Reviews Archives - Page 10 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: Hotel Lucky Seven by Kotaro Isaka By Doreen Sheridan January 27, 2025 If your favorite installment of Kotaro Isaka’s Assassins series so far has been Bullet Train, then you’re in for a treat with Hotel Lucky Seven, his latest novel available in the English language! Translated from the Japanese by Brian Bergstrom, this rollicking tale of murder and misfortune brings back the hapless hero of that first… Book Review: A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage by Asia Mackay By Janet Webb January 24, 2025 What a treat for fans of thrillers that showcase women who are frighteningly competent lethal weapons. If you’ve enjoyed Deanna Raybourn’s Killers of a Certain Age and/or Cindy Dees’s Second Shot, A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage is right up your alley.  Like the quartet of female assassins in Killers of a Certain Age, Hazel… Book Review: Dead Below Deck by Jan Gangsei By Doreen Sheridan January 22, 2025 High school student Maggie Mitchell wakes up one morning with a pounding hangover. That’s almost to be expected on a decadent Spring Break vacation. What Maggie doesn’t expect, however, is to find herself accused of a close friend’s murder.  Giselle Haverford is the gorgeous, wealthy daughter of Senator Robert Haverford. It was her idea to… Book Review: Leave No Trace by Jo Callaghan By Janet Webb January 17, 2025 Leave No Trace and its predecessor, In the Blink of an Eye, are “inventive thrillers,” a description that barely encompasses the unusualness of Team Kat and Lock. Meet Detective Chief Superintendent Kat Frank of the Leek Wootton Police Department in Warwickshire, England. Leave No Trace opens with Kat verbally briefing her boss, Chief Constable McLeish,… Book Review: Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives by Tim Major By Doreen Sheridan October 24, 2024 Heiress Muriel Carew has the shock of her life while attending a society party at the London home of wealthy philanthropist Simeon Courtenay. Her former fiance Dr. Henry Jekyll, whom she hasn’t seen in a decade, is somehow in attendance too. The last she’d heard of him, he’d disappeared to the continent after breaking off… Book Review: The Hysterical Girls Of St. Bernadette’s by Hanna Alkaf By Doreen Sheridan October 17, 2024 I am a longtime fan of Hanna Alkaf’s, so when I heard that she was setting her latest novel in one of the prestigious girl’s secondary schools of Kuala Lumpur, I absolutely had to get my hands on it. It isn’t just that I knew that, as with the rest of her books, the quality… Book Review: The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel By John Valeri October 16, 2024 Stephanie Wrobel discovered the joy of books and storytelling at an early age but later made the decision to pursue a more practical career as an adult. After college, she worked as a copywriter, helping to pen and produce advertising spots for a variety of well-known brands in the Chicago area. Then, as a freelancer,… Book Review: The Examiner by Janice Hallett By Doreen Sheridan October 11, 2024 When Gela Nathaniel proposes the idea of a new Multimedia Arts Masters Degree program to the Royal Hastings college of the University of London, little does she know exactly how much chaos she’s inviting both into her life and to the campus. Her six candidates have all been hand selected for the year-long pilot course,… Book Review: The Divide by Morgan Richter By Doreen Sheridan September 27, 2024 Once upon a time, Jenny St. John was an aspiring actress with one excellent leading role credit to her name. That movie, unfortunately, was never released, though its director Serge Grumet would go on to find lasting fame in the film industry. Jenny, on the other hand, bounced from audition to audition before finally giving… Book Review: I Dreamed of Falling by Julia Dahl By Jeff Ayers September 23, 2024 A small town and the underbelly of lies and deception reveals itself when a young mother dies under mysterious circumstances. The town’s sole newspaper reporter, Roman Grady, loses his partner and love, Ashley, and instead of being there for their son, Mason, he isolates him since he can’t get past wanting answers.  The family lived… « Previous Page 1 … 8 9 10 11 12 … 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.