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Regular crime, thriller & mystery interviews, features and reviews. Flagship weekly show - IN PERSON WITH PAUL hosted by Paul Burke & seasonal series #OnTheSofaWithVictoria hosted by best selling thriller writer Victoria Selman. Also festival coverage, award ceremonies and magazine shows hosted by Paul with Victoria and Crime Time editor/Financial Times crime critic Barry Forshaw. The monthly Review Show, what's hot in crime fiction. Further information can be found at crimetime.fm
Episodes
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David McCloskey In Person With Paul
DAVID MCCLOSKEY chats to Paul Burke about his new spy thriller London Station, Artemis Procter, TV and film development, The Rest is Classified, avoiding the polemic but hitting the geopolitical, the 'special relationship', narcissism and humour. David McCloskey is a former CIA analyst who worked...
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Martin Edwards In Person With Paul
MARTIN EDWARDS chats to Paul Burke about his new novel and anthologies: Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife (Head of Zeus) Guilty Secrets: Beyond and Within (Flame Tree Press, CWA anthology) The Classic Crime Companion (British Library) Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery (with Lucy Rowland,...
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The REVIEW SHOW October 2026
The Review Show - new releases October 2026 Bad Company Sara Paretsky Chain Reaction Lee & Andrew Child Galway Edge Ken Bruen The Rouse China Mieville Murder in London Matt Avery Rear Window and Other Stories Cornell Woolrich Think of a Number Anderson Bodelsen The Killing Yards Jason Allison...
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Sara Paretsky In Person With Paul
Sara Paretsky chats to Paul Burke about her new spy thriller Bad Company, Lily, CIA = bad dog, being a Chicago Pitbull and falling out of bed in Paris as inspiration for a novel. Bad Company The CIA forced Lily to retire before she was ready. She'd spent forty years as a field agent. She'd been...
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Summer Reads In Person With Paul
Tariq Ashkanani (Hollow Boys), Emma Styles (The Shark) and Essie Fox (Catherine/Dangerous) chat to Paul Burke about Underground fires, Byron and Vampires and Sharks in the mind and Capital Crime Festival. Paul Burke is the presenter of Crime Time FM. His first book Spies on Screen will be…
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David Fennell In Person With Paul
David Fennell chats to Paul Burke about his new crime thriller/comedy novel All Killers Aboard, crime and comedy, Martha andAgatha Christie and Roger Ackroyd, Wuthering Heights ALL KILLERS ABOARD: On a luxury cruise from Southampton to New York, the annual gathering of the mysterious Midnight...
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Watching the Detectives - The Authors In Person With Paul
Watching the Detectives authors In Person With Paul talking about their short story contributions to the anthology Julie Anderson Party Time Paul Durston A Place Like This Caroline England I Always Win Fiona Forsyth Ancilla David Jarvis Dutch Courage Roger RN Morris Take All Necessary Measures…
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Michael Amos Cody In Person With Paul
Michael Amos Cody chats to Paul Burke about Avalon Moon, cultural mythology, education and young people, Walnut, North Carolina, the Appalachian mountains, saw mills and repurposing town, outsider/insider. In Avalon Moon, a local man has gone missing and then is soon found dead in a highland...
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Laura Sims In Person With Jenna
In a Crime Time FM/Verve Special Editor Jenna Gordon chats to author Laura Sims about her new novel, The Man, Vivian Maier, Diane Argus, Hitchcock and Highsmith, Rear Window, obsession, perspective and the male gaze. The Man: From the highly acclaimed author of How Can I Help You comes a…
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The CWA Daggers Award Night
The Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards Night coverage, including guests speakers and the awarding of the Daggers. The most respected crime awards in Britain. Introduction by hosts Victoria Selman and Gregg Mosse Address of the Chair Nadine Matheson Key Note Speech Denise Mina The Daggers…
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THE REVIEW SHOW Summer 2026
Paul Burke takes a look at the new releases for the Summer. All Murderers Aboard by David Fennell The End of Vodka by Oscar de Muriel The Venetian Redemption by Philip Gwynne Jones The Tailor by Tim Sullivan Blood Enemy by Douglas Jackson The Pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee Atomic Coffin by Benedict...
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CWA Daggers 2026 Episode 2: Diamond Dagger Winner Mark Billingham
CWA DAGGER SPECIALS - Paul Burke chats to Crime Writers Association Diamond Dagger Winner MARK BILLINGHAM, Bread & Circuses - agitprop, Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, Stand Up, TV writing, Tom Thorne, Declan Miller, taking control with fiction. Diamond Dagger sponsored by Karen Baugh Menuhin The...
