Ellison Cooper, Author at Criminal Element

The Edgar Awards Revisited: California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker (Best Novel, 2005)

By Ellison Cooper

December 27, 2019

The 2005 Edgar Award winner for best novel, California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker, is part police procedural and part family saga focused on the lives of the three Becker brothers caught up in a tangled web of love, betrayal, and murder. I was excited to review this novel because Parker’s other Edgar Award winner,…

5 Reasons I Love Mindhunter

By Ellison Cooper

October 23, 2017

When I saw the teaser for the new Netflix show Mindhunter, I was skeptical of yet another televised police procedural. I also wondered if following the historical origins of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit might be a bit boring. I've read the book that the show is based on, John E. Douglas's Mind Hunter: Inside…