RSS feed for all content appearing in the blog river, with links back to the site http://www.criminalelement.com/ Mon, 20 May 2013 21:26:12 +0000 Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management en-gb http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/S_B9dkJaRis/lawyers-on-tv-the-case-of-the-vanishing-hero-robert-rotstein-perry-mason-the-defenders-courtroom-drama-la-law <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/lawyers-perry-mason.jpg" title="Raymond Burr as Perry Mason" /></p><p>At age nine, I became hooked on the legal/mystery series <em>Perry Mason</em>, then in its fourth year on CBS. The first episode of season 4 aired on September 17, 1960. Despite what the calendar said, it was culturally still the 1950s. Dwight Eisenhower was president (John F. Kennedy would be elected six weeks later). Most television, including <em>Perry Mason</em>, was shown in black and white. Mason&rsquo;s top assistant, the beautiful, intelligent Della Street, would remain a secretary forever, and presumably a virgin though she was pushing forty. Private investigator Paul Drake chain-smoked through each episode. The police didn&rsquo;t <em>Mirandize </em>arrestees because the <em>Miranda</em> decision wouldn&rsquo;t come down until 1966. And network television portrayed attorneys as heroic defenders of justice working in a system that was essentially fair. The fictional Mason never represented a guilty client and won every case.</p><p>[Everything was simpler in black and white...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/lawyers-on-tv-the-case-of-the-vanishing-hero-robert-rotstein-perry-mason-the-defenders-courtroom-drama-la-law">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=S_B9dkJaRis:jgSYUMD1r0I:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=S_B9dkJaRis:jgSYUMD1r0I:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=S_B9dkJaRis:jgSYUMD1r0I:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=S_B9dkJaRis:jgSYUMD1r0I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=S_B9dkJaRis:jgSYUMD1r0I:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=S_B9dkJaRis:jgSYUMD1r0I:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=S_B9dkJaRis:jgSYUMD1r0I:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=S_B9dkJaRis:jgSYUMD1r0I:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/S_B9dkJaRis" height="1" width="1"/> Robert Rotstein Published Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:34 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/lawyers-on-tv-the-case-of-the-vanishing-hero-robert-rotstein-perry-mason-the-defenders-courtroom-drama-la-law http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/lawyers-on-tv-the-case-of-the-vanishing-hero-robert-rotstein-perry-mason-the-defenders-courtroom-drama-la-law http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Uayh55zgO7M/fresh-meat-graveland-alan-glynn-sandra-mangan-finance-wall-street <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-graveland.jpg" /><strong><em>Graveland</em> by Alan Glynn is a thriller set in the world of Wall Street high finance (available May 28, 2013).</strong></p><p>Set in the here and now, <em>Graveland</em> is very much a book of its time. It centers on the current financial crisis&mdash;and much of the action takes place in and around Wall Street.</p><p>The story begins as the CEO of a top Wall Street investment bank is gunned down while jogging in Central Park, and this death is soon followed by another, when a highly successful hedge fund manager is shot and killed outside a glitzy Upper West Side restaurant. Were the pair chosen as orchestrated terrorist targets or is plain old coincidence to blame? Investigative journalist Ellen Dorsey has an entirely different theory&mdash;and her search for the truth will take her into some decidedly murky waters.</p><p>[Greed is not good. In fact, it can get you killed...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-graveland-alan-glynn-sandra-mangan-finance-wall-street">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Uayh55zgO7M:_ZFfOFiOmiM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Uayh55zgO7M:_ZFfOFiOmiM:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Uayh55zgO7M:_ZFfOFiOmiM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Uayh55zgO7M:_ZFfOFiOmiM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Uayh55zgO7M:_ZFfOFiOmiM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Uayh55zgO7M:_ZFfOFiOmiM:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Uayh55zgO7M:_ZFfOFiOmiM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Uayh55zgO7M:_ZFfOFiOmiM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Uayh55zgO7M" height="1" width="1"/> Sandra Mangan Published Mon, 20 May 2013 13:30:15 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-graveland-alan-glynn-sandra-mangan-finance-wall-street http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-graveland-alan-glynn-sandra-mangan-finance-wall-street http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/tnevH5jiFEo/taking-food-way-too-seriously-miki-nozawa-japanese-chef <p><img alt="Miki Nozawa" class="blog-pic-right-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/JapaneseChef.jpg" title="Miki Nozawa, a life cut short by a food fight." />Anyone who knows me will tell you that food is right at the top of my priorities in life. Follow my Twitter feed, and you&rsquo;ll notice that probably a full 25 percent of my tweets are related to eating. Still, there are things that seem extreme even to me, like <em>beating a chef to death</em> over a $30 meal.</p><p>And yet, that&rsquo;s precisely what happened to celebrity chef Miki Nozawa, whose food didn&rsquo;t satisfy two customers at his restaurant on the German island of Sylt. The two left without paying, and later that night Nozawa found them at a nightclub and confronted them. A fight ensued, after which the two men escaped and Nozawa was taken to the hospital where he later died from his injuries.</p><p>Relax, everyone. It&rsquo;s <em>just</em> dinner.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/taking-food-way-too-seriously-miki-nozawa-japanese-chef">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tnevH5jiFEo:1sKRs0WrjCw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tnevH5jiFEo:1sKRs0WrjCw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tnevH5jiFEo:1sKRs0WrjCw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=tnevH5jiFEo:1sKRs0WrjCw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tnevH5jiFEo:1sKRs0WrjCw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tnevH5jiFEo:1sKRs0WrjCw:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tnevH5jiFEo:1sKRs0WrjCw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=tnevH5jiFEo:1sKRs0WrjCw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/tnevH5jiFEo" height="1" width="1"/> Laura K. Curtis Published Mon, 20 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/taking-food-way-too-seriously-miki-nozawa-japanese-chef http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/taking-food-way-too-seriously-miki-nozawa-japanese-chef http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/QDR_Ww7Fxz0/fresh-meat-the-caretaker-a-x-ahmad-katia-lief <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-caretaker.jpg" /><strong><em>The Caretaker</em> by A.X. Ahmad is a debut thriller involving scandal, political corruption, and men with pasts they would prefer not to revisit (available May 21, 2013). </strong></p><p>In <strong>A.X. Ahmad</strong>&rsquo;s masterful, page-turner of a debut thriller,<em> The Caretaker</em>, Ranjit Singh is a disgraced captain of the Indian army who finds himself living with his wife and daughter on Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard, eking out a living as a summer gardener, and wondering how they will survive the winter.</p><blockquote>He stares across the road at the cold, angry ocean. When he first came to the island with his wife and daughter six months ago, the water was warm and shimmering, the beaches were lined with parked cars, and long-tailed kites fluttered in the hot sky. All summer and into the fall he&rsquo;d worked as a landscaper, feeling his unused muscles stretch and harden, feeling the hot sun beat down on him, and felt a kind of peace.</blockquote><p>[A peace you know won&rsquo;t last...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-the-caretaker-a-x-ahmad-katia-lief">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=QDR_Ww7Fxz0:KST81T3opIo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=QDR_Ww7Fxz0:KST81T3opIo:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=QDR_Ww7Fxz0:KST81T3opIo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=QDR_Ww7Fxz0:KST81T3opIo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=QDR_Ww7Fxz0:KST81T3opIo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=QDR_Ww7Fxz0:KST81T3opIo:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=QDR_Ww7Fxz0:KST81T3opIo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=QDR_Ww7Fxz0:KST81T3opIo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/QDR_Ww7Fxz0" height="1" width="1"/> Katia Lief Published Sun, 19 May 2013 16:00:33 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-the-caretaker-a-x-ahmad-katia-lief http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-the-caretaker-a-x-ahmad-katia-lief http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/x_50Xhy_rdE/you-talkin-to-me-criminal-language-andy-adams <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/language-adams.jpg" title="What do you have to say for yourself, mister?" />Criminal enterprises are dangerous, no, really, I heard that somewhere. The risks of the job, though, are part of the deal. Hardly a criminal would balk at the prospect of being arrested or facing a prison sentence. It&rsquo;s a risk; always has been, always will be. The job itself isn&rsquo;t the only risk, though. Criminals have a need to go about their work in secret, and the only thing worse than getting arrested on the job getting arrested <em>before</em> the job.</p><p>For that reason criminals have to hide what they&rsquo;re about, but they still have to talk about it. Talking about a big heist or, worse, a plan to kill someone is a quick way to tip off the police. If the cops don&rsquo;t outright arrest someone for planning a crime, you can bet they&rsquo;ll take steps to make sure that the crime goes down in their favor, ending with thieves and other criminals behind bars, or even in body bags.</p><p>[Keep your lip buttoned up...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/you-talkin-to-me-criminal-language-andy-adams">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=x_50Xhy_rdE:nAasaqzTdIQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=x_50Xhy_rdE:nAasaqzTdIQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=x_50Xhy_rdE:nAasaqzTdIQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=x_50Xhy_rdE:nAasaqzTdIQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=x_50Xhy_rdE:nAasaqzTdIQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=x_50Xhy_rdE:nAasaqzTdIQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=x_50Xhy_rdE:nAasaqzTdIQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=x_50Xhy_rdE:nAasaqzTdIQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/x_50Xhy_rdE" height="1" width="1"/> Andy Adams Published Sun, 19 May 2013 14:00:58 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/you-talkin-to-me-criminal-language-andy-adams http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/you-talkin-to-me-criminal-language-andy-adams http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/XgBCx5bBYRI/fresh-meat-ripd-tpb-city-of-the-damned-jeremy-barlow-peter-m-lenkov-tony-parker-doreen-sheridan-comics-michelle-madsen <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-ripd-city-of-the-damned.jpg" /><strong><em>R.I.P.D. City of the Damned</em> by Jeremy Barlow, Peter M.Lenkov, and Tony Parker is an anthology billed as a prequel to the R.I.P.D. comic book series and the upcoming feature film starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds (available May 28, 2013).</strong></p><p>This second collection of R.I.P.D. comic books, based on characters created by <strong>Peter M. Lenkov</strong>, continues the narrative established in the successful first volume which is soon to be immortalized in film with Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds in starring roles. In <em>City Of The Damned</em>, Roy Pulsipher and Nick Walker are chasing down errant souls for the R.I.P.D. when they come across a place from Roy&rsquo;s past, a place he has no interest in dragging his new partner into. So Roy plunges into danger alone, warning Nick to turn back, and takes the reader a century into the past, when he himself was first recruited to the R.I.P.D.</p><p>Roy&rsquo;s first memory of his afterlife is of trudging helplessly through the desert while being menaced by a literal dark cloud.</p><p>[Look for the silver lining...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-ripd-tpb-city-of-the-damned-jeremy-barlow-peter-m-lenkov-tony-parker-doreen-sheridan-comics-michelle-madsen">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XgBCx5bBYRI:rxujlD3RcEY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XgBCx5bBYRI:rxujlD3RcEY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XgBCx5bBYRI:rxujlD3RcEY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=XgBCx5bBYRI:rxujlD3RcEY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XgBCx5bBYRI:rxujlD3RcEY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XgBCx5bBYRI:rxujlD3RcEY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XgBCx5bBYRI:rxujlD3RcEY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=XgBCx5bBYRI:rxujlD3RcEY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/XgBCx5bBYRI" height="1" width="1"/> Doreen Sheridan Published Sat, 18 May 2013 14:00:35 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-ripd-tpb-city-of-the-damned-jeremy-barlow-peter-m-lenkov-tony-parker-doreen-sheridan-comics-michelle-madsen http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-ripd-tpb-city-of-the-damned-jeremy-barlow-peter-m-lenkov-tony-parker-doreen-sheridan-comics-michelle-madsen http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/hksrGdFvLtk/now-win-this-spring-cleaning-sweepstakes <p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/springcleaningsweepstakes" target="_self"><strong>Log in or register to enter for a chance to win&nbsp;a book bundle from the Criminal Element Prize Vault complete with signed copies, new releases, award winners, and best sellers!</strong></a></p><p><img align="left" alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/Now-Win-This-Spring-Cleaning-Sweepstakes.jpg" /></p><p>It&rsquo;s finally spring and we&rsquo;re clearing out all the skeletons and, more importantly, books from the Criminal Element Prize Vault! Bring on the thrills, bring on the mystery!&nbsp;</p><p>You can enter for a chance to win a whole box full of books by <b>David Mark, Julia Keller, Charles Cumming, Daniel Stashower </b>and <b>Bill Loehfelm.&nbsp;</b></p><p>[Find out about the books...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/now-win-this-spring-cleaning-sweepstakes">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hksrGdFvLtk:cQYy-7cbsNc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hksrGdFvLtk:cQYy-7cbsNc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hksrGdFvLtk:cQYy-7cbsNc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=hksrGdFvLtk:cQYy-7cbsNc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hksrGdFvLtk:cQYy-7cbsNc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hksrGdFvLtk:cQYy-7cbsNc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hksrGdFvLtk:cQYy-7cbsNc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=hksrGdFvLtk:cQYy-7cbsNc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/hksrGdFvLtk" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Sat, 18 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/now-win-this-spring-cleaning-sweepstakes http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/now-win-this-spring-cleaning-sweepstakes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/xlRZOPR0nS4/dick-tracy-and-blowtorches-matt-kindt <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/dick-tracy-cover.jpg" />I tend to get on kicks. I ran through <em>Homeland</em> Season 1 in three days and then moved on. I became obsessed with baseball for a summer and then moved on (mostly). I spent one summer in high school reading every <strong>Ian Fleming</strong> and Doc Savage book ever. And then I moved on. I saved all of <strong>John le Carr&eacute;</strong>&rsquo;s novels until this last winter. And then I read them all back to back. And I&rsquo;ve moved on. Now I&rsquo;m reading every book I can find on the history of Special Operations throughout history. And I&rsquo;m sure I&rsquo;ll move on.</p><p>A few months ago, I was asked the question that is probably most often asked of authors: What are your influences? And for a minute I was stumped. I love every genre, not just crime. In fact crime is such a broad genre that it&rsquo;s kind of impossible not to like. I love spies and espionage. And espionage, by its very nature is crime. Crime that is sanctioned by the state, but still criminal, depending on what side you&rsquo;re on.&nbsp;</p><p>But when I though back I realized that there was a summer in 1988 right before I got to high school that I stumbled upon some reprints of the old Dick Tracy comic strips. They&rsquo;d been repackaged into regular sized comic books and were being released as issues. Black and white comics? Ugh. What I was used to was full-color superhero comics and Doc Savage up to that point so these rough dark gritty comics were something else all together.</p><p>[Turn the page and learn...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/dick-tracy-and-blowtorches-matt-kindt">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=xlRZOPR0nS4:6ACc2NSG-Us:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=xlRZOPR0nS4:6ACc2NSG-Us:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=xlRZOPR0nS4:6ACc2NSG-Us:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=xlRZOPR0nS4:6ACc2NSG-Us:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=xlRZOPR0nS4:6ACc2NSG-Us:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=xlRZOPR0nS4:6ACc2NSG-Us:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=xlRZOPR0nS4:6ACc2NSG-Us:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=xlRZOPR0nS4:6ACc2NSG-Us:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/xlRZOPR0nS4" height="1" width="1"/> Matt Kindt Published Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00:32 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/dick-tracy-and-blowtorches-matt-kindt http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/dick-tracy-and-blowtorches-matt-kindt http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/zqVUHxaI3Fs/five-reasons-to-watch-orphan-black-tara-gelsomino <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/orphan-black-tatiana.jpg" /></p><p>If you like your mysteries with a generous heaping of intrigue, action and great acting, plus a side of sci-fi, BBC America&rsquo;s <em>Orphan Black</em> is a tasty dish, indeed. The fantastic drama begins when scrappy streetwise orphan Sarah Manning happens to witness the suicide of a woman who looks identical to herself and decides to step into her life to make a little cash. But she soon discovers that the dead woman wasn&rsquo;t just a long-lost twin&hellip;but one of a series of clones.&nbsp; And someone is trying to kill them.</p><p>The series just aired its seventh (of ten) episodes last Saturday, and each installment just keeps getting better and better. In case you missed Christopher Morgan&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/03/a-new-kind-of-identity-theft-trailer-for-orphan-black-bbc-america" target="_self">introductory post</a>, here&rsquo;s a handful of reasons to catch up with the show and tune in:</p><p>[You can count on this show...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/five-reasons-to-watch-orphan-black-tara-gelsomino">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zqVUHxaI3Fs:rIo-q6qri24:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zqVUHxaI3Fs:rIo-q6qri24:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zqVUHxaI3Fs:rIo-q6qri24:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=zqVUHxaI3Fs:rIo-q6qri24:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zqVUHxaI3Fs:rIo-q6qri24:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zqVUHxaI3Fs:rIo-q6qri24:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zqVUHxaI3Fs:rIo-q6qri24:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=zqVUHxaI3Fs:rIo-q6qri24:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/zqVUHxaI3Fs" height="1" width="1"/> Tara Gelsomino Published Fri, 17 May 2013 13:30:47 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/five-reasons-to-watch-orphan-black-tara-gelsomino http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/five-reasons-to-watch-orphan-black-tara-gelsomino http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/4_mSfcn5aFE/the-sound-and-the-fury-trailer-for-berberian-sound-studio <p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8VYNwgo5Z78" width="475"></iframe></p><p>Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work for a horror film? Not just any horror film with monsters and the like, but one of those good old-fashioned &rsquo;70s grindhouse films, like the original <em>Last House on the Left</em>?</p><p>That is exactly the kind of experience that the above trailer for <em>Berberian Sound Studio </em>looks to be. It even has some of the music and sound effects down perfectly. Here&rsquo;s the official synopsis:</p><blockquote><p><em>In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past. Berberian Sound Studio is many things: an anti-horror film, a stylistic tour de force, and a dream of cinema. As such, it offers a kind of pleasure that is rare in films, while recreating in a highly original way the pleasures of Italian horror cinema</em>.</p></blockquote><p>It looks right up my alley, what about you? Just remember, it&rsquo;s only a movie.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-sound-and-the-fury-trailer-for-berberian-sound-studio">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4_mSfcn5aFE:FYn6xAewMuc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4_mSfcn5aFE:FYn6xAewMuc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4_mSfcn5aFE:FYn6xAewMuc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=4_mSfcn5aFE:FYn6xAewMuc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4_mSfcn5aFE:FYn6xAewMuc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4_mSfcn5aFE:FYn6xAewMuc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4_mSfcn5aFE:FYn6xAewMuc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=4_mSfcn5aFE:FYn6xAewMuc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/4_mSfcn5aFE" height="1" width="1"/> Christopher Morgan Published Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-sound-and-the-fury-trailer-for-berberian-sound-studio http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-sound-and-the-fury-trailer-for-berberian-sound-studio http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/L0nd529BsqM/fresh-meat-smarty-bones-carolyn-haines-terrie-farley-moran <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-smarty-bones.jpg" /><strong><em>Smarty Bones</em> by Carolyn Haines is lucky number thirteen in the Sarah Booth Delaney humorous private eye series (available May 21, 2013).</strong></p><p>&nbsp;It wasn&rsquo;t long ago that I was telling you how much I enjoyed reading the raucously entertaining <em><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/06/fresh-meat-bonefire-of-the-vanities-by-carolyn-haines-terrie-farley-moran-cozy-mystery-detective-paranormal-sarah-booth-delaney-series" target="_self">Bonefire of the Vanities</a>,</em> the twelfth book in the Sarah Booth Delaney series written by <a href="http://www.carolynhaines.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><strong>Carolyn Haines</strong></a>. I will admit it can give the reader pause when a book is so much fun to read but is number twelve of a series. Will number thirteen prove to be unlucky or will the author move the story and characters along uproariously and at warp speed? But hey, this is Carolyn Haines and Sarah Booth Delaney we&rsquo;re talking about. And don&rsquo;t forget Sarah Booth&rsquo;s best friend and partner in her private investigation business, Tinkie Bellcase Richmond. Not to mention Jitty, the resident Civil War-era ghost who lives at Sarah Booth&rsquo;s ancestral home, Dalia House.</p><p>Fascinating as these ladies may be, I couldn&rsquo;t imagine that the author would add the Lady in Red to the mix. While on a book tour, Carolyn Haines came across the Lady in Red, a corpse that was approximately one hundred years old when it was found buried in a Mississippi cemetery in 1969. The lady&rsquo;s body had been preserved in alcohol and the rumors about her past were filled with mystery and legend. What better jumping off point for a paranormal, southern mystery?</p><p>[Mysterious women and others...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-smarty-bones-carolyn-haines-terrie-farley-moran">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=L0nd529BsqM:A_XdSxhz7hY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=L0nd529BsqM:A_XdSxhz7hY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=L0nd529BsqM:A_XdSxhz7hY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=L0nd529BsqM:A_XdSxhz7hY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=L0nd529BsqM:A_XdSxhz7hY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=L0nd529BsqM:A_XdSxhz7hY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=L0nd529BsqM:A_XdSxhz7hY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=L0nd529BsqM:A_XdSxhz7hY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/L0nd529BsqM" height="1" width="1"/> Terrie Farley Moran Published Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:48 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-smarty-bones-carolyn-haines-terrie-farley-moran http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-smarty-bones-carolyn-haines-terrie-farley-moran http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/_POL7NnLiT4/lost-classics-of-noir-wayward-girl-orrie-hitt-brian-greene-linda-blair-born-innocent <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/lost-classics-wayward-girl.jpg" />As a kid I, along with most of the rest of the country, watched the made-for-TV movie <em>Born Innocent</em>. If you don&rsquo;t know that film, it&rsquo;s a 1974 title that stars Linda Blair as a once &ldquo;normal&rdquo; teenage girl who, mostly due to her parents&rsquo; cruel indifference, goes down a path that leads to the hell of life inside a girls&rsquo; reform school. At that time I wasn&rsquo;t familiar with the concept of camp entertainment, or that there were whole subgenres within that realm that had to do with babes behind bars and reform school girls. <em>Born Innocent</em> was just the big TV movie that everybody was talking about that week, and it starred that girl who&rsquo;d been in <em>The Exorcist</em>, and I wanted to see it.</p><p>The movie devastated me. The tale of a likable kid who was emotionally abandoned by her parents and left to fend for herself, with no place or person to turn to for ultimate security, left me shaken. It was so desolate. It made me realize that things like having parents who cared about you, and protection from bullies, were gifts, not to be taken for granted. I hugged my mom extra hard before going to bed after watching the movie.</p><p>[It was no <em>Roller Boogie</em>...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/lost-classics-of-noir-wayward-girl-orrie-hitt-brian-greene-linda-blair-born-innocent">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_POL7NnLiT4:IsU830697Bo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_POL7NnLiT4:IsU830697Bo:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_POL7NnLiT4:IsU830697Bo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=_POL7NnLiT4:IsU830697Bo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_POL7NnLiT4:IsU830697Bo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_POL7NnLiT4:IsU830697Bo:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_POL7NnLiT4:IsU830697Bo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=_POL7NnLiT4:IsU830697Bo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/_POL7NnLiT4" height="1" width="1"/> Brian Greene Published Thu, 16 May 2013 13:30:40 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/lost-classics-of-noir-wayward-girl-orrie-hitt-brian-greene-linda-blair-born-innocent http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/lost-classics-of-noir-wayward-girl-orrie-hitt-brian-greene-linda-blair-born-innocent http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/mjlCXRMhU2M/james-gandolfini-gets-criminal-justice-hbo <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/criminal-justice-gandolfini.jpg" />HBO recently announced it was picking up a 7-part series called <em>Criminal Justice</em> starring James Gandolfini as an &ldquo;ambulance-chasing New York City attorney who gets in over his head when he takes on the case of a Pakistani accused of murdering a girl on the Upper West Side,&rdquo; according to <a href="http://www.deadline.com/tag/criminal-justice/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Deadline.com</a>.</p><p>The series is based very loosely on a 2008 BBC series of the same name that starred Ben Whishaw as the accused murderer. It will be written by <strong>Richard Price</strong>, who prefers to call himself a novelist (<em>Clockers</em> and <em>Freedomland</em>, among others), but who&rsquo;s written some major screenplays (<em>The Color of Money</em> and <em>Ransom</em>, among others) and a bunch of episodes of <em>The Wire</em>&mdash;which entitles him to call himself whatever he pleases. Steven Zaillian is the director.</p><p>No word on broadcast plans yet, but we think we&rsquo;ll pencil this one in on our watch list. How about you?</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/james-gandolfini-gets-criminal-justice-hbo">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mjlCXRMhU2M:ZO0pitvJUhA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mjlCXRMhU2M:ZO0pitvJUhA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mjlCXRMhU2M:ZO0pitvJUhA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=mjlCXRMhU2M:ZO0pitvJUhA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mjlCXRMhU2M:ZO0pitvJUhA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mjlCXRMhU2M:ZO0pitvJUhA:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mjlCXRMhU2M:ZO0pitvJUhA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=mjlCXRMhU2M:ZO0pitvJUhA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/mjlCXRMhU2M" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Thu, 16 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/james-gandolfini-gets-criminal-justice-hbo http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/james-gandolfini-gets-criminal-justice-hbo http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/r5O71-81OAI/the-murder-of-franklin-delano-roosevelt-tony-hays <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fdr-headline.jpg" /></p><p>In April 1945, the end of World War II was finally in sight. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, recently elected to an unprecedented fourth term as president, was at his Warm Springs, Georgia, retreat, sitting for a painting. He reminded the artist that she only had 15 more minutes to work, then complained of a sudden, blinding headache, lost consciousness, and died.</p><p>Quite frankly, even someone as suspicious as I would have bought that story, hook, line, and sinker. Roosevelt had been in bad health for years, after a bout with polio left him dependent upon crutches or a wheelchair. The doctors, seeing no real need for an autopsy, decided that it must have been a cerebral hemorrhage.</p><p>And so, FDR was buried and Harry S Truman became president.</p><p>[Nothing suspicious about that... or is there?