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Book Review: The Passengers by John Marrs — Criminal Element
By Larry Clow September 10, 2019 The Passengers John Marrs August 27, 2019 You’re riding in your self-driving car when suddenly the doors lock, the route changes and you have lost all control. Then, a mysterious voice tells you, “You are going to die.” Earlier this year, cult film fans around the world mourned the death of Larry Cohen, the B-movie auteur whose horror and sci-fi thrillers left an indelible mark on audiences in the 1970s and 80s.
Book Review: Black Sun by Owen Matthews
By Larry Clow July 19, 2019 Black Sun Owen Matthews July 23, 2019 In Black Sun by Owen Matthews it is the dawn of the 1960s, and KGB officer Major Alexander Vasin must investigate the gruesome death of a brilliant young physicist at a top-secret research city where a cutthroat brain trust is developing a nuclear weapon with 3,800 times the destructive potential of the Hiroshima bomb. Alexander Vasin, a KGB major and protagonist of Owen Matthews’ debut novel, Black Sun, is a believer.
Book Review: City of Omens by Dan Werb — Criminal Element
By Larry Clow June 21, 2019 City of Omens Dan Werb June 4, 2019 For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city’s lifeline is brutally severed. City of Omens, Dan Werb’s investigation of the root causes of the high rate of death among the women of Tijuana, opens with a breakneck trip across the city’s highways and into a camp hidden away in the Tijuana River Canal.
Book Review: Dark Site by Patrick Lee — Criminal Element
By Ray Palen June 17, 2019 Dark Site Patrick Lee Sam Dryden #3 May 28, 2019 On an otherwise normal morning, former Special Forces operative Sam Dryden is the target of an unsuccessfully-attempted abduction. Using his attacker’s cell phone, he learns that another person, a woman named Danica Ellis, is also being targeted. Dryden arrives just in time to save Danica from the assault team sent after her. But neither of them recognize the other or have any idea why they are being targeted.
Book Review: Those People by Louise Candlish
By Larry Clow June 12, 2019 Those People Louise Candlish June 11, 2019 From Louise Candlish, author of the international bestseller Our House, Those People is a story of domestic suspense that asks, “Could you hate your neighbor enough to plot to kill him?” There are bad neighbors—people who, say, let their dogs use your front yard as a toilet or start their yard work a little too early on weekend mornings in the summer.
Murder In Red by Jessica Fletcher & Jon Land
Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Red Jessica Fletcher & Jon Land Jessica Fletcher #49 May 28, 2019 In Murder, She Wrote: Murder In Red, Jessica Fletcher loses a loved one to unnatural causes and sets her sights on the mysterious local hospital before more people wind up dead on arrival… Like millions of other mystery lovers worldwide, I grew up watching and enjoying the television classic Murder, She Wrote starring the delightful Angela Lansbury as our mystery author-turned-sleuth, Jessica Fletcher.
Book Review: A Beautiful Corpse by Christi Daugherty
A Beautiful Corpse Christi Daugherty Harper McClain Mysteries March 12, 2019 In Christi Daughtery’s A Beautiful Corpse, a young woman is found murdered, and all three suspects are men who once claimed to love her. With a familiar yet dangerous face watching her every move, Harper must unravel this mystery before it’s too late. A Beautiful Corpse is the second book in Daugherty’s series to feature Savannah crime reporter Harper McClain, and it’s my first introduction to the plucky heroine.
Book Review: The Current by Tim Johnston
The Current Tim Johnston January 22, 2019 In Tim Johnston’s new thriller, The Current, a killer drowns a woman and injures another woman along the Black Root River in Minnesota, mirroring another unsolved attack that occurred a decade earlier. Wanting answers, the surviving woman launches her own investigation to find the truth. I really enjoyed Tim Johnston’s first novel, Descent, so I couldn’t wait to dive into The Current.
Book Review: Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones by Micah Dean Hicks
By Larry Clow February 6, 2019 Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones Micah Dean Hicks February 5, 2019 Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones by Micah Dean Hicks tells the unsettling story of Swine Hill, a dying American town plagued by ghosts both real and imagined. Micah Dean Hicks’ debut novel is, like the pig men that populate its pages, a strange, discomforting hybrid. It’s an allegorical autopsy of what could be any dead or dying American town.
