RSS feed for all content appearing in the blog river, with links back to the site http://www.criminalelement.com/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:26:43 +0000 Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management en-gb http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/uHYM44Hf950/crimefest-2013-bristol-uk-conference-panels-sherlock-gattis-moffatt-deaver-goddard-tourist-tony-hays <p class="Normal"><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Crime-Fest-Hotel.jpg" style="height: 186px; width: 250px; " />The 6th annual Bristol UK&rsquo;s <a href="http://crimefest.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CrimeFest</a> 2013 has come and gone. And a great time was absolutely had by all.</p><p class="Normal">I attended this year, along with some 500 other authors and fans, and it was well worth the time and expense to network with fellow writers and mystery fans throughout the United Kingdom.</p><p class="Normal"><span class="Strong__Char"><span class="Strong__Char" style="font-weight:normal">The Bristol Marriott Royal, next door to the historic Bristol Cathedral, hosts the conference.&nbsp; &nbsp; Headliners of this year&rsquo;s gathering were <strong>Robert Goddard</strong>, the creators of BBC&rsquo;s <em>Sherlock</em> series &ndash; <strong>Mark Gattis</strong>, <strong>Steven Moffat</strong>, and producer Sue Vertue &ndash; and Lincoln Rhyme&#39;s creator<strong> Jeffery Deaver</strong>.</span></span></p><p>[A promising start, to be sure]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/crimefest-2013-bristol-uk-conference-panels-sherlock-gattis-moffatt-deaver-goddard-tourist-tony-hays">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=uHYM44Hf950:UYwmKp8Tr7g:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=uHYM44Hf950:UYwmKp8Tr7g:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=uHYM44Hf950:UYwmKp8Tr7g:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=uHYM44Hf950:UYwmKp8Tr7g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=uHYM44Hf950:UYwmKp8Tr7g:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=uHYM44Hf950:UYwmKp8Tr7g:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=uHYM44Hf950:UYwmKp8Tr7g:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=uHYM44Hf950:UYwmKp8Tr7g:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/uHYM44Hf950" height="1" width="1"/> Tony Hays Published Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/crimefest-2013-bristol-uk-conference-panels-sherlock-gattis-moffatt-deaver-goddard-tourist-tony-hays http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/crimefest-2013-bristol-uk-conference-panels-sherlock-gattis-moffatt-deaver-goddard-tourist-tony-hays http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/ZRjZf3LTPbI/longmire-episode-2-04-the-road-to-hell-cattle-heist-vic-tara-gelsomino <p class="Normal"><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Longmire-2.04-the-road-to-hell.jpg" style="height: 290px; width: 475px; " /></p><p class="Normal">It&rsquo;s another plot-heavy episode this week, as a cattle heist leads to conspiracies and murder. The highway patrol calls the Sheriff and his deputies (sadly, no Ferg this week) to a crime scene with a big rig trailer riddled with bullet holes. Walt quickly deduces (thanks to some cow patties) that a trailer of livestock was hijacked, and the driver of the rig, Cooper James, is missing. Branch is still pretty much getting all the manure-type work, as Walt orders him to dust the entire big rig for prints and then go visit some slaughterhouses. Meanwhile, Vic notifies the driver&rsquo;s wife that he&rsquo;s missing, and Walt heads to the ranch the rig came from that morning.</p><p>[But it&#39;s never that simple in Absaroka, is it?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/longmire-episode-2-04-the-road-to-hell-cattle-heist-vic-tara-gelsomino">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZRjZf3LTPbI:LNCv-bsyZqI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZRjZf3LTPbI:LNCv-bsyZqI:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZRjZf3LTPbI:LNCv-bsyZqI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ZRjZf3LTPbI:LNCv-bsyZqI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZRjZf3LTPbI:LNCv-bsyZqI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZRjZf3LTPbI:LNCv-bsyZqI:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZRjZf3LTPbI:LNCv-bsyZqI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ZRjZf3LTPbI:LNCv-bsyZqI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/ZRjZf3LTPbI" height="1" width="1"/> Tara Gelsomino Published Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/longmire-episode-2-04-the-road-to-hell-cattle-heist-vic-tara-gelsomino http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/longmire-episode-2-04-the-road-to-hell-cattle-heist-vic-tara-gelsomino http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/6ZpGhuoTEtM/fresh-meat-death-of-a-dyer-by-eleanor-kuhns-old-and-new-west <p><img alt="Death of a Dyer by Eleanor Kuhns" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Tomlinson-FM-Death-of-a-Dyer-250.jpg" title="Death of a Dyer by Eleanor Kuhns" /></p><p><strong><em>Death of a Dyer </em>by Eleanor Kuhns is the second book in her Will Rees mysteries about a Revolutionary War veteran-turned-itinerant weaver (available June 18, 2013).</strong></p><p>They didn&#39;t have Facebook back in the 18th century, so hearing unexpected news about an old friend rarely meant something good had happened. For Will Rees, learning that Nate Bowditch is dead is not only unexpected; it&#39;s unbelievable.</p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;Dead?&rdquo; Rees repeated, staring at George Potter in shock.</p><p>&ldquo;Dead?&rdquo; A spasm of unexpected grief shot through him. Although he hadn&rsquo;t seen Nate Bowditch for eighteen years, not since Rees had marched away with the Continental Army in&nbsp;1777, as boys they&rsquo;d been closer than brothers. &ldquo;Are you sure?&rdquo;</p><p>Potter put down his cup with a clink. &ldquo;Of course I&rsquo;m sure. His wife herself told me of his death.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never met her,&rdquo; Rees said.</p><p>&ldquo;After almost twenty years? He lives&mdash; lived on the other side of Dugard, not the Atlantic Ocean. What happened? You were such good friends.&rdquo;</p><p>Rees shrugged; that story was too long to tell. &ldquo;We . . . went in different directions.&rdquo;</p></blockquote><p>[And they never were seen again...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-death-of-a-dyer-by-eleanor-kuhns-old-and-new-west">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6ZpGhuoTEtM:KL2RokNy-D0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6ZpGhuoTEtM:KL2RokNy-D0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6ZpGhuoTEtM:KL2RokNy-D0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=6ZpGhuoTEtM:KL2RokNy-D0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6ZpGhuoTEtM:KL2RokNy-D0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6ZpGhuoTEtM:KL2RokNy-D0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=6ZpGhuoTEtM:KL2RokNy-D0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=6ZpGhuoTEtM:KL2RokNy-D0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/6ZpGhuoTEtM" height="1" width="1"/> Katherine Tomlinson Published Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-death-of-a-dyer-by-eleanor-kuhns-old-and-new-west http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-death-of-a-dyer-by-eleanor-kuhns-old-and-new-west http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/C6Zb49pF2dc/buckles-the-clown-is-here-for-the-laughskind-of <p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/65486657" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="475"></iframe></p><p>You know what I found myself wondering yesterday? &ldquo;Why can&#39;t I find a nice, creepy, John Wayne Gacy-esq clown themed horror clip?&rdquo; Well, ask and you shall receive. Nothing says &ldquo;I&#39;m going to kill you dead&rdquo; quite like a creepily mumbling man dressed as a very sloppy clown. Enjoy!</p><p>And be sure and stick around for the credits to listen to perhaps the creepist version of the Birthday Song that you will never be able to un-hear.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/buckles-the-clown-is-here-for-the-laughskind-of">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=C6Zb49pF2dc:l94JwUyecew:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=C6Zb49pF2dc:l94JwUyecew:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=C6Zb49pF2dc:l94JwUyecew:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=C6Zb49pF2dc:l94JwUyecew:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=C6Zb49pF2dc:l94JwUyecew:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=C6Zb49pF2dc:l94JwUyecew:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=C6Zb49pF2dc:l94JwUyecew:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=C6Zb49pF2dc:l94JwUyecew:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/C6Zb49pF2dc" height="1" width="1"/> Christopher Morgan Published Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/buckles-the-clown-is-here-for-the-laughskind-of http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/buckles-the-clown-is-here-for-the-laughskind-of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/tmpSJ3ERWpY/inspector-lewis-masterpiece-mystery-season-7-episode-1-down-among-the-fearful-leslie-gilbert-elman <p class="Normal"><img alt="Kevin Whately as Inspector Lewis in the premiere of the series' final season" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Lewis-VI-Down-Among-the-Fearful-portrait.jpg" style="height: 383px; width: 475px; " />Prepare yourself. This is the beginning of the end for Inspector Lewis. Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox don&rsquo;t want to do Lewis and Hathaway as a regular thing anymore. Or if they do, past this year&rsquo;s final series 6, it won&rsquo;t be for complete three- or four-episode series. Maybe just one or two now and then.</p><p class="Normal">If I&rsquo;m being objective I can&rsquo;t really fault Kevin Whately&mdash;he&rsquo;s been Lewis since 1987, and I&rsquo;d expect that he wants to do something else from time to time. Although&hellip; I&rsquo;ve seen him in other series playing characters who aren&rsquo;t true blue and I simply refuse to accept it. (There are worse things than being branded as a sweet, soulful doer of good, Mr. Whately. Please remember that.) And Laurence Fox, who&rsquo;s part of an acting dynasty (his cousin Freddie appeared in &ldquo;<a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/07/inspector-lewis-generation-of-vipers-masterpiece-mystery-leslie-gilbert-elman" target="_self">Generation of Vipers</a>&rdquo; last year and his uncle Edward turns up in episode 3 of this series), has other fish to fry.</p><p>I&rsquo;ll miss them, and I can&rsquo;t help but remember the genuine contentment I felt back in 2007 when Lewis came back to TV. Fortunately, if this episode is any indication, they&rsquo;re leaving us something truly Lewis-y to remember them by.</p><p>[We&rsquo;ll always have Oxford...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/inspector-lewis-masterpiece-mystery-season-7-episode-1-down-among-the-fearful-leslie-gilbert-elman">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tmpSJ3ERWpY:CcIM5oyprgI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tmpSJ3ERWpY:CcIM5oyprgI:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tmpSJ3ERWpY:CcIM5oyprgI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=tmpSJ3ERWpY:CcIM5oyprgI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tmpSJ3ERWpY:CcIM5oyprgI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tmpSJ3ERWpY:CcIM5oyprgI:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=tmpSJ3ERWpY:CcIM5oyprgI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=tmpSJ3ERWpY:CcIM5oyprgI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/tmpSJ3ERWpY" height="1" width="1"/> Leslie Gilbert Elman Published Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/inspector-lewis-masterpiece-mystery-season-7-episode-1-down-among-the-fearful-leslie-gilbert-elman http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/inspector-lewis-masterpiece-mystery-season-7-episode-1-down-among-the-fearful-leslie-gilbert-elman http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/LVkIzIilfr4/the-summer-of-dead-toys-by-antonio-hill-spain-barcelona-noir-victoria-janssen-fresh-meat <p><img alt="The Summer of Dead Toys by Antonio Hill" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Janssen-Antonio-Hill-Summer-of-Dead-Toys.jpg" /><strong><em>The Summer of Dead Toys</em> by Antonio Hill is a dark, gritty police procedural set in Barcelona (available June 18, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Inspector H&eacute;ctor Salgado, a transplanted Argentine living in Barcelona, is assigned to investigate a routine accidental death: a college student has fallen from a balcony in one of Barcelona&rsquo;s ritzier neighborhoods. As Salgado begins to piece together the life and world of the victim, he realizes that the death may not have been an accident at all. H&eacute;ctor begins to follow a trail that will lead him deep into the underbelly of Barcelona&rsquo;s high society where he&rsquo;ll come face-to-face with dangerous criminals, long-buried secrets, and, of course, his own past. But H&eacute;ctor thrives on pressure, and he lives for this kind of case&mdash;dark, violent, and seemingly unsolvable.&nbsp;</em></p><p><em>The Summer of Dead Toys </em>by Antonio Hill is first in a new police procedural series featuring Inspector H&eacute;ctor Salgado. Translated from Spanish by the original author, it&rsquo;s set in contemporary Barcelona. However, the novel&rsquo;s hero is a transplant from South America, an Argentine who&rsquo;s not always welcome in Spain and who offers a bit of an outsider perspective, despite his long residence in Spain. As well as Salgado, we are treated to an array of intriguing secondary characters, including Salgado&rsquo;s family and friends as well as other police, who will likely be further fleshed out as the series progresses.</p><p>Salgado&rsquo;s moral quandaries result from dislocations between the legal requirements of his job and his own deep emotions and his opinions on appropriate payment for crimes. Salgado is a hardbitten, weary detective who still finds energy in the pursuit of justice.</p><p>[We love those disillusioned detectives...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/the-summer-of-dead-toys-by-antonio-hill-spain-barcelona-noir-victoria-janssen-fresh-meat">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=LVkIzIilfr4:K9C-TT7zCoM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=LVkIzIilfr4:K9C-TT7zCoM:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=LVkIzIilfr4:K9C-TT7zCoM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=LVkIzIilfr4:K9C-TT7zCoM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=LVkIzIilfr4:K9C-TT7zCoM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=LVkIzIilfr4:K9C-TT7zCoM:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=LVkIzIilfr4:K9C-TT7zCoM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=LVkIzIilfr4:K9C-TT7zCoM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/LVkIzIilfr4" height="1" width="1"/> Victoria Janssen Published Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/the-summer-of-dead-toys-by-antonio-hill-spain-barcelona-noir-victoria-janssen-fresh-meat http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/the-summer-of-dead-toys-by-antonio-hill-spain-barcelona-noir-victoria-janssen-fresh-meat http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/1XsjCOhX_Og/fresh-meat-crime-of-privilege-by-walter-walker-elizabeth-connelly-legal-thriller <p><img alt="Crime of Privilege by Walter Walker" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Connelly_Walter-Walker-Crime-of-Privilege.jpg" /><strong><em>Crime of Privilege </em></strong><strong>by Walter Walker is a legal thriller pitting a schlub against the rich and powerful </strong><strong>(available June 18, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>A murder on Cape Cod. A rape in Palm Beach. All they have in common is the presence of one of America&rsquo;s most beloved and influential families. </em><em>But nobody is asking questions. Not the police. Not the prosecutors. And certainly not George Becket, a young lawyer toiling away in the basement of the Cape &amp; Islands district attorney&rsquo;s office. George has always lived at the edge of power. He wasn&rsquo;t born to privilege, but he understands how it works and has benefitted from it in ways he doesn&rsquo;t like to admit. Now, an investigation brings him deep inside the world of the truly wealthy&mdash;and shows him what a perilous place it is.</em></p><p>I&rsquo;m a sucker for journeys of redemption, for flawed characters whose weaknesses bring them to life, for holes dug deep enough that the character has to dig even deeper to pull himself out. Walker&rsquo;s tale delivers all of this in spades. When George Becket witnesses a young woman being violated at a party in Palm Beach, he hesitates. He questions what he&rsquo;s really seeing. He rationalizes and justifies. <em>Finally, </em>he steps in to stop it. Subsequently, for playing coy with investigators, George gets rewarded by the powerful Gregory family. He also gains an enemy in the victim&rsquo;s wealthy father whose henchman (who gets some of the best lines) is soon dispatched to encourage George to find a moral compass. After the young woman commits suicide and George still refuses to change his story, daddy&rsquo;s henchman predicts an unfortunate future:</p><p>[Henchman <em>and</em> oracle!]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-crime-of-privilege-by-walter-walker-elizabeth-connelly-legal-thriller">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1XsjCOhX_Og:nXGBWL2JfHc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1XsjCOhX_Og:nXGBWL2JfHc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1XsjCOhX_Og:nXGBWL2JfHc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=1XsjCOhX_Og:nXGBWL2JfHc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1XsjCOhX_Og:nXGBWL2JfHc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1XsjCOhX_Og:nXGBWL2JfHc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1XsjCOhX_Og:nXGBWL2JfHc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=1XsjCOhX_Og:nXGBWL2JfHc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/1XsjCOhX_Og" height="1" width="1"/> Elizabeth Connelly Published Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-crime-of-privilege-by-walter-walker-elizabeth-connelly-legal-thriller http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-crime-of-privilege-by-walter-walker-elizabeth-connelly-legal-thriller http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/rwiaYAlpN6I/killer-stiletto-heels-bail-murder-stabbing-texas-fashion-clare-toohey <p><img alt="Heels designed by Tom Ford and photographed by Terry Richardson" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Killer-Stiletto.jpg" style="height: 167px; width: 250px; " />A woman in Houston, Texas recently committed murder &ldquo;with a deadly weapon, namely a shoe...&rdquo; At least, that&#39;s what the police think after Ana Lilia Trujillo answered the victim&#39;s apartment door covered in blood and with her repeatedly stabbed boyfriend lying dead in the hallway next to her discarded shoe. According to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/11/justice/texas-stiletto-stabbing/index.html?hpt=hp_t3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em>CNN</em></a>, who also has video from her preliminary hearing:</p><blockquote><p>[Alf Stefan] Andersson, a research professor from the University of Houston, had 10 puncture wounds on his head &mdash; some as deep as an inch and a half &mdash; and 15 to 20 puncture wounds along his face, arms, and neck, prosecutors say, according to CNN affiliate KTRK.</p></blockquote><p>The accused had apparently threatened others with this kind of behavior before, making &ldquo;killer heels&rdquo; not just a figure of speech, but her actual weapon of choice. (And she&#39;s not alone! Check this partial list of other assaults and murder by <a href="http://shine.yahoo.com/love-sex/woman-accused-of-murder-by-stiletto-are-high-heels-deadly-weapons-2519038.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">stiletto attack</a>.)</p><p>The dangerous-looking Tom Ford heel pictured above is also indeed killer, but only in our preferred, stylistic sense. Photograph by <a href="http://terrysdiary.com/post/1701580714/new-tom-ford-killer-heels" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Terry Richardson</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/killer-stiletto-heels-bail-murder-stabbing-texas-fashion-clare-toohey">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rwiaYAlpN6I:adW5azL0pAU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rwiaYAlpN6I:adW5azL0pAU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rwiaYAlpN6I:adW5azL0pAU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=rwiaYAlpN6I:adW5azL0pAU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rwiaYAlpN6I:adW5azL0pAU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rwiaYAlpN6I:adW5azL0pAU:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=rwiaYAlpN6I:adW5azL0pAU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=rwiaYAlpN6I:adW5azL0pAU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/rwiaYAlpN6I" height="1" width="1"/> Clare Toohey Published Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/killer-stiletto-heels-bail-murder-stabbing-texas-fashion-clare-toohey http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/killer-stiletto-heels-bail-murder-stabbing-texas-fashion-clare-toohey http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Kg4b_gnyZrA/fresh-meat-her-last-breath-linda-castillo-kate-burkholder-amish-country-mystery-doreen-sheridan <p><img alt="Her Last Breath, the 5th Amish country mystery with Kate Burkholder, by Linda Castillo" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Her-Last-Breath-Linda-Castillo.jpg" style="height: 381px; width: 250px; " /><strong><em>Her Last Breath</em> by Linda Castillo (Kate Burkholder series, Book 5) is a thrilling procedural centering on a deadly crash and a beautiful Amish woman (available June 18, 2013).</strong></p><p>Linda Castillo is back with the fifth installment of her exciting series featuring Kate Burkholder, the formerly Amish chief of police of the small town of Painters Mill, Ohio. Kate had an idyllic upbringing there till she turned 14 and was brutally raped by another member of the community. The events of that terrible day, and its aftermath, eventually caused her to leave the fold. Unable to completely turn her back on her past, though, she chose to use it to her advantage, gaining the position of chief of police in part due to her familiarity with the local Amish, who trust her marginally more than they would any other outsider.</p><p>In <em>Her Last Breath</em>, Kate is called to a tragic scene all too familiar to those who live near the Amish. A buggy driven by a deacon was hit by a speeding driver, killing the man and two of his children. The speeder never stopped, and it soon becomes apparent that this hit-and-run was no accident: the buggy and its passengers were the target of a calculated execution.</p><p>[In a small town, it always gets personal..]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-her-last-breath-linda-castillo-kate-burkholder-amish-country-mystery-doreen-sheridan">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Kg4b_gnyZrA:CQMiFsAIeGQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Kg4b_gnyZrA:CQMiFsAIeGQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Kg4b_gnyZrA:CQMiFsAIeGQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Kg4b_gnyZrA:CQMiFsAIeGQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Kg4b_gnyZrA:CQMiFsAIeGQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Kg4b_gnyZrA:CQMiFsAIeGQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Kg4b_gnyZrA:CQMiFsAIeGQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Kg4b_gnyZrA:CQMiFsAIeGQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Kg4b_gnyZrA" height="1" width="1"/> Doreen Sheridan Published Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-her-last-breath-linda-castillo-kate-burkholder-amish-country-mystery-doreen-sheridan http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-her-last-breath-linda-castillo-kate-burkholder-amish-country-mystery-doreen-sheridan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/4216GZsIqkQ/fresh-meat-the-9th-girl-by-tami-hoag-kovac-liska-laura-k-curtis <p><img alt="Tami Hoag The 9th Girl" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Curtis-Tami-Hoag-The-9th-Girl.jpg" /><strong>Tami Hoag&#39;s <em>The 9th Girl</em> is a police procedural and thriller featuring Detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska of the Minneapolis Police Department (available June 18, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>The 9th Girl</em> is a hybrid story. First, there&#39;s the story of the girl herself. She&#39;s a Jane Doe (thus the title), possibly&mdash;but possibly not&mdash;the ninth victim of a serial killer known around the police department as &ldquo;Doc Holiday&rdquo; because he kills on the holidays. In fact, the girl is so badly disfigured that she gains the media nickname &ldquo;Zombie Doe.&rdquo; The details of the murder are not for the faint of heart.</p><blockquote><p>All eyes went to the horror-movie still of Zombie Doe&rsquo;s face taped to the wall as the centerpiece of a macabre montage.</p><p>&ldquo;God help us,&rdquo; Tinks muttered.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;d better,&rdquo; Kovac said. &ldquo;He already missed his chance with her."</p></blockquote><p>Because of the disfigurement, identifying the girl takes longer than one might imagine and it is in the search for her identity, as much as in the search for her killer, that Sam and Nikki really shine.</p><p>[Speaking for the dead]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-the-9th-girl-by-tami-hoag-kovac-liska-laura-k-curtis">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4216GZsIqkQ:Qxw0wq8O2Ys:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4216GZsIqkQ:Qxw0wq8O2Ys:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4216GZsIqkQ:Qxw0wq8O2Ys:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=4216GZsIqkQ:Qxw0wq8O2Ys:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4216GZsIqkQ:Qxw0wq8O2Ys:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4216GZsIqkQ:Qxw0wq8O2Ys:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4216GZsIqkQ:Qxw0wq8O2Ys:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=4216GZsIqkQ:Qxw0wq8O2Ys:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/4216GZsIqkQ" height="1" width="1"/> Laura K. Curtis Published Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-the-9th-girl-by-tami-hoag-kovac-liska-laura-k-curtis http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-the-9th-girl-by-tami-hoag-kovac-liska-laura-k-curtis http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/4Z8OcbjLR5I/fresh-meat-twilight-is-not-good-for-maidens-by-lou-allin-canadian-mystery-canada-rcmp-victoria-janssen <p><em><img alt="Lou Allin, Twlight is not Good for Maidens" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Janssen-Allin-Twilight-Not-Good-For-Maidens.jpg" /><strong>Twilight is not Good for Maidens</strong></em><strong> by Lou Allin is the third Holly Martin, Royal Canadian Mounted Police mystery (available June 18, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Corporal Holly Martin&#39;s small RCMP detachment on Vancouver Island is rocked by a midnight attack on a woman camping alone at picturesque French Beach. By the time a third young woman is raped in daylight and gives a precise description of the assailant, public outrage and harsh criticism of local law enforcement augment tensions in the frightened community.</em></p><p><em>Twilight Is Not Good for Maidens</em> by Lou Allin is third in a series about Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporal Holly Martin that began with <em>And on the Surface Die</em>. Allin is also known for her series featuring Northern Ontario realtor Belle Palmer, an amateur detective.</p><p>The plot of <em>Twilight Is Not Good for Maidens</em> combines a police procedural with gradually building danger from several angles that adds the feel of a thriller. It&rsquo;s the first book I&rsquo;ve read by this author, and as well as the new-to-me perspective of an RCMP investigation, I really enjoyed the claustrophobic feel of the forested setting, exacerbated because Martin&rsquo;s detachment is located on Vancouver Island, which to some degree isolates them from the mainland.</p><p>[Isolation can breed fear]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-twilight-is-not-good-for-maidens-by-lou-allin-canadian-mystery-canada-rcmp-victoria-janssen">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4Z8OcbjLR5I:ONO5fZ0Akq0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4Z8OcbjLR5I:ONO5fZ0Akq0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4Z8OcbjLR5I:ONO5fZ0Akq0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=4Z8OcbjLR5I:ONO5fZ0Akq0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4Z8OcbjLR5I:ONO5fZ0Akq0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4Z8OcbjLR5I:ONO5fZ0Akq0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4Z8OcbjLR5I:ONO5fZ0Akq0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=4Z8OcbjLR5I:ONO5fZ0Akq0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/4Z8OcbjLR5I" height="1" width="1"/> Victoria Janssen Published Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-twilight-is-not-good-for-maidens-by-lou-allin-canadian-mystery-canada-rcmp-victoria-janssen http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-twilight-is-not-good-for-maidens-by-lou-allin-canadian-mystery-canada-rcmp-victoria-janssen http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/pgALMFtrtug/home-of-the-forgotten-television-tv-pi-private-eye-agencies-michael-shonk <p><img alt="....Why yes, I did hear a strange noise..." class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Shonk-TV-PIs-21-Beacon-250.jpg" title="....Why yes, I did hear a strange noise..." />Let&rsquo;s face it. When you think of sociable people, the fictional private eye is not the person you think of first. PIs are supposed to be loners. The TV PI will tell you he is a loner, but then every week you meet another old close friend now in trouble. He spends quality time every week talking to his secretary, cop contact, legman, snitch, or anyone else available to help deliver story exposition. Suddenly, a PI agency with more than two employees makes sense.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong><em>21 Beacon Street </em>(1959)</strong><br />NBC</p><p>Perhaps the first TV series to feature a PI agency with three employees or more was<em> 21 Beacon Street</em>, which aired as a summer replacement series in 1959, then repeated on ABC a few months later. The half-hour mystery featured PI Dennis Chase (Dennis Morgan) and his staff of Lola (Joanne Barnes) his assistant, Brian (Brian Kelly) a law school graduate, and Jim (James Maloney) who specialized in gadgets and disguises.</p><p>Despite being the top rated summer replacement series of the year (according to <em>Broadcasting</em>), <em>21 Beacon Street</em> suffered the fate of too many TV series, not only is it forgotten, but may be lost as well. We here at the Home, dedicated to saving the forgotten mysteries of the recent and distant past, will always keep a room reserved for such series with hopes we might get to watch it.</p><p>[Hey Gang, Let&#39;s Get Together and Solve Crime...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/home-of-the-forgotten-television-tv-pi-private-eye-agencies-michael-shonk">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=pgALMFtrtug:LGoAmSj6Hbk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=pgALMFtrtug:LGoAmSj6Hbk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=pgALMFtrtug:LGoAmSj6Hbk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=pgALMFtrtug:LGoAmSj6Hbk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=pgALMFtrtug:LGoAmSj6Hbk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=pgALMFtrtug:LGoAmSj6Hbk:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=pgALMFtrtug:LGoAmSj6Hbk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=pgALMFtrtug:LGoAmSj6Hbk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/pgALMFtrtug" height="1" width="1"/> michael shonk Published Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/home-of-the-forgotten-television-tv-pi-private-eye-agencies-michael-shonk http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/home-of-the-forgotten-television-tv-pi-private-eye-agencies-michael-shonk http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/o7CpEEABBvE/peruvian-mummies-still-talk-archaeology-inca-andes-grave-robbing-cecilia-velastegui <p><img alt="The Ice Maiden of Peru" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Peruvian-Mummy-Ice-Maiden.jpg" style="height: 184px; width: 250px; " />Peruvian mummies refuse to play dead. In fact, despite their now empty craniums and lifeblood that has long drained from their bodies, their hushed demands or whispers of love can still be heard by those who carry within them the mummies&rsquo; inherited DNA. But it is only a handful of their descendants who still honor the mummies&rsquo; enigmatic cries. Ages ago, the advice of Incan leader Manco Capac rang in all ears of the empire like a clap of thunder; even coming from a mummified sovereign, his powerful words rang true. Now the majority of the mummies&rsquo; descendants prefer to listen only to scientific and anthropological explanations for how and why the mummies continue to be rediscovered in glacial crevasses, musty caves, and cloud-swept volcanoes. Contemporary society listens only to scientific and anthropologic data pertaining to newfound mummies. We are intrigued to hear that the Ice Maiden&rsquo;s stomach still contains the frozen food she ate and that she died of a blunt trauma blow. We listen to reports that tell us X-rays confirm the Chachapoya mummies of the Peruvian cloud forest had their internal organs removed, and we wait to hear about the methods used to preserve their skin. Although the scientific language of logic and reason has practically duct-taped the mummies&rsquo; own communication in the twenty-first century, the mummies&rsquo; visceral messages continue to hum in the bone marrow of a few of their descendants like a <em>huayruru</em> rattle shaking on a foggy night in the cloud forest or a lone pan-pipe tune ascending the frigid Andean peaks.