Archaeological excavations are underway at Oxford, and the student diggers have unearthed something they probably didn’t expect to find: a dead body wrapped in recycling bags. It’s enough to send police cars screaming to the scene, followed at a slightly less frantic pace by Inspector Lewis (Kevin Whately) and his… Read more
The first words are “What the Dickens?” uttered by the curmudgeonly housekeeper Mrs. Maguire. Seconds later, Sidney Chambers (James Norton) strips down to swimming trunks, lest we’d forgotten he’s the Hunky Vicar. His BFF, Geordie Keating (Robson Green), also in trunks and less hunky only by comparison, gets all theosophical… Read more
A Great Reckoning will be the 12th novel in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. Pre-order your copy today! When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger… Read more
Cop shows are such a mainstay of television, and have been for so long, that turning on a TV and randomly clicking through four or five channels is guaranteed to lead you to at least one trip down the mean streets with a grizzled detective and a fresh-faced rookie. They're… Read more
A Great Reckoning will be the 12th novel in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. Pre-order your copy today! To learn more or pre-order a copy, visit: Click here for more Louise Penny at Criminal Element, and make sure you're signed up for our newsletter so you can stay up to date with all… Read more
A Great Reckoning will be the 12th novel in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. Pre-order your copy today! To learn more or order a copy, visit: Click here for more Louise Penny at Criminal Element, and make sure you're signed up for our newsletter so you… Read more
Harbour Street by Ann Cleeves is the 6th installment of the Vera Stanhope Mystery Series about a collection of murders that seem to be connected by one seemingly innocent neighborhood. What are the residents of Harbour Street trying to hide? (Available December 1, 2015) As the snow falls thickly on… Read more
No Good Deed by Allison Brennan is the 10th mystery featuring FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid (available November 3, 2015). Lucy Kincaid understands the dangers of corruption. As an FBI agent, she has witnessed some very bad deeds committed by seemingly good people. That's why she's glad to see corrupt DEA… Read more
Crucifixion Creek by Barry Maitland is the first thriller in a new trilogy set in Australia (available November 10, 2015). A meth-addicted biker shoots a woman during a police siege. An elderly couple commit suicide on the terrace of their favorite café. An unidentified white male is stabbed to death… Read more
Mounties aside, we in the U.S. don’t usually think of Canada as the sort of place that would spawn a great TV police show. (Insert polite-criminal joke here.) Yet it did: Da Vinci’s Inquest has been called by some the best crime series ever made. Premiering at the same time… Read more
