Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, John Grisham’s new legal thriller The Reckoning combines with Catriona McPherson’s Gothic mystery to make for a deadly week of books! See…
Michael Harvey’s Pulse is a novel set in Boston in 1976 where two detectives are assigned to a murder very much different from those normally found on the city’s tough streets. After 2016’s Brighton, Michael Harvey returns to Boston, albeit a very different one, in his extraordinary new crime novel. To say Pulse has an unusual…
To a detective character from a big city like New York or Los Angeles, the Midwest might look like one big flyover zone. But to plenty of mystery writers (myself included), the Midwest looks like home—and a good setting for a crime novel. We have plenty of cynicism to counteract that apple-cheeked, earnest idea…
