CRIME SCENE @ Cardiff Central Library Hub
Festival 7th September, 2024

Crime Crossover: MARIE ANNE COPE, GJ WILLIAMS, ABI BARDEN (GB Williams)
Shaping a series: SARAH WARD, DAVID PENNY JACQUELINE HARRETT
ALIS HAWKINS chats to Paul Burke about The Skeleton Army

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Crime Time

Sponsors & thanks to:
Cardiff Central Library Hub, Cardiff Council, Diamond Crime Books, the CWA, Crime Cymru and David Penny, Potter a'i Gwmni and to Preeti and Gordon of the library.

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 2024. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out in late 2025.

Because this is recorded live there are occasional background noises and at one point a persistent seagull, hopefully it won't spoil the listening pleasure.

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

ROXIE KEY chats to Paul about her new novel THE DEADLY SPARK, Brighton, diversity in crime fiction,

THE DEADLY SPARK Deadly fires are lighting up Brighton, and the latest case is alarmingly close to home for DC Eve Starling. The blaze was deliberately set, and a mother and daughter didn’t make it out of the smoke. 
Eve’s investigation takes her deep into her own uncomfortable past. When her key witness disappears, and with the killer always one step ahead, Eve is desperate to solve the case – whatever the cost.
But Eve has no idea how close she is to the flames, and playing with fire can get you burned...

Roxie Key: I'm a crime thriller author from Northampton, where I live with my wife Laura and daughter Hallie.
I've always been a writer... although the stories I wrote as a child about my pets will never see the light of day, I knew from a young age that one day I wanted to see my name on a book cover. I studied Creative & Media Writing at Middlesex University and then went on to become a copywriter for a global brand.
When I'm not writing (or mumming!), I can usually be found reading, painting, gaming or playing the bass guitar.

Recommendations 
Robert Rutherford Seven Days
Mentions: Claire Mackintosh, Mari Hannah, Jane Casey.

Roxie will be appearing at Kemptown Books with RUTH WARE on 24th September at 7pm.

 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 2024. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out in 2025.

Music courtesy of  Guy Hale KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson. GUY HALE

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

ANTONIA SENIOR, writer, critic, journalist and podcaster chats to Paul about Spymasters - the book and the podcast, the Cambridge Five, historical fiction and

Spymasters podcast Writer and journalist Antonia Senior interviews all the best writers on espionage. Each episode will bring you fascinating stories on spies, covert action and more – delving in to fact and fiction, past and present. Antonia can be found on X @Tonisenior. Do please follow us on X @SpyMastersPod and spread the word. We will be grateful for any and all support. Should you be an author, with a relevant new or backlist title, interested in appearing on the podcast do get in touch at [email protected]

Spymasters Aspects of History - the book.

Mentions (no particular order): SJ Parris, George Blake, Elizabeth Buchan, Calder Walton, the Cambridge Five, Edith Cavell, Mick Herron, David McCloskey, Merle Nygate, Patrick O'Brian, Hilary Mantel, Mary Renault.
Recommendations: Precipice Robert Harris, The CIA Hugh Wilford

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 2024. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out in 2025.

Music courtesy of  Guy Hale KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson. GUY HALE

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

The review Show August 

Featuring: 
Steve Cavanagh Witness 8 ✓

Blood Like Mine Stuart Neville✓ 

Fire and Bones Kathy Reichs✓

Ruthless Anne Mette Hancock✓

Pursuit of Death Gunnar Staalesen✓

The Missing and the Dead E M Scott ✓

Holmes & Moriarty Gareth Rubin✓

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 2024. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out in 2025.

Music courtesy of  Guy Hale KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson. GUY HALE

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

AVA GLASS chats to Paul about her new thriller THE TRAP, Emma Makepeace, meeting yr first spy and the FBI novel to come...

THE TRAP : How far would you go to catch a killer?
This is the question UK agent Emma Makepeace must ask herself when she is sent to Edinburgh for the upcoming global G7 Summit.
The Russians are in town and Emma and her team know a high-profile assassination is being planned.
But who is their target?
There is only one way to find out. Emma must set a trap using herself as bait.
As the most powerful leaders in the world arrive and the city becomes gridlocked, Emma knows the clock is ticking.

AVA GLASS is a former crime reporter and civil servant. Her time working for the government introduced her to the world of spies, and she's been fascinated by them ever since. She lives in the south of England.

Mentions: Ian Fleming, John Le Carré The Night Manager, Len Deighton, Graham Greene, American spy Virginia Hall, The Slow Horses (TV).
RECOMMENDATIONS: Ben McIntyre A Spy Among Friends
TV: The Americans, The Bureau (Fr.)

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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,

MICHAEL ROBOTHAM chats to Craig Sisterson about his new thriller STORM CHILD, Evie Cormac, writing away from home, the secret award, German TV adaptations...