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CWA DAGGERS 2026 SPECIAL ON CRIME TIME FM
CWA Daggers Special: Episode One The Shortlists -Interviews with five Dagger Shortlisted authors in the run up to Awards Night announcements on 2nd July. Nicci Cloke Her Many Faces - Twisted Dagger Victoria Goldman Little Secrets - Whodunnit Dagger Rob McInroy Barvick Falls - Historical Dagger...
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AMANDA PROWSE & ELEANOR RAY #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
Season 10. Episode 6. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria AMANDA PROWSE (15 Minutes) Amanda has published 45 books in a decade and discusses her unique way of writing complete stories in her head before committing a word to paper. While ELEANOR RAY [Elizabeth Mundy] (Everything is Beautiful) shares her more...
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RUTH MANCINI & SUSAN BARRETT #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
Season 10. Episode 5. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria Ruth Mancini (The Stranger on the Stairs) & Susan Barrett (All Cats are Grey) discuss how they use real crimes as inspiration for thier writing. Recommended - Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner Victoria Selman…
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Maz Evans & Luke Bateman #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
Season 10. Episode 4. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria Maz Evans (Who Let the Dogs Out) & Luke Bateman (award-winning composer) discuss turning a novel into a musical. Recommended - Luke: Simply the Quest by Maz Evans. Maz: East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Victoria Selman is a Sunday Times and Amazon Charts...
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Garry Disher & Dom Nolan #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
Season 10. Episode 3. #OnTheSofaWithVictoria Garry Disher (The Paul Hirsch series) and Dom Nolan (White City) discuss location as character. Recommended: WILLIAM TREVOR, ALICE MONRO, ROBERT PENN WARREN, JOHN LE CARRÉ TINKER TAILOR, CORMAC MCCARTHY, ELMORE LEONARD. Victoria Selman is a Sunday…
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ANNA BAILEY & TARIQ ASHKANANI OnTheSofaWithVictoria
Season 10 Episode 2: Anna Bailey & Tariq Ashkanani #OnTheSofaWithVictoria Anna Bailey (The Tall Bones) & Tariq Ashkanani (The Hollow Boys) discuss the importance of character development over plot in mystery writing. Recommended Annie Proulx Close Range and Watchmen Alan Moore. Victoria Selman is…
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Jack Butler & Barbara Poelle On The Sofa With Victoria
Season 10, Episode One: Industry Experts: Jack Butler (publisher) & Barbara Poelle (agent) #OnTheSofawithVictoria Jack Butler, publishing director at Sphere Little Brown, and Barbara Powell, founder of One Word Literary, discuss comparative publishing trends in the UK and US. Victoria Selman is a...
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ANDREA MARA In Person With Paul
ANDREA MARA chats with Paul about her new psychological thriller SUCH A NICE GIRL, redundancy-serendipity, sisters, friends and family, TV and All Her Fault. SUCH A NICE GIRL: The morning after a glamorous, luxury wedding, you and your best friend go to wake your twenty-four-year-old daughters.…
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Matthew Carr In Person With Paul
Matthew Carr chats to Paul Burke about his latest historical crime thriller THE EMPEROR OF SEVILLE, Bernardo de Mendoza, sixteenth century Spain, Terrorism, financial thrillers and white ruff crime. The Emperor of Seville: Summer 1586. When the Genoese banker Sandro Grandoni is murdered at a…
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THE REVIEW SHOW April 2026
Paul Burke looks at new releases on the screen and fiction for April, 2026. TV/Streaming Tehran - Amazon The Capture - BBC Gone - ITVx Hidden Assets - BBC Books: Letter to My Judge - George Simenon, Penguin Classics One of Your Number LJ Shepherd (identified as Laura in the show but publishes as…
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ANTONIA SENIOR In Person With Paul
ANTONIA SENIOR chats to Paul about her new history of the Cambridge Five STALIN'S APLOSTLES, Albania, radio games, spy rings, Burgess, Philby, Maclean, Cairncross and Blunt. STALIN'S APOSTLES is a radical new look at the way five people allowed their obsession with Communist ideology to…
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HEIDI PERKS In Person With Paul
HEIDI PERKS chats to Paul Burke about her new Psychological thriller IT ENDS HERE, getting published, rejections and bestsellers, It Ends Here - You are one of five strangers whose day will start with the worst phone call imaginable. Your loved one is in danger. They are part of a group trapped…
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Samantha Dooey-Miles In Person With Paul
Samantha Dooey-Miles chats to Paul Burke about her debut thriller UNDER THE HAMMER, satire, the housing crisis, daytime TV, para-social relationships, marketing, stalkers, rage and humour. UNDER THE HAMMER Jemma would kill to end the housing crisis – one landlord at a time… Jemma has lost...
