Login / Register
Criminal Element
  • Read
    • Excerpts
    • Reviews
  • Author Spotlight
    • Essays
    • Interviews
  • On-Screen
    • Television
    • Film
    • Trailers
  • Weekly Features
    • This Week’s New Reads
    • GIFnotes
    • Pick Your Poison
    • Cooking the Books
    • True Crime Thursday
    • Perp Derp
  • Cozy Corner
  • Newsletter
  • Login / Register

Alexia Gordon

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: March 2018

By Crime HQ

February 15, 2018

Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we kept warm with great February cozies; this month, welcome spring with killer March reads! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read next! Like this…

Amateur Night: Black Women in Amateur Detective Fiction

By Kellye Garrett

August 8, 2017

From Walter Mosley’s private investigator Easy Rawlins to James Patterson’s police detective Alex Cross, the professional black detective has a great history on the page and bestseller lists. There’s no question these guys know how to get the job done. But they’re not the only ones.  Though they might not be as well-known or celebrated…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: July, 2017

By Crime HQ

June 15, 2017

Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we kicked off summer with some great June cozies; this month, blast into July with fireworks and these amazing reads! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait…

Review: Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon

By Amber Keller

April 10, 2017

Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon is the 1st book in the Gethsemane Brown Mystery series, nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel.  Have you ever been at a point in life where nothing seems to have gone right but tucking your tail and heading back home to admit defeat is the last…

Announcing 2017’s Agatha Award Nominees

By Crime HQ

January 26, 2017

Malice Domestic, an annual convention held in Washington, D.C., honoring the best of the traditional/cozy mystery genre, has announced the nominees for 2017's Agatha Awards. Loosely defined as “mysteries which contain no explicit sex or excessive gore or violence,” the Agatha Award salutes the books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie. This year,…

2017 Left Coast Crime “Lefty” Awards Nominations

By Crime HQ

January 17, 2017

The 2017 Left Coast Crime “Lefty” Awards nominations are up!  The Lefty Awards are fan-based, chosen by registered members of the Left Coast Crime convention. Nominations for awards to be presented at each annual convention are made by people registered for that convention and also the immediately prior convention.  The 27th annual LCC convention, Left Coast Crime…

  • About
  • Advertise With Us
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Notice
  • Contact Us
Site Powered by Supadu