Reviews Archives - Page 8 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: The Ends Of Things by Sandra Chwialkowska By Doreen Sheridan March 7, 2025 At the end of this surprisingly deep interrogation of one woman’s adult life and how it’s skidded off the rails so far from where she’d once envisioned it, I burst into tears then contacted my childhood best friend to tell her that I love her. Like myself and B, Laura Phillips and her best friend… Book Review: The Note by Alafair Burke By Doreen Sheridan March 5, 2025 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.… Robert B. Parker’s Buried Secrets by Christopher Farnsworth By Janet Webb March 4, 2025 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. Farnsworth, a successful author of crime and thriller novels, follows in the footsteps of Michael Brandman, Reed Farrel Coleman, and Mike Lupica. It’s uncanny how each writer… Book Review: The Lost House by Melissa Larsen By Doreen Sheridan March 3, 2025 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. Her father Magnus, for one, strongly disapproves of the project… Book Review: Midnight Black by Mark Greaney By Jeff Ayers February 27, 2025 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. He knows her strength and resolve and… Book Review: The Perfect Home by Daniel Kenitz By Doreen Sheridan February 25, 2025 Dawn and Wyatt Decker look like they have the perfect marriage to go along with their successful Tennessee-based home improvement reality TV show, The Perfect Home. Wyatt is the charismatic handyman with big ideas, whereas Dawn is the worrywart decorator constantly trying to rein him in. Their chemistry makes for excellent television and, until recently,… Book Review: An Excellent Thing in a Woman by Allison Montclair By Janet Webb February 21, 2025 London 1947. An Excellent Thing in a Woman, the 7th Sparks and Bainbridge mystery, earns the ultimate accolade—it is unputdownable. Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwen Bainbridge’s recent adventure, Murder at the White Palace, ended on a critical cliffhanger.  It’s not that the owners of the Right Sort Marriage Bureau are not adept and experienced… Book Review: The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap By Doreen Sheridan February 20, 2025 James Willoughby has always felt ill at ease being the third son of a modestly landed English family. While his father has tried to steer him into either the military or the Church, he only finds his passion when he’s exposed to medicine and science. This being the 1820s, the only real place for a… Book Review: Booked for Murder by P.J. Nelson By John Valeri February 19, 2025 P.J. Nelson is something of a jack (or is it jill?) of all trades—and quite possibly a master of many. Absent the nom de plume, he (we’ll make that assumption) has been a novelist, an award-winning actor, a dramatist, and a professor, among other distinguished roles. These vocations coupled with roots in Decatur, Georgia, infuse… Book Review: Alter Ego by Alex Segura By John Valeri February 18, 2025 In recent years, Alex Segura has emerged as a superhero of sorts in publishing. After having made a splash with his Anthony Award-nominated Pete Fernandez Miami mysteries, he moved into the realm of comics, scripting original characters (The Black Ghost) as well as iconic canon staples from the worlds of Marvel and DC. Segura would… « Previous Page 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 … 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.