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NEIL LANCASTER In Person With Paul
NEIL LANCASTER chats to Paul about his new police thriller The Dark Heart, DS Max Cragie, Scottish crime fiction, Max Connor, a love of spies, James Herriot and useful idiots. THE DARK HEART: A DEADLY BOMBING - When renowned author Dr. Daniel Solomon is killed in a devastating explosion in York,...
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THE REVIEW SHOW March 2026
New crime fiction reviews for march 2026 by Paul Burke. The Harvey Girl Dana Stabenov Beattie Cavendish and the Highland Hideaway Mary-Jane Riley Stephen Leather Underdogs Sharks Simone Buchholz trans. Rachel Ward Paper Sisters Rachel Canwell Glitz Elmore Leonard Reaper Vanda Symon The Dangerous...
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NADINE MATHESON In Person With Paul
NADINE MATHESON chats to Paul Burke about her new crime thriller THE SHADOW CARVER, being the Chair of the CWA. serial killers, fraudsters, hurricanes in Grenada and troublesome domestic appliances. THE SHADOW CARVER: A killer who cuts straight to the bone … A CHILLING MURDER. When a convicted...
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HOWARD LINSKEY In Person With Paul
Howard Linskey chats to Paul about is new novel Muse Of Fire, love of Shakespeare, Heydrich, the SOE, the Globe, London - population 200,000! Picking up a theatre and moving it across the river. Muse of Fire: William Shakespeare is moving up in the world, his name respected both at court and the...
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TRACY SIERRA In Person With Paul
Tracy Sierra chats to Paul Burke about her new Psychological thriller Warning Signs, true crime, tragedy through a lens, Nightwatching, place, James Joyce, danger least expected. Warning Signs: There’s something out there in the darkness. By morning, bones lie in the snow, picked clean. Zach…
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LOUISE WELSH In Person With Paul
Louise Welsh chats to Paul about her new novel The CUT UP, Rilke, Glasgow, Scottish PEN, The Cutting Pen, academia and being decent people. THE CUT UP: It's hard to be good when living is expensive. And times are tough on the streets these days. Luckily for Rilke at Bowery Auctions the demand for...
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SIMON BECKETT In Person With Paul
SIMON BECKETT chats to Paul Burke about his new Dr. David Hunter novel THE BONE GARDEN, writing series fiction as standalones, the psychological, gothic thriller, The Chemistry of Death on TV and anniversaries - good or a bad thing? THE BONE GARDEN: Driving through the mountains in a fierce…
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MALCOLM KEMPT In Person With Paul
MALCOLM KEMPT chats to Paul Burke about A GIFT BEFORE DYING, the Arctic, Inuit culture, reading outside your genre and handing out guns to prisoners. A GIFT BEFORE DYING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, CAN JUSTICE STILL BE FOUND? After a botched high-profile murder investigation, Sergeant Elderick Cole...
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BRIAN PRICE In Person With Paul
BRIAN PRICE chats to Paul Burke about FATAL SHOT, Mel Cotton, Chemistry, Biology and the Science of Crime, Terry Pratchett and common science mistakes by crime writers. Fatal Shot: Pleasure or murder? Was journalist Jenny Pike seeking extreme pleasure or was she murdered? Mexton police and her...
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IAN RANKIN & MARK BILLINGHAM #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
SEASON 9 - EPISODE 5: SIR IAN RANKIN (John Rebus) & MARK BILLINGHAM (Tom Thorne) discuss the perks and pitfalls of series fiction & what they might have done differently if they had their time again. Desert Island books: The Maltese Falcon - Raymond Chandler, Tune In - Mark Lewishon, The Prime of...
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JOEL NEDECKY In Person With Paul
Joel Nedecky chats to Paul Burke about his new noir novel THE BROKEN DETECTIVE, Jake Joelsen, Winnipeg, noir spirit, teaching, social critique and family. THE BROKEN DETECTIVE Private investigator Jake Joelsen is going to prison for assaulting his sick mom's abusive boyfriend, but thanks to a...
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Holly Seddon, Steve Cavanagh & SR Masters #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
Season 9, Episode 5: Holly Seddon 59 mins, Steve Cavanagh Eddie Flynn series & SR Masters The Drop #OnTheSofaWithVictoria VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS Website for news and giveaways:...
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VASEEM KHAN & GARETH RUBIN #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
SEASON 9 - EPISODE 4: VASEEM KHAN (Quantum of Menace) & GARETH RUBIN (Holmes & Moriarty) discuss the highs and lows of writing literary spin offs. Desert Island Books Vaseem Khan Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie Gareth Rubin Viz Annual 1998 VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL...
