Tom Ryan

Jan 13, 2025 | criminalelement.com | Crime HQ |Doreen Sheridan |John Valeri |Tom Ryan

Where the Bones Lie by Nick Kolakowski is an electrifying new mystery noir novel about a pair of amateur sleuths uncovering the dark secrets of Hollywood while solving a murder. Read on for a featured excerpt. Dash Fuller, a former Hollywood fixer, spent years helping disappear the film industry’s worst secrets.

Nov 21, 2024 | criminalelement.com | John Valeri |Doreen Sheridan |Tom Ryan

In The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco by Michelle Chouinard, the granddaughter of a serial killer shows readers another side of the beloved city. Michelle Chouinard, under the name M.M. Chouinard, is a USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author. Her works include the seven-book Jo Fournier detective series and a standalone thriller, The Vacation. She earned a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Stanford University and is a founding faculty member of UC Merced.

Nov 1, 2024 | criminalelement.com | Deborah Benoit |Crime HQ |Tom Ryan

There’s a certain comfortable predictability in most cozy mysteries:  a small town (or reasonable facsimile), a life-changing decision, an amateur sleuth who reluctantly takes on the task of unmasking a killer, perhaps a pet companion, definitely secrets. And to make things interesting, a little something extra. The Gardener’s Plot is set in a small town in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.

Oct 18, 2024 | criminalelement.com | Tom Ryan |Crime HQ |Julia Dahl |Ellie Keel

Tom Ryan joins the site to reflect on the impact that Helen Creighton's Bluenose Ghosts had on him as an author, and how the shared themes of mystery and adventure carried over into his own work, The Treasure Hunters Club. When I was a child, I somehow ended up with a battered paperback copy of Bluenose Ghosts by Helen Creighton.

Oct 18, 2024 | criminalelement.com | Tom Ryan |Crime HQ |Julia Dahl |Ellie Keel

First inspired as a child by the notion of buried treasure and the Oak Island Treasure, Tom Ryan, author of The Treasure Hunters Club, shares some of his favorite mysteries and thrillers featuring hidden riches and the greedy characters who hunt for them. There’s something eternally captivating about the idea of hidden treasure, conjuring images of sunken ships and secret passageways, coded maps, and skeletal guardians.