Eleanor Herman

5 New Books to Read this Week: June 12, 2018

By Crime HQ

June 13, 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 new Jennifer Hillier thriller combines with John Connolly’s latest Charlie Parker novel to highlight an incredible week of books! See what else…

Review: The Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor Herman

By Ash K. Alexander

June 11, 2018

The Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor Herman is a work of pop history that traces the use of poison as a political―and cosmetic―tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today. As a child, I had a toy plague rat that had come with a book called The…