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-murder-of-franklin-delano-roosevelt-tony-hays">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=r5O71-81OAI:6wDqXqsb8UE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=r5O71-81OAI:6wDqXqsb8UE:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=r5O71-81OAI:6wDqXqsb8UE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=r5O71-81OAI:6wDqXqsb8UE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=r5O71-81OAI:6wDqXqsb8UE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=r5O71-81OAI:6wDqXqsb8UE:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=r5O71-81OAI:6wDqXqsb8UE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=r5O71-81OAI:6wDqXqsb8UE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/r5O71-81OAI" height="1" width="1"/> Tony Hays Published Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:39 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-murder-of-franklin-delano-roosevelt-tony-hays http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-murder-of-franklin-delano-roosevelt-tony-hays http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/P05fvByMSpo/the-private-eye-snapshot-of-the-future-brian-k-vaughan-corrina-lawson <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/the-private-eye-page-edit.jpg" /></p><p><em>The Private Eye</em> is an experiment.</p><p>From a creative standpoint, the setting is daring, a strange new future in which all technologies have advanced except for communication and images.</p><p>From a distribution standpoint, it&rsquo;s unprecedented. Writer <strong>Brian K. Vaughan</strong> and artist <strong>Marcos Martin</strong> placed the 32-page Issue 1 of <em>The Private Eye</em> up at their site, <a href="http://panelsyndicate.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Panel Syndicate</a>, where it can be downloaded on a &ldquo;name your price&rdquo; payment system. The 27-page Issue 2 was released May 7, 2013. The plan is for a 10-issue &ldquo;old-school maxiseries.&rdquo;</p><p>[Try it and buy it...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-private-eye-snapshot-of-the-future-brian-k-vaughan-corrina-lawson">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=P05fvByMSpo:q41i4fq7Xcw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=P05fvByMSpo:q41i4fq7Xcw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=P05fvByMSpo:q41i4fq7Xcw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=P05fvByMSpo:q41i4fq7Xcw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=P05fvByMSpo:q41i4fq7Xcw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=P05fvByMSpo:q41i4fq7Xcw:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=P05fvByMSpo:q41i4fq7Xcw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=P05fvByMSpo:q41i4fq7Xcw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/P05fvByMSpo" height="1" width="1"/> Corrina Lawson Published Wed, 15 May 2013 13:30:41 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-private-eye-snapshot-of-the-future-brian-k-vaughan-corrina-lawson http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-private-eye-snapshot-of-the-future-brian-k-vaughan-corrina-lawson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/mRBOBft5a6A/and-in-the-role-of-yorick-shakespeare-skull-leslie-gilbert-elman <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/yorick-tennant.jpg" title="David Tennant as Hamlet, André Tchaikowsky as Yorick" /></p><p><em>Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest&hellip;</em></p><p>In <strong>William Shakespeare</strong>&rsquo;s <em>Hamlet</em>, the role of Yorick the court jester is little more than a cameo (you couldn&rsquo;t properly call it a &ldquo;walk-on&rdquo;); a nonspeaking role that wouldn&rsquo;t even qualify you for membership in Actors&rsquo; Equity. Yet plenty of people have wanted to play him, even though &ldquo;poor Yorick&rdquo; is nothing more than a skull that Hamlet holds and muses upon in Act V, Scene 1.</p><p>After all, Yorick is a role you could play&hellip;forever.</p><p>[I always dreamed of a life in the theater&hellip;]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/and-in-the-role-of-yorick-shakespeare-skull-leslie-gilbert-elman">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mRBOBft5a6A:JGZii3FQ04M:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mRBOBft5a6A:JGZii3FQ04M:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mRBOBft5a6A:JGZii3FQ04M:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=mRBOBft5a6A:JGZii3FQ04M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mRBOBft5a6A:JGZii3FQ04M:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mRBOBft5a6A:JGZii3FQ04M:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mRBOBft5a6A:JGZii3FQ04M:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=mRBOBft5a6A:JGZii3FQ04M:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/mRBOBft5a6A" height="1" width="1"/> Leslie Gilbert Elman Published Tue, 14 May 2013 15:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/and-in-the-role-of-yorick-shakespeare-skull-leslie-gilbert-elman http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/and-in-the-role-of-yorick-shakespeare-skull-leslie-gilbert-elman http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/3S2LmhVN4Rs/fresh-meat-cuts-through-bone-alaric-hunt-jenny-maloney <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-cuts-through-bone.jpg" /><strong><em>Cuts Through Bone</em> by Alaric Hunt is a contemporary PI novel in the classic PI novel style (available May 14, 2013).</strong></p><p><strong>Alaric Hunt</strong>&rsquo;s <em>Cuts Through Bone</em> is a PI mystery with the style and tone of classic PI mysteries, which is probably why it won the 2012 <a href="http://awards.omnimystery.com/mystery-awards-smp-private-eye.html#.UYxeeLVJOAg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Private Eye Writers of America award for Best First Private Eye Novel</a>.</p><p>Hunt&rsquo;s private investigator is Clayton Guthrie&mdash;a man short in stature and heavy on observation. He knows how to talk to snitches and how to break down a case, skills he&rsquo;s trying to teach his prot&eacute;g&eacute;, Rachel Vasquez.</p><p>Vasquez, on the other hand, is having a hard time dealing with the tediousness that is real detective work. She considers quitting after a particularly rough morning when in walks one Mr. H.P. Whitridge with a young woman named Michelle Tompkins and the case to end all cases: the Barbie doll murders.</p><p>[Oh, you beautiful doll...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-cuts-through-bone-alaric-hunt-jenny-maloney">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3S2LmhVN4Rs:pVFQcXrbQaw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3S2LmhVN4Rs:pVFQcXrbQaw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3S2LmhVN4Rs:pVFQcXrbQaw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=3S2LmhVN4Rs:pVFQcXrbQaw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3S2LmhVN4Rs:pVFQcXrbQaw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3S2LmhVN4Rs:pVFQcXrbQaw:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3S2LmhVN4Rs:pVFQcXrbQaw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=3S2LmhVN4Rs:pVFQcXrbQaw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/3S2LmhVN4Rs" height="1" width="1"/> Jenny Maloney Published Tue, 14 May 2013 13:30:25 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-cuts-through-bone-alaric-hunt-jenny-maloney http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-cuts-through-bone-alaric-hunt-jenny-maloney http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/IRzJchd5oLs/zinng-the-worlds-end-adventures-of-adele-blanc-sec-movie-trailer-snapchats-dont-disappear-crime-hq <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/collections/comicsgraphicnovels600x200.jpg" style="height: 158px; width: 475px; " /></p><ul><li>&nbsp;Be warned! If you&#39;re using social media platform Snapchat, because the photos you send with it are promised to &ldquo;self-destruct&rdquo; after a time limit you specify, know that your embarrassing selfies are not safe! According to this <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/05/09/snapchats-dont-disappear/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em>Forbes</em> article by Kashmir Hill</a>, an IT forensics firm pulled dozens of supposed-to-be deleted photos from phones. It was frightningly easy...</li>&nbsp;<li>A heroine from French comics has been turned into a live-action movie by director Luc Besson, and it&#39;s got magic, mummies, and a pterodactyl! <em>The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Sec-Blanc</em> features an intrepid novelist in 1911 Paris. It&#39;ll be available on DVD in August, but we must say it looks delightful!</li><!--&nbsp;--></ul><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DAhmCHnNcWs" width="475"></iframe></p><ul><li>Also coming in late August is the third in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy (aka the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy) begun with <em>Shaun of the Dead </em>and <em>Hot Fuzz</em>. All were directed by Edgar Wright, who shares writing credits with Simon Pegg, who co-stars with Nick Frost. In <em>The World&#39;s End</em>, five friends reunite for an epic pub crawl and become humankind&#39;s only hope for survival. Bonus Martin Freeman!</li></ul><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YF-4c8U-mUI" width="475"></iframe></p><!--&nbsp;--><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/zinng-the-worlds-end-adventures-of-adele-blanc-sec-movie-trailer-snapchats-dont-disappear-crime-hq">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=IRzJchd5oLs:N-G0-5tiXvo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=IRzJchd5oLs:N-G0-5tiXvo:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=IRzJchd5oLs:N-G0-5tiXvo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=IRzJchd5oLs:N-G0-5tiXvo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=IRzJchd5oLs:N-G0-5tiXvo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=IRzJchd5oLs:N-G0-5tiXvo:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=IRzJchd5oLs:N-G0-5tiXvo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=IRzJchd5oLs:N-G0-5tiXvo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/IRzJchd5oLs" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Tue, 14 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/zinng-the-worlds-end-adventures-of-adele-blanc-sec-movie-trailer-snapchats-dont-disappear-crime-hq http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/zinng-the-worlds-end-adventures-of-adele-blanc-sec-movie-trailer-snapchats-dont-disappear-crime-hq http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/FunYEjF0FT8/fresh-meat-shotgun-lullaby-steve-ulfelder-neliza-drew-conway-sax <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-shotgun-lullaby.jpg" /><strong><em> </em>In<em> Shotgun Lullaby</em> by Steve Ulfelder, Conway Sax must&nbsp; help a recovering substance abuser who reminds him a little too much of his estranged son (available May 14, 2013). </strong></p><p>The third Conway Sax novel by <strong>Steve Ulfelder</strong> opens with Conway beating down a guy over a lemon car sold to a new Barnburner, one Gus Biletnikov. In other words, Conway&rsquo;s still acting as a half-assed investigator-slash-enforcer for the special group of AA members he credits with saving his life. And he&rsquo;s still doing it with his perfect blend of heart, gruff, and bullheaded luck.</p><blockquote>A long time ago, after more tries than you could count, I finally put together some sobriety. A couple of months, my longest dry stretch since I was fourteen.<p>It was awful. I didn&rsquo;t know what I was doing. My knuckles were white, my teeth were ground to nubs, my nightmares lasted all day.</p><p>It was slipping away, and I knew it. I was feeling shame already over the next backslide. Had a feeling it would be the last one, the one that carried me all the way down.</p></blockquote><p>[When you reach bottom there&rsquo;s nowhere to go but up...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-shotgun-lullaby-steve-ulfelder-neliza-drew-conway-sax">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=FunYEjF0FT8:Xo8kUHaTSa0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=FunYEjF0FT8:Xo8kUHaTSa0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=FunYEjF0FT8:Xo8kUHaTSa0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=FunYEjF0FT8:Xo8kUHaTSa0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=FunYEjF0FT8:Xo8kUHaTSa0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=FunYEjF0FT8:Xo8kUHaTSa0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=FunYEjF0FT8:Xo8kUHaTSa0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=FunYEjF0FT8:Xo8kUHaTSa0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/FunYEjF0FT8" height="1" width="1"/> Neliza Drew Published Mon, 13 May 2013 16:00:28 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-shotgun-lullaby-steve-ulfelder-neliza-drew-conway-sax http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-shotgun-lullaby-steve-ulfelder-neliza-drew-conway-sax http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/hiOp5KtFP5M/undercover-artist-kate-bufton-sandra-mangan <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/undercover-bufton.jpg" />They say you can&rsquo;t judge a book by its cover, well with Kate Bufton that is certainly true! She sees books as much more than a mere storage area for words and ideas, but as the starting point for some incredible pieces of artwork.</p><p>Based in Warrington, in the North West of England, Kate says her creative side was nurtured by her teachers at school and college. &ldquo;It was only at university when I started to realise that art and craft are so closely linked, yet so far apart. I consider myself both an artisan and a crafts maker,&rdquo; she notes.</p><p>Kate creates amazing shapes and designs by manipulating old and unwanted books through a variety of cuts and folds. &ldquo;I love manipulating the pages of the book and transforming the books from a carrier of text to an object of art,&rdquo; she explains. &ldquo;The pages take on a whole new and innovative life, forcing the books to be open and the pages to be displayed for all to see.&rdquo;</p><p>[Her life is an open book...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/undercover-artist-kate-bufton-sandra-mangan">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hiOp5KtFP5M:0BbINDYHSmE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hiOp5KtFP5M:0BbINDYHSmE:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hiOp5KtFP5M:0BbINDYHSmE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=hiOp5KtFP5M:0BbINDYHSmE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hiOp5KtFP5M:0BbINDYHSmE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hiOp5KtFP5M:0BbINDYHSmE:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hiOp5KtFP5M:0BbINDYHSmE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=hiOp5KtFP5M:0BbINDYHSmE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/hiOp5KtFP5M" height="1" width="1"/> Sandra Mangan Published Mon, 13 May 2013 13:30:57 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/undercover-artist-kate-bufton-sandra-mangan http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/undercover-artist-kate-bufton-sandra-mangan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/ox6FKppPpp4/absinthe-can-be-dangerous-russia-fire <p><img alt="Absinthe" class="blog-pic-right-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/AMCoffee-Absinthe.jpg" title="It looks so innocent" />For years, absinthe was considered far more dangerous than most liquors. In fact, it was banned in both the United States and the EU for nearly a century due to its alleged hallucinogenic qualities. But in fact, it appears that the absinthe itself&mdash;the distilled spirit of wormwood&mdash;was not responsible for the problems faced by early drinkers. No, the blame would fall to adulterants in either the cheaper forms of the drink or in the mixers.</p><p>Today, absinthe can still be dangerous. Especially when mixed with stupidity. Or fire. Or both. A lesson a Russian bartender and patron learned to their combined shock and horror.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RFqLqNylNPA?rel=0" width="475"></iframe></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/absinthe-can-be-dangerous-russia-fire">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ox6FKppPpp4:tcwDzxYoWlY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ox6FKppPpp4:tcwDzxYoWlY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ox6FKppPpp4:tcwDzxYoWlY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ox6FKppPpp4:tcwDzxYoWlY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ox6FKppPpp4:tcwDzxYoWlY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ox6FKppPpp4:tcwDzxYoWlY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ox6FKppPpp4:tcwDzxYoWlY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ox6FKppPpp4:tcwDzxYoWlY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/ox6FKppPpp4" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Mon, 13 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/absinthe-can-be-dangerous-russia-fire http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/absinthe-can-be-dangerous-russia-fire http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Amr1s_CtVJo/fresh-meat-the-healer-by-antti-tuomainen-dystopian-sci-fi-futuristic-kristin-centorcelli <p><img alt="The Healer by Antti Tuomainen" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Tuomainen_The-Healer.jpg" /><strong><em>The Healer</em> by Antti Tuomainen is a novel of dystopian, futuristic Nordic noir (available May 14, 2013).</strong></p><p>Tapani Lehtinen&rsquo;s wife, Johanna is missing. She&rsquo;s a reporter and routinely goes out on assignment for days at a time, but always checks in with her husband, and it&rsquo;s been twenty-four hours since he&rsquo;s heard from her. After visiting her editor and expressing his concerns, the editor reluctantly tells him that she&rsquo;s been working on a story about The Healer, a killer who&rsquo;s been targeting families of high powered men involved in the seeming destruction of the environment, thus being part of the cause of the deteriorating climate of Helsinki and the surrounding areas. The editor is dubious that something bad has happened to Johanna, but seems to soften a bit when Tapani explains the nature of their relationship.</p><p>[The heat is on in Helsinki...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-the-healer-by-antti-tuomainen-dystopian-sci-fi-futuristic-kristin-centorcelli">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Amr1s_CtVJo:XNeHbvJCCLs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Amr1s_CtVJo:XNeHbvJCCLs:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Amr1s_CtVJo:XNeHbvJCCLs:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Amr1s_CtVJo:XNeHbvJCCLs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Amr1s_CtVJo:XNeHbvJCCLs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Amr1s_CtVJo:XNeHbvJCCLs:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Amr1s_CtVJo:XNeHbvJCCLs:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Amr1s_CtVJo:XNeHbvJCCLs:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Amr1s_CtVJo" height="1" width="1"/> Kristin Centorcelli Published Sun, 12 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-the-healer-by-antti-tuomainen-dystopian-sci-fi-futuristic-kristin-centorcelli http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-the-healer-by-antti-tuomainen-dystopian-sci-fi-futuristic-kristin-centorcelli http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/FEdYeHPhcwg/my-sword-is-quick-fantasy-meets-crime-fiction <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fantasy-darkhorse-conan.jpg" /></p><p>Escapism is one of the appeals of the fantasy genre. It&rsquo;s a chance to visit a world where impossible things like magic and monsters are real, and to go on epic quests to save the world. It can be just as fun and interesting though to see those elements bump up against real world events such as crime and murder. Generally you only see that collision in fantasy tales set in the modern worlds like <strong>Jim Butcher</strong>&rsquo;s Dresden Files series. There are a number of authors, though, who have combined the elements of crime and noir with stories set in mythical or ancient realms.</p><p>[Crime and Fantasy were made for each other!]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/my-sword-is-quick-fantasy-meets-crime-fiction">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=FEdYeHPhcwg:nM-AWtB7e6g:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=FEdYeHPhcwg:nM-AWtB7e6g:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=FEdYeHPhcwg:nM-AWtB7e6g:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=FEdYeHPhcwg:nM-AWtB7e6g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=FEdYeHPhcwg:nM-AWtB7e6g:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=FEdYeHPhcwg:nM-AWtB7e6g:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=FEdYeHPhcwg:nM-AWtB7e6g:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=FEdYeHPhcwg:nM-AWtB7e6g:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/FEdYeHPhcwg" height="1" width="1"/> Dave Richards Published Sun, 12 May 2013 14:00:51 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/my-sword-is-quick-fantasy-meets-crime-fiction http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/my-sword-is-quick-fantasy-meets-crime-fiction http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/3bPMrK4v5K4/fresh-meat-double-whammy-gretchen-archer-jenny-maloney <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-double-whammy.jpg" /><strong><em>Double Whammy</em> by Gretchen Archer is the first Davis Way Crime Caper novel, a humorous mystery set in Biloxi, Mississippi (available May 14, 2013).</strong></p><p>Davis Way is divorced from her ex-ex-husband (so, yes, twice divorced from the same guy), unemployed because her father fired her, not getting along with her mother&mdash;which is par for the course, and <em>frustrated</em>. It doesn&rsquo;t look like things can get much worse. After all, how many restraining orders can one girl face?&nbsp;</p><p>Things start to look up when she finds a job at the Bellissimo, a casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. The grand hotel offers a chance to start over, with a large paycheck and posh surroundings. After a gazillion interviews, Davis is hired to work undercover security, catching safe-cracking thieves and protecting the casino&rsquo;s hard-earned gains. However, nothing in the Bellissimo is as straightforward or simple as it seems.</p><p>First off, the man who seems to be ripping off the Bellissimo&rsquo;s biggest slot-game&mdash;the Double Whammy&mdash;is Davis&rsquo;s ex-ex-husband.</p><p>[So nice she divorced him twice...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-double-whammy-gretchen-archer-jenny-maloney">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3bPMrK4v5K4:hkUi661F4I0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3bPMrK4v5K4:hkUi661F4I0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3bPMrK4v5K4:hkUi661F4I0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=3bPMrK4v5K4:hkUi661F4I0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3bPMrK4v5K4:hkUi661F4I0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3bPMrK4v5K4:hkUi661F4I0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3bPMrK4v5K4:hkUi661F4I0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=3bPMrK4v5K4:hkUi661F4I0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/3bPMrK4v5K4" height="1" width="1"/> Jenny Maloney Published Sat, 11 May 2013 16:00:05 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-double-whammy-gretchen-archer-jenny-maloney http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-double-whammy-gretchen-archer-jenny-maloney http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Vb4hE3aemOI/ten-tense-fates-the-bbc-accused-michael-nethercott-jimmy-mcgovern <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/accused-banner.jpg" /></p><p>At times, Britain&rsquo;s chief export would seem to be well-crafted television shows in the suspense line. From across the pond, we&rsquo;ve been given <em>Prime Suspect</em>, <em>Public Enemies</em>, <em>Waking the Dead, </em>and the recent <em>Sherlock. </em>Additionally, we have the mysteries of Inspectors Lewis, Lynley, and Luther (and even some inspectors whose names don&rsquo;t start with <em>L</em>.)</p><p>In the midst of this British Invasion, one series that has perhaps fallen under the radar&mdash;despite its excellent writing, impressive acting, and intelligent approach&mdash;is the anthology series <em>Accused</em>. Created by Edgar Award-winning writer <strong>Jimmy McGovern</strong>, it ran two seasons from 2010 to 2012 on BBC for a total of ten hour-long episodes. The series won the International Emmy Award for Best Drama. The fact that it was short-lived (though not for lack of acclaim) makes for an easily consumable packet of probable causes.</p><p>[There&rsquo;s always a story behind the story...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/ten-tense-fates-the-bbc-accused-michael-nethercott-jimmy-mcgovern">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Vb4hE3aemOI:8gpk77TW24c:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Vb4hE3aemOI:8gpk77TW24c:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Vb4hE3aemOI:8gpk77TW24c:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Vb4hE3aemOI:8gpk77TW24c:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Vb4hE3aemOI:8gpk77TW24c:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Vb4hE3aemOI:8gpk77TW24c:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Vb4hE3aemOI:8gpk77TW24c:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Vb4hE3aemOI:8gpk77TW24c:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Vb4hE3aemOI" height="1" width="1"/> Michael Nethercott Published Sat, 11 May 2013 14:00:05 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/ten-tense-fates-the-bbc-accused-michael-nethercott-jimmy-mcgovern http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/ten-tense-fates-the-bbc-accused-michael-nethercott-jimmy-mcgovern http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/km6Q3z6fD0A/hot-fuss-cold-case-deep-purple-the-killers-album-musical-confessions-bill-loehfelm <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/hot-fuss-killers.jpg" title="Call your band The Killers and what do you expect?" />When I was in high school, the British hard rock band Deep Purple scored a huge comeback hit with the song &ldquo;Knocking at Your Back Door,&rdquo; the lead single from their album <em>Perfect Strangers</em>. During the song, a man visits various women, from strippers to aristocrats, late at night and knocks at their back door per their invitation. Obviously, I thought at the time&mdash;it&rsquo;s a song about sex, about illicit sex, maybe even a certain kind of illicit sex. I was a teenager. Every song was about sex. And pretty much all sex was illicit. I didn&rsquo;t need much help getting there, especially listening to a song that actually used the phrase &ldquo;cunning linguist.&rdquo; Even those few &rsquo;80s songs that weren&rsquo;t about sex sure sounded like it to me.</p><p>[Did your ears deceive you?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/hot-fuss-cold-case-deep-purple-the-killers-album-musical-confessions-bill-loehfelm">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=km6Q3z6fD0A:HKmYMtbu6q0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=km6Q3z6fD0A:HKmYMtbu6q0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=km6Q3z6fD0A:HKmYMtbu6q0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=km6Q3z6fD0A:HKmYMtbu6q0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=km6Q3z6fD0A:HKmYMtbu6q0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=km6Q3z6fD0A:HKmYMtbu6q0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=km6Q3z6fD0A:HKmYMtbu6q0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=km6Q3z6fD0A:HKmYMtbu6q0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/km6Q3z6fD0A" height="1" width="1"/> Bill Loehfelm Published Fri, 10 May 2013 16:00:59 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/hot-fuss-cold-case-deep-purple-the-killers-album-musical-confessions-bill-loehfelm http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/hot-fuss-cold-case-deep-purple-the-killers-album-musical-confessions-bill-loehfelm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/WdfRwtI1atg/fresh-meat-little-green-walter-mosley-easy-rawlins <p><img class="blog-pic-left-align "alt="" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Walter-Mosley-Little-Green.jpg" style="height: 381px; width: 250px; " /><strong><em>Little Green</em> by Walter Mosley</strong> <strong>marks the return of detective Easy Rawlins as he investigates the dark side of L.A.&rsquo;s 1960s hippie haven, the Sunset Strip (available May 14, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Little Green</em> by <strong>Walter Mosley</strong> at last brings back Easy Rawlins, this time from a near-death experience; that experience and the fallout from it is a major element of the novel. The story begins with a journey into mysticism that&rsquo;s a far cry from the usual hard-boiled nature of the series, while still retaining a dark and bitter tone appropriate to it. Only gradually does the story enter the more familiar world of detective work.</p><p>Easy&rsquo;s back, but he&rsquo;s also changed; he&rsquo;s feeling his mortality in ways he didn&rsquo;t feel it before, and seeing the world changing around him.</p><p>[A near-death experience will do that to you...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-little-green-walter-mosley-easy-rawlins">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WdfRwtI1atg:Z141SxKQKfQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WdfRwtI1atg:Z141SxKQKfQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WdfRwtI1atg:Z141SxKQKfQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=WdfRwtI1atg:Z141SxKQKfQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WdfRwtI1atg:Z141SxKQKfQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WdfRwtI1atg:Z141SxKQKfQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WdfRwtI1atg:Z141SxKQKfQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=WdfRwtI1atg:Z141SxKQKfQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/WdfRwtI1atg" height="1" width="1"/> Victoria Janssen Published Fri, 10 May 2013 13:30:21 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-little-green-walter-mosley-easy-rawlins http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-little-green-walter-mosley-easy-rawlins http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/0JQze1Q6Qak/how-to-build-a-heist-team-step-1-piranhas <p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-GQ1mC0PLI0" width="475"></iframe></p><p>We here at Criminal Element are <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/the-appeal-of-the-heist-andy-adams-oceans-11-italian-job">quite appreciative of a good heist tale</a>. So if you have a crack team of criminals and con men that double as illusionists and magicians, you have our attention. Above are the first few minutes of the movie <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/03/now-you-see-me-magicians-turned-bank-robbers-crime-h-q-thriller-just-for-fun-film-heist-bank-job-robbery" target="_blank"><em>Now You See Me</em></a>. Watch closely and see if you can spot the trick of the tricks. Also, what card did you pick?