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 was a great week for international mystery and thriller fans! Charles Cumming released the 3rd installment in the Thomas Kell…
Popular mystery series featuring a gay private investigator? Even today, in the year 2012, this is still a touchy subject for many, and a decided niche, or sub-category within the mystery genre. Many of these novels (and series) are popular, successful and even award-winning, yet they remain out of the mainstream limelight. Even more curious…
We’re becoming increasingly accustomed to the adaptation of comic books into movies. But Jonathan Kellerman, like the fictitious Rick Castle, is going another way—at least one of his books, is being adapted into a graphic novel. Silent Partner, the graphic novel, comes out this week and Kellerman (himself an erstwhile cartoonist and comic book fan)…
A few weeks ago my To Be Read pile had a Michael Connelly, a Jonathan Kellerman, and a Dick Francis (well, Felix Francis, at least) on the stack. As I looked at those spines I realized that despite breaking up with my fair share of authors, I seem to have more than a few that…
