Reviews Archives - Page 6 of 15 - Criminal Element -- Login / Register Search for: -- Search for: Read Excerpts Reviews Author Spotlight Essays Interviews Book Listicles On-Screen Television Film Trailers Cooking the Books Newsletter Login / Register Reviews Book Review: All Better Now by Neal Shusterman By Doreen Sheridan April 29, 2025 In a not-too-distant future, yet another pandemic has sent the world into lockdown. But this deadly novel virus, with its 4% mortality rate, comes with a stunning twist. Those who survive emerge with a renewed lease on life, seeming almost enlightened as they shed their most negative feelings and embrace happiness instead. Teenaged Mariel Mudroch… Book Review: Into the Gray Zone by Brad Taylor By Jeff Ayers April 27, 2025 In typical fashion, what seems to be a routine assignment for Pike Logan and his Taskforce team turns into them having to thwart a deadly plot in India. A simple site survey for the CIA to assist in a security detail operation for the director sounds boring, but they will be dropped into the middle… Book Review: The Gatsby Gambit by Claire Anderson Wheeler By Janet Webb April 27, 2025 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published on April 10th, 1925. It was not an instant success. Not until after Fitzgerald’s death in 1940, did it become part of the pantheon of Great American Novels, thanks to the support of literary critics, “among them his friends Malcolm Cowley and Edmund Wilson, and partly the… Book Review: The Department by Jacqueline Faber By Janet Webb April 22, 2025 A verse from a blues song “about girl troubles,” by bluesman Furry Lewis, encapsulates Professor Neil Weber’s life: the 1928 anthem “I Will Turn Your Money Green” is a bluesy anthem to the troubles Neil feels. I been down so long   It seem like up to me   Woman I love   She done… Book Review: The Mailman by Andrew Welsh-Huggins By Doreen Sheridan April 21, 2025 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… Book Review: A Long Time Gone by Joshua Moehling By Doreen Sheridan April 21, 2025 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… Book Review: Trust Issues by Elizabeth McCullough Keenan & Greg Wands By Doreen Sheridan April 7, 2025 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… Book Review: To Catch A Spy by Mark ONeill By Doreen Sheridan April 4, 2025 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… Book Review: Dead Man’s List by Karen Rose By Janet Webb April 1, 2025 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. No wonder she… Book Review: To Catch A Thief by David Dodge & Alfred Hitchcock By Doreen Sheridan March 31, 2025 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… « Previous Page 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 … 15 Next Page » About Advertise With Us Terms of Use Privacy Notice Your Privacy Choices Contact Us Site Powered by Supadu The owner of this website has made a commitment to accessibility and inclusion, please report any problems that you encounter using the contact form on this website. This site uses the WP ADA Compliance Check plugin to enhance accessibility.