</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/how-to-build-a-heist-team-step-1-piranhas">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=0JQze1Q6Qak:YY5AHTLmWbA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=0JQze1Q6Qak:YY5AHTLmWbA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=0JQze1Q6Qak:YY5AHTLmWbA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=0JQze1Q6Qak:YY5AHTLmWbA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=0JQze1Q6Qak:YY5AHTLmWbA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=0JQze1Q6Qak:YY5AHTLmWbA:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=0JQze1Q6Qak:YY5AHTLmWbA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=0JQze1Q6Qak:YY5AHTLmWbA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/0JQze1Q6Qak" height="1" width="1"/> Christopher Morgan Published Fri, 10 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/how-to-build-a-heist-team-step-1-piranhas http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/how-to-build-a-heist-team-step-1-piranhas http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/HyN2HT5Je60/fresh-meat-lucky-bastard-by-deborah-coonts-humorous-traditional-mystery-leigh-neely-powell <p><em><img alt="Lucky Bastard by Deborah Coonts" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Coonts-Lucky-Bastard.jpg" /></em><strong><em>Lucky Bastard</em> by Deborah Coonts is the fourth in the Lucky O&rsquo;Toole humorous traditional mystery series (available May 14, 2013).</strong></p><p>If you&rsquo;re looking for humor, glitz, and big money, you&rsquo;ll truly enjoy the Lucky O&rsquo;Toole Las Vegas series from <strong>Deborah Coonts</strong>. <em>Lucky Bastard</em> is the fourth book in a series that is funny, sexy, and features a damn good amateur sleuth. It&rsquo;s been called <em>Sex and the City</em> meets <strong>Elmore Leonard</strong>. Not a bad description.</p><p>There&rsquo;s no waiting for the action with <em>Lucky Bastard</em>, it opens with a grisly murder scene. A young woman has been left sprawled across the hood of a red Ferrari in the dealership inside Babylon, a top casino-resort in Las Vegas. Perhaps the saddest part of the display is that she was murdered with a stiletto attached to a beautiful red Jimmy Choo.</p><p>[What a fashion disaster!]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-lucky-bastard-by-deborah-coonts-humorous-traditional-mystery-leigh-neely-powell">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HyN2HT5Je60:-U9qIOpi4qk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HyN2HT5Je60:-U9qIOpi4qk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HyN2HT5Je60:-U9qIOpi4qk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=HyN2HT5Je60:-U9qIOpi4qk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HyN2HT5Je60:-U9qIOpi4qk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HyN2HT5Je60:-U9qIOpi4qk:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HyN2HT5Je60:-U9qIOpi4qk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=HyN2HT5Je60:-U9qIOpi4qk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/HyN2HT5Je60" height="1" width="1"/> Leigh Neely Published Thu, 09 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-lucky-bastard-by-deborah-coonts-humorous-traditional-mystery-leigh-neely-powell http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-lucky-bastard-by-deborah-coonts-humorous-traditional-mystery-leigh-neely-powell http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/ijPE33KFfSM/taht-ole-devil-called-celluloid-richard-jay-parker <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/parker-book-to-screen.jpg" />The process of converting an author&rsquo;s literary vision and framing key plot points sometimes casually buried in the paragraphs or only hinted at by the writer is no mean feat and it&rsquo;s a skill that can bring a whole new dimension to a story. It&rsquo;s also a process that has given vivid life to some books, their cinematic elevation finding them a deserved readership they may never have enjoyed.</p><p>Rather than going for a top ten I tried to nail down my ultimate favourite and, after not much deliberation, I quickly settled on the one that, for me, sufficiently captures and delivers what I loved about the novel as well as augmenting the story with the sort of memorable cinematic flair that makes it worthy of repeat viewings.</p><p>[You tell us yours and we&rsquo;ll tell you ours...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/taht-ole-devil-called-celluloid-richard-jay-parker">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ijPE33KFfSM:7VjAh9nl5bQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ijPE33KFfSM:7VjAh9nl5bQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ijPE33KFfSM:7VjAh9nl5bQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ijPE33KFfSM:7VjAh9nl5bQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ijPE33KFfSM:7VjAh9nl5bQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ijPE33KFfSM:7VjAh9nl5bQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ijPE33KFfSM:7VjAh9nl5bQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ijPE33KFfSM:7VjAh9nl5bQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/ijPE33KFfSM" height="1" width="1"/> Richard Parker Published Thu, 09 May 2013 13:30:14 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/taht-ole-devil-called-celluloid-richard-jay-parker http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/taht-ole-devil-called-celluloid-richard-jay-parker http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/tJ3SYXwKdik/back-in-the-habit-fake-nuns-hide-cocaine-under-costumes-crime-hq-true-crime-thriller-drugs-just-plain-strange <p><img alt="No banks were robbed and this wasn't in Florida but it sure was odd!" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/AM-Coffee-Cocaine-Nuns-200.jpg" title="No banks were robbed and this wasn't in Florida but it sure was odd!" />Nursing a habit can lead to dangerous territory, especially when you&rsquo;re smuggling drugs under said habits. On the Caribbean island of San Andres, three women were stopped by the police after they seemed to be acting...uncomfortable...in their nuns&rsquo; habits.</p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/fake-nuns-hid-cocaine-und_n_3226066.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">According to Huffington Post,</a> Police Captain Oscar Davila said the three women appeared nervous, and the fabric of their clothing didn&rsquo;t look right.</p><p>When police found more than four pounds of cocaine (two kilos) strapped to the legs of each woman, Davila says all three broke into tears and launched into tales of financial hardship.</p><p>The three had just come off a plane from Colombia and were arrested for trafficking. It&rsquo;s certainly not the strangest way we&rsquo;ve heard of trafficking drugs&mdash;there was <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/12/cannon-propelled-weed" target="_blank">the cannon-propelled weed</a> and <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/08/tweakingor-tweeking-the-snickers" target="_blank">the meth disguised as Snickers</a> to consider after all&mdash;but we can say fewer people will be nursing a <em>habit</em> thanks to this arrest.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/back-in-the-habit-fake-nuns-hide-cocaine-under-costumes-crime-hq-true-crime-thriller-drugs-just-plain-strange">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tJ3SYXwKdik:Oi3TP6kBxG4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tJ3SYXwKdik:Oi3TP6kBxG4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tJ3SYXwKdik:Oi3TP6kBxG4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=tJ3SYXwKdik:Oi3TP6kBxG4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tJ3SYXwKdik:Oi3TP6kBxG4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tJ3SYXwKdik:Oi3TP6kBxG4:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tJ3SYXwKdik:Oi3TP6kBxG4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=tJ3SYXwKdik:Oi3TP6kBxG4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/tJ3SYXwKdik" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Thu, 09 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/back-in-the-habit-fake-nuns-hide-cocaine-under-costumes-crime-hq-true-crime-thriller-drugs-just-plain-strange http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/back-in-the-habit-fake-nuns-hide-cocaine-under-costumes-crime-hq-true-crime-thriller-drugs-just-plain-strange http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/yny6NRHB3IY/who-reads-what-thrillers-mysteries-gender-lines-linda-rodriguez <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/gender-reading.jpg" /></p><p>Thrillers and mysteries have long been seen as split along gender lines, and for the first seventy years or so of the twentieth century, they actually were.&nbsp; But things have been changing.</p><p>Thrillers were originally written by, for, and about men. The earliest thriller, <em>The Riddle of the Sands</em> by <strong>Erskine Childers</strong> published in 1903, had not a single female character initially until his publisher forced Childers to add one to the book. Until <strong>Ken Follett</strong>&rsquo;s best-selling thriller, <em>The Eye of the Needle</em>, with its female protagonist in 1978, women were only occasional minor characters within thrillers, and the primary readers of thrillers were men. The thriller arose and became popular in the same time period as the western and the hard-boiled detective novel (which grafted the danger and violence of the thriller onto the mystery). All were parts of a male-oriented fiction with the shared elements of idealized male protagonists braving physical danger and escalating threat that built to cathartic endings of explosive violence.</p><p>Mysteries, on the other hand, have always had female readers and writers from <strong>Louisa May Alcott</strong> in the 1860s and her British counterparts, such as <strong>Mary Elizabeth Braddon</strong>, to <strong>Anna Katharine Green</strong> in 1878 with the first American best seller of any kind and on into the Golden Age with <strong>Agatha Christie</strong>, <strong>Dorothy L. Sayers</strong>, <strong>Mary Roberts Rinehart</strong>, <strong>Josephine Tey</strong>, <strong>Margery Allingham</strong>, <strong>Mignon G. Eberhart</strong>, <strong>Helen McCloy</strong>, <strong>Margaret Millar</strong>, and many others down to the present moment.</p><p>[He read, she read...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/who-reads-what-thrillers-mysteries-gender-lines-linda-rodriguez">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=yny6NRHB3IY:VyD2zP-KLU4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=yny6NRHB3IY:VyD2zP-KLU4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=yny6NRHB3IY:VyD2zP-KLU4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=yny6NRHB3IY:VyD2zP-KLU4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=yny6NRHB3IY:VyD2zP-KLU4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=yny6NRHB3IY:VyD2zP-KLU4:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=yny6NRHB3IY:VyD2zP-KLU4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=yny6NRHB3IY:VyD2zP-KLU4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/yny6NRHB3IY" height="1" width="1"/> Linda Rodriguez Published Wed, 08 May 2013 16:00:57 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/who-reads-what-thrillers-mysteries-gender-lines-linda-rodriguez http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/who-reads-what-thrillers-mysteries-gender-lines-linda-rodriguez http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Pmdl1yxpPX8/fresh-meat-carved-in-darkness-maegan-beaumont-neliza-drew <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-Carved-in-Darkness.jpg" /><strong><em>Carved in Darkness</em> by Maegan Beaumont involves a serial killer-rapist, his victim, and her fight to make him pay for his brutal crimes (available May 8, 2013).</strong></p><p>The first chapter of this book is very graphic and contains triggers that may bother some readers (the synopsis tells you what you&rsquo;ll find there). Beyond chapter one, however, the book is highly suspenseful and will keep you reading to the end, even if you skip that first chapter.</p><p>Sabrina Vaughn isn&rsquo;t who she says she is, or at least she wasn&rsquo;t fifteen years ago. Fifteen years ago, she was Melissa Walker, but Melissa died at the hands of a serial killer who raped and tortured her for eighty-three days before leaving her body on the grounds of a church. Melissa doesn&rsquo;t exist anymore except in pieces. Little things like the way Sabrina ties her boots. A few mementoes in a box. A ring on a chain around Sabrina&rsquo;s neck.</p><p>[Girl, reimagined...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-carved-in-darkness-maegan-beaumont-neliza-drew">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Pmdl1yxpPX8:7Kn-go2Kg_o:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Pmdl1yxpPX8:7Kn-go2Kg_o:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Pmdl1yxpPX8:7Kn-go2Kg_o:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Pmdl1yxpPX8:7Kn-go2Kg_o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Pmdl1yxpPX8:7Kn-go2Kg_o:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Pmdl1yxpPX8:7Kn-go2Kg_o:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Pmdl1yxpPX8:7Kn-go2Kg_o:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Pmdl1yxpPX8:7Kn-go2Kg_o:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Pmdl1yxpPX8" height="1" width="1"/> Neliza Drew Published Wed, 08 May 2013 13:30:52 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-carved-in-darkness-maegan-beaumont-neliza-drew http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-carved-in-darkness-maegan-beaumont-neliza-drew http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/2QYXC9xq-0U/where-do-the-monsters-go-osama-bin-laden-ted-bundy-lee-harvey-oswald-jeffrey-dahmer <p><img alt="Brain in Formaldehyde" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/AMCoffee-MonsterBrain.jpg" style="height: 316px; width: 250px;" title="What do you see in the squiggles?" />Recently, ABC News did a piece on <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/notorious-criminals-buried-19120230#.UYmnx4KhAkL" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Where Notorious Criminals Have Been Buried</a>. Osama Bin Laden, Ted Bundy, Hitler, the Columbine shooters, Adam Lanza, Timothy McVeigh, Lee Harvey Oswald, Pol Pot...those whose crimes (or, in their fans&rsquo; views, heroism) make their final resting places targets for all kinds of mayhem create unique problems for their families and officials. But despite the intrigue in all the stories, the most interesting was that of Jeffrey Dahmer:</p><blockquote><p>Dahmer was beaten to death by a fellow inmate while serving life prison sentences in 1994. ... After Dahmer&rsquo;s death, his brain was kept in formaldehyde in the state pathologist&rsquo;s office while his divorced parents disagreed over what to do with it. His mother, Joyce Flint, wanted the brain studied to determine whether biological factors were behind her son&rsquo;s homicidal behavior, which included necrophilia and cannibalism.</p><p>His father, Lionel Dahmer, favored cremation, saying that is what his son wanted. Eventually, Jeffery Dahmer&rsquo;s brain and body were cremated and the ashes were divided between his mother and father after a judge decided the brain should be cremated.</p></blockquote><p>What do you think? Would studying the brain of a killer after his death lead to any answers?</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/where-do-the-monsters-go-osama-bin-laden-ted-bundy-lee-harvey-oswald-jeffrey-dahmer">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=2QYXC9xq-0U:_6FvuOpUxBk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=2QYXC9xq-0U:_6FvuOpUxBk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=2QYXC9xq-0U:_6FvuOpUxBk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=2QYXC9xq-0U:_6FvuOpUxBk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=2QYXC9xq-0U:_6FvuOpUxBk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=2QYXC9xq-0U:_6FvuOpUxBk:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=2QYXC9xq-0U:_6FvuOpUxBk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=2QYXC9xq-0U:_6FvuOpUxBk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/2QYXC9xq-0U" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Wed, 08 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/where-do-the-monsters-go-osama-bin-laden-ted-bundy-lee-harvey-oswald-jeffrey-dahmer http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/where-do-the-monsters-go-osama-bin-laden-ted-bundy-lee-harvey-oswald-jeffrey-dahmer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/EMHBw_0P6jw/fresh-meat-the-ides-of-april-lindsey-davis-andy-adams-flavia-albia-ancient-rome <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-ides-of-april.jpg" /><strong><em>The Ides of April</em> by Lindsey Davis is a new mystery by the author of the Marcus Didius Falco series, set in ancient Rome and featuring a no-nonsense investigator who just happens to be a woman (available June 11, 2013).</strong></p><p>A woman PI (informer, to use the period parlance) on the mean streets of ancient Rome. That&rsquo;s the one-line summary, but what <strong>Lindsey Davis</strong> gives us with this kick-off of a brand new series is much more than that.</p><p>Flavia Albia is hard-boiled (something the Stargazer bar can actually manage to do correctly) and taking on cases that no one else will touch in a city that is steeped in its own corruption and mistrust.</p><p>[The mean streets of Rome...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-the-ides-of-april-lindsey-davis-andy-adams-flavia-albia-ancient-rome">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=EMHBw_0P6jw:j4DFN-AJbdE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=EMHBw_0P6jw:j4DFN-AJbdE:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=EMHBw_0P6jw:j4DFN-AJbdE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=EMHBw_0P6jw:j4DFN-AJbdE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=EMHBw_0P6jw:j4DFN-AJbdE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=EMHBw_0P6jw:j4DFN-AJbdE:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=EMHBw_0P6jw:j4DFN-AJbdE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=EMHBw_0P6jw:j4DFN-AJbdE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/EMHBw_0P6jw" height="1" width="1"/> Andy Adams Published Tue, 07 May 2013 16:00:10 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-the-ides-of-april-lindsey-davis-andy-adams-flavia-albia-ancient-rome http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-the-ides-of-april-lindsey-davis-andy-adams-flavia-albia-ancient-rome http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/BaBeyzFRBVY/fresh-meat-mirror-image-by-ice-t-and-jorge-hinojosa-thriller-drugs-gangs-katherine-tomlinson <p><img alt="Ice-T, Mirror Image" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Tomlinson_Mirror-Image-Ice-T-250.jpg" /><strong><em>Mirror Image</em> by Ice-T and Jorge Hinojosa is the second in the Kings of Vice noir thriller series (available May 7, 2013).</strong></p><p>Celebrity authors.</p><p>Do you secretly roll your eyes when you see a celebrity&rsquo;s name on the cover of a novel? Do you expect the book to be snark-bait along the lines of Nicole &ldquo;Snooki&rdquo; Polizzi&rsquo;s beach-read <em>The Shore Thing?</em> Are you more or less skeptical when you see a co-author&rsquo;s name? (And if you&rsquo;re more skeptical, how do you feel about all those books <strong>James Patterson</strong> co-authors with people you never heard of?)</p><p>Let&rsquo;s be honest. We probably would not be sitting here talking about <em>Mirror Image</em> if it were just the second novel by a 55-year-old Jersey guy named Tracy Marrow co-written by his good friend and business partner.</p><p>Or maybe we would.</p><p>[Here&rsquo;s why...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-mirror-image-by-ice-t-and-jorge-hinojosa-thriller-drugs-gangs-katherine-tomlinson">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=BaBeyzFRBVY:u8k4EPcmmuo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=BaBeyzFRBVY:u8k4EPcmmuo:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=BaBeyzFRBVY:u8k4EPcmmuo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=BaBeyzFRBVY:u8k4EPcmmuo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=BaBeyzFRBVY:u8k4EPcmmuo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=BaBeyzFRBVY:u8k4EPcmmuo:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=BaBeyzFRBVY:u8k4EPcmmuo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=BaBeyzFRBVY:u8k4EPcmmuo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/BaBeyzFRBVY" height="1" width="1"/> Katherine Tomlinson Published Tue, 07 May 2013 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-mirror-image-by-ice-t-and-jorge-hinojosa-thriller-drugs-gangs-katherine-tomlinson http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-mirror-image-by-ice-t-and-jorge-hinojosa-thriller-drugs-gangs-katherine-tomlinson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/7JFiU9hMpeg/fresh-meat-silken-prey-john-sandford-leigh-neely-lucas-davenport <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-silken-prey.JPG" /></p><p><strong><em>Silken Prey</em> by John Sandford places Lucas Davenport in the midst of a political scandal with deadly consequences (available May 7, 2013).</strong></p><p>I have to tell you up front&mdash;I love <strong>John Sandford</strong>. I&rsquo;ve read everything he&rsquo;s written and even looked up some of his newspaper stories. He&rsquo;s a gifted, eloquent writer who grabs me every time with his books.</p><p>I&rsquo;ve had a longtime love for Lucas Davenport. He&rsquo;s just about the coolest character I know, and I&rsquo;ve come to know him so well I feel I&rsquo;d recognize him if I passed him on the street. He&rsquo;s a dedicated, hard-nosed cop to the core, and he&rsquo;s like a pit bull that can&rsquo;t let go of a bone when he gets the bad guy in his sights.</p><p><em>Silken Prey </em>continues the story of Lucas and the wonderful friends and coworkers who make up his world. I&rsquo;m always thrilled when Lucas and Virgil Flowers, one of his BCA agents featured in another Sandford series, work together, but in this book he also reconnects with Kidd, the famous artist and computer whiz. Then there are the usual suspects&mdash;Del, Jenkins, and Shrake who are joined by two female BCA agents we meet for the first time. So many good characters I put off reading the last page because I didn&rsquo;t want the story to end.</p><p>[Hanging on to every word...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-silken-prey-john-sandford-leigh-neely-lucas-davenport">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7JFiU9hMpeg:zz84PHUONxc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7JFiU9hMpeg:zz84PHUONxc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7JFiU9hMpeg:zz84PHUONxc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=7JFiU9hMpeg:zz84PHUONxc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7JFiU9hMpeg:zz84PHUONxc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7JFiU9hMpeg:zz84PHUONxc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7JFiU9hMpeg:zz84PHUONxc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=7JFiU9hMpeg:zz84PHUONxc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/7JFiU9hMpeg" height="1" width="1"/> Leigh Neely Published Tue, 07 May 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-silken-prey-john-sandford-leigh-neely-lucas-davenport http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-silken-prey-john-sandford-leigh-neely-lucas-davenport http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/BWAfDvFRKR0/dead-giveaway-hero-charles-ramsey-cleveland-kidnapping-amanda-berry-gina-dejesus-rescue-funny-press-interview-crime-hq <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Dead-Giveaway-Guy.jpg" style="height: 271px; width: 250px; " />If you haven&#39;t yet been introduced to Charles Ramsey, he&#39;s a Clevelander who helped rescue women who had been held in captivity in a neighbor&#39;s house for a decade after being kidnapped as teenagers. He heard Amanda Berry&#39;s cries, helped her break out of the home&#39;s door and call 9-1-1. Also rescued was kidnap victim Gina DeJesus and a third woman, another missing local named Michelle Knight. Berry had a young daughter with her, and there were apparently other children in the home. Seeing people freed from horrors and returned to their families is heart-warming enough, but the funny way this regular-guy-turned-hero explains how he got involved, well that&#39;s just the cherry on top of a sundae of awesome.</p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kBJowiFQj_c" width="475"></iframe></p><p>More info at <a href="http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/Cleveland-police-dispatch-Missing-teens-Amanda-Berry-and-Gina-DeJesus-found-alive" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">NewsNet5</a></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/dead-giveaway-hero-charles-ramsey-cleveland-kidnapping-amanda-berry-gina-dejesus-rescue-funny-press-interview-crime-hq">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=BWAfDvFRKR0:8R_3GPipOck:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=BWAfDvFRKR0:8R_3GPipOck:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=BWAfDvFRKR0:8R_3GPipOck:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=BWAfDvFRKR0:8R_3GPipOck:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=BWAfDvFRKR0:8R_3GPipOck:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=BWAfDvFRKR0:8R_3GPipOck:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=BWAfDvFRKR0:8R_3GPipOck:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=BWAfDvFRKR0:8R_3GPipOck:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/BWAfDvFRKR0" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Tue, 07 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/dead-giveaway-hero-charles-ramsey-cleveland-kidnapping-amanda-berry-gina-dejesus-rescue-funny-press-interview-crime-hq http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/dead-giveaway-hero-charles-ramsey-cleveland-kidnapping-amanda-berry-gina-dejesus-rescue-funny-press-interview-crime-hq http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/MWA0RUfQNyk/fresh-meat-foal-play-kathryn-osullivan-kerry-hammond <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-foal-play.jpg" /><strong><em>Foal Play</em> by Kathryn O&rsquo;Sullivan, a murder mystery with humorous overtones, won the Malice Domestic competition for Best First Traditional Mystery Novel (available May 7, 2013).</strong></p><p>It&rsquo;s summertime in Corolla, North Carolina, and Colleen McCabe is the fire chief of this small resort town. She inhabits a mostly man&rsquo;s world in her profession, but has managed to win over her team with her professionalism and skill. She and her Border Collie Sparky try to keep things under control, even in the height of tourist season.</p><p>This idyllic town in the Outer Banks comes complete with a wild horse refuge that is home to a herd of Spanish mustangs. The refuge is meant to keep them safe from tourists and other dangers. This is definitely harder to do when the horses break through the fences to mix with the population.</p><p>[Everything&rsquo;s beachy until the dead bodies start turning up...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-foal-play-kathryn-osullivan-kerry-hammond">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=MWA0RUfQNyk:Ov7KzqkQV84:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=MWA0RUfQNyk:Ov7KzqkQV84:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=MWA0RUfQNyk:Ov7KzqkQV84:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=MWA0RUfQNyk:Ov7KzqkQV84:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=MWA0RUfQNyk:Ov7KzqkQV84:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=MWA0RUfQNyk:Ov7KzqkQV84:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=MWA0RUfQNyk:Ov7KzqkQV84:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=MWA0RUfQNyk:Ov7KzqkQV84:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/MWA0RUfQNyk" height="1" width="1"/> Kerry Hammond Published Mon, 06 May 2013 16:00:41 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-foal-play-kathryn-osullivan-kerry-hammond http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-foal-play-kathryn-osullivan-kerry-hammond http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/oUNhpjbkKHo/fresh-meat-original-skin-david-mark-jenny-maloney <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-original-skin.jpg" /><strong><em>Original Skin</em> by David Mark, the follow-up to <em>The Dark Winter</em>, is a gritty police procedural set in the north of England (available May 16, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Original Skin </em>is the second novel in the Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy series set in Hull, a historic port city that has seen more than its fair share of violent crime. Hull is currently overrun with Vietnamese drug lords, a seedy sexual underbelly, and itinerant &ldquo;travellers.&rdquo; So when McAvoy stumbles onto evidence that the suicide of a young &ldquo;swinger&rdquo; may in fact be a murder, it&rsquo;s not really a surprise the case is not placed front and center.</p><p>McAvoy investigates the death of Simon Appleyard&mdash;the &ldquo;suicide&rdquo;&mdash;on the quiet, while still working his regular caseload. As he pulls at the loose threads of the suicide theory, he finds more than he bargained for. Government officials are affected. Corruption within the police force is exposed. Innocent bystanders are caught in the crossfire of sexual cover-ups. And the killer isn&rsquo;t done yet.</p><p>[Why stop at one?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-original-skin-david-mark-jenny-maloney">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oUNhpjbkKHo:lfpA12Pmye8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oUNhpjbkKHo:lfpA12Pmye8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oUNhpjbkKHo:lfpA12Pmye8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=oUNhpjbkKHo:lfpA12Pmye8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oUNhpjbkKHo:lfpA12Pmye8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oUNhpjbkKHo:lfpA12Pmye8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oUNhpjbkKHo:lfpA12Pmye8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=oUNhpjbkKHo:lfpA12Pmye8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/oUNhpjbkKHo" height="1" width="1"/> Jenny Maloney Published Mon, 06 May 2013 13:30:11 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-original-skin-david-mark-jenny-maloney http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-original-skin-david-mark-jenny-maloney http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/UL0cL54NShs/you-had-us-at-my-girlfriends-pimp-only-in-florida-hialeah-police <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/pimpin_aint_easy_infant_creeper.jpg" /></p><p>In case you thought that things in Florida might have settled into a state one or two notches below wackadoo, we bring you this little gem from the April 29, 2013, <em>Miami Herald</em>:</p><p><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/29/3371418/hialeah-cop-my-girlfriends-pimp.html#emlnl=Five_Minute_Herald" rel="nofollow">Hialeah cop: My girlfriend&rsquo;s pimp set me up</a></p><p>The article summarizes thusly: &ldquo;Tomas Mu&ntilde;oz, a 15-year veteran of the department, has been suspended <em>with pay</em> [emphasis ours] after being arrested Saturday and charged with cocaine possession and carrying drug paraphernalia.</p><p>&ldquo;He says he&rsquo;s innocent&mdash;and he was set up by his girlfriend&rsquo;s pimp.&rdquo;</p><p>Then it goes on to explain:</p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;I met a girl&mdash;she happens to have a pimp, and we fell in love,&rdquo; Mu&ntilde;oz said. &ldquo;And he doesn&rsquo;t let her be free. This came about because he set the whole thing up.&rdquo;</p><p>According to an arrest report released Monday, Hialeah police got a tip that Mu&ntilde;oz was buying crack cocaine Friday night near Miami International Airport.</p><p>Later that night, Miami police found him with [crack rocks on a night stand and a crack pipe under the mattress] in a Miami motel room, where he was with a woman, according to the report.</p><p>&nbsp;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s OK,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Things happen for a reason.&rdquo;</p></blockquote><p>Florida Man is a philosopher. And Florida remains Florida&hellip;bless its little wacked out soul.<br />&nbsp;</p><p><em>Photo: <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/mf/7632260/pimpin-aint-easy-infant-creeper_bodysuit" rel="nofollow">Pimpin&rsquo; Ain&rsquo;t Easy Infant Creeper available via Caf&eacute; Press</a>.