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OLIVIA KIERNAN chats with Paul Burke about her new novel THE MURDER BOX, Frankie Sheehan, Ireland, police procedurals and finding out what kind of person you are during covid period.

THE MURDER BOX: At first, Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan believes the murder mystery game sent to her office is a birthday gift from one of her colleagues. But when Frankie studies the game's contents, she notices a striking resemblance between the 'murder victim' and missing twenty-two-year-old Lydia Callin.
As Frankie and her team investigate, a series of grisly crimes connected to the game are discovered across Dublin city and Lydia's involvement with a shadowy network of murder mystery players becomes clear.
On the hunt for Lydia's murderer, Frankie is drawn more deeply into the game. Every successful move brings her closer to the killer. But the real question is not what happens should she lose -- but what happens if she wins.

OLIVIA KIERNAN is an Irish writer. In a previous life, she completed a diploma in anatomy and physiology then a BSc in Chiropractic before she succumbed to the creative itch and embarked on an MA in Creative writing. In 2015, she began writing PLAY DEAD FOR ME (formerly titled Too Close to Breathe), a crime thriller that was published in 2018 and features Dublin detective, Frankie Sheehan. THE KILLER IN ME and IF LOOKS COULD KILL followed soon after. The fourth in the series THE MURDER BOX publishes on July 22nd 2021

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The latest Blu-ray and DVD releases from BARRY FORSHAW - LINE OF DUTY to Rupert Davies' MAIGRET. Also an interview with KIM NEWMAN about his novel due in November SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT, also horror, Hollywood and modelling villains on Elon Musk.

SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT: Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies, and is a genial, cricket-playing member of the British filmland colony on the shores of the Pacific. Both understand that these streets are dark with something more than night. Together, these English public school men in exile investigate mysterious matters in a town run by human and inhuman monsters. Under Home House, the mock gothic mock mansion of a film mogul, is a mad science dungeon just like in the movies – where an experiment has gone dangerously wrong, or even more dangerously right. Fiery death spills onto Sunset Boulevard. Fired by the DA, investigator John Devlin enlists Ray and Billy – Chandler and Pratt (Karloff) – to work the case, which threatens to expose Hollywood's most horrific secrets. And, oh yes, monsters aren’t just for the movies.

KIM NEWMAN  is a well known and respected author and movie critic, known for his acclaimed Anno Dracula series. He writes regularly for Empire magazine and contributes to The Guardian, The Times, Time Out and others. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV. He has won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction Awards and been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and James Herbert Awards.

BARRY FORSHAW is fiction critic for the Financial Times and provides extras for Blu-rays. Books include Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, the Keating Award-winning Brit Noir, British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (also a Keating winner), British Gothic Cinema, Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation, Sex and Film and BFI Classics: War of the Worlds. He edits Crime Time.

Check out Barry in conversation with Ace Atkins about his new Spenser novel SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME. Available now.

Buy Barry's latest book Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide

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CrimeFest 2023
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 THE GREAT SUMMER CRIME TIME DEBATE

BEST CRIME NOVELS 2010-2020

CHAIR: BARRY FORSHAW
PANEL: AYO ONATADE, MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI, LAURA WILSON, VICTORIA SELMAN & PAUL BURKE

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Episode 4: ADVENTURES WITH FRIENDS- Mark Billingham (Tom Thorne) & M.W Craven (Washington Poe) discuss series fiction, keeping track of your characters and why they’d like to be stranded on a desert island with Harry Bosch.

RABBIT HOLE - MARK BILLINGHAM
DEAD GROUND - MW CRAVEN

VICTORIA SELMAN

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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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CrimeFest 2023
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LAURA LIPPMAN talks to Paul Burke about her new novel DREAM GIRL, Baltimore, #Me TOO and racism and why being a writer is a little like playing for a living.

DREAM GIRL: Gerry Anderson has been having trouble sleeping. He's unwell - bed-bound - and has only his night nurse and his personal assistant for company. But what's really troubling him are the phone calls. Phone calls from a woman claiming to be the 'real' Aubrey.
But that can't be. Aubrey's just a character Gerry made up in a book, years ago.
Can Gerry see past the ever-blurring lines of fact and fiction and figure out who is threatening him, or has his long-overdue moment of reckoning finally arrived?

Laura Lippman has been awarded every major prize in crime fiction. Since the publication of What the Dead Know, each of her hardcovers has hit the New York Times bestseller list. A recent recipient of the first-ever Mayor's Prize, she lives in Baltimore, New Orleans and New York City with her family. To Find out more about Laura visit www.lauralippman.com

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CrimeFest 2023
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VASEEM KHAN talks to Paul Burke about his new book THE DYING DAY, Persis Wadia, Ashwin Chopra, Indian independence, modern day Mumbai and an inherited elephant.

