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ADAM HAMDY chats to Paul about his new thriller DEADBEAT, what would make an ordinary person commit murder, what would drive you that far, screenwriting, depp dive characters, the morality of true crime, judging heroes and villains.
ADAM HAMDY DEADBEAT
Peyton Collard was a good man once, but his life changed after a horrific car accident. Divorced, drunk, and severely damaged, Peyton is offered a life-changing sum of money to kill an evil man. But as he goes on a vigilante journey that leaves a trail of bodies across California, Peyton wonders about the identity of his anonymous patron. Soon, his questions become an obsession, and he embarks on a tense and potentially deadly investigation to discover the truth about the m
Adam Hamdy is a Sunday Times, Kindle, and international bestselling author and screenwriter who works with studios and production companies all over the world. The author of 15 novels including 6 books in the multi-million bestselling Private series co-written with James Patterson, Adam lives in Mauritius. His most recent standalone novel, Deadbeat, has been described as a superlative thriller by Publishers Weekly. His previous standalone novel, The Other Side of Night, was one of the New York Times Best Thrillers of 2023 and appeared on several best books of the year lists. Adam has a degree in Law from Oxford University and a degree in Philosophy from the University of London and was a strategy consultant prior to becoming a writer. A fan of extensive research, Adam is well versed in finance, technology and science. He is also published in numerous world-class scientific and medical journals.Recommends
The Fall Guy (2024)
DEADBEAT UK
DEADBEAT USA
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.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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ALISON GAYLIN chats to Paul about her new hardboiled thriller BUZZ KILL, a Sunny Randall novel, Robert B Parker's Boston, writing psychological thrillers and a love of 70s conspiracy movies.
BUZZ KILL Sunny Randall is hired to investigate the disappearance of an energy drink company’s CEO, Dylan. As she gets closer to finding Dylan, she learns not only of his bad behaviour toward numerous women, but of his bad behaviour within the business world – and his energy drink that, despite its marketing, has proven dangerous and even deadly.
ALISON GAYLIN is the Edgar and Shamus award-winning author of 12 books and many short stories. A USA Today and international bestseller, she lives in New York's Hudson Valley.
Recommends: CB Everett The Other People (April 2025), Saints of the Narrow Streets William Boyle (Feb US, March UK)
Mentions: James M Cain, Patricia Highsmith, Robert B Parker, true crime - Helter Skelter, Mike Lupica, Megan Abbott
Paul Burke writes for 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.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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Newcastle Noir 10th Anniversary - The Panels Episode 2 of 3
Death in Paradise:
Julie Anderson with Phoebe Morgan and Megan Davis
A Kaleidoscope of Heroines:
Jacky Collins with Harriet Tyce, Fiona Erskine and Marie Tierney
Black Stage for Death:
Frances Walker with Howard Linskey and Guy Hale
Investigating Crime:
Jacky Collins with Graham Bartlett, Trevor Wood and Mari Hannah
Panel excerpts - there is a low level background noise to this show, the cost of
recording in a hall live at an event. Sadly it is noticeable on parts of the 4th panel. I hope this doesn't interfere with your listening pleasure. I apologize for this.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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The Newcastle Noir Review Show on Crime Time FM featuring Trevor Wood, Sam Holland, Antony Johnstone, Jo Furniss, Rob Parker, Michael Wood and Paul Burke.
The panel select some of their favourite crime novels of 2024 and look ahead to 2025.
Selected Books
Stuart Neville Blood Like Mine
Dom Nolan White City
The Escape Room LD Smithson
Spiral Cameron Ward
Peepshow Kate Summerscale
Three Inch Teeth CJ Box
The Finder novellas Simon Mason
Sanctuary Garry Disher
The Twelve Murders of Christmas Sarah Dunnakey
William Mason Coile
The Innocents Bridget Walsh
Gallows Wood Louisa Scarf
The Outsider Jane Casey
The Silent Killer Trevor Wood
Recommended 2025
Paperboy Callum McSorley
The Troubled Deep Rob Parker
The Tomorrow Project H Critchlow
Son Johana Gustawsson & Thomas Enger
Clare Leslie Hall Broken Country
The Girl in Cell A Vaseem Khan
The missing Hours Robert Rutherford
CJ Box Battle Mountain
Quantum of Menace Vaseem Khan
Notes on a Drowning Anna Sharpe
Holy City Henry Wise,
The Seventh Floor David McCloskey,Produced by Junkyard Dog
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Season 7 Episode 5: Screenplay Writing. What can novelists learn from screenplay writers? How does writing for film, TV and streaming work. Alex Michaelides THE FURY (The Devil You Know & The Con is On) and Suk Pannu DEAD AND SCONE (Goodness, Gracious, Me & The Kumars at No.42) Share their extensive experience and knowledge of the industry/art.