</em></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/you-had-us-at-my-girlfriends-pimp-only-in-florida-hialeah-police">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=UL0cL54NShs:SrUnmtdn9V0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=UL0cL54NShs:SrUnmtdn9V0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=UL0cL54NShs:SrUnmtdn9V0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=UL0cL54NShs:SrUnmtdn9V0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=UL0cL54NShs:SrUnmtdn9V0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=UL0cL54NShs:SrUnmtdn9V0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=UL0cL54NShs:SrUnmtdn9V0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=UL0cL54NShs:SrUnmtdn9V0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/UL0cL54NShs" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Mon, 06 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/you-had-us-at-my-girlfriends-pimp-only-in-florida-hialeah-police http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/you-had-us-at-my-girlfriends-pimp-only-in-florida-hialeah-police http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/PvJR-SS3kuY/edgar-and-agatha-on-the-weekend-2013-awards <p><img alt="Dennis Lehane, Live By Night" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-09-Sept/Amper_Lehane-Live-By-Night.jpg" style="height: 302px; width: 200px;" /><strong>First it was The Edgar Awards, announced on Thursday night:</strong></p><ul><li><span class="winner">Best Novel: <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/09/fresh-meat-live-by-night-by-dennis-lehane"><em>Live by Night</em></a> by <strong>Dennis Lehane</strong></span></li><li><span class="winner">Best First Novel: </span><span class="winner"><em>The Expats</em> by <strong>Chris Pavone</strong></span></li><li><span class="winner">Best Paperback Original: <em>T</em></span><span class="winner"><em>he Last Policeman: A Novel</em> by <strong>Ben H. Winters</strong></span></li><li><span class="winner">Best Fact Crime: </span><span class="winner"><em>Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China</em> by <strong>Paul French</strong></span></li><li><span class="winner">Best Critical/Biographical: </span><span class="winner"><em>The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics</em> by <strong>James O</strong></span><strong>&rsquo;</strong><span class="winner"><strong>Brien</strong></span></li><li><span class="winner">Best Short Story: </span><span class="winner">&ldquo;The Unremarkable Heart&rdquo; - <em>Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance</em> by <strong>Karin Slaughter</strong></span></li><li><span class="winner">Best Juvenile: </span><span class="winner"><em>The Quick Fix</em> by <strong>Jack D. Ferraiolo</strong></span></li><li><span class="winner">Best Young Adult: </span><span class="winner"><em>Code Name Verity</em> by <strong>Elizabeth Wein</strong></span></li><li><span class="winner">Best TV Episode Teleplay: <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/01/bbcs-sherlock-season-2-a-scandal-in-belgravia">&ldquo;A Scandal in Belgravia&rdquo; - <em>Sherlock</em>, Teleplay by <strong>Steven Moffat</strong></a></span></li><li><span class="winner">Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: </span>&ldquo;When They Are Done With Us&rdquo; - <em>Staten Island Noir </em>by <strong>Patricia Smith</strong></li><li>The Mary Higgins Clark Award: <span class="winner"><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/09/fresh-meat-the-other-woman-by-hank-phillippi-ryan-deborah-lacy-thriller-journalist-serial-killer-revenge"><em>The Other Woman</em></a> by <strong>Hank Phillippi Ryan</strong></span></li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>...And then the Agatha Awards!</strong></p><ul><li><img alt="Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-08-August/Benedict-FM-The-Beautiful-Mystery-250.jpg" style="height: 304px; width: 200px;" />Best Novel: <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/08/fresh-meat-the-beautiful-mystery-by-louise-penny-laura-benedict-detective-inspector-gamache-canada"><em>The Beautiful Mystery</em></a> by <strong>Louise Penny </strong>(<a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/now-win-this-the-cant-get-to-malice-sweepstakes-julia-spencer-fleming-g-m-malliet-laura-disilverio-louise-penny">win it now</a>!)</li><li>Best First Novel: <em>Lowcountry Boil</em> by <strong>Susan M. Boyer</strong></li><li>Best Nonfiction: <em>Books to Die</em> For by <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2011/11/an-unnatural-appreciation-a-fan-letter-to-john-connolly"><strong>John Connolly</strong></a> and <strong>Declan Burke</strong>, editors</li><li>Best Short Story: &ldquo;Mischief in Mesopotamia&rdquo; (<em>Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine</em>) by <strong>Dana Cameron</strong></li><li>Best Children&rsquo;s/Young Adult Novel: <em>The Haunted Lighthouse</em> by <strong>Penny Warner</strong></li><li>Best Historical: <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/05/fresh-meat-dandy-gilver-and-an-unsuitable-day-for-murder-by-catriona-mcpherson-traditional-historical-series-scotland-world-war-one"><em>Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for Murder</em></a> by <strong>Catriona McPherson</strong></li></ul><p><strong>What do you think? Do you think they missed any great books?</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/edgar-and-agatha-on-the-weekend-2013-awards">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=PvJR-SS3kuY:tfVYqTrvg74:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=PvJR-SS3kuY:tfVYqTrvg74:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=PvJR-SS3kuY:tfVYqTrvg74:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=PvJR-SS3kuY:tfVYqTrvg74:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=PvJR-SS3kuY:tfVYqTrvg74:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=PvJR-SS3kuY:tfVYqTrvg74:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=PvJR-SS3kuY:tfVYqTrvg74:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=PvJR-SS3kuY:tfVYqTrvg74:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/PvJR-SS3kuY" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Mon, 06 May 2013 01:17:41 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/edgar-and-agatha-on-the-weekend-2013-awards http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/edgar-and-agatha-on-the-weekend-2013-awards http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/kixNOX1SeeA/fresh-meat-shattered-trident-larry-bond-kate-lincoln <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-shattered-trident.jpg" /><strong><em>Shattered Trident</em> by Larry Bond is a submarine-centered, military thriller set in the not-too-distant future (available May 7, 2013).</strong></p><p>China is the new Russia, a writer&rsquo;s go-to country for worldwide threats. <strong>Larry Bond</strong>&rsquo;s latest SUBNOV, <em>Shattered Trident</em>, highlights this status with an intriguing, plausible, premise: &nbsp;the Chinese take over various long-disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea to secure their vast oil reserves and rich fishing grounds, and control all-important shipping lanes.</p><p>The year is 2016. China&rsquo;s economy appears healthy, yet party leaders cannot keep its significant flaws hidden for long while their economy slows. The Trident Operation also signals their navy&rsquo;s transformation from a coastline defense fleet to a true blue-water power in the Asian Pacific.</p><p>Their first act of aggression is to torpedo a tanker that supposedly carries coal bound for Japan. The hit generates a massive explosion. Witnessing the attack is the American sub <em>North Dakota</em> commanded by Jerry Mitchell, who recognizes an act of war though he has no idea who the players are. A respected blogger on maritime issues from Nova Scotia catches wind of the event and calls on his readers to share what they might know about the deliberate sinking.</p><p>[Nothing peaceable about the Pacific...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-shattered-trident-larry-bond-kate-lincoln">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=kixNOX1SeeA:klPJ5t_2cMc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=kixNOX1SeeA:klPJ5t_2cMc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=kixNOX1SeeA:klPJ5t_2cMc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=kixNOX1SeeA:klPJ5t_2cMc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=kixNOX1SeeA:klPJ5t_2cMc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=kixNOX1SeeA:klPJ5t_2cMc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=kixNOX1SeeA:klPJ5t_2cMc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=kixNOX1SeeA:klPJ5t_2cMc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/kixNOX1SeeA" height="1" width="1"/> Kate Lincoln Published Sun, 05 May 2013 16:00:28 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-shattered-trident-larry-bond-kate-lincoln http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-shattered-trident-larry-bond-kate-lincoln http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/WB6TaMTSL7I/so-bad-theyre-good-sympathizing-with-the-bad-guy-deborah-lacy-tony-soprano-antihero <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/so-good-tony-smile.jpg" title="James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano" />Deliciously complex, these characters are bad, sometimes even evil, but by showing us moments of goodness and their humanity we get sucked in to rooting for them. Don&rsquo;t worry this isn&rsquo;t a paper on the antihero in contemporary crime literature. It is a list of some of my favorite complicated fictional criminals.</p><p><strong>Tony Soprano, <em>The Sopranos</em></strong></p><p>Mob boss Tony Soprano is a classic example of the antihero and as we watch him with his kids we forget that he makes a living through crime. But it&rsquo;s okay, because he and all his mobster friends follow their own moral code. Again, I got lulled into rooting for him, until later in the series when he started offing other characters we loved because they posed some perceived danger to him&mdash;his nephew-in-law Christopher and Christopher&rsquo;s wife Adriana come to mind. Even in the end, I didn&rsquo;t want to see Tony gunned down or arrested.</p><p>[We all love a bad boy...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/so-bad-theyre-good-sympathizing-with-the-bad-guy-deborah-lacy-tony-soprano-antihero">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WB6TaMTSL7I:293uEwI38S8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WB6TaMTSL7I:293uEwI38S8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WB6TaMTSL7I:293uEwI38S8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=WB6TaMTSL7I:293uEwI38S8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WB6TaMTSL7I:293uEwI38S8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WB6TaMTSL7I:293uEwI38S8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WB6TaMTSL7I:293uEwI38S8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=WB6TaMTSL7I:293uEwI38S8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/WB6TaMTSL7I" height="1" width="1"/> Deborah Lacy Published Sun, 05 May 2013 14:00:30 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/so-bad-theyre-good-sympathizing-with-the-bad-guy-deborah-lacy-tony-soprano-antihero http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/so-bad-theyre-good-sympathizing-with-the-bad-guy-deborah-lacy-tony-soprano-antihero http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/3JNTHUuInfI/the-woman-before-me-ruth-dugdall <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/ex-woman-before-me.JPG" /><strong>An excerpt from <em>The Woman Before Me</em>, a CWA Debut Dagger award winner, by Ruth Dugdall (available May 9, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Emma has everything Rose lacks: a faithful husband, beauty, and a healthy baby boy. Rose meets her in the hospital after her own baby dies from premature birth, and when Emma&rsquo;s child dies in a suspicious house fire shortly after, the obsessive and unstable Rose is the primary suspect.</em></p><p><em>Now, after almost five years in prison, Rose is up for parole, but probation officer Cate Austin must first decide whether this accused murderer can be released or if she really is a threat to society. The answer seems obvious at first, but as Cate delves deeper into Rose&rsquo;s disturbing past the probation officer becomes entangled in the inmate&rsquo;s dark world.</em></p><p><strong>BEFORE</strong></p><p><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p><p>Creeping across the threshold, I listen to the silence of the sleeping house. These middle hours, between three and four in the morning when deepest sleep can be reached, make the kitchen seem larger and emptier than in daylight. Different. Although the difference is me. This time I&rsquo;m saying goodbye.</p><p>The fragrance of Emma is everywhere, the delicate tang of her green apple perfume. That small wooden box, holding an assortment of tea bags, on the shelf&mdash;I&rsquo;ll never again see her bend over it, her hair falling like a veil, sweeping it away as she dithers over her selection. And Luke. She told me I&rsquo;ll never see him again.</p><p>There&rsquo;s a large picture on the wall, a print of the Eiffel Tower, a place she visited on her first honeymoon. On the work surface are unwashed plates, remains of their last meal encrusted on the cutlery. I thought she was so neat, but then I never really knew her. Not like you did.</p><p>[Read the full excerpt of <em>The Woman Before Me</em> by Ruth Dugdall...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/the-woman-before-me-ruth-dugdall">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3JNTHUuInfI:XDVkA3YKSKQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3JNTHUuInfI:XDVkA3YKSKQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3JNTHUuInfI:XDVkA3YKSKQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=3JNTHUuInfI:XDVkA3YKSKQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3JNTHUuInfI:XDVkA3YKSKQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3JNTHUuInfI:XDVkA3YKSKQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3JNTHUuInfI:XDVkA3YKSKQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=3JNTHUuInfI:XDVkA3YKSKQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/3JNTHUuInfI" height="1" width="1"/> Ruth Dugdall Excerpts Sat, 04 May 2013 16:00:07 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/the-woman-before-me-ruth-dugdall http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/the-woman-before-me-ruth-dugdall http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/davcUBZYiiw/fresh-meat-night-terrors-by-dennis-palumbo-neliza-drew-traditional-detective-daniel-rinaldi-psychiatrist <p><img alt="Night Terrors by Dennis Palumbo" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/Drew-FM-Night-Terrors-250.jpg" title="Night Terrors by Dennis Palumbo" /><strong><em>Night Terrors</em> by Dennis Palumbo is the third novel in the series featuring Pittsburgh-based psychotherapist Daniel Rinaldi (available May 7, 2013).</strong></p><p>Once again, psychotherapist Daniel Rinaldi has been called in to consult with the police. This time it&rsquo;s in Wheeling, West Virginia, where a guy has killed a local businessman, but will only lead detectives to the body if Rinaldi rides along. No sooner does he get back from Wheeling than FBI agent Alcott shows up, reluctantly asking for Rinaldi&rsquo;s help with retired agent Lyle Barnes, whose years as a profiler have apparently taken their toll. To complicate matters, Barnes might be on a hit list related to the case of a small-time serial killer with a lone, angry fan. And, oh yeah, he has no intention of sitting around a hotel room like a sap when he can&rsquo;t even get a decent night&rsquo;s sleep.</p><p>Now, Rinaldi&rsquo;s a likeable guy for the most part. He may have a hero complex and get himself into more trouble than his cop friends and enemies would like. Well, &ldquo;enemies&rdquo; might be a slight misnomer since about the only ones who don&rsquo;t seem to think he&rsquo;s charming are the stressed-out cops and agents who don&rsquo;t care for &ldquo;shrinks.&rdquo;</p><p>[He has a way of getting inside your head...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-night-terrors-by-dennis-palumbo-neliza-drew-traditional-detective-daniel-rinaldi-psychiatrist">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=davcUBZYiiw:SOUE1PFsrk0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=davcUBZYiiw:SOUE1PFsrk0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=davcUBZYiiw:SOUE1PFsrk0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=davcUBZYiiw:SOUE1PFsrk0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=davcUBZYiiw:SOUE1PFsrk0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=davcUBZYiiw:SOUE1PFsrk0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=davcUBZYiiw:SOUE1PFsrk0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=davcUBZYiiw:SOUE1PFsrk0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/davcUBZYiiw" height="1" width="1"/> Neliza Drew Published Sat, 04 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-night-terrors-by-dennis-palumbo-neliza-drew-traditional-detective-daniel-rinaldi-psychiatrist http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-night-terrors-by-dennis-palumbo-neliza-drew-traditional-detective-daniel-rinaldi-psychiatrist http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/q3B2diXBlxE/hannibal-episode-5-entree-mads-mikkelsen-amber-keller <p><img alt="Crawford and Will" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Keller-hannibal-5-Entree-trio.jpg" /></p><p>Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane is a large, Gothic estate that houses a violent criminal known as Dr. Gideon. He&rsquo;s been a model prisoner during his two year stay, earning him the privilege of lighter security measures in an otherwise high security psychiatric hospital. But that all changes one day when Dr. Gideon fakes being unconscious and, when left alone with a nurse, performs a grisly murder. His method mirrors a serial killer named the Chesapeake Ripper, who is presumably at large and hasn&rsquo;t murdered in over two years, ironically the same amount of time Gideon has been in the hospital. The question becomes, is Dr. Gideon the Chesapeake Ripper?</p><p>[Ripper in the asylum]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/hannibal-episode-5-entree-mads-mikkelsen-amber-keller">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=q3B2diXBlxE:81jYl-C-eZ0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=q3B2diXBlxE:81jYl-C-eZ0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=q3B2diXBlxE:81jYl-C-eZ0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=q3B2diXBlxE:81jYl-C-eZ0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=q3B2diXBlxE:81jYl-C-eZ0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=q3B2diXBlxE:81jYl-C-eZ0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=q3B2diXBlxE:81jYl-C-eZ0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=q3B2diXBlxE:81jYl-C-eZ0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/q3B2diXBlxE" height="1" width="1"/> Amber Keller Published Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/hannibal-episode-5-entree-mads-mikkelsen-amber-keller http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/hannibal-episode-5-entree-mads-mikkelsen-amber-keller http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/uHTik5KCp5Y/now-win-this-the-cant-get-to-malice-sweepstakes-julia-spencer-fleming-g-m-malliet-laura-disilverio-louise-penny <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Malice_Sweeps-2013.jpg" /></p><p>We know how it is: this time every year, the Malice Domestic conference rolls around and you wish you could go but other obligations get in the way. So this year we&rsquo;re bringing you a chance to win keeper-shelf hardcovers of some of Malice&rsquo;s favorite authors: <em>One Was a Soldier</em> by <strong>Julia Spencer-Fleming</strong>, <em>A Fatal Winter </em>by <strong>G. M. Malliet</strong>, <em>Swift Run</em> by <strong>Laura DiSilverio</strong>, and <em>The Beautiful Mystery</em> by <strong>Louise Penny</strong>.</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/malicebundlesweepstakes/register" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO ENTER for your chance to win four hardcover books and revisit these keepers!</a></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>(<font color="red">This is NOT a Comments Sweepstakes. You must click link above to enter.</font>)</strong></p><p><span style="font-size:11px;">NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.&nbsp;A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. You must be 18 or older and a legal resident of the 50 United States or D.C. to enter.&nbsp;Promotion begins May 3, 2013, at 12 pm ET, and ends May 17, 2013, 11:59 am ET. Void in Puerto Rico and wherever prohibited by law.<a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/page/official-rules-the-mad-river-sweepstakes" style="text-decoration: none; " target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/page/official-rules-the-cant-get-to-malice-sweepstakes" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here for&nbsp;details and official rules</span>.</a></span></p><p>[About the books]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/now-win-this-the-cant-get-to-malice-sweepstakes-julia-spencer-fleming-g-m-malliet-laura-disilverio-louise-penny">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=uHTik5KCp5Y:UlNTWJ8v1g0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=uHTik5KCp5Y:UlNTWJ8v1g0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=uHTik5KCp5Y:UlNTWJ8v1g0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=uHTik5KCp5Y:UlNTWJ8v1g0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=uHTik5KCp5Y:UlNTWJ8v1g0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=uHTik5KCp5Y:UlNTWJ8v1g0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=uHTik5KCp5Y:UlNTWJ8v1g0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=uHTik5KCp5Y:UlNTWJ8v1g0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/uHTik5KCp5Y" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Fri, 03 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/now-win-this-the-cant-get-to-malice-sweepstakes-julia-spencer-fleming-g-m-malliet-laura-disilverio-louise-penny http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/now-win-this-the-cant-get-to-malice-sweepstakes-julia-spencer-fleming-g-m-malliet-laura-disilverio-louise-penny http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/rf9Kh2Ytf_k/fresh-meat-red-handed-the-fine-art-of-strange-crimes-by-matt-kindt-doreen-sheridan <p><img alt="Red Handed by Matt Kindt" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Sheridan-Kindt-Red-Handed-Cover.jpg" /><strong><em>Red Handed</em> by Matt Kindt is an artistic graphic novel and so much more (available May 7, 2013).</strong></p><p>Red Wheel Barrow is your average American city except for one significant trait: none of their crimes go unsolved. While this seems to have had no effect on the crime rate, the good people of Red Wheel Barrow can rest assured that hometown hero, Detective Gould, will swiftly bring any evil-doers to justice. With his embrace of technology, an established network of eyes and ears on the ground as well as his own fine deductive skills, Gould is commonly lauded by the townsfolk as the greatest detective since Sherlock Holmes.</p><p>[But nothing so good can last forever]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-red-handed-the-fine-art-of-strange-crimes-by-matt-kindt-doreen-sheridan">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rf9Kh2Ytf_k:rvk7fQNt11c:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rf9Kh2Ytf_k:rvk7fQNt11c:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rf9Kh2Ytf_k:rvk7fQNt11c:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=rf9Kh2Ytf_k:rvk7fQNt11c:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rf9Kh2Ytf_k:rvk7fQNt11c:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rf9Kh2Ytf_k:rvk7fQNt11c:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rf9Kh2Ytf_k:rvk7fQNt11c:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=rf9Kh2Ytf_k:rvk7fQNt11c:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/rf9Kh2Ytf_k" height="1" width="1"/> Doreen Sheridan Published Fri, 03 May 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-red-handed-the-fine-art-of-strange-crimes-by-matt-kindt-doreen-sheridan http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-red-handed-the-fine-art-of-strange-crimes-by-matt-kindt-doreen-sheridan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/auRxxHrH0SM/friday-flicks-the-delightfully-twisted-abe-robots-serial-killers-scifi-christopher-morgan <p><img align="left" alt="I don't think I can let you do that Dave..." class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Abe175x199.jpg" title="I don't think I can let you do that Dave..." />We&#39;ve all encountered a robot story of some kind at some point. Or at least we are all aware of the premise. Man creates machine, gives machine life, and then said machine eventually goes about removing man from the face of the planet. It&#39;s been that way since Madame Shelly wrote The Monster into all of our nightmares. But what happens when the machine isn&#39;t bent on genocide, but instead settles for simple homicide?</p><p>Below is the short film called <em>ABE. </em>It is the story of a robot with a voice quite similar to HAL 9000 and who is quite creepily and convincingly a serial killer. What is interesting is that it strips away every single ounce of humanity from what a lot of us think of when we think of sociopaths and psychopaths. I love the detachment that the robot manages, and it somehow makes the driving force behind a show like <em>Dexter</em> more real by introducing a machine instead of another human. Thoughts?</p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/64114843?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/friday-flicks-the-delightfully-twisted-abe-robots-serial-killers-scifi-christopher-morgan">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=auRxxHrH0SM:Vqq-Y3vnkPs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=auRxxHrH0SM:Vqq-Y3vnkPs:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=auRxxHrH0SM:Vqq-Y3vnkPs:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=auRxxHrH0SM:Vqq-Y3vnkPs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=auRxxHrH0SM:Vqq-Y3vnkPs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=auRxxHrH0SM:Vqq-Y3vnkPs:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=auRxxHrH0SM:Vqq-Y3vnkPs:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=auRxxHrH0SM:Vqq-Y3vnkPs:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/auRxxHrH0SM" height="1" width="1"/> Christopher Morgan Published Fri, 03 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/friday-flicks-the-delightfully-twisted-abe-robots-serial-killers-scifi-christopher-morgan http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/friday-flicks-the-delightfully-twisted-abe-robots-serial-killers-scifi-christopher-morgan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/HhKWKkIMhWU/from-the-marx-brothers-to-philip-marlowe-kenneth-wishnia-raymond-chandler-humor- <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/humor-marx-races.jpg" title="The Marx Brothers in a promo shot for A Day at the Races" />Humor is the weapon of the powerless.</p><p>Being the child of intellectual Jews gave me many advantages as a kid (bagels, Woody Allen movies, skepticism of political power), but when we moved to suburban Long Island in the late 1960s, I discovered the downside. First, none of the local barbers knew what to do with my frizzy &ldquo;ethnic&rdquo; hair (they tried to plaster it down with something resembling industrial shellack), and second, most of my schoolmates never seemed to question the existing order of things, like mandatory attendance at pep rallies, which struck me as somewhat fascistic back in 7th grade. My views were unappreciated by the dominant jock culture, but I was able to survive by making the big guys laugh.</p><p>[Better a bad joke than a black eye...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/from-the-marx-brothers-to-philip-marlowe-kenneth-wishnia-raymond-chandler-humor-">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HhKWKkIMhWU:bYwSqPDwaug:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HhKWKkIMhWU:bYwSqPDwaug:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HhKWKkIMhWU:bYwSqPDwaug:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=HhKWKkIMhWU:bYwSqPDwaug:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HhKWKkIMhWU:bYwSqPDwaug:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HhKWKkIMhWU:bYwSqPDwaug:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HhKWKkIMhWU:bYwSqPDwaug:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=HhKWKkIMhWU:bYwSqPDwaug:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/HhKWKkIMhWU" height="1" width="1"/> Kenneth Wishnia Published Thu, 02 May 2013 16:00:43 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/from-the-marx-brothers-to-philip-marlowe-kenneth-wishnia-raymond-chandler-humor- http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/from-the-marx-brothers-to-philip-marlowe-kenneth-wishnia-raymond-chandler-humor- http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Kw6WJ4A4xy8/fresh-meat-every-broken-trust-linda-rodriguez-katrina-niidas-holm <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-every-broken-trust.jpg" /><strong><em>Every Broken Trust </em><strong>b</strong>y Linda Rodriguez is the second novel to feature half-Cherokee campus cop Skeet Bannion (available May 7, 2013). </strong></p><p>When the events of <em>Every Broken Trust</em> conspire to land Chouteau University&rsquo;s Police Chief, Marquitta &ldquo;Skeet&rdquo; Bannion, in the middle of yet another murder investigation&mdash;this one involving her best friend, Karen Wise&mdash;she vows to do everything in her power to nab the real killer and bring closure to those affected.</p><p>That does not, however, mean that she has the luxury of putting the rest of her life on hold while she works to crack the case; to the contrary, Skeet&rsquo;s thorny personal life seems bound and determined to distract her from the task at hand.&nbsp;</p><p>[We know what that&rsquo;s like...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-every-broken-trust-linda-rodriguez-katrina-niidas-holm">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Kw6WJ4A4xy8:aYQAU8dhPkA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Kw6WJ4A4xy8:aYQAU8dhPkA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Kw6WJ4A4xy8:aYQAU8dhPkA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Kw6WJ4A4xy8:aYQAU8dhPkA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Kw6WJ4A4xy8:aYQAU8dhPkA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Kw6WJ4A4xy8:aYQAU8dhPkA:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Kw6WJ4A4xy8:aYQAU8dhPkA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Kw6WJ4A4xy8:aYQAU8dhPkA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Kw6WJ4A4xy8" height="1" width="1"/> Katrina Niidas Holm Published Thu, 02 May 2013 13:30:18 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-every-broken-trust-linda-rodriguez-katrina-niidas-holm http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-every-broken-trust-linda-rodriguez-katrina-niidas-holm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/_iYvtITjwOM/missing-dixon-dixon-fiction-mash-up-crime-hq-zombies-artsy-the-walking-dead <p><img alt="Dixon Fiction" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/AM-Coffee-Dixon-Fiction.jpg" title="Dixon Fiction: One last chance to fight the good fight!" /></p><p>If you&rsquo;re still missing <em>The Walking Dead</em> and in particular the <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/mourning-merle-the-walking-dead-replacement-dixons-castle-psych-justified-bert-ernie-fanfic-brothers-crime-hq" target="_self">Brothers Dixon</a>, fear not, for <a href="http://www.teefury.com/archive/2226/Dixon_Fiction/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tee Fury has the answer for you.