STORM CHILD The storm is coming...
The most painful of Evie Cormac's memories have been locked away, ever since she was held prisoner as a child - a child whose rescue captured hearts and headlines.
Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven's mission is to guide her to something near normality. But today, on a Lincolnshire beach, seventeen bodies wash up in front of them. There is only one survivor, with two women still missing. And Evie's nightmares come roaring back...
Whatever happened all those years ago lies at the core of this new tragedy. Because these deaths are no accident. The same dark forces are reaching out, dragging her back into the storm.
Evie must now call upon Cyrus's unique skills, and her own, in their search for the missing pieces of this complex and haunting puzzle. But will that be enough to save them? And who will pay for the past?

Michael Robotham is a former feature writer and investigative reporter, who has worked in Britain, Australia and America.
His debut thriller, The Suspect, introduced clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin and sold more than a million copies around the world, launching a nine-book series. It has been adapted into an ITV series starring Aidan Turner. Michael's standalone thriller The Secrets She Keeps has also been the basis of two BBC TV series.
He has twice won the prestigious UK Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel, as well as the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for When She Was Good, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick.
Michael lives in Sydney.
michaelrobotham.com

Recommendations
Michael Ayliffe, Garry Disher, Candice Fox

Image: Sydney Morning Herald

Craig Sisterson is a features writer and crime fiction expert from New Zealand who writes for newspapers and magazines in several countries. In recent years he's interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at festivals on three continents. He's been a judge of the McIlvanney Prize and Ned Kelly Awards, and is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir. He lives in London with his daughter. He is the author of  SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME: The Pocket Essentials Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia & New Zealand.

Music courtesy of  Guy Hale KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson. GUY HALE

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

Sunday Times bestseller, VICTORIA SELMAN chats to Financial Times critic, BARRY FORSHAW about her writing journey and latest novel; the critically acclaimed true crime inspired thriller, All The Little Liars just released in paperback, (15/8).

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

BARRY FORSHAW is the editor of Crime Time, author of several books on film and crime fiction and is the Financial Times Crime Fiction Critic. His latest book SIMENON: the Man, the Books, the Films is released by Oldcastle Books.

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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,

Season 6 Episode 8: Serial Killers
MARNIE RICHES (THE SILENT DEAD) & CHRIS CARTER (THE DEATH WATCHER) criminal/forensic psychology, criminologists, killer profiles, reasons to kill or none.  

Recommendations
Seven
The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris
The Whisper Man Alex North

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

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

The latest crime, thriller and mystery releases - July 2024.

Tim Weaver The Missing Family Michael Joseph
Emma Bamford Eye of the Beholder Simon & Schuster
Charlotte Philby The End of Summer Borough Press
Joseph Knox Imposter Syndrome Double Day
Atsuhiro Yoshida Goodnight Tokyo Europa Editions trans. Haydn Trowell
Gauz Comrade Papa MacLehose Press trans. Frank Wynne
Sarah Ward The Vanishing Act Canelo Crime
Simon McCleave Last Night at the Villa Lucia Storm
Andrey Kurkov Our Daily War Open Borders Press
Louisa Scarr Gallows Wood Canelo Crime
Pamela Samuels Young & Dwayne Alexander Smith Sounds Like a Plan Faber

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 2024. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out in late 2025.

Music courtesy of  Guy Hale KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson. GUY HALE

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

Emma Viskic, Dinuka McKenzie, Charity Norman & Helen Fitzgerald in conversation with Craig Sisterson. All contributed to the anthology DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER 2.

DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER 2 features a cohort of criminally good Australian and New Zealand crime and mystery writers. Once again we have a mix of legendary figures, award-winners, bestsellers, and an array of fresh perspectives and rising stars. 
Spend time with 22 of your favourite Aussie and Kiwi authors and characters, and meet some cracking new heroes and antiheroes - all while you travel the urban and rural landscapes of two stunning countries.
You'll travel from the seething underbellies of our cosmopolitan cities to isolated North Island communities or the dusty Outback; from ocean-carved coasts or craggy mountains into times past, present and future.This time the edgy dark deeds are perpetrated by: 
Emma Viskic - Malla Nunn - Jack Heath - Charity Norman - Natalie Conyer - Ren Hobson - Jennifer Lane - Helen Fitzgerald - Peter Papathanasiou - Chad Taylor - Andi C Buchanan - Anna Downes - Shelley Burne-Field - Ashley Kalagian Blunt - Robert Gott - Dani Vee - Stephen Johnson - Michael Botur - Rene. And three Aussie legends of the genre: Jean Bedford - Dorothy Porter - Peter Corris

Recommendations
Doug Johnstone, Denise Mina, Southern Cross Crime, Malla Nunn, Paul Cleave, Michael Bennett, Catherine Chidgey, Sarah Bailey, Hayley Scrivenor, JP Pomare.

Craig Sisterson is a features writer and crime fiction expert from New Zealand who writes for newspapers and magazines in several countries. In recent years he's interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at festivals on three continents. He's been a judge of the McIlvanney Prize and Ned Kelly Awards, and is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir. He lives in London with his daughter. He is the author of  SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME: The Pocket Essentials Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia & New Zealand.

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