Desert Island Films:
Vertigo dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Star Wars: New Hope dir. George Lucas
Casablanca dir. Michael Curtiz
Memoirs: On Writing Stephen King and The Imaginary Girlfriend John Irving
VICTORIA SELMAN
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CHRIS MCGINLEY chats to Paul about
Once These Hills It’s 1898. Up on Black Boar Mountain in eastern Kentucky, life is quiet for the small settlement of farmers who work the land around their cabins. But when ten-year old Lydia King unearths an ancient, preserved
body on the seep bog, a curse is let loose. At least that’s what some people believe.
They might be right.
Down in the valley, the Railroad uses convict labor to lay track, hell bent on timbering all of the hillside. Problem is, a trio of violent prisoners feel the work ain’t exactly to their liking. Behind their ring leader Burr Hollis, a predatory, sadistic man whose name inspires fear amongst the hardest of criminals, they take to the hills and leave a wake of their own hell up on Black Boar, as wide and deep as any timber cut.
In the years following, Lydia falls in love and marries a mountain boy, someone as skilled and at home in the woods as she. She discovers an intimate part of herself, and experiences both a physical and spiritual
awakening that allows her to put the trauma behind her . . . or so she thinks.
When Burr Hollis returns for a reckoning with her, she’ll need all of her huntress skills just to stay alive. But she won’t have much of a chance, unless she can reverse the curse of the bog bodyCOAL BLACK
ONCE THESE HILLS
Mentions & recommendations
Wilma Dykeman, Harriet Arnow, Janice Holt Giles - Hana Fowler, Willa Cather, Wesley Browne, Sheila Kay Adams - My Old True Love.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE 2024:
Maxim Jakubowski, Ayo Onatade, Jake Kerridge, Victoria Selman, Paul Burke and compere Barry Forshaw discuss their crime fiction best books of the year.
The full list of books is available on the Crime Time website from 2/12/24.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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SEASON 7 EPISODE 4: SUSPENSE
Alice Feeney (Daisy Darker) & Claire Douglas (The Wrong Sister) join Victoria Selman to discuss, wait for it...suspense in Crime Fiction.
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: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
Desert island novels:
His Dark Materials Philip Pulman
Alice in Wonderland Lewis CarrollProduced by Junkyard Dog
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GJ Williams, AJ Aberford & Alec Marsh chat to Paul Burke about their latest novels. Coming into the Christmas period it's easy for the major players to get publicity but what about Indie authors are they squeezed out at this time of the year. Not on this platform.
GJ Williams THE WOLF'S SHADOW Tudor Kardashians, Dr. Dee polymath, Tudor politics and intrigue. Legend Press.
AJ Aberford THE CAR HORN REVOLUTION, Malta, conspiracy and corruption, humour. Hobeck Books.
Alec Marsh CUT AND RUN, Frank Champion, WWI, blue light/red light, Sharpe Books.
Mentions: Dr Nicola Tallis, CJ Sansom, Philippa Gregory, Ian Rankin Midnight and Blue, Devil's Breath Jill Johnson, Alan Clarke, James Wilson The Pieces, Katy Hayes, Robert Graves Goodbye to All That, Jane Thynne Midnight in Vienna, Vaseem Khan City of Destruction, Vera Brittain Testament of Youth.
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.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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Crime Fiction Review November 2024.
Victim Thomas Enger & Jørn Lier HorstNothing But the Truth by Robyn Gigl
Simon Kernick You All Die Tonight
Revenge of Rome Simon Scarrow
The Queen of Cups Murders GB Williams
The Outsider Jane Casey
When the Germans Come David Hewson
Spydle Dr Gareth Moore & Laura Jane Ayres
Secrets and Lies Quintin Jardine
The Ghosts of Paris Tara MossSilver Moon Rising A M Potter
Men of Action Ed Robertson
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.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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#OnTheSofa Season 7 Episode 3: Portrayal of gendered violence in fiction, particularly femicide, the murder of women on account of gender. Victoria is Joined by JOAN SMITH author of Unfortunately She Was a Nymphomaniac, ARAMINTA HALL One of the Good Guys and ADAM LEBOR the Danube Blues series.
VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS
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Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
Desert Island Novels:
Tacitus THE ANNALS
Tolstoy WAR AND PEACE
Alan Furst DARK STARProduced by Junkyard Dog
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DOMINIC NOLAN chats to Paul about WHITE CITY, character, tone, London and villains.
WHITE CITY: It's 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs.
An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious, the police red-faced. They have suspicions but no leads. Hunches but no proof.
For two families, it is more than just a sensational headline, as their fathers fail to return home on the day of the robbery.
Young Addie Rowe, daughter of a missing Jamaican postman and drunk ex-club hostess mother, struggles to care for her little sister in a dilapidated Brixton rooming house.