</a> In one of their daily deals, they offered up this T-shirt&mdash;a mash-up of The Brothers Dixon and <em>Pulp Fiction</em>.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/missing-dixon-dixon-fiction-mash-up-crime-hq-zombies-artsy-the-walking-dead">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_iYvtITjwOM:wRVXsw_2vd0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_iYvtITjwOM:wRVXsw_2vd0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_iYvtITjwOM:wRVXsw_2vd0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=_iYvtITjwOM:wRVXsw_2vd0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_iYvtITjwOM:wRVXsw_2vd0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_iYvtITjwOM:wRVXsw_2vd0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_iYvtITjwOM:wRVXsw_2vd0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=_iYvtITjwOM:wRVXsw_2vd0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/_iYvtITjwOM" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Thu, 02 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/missing-dixon-dixon-fiction-mash-up-crime-hq-zombies-artsy-the-walking-dead http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/missing-dixon-dixon-fiction-mash-up-crime-hq-zombies-artsy-the-walking-dead http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/8Hvrw3J65L0/noirs-hard-luck-ladies-cleo-moore-jake-hinkson-film-noir <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/cleo-moore.jpg" />Consider now the strange case of Cleo Moore. Blonde, buxom, and beautiful, Cleo seemed like another Marilyn Monroe clone in the 1950s. She got her start in film in 1948 when she was only twenty, and she was soon cast in a series of bit roles that called for a pretty girl who could fill out a sweater.</p><p>She had a nice part as a junkie&rsquo;s masochistic girlfriend in Nicholas Ray&rsquo;s 1952 <em>On Dangerous Ground</em> where, with only a few minutes of screen time, she was absolutely riveting. That bit part should have led to better things, but it didn&rsquo;t. The same year, however, she starred in <em>Strange Fascination</em> for director Hugo Haas. She&rsquo;d go on to make another six films for Haas, most of them low budget potboilers featuring Cleo as a sexy siren luring a man (usually Haas himself) to his doom. After their collaboration had run its course, Moore announced she was going to run for governor of Louisiana, married a real estate tycoon instead, and quit the movie business. She died suddenly of a heart attack when she was 44 years old.</p><p>[There should have been more to her story...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/noirs-hard-luck-ladies-cleo-moore-jake-hinkson-film-noir">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8Hvrw3J65L0:iJDU2FawGvY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8Hvrw3J65L0:iJDU2FawGvY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8Hvrw3J65L0:iJDU2FawGvY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=8Hvrw3J65L0:iJDU2FawGvY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8Hvrw3J65L0:iJDU2FawGvY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8Hvrw3J65L0:iJDU2FawGvY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8Hvrw3J65L0:iJDU2FawGvY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=8Hvrw3J65L0:iJDU2FawGvY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/8Hvrw3J65L0" height="1" width="1"/> Jake Hinkson Published Wed, 01 May 2013 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/noirs-hard-luck-ladies-cleo-moore-jake-hinkson-film-noir http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/noirs-hard-luck-ladies-cleo-moore-jake-hinkson-film-noir http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/YIUCPkyJxgM/fresh-meat-every-contact-leaves-a-trace-elanor-dymott-victoria-janssen <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-every-contact.jpg" /><strong><em>Every Contact Leaves a Trace </em>by Elanor Dymott is a debut novel that reminds us that even the people we think we know best can hide dark secrets (available May 6, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Alex is in his thirties, a solitary man who has finally found love in the form of his beautiful and vivacious wife, Rachel. </em></p><p><em>After Rachel is brutally murdered one Midsummer Night on the grounds of their alma mater in Oxford, Alex returns to the college that winter, and through the shroud of his shock and grief, begins to piece together the mystery surrounding his wife&rsquo;s death. </em><em>In his exploration of Rachel&rsquo;s history, Alex encounters her</em><em> former tutor and trusted mentor, whose influence over Rachel</em><em>&rsquo;s</em><em> life was more significant Alex might have expected; Rachel</em><em>&rsquo;s</em><em> self-centered and difficult godmother, whose jealousy has waxed and waned over the years; and her university friends, who shared Rachel</em><em>&rsquo;s</em><em> love of Browning and taste for the illicit.</em></p><p><em>Every Contact Leaves A Trace</em> is <strong>Elanor Dymott</strong>&rsquo;s debut novel. As much as it&rsquo;s a mystery, it&rsquo;s a character study of both the narrator, Alex, and of his murdered wife, Rachel.</p><p>[How well do we ever know anyone?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-every-contact-leaves-a-trace-elanor-dymott-victoria-janssen">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=YIUCPkyJxgM:FHyu0SnPAV4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=YIUCPkyJxgM:FHyu0SnPAV4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=YIUCPkyJxgM:FHyu0SnPAV4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=YIUCPkyJxgM:FHyu0SnPAV4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=YIUCPkyJxgM:FHyu0SnPAV4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=YIUCPkyJxgM:FHyu0SnPAV4:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=YIUCPkyJxgM:FHyu0SnPAV4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=YIUCPkyJxgM:FHyu0SnPAV4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/YIUCPkyJxgM" height="1" width="1"/> Victoria Janssen Published Wed, 01 May 2013 13:30:15 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-every-contact-leaves-a-trace-elanor-dymott-victoria-janssen http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-every-contact-leaves-a-trace-elanor-dymott-victoria-janssen http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/x0MsVIgIVrM/is-this-what-they-mean-by-unlimited-calling-cellphone-grave-tomb-stone <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/cellphone-grave.jpg" />We didn&rsquo;t know Ingrid Susanne Meyer of Cologne, Germany, but we&rsquo;re betting she was the sort of gal who used to tell her family and friends: &ldquo;I just can&rsquo;t live without my cellphone.&rdquo; And so, when she passed, they made sure she&rsquo;d always stay connected to the people she loved and they buried her beneath a gravestone in the shape of a cellphone.&nbsp;</p><p>But she&rsquo;s not the only one!</p><p>Guy Akrish, who died in a car accident at age 17, is buried in Ashkelon, Israel, beneath a flip phone grave marker. &nbsp;(It was the height of technological innovation at the time. If he were alive today, no doubt Guy would be packing a smartphone.)</p><p>Gravestones around the world now carry <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/07/cremains-of-the-day-qr-code-headstone-cemetery-carving-crime-hq">QR codes that link to videos and websites</a> about the deceased.</p><p>And then there are the many people who choose (or whose relatives choose for them) to be <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28182292/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/bury-me-my-cell-phone/#.UWwcUsp77Uc" rel="nofollow">buried with their cellphones in their coffins</a>.</p><p>We are experiencing a disconnect. Would someone please tell us how many minutes are required to last through eternity?</p><p><span style="font-size:11px;"><em>Photo by <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-vanity-gravestones-in-germany-fotostrecke-95222-3.html" rel="nofollow">Thorsten Benkel from an article in Spiegel Online.</a></em></span></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/is-this-what-they-mean-by-unlimited-calling-cellphone-grave-tomb-stone">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=x0MsVIgIVrM:DhB4C03c6_Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=x0MsVIgIVrM:DhB4C03c6_Y:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=x0MsVIgIVrM:DhB4C03c6_Y:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=x0MsVIgIVrM:DhB4C03c6_Y:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=x0MsVIgIVrM:DhB4C03c6_Y:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=x0MsVIgIVrM:DhB4C03c6_Y:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=x0MsVIgIVrM:DhB4C03c6_Y:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=x0MsVIgIVrM:DhB4C03c6_Y:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/x0MsVIgIVrM" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Wed, 01 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/is-this-what-they-mean-by-unlimited-calling-cellphone-grave-tomb-stone http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/is-this-what-they-mean-by-unlimited-calling-cellphone-grave-tomb-stone http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/9MU5KUc4oCs/fresh-meat-deaths-last-run-by-robin-spano-snowboarding-clare-vengel-katrina-niidas-holm <p><em><img alt="Death's Last Run by Robin Spano" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-04-April/Spano_Deaths-Last-Run.jpg" /><strong>Death&#39;s Last Run</strong></em><strong> by Robin Spano is the third Clare Vengel Undercover mystery (available May 1, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>A young snowboarder is found dead on the Blackcomb Glacier, and Whistler police want to close the case as suicide. The victim&rsquo;s mother, a U.S. senator, says her daughter would not, and did not, kill herself. At her request, the FBI sends in an undercover agent &mdash; Clare Vengel &mdash; to find out who might have killed Sacha and why. Dropped into a world of partying with ski bums and snow bunnies, Clare soon discovers that Sacha was involved in an LSD smuggling ring. Worse: the top cop in Whistler is in cahoots with the smugglers, and Clare&rsquo;s cover is too precarious for comfort. As suspicion snowballs, can Clare solve the case before she&rsquo;s buried alive?</em></p><p>Sounds like your standard mystery novel, right? You read that back cover copy, and you&rsquo;re pretty sure you know how the story&rsquo;s going to go: Straight-Laced, Line-Toeing Federal Agent goes undercover and is forced to consort with Big, Scary, Dangerous Drug-Dealers in order to help Incredibly Important U.S. Senator win campaign by proving that A) her daughter didn&rsquo;t kill herself, and B) drugs are the root of all evil. The end.</p><p>But you&rsquo;re wrong. Because <em>Death&rsquo;s Last Run</em> by Robin Spano isn&rsquo;t your standard mystery novel. I mean, <em>yes</em>, it&rsquo;s a mystery novel &ndash; and a damn good one, at that &ndash; but for my money, nothing that defies expectation at every turn can be classified as &ldquo;standard&rdquo;.</p><p>[No stereotypes here]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-deaths-last-run-by-robin-spano-snowboarding-clare-vengel-katrina-niidas-holm">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=9MU5KUc4oCs:fz-E_KvtxCc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=9MU5KUc4oCs:fz-E_KvtxCc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=9MU5KUc4oCs:fz-E_KvtxCc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=9MU5KUc4oCs:fz-E_KvtxCc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=9MU5KUc4oCs:fz-E_KvtxCc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=9MU5KUc4oCs:fz-E_KvtxCc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=9MU5KUc4oCs:fz-E_KvtxCc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=9MU5KUc4oCs:fz-E_KvtxCc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/9MU5KUc4oCs" height="1" width="1"/> Katrina Niidas Holm Published Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-deaths-last-run-by-robin-spano-snowboarding-clare-vengel-katrina-niidas-holm http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-deaths-last-run-by-robin-spano-snowboarding-clare-vengel-katrina-niidas-holm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/GtaPU6FzKj8/black-pulp-drums-of-the-ogbanje-mel-odom-zombies-pirates <p><img alt="Black Pulp" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-04-April/Odom_Black-Pulp.jpg" />Black Pulp<em> is a collection of stories featuring characters of African origin, or descent, in stories that run the gamut of genre fiction. A concept developed by noted crime novelist Gary Phillips, </em>Black Pulp<em> brings bestselling authors <strong>Walter Mosley</strong> and <strong>Joe R. Lansdale</strong>, <strong>Gary Phillips</strong>, <strong>Charles R. Saunders</strong>, <strong>Derrick Ferguson</strong>, <strong>D. Alan Lewis</strong>, <strong>Christopher Chambers</strong>, <strong>Mel Odom</strong>, <strong>Kimberly Richardson</strong>, <strong>Ron Fortier</strong>, <strong>Michael A. Gonzales</strong>, <strong>Gar Anthony Haywood</strong>, and <strong>Tommy Hancock</strong> together to craft adventure tales, mysteries, and more, all with black characters at the forefront. </em></p><p><strong>&ldquo;Drums of the Ogbanje&rdquo; by Mel Odom is a zombie pirate adventure from the anthology <em>Black Pulp</em>, edited by Tommy Hancock, Gary Phillips, and Morgan Minor (available May 6, 2013).</strong></p><p><strong>1. Moonlit Steel</strong></p><p><em>Bay of Luanda<br />West Africa<br />1825</em></p><p>With a heavy fighting knife clamped between his teeth, Ngola Kilunaji climbed the thick anchor rope up the ship&rsquo;s hull to deliver death to Portuguese slavers.</p><p>The vessel tugged against its anchor, riding restlessly atop the white-topped waves. Dark clouds obscured the full moon as they scudded across the sky, promising a squall by morning or shortly thereafter if the thick air was any indication.</p><p>Ngola felt the coming change of weather in the old whip scars that striped his back. The sour stench of human misery clung to the vessel, hammered into the ship&rsquo;s timbers, made part of the ship by blood and death. More than that, though, Ngola&rsquo;s nostrils took in the sick scent of hopelessness.</p><p>At the gunwale, he paused and listened. Voices drifted on the breeze, snatches that were ripped apart on the wind. He understood Portuguese well enough, though he spoke English and French much better. Instead of being bored, the sailors sounded ill at ease.</p><p>&ldquo;I do not trust that old man, Luis. I think he is going to bring down some heathen curse on us with everything he is doing.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Captain Salazar will not allow that to happen. He will kill Lukamba first. Just be glad that that old demon worshipper is gone from the ship.&rdquo;</p><p>The names stirred a memory within Ngola. Though their paths had never before crossed, Ngola had heard the whispered stories of the old witch doctor and of the greedy Portuguese captain who hunted lost treasures as well as slaves. The dead were supposed to walk at Lukamba&rsquo;s command, and demons were allowed entrance to the world through his knowledge of the dark magic that was Africa.</p><p>[Read the complete story &ldquo;Drums of the Ogbanje&rdquo; by Mel Odom]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/black-pulp-drums-of-the-ogbanje-mel-odom-zombies-pirates">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GtaPU6FzKj8:mKuw557CKWo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GtaPU6FzKj8:mKuw557CKWo:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GtaPU6FzKj8:mKuw557CKWo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=GtaPU6FzKj8:mKuw557CKWo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GtaPU6FzKj8:mKuw557CKWo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GtaPU6FzKj8:mKuw557CKWo:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GtaPU6FzKj8:mKuw557CKWo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=GtaPU6FzKj8:mKuw557CKWo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/GtaPU6FzKj8" height="1" width="1"/> Mel Odom Excerpts Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/black-pulp-drums-of-the-ogbanje-mel-odom-zombies-pirates http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/black-pulp-drums-of-the-ogbanje-mel-odom-zombies-pirates http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/rKXnTA_T-eg/the-following-season-1-finale-the-final-chapter-joe-carroll-ryan-hardy-katee-robert <p><img alt="Kevin Bacon" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-04-April/Robert-The-Following-Ep-1-15-The-Final-Chapter-Bacon.jpg" />So this season has been a long and winding road. Some of it was definitely better than others, but <em>The Following</em> started off with a bang and ended much the same way. As much as I was sure, three episodes ago, that I&rsquo;d probably never watch this show again, the finale changed my mind. I must know where things go from here!</p><p>Hardy&hellip; Dude, running off after you tell your people to cover you&hellip; You&rsquo;re lucky you didn&rsquo;t get shot by friendly fire. And forgive me if I think them picking up that sniper was waaaay too easy. Though, I have to say, you&rsquo;d think Carroll&rsquo;s people would stop assuming that Hardy is FBI. I mean, I guess he was back in the day and that&rsquo;s how Carroll idolized him (or whatever you want to call it) so maybe that&rsquo;s where their confusion comes in. Either way, that was a particularly brutal beating and, strangely enough, more difficult to watch than what Roderick did to Weston.</p><p>And when he just straight shot that guy in the face&mdash;yeah, that was pretty epic. It&rsquo;s not lost on me that I found myself cheering for the hero to straight murder some people when he&rsquo;s chasing down people who murder other people. A little bit of irony there, no? Also, I totally get why he left Weston behind. Everyone around him keeps dropping like flies, and he has a chance to actually save Weston (after he was supposed to die, but still).</p><p>[Vigilante justice is better than no justice at all?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/the-following-season-1-finale-the-final-chapter-joe-carroll-ryan-hardy-katee-robert">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rKXnTA_T-eg:Q8yHxEog0RQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rKXnTA_T-eg:Q8yHxEog0RQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rKXnTA_T-eg:Q8yHxEog0RQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=rKXnTA_T-eg:Q8yHxEog0RQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rKXnTA_T-eg:Q8yHxEog0RQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rKXnTA_T-eg:Q8yHxEog0RQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rKXnTA_T-eg:Q8yHxEog0RQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=rKXnTA_T-eg:Q8yHxEog0RQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/rKXnTA_T-eg" height="1" width="1"/> Katee Robert Published Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/the-following-season-1-finale-the-final-chapter-joe-carroll-ryan-hardy-katee-robert http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/the-following-season-1-finale-the-final-chapter-joe-carroll-ryan-hardy-katee-robert http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/6naoiKXSoH4/psycho-killers-are-people-too-dennis-palumbo-psychiatrist-serial-killer <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/psycho-matt-damon.jpg" title="Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley: Who wouldn't trust him?" />From Edward Hyde to Hannibal Lecter, to the serial killer in practically every <strong>James Patterson</strong> novel, what would the world of mystery thrillers be without the psychopathic, criminally disturbed villain?&nbsp; It&rsquo;s practically a sub-genre in itself.</p><p>Yet, as a therapist as well as a mystery writer, I can&rsquo;t tell you how often I&rsquo;ve read thrillers in which the author&rsquo;s depiction of a &ldquo;psycho&rdquo; killer is pure boilerplate: unconvincing, unmotivated, without psychological depth or realism. But why is this? Especially when the writer&rsquo;s <em>other</em> characters seem much more rounded, realistic, subject to the usual panoply of feelings and motives?&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p>I think it&rsquo;s because some crime writers see their monstrous, unstoppable killer as being &ldquo;out there&rdquo; somewhere, beyond the realm of normal human behavior. A caricature of evil out of a child&rsquo;s nightmare. Or, even worse, they often conjure a conveniently &ldquo;crazy&rdquo; killer who commits the crime merely <em>because</em> he&rsquo;s crazy. Merely to horrify the reader. Merely as an excuse for gratuitous and graphic depictions of unspeakable acts. Merely as a bad guy heinous enough to have us rooting for the hero to finally stop him. In other words, the boogie-man.</p><p>Not that this is always the case. In <strong>Michael Connelly</strong>&rsquo;s <em>The Poet</em>, serial child molester and murderer William Gladden is terrifyingly real because, in many ways, he seems so ordinary, so matter-of-fact. In <strong>Patricia Highsmith</strong>&rsquo;s novels about Ripley, her antihero is so chillingly clear-headed that his atavism seems purely natural. And in <strong>Robert Bloch</strong>&rsquo;s <em>Psycho</em>, Norman Bates is the veritable Poster Child for the dangers inherent in severe mother-son enmeshment. Though, on the surface, he seems like such a nice, thoughtful young man&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>[The serial killer next door...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/psycho-killers-are-people-too-dennis-palumbo-psychiatrist-serial-killer">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6naoiKXSoH4:AodrF71UxFY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6naoiKXSoH4:AodrF71UxFY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6naoiKXSoH4:AodrF71UxFY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=6naoiKXSoH4:AodrF71UxFY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6naoiKXSoH4:AodrF71UxFY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6naoiKXSoH4:AodrF71UxFY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6naoiKXSoH4:AodrF71UxFY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=6naoiKXSoH4:AodrF71UxFY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/6naoiKXSoH4" height="1" width="1"/> Dennis Palumbo Published Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/psycho-killers-are-people-too-dennis-palumbo-psychiatrist-serial-killer http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/psycho-killers-are-people-too-dennis-palumbo-psychiatrist-serial-killer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Lxndrazmpm0/red-2-old-action-heroes-never-die-bruce-willis-helen-mirren-anthony-hopkins <p>What can I say? I can&#39;t wait for this. <em>RED</em> was one of my favorite movies, and this one looks like a perfect follow-up. Helen Mirren <em>rocks the world. </em>And they&#39;ve added Anthony Hopkins to the cast! Did you see the first one? Will you see the next? I&#39;ll be in the theater on July 19!</p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HcVkavITnAI?rel=0" width="475"></iframe></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/red-2-old-action-heroes-never-die-bruce-willis-helen-mirren-anthony-hopkins">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Lxndrazmpm0:yzpoF5Zeh9Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Lxndrazmpm0:yzpoF5Zeh9Q:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Lxndrazmpm0:yzpoF5Zeh9Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Lxndrazmpm0:yzpoF5Zeh9Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Lxndrazmpm0:yzpoF5Zeh9Q:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Lxndrazmpm0:yzpoF5Zeh9Q:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Lxndrazmpm0:yzpoF5Zeh9Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Lxndrazmpm0:yzpoF5Zeh9Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Lxndrazmpm0" height="1" width="1"/> Laura K. Curtis Published Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/red-2-old-action-heroes-never-die-bruce-willis-helen-mirren-anthony-hopkins http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/red-2-old-action-heroes-never-die-bruce-willis-helen-mirren-anthony-hopkins http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/AbiillFU_1g/adios-bonnie-and-clyde-thomas-pluck <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/bonnie-and-clyde-marker.jpg" />As our rented land barge skirts the Arkansas state line in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, we round the curve of scrub-speckled highway and nearly blow past it. I pull the mineral-gray Taurus onto the gravel and we stretch our legs before approaching the bullet-pocked monolith.</p><p>Wilted flowers have been left at its feet. Stones placed on its head. Chips gouged away as souvenirs.</p><p>The concrete marker reads:</p><blockquote style="text-align: center;">THIS SITE MAY 23, 1934</blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">CLYDE BARROW</p><p style="text-align: center;">AND</p><p style="text-align: center;">BONNIE PARKER</p><p style="text-align: center;">WERE KILLED BY</p><p style="text-align: center;">LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS</p></blockquote><p>I am at the final battleground of two of the last century&rsquo;s most notorious criminals, with a distant relative of one of the lawmen who participated in the deadly ambush.</p><p>[History was made here...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/adios-bonnie-and-clyde-thomas-pluck">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=AbiillFU_1g:NEs4Tpr7Iv0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=AbiillFU_1g:NEs4Tpr7Iv0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=AbiillFU_1g:NEs4Tpr7Iv0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=AbiillFU_1g:NEs4Tpr7Iv0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=AbiillFU_1g:NEs4Tpr7Iv0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=AbiillFU_1g:NEs4Tpr7Iv0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=AbiillFU_1g:NEs4Tpr7Iv0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=AbiillFU_1g:NEs4Tpr7Iv0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/AbiillFU_1g" height="1" width="1"/> Thomas Pluck Published Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:00:26 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/adios-bonnie-and-clyde-thomas-pluck http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/adios-bonnie-and-clyde-thomas-pluck http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/ZlNlYBe6bdI/fresh-meat-life-after-theft-aprilynne-pike-jenny-maloney <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-life-after-theft.jpg" /><strong><em>Life After Theft</em> by Aprilynne Pike is a fun, lively young adult novel about making amends (available April 30, 2013).</strong></p><p>When Jeff moves from Arizona to California it means a new school&mdash;Whitestone Academy&mdash;and new uniforms, and new people. His first day actually begins promisingly enough. He meets a hot blonde named Kimberlee, who just happened to be lying down in the middle of the school&rsquo;s hallway.&nbsp; But what started with such potential quickly turns sour.</p><p>On the surface, meeting Kimberlee is a wonderful social opportunity. She&rsquo;s the daughter of a powerful local judge. She knows where all the hot parties are. She has a bright smile and sassy attitude. There are just a couple problems Jeff can&rsquo;t get past:</p><blockquote>1. She&rsquo;s a thief.<p>2. She&rsquo;s dead.</p></blockquote><p>[He said she was hot, not perfect...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-life-after-theft-aprilynne-pike-jenny-maloney">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZlNlYBe6bdI:42sOnFGVJsA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZlNlYBe6bdI:42sOnFGVJsA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZlNlYBe6bdI:42sOnFGVJsA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ZlNlYBe6bdI:42sOnFGVJsA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZlNlYBe6bdI:42sOnFGVJsA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZlNlYBe6bdI:42sOnFGVJsA:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZlNlYBe6bdI:42sOnFGVJsA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ZlNlYBe6bdI:42sOnFGVJsA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/ZlNlYBe6bdI" height="1" width="1"/> Jenny Maloney Published Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:30:33 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-life-after-theft-aprilynne-pike-jenny-maloney http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-life-after-theft-aprilynne-pike-jenny-maloney http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/8gZfJE1hMNk/lives-on-twitter-app-post-mortem-tweets-after-death-clare-toohey <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/Post-Mortem-Tweeting.jpg" />That&#39;s the <em>official</em> tagline of a recently launched Twitter app.</p><p>To be clear, you&rsquo;re not creating or scheduling them in advance&mdash;heck no, that&rsquo;s old horse-and-buggy stuff. Via <em><a href="http://news.msn.com/science-technology/new-twitter-app-lets-you-tweet-even-after-you-die. " target="_blank" rel="nofollow">MSN.com</a></em>, I learned the very latest thing is using artificial intelligence (A.I.) to mine a user&rsquo;s tweets for verbiage and subject matter, thereby making the computer able to construct plausible post-mortem quips. Then, for as long as you like, it can tweet as a dead, digital version of you. How very satisfying knowing that your #coffeestainoftheday or *facepalms* will go on.</p><p>This unusual legacy is assembled on your behalf courtesy of <a href="http://liveson.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">_LIVESON</a>, which calls itself &ldquo;your social afterlife,&rdquo; if social means something like confabbing with a solar calculator or an aphorism generator. However, they&rsquo;ll even let you assign someone as digital executor, presumably a human, who&rsquo;s got the <strike>good sense</strike> authority to shut the service off.</p><p>For me, you could probably just auto-tweet <a href="http://pir.to/insult" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pirate insults</a> every other day and save the drag on Haley Joel Osment&rsquo;s CPU.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/lives-on-twitter-app-post-mortem-tweets-after-death-clare-toohey">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8gZfJE1hMNk:9Ve1Y6D6hRk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8gZfJE1hMNk:9Ve1Y6D6hRk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8gZfJE1hMNk:9Ve1Y6D6hRk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=8gZfJE1hMNk:9Ve1Y6D6hRk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8gZfJE1hMNk:9Ve1Y6D6hRk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8gZfJE1hMNk:9Ve1Y6D6hRk:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8gZfJE1hMNk:9Ve1Y6D6hRk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=8gZfJE1hMNk:9Ve1Y6D6hRk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/8gZfJE1hMNk" height="1" width="1"/> Clare Toohey Published Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/lives-on-twitter-app-post-mortem-tweets-after-death-clare-toohey http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/lives-on-twitter-app-post-mortem-tweets-after-death-clare-toohey http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/rbsjSvzTYU0/the-appeal-of-the-heist-andy-adams-oceans-11-italian-job <p><img alt="Movie poster: The Italian Job" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-04-April/Adams_appeal-of-the-heist-italian-job.jpg" title="They're on the job. No, not that job, the other job." />Heists are a staple of the crime genre. Who doesn&rsquo;t love stories like <em>Ocean&rsquo;s 11,</em> <em>The Italian Job, </em>or even <em>A Fish Called Wanda? </em>But, unlike murder and other crimes, heists are crimes we can get behind. We actually cheer on the criminals in their attempt to rob people. But why is that? Why can we get behind a group of people out to steal, yet condemn the mugger?