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David Housewright

Book Review: What Doesn’t Kill Us by David Housewright

By Angie Barry

May 25, 2021

What Doesn’t Kill Us—David Housewright’s latest McKenzie mystery, the 18th in the series—opens with quite a shocker: our hero has been shot in the back and lies in a coma.  McKenzie’s friends, reeling from the news, have plenty of questions they need answered in a hurry. The unlicensed P.I. never officially took on cases since…

What Doesn’t Kill Us by David Housewright: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

April 22, 2021

JUST SO YOU KNOW I was shot in the back at close range by a .32-caliber handgun yet did not die, at least not permanently. Dr. Lillian Linder, the emergency medical specialist who saved my life, said it was a miracle. Lilly had patched me up on numerous occasions over the past decade, though, and…

Book Review: From the Grave by David Housewright

By Angie Barry

July 25, 2020

Retired cop and unofficial P.I. Rushmore McKenzie finds himself tangling with ghosts when his first love, Shelby Dunston, attends a psychic medium’s public reading and hears the woman announce his name in connection with a missing fortune. “Hannah,” she said, “why did the dead man chant McKenzie’s name?”   “I really can’t say. Most people…

From the Grave by David Housewright: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

July 10, 2020

CHAPTER ONE The young woman who identified herself as a psychic medium moved with almost absent-minded confidence among the fifty people who had paid forty dollars each for a seat in the community center lecture hall with the hope that she might help them connect with a dead mother or father, uncle or aunt, a…

First, Kill the Lawyers by David Housewright: A Visual Guide

By Adam Wagner

December 5, 2018

P.I. Holland Taylor returns in David Housewright’s Edgar Award-winning series with First, Kill the Lawyers, where Taylor is hired to recover stolen files before they are leaked, ruining more than just the careers of five local lawyers—take a visual tour with GIFnotes! Five prominent attorneys in Minneapolis have had their computer systems hacked and very sensitive…

5 New Books to Read this Week: June 19, 2018

By Crime HQ

June 20, 2018

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, B. A. Paris’s third psychological thriller combines with Nathan Ripley’s fantastic debut to highlight an amazing week of books! See what…

Review: Like to Die by David Housewright

By Angie Barry

June 18, 2018

Like to Die by David Housewright is the 15th book in the Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie series, where a seemingly simple investigation—done as a favor for a friend—takes McKenzie down a dark and twisted path. What starts with a good-natured poker game between old buddies quickly morphs into the usual quagmire of criminality and dangerous women…

Like to Die: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

Like to Die by David Housewright is the 15th book in the Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie series, where a seemingly simple investigation—done as a favor for a friend—takes McKenzie down a dark and twisted path. Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator,…

Review: Darkness, Sing Me a Song by David Housewright

By Janet Webb

January 9, 2018

David Housewright’s Edgar Award-winning Holland Taylor series returns with a case of murder resulting from tragic, twisted drama in an extremely wealthy family in Darkness, Sing Me a Song. How often do fictional private detectives’ personal lives mirror their on-hand cases? More than you’d think. David Housewright’s Holland Taylor is “a PI who does simple…

5 New Books to Read this Week: January 2, 2018

By Crime HQ

January 3, 2018

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 highly anticipated debut from A. J. Finn and the 21st Dave Robicheaux novel from James Lee Burke help…

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