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, we get a new Alex Cross thriller and the latest novel from one of Sweden's best writers! See what…
The Mayakovsky Tapes by Robert Littell brings to life the tumultuous Stalinist era and the predicament of the artists ensnared in it (Available November 22, 2016). In March 1953, four women meet in Room 408 of Moscow’s deluxe Hotel Metropol. They have gathered to reminisce about Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet who in death had become a…
An excerpt of A Nasty Piece of Work by Robert Littell, featuring a former CIA agent turned freelance bounty hunter (available November 19, 2013). Former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left the battlefield of Afghanistan for early retirement in the desert of New Mexico, where he works as a private investigator from the creature comforts, such…
Young Philby by Robert Littell is a possible history, the imagined events that might have created one of the world’s most notorious double agents, Harold Adrian Russell Philby, better known as “Kim” (available November 13, 2012). Police, when working a murder case, compile a Homicide Notebook, which is exactly what it sounds like. Detectives pull…
