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!
It’s not an exaggeration to call Brad Meltzer a Renaissance man. After all, he’s a #1 New York Times bestselling author—one of the only writers with bestsellers in fiction, non-fiction, advice, children’s books, and comics. He’s also a television host, a history expert, a lawyer, and he even created a successful clothing line. One thing…
The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg is the third globetrotting mystery in the Fox and O'Hare sereis featuring the unlikely pair of FBI Agent Kate O'Hare and professional thief Nick Fox (available November 18, 2014). This is the third in the series by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, and it could be the second or the…
Earlier this week, Wicked Business, the second book in Janet Evanovich’s Lizzy Tucker and Diesel series hit bookstores nationwide and seems destined for the best seller list. But fans of Evanovich’s other best-selling books, featuring bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, have reason to celebrate, too. Random House announced on June 21 that there will be four…
This year Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine celebrates the seventieth anniversary of its first issue, which included stories by such leading lights as Dashiell Hammett, Margery Allingham, and Cornell Woolrich, among others, plus a story by author-editor Ellery Queen, pseudonym of cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee. On my fourteenth birthday, a favorite aunt gave me…
