Login / Register
Criminal Element
  • Read
    • Excerpts
    • Reviews
  • Author Spotlight
    • Essays
    • Interviews
  • On-Screen
    • Television
    • Film
    • Trailers
  • Weekly Features
    • This Week’s New Reads
    • GIFnotes
    • Pick Your Poison
    • Cooking the Books
    • True Crime Thursday
    • Perp Derp
  • Cozy Corner
  • Newsletter
  • Login / Register

Review

Review: Pretty Is by Maggie Mitchell

By Doreen Sheridan

June 14, 2016

Pretty Is by Maggie Mitchell is a psychological thriller that follows two girls that were kidnapped as kids, whose lives intertwine once again, almost twenty years later, when a movie with a shockingly familiar plot forces them to confront their past (On sale today!). I do so love a good literary mystery, especially when it…

Review: Polaris by Todd Tucker

By Dirk Robertson

June 14, 2016

Polaris by Todd Tucker is a submarine-based military thriller and a riveting tale of warfare in the not-too-distant future (Available June 14, 2016). Like a sleek dark shape in the watery depths which is the Polaris submarine—a killing machine in everything but name—this book creeps up on you and grabs you from behind. No gentle…

Review: The Devil’s Cold Dish by Eleanor Kuhns

By Katherine Tomlinson

June 13, 2016

The Devil's Cold Dish by Eleanor Kuhns is the 5th book in the Will Rees Mysteries series (Available June 14, 2016). Family. You can’t live with them and you can’t kill them. In this latest installment of Eleanor Kuhns’s long-running historical mystery series starring Revolutionary War vet Will Rees, the focus is squarely on family. Specifically…

Locks and the City: Reviewing A Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh

By Lance Charnes

June 13, 2016

A Burglar's Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh encompasses nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, offering an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. We think we know how buildings work. You pass through doors, look through windows, hang pictures on walls, walk on…

R. Is for Robot: Reviewing The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

By David Cranmer

June 8, 2016

Elijah (“Lije”) Baley is a New York City homicide detective, three thousand years in the future. His world is an overpopulated Earth, with eight billion people living in massive, layered complexes—caves of steel—enclosed by mammoth domes. Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York have grown to the point where they are almost touching. Humans no longer…

Review: A Golden Cage by Shelley Freydont

By Ardi Alspach

June 7, 2016

A Golden Cage by Shelley Freydont is the 2nd Newport Gilded Age Mystery, where headstrong heiress Deanna Randolph must solve another murder among the social elite (Available today!). A Golden Cage is the 2nd novel in the Newport Gilded Age Mystery series by Shelley Freydont, and I am pleased to say that this novel stands…

Review: Doing the Devil’s Work by Bill Loehfelm

By Angie Barry

June 6, 2016

Doing the Devil's Work by Bill Loehfelm is a gritty, provocative story of a flawed woman struggling to be a good cop and the 3rd installment of the Marueen Coughlin series (Available in paperback June 7, 2016). Someone's been cutting throats in New Orleans. The victims weren't nice men—in fact, considering they were Neo-Nazi homegrown…

Review: A Game for All the Family by Sophie Hannah

By Doreen Sheridan

June 2, 2016

A Game for All the Family by Sophie Hannah is a standalone thriller by this New York Times bestselling author, where a woman is pulled into a deadly game of deception, secrets, and lies, and must find the truth in order to defeat a mysterious opponent, protect her daughter, and save her own life. I…

Review: Stealing the Countess by David Housewright

By Angie Barry

May 31, 2016

Stealing the Countess is the 13th book in the Rushmore McKenzie series by the Edgar Award-winner David Housewright (Available today!). The Countess Borromeo has disappeared from a charming B&B. No one knows who took her, when they took her, or what they plan to do with her. The Maestro, Paul Duclos, was the last to…

Review: Wedding Bel Blues by Maggie McConnon

By Terrie Farley Moran

May 31, 2016

Wedding Bel Blues is the first book in the new Bel McGrath Mysteries Series (Available today!). Belfast McGrath, known to every one as Bel, had built a career as an award winning chef in a famous New York restaurant and was widely praised for her eclectic touches in the kitchen. Who else would dare make…

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 168
  • 169
  • 170
  • 171
  • Next Page »
  • About
  • Advertise With Us
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Notice
  • Contact Us
Site Powered by Supadü