just as the robbery is completed, the two are involved in a freak car accident that sets off a chain of events and Frank disappears with the trophy. As Rick tries to find Frank, he is forced to confront his past, upending both his livelihood and his sense of reality. The narrative builds steadily into a powerful and shocking climax. Revelling in its con-artistry and double-crosses, Just Thieves is a nail-biting, noir-ish exploration of the working lives of two unforgettable crooks and the hidden forces that rule and ruin their lives.

GREGORY GALLOWAY is the author of the novels The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand and the Alex Award-winning As Simple As Snow. His short stories have appeared in the Rush Hour and Taking Aim anthologies. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently resides in NW Connecticut.

Recommendations:
Raymond Chandler novels, letters and essays.
James M Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice
Dorothy B Hughes In a Lonely Place (film 1950 Nicholas Ray)
Jean-Patrick Manchette
The Big Combo d. Joseph Lewis 1955.
Jean Melville films
Ted Hughes GBH, Jack's Return Home (filmed as Get Carter d. Mike Hodges)
Diamonds Are Forever d. Guy Hamilton (1971)
Graham Greene Brighton Rock (films Boulting 1947, Joffé 2011)

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TRUE CRIME EDITION: WHY COLD CASES ARE SO HOT- Abigail Dean (GIRL A) Sarah Sultoon (THE SOURCE) & Joseph Knox (TRUE CRIME STORY) discuss true crime, stretching the genre & the cold case they’d most like to solve. Victoria wonders what our true crime obsession says about us.

VICTORIA SELMAN

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.

Select Recommendations:
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Denise Mina novels
Tana French novels
Doug Johnstone novels
Animal & Three Women - Lisa Taddeo
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
The Five Hallie Rubenhold

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Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,  

THE THREE RONNIES EPISODE
HEADS TOGETHER is the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, author duos, short stories and the latest podcasts .

PAUL BURKE writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine, Crime Time and the European Literature Network.

VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers. Her new thriller Truly, Darkly, Deeply will be published in 2022.

BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and the FT Crime Fiction Critic.

The Watchlist:
Lemon Kwon Yeo-sun
56 Hours Katherine Ryan Howard
Silverview John le Carré
Riccardino Andrea Camilleri
Judas 62 Charles Cumming
The Hood Lavie Tidhar
The Study Graeme McCrea Burnett 
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza
The Stoning Peter Papathanasiou

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CrimeFest 2023
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JS MONROE (Jon Stock) chats with Paul Burke about his new psychological thriller THE MAN ON HACKPEN HILL, crop circles, Porton Down, and James Bond in No Time To Die.

THE MAN ON HACKPEN HILL: In a world full of lies, the search for truth is a deadly game...
It isn't unusual for crop circles to appear overnight on Hackpen Hill. In this part of Wiltshire, where golden wheat fields stretch for miles, the locals have got used to discovering strange mathematical patterns stamped into the earth. 
But this time, it's different. Not only because this particular design of dramatic spiralling hexagons has never been seen before. But because of the dead body positioned precisely in the centre of the circle. DI Silas Hart, of Swindon Police, is at a loss.
Only Jim, a scientist at secretive government laboratory Porton Down, knows the chilling truth about the man on Hackpen Hill. And he wants Bella, a trainee journalist on her first ever story, to tell the world. But Silas has other ideas - and a boss intent on a cover up.
As Bella and Jim race against time, dark forces conspire against them, leading them to confront the reality of their own past and a world in which nothing is as it seems.

JS MONROE read English at Cambridge, worked as a foreign correspondent in Delhi, and was Weekend editor of the Daily Telegraph in London before becoming a full-time writer. His psychological thriller Find Me became a bestseller in 2017, and, under the name Jon Stock, he is also the author of six spy thrillers. He lives in Wiltshire, with his wife and children.

Recommendations:
Dr. Faustus Christopher Marlow
Three Hours Rosamund Lupton
The Bitterest Pills Joanna Moncrieff

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FELIX FRANCIS chats to Paul Burke about his new psychological crime novel ICED, taking on his father's thriller legacy, the home fiction factory, tea with Agatha Christie and marbling.

ICED: Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, head first, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour.
Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on the frozen lake, he gets talked into helping out with the horses. It is against his better judgement. Seven years before, Miles left horseracing behind and swore he would never return.
When he discovers something suspicious is going on in the races, something that may have a profound impact on his future life, Miles begins a search for answers. But someone is adamant to stop him - and they'll go to any lengths to do it . . .

FELIX FRANCIS studied Physics and Electronics at London University and then spent seventeen years teaching Advanced-Level Physics. The younger son of crime writer and Naional Hunt jockey Dick Francis, Felix assisted his father with both the research and writing of his novels in a father-and-son writing partnership. Since Dick's death, Felix has written fifteen successful novels, the latest being ICED.

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CrimeFest 2023
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& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
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JANE JESMOND chats to Paul Burke about her debut thriller ON THE EDGE, Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier, free climbing a fear of heights.

ON THE EDGE: Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes - the riskier the better. Both her work and personal life revolved around climbing, and the adrenaline high it gave her. Until she went too far and hurt the people she cares about. So she's given it all up now. Honestly, she has. And she's checked herself into a rehab centre to prove it.
Yet, when Jen awakens to find herself drugged and dangling off the local lighthouse during a wild storm less than twenty-four hours after a 'family emergency' takes her home to Cornwall, she needs all her skill to battle her way to safety.
Has Jen fallen back into her old risky ways, or is there a more sinister explanation hidden in her hometown? Only when she has navigated her fragmented memories and faced her troubled past will she be able to piece together what happened - and trust herself to fix it.

JANE JESMOND: On The Edge is Jane Jesmond's debut novel and the first in a series featuring dynamic, daredevil protagonist Jen Shaw. Although she was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, raised in Liverpool, and considers herself northern through and through, Jane's family comes from Cornwall. Her lifelong love of the Cornish landscape and culture inspired the setting of On The Edge. Jane has spent the last thirty years living and working in France. She began writing steadily six or seven years ago and writes every morning in between staring out at the sea and making cups of tea.

Recommendations:
Anthony Price David Audley novels
Phosphate Rocks Fiona Erskine

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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,  

Episode 10: IMPERFECT LIVES- Cara Hunter (THE WHOLE TRUTH) & Phoebe Morgan (THE WILD GIRLS) discuss why readers can’t get enough of psychological suspense, the proliferation of ‘Girl’ titles and why a good murder makes for the perfect comfort read.

VICTORIA SELMAN

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,