When it comes to mystery novels, there’s a host of ways to die. Scuba mishap. Nicotine patch overdose. William Tell re-enactment. Yet when I set out to write As Directed, I never dreamed I’d nearly succumb to death by book. You see, I not-so-affectionately called the third book in my Maggie O’Malley Mystery Series The…
“What’s a nice girl like you doing with a book like that?” It was a question asked by strangers when they spied the book tucked beneath my arm. They’d see the book’s atmospheric cover art, skim the title, read the disquieting premise revealed by the back-cover copy, and purse their lips in the kind of…
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, a chilling new Stephen King highlights a great week of books! See what else we’re reading: The Outsider by Stephen…
39 Winks by Kathleen Valenti is the second book in the Maggie O’Malley Mystery series—a gripping page-turner with more twists than a surgeon’s suture as well as a tale of lies, betrayals, and greed that will keep you up at night looking over your shoulder. 39 Winks finds amateur sleuth Maggie O’Malley catapulted into another murder mystery—this…
Protocol by Kathleen Valenti is the first book in the new Maggie O’Malley Mystery series. There is something special about a new, likable, unique heroine hitting the world of crime fiction, and Kathleen Valenti’s Maggie O’Malley fits that bill perfectly. Quirky, passionate, funny, and lost in that cloud of uncertainty that everyone falls into right after…
