Needz Xtra Milk for Tea Plz

By Crime HQ

October 10, 2013

We're not totally sure about the Belgian detective having a soul patch, but we're also too intimidated to mention it.

(Of course it's from ICanHazCheezburger, where else?)

Writing Fiction from Real Life

Late on the night of May 29, 1997, a talented young musician named Jeff Buckley walked into a tributary channel of the Mississippi River near Memphis, and disappeared. At the time, his star was in the ascendancy—his first album had received widespread acclaim. He was 30 years old, dark-haired and beautiful, with a voice that…

I Met Hercule Poirot in Brooklyn

By Richie Narvaez

March 12, 2019

As we filed in, there at the head of this class was someone who could best be described as an older gentleman, in the truest sense of both words. En verité, his head was not egg-shaped, and it was thinly covered with white hair. He was easily in his 60s, had a thin white mustache,…

The Five Best Movies Adapted from Thrillers

By Alex Michaelides

February 7, 2019

I love the combination of cinema and literature. I studied English Literature and was a screenwriter before writing my first novel, The Silent Patient—a psychological thriller about a woman who shoots her husband five times and then never speaks again. I’ve been reading mystery writers like Agatha Christie since my childhood and I’ve always been…

5 New Books to Read this Week: August 28, 2018

By Crime HQ

August 29, 2018

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, Hank Phillippi Ryan’s first standalone novel combines with Sophie Hannah’s third mystery in Agatha Christie’s legendary Hercule Poirot series…