The Disappearing by two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy is a twisted, atmospheric tale about a small Southern town where girls disappear and boys run away. Lori Roy may be new to contemporary fiction, but she’s already left an indelible mark on the crime genre. Her debut, Bent Road, won the Edgar… Read more
Last Call by Paula Matter is a debut novel and the first book in the new Maggie Lewis Mystery series. I’ll admit it: I’ve been eagerly awaiting Paula Matter’s debut since the weekend we shared space at a writers retreat in 2008. I don’t recall having gotten to read her Work… Read more
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay is a masterpiece of terror and psychological suspense that adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story. Paul Tremblay is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the horror-suspense hybrid novel Head Full of Ghosts (2015) as well as… Read more
Providence by Caroline Kepnes is a propulsive novel that’s part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller that makes keen and powerful observations about human connection and how love and identity can dangerously blur together. Caroline Kepnes made an indelible mark on the literary world with 2014’s You—a… Read more
Amanda Robson is the author of Obsession, which was a multi-week Kindle top 100 bestseller and also reached #1 on the iBooks bestseller list. Prior to pursuing writing full-time, Ms. Robson—who has a physiology degree from London University and a Masters from City University—worked in medical research at The London… Read more
Nathan Ripley is the pen name of literary fiction writer and journalist Naben Ruthnum, whose stories and essays have appeared in The Walrus, Hazlitt, Sight & Sound, and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, among other places. His debut novel, Find You in the Dark (available in paperback June 19, 2018), earned praise from the trifecta… Read more
Last Girl Gone by J. G. Hetherton is a pulse-pounding series debut and the next obsession for fans of Julia Keller, David Bell, and readers of unflinching thrillers. J. G. Hetherton was raised in rural Wisconsin, graduated from Northwestern University, and spent nearly a decade in Chicago before moving to… Read more
Pray for Silence by Linda Castillo is the second book in the Kate Burkholder series, where Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family. Criminal Element’s Linda Castillo reread was a welcome opportunity to revisit the author’s Kate Burkholder mysteries,… Read more
Lis Wiehl is one of the country’s most prominent trial lawyers and well-respected legal commentators. She served as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s office and was a tenured professor of law at the University of Washington. Wiehl earned her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and… Read more
Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates is a collection of six previously published short stories that stands at the crossroads of sex, violence, and longing―and asks us to interrogate the intersection of these impulses within ourselves. The prolific, prodigious Joyce Carol Oates has published more than 70… Read more