</p><p>Heists are always against someone big and oppressive. Either some kind of large corporation or viciously wealthy individual is the target. We dislike the big bad corporations and the viciously wealthy because, well, they&rsquo;re not us and their character is shown to be flawed in some way, much as Andy Garcia&rsquo;s character in <em>Ocean&rsquo;s Eleven</em>. He&rsquo;s powerful, shows himself to be a jerk, and has very little sense of humor. This last reason is enough to justify robbing him.</p><p>[Sure it is!]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/the-appeal-of-the-heist-andy-adams-oceans-11-italian-job">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rbsjSvzTYU0:deHM9m-QnHw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rbsjSvzTYU0:deHM9m-QnHw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rbsjSvzTYU0:deHM9m-QnHw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=rbsjSvzTYU0:deHM9m-QnHw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rbsjSvzTYU0:deHM9m-QnHw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rbsjSvzTYU0:deHM9m-QnHw:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rbsjSvzTYU0:deHM9m-QnHw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=rbsjSvzTYU0:deHM9m-QnHw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/rbsjSvzTYU0" height="1" width="1"/> Andy Adams Published Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/the-appeal-of-the-heist-andy-adams-oceans-11-italian-job http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/the-appeal-of-the-heist-andy-adams-oceans-11-italian-job http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/VofaWJhtLwQ/fresh-meat-board-stiff-kendel-lynn-dead-end-job-katrina-niidas-holm <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-board-stiff.jpg" /><strong><em>Board Stiff </em>by Kendel Lynn is the first book in the Elliott Lisbon humorous mystery series (available April 30, 2013).</strong></p><p>As director of the prestigious Ballantyne Foundation, Elliott Lisbon has her hands full. Not only is it her job to plan fundraisers and vet grant applicants, but the Ballantynes also expect her to fill their shoes as hosts whenever they&rsquo;re away&mdash;a task that is often much trickier than it sounds:</p><blockquote>Tod was helping me man the Bash in the absence of the Ballantynes, who were on safari in India. Or maybe it was mountain climbing in Pakistan. They entrusted me with their life&rsquo;s work while away doing more life&rsquo;s work. Tonight that included acting as one part host and one part referee.<p>&ldquo;So what&rsquo;s up? Is Mr. Abercorn dancing naked on the tables again?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Not quite,&rdquo; Tod said. &ldquo;You have three fires to put out, though Jane is more of a firestorm of seething lava and flaming fireballs.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be so melodramatic.&rdquo; I glanced at my watch. It was already past eleven, dreadfully late for a party that started at five. How did I miss seeing Nick Ransom for the last six hours? My lips tingled at the thought of him being so close. Traitors.</p><p>Tod snapped his fingers. &ldquo;Hello, Elliott?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Right, melodramatic. Things can&rsquo;t be that terrible, can they?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Jane is beheading board members, Mr. Colbert is serving guests from the canapés stuffed in his pockets, and Mrs. Kramer is singing with the band.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;That doesn&rsquo;t sound so bad.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re in the men&rsquo;s room.&rdquo;</p></blockquote><p>[The rich are different...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-board-stiff-kendel-lynn-dead-end-job-katrina-niidas-holm">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=VofaWJhtLwQ:g8TNN1SHaEM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=VofaWJhtLwQ:g8TNN1SHaEM:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=VofaWJhtLwQ:g8TNN1SHaEM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=VofaWJhtLwQ:g8TNN1SHaEM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=VofaWJhtLwQ:g8TNN1SHaEM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=VofaWJhtLwQ:g8TNN1SHaEM:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=VofaWJhtLwQ:g8TNN1SHaEM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=VofaWJhtLwQ:g8TNN1SHaEM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/VofaWJhtLwQ" height="1" width="1"/> Katrina Niidas Holm Published Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:00:23 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-board-stiff-kendel-lynn-dead-end-job-katrina-niidas-holm http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-board-stiff-kendel-lynn-dead-end-job-katrina-niidas-holm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Jmb6uE9MlTE/fresh-meat-blood-makes-noise-gregory-widen-leslie-gilbert-elman-argentina-eva-evita-peron <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-blood-makes-noise.JPG" /><strong><em>Blood Makes Noise</em>, the debut novel by Gregory Widen, is an action-packed thriller based on the events before and after the death of Eva Per&oacute;n (available April 30, 2013).</strong></p><p>It&rsquo;s hard to articulate the effect Eva Per&oacute;n had on Argentina. Her combination of charisma and chutzpah took her from what we could gently call an unfortunate childhood, to an undistinguished career as an actress, to the position of First Lady. In a different time, she&rsquo;d have been running the country herself. (There were plenty of people who figured she pretty much was.) But this was 1946, and while her husband Juan Per&oacute;n was serving as president of Argentina, Evita was traveling around the country charming the pants off everyone. By 1951, there was strong and unprecedented public sentiment toward making her a candidate for vice president in the next election.</p><p>The fact that she died of cancer in 1952 at the age of 33 merely ensured Evita&rsquo;s place in the pantheon of the great gone-too-soon and elevated her popularity to a galactic scale. Weirdly, her body was embalmed and meticulously preserved by a Dr. Pedro Ara in a process that took about a year to complete. Her remains became what could only be described as a holy relic.</p><p>And then they disappeared&hellip;</p><p>[Wait&hellip;what?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-blood-makes-noise-gregory-widen-leslie-gilbert-elman-argentina-eva-evita-peron">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Jmb6uE9MlTE:panD4yy3q4s:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Jmb6uE9MlTE:panD4yy3q4s:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Jmb6uE9MlTE:panD4yy3q4s:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Jmb6uE9MlTE:panD4yy3q4s:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Jmb6uE9MlTE:panD4yy3q4s:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Jmb6uE9MlTE:panD4yy3q4s:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Jmb6uE9MlTE:panD4yy3q4s:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Jmb6uE9MlTE:panD4yy3q4s:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Jmb6uE9MlTE" height="1" width="1"/> Leslie Gilbert Elman Published Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:00:24 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-blood-makes-noise-gregory-widen-leslie-gilbert-elman-argentina-eva-evita-peron http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-blood-makes-noise-gregory-widen-leslie-gilbert-elman-argentina-eva-evita-peron http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/6xr4EuDQ5RY/the-body-in-the-piazza-new-excerpt-faith-fairchild-katherine-hall-page <p><em><img alt="The Body in the Piazza by Katherine Hall Page" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-04-April/Katharine-Hall-Page-Body-in-the-Piazza.jpg" /></em><strong><em>The Body in the Piazza</em> by Katherine Hall Page is the 21st traditional mystery featuring caterer extraordinaire Faith Fairchild, this time set in Italy (available April 30, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Faith Fairchild and her husband are celebrating a big anniversary with a trip to Italy, filled with exquisite indulgences&mdash;the art, the Chianti, the food, the Ferragamos! After a weekend in Rome, they&#39;ll travel to Tuscany, where Faith&#39;s former assistant Francesca has opened a cooking school.</em></p><p><em>But, along with pecorino, panna cotta, and Prosecco, it looks like murder and mayhem are also on the menu! On their first night in the Eternal City, the Fairchilds stumble upon a dying man in the Piazza Farnese. Mysterious characters from Rome resurface in Tuscany. And somebody is intent on sabotaging Francesca&#39;s new business. It&#39;s up to Faith to put everything right&mdash;and still whip up a mean Spaghetti alla Foriana, of course!</em></p><p>Faith Fairchild was drunk. Soused, sloshed, schnockered, pickled, potted, and looped&mdash;without a single sip of alcohol having crossed her lips. She was drunk on Rome. Intoxicating, inebriating Rome.</p><p>It had started before the plane had touched down when she glimpsed the sea&mdash;&ldquo;Mare Nostrum,&rdquo; &ldquo;Our Sea,&rdquo; the Romans had called it. Soon the coast gave way to towns, fields, and the green serpent that was the Tiber. On the bus from Fiumicino into the city, the views were not as spectacular, but there were occasional patches of brilliant roadside wildflowers and long rows of twisted pines&mdash;Respighi&rsquo;s <em>Pines of Rome</em>&mdash;flashed by. Leaving the highway at the city limits, the streets narrowed abruptly. The flowers were in planters now outside stucco&shy;sheathed apartments and shops painted just as she had imagined them&mdash;yellow ochre, burnt sienna, raw umber, deep rose&mdash;Italian Crayolas. Dense traffic had caused the bus to slow to a crawl, an imposing vessel upon a mighty ocean of motor scooters and tiny cars, darting perilously like schools of minnows into the oncoming traffic lane, honking as if the road had been usurped rather than the other way around. She&rsquo;d laughed to herself at the host of metaphors Rome was already inspiring.</p><p>When the bus left the airport, it had been filled with the ex&shy;cited clamor of arrivals speaking so many different languages it was impossible to distinguish one from the next. As riders got off and others took their places, Italian dominated. They were prob&shy;ably talking about the weather or mundane problems at work or home, but their gestures, faces, and the musical quality of their voices suggested that they were debating Verdi versus Puccini or heady matters of state. Faith wished she had had time to study the language and vowed to sign up for at least an online course when she returned.</p><p>The bus stopped abruptly, immobilized by the traffic. &ldquo;Could it always be like this?&rdquo; Faith said to her husband. Tom Fairchild shrugged, intent on maintaining the tiny pe&shy;rimeter of space they&rsquo;d claimed on the crowded bus.</p><p>&ldquo;<em>Scusi,</em>&rdquo; a man next to Faith said. &ldquo;This morning it is a, how do you call it, &lsquo;strike&rsquo;? Yes, strike by the <em>trasporto </em>workers. It will be over in a few hours. It&rsquo;s very usual.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What are they asking for?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;<em>Tutti</em>. Enjoy your stay.&rdquo; He got off and was soon making faster progress on the sidewalk than he had been on the bus. &ldquo;<em>Tutti</em>&rdquo;&mdash;Faith knew the word&mdash;&ldquo;Everything.&rdquo;</p><p>[Read the complete excerpt of <em>The Body in the Piazza</em> by Katherine Hall Page]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/the-body-in-the-piazza-new-excerpt-faith-fairchild-katherine-hall-page">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6xr4EuDQ5RY:dI7aHTF5ySM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6xr4EuDQ5RY:dI7aHTF5ySM:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6xr4EuDQ5RY:dI7aHTF5ySM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=6xr4EuDQ5RY:dI7aHTF5ySM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6xr4EuDQ5RY:dI7aHTF5ySM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6xr4EuDQ5RY:dI7aHTF5ySM:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6xr4EuDQ5RY:dI7aHTF5ySM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=6xr4EuDQ5RY:dI7aHTF5ySM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/6xr4EuDQ5RY" height="1" width="1"/> Katherine Hall Page Excerpts Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/the-body-in-the-piazza-new-excerpt-faith-fairchild-katherine-hall-page http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/the-body-in-the-piazza-new-excerpt-faith-fairchild-katherine-hall-page http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/dJ4K6stZZUM/hannibal-episode-4-coquilles-hugh-dancy-mads-mikkelsen-amber-keller <p><img alt="Hugh Dancy" class="blog-pic-right-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-04-April/Keller-Hannibal-Ep-4-coquilles.jpg" title="That's no angel" />&ldquo;Coquilles&rdquo; was an episode laced with sadness and mortality. Tonight&rsquo;s killer gave a thought to humanity and just how little we know about how the human brain works.</p><p>There were several themes in the show tonight, but the strongest that stood out to me was change. Almost every character in this episode is going through some change, and they are all in differing stages.</p><p>With religious undertones involving this new killer, aptly named The Angel Maker, the story goes beyond that, to much deeper depths. Meet Elliot Boudish. Five months ago, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor that is causing him to change at a rapid pace as it is killing him. As the tumor manipulates different parts of his brain while it grows, his behaviors, beliefs, and even what he sees all change. He&rsquo;s become a killer, ironically, because he seeks peace. By killing his victims, then fileting the flesh off their backs to make them resemble angels with wings, which he also puts hooks through and hangs from the ceiling, he is creating his own guardian angels. Later in the show we learn that Elliot had a near death experience as a child when he almost suffocated in a fire. The fireman who saved him told him he had a guardian angel. The tumor must be causing memories to resurface, and his ability to perceive them, along with proper placement, have become skewed. He&rsquo;s desperate to find his guardian angel before he succumbs to the cancer. We also see his visions of his victims as having flames engulfing their heads. Again, this can be attributed to his childhood trauma. It is quite coincidental that the victims that he chooses also happen to be criminals with very nasty backgrounds. Perhaps he also feels he&rsquo;s doing a duty, performing a service if you will, by killing them; one good last deed for his last days on earth. For what it&rsquo;s worth, I&rsquo;m reminded of the scene in <em>The Silence of the Lambs</em> in which Lecter escapes and hangs the guard on his cage, backlit and resembling an angel. Maybe Lecter copycats from many different killers per the series.</p><p>[Criminal victims...what do they deserve in the way of justice?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/hannibal-episode-4-coquilles-hugh-dancy-mads-mikkelsen-amber-keller">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dJ4K6stZZUM:KS-TTAjc_7g:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dJ4K6stZZUM:KS-TTAjc_7g:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dJ4K6stZZUM:KS-TTAjc_7g:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=dJ4K6stZZUM:KS-TTAjc_7g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dJ4K6stZZUM:KS-TTAjc_7g:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dJ4K6stZZUM:KS-TTAjc_7g:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dJ4K6stZZUM:KS-TTAjc_7g:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=dJ4K6stZZUM:KS-TTAjc_7g:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/dJ4K6stZZUM" height="1" width="1"/> Amber Keller Published Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/hannibal-episode-4-coquilles-hugh-dancy-mads-mikkelsen-amber-keller http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/hannibal-episode-4-coquilles-hugh-dancy-mads-mikkelsen-amber-keller http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/1Z-LJpWlmNg/fresh-meat-hour-of-the-red-god-richard-crompton-jenny-maloney-kenya-africa <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-03-Mar/hour-of-the-red-god.JPG" /> <strong><i>Hour of the Red God</i> by Richard Crompton is a debut novel set in Kenya (available May 7, 2013).</strong></p><p>In <strong>Richard Crompton</strong>&rsquo;s <em>Hour of the Red God</em>, a woman is found mutilated in Uhuru Park, a normally peaceful gathering place in Nairobi, Kenya. Former Massai warrior and now-detective Mollel is called on to the case. Mollel, with his fine-tuned sense for justice, is determined to discover what happened to this young woman, regardless of her profession or her tribal affiliation.</p><p>The other investigating officers assume the murder is just the bad-end of a prostitution lifestyle. They also consider the possibility this is a female circumcision gone wrong, since the Massai still maintain the practice when women come of age. Mollel, unwilling to accept these explanations, follows the clues&mdash;through sewers, along back streets and alleys&mdash;all the way up to Nairobi&rsquo;s upper classes.</p><p>[You can never be sure where the clues will lead...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-hour-of-the-red-god-richard-crompton-jenny-maloney-kenya-africa">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1Z-LJpWlmNg:egMlODxgXyU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1Z-LJpWlmNg:egMlODxgXyU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1Z-LJpWlmNg:egMlODxgXyU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=1Z-LJpWlmNg:egMlODxgXyU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1Z-LJpWlmNg:egMlODxgXyU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1Z-LJpWlmNg:egMlODxgXyU:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1Z-LJpWlmNg:egMlODxgXyU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=1Z-LJpWlmNg:egMlODxgXyU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/1Z-LJpWlmNg" height="1" width="1"/> Jenny Maloney Published Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:00:41 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-hour-of-the-red-god-richard-crompton-jenny-maloney-kenya-africa http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-hour-of-the-red-god-richard-crompton-jenny-maloney-kenya-africa http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/rKugwvTQ7Ko/fresh-meat-the-devil-in-her-way-bill-loehfelm-neliza-drew-new-orleans <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-the-devil-in-her-way.jpg" /><strong><em>The Devil in Her Way</em> is the second Maureen Coughlin novel from Bill Loehfelm, a follow-up to <em>The Devil She Knows </em>(available April 30, 2013). </strong></p><p>Maureen, the plucky waitress from <em>The Devil She Knows</em>, has a new job in a new city and is ready to put her past behind her for good. As a rookie cop in New Orleans, Maureen is rebuilding, recreating herself after the events of <em>The Devil She Knows</em>, and she finds New Orleans is still, all these years later, pulling itself together after Hurricane Katrina&rsquo;s destruction and the wave of corruption that plagued the city before and after.</p><blockquote>Researching other opportunities, she discovered that New Orleans, flush with federal grand money, was announcing its first academy class in three years. She started reading about the city and the police department in the online version of the New Orleans newspaper. Even six years after Katrina, she kept seeing words like <em>remake, recover, </em>and <em>rebirth</em>&mdash;things she wanted and needed for herself. A new, reform-minded police commissioner had rolled into town not long ago and now sat at the right hand of a popular mayor. Firings, forced retirements, and indictments battered the department. Cops going to jail every month it seemed. All the scandal only heightened her attraction. She saw opportunity in it. She applied. She got in, with an offer of a city job until her academy class filled up. Just as she&rsquo;d suspected, the NOPD was hot for fresh blood, eager to recruit from beyond the city and the state. And then all that was left to do was fire her therapist, pack the car, and kiss her mom goodbye.</blockquote><p>[Let the good times roll...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-the-devil-in-her-way-bill-loehfelm-neliza-drew-new-orleans">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rKugwvTQ7Ko:FP1t_V7s1g4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rKugwvTQ7Ko:FP1t_V7s1g4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rKugwvTQ7Ko:FP1t_V7s1g4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=rKugwvTQ7Ko:FP1t_V7s1g4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rKugwvTQ7Ko:FP1t_V7s1g4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rKugwvTQ7Ko:FP1t_V7s1g4:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rKugwvTQ7Ko:FP1t_V7s1g4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=rKugwvTQ7Ko:FP1t_V7s1g4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/rKugwvTQ7Ko" height="1" width="1"/> Neliza Drew Published Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:30:58 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-the-devil-in-her-way-bill-loehfelm-neliza-drew-new-orleans http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-the-devil-in-her-way-bill-loehfelm-neliza-drew-new-orleans http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Bb7NE-ittVc/is-being-bad-good-for-us-t-michael-martin-horror-genre-talk-christopher-morgan <p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LYSqGX_6xJA" width="475"></iframe></p><p>Above is a video from author T. Michael Martin about whether or not Horror is good for us as readers and as people. He raises a lot of very good points, with one of the most important, in my opinion, being &ldquo;can stories affect us?&rdquo; &nbsp;I for one tend to agree with him in that, if they don&#39;t affect us, then what&#39;s the point?</p><p>But why stop at Horror? Can dark stories, be they Horror, Crime, Noir, etc. provide a service beyond just occupying our vacation hours and providing entertainment? Or are they merely violence for violence&#39;s sake, contributing little much beyond escapism? Do we need them to do more?</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/is-being-bad-good-for-us-t-michael-martin-horror-genre-talk-christopher-morgan">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Bb7NE-ittVc:t3Ya7ONP3TY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Bb7NE-ittVc:t3Ya7ONP3TY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Bb7NE-ittVc:t3Ya7ONP3TY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Bb7NE-ittVc:t3Ya7ONP3TY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Bb7NE-ittVc:t3Ya7ONP3TY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Bb7NE-ittVc:t3Ya7ONP3TY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Bb7NE-ittVc:t3Ya7ONP3TY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Bb7NE-ittVc:t3Ya7ONP3TY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Bb7NE-ittVc" height="1" width="1"/> Christopher Morgan Published Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/is-being-bad-good-for-us-t-michael-martin-horror-genre-talk-christopher-morgan http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/is-being-bad-good-for-us-t-michael-martin-horror-genre-talk-christopher-morgan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/psPgXisBBO8/more-than-just-pretty-pictures-tag-lines-in-classic-pulp-novels-eric-beetner <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/tag-lines-black-wings.jpg" />Let&rsquo;s face it: a book cover is a seduction. No one knew this better than the pulp fiction publishers of the 1940s and &rsquo;50s, their covers all gussied up with lurid colors, barely clad women, big black guns, and promises of what was between the covers.</p><p>But what&rsquo;s a seduction without a good pickup line?</p><p>Much attention has been paid to those boundary pushing images adorning the 25-cent paperbacks, but I also love the tag lines&mdash;that extra copy the publisher adds on to give more of a hint about the action, sex and violence inside a book.&nbsp;</p><p>They can be simple, like on <em>The Double Take</em> by <strong>Roy Huggins</strong>: &ldquo;A hard-boiled mystery story, tougher than a ten-minute egg.&rdquo;</p><p>They can be mysterious and enticing, such as <em>Stone Cold Dead</em> by <strong>Richard Ellington</strong>: &ldquo;Make ready: ONE CORPSE FOR SHARK-BAIT!&rdquo;</p><p>And, yes, they use a lot of exclamation points, but admit it, you want to know why a corpse is needed for shark-bait, don&rsquo;t you?</p><p>[Sure...don&rsquo;t <em>you</em>?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/more-than-just-pretty-pictures-tag-lines-in-classic-pulp-novels-eric-beetner">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=psPgXisBBO8:QA_jlxWBlh0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=psPgXisBBO8:QA_jlxWBlh0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=psPgXisBBO8:QA_jlxWBlh0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=psPgXisBBO8:QA_jlxWBlh0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=psPgXisBBO8:QA_jlxWBlh0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=psPgXisBBO8:QA_jlxWBlh0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=psPgXisBBO8:QA_jlxWBlh0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=psPgXisBBO8:QA_jlxWBlh0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/psPgXisBBO8" height="1" width="1"/> Eric Beetner Published Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:00:36 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/more-than-just-pretty-pictures-tag-lines-in-classic-pulp-novels-eric-beetner http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/more-than-just-pretty-pictures-tag-lines-in-classic-pulp-novels-eric-beetner http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/SuAHl9DOUEw/fresh-meat-a-murder-at-rosamunds-gate-susanna-calkins-corrina-lawson <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/excerpts/Rosamunds-Gate-250.jpg" /><strong><em>A Murder at Rosamund&rsquo;s Gate</em> by Susanna Calkins is a historical mystery set in London during the Restoration (available April 23, 2013).</strong></p><p>I&rsquo;m the type of reader who loves a thrill ride, especially set in somewhere unfamiliar and fascinating. Which makes me not quite the right reader for this beautifully written book.</p><p><em>A Murder at Rosamund&rsquo;s Gate </em>is set in the time after Charles II&rsquo;s Restoration in London, and revolves around a servant trying to solve the murder of her friend. I was eager to read a mystery set in the time period, as it&rsquo;s one not normally covered in mysteries.</p><p>[Timing is everything...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-a-murder-at-rosamunds-gate-susanna-calkins-corrina-lawson">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SuAHl9DOUEw:Tazse0NH8V0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SuAHl9DOUEw:Tazse0NH8V0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SuAHl9DOUEw:Tazse0NH8V0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=SuAHl9DOUEw:Tazse0NH8V0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SuAHl9DOUEw:Tazse0NH8V0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SuAHl9DOUEw:Tazse0NH8V0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SuAHl9DOUEw:Tazse0NH8V0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=SuAHl9DOUEw:Tazse0NH8V0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/SuAHl9DOUEw" height="1" width="1"/> Corrina Lawson Published Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:30:25 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-a-murder-at-rosamunds-gate-susanna-calkins-corrina-lawson http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-a-murder-at-rosamunds-gate-susanna-calkins-corrina-lawson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/jn9rwOPXXJg/jason-segel-to-write-children-adventure-book-series-jennifer-proffitt-detective-kid-friendly-crime <p><img alt="Get ready for the pats on the back, Jason Segel!" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/AM-Coffee-Jason-Segel-Book-Deal-250.jpg" title="Get ready for the pats on the back, Jason Segel!" /></p><p>Many people have heard the name Jason Segel attached to movies and Television, especially after his original song for <em>The Muppets</em> movie won an Oscar. However, Segel is about to become a triple threat as he turns his skill as a screenwriter to a different sort of writing&mdash;children&#39;s books.&nbsp;</p><p>Segel will be writing a series of children&#39;s adventure books, published through Random Kids. The series, Nightmares!, will be focus on a group of children trying to save their neighborhood from fear. While Segel has traditionally taken more adult tone in his writing of such movies like <em>Forgetting Sarah Marshall </em>and <em>The Five Year Engagement</em>, in recent years he&#39;s started penning more kid-friendly ideas such as <em>The Muppets</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>Will you try this new middle-grade adventure series or leave it for the kids?</p><p>Read more about Jason Segel&#39;s series in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/business/media/jason-segel-to-write-childrens-book-series.html?_r=1&amp;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">the New York Times article.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/jason-segel-to-write-children-adventure-book-series-jennifer-proffitt-detective-kid-friendly-crime">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jn9rwOPXXJg:0as2Wj6-o1g:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jn9rwOPXXJg:0as2Wj6-o1g:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jn9rwOPXXJg:0as2Wj6-o1g:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=jn9rwOPXXJg:0as2Wj6-o1g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jn9rwOPXXJg:0as2Wj6-o1g:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jn9rwOPXXJg:0as2Wj6-o1g:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jn9rwOPXXJg:0as2Wj6-o1g:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=jn9rwOPXXJg:0as2Wj6-o1g:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/jn9rwOPXXJg" height="1" width="1"/> Jennifer Proffitt Published Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/jason-segel-to-write-children-adventure-book-series-jennifer-proffitt-detective-kid-friendly-crime http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/jason-segel-to-write-children-adventure-book-series-jennifer-proffitt-detective-kid-friendly-crime http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/tTieGPXsGJQ/secretary-day-administrative-professional-mystery-edition-michael-shonk <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/secretary-della-street.jpg" title=" Barbara Hale as Della Street in Perry Mason" />Philip Marlowe might not have had a secretary, but Sam Spade knew better. Who else do you trust to bring you the dingus but your loyal secretary? Who else can you depend on to fend off inconvenient lovers or nasty cops, and deal with dead ship captains?</p><p><strong>Dashiell Hammett</strong>&rsquo;s Effine Perrine is just one of mystery&rsquo;s famous characters who happens to be a secretary. It is impossible to think of <strong>Erle Stanley Gardner</strong>&rsquo;s Perry Mason without Della Street. No matter what the danger, be it in books, radio, movies, or television, we knew Della would be at Perry&rsquo;s side when he needed her.</p><p>Where would <strong>Rex Stout</strong>&rsquo;s Nero Wolfe be without Archie Goodwin? Not having a beer while he tends to his orchids, that&rsquo;s for sure. Though the most popular PI &ldquo;legman&rdquo; might be Sam from TV&rsquo;s <em>Richard Diamond, Private Detective</em> in the late 1950s (Sam was portrayed by Mary Tyler Moore&rsquo;s legs), Archie is mystery&rsquo;s most famous legman. But Archie is more than just a legman he also answers the phone, takes notes during meetings with clients and suspects, does the books, and handles the running of Wolfe&rsquo;s office.