</p><p>[Can you hear them? Listen...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/peruvian-mummies-still-talk-archaeology-inca-andes-grave-robbing-cecilia-velastegui">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=o7CpEEABBvE:EboGS1a4M9k:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=o7CpEEABBvE:EboGS1a4M9k:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=o7CpEEABBvE:EboGS1a4M9k:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=o7CpEEABBvE:EboGS1a4M9k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=o7CpEEABBvE:EboGS1a4M9k:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=o7CpEEABBvE:EboGS1a4M9k:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=o7CpEEABBvE:EboGS1a4M9k:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=o7CpEEABBvE:EboGS1a4M9k:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/o7CpEEABBvE" height="1" width="1"/> Cecilia Velastegui Published Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/peruvian-mummies-still-talk-archaeology-inca-andes-grave-robbing-cecilia-velastegui http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/peruvian-mummies-still-talk-archaeology-inca-andes-grave-robbing-cecilia-velastegui http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/p_hZEEa2JqU/fresh-meat-death-rides-again-by-janice-hamrick <p><img align="left" alt="Death Rides Again by Janice Hamrick" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/Hamrick-Death-Rides-Again200x302.jpg" title="Death Rides Again by Janice Hamrick" /><strong><em>Death Rides Again</em> by Janice Hamrick is the third traditional mystery in the Jocelyn Shore series (available June 18, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Death Rides Again</em> is the third book in the highly acclaimed series featuring school teacher Jocelyn Shore. But before I tell you all about it, I want to remind you that <a href="http://www.janicehamrick.com/ " rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Janice Hamrick</strong></a> won the 2010 Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur Books First Crime Novel competition for <em>Death on Tour</em> in which the reader meets Jocelyn for the first time while she is on vacation in Egypt.</p><p>And it was just about this time last year I told you all about Jocelyn coming home and settling in to the opening of a new school year filled with chaos and murder. <em>Death Makes the Cut</em> is a terrific book and <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/07/fresh-meat-death-makes-the-cut-by-janice-hamrick-cozy-traditional-mystery-terrie-farley-moran " target="_blank">you can read about it right here</a>.</p><p>I ended that post by saying I hoped we&rsquo;d have another Jocelyn Shore novel soon, and finally (I was getting tired of waiting) <em>Death Rides Again</em> is here.</p><p>[But was it worth the wait?...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-death-rides-again-by-janice-hamrick">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=p_hZEEa2JqU:fe10Muh0b1k:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=p_hZEEa2JqU:fe10Muh0b1k:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=p_hZEEa2JqU:fe10Muh0b1k:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=p_hZEEa2JqU:fe10Muh0b1k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=p_hZEEa2JqU:fe10Muh0b1k:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=p_hZEEa2JqU:fe10Muh0b1k:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=p_hZEEa2JqU:fe10Muh0b1k:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=p_hZEEa2JqU:fe10Muh0b1k:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/p_hZEEa2JqU" height="1" width="1"/> Terrie Farley Moran Published Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-death-rides-again-by-janice-hamrick http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-death-rides-again-by-janice-hamrick http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/-ODIIPQ5cSY/sock-grief-number-up-nathan-bulmer-artist-cartoon-crime-hq <p><img class="blog-pic-left-align "alt="" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Sock-Grief.jpg" /></p><p><em><span style="font-size:12px;">Futile self-recrimination via the amazing Nathan Bulmer&#39;s art blog, </span></em><span style="font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.eatmorebikes.blogspot.com/2013/06/i-lost-my-partner-today.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Eat More Bikes</a>.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/sock-grief-number-up-nathan-bulmer-artist-cartoon-crime-hq">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-ODIIPQ5cSY:4YSNsl1S4Lg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-ODIIPQ5cSY:4YSNsl1S4Lg:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-ODIIPQ5cSY:4YSNsl1S4Lg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=-ODIIPQ5cSY:4YSNsl1S4Lg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-ODIIPQ5cSY:4YSNsl1S4Lg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-ODIIPQ5cSY:4YSNsl1S4Lg:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-ODIIPQ5cSY:4YSNsl1S4Lg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=-ODIIPQ5cSY:4YSNsl1S4Lg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/-ODIIPQ5cSY" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/sock-grief-number-up-nathan-bulmer-artist-cartoon-crime-hq http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/sock-grief-number-up-nathan-bulmer-artist-cartoon-crime-hq http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/T-jpEIem96c/favorite-dads-tv-series-good-bad-crime-fighting-lawman-criminal-fathers <p>In honor of Father&#39;s Day this weekend, we wanted to celebrate 10 of our favorite dads of TV crime. Half are crime-fighters, half are criminals, but each dad leaves an indelible mark (and dirty socks).</p><p><img alt="Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer, a deadly dad" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Dad-24-Jack-Bauer.jpg" style=" height: 200px; width: 200px;" /><u>1) Jack Bauer of <em>24</em> </u></p><p>Being a member of his family is like having a giant, flashing neon bullseye painted on you, but once you&#39;re being tormented by villains, to save you, he will do Whatever. It. Takes. (Until the next day...)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img alt="Get Raymond J. Barry as Justified's Arlo a tie that goes with orange." class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Dad-Arlo-Givens-Justified.jpg" style="height: 200px; width: 200px; " /><u>2) Arlo Givens of <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/features/series/justified" target="_self"><em>Justified</em></a></u></p><p>He&#39;s a vicious, abusive father who&#39;d rather see his lawman son dead than his co-conspirators. But when Raylan goes all steely and ruthless with no hint of give, it&#39;s easy to see what the marshal&#39;s nature owes to Arlo&#39;s testicular fortitude.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[More TV Dads who deserve #1 Dad mugs...or mugshots]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/favorite-dads-tv-series-good-bad-crime-fighting-lawman-criminal-fathers">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=T-jpEIem96c:EIMz6MqylRo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=T-jpEIem96c:EIMz6MqylRo:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=T-jpEIem96c:EIMz6MqylRo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=T-jpEIem96c:EIMz6MqylRo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=T-jpEIem96c:EIMz6MqylRo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=T-jpEIem96c:EIMz6MqylRo:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=T-jpEIem96c:EIMz6MqylRo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=T-jpEIem96c:EIMz6MqylRo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/T-jpEIem96c" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:35:01 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/favorite-dads-tv-series-good-bad-crime-fighting-lawman-criminal-fathers http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/favorite-dads-tv-series-good-bad-crime-fighting-lawman-criminal-fathers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/-kb7pw8-ONI/fresh-meat-always-watching-by-chevy-stevens-cult-paranoia-neliza-drew <p><em><img alt="Always Watching by Chevy Stevens" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Drew-Stevens-Always-Watching.jpg" /></em><strong><em>Always Watching</em> by Chevy Stevens is a psychological thriller featuring a cult and the psychiatrist who can&#39;t shake her experiences with them (available June 18, 2013).</strong></p><p>In Chevy Stevens&rsquo; latest, <em>Always Watching</em>, Dr. Nadine Lavoie is doing her best to help her patients in Mental Health, including Heather Simeon, brought in after a suicide attempt. Nadine thinks she&rsquo;s rebuilt her life after the death of her husband and her drug-addicted daughter&rsquo;s running away. She&rsquo;s replaced family with patients and she tells herself she&rsquo;s helping them, but she still wonders why she could never help Lisa, her daughter.</p><p>The book opens with the introduction of Dr. Lavoie&rsquo;s newest patient, Heather, who will unwittingly serves as a catalyst for the memories the psychiatrist thought she&rsquo;d buried.</p><p>[Nothing stays buried forever]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-always-watching-by-chevy-stevens-cult-paranoia-neliza-drew">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-kb7pw8-ONI:sFzyihgyqBk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-kb7pw8-ONI:sFzyihgyqBk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-kb7pw8-ONI:sFzyihgyqBk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=-kb7pw8-ONI:sFzyihgyqBk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-kb7pw8-ONI:sFzyihgyqBk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-kb7pw8-ONI:sFzyihgyqBk:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-kb7pw8-ONI:sFzyihgyqBk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=-kb7pw8-ONI:sFzyihgyqBk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/-kb7pw8-ONI" height="1" width="1"/> Neliza Drew Published Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-always-watching-by-chevy-stevens-cult-paranoia-neliza-drew http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-always-watching-by-chevy-stevens-cult-paranoia-neliza-drew http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/t3l81qB4QHs/james-bond-and-the-original-ms-galore-kitteh-kitten-sean-connery <p><img align="left" alt="Sean Connery with a Kitten" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/Connery-Kitten475x618.jpg" title="Sean Connery with a Kitten" /></p><p>James Bond is many things. He is a spy, a object of feminie desire, a stone cold killer... and a kitten lover. Who knew that Sean Connery, arguably one of the fan favorite Bonds, loved cuddling up with a furry little kitten in between takes of <em>From Russia, With Love</em>? Now let us all pause for the collective &ldquo;Awwwwwww&rdquo;.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/james-bond-and-the-original-ms-galore-kitteh-kitten-sean-connery">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=t3l81qB4QHs:sUoQIgBYgyU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=t3l81qB4QHs:sUoQIgBYgyU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=t3l81qB4QHs:sUoQIgBYgyU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=t3l81qB4QHs:sUoQIgBYgyU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=t3l81qB4QHs:sUoQIgBYgyU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=t3l81qB4QHs:sUoQIgBYgyU:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=t3l81qB4QHs:sUoQIgBYgyU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=t3l81qB4QHs:sUoQIgBYgyU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/t3l81qB4QHs" height="1" width="1"/> Christopher Morgan Published Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/james-bond-and-the-original-ms-galore-kitteh-kitten-sean-connery http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/james-bond-and-the-original-ms-galore-kitteh-kitten-sean-connery http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/DcjS77t3Sy8/chasing-the-perfect-chase-in-fast-a-furious-6-vin-diesel-thomas-pluck <p><img align="left" alt="Fast and oh so Furious..." class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/Fast-Furious-6-Poster190X281.jpg" title="Fast and oh so Furious..." />There are those who expected the The Fast &amp; Furious franchise to run out of gas after the first entry, which was about an undercover cop who infiltrates a gang of street racers who hijack trucks full of cargo... without making them pull over. The import-tuner crowd it appealed to is an easy target. I was never a fan. I drove a 5-liter Mustang when the first movie came out, and had plenty of experience with guys in Civics with coffee-can mufflers wanting to street race.</p><p>As over the top heist capers, however, they deserve another look. And when #6 promised a highway battle between a Dodge Daytona, a Mustang Mach1, and a tank, how could I say no?</p><p>I love car movies. What have we had that can be called a <em>good</em> car chase movie since <em>Ronin</em>? (Don&#39;t say <em>Death Race</em>.) <em>Gone in 60 Seconds</em> is one of the worst remakes in existence. The new <em>Italian Job</em> wasn&#39;t bad, but it&#39;s more of a Mini Cooper commercial, and the chases are minor. And the <em>Transporter</em> films don&#39;t acknowledge the laws of physics, so I&#39;ll take what I can get.&nbsp; FF6 was a great car chase movie, and I say that after watching <em>Vanishing Point</em> (the original existential crime and car chase flick against which all others are judged).</p><p>[That&#39;s pretty high praise...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/chasing-the-perfect-chase-in-fast-a-furious-6-vin-diesel-thomas-pluck">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=DcjS77t3Sy8:2tw_Nyx3Gp0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=DcjS77t3Sy8:2tw_Nyx3Gp0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=DcjS77t3Sy8:2tw_Nyx3Gp0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=DcjS77t3Sy8:2tw_Nyx3Gp0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=DcjS77t3Sy8:2tw_Nyx3Gp0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=DcjS77t3Sy8:2tw_Nyx3Gp0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=DcjS77t3Sy8:2tw_Nyx3Gp0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=DcjS77t3Sy8:2tw_Nyx3Gp0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/DcjS77t3Sy8" height="1" width="1"/> Thomas Pluck Published Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/chasing-the-perfect-chase-in-fast-a-furious-6-vin-diesel-thomas-pluck http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/chasing-the-perfect-chase-in-fast-a-furious-6-vin-diesel-thomas-pluck http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/mr2DyVSPDhg/the-king-of-noir-part-two-mitchum-in-winter-jake-hinkson-robert-mitchum <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/mitchum-eddie-coyle.jpg" title="Robert Mitchum in The Friends of Eddie Coyle" /></p><p><em><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/the-king-of-noir-part-one-robert-mitchum-ascends-to-the-throne-jake-hinkson-" target="_self">Yesterday in Part I</a> we looked at Robert Mitchum&rsquo;s film career from the 1940s to the 1960s</em>.</p><p>The 1960s were a terrible time for the movie business. The golden era had come to an end. The studio system had been destroyed, and television was ascendant. The great moguls and stars who had created Hollywood and pushed it to its heights were dead or dying.</p><p>Like everything else in this period, film noir faced existential challenges. The bedrock of the noir visual style, glorious black and white, gave way to color. The B-movie production machine&mdash;at least the machine as most people had known it&mdash;died with the major studios. And the stars had scattered. Bogart was dead. So were <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/12/noirs-goon-squad-frank-lovejoy-jake-hinkson" target="_self">Frank Lovejoy</a> and John Hodiak. <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/05/sterling-hayden-film-noirs-nothing-man-thriller-noir-wwii-the-godfather-jake-hinkson" target="_self">Sterling Hayden</a> fled the country with his children. And Lizabeth Scott&mdash;maybe the greatest of all noir goddesses&mdash;had retreated to her seclusion.</p><p>The only one who seemed to still be standing was the king himself. Robert Mitchum emerged from the 1950s as a big star&mdash;hell, maybe bigger than he had been going in.</p><p>[And this is why he wears the crown...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/the-king-of-noir-part-two-mitchum-in-winter-jake-hinkson-robert-mitchum">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mr2DyVSPDhg:-LfWpftFxT0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mr2DyVSPDhg:-LfWpftFxT0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mr2DyVSPDhg:-LfWpftFxT0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=mr2DyVSPDhg:-LfWpftFxT0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mr2DyVSPDhg:-LfWpftFxT0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mr2DyVSPDhg:-LfWpftFxT0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mr2DyVSPDhg:-LfWpftFxT0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=mr2DyVSPDhg:-LfWpftFxT0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/mr2DyVSPDhg" height="1" width="1"/> Jake Hinkson Published Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:30:37 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/the-king-of-noir-part-two-mitchum-in-winter-jake-hinkson-robert-mitchum http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/the-king-of-noir-part-two-mitchum-in-winter-jake-hinkson-robert-mitchum http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/-HMnt2rUtas/parenting-justified-style-tv-show-kid-friendly-crime-weapons-raylan-givens-westerns <p><img alt="Baby Hjolster" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/AM-Coffee-Baby-Hjolster-250.jpg" title="Image via HowToBeADad.com" /><em>Justified</em>&#39;s Raylan Givens is about to be a parent. Every person takes on parenting in different ways and we&#39;re sure that&#39;ll be no different once there&#39;s a giggling baby Givens out there. But do you think this Baby Hj&ouml;lster (which doesn&#39;t seem very practical we might say) will feature on the Givens&#39;s baby registery?</p><p>Unfortunately, <a href="http://www.howtobeadad.com/2012/8980/baby-hjolster-bad-product-idea-7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this product isn&#39;t actually real,</a> just another unlikely product in the Bad Product Ideas section from the brilliant minds of the blog, <a href="http://www.howtobeadad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HowToBeADad.com</a></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/parenting-justified-style-tv-show-kid-friendly-crime-weapons-raylan-givens-westerns">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-HMnt2rUtas:6c2ZZjvA6gs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-HMnt2rUtas:6c2ZZjvA6gs:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-HMnt2rUtas:6c2ZZjvA6gs:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=-HMnt2rUtas:6c2ZZjvA6gs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-HMnt2rUtas:6c2ZZjvA6gs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-HMnt2rUtas:6c2ZZjvA6gs:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-HMnt2rUtas:6c2ZZjvA6gs:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=-HMnt2rUtas:6c2ZZjvA6gs:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/-HMnt2rUtas" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/parenting-justified-style-tv-show-kid-friendly-crime-weapons-raylan-givens-westerns http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/parenting-justified-style-tv-show-kid-friendly-crime-weapons-raylan-givens-westerns http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/g8uvcmzwv7o/longmire-203-death-came-in-like-thunder-walt-vic-western <p><img alt="The Basques" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Gelsomino_Longmire-Death-Like-Thunder-Basque.jpg" /></p><p>Absaroka County must be the West&rsquo;s weirdest and unlikeliest cultural melting pot. First there were the Mennonites, now there are the Basque. This week&rsquo;s episode, which bears a strong resemblance to <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/06/longmire-episode-01-03-a-damn-shame" target="_self">season one&rsquo;s third episode</a> (yet sadly, no striptease interrogation from Vic), explores the strange little subculture of a family of Basque (ex-pats from the French/Spanish border) shepherds. When a mountain biker literally stumbles over the dead body of Marko Vayas, the cause of death is unknown for the young, relatively healthy-looking man and Walt and Vic suspect he might have been poisoned.</p><p><img alt="Walt" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Gelsomino_Longmire-Death-Like-Thunder-Walt.jpg" /></p><p>Their investigation of his cabin leads to them finding a mysterious picture of a lovely young woman. Tracking his brothers Costa and Sal to a local Basque festival (where Walt indulges in a delicacy called <em>barrabillak</em> that I do not suggest you Google), they&rsquo;re told the girl was a mail order bride Marko was thinking of marrying, but didn&rsquo;t. Walt calls BS, though, as he&#39;s recognized a tiny bird in the picture as being a local breed, meaning she&rsquo;s from Wyoming.</p><p>[And Walt knows Wyoming]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/longmire-203-death-came-in-like-thunder-walt-vic-western">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=g8uvcmzwv7o:c9fGdm3thGQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=g8uvcmzwv7o:c9fGdm3thGQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=g8uvcmzwv7o:c9fGdm3thGQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=g8uvcmzwv7o:c9fGdm3thGQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=g8uvcmzwv7o:c9fGdm3thGQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=g8uvcmzwv7o:c9fGdm3thGQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=g8uvcmzwv7o:c9fGdm3thGQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=g8uvcmzwv7o:c9fGdm3thGQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/g8uvcmzwv7o" height="1" width="1"/> Tara Gelsomino Published Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/longmire-203-death-came-in-like-thunder-walt-vic-western http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/longmire-203-death-came-in-like-thunder-walt-vic-western http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/kFKQEpniyEs/the-king-of-noir-part-one-robert-mitchum-ascends-to-the-throne-jake-hinkson- <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/mitchum-out-of-the-past.jpg" title="Robert Mitchum with Jane Greer in Out of the Past" /></p><p>Robert Mitchum is the King of Film Noir. Not only was he one of the great leading men (starring in masterpieces like <em>Out of the Past</em>), he was one of the great villains (issuing chilling turns in <em>The Night of the Hunter</em> and <em>Cape Fear</em>). He made some of the darkest noirs (<em>Angel Face</em>) and some of the goofiest (<em>Her Kind of Man</em>). He got to the party early, at the dawn of the classic era, starring in his first noir film, <em>When Strangers Marry</em>, in 1944. And he stayed longer at the party than anyone else, notching up late career hits like <em>The Friends of Eddie Coyle</em> in 1973 and <em>Farewell My Lovely</em> in 1975. Mitchum was the King.</p><p>There are, of course, other contenders for the title. Bogart&rsquo;s greatness is beyond debate. Robert Ryan was recently crowned king by no less an august organization as the Film Noir Foundation. And a pretty solid case could be made for either <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/05/sterling-hayden-film-noirs-nothing-man-thriller-noir-wwii-the-godfather-jake-hinkson" target="_self">Sterling Hayden</a> or Charles McGraw. These men were all great stars, and each, in his own way, is essential to film noir.</p><p>For my money, though, Mitchum seemed to embody the ethos of noir better than anyone else.</p><p>[It ain&rsquo;t a gamble if you put your money on a sure thing...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/the-king-of-noir-part-one-robert-mitchum-ascends-to-the-throne-jake-hinkson-">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=kFKQEpniyEs:reJl0MjruZk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=kFKQEpniyEs:reJl0MjruZk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=kFKQEpniyEs:reJl0MjruZk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=kFKQEpniyEs:reJl0MjruZk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=kFKQEpniyEs:reJl0MjruZk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=kFKQEpniyEs:reJl0MjruZk:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=kFKQEpniyEs:reJl0MjruZk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=kFKQEpniyEs:reJl0MjruZk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/kFKQEpniyEs" height="1" width="1"/> Jake Hinkson Published Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:00:46 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/the-king-of-noir-part-one-robert-mitchum-ascends-to-the-throne-jake-hinkson- http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/the-king-of-noir-part-one-robert-mitchum-ascends-to-the-throne-jake-hinkson- http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/TM-n3q1aJfQ/kill-all-the-lawyers-writers-vs-attorneys-pop-culture-icons-robert-rotstein <p><img alt="The devil as a lawyer...or a lawyer depicted as the devil." class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Rotstein-Kill-Lawyers-Devil.jpg" title="The devil is in the legal details." />Some of our greatest writers have perpetuated a negative image of the legal profession. <strong>&ldquo;</strong>The first thing we do, let&#39;s kill all the lawyers,&rdquo; William Shakespeare famously writes in <em>Henry The Sixth, Part II</em>. Or how about this from Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge from <em>The Devil&rsquo;s Thoughts </em>(1835):</p><blockquote><p>He saw a lawyer killing a viper<br />On a dung hill hard by his own stable;<br />And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind<br />Of Cain and his brother Abel.</p></blockquote><p>In 1975, Bob Dylan&rsquo;s <em>Hurricane</em> railed against the 1967 conviction of middleweight boxer Rubin &ldquo;Hurricane&rdquo; Carter for, in Dylan&rsquo;s words, &ldquo;something that he never done&rdquo;&mdash;a triple murder in a Paterson, New Jersey bar. The song&rsquo;s lyrics target the lawyers: the judge &ldquo;made Rubin&#39;s witnesses drunkards from the slums;&rdquo; the district attorney prosecuted the crime without evidence.</p><p>[Come, now, you&#39;re not saying lawyers are <em>innocent</em>, are you?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/kill-all-the-lawyers-writers-vs-attorneys-pop-culture-icons-robert-rotstein">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=TM-n3q1aJfQ:9zkXmndW3IQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=TM-n3q1aJfQ:9zkXmndW3IQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=TM-n3q1aJfQ:9zkXmndW3IQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=TM-n3q1aJfQ:9zkXmndW3IQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=TM-n3q1aJfQ:9zkXmndW3IQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=TM-n3q1aJfQ:9zkXmndW3IQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=TM-n3q1aJfQ:9zkXmndW3IQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=TM-n3q1aJfQ:9zkXmndW3IQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/TM-n3q1aJfQ" height="1" width="1"/> Robert Rotstein Published Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/kill-all-the-lawyers-writers-vs-attorneys-pop-culture-icons-robert-rotstein http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/kill-all-the-lawyers-writers-vs-attorneys-pop-culture-icons-robert-rotstein http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/KiXR__WErcs/the-hanging-new-excerpt <p><img alt="The Hanging by Lotte &amp; Soren Hammer" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/excerpts/Hammer-The-Hanging250x378.jpg" title="The Hanging by Lotte &amp; Soren Hammer" /><em><strong>The Hanging</strong></em><strong> by Lotte &amp; Soren Hammer is the U.S. debut of this Danish brother/sister writing team. (available June 11, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>One morning before school, two children find the naked bodies of five men hanging from the gym ceiling. The case leads detective Konrad Simonsen and his murder squad&nbsp;to the school janitor, who may know more about the killings than he is telling. Soon, Simonsen realizes that each of the five murdered men had a dark and terrible secret in common. And when Simonsen&rsquo;s own daughter is targeted, he must race to find the culprit before his whole world is destroyed.</em></p><p><em>Published in&nbsp;twenty countries around the world, with more than 150,000 copies sold in&nbsp;Denmark alone, this book&nbsp;introduces a brother and sister duo who have taken the&nbsp;thriller world by storm. Fast-paced, suspenseful, and brilliantly written,&nbsp;<i>The Hanging</i>&nbsp;is a stunning crime novel from Lotte and&nbsp;Soren&nbsp;Hammer, two Danish&nbsp;authors whose&nbsp;international fame is exploding.</em></p><p><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p><p>Monday morning, fog rolled in over the land in white woolly waves. The two children could hardly see a meter ahead of them as they crossed onto the school grounds. They had to find their way from memory and soon their steps became hesitant and searching. The boy was slightly behind the girl, his school bag in his arms. All of a sudden he stopped.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t go on without me.&rdquo;</p><p>[Continue on to read the full excerpt of <em>The Hanging</em>]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/the-hanging-new-excerpt">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=KiXR__WErcs:JpC6EYgiXKk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=KiXR__WErcs:JpC6EYgiXKk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=KiXR__WErcs:JpC6EYgiXKk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=KiXR__WErcs:JpC6EYgiXKk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=KiXR__WErcs:JpC6EYgiXKk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=KiXR__WErcs:JpC6EYgiXKk:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=KiXR__WErcs:JpC6EYgiXKk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=KiXR__WErcs:JpC6EYgiXKk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/KiXR__WErcs" height="1" width="1"/> Lotte Hammer Excerpts Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/the-hanging-new-excerpt http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/the-hanging-new-excerpt http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/opFVSmCN7Hg/a-particular-set-of-skills-trailer-for-getaway <p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2KiBWBKTIHA" width="475"></iframe></p><p>First we had <em>Drive</em> and more recently we got <em>Fast and Furious 6</em>. So are we beginning to see a resurgence of the car-chase in movies? It certainly starting to look that way in the trailer for the new film <em>Getaway</em>. Ethan Hawke plays a former race car driver who&#39;s wife is kidnapped. Hawke must complete a series of requests to get her back. Here&#39;s the official blurb:</p><p style="margin-left:.5in;"><em>Getaway </em>is the gritty, heart-pounding action thriller from Warner Bros. Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment in which former race car driver Brent Magna (Ethan Hawke) is pitted against the clock. Desperately trying to save the life of his kidnapped wife, Brent commandeers a custom Shelby Cobra Mustang, taking it and its unwitting owner (Selena Gomez) on a high-speed race against time, at the command of the mysterious villain holding his wife hostage.</p><p>What do you think?</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/a-particular-set-of-skills-trailer-for-getaway">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=opFVSmCN7Hg:Hnf7AY7OXXA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=opFVSmCN7Hg:Hnf7AY7OXXA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=opFVSmCN7Hg:Hnf7AY7OXXA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=opFVSmCN7Hg:Hnf7AY7OXXA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=opFVSmCN7Hg:Hnf7AY7OXXA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=opFVSmCN7Hg:Hnf7AY7OXXA:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=opFVSmCN7Hg:Hnf7AY7OXXA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=opFVSmCN7Hg:Hnf7AY7OXXA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/opFVSmCN7Hg" height="1" width="1"/> Christopher Morgan Published Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/a-particular-set-of-skills-trailer-for-getaway http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/a-particular-set-of-skills-trailer-for-getaway http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/QdW8Wh4trGY/fresh-meat-another-little-piece-by-kate-karyus-quinn-dark-paranormal-young-adult-jenny-maloney <p><img alt="Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Maloney_Quinn-Another-Little-Piece.jpg" /><strong><em>Another Little Piece</em> by Kate Karyus Quinn is a dark young adult paranormal thriller (available June 11, 2013).