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Book Review: Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic

By J.B. Stevens

June 15, 2020

“COVID-19 promises to alter us all in strange ways. It’s a paradigm-shifting event that divides lives and cultures into a before and after. We will emerge changed, though how those changes will manifest is far from certain. The sensory details of this outbreak—the masks, the faces of doctors and nurses creased with worry and fatigue,…

Book Review: Life Is Short and Then you Die edited by Kelley Armstrong

By Allison Brennan

September 11, 2019

Life Is Short and Then You Die is the Mystery Writers of America’s first teen anthology, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.  Short stories aren’t easy to write. I wrote my first short story in Killer Year, an anthology edited by Lee Child, published more than a decade ago. It was one of the…

Life is Short and Then You Die: New Excerpt by Y. S. Lee

By Crime HQ

Life Is Short and Then You Die is the Mystery Writers of America’s first teen anthology, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong. Below, enjoy an excerpt from the story “In Plain Sight” by Y. S. Lee, the author of a YA mystery series set in a Victorian-era girls’ academy that acts…

Big Names, Short Stories: Child, Deaver, Starr & Jakubowski Launch Invisible Blood Anthology

By Joe Brosnan

July 26, 2019

“If I could make a living writing short stories I would” That was Jeffery Deaver earlier this week at The Mysterious Bookshop at the launch event for Invisible Blood, a brand new anthology series edited by crime fiction legend Maxim Jakubowski.  Cards on the table, I hadn’t heard of Maxim until a copy of Invisible…

Book Review: Growing Things by Paul Tremblay

By Richard Z. Santos

July 2, 2019

Growing Things and Other Stories is a chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from multiple award-winning author Paul Tremblay. Paul Tremblay and I have something in common. We’re both high school teachers. That being said, he’s more likely to teach Calculus while I teach English. One of my most well-worn rules when teaching…

Review: The Lovecraft Squad: Dreaming, Edited by Stephen Jones

By Debbie Meldrum

November 10, 2018

The Lovecraft Squad: Dreaming, edited by Stephen Jones, is the third volume in the new interconnected trilogy that reveals the origins of “The Lovecraft Squad”—a super-secret worldwide organization dedicated to battling the eldritch monstrosities given form in H. P. Lovecraft’s fevered imagination. The Lovecraft Squad is a secret branch of the FBI created to hold…

5 New Books to Read this Week: August 7, 2018

By Crime HQ

August 8, 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, Olen Steinhauer’s contemporary thriller combines with another fantastic anthology edited by Otto Penzler to highlight a great week of books! See what else we’re…

COVER REVEAL: Three Strikes by Ross Klavan, Tim O’Mara, and Charles Salzberg

By Crime HQ

May 2, 2018

“I Take Care of Myself in Dreamland” by Ross Klavan Bartok is horribly scarred. Wounded in the Army, he roams through 1970’s New York, a city of perpetual night, punctuated by crime and populated by streetwalkers, hooker bars, strip clubs, easy drugs and a feeling of doom. There’s one thing on his mind: an experience…

5 New Books to Read this Week: January 2, 2018

By Crime HQ

January 3, 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, a highly anticipated debut from A. J. Finn and the 21st Dave Robicheaux novel from James Lee Burke help…

Review: In the Footsteps of Dracula: Tales of the Un-Dead Count, Edited by Stephen Jones

By Katherine Tomlinson

October 5, 2017

In the Footsteps of Dracula: Tales of the Un-Dead Count, edited by Stephen Jones, is a vampire anthology with more than thirty chilling stories and novellas featuring Bram Stoker’s King of the Vampires: Count Dracula, Prince of Darkness!  It’s October, which means it’s Halloween season. And what better way to celebrate the season than by…

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