Follow Criminal Element, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/criminal-element Tue, 29 Nov 2022 10:36:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDoynv3KdoX4ZONpYks2fGs This almost Dickensian thriller starts with a young woman who’s just been kidnapped by persons unknown and is being kept in the dark, both figuratively and literally.  After losing her parents at a young age, Amelie Lamont lived on the streets until she was more or less rescued by Carolyn Blakely, the woman who would…]]> Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:40:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDoynv3KdoX4ZONpYks2fGs https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejCUIBqkwHRXGa8qfTAM-Smm Our heroine, Mac Almeida, and her fiancé, Tim, are getting married! In the lead-up to their New Year’s nuptials, they’re renovating the house that they’ll be living in as a married couple. The old Cape Cod cottage is comfortable but could use a little extra modernization. Mac is most excited at the prospect of installing…]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2022 22:00:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejCUIBqkwHRXGa8qfTAM-Smm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejBXvd2XZx5fmABC78OgjhDM The Earl and Countess of Wrexford are newlyweds but are currently in London instead of honeymooning at the earl’s country seat. It’s a matter of duty calls because of his elevated rank, as Wrexford and his bride are expected to be present during high-profile events. The visit of the Russian tsar certainly applies, “especially with…]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:00:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejBXvd2XZx5fmABC78OgjhDM https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDNqvfcXzhQyUTXPGaG87AR Meg Langslow has a merry mess on her hands, although it wouldn’t be Christmas in the fictional town of Caerphilly, Virginia if all was well. Meg’s brother Rob, the creator/owner of the software company Mutant Wizards, is “doing a rush project” for AcerGen, a Canadian firm that specializes in “forensic genealogy and DNA analysis.” There…]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2022 21:02:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDNqvfcXzhQyUTXPGaG87AR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDNqvfcXzhQyVLv-B9hV9S2 1: Morgan The key was a blackened talisman, tucked into her leather cuff. She’d gotten in the habit of keeping it there since it had become the only tangible thing she owned when, three months ago, her entire life was reduced to ash and ruin. The fire department had already come and gone by the…]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2022 21:00:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDNqvfcXzhQyVLv-B9hV9S2 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejALoegDuQuoNt3hDS9njgCr Thanks so much for joining us! First, can you tell us a little about your new series, Crossfire, on Britbox?  Crossfire is a series about three families who are staying in a holiday resort on a Spanish island when gunmen come into the premises and begin to shoot. All the families are separated in different…]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2022 20:00:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejALoegDuQuoNt3hDS9njgCr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejB-DWo9BxhiWOifqJurszLU With one seemingly simple comment from one character to another, Ava Barry perfectly captures the heart of her newest thriller, Double Exposure:  “Double exposure. A broken piece of film. Damaged imagery, you know?”  Double Exposure is a cat and mouse mystery where the role of the cat and the mouse are constantly interchanging. Set in…]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:56:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejB-DWo9BxhiWOifqJurszLU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDx1AjerAT2l_dczOo_8W9B Award-winning author R. G. Belsky knows more than a thing or two about the worlds his fictional characters inhabit. A veteran journalist, he was a top editor at the New York Post, New York Daily News, Star Magazine, and NBC News before making the decision to write fiction full-time. Unsurprisingly, his vast experiences in the…]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:00:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDx1AjerAT2l_dczOo_8W9B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejBw-_yC9zUpKVRpWVnEcNkS Most mystery fans are aware that Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express was inspired by the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping. In the classic mystery, Poirot investigates the murder of Samuel Ratchett. Years ago, Ratchett was behind the kidnapping of “Little Daisy Armstrong,” but he escaped punishment. As Poirot discovers, everyone on the train has a…]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:00:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejBw-_yC9zUpKVRpWVnEcNkS https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDXGQIVHEoDxpu9CxXrVx4c Bailey King has been roped into helping with Harvest, Ohio’s first annual village-wide Thanksgiving celebration, with dinner seating both in the town square and in the church just beyond it. The formidable organizer, Margot Rawlings, has put Bailey in charge of desserts, a natural fit given the fact that she runs the now-famous Swissmen Sweets…]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDXGQIVHEoDxpu9CxXrVx4c https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDmNRvz3OvYHu4sICfMfkNm Years ago, I had lunch with some friends in a London restaurant. It was in a courtyard near Holborn, a strange cobbled yard with a stranger name: Bleeding Heart Yard.  