</strong></p><p>A girl stumbles out of the night wearing a garbage bag as a poncho. She has no idea where she is or how she got there. When the Oklahoma family who finds her call the authorities, a missing person report pings and her identity is revealed. The girl is Annaliese Rose Gordon, a teenager who disappeared one year ago from Buffalo, New York. On the night she vanished, she appeared at a party, covered in blood and screaming. No one had seen her since.</p><p>But the girl remembers none of this. She can&rsquo;t explain where she&rsquo;s been for the past year. She can&rsquo;t explain the scar on her head or her short hair. Her mother and father pick her up, take her home, and try to reintroduce Annaliese to her love of chocolate, her best friend Gwen, and her love of family road trips.</p><p>The only problem is that the girl they&rsquo;ve brought home isn&rsquo;t Annaliese.</p><p>[What makes someone...herself?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-another-little-piece-by-kate-karyus-quinn-dark-paranormal-young-adult-jenny-maloney">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=QdW8Wh4trGY:TMwErqz4VHQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=QdW8Wh4trGY:TMwErqz4VHQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=QdW8Wh4trGY:TMwErqz4VHQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=QdW8Wh4trGY:TMwErqz4VHQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=QdW8Wh4trGY:TMwErqz4VHQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=QdW8Wh4trGY:TMwErqz4VHQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=QdW8Wh4trGY:TMwErqz4VHQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=QdW8Wh4trGY:TMwErqz4VHQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/QdW8Wh4trGY" height="1" width="1"/> Jenny Maloney Published Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-another-little-piece-by-kate-karyus-quinn-dark-paranormal-young-adult-jenny-maloney http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-another-little-piece-by-kate-karyus-quinn-dark-paranormal-young-adult-jenny-maloney http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/JBfuzjswUVo/the-navigator-new-excerpt-michael-pocalyko <p><em><img alt="The Navigator by Michael Pocalyko" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Pocalyko_The-Navigator.jpg" /></em><strong><em>The Navigator</em> by Michael Pocalyko is a financial thriller that wends from Nazi Germany all the way to modern-day Wall Street (available June 11, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>On the darkest night of 1945, a 20-year-old B-24 navigator assists in the liberation of a German concentration camp.&nbsp;His haunting trauma is prologue to destiny.</em></p><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1370655200998_1095"><em>Flash forward to present-day Manhattan. Warren Hunter, reigning master of the financial universe, is poised to close the world&rsquo;s first trillion dollar deal. ViroSat is the Street&rsquo;s biggest-ever technology play&mdash;an entirely new worldwide communication system. It will catapult his investment bank and the global economy into a bright future . . . if the deal goes through.</em></p><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1370655200998_1086"><em>In Washington, ViroSat captures the attention of Senate political aide Julia Toussaint. Meanwhile, battered tech start-up veteran Rick Yeager has just landed his dream job at a mysterious but well-connected financial firm whose partners want a piece of the action.</em></p><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1370655200998_1091"><em>Warren, Julia, and Rick are caught in a web of intrigue, money, power, and dangerous secrets.&nbsp;Coincidences are not what they seem as the past collides with the present in a way that will change their lives forever.</em><br />&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Prologue</strong></p><p><em>April 1945</em><br />As darkness edged the empty dawn, the navigator inhaled violently. The Lucky Strike stub burned both his thumb and his lip. He chased the cigarette smoke with a shallow gulp of thick air then held his breath tenta&shy;tively. The nicotine swirling in his lungs provided no relief. He flicked the tiny butt with a <em>hrsssp</em> into the thick mud at his feet. Nothing helped. The stench of death screamed, outshouting the senses. His head hammered hard. His heart raced in the comfortable tobacco rush as his stomach and bowels clenched in irregular spasms. Unable to hold the smoke in any longer, he exhaled and panted involuntarily, wishing for the hun&shy;dredth time tonight that he could have stayed with the damn plane.</p><p>&ldquo;Lieutenant?&rdquo; The voice, kind and firm, called out to him. &ldquo;Come on over&nbsp; here.&rdquo; It was the tall captain from air intelligence. &ldquo;Stay with me. We have to talk to this Kraut. He may be what I&rsquo;m looking for. He wants to say something. How about lending a hand? Can you make me under&shy;stand him?&rdquo; The navigator slogged through the rain-bred swamp. The mud, ankle-deep, stuck like paste to his flight boots. He approached the German soldier. Christ, he thought. How old can this one be? Sixteen? Seventeen? He studied the German intently. The young face was drained and quite pale, sweating despite the chill night mist. He had no facial hair except an uneven bristle of black stubble on his chin. A wild panic flushed in the boy&rsquo;s eyes. It was the instinctual fear of a trapped animal.</p><p>The navigator himself was twenty, and he suddenly felt very old.</p><p>[Read the complete excerpt of The Navigator by Michael Pocalyko]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/the-navigator-new-excerpt-michael-pocalyko">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JBfuzjswUVo:Gv9qjK7uEH0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JBfuzjswUVo:Gv9qjK7uEH0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JBfuzjswUVo:Gv9qjK7uEH0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=JBfuzjswUVo:Gv9qjK7uEH0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JBfuzjswUVo:Gv9qjK7uEH0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JBfuzjswUVo:Gv9qjK7uEH0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JBfuzjswUVo:Gv9qjK7uEH0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=JBfuzjswUVo:Gv9qjK7uEH0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/JBfuzjswUVo" height="1" width="1"/> Michael Pocalyko Excerpts Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/the-navigator-new-excerpt-michael-pocalyko http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/the-navigator-new-excerpt-michael-pocalyko http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Qd7_h7TLTxs/now-win-this-bea-bundle-sweepstakes <p><img alt="Brilliance by Marcus Sakey, The Book of Someday by Dianne Dixon, Mystery Girl by David Gordon, Spider Woman's Daughter by Anne Hillerman" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/BEA-Bundle-Sweepstakes-466.jpg" />While you might not have been at Book Expo America, Criminal Element has you covered. 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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-bea-bundle-sweepstakes" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here for&nbsp;details and official rules</span>.</a></span></p><p>[Find out more about these great new books!...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/now-win-this-bea-bundle-sweepstakes">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Qd7_h7TLTxs:4NE3XSuYAyw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Qd7_h7TLTxs:4NE3XSuYAyw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Qd7_h7TLTxs:4NE3XSuYAyw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Qd7_h7TLTxs:4NE3XSuYAyw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Qd7_h7TLTxs:4NE3XSuYAyw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Qd7_h7TLTxs:4NE3XSuYAyw:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Qd7_h7TLTxs:4NE3XSuYAyw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Qd7_h7TLTxs:4NE3XSuYAyw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Qd7_h7TLTxs" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/now-win-this-bea-bundle-sweepstakes http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/now-win-this-bea-bundle-sweepstakes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/ZSuHMux73VY/dont-taze-me-roo <p><img align="left" alt="Go ahead, make my day." class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/red_kangaroo250x154.jpg" title="Go ahead, make my day" />It&#39;s unsure what would come of the nation without Florida. It seems as though the whole state has to be able to take a hard look at themselves and laugh. But especially the police force. The boys in blue in the Sunshine State get called on to take care of a lot of crazy. And when two different police departments were called on two tame unruly wildlife.</p><p>On two separate occasions, and in two completely isolated incidents both a Llama and an Kangaroo where forcibly subdued by Florida police officers. In Tallahassee, Scooter the llama escaped his pen. The 7 year old llama managed to evade authorities and lead them on a very merry chase down the middle of the road, only to be finally taken down by a Taser. Meanwhile, outside of Tampa, police chased a kangaroo for 10 hours before finally bringing down the errant marsupial with tranquilizers.</p><p>Scooter&#39;s owner weren&#39;t cited for any kind of damages, and in Florida, llamas are considered a domestic species, therefor not requiring a special permit to own. Florida officials also say that you can own a kangaroo as long as you get the popular permits, however no one has come forward to claim the &ldquo;Hop-a-Long Roo&rdquo; (see what I did there?).</p><p>Say it with me, only in Florida&hellip;</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/dont-taze-me-roo">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZSuHMux73VY:H-xZvYz2I80:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZSuHMux73VY:H-xZvYz2I80:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZSuHMux73VY:H-xZvYz2I80:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ZSuHMux73VY:H-xZvYz2I80:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZSuHMux73VY:H-xZvYz2I80:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZSuHMux73VY:H-xZvYz2I80:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ZSuHMux73VY:H-xZvYz2I80:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ZSuHMux73VY:H-xZvYz2I80:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/ZSuHMux73VY" height="1" width="1"/> Christopher Morgan Published Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/dont-taze-me-roo http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/dont-taze-me-roo http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/icgVHujl-j0/hemlock-grove-read-it-or-watch-it-review-meghan-schuler <p><img alt="Hemlock Grove poster" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Schuler-HemlockGrove_Poster.jpg" />When I first saw posters for <em>Hemlock Grove</em> plastered on the walls of the New York City subway, I knew it was a series I couldn&rsquo;t resist. Based on the book by <strong>Brian McGreevy</strong>, <em>Hemlock Grove</em> follows Peter Rumancek, a Gypsy boy and potential werewolf, and Roman Godfrey, heir of the local wealthy family, on their mission to solve and stop the series of grisly murders haunting their small Pennsylvania town.</p><p>The 13-episode series is Netflix&rsquo;s attempt to rival HBO with similar content on demand, featuring a cast of familiar faces&mdash;including Bill Skarsgard, brother to True Blood&rsquo;s Alexander&mdash;an excellent score, and direction from Eli Roth, of horror fame.</p><p>[At least the scenery will be nice...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/hemlock-grove-read-it-or-watch-it-review-meghan-schuler">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=icgVHujl-j0:FVGi4DKcXTs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=icgVHujl-j0:FVGi4DKcXTs:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=icgVHujl-j0:FVGi4DKcXTs:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=icgVHujl-j0:FVGi4DKcXTs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=icgVHujl-j0:FVGi4DKcXTs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=icgVHujl-j0:FVGi4DKcXTs:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=icgVHujl-j0:FVGi4DKcXTs:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=icgVHujl-j0:FVGi4DKcXTs:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/icgVHujl-j0" height="1" width="1"/> Meghan Schuler Published Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/hemlock-grove-read-it-or-watch-it-review-meghan-schuler http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/hemlock-grove-read-it-or-watch-it-review-meghan-schuler http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Vw9OAZUJm1M/1950s-crime-world-isnt-so-magical-starz-magic-city-ike-evans-season-2-tv-crime <p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="262" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KBK8vQvGGc4" width="466"></iframe></p><p>This show might just be the crime genre&#39;s answer to <em>Mad Men</em>. Starz&#39;s <em>Magic City</em> follows hotel manager Ike Evans in late-1950s Miami. Not only is he left dealing with Miami&#39;s mob boss, Ben &ldquo;The Butcher&rdquo; Diamond, but is now faced with the changes of Castro&#39;s Cuba spilling over into Miami.&nbsp;</p><p>Season 2 premieres June 14, will you be tuning in?</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/1950s-crime-world-isnt-so-magical-starz-magic-city-ike-evans-season-2-tv-crime">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Vw9OAZUJm1M:QtFsAX1czm0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Vw9OAZUJm1M:QtFsAX1czm0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Vw9OAZUJm1M:QtFsAX1czm0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Vw9OAZUJm1M:QtFsAX1czm0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Vw9OAZUJm1M:QtFsAX1czm0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Vw9OAZUJm1M:QtFsAX1czm0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Vw9OAZUJm1M:QtFsAX1czm0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Vw9OAZUJm1M:QtFsAX1czm0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Vw9OAZUJm1M" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/1950s-crime-world-isnt-so-magical-starz-magic-city-ike-evans-season-2-tv-crime http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/1950s-crime-world-isnt-so-magical-starz-magic-city-ike-evans-season-2-tv-crime http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/DF3ku3EM6PM/fresh-meat-enigma-of-china-qiu-xiaolong-doreen-sheridan-inspector-chen <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-enigma-of-china.jpg" /><strong><em>Enigma Of China</em> by Qiu Xiaolong, the 8th book in the Inspector Chen series, involves political machinations in Shanghai (available June 18, 2013).</strong></p><p>China is a country in flux, with a government determined to retain its communist heritage while also accommodating demands from a technologically advanced citizenry for increased personal liberties. These contradictory impulses birthed &ldquo;socialism with Chinese characteristics,&rdquo; a unique form of modern government at once rigidly idealistic and deeply pragmatic. Citizens struggle to reconcile political ideology with personal ambitions, taking advantage of the system without letting go of deeply Confucian values of family and face. It&rsquo;s a setting built for secrets, that only the smartest, most persistent investigators can navigate toward truth.</p><p>Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is one of these people. He dreamed of being a poet when he was younger but, upon graduating from university, found himself hand-selected to work for the police department instead. Over the years, he&rsquo;s worked his way up to being second-in-command, his promotion to the top stymied only by his superior&rsquo;s not necessarily unwelcome political maneuvering. Chen has gained a reputation for being a cop who answers more to the truth and humanity than to political orders, and in <em>Enigma of China</em>, the 8th book in his namesake series, this rectitude may finally prove to be his downfall.</p><p>[The truth will not always set you free...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-enigma-of-china-qiu-xiaolong-doreen-sheridan-inspector-chen">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=DF3ku3EM6PM:OgFQk5DbRM8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=DF3ku3EM6PM:OgFQk5DbRM8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=DF3ku3EM6PM:OgFQk5DbRM8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=DF3ku3EM6PM:OgFQk5DbRM8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=DF3ku3EM6PM:OgFQk5DbRM8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=DF3ku3EM6PM:OgFQk5DbRM8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=DF3ku3EM6PM:OgFQk5DbRM8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=DF3ku3EM6PM:OgFQk5DbRM8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/DF3ku3EM6PM" height="1" width="1"/> Doreen Sheridan Published Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-enigma-of-china-qiu-xiaolong-doreen-sheridan-inspector-chen http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-enigma-of-china-qiu-xiaolong-doreen-sheridan-inspector-chen http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/sYUBHBNU360/ecko-rising-new-excerpt-danie-ware-science-fiction-future-alternate-universe <p><em><img alt="Danie Ware Ecko Rising" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Danie-Ware-Ecko-Rising.jpg" /><strong>Ecko Rising</strong></em><strong> by Danie Ware is a science fiction thriller with literary qualities that questions what it is to be human (available June 11, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>In a futuristic London where technological body modification is the norm, Ecko stands alone as a testament to the extreme capabilities of his society. Driven half mad by the systems running his body, Ecko is a criminal for hire. No job is too dangerous or insane.</em></p><p><em>When a mission goes wrong and Ecko finds himself catapulted across dimensions into a peaceful and unadvanced society living in fear of &#39;magic&#39;, he must confront his own percepions of reality and his place within it.</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Prologue</strong></p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re bein&rsquo; stalked.&rdquo;</p><p>It was evening. The press of people was close, huddled and submissive to the public monotone that accompanied them home.</p><p>Overhead, the streetlights were halogen-brilliant, obscuring the heavy, belly-down sky. The drizzle sparkled like shrapnel.</p><p>Fuller, tarnished aplomb in suit and overcoat, gave Lugan a nervous look. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re sure &ndash; ?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Shut up an&rsquo; keep moving.&rdquo; One of the Cell commander&rsquo;s massive, oil-stained hands grabbed Fuller&rsquo;s elbow and propelled him swiftly through the crowd. A gang of kids, laughing at their own defiance, barged into them and were gone.</p><p>Reflexively, Lugan checked his pockets.</p><p><em>Get Collator.</em> Sub-vocalised, his voice was transmitted from the back of his throat directly into Fuller&rsquo;s ear. <em>I want CCTV access &ndash; like now. Drones if we can get &rsquo;em.</em></p><p>Fuller gave a brief nod.</p><p>Tense now, Lugan checked the street. The light-pools were bright but the shadows were hard-edged and darker than oil. Everywhere he looked, unseen eyes looked back, unseen teeth were bared in black grins. He shivered, bristled.</p><p><em>What&rsquo;re you looking for? </em>Fuller asked him.</p><p><em>Dunno. Trouble.</em></p><p>Half-a-head taller than the blindly ambling workers, Lugan picked out the police-blue glow of the hoverdrone, watched it swing about and head back towards them.</p><p>Fuller was re-broadcasting Collator&rsquo;s info-stream. <em>Data input commencing 18:42:06&hellip; 07&hellip; Camera locations accessed. Drone ID: 23-987b accessed. Download commencing one minute and 45 seconds&hellip; </em></p><p>Lugan reached for a dog-end. &ldquo;This stinks.&rdquo; Watching the drone, he headed for the shelter of the buildingside. As he moved, the crowd stirred and parted.</p><p>A shred of silent darkness flickered in his wake.</p><p><em>What was...?</em> Further back, Fuller&rsquo;s voice came over the aural-link. <em>Lugan!</em></p><p>&ldquo;What?&rdquo; Without thinking, Lugan spun, back to the wall and crouching, hand going for the ten-mil that wasn&rsquo;t there. Breathing tightly, he kicked in his ocular heatseeker, but the ambivalent temperature of the blankly trudging people defeated him.</p><p>There was nothing there.</p><p>[Read the full prologue of <em>Ecko Rising</em> by Danie Ware]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/ecko-rising-new-excerpt-danie-ware-science-fiction-future-alternate-universe">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=sYUBHBNU360:PAYkHPzJEa0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=sYUBHBNU360:PAYkHPzJEa0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=sYUBHBNU360:PAYkHPzJEa0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=sYUBHBNU360:PAYkHPzJEa0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=sYUBHBNU360:PAYkHPzJEa0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=sYUBHBNU360:PAYkHPzJEa0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=sYUBHBNU360:PAYkHPzJEa0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=sYUBHBNU360:PAYkHPzJEa0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/sYUBHBNU360" height="1" width="1"/> Danie Ware Excerpts Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/ecko-rising-new-excerpt-danie-ware-science-fiction-future-alternate-universe http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/ecko-rising-new-excerpt-danie-ware-science-fiction-future-alternate-universe http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/7wu7UpZTkR4/undercover-artist-katie-stainer-paper-crafts-sandra-mangan <p><img alt="Tiny paper sculpture jewelry by Katie Stainer" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Mangan_Katie-Stainer-origami.jpg" title="Tiny paper beauties" />As a child, I used to make &ldquo;fortune tellers&rdquo; out of a square of paper &ndash; remember them? It was my only real experience of what I now know is called origami. And if that word has conjured up crude swan and rabbit shapes, then think again... because <a href="http://www.katiestainer.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Katie Stainer</a> takes the skill to a whole new level. And books play a huge part in her work too.<br /><br />Katie is based in Nottingham &ndash; in the UK&#39;s Midlands region, an up and coming area for contemporary craft and design. Originally from the historic city of Bath, she found inspiration in her gorgeous surroundings.<br /><br />She explains: &ldquo;I was surrounded by breathtaking architecture and natural beauty, and always had a fascination with the asthetic. My childhood passions leaned towards music and creative writing before I finally discovered my love of art and design. I completed a BA(Hons) in Decorative Arts at Nottingham Trent University in 2011 and haven&#39;t looked back!&rdquo;<br /><br />A designer maker specialising in unique origami jewellery and sculpture created using recycled and reclaimed books, Katie has a long-established love of reading.</p><p>[She truly consumes literature]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/undercover-artist-katie-stainer-paper-crafts-sandra-mangan">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7wu7UpZTkR4:Sf48VDqeQng:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7wu7UpZTkR4:Sf48VDqeQng:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7wu7UpZTkR4:Sf48VDqeQng:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=7wu7UpZTkR4:Sf48VDqeQng:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7wu7UpZTkR4:Sf48VDqeQng:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7wu7UpZTkR4:Sf48VDqeQng:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7wu7UpZTkR4:Sf48VDqeQng:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=7wu7UpZTkR4:Sf48VDqeQng:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/7wu7UpZTkR4" height="1" width="1"/> Sandra Mangan Published Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/undercover-artist-katie-stainer-paper-crafts-sandra-mangan http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/undercover-artist-katie-stainer-paper-crafts-sandra-mangan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/IB9I05zinr8/fatal-descent-new-excerpt-camping-rafting-outdoors-mystery-beth-groundwater <p><em><img alt="Fatal Descent by Beth Groundwater" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Groundwater_Fatal-Descent.jpg" /><strong>Fatal Descent</strong></em><strong> by Beth Groundwater is the third in the traditional Outdoor Mysteries series featuring guides Mandy Tanner and Rob Juarez (available June 8, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Mandy Tanner and her fianc&eacute; Rob are leading an offseason rafting-climbing trip in Utah&rsquo;s remote Canyonlands. Experienced guides, Mandy and Rob know they have to keep their cool after one of their group, Alex Anderson, appears to have become bear bait. Walled off from the outside world with eleven shell-shocked clients and miles of Colorado River whitewater ahead, Mandy&rsquo;s nerves threaten to unravel when she learns that Alex&rsquo;s death was not the work of a homicidal grizzly. Whether it was a crime of passion or the random act of a psychopath, Mandy fears that if they don&rsquo;t root out the river rat among them, another camper will be running the rapids in a body bag.</em><br />&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p><p>&ldquo;I could kill him.&rdquo;</p><p>With hands on her hips, Mandy Tanner surveyed the pile of gear heaped in the back room of the outfitter&rsquo;s building. The rafts, oars and paddles, sleeping bags, mats, and tents were all there, as were the kitchen supplies, water jugs, coolers, portable toilet, first-aid kit, handheld radio transceiver, and myriad other supplies needed for a multi-day rafting trip. But Gonzo, one of the guides and their provi&shy;sioner, had forgotten to bring some vital equipment&mdash;camping lan&shy;terns to light their campsites in the evenings.</p><p>Mandy swallowed to tamp down the frustration threatening to clog her throat. That meant the only light they would have at night would be thin beams cast by flashlights or headlamps. Could they make do? No, dammit. They had to have at least two lanterns, and preferably a third for backup.</p><p>Mandy&rsquo;s fianc&eacute; and business partner, Rob Juarez, gave a shrug. &ldquo;Gonzo will find some.&rdquo;</p><p>How could Rob be so nonchalant? She gazed at his infuriatingly calm and handsome face. &ldquo;The clients will start arriving any min&shy;ute, and I was counting on Gonzo&rsquo;s jokes to put everyone in a good mood. He&rsquo;s supposed to be here to meet and greet them instead of running around Moab trying to beg lanterns off another outfitter. With so many outfitters closed for the season, it&rsquo;ll be tough finding them.&rdquo;</p><p>Contrary to her better judgment, Mandy and Rob had assigned Gonzo Gordon, their best rafting guide, to provision this expedi&shy;tion, their first outside of Colorado. She would have preferred to let Gonzo learn the ropes on a local trip that was less complicated. But Rob had suggested it to show their support of and trust in Gonzo, who was making good progress in his alcohol rehabilitation pro&shy;gram. And Gonzo had assured her&mdash;multiple times&mdash;that he could handle being the &ldquo;Quartermaster,&rdquo; as he had dubbed himself.</p><p>&ldquo;&lsquo;No problemo&rsquo;, he kept telling me,&rdquo; Mandy said as she stared at the equipment pile, &ldquo;and now look where we are.&rdquo;</p><p>Rob put a firm hand on each of her shoulders and turned her to face him. His puppy-dog brown eyes crinkled with worry as his gaze searched her face. &ldquo;Yes. Look where we are. We are in Moab, Utah, ready to embark on our first combo rafting and climbing trip. We have twelve paying clients and all the gear we need except for two lousy lanterns.&rdquo; He cocked his head. &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t usually get this stressed out by trip snafus. What&rsquo;s got <em>mi querida</em> wound up so tight?&rdquo;</p><p>While he waited for an explanation, he massaged her tight shoul&shy;ders, easing the tension out of them. &ldquo;Take a deep breath.&rdquo;</p><p>Mandy did, inhaling Rob&rsquo;s familiar aroma of leather, soap, and the grassy outdoors, and blew the breath out slowly. This was no way to start out. She needed to be relaxed and cheerful for the cli&shy;ents to make sure they felt excited and confident about taking the five-day, hundred-mile trip down the Colorado River. They would travel along the placid waters of Meander Canyon, the whitewater rapids of Cataract Canyon, and a finger of Lake Powell that had flooded lower Cataract Canyon before they took out at Hite Marina. She couldn&rsquo;t let her own worries cloud the clients&rsquo; perceptions of the upcoming adventure.</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re right. I&rsquo;m sorry. It&rsquo;s not Gonzo&rsquo;s fault. It&rsquo;s mine for not going over the manifest with him. I&rsquo;ve been too distracted to man&shy;age the setup for this trip as well as I should have.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;This is the way it&rsquo;s going to be as our business grows, Mandy,&rdquo; Rob responded with frustrating reasonableness. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll have to trust our employees to do their jobs. You can&rsquo;t do everything. And what&rsquo;s been distracting you?&rdquo; He grinned lasciviously. &ldquo;The handsome hunk you&rsquo;re going to marry in a few months?&rdquo;</p><p>Mandy finally smiled. She playfully slapped the standing waves tattoo on one of his muscular biceps. &ldquo;Sure, I can&rsquo;t keep my hands off your bodacious bod.&rdquo;</p><p>Rob turned his face to show her his profile. &ldquo;More like bashed-up bod.&rdquo;</p><p>She traced a gentle finger down his crooked nose, accidentally broken by one of his best friends when Rob tried to break up a fist fight between fishermen. &ldquo;The bashes just make you look more hot, my macho mountain man. No, the problem is the handsome hunk&rsquo;s mother, who has to talk to me every single bleeding day about the wedding plans.&rdquo;</p><p>[Read the full excerpt of Fatal Descent by Beth Groundwater]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/fatal-descent-new-excerpt-camping-rafting-outdoors-mystery-beth-groundwater">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=IB9I05zinr8:PuoBPUHA0u8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=IB9I05zinr8:PuoBPUHA0u8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=IB9I05zinr8:PuoBPUHA0u8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=IB9I05zinr8:PuoBPUHA0u8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=IB9I05zinr8:PuoBPUHA0u8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=IB9I05zinr8:PuoBPUHA0u8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=IB9I05zinr8:PuoBPUHA0u8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=IB9I05zinr8:PuoBPUHA0u8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/IB9I05zinr8" height="1" width="1"/> Beth Groundwater Excerpts Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/fatal-descent-new-excerpt-camping-rafting-outdoors-mystery-beth-groundwater http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/fatal-descent-new-excerpt-camping-rafting-outdoors-mystery-beth-groundwater http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/qnR1iZG9-fs/take-me-out-to-the-ballgame-baseball-mysteries-deborah-lacy-tim-omara-donald-honig-crabbe-evers-harlan-coben-robert-parker-troy-roos <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Lacy_Baseball-Mysteries-ballpark.jpg" /></p><p>Baseball season is well under way, so it&rsquo;s time to start reading about fictional murder in our favorite ballparks. Here are some of my favorite series and standalones, and even a short story anthology that talks about the great American pastime. So let&rsquo;s play ball&hellip;</p><p>[Bring on the <strike>boys</strike> crimes of summer...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/take-me-out-to-the-ballgame-baseball-mysteries-deborah-lacy-tim-omara-donald-honig-crabbe-evers-harlan-coben-robert-parker-troy-roos">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=qnR1iZG9-fs:Tl3QuNCO2Hs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=qnR1iZG9-fs:Tl3QuNCO2Hs:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=qnR1iZG9-fs:Tl3QuNCO2Hs:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=qnR1iZG9-fs:Tl3QuNCO2Hs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=qnR1iZG9-fs:Tl3QuNCO2Hs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=qnR1iZG9-fs:Tl3QuNCO2Hs:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=qnR1iZG9-fs:Tl3QuNCO2Hs:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=qnR1iZG9-fs:Tl3QuNCO2Hs:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/qnR1iZG9-fs" height="1" width="1"/> Deborah Lacy Published Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/take-me-out-to-the-ballgame-baseball-mysteries-deborah-lacy-tim-omara-donald-honig-crabbe-evers-harlan-coben-robert-parker-troy-roos http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/take-me-out-to-the-ballgame-baseball-mysteries-deborah-lacy-tim-omara-donald-honig-crabbe-evers-harlan-coben-robert-parker-troy-roos http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/oRiHIMAgTlY/pickup-on-south-street-at-60-jake-hinkson-noir-film-sam-samuel-fuller-richard-widmark- <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/pickup-widmark-peters.jpg" />A subway train roars through the night. Sweaty and surly, the crowded passengers inside avoid eye contact. The train lurches to a stop and more people squeeze in. Two men watch a pretty young woman carrying a white purse. A third man pushes his way though the cramped New Yorkers and stands beside the woman. She makes eyes at him. He makes eyes back at her while he picks her purse. The train lurches to another stop, and he slips off. The two men rush to catch him, but the doors slam shut and the train shoots off again.