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, Patricia Cornwell publishes a fascinating exposé on one of the world's most infamous serial killers, and Mike Mignola gifts…
The Fifth Element by Jørgen Brekke is the latest book in the Odd Singsaker series (available February 28, 2017). Police Inspector Odd Singsaker has been captured, imprisoned on an island off the Northern coast of Norway. He wakes to find himself holding a shotgun. Next to him is a corpse. But what events led him…
Dreamless by Jorgen Brekke is the 2nd Nordic thriller in the Chief Inspector Odd Singsaker series (available February 10, 2015). A promising young singer is found dead in a clearing in a forest, gruesomely murdered—her larynx cut out, and an antique music box placed carefully atop her body, playing a mysterious lullaby that sounds familiar,…
Where Monsters Dwell by Jørgen Brekke is the debut in translation of a whodunit-slash-literary thriller featuring Virginia cop Felicia Stone and Inspector Odd Sinsaker of Norway as they face distant murders linked to old journal of a 16th-century serial killer (available February 11, 2014). When I received the offer, I jumped at the chance to…