When I got home, I Googled the location and found that, in the seventeenth-century, a woman called Elizabeth Hatton (of Hatton Garden fame) was murdered…]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2022 20:00:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDmNRvz3OvYHu4sICfMfkNm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejAwugI-BkaN9kGb1Jh49AJn Everyone who’s old enough remembers where they were when Kennedy was killed. The mention of Elvis and Lady Diana Spencer provoke similar recollection. Why is that? Simply because they were famous? Or because they touched the lives of so many? Maybe your favorite Elvis song, played continuously on a loop, woke you from a ten-year…]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejAwugI-BkaN9kGb1Jh49AJn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejBrwX3-WflozKvLeqE6yv18 Wild Ffion Morgan was no one’s idea of the kind of girl who’d grow up to be a police officer, but here she is at 30, Cwm Coed’s own Detective Constable, with a fairly wide remit from the North Wales Police. Like nearly everyone else in her small Welsh town, she opposed the building of…]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:00:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejBrwX3-WflozKvLeqE6yv18 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejB5XZ4dAzdjdKvLeqE6yv18 Is it disrespectful and inappropriate to use a real historical atrocity in a work of fiction? Or is it worse to make one up? A problem I was confronted with when placing spy Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov in 1944 Rome for my novel The Double Agent. History, and novels, are made from significant events, and in…]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:16:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejB5XZ4dAzdjdKvLeqE6yv18 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejBAOXHecc1leIMOI2eu70Rg Wanda M. Morris emerged as a powerhouse suspense novelist with last year’s All Her Little Secrets. That book won both the 2022 Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel, the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Best First Novel, and was nominated for several other accolades. It’s also under option as a limited series…]]> Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:00:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejBAOXHecc1leIMOI2eu70Rg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejBJ-4jDsXJoQBhSCv31NykC When Leila Khoury left her Vermont hometown to take a teaching job all the way down in Florida, the last thing she expected was to come home for the very worst of reasons: her own father’s funeral. Victor Khoury had been universally beloved in Sugar Ridge, or so Leila believed. Someone had certainly cared a…]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2022 22:00:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejBJ-4jDsXJoQBhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejBHtr3dRsIPbTRQaTQYXBS9 Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with R.J. Jacobs, whose newest book, Always the First to Die, was an October release from Poisoned Pen Press. In preparation for this interview, I read the novel. It was fast-paced and fun, and the atmosphere was perfect. If you’re looking for your next read, check it out.…]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2022 22:00:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejBHtr3dRsIPbTRQaTQYXBS9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDh953mBYSCCXHnycKeoCpf Chapter 1 Misty Murphy   Shadows chased each other across the grounds of the Mountaintop Lodge as dappled sunlight streamed through the beautiful orange, red, and golden leaves. Autumn had arrived in Beech Mountain, North Carolina, spreading its glorious colors across the peaks and valleys. With the season came the so-called leaf peepers, tourists from…]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2022 22:00:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDh953mBYSCCXHnycKeoCpf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDh953mBYSCCagHTd9OkkKt When floodwaters sweep through Minnesota’s Red River Valley, Cash Blackbear is mostly worried about how they’ll affect her ability to pick up work on the now-waterlogged local farmsteads. The college classes that her mentor, County Sheriff Wheaton, insists she take don’t fill up enough of her time. Neither do her ace pool-shooting abilities, nor her…]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2022 22:00:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejDh953mBYSCCagHTd9OkkKt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejCtodemc37000TXPGaG87AR We put Elle Cosimano (author of the beloved Finlay Donovan series) in the hot seat, and she gave us a few hints about Finlay and Vero’s shenanigans in her next book, Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun; talked about some unusual research she did while writing the book (hint: she’s not a bad shot!); and clued us into…]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:30:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vIXBQNMzejCtodemc37000TXPGaG87AR