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AA Dhand & Alex Dahl #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
SEASON 9 - EPISODE 3: AA DHAND (Harry Virdee) & ALEX DAHL (Playdate/Stolen Girl) discuss what it's like seeing your novel come to life on the screen and tips for wannabe script writers. Desert Island Books Amit Dhand The Stand Stephen King Alex Dahl Gilead Marilynne Robinson VICTORIA SELMAN...
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ABIGAIL DEAN & JENNIE GODFREY #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
Season 9 Episode 2: ABIGAIL DEAN (Girl A) & JENNIE GODFREY (The List of Suspicious Things) discuss true crime, second book syndrome and what it's like to have a smash hit debut. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS...
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Phoebe Morgan & Jack Butler #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
OnTheSofaWithVictoria - Season 9, Episode 1: Industry Insiders. Phoebe Morgan (Simon & Schuster) & Jack Butler (Little Brown) discuss the trends coming out of the Frankfurt Book Fair. VICTORIA SELMAN SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS Amazon Author Page…
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RWR MCDONALD chats to Craig Sisterson
RWR MCDONALD chats to Craig Sisterson about his new novel THE NANCYS AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING NECKLACE, tone, child narrator in adult story, fictionalising a small town in Otago, New Zealand, living in Melbourne, teaching creative writing, Faber academy. THE NANCYS AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING...
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VAL McDERMID chats to Craig Sisterson
VAL MCDERMID chats to Craig Sisterson, THE SILENT BONES, Karen Pirie, TV shows, Queen MacBeth, Allie Burns, building a career, editors, ground breaking fiction. THE SILENT BONES The truth is buried just beneath the surface . . . When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland…
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LILJA SIGURDARDÓTTIR chats to Craig Sisterson
Lilja Sigurdardóttir chats to Craig Sisterson on Crime Time FM about BLACK AS DEATH, trans. Lorenza Garcia, The Arora mysteries, Il Postino, Pablo Neruda and exile, AI and sci-fi, Christmas books in Iceland. BLACK AS DEATH A final reckoning… With the fate of her missing sister, Ísafold, finally...
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JAKE ARNOTT In Person With Paul
JAKE ARNOTT chats to Paul Burke about his new novel Blood Rival, Sophocles, Family, noir, tragedy, Blue Lights, Jim Thompson, James Ellroy, Cathi Unsworth, The Responder. BLOOD RIVAL It happened at a place where three roads meet. Junction 1A of the M25, heading east towards Gravesend. There’s a...
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DAVID JARVIS In Person With Paul
DAVID JARVIS chats to Paul Burke about his new spy thriller, The Green Feathers, CHOGM, Five Eyes, Mike Kingdom, the zeitgeist and the lighter touch. The Green Feathers When a butterfly flaps its wings in the Caribbean, it causes storms in Europe. The British King and Prime Minister have arrived…
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THE REVIEW SHOW September 2025
New Reviews on Crime Time FM The Man Who Died Seven Times Yasuhiko Nishizawa trans. by Jesse Kirkwood Evil in High Places Rory Clements Ask for Andrea Noelle W Ihli Deadman's Pool Kate Rhodes Persons of Interest Simon Dinsdale All Our Yestedays by Guy Hale Paul Burke edits Aspects of Crime…
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GUY HALE In Person With Paul
GUY HALE chats to Paul Burke about The Shakespeare Murders, PUT OUT THE LIGHT, ALL OUR YESTERDAYS, The Comeback Trail, Stratford theatre, indie publishing and dodgy 70s cops. Put Out The Light, Paperback Act III Stratford-upon-Avon, Spring 1972 On the streets of Stratford four murders remain...
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DONNA MORFETT In Person With Paul
Donna Morfett chats to Paul Burke about THE MASQUERADE OF MURDER, Luton & Dunstable, revenge on the page, misogyny and self publishing. THE MASQUERADE OF MURDER DI Cora Snitton is barely catching her breath after the last case when another body turns up - this time, a suspected junkie dumped in…
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JANE THYNNE In Person With Paul
Jane Thynne chats to Paul Burke about new Clara Vine spy novel THE JUDGEMENT OF STARS, Nazi Astrology, the German Film industry, Hedy Lamarr, humour in the darkest moments. The Judgement of Stars Berlin, 1942. Clara Vine, the Anglo-German actress, is working undercover in Germany as an agent of...
About this show
Regular crime, thriller & mystery interviews, features and reviews. Flagship weekly show - IN PERSON WITH PAUL hosted by Paul Burke & seasonal series #OnTheSofaWithVictoria hosted by best selling thriller writer Victoria Selman. Also festival coverage, award ceremonies and magazine shows hosted by Paul with Victoria and Crime Time editor/Financial Times crime critic Barry Forshaw. The monthly Review Show, what's hot in crime fiction. Further information can be found at crimetime.fm
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