Alex Brangwen is not your typical police detective. Once upon a time, the Englishman was a celebrated author with a novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize, a cultural cachet that was a large part...
https://www.criminalelement.com/book-review-granite-harbor-by-peter-nichols/
Reporter Lucy Stone is looking forward to covering the grand opening of a state-of-the-art community center in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and not just because the building’s central air provides a...
https://www.criminalelement.com/book-review-patchwork-quilt-murder-by-leslie-meier/
Alex Brangwen, the protagonist/detective of my new novel, Granite Harbor, is a single parent to a teenage daughter—and a failed novelist. He lives in a small town in Maine, where a serial kille...
https://www.criminalelement.com/on-becoming-a-cop-by-peter-nichols-author-of-granite-harbor/
May and Gemma Chow have been struggling to keep their family’s flower selling business afloat in 1930s Los Angeles, after doctors send the teenaged girls’ beloved father to recuperate from tu...
https://www.criminalelement.com/book-review-kill-her-twice-by-stacey-lee/
It’s bad enough that Mia Malone has had to put her catering company on the back burner in order to accept a job as the catering director at the Lodge, the biggest ski resort in Magic Springs, I...
https://www.criminalelement.com/cooking-books-five-furry-familiars-lynn-cahoon/
I absolutely adored Clare Mackintosh’s last novel, The Last Party, so I was champing at the bit to dive into its sequel, featuring the headstrong DC Ffion Morgan as she deals with policing her ...
https://www.criminalelement.com/book-review-a-game-of-lies-by-clare-mackintosh/
“You don’t mean to say that you seriously believe that Life imitates Art, that Life in fact is the mirror, and Art the reality?”—Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying” Art imitates life...
The advertisements are hard to miss. If you live in North Jersey, in Paterson or quite a few other cities, you are familiar with the phrase CALL JIM! It’s on billboards, benches, bus stops, and...
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Some years back I saw a meme going around social media, about being a good enough friend to help someone hide a dead body. It got me thinking. Who would I help? And why? The result was my Suspens...
https://www.criminalelement.com/complicity-in-friendship-a-journey-through-suspense/
Baker Chloe Barnes is thrilled to finally open her cannabis cafe, serving food and drinks infused with the medicinal properties of legally grown and sold marijuana. She’s even more thrilled tha...
https://www.criminalelement.com/cooking-books-high-tide-murder-emily-george/