In Murder on Millionaires’ Row, Erin Lindsey’s debut historical mystery, a daring housemaid searches Gilded Age Manhattan for her missing employer and finds a hidden world of magic, ghosts, romance, and Pinkerton detectives. Rose Gallagher might dream of bigger things, but she’s content enough with her life as a housemaid. After… Read more
A breathtakingly clever, twist-filled narrative that moves from 1946 to 1988 to 2014 and back again, Charlesgate Confidential establishes Scott Von Doviak as a storyteller of the first order. Hard Case Crime is known for delivering pulpy, entertaining narratives from some of the best authors crime fiction has to offer…. Read more
What the Woods Keep is Katya de Becerra’s stunning debut, combining mystery, science fiction, and dark fantasy in a twisty story that will keep you mesmerized right up to the final page. On her eighteenth birthday, Hayden inherits her childhood home―on the condition that she uncover its dark secrets. Hayden tried to… Read more
The Exes’ Revenge by Jo Jakeman is a wickedly dark debut thriller about three women who’ve all been involved with the same man and realize the one thing they have in common is that they all want revenge against him. Readers of Jo Jakeman’s addictive debut thriller, The Exes’ Revenge, will compulsively… Read more
Lies by T. M. Logan is a debut psychological thriller that dissects a troubled marriage straight to the marrow as one man separates the truth from the lies. Prefer audiobooks? Click here to listen to an excerpt! Six days ago, Joe Lynch was a happily married man, a devoted father, and… Read more
The Soul Keepers is a pulse-pounding, cinematic YA adventure by debut author Devon Taylor. Death is just the beginning. After dying in a terrible car accident, Rhett awakens in the afterlife and is recruited to join the crew of the Harbinger, a colossal seafaring vessel tasked with ferrying the souls of the… Read more
What do you do when you’ve found the love of your life but his mother wants you gone? Drink up with this week’s Pick Your Poison—where we create a cocktail inspired by a recently published mystery, thriller, or crime novel—the “She Loves Me Not” cocktail, inspired by Sandie Jones’s debut novel, The… 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, Sandie Jones’s highly anticipated debut psychological thriller combines with a new Karin Slaughter standalone novel to highlight a remarkable… Read more
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones is a debut novel and the most twisty, addictive, and unputdownable thriller you’ll read this year. Take a visual tour of The Other Woman with GIFnotes! Sandie Jones’s The Other Woman is a shape-shifting novel that, much like its characters, never truly is what it seems. It… Read more
Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear is a gripping debut procedural where a young London policewoman must probe dark secrets buried deep in her own family’s past to solve a murder and a long-ago disappearance. I have a love/hate relationship with debut novels. On one hand, there’s the chance I’ll discover… Read more
