with Jen Estes
We are delighted to welcome crime novelist Jen Estes to Omnimystery News today, courtesy of Partners in Crime Tours. We encourage you to visit all of the host sites on her current book tour; you can find her schedule here.
Jen is the author of the "Cat McDaniel" mysteries. The second book in the series is Curveball (Camel Press, October 2012 trade paperback and ebook formats).
We recently had a chance to talk to Jen about her new book.
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan as today's fifth free mystery ebook (A Novel of Suspense; Kindle, Kobo, and iTunes formats).
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MystereBooks is pleased to feature Cover Her Body by Eleanor Sullivan as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Singular Village Mystery; Kindle format only).
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MystereBooks is pleased to feature 82 Desire by Julie Smith as today's third free mystery ebook (A Skip Langdon Mystery; Kindle format only).
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MystereBooks is pleased to feature China Trade by S. J. Rozan as today's second free mystery ebook (A Lydia Chin and Bill Smith Mystery; Kindle format only).
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MystereBooks is pleased to feature Mounting Storm by William Thompson Ong as today's free mystery ebook (Kindle format only).
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A Mysterious Review of …
Death and the Maiden by Frank Tallis. A Max Liebermann Mystery.
Review summary: This murder mystery is a compelling combination of whodunit and opera, with components of the latter incorporated into the plot. The fact that both lead investigators are musicians themselves adds to the appeal and provides a calming balance to the gravity of the murder and its aftermath. (Click here for text of full review.)
Our rating:
Death and the Maiden
Frank Tallis
A Max Liebermann Mystery
Random House (October 2012)
Publisher synopsis: Ida Rosenkranz is top diva at the Vienna Opera, but she's gone silent for good after an apparent laudanum overdose. Learning of her professional rivalries and her scandalous affairs with older men, Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt and Dr. Max Liebermann suspect foul play instead. Their investigation leads them into dark and dangerous conflicts with Gustav Mahler, the opera's imperious director, who is himself the target of a poison pen campaign, and Karl Lueger, Vienna's powerful and anti-Semitic mayor. As the peril escalates, Rheinhardt grows further into his role as family man, while Liebermann finds himself at odds with his inamorata, Amelia, who's loosening both her corset and her tongue in the new feminist movement.
Earlier this year we reported that A&E had acquired the US development rights to the Danish crime drama Den som dræber (Those Who Kill). Today we're learning that Chloë Sevigny (Big Love, Hit & Miss) has been cast in the lead role of Boston Homicide Detective Catherine Jensen, a forensic profiler with a deep understanding of serial killers.
The original Danish drama, which aired only one season, was based on a concept by crime novelist Elsebeth Egholm, who is probably best known for her series of thrillers featuring journalist Benedicte Svendsen, none of which have (yet) been translated into English.
London's most famous puzzle master will need to call on his legendary intellect and dig deep to unravel the mysteries plaguing a city in Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, the fifth game — and the second in the "prequel" trilogy — in this popular series for the Nintendo DS, which is being released this week in the US.
Upon receiving a cryptic letter from a childhood friend, Professor Layton is called to the carnival city of Monte d'Or to investigate a mysterious villain known as the Masked Man.
With his assistant Emmy and apprentice Luke in tow, the team arrives in town with a carnival in full swing — only to witness the Masked Man crashing the party!
Step into the shoes of a young Layton as the investigation turns to the discovery of a mysterious artifact, and the disappearance of his friend Randall Ascot 18 years ago. Is there some connection between these events and the chaos gripping Monte d'Or today?
Brimming with colorful animation and quirky characters, this lively whodunit is a charmingly unique puzzle-adventure sure to entertain players of all ages!
Watch a trailer for the game, which is ESRB rated E10+ (mild violence), below.
A new poster for the action thriller Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters has been released by the studio (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "Classic tale. New twist."
The storyline catches up with Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) fifteen years after the traumatic incident involving a gingerbread house. The siblings have evolved into vengeful bounty hunters dedicated to exterminating witches. Over the years, they have became expert hunters, famous for their proficiency at tracking and taking down their prey. Although still recovering from their ordeal, their work is relatively easy as for an unknown reason harmful spells and curses do not work well against them.
The Mayor of Augsburg recruits them to rid the town and nearby forests of an evil sorceress (Famke Janssen), who is planning to sacrifice many local children at the witches' gathering during the upcoming "Blood Moon" night in two days time. To make things worse, the duo also has to deal with the brutal Sheriff Berringer (Peter Stormare), who has taken power in Augsburg and conducts a very indiscriminate witch-hunt of his own.
