Jeff Ayers

1 month ago | criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan |Janet Webb |Jeff Ayers

May, Kelsey and Lauren have been friends for over two decades now, drifting in and out of touch before a series of personal scandals cemented their bond for good. While May and Kelsey have been best friends since they were kids, Lauren had been the head counselor at the music camp they’d attended each summer. Now in their thirties and forties, the women have each made the headlines for less than terrific reasons.

1 month ago | criminalelement.com | Janet Webb |Doreen Sheridan |Jeff Ayers

In Robert B. Parker’s Buried Secrets by Christopher Farnsworth, Police Chief Jesse Stone investigates the mystery behind a dead body found strewn with photos of murder victims and placed on top of $2 million in cash, before a mob of hit men converge on Paradise. Keep reading for Janet's review. The Jesse Stone novels, part of the Robert B. Parker oeuvre, have a new writer. Meet Chris Farnsworth, the author of Buried Secrets, the thirteenth Jesse Stone novel.

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 | Jeff Ayers |Doreen Sheridan |Janet Webb |John Valeri

With his lover imprisoned in a Russian gulag, the Gray Man will stop at nothing to free her in Midnight Black by Mark Greaney, the latest in the Gray Man series. Keep reading for Jeff's review. The Gray Man takes on everyone and everything that stands in his way of rescuing his lover, Zoya Zakharova, in what is arguably Greaney’s best novel to date. Cort Gentry, the Gray Man, hears from his superiors that Zoya died in Russia, but he doesn’t believe the intel.

2 months ago | criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan |Janet Webb |Jeff Ayers

Trouble Island by Sharon Short is the standalone suspense debut inspired by a real place and events from the author’s family. Keep reading for Doreen's review. The woman known as Aurelia Escalante came to Trouble Island – in the middle of Lake Erie and on one of the busiest smuggling routes between Canada and the United States of America during these boom days of Prohibition – looking for a refuge.