Criminal Element - Original crime stories, exclusive excerpts, blog posts, giveaways
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Criminal Element is a community website featuring daily content for fans of the crime and mystery genres in all of their forms. The site features original short stories and excerpts from upcoming crime and mystery novels along with daily blog articles.
Criminal Element - Original crime stories, exclusive excerpts, blog posts, giveaways
2d ago
How can readers resist going on a madcap book vacay with a side offering of mystery? The title of debut author Catherine Mack is an irresistible invitation to drop everything and devour her Vacation Mysteries series. Eleanor Dash is a bestselling author who wrote a runaway-success mystery based on a whirlwind Italian romance with a ..read more
Criminal Element - Original crime stories, exclusive excerpts, blog posts, giveaways
3d ago
Preorder Pitch Dark by Paul Doiron 3 When I got Charley on the phone and told him what Brandon had told me and what Stacey and I had subsequently learned—or not learned—about Mark Redmond and Hammond Pratt, and after I had explained my plan to ask Josie to fly us to Prentiss Pond, his response ..read more
Criminal Element - Original crime stories, exclusive excerpts, blog posts, giveaways
5d ago
Hotelier and fudge maker Allie McMurphy’s best friend, Jenn Carpenter, is past her pregnancy due date and about ready to pop. She’s determined to stay on Mackinac Island and deliver her baby naturally, though, with the help of her midwife, Sarah, and her doula, Hannah. The latter, especially, has proven invaluable in helping Jenn get ..read more
Criminal Element - Original crime stories, exclusive excerpts, blog posts, giveaways
1w ago
“You could work for us” —A Former CIA Officer I was flattered when a woman I admire proclaimed this. She had read my novels about women WWII spies including Americans Virginia Hall and Virginia d’Albert-Lake and was impressed by the way I was able to follow breadcrumbs through declassified archives and multilingual sources to piece ..read more
Criminal Element - Original crime stories, exclusive excerpts, blog posts, giveaways
1w ago
Xavier “Priest” Priestly is a licensed freelance legal investigator, who gets to charge exorbitant prices to the law firms that hire him because he’s extraordinarily good at what he does. His nickname comes less as a play on his surname than it does from the fact that he once studied for the Catholic priesthood, abandoning ..read more
Criminal Element - Original crime stories, exclusive excerpts, blog posts, giveaways
1w ago
After an apocalyptic fog destroyed much of humanity, a small outpost of safety—a scientific research facility that figured out a way to raise a barrier against the fog—provided a haven for survivors. Some generations on, one hundred and twenty-two villagers live happily under the guidance of three scientists known as Elders, with help from an ..read more
Criminal Element - Original crime stories, exclusive excerpts, blog posts, giveaways
1w ago
The Texas Murder Files series has come full circle. Hidden (2020) introduced us to Austin investigative reporter Bailey Rhoads and detective Jacob Merritt. From the police scanner, Bailey gets wind of a murder—she comes to believe it was an assassination. The protagonists are on opposite sides of the fence, but ultimately, they work together to ..read more
Criminal Element - Original crime stories, exclusive excerpts, blog posts, giveaways
2w ago
The Last Note of Warning by Katharine Schellman The third in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York. Dead Tired by Kat Ailes MacmillanAudio · Dead Tired by Kat Ailes, audiobook excerpt The second in a charming and hilarious mystery series by Kat Ailes, Dead Tired follows ..read more
Criminal Element - Original crime stories, exclusive excerpts, blog posts, giveaways
2w ago
While Mia Carina is proud of how she’s turned the Belle View Banquet Hall into Queens’ premier catering hall and party venue, her attention has been swayed of late by her intensifying relationship with her boyfriend, Shane Gambrazzo. She’s convinced he’s going to ask her to marry him soon, which would be beyond thrilling for ..read more
Criminal Element - Original crime stories, exclusive excerpts, blog posts, giveaways
2w ago
Twenty years ago, an angry and humiliated Amy Brewer left the cabin where her circle of popular friends was staying one Memorial Day weekend and trudged home through the woods. When she discovered that a bomb had gone off in the cabin shortly after she walked away, she was assailed with both shock and guilt ..read more