Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending March 07, 2014

A list of the top 15 Mystery Hardcover Bestsellers for the week ending March 7th, 2014 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

Another fairly quiet week with no change at the top of our list — Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn remains the number one bestseller.

One new title enters the list this week (rank in [brackets]).

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[15]: Bone Deep
Randy Wayne White
— Doc Ford (21st)

When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson's asks him to help recover a relic stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along — but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they've let themselves in for. Their search takes them to the part of Central Florida known as Bone Valley, famous primarily for two things: a ruthless subculture of black-marketers who trade in illegal artifacts and fossils, and a multibillion-dollar phosphate industry whose strip mines compromise the very ground they walk on.

Neither enterprise tolerates nosy outsiders. For each, public exposure equals big financial losses — and in a region built on a million-year accumulation of bones, there is no shortage of spots in which to hide a corpse. Or two.

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Winners of the 2014 Pinckley Prizes Announced

Laura Lippman and Gwen Florio are the recipients of the inaugural Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction, named to honor the memory of Diana Pinckley, longtime crime fiction columnist for The New Orleans Times-Picayune. The prizes will be presented March 22nd, 2014, at the 28th annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. The presentation will take place at the historic Beauregard-Keyes House at 5 PM. The Prizes are presented by the Women's National Book Association of New Orleans, of which Diana Pinckley was a founding member.

Laura Lippman was selected as the first Pinckley Prize winner for her Distinguished Body of Work. In a statment from the awards committee, "Laura Lippman is one of those writers whose dedication to her home town of Baltimore has captivated American readers. She has created an enduring sleuth in Tess Monaghan, a complex character dealing with the issues that every contemporary woman confronts. And more than that, in her stand-alone works, Lippman has transcended the limits and challenges of genre to become a distinguished writer of social realism. All that, and she has a wicked sense of humor!"

Montana resident Gwen Florio won the Pinckley Prize for a Debut Novel, for her first book, Montana, published by Permanent Press. "Out of a field of excellent debut crime novels, we picked Montana because we completely fell in love with the main character. It's often difficult to pinpoint why someone is lovable. Suffice to say that Gwen Florio's protagonist Lola fully lives on the page, and what is even more compelling about this brave, irascible character is that she continues to live after the book is closed. She's fearless, flawed, intelligent, reckless, and funny, but most of all, she is defined by loyalty to her friend and a relentless pursuit of her killer."

Nominees for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards honoring the best in LGBT fiction have been announced by the Lambda Literary Foundation, including those in the categories of Gay and Lesbian Mystery. The winners will be announced on Monday evenin, June 2nd, 2014 at a ceremony in New York City.

The nominees are …

Gay Mystery:

• The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari by Sarah Black (Dreamspinner Press)
• In Real Life by Jonathan Gregory (Amazon Digital Services)
• Baton Rouge Bingo by Gerg Herren (Bold Strokes Books)
• The Prisoner of the Riviera by Janice Law (Mysterious Press)
• Fierce by David Lennon (Blue Spike)
• Pretty Boy Dead by Jon Michaelsen (Wilde City Press)
• Foxed by Garry Ryan (NeWest Press )
• How To Greet Strangers by Joyce Thompson (Lethe Press)
• Boystown 5: Murder Book by Marshall Thornton (MLR Press)
• Pawn of Satan by Mark Zubro (MLR Press)

Lesbian Mystery:

• The Killer Wore Leather by Laura Antoniou (Cleis Press)
• The Rainey Season by R. E. Bradshaw (R. E. Bradshaw Books)
• High Desert by Katherine V. Forrest (Spinsters Ink)
• The Wild Beasts of Wuhan by Ian Hamilton (Picador)
• Taken by the Wind by Ellen Hart (Minotaur Books)
• Death of the Demon by Anne Holt (Scribner)
• Cross and Burn by Val McDermid (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Turning on the Tide by Jenna Rae (Bella Books)
• Point of Betrayal by Ann Roberts (Bella Books)
• She Overheard Murder by Jean Sheldon (Wellworth Publishing)
• Web of Obsessions by Diane Wood (Bella Books)

A New MystereBook: Death on a Longship by Marsali Taylor

Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers during March 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Death on a Longship by Marsali Taylor was first published as an ebook in 2012. This edition is from a different publisher, and newly subtitled "A Cass Lynch Mystery".

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Death on a Longship by Marsali Taylor
A Cass Lynch Mystery
Publisher: Accent Press
Publication Date: March 05, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 03/06/14 05:00 PM ET)

When she wangles the job of skippering a Viking longship for a film, Cass Lynch thinks her big break has finally arrived — even though it means returning home to the Shetland Islands, which she ran away from as a teenager.

Then the "accidents" begin — and when a dead woman turns up on the boat's deck, Cass realises that she, her family and her past are under suspicion from the disturbingly shrewd Detective Inspector Macrae.

Cass must call on all her local knowledge, the wisdom she didn't realise she'd gained from sailing and her glamorous, French opera singer mother to clear them all of suspicion — and to catch the killer before Cass becomes the next victim.

  

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A New MystereBook: Grind Joint by Dana King

Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers during March 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Grind Joint by Dana King was originally published in trade paperback last fall. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

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Grind Joint by Dana King
A Penns River Novel
Publisher: Dana King
Publication Date: March 04, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 03/06/14 04:00 PM ET)

Penns River hopes for a Lazarus-like economic resurrection when the Allegheny Casino is built in an abandoned strip mall. What the town gets more closely resembles Frankenstein's monster.

The casino owner wants a cash cow, his partner is laundering money, and Russian mobsters connected to the silent partner want to push what's left of the Pittsburgh mob out of the picture altogether.

This is more than the town is equipped to handle, though it is not without resources of its own, notably two native sons — police detective Ben "Doc" Dougherty, and his cousin, Chicago private investigator Nick Forte — who refuse to allow Penns River to become collateral damage.

  

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