Criminal Element
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Criminal Element
10h ago
Elizabeth Heider’s debut novel, May the Wolf Die, sets a frenetic pace. It’s a thriller infused with insider knowledge—of complicated quasi-governmental machinations that underlay the plot as well as detailed descriptions of Naples. Heider is an American PhD physicist with considerable experience in the European arena: “Raised in Utah, she lived in Naples, Italy, for ..read more
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22h ago
Ben Thibodaux is a juvenile delinquent. After getting arrested for attempting to hold up a convenience store with a fake gun, he’s discovered to have stolen a boat and broken into a string of fishing camps along the Louisiana bayou a ways from his home in Lafitte. Fully expecting to go to juvie for his ..read more
Criminal Element
2d ago
A Hunger to Kill is a fascinating and profoundly chilling account of how Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, closed in on—and broke—one of Ohio’s most infamous serial killers, Shawn Grate. Read on for co-author Lisa Pulitzer’s interview with Det. Kim Mager. Lisa Pulitzer: What was the hardest part of writing your ..read more
Criminal Element
2d ago
Former police detective turned freelance investigator Rushmore McKenzie and his wife Nina Truhler have been lured down to the Heggstad Marina by their friends Dave and Barb Deese. Despite it still being a fairly wintry mid-March in Minnesota, the Deeses are ready to take their first boat outing of the year, and have invited McKenzie ..read more
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4d ago
He parked in the stand of chinquapin oak trees, fifty yards from the mouth of the driveway, and killed the engine. Grabbing the flashlight from the seat pocket, he got out and took in his surroundings. There was no traffic on the main road. No one around. From where he stood, he could hear the ..read more
Criminal Element
1w ago
Sisters-in-law Peg and Rose are going on a field trip! It’s taken the two women decades to learn how to be friends, and now their relationship is going to face a real test: embarking on a days-long road trip together. In addition to being a widely respected judge on the dog show circuit, Peg also ..read more
Criminal Element
1w ago
Emlyn is used to being abandoned. After a difficult childhood on the East Coast, she thought she’d finally found a safe place to land in Idaho with her best friend Janessa and her boyfriend Tyler. But a falling out with Janessa, followed by an even greater betrayal from Tyler, sees her retreating even further into ..read more
Criminal Element
1w ago
Bookseller Tricia Barnes is in love. David Price, her boyfriend of several months, understands her in a way that none of her exes ever have. So what if some of the other townsfolk call her a cougar due to the 20-year age difference between her and her younger man? David has only recently moved to ..read more
Criminal Element
1w ago
Freelance writer Jaine Austen is glumly examining the alarmingly low levels of her bank account when she lands the opportunity to write, of all things, a fitness book. Since her preferred forms of exercise include shopping for ice cream and coddling her pet cat Prozac, she knows she has very few qualifications for this project—her ..read more
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1w ago
The road to hell will be paved by killer robots. That’s the conclusion I reached when researching Book #2 in the Porter Beck Mystery Series, Shades of Mercy. Living where I do, in close proximity to perhaps the most secretive piece of desert in the world, there is never a lack of material for a ..read more