</p><p>Archie Goodwin is a fine example of how complex the job of secretary can be. It is more than typing, taking dictation, and fetching coffee. No wonder that in fine mystery tradition the &ldquo;secretary&rdquo; has been known by any number of names, from the typewriter girls of the late 1800s to today&rsquo;s Administrative Professional.</p><p>[Help Wanted: Gal Friday&hellip;]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/secretary-day-administrative-professional-mystery-edition-michael-shonk">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tTieGPXsGJQ:ZbKBKNRyC6s:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tTieGPXsGJQ:ZbKBKNRyC6s:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tTieGPXsGJQ:ZbKBKNRyC6s:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=tTieGPXsGJQ:ZbKBKNRyC6s:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tTieGPXsGJQ:ZbKBKNRyC6s:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tTieGPXsGJQ:ZbKBKNRyC6s:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tTieGPXsGJQ:ZbKBKNRyC6s:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=tTieGPXsGJQ:ZbKBKNRyC6s:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/tTieGPXsGJQ" height="1" width="1"/> michael shonk Published Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:00:03 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/secretary-day-administrative-professional-mystery-edition-michael-shonk http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/secretary-day-administrative-professional-mystery-edition-michael-shonk http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/N3Iy5uhpc4U/fresh-meat-scare-me-richard-parker-neliza-drew <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-scare-me.jpg" /><strong><em>Scare Me</em> by Richard Parker is a thriller that begins in a virtual Internet environment and leads to a very real threat to a businessman&rsquo;s family (available April 30, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Scare Me</em> is a stand-alone thriller by <strong>Richard Parker</strong>, whose previous book, <em>Stop Me</em>, also featured kidnap victims, ticking clocks, and technology. Another thing <em>Scare Me</em> has a lot of are fluids: pools of blood, a warehouse of chicken excrement, sweat, vomit, sex... And the pools and pores and poultry are colliding in a messy and terrifying way for William Frost and his wife, Carla, who just celebrated their nineteenth anniversary and expect to start the next year with the return of their pregnant daughter, Libby, and her boyfriend Luke, from vacation abroad.</p><p>Instead, Will wakes up to a nightmare on the Internet that sends him racing around the globe in an effort to save Libby before time runs out.</p><p>[Tick...tick...tick...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-scare-me-richard-parker-neliza-drew">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=N3Iy5uhpc4U:eTiHkzeAPmQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=N3Iy5uhpc4U:eTiHkzeAPmQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=N3Iy5uhpc4U:eTiHkzeAPmQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=N3Iy5uhpc4U:eTiHkzeAPmQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=N3Iy5uhpc4U:eTiHkzeAPmQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=N3Iy5uhpc4U:eTiHkzeAPmQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=N3Iy5uhpc4U:eTiHkzeAPmQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=N3Iy5uhpc4U:eTiHkzeAPmQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/N3Iy5uhpc4U" height="1" width="1"/> Neliza Drew Published Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:30:28 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-scare-me-richard-parker-neliza-drew http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-scare-me-richard-parker-neliza-drew http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/9YyxPGixYoo/my-zombie-ate-your-honor-students-brains <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-04-April/Zombie-Car-Decals.jpg" /></p><p>Are you tired of the sameness of the little stick figures on the back of (inevitably) SUVs? Tired of the three kids, two dogs, and a goldfish? Well, have no fear, zombie family car decals from our friends at <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/eba2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ThinkGeek</a> are here! Now you can decorate your car in true, undead form.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/my-zombie-ate-your-honor-students-brains">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=9YyxPGixYoo:n5uc_nsff6w:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=9YyxPGixYoo:n5uc_nsff6w:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=9YyxPGixYoo:n5uc_nsff6w:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=9YyxPGixYoo:n5uc_nsff6w:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=9YyxPGixYoo:n5uc_nsff6w:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=9YyxPGixYoo:n5uc_nsff6w:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=9YyxPGixYoo:n5uc_nsff6w:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=9YyxPGixYoo:n5uc_nsff6w:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/9YyxPGixYoo" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/my-zombie-ate-your-honor-students-brains http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/my-zombie-ate-your-honor-students-brains http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/zVwTHkpjuvg/the-following-episode-14-the-end-is-near-joe-carroll-ryan-hardy-katee-robert <p><img alt="James Purefoy in The Following" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-04-April/Robert-The-Following-ep-14-End-Is-Near-Purefoy.jpg" style="height: 308px; width: 250px;" />I loved this episode for so many reasons. Everything played out so freaking well and&hellip; Let&rsquo;s just get into it.</p><p>First, though, I still don&rsquo;t get Carroll&rsquo;s thing with watching videos of Hardy having sex with that follower (Molly, right?). I just&hellip; It skeeves me out in a serious way. I don&rsquo;t see the purpose behind it, other than pure voyeuristic tendencies. Actually, that said, I suppose it could be chalked up to the belief people let down their barriers more during sex than any other activity. And he&rsquo;s interested in seeing Hardy for who he really is (and, seriously, are we ever going to come back to the fact Hardy helped the man who killed his father OD?).</p><p>Beyond that, Carroll is obviously losing it. As Jacob points out, he&rsquo;s got to be out of it from the pain meds and the drinking, not to mention I would think the twisting of the knife damaged something internally. And the shoddy job of whoever stitched it obviously isn&rsquo;t holding up that well because he keeps bleeding through. While I think the injury is a contributing factor physically, it definitely sent Carroll off the deep end to be attacked by his Claire. She was his angel, a woman above all others, and she stabbed him while kissing him&mdash;that&rsquo;s kind of hard to put a good spin on and, from his rambling to the poor couple he takes hostage, he actually TRIED to.</p><p>[Well, when you&#39;re a psychopath, your logic isn&#39;t normal]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/the-following-episode-14-the-end-is-near-joe-carroll-ryan-hardy-katee-robert">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zVwTHkpjuvg:Zj8NLG3y218:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zVwTHkpjuvg:Zj8NLG3y218:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zVwTHkpjuvg:Zj8NLG3y218:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=zVwTHkpjuvg:Zj8NLG3y218:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zVwTHkpjuvg:Zj8NLG3y218:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zVwTHkpjuvg:Zj8NLG3y218:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zVwTHkpjuvg:Zj8NLG3y218:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=zVwTHkpjuvg:Zj8NLG3y218:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/zVwTHkpjuvg" height="1" width="1"/> Katee Robert Published Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/the-following-episode-14-the-end-is-near-joe-carroll-ryan-hardy-katee-robert http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/the-following-episode-14-the-end-is-near-joe-carroll-ryan-hardy-katee-robert http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/olnabJh9sGU/a-darkness-on-the-plains-jake-hinkson-noir-western-film-robert-mitchum-barbara-stanwyck <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/darkness-blood-on-the-moon.jpg" />Noir is like a disease. Its symptoms are moodiness, despair, guilt, and paranoia. There were early strains of it in German Expressionism; in the crime fiction of Woolrich, Holding, and Cain; in the prewar American cinema of Welles, Ingster, and Huston. The first full-fledged outbreak started somewhere in the war years. Some say <em>Street Of Chance</em> in 1942; others point to <em>Double Indemnity</em> and <em>The Woman In The Window</em> in 1944. Gradually noir spread out of the crime genre, however, and attached itself to different genres. Perhaps the first victim was the cinematic stalwart, the Western.</p><p>At first glance the Western would seem antithetical to noir. (A fetishist for strict definitions would probably insist that noir be defined <em>essentially</em> as a crime genre. I&rsquo;m taking more of a thematic approach, here, interpreting noir as something closer to a moral thesis: that people are weak and existentially screwed.) The tropes of the Western&mdash;sunlight, open spaces, nature&mdash;would seem to immune to the noir disease. But make no mistake, the Western caught the disease. A genre that seemed to be the quintessence of American optimism, a genre that seemed to embody the notion of moral clarity, slowly gave way to darker themes and more neurotic characters.</p><p>[Who are you calling neurotic, cowboy?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/a-darkness-on-the-plains-jake-hinkson-noir-western-film-robert-mitchum-barbara-stanwyck">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=olnabJh9sGU:krNFzjDRz6I:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=olnabJh9sGU:krNFzjDRz6I:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=olnabJh9sGU:krNFzjDRz6I:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=olnabJh9sGU:krNFzjDRz6I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=olnabJh9sGU:krNFzjDRz6I:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=olnabJh9sGU:krNFzjDRz6I:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=olnabJh9sGU:krNFzjDRz6I:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=olnabJh9sGU:krNFzjDRz6I:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/olnabJh9sGU" height="1" width="1"/> Jake Hinkson Published Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:00:16 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/a-darkness-on-the-plains-jake-hinkson-noir-western-film-robert-mitchum-barbara-stanwyck http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/a-darkness-on-the-plains-jake-hinkson-noir-western-film-robert-mitchum-barbara-stanwyck http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/WSiNrJizfds/fresh-meat-mind-mgmt-matt-kindt-the-manager-doreen-sheridan <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/mind-mgmt.jpg" /><em><strong>Mind MGMT Vol 1: The Manager</strong></em> <strong>, written and illustrated by Matt Kindt, begins an espionage series involving mind control and government conspiracy (available April 23, 2013).</strong></p><p>There is no such thing as magic: there is only mind over matter. This is the basic premise behind <em>Mind MGMT</em>, a trade paperback centered around the activities of a quasi-governmental agency devoted to using the power of the mind to fight its battles, physical or otherwise. Its operatives are capable of amazing feats, as true-crime writer Meru Marlow discovers in her quest to uncover the truth behind the so-called Amnesia Flight, a plane on which 119 of the 121 people aboard completely forgot their pasts mid-flight. The only people unaffected were a 7-year-old boy and Henry Lyme, a passenger who seemed to promptly disappear upon landing.</p><p>Meru herself has struggled to write another book since the publication of her initial bestseller two years ago. She&rsquo;s running out of money despite living in a small town, and is desperate to make amends to the people she knows she&rsquo;s letting down with her prolonged inability to write.</p><p>[Some things you just can&rsquo;t forget...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-mind-mgmt-matt-kindt-the-manager-doreen-sheridan">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WSiNrJizfds:8440VhHNqHc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WSiNrJizfds:8440VhHNqHc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WSiNrJizfds:8440VhHNqHc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=WSiNrJizfds:8440VhHNqHc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WSiNrJizfds:8440VhHNqHc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WSiNrJizfds:8440VhHNqHc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WSiNrJizfds:8440VhHNqHc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=WSiNrJizfds:8440VhHNqHc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/WSiNrJizfds" height="1" width="1"/> Doreen Sheridan Published Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:30:16 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-mind-mgmt-matt-kindt-the-manager-doreen-sheridan http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-mind-mgmt-matt-kindt-the-manager-doreen-sheridan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/J09PU5MD4WE/lying-effectively-how-to-10-secrets-good-convincing-liars-lies-clare-toohey <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/Pinocchio-10-Secrets-of-Liars.jpg" style="height: 253px; width: 475px; " /></p><p>There are at least 10 important guidelines any successful liar follows:</p><ol><li>Lying&#39;s Like A Muscle&mdash;use it enough to stay limber</li><li>Don&#39;t Over-rehearse Any One Lie&mdash;you might sound flat or too practiced</li><li>Don&#39;t Sweat Follow-Up Questions&mdash;that&#39;s when you close the deal</li><li>Tell It the Same Way to Everyone&mdash;they might compare stories</li><li>Don&#39;t Keep Incriminating Crib Notes&mdash;sheesh, are you nuts?!</li><li>Don&#39;t Seem Overly Invested&mdash;it&#39;s a red flag</li><li>Don&#39;t Fidget or Lose Eye Contact&mdash;it betrays guilt and anxiety</li><li>Reduce Conversational Stress&mdash;too much heat leads to accusations</li><li>Don&#39;t Get Defensive&mdash;why argue if you&#39;re being truthful?</li><li>When Caught Red-Handed, Accept Responsibility&mdash;forgiving you alleviates anger, setting up a better outcome next time</li></ol><p>It all sounds reasonable, right? Yeah...but No! Because actually, the lying liars&#39; best secrets <em>really </em>include just the <em>opposite</em> of what I&#39;ve summarized here!&nbsp; You could go to Jeff Wise&#39;s column from <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201303/living-lie/10-secrets-effective-liars" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em>Psychology Today</em></a> to read the &ldquo;so-called&rdquo; legit list of 10 secrets for yourself, if you trust me to send you to the right place. You do, don&#39;t you?</p><p>(No, honestly, that link will work fine. It&#39;s not a keylogging discount-Viagra credit card phishing site.)</p><p>(REALLY, IT&#39;S NOT.)</p><p>(It isn&#39;t. I swear...probably)</p><p><em><span style="font-size:12px;">Image via <a href="http://krazykillers.wordpress.com/tag/habitual-liar/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Killers Without Conscience</a></span></em></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/lying-effectively-how-to-10-secrets-good-convincing-liars-lies-clare-toohey">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=J09PU5MD4WE:g6Arf6MupJM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=J09PU5MD4WE:g6Arf6MupJM:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=J09PU5MD4WE:g6Arf6MupJM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=J09PU5MD4WE:g6Arf6MupJM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=J09PU5MD4WE:g6Arf6MupJM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=J09PU5MD4WE:g6Arf6MupJM:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=J09PU5MD4WE:g6Arf6MupJM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=J09PU5MD4WE:g6Arf6MupJM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/J09PU5MD4WE" height="1" width="1"/> Clare Toohey Published Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/lying-effectively-how-to-10-secrets-good-convincing-liars-lies-clare-toohey http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/lying-effectively-how-to-10-secrets-good-convincing-liars-lies-clare-toohey http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Ery5VrRISOE/the-dead-caller-from-chicago-new-excerpt-jack-fredrickson <p><img alt="The Dead Caller from Chicago by Jack Fredrickson" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-04-April/Fredrickson_Dead-Caller-250.jpg" /></p><p><strong><em>The Dead Caller from Chicago</em> by Jack Fredrickson is the fourth in the humorous Dek Elstrom mystery series (available April 23, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Dek Elstrom is back. Bad things are surfacing in Rivertown, in a huge hole in a block of bungalows; in the river, where the dam trapped what should never have been in the water. And from the past, where secrets long buried have risen again, to kill. Then comes a phone call from a dead man, and the sudden disappearance of almost everyone Dek ever held close. A trail leads north, to the end of Michigan, past the chop of the angry waters beyond, to an ice swept island most everyone wants to forget. But there are no answers there, just more questions, and another dead man pointing straight back to Rivertown, to the hole, and the dam, and secrets that want to keep killing</em><br />&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p><p>By my adjusted new standard, I&rsquo;d become almost rich, and I felt my&shy;self swelling with optimism as Lester Lance Leamington, astute tele&shy;vision advertiser, allowed as to how he could make me even richer. All I had to do was follow his advice, conveniently presented in a five-disc DVD series enticingly entitled <em>Making Millions from Molehills</em>. Though his features were blurry on my elderly analog four-inch tele&shy;vision, its reception now modified by a government-mandated digi&shy;tal converter that dangled from it like an anchor on a chain, there was nothing fuzzy about his latest achievement. Lester Lance Leam&shy;ington had hit the big time. He&rsquo;d moved from late-night commercials jammed between spots for fast juicers and miracle scratch removers up to midday infomercials. If that wasn&rsquo;t testament to his financial acuity, I couldn&rsquo;t imagine what was. No more would he be talking to stupored, drowsy people; Lester Lance Leamington had risen into the clarity of sunlight. Now, for only twenty-nine ninety-nine, including shipping, he was going to show folks how to ascend just like him.</p><p>&ldquo;All it takes is attitude,&rdquo; he was saying as I squinted in rapt atten&shy;tion, for on my tiny TV, he was only an inch tall. &ldquo;Embrace your fu&shy;ture. Call our toll-free line today. If you&rsquo;re not completely satisfied, we&rsquo;ll refund your money immediately; less, of course, the modest eighteen ninety-nine for processing, shipping, and handling.&rdquo;</p><p>Miraculous though it sounded, I was not yet ready to embrace my financial destiny. My new money, almost three thousand dollars from a tiny insurance company that promised more work, was al&shy;ready budgeted for past-due utility bills, a paydown on the lone credit card that hadn&rsquo;t canceled me, and wood, lots of the good oak I needed to continue trimming out my turret. There was the complication, too, that I had no DVD player, nor plans to buy one. My eyes&nbsp; were set on affording a furnace, ductwork, and a gas line to set it all to humming. It was early March, I lived in an unheated stone turret set be&shy;side a frozen river just west of Chicago, and the notion of warmth was constantly on my mind.</p><p>[Read the full excerpt of <em>The Dead Caller from Chicago</em> by Jack Fredrickson]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/the-dead-caller-from-chicago-new-excerpt-jack-fredrickson">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Ery5VrRISOE:5y4zNOi_tw0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Ery5VrRISOE:5y4zNOi_tw0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Ery5VrRISOE:5y4zNOi_tw0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Ery5VrRISOE:5y4zNOi_tw0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Ery5VrRISOE:5y4zNOi_tw0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Ery5VrRISOE:5y4zNOi_tw0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Ery5VrRISOE:5y4zNOi_tw0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Ery5VrRISOE:5y4zNOi_tw0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Ery5VrRISOE" height="1" width="1"/> Jack Fredrickson Excerpts Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/the-dead-caller-from-chicago-new-excerpt-jack-fredrickson http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/the-dead-caller-from-chicago-new-excerpt-jack-fredrickson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/umGTd2qj54w/fresh-meat-the-mystery-woman-by-amanda-quick-susan-amper-historical <p><img alt="Amanda Quick, The Mystery Woman" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-04-April/Quick_The-Mystery-Woman-Cover.jpg" /><strong><em>The Mystery Woman</em> by Amanda Quick is the second in the Ladies of Lantern Street historical paranormal romantic suspense series (available April 23, 2013).</strong></p><p>I have been a fan of Amanda Quick aka Jayne Ann Krentz since I read <em>Mystique</em> and backtracked to pick up the books I had missed. Her novels were, for a long time, a pleasure to read, like taking a warm bubble bath. But by the time she had written several Arcane Society novels, I was thoroughly tired of her work. I am happy to report that Amanda Quick has returned to the spunky, brave, and adventurous heroines of the past with Beatrice Lockwood in <em>The Mystery Woman</em>, Book 2 of the Ladies of Lantern Street series.</p><p>The novel has many fewer paranormal aspects than the Arcane Society series, and that&rsquo;s all to the good as far as I&rsquo;m concerned. Beatrice meets hero Joshua after her former employer is murdered and she finds herself being chased by the Bone Man. Joshua believes that Beatrice is blackmailing his sister over some information Beatrice might have garnered from her former employer. She tells him most emphatically that she is not a blackmailer.</p><p>[She is, however, something else...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-the-mystery-woman-by-amanda-quick-susan-amper-historical">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=umGTd2qj54w:WtZuIAR6xYg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=umGTd2qj54w:WtZuIAR6xYg:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=umGTd2qj54w:WtZuIAR6xYg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=umGTd2qj54w:WtZuIAR6xYg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=umGTd2qj54w:WtZuIAR6xYg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=umGTd2qj54w:WtZuIAR6xYg:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=umGTd2qj54w:WtZuIAR6xYg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=umGTd2qj54w:WtZuIAR6xYg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/umGTd2qj54w" height="1" width="1"/> Susan Amper Published Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-the-mystery-woman-by-amanda-quick-susan-amper-historical http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-the-mystery-woman-by-amanda-quick-susan-amper-historical http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/iR4tmfDezPw/introducing-the-bletchley-circle-anna-maxwell-martin-pbs-itv-world-war-code-leslie-gilbert-elman <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/bletchley-circle-group.jpg" title="Sophie Rundle as Lucy, Anna Maxwell Martin as Susan, Julie Graham as Jean, Rachael Stirling as Millie" />Never underestimate the power of a bored housewife.</p><p>If there&rsquo;s a lesson to be learned from <em>The Bletchley Circle</em>, a three-part miniseries that premiered on Public Television on April 21, it&rsquo;s that a woman with a sharp, lively mind and too much time on her hands will naturally gravitate toward something that keeps her intellect occupied. The Cryptic Crossword can only fill the gap for so long. Eventually she&rsquo;ll require a more complicated puzzle to solve; one with higher stakes. And you won&rsquo;t find higher stakes than an investigation to identify and capture a serial murderer before he kills again.</p><p>[Solve your murder if you must; just be home in time for tea&hellip;]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/introducing-the-bletchley-circle-anna-maxwell-martin-pbs-itv-world-war-code-leslie-gilbert-elman">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=iR4tmfDezPw:uu3Wf6_p_y8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=iR4tmfDezPw:uu3Wf6_p_y8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=iR4tmfDezPw:uu3Wf6_p_y8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=iR4tmfDezPw:uu3Wf6_p_y8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=iR4tmfDezPw:uu3Wf6_p_y8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=iR4tmfDezPw:uu3Wf6_p_y8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=iR4tmfDezPw:uu3Wf6_p_y8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=iR4tmfDezPw:uu3Wf6_p_y8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/iR4tmfDezPw" height="1" width="1"/> Leslie Gilbert Elman Published Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:30:14 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/introducing-the-bletchley-circle-anna-maxwell-martin-pbs-itv-world-war-code-leslie-gilbert-elman http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/introducing-the-bletchley-circle-anna-maxwell-martin-pbs-itv-world-war-code-leslie-gilbert-elman http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/L9jaEaJakvo/up-for-auction-solid-gold-skeleton <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-04-April/AMCoffee-Skeleton-Auction.jpg" /></p><p>Doesn&rsquo;t that just make your heart sing? On April 29, Sotheby&rsquo;s will be auctioning off &ldquo;<a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/a-treasured-legacy-steinhardt-n08961/lot.291.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Rouchomovsky Skeleton</a>.&rdquo; According to the catalog, this fully articulated gold skeleton is c. 1900 and</p><blockquote><p>in a velvet-lined coffin chased around on each side with three panels showing the course of life, one end with attributes of the arts, the other with attributes of war, the removable cover with the journey in the footsteps of the Angel of Death, surrounded by the faces of infants alternately laughing and crying.<br /><em>Skeleton signed in Cyrillic, on the right splint-bone: Mozyr [18]92 Odessa [18]96 and on the left splint-bone Rouchomovsky;</em><br /><em>Sarcophagus signed on lid: Israel Rouchomovsky and in Cyrillic on base Israel Rouchomovsky Odessa 1901.</em><br />length of skeleton 3 1/2 in., length of coffin 4 3/8 in.</p></blockquote><p>I can&rsquo;t afford the estimated sales price, but my birthday was just last month and I&rsquo;d be more than happy to have it as a belated present.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/up-for-auction-solid-gold-skeleton">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=L9jaEaJakvo:QEgxbjAYPL0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=L9jaEaJakvo:QEgxbjAYPL0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=L9jaEaJakvo:QEgxbjAYPL0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=L9jaEaJakvo:QEgxbjAYPL0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=L9jaEaJakvo:QEgxbjAYPL0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=L9jaEaJakvo:QEgxbjAYPL0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=L9jaEaJakvo:QEgxbjAYPL0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=L9jaEaJakvo:QEgxbjAYPL0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/L9jaEaJakvo" height="1" width="1"/> Laura K. Curtis Published Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/up-for-auction-solid-gold-skeleton http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/up-for-auction-solid-gold-skeleton http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/SazWn_pMzDU/23-shades-of-black-kenneth-wishnia-filomena-buscarsela-punk-first-in-series <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/23-shades-cover.jpg" /><strong><em>23 Shades of Black</em> by Kenneth Wishnia is the first novel in the series set in the 1980s and featuring NYPD cop Filomena Buscarsela. </strong></p><p><em>When NYPD officer Filomena Buscarsela learns that a toxic leak may have been sabotage, and a key witness&mdash;an East Village artist&mdash;dies in a suspicious accident, she decides to pursue the case by cruising the Alphabet City punk rock clubs for clues about the artist&rsquo;s last days. But as she attempts to punish environmental criminals, Filomena finds the case, and her personal life, begin to crumble.</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Chapter One</strong></p><p><em>&ldquo;There ain&rsquo;t no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.&rdquo; &mdash;Raymond Chandler</em></p><p>All this happened a few years ago, when Ronald Reagan was busy making tuna fish hash out of the national budget and trying to learn which countries belong to South America, and the second wave of Punk still ruled the East Village.</p><p>I was riding around with my partner, Bernie, a beef-brained <em>cabeza de chorlito</em> so cerebrally challenged he couldn&rsquo;t pick his own nose without the aid of an instruction manual and a detailed map, when we both spot what looks like a typical Saturday night street fight. A local loser and three college-age kids are scuffling and groin-kicking in front of a glass-enclosed restaurant.</p><p>Bernie says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll handle this,&rdquo; as he swings the car up onto the curb, hops out, and proceeds to take command of the situation by doing his Elvin Jones imitation on the head and shoulders of the loser, who looks like the principal cause of the whole mess.</p><p>I get out of the car and get my nightstick between the two peripheral participants, and move them over towards the glass walls of the restaurant, where a yuppie foursome delight in getting some free entertainment. Bernie stops conducting the acoustical test on the guy&rsquo;s spine long enough for me to get some answers.</p><p>It turns out to be a $30 rip-off involving a quarter-gram of what tastes like mannitol and baby laxative, and the big, curly-headed blond kid is blubbering just like a baby. I can&rsquo;t blame him. He&rsquo;s obviously not used to the way real dealers work.</p><p>[Read the full excerpt of <em>23 Shades of Black</em> by Kenneth Wishnia...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/23-shades-of-black-kenneth-wishnia-filomena-buscarsela-punk-first-in-series">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SazWn_pMzDU:IVzVuxSJcgk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SazWn_pMzDU:IVzVuxSJcgk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SazWn_pMzDU:IVzVuxSJcgk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=SazWn_pMzDU:IVzVuxSJcgk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SazWn_pMzDU:IVzVuxSJcgk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SazWn_pMzDU:IVzVuxSJcgk:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SazWn_pMzDU:IVzVuxSJcgk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=SazWn_pMzDU:IVzVuxSJcgk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/SazWn_pMzDU" height="1" width="1"/> Kenneth Wishnia Excerpts Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/23-shades-of-black-kenneth-wishnia-filomena-buscarsela-punk-first-in-series http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/23-shades-of-black-kenneth-wishnia-filomena-buscarsela-punk-first-in-series http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/gaxebpvgejg/fresh-meat-the-bleiberg-project-david-khara <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-Bleiberg-Project.jpg" /><em><strong>The Bleiberg Project</strong></em><strong> by David Khara, translated from the French by Simon John, is a best-selling international thriller in its first English-language edition (available April 30, 2013.)