HEADS TOGETHER: The Thong Episode. The recommended crime titles for October, festivals and podcasts, 2nd novels, queens of crime and the thong.

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

VICTORIA SELMAN is the bestselling author of the Ziba MacKenzie serial killer thrillers. Her new literary stand alone psychological novel Truly, Darkly, Deeply, published by Quercus, is now a Sunday Times Bestseller.

PAUL BURKE edits Crime Time FM and writes about crime fiction for Crime Fiction Lover and Crime Time and about literature in translation for the European Literature Network. He is a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022.

The October Watchlist:
Laura Wilson -                                   Blue Water Leonora Nattrass
Ayo Onatade -                                         "                                              "
Barry Forshaw -                              A Heart Full of Headstones Ian Rankin
Craig Sisterson  -                                      "                                                                 "
Maxim Jakubowski -                   Queen High CJ Carey (Jane Thynne)
Victoria Selman -                                   "                                "
Sonja van der Westhuizen -   The Tattoo Murder Akimitsu Takagi trans. Deborah Boehm
Erin Britton -                                                     "                                                      "
Paul Burke -                                       Wolf Pack Will Dean

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