</p><p>So begins <strong>Samuel Fuller</strong>&rsquo;s masterpiece <em>Pickup on South Street</em>. The pickpocket is Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark), a three-time loser who&rsquo;s only been out of the joint for a few days. If the cops catch him picking pockets again, he&rsquo;s looking at a life sentence, but he has bigger problems than jail. It turns out that the wallet he lifted on the train contains some secret microfilm that was on its way to a drop off with Communist agents when Skip liberated it.</p><p>[Keep your hands where we can see &rsquo;em, mister!]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/pickup-on-south-street-at-60-jake-hinkson-noir-film-sam-samuel-fuller-richard-widmark-">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oRiHIMAgTlY:UsBw7TDD_6I:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oRiHIMAgTlY:UsBw7TDD_6I:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oRiHIMAgTlY:UsBw7TDD_6I:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=oRiHIMAgTlY:UsBw7TDD_6I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oRiHIMAgTlY:UsBw7TDD_6I:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oRiHIMAgTlY:UsBw7TDD_6I:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oRiHIMAgTlY:UsBw7TDD_6I:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=oRiHIMAgTlY:UsBw7TDD_6I:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/oRiHIMAgTlY" height="1" width="1"/> Jake Hinkson Published Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:30:29 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/pickup-on-south-street-at-60-jake-hinkson-noir-film-sam-samuel-fuller-richard-widmark- http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/pickup-on-south-street-at-60-jake-hinkson-noir-film-sam-samuel-fuller-richard-widmark- http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/xytenhDLM_I/what-happens-in-russia-stays-in-russia-trailer-for-the-dyatlov-pass-incident- <p><img align="left" alt="The Dyatlov Pass Incident" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/dyatlov-pass-incident-movie-poster175x259.jpg" title="The Dyatlov Pass Incident" />On February 2, 1959, in the Ural Mountains, something mysterious happened that remains unexplained to this day. A group formed as a ski tour of the Northern Urals led by Igor Dyatlov, consisting of 9 men and women, all mysteriously died. When the group failed to check in by February 12, a search party went out looking for them.</p><p>The searchers found an abandoned tent that was torn down, ripped apart from the inside, and covered with snow. Inside it, all the group&#39;s belongings and shoes had been left behind. Eventually every member was accounted for: every one of them was dead. What was strange was the manner of their deaths. The official report said that they all died from hypothermia, but three had fatal injuries consisting of major skull damage and chest fractures but possessed no external wounds. One woman was even found missing her tongue and forensic radiation tests showed high doses of radiation on their clothing.</p><p>So, really, it&#39;s the kind of event that is ripe for storytelling. &nbsp;Below is the trailer for the Blair Witch-style horror movie inspired by these events. What do you think, are you in?</p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PP_Zxm3BeeE" width="475"></iframe></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/what-happens-in-russia-stays-in-russia-trailer-for-the-dyatlov-pass-incident-">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=xytenhDLM_I:a7iu7TSebMY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=xytenhDLM_I:a7iu7TSebMY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=xytenhDLM_I:a7iu7TSebMY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=xytenhDLM_I:a7iu7TSebMY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=xytenhDLM_I:a7iu7TSebMY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=xytenhDLM_I:a7iu7TSebMY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=xytenhDLM_I:a7iu7TSebMY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=xytenhDLM_I:a7iu7TSebMY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/xytenhDLM_I" height="1" width="1"/> Christopher Morgan Published Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/what-happens-in-russia-stays-in-russia-trailer-for-the-dyatlov-pass-incident- http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/what-happens-in-russia-stays-in-russia-trailer-for-the-dyatlov-pass-incident- http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/GuWeeNdiGac/fresh-meat-shadow-people-james-swain-vanessa-l-parker-supernatural-urban-fantasy <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/fm-shadow-people.jpg" /><strong><em>Shadow People</em> by James Swain is a supernatural urban fantasy and the follow-up to <em>Dark Magic </em>(available June 11, 2013).</strong></p><p>What do you see when you turn out the lights during a s&eacute;ance? If you are Peter Warlock, a magician by day, a psychic by night, you see shadow people. Every Friday night, Peter and his group of psychic friends conduct a s&eacute;ance. In these s&eacute;ances, spirits transport him on a dark journey to a parallel world.</p><p>On one particular night, Peter sees a dark, faceless apparition. He then ventures to the dark side where he meets a man in a basement who has a handgun, a hunting knife, handcuffs, black hood, and chloroform. Doing what he always does to help him remember whom the spirits show him, he gives the man the nickname Dr. Death.</p><p>With a name like &ldquo;Dr. Death,&rdquo; your imagination might be inclined to conjure up your typical evil person in just about every supernatural horror film. Not this time. Dr. Death looks like your ordinary professor type.</p><p>[Unexpected, but still scary...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-shadow-people-james-swain-vanessa-l-parker-supernatural-urban-fantasy">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GuWeeNdiGac:KiR2eayKDHA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GuWeeNdiGac:KiR2eayKDHA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GuWeeNdiGac:KiR2eayKDHA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=GuWeeNdiGac:KiR2eayKDHA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GuWeeNdiGac:KiR2eayKDHA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GuWeeNdiGac:KiR2eayKDHA:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GuWeeNdiGac:KiR2eayKDHA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=GuWeeNdiGac:KiR2eayKDHA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/GuWeeNdiGac" height="1" width="1"/> Vanessa Parker Published Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:00:02 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-shadow-people-james-swain-vanessa-l-parker-supernatural-urban-fantasy http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-shadow-people-james-swain-vanessa-l-parker-supernatural-urban-fantasy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/cHnbeWQ3ZWE/archie-goodwin-mysterys-quintessential-hunk-jane-k-cleland- <p><img alt="Archie Goodwin by Austin Briggs" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Cleland-Archie-Goodwin-Imagined-by-Austin-Briggs.jpg" title="Archie as imagined by Austin Briggs for the 6/21/58 Saturday Evening Post" />Mystery author <strong>Rex Stout</strong> was, by all reports, a flirt. He loved beautiful women, and to him, most women were beautiful. According to his daughter, shortly before he died at age 87, Mr. Stout engaged in some charming repartee with his hospital nurse&mdash;he flirted with her and she flirted back. How lovely, and to me, a devotee of Mr. Stout&rsquo;s Nero Wolfe stories, not a surprise. Only a man who adores women could have created Nero Wolfe&rsquo;s assistant, Archie Goodwin.</p><p>Archie is every woman&rsquo;s dream man. He&rsquo;s tall. He&rsquo;s dark. He&rsquo;s handsome. He loves to dance. And he&rsquo;s one heck of a detective, determined to protect any woman who needs protecting. By looking at him through female characters&rsquo; eyes, it&rsquo;s easy to see why women, me included, consider him a hero.</p><p>According to the Random House dictionary, a hero is &ldquo;a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.&rdquo; Check. Archie&rsquo;s behavior defines heroism. Especially when it comes to women.</p><p>[Our hearts are sighing already]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/archie-goodwin-mysterys-quintessential-hunk-jane-k-cleland-">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=cHnbeWQ3ZWE:ib4GT9FWK7g:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=cHnbeWQ3ZWE:ib4GT9FWK7g:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=cHnbeWQ3ZWE:ib4GT9FWK7g:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=cHnbeWQ3ZWE:ib4GT9FWK7g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=cHnbeWQ3ZWE:ib4GT9FWK7g:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=cHnbeWQ3ZWE:ib4GT9FWK7g:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=cHnbeWQ3ZWE:ib4GT9FWK7g:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=cHnbeWQ3ZWE:ib4GT9FWK7g:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/cHnbeWQ3ZWE" height="1" width="1"/> Jane K. Cleland Published Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/archie-goodwin-mysterys-quintessential-hunk-jane-k-cleland- http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/archie-goodwin-mysterys-quintessential-hunk-jane-k-cleland- http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/dRs0pHS0pFg/one-night-when-all-crime-is-allowed-the-purge-trailer-crime-hq-thriller-politics-film-serial-killer <p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="262" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/K0LLaybEuzA" width="466"></iframe></p><p>In a not-so-distant future, America has come to be a peaceful place where crime is down to a nearly nonexistent level. All because one night a year all crime is legally allowed. One family inadvertently gets in the way of that in this thriller starring Ethan Hawke and <em>Game of Thrones </em>star, Lena Headey.&nbsp;</p><p>Will you be seeing it this weekend?</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/one-night-when-all-crime-is-allowed-the-purge-trailer-crime-hq-thriller-politics-film-serial-killer">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dRs0pHS0pFg:AaD0vxNxaq8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dRs0pHS0pFg:AaD0vxNxaq8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dRs0pHS0pFg:AaD0vxNxaq8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=dRs0pHS0pFg:AaD0vxNxaq8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dRs0pHS0pFg:AaD0vxNxaq8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dRs0pHS0pFg:AaD0vxNxaq8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dRs0pHS0pFg:AaD0vxNxaq8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=dRs0pHS0pFg:AaD0vxNxaq8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/dRs0pHS0pFg" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/one-night-when-all-crime-is-allowed-the-purge-trailer-crime-hq-thriller-politics-film-serial-killer http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/one-night-when-all-crime-is-allowed-the-purge-trailer-crime-hq-thriller-politics-film-serial-killer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/UeBsWzBFIWY/wrapped-up-in-the-mystery-of-cosmos-witold-gombrowicz-scott-adlerberg-poland <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/cosmos-cover.jpg" />From its opening sentence, <em>Cosmos</em> by <strong>Witold Gombrowicz</strong> throws you off balance:</p><blockquote><p>I&rsquo;ll tell you about another adventure that&rsquo;s even more strange.</p></blockquote><p>Odd opening line, and a few pages later, the oddness continues. Our narrator and his companion Fuks are tramping through the woods somewhere in Eastern Europe looking for a cheap rooming house. Fuks says he knows of one nearby. It is hot, they are tired, and just off the forest path they come across something disturbing:</p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;A sparrow.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Ah.&rdquo;</p><p>It was a sparrow.&nbsp; A sparrow hanging on a piece of wire. Hanged. Its little head to one side, its beak wide open. It was hanging on a thin wire hooked over a branch. Remarkable. A hanged bird. A hanged sparrow.&nbsp; The eccentricity of it clamored with a loud voice and pointed to a human hand that had torn into the thicket&mdash;but who? Who hanged it, why, for what reason?</p></blockquote><p>And so our mystery has kicked off, and though the narrator (named Witold) and Fuks continue on to their rooming house and check in, they can&rsquo;t shake from their minds the image of the hanging sparrow. In bed that night in the room he shares with Fuks, Witold suddenly realizes that he can&rsquo;t hear Fuks breathing in the other bed. Where has Fuks gone?</p><blockquote><p>But in that case...what if he had gone to see the sparrow? I don&rsquo;t know why I thought of it, but I knew right away that this was quite possible, he could have gone, he had been interested in the sparrow, he was in the bushes looking for an explanation, his carroty, phlegmatic mug was just the thing for such a search, it was just like him....to ponder, to scheme, who hanged it, why did he hang it......anyway, he had awakened, or maybe he hadn&rsquo;t gone to sleep at all, and, his curiosity piqued, he got up, maybe he went to check some detail and to look around in the night?...was he playing detective?...I was inclined to believe it.&nbsp; More and more I was inclined to believe it.</p></blockquote><p>It&rsquo;s clear we&rsquo;re not in the realm of a conventional mystery novel, and in fact, <em>Cosmos</em> is not a genre work per se at all.</p><p>[We like unconventional mystery novels too...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/wrapped-up-in-the-mystery-of-cosmos-witold-gombrowicz-scott-adlerberg-poland">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=UeBsWzBFIWY:rHb7pm58-Vc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=UeBsWzBFIWY:rHb7pm58-Vc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=UeBsWzBFIWY:rHb7pm58-Vc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=UeBsWzBFIWY:rHb7pm58-Vc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=UeBsWzBFIWY:rHb7pm58-Vc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=UeBsWzBFIWY:rHb7pm58-Vc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=UeBsWzBFIWY:rHb7pm58-Vc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=UeBsWzBFIWY:rHb7pm58-Vc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/UeBsWzBFIWY" height="1" width="1"/> Scott Adlerberg Published Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:00:58 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/wrapped-up-in-the-mystery-of-cosmos-witold-gombrowicz-scott-adlerberg-poland http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/wrapped-up-in-the-mystery-of-cosmos-witold-gombrowicz-scott-adlerberg-poland http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/4kEVNW2ZeaQ/next-great-noir-crime-boss-tywin-lannister-game-of-thrones-godfather-don-corleone-scarface-david-henry-sterry <p>&ldquo;I made him an offer he couldn&rsquo;t refuse,&rdquo; Don Corleone murmurs like a king ordering an execution.</p><p>&ldquo;Say hello to my little friend,&rdquo; Scarface screams in a voice full of coke and murder.</p><p>&ldquo;Lannisters always pay their debts,&rdquo; Tywin Lannister seethes as he skins a giant dead beast.</p><p><img alt="Tywin Lannister (played by Charles Dance) counsels as he butchers." class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Tywin-Lannister-Flaying.jpg" style="height: 363px; width: 475px; " /></p><p>Yes, Tywin Lannister follows in the bloody footsteps of great noir crime bosses through history. Ruthless, deadly builders of giant crime family empires and coiners of great catchphrases.&nbsp;</p><p>When we first meet Lord Tywin Lannister (played by Charles Dance) in the HBO series<em> Game of Thrones,</em> based upon the novels by <strong>George R.R. Martin</strong>, he is not, as the rumors would have us believe, shitting gold. He is flaying a large animal, while telling his oldest son that he should have cut out the heart of their enemy, our beloved hero, Ned Stark. The message is clear. When someone wrongs you or hurts you, you destroy them. Whether with gold or Valyrian steel, Lannisters pay their debts.</p><p>[And crime runs in the family...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/next-great-noir-crime-boss-tywin-lannister-game-of-thrones-godfather-don-corleone-scarface-david-henry-sterry">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4kEVNW2ZeaQ:NLV8s566Q6U:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4kEVNW2ZeaQ:NLV8s566Q6U:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4kEVNW2ZeaQ:NLV8s566Q6U:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=4kEVNW2ZeaQ:NLV8s566Q6U:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4kEVNW2ZeaQ:NLV8s566Q6U:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4kEVNW2ZeaQ:NLV8s566Q6U:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=4kEVNW2ZeaQ:NLV8s566Q6U:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=4kEVNW2ZeaQ:NLV8s566Q6U:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/4kEVNW2ZeaQ" height="1" width="1"/> David Henry Sterry Published Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/next-great-noir-crime-boss-tywin-lannister-game-of-thrones-godfather-don-corleone-scarface-david-henry-sterry http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/next-great-noir-crime-boss-tywin-lannister-game-of-thrones-godfather-don-corleone-scarface-david-henry-sterry http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/o3ftcx4uOvg/epic-can-do-tough-guys-thumbs-and-ammo-clare-toohey <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Thumb-Han-Solo.jpg" style="height: 338px; width: 250px; " /></p><p>&ldquo;Real tough guys don&#39;t need guns, they just need a positive, can-do attitude.&rdquo;</p><p>This is the proposition behind the amazeballs <a href="http://thumbsandammo.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Thumbs &amp; Ammo blog </a>that goes out proving it, day in, day out.</p><p>Here are several samples, but there are SO many great ones, it&#39;s impossible to choose a favorite. Check it out for yourself!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Thumb-Scarface.jpg" style="height: 376px; width: 475px; " /></p><p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Thumb-Pulp-Fiction.jpg" /><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Thumbs-Bonnie-and-Clyde.jpg" /></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/epic-can-do-tough-guys-thumbs-and-ammo-clare-toohey">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=o3ftcx4uOvg:Su10ovmVl4E:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=o3ftcx4uOvg:Su10ovmVl4E:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=o3ftcx4uOvg:Su10ovmVl4E:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=o3ftcx4uOvg:Su10ovmVl4E:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=o3ftcx4uOvg:Su10ovmVl4E:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=o3ftcx4uOvg:Su10ovmVl4E:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=o3ftcx4uOvg:Su10ovmVl4E:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=o3ftcx4uOvg:Su10ovmVl4E:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/o3ftcx4uOvg" height="1" width="1"/> Clare Toohey Published Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/epic-can-do-tough-guys-thumbs-and-ammo-clare-toohey http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/epic-can-do-tough-guys-thumbs-and-ammo-clare-toohey http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/I9JF6nqxzaA/longmire-episode-202-carcasses-walt-cady-western-tara-gelsomino <p><img alt="Robert Taylor as Walt Longmire" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Gelsomino_Longmire-202-Carcasses-Walt.jpg" /></p><p>This week&rsquo;s episode starts with the discovery of a man&rsquo;s dead body beneath a compost heap of animal carcasses, lending the episode its title. Unfortunately, it&rsquo;s a fitting one, as this plot feels a bit dead in the water&hellip;.or, well, buried under some rotting deer, anyway. The convoluted mystery takes a lot of unnecessary twists and turns. At first, the crime seems to be a random death by your average neighborhood crazy woman, who is the one busy collecting all the roadkill. Walt, with his always infallible instincts (even in the face of logic and circumstantial evidence) seems convinced she&rsquo;s innocent, however. The Southwest Scooby Gang soon discovers that the woman <em>does</em> have a past with the victim, but someone else has done the evil deed&hellip;.</p><p>There&rsquo;re some unavoidable spoilers in this next part, so look away if you haven&rsquo;t yet watched.</p><p>[Gone? Good. Now, for the rest of us...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/longmire-episode-202-carcasses-walt-cady-western-tara-gelsomino">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=I9JF6nqxzaA:u0xIdB6Cv1o:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=I9JF6nqxzaA:u0xIdB6Cv1o:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=I9JF6nqxzaA:u0xIdB6Cv1o:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=I9JF6nqxzaA:u0xIdB6Cv1o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=I9JF6nqxzaA:u0xIdB6Cv1o:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=I9JF6nqxzaA:u0xIdB6Cv1o:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=I9JF6nqxzaA:u0xIdB6Cv1o:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=I9JF6nqxzaA:u0xIdB6Cv1o:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/I9JF6nqxzaA" height="1" width="1"/> Tara Gelsomino Published Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/longmire-episode-202-carcasses-walt-cady-western-tara-gelsomino http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/longmire-episode-202-carcasses-walt-cady-western-tara-gelsomino http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/u-g6Pg7TKnM/charred-new-excerpt-kate-watterson <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/charred-cover.jpg" /><strong>An excerpt of <em>Charred</em> by Kate Watterson, the latest Ellie MacIntosh police procedural (available June 4, 2013).</strong></p><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1370280188690_1166"><em>It&rsquo;s the hottest summer on record. The streets are shimmering, walking outside is like walking into a furnace, and yet, someone is still setting fires&hellip;</em></p><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1370280188690_1205"><em>Milwaukee homicide detective Ellie MacIntosh is called to an arson scene. She finds bewildered home owners, an unidentified corpse, and cryptic clues that lead nowhere. Is it a random killing? The ritualistic nature of the crime points to no, and Ellie fears that the already-oppressive summer is just starting to heat up.</em></p><p><strong>Prologue</strong><br /><em><strong>Southern Wisconsin, 1991</strong></em></p><p><em>I</em><em>t was one of those evenings. Quiet. Too quiet, really. All dark woods, with the occasional flicker of a firefly, and lightning spiking to the west. The air was heavy, the scent of rain visceral and immediate.</em></p><p><em>Rain could be a problem.</em></p><p><em>I had it planned, but you could never count on the weather. My father, descended from generations of pessimistic farmers, always told me that. At this moment, though I discounted anything else he thought mattered and reiterated time and again, that one line I believed.</em></p><p><em>A storm was moving in at the worst time possible.</em></p><p><em>The hay bales, hauled from the barn, were still dry as tinder right now. I&rsquo;d had to walk three miles to the convenience store for the matches, because they&rsquo;d&nbsp; taken it all away. Lighters, kindling, even turned off the pilot on the stove . . .</em></p><p><em>It came down to just that.</em></p><p><em>Me or them.</em></p><p><em>They&rsquo;d known, and I&rsquo;d known, and when we both realized it, the inevitability was like being set free. They were afraid, but still didn&rsquo;t believe. The possibility was there, like the fly buzzing at the window, an unpleasant sound but part of the landscape.</em></p><p><em>That was about to change.</em></p><p><em>Bending down, I struck the first match and it flared and went out.</em></p><p><em>Son of a bitch.</em></p><p><em>The second I shielded from the breeze with my palm and it caught right away. Just a light blaze and I warmed my hands, because they were cold and clammy from nervousness.</em></p><p><em>Surely everyone was nervous their first time.</em></p><p>[Read the full excerpt of <em>Charred</em> by Kate Watterson...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/charred-new-excerpt-kate-watterson">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=u-g6Pg7TKnM:hIQE0ikFAq0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=u-g6Pg7TKnM:hIQE0ikFAq0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=u-g6Pg7TKnM:hIQE0ikFAq0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=u-g6Pg7TKnM:hIQE0ikFAq0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=u-g6Pg7TKnM:hIQE0ikFAq0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=u-g6Pg7TKnM:hIQE0ikFAq0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=u-g6Pg7TKnM:hIQE0ikFAq0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=u-g6Pg7TKnM:hIQE0ikFAq0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/u-g6Pg7TKnM" height="1" width="1"/> Kate Watterson Excerpts Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:00:23 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/charred-new-excerpt-kate-watterson http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/charred-new-excerpt-kate-watterson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/nsCW8hk37Cs/fresh-meat-the-doll-by-taylor-stevens-vanessa-michael-munroe-feminist-thriller-victoria-janssen <p><img alt="The Doll by Taylor Stevens" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Janssen-Taylor-Stevens-The-Doll.jpg" /><strong><em>The Doll</em> by Taylor Stevens is the third Vanessa Michael Munroe thriller (available June 4, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Haunted by violence, and as proficient with languages as she is with knives, Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and hunter, has built her life on a reputation for getting things done&mdash;dangerous and often not-quite-legal things. On a busy Dallas street, Munroe is kidnapped by an unseen opponent and thrust into an underground world where women and girls are merchandise and a shadowy figure known as The Doll Maker controls her every move. While trusted friends race to unravel where she is and why she was taken, everything pivots on one simple choice: Munroe must use her unique set of skills to deliver a high-profile young woman into the same nightmare that she once endured, or condemn to torture and certain death the one person she loves above all else.</em></p><p><em>The Doll </em>by <strong>Taylor Stevens</strong> is third in a series of thrillers featuring private operative Vanessa Michael Munroe. It&rsquo;s the first time I&rsquo;ve encountered this series, which began with <em>The Informationist</em> and continued with <em>The Innocent</em>. Munroe, skilled at strategy, tactics, and languages, is a powerful and dangerous figure whose violent aspect is reminiscent of James Bond. It&rsquo;s interesting to find a female character who is allowed to be a deadly action hero rather than a sidekick or victim, particularly in a story built around sexual trafficking and violence against women.&nbsp;</p><p>[Hear me roar...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-the-doll-by-taylor-stevens-vanessa-michael-munroe-feminist-thriller-victoria-janssen">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=nsCW8hk37Cs:rGY-10QZnJU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=nsCW8hk37Cs:rGY-10QZnJU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=nsCW8hk37Cs:rGY-10QZnJU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=nsCW8hk37Cs:rGY-10QZnJU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=nsCW8hk37Cs:rGY-10QZnJU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=nsCW8hk37Cs:rGY-10QZnJU:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=nsCW8hk37Cs:rGY-10QZnJU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=nsCW8hk37Cs:rGY-10QZnJU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/nsCW8hk37Cs" height="1" width="1"/> Victoria Janssen Published Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-the-doll-by-taylor-stevens-vanessa-michael-munroe-feminist-thriller-victoria-janssen http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-the-doll-by-taylor-stevens-vanessa-michael-munroe-feminist-thriller-victoria-janssen http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/oTy9jxyJU0Q/fresh-meat-blood-orange-karen-keskinen-california-female-private-eye-debut-katherine-tomlinson <p><img alt="Blood Orange is a debut mystery about a female California P.I. by Karen Keskinen" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Blood-Orange-Karen-Keskinen.jpg" style="height: 379px; width: 250px; " /><strong><em>Blood Orange</em> by Karen Keskinen is a debut mystery featuring a contemporary female private eye in California (available June 4, 2013).</strong></p><p>The sunniest places can harbor the darkest of secrets...</p><p>Santa Barbara private investigator Jaymie Zarlin has built her fledgling agency on finding missing people. Still struggling with the death of her troubled brother, who died in police custody, Jaymie is determined to help others in similar situations find their way home.&nbsp; Homicides are not in her repertoire.</p><p>When a beautiful young girl is raped and murdered on the night she appears in Santa Barbara&#39;s annual Solstice festival, Danny Armenta is blamed for the crimes and no one on the police force seems to be bothered that it all seems a little too convenient. Then Danny&#39;s aunt shows up at Jaymie Zarlin&#39;s office&mdash;it&#39;s just a few doors away from a woman who reads pet auras&mdash;demanding that she look into the crime because there&#39;s no way her nephew could have done what he&#39;s being accused of. Murder is way over Jaymie&#39;s paygrade but when she hears that Danny is schizophrenic, like her beloved brother Brodie, she agrees to take the case.</p><p>[Family matters, but having loyal friends does, too.]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-blood-orange-karen-keskinen-california-female-private-eye-debut-katherine-tomlinson">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oTy9jxyJU0Q:Kk0ZDrtYcg4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oTy9jxyJU0Q:Kk0ZDrtYcg4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oTy9jxyJU0Q:Kk0ZDrtYcg4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=oTy9jxyJU0Q:Kk0ZDrtYcg4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oTy9jxyJU0Q:Kk0ZDrtYcg4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oTy9jxyJU0Q:Kk0ZDrtYcg4:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=oTy9jxyJU0Q:Kk0ZDrtYcg4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=oTy9jxyJU0Q:Kk0ZDrtYcg4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/oTy9jxyJU0Q" height="1" width="1"/> Katherine Tomlinson Published Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-blood-orange-karen-keskinen-california-female-private-eye-debut-katherine-tomlinson http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-blood-orange-karen-keskinen-california-female-private-eye-debut-katherine-tomlinson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/_1MYMWBo8Vc/carny-novel-pulp-joyland-stephen-king-charles-ardai-hard-case-crime-cover-art <p><img alt="Limited Edition cover for Stephen King's Joyland by artist Robert McGinnis" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Joyland-HC-Robert-McGinnis.jpg" style="height: 385px; width: 250px;" title="Cover for the limited edition hardcover by artist Robert McGinnis" />What<em> is </em>a carny novel? At its simplest it&rsquo;s a book set in the midways and tents of a traveling carnival, which isn&rsquo;t quite the same as (but is a close cousin to) a circus, a medicine show, a freakshow, a county fair, or an amusement park.&nbsp; There are rides and concessions and games of skill and of chance (all of course rigged to ensure that you lose); there are haunted houses and tunnels of love, fortune tellers and strongmen, pretty girls in spangles and slick-tongued fellows in straw boaters and arm garters, barking a spiel to get you into the tents.&nbsp; There&rsquo;s the secret language that carnies speak so that only other carnies know what they&rsquo;re saying. And there&rsquo;s the vagabond life, perfect for ex-cons and fugitives and other lost souls not quite suited to life inside the boundaries of white-picket-fence America. I&rsquo;ve wanted to publish a carny novel from day one &ndash; but the trick was finding a great one, and I just didn&rsquo;t seem to be able to.</p><p>[Step right up and try your (bad) luck...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/carny-novel-pulp-joyland-stephen-king-charles-ardai-hard-case-crime-cover-art">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_1MYMWBo8Vc:9cYJWWeL0dE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_1MYMWBo8Vc:9cYJWWeL0dE:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_1MYMWBo8Vc:9cYJWWeL0dE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=_1MYMWBo8Vc:9cYJWWeL0dE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_1MYMWBo8Vc:9cYJWWeL0dE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_1MYMWBo8Vc:9cYJWWeL0dE:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=_1MYMWBo8Vc:9cYJWWeL0dE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=_1MYMWBo8Vc:9cYJWWeL0dE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/_1MYMWBo8Vc" height="1" width="1"/> Charles Ardai Published Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/carny-novel-pulp-joyland-stephen-king-charles-ardai-hard-case-crime-cover-art http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/carny-novel-pulp-joyland-stephen-king-charles-ardai-hard-case-crime-cover-art http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/aa8IP3245AA/crimefest-2013-award-winners <p><a href="http://www.crimefest.com/whatis.