What do you do when your friend is missing and there is a killer on the loose playing games with you? Raise a drink to your missing friend with this week’s Pick Your Poison—where we create a cocktail inspired by a recently published mystery, thriller, or crime novel—“The Wolf” cocktail,… Read more
Hangman by Daniel Cole is a gruesome police procedural and the pulse-pounding sequel to Ragdoll. Hangman picks up soon after the events of Ragdoll, and DCI Emily Baxter of London’s Metropolitan Police is still a mess, both physically and emotionally, from the culmination of that case. The fact that her friend William… Read more
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 new book in the Philip Marlowe canon from Lawrence Osborne combines with Linwood Barclay’s latest… Read more
In my rather limited experience of being a writer, I’ve learned that the only thing more certain than being asked on an almost daily basis what my influences are is the disappointed look on the asker’s face when I give them my, apparently, unsatisfactory reply: “movies and television.” I’m not… Read more
