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, inspired by Daniel Cole’s latest…
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 Fawkes, aka Wolf, is still…
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 to highlight a thrilling week of…
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 entirely sure what they’re hoping…
