Welcome back to the Village Blend cafe for the 17th installment in the bestselling Coffeehouse Mystery series! Clare Cosi—Village Blend manager and our heroine—is worrying about setting a date for her wedding to one of NYPD’s finest, Detective Lieutenant Mike Quinn. But it’s another sort of date that soon absorbs all her attention, as the…
Dive Smack by Demetra Brodsky is a thrilling and terrifying debut novel full of twists and turns that will leave you breathless—take a visual tour with GIFnotes! Theo Mackey only remembers one thing for certain about the fire that destroyed his home: he lit the match. Sure, it was an accident. But the blaze killed his…
Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, Carolyn Haines’s 18th Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery combines with Jessica Knoll’s sophomore effort to highlight an amazing week of…
What do you do when a group of witches comes to town and puts everyone on edge? Have them whip up some witches’ brew like this week’s Pick Your Poison—where we create a cocktail inspired by a recently published mystery, thriller, or crime novel—the “Warmed Bones” cocktail, inspired by Carolyn Haines’s 18th Sarah Booth Delaney…
You know the old saying: “You can pick your friends, and you can pick your underwear, but you can’t pick a stranger’s underwear, break into her house, and leave them with threatening notes.” According to nfwdailynews.com, Isitro Lee Sanches, 59, known in his trailer park community as “Santa Claus,” was recently convicted of three counts of burglary…
“You deserve the truth.” It’s not just the tagline for A&E’s new docuseries, Marcia Clark Investigates the First 48, but a personal mantra that encapsulates the leading lady’s decades-long pursuit of righteousness. “I do feel as though this show is a continuation of my life’s work,” Marcia Clark tells Criminal Element. “Because I’m invested in…
Tate Harper and Angie DeLaura are getting married! After the bridezilla nonsense of the previous book, Caramel Crush, it’s refreshing to see the wedding draw close with minimal romantic drama. Alas, there is more than enough murderous drama to make up for it. With the wedding only a week away, Angie is running around Scottsdale,…
In A Study in Treason by Leonard Goldberg, a seemingly impossible mystery tests the keen mind and forensic skills of Joanna Blalock, the daughter of Sherlock Holmes and the heir to his unique talent for deduction—take a visual tour with GIFnotes! The following case has not previously been disclosed to the public due to the sensitive…
Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, Nicholas Irving’s first Reaper sniper novel combines with Alex Segura’s fourth Pete Fernandez Mystery to highlight an incredible week…
What do you do when a simple investigation turns into a complicated and dangerous nightmare? Settle your nerves with this week’s Pick Your Poison—where we create a cocktail inspired by a recently published mystery, thriller, or crime novel—the “Rox and Weary” cocktail, inspired by Kristen Lepionka’s second Roxane Weary novel, What You Want to See! What…
