Katherine's Book Backyard

One of the things that's happened in the last few years is that publishers are starting to repurpose thier websites as content hubs. thu...

A Victorian mystery!  My favorite. Well, one of my favorites. Read a review on Criminal Element .

Another for the TBR pile, the lastest in Rhys Bowen's Molly Murphy mystery series. Don't you LOVE the cover? Criminal Element has ...

My review of Nicholas Guild's Blood Ties is live over at Criminal Element . In it I ponder sexism in crime fiction and note that in a...

I review Matt Richtel's techno-thriller The Doomsday Equation over at Criminal Element today. Check it out here .

I've been working as a "Fresh Meat" reviewer for Criminal Element ," the crime fiction blog hosted by Macmillan publish...

Best-selling German crime writer Nele Neuhaus has a new book out today, Bad Wolf . It's the second in her series about a couple of detec...

I review for Criminal Element and one of the real pleasures of the gig is discovering writers who are new to me. I just finished reading Ca...

I review Dennis Walsh's true crime book Nobody Walks over at Criminal Element   today. Read it here .  Dennis Walsh is an LA attorney...

This is a Euro-noir from German writer Cornelia "Nele" Neuhaus. It's part of a series about two detectives working homicides...

I just read G.M. Malliet's A Fatal Winter , and will be doing a full review soon. You can read the post I did for Criminal Element'...