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/crimefest.jpg" />CrimeFest</a> bills itself as &ldquo;a convention for people who like to read an occasional crime novel as well as for die-hard fanatics.&rdquo; In other words, a convention for <em>everyone in the world</em>. And since CrimeFest 2013, held as it is every year in Bristol, England, included a panel discussion with the creators of BBC&rsquo;s <em>Sherlock</em>, we&rsquo;re figuring the world (and his wife) attended.</p><p>Naturally, CrimeFest bestows awards, and here is a list of this year&rsquo;s nominees and winners (in bold):</p><p><u>The Audible Sounds of Crime Award, for best audiobook crime novel</u></p><ul><li><em>The Black Box</em> by <strong>Michael Connelly</strong>, read by Michael McConnohie</li><li><em>The Racketeer</em> by <strong>John Grisham</strong>, read by J.D. Jackson</li><li><em>The Lewis Man</em> by <strong>Peter May</strong>, read by Peter Forbes</li><li><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/09/fresh-meat-phantom-by-jo-nesbo-nordic-crime-noir-lakis-fourklas" target="_self"><em>Phantom</em></a> by <strong>Jo Nesb&oslash;</strong>, read by Sean Barrett</li><li><strong><em>Standing In Another Man&rsquo;s Grave</em> by Ian Rankin; read by James MacPherson</strong></li></ul><p><u>The Goldsboro Last Laugh Award, for best humorous crime novel</u></p><ul><li><em>The Prisoner of Brenda</em> by <strong>Colin Bateman</strong></li><li><em>The Corpse on the Court</em> by <strong>Simon Brett</strong></li><li><em>Slaughter&rsquo;s Hound</em> by <strong>Declan Burke</strong></li><li><strong><em>Killing the Emperors</em> by Ruth Dudley Edwards</strong></li><li><em>Bryant &amp; May and the Invisible Code</em> by <strong>Christopher Fowler</strong></li><li><em>The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats</em> by <strong>Hesh Kestin</strong></li></ul><p><u>eDunnit Award, for best crime novel published in both hardcover and ebook format </u></p><ul><li><em>The Age of Doubt</em> by <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/04/detective-stories-police-procedurals-traditional-cozies-thriller-noir-writing-the-world-love-and-crime-italian-style-leslie-elman-italy-andrea-camilleri-inspector-montalbano-series-leslie-gilbert-elman" target="_self"><strong>Andrea Camilleri</strong></a></li><li><em>Killing the Emperors</em> by <strong>Ruth Dudley Edwards</strong></li><li><strong><em>Bryant &amp; May and the Invisible Code</em> by Christopher Fowler </strong></li><li><em>Dominion</em> by <strong>C.J. Sansom</strong></li></ul><p><u>H. R. F. Keating Award, for best biography or critical book related to crime fiction published between 2008 and 2012</u></p><ul><li><em>Books to Die For</em> by <strong>Declan Burke</strong> &amp; <strong>John Connolly</strong> (2012)</li><li><em>Agatha Christie&rsquo;s Secret Notebooks</em> by <strong>John Curran</strong> (2009)</li><li><strong><em>British Crime Writing: an Encyclopaedia</em> </strong><strong>Barry Forshaw, editor (2008)</strong></li><li><em>Invisible Ink</em> by <strong>Christopher Fowler</strong> (2012)</li><li><em>Following the Detectives</em> <strong>Maxim Jakubowski</strong>, editor (2010)</li><li><em>Talking about Detective Fiction</em> by <strong>P.D. James</strong> (2009)</li></ul><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/crimefest-2013-award-winners">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=aa8IP3245AA:5GqFIiaaytI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=aa8IP3245AA:5GqFIiaaytI:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=aa8IP3245AA:5GqFIiaaytI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=aa8IP3245AA:5GqFIiaaytI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=aa8IP3245AA:5GqFIiaaytI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=aa8IP3245AA:5GqFIiaaytI:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=aa8IP3245AA:5GqFIiaaytI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=aa8IP3245AA:5GqFIiaaytI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/aa8IP3245AA" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:00:22 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/crimefest-2013-award-winners http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/crimefest-2013-award-winners http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/hYd2s9KNrw0/fresh-meat-corrupt-practices-by-robert-rotstein-legal-thriller-jenny-maloney <p><em><img alt="Corrupt Practices by Robert Rotstein" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Maloney-Robert-Rotstein-Corrupt-Practices.jpg" /></em><strong><em>Corrupt Practices</em> by Robert Rotstein is the first Parker Stern legal thriller (available June 4, 2013).</strong></p><p>After the suicide of his mentor and legal partner, Harmon Cherry, Parker Stern&rsquo;s shining career comes to a screeching halt as Parker is suddenly paralyzed whenever he is in a courtroom. Soon after, the law firm he works for falls apart, with each lawyer going his own way. Parker winds up teaching law to tiny classes and living an otherwise aimless life.</p><p>Then he receives a phone call from an ex-law partner, Rich Baxter. Baxter has gotten himself into some hot water with a powerful client: The Church of the Sanctified Assembly. He&rsquo;s facing charges related to money laundering, embezzlement, and fraud. But Baxter&rsquo;s problems don&rsquo;t end there. FBI agents find false passports, almost half a million dollars in cash, and methamphetamines. Baxter insists he&rsquo;s being set up&mdash;he swears that the Assembly is out to get him and it&rsquo;s all related to the death of Parker&rsquo;s mentor, Cherry. Against his better judgment, Parker agrees to take on the case.</p><p>[Taking on the True Believers]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-corrupt-practices-by-robert-rotstein-legal-thriller-jenny-maloney">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hYd2s9KNrw0:re_xvwrH8rI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hYd2s9KNrw0:re_xvwrH8rI:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hYd2s9KNrw0:re_xvwrH8rI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=hYd2s9KNrw0:re_xvwrH8rI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hYd2s9KNrw0:re_xvwrH8rI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hYd2s9KNrw0:re_xvwrH8rI:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=hYd2s9KNrw0:re_xvwrH8rI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=hYd2s9KNrw0:re_xvwrH8rI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/hYd2s9KNrw0" height="1" width="1"/> Jenny Maloney Published Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-corrupt-practices-by-robert-rotstein-legal-thriller-jenny-maloney http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-corrupt-practices-by-robert-rotstein-legal-thriller-jenny-maloney http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/dTexRcjsrk8/crime-writers-of-canada-announces-the-arthurs-arthur-ellis-award-giles-blunt <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/arthur-ellis-award.jpg" />You know how much we love to celebrate great mystery and crime fiction. The <a href="http://crimewriterscanada.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Crime Writers of Canada</a> love it too.</p><p>Last weekend,the CWC feted the winners of its annual Arthur Ellis Awards for excellence in works in the crime/mystery/thriller&nbsp;genre published for the first time in the previous year by permanent residents of Canada, or by Canadian citizens living abroad. Here are the nominees and the winners (in bold).</p><p><u>Best Novel </u></p><ul><li><em>Trust Your Eyes</em> by <strong>Linwood Barclay</strong></li><li><strong><em>Until the Night </em>by Giles Blunt</strong></li><li><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/07/fresh-meat-trinity-game-by-sean-chercover-thriller-jen-forbus" target="_self"><em>The Trinity Game </em></a> by <strong>Sean Chercover</strong></li><li><em>The Messenger</em> by <strong>Stephen Miller</strong></li><li><em>Niceville</em> by <strong>Carsten Stroud</strong></li></ul><p><u>Best First Novel</u></p><ul><li><em>The Beggar&rsquo;s Opera</em> by <strong>Peggy Blair</strong></li><li><em>Confined Space</em> by <strong>Deryn Collier </strong></li><li><em>The Dead of Winter </em>by <strong>Peter Kirby</strong></li><li><em>A Private Man</em> by <strong>Chris Laing </strong></li><li><strong><em>The Haunting of Maddy Clare </em>by Simone St. James</strong></li></ul><p>[Read on to see the rest of the nominees and winners!]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/crime-writers-of-canada-announces-the-arthurs-arthur-ellis-award-giles-blunt">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dTexRcjsrk8:_hQ-o_vgTQU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dTexRcjsrk8:_hQ-o_vgTQU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dTexRcjsrk8:_hQ-o_vgTQU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=dTexRcjsrk8:_hQ-o_vgTQU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dTexRcjsrk8:_hQ-o_vgTQU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dTexRcjsrk8:_hQ-o_vgTQU:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=dTexRcjsrk8:_hQ-o_vgTQU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=dTexRcjsrk8:_hQ-o_vgTQU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/dTexRcjsrk8" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:00:17 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/crime-writers-of-canada-announces-the-arthurs-arthur-ellis-award-giles-blunt http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/crime-writers-of-canada-announces-the-arthurs-arthur-ellis-award-giles-blunt http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/mW_PLay4Btc/fresh-meat-stolen-allison-brennan-kerry-hammond-lucy-kincaid-fbi <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/fm-stolen-cover.jpg" /><strong><em>Stolen</em> by Allison Brennan is the 6th book in the Lucy Kincaid series (available June 4, 2013).</strong></p><p>Lucy Kincaid is in the middle of her FBI agent training course at Quantico when her boyfriend Sean Rogan quits his job working as a security investigator at his brother&rsquo;s company. No longer speaking to his brother, Sean goes to New York to work with an old friend and business associate, Colton Thayer, telling Lucy very little about the project he&rsquo;s involved in.</p><p>What Lucy doesn&rsquo;t know is that Sean is working with the FBI on an investigation and has gone undercover. By helping the FBI, Sean hopes to clear himself and avoid prosecution for a crime he committed nearly ten years ago.</p><p>Sean is a computer whiz, to put it mildly. There&rsquo;s no computer he can&rsquo;t hack, no security system he can&rsquo;t bypass. At a young age his idealism was his driving force and he wanted to be a kind of Robin Hood. He would see people do bad things and know that he could exact justice quicker than law enforcement.</p><blockquote><p>Theft came in all shapes and sizes, from grand to small, from violent to peaceful. For Sean Rogan, the most satisfying robbery was stealing from someone who was a criminal, because the victim would never report the break-in. It was also the most dangerous. &nbsp;</p><p>The safest theft, and almost as satisfying, was stealing information so the victim never knew they&rsquo;d been targeted. This was the type of crime where Sean excelled and why his former mentor and friend Colton Thayer had for years wanted him to rejoin the group. It was why Sean had quit the family business. Now there was no turning back.</p></blockquote><p>[Just when you think you know someone...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-stolen-allison-brennan-kerry-hammond-lucy-kincaid-fbi">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mW_PLay4Btc:DqA0ZuSVC08:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mW_PLay4Btc:DqA0ZuSVC08:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mW_PLay4Btc:DqA0ZuSVC08:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=mW_PLay4Btc:DqA0ZuSVC08:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mW_PLay4Btc:DqA0ZuSVC08:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mW_PLay4Btc:DqA0ZuSVC08:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=mW_PLay4Btc:DqA0ZuSVC08:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=mW_PLay4Btc:DqA0ZuSVC08:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/mW_PLay4Btc" height="1" width="1"/> Kerry Hammond Published Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:30:42 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-stolen-allison-brennan-kerry-hammond-lucy-kincaid-fbi http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-stolen-allison-brennan-kerry-hammond-lucy-kincaid-fbi http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/SL_IYcyoJqE/michonne-goes-glam-danai-gurira-the-walking-dead-robert-kirkman <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/danai-gurira-300.jpg" />Do you miss Michonne like we miss Michonne?</p><p>As we were wandering through that dark and lonely purgatory known as <em>The Walking Dead</em> hiatus, searching for solace and canned goods, we stumbled upon Danai Gurira&mdash;better known to you as Michonne, she of the fearsome sword&mdash;featured as <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20690143,00.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em>People</em> magazine&rsquo;s &ldquo;Beauty of the Week.&rdquo;</a></p><p>She notes that her beauty must-haves are a &ldquo;good pair of earrings and lip gloss.&rdquo; (Oddly, there was no mention of a stainless steel Japanese katana with a 27-inch blade.)</p><p>&ldquo;Playing a zombie-apocalypse survivor is an un-glam job,&rdquo; she says, in a decided understatement, &ldquo;but the makeup artists figure out how to pop your eyes and make your skin still look great.&rdquo;</p><p>If we could all look this stunning after the zombies come, we say bring on the apocalypse!</p><p><span style="font-size:11px;"><em>Photo by Peggy Sirota, </em>People<em> magazine, April 22, 2013 issue</em></span></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/michonne-goes-glam-danai-gurira-the-walking-dead-robert-kirkman">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SL_IYcyoJqE:_72iNhhdupg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SL_IYcyoJqE:_72iNhhdupg:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SL_IYcyoJqE:_72iNhhdupg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=SL_IYcyoJqE:_72iNhhdupg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SL_IYcyoJqE:_72iNhhdupg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SL_IYcyoJqE:_72iNhhdupg:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=SL_IYcyoJqE:_72iNhhdupg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=SL_IYcyoJqE:_72iNhhdupg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/SL_IYcyoJqE" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:45:15 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/michonne-goes-glam-danai-gurira-the-walking-dead-robert-kirkman http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/michonne-goes-glam-danai-gurira-the-walking-dead-robert-kirkman http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/atZK8dcbljo/the-last-line-new-excerpt-lt-col-anthony-shaffer-william-h-keith-military-thriller-cia-drug-war <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/last-line-cover.jpg" /><strong>An excerpt from <em>The Last Line</em>, a military thriller by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer with William H. Keith (available June 4, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Chris Teller may be the best in the intelligence business, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean he&rsquo;s the most popular. Far from it, in fact. While he may be a threat to the status quo, however, the only thing saving him from expulsion is an even greater threat to his country, one that&rsquo;s already within our borders.</em></p><p><em>With Mexico descending into anarchy, the drug cartels have kicked up the heat, allying with Hezbollah and the Iranian secret service in a plot aimed at nothing less than the destruction of the United States of America. As Teller races to unravel the plot, he discovers that the most dangerous and pernicious enemies are not bloodthirsty drug lords, but a terrifying and treasonous cabal within the U.S. government itself.</em></p><p><strong>Prologue</strong></p><p>U.S.-MEXICAN BORDER<br />2 MILES EAST OF NOGALES, ARIZONA<br />1650 HOURS, MST<br />12 APRIL</p><p>Even here, the screams were too loud to allow him to pray.</p><p>Saeed Reyshahri remained kneeling, facing east, trying again to recite the Surat al-Fatiha, the seven opening verses of the Koran. <em>&ldquo;In the name of Allah, the most beneficent, the most merciful, all appreciation, gratefulness, and thankfulness are to Allah alone, lord of the worlds . . .&rdquo;</em></p><p>A dry wind whispered across the sere and barren landscape. Behind him, on the other side of the ridge, a woman was begging, desperately pleading. Reyshahri did not speak Spanish, but he could guess easily enough what she was saying.</p><p><em>&ldquo;!No! !No! Por favor . . . !Largate! !No me chinge! </em>&iexcl;No me chinge!<em>&rdquo;</em></p><p>Filthy dogs. No respect for women&mdash; but worse, <em>far </em>worse, no concern for the importance, the <em>urgency </em>of his mission. Why had Colonel Salehi insisted on using these . . . these <em>animals </em>for Operation Shah Mat? The Sinaloa Cartel&rsquo;s coyotes were . . . ruthless. Mercenary. Reliable enough if you met their price, but vicious and dangerous.</p><p>They had their own agenda.</p><p>Reyshahri was an officer in the Vezarat-e Ettela&rsquo;at va Amniyat-e Keshvar&mdash;VEVAK as it was commonly known, the state security service of the Republic of Iran. His rank was <em>sarvan, </em>equivalent to a captain in the U.S. Army; he&rsquo;d been a member of the Sepah for ten years, and with VEVAK for three more. For most of that time he&rsquo;d helped train Hezbollah militias for their struggle against the Zionists.</p><p>VEVAK was known neither for sentimentality nor for squeamishness when it came to operations in the field. There were times when raw brutality was absolutely necessary&mdash;to fulfill a mission, to make a point, to send a message.</p><p><em>This, </em>however, was not one of those times.</p><p>[Read the full excerpt of <em>The Last Line</em> by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and William H. Keith]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/the-last-line-new-excerpt-lt-col-anthony-shaffer-william-h-keith-military-thriller-cia-drug-war">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=atZK8dcbljo:KrNzifKIxlU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=atZK8dcbljo:KrNzifKIxlU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=atZK8dcbljo:KrNzifKIxlU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=atZK8dcbljo:KrNzifKIxlU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=atZK8dcbljo:KrNzifKIxlU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=atZK8dcbljo:KrNzifKIxlU:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=atZK8dcbljo:KrNzifKIxlU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=atZK8dcbljo:KrNzifKIxlU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/atZK8dcbljo" height="1" width="1"/> Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer Excerpts Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:00:52 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/the-last-line-new-excerpt-lt-col-anthony-shaffer-william-h-keith-military-thriller-cia-drug-war http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/the-last-line-new-excerpt-lt-col-anthony-shaffer-william-h-keith-military-thriller-cia-drug-war http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/coKU5RBxoOw/fresh-meat-a-serpents-tooth-by-craig-johnson-walt-longmire-laura-k-curtis <p><img alt="Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Curtis-Craig-Johnson-Serpents-Tooth.jpg" /><strong><em>A Serpent&rsquo;s Tooth</em> by Craig Johnson is the ninth Walt Longmire western mystery (available June 4, 2013).</strong></p><p>It&rsquo;s hard to review a book nine books into a beloved series, especially when you know a lot of readers will be coming to the book with a background from an equally beloved television version. A&amp;E&rsquo;s <em>Longmire</em> is at once quite separate and yet intimately connected to <strong>Craig Johnson</strong>&rsquo;s series of books about Sheriff Walt Longmire.</p><p>The cast of characters in the books is slightly different from those in the show and even the shared characters vary slightly between page and screen. But the elements that work so very, very well&mdash;the humor, the strength of personality and the endless, barren but beautiful scenery&mdash;remain constant.</p><p>The thing you get in the books that you don&rsquo;t get from the show, the thing that brings me back over and over, is Walt&rsquo;s voice. <em>A Serpent&rsquo;s Tooth is</em> told in the first person, and right from the start you &ldquo;hear&rdquo; Walt. (It&rsquo;s okay if you hear him in Robert Taylor&rsquo;s voice&mdash;you won&rsquo;t be the first or the last, I suspect.)</p><p>[We! Want! Walt!]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-a-serpents-tooth-by-craig-johnson-walt-longmire-laura-k-curtis">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=coKU5RBxoOw:iBlJLVR5Kb0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=coKU5RBxoOw:iBlJLVR5Kb0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=coKU5RBxoOw:iBlJLVR5Kb0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=coKU5RBxoOw:iBlJLVR5Kb0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=coKU5RBxoOw:iBlJLVR5Kb0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=coKU5RBxoOw:iBlJLVR5Kb0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=coKU5RBxoOw:iBlJLVR5Kb0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=coKU5RBxoOw:iBlJLVR5Kb0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/coKU5RBxoOw" height="1" width="1"/> Laura K. Curtis Published Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-a-serpents-tooth-by-craig-johnson-walt-longmire-laura-k-curtis http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/fresh-meat-a-serpents-tooth-by-craig-johnson-walt-longmire-laura-k-curtis http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/CYYflSCvKac/zinng-morgue-cooler-ebay-audie-arthur-ellis-awards-canada-hannibal-renewal-rip-andrew-greeley-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><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>&bull;&nbsp; </strong>The state of New York is selling a <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/fridge_you_need_place_just_store_2MqE14O9YnGPLVLwemaDSJ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">4-compartment morgue cooler</a> from a mental hospital by listing it on Ebay. Check out the item: used, but in good condition!</p><p><strong>&bull;</strong>&nbsp; Over at Sleuthsayers, Rob Lopresti has <a href="http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/05/working-on-my-novel.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">an autoharp and a webcam</a>, and he&#39;s not afraid to use them. Wasting time? Can&#39;t be, because it&#39;s &ldquo;working on my novel.&rdquo;</p><p><strong>&bull;</strong>&nbsp; Meanwhile, singer-songwriter Beth Rudetsky (also credited for writing <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086930/soundtrack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">&ldquo;Hose Me Down&rdquo;</a> for <em>Bad Girls Dormitory</em>) says she composes specifically for crime novels and their <a href="http://youtu.be/tD0ieUDLnYU" rel="nofollow">book trailers</a>. This linked one is a pro affair, but for us, the jury&#39;s still out. Have you ever bought a book you didn&#39;t know anything about from its trailer? We&#39;re dying to know!</p><p><strong>&bull;</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.theaudies.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">2013&#39;s Audie Award winners</a> have been announced! Of the many <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/02/2013-audie-awards-audiobook-finalists-crime-hq" target="_self">audiobooks for crime fans </a>we highlighted among this year&#39;s nominees, winners include works by <strong>Reed Farrel Coleman</strong>, <strong>Louise Penny</strong>, <strong>Christopher Farnsworth</strong>, <strong>Lene Kaaberb&oslash;l</strong> and <strong>Agnete Friis, Alexander McCall Smith</strong>, <strong>Eric Blehm</strong>, and <strong>Hilary Mantel</strong>. (<strong>Bram Stoker</strong>, too, though we doubt he has Google Alerts to notify him of our appreciation.) Congrats to all!</p><p>&bull;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/tags/Hannibal" target="_self">NBC&#39;s <em>Hannibal </em></a>gets a season 2! A bunch of us really like this one&mdash;how about you? We&#39;re not only glad this smart, atmospheric drama has a renewal to find its audience, but adore Omnimystery&#39;s awesome new <a href="http://tvmysteries.omnimystery.com/scoresheet.html#.Uao-6etqJ7w" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Telemystery Scoresheet</a> to keep track of the fates of all our favorites!</p><p>&bull;&nbsp; <strong>Father Andrew M. Greeley</strong> has <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/father-andrew-greeley-novelist-catholic-critic-dies-165638499.html?.tsrc=telkomsel" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">passed away</a>. We thank him for his words, and refer to you this <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/12/thank-you-father-andrew-m-greeley-terrie-farley-moran" target="_self">appreciation of his life and works</a> from our own Terrie Farley Moran.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/zinng-morgue-cooler-ebay-audie-arthur-ellis-awards-canada-hannibal-renewal-rip-andrew-greeley-crime-hq">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=CYYflSCvKac:YhmNvu7ZkOc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=CYYflSCvKac:YhmNvu7ZkOc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=CYYflSCvKac:YhmNvu7ZkOc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=CYYflSCvKac:YhmNvu7ZkOc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=CYYflSCvKac:YhmNvu7ZkOc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=CYYflSCvKac:YhmNvu7ZkOc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=CYYflSCvKac:YhmNvu7ZkOc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=CYYflSCvKac:YhmNvu7ZkOc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/CYYflSCvKac" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Sat, 01 Jun 2013 19:51:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/zinng-morgue-cooler-ebay-audie-arthur-ellis-awards-canada-hannibal-renewal-rip-andrew-greeley-crime-hq http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/zinng-morgue-cooler-ebay-audie-arthur-ellis-awards-canada-hannibal-renewal-rip-andrew-greeley-crime-hq http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/olGMKtPM0VA/grey-dawn-new-excerpt-clea-simon-dulcie-schwartz-pet-mystery <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/grey-dawn-cover.jpg" /><strong>An excerpt of <em>Grey Dawn</em> by Clea Simon, the 6th book in the Dulcie Schwartz feline mystery series (available June 1, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>When grad student Dulcie Schwartz hears a wolf late one night she tries to dismiss it, but the noises, the dark building, and an unnerving sighting of her adviser all combine to give her the creeps. Next morning Dulcie learns that a university student was savagely attacked that very night. A woman who looks like Dulcie. Aided by cryptic advice from her kitten Esm&eacute; and the ghost of her late, great cat Mr Grey, Dulcie investigates . . .</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p><p>W<em>olves</em>.</p><p>The word sprang unbidden into Dulcie&rsquo;s mind. <em>Wolf</em>, she amended it, as the unearthly howl once more split the night. But what would a wolf be doing in Cambridge, in Harvard Square of all places? Much more likely that she was hearing a dog, Dulcie told herself, even as she picked up her pace. It was late, and there weren&rsquo;t any other pedestrians on the little side street by the English Department offices. But she&rsquo;d never felt unsafe here before. Certainly not afraid of an animal.</p><p>Another howl, wild and chilling. Dulcie took a deep breath. She hadn&rsquo;t told Chris she was going out. Her boyfriend worked the overnight shift in the computer lab, so Dulcie had been home alone when she&rsquo;d realized that she&rsquo;d left the English 10 papers in her cubby at the departmental office. He would&rsquo;ve encouraged her to leave them till tomorrow, if she&rsquo;d called him. Or told her to splurge and take a cab. But Chris wouldn&rsquo;t be working nights if they had any money to spare, and their apartment was really only twenty minutes away, if she walked quickly. Besides, grades were due by ten a.m. tomorrow. She&rsquo;d already missed several of her teaching deadlines this semester, and this time she wouldn&rsquo;t have had her own thesis as an excuse. Carelessness seemed like a silly reason to push her luck. Martin Thorpe, her adviser and the acting department head, was prickly at the best of times. No, walking into the Square to retrieve them had been the sensible move.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t like it was an inherently frightening night. Between the street lights and a bright autumn moon, Dulcie could see all the way to the end of the block. Even the brick sidewalk, treacherous when icy, appeared to be in high relief. True, the shadows looked particularly menacing right now. But that, Dulcie told herself, was because she&rsquo;d worked herself up into a good snit. And so, really, a little scare served her right.</p><p>[Read the full excerpt of <em>Grey Dawn</em> by Clea Simon...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/grey-dawn-new-excerpt-clea-simon-dulcie-schwartz-pet-mystery">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=olGMKtPM0VA:SX-BtwXnb8s:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=olGMKtPM0VA:SX-BtwXnb8s:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=olGMKtPM0VA:SX-BtwXnb8s:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=olGMKtPM0VA:SX-BtwXnb8s:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=olGMKtPM0VA:SX-BtwXnb8s:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=olGMKtPM0VA:SX-BtwXnb8s:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=olGMKtPM0VA:SX-BtwXnb8s:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=olGMKtPM0VA:SX-BtwXnb8s:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/olGMKtPM0VA" height="1" width="1"/> Clea Simon Excerpts Sat, 01 Jun 2013 16:00:25 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/grey-dawn-new-excerpt-clea-simon-dulcie-schwartz-pet-mystery http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/06/grey-dawn-new-excerpt-clea-simon-dulcie-schwartz-pet-mystery http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/3rwcqFV8OXs/peering-into-the-shadow-year-one-corrina-lawson-matt-wagner-wilfredo-torres <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/shadow-year-one.jpg" /><em>&ldquo;Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!&rdquo;</em></p><p>I know more <em>of</em> the Shadow than I know <em>about</em> the Shadow. I know the familiar catchphrase. I know he was a radio hero created in the 1930s and the star of pulp magazines. I know he was an influence on Batman&rsquo;s creation. And I know he was played by Alec Baldwin in a not-very-well-respected movie.</p><p>Like <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/12/dynamic-duos-comics-top-five-partners-in-crime-fighting-corrina-lawson" target="_self"><em>Sandman Mystery Theatre</em></a>, the Shadow inhabits a setting that I love: 1930s New York City. I knew vaguely there was a new Shadow comic series by Dynamite Entertainment but I wasn&rsquo;t moved to pick up any issues until I saw the name of <strong>Matt Wagner</strong> on <a href="http://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513020219205011" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em>The Shadow: Year One</em></a>. It seemed perfect, especially since Wagner was one of the creators of SMT.</p><p>The first two issues of the miniseries did not disappoint. As the cover promises, the story starts at the beginning, with Lamont Cranston&rsquo;s return from a long sojourn overseas. We see very little of Cranston and are in the dark about where he&rsquo;s been and why he&rsquo;s come back.</p><p>[Evil is lurking...and we want to know all about it!]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/peering-into-the-shadow-year-one-corrina-lawson-matt-wagner-wilfredo-torres">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3rwcqFV8OXs:GkTujVM0oxw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3rwcqFV8OXs:GkTujVM0oxw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3rwcqFV8OXs:GkTujVM0oxw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=3rwcqFV8OXs:GkTujVM0oxw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3rwcqFV8OXs:GkTujVM0oxw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3rwcqFV8OXs:GkTujVM0oxw:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3rwcqFV8OXs:GkTujVM0oxw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=3rwcqFV8OXs:GkTujVM0oxw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/3rwcqFV8OXs" height="1" width="1"/> Corrina Lawson Published Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:00:03 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/peering-into-the-shadow-year-one-corrina-lawson-matt-wagner-wilfredo-torres http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/06/peering-into-the-shadow-year-one-corrina-lawson-matt-wagner-wilfredo-torres http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/jVo-XEkJzVU/sandstorm-new-excerpt-alan-l-lee-cia-espionage-political-thriller-mossad-israel <p><img alt="Sandstorm by Alan L Lee" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Alan-L-Lee-Sandstorm.jpg" /><strong>Sandstorm by Alan L. Lee is a political thriller involving CIA agents, assassins, politicians, and a plot to kill thousands (available June 4, 2013).