Shari Lapena’s latest novel is a sensitive and moving account of how the murder of a teenage girl throws an entire small town into turmoil. Told from multiple points of view, it shows how a violent death can expose festering secrets and weaknesses, but also how people can find the strength to do the right…
Mind-altering substances needn’t always come in the form of a pill, plant, capsule, tab, or tincture. Sometimes they come in the form of a crime novel. We’ve all read great mysteries, thrillers, and noir that created a prodigious shift in our perspective, mindset, or mood—even if only temporarily. Getting high on crime fiction is not…
Someone We Know is a new domestic suspense thriller from New York Times bestselling author Shari Lapena, where a murder shakes a quiet NY community that might have some dark secrets among neighbors. Shari Lapena has mastered the domestic suspense subgenre with her unnerving thrillers, and her latest, Someone We Know, is no exception. Lapena subtly introduces…
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, Olen Steinhauer’s contemporary thriller combines with another fantastic anthology edited by Otto Penzler to highlight a great week of books! See what else we’re…
