This year's Thrillerfest was a blast! Hosted at the Grand Hyatt in New York City, it was five glorious days of meeting authors, hearing their stories, getting advice and writing tips, and schmoozing with authors, industry, and fans alike. Criminal Element was lucky enough to be there for it all, and in case you missed…
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 is a powerhouse of new releases, including Michael Crichton's return to the world of paleontology! See what we're reading…
Perish the Day by John Farrow is the 3rd book in the Storm Murders Trilogy (available May 23, 2017). In the third novel in John Farrow’s The Storm Murders Trilogy, retired Montreal detective Émile Cinq-Mars and his wife Sandra are in Vermont for their niece Caroline’s graduation ceremony at the Dowbiggin School of International Studies.…
Perish the Day by John Farrow is the 3rd book in the Storm Murders Trilogy (available May 23, 2017). A co-ed is found murdered on campus, her body scarcely touched. The killer paid meticulous attention to the aesthetics of his crime. Coincidentally (or not), a college custodian is also found dead. While an epic rainstorm…
To help celebrate Bouchercon 2016, we teamed up with our pals over at Minotaur Books to help sponsor a collaborative short story penned by a huge collection of their fabulous authors. After nearly 3o authors and an impromptu roast of some of the Minotaur team members, the results were fantastic. But there's one problem: we didn't have a…
John Farrow, author of the Storm Murders Trilogy, was able to answer some of CrimeHQ's questions about his retired detective, Émile Cinq-Mars, his new book, Seven Days Dead, and what we can expect in the final book of the series! Why choose a retired detective? The first Émile Cinq-Mars novel, City of Ice, was…
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! Check back every Wednesday and see what we're reading for the week!
Seven Days Dead continues the Emile Cinq-Mars series of crime novels (available May 24, 2015). During an epic storm in the Gulf of Maine a lone woman races—first by car, then by a life-threatening sea crossing—to the island of Grand Manan. Her father is dying—will she make it in time? Others also venture out into…
The Storm Murders by John Farrow is the first procedural thriller in a planned trilogy featuring the retired Montreal detective Emile Cinq-Mars (available May 26, 2015). Who was it that said the colder the climate, the more are the mysteries? Montreal, Canada sits at a latitude south of Paris while those Nordic cities many consider…