</strong></p><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1369882626419_717"><em>Far away from government oversight, a secret partnership has been formed between an Israeli spymaster pulling the strings of the most efficient killing machine the Mossad has to offer and an exclusive billionaire boys club that wants to dictate the New World Order. In their pocket is a powerful U.S. senator who aspires to the presidency. Success means vast wealth and increased power, and they&rsquo;ll stop at nothing to succeed.</em></p><div class="simple-html" id="yui_3_8_1_1_1369882626419_680"><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1369882626419_682"><em>CIA operative Nora Mossa is trained to kill when the situation calls for it. She&rsquo;s also capable of disappearing into thin air. Being efficient, deadly, and beautiful, however, won&rsquo;t be enough to protect her after her mentor Erica Janway is assassinated in her Maryland home. With everyone in the Agency suspect, Nora turns to the only person capable of&nbsp;keeping&nbsp;her alive&nbsp;while she uncovers the truth behind Janway&rsquo;s demise&mdash;her former lover and ex&ndash;CIA agent Alex Koves. That is, if he will even speak to her.</em></p><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1369882626419_693"><em>With danger lurking in every corner of the globe, Koves and Nora must stay alive long enough to piece together the clues to a deadly plot capable of killing thousands in the Middle East. And the clock is ticking&hellip;.</em><br />&nbsp;</p></div><p><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p><p>Erica Janway reflected on her past because she had no future.</p><p>Forty-eight years of living, most of them good. A decent child&shy;hood. No serious health issues other than a brief fondness for al&shy;cohol. The usual amount of bad dates before the right one showed up. She was proud to have served her country with honor, no mat&shy;ter what some of the assholes at the CIA thought. She&rsquo;d get a black star chiseled into the white face of Vermont marble on the Wall of Honor at Langley. Her husband, Paul, was the rock of her foundation and the main reason the drinking stopped. There was plenty more to reflect upon, but she was out of time.</p><p>The ominous figure clad in a dripping wetsuit stood motion&shy;less a few feet away in her Annapolis, Maryland, kitchen. She knew his presence was of her own doing. She hadn&rsquo;t been able to keep her nose out of things. When they&rsquo;d reassigned her from station chief in Moscow back to Langley, she&rsquo;d been able to deal with the indignity only for so long before it had really pissed her off. Work&shy;ing from a desk, she&rsquo;d searched daily for trouble, and once she&rsquo;d stumbled upon it, resisting the temptation to dig further had been impossible. She&rsquo;d wanted to take her suspicions up the ladder to her superiors but had lacked concrete proof. Plus, she could ill-afford another blemish on her record.</p><p>As a puddle formed on the tile, Erica figured he&rsquo;d been watch&shy;ing her for a long time from the inlet off the Chesapeake Bay, the water&rsquo;s edge just a chip shot away. She&rsquo;d been on the deck for most of the evening and hadn&rsquo;t heard or seen anything unusual.</p><p>Erica stared at the 9 mm pistol pointed at her chest. &ldquo;If it&rsquo;s money you want, I only have about sixty dollars in the house.&rdquo; She was trying to buy time. She knew he wasn&rsquo;t here for money. Com&shy;mon criminals didn&rsquo;t walk around with silenced weapons. She coyly eased toward the knife holder on the counter.</p><p>[Read the full excerpt of <em>Sandstorm</em> by Alan L. Lee]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/sandstorm-new-excerpt-alan-l-lee-cia-espionage-political-thriller-mossad-israel">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jVo-XEkJzVU:XQJ5xnCihUU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jVo-XEkJzVU:XQJ5xnCihUU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jVo-XEkJzVU:XQJ5xnCihUU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=jVo-XEkJzVU:XQJ5xnCihUU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jVo-XEkJzVU:XQJ5xnCihUU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jVo-XEkJzVU:XQJ5xnCihUU:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jVo-XEkJzVU:XQJ5xnCihUU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=jVo-XEkJzVU:XQJ5xnCihUU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/jVo-XEkJzVU" height="1" width="1"/> Alan L. Lee Excerpts Fri, 31 May 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/sandstorm-new-excerpt-alan-l-lee-cia-espionage-political-thriller-mossad-israel http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/sandstorm-new-excerpt-alan-l-lee-cia-espionage-political-thriller-mossad-israel http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/X1rGt08mVP0/fresh-meat-joyland-stephen-king-katherine-tomlinson <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/fm-joyland.jpg" /><strong>Set in a small-town amusement park in North Carolina in 1973, <em>Joyland</em> by Stephen King is a noir thriller (available June 4, 2013).</strong></p><p>There&rsquo;s a weird thing that happens when a writer&rsquo;s name becomes a brand. On the one hand, readers start using it as shorthand&mdash;&ldquo;the new <strong>John Grisham</strong>,&rdquo; &ldquo;the new <strong>Nicholas Sparks</strong>&rdquo;&mdash;to convey their enthusiasm for their favorite author&rsquo;s work. It&rsquo;s an easy way of saying, &ldquo;If you liked Grisham&rsquo;s last book, you&rsquo;re going to like this new one.&rdquo; In these conversations, it doesn&rsquo;t actually matter what the title of the new book is, you know that the writer is going to deliver a good read.</p><p>At the same time, though, brand name recognition sets up certain expectations. If you&rsquo;re a Grisham fan, for instance, you might have been surprised, or even disappointed, when the king of legal thrillers came out with <em>Skipping Christmas</em>, an engaging story of one couple&rsquo;s attempt to bypass the annual holiday madness. The novel had nothing to do with Grisham&rsquo;s usual subject matter and was also so different in tone that calling it a &ldquo;Grisham novel&rdquo; was actually inaccurate even though it was a novel by John Grisham. (<em>Skipping Christmas</em> is my favorite of Grisham&rsquo;s books, but then, I love Christmas even more than I love crime.)</p><p>[Where my favorite author leads, I will follow...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-joyland-stephen-king-katherine-tomlinson">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=X1rGt08mVP0:yJjCj-3g4Cc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=X1rGt08mVP0:yJjCj-3g4Cc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=X1rGt08mVP0:yJjCj-3g4Cc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=X1rGt08mVP0:yJjCj-3g4Cc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=X1rGt08mVP0:yJjCj-3g4Cc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=X1rGt08mVP0:yJjCj-3g4Cc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=X1rGt08mVP0:yJjCj-3g4Cc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=X1rGt08mVP0:yJjCj-3g4Cc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/X1rGt08mVP0" height="1" width="1"/> Katherine Tomlinson Published Fri, 31 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-joyland-stephen-king-katherine-tomlinson http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-joyland-stephen-king-katherine-tomlinson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/7vK0_9VatQw/announcing-the-malfeaance-occasional-mo-girl-trouble-contributors-short-fiction-ezine-anthology-crime-hq <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/collections/CEMO-Header-475.jpg" style="height: 171px; width: 475px; " /></p><br /><p>At long last (and after many, many delays), we&#39;re screaming with delight finally to be able to announce the list of contributors to the inagural issue of <em>The Malfeasance Occasional</em>! As you may recall, this first issue is called &ldquo;Girl Trouble,&rdquo; and we received an enormous number of submissions with different takes on the theme. Here&#39;s the (alphabetical) list of 14 talented authors whose stories we&#39;ll have the pleasure to present:</p><ul><li><strong><a href="http://pattinase.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patricia Abbott</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="http://www.cruelcline.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric Cline</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="http://www.hilarydavidson.com/Home.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hilary Davidson</a></strong></li><li><strong>Charles Drees</strong></li><li><strong><a href="http://www.brendandubois.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brendan DuBois</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="http://www.milo-inmediasres.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Milo J. Fowler</a></strong></li><li><strong>Caroline J. Orvis</strong></li><li><a href="http://kenleonardbooks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Ken Leonard</strong></a></li><li><strong><a href="http://www.roblopresti.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Lopresti</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="http://tsrichardson.com/Welcome.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Travis Richardson</a></strong></li><li><strong>Jeff Soloway</strong></li><li><strong><a href="http://cathistoler.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cathi Stoler</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="http://terribleminds.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chuck Wendig</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="http://samwiebe.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sam Wiebe</a></strong></li></ul><p>We expect publication this summer, and as soon as we&#39;re able, we&#39;ll announce that date with more mad joy. But in the meantime, we couldn&#39;t wait any longer to announce our great inaugural contributors, and also to thank again all of you who took the time to share your work with us!</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/announcing-the-malfeaance-occasional-mo-girl-trouble-contributors-short-fiction-ezine-anthology-crime-hq">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7vK0_9VatQw:Up1dumvab2A:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7vK0_9VatQw:Up1dumvab2A:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7vK0_9VatQw:Up1dumvab2A:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=7vK0_9VatQw:Up1dumvab2A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7vK0_9VatQw:Up1dumvab2A:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7vK0_9VatQw:Up1dumvab2A:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=7vK0_9VatQw:Up1dumvab2A:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=7vK0_9VatQw:Up1dumvab2A:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/7vK0_9VatQw" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Fri, 31 May 2013 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/announcing-the-malfeaance-occasional-mo-girl-trouble-contributors-short-fiction-ezine-anthology-crime-hq http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/announcing-the-malfeaance-occasional-mo-girl-trouble-contributors-short-fiction-ezine-anthology-crime-hq http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/y-LC1fxL45k/the-passive-aggressive-raven-says-nevermind-joe-carroll-the-following-edgar-allan-poe-detective-kid-friendly-tv <p><img align="left" alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/AM-Coffee-The-Passive-Aggressive-Raven.jpg" /></p><p>We have a feeling if <em>The Following</em>&rsquo;s Joe Carroll had been introduced to <em>this</em> Raven, he might not have been as entranced by <strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong>. What do you think?</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-passive-aggressive-raven-says-nevermind-joe-carroll-the-following-edgar-allan-poe-detective-kid-friendly-tv">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=y-LC1fxL45k:PPizwOG5w0w:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=y-LC1fxL45k:PPizwOG5w0w:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=y-LC1fxL45k:PPizwOG5w0w:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=y-LC1fxL45k:PPizwOG5w0w:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=y-LC1fxL45k:PPizwOG5w0w:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=y-LC1fxL45k:PPizwOG5w0w:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=y-LC1fxL45k:PPizwOG5w0w:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=y-LC1fxL45k:PPizwOG5w0w:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/y-LC1fxL45k" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Fri, 31 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-passive-aggressive-raven-says-nevermind-joe-carroll-the-following-edgar-allan-poe-detective-kid-friendly-tv http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-passive-aggressive-raven-says-nevermind-joe-carroll-the-following-edgar-allan-poe-detective-kid-friendly-tv http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/5_Ob4LMsmew/fresh-meat-death-taxes-and-hot-pink-leg-warmers-diane-kelly-katrina-niidas-holm-tara-holloway-mystery-cpa <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/death-taxes-cover.jpg" /><strong><em>Death, Taxes, and Hot Pink Leg Warmers</em> by Diane Kelly, the 5th book in the Tara Holloway series, puts Tara on the trail of mortgage fraudsters...at a strip club (available June 4, 2013).</strong></p><p>It&rsquo;s no secret that I&rsquo;m a huge fan of <strong>Diane Kelly</strong>&rsquo;s Tara Holloway novels; I sing their praises every chance I get. And I&rsquo;m happy to report that Kelly&rsquo;s latest&mdash;<em>Death, Taxes, and Hot Pink Leg Warmers</em>&mdash;is perhaps her best addition to the series thus far.</p><p>This book really does have it all, folks. Want to spend the afternoon with a snarky, feisty heroine who&rsquo;s equal parts brilliant CPA, badass federal agent, and total cornball? Tara Holloway, reporting for duty:</p><blockquote>A guy who could be Tarzan&rsquo;s younger brother guarded the door to the administrative offices tonight. From the dull look on his face, I surmised he might have fed on a steady diet of lead-paint chips as a child. He had a narrow nose and eyes set so close together they blended into one big eyeball when I let my vision fuzz.<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m Sara,&rdquo; I said. &ldquo;The new bookkeeper.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m Ryan.&rdquo;</p><p><em>Nah,</em> I thought. <em>You&rsquo;re Cyclops.</em></p><p>He pointed his finger downward and made a rotating motion. &ldquo;Balls to the wall. I gotta frisk ya.&rdquo;</p></blockquote><p>[Let&rsquo;s take a closer look, shall we?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-death-taxes-and-hot-pink-leg-warmers-diane-kelly-katrina-niidas-holm-tara-holloway-mystery-cpa">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=5_Ob4LMsmew:DDQLdnkLotg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=5_Ob4LMsmew:DDQLdnkLotg:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=5_Ob4LMsmew:DDQLdnkLotg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=5_Ob4LMsmew:DDQLdnkLotg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=5_Ob4LMsmew:DDQLdnkLotg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=5_Ob4LMsmew:DDQLdnkLotg:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=5_Ob4LMsmew:DDQLdnkLotg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=5_Ob4LMsmew:DDQLdnkLotg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/5_Ob4LMsmew" height="1" width="1"/> Katrina Niidas Holm Published Thu, 30 May 2013 16:00:29 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-death-taxes-and-hot-pink-leg-warmers-diane-kelly-katrina-niidas-holm-tara-holloway-mystery-cpa http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-death-taxes-and-hot-pink-leg-warmers-diane-kelly-katrina-niidas-holm-tara-holloway-mystery-cpa http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/aYbuNfk4j-8/new-series-premiere-king-and-maxwell-deborah-lacy-tnt-david-baldacci-jon-tenney-rebecca-romijn <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/king-maxwell-tenney-romijn.jpg" title="Jon Tenney and Rebecca Romijn star in King &amp; Maxwell" />On Monday, June 10, TNT will premiere <em>King &amp; Maxwell</em>, a new private eye drama with romantic overtones. The show stars Jon Tenney (Fritz from <em>The Closer</em> and <em>Major Crimes</em>) and Rebecca Romijn (Alexis Meade from <em>Ugly Betty</em>).</p><p>The main characters, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, are based on characters created by <strong><a href="http://www.davidbaldacci.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">David Baldacci</a></strong> who appear in his novels <em>Split Second</em>,<em> Hour Game</em>,<em> Simple Genius</em>, <em>First Family</em>, and <em>The Sixth Man</em>. &nbsp;</p><p>Both are former Secret Service agents who made huge mistakes that ended their careers. Recovering alcoholic Sean King&rsquo;s mistake occurred when the presidential candidate he was protecting was assassinated. Yikes. Not sure how you get over that one. Former Olympic athlete, Michelle Maxwell&rsquo;s charge disappeared on her. Still, not great to lose the man you are protecting.</p><p>Past failures and their release from the Secret Service don&rsquo;t stop them from fighting crime on their own and that&rsquo;s where this show starts. I can see both characters doing anything to find the bad guys, having failed so spectacularly in the past.</p><p>[Second time&rsquo;s the charm?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/new-series-premiere-king-and-maxwell-deborah-lacy-tnt-david-baldacci-jon-tenney-rebecca-romijn">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=aYbuNfk4j-8:bsm0DbAk0mc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=aYbuNfk4j-8:bsm0DbAk0mc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=aYbuNfk4j-8:bsm0DbAk0mc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=aYbuNfk4j-8:bsm0DbAk0mc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=aYbuNfk4j-8:bsm0DbAk0mc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=aYbuNfk4j-8:bsm0DbAk0mc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=aYbuNfk4j-8:bsm0DbAk0mc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=aYbuNfk4j-8:bsm0DbAk0mc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/aYbuNfk4j-8" height="1" width="1"/> Deborah Lacy Published Thu, 30 May 2013 13:30:53 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/new-series-premiere-king-and-maxwell-deborah-lacy-tnt-david-baldacci-jon-tenney-rebecca-romijn http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/new-series-premiere-king-and-maxwell-deborah-lacy-tnt-david-baldacci-jon-tenney-rebecca-romijn http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/-jBHpqhqfmY/best-cake-ophidiophobic-baker-python-birthday-clare-toohey <p>Francesca Pitcher of the UK&rsquo;s <a href="http://northstarcakes.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">North Star Cakes</a> is a very talented sculptor and baker, but more than that, a very generous mom. We know this, because she faced her own deep fear of snakes, using a half-dozen sponge cakes and white chocolate fondant to craft this Amelanistic Burmese python, the real version being one of the most deadly non-venomous snakes there is. Pitcher&rsquo;s daughter requested the ssssspooky sssixth birthday theme after a zoo visit, and it&rsquo;s so hard to believe it&rsquo;s just a cake, you&rsquo;ll have to scroll down to be sure.</p><p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/snakecake.jpg" /></p><p>Get more info and great images at the <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-creates-lifelike-snake-cake-1241171" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em>Mirror</em></a> and learn how its baker had to lock the finished cake away because she couldn&rsquo;t bear looking at it. The kids, on the other hand, fought over who got to eat the head. Pythons of the world second that emotion.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/best-cake-ophidiophobic-baker-python-birthday-clare-toohey">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-jBHpqhqfmY:uvaSpw-f_9o:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-jBHpqhqfmY:uvaSpw-f_9o:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-jBHpqhqfmY:uvaSpw-f_9o:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=-jBHpqhqfmY:uvaSpw-f_9o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-jBHpqhqfmY:uvaSpw-f_9o:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-jBHpqhqfmY:uvaSpw-f_9o:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-jBHpqhqfmY:uvaSpw-f_9o:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=-jBHpqhqfmY:uvaSpw-f_9o:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/-jBHpqhqfmY" height="1" width="1"/> Clare Toohey Published Thu, 30 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/best-cake-ophidiophobic-baker-python-birthday-clare-toohey http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/best-cake-ophidiophobic-baker-python-birthday-clare-toohey http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/HW5RahGeoKU/the-last-kind-word-new-excerpt-david-housewright-rushmore-mckenzie-private-investigator-weapons <p><img alt="The Last Kind Word by David Housewright" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/excerpts/The-Last-Kind-Word.jpg" title="The Last Kind Word by David Housewright" /></p><p><strong>An excerpt of <em>The Last Kind Word</em>, the 10th book&nbsp;in the Rushmore McKenzie detective series by David Housewright (available June 4, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Rushmore McKenzie is both a millionaire and an unlicensed PI, which means he can afford to do the occasional favor and, as a former detective for the St. Paul (Minnesota) Police Department, he&#39;s got the necessary skills and connections to do them right.&nbsp; But this time, he&#39;s really stepped in it.&nbsp;</em></p><p><em>When the ATF gets a lead on a much sought-after cache of illegal guns near the Canadian border, they call McKenzie in to help them track down the elusive gunrunners. Their only lead is a guy who is part of a small-time gang of armed robbers working north of the Twin Cities. Their idea is for McKenzie to infiltrate the group and wait for them to lead him to the guns. Their plan is to fix McKenzie with a false identity as a serious bad guy and then fake an escape with the captured gang member.&nbsp;Which seemed like a bad idea to McKenzie at the time, but even he had no idea just how bad things were going to get.</em></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; "><br /><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p><p>The handcuffs weren&rsquo;t particularly tight, yet they pinned my arms behind my back, making it impossible to get comfortable. Eventually I was able to maneuver until one shoulder was leaning against the rear door of the deputy&rsquo;s patrol car, the other rested against the back of the seat, and my hands hung in the cramped space between them. I wiggled my butt, but it didn&rsquo;t help. The seat was made of hard vinyl so that it could be easily cleaned&mdash;it wasn&rsquo;t meant to be cushy. My fellow prisoner, his hands also cuffed behind his back, balanced on the edge of the seat and stared straight ahead with glassy and unseeing eyes. He looked walking-dead drunk. However, since he had spent the past few days in the Ramsey County jail being interrogated by FBI and ATF agents, I was betting on mild shock.</p><p>[Read the full excerpt of <em>The Last Kind Word</em> by David Housewright...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/the-last-kind-word-new-excerpt-david-housewright-rushmore-mckenzie-private-investigator-weapons">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HW5RahGeoKU:nhZDdQ3eXdU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HW5RahGeoKU:nhZDdQ3eXdU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HW5RahGeoKU:nhZDdQ3eXdU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=HW5RahGeoKU:nhZDdQ3eXdU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HW5RahGeoKU:nhZDdQ3eXdU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HW5RahGeoKU:nhZDdQ3eXdU:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=HW5RahGeoKU:nhZDdQ3eXdU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=HW5RahGeoKU:nhZDdQ3eXdU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/HW5RahGeoKU" height="1" width="1"/> David Housewright Excerpts Wed, 29 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/the-last-kind-word-new-excerpt-david-housewright-rushmore-mckenzie-private-investigator-weapons http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/the-last-kind-word-new-excerpt-david-housewright-rushmore-mckenzie-private-investigator-weapons http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/1AvmwchtYf8/noirs-goon-squad-ted-de-corsia-jake-hinkson-orson-welles-film-thug-lady-from-shanghai <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/de-corsia-crime-wave.jpg" title="Ted de Corsia with a very young Charles Bronson (left) in the 1954 film Crime Wave" />Let us establish here and now the Ted de Corsia Rule: Any movie with Ted de Corsia is worth watching. That&rsquo;s not to say that Ted can redeem a complete stinker but <em>he&rsquo;ll</em> always be worth the price of admission. You can stick that in the bank and start drawing interest on it. Ted&rsquo;s a sure bet.</p><p>In classic noir, he was one of the great thugs, a man who seemed to have been born with a sneer on his lips and a head full of pomade. In film after film, he&rsquo;s the world&rsquo;s biggest sleaze, grifting his way through life, hatching schemes, ogling dames, slapping around a bunch of suckers and chumps. He makes being an asshole look like the meaning of life.</p><p>[Interesting job description you have there...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/noirs-goon-squad-ted-de-corsia-jake-hinkson-orson-welles-film-thug-lady-from-shanghai">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1AvmwchtYf8:kR_yEt4wPWE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1AvmwchtYf8:kR_yEt4wPWE:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1AvmwchtYf8:kR_yEt4wPWE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=1AvmwchtYf8:kR_yEt4wPWE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1AvmwchtYf8:kR_yEt4wPWE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1AvmwchtYf8:kR_yEt4wPWE:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1AvmwchtYf8:kR_yEt4wPWE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=1AvmwchtYf8:kR_yEt4wPWE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/1AvmwchtYf8" height="1" width="1"/> Jake Hinkson Published Wed, 29 May 2013 13:30:43 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/noirs-goon-squad-ted-de-corsia-jake-hinkson-orson-welles-film-thug-lady-from-shanghai http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/noirs-goon-squad-ted-de-corsia-jake-hinkson-orson-welles-film-thug-lady-from-shanghai http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/D1BV9zQWz4s/custom-action-figures-horror-toys <p><img alt="A custom-made Taxi Driver figure" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/AMCoffee-Action-Figures.jpg" title="Not exactly traditional action figure material." /><em>Evil Dead</em>, <em>Halloween</em>, <em>My Bloody Valentine</em>, <em>Alien</em>...all kinds of movies outside the realm of the kid-oriented get the action figure treatment at <a href="http://stores.ebay.com/Old-Colony-Hobbies" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Old Colony Hobbies</a>. He also does vintage-style backing cards for each figure.</p><p>Really, the possibilities are endless and now my only questions is whether he makes them to order, because if he does my Christmas list is pretty much already taken care of.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/custom-action-figures-horror-toys">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=D1BV9zQWz4s:9jLzezLGefo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=D1BV9zQWz4s:9jLzezLGefo:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=D1BV9zQWz4s:9jLzezLGefo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=D1BV9zQWz4s:9jLzezLGefo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=D1BV9zQWz4s:9jLzezLGefo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=D1BV9zQWz4s:9jLzezLGefo:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=D1BV9zQWz4s:9jLzezLGefo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=D1BV9zQWz4s:9jLzezLGefo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/D1BV9zQWz4s" height="1" width="1"/> Laura K. Curtis Published Wed, 29 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/custom-action-figures-horror-toys http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/custom-action-figures-horror-toys http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/MOjziafYOYo/longmire-season-2-premiere-episode-unquiet-mind-sweepstakes-craig-johnson-series <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Gelsomino_Longmire-201-unquiet-mind.jpg" /></p><p>The season 2 premiere of <em>Longmire</em> was both familiar and exciting, as we reunited with our favorite sheriff and deputies for an episode of high drama. Walt and a very bored Vic are transferring a dangerous serial killer, Wayne, to an FBI drop-off point when they encounter the Absaroka version of traffic&hellip;in the form of a massive buffalo in the road. The majestic (and territorial) beast is protecting the roadway for a baby white buffalo&mdash;as rare as one in ten million, as Wayne helpfully points out. In fact, he insists the sighting is actually a sign, with a meaningful look at our Sheriff. A little later, when they reach the drop-off, Wayne insists that Walt is something of a kindred spirit telling him &ldquo;You hear the voices too. You have an unquiet mind.&rdquo;</p><p>It&rsquo;s interesting to see the show dabble once more in the mystical and supernatural themes that underscore <strong>Craig Johnson</strong>&rsquo;s books. Though the books and TV show don&rsquo;t always dovetail, this episode&rsquo;s plot hews pretty closely to the premise of Johnson&rsquo;s seventh bestselling Longmire novel, <em>Hell is Empty</em>. TV Walt has such a grounded, no-nonsense vibe, that it&rsquo;s harder to imagine him placing stock in signs and superstitions as the book version of the character does. But it&rsquo;s well done here, with enough gravitas to avoid it seeming silly or out-of-character.</p><p>[Walt is unique...we all know it!]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/longmire-season-2-premiere-episode-unquiet-mind-sweepstakes-craig-johnson-series">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=MOjziafYOYo:3nYlB4ppJD8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=MOjziafYOYo:3nYlB4ppJD8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=MOjziafYOYo:3nYlB4ppJD8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=MOjziafYOYo:3nYlB4ppJD8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=MOjziafYOYo:3nYlB4ppJD8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=MOjziafYOYo:3nYlB4ppJD8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=MOjziafYOYo:3nYlB4ppJD8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=MOjziafYOYo:3nYlB4ppJD8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/MOjziafYOYo" height="1" width="1"/> Tara Gelsomino Published Tue, 28 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/longmire-season-2-premiere-episode-unquiet-mind-sweepstakes-craig-johnson-series http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/longmire-season-2-premiere-episode-unquiet-mind-sweepstakes-craig-johnson-series http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/56B9vu2FwE4/fresh-meat-death-in-the-vines-by-m-l-longworth-wine-france-verlaque-bonnet-jenny-maloney <p><em><img alt="Death in the Vines by M. L. Longworth" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Maloney_Longworth-Death-in-the-Vines.jpg" /></em><strong><em>Death in the Vines</em> by M. L. Longworth is the third in the Verlaque and Bonnet traditional mystery series set in Provence (available May 28, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Olivier Bonnard, the owner of Domaine Beauclaire winery, is devastated when he discovers the theft of a priceless cache of rare vintages. Soon after, Monsieur Gilles d&rsquo;Arras reports that his wife, Pauline, has vanished from their lavish apartment. As Judge Antoine Verlaque and Commissioner Paulik tackle the case (with a little help from Marine Bonnet), they receive an urgent call: Bonnard has just found Madame d&rsquo;Arras&mdash;dead in his vineyard.</em></p><p><em>Death in the Vines</em> is the third novel in <strong>M.L. Longworth</strong>&rsquo;s Verlaque and Bonnet series, and it evokes as strong a sense of place as the previous <em>Death at the Chateau Bremont</em> and <em>Murder in the Rue Dumas</em>. Whether a character is walking through the marketplace or law officers are driving through nighttime streets or a winemaker is wandering through his vineyard, Aix-en-Provence is brought to life through Longworth&rsquo;s narrative, becoming as much of a character as the living, breathing men and women.</p><p>[A sense of place, but not a sense of peace]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-death-in-the-vines-by-m-l-longworth-wine-france-verlaque-bonnet-jenny-maloney">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=56B9vu2FwE4:9OxNJORMa1c:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=56B9vu2FwE4:9OxNJORMa1c:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=56B9vu2FwE4:9OxNJORMa1c:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=56B9vu2FwE4:9OxNJORMa1c:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=56B9vu2FwE4:9OxNJORMa1c:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=56B9vu2FwE4:9OxNJORMa1c:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=56B9vu2FwE4:9OxNJORMa1c:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=56B9vu2FwE4:9OxNJORMa1c:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/56B9vu2FwE4" height="1" width="1"/> Jenny Maloney Published Tue, 28 May 2013 14:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-death-in-the-vines-by-m-l-longworth-wine-france-verlaque-bonnet-jenny-maloney http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-death-in-the-vines-by-m-l-longworth-wine-france-verlaque-bonnet-jenny-maloney http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/cKKSoZQre_4/the-noir-haiku-of-the-black-canary-michael-nethercott <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/black-canary-portrait.jpg" />The canary, like the cat, has many lives. Especially the black-feathered variety (genus <em>Serinus Something-or-other.