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!
Our friends over at Minotaur have put together this fun little Valentine's Day mystery dating quiz featuring a few series protagonists that know how to get the heart racing. Swipe your favorites right, and discard the scrubs to the left to see who you match with below:
Why talk politics with relatives or nervously count calories this Thanksgiving when several new paperbacks from Minotaur Books are within arm's reach? Read the profiles to figure out where you sit at this table, and we'll provide a hearty recommendation to help you put your sofa time to good use!
This Sunday, May 31st at noon, Criminal Element hosts the Crime Time Quiz Show with authors Jane Cleland, Julia Dahl, and Maggie Barbieri. As part of BookCon at NYC's Javits Center, the authors will be chatting and competing on crime trivia, and the audience members on the winning author's “team” will walk away with swag…
On May 31st at noon, during BookCon at NYC's Javits Center, Criminal Element hosts the Crime Time Quiz Show with authors Jane Cleland, Julia Dahl, and Maggie Barbieri. Each author will represent a portion of the audience as they compete in a fun game of crime trivia, and their winning team will get swag from…
Extra Credit by Maggie Barbieri is the seventh book in the traditional mystery series featuring English professor Alison Bergeron (available December 11, 2012). I read a ton of traditional mysteries, and while there’s a lot I like about the genre, I must confess: I hate the Stereotypical Traditional Mystery Heroine. Sure, she’s smart, she’s loyal,…
Note from the hijackers HQ: Art director David Rotstein has been sharing the ideas and processes behind book cover design on a Tumblr site—check out his previous posts on Gone Missing by Linda Castillo and The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny for examples. Gorgeous, right? No jury of other crime fans would ever convict us for…
Judging by the proliferation of backpack, laptop, and sneaker ads on TV, it must be time to head back to school. Since almost as many authors seem to come from the halls of academia as the cubicles of journalism, it makes me wonder why more teachers don’t show up in crime fiction. After all, the…