</strong></p><p>A Mossad agent, a CIA agent, and a Wall Street Trader walk into a bank. What happens next is no joke.</p><p>I loved this thriller. Written by former journalist <strong>David Khara</strong>, <em>The Bleiberg Project</em>, keeps you involved, whether you&rsquo;re in the midst of a flashback to Nazi activities or following modern-day bad guys with links to some truly evil men from World War II.</p><p>Jay Novacek has more money than he&rsquo;ll ever spend and he&rsquo;s one of the unhappiest people on earth. One night of debauchery brought him a pain so deep it never leaves his conscious thoughts. Then, when two representatives from the United States Army show up to inform Jay of his father&rsquo;s death, he finally has something to celebrate.</p><p>[So, not a happy childhood then...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-the-bleiberg-project-david-khara">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=gaxebpvgejg:XP3vvfoIdMw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=gaxebpvgejg:XP3vvfoIdMw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=gaxebpvgejg:XP3vvfoIdMw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=gaxebpvgejg:XP3vvfoIdMw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=gaxebpvgejg:XP3vvfoIdMw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=gaxebpvgejg:XP3vvfoIdMw:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=gaxebpvgejg:XP3vvfoIdMw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=gaxebpvgejg:XP3vvfoIdMw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/gaxebpvgejg" height="1" width="1"/> Leigh Neely Published Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:00:37 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-the-bleiberg-project-david-khara http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-the-bleiberg-project-david-khara http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/W9cW1QwFptk/2013-dilys-derringer-award-independent-mystery-booksellers-association-imba-short-mystery-fiction-society-smfs-crime-hq <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/Dilys-Derringer-Awards.jpg" /></p><p>As you know, it&#39;s award season, but we&#39;ve gotten criminally behind in our reporting, so here&#39;s a double-dose of winning fiction!</p><p>From the <a href="http://www.mysterybooksellers.com/dilys-award" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Independent Mystery Booksellers Association</a>: &ldquo;The Dilys Award has been given annually since 1992 by IMBA to the mystery titles of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed hand selling. The Dilys Award is named in honor of Dilys Winn, the founder of the first specialty bookseller of mystery books in the United States.&rdquo; Here are the nominees and winner (in bold), who was announced during Left Coast Crime:</p><ul><li><em>Grandad, There&#39;s a Head on the Beach</em> by <strong>Colin Cotterill</strong></li><li><em>Broken Harbor</em> by <strong>Tana French</strong></li><li><em>Mr. Churchill&#39;s Secretary</em> by <strong>Susan Elia MacNeal</strong></li><li><em>The Expats</em> by <strong>Chris Pavone</strong></li><li><strong><em>Before the Poison</em> by</strong> <strong>Peter Robinson</strong></li></ul><p>[Now, onto short fiction!]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/2013-dilys-derringer-award-independent-mystery-booksellers-association-imba-short-mystery-fiction-society-smfs-crime-hq">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=W9cW1QwFptk:2lwVbbgfymA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=W9cW1QwFptk:2lwVbbgfymA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=W9cW1QwFptk:2lwVbbgfymA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=W9cW1QwFptk:2lwVbbgfymA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=W9cW1QwFptk:2lwVbbgfymA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=W9cW1QwFptk:2lwVbbgfymA:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=W9cW1QwFptk:2lwVbbgfymA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=W9cW1QwFptk:2lwVbbgfymA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/W9cW1QwFptk" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:15:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/2013-dilys-derringer-award-independent-mystery-booksellers-association-imba-short-mystery-fiction-society-smfs-crime-hq http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/2013-dilys-derringer-award-independent-mystery-booksellers-association-imba-short-mystery-fiction-society-smfs-crime-hq http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/zTAzMbvBooo/checking-out-bates-motel-amber-keller-alfred-hitchcock-vera-farmiga-freddie-highmore-tv <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/bates-motel-artwork.jpg" />When someone says the name Alfred Hitchcock, it immediately signals a barrage of visuals and memories for me. One of the first is the familiar bass tones of the haunting opening theme to his television show, <em>Alfred Hitchcock Presents</em> (1955-1962). Another is those ominous black birds swarming overhead, lunging down to peck at people as they frantically fight to get away, their fears plucked to the surface along with mine. Concerning the former, as a kid I delighted in pooching my belly out and artfully stepping from the darkness to stand in the middle of a doorway as I sang that song. It usually garnered a few chuckles to my satisfaction.</p><p>Now A&amp;E has released a new television show based on the popular Alfred Hitchcock film, <em>Psycho</em>. This franchise has been done... I would say to death, but that wouldn&rsquo;t be very nice, now would it? There have been good films and there have been bad, so I was curious to see how <em>Bates Motel</em> would ultimately stack up.</p><p>[Do you have reservations?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/checking-out-bates-motel-amber-keller-alfred-hitchcock-vera-farmiga-freddie-highmore-tv">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zTAzMbvBooo:xN4uFh6UcGs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zTAzMbvBooo:xN4uFh6UcGs:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zTAzMbvBooo:xN4uFh6UcGs:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=zTAzMbvBooo:xN4uFh6UcGs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zTAzMbvBooo:xN4uFh6UcGs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zTAzMbvBooo:xN4uFh6UcGs:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=zTAzMbvBooo:xN4uFh6UcGs:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=zTAzMbvBooo:xN4uFh6UcGs:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/zTAzMbvBooo" height="1" width="1"/> Amber Keller Published Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:00:36 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/checking-out-bates-motel-amber-keller-alfred-hitchcock-vera-farmiga-freddie-highmore-tv http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/checking-out-bates-motel-amber-keller-alfred-hitchcock-vera-farmiga-freddie-highmore-tv http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/OmACpyOk5IQ/a-few-things-we-should-not-worry-about-steven-john <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/dont-worry-kim-jong-un.jpg" title="Watch out Kim Jong Un! That water might be fluoridated!" />Our world today seems fraught with peril: everywhere you look are threats to your safety and well-being. If it&rsquo;s not the U.S. housing market&rsquo;s collapse affecting economics worldwide, it&rsquo;s the failure of Cypriot banking affecting the global economy. If it&rsquo;s not Iran threatening an attack on Israel, it&rsquo;s North Korea threatening South Korea (and Japan and the United States and likely the moon and the Kuiper Belt, too, for some damn reason). Hydraulic fracturing is leading to both a new oil and gas boom and to earthquakes and flammable tap water...</p><p>The list of potential causes for doom and gloom goes on and on, and it can indeed cast a pall over even the sunniest of days if you dwell on it. So today, we thought we&rsquo;d take a turn for the positive, and give you fewer things to worry about by crossing some issues off your &ldquo;Things I Worry About&rdquo; list. (Also, for the record, if you have a list like that, you may want to talk to someone about the larger, underlying issues.)</p><p>[Making a list and checking it twice...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/a-few-things-we-should-not-worry-about-steven-john">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=OmACpyOk5IQ:UmRcJpY6PIY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=OmACpyOk5IQ:UmRcJpY6PIY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=OmACpyOk5IQ:UmRcJpY6PIY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=OmACpyOk5IQ:UmRcJpY6PIY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=OmACpyOk5IQ:UmRcJpY6PIY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=OmACpyOk5IQ:UmRcJpY6PIY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=OmACpyOk5IQ:UmRcJpY6PIY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=OmACpyOk5IQ:UmRcJpY6PIY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/OmACpyOk5IQ" height="1" width="1"/> Steven John Published Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:00:33 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/a-few-things-we-should-not-worry-about-steven-john http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/a-few-things-we-should-not-worry-about-steven-john http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/2PmRzwxXLXY/silent-voices-ann-cleeves-excerpt-vera-stanhope-sweepstakes <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/silent-voices-cover.JPG" /><strong>An excerpt of <em>Silent Voices </em>by Ann Cleeves, the first U.S. edition of the best-selling mystery featuring Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope (available May 7, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>When Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna of her local gym, a closer inspection reveals bruises around the victim&rsquo;s throat. Vera&rsquo;s team start their investigation and soon uncover details in the victim&rsquo;s past that may explain her untimely death. But Vera knows from experience that there&rsquo;s no such thing as a simple case, and this one grows more baffling by the minute.</em></p><p><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p><p>Vera swam slowly. An elderly man with a bathing hat pulled like a fully stretched condom over his head went past her. He wasn&rsquo;t a strong swimmer, but he was faster than she was. She was the sloth of the swimming world. But still she was almost faint with the effort of moving, with pulling the bulk of her body through the water.</p><p>She hated the sensation of water on her face&mdash;one splash and she imagined she was drowning&mdash;so she did a slow breaststroke with her chin a couple of inches from the surface of the pool. Looking, she suspected, like a giant turtle.</p><p>She managed to raise her head a little further to look at the clock on the wall. Nearly midday. Soon the fit and fabulous elderly would appear for aqua-aerobics. The women with painted toenails, floral bathing costumes and the smug realization that they&rsquo;d be the last generation to retire early in some comfort. There&rsquo;d be loud music, the sound distorted by a tortuous PA system and the appalling acoustics of the pool, so it would hardly seem like music at all. A young woman in Lycra would shout. Vera couldn&rsquo;t bear the thought of it. She&rsquo;d swum her regulation ten lengths. <em>Well, eight</em>. She couldn&rsquo;t do&nbsp; self-deception if her life depended on it. And now, her lungs heaving, she really felt that her life did depend on it. So sod it! Five minutes in the steam room, a super-strength latte, then back to work.</p><p>[Read the full excerpt of <em>Silent Voices</em> by Ann Cleeves...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/silent-voices-ann-cleeves-excerpt-vera-stanhope-sweepstakes">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=2PmRzwxXLXY:yWafVuKCiZE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=2PmRzwxXLXY:yWafVuKCiZE:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=2PmRzwxXLXY:yWafVuKCiZE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=2PmRzwxXLXY:yWafVuKCiZE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=2PmRzwxXLXY:yWafVuKCiZE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=2PmRzwxXLXY:yWafVuKCiZE:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=2PmRzwxXLXY:yWafVuKCiZE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=2PmRzwxXLXY:yWafVuKCiZE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/2PmRzwxXLXY" height="1" width="1"/> Ann Cleeves Excerpts Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:30:16 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/silent-voices-ann-cleeves-excerpt-vera-stanhope-sweepstakes http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/04/silent-voices-ann-cleeves-excerpt-vera-stanhope-sweepstakes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/U5EjgXTSaWc/dead-like-me-meets-mib-check-out-the-trailer-for-ripd-jeff-bridges-ryan-reynolds-kevin-bacon <p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/X07xNrVd7DU" width="475"></iframe></p><p>Okay, I think that got all the rhyming out of my system, maybe. Okay, yeah, I&rsquo;m done. Though, I did leave out the addition of a healthy sprinkling of <em>Ghostbusters</em>, but that doesn&rsquo;t rhyme, does it? Anyway, above is the trailer for <em>R.I.P.D. </em>starring Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Bacon, and Mary Louise Parker. If you&rsquo;ve ever found yourself wanting more <em>Men In Black</em>, but this time with a sassy undead cowboy and his straight-laced, modern-day partner, well, this just might be the movie for you.</p><p>The movie looks like it will be a hoot. And by hoot I mean a wonderful popcorn movie to whittle away a 100+ degree summer afternoon. Based on a comic by the same name, <em>R.I.P.D. </em>is about a contemporary cop who gets killed in the line of duty and is then invited to join the post-mortem police force, the Rest In Peace Department. Their job is simple enough: keep the world of the living safe from all the nasty things that go bump in the night. What do you say, are you in?</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/dead-like-me-meets-mib-check-out-the-trailer-for-ripd-jeff-bridges-ryan-reynolds-kevin-bacon">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=U5EjgXTSaWc:jyxIZZ3mSXQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=U5EjgXTSaWc:jyxIZZ3mSXQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=U5EjgXTSaWc:jyxIZZ3mSXQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=U5EjgXTSaWc:jyxIZZ3mSXQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=U5EjgXTSaWc:jyxIZZ3mSXQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=U5EjgXTSaWc:jyxIZZ3mSXQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=U5EjgXTSaWc:jyxIZZ3mSXQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=U5EjgXTSaWc:jyxIZZ3mSXQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/U5EjgXTSaWc" height="1" width="1"/> Christopher Morgan Published Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/dead-like-me-meets-mib-check-out-the-trailer-for-ripd-jeff-bridges-ryan-reynolds-kevin-bacon http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/dead-like-me-meets-mib-check-out-the-trailer-for-ripd-jeff-bridges-ryan-reynolds-kevin-bacon http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/_K_F_tFShhw/hannibal-episode-103-potage-hugh-dancy-mads-mikkelsen-amber-keller <p><img alt="Yeah, I'd say she has some major daddy issues!" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/Keller-Hannibal-103-Hobbs.jpg" title="Yeah, I'd say she has some major daddy issues!" />All eyes are on Abigail Hobbs as they wait for her to wake up. The show opens up with Abigail having a coma-induced vision of going hunting with her father, giving us a little glimpse at their relationship. She shoots a deer, and once they get it back to their cabin, she is told to gut it. The apprehension on her face as she was hunting it and her commentary on the deer&rsquo;s social structure gives the impression that she doesn&rsquo;t really want to be doing this, however, she doesn&rsquo;t say no. But the real moment comes when she pulls back the head and it is a girl. This dream is powerful enough to bring her out of the coma, and rightly so.</p><p>Does this prove Crawford&rsquo;s claims that Abigail was an accomplice to her fathers&rsquo; killing spree?</p><p>[Oh no! Does the apple <em>really</em> not fall far from the tree?...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/hannibal-episode-103-potage-hugh-dancy-mads-mikkelsen-amber-keller">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_K_F_tFShhw:cYeb-YVqpNg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_K_F_tFShhw:cYeb-YVqpNg:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_K_F_tFShhw:cYeb-YVqpNg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=_K_F_tFShhw:cYeb-YVqpNg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_K_F_tFShhw:cYeb-YVqpNg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_K_F_tFShhw:cYeb-YVqpNg:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_K_F_tFShhw:cYeb-YVqpNg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=_K_F_tFShhw:cYeb-YVqpNg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/_K_F_tFShhw" height="1" width="1"/> Amber Keller Published Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:55:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/hannibal-episode-103-potage-hugh-dancy-mads-mikkelsen-amber-keller http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/hannibal-episode-103-potage-hugh-dancy-mads-mikkelsen-amber-keller http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/hM5SYOxvPGc/movie-vs-book-bunny-lake-is-missing-jake-hinkson-evelyn-piper <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/bunny-lake-still.jpg" title="Carol Lynley as Ann Lake in the 1965 film Bunny Lake is Missing" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>Which is better, the movie or the book?</em></p><p>This is a hard question when the both the movie and book under discussion are masterpieces. Think <em>The Maltese Falcon</em> or <em>The Blank Wall</em>/<em>The Reckless Moment</em>&mdash;great books made into great movies that also happen to be faithful adaptations.</p><p>But what about when both the movie and the book are flawed? What then?</p><p>Check out this plot: A young mother arrives at a nursery school one afternoon to pick up her daughter, but the little girl is not there. The mother&rsquo;s distraught, of course, but the teachers and the principal just stare blankly back at her. They say they do not know her. They say they have never seen her&nbsp; daughter. Does the daughter exist? Is the young woman crazy? Or is something more sinister going on?</p><p>[Raise your hand if you think it&rsquo;s sinister...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/movie-vs-book-bunny-lake-is-missing-jake-hinkson-evelyn-piper">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hM5SYOxvPGc:JLjJRX0D9N4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hM5SYOxvPGc:JLjJRX0D9N4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hM5SYOxvPGc:JLjJRX0D9N4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=hM5SYOxvPGc:JLjJRX0D9N4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hM5SYOxvPGc:JLjJRX0D9N4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hM5SYOxvPGc:JLjJRX0D9N4:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hM5SYOxvPGc:JLjJRX0D9N4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=hM5SYOxvPGc:JLjJRX0D9N4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/hM5SYOxvPGc" height="1" width="1"/> Jake Hinkson Published Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:00:47 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/movie-vs-book-bunny-lake-is-missing-jake-hinkson-evelyn-piper http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/movie-vs-book-bunny-lake-is-missing-jake-hinkson-evelyn-piper http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/5iEuGPrjtVk/fresh-meat-mumbai-confidential-book-one-good-cop-bad-cop-saurav-mohapatra-vivek-shinde-doreen-sheridan <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-03-Mar/FM-Mumbai-Confidential.jpg" /><strong><em>Mumbai Confidential Book 1: Good Cop, Bad Cop</em> by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde is a hard-boiled graphic novel set in Mumbai (available April 23, 2013).</strong></p><p>Hard-boiled crime fiction the world over, whether it&rsquo;s set in Los Angeles or Mumbai, Moscow or Tokyo, poses the same basic question to the reader: who can you trust in a world teeming with corruption and evil? How can you tell the good cops from the bad cops, the good guys from the bad guys?</p><p>This graphic novel, collecting the main story with three shorter interludes at the end, plumbs the moral depths of what it means to be a villain. The end result is a book that leaves you sadder at, and maybe a little bit wiser about, the human condition, and the lengths we&rsquo;ll go to in order not only to survive but to find satisfaction with what we&rsquo;ve done.</p><p>[Can&rsquo;t get no satisfaction...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-mumbai-confidential-book-one-good-cop-bad-cop-saurav-mohapatra-vivek-shinde-doreen-sheridan">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=5iEuGPrjtVk:VRs_JrS5zHI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=5iEuGPrjtVk:VRs_JrS5zHI:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=5iEuGPrjtVk:VRs_JrS5zHI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=5iEuGPrjtVk:VRs_JrS5zHI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=5iEuGPrjtVk:VRs_JrS5zHI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=5iEuGPrjtVk:VRs_JrS5zHI:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=5iEuGPrjtVk:VRs_JrS5zHI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=5iEuGPrjtVk:VRs_JrS5zHI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/5iEuGPrjtVk" height="1" width="1"/> Doreen Sheridan Published Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-mumbai-confidential-book-one-good-cop-bad-cop-saurav-mohapatra-vivek-shinde-doreen-sheridan http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-mumbai-confidential-book-one-good-cop-bad-cop-saurav-mohapatra-vivek-shinde-doreen-sheridan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/ue5mWW5CSvw/no-youre-out-of-order-judge-fines-himself-crime-hq-true-legal-codes-wrangling-just-for-fun <p><img alt="Judge Judy would have never tolerated such nonsense in her courtroom--even from herself!" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/AM-Coffee-Judge.jpg" title="Judge Judy would have never tolerated such nonsense in her courtroom--even from herself!" />In a bizarre turn of events a judge had to fine himself in his own courtroom when he broke one of his rules. The judge in question had instituted a &ldquo;no cellphones&rdquo; policy when one day, his cellphone went off. For anyone who possesses a smartphone, a touch-screen, or really any bit of new technology, it is sometimes very easy to press a wrong button and make your phone do inexplicable things...It just happened at the wrong time for this judge.</p><p><a href="http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/judge-fines-himself-breaking-no-cellphone-rule-150401505--abc-news-topstories.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">In a Good Morning America article</a>, the man in question, Judge Raymond Voet said:</p><blockquote><p id="yui_3_8_1_18_1366231591670_157">The judge said he had his new <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1366049076224_5">Windows smartphone</span> in his pocket during court on Friday but forgot to lock the touch screen, setting off the voice command function.</p><p>&ldquo;The phone is saying, &#39;Say a command,&#39;&rdquo; Voet said.</p><p id="yui_3_8_1_18_1366231591670_187">&ldquo;The prosecutor was in the middle of his closing arguments. &hellip; He lost his train of thought and looked at me. I felt my face starting to burn red,&rdquo; the judge said.</p></blockquote><p>Voet sheepishly paid the fine and has probably learned (like many of us) that it&#39;s best to leave the cellphone where it can&#39;t do any damage!</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/no-youre-out-of-order-judge-fines-himself-crime-hq-true-legal-codes-wrangling-just-for-fun">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ue5mWW5CSvw:KvSr3IUzW5k:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ue5mWW5CSvw:KvSr3IUzW5k:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ue5mWW5CSvw:KvSr3IUzW5k:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ue5mWW5CSvw:KvSr3IUzW5k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ue5mWW5CSvw:KvSr3IUzW5k:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ue5mWW5CSvw:KvSr3IUzW5k:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ue5mWW5CSvw:KvSr3IUzW5k:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ue5mWW5CSvw:KvSr3IUzW5k:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/ue5mWW5CSvw" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/no-youre-out-of-order-judge-fines-himself-crime-hq-true-legal-codes-wrangling-just-for-fun http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/no-youre-out-of-order-judge-fines-himself-crime-hq-true-legal-codes-wrangling-just-for-fun http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/692x8gIBxiI/undercover-artist-jodie-rogers-sewn-by-the-sea-sandra-mangan-leigh-on-sea-essex <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/sewn-by-the-sea-rendell.jpg" />Most arts and crafts are a mystery to me, but there are plenty of folk out there who are putting their talents to good use. And when their work includes old books, then I&rsquo;m definitely hooked!</p><p>Upcycler Jodie Rogers, also known as Sewn By The Sea, lives at the seaside in Leigh on Sea in Essex in England.</p><p>Mum-of-four Jodie comes from a very artistic family, and arts and crafts was something they did together as she was growing up. After leaving school, she studied for a national diploma in fashion and design and A-level art. Then came motherhood, but she kept up with crafts as a hobby. Now that her two older children are at school and the younger two at play group, she has the time to turn her work into a business.</p><p>[Time is on her side...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/undercover-artist-jodie-rogers-sewn-by-the-sea-sandra-mangan-leigh-on-sea-essex">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=692x8gIBxiI:J4X2P_XTUdk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=692x8gIBxiI:J4X2P_XTUdk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=692x8gIBxiI:J4X2P_XTUdk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=692x8gIBxiI:J4X2P_XTUdk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=692x8gIBxiI:J4X2P_XTUdk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=692x8gIBxiI:J4X2P_XTUdk:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=692x8gIBxiI:J4X2P_XTUdk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=692x8gIBxiI:J4X2P_XTUdk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/692x8gIBxiI" height="1" width="1"/> Sandra Mangan Published Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:00:22 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/undercover-artist-jodie-rogers-sewn-by-the-sea-sandra-mangan-leigh-on-sea-essex http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/undercover-artist-jodie-rogers-sewn-by-the-sea-sandra-mangan-leigh-on-sea-essex http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/LvL779EYkkw/fresh-meat-penance-dan-oshea-katrina-niidas-holm-chicago <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-penance.JPG" /></p><p><strong><em>Penance</em> by Dan O&rsquo;Shea is a debut novel set in Chicago about political corruption, police detectives, and scores that must be settled (available April 30, 2013).</strong></p><p>On its face, <em>Penance</em> by <strong>Dan O&rsquo;Shea</strong> is the story of Chicago Police Detective John Lynch and his hunt for the Confessional Killer&mdash;a madman with a sniper rifle who&rsquo;s been picking off penitent churchgoers.</p><p>But to classify <em>Penance</em> as a mere police procedural would be to do it a serious injustice. Because, you see, like all good crime fiction, this book is about so much more than its back cover copy might suggest.&nbsp;</p><p>For starters, O&rsquo;Shea&rsquo;s debut is a revenge tale:</p><blockquote>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been living with the fact that my father was murdered for most of my life, but always thought the guys who did it went down at the same time. Just found out they didn&rsquo;t. Worse than that, just found out they set him up. Risky or not, I&rsquo;m in.&rdquo;</blockquote><p>[And so are we...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-penance-dan-oshea-katrina-niidas-holm-chicago">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=LvL779EYkkw:uC-A6V8u2kU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=LvL779EYkkw:uC-A6V8u2kU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=LvL779EYkkw:uC-A6V8u2kU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=LvL779EYkkw:uC-A6V8u2kU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=LvL779EYkkw:uC-A6V8u2kU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=LvL779EYkkw:uC-A6V8u2kU:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=LvL779EYkkw:uC-A6V8u2kU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=LvL779EYkkw:uC-A6V8u2kU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/LvL779EYkkw" height="1" width="1"/> Katrina Niidas Holm Published Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:30:38 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-penance-dan-oshea-katrina-niidas-holm-chicago http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/fresh-meat-penance-dan-oshea-katrina-niidas-holm-chicago http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/a3NZcMCB2lQ/walking-dead-bronies-sheriff-pony-mlp-rick-crime-hq <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/Sheriff-Pony-Walking-Dead-Bronies.jpg" />Our latest time-killing attempt to <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/walking-away-from-the-walking-dead-adam-baker-juggernaut" target="_self">survive <em>TWD</em>&#39;s hiatus</a>. So, Rick as Brony&mdash;Yay or Neigh?</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/tags/The%20Walking%20Dead" target="_self">Check out all our coverage of <em>The Walking Dead</em>.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.kulfoto.com/funny-pictures/42993/sheriff-pony" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size:12px;"><em>Image via KULfoto.</em></span></a></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/walking-dead-bronies-sheriff-pony-mlp-rick-crime-hq">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=a3NZcMCB2lQ:fxd6H_i2MT0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=a3NZcMCB2lQ:fxd6H_i2MT0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=a3NZcMCB2lQ:fxd6H_i2MT0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=a3NZcMCB2lQ:fxd6H_i2MT0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=a3NZcMCB2lQ:fxd6H_i2MT0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=a3NZcMCB2lQ:fxd6H_i2MT0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=a3NZcMCB2lQ:fxd6H_i2MT0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=a3NZcMCB2lQ:fxd6H_i2MT0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/a3NZcMCB2lQ" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/walking-dead-bronies-sheriff-pony-mlp-rick-crime-hq http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/04/walking-dead-bronies-sheriff-pony-mlp-rick-crime-hq