Have you seen the Monopoly Man? A McDonalds in Hayes, UK, was robbed at knifepoint—but this was no Hamburgler. According to Metro UK, the subject—who was dressed in a hooded top, black trousers, and white gloves—waved the knife at employees before hopping the counter and stealing a box of McDonald’s Monopoly game cards and vouchers.…
When news broke that the Golden State Killer had been arrested, the true crime community was shaken and elated, and of course, all thoughts turned to one woman: Michelle McNamara, whose recently published, ground-breaking work of investigative journalism, I’ll be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, reinvigorated a…
I really enjoyed this third installment in Rebecca Adler’s Taste of Texas series. Our heroine, Josie Callahan, is really starting to grow into her sass and repartee with her fellow citizens of Broken Boot, Texas. And the colorful aphorisms that pepper the book are a linguistic delight! But I’m getting ahead of myself. It’s Cinco…
Blackout by Alex Segura is a dark, personal, and deadly tale of dangerous obsession that will leave Pete Fernandez completely changed—take a visual tour with GIFnotes! Startling new evidence in a cold case that’s haunted Pete… Drags the exiled PI back to his hometown of Miami. But as Pete and his partner, Kathy Bentley, delve deeper…
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, Kristen Lepionka’s sophomore effort combines with a new Murder, She Wrote mystery and Ace Atkins’s latest Robert B. Parker…
It’s uncommon for a cozy mystery series to sweep me away so completely that I want to visit its setting, especially if it isn’t located in an urban area (as I’m very much a city girl at heart). But the Cajun Country mysteries are so evocative in both their setting’s traditions and food that I’m…
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, a new Hap & Leonard novel from Joe R. Lansdale combines with C. J. Box's latest Joe Pickett thriller…
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, Steve Berry's latest Cotton Malone thriller combines with the final completed Mickey Spillane novel to highlight a killer week…
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, David Rosenfelt returns to his Doug Brock series and Clare Mackintosh delivers another twisting psychological thriller! See what else…
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, Phillip Margolin's first in a new legal thriller series highlights an incredible week of books! See what else we're reading:
