I stumbled across my first Marc Olden action thriller at age fourteen, in the crowded, jumbled, beloved racks of McDonald’s Book Exchange in downtown Kirkland, Washington. The book was called Giri, which I first misread as the word Girl thanks to an extended leg on the R, and indeed there was an attractive woman depicted…
Chapter 1 Van Shaw crouched in the shadows, as natural a home to him as the warm Gulf waters to a tiger shark. He watched as the guard with the charcoal gray uniform and company-issued Smith & Wesson completed his circuit of the dim warehouse. The guard’s eyes passed over the upper level of the…
In Glen Erik Hamilton’s fifth book in the Van Shaw series, Van Shaw’s past and present collide when an ingenious blackmailer pushes him to the brink. In 2015, Seattle native Glen Erik Hamilton burst onto the literary scene with a juggernaut of a thriller titled Past Crimes. That novel won the Anthony, Macavity, and Strand…
My main character Van Shaw is a Seattle guy. Like Shaw, I’ve lived away from the city’s gray embrace for many years. When we return, we see its transformations through fresh eyes. During the pandemic, Seattle is undergoing its biggest sea change since a certain e-commerce giant bought most of South Lake Union and a…
Every Day Above Ground by Glen Erik Hamilton is the third Van Shaw novel, where a favor for a dying ex-con turns into a violent battle against a mysterious enemy for Van Shaw. Former Army Ranger Van Shaw is working part-time jobs and barely making ends meet. It doesn’t help that he’ll need a sizable…
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! The fourth and final book in C. J. Box's Highway Quartet highlights an incredible week of books! See what else we're…
Army Ranger Van Shaw hasn’t heard from his grandfather, Dono, in more than ten years, but when he gets a note in Irish Gaelic that says, “Come home, if you can,” he heads home to Seattle for a ten day leave. When he arrives at his grandfather’s house, he finds him on the floor bleeding.…
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