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Laura Lippman

Book Review: Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

By Doreen Sheridan

June 23, 2021

Dream Girl by Laura Lippman is chilling and compulsively readable, a superb blend of psychological suspense and horror that reveals the mind and soul of a writer and touches on timely issues that include power, agency, appropriation, and creation. This was my first time reading Laura Lippman, and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect…

5 “Setting-As-Character” Crime Novels For Your TBR Pile

By Wendy Corsi Staub

August 28, 2020

The late great Donald B. Westlake once said, “New York as a character in a mystery would not be the detective, would not be the murderer. It would be the enigmatic suspect who knows the real story but isn’t going to tell it.” Westlake, a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and three-times Edgar Award…

Capturing Corruption: 10 Crime Novels That Influenced True Crime Saga I Got A Monster

By Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg

July 21, 2020

Our book, I Got A Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad, explores the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a gun-seizing unit praised for getting guns off the streets and supposedly stopping crime while simultaneously creating crime and running what one cop later called a “criminal enterprise” within…

Four Authors Who Blurred the True Crime Line

By Jess Lourey

January 3, 2020

I picked up The Stranger Beside Me at a garage sale in the spring of 1983. Thirteen years old, I was deep in my V. C. Andrews phase and searching for books that awoke that same forbidden thrill.

The Crime Writer’s Guide to Procrastination

By Melissa Scrivner Love

February 21, 2019

Like any writer, I live to procrastinate. If I don’t get my thousand words in between five-thirty and seven in the morning—when I am not fully conscious and therefore don’t yet know to be scared of the page—I will try to talk myself out of it. And while I should encourage you to sit your…

5 New Books to Read this Week: February 20, 2018

By Crime HQ

February 21, 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, the first in a new series from Walter Mosley and a prequel Charles Lenox story from Charles Finch highlight…

Review: Bibliomysteries, Edited by Otto Penzler

By Kristin Centorcelli

August 11, 2017

Bibliomysteries, edited by Otto Penzler, is a specially commissioned anthology featuring original stories by the mystery genre’s most distinguished authors: John Connolly, Ken Bruen, Loren D. Estleman, Nelson DeMille, Anne Perry, Jeffery Deaver, C. J. Box, Thomas H. Cook, Laura Lippman, and more! I always know that when I’ve got a book with Otto Penzler’s name…

Announcing the 2017 Macavity Awards Nominees

By Crime HQ

July 5, 2017

The Mystery Readers International have announced the nominees for the 2017 Macavity Awards. The Macavity Award—named for the “mystery cat” of T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats—is an annual award celebrating the year's best in the mystery genre. 

Announcing 2017’s Barry Awards Nominees!

By Crime HQ

February 28, 2017

The Barry Awards, which began in 1997, are presented at the annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. Voted on by the readers of Deadly Pleasures, the award is named in honor of Barry Gardner, a well-known fan reviewer and American critic.

My Top 5 Books About Disappearance

By Chris Ewan

February 8, 2017

I’m a fan of all kinds of crime novels, but a lot of my favorites tend to be linked by one thing: unexplained disappearances. The idea of somebody vanishing fascinates me because it throws up so many intriguing questions: How and why do people disappear? Where do they go? How do they stay lost? What…

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