Crime Time FM

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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 & 2024 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,

The Crime Writers Association Awards Evening hosted by Victoria Selman and Imran Mahmood.

Vaseem Khan outgoing Chair

Nadine Matheson new Chair

Mick Herron Diamond Dagger winner

Maxim Jakubowski introducing Red Herring recipient Janet Laurence

Dea Parkin Emerging writer dagger - Winner Ashland by Joe Eurell

Vicki Goldie introducing the Dagger in the Library - winner Richard Osman (recorded)

DV Bishop introducing the Best Crime Publisher Dagger - winner Orenda Books collected by Karen Sullivan

Ayo Onatade introducing the Short Story Dagger  - winner A Date on Yarmouth Pier by JC Bernthal

Maxim Jakubowski introducing the In Translation Dagger winner The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani translated Sam Bett.

Philip Gooden introducing the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction - winner The Peepshow Kate Summerscale (recorded)

Paul Burke introducing The Historical Dagger - winner AJ West The Betrayal of Thomas True 

Gytha Lodge introducing the Whodunnit Dagger winner Lisa Hall The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl

Susi Holliday introducing The Twisted Dagger winner Nightwatching Tracy Sierra (recorded)

Victoria Dowd introducing the ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger winner All Us Sinners Katy Massey

Corrine Turner introducing the IFP Ian Fleming Steel Dagger winner Dark Ride Lou Berney (recorded)

Richard Reynolds with the final award of the night the KAA Gold Dagger - winner Anna Mazzola

Congratulations to all winners. Apologies for the delay in putting up this show due to unforeseen circumstances. Thanks you to the Crime Writers Association and all sponsors. 

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,  

Season 8, Episode 5: Serial Killers. Asia Mackay (Killing it & A SERIAL KILLER'S GUIDE TO MARRIAGE) and Sam Holland (The Echo Man & THE COUNTDOWN KILLER) chat with Victoria Selman about the worst kinds of killers and having fun doing it. Are sex scenes tougher to write than murder. Do serial killers have a high IQ. Avoiding the dilemma of killing 30 people, which is ok, but killing one animal...

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

Produced by Junkyard Dog

Recommendations: Dominic Nolan White City (out now), Dead Husband Cook Book Danielle Valentine (August)

Stephen King, James Herbert, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen 

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,  

Season 8 Episode 4, Cosy Crime 

Rev. Richard Coles, TE 'Tim' Kinsey. Marnie Riches 

Desert island books: Tiger Margery Allingham. Daughter Laura Shepherd Robinson. A Big Boy Chris Brookmyre

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

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,  

The Review Show June 2025

Into the Fire GD Wright 

The White Crow by Michael Robotham

Actually I'm a Murderer by Terry Deary

A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor 

Broken Jon Atli Jonasson

Fortress of Evil Javier Cercas 

Rush Beth Lewis 

Make a Home of Me Vanessa Santos 

Can You Solve the Murder by Antony Johnston

The Woman Who Laughed Simon Mason

King of Ashes SA Cosby

Agatha Christie Capital Christie 

Criminal Pursuits: This is Me ed. Samantha Lee Howe

Carnival of Lies DV Bishop

Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction contribution). He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2025. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out early 2026.

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,  

Mark Billingham chats to Paul Burke about his new thriller What the Night Brings, donuts, longevity, opening scenes and please don't do spoilers!

Bonus:

Mark Billingham chats to Philip Gwynne Jones at Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival in Aberystwyth. Two pals have a chat.

What the Night Brings"Three dead coppers, Tom, maybe four by lunchtime."
The targeted murder of four officers is only the first in a series of attacks that leaves police scared, angry and, most disturbingly of all, vengeful.
As Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner dig into the reasons for the violence, a deeper darkness begins to emerge: the possibility that these murders are payback. The price paid for an unspeakable betrayal.
To uncover the truth, Thorne will be forced to question everything he stands for. He can trust nobody, and the shocking secrets revealed by one terrible night will fracture his entire world.

Mark Billingham has won numerous awards, being one of only two authors to twice win the Theakston Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year. Each of his novels has been a Sunday Times bestseller, including all those in his two series, Tom Thorne and Declan Miller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.

Recommended: Dom Nolan Vine Street & White City

Philip Gwynne Jones The Magus of Sicily 3/7/25

Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction contribution). He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2025. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out 2026.

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,  

The Crime Writers Association Whodunnit Dagger 

A CWA Specials Part 1

The Whodunnit Dagger celebrates books where the sex, swearing, and bloodletting take place offstage–books that focus on the intellectual challenge at the heart of a good mystery, and which revolve around often quirky characters. Books in this category include cosy crime, traditional crime, and Golden Age-inspired mysteries.

Interviews with all six shortlisted authors ahead of the prize announcement on 3rd July 2025.

SJ Bennett A Death in Diamonds 

Andreina Cordini Murder at the Christmas Emporium

Lisa Hall The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl 

Meeti Shroff-Shah A Matrimonial Murder

Laura Marshall A Good Place to Hide a Body

Jamie West Murder at the Matinee

Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction contribution). He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2025. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out 2026.

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,  

Season 8 Episode 3: Debut crime novelists with a screenplay/film background Remi Kone Innocent Guilt & SM 'Sarah' Govett Believe.

Recommends: The Death of Grass John Christopher, The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach.

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

Produced by Junkyard Dog

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,  

FIONA CUMMINS chats to Paul Burke about SOME OF US ARE LIARS, Saul Anguish, Essex inspiration, Sisters, celebrity and being the best writer you can be. 

SOME OF US ARE LIARS When Jen Miller entrusts her youngest child to the care of her beloved sisters, she has no idea of the devastating tragedy that is about to unfold.
To celebrate her sister's wedding, global superstar Winter Kellaway throws the party of the decade at her luxurious beachside estate. The decorations are flawless. The champagne is on ice. The guests have arrived. But one misstep will have heartbreaking consequences that will rock this close-knit family to their core.
With her life in pieces, how can Jen ever begin to forgive?
Saul Anguish, a brilliant but tormented young detective, is called in to investigate and uncovers a long-buried and shocking family secret. As the trail takes a dramatic turn, they must now all face the truth that you can never truly leave the past behind . . .

Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course. Rattle, her debut novel, was the subject of a huge international auction and has been translated into several languages. It received widespread critical acclaim from authors and reviewers. She has since written bestsellers The Collector, The Neighbour, When I Was Ten and Into the Dark in which she introduces DC Saul Anguish, a brilliant young detective with a dark past. Fiona lives with her family in Essex.

Recommendations The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris, Nikki Smith, Stephen King, CL Taylor - It's Always the Husband.

Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction contribution). He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2025. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out 2026.

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,  

OnTheSofaWithVictoria Season 8 Episode 2: Writing for adults and children JANICE HALLETT The Examiner, The Appeal & MAZ EVANS That'll Teach Her.

Recommends: East of Eden John Steinbeck, Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 

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

Produced by Junkyard Dog

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,