Book Review: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
By Weston Ochse February 4, 2019 The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides February 5, 2019 Alex Michaelides’ debut psychological thriller, The Silent Patient, tracks one woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive… Doctor, heal thyself, seems to be the overarching theme of this new, incredibly sly psychological thriller. The narrative is presented from the point of view of an emotionally fragile protagonist, psychotherapist Theo Faber.
Book Review: No Exit by Taylor Adams — Criminal Element
No Exit Taylor Adams January 15, 2019 No Exit by Taylor Adams is about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath. What would you do if you were snowed in at a rest stop and someone, out of the four other people snowed in with you, had a little girl in a cage in his van outside?
Book Review: The Plotters by Un-su Kim
By Larry Clow January 30, 2019 The Plotters Un-Su Kim January 29, 2019 The Plotters by Un-su Kim is a fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance. In Un-su Kim’s The Plotters, the assassins who stalk the shadowy streets of Seoul’s underworld are working stiffs. Killing others for fun and profit is a living—better than starving on the streets or toiling away in some factory far outside the city.
Book Review: The Smiling Man by Joseph Knox
The Smiling Man Joseph Knox Aiden Waits Thriller #2 January 22, 2019 The Smiling Man by Joseph Knox is the second thriller in the Aiden Waits series set in the seedy streets of Manchester. Readers that like their crime fiction with a heavy helping of darkness will find a lot to love in Joseph Knox’s knockout follow-up to Sirens. DC Aiden Waits is not a favorite of his colleagues or his superiors.
Book Review: The Last of the Stanfields by Marc Levy
By Ardi Alspach January 8, 2019 The Last of the Stanfields Marc Levy January 1, 2019 A mystery, a love story, and a search through a shadowy past. Two strangers unite in The Last of the Stanfields, a novel of family secrets by international bestselling author Marc Levy, the most-read contemporary French author in the world. It’s very hard to be novel (excuse the pun) with a mystery plot structure these days, as this venerable genre has been around for quite a long time.
Book Review: The Coming Storm by Mark Alpert
By Dave Richards January 7, 2019 The Coming Storm Mark Alpert January 8, 2019 In The Coming Storm by Mark Alpert, America is on the brink of collapse and devastated by a brutal government trying to silence its citizens. Crime fiction often explores the reasons why people break the laws that govern human behavior. What would happen though if science changed the definition of what it meant to be human?
Board Games for Crime Fiction Fans
By Larry Clow December 31, 2018 There’s never been a better time to be a board game fan—and as the hobby continues its current surge in popularity, it’s also never been a better time to be a mystery or thriller fan who also likes board games. In other words, forget Clue.
Criminal Element's Best Books of 2018
By Crime HQ December 21, 2018 2018 was a memorable year for a variety of reasons, but here at CrimeHQ, we’re concentrating on the things that thrilled us, scared us, mystified us, and kept us up all hours of the night. Without further ado, may we present our favorite books of 2018. And here’s to you, 2019. May you bring us health, happiness, and another crop of incredible books.
Book Review: Ways to Hide in Winter by Sarah St.Vincent
Ways to Hide in Winter Sarah St.Vincent November 6, 2018 Terror, in all its subtle forms, charges Ways to Hide in Winter, a debut novel by Sarah St.Vincent set deep in Pennsylvania’s Blue Ridge Mountains. When she meets the young man she will call “the stranger,” Kathleen cooks him an egg sandwich and surprises him by proving his assumptions about her are unfounded. “My family is Russian. But I’m from Uzbekistan.” He paused. “It’s in central Asia.” “I know where it is.” The eggs cracked neatly.
UNH police gain reaccreditation
UNH police gain reaccreditation The University of New Hampshire Police Department has been re-accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). That accreditation means the department is “part of an elite group” of law enforcement agencies from across the country, according to UNH Police Chief Paul H. Dean. Posted Aug. 25, 2016 at 10:59 AM By Larry ClowUNH Today Posted Aug.
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