Open Road Mysteries for $1.99: Hopscotch, A Crime Thriller by Brian Garfield

Open Road has discounted 25 titles to just $1.99 as part of their Mystery Deals promotion to celebrate the Edgar Awards.

Titles include winners, nominees, books by Grand Masters and those receiving special Edgars, and we are pleased to feature one of them, below.

(Price verified on April 16, 2014 as of 3:00 PM ET.)

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Hopscotch by Brian Garfield
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Open Road

Winner of the 1976 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

Miles Kendig is one of the CIA's top deep-cover agents, until an injury ruins him for active duty. Rather than take a desk job, he retires. But the tawdry thrills of civilian life — gambling, drinking, sex — offer none of the pleasures of the intelligence game. Even a Russian agent's offer to go to work against his old employers seems dull. Without the thrill of unpredictable conflict, Kendig skulks through Paris like the walking dead.

To revive himself, he begins writing a tell-all memoir, divulging every secret he accumulated in his long career. Neither CIA nor KGB can afford to have it in print, and so he challenges them both: Until they catch him, a chapter will go to the publisher every week. Kendig's life is fun again, with survival on the line.

  

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Dead People by Ewart Hutton, New in Bookstores in April 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during April 2014 by Minotaur Books, is Dead People by Ewart Hutton.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for April 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of April 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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Dead People
Ewart Hutton
Series: Glyn Capaldi (2nd)

Detective Sergeant Glyn Capaldi, in disgrace and exiled from Cardiff to the deep heart of rural Wales, is called to the discovery of a human skeleton at a remote site in the hills during excavation work for a new wind farm. The body is missing its head and hands, making it unidentifiable. When other bodies are uncovered, Capaldi’s superiors assume that it is either the work of a hit squad or a serial killer, and that the site is just a dumping ground.

Capaldi is not convinced. To him, the remoteness of the location points to some local knowledge. However, an apparent suicide in the valley, along with incriminating evidence, appears to back-up his superiors’ theory. Believing that they have found the killer, they move the investigation to the city to try and discover the identity of the victims. Capaldi is left in place to tidy up the loose ends. He sets about trying to discover a motive among the varied characters that inhabit the area. To achieve this he also has to try and unravel the mystery of who these dead people were, and why they were buried in this particular location all those years ago.

        

A New Poster, Trailer for the Suspense Thriller Gone Girl

A new teaser poster (right; click for larger image) and trailer (embedded, below) have been released by 20th Century Fox for the suspense thriller Gone Girl. The poster's tagline: "You don't know what you've got 'til it's …"

On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

Directed by David Fincher from an adapted screenplay by Gillian Flynn and based on her 2012 novel of the same title, Gone Girl opens in theaters October 03, 2014.

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Midnight Sacrifice, The Midnight Series by Melinda Leigh, at a Special Price during April 2014

Every month Amazon releases a new selection of Kindle books priced $3.99 or less.

Today's featured title from the Mystery & Thrillers category is Midnight Sacrifice by Melinda Leigh. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 1:30 PM ET, and should be available at this price through the end of the month.

More information about the book is below; if other vendors have priced-matched this title, links to their sites are also shown.

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Midnight Sacrifice by Melinda Leigh
The Midnight Series (2nd in series)
Publisher: Montlake Romance

One by one, people are mysteriously disappearing from a small Maine town …

Four months ago, a ruthless murderer killed two people and kidnapped three more, including Danny Sullivan's sister, who barely escaped. Unfortunately so did the killer, vanishing without a trace into the vast wilderness. When the police fail to find his sister's captor, Danny returns to Maine to hunt him down.

He begins his search with another survivor, bed and breakfast owner Mandy Brown, but her refusal to cooperate raises Danny's suspicions. What is the beautiful innkeeper hiding?

Mandy Brown has a secret. But sexy Danny Sullivan, his relentless questions, and the desire that simmers between them threaten to expose the truth. A revelation that puts her family in danger. As more people disappear, it becomes clear the killer is planning another ritual … and that he's circling in on Mandy.

  

Important Note: This book was listed at the above mentioned price on the date and time of this post. Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase.

A New MystereBook: Dead Girls Don't Blog by Pamela Frost Dennis

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 April 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Dead Girls Don't Blog by Pamela Frost Dennis is the first in the new "Murder Blog" series and introduces Katy McKenna.

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Dead Girls Don't Blog by Pamela Frost Dennis
A Murder Blog Mystery
Publisher: Pamela Frost Dennis
Publication Date: April 15, 2014
Price: $1.99 (as of 04/16/14 1:00 PM ET)

After nursing her husband through cancer, and then getting dumped for a "pre-schooler", Katy McKenna is ready for a major life reboot …

First on her "super-exciting-new-life" agenda is to resurrect the graphics arts career that she put on hold to run a bookstore with her "was-band". Easier said than done.

One day, while gathering newspapers for recycling, Katy notices a story about an impending parole hearing for the man who raped and murdered her high school friend sixteen years ago. Sickened that this man could soon be preying on other young girls, Katy decides to step out of her comfort zone and do something to make sure this doesn't happen, not realizing the imminent peril she's about to unleash upon herself.

Meanwhile, Grandma Ruby is hell-bent on finding Katy a hunky transition man, and her happily-married BFF is nagging her to blog about her anger issues.

  

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