Rachel Howzell Hall has produced a mystery novel that has a second mystery at its heart running throughout as a creeping undercurrent. And Now She’s Gone could have been produced as a pure mystery/private investigator story but ends but being something much bigger. It opens with a haunting snippet from poet Emily Dickinson: One need…
My love of both humor and illicit behavior started at a very young age, ignited by watching my two older brothers try to kill one another over the rights to whatever toy came in the box of Trix breakfast cereal my mother had just bought. Silly rabbit, bloodlust is for kids. As I grew up,…
Hello again, reader! It’s officially spring, and I’m thrilled to spotlight these five Apirl books that you’re going to want to check out. When I’m not reading or writing about crime fiction as Crime by the Book, I can often be found perusing Criminal Element’s fantastic selection of crime book reviews and features.
They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall is a cunning standalone suspense novel that brings seven sinners to a private island for a reckoning they never saw coming. Rachel Howzell Hall takes a very different approach in her psychological thriller They All Fall Down than she does in her Elouise “Lou” Norton mystery novels.…
When I started writing They All Fall Down, my intent wasn’t to write an unlikeable character. Miriam, in my mind, was simply a mother… who may have gone too far. What woman, hell, what parent, can’t relate to that? Yelling at the ref during Soccer Saturdays. Sending the kid to the liquor store to buy…
They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall is a brilliant standalone novel that brings seven sinners to a private island for a reckoning that will leave you breathless—take a visual tour with GIFnotes! It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails off to a…
Los Angeles Homicide Detective Elouise Norton encounters her toughest case yet in City of Saviors, the fourth installment in the critically acclaimed mystery series from author Rachel Howzell Hall (Available August 8, 2017). After a long Labor Day weekend, seventy-three-year-old Eugene Washington is found dead in his Leimert Park home. At first blush, his death…
A drink order says a lot about a person—that’s maybe why there are approximately a zillion online quizzes promising to reveal the secret of our personalities based on our drink of choice. And in mystery novels, a character’s favorite drink is equally as telling. A fun way to get into a protagonist’s head is to…
In addition to authoring 20 Meg Lanslow mysteries, Donna Andrews is also a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the Private Investigators and Security Association. Somehow, she was able to take time out of her incredibly busy schedule to answer CrimeHQ's questions about Die Like an Eagle, her best bird…
Trail of Echoes is the latest Elouise Norton mystery novel from critically acclaimed writer Rachel Howzell Hall (Available May 31, 2016). On a rainy spring day in Los Angeles, homicide detective Elouise “Lou” Norton is called away from a rare lunch date to Bonner Park, where the body of thirteen-year-old Chanita Lords has been discovered.…