Directed by Tommy Wirkola from a screenplay co-written with Dante Harper, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters opens in theaters January 25th, 2013. The studio released a trailer last month, but we don't recall featuring it then, so we've embedded it below.
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ABC is developing a drama project based on the yet-to-be-released young adult sci-fi thriller MILA 2.0 by Debra Driza.
The central character is Mila, a young woman who learns her name also describes what she is: a Mobile Intel Life-like Android, created by the US government.
David DiGilio (Traveler) will write the script.
Here is today's list of the Bestselling Free Kindle Crime Fiction: the top nine mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers.
We're using a script to embed an RSS feed from Amazon.com, which is updated hourly, but if you cannot see the box below — or have scripts blocked — you can click on the image to the right or use this link to see the relevant page on Amazon.com, which includes a list of both the Top 100 Paid and Top 100 Free Kindle Mysteries and Thrillers.
It's a little dated, but here's another US poster for Alex Cross (right; click for larger image).
The film, loosely based on Cross, the 12th book in the "Alex Cross" series of thrillers by James Patterson, stars Tyler Perry as the titular character tracking down the man (Matthew Fox), who murdered his wife.
Alex Cross opened here just 10 days ago to a very disappointing box office. We're going to wait till the DVD comes out to see it, which may be in time for the holidays. (We're joshing. Actually, it is estimated to be released on DVD in February 2013.)
MystereBooks is pleased to feature two mysteries in the "Myrtle Clover" cozy series by Elizabeth Spann Craig, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.
Myrtle Clover was introduced in 2009 in Pretty Is as Pretty Dies, published by Midnight Ink. The author has self-published the two books featured in this post, and has just published (this week) the fourth in the series, A Body in the Backyard.
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Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling four series on our site being released this week.
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Cannon
Season Three
Frank Cannon (William Conrad) is back and keeping the streets of Los Angeles safe in the action-packed third season of Cannon, taking on everyone from a kidnapper to an incarcerated burglar to a psychopathic killer.
All 24 episodes of this third season, which originally aired on CBS during the 1973/1974 television season, are available via manufacturing-on-demand from Amazon. The original release date we had for this set — October 30th — may have been delayed. Amazon no longer shows a date, while other sources indicate a November 6th date. It may be, however, pre-ordered.
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Copper
Season One
This BBC America original historical crime drama, which aired its first season earlier this summer, centers on Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones), an intense, rugged Irish-American cop working the city's notorious Five Points neighborhood. Corcoran is struggling to maintain his moral compass in a turbulent world, while on an emotional and relentless quest to learn the truth about the disappearance of his wife and the death of his daughter.
His friendship with two Civil War compatriots — the wayward son of a wealthy white industrialist and a black physician, who secretly assists Corcoran with his detective work — takes him to the contrasting worlds of elegant Fifth Avenue and an emerging black community in rural northern Manhattan. The three men share a secret from their experience on the battlefield that inextricably links their lives forever.
Copper has been renewed for a second season.
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Don Matteo
Set 3: Episodes 17-24
Terence Hill stars as Don Matteo, a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He is a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn't want to help. In fact, he never met anyone marginalized he didn't want to help: the elderly, the homeless, the immigrant, the unemployed. He sees them all as he bicycles along the streets and through the countryside of his parish.
His friend and chess partner is policeman Marshal Cecchini, who slips him information about new cases much to the chagrin of the police chief who isn't at all thrilled about the collaboration. But he's in agreement with Don Matteo about one thing: the importance of justice being served.
The episodes included in this set, in Italian with English subtitles, originally aired during October 2001.
Also being released this week: Don Matteo, Set 4: Episodes 25-32, which originally aired during November and early December 2001.
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The Streets of San Francisco
Season Five (Volume 1)
Karl Malden stars as San Francisco Detective Lieutenant Mike Stone in this crime drama set in the city by the bay.
The first four seasons featured Michael Douglas as Stone's young partner Steve Keller, who left in a dispute with producers at the end of the fourth season. In this fifth and final season, Richard Hatch joins the cast as Dan Robbins.
Also being released this week: The Streets of San Francisco: Season Five (Volume 2).
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Young Montalbano
Episodes 1-3
This Italian crime drama is a prequel to the popular Detective Montalbano series, and stars Michele Riondino as the titular character, which is based on one created by crime novelist Andrea Camilleri.
This DVD set includes the first three (of six) episodes of the first season, in Italian with English subtitles, which aired earlier this year. A second season has been commissioned.
Also being released this week: Young Montalbano: Episodes 4-6.
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