Claire Martin, increasingly resentful of roads not taken, strives to make the rent and keep her teenage son Ray from falling under unsavoury influences in Notting Dale.
She finds herself caught between the interests of dangerous men who may know the truth behind her husband's disappearance: Dave Lander, whose reserved nature she finds difficult to reconcile with his reputation as a violent gang enforcer, and Teddy 'Mother' Nunn, a sociopathic, evangelising outlaw and top lieutenant in Billy Hill's underworld.
Drawn together through the years in the city's invisible web of crime and poverty, the fates of the broken families and violent men collide in 1958, as the West Indian community of Notting Hill's slums come under attack from thugs and Teddy Boys. For Addie, Claire, Dave and Mother, old scores will be settled and new dreams chased in the crucible of London's violent summer.
Dominic Nolan lives in London. WHITE CITY is his fourth novel, following the widely acclaimed VINE STREET, AFTER DARK and PAST LIFE.
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.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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MERLE NYGATE chats to Paul about her spy thriller HONOUR AMONG SPIES, Eli Amiran, screenwriting, research and
HONOUR AMONG SPIES: At the heart of London's spy operations, Mossad head of station Eli carries the scars of a past disaster while grappling with the turbulent political landscape back home. His resolve to uphold his duty and keep his job is tested like never before.
Desperate to tip the scales in the espionage game, Eli concocts a risky plan involving tampered drones destined for Russian hands. But to execute this plan, he has to exploit those closest to him. Eli's moral compass clashes with the mission, leading him down a treacherous path of betrayal.
As the stakes escalate, Eli finds himself embroiled in a deadly web, racing to foil an apocalyptic agenda. Alliances are tested, sacrifices are made, and Eli must confront the consequence of his actions head-on, and navigate a shadowy underworld to prevent a terrorist plot from unleashing chaos on a global scale. Will they emerge victorious, or will the darkness consume them all?
Merle Nygate is a screenwriter, script editor, screenwriting lecturer and novelist; she's worked on BAFTA winning TV, New York Festival audio drama and written original sitcoms; previously she worked for BBC Comedy Commissioning as well as writing and script editing across multiple genres. Most recently, Merle completed her first espionage novel which won the Little Brown/UEA Crime Fiction Award. It was described by the judge as 'outstanding'.
Mentions: Lior Raz (Fauda) John Le Carré,
Recommend: Blue Lights (BBC TV).
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.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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Episode Two: On The Road With Victoria: Nicci French HAS ANYONE SEEN CHARLOTTE SALTER
Live event at Waterstones Colchester with dynamic duo Nicci French (aka husband & wife writing team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French) and a fascinating discussion ranging from inspiration to AI.
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: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
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I S Berry chats to Paul Burke about her espionage thriller THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW, already an Edgar First Novel, Barry and ITW Award Winner in the US, just published in the UK. The only female former field agent writing spy fiction.
THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain for his final tour, he’s anxious to dispense with his mission ― uncovering Iranian support for the insurgency. But then he meets Almaisa, an enigmatic artist, and his eyes are opened to a side of Bahrain most expats never experience, to questions he never thought to ask.
When his trusted informant becomes embroiled in a murder, Collins finds himself drawn deep into the conflict, his romance and loyalties upended. In an instant, he’s caught in the crosswinds of a revolution. He sets out to learn the truth behind the Arab Spring, win Almaisa’s love, and uncover the murky border where Bahrain’s secrets end and America’s begin.
Now optioned for film by Scott Delman of Shadowfox productions (Producer of HBO Max hit series Station Eleven).I. S. Berry spent six years as an operations officer for the CIA and has lived and worked in Europe and the Middle East, including two years in Bahrain during the Arab Spring. She has a degree in Law from the University of Virginia, and is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, International Association of Crime Writers, and the Association of Former Intelligence Workers. The Peacock and The Sparrow was her debut novel, published in 2023. Berry currently lives in Virginia with her husband and son.
Recommended
The Little Drummer Girl John Le Carré, The Quiet American Graham Greene, The Innocent Ian McEwan, The Attack Yasmina Khadra, Joseph Kanon, David McCloskey & Paul Vidich.
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.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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JOSIE LLOYD chats to Paul Burke about MISS BEETON'S MURDER AGENCY, Mrs Beaton, breast cancer, comedy, cosy crime, making drunk promises to run marathons.
Miss Beeton's Murder Agency: Alice Beeton never meant to wind up single and childless on the wrong side of fifty. Like her distant relative Mrs Beeton – yes, that Mrs Beeton – she had hoped to have her own spic-and-span household by now. In reality, she lives in an immaculate but dingy basement flat in a rather shabby block in Kensington with Agatha, her fiercely intelligent, if rather over-territorial, corgi-Jack Russell cross.