THE DYING DAY: for over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero, John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia's desk.
Uncovering a series of complex riddles written in verse, Persis - together with English forensic scientist Archie Blackfinch - is soon on the trail. But then they discover the first body.
As the death toll mounts it becomes evident that someone else is also pursuing this priceless artefact and will stop at nothing to possess it . . .
Harking back to an era of darkness, this second thriller in the Malabar House series pits Persis, once again, against her peers, a changing India, and an evil of limitless intent.

Vaseem Khan is the author of two crime series set in India, the Baby Ganesh Agency series set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House historical crime novels set in 1950s Bombay. His first book, The UNEXPECTED INHERITANCE OF INSPECTOR CHOPRA, was a Times bestseller and an Amazon Best Debut, now translated into 15 languages. The second in the series THE PERPLEXING THEFT OF THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN won the 2017 Shamus Award for Best Original Private Investigator Paperback. The first novel in his new historical crime series, MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSE, features India's first female police detective, and won the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger. The second, THE DYING DAY, is out in July 2021 and follows the theft of a 600-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy from Bombay's Asiatic Society.
Vaseem's aim with his books is to take readers on a journey to the heart of India, showcasing both the colour and darker aspects of this incredible country. Vaseem was born in England, but spent a decade working in India as a management consultant. When he's not writing, he works at the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science at University College London. In 2018, he was awarded the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture and Theatre Award for Literature.

For more information about the world of his books please visit vaseemkhan.com where you can also keep abreast of Vaseem’s latest goings-on, competitions, events, and extracts from upcoming books via his newsletter.

Website: http://vaseemkhan.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/VaseemKhanUK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VaseemKhanOfficial/

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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,  

GERARD BRENNAN talks to Paul Burke about his new novel SHOT, feisty PSNI detective Shannon McNulty, the writer's lot, Northern Ireland Arts Council and music.

SHOT: You can't choose your family -aa major career obstacle for DS Shannon McNulty when she takes up a post with the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The move back to her hometown of Warrenpoint following a decade on the force in London coincides with the untimely death of her gangster uncle, Brendan. Now Shannon must balance an unofficial investigation into her uncle's shooting with her first case for the PSNI. Swift resolution to the disappearance of a politician's daughter could lead to a stellar career as a Belfast detective. But if she fumbles juggling family and job, she'll lose everything.

GERARD BRENNAN is from County Down and has a PhD in creative writing from Queen's University. His previous works include Underground, Wee Rockets, The Point and  Disorder. Gerard has written for anthologies including Belfast Noir and Down These Green Streets, and edited a collection, Requiem for the Departed. Shot is the first in the Shannon McNulty series published by Dockyard Press. Also available from Dockyard Press FIREPROOF

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SHOT

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Episode 2: WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE?- Sarah Vaughan (ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL) & Harriet Tyce (BLOOD ORANGE) - discuss courtroom dramas, the lure of the wig and gown, and why British writers shouldn’t be talking about the gavel. Victoria takes note and re-records her introduction.

VICTORIA SELMAN

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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.

Crime Time
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Don't Wait courtesy of Southgate and Leigh

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CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
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HEADS TOGETHER is the monthly magazine show on CRIME TIME FM. PAUL, VICTORIA and BARRY discuss the Crime Time FM WATCHLIST, the THEAKSTONS CRIME WRITING FESTIVAL, the CWA DAGGER AWARDS, and Victoria's next novel with Quercus.

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

VICTORIA SELMAN is the author of the Ziba MacKenzie series killer thrillers.

BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time and the FT crime fiction critic.

TICKETS TO THE GREAT CRIME TIME SUMMER DEBATE ARE NOW SOLD OUT - THANK YOU.

Crime Time
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music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh - Don't Wait

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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,  

Barry’s Blu-rays Special.  As well as a new to video films round up  Barry talks to MICHAEL MACKENZIE about his novels, Italian cinema, The Years of Lead, Dario Argento, and up-coming Arrow Films DVDs.

MICHAEL MACKENZIE is the McIlvanney Prize-nomined author of THE LIBRARY MURDERS, CRUEL SUMMER and IN THE SILENCE and is an Arrow Films Video senior producer.

BARRY FORSHAW is fiction critic for the Financial Times and provides extras for Blu-rays. Books include Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, the Keating Award-winning Brit Noir, British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (also a Keating winner), British Gothic Cinema, Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation, Sex and Film and BFI Classics: War of the Worlds. He edits Crime Time.

Check out Barry in conversation with Ace Atkins about his new Spenser novel SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME. Available now.

Buy Barry's latest book Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide

Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh
Crime Time

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,