</em>) The Black Canary, aka Dinah Drake, first spread her wings more than sixty-five years ago in the August 1947 issue of <em>Flash Comics</em>. Since then, she&rsquo;s gone on to many identities, costumes, teams, and series.</p><p>The Canary of the 1940s arrived as a non-powered costumed vigilante a la Batman with a way-cool outfit. She garbed herself in bluish-black fishnet tights, pirate boots, choker, and a blue bolero or Zouave jacket (let the fashionistas determine which). As gratuitously sexy as this getup might sound, it was actually quite sensible and sleek for the modern woman pursing a postwar crime-fighting career. Then there was her hair&mdash;long golden tresses that made her look like starlet Veronica Lake. Truth be told, those luxurious locks were, alas, just a wig. When going into action, raven-haired Dinah Drake&mdash;like Supergirl, we might note&mdash;would slap on a blond toupee. Supergirl probably has some sort of Kryptonian scalp mojo that kept her hairpiece clamped down during battle. Not sure what Black Canary&rsquo;s trick was.</p><p>[A little bird told us... ]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-noir-haiku-of-the-black-canary-michael-nethercott">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=cKKSoZQre_4:BpvXvldpD3M:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=cKKSoZQre_4:BpvXvldpD3M:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=cKKSoZQre_4:BpvXvldpD3M:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=cKKSoZQre_4:BpvXvldpD3M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=cKKSoZQre_4:BpvXvldpD3M:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=cKKSoZQre_4:BpvXvldpD3M:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=cKKSoZQre_4:BpvXvldpD3M:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=cKKSoZQre_4:BpvXvldpD3M:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/cKKSoZQre_4" height="1" width="1"/> Michael Nethercott Published Tue, 28 May 2013 13:30:30 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-noir-haiku-of-the-black-canary-michael-nethercott http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-noir-haiku-of-the-black-canary-michael-nethercott http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/koiXBEMWyXU/pretty-shell-cone-snail-lethal-beachcombing-toxins-poison-crime-hq <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Cone-Snail.jpg" style="height: 357px; width: 475px; " /></p><p>Who doesn&rsquo;t appreciate the artistry of toxins with no known cure but a complete blood transfusion? The crafty cone snail makes poison along with its beautiful housing. Its harpoon-like appendage delivers the payload by stabbing its prey (and entranced beachcombers who aren&rsquo;t careful enough about checking for vacancies). Each lovely variety of cone snail makes its own blend of incredibly potent neurotoxins&mdash;strong enough to kill dozens of people&mdash;putting this creative creature on Oddee&rsquo;s list of <a href="http://www.oddee.com/item_98564.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Top 10 Uniquely Deadly Animals in the World</a>.</p><p>By the time these hit the high parts of the beach, they&rsquo;re mostly empty...mostly. But if you&#39;re wading in the warm salt water and see one of these beauties, look before you touch!</p><p>Image via <em><a href="http://www.iloveshelling.com/blog/2011/02/16/the-alphabet-on-a-cone-shell/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Love Shelling</a></em>.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/pretty-shell-cone-snail-lethal-beachcombing-toxins-poison-crime-hq">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=koiXBEMWyXU:H2r_yS8vXvg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=koiXBEMWyXU:H2r_yS8vXvg:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=koiXBEMWyXU:H2r_yS8vXvg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=koiXBEMWyXU:H2r_yS8vXvg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=koiXBEMWyXU:H2r_yS8vXvg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=koiXBEMWyXU:H2r_yS8vXvg:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=koiXBEMWyXU:H2r_yS8vXvg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=koiXBEMWyXU:H2r_yS8vXvg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/koiXBEMWyXU" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Tue, 28 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/pretty-shell-cone-snail-lethal-beachcombing-toxins-poison-crime-hq http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/pretty-shell-cone-snail-lethal-beachcombing-toxins-poison-crime-hq http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/1kbp1Yu00Cs/behind-the-scenes-of-longmire-a-view-from-the-edit-room-eric-beetner-craig-johnson-vikash-patel <p><img alt="Longmire Season 2 Banner" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-06-Jun/Beetner-Longmire-Interview-Vikash-Patel.jpg" /></p><p>Ed. Note: Since we know you&rsquo;re just as excited as we are for the beginning of the second season of <em>Longmire</em>, we bring you this little special taste!<br />&nbsp;</p><p>Season 2 of <em>Longmire</em> is upon us and I had a chance to sit down with one of the shows editors, Vikash Patel, and talk about the new season. Patel has been around since the beginning, having edited several episodes during season 1 including the episode starring and directed by Peter Weller, &ldquo;The Worst Kind of Hunter.&rdquo; After taking his time between seasons to cut NBC&rsquo;s <em>Revolution</em> (not a bad side gig) he is back with Walt and the gang working on new episodes not from Wyoming, but from the not-so-wide-open skies of Los Angeles, where the show is cut.<br /><br /><strong>Eric Beetner</strong>: Before you started working on the show, were you aware of the Longmire books by <strong>Craig Johnson</strong>?<br /><br /><strong>Vikash Patel</strong>: Yes, I had heard of the books, but still to this day have not found time to read them...I guess I&rsquo;ll wait for the stories to unfold on the series, which is kind of exciting for me. I think I will enjoy the books when I get around to them.</p><p>[Oh, you bet you will!]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/behind-the-scenes-of-longmire-a-view-from-the-edit-room-eric-beetner-craig-johnson-vikash-patel">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1kbp1Yu00Cs:jY30L53Z_qo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1kbp1Yu00Cs:jY30L53Z_qo:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1kbp1Yu00Cs:jY30L53Z_qo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=1kbp1Yu00Cs:jY30L53Z_qo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1kbp1Yu00Cs:jY30L53Z_qo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1kbp1Yu00Cs:jY30L53Z_qo:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1kbp1Yu00Cs:jY30L53Z_qo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=1kbp1Yu00Cs:jY30L53Z_qo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/1kbp1Yu00Cs" height="1" width="1"/> Eric Beetner Published Mon, 27 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/behind-the-scenes-of-longmire-a-view-from-the-edit-room-eric-beetner-craig-johnson-vikash-patel http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/behind-the-scenes-of-longmire-a-view-from-the-edit-room-eric-beetner-craig-johnson-vikash-patel http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/KngL1aCQZPw/sultry-swampy-gator-bait-thomas-pluck-claudia-jennings-burt-reynolds-bayou-swamp-people <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/gator-bait-photo.jpg" />Haters gonna hate... Gators gonna gate!</p><p>When the sheriff and local bad boys clash with her kin, Cajun swamp gal Desiree is one badass bayou babe bent on revenge!</p><p>Bad movies come from every decade, but the bad movies of the 1970s are my favorite. They are unapologetic. They knew drive-in audiences weren&rsquo;t there for fine filmmaking, they wanted to fool around, drink the beer they sneaked in, and see blood and/or breasts when they happened to glimpse at the screen.</p><p><em>&rsquo;Gator Bait</em> (1974, note the apostrophe) delivers.</p><p>[You wouldn&rsquo;t be playing with us now, would you?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/sultry-swampy-gator-bait-thomas-pluck-claudia-jennings-burt-reynolds-bayou-swamp-people">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=KngL1aCQZPw:10pismS9lxo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=KngL1aCQZPw:10pismS9lxo:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=KngL1aCQZPw:10pismS9lxo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=KngL1aCQZPw:10pismS9lxo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=KngL1aCQZPw:10pismS9lxo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=KngL1aCQZPw:10pismS9lxo:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=KngL1aCQZPw:10pismS9lxo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=KngL1aCQZPw:10pismS9lxo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/KngL1aCQZPw" height="1" width="1"/> Thomas Pluck Published Mon, 27 May 2013 16:00:32 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/sultry-swampy-gator-bait-thomas-pluck-claudia-jennings-burt-reynolds-bayou-swamp-people http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/sultry-swampy-gator-bait-thomas-pluck-claudia-jennings-burt-reynolds-bayou-swamp-people http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/-HzHA6VAPk8/murder-in-the-great-outdoors-beth-groundwater-dana-stabenow-cj-box-nevada-barr-william-kent-krueger-national-park-crime-fiction <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/outdoor-landscape.jpg" title="Looks beautiful; could be deadly." />I live in Breckenridge, Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains and I&rsquo;m an outdoorsy kind of gal. I enjoy skiing and snowshoeing in the winter and whitewater rafting, hiking, and biking in the summer. As such, I enjoy reading mystery novels that are set in the great outdoors, so when the weather is too blustery and wet outside to play, I can still &ldquo;escape outside&rdquo; in the comfort and warmth of my easy chair with a great mystery.</p><p>Setting a mystery outdoors, or mostly outdoors, means that in addition to dangers from the killer(s), the sleuth faces danger from Mother Nature herself. Those dangers can come from weather (hurricane, tornado, freezing cold/blizzard, parching heat, forest fires), from the landscape/waterscape (mountainside cliffs or scree slopes, dark caves, whitewater rapids, riptide beach currents) or from the flora and fauna found in the environment (poisonous plants/snakes/spiders; predators such as lions, wolves, or bears). Getting lost is also a common theme, because it can happen so easily away from civilization. These added dangers add excitement and suspense to the read. And the natural world provides heartbreakingly beautiful backdrops to these tales.</p><p>My favorite outdoor-oriented mystery series balance natural dangers with man-made ones to create compelling stories. Here are some:</p><p>[You blaze the trail and we will follow...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/murder-in-the-great-outdoors-beth-groundwater-dana-stabenow-cj-box-nevada-barr-william-kent-krueger-national-park-crime-fiction">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-HzHA6VAPk8:CcGPE1FM1_8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-HzHA6VAPk8:CcGPE1FM1_8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-HzHA6VAPk8:CcGPE1FM1_8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=-HzHA6VAPk8:CcGPE1FM1_8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-HzHA6VAPk8:CcGPE1FM1_8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-HzHA6VAPk8:CcGPE1FM1_8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-HzHA6VAPk8:CcGPE1FM1_8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=-HzHA6VAPk8:CcGPE1FM1_8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/-HzHA6VAPk8" height="1" width="1"/> Beth Groundwater Published Mon, 27 May 2013 13:30:51 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/murder-in-the-great-outdoors-beth-groundwater-dana-stabenow-cj-box-nevada-barr-william-kent-krueger-national-park-crime-fiction http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/murder-in-the-great-outdoors-beth-groundwater-dana-stabenow-cj-box-nevada-barr-william-kent-krueger-national-park-crime-fiction http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/-4rXGTQKx7M/free-speech-infringed-dont-call-a-superhero-ray-felix-marvel-dc <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/superhero-cover.jpg" title="From A World Without Superheroes, Vol. 2, by Ray Felix and Marcus Jones" />Language is a powerful weapon. Use just one wrong word and&hellip; WHAM! The force of a thousand crime-fighting avengers comes crashing down on you. According to <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/comic-book-creator-fights-term-superhero-article-1.1327860?localLinksEnabled=false&amp;utm_source=MegaList&amp;utm_campaign=addb2fc5d8-UA-15906914-1&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">a recent story in the New York Daily News</a>, that&rsquo;s what happened to comic book creator Ray Felix two years ago.</p><p>See, in 2011 Ray Felix created <a href="http://www.aworldwithoutsuperheroes.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">a comic with the S-word in its title</a>. No, not <em>that</em> S-word. The one he used was &ldquo;superhero.&rdquo;</p><p>Little did he know, Marvel and DC Comics trademarked the word &ldquo;superhero.&rdquo; Now they&rsquo;re suing him for the right to use it.</p><p>As <a href="http://crispcomics.com/ray-felix-the-little-guy-who-dared-to-use-the-word-superhero/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Felix told Crisp Comics blog in January</a>:</p><p style="margin-left:.5in;">At first they seemed to be friendly, but once I brought into question their limitations of the word Super Hero and presented my right to use my published mark, their lawyer began to grunt and lose patience in our conversations and then began making sharp remarks.</p><p>According to Merriam-Webster&rsquo;s Collegiate Dictionary, the word &ldquo;superhero&rdquo; entered into use in 1917, which means that neither Marvel nor DC could have coined it. Still, that&rsquo;s small consolation for Ray Felix, who&rsquo;s still waiting for a resolution to this legal dilemma. In meantime, if he needs help who&rsquo;s he gonna call? Ghostbusters? No way&hellip;you know they&rsquo;re trademarked too.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/free-speech-infringed-dont-call-a-superhero-ray-felix-marvel-dc">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-4rXGTQKx7M:_X_HUiPJeR4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-4rXGTQKx7M:_X_HUiPJeR4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-4rXGTQKx7M:_X_HUiPJeR4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=-4rXGTQKx7M:_X_HUiPJeR4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-4rXGTQKx7M:_X_HUiPJeR4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-4rXGTQKx7M:_X_HUiPJeR4:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=-4rXGTQKx7M:_X_HUiPJeR4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=-4rXGTQKx7M:_X_HUiPJeR4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/-4rXGTQKx7M" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Mon, 27 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/free-speech-infringed-dont-call-a-superhero-ray-felix-marvel-dc http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/free-speech-infringed-dont-call-a-superhero-ray-felix-marvel-dc http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/XBusSWVw2jc/the-corpse-reader-new-excerpt-antonio-garrido-song-ci-forensics-china <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/excerpts/Corpse-Reader-250.jpg" /></p><p><strong>An excerpt of <em>The Corpse Reader</em> </strong><strong>by Antonio Garrido</strong><strong>, a novel based on the work of Song&nbsp;C&iacute;, the real-life thirteenth-century &ldquo;father&rdquo; of modern forensic investigation (available May 28, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Song C&iacute; grudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, and he&rsquo;s deemed a fugitive, </em><em>Song C&iacute; </em><em>has no choice but to accept work as a gravedigger, a position that allows him to sharpen his corpse-reading skills. Soon, he can deduce whether a person killed himself&mdash;or was murdered.</em></p><p><em>His prowess earns him notoriety, and C&iacute; receives orders to determine the perpetrator of a horrific series of mutilations and deaths at the Imperial Court. C&iacute;&rsquo;s gruesome investigation quickly grows complicated thanks to old loyalties and the presence of an alluring, enigmatic woman. But he remains driven by his passion for truth&mdash;especially once the killings threaten to take down the Emperor himself.</em></p><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1369344922490_1030"><em>Inspired by Song C&iacute;, considered to be the founding father of CSI-style forensic science, this harrowing novel set during the thirteenth-century Tsong Dynasty draws readers into a multilayered, ingenious plot as disturbing as it is fascinating.</em></p><p>C&iacute; was up before dawn so he could meet Judge Feng at the residence of Bao-Pao&mdash;where government officials stayed whenever they were in the area&mdash;to examine the corpse. In the room next door, Lu was snoring loudly. By the time he awoke, C&iacute; would be long gone.</p><p>[Read the full excerpt of <em>The Corpse Reader</em> by Antonio Garrido...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/the-corpse-reader-new-excerpt-antonio-garrido-song-ci-forensics-china">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XBusSWVw2jc:Gs7zabJ9ptA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XBusSWVw2jc:Gs7zabJ9ptA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XBusSWVw2jc:Gs7zabJ9ptA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=XBusSWVw2jc:Gs7zabJ9ptA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XBusSWVw2jc:Gs7zabJ9ptA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XBusSWVw2jc:Gs7zabJ9ptA:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XBusSWVw2jc:Gs7zabJ9ptA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=XBusSWVw2jc:Gs7zabJ9ptA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/XBusSWVw2jc" height="1" width="1"/> Antonio Garrido Excerpts Sun, 26 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/the-corpse-reader-new-excerpt-antonio-garrido-song-ci-forensics-china http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/the-corpse-reader-new-excerpt-antonio-garrido-song-ci-forensics-china http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/JayZDQFy72M/secret-77-new-excerpt-ty-treadwell <p><em><img alt="Secret 77 by Ty Treadwell" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Treadwell-Secret-77.jpg" style="height: 375px; width: 250px;" /></em><strong><em>Secret 77</em> by Ty Treadwell is a thriller involving a series of puzzling clues (available May 27, 2013).</strong></p><p><em>Your girlfriend is dead. You have 24 hours before your wife finds out.<br /><br />Former crime reporter Clay Burton has no idea what the message means. The anonymous note reads like one of the clues from his book of solve-it-yourself mysteries based on real cases he covered for the newspaper. Clay shrugs it off as a prank by an overzealous fan, but then more clues arrive in the mail&mdash;a series of bizarre puzzles, each one more clever and devious than the last. Solving the riddles leads Clay to the remote lake house of a woman with a dark family history. Is she the &ldquo;dead girlfriend&rdquo; from the note, or has Clay been drawn into a twisted game devised by a brilliant psychopath? With his marriage, his sanity, and maybe even his life on the line, Clay must use his reporter&rsquo;s skills and instincts to track down his faceless tormentor before the final deadly gambit is played.</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p><p><em>Secret 1: Your girlfriend is dead. You have 24 hours before your wife finds out. </em></p><p>Clay Burton frowned at the note. Most fan mail came to his publisher&rsquo;s office, but every once in a while a determined reader tracked down his home address. The letters came in two varieties; plain old gushing praise, or someone claiming to have the perfect idea for Clay&rsquo;s next book. This note didn&rsquo;t fit either category, and Clay had no idea what it meant. He did have a wife but he sure as hell didn&rsquo;t have a girlfriend, alive or dead.</p><p>Normally a piece of mail like this would warrant about five seconds of Clay&rsquo;s time. Then it would be trashed and forgotten along with the Land&rsquo;s End catalogues and the credit card offers and the flyers from lawn services and gutter cleaners, all the junk that piled up and piled up because Clay just didn&rsquo;t have time to deal with it. Something about this letter bothered him, though. He got up from the kitchen table, went to the recycling bin in the garage, and rummaged around until he found another note that came in the mail a few days earlier.</p><p>He went back to the table and laid the two letters side by side. Both were printed on a computer in plain old Times New Roman, but the paper was unusual. Light green and slightly glossy. Not stationery grade but not common printer paper, either. Computer-printed labels on the envelopes, too. Just Clay&rsquo;s information, no return address. Both letters were postmarked from Holly Springs. Clay lived in Dunfield, on the outer fringe of Atlanta. Holly Springs was ten miles north.</p><p>The letter that came a few days ago had one lonely sentence: <em>Can you solve the crime before you reach secret 77?</em> Just the blurb from the cover of Clay&rsquo;s book, <em>Secret 7, </em>but with an extra digit added to the title. How original. If it was supposed to be a joke, the person had wasted both their time and a stamp because Clay didn&rsquo;t get it. He had thrown that note away without even noticing the unusual paper or the missing return address. And now he apparently had a subscription to the clever little messages. Wonderful.</p><p>[Read the full excerpt of <em>Secret 77</em> by Ty Treadwell]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/secret-77-new-excerpt-ty-treadwell">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JayZDQFy72M:gWni6tVhjsU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JayZDQFy72M:gWni6tVhjsU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JayZDQFy72M:gWni6tVhjsU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=JayZDQFy72M:gWni6tVhjsU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JayZDQFy72M:gWni6tVhjsU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JayZDQFy72M:gWni6tVhjsU:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JayZDQFy72M:gWni6tVhjsU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=JayZDQFy72M:gWni6tVhjsU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/JayZDQFy72M" height="1" width="1"/> Ty Treadwell Excerpts Sun, 26 May 2013 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/secret-77-new-excerpt-ty-treadwell http://www.criminalelement.com/stories/2013/05/secret-77-new-excerpt-ty-treadwell http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/F5wq9FJEDoE/addicted-to-addicted-detectives-lance-charnes-alcohol-drugs-sex-gambling-sherlock-holmes-harry-hole <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/addicted-bw-photo.jpg" />Crime fiction is cheerfully described as an addiction by many of its fans, including such diverse personalities as Sigmund Freud and Woodrow Wilson. Just as neurochemical addicts have an endless menu of obsessions to gorge on (alcohol, tobacco, narcotics, gambling, chocolate, sex&hellip;), crimefic addicts have an ever-growing and ever-mutating variety of subgenres to sample. But one sub-subgenre has been with us since the beginning: the literary detective hooked on his or her own addiction, fighting crime as well as the DTs or withdrawal.</p><p>I&rsquo;ll stick with literary detectives here, a big enough subject all by itself; detective-addicts in film and TV will have to wait their turn.</p><p>[And they&rsquo;ll have another drink while they wait...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/addicted-to-addicted-detectives-lance-charnes-alcohol-drugs-sex-gambling-sherlock-holmes-harry-hole">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=F5wq9FJEDoE:IFJ3woNiIG8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=F5wq9FJEDoE:IFJ3woNiIG8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=F5wq9FJEDoE:IFJ3woNiIG8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=F5wq9FJEDoE:IFJ3woNiIG8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=F5wq9FJEDoE:IFJ3woNiIG8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=F5wq9FJEDoE:IFJ3woNiIG8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=F5wq9FJEDoE:IFJ3woNiIG8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=F5wq9FJEDoE:IFJ3woNiIG8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/F5wq9FJEDoE" height="1" width="1"/> Lance Charnes Published Sun, 26 May 2013 14:00:50 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/addicted-to-addicted-detectives-lance-charnes-alcohol-drugs-sex-gambling-sherlock-holmes-harry-hole http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/addicted-to-addicted-detectives-lance-charnes-alcohol-drugs-sex-gambling-sherlock-holmes-harry-hole http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/GkrB2WaEu1k/tropical-summer-reads-kristin-centorcelli-beach-reading-island-escape <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/tropical-reading.jpg" /></p><p>Summer is right around the corner, and how better to pass the time than with some reads set in exotic locales or, just as fun, on the beach? Whether you&rsquo;re looking for something light and breezy or a walk on the darker side of summer, no worries, we&rsquo;ve got you covered!</p><p>If it&rsquo;s a light, fun read you&rsquo;re looking for, I have a few recommendations that&nbsp; might just fit the bill.</p><p>[We&rsquo;re so ready to feel some sand between our pages...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/tropical-summer-reads-kristin-centorcelli-beach-reading-island-escape">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GkrB2WaEu1k:MXw13Qc5oTk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GkrB2WaEu1k:MXw13Qc5oTk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GkrB2WaEu1k:MXw13Qc5oTk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=GkrB2WaEu1k:MXw13Qc5oTk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GkrB2WaEu1k:MXw13Qc5oTk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GkrB2WaEu1k:MXw13Qc5oTk:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=GkrB2WaEu1k:MXw13Qc5oTk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=GkrB2WaEu1k:MXw13Qc5oTk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/GkrB2WaEu1k" height="1" width="1"/> Kristin Centorcelli Published Sat, 25 May 2013 14:00:04 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/tropical-summer-reads-kristin-centorcelli-beach-reading-island-escape http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/tropical-summer-reads-kristin-centorcelli-beach-reading-island-escape http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/qLVP3NtHHjA/i-spy-someone-reading-a-great-book-crime-hq-get-caught-reading-month <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/cover-spy.jpg" />May is <a href="http://www.getcaughtreading.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Get Caught Reading Month</a>, an annual event sponsored by the Association of American Publishers to encourage Americans to pick up a book and read. (Like we need encouragement.) Naturally, the best way to &ldquo;get caught reading&rdquo; is to engage in PDR (public displays of reading), which is something we do all the time and recommend highly.</p><p>Which brings us to <a href="http://coverspy.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CoverSpy</a>, the Tumblr with a <a href="https://twitter.com/CoverSpy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Twitter chaser</a> that tracks the habits of people who read in public: on trains and buses, in restaurants and parks, in salons and Laundromats&mdash;wherever you can turn a page.</p><p>CoverSpy is the brainchild of Tricia Callahan and Amy Sly, who started the project in 2009. &ldquo;Conversation about e-readers turned into conversation about seeing, or no longer seeing, what books were being read,&rdquo; Callahan recalls. &ldquo;We had the idea to chronicle the books we <em>were </em>seeing around town&mdash;before the book covers all became the backs of Kindles. Although, for the record, I don&rsquo;t really think that will happen.&rdquo;</p><p>With a network of more than a dozen spies operating in New York City (including a member of our Crime HQ crew!) and a recently opened operation in San Francisco, CoverSpy keeps track of who&rsquo;s reading what, where and when. &ldquo;A lot of people are still reading print books,&rdquo; Callahan explains. &ldquo;A lot of people are reading e-readers. A lot of people read, period. And, CoverSpy has taught me that so many people are just as interested in what others are reading: We have over 15,000 followers between Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook, and somewhere around 13,000 unique page views a month.&rdquo;</p><p>So please, keep up those PDRs wherever you might be. You never know who&rsquo;ll catch you reading!</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/i-spy-someone-reading-a-great-book-crime-hq-get-caught-reading-month">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=qLVP3NtHHjA:G_e8ILVdqm4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=qLVP3NtHHjA:G_e8ILVdqm4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=qLVP3NtHHjA:G_e8ILVdqm4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=qLVP3NtHHjA:G_e8ILVdqm4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=qLVP3NtHHjA:G_e8ILVdqm4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=qLVP3NtHHjA:G_e8ILVdqm4:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=qLVP3NtHHjA:G_e8ILVdqm4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=qLVP3NtHHjA:G_e8ILVdqm4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/qLVP3NtHHjA" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/i-spy-someone-reading-a-great-book-crime-hq-get-caught-reading-month http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/i-spy-someone-reading-a-great-book-crime-hq-get-caught-reading-month http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/yTTOaCXMbeo/its-all-in-the-duds-what-the-well-dressed-detective-is-wearing-andy-adams-magnum-pi-columbo-sam-spade-fedora <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-right-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/duds-columbo.jpg" title="Peter Falk as Columbo, rumpled raincoat and all" />It is said that &ldquo;Clothes make the man,&rdquo; but that may be true for some more than others. I&rsquo;ve been thinking it over, and found a pattern when it comes to clothes in crime fiction. Detective characters stand out in the crowd. Usually their manner&mdash;curious, attentive to detail, driven, and intelligent&mdash;sets them apart, but there&rsquo;s more than that. The way they dress is actually quite conspicuous.</p><p>A deerstalker hat, a mantled coat, a snuffbox, and a pipe. Just from that brief description we come up with Sherlock Holmes. The hat alone is enough to name him. Throw in the pipe and he&rsquo;s unmistakable.</p><p>A fedora, a trench coat, a hip flask, and a cigarette. These are the trappings of the American hard-boiled detective. Characters such as Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer, and Columbo firmly embed the picture of the grizzled detective into our minds.</p><p>[What do <em>you</em> wear to a stakeout?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/its-all-in-the-duds-what-the-well-dressed-detective-is-wearing-andy-adams-magnum-pi-columbo-sam-spade-fedora">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=yTTOaCXMbeo:RSdhPFQDkmY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=yTTOaCXMbeo:RSdhPFQDkmY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=yTTOaCXMbeo:RSdhPFQDkmY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=yTTOaCXMbeo:RSdhPFQDkmY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=yTTOaCXMbeo:RSdhPFQDkmY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=yTTOaCXMbeo:RSdhPFQDkmY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=yTTOaCXMbeo:RSdhPFQDkmY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=yTTOaCXMbeo:RSdhPFQDkmY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/yTTOaCXMbeo" height="1" width="1"/> Andy Adams Published Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:06 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/its-all-in-the-duds-what-the-well-dressed-detective-is-wearing-andy-adams-magnum-pi-columbo-sam-spade-fedora http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/its-all-in-the-duds-what-the-well-dressed-detective-is-wearing-andy-adams-magnum-pi-columbo-sam-spade-fedora http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/8PQl-HY0B0o/gangster-cinema-british-style-the-long-good-friday-scott-adlerberg-bob-hoskins-helen-mirren-film-london-docklands <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/long-good-friday-hoskins.jpg" title="Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand in The Long Good Friday" /></p><p>The Americans invented the gangster film, but British film studios have been turning out their contributions to the genre since the 1940s. From the 1947 adaptation of <strong>Graham Greene</strong>&rsquo;s novel <em>Brighton Rock </em>through the iconic 1971 Michael Caine vehicle <em>Get Carter</em> to the Guy Ritchie movies and <em>Layer Cake</em>, the Brits have produced gangster pictures with a feel uniquely their own.