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3 weeks ago | criminalelement.com | Crime HQ |Doreen Sheridan

Dead Post Society by Diane Kelly is the seventh in the House-Flipper mystery series set in Nashville, TN, where the real estate market is to die for. Keep reading for a featured excerpt from the book. Little creature, form’d of Joy and Mirth —William Blake, “The Notebook of William Blake”Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Has a clock ever moved so slow? I didn’t think so. It felt like time had slowed to a crawl in the hospital’s maternity ward waiting room.

1 month ago | criminalelement.com | Crime HQ |Doreen Sheridan

In The Library Game by Gigi Pandian, Tempest Raj and Secret Staircase Construction are renovating a classic detective fiction library that just got its first real-life mystery. Keep reading for an excerpt from the book. Tempest Raj was late. A former stage performer who relied on split-second timing, Tempest didn’t do late. Yet here she was. So ridiculously late that even Gideon had texted her to make sure she was all right. Gideon.

1 month ago | criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan |Crime HQ |Jeff Ayers

In Melissa Larsen's The Lost House comes the mesmerizing story of a young woman with a haunting past who returns to her ancestral home in Iceland to investigate a gruesome murder in her family. Keep reading for Doreen's review! Agnes Glin is perhaps at the lowest point in her life when she arrives in Iceland, the country her father and late grandfather emigrated from some forty years earlier. While she’s thrilled to finally be in the land of her ancestors, she also has misgivings.

1 month ago | criminalelement.com | Crime HQ |Doreen Sheridan |Janet Webb

Unbearably tense, utterly propulsive, and studded with folklore and horror, Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce is perfect for anyone who loves Midsommar and The Haunting of Hill House. Keep reading for an excerpt from the book. I walk into the pharmacy on Union Street for two things: my photographs and a pregnancy test. As I stand at the counter I feel lightheaded and thirsty. Nerves, I suppose. Or the heat.

2 months ago | criminalelement.com | Janet Webb |Doreen Sheridan |John Valeri |Crime HQ

An Excellent Thing in a Woman by Allison Montclair brings the owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau back, and they are more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as a murder investigation isn't going to stop them! Keep reading for Janet Webb's review. London 1947. An Excellent Thing in a Woman, the 7th Sparks and Bainbridge mystery, earns the ultimate accolade—it is unputdownable. Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs.