From New York Times Notable mystery author Lawrence Goldstone, Assassin of Shadows plunges readers into the dramatic events surrounding the assassination of President William McKinley. President William McKinley Jr. was the 25th president of the United States. On November 6th, 1901, “six months into his second term,” he was shot by “twenty-eight year old anarchist…
When I first visited the convicted murderer of Senator Robert Kennedy, I was struck by how ordinary he seemed. At that time, in his mid-40s, Sirhan B. Sirhan was kind of like everybody’s kid brother. He was mild-mannered and well-spoken, and unlike most prisoners, he didn’t have a TV in his cell. Instead, he read…
The Fourth Horseman by David Hagberg is the 20th installment of the New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series featuring a rogue CIA agent claiming leadership of Pakistan that Kirk McGarvey must track down and kill (Available February 23, 2016). Pakistan is torn apart by riots in the streets. The CIA sends Pakistan expert David…
A Prisoner in Malta by Phillip DePoy follows Christopher Marlowe, an Elizabethan playwright, poet, and spy who is tasked with uncovering the truth of a possible plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I (Available January 26, 2016). In 1583, the nineteen-year-old Christopher Marlowe—with a reputation as a brawler, a womanizer, a genius, and a social upstart…
Assassins by Mukul Deva is an international thriller that jumps between London and India and follows Ravinder Singh Gill as he tries to stop a high-profile double assassination (available July 14, 2015). The Sisters of Benazir are out for revenge. The London based political activists want payback for the murder of the politician Benazir Basheer.…
Hostile Takeover by Shane Kuhn is the second thriller in the John Lago series about a professional assassin who works under the guise of the invisible office intern (available July 14, 2015). In The Intern’s Handbook, the first book in the John Lago series, we were introduced to Human Resources, Inc. – a job placement…
Elimination by Ed Gorman is the final political thriller in the Dev Conrad series where the investigator must figure out who tried to kill a Congress member running for re-election (available July 1, 2015). It seems possible that my lifelong interest in the American political process is what drew me to read Sleeping Dogs, the…
As you may have seen, yesterday marked the four year anniversary for Criminal Element, and we're continuing the celebration for this True Crime Thursday by looking back at four of our first posts on the subject! (Call it our very first True Crime-Throwback Thursday, if you will!) First, join Elyse Dinh-McCrillis as she takes us…
It’s 1968, the height of the Cold War, and we are in Mexico City. Filiberto Garcia is a sixty year old Mexican policeman. Over the course of his life he has killed people: men, women, a priest. As a young man, he fought in the Mexican Revolution, serving under Pancho Villa, his killing backed by…
President Dwight D. Eisenhower must've been a heckuva good sport, because he played lowdown prairie rat to a cowboy on a white horse at his own danged inauguration. This AP photo shows Ike being lassoed by cowboy Monte Montana as he reviews the parade from the presidential stand in front of the White House on…