</p><p>In 1980, <em>The Long Good Friday</em> hit British theaters, and I vividly remember seeing it the day it opened in Manhattan two years later. Buzz in the film magazines I read had been good, but I was still surprised by how gripping I found it. To this day, after many viewings, I never get tired of watching it.</p><p>[It&rsquo;s not especially long, but it is especially good...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/gangster-cinema-british-style-the-long-good-friday-scott-adlerberg-bob-hoskins-helen-mirren-film-london-docklands">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8PQl-HY0B0o:aiMJ6vd1U_E:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8PQl-HY0B0o:aiMJ6vd1U_E:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8PQl-HY0B0o:aiMJ6vd1U_E:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=8PQl-HY0B0o:aiMJ6vd1U_E:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8PQl-HY0B0o:aiMJ6vd1U_E:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8PQl-HY0B0o:aiMJ6vd1U_E:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=8PQl-HY0B0o:aiMJ6vd1U_E:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=8PQl-HY0B0o:aiMJ6vd1U_E:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/8PQl-HY0B0o" height="1" width="1"/> Scott Adlerberg Published Fri, 24 May 2013 13:30:13 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/gangster-cinema-british-style-the-long-good-friday-scott-adlerberg-bob-hoskins-helen-mirren-film-london-docklands http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/gangster-cinema-british-style-the-long-good-friday-scott-adlerberg-bob-hoskins-helen-mirren-film-london-docklands http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/3F8EQh3kljU/the-purrrr-fect-spy-operation-acoustic-kitty-cia-thriller-christopher-morgan <p><img align="left" alt="Somebody is watching me..." class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/spy-cat250x188.jpg" title="Somebody is watching me..." />There&rsquo;s a lot of justifiable worry over the government&rsquo;s use of drones in civilian populations, with even some police forces investigating the idea of using them in their day-to-day work. But what if it wasn&rsquo;t the skies that were compromised, but our own homes? What if our pets were secretly Big Brother&rsquo;s little spies?</p><p>Pretty nefarious idea, no? That is probably exactly what the CIA thought in the 1960s when they had a vet perform an hour-long procedure that turned a feline into a multimillion-dollar spy as a part of Operation Acoustic Kitty. The cat was implanted with a good deal of equipment then sent on a test run to spy on two men in a park.</p><p>We all can probably guess the likelihood of a house cat obeying its master/owner. What the CIA probably didn&rsquo;t count on was their new multimillion-dollar national security ace-in-the-hole being run over by a taxi on its way across the street. The program was scrapped soon after. However, it wasn&rsquo;t the first nor will it be the last attempt to employ the animal kingdom in our government&rsquo;s day-to-day spy work. The website iO9 has a <a href="http://io9.com/when-pets-get-drafted-the-bizarre-history-of-animal-so-509118476" rel="nofollow">round-up including this case</a> and other rather interesting tales of animal spies.</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-purrrr-fect-spy-operation-acoustic-kitty-cia-thriller-christopher-morgan">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3F8EQh3kljU:9uDjXnNBjgs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3F8EQh3kljU:9uDjXnNBjgs:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3F8EQh3kljU:9uDjXnNBjgs:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=3F8EQh3kljU:9uDjXnNBjgs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3F8EQh3kljU:9uDjXnNBjgs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3F8EQh3kljU:9uDjXnNBjgs:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=3F8EQh3kljU:9uDjXnNBjgs:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=3F8EQh3kljU:9uDjXnNBjgs:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/3F8EQh3kljU" height="1" width="1"/> Christopher Morgan Published Fri, 24 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-purrrr-fect-spy-operation-acoustic-kitty-cia-thriller-christopher-morgan http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/the-purrrr-fect-spy-operation-acoustic-kitty-cia-thriller-christopher-morgan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/WHftWTKwkoE/nobody-expects-the-space-inquisition-warhammer-40k-tie-in-novels-dave-richards <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/warhammer-40k-intro.jpg" /></p><p>My first experience with Games Workshop&rsquo;s tabletop miniature war game Warhammer 40,000 left me rather unimpressed. Basically it involved moving around a bunch of little metal figures and rolling dice to see if I hit anything. The figures were these cool futuristic looking soldiers, but you had to paint them and my painting skills are terrible.</p><p>Still there was something about the visual aesthetic of the miniatures and the world they inhabit that stuck with me. Imagine a world that combines noirish intrigue, Lovecraftian horror, psychic powers, the futuristic war machines and technology of <em>Star Wars </em>and <em>Dune</em>, the fantasy races of Tolkein, and features a very cool heavy metal album style visual aesthetic. That&rsquo;s the expertly blended cocktail that is the universe of Warhammer 40K. It might not have impressed me to see it played out on a tabletop, but it was epically cool in my head. So one day I decided to take another a look at the larger Warhammer 40K universe, especially the tie-in fiction.</p><p>[We&rsquo;re thinking this will be epically cool on the page...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/nobody-expects-the-space-inquisition-warhammer-40k-tie-in-novels-dave-richards">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WHftWTKwkoE:uUuUFmbtFf8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WHftWTKwkoE:uUuUFmbtFf8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WHftWTKwkoE:uUuUFmbtFf8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=WHftWTKwkoE:uUuUFmbtFf8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WHftWTKwkoE:uUuUFmbtFf8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WHftWTKwkoE:uUuUFmbtFf8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=WHftWTKwkoE:uUuUFmbtFf8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=WHftWTKwkoE:uUuUFmbtFf8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/WHftWTKwkoE" height="1" width="1"/> Dave Richards Published Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:35 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/nobody-expects-the-space-inquisition-warhammer-40k-tie-in-novels-dave-richards http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/nobody-expects-the-space-inquisition-warhammer-40k-tie-in-novels-dave-richards http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/fk8nASrz19w/thinking-of-manderley-the-strange-history-of-stonemere-kate-lincoln-daphne-du-maurier-rebecca-new-jersey-stonemere <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/manderley-lincoln.jpg" title="Manderley from Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, as Alfred Hitchcock envisioned it." />Watching Stonemere go up in flames, I thought of Manderley.&nbsp;</p><p>Yet it was a bright April afternoon when dozens of old ladies were carried by firemen and police from the hulking stone-and-shingle house. The women, on a greening lawn where they looked as helpless as newborn fawns, were wrapped in thin cotton blankets as the sky grew orange toward evening. I was twelve.</p><p>In the forty-four years since, what I&rsquo;ve learned of Stonemere&mdash;in Somerset Hills, New Jersey, far from England&mdash;makes me think Manderley wasn&rsquo;t entirely off the mark. The place housed secrets.</p><p>[Be it ever so humble, there&rsquo;s no place like home...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/thinking-of-manderley-the-strange-history-of-stonemere-kate-lincoln-daphne-du-maurier-rebecca-new-jersey-stonemere">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=fk8nASrz19w:drDArCmmZOg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=fk8nASrz19w:drDArCmmZOg:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=fk8nASrz19w:drDArCmmZOg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=fk8nASrz19w:drDArCmmZOg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=fk8nASrz19w:drDArCmmZOg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=fk8nASrz19w:drDArCmmZOg:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=fk8nASrz19w:drDArCmmZOg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=fk8nASrz19w:drDArCmmZOg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/fk8nASrz19w" height="1" width="1"/> Kate Lincoln Published Thu, 23 May 2013 13:30:36 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/thinking-of-manderley-the-strange-history-of-stonemere-kate-lincoln-daphne-du-maurier-rebecca-new-jersey-stonemere http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/thinking-of-manderley-the-strange-history-of-stonemere-kate-lincoln-daphne-du-maurier-rebecca-new-jersey-stonemere http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/jVK_HBDPjgE/art-and-science-collide-be-careful-where-you-leave-your-dna-crime-h-q-detective-true-artsy-forensics <p><img align="left" alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/Nimble-DNA-faces-250.jpg" /></p><p>A Brooklyn art student has taken art and science to a new level. Those photographs of your DNA are so last year, and&nbsp;<a href="http://deweyhagborg.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Heather Dewey-Hagborg</a>&nbsp;knows the next trend in DNA art. Dewey-Hagborg is a conceptual information artist and took to the street of New York City for her most recent project.&nbsp;</p><p>Using items found on the sidewalks of New York&mdash;pieces of chewing gum, hair from the Penn Station bathroom&mdash;Dewey-Hagborg <a href="http://deweyhagborg.com/strangervisions/portraits.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">created sculptures</a>&nbsp;of strangers using the DNA found in these personal items. The DNA could show eye color, face shape, but often left out factors like age. She then used a 3D printer to bring the faces to life. Do you think you&rsquo;ll find any familial resemblances in the portrait gallery?</p><p><em><span style="font-size:12px;"><a href="http://screen.yahoo.com/artist-creates-sculptures-strangers-dna-204030606.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Hat tip to Yahoo! Broken News for sharing this artist.</a></span></em></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/art-and-science-collide-be-careful-where-you-leave-your-dna-crime-h-q-detective-true-artsy-forensics">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jVK_HBDPjgE:67s6XuN1fJw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jVK_HBDPjgE:67s6XuN1fJw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jVK_HBDPjgE:67s6XuN1fJw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=jVK_HBDPjgE:67s6XuN1fJw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jVK_HBDPjgE:67s6XuN1fJw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jVK_HBDPjgE:67s6XuN1fJw:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=jVK_HBDPjgE:67s6XuN1fJw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=jVK_HBDPjgE:67s6XuN1fJw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/jVK_HBDPjgE" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Thu, 23 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/art-and-science-collide-be-careful-where-you-leave-your-dna-crime-h-q-detective-true-artsy-forensics http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/art-and-science-collide-be-careful-where-you-leave-your-dna-crime-h-q-detective-true-artsy-forensics http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/z_YAaOH-vGc/why-i-believe-in-blue-bloods-corrina-lawson-tom-selleck-cbs-cop-drama <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/blue-bloods-banner.jpg" /></p><p>I wasn&rsquo;t sure why I kept watching <em>Blue Bloods</em> until this week because the show has many faults.</p><p>The police procedural aspect of the show is serviceable, not great.</p><p>It seems all New York City crime is solved by Danny Reagan, sometimes with an assist from his little brother, Jamie or Danny&rsquo;s partner of the week.</p><p>It&rsquo;s also frustrating that Danny Reagan&rsquo;s jurisdiction seems to include all of Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs. The show also needs to be a bit less white bread in one of the most multicultural cities in the world.</p><p>Erin Reagan, the show&rsquo;s main female character, has very little to do save act as foil for the menfolk.</p><p>Tom Selleck is glum a great deal of the time. (Where did Thomas Magnum&rsquo;s charm go?)</p><p>And yet when I watched the season finale earlier this month, I finally knew why I watched.</p><p>[The viewer has her reasons...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/why-i-believe-in-blue-bloods-corrina-lawson-tom-selleck-cbs-cop-drama">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=z_YAaOH-vGc:7PGWoYkEPY4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=z_YAaOH-vGc:7PGWoYkEPY4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=z_YAaOH-vGc:7PGWoYkEPY4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=z_YAaOH-vGc:7PGWoYkEPY4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=z_YAaOH-vGc:7PGWoYkEPY4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=z_YAaOH-vGc:7PGWoYkEPY4:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=z_YAaOH-vGc:7PGWoYkEPY4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=z_YAaOH-vGc:7PGWoYkEPY4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/z_YAaOH-vGc" height="1" width="1"/> Corrina Lawson Published Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:07 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/why-i-believe-in-blue-bloods-corrina-lawson-tom-selleck-cbs-cop-drama http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/why-i-believe-in-blue-bloods-corrina-lawson-tom-selleck-cbs-cop-drama http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/Ysk6Hi8gLtA/fresh-meat-wounded-prey-by-sean-lynch-farrell-kearns-kristin-centorcelli <p><img alt="Wounded Prey by Sean Lynch" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Sean-Lynch-Wounded-Prey.jpg" /><strong><em>Wounded Prey</em> by Sean Lynch is the first Detectives Farrell and Kearns thriller (available May 28, 3013).</strong></p><p>In 1967, the Vietnam War was in full swing, and Staff Sergeant Bob Farrell is on the hunt for a killer after a Saigon prostitute&rsquo;s little boy is found hanging from his ankles from a light post, his throat cut. Luckily, there were witnesses, and it wasn&rsquo;t too hard to figure out who the culprit was, especially since he was described as having a pronounced limp. Anti-American sentiment made it hard to conduct a thorough investigation, but when MPs search the convalescent barracks; they get more than they bargain for.</p><p>Luckily, they are finally able to take him down, but not without serious injury to the two MPs. Lance Corporal Vernon Emil Slocum is in custody, but unfortunately, Farrell&rsquo;s investigation is over before it begins. Slocum is ferried away by unnamed men, and Farrell doesn&rsquo;t see him again. Now it&rsquo;s 1987, twenty years after the events, and Farrell is a retired cop, chain-smoking and drinking in his dingy apartment, wondering why he hasn&rsquo;t done all the things he&rsquo;s planned, when he sees a headline in the newspaper about a young girl killed in much the same way as the little boy in Saigon, and about the rookie police officer, Kevin Kearns, who happened to be nearby and attempted to take on Slocum with no success. Farrell is suddenly very certain about what he must do. Kearns will be used as a scapegoat for the crime, and Farrell knows it, and a monster is on the loose.</p><p>Kearns is also painfully aware of what&rsquo;s about to happen to him.</p><p>[But how can he possibly stop it?]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-wounded-prey-by-sean-lynch-farrell-kearns-kristin-centorcelli">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Ysk6Hi8gLtA:dV5yn0x6DPY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Ysk6Hi8gLtA:dV5yn0x6DPY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Ysk6Hi8gLtA:dV5yn0x6DPY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Ysk6Hi8gLtA:dV5yn0x6DPY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Ysk6Hi8gLtA:dV5yn0x6DPY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Ysk6Hi8gLtA:dV5yn0x6DPY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=Ysk6Hi8gLtA:dV5yn0x6DPY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=Ysk6Hi8gLtA:dV5yn0x6DPY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/Ysk6Hi8gLtA" height="1" width="1"/> Kristin Centorcelli Published Wed, 22 May 2013 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-wounded-prey-by-sean-lynch-farrell-kearns-kristin-centorcelli http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-wounded-prey-by-sean-lynch-farrell-kearns-kristin-centorcelli http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/TH_wnwvdeYM/he-dreadful-beauty-of-top-of-the-lake-jake-hinkson-holly-hunter-elizabeth-moss-jane-campion-bbc-sundance <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/top-of-the-lake-silhouette.jpg" /></p><p><strong>Jane Campion</strong> is a badass. The New Zealand writer/director has always been fearless in her portrayal of characters pushed to their psychological extremes. More to the point, she&rsquo;s always had an extraordinary ability to harness that fearlessness and bring it to the screen. It&rsquo;s one thing to have the vision, it&rsquo;s another thing to have the talent to turn that vision into art. In films like the brilliantly moving <em>Angel At My Table</em> (still, to my mind, her best film), <em>The Piano</em>, and <em>Holy Smoke!</em> she&rsquo;s obsessed with taking her characters far beyond their own ideas of themselves. A Campion protagonist (usually, but not always, a woman) will be broken down and taken apart before reaching the end of the story.</p><p>Her latest film, the BBC miniseries <em>Top of the Lake</em>, aired just a few weeks ago in the U.S. A labyrinthine crime story set in a close-knit (read: deeply dysfunctional) New Zealand mountain town, <em>Top of the Lake</em> follows a police detective name Robin Griffin who has returned home to see her mother through the final stages of cancer, but shortly after arriving in town she is drawn into the disappearance of a pregnant 12-year old girl named Tui. To complicate matters, Tui is the daughter of a local drug lord named Matt Mitcham, who moves about the mountains and the town as if everything, and everyone, belongs to him.</p><p>[We are wading into murky waters...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/he-dreadful-beauty-of-top-of-the-lake-jake-hinkson-holly-hunter-elizabeth-moss-jane-campion-bbc-sundance">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=TH_wnwvdeYM:UF16yu5SaB4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=TH_wnwvdeYM:UF16yu5SaB4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=TH_wnwvdeYM:UF16yu5SaB4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=TH_wnwvdeYM:UF16yu5SaB4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=TH_wnwvdeYM:UF16yu5SaB4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=TH_wnwvdeYM:UF16yu5SaB4:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=TH_wnwvdeYM:UF16yu5SaB4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=TH_wnwvdeYM:UF16yu5SaB4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/TH_wnwvdeYM" height="1" width="1"/> Jake Hinkson Published Wed, 22 May 2013 13:30:41 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/he-dreadful-beauty-of-top-of-the-lake-jake-hinkson-holly-hunter-elizabeth-moss-jane-campion-bbc-sundance http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/he-dreadful-beauty-of-top-of-the-lake-jake-hinkson-holly-hunter-elizabeth-moss-jane-campion-bbc-sundance http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/1KwA847nPw0/introducing-the-criminal-element-book-club-librarything-sophie-mckenzie-close-my-eyes <p><img alt="Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie" class="blog-pic-right-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Sophie-McKenzie-Close-My-Eyes.jpg" />Most book clubs start off well, but soon devolve into wine, cheese, and gossip. Not that we have anything against wine, cheese, or gossip, you understand, but we do actually like to talk about <em>books.</em> And just so we&#39;re all on the same page (see what we did there?) to get ours started with a bang, we&#39;re giving away ONE HUNDRED EARLY COPIES of <strong>Sophie McKenzie</strong>&#39;s forthcoming thriller, <em>Close My Eyes</em> (available to everyone else July 9, 2013).</p><blockquote><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1369153875287_709"><em>When Geniver Loxley lost her daughter at birth eight years ago, her world stopped&hellip; and never fully started again. Mothers with strollers still make her flinch; her love of writing has turned into a half-hearted teaching career; and she and her husband, Art, have slipped into the kind of rut that seems inescapable. For Art, the solution is simple: Have another child to replace Beth. For Gen, the thought of replacing her first child feels cruel, nearly unbearable. A part of her will never let go of Beth, no matter how much she needs to move on.</em></p><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1369153875287_688"><em>But then a stranger shows up on their doorstep, telling Gen the very thing she&rsquo;s always desperately longed to hear: that her daughter was not stillborn, but was taken away as a healthy infant. That Beth is still out there, somewhere, waiting to be found. A fissure suddenly opens up in Gen&rsquo;s carefully reconstructed life, letting in a flood of unanswerable questions. How could this possibly be true? Where is Beth? And why is Art so reluctant to get involved?</em></p><p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1369153875287_715"><em>As Gen delves into the darkest parts of her past, she starts to realize that finding the answers might open the door to something even worse, a truth that could steal everything she holds close. Even her own life.</em></p></blockquote><p>Our discussions will be held on our own forum at <a href="http://www.librarything.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LibraryThing</a>. If you&#39;re not familiar, LibraryThing is an online venue where book lovers can catalog their own &ldquo;shelves&rdquo; of books, along with their ratings and descriptions, and share information (should they choose) with other readers. You&#39;ll see CrimeHQ already has over a hundred books listed on our shelves, ones that we&#39;ve posted here with Fresh Meat or excerpts, and we&#39;ll continue adding those until we&#39;re caught up&mdash;whew! Already it&#39;s been fun to explore the conversations and other readers involved with the books we&#39;ve listed.</p><p>LibraryThing is free to join, and you can participate in our book club discussions without ever adding any virtual books to your shelves. But since it&#39;s a great, already-established forum for setting up online book catalogs and discussions, we thought it would be a great place to hold ours, since it has extra fun, bibliophilic features.</p><p>And if that has captured your interest, here&#39;s a TRULY awesome incentive &mdash; if you join our book club discussion, LibraryThing will upgrade your free account (which allows you to list up to 200 of your own books) to a paid account (meaning unlimited books) at no charge for a year! (Usually the unlimited account is $10 per year or $25 for a lifetime membership.)</p><p>Here&#39;s how we&#39;ll get the early reading copies to you. <strike><strong>The first 100 people to send an email with their mailing address (U.S. only, please!) requesting an ARC of <em>Close My Eyes</em> to CrimeThing@gmail.com will receive one</strong>. </strike>Don&#39;t expect a reply, we&#39;ll be too busy mailing like maniacs! But once the 100 copies are gone, we will set up an auto-reply that tells you so.</p><p><strong>UPDATE: Sorry, we&#39;ve given away all the early copies, but if you join our book club, LibraryThing will honor the free yearly unlimited membership, and we will be talking about other titles as well. Please feel free to jump in with us anyway and chat about crime in all its many (fictional) forms!</strong></p><p>Once you&#39;ve sent us the email, head on over to LibraryThing and set yourself up a free account. Then join our Criminal Element Book Club <a href="http://www.librarything.com/groups/criminalelementbookc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">discussion group</a>. Once discussion of the book begins (general discussion will begin June 24), anyone who joins in will get their account upgraded!</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/introducing-the-criminal-element-book-club-librarything-sophie-mckenzie-close-my-eyes">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1KwA847nPw0:FEPaL-mR2gA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1KwA847nPw0:FEPaL-mR2gA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1KwA847nPw0:FEPaL-mR2gA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=1KwA847nPw0:FEPaL-mR2gA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1KwA847nPw0:FEPaL-mR2gA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1KwA847nPw0:FEPaL-mR2gA:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=1KwA847nPw0:FEPaL-mR2gA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=1KwA847nPw0:FEPaL-mR2gA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/1KwA847nPw0" height="1" width="1"/> Crime HQ Published Wed, 22 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/introducing-the-criminal-element-book-club-librarything-sophie-mckenzie-close-my-eyes http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/introducing-the-criminal-element-book-club-librarything-sophie-mckenzie-close-my-eyes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/XNhQ5iSgEIc/fresh-meat-transparent-natalie-whipple-jenny-maloney-paranormal-young-adult-ya-novel-invisible <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/fm-transparent-cover.jpg" /><strong><em>Transparent </em>by Natalie Whipple is a debut young adult novel with paranormal elements, including an invisible protagonist (available May 21, 2013).</strong></p><p>Fiona was born into one of the largest crime syndicates in the country. Her father runs drugs, steals his millions, and murders whoever gets in his way. When Fiona is born, he sees his chance to become the most powerful man in the world. Because Fiona was born with a special gift.</p><p>She&rsquo;s invisible.</p><p>Fiona does anything her father asks, partly because he&rsquo;s her father and partly because he has his own special gift: he&rsquo;s a Charmer who can make any woman fall in love with him. At first this means picking pockets&mdash;which she learned to do when she was just seven years old. Then she graduates to robbery. Then spying on rival crime syndicates. However, her daddy has an endgame in mind for Fiona.</p><p>Assassin.</p><p>[Daddy&rsquo;s Little Girl has big troubles...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-transparent-natalie-whipple-jenny-maloney-paranormal-young-adult-ya-novel-invisible">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XNhQ5iSgEIc:m84W_MDHXYc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XNhQ5iSgEIc:m84W_MDHXYc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XNhQ5iSgEIc:m84W_MDHXYc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=XNhQ5iSgEIc:m84W_MDHXYc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XNhQ5iSgEIc:m84W_MDHXYc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XNhQ5iSgEIc:m84W_MDHXYc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=XNhQ5iSgEIc:m84W_MDHXYc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=XNhQ5iSgEIc:m84W_MDHXYc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/XNhQ5iSgEIc" height="1" width="1"/> Jenny Maloney Published Tue, 21 May 2013 15:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-transparent-natalie-whipple-jenny-maloney-paranormal-young-adult-ya-novel-invisible http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/fresh-meat-transparent-natalie-whipple-jenny-maloney-paranormal-young-adult-ya-novel-invisible http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/JlHylTrhfYE/car-guy-does-a-minivan-beat-a-muscle-car-maybe-yeah-steve-ulfelder <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align caption" src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0013-04-April/ulfelder-reacher-cruise.jpg" title="Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher: Wouldn’t he really rather have a Buick?" /></p><p>It&rsquo;s nighttime in Pittsburgh. Tom-Cruise-as-Jack-Reacher has just beaten the tar out of a half-dozen creeps. Now it&rsquo;s time to scram.</p><p>Reacher hops into his vehicle, grabs a gear, and hauls ass. The moaning bad guys can only stare at the yellow BABY ON BOARD sign in the rear window of his Grand Caravan.</p><p>Wait. What? Cut cut cut! Get me Props, dammit!</p><p>The vehicle in question is not, of course, a homely Dodge Grand Caravan, the minivanniest of all minivans. Rather, it&rsquo;s a fire-breathing 1970 Chevelle SS, complete with Rally Stripes, a 396-cubic-inch engine, and a 4-speed transmission.</p><p>But you know what? Any sane tough guy would rather drive a Grand Caravan. Or maybe a Camry in a nice beige.</p><p>[Talk about yer hot wheels...]</p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/car-guy-does-a-minivan-beat-a-muscle-car-maybe-yeah-steve-ulfelder">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JlHylTrhfYE:GOvYvoJSyyU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JlHylTrhfYE:GOvYvoJSyyU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JlHylTrhfYE:GOvYvoJSyyU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=JlHylTrhfYE:GOvYvoJSyyU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JlHylTrhfYE:GOvYvoJSyyU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JlHylTrhfYE:GOvYvoJSyyU:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=JlHylTrhfYE:GOvYvoJSyyU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=JlHylTrhfYE:GOvYvoJSyyU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/JlHylTrhfYE" height="1" width="1"/> Steve Ulfelder Published Tue, 21 May 2013 13:30:58 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/car-guy-does-a-minivan-beat-a-muscle-car-maybe-yeah-steve-ulfelder http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/car-guy-does-a-minivan-beat-a-muscle-car-maybe-yeah-steve-ulfelder http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~3/ATq2xIvuQHE/abandoned-victorian-lego-houses-artist-mike-doyle-crafty-memento-mori-clare-toohey <p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/VICTORIAN-MUD-HEAP-Mike-Doyle.jpg" style="height: 404px; width: 475px; " />Artist Mike Doyle is a <a href="http://mikedoylesnap.blogspot.com/2011/09/victorian-on-mud-heap.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">genius in Lego</a>, and this piece from his Abandoned Houses Series is all and only Lego, no foreign materials, paint, glue, screws, or altered blocks. It was created over 600 hours of effort out of somewhere between 110,000 and 130,000 blocks in black, white, dark and light bluish gray, transparent clear, and translucent black. Here&#39;s what he says about it:</p><blockquote><p>The third installment of this abandoned house series continues its textural exploration of decay with a Victorian home engulfed in mud... For me, this piece speaks to the inherent unpredictability of those things which we call our foundation. Like a little dollhouse, a seemingly secure home is plucked up and set on a new path. This charming home, lovingly embellished with ornamental fancy was no match for nature. The fancy embellishments serve as a reminder of our earlier focus on the material world, while the aftermath removes us from that focus. The piece offers no answers or necessarily any hope, but rather points to life&rsquo;s fragility.</p></blockquote><p>It&rsquo;s spooky and amazing, and here&rsquo;s a close-up of Victorian with Tree, just because!</p><p><img alt="" class="blog-pic-left-align " src="http://www.criminalelement.com/images/stories/0012-05-May/Victorian-Lego-with-tree.jpg" /></p><p>Hat tip: <em><a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/09/lego-victorians-mike-doyle/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">This is Colossal</a></em></p><p><a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/abandoned-victorian-lego-houses-artist-mike-doyle-crafty-memento-mori-clare-toohey">Read the full article</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ATq2xIvuQHE:VKk8-30867g:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ATq2xIvuQHE:VKk8-30867g:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ATq2xIvuQHE:VKk8-30867g:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ATq2xIvuQHE:VKk8-30867g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ATq2xIvuQHE:VKk8-30867g:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ATq2xIvuQHE:VKk8-30867g:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?a=ATq2xIvuQHE:VKk8-30867g:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/criminalelementpartial?i=ATq2xIvuQHE:VKk8-30867g:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/criminalelementpartial/~4/ATq2xIvuQHE" height="1" width="1"/> Clare Toohey Published Tue, 21 May 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/abandoned-victorian-lego-houses-artist-mike-doyle-crafty-memento-mori-clare-toohey http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/05/abandoned-victorian-lego-houses-artist-mike-doyle-crafty-memento-mori-clare-toohey 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