Now Alice runs the Good Household Management Agency, providing discreet domestic staff to extravagant townhouses and sprawling country piles. So when Camille Messent calls in urgent need of a new housekeeper, Miss Beeton sends out new hire Enya. She’s rather forward but she does come with impeccable references and is fluent en français.
But in the early hours of New Year’s Day, Alice is rudely awakened with the news that Enya has been found dead. As the intriguing, if somewhat scruffy, Detective Rigby struggles to drum up an adequate investigation and the wealthy family and their party guests close rank, Miss Beeton takes it upon herself to solve the crime…
Josie Lloyd's first novel, It Could Be You, was published in 1997 and since then she has written 15 bestselling novels, (under various pen names), including the number one hit Come Together, which she co-authored with her husband, Emlyn Rees, which was number one for 10 weeks, published in 27 languages and made into a Working Title film. Josie has also written several bestselling parodies with Emlyn, including We're Going on a Bar Hunt, The Very Hungover Caterpillar and The Teenager Who Came to Tea.
Recommended: Butter Asako Yazuki, None of This is True Lisa Jewell, Elif Shafak, William Shaw, Julia Crouch.
Mentions: Nora Ephron Heartburn, Ian Moore, Emlyn Rees and Mrs Beaton's Book of Household Management.
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.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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Season Seven #OnTheSofa
Episode One:
On The Road With Victoria: Lisa Jewell NONE OF THIS IS TRUE & Mark Edwards THE DARKEST WATERS.Live event at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road with legends Lisa Jewell and Mark Edwards talking about everything from killing people in sand to Marvel superheroes.
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: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria
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THE REVIEW SHOW OCTOBER 2024
The Blue Hour Paula Hawkins
Disturbing the Bones Andrew Davis & Jeff Biggers
Edith Holler Edward Carey
Dark as Night Lilja Sigardardóttir trans. Lorenzo Garcia
The Great When Alan Moore
Angélique Guillaume Musso
Identity Unknown Patricia Cornwell
In Too Deep Andrew Lee Child
Quick comment reviews:
The labyrinth house murders Yukito Ayatsuji trans. Ho-Ling Wong
The Forest of Lost Souls Dean Koontz
Here One Minute ...Gone the Next Alex Lake
And
And There There Were None Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie, graphic novel by Bob al-Greene
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.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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CHRISTINE BOYER chats to Paul about her noir crime debut Black Maria, the American dream, honing style, short story v novel, psychogeography, regional fiction.
BLACK MARIA: Business magnate Thomas Farney and Detective Felix Kosmatka both want the same thing: to catch the monster who brutally murdered Farney's young grandson.
Thomas, brutal and savvy, didn't become wealthy by playing by the rules or kowtowing to authority. Felix, smart but green, still believes in the integrity of law and order...and he believes solving this case may be his ticket out of his dying hometown.
Felix must team up with seasoned detective Adam Shaffer to hunt the killer. Their investigation leads them into the past-when Thomas and his coal company owned the town, and when the riches beneath the surface belonged to anyone ruthless enough to claim them. Thomas made a multitude of enemies in those lawless days, and perhaps a few followed him into the present to exact their revenge.
Set in the Pennsylvania Rust Belt in the 1970's, Felix's faith in his institutions is shaken when the killer reveals a difficult truth: the rich and powerful rarely pay for their own sins, and vengeance can sometimes look uncomfortably like justice.
Christine Boyer's writing has been honored in both the Best American Mystery and Suspense anthology (Distinguished Mystery and Suspense of 2022) and the Best American Essays anthology (Notable Essays of 2020). Her work has been published in numerous anthologies and literary journals, including Jacked: A Crime Fiction Anthology, Weren't Another Other Way to Be: Outlaw Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Waylon Jennings, FOLIO, Little Patuxent Review, and Tahoma Literary Review. Black Maria is her first novel. Originally from Pennsylvania, Christine now lives in Massachusetts.
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.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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KATE SUMMERSCALE chats to Paul about her new history THE PEEPSHOW, 10 Rillington Place, misogyny & male violence, the cultural and wider societal impact of a notorious murder.
THE PEEPSHOW: London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. But they have already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place, three years ago, and the killer was hanged. Did they get the wrong man?
A nationwide manhunt is launched for the tenant of the ground-floor flat, a softly spoken former policeman named Reg Christie. Star reporter Harry Procter chases after the scoop. Celebrated crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begs to be assigned to the case. The story becomes an instant sensation, and with the relentless rise of the tabloid press the public watches on like never before. Who is Christie? Why did he choose to kill women, and to keep their bodies near him? As Harry and Fryn start to learn the full horror of what went on at Rillington Place, they realise that Christie might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice in plain sight.
In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie's victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house.
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Kate Summerscale has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in north London.
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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.Produced by Junkyard Dog
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