Telemystery: A&E Cancels The Glades

A&E has canceled The Glades after four seasons. It was the first scripted series ordered by the cable network that lasted multiple seasons.

We have to admit we stopped watching after the second season. We felt the series had lost its way by then, with scripts focusing more on Detective Jim Longworth's romantic issues than the off-beat crimes he was called upon to solve.

Keep up to date on the status of your favorite mystery and suspense television with our Telemystery Scoresheet. We've updated it with today's news.

A New MystereBook: Don't Cry Over Killed Milk by Stephen Kaminski

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 …

Don't Cry Over Killed Milk by Stephen Kaminski is the second mystery in this cozy series featuring civic leader and amateur sleuth Damon Lassard.

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Don't Cry Over Killed Milk by Stephen Kaminski
A Damon Lassard, Dabbling Detective Mystery
Publisher: Cozy Cat Press

Jeremiah Milk lived a life filled with emotional extremes. Amniotic band syndrome — a congenital condition — left his fingers and toes malformed. Ridiculed as a child, he became an adolescent hermit. As an adult, Jeremiah's wounds healed when he landed a position as a park ranger and married a woman who loved him despite his physical appearance. But fate ripped his life to shreds when his wife and infant son died on the same night in separate calamities. Shortly thereafter, the tides turned once more as an act of Jeremiah's ostensible benevolence translates into a financial boon. The book on Jeremiah's life closes without mercy when he's found murdered at Tripping Falls State Park.

Damon Lassard — Hollydale's loveable civic leader, amateur sleuth, and Jeremiah's neighbor — springs into action. He's obstructed by a prickly lieutenant, but wriggles information unknown to the police from a colorful bevy of suspects. Aided by his best friend Rebecca and his reluctant ally Detective Gerry Sloman, Damon engineers a deep dive into Jeremiah's past to solve the crime. Along the way, Damon strengthens his relationship with the breathtaking Bethany Krims, cracks a local horticultural mystery, and tries in vain to tame his wickedly sarcastic mother.

  

A Question of Honor by Charles Todd, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by William Morrow, is A Question of Honor by Charles Todd.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for August 2013. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of August 2013 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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A Question of Honor
Charles Todd
Series: Bess Crawford (5th)

Bess Crawford enjoyed a wondrous childhood in India, where her father, a colonel in the British Army, was stationed on the Northwest Frontier. But an unforgettable incident darkened that happy time. In 1908, Colonel Crawford's regiment discovered that it had a murderer in its ranks, an officer who killed five people in India and England yet was never brought to trial. In the eyes of many of these soldiers, men defined by honor and duty, the crime was a stain on the regiment's reputation and on the good name of Bess's father, the Colonel Sahib, who had trained the killer.

A decade later, tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess learns from a dying Indian sergeant that the supposed murderer, Lieutenant Wade, is alive — and serving at the Front. Bess cannot believe the shocking news. According to reliable reports, Wade's body had been seen deep in the Khyber Pass, where he had died trying to reach Afghanistan. Soon, though, her mind is racing. How had he escaped from India? What had driven a good man to murder in cold blood?

Wanting answers, she uses her leave to investigate. In the village where the first three killings took place, she discovers that the locals are certain that the British soldier was innocent. Yet the present owner of the house where the crime was committed believes otherwise, and is convinced that Bess's father helped Wade flee. To settle the matter once and for all, Bess sets out to find Wade and let the courts decide.

But when she stumbles on the horrific truth, something that even the famous writer Rudyard Kipling had kept secret all his life, she is shaken to her very core. The facts will damn Wade even as they reveal a brutal reality, a reality that could have been her own fate.

      

A New MystereBook: Havana Lost by Libby Fischer Hellmann

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 …

Havana Lost by Libby Fischer Hellmann is the author's third stand-alone thriller that explores through authentic historical detail how strife and revolution affect the human spirit. Hellmann is also the author of the Ellie Foreman and the Georgia Davis mystery series.

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Havana Lost by Libby Fischer Hellmann
A Historical Thriller
Publisher: The Red Herrings Press

On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her.

So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family. Decades later, the family is lured back to Cuba by the promise of untold riches. But pursuing those riches brings danger as well as opportunity, and ultimately, Francesca’s family must confront the lethal consequences of their choices.

  

Polo Solo, a Nick Polo Mystery by Jerry Kennealy, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Polo Solo by Jerry Kennealy, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Speaking Volumes.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (08/31/2013 at 1:30 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Polo Solo by Jerry Kennealy
A Nick Polo Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Speaking Volumes

Nick Polo — San Francisco-based, smart and slick private eye — sometimes bends the rules to get what he wants. But now he's in prison for bending the rules a bit too far, and he is given an ultimatum: The mayor of San Francisco is being blackmailed and no one can help her because even the cops may be involved. If Polo wants to get out of jail — and get his P.I. license back — he's got to find out who's behind the scam, stop it, and tell no one.

His investigation takes him from the luxurious resort areas of Sonoma County to the dangerous drug-and-pornography underworld of San Francisco's inner city. His suspects range from the seediest petty criminals and hit men to the most powerful men in the municipal government. As the investigation intensifies, and the pieces fall into place, there becomes only one thing Polo is sure of: he'd gladly go back to jail — if he could only get there alive.

(First published by St. Martin's Press in hardcover in July 1987.)

  

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A Lack of Temperance, a Hattie Davish Mystery by Anna Loan-Wilsey, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Lack of Temperance by Anna Loan-Wilsey, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Kensington.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (08/31/2013 at 1:00 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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A Lack of Temperance by Anna Loan-Wilsey
A Hattie Davish Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Kensington

On the eve of the heated presidential election of 1892, Miss Hattie Davish arrives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a scenic resort town where those without the scent of whiskey on their breath have the plight of temperance on their tongues. Summoned for her services as a private secretary, Hattie is looking forward to exploring the hills, indulging her penchant for botany--and getting to know the town's handsome doctor. But it's hard to get her job done with her employer nowhere to be found.

