Criminal Element

Criminal Element is a one-of-a-kind online hub designed for crime enthusiasts by fellow crime lovers. Our platform offers a variety of content, including book excerpts, reviews, essays from authors, Q&A sessions, and a range of weekly features along with original blog posts. We are committed to providing a diverse array of crime-related material, catering to tastes that range from light-hearted mysteries to intense noir and everything else in the genre. We maintain a publisher-neutral stance when it comes to the books, authors, and topics we choose to highlight and discuss.

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Cooking the Books: Fudge And Marriage by Nancy Coco

1 day ago | criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan

Candy maker and hotelier Allie McMurphy has fought for so long to prove to the other inhabitants of Mackinac Island that she’s truly one of them. With her upcoming wedding to local police officer Rex Manning, she’s hoping to finally cement her insider status by holding a potluck reception open to all the islanders – never mind the fact that the only voice stating that she doesn’t belong is the one inside her head.
Book Review: The Mailman by Andrew Welsh-Huggins

3 days ago | criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan

Glenn and Rachel Stanfield are your average well-off Indiana couple. Both have high-powered jobs and are active parents to their oldest daughter Abby, who’s away at boarding school near Chicago. But things haven’t been quite right between the couple lately. Glenn has been more irritable than usual, and talking about Abby while they’re preparing dinner one night sets him off:“I’m not shouting,” Glenn said, nearly shouting. “And isn’t what you’re saying, is I’ve made things too easy for her?
Book Review: A Long Time Gone by Joshua Moehling

3 days ago | criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan

Deputy Sheriff Ben Packard has certainly gone through a lot since returning to Sandy Lake at the behest of its dying sheriff Stan Shaw. Packard just couldn’t say no when his mentor asked him to take on the role of acting sheriff. After Stan passed, Packard was persuaded to run for sheriff himself. He looked like a lock to win, until perhaps his worst deputy was induced to run against him. Unfortunately for Packard, former Deputy Howard Shepard had some powerful backers:And now Shepard was his boss.
Cooking the Books: Essence Of Foul Play by Daryl Wood Gerber

1 week ago | criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan

Emma Brennan knows that it’s a little ironic that she’s a bundle of nerves ahead of the opening of her new spa, Aroma Wellness, in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. She and her business are intent on offering serenity and positivity to their clientele, via both traditional spa offerings and services that are more off the beaten track, like aromatherapy and sound baths.
Book Review: Trust Issues by Elizabeth McCullough Keenan & Greg Wands

2 weeks ago | criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan

Siblings Kagan and Hazel Bailey are almost uniquely 21st-century failures. Born into inherited wealth on their mother Janice’s side, their little family endured the abuse of patriarch Charles until he keeled over from a massive heart attack at the age of fifty-eight. No one was particularly sad to see him go, but Janice subsequently took the opportunity to remake herself as an independent woman. At first, Kagan and Hazel were thrilled to see their mother come out of her shell.
Book Review: To Catch A Spy by Mark O’Neill

2 weeks ago | criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan

A year has elapsed since the events chronicled in David Dodge’s classic crime novel, To Catch A Thief. Gentleman thief John Robie has earned the continuing parole of not only himself but also the Resistance comrades who were once imprisoned with him, by proving that neither he nor they were responsible for the string of copycat burglaries that recently plagued the French Riviera.
Featured Excerpt: Dead Post Society by Diane Kelly

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.
Book Review: Dead Man’s List by Karen Rose

3 weeks ago | criminalelement.com | Janet Webb |Doreen Sheridan

Homicide Detective Kit McKittrick's latest case exposes the dark side of San Diego’s high society in Dead Man's List by Karen Rose. Keep reading for Janet's review. Homicide Detective Kit McKittrick’s “origin story” is painful. The violence and abuse she endured as foster-child and street kid, before stumbling into the McKittrick’s barn as a teenager, have made her wary of romance involvement. A passion for justice propels Kit to right wrongs and protect her chosen family, at all costs.
Book Review: To Catch A Thief by David Dodge & Alfred Hitchcock

3 weeks ago | criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan |Janet Webb

One of my greatest regrets in being a voracious reader (to a tune, on average, of over 300 books a year) is that I don’t often find time to watch movies, at least not for their own sakes. So when I learned that Poisoned Pen Press is reissuing David Dodge’s To Catch A Thief, simultaneously with publishing a brand new authorized sequel, I knew I had a unique chance to dive into two classics of crime media. And the novel and movie of the same name are very much two separate entities, in my opinion.
Book Review: The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha

4 weeks ago | criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan |Janet Webb

In The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha, every family member has secrets they'd die to protect. Who will survive this high-stakes reunion, and who will become a victim of their own greed? Keep reading for Doreen's review. I stayed up all night, happily wrecking my already mangled sleep schedule, to finish this propulsive and absolutely diabolical page-turner of a thriller! The Agarwal family are rich, successful and remarkably tight-knit.