What do you do when you find out your bookstore is also a PokéStop? Reel those customers in with a discount offer! That’s what McKenna Jordan, owner of Murder By the Book in Houston, did. She estimates that 50-100 customers have frequented her store as a result of the game, and early on, she promoted an offer…
Poisonous by Allison Brennan is the third thriller in the Max Revere Series (available April 12, 2016). Teen-aged Internet bully Ivy Lake fell off a cliff and few people cared … except her mentally-challenged eighteen-year-old step-brother, Tommy. He loved her in spite of her cruelty. He's distraught and doesn't understand why his blended family is…
If modern robots can write your letters, why not poetry, and what richer fodder for auto-verse than CrimeHQ's tweets could there be? Submitting our thread to the genius of Poetweet (meaning Edgar Allan, we'll assume, rather than some merely generically tormented garret-dweller), the following mashed-up sonnet was generated. It's loosely rhymed stanzas are odd enough…
“Follow Us on Facebook and Twitter” by Eric Cline appears here in its entirety and is the first story in Criminal Element's inaugural e-collection, The Malfeasance Occasional's Girl Trouble issue (available September 24, 2013). The woman who fired me has a lovely daughter. Her name is Amber. Amber is sixteen. She has lots of…
Derek Medina is no deviously clever Zodiac Killer, but he may be the modern version. In a story that made headlines around the world, the Miami man shot his wife and posted a photo of her bloody corpse on Facebook, along with his confession. But it was more than a simple confession. It was a…
You know all those wackadoo crime stories that seep out of Florida like never-ending spillover from the Okefenokee Swamp? Florida Man in Tiny White Shorts and Belly Shirt Gets DUI After Crashing Into Three Cars Florida Man Arrested for Calling 911 After His Cat Was Denied Entry Into Strip Club Florida Man Tries to Rob…
What’s the most important thing for the medics to do if you’re on the edge of death? Image via imgur.
I don’t know about you guys, but recently my Facebook timeline has been swamped with statuses like the one in the above video. Now, you may not even be in on the Facebook craze, but I’ve been a part of The Book since my college days, and, yes, I did agree to the Terms of…
If you’re on Facebook and you haven’t “liked” our page, now’s the time! We’re giving away 5 copies of Daniel Silva’s Portrait of a Spy on the CrimeHQ Facebook Sweepstakes page. The weather’s turning warmer, and you know you need a new paperback to take out into the sunny weather and read…perhaps on a park…
What do you say about a guy who steals the nameplate off a judge’s door after appearing in said judge’s courtroom on a misdemeanor charge, then posts the picture on Facebook? First, you say he clearly doesn’t read Criminal Element, since we regularly warn you of the perils of posting your criminal activities on social…