An army of unassuming women wielding hatchets have descended on the quiet Ozark village, destroying every saloon in their path — and leaving more than a few enemies in their wake. So when their beloved leader, Mother Trevelyan, is murdered, it's easy to point fingers. Now that she's working for a dead woman, Hattie turns to her trusty typewriter to get to the truth. And as she follows a trail of cryptic death threats, she'll come face to face with a killer far more dangerous than the Demon Rum …

    

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A New MystereBook: Turn on a Dime by Tiffany Snow

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 …

Turn on a Dime by Tiffany Snow is a companion novel to No Turning Back, the first book in the Kathleen Turner romantic suspense novels.

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Turn on a Dime by Tiffany Snow
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Tiffany Snow

Blane Kirk is a Navy SEAL turned high-powered attorney with old money and an even older pedigree. Yes, he plays the field, changing women as often as he changes his ties, but they're not complaining. He has only two rules – 1) Don't date employees and 2) Don't get emotionally involved. Those rules have served him well. He sees no reason to change his ways, until his Runner, an employee in his law firm named Kathleen Turner, does an unexpected face plant in his lap.

Kathleen's too young, too innocent, and suddenly much too vulnerable when her friend is murdered and Blane knows she could be next. Keeping her alive means keeping her close, but can Blane keep her safe … from him? Kathleen's like no woman he's ever met, and protecting her could be the one thing he never expected that would make his life turn on a dime.

  

Telemystery: HBO Orders Pilot for Westworld, based on the Michael Crichton Film

HBO has ordered a pilot for Westworld. J. J. Abrams will executive produce the project, which is based on the 1973 film thriller written and directed by Michael Crichton. The pilot screenplay will be written by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy.

Westworld is described as "a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin."

Abrams has produced a number of successful network television programs, but this will be its first for premium cable.

Reviews of Mystery and Suspense Books for Kids, New This Week on Book Trends (130831)

Book Trends, a review site for young adult's and children's books, published several new book reviews this past week. We're presenting here a summary of those in the mystery/suspense/thriller category.

SYLO by D.J. MacHale. The SYLO Chronicles. Lexile measure: N/A. Reviewed by a 6th grade student, who writes, "Overall I think book is a masterpiece of art, which blends all the elements of a great story together seamlessly. One of those things being its descriptiveness; it uses a dictionary's worth of descriptive vocabulary." (Read the full review of this middle grade action/adventure thriller, here.)

For more reviews of children and young adult books of all genres, visit Book Trends; their reviews will amaze you! You can also follow Book Trends on Twitter.

The Poisonous Ten by Tyler Compton is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Poisonous Ten by Tyler Compton as today's third free mystery ebook (A David Parks Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 31, 2013 at 7:30 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

For a summary of all of today's featured titles, plus any that may have appeared before and are repeat freebies, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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The Poisonous Ten
Tyler Compton
A David Parks Mystery
Publisher: Tyler Compton

A woman is found in an abandoned house, the victim of cyanide poisoning which has mottled her skin and turned her blood a dark shade of purple. Detective David Parks, battling his standing within the LAPD, is brought on to solve the murder. He is joined by forensic toxicologist Jacqueline Isley to solve what becomes a series of gruesome murders: A famous photographer bleeds to death from his eyes while a woman's own body chokes her to death as it shuts down, organ by organ.

Lives are threatened as Det. Parks and Dr. Isley get closer to the truth behind this poisonous killer. But as their feelings for each other intensify, Parks will have to discover just what he's willing to sacrifice and how far he'll go in order to stop a killer whose thirst for justice knows no limits — and whose obsession for vengeance knows no ends.

  

Important Note: This book was listed for free 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.

For more free mystery ebooks, visit our Free MystereBooks page.

Girl Jacked by Christopher Greyson is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Girl Jacked by Christopher Greyson as today's second free mystery ebook (A Jack Stratton Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 31, 2013 at 7:20 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

For a summary of all of today's featured titles, plus any that may have appeared before and are repeat freebies, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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Girl Jacked
Christopher Greyson
A Jack Stratton Mystery
Publisher: Christopher Greyson

Officer Jack Stratton is hiding. Hiding from the world. From pain. From the memories of losing his best friend, Chandler, in Iraq. Isolated from those he cares about, the last thing Jack expects to hear is; "Michelle is gone."

The words cut straight to his core. Chandler's sister is missing. Although the police think she just took off he knows Michelle would never leave those she loved behind — like he did.

Now he must take action, find Michelle and bring her home … or die trying.

With a debt of honor to his dead foster brother, Chandler, Jack's guilt drives him into a world of deception and lies. Chandler's sister Michelle is missing and the police have nothing to go on. As Jack's walls begin to crumble, he must navigate the quirky characters that seep into the mystery of Michelle's disappearance.

Jack has returned to the sleepy community of Darrington but like so many things in this world, nothing is as it appears to be. The hidden mysteries that often go unnoticed begin to emerge as Jack and his new unpredictable sidekick begin to turn over the rocks.

Following a trail that has grown cold, Jack must tread carefully to protect his job, his family, and his own life …

  

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For more free mystery ebooks, visit our Free MystereBooks page.

On the Riverside of Promise by Vasileios Kalampakas is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature On the Riverside of Promise by Vasileios Kalampakas as today's free mystery ebook (A Suspense Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 31, 2013 at 7:10 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

For a summary of all of today's featured titles, plus any that may have appeared before and are repeat freebies, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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On the Riverside of Promise
Vasileios Kalampakas
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Vasileios Kalampakas

Lagos, Nