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Bernard Minier

5 New Books to Read this Week: December 6, 2016

By Crime HQ

December 7, 2016

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, we get some great cozies, a couple of kickass thrillers, and a ridiculous anthology edited by Lawrence Block and…

Don’t Turn Out the Lights: New Excerpt

By Bernard Minier

December 6, 2016

Don't Turn Out the Lights is the 3rd book in the Commandant Martin Servaz series (Available December 6, 2016). “You did nothing.” Christine Steinmeyer thought the anonymous suicide note she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve wasn’t meant for her. But the man calling in to her radio show seems convinced otherwise. “You let…

Review: Don’t Turn Out the Lights by Bernard Minier

By Dirk Robertson

December 1, 2016

Don't Turn Out the Lights by Bernard Minier is the 3rd Commandant Martin Servaz novel (Available December 6, 2016). Great writing is like great baking. The ingredients have to be spot on, properly prepared, and well thought out. They have to be mixed together just right so that the interplay between them becomes a perfect…

Happy Thanksreading!: Where will you sit at the Minotaur Thanksgiving Feast?

By Crime HQ

November 23, 2015

Why talk politics with relatives or nervously count calories this Thanksgiving when several new paperbacks from Minotaur Books are within arm's reach? Read the profiles to figure out where you sit at this table, and we'll provide a hearty recommendation to help you put your sofa time to good use!

The Circle by Bernard Minier

The Circle: Exclusive Excerpt

By Bernard Minier

October 20, 2015

The Circle by Bernard Minier is a dark psychological thriller set in the south of France (available October 27, 2015). They find the boy by the swimming pool, dolls floating on its surface. Inside the house, his teacher lies dead. But he claims to remember nothing… June 2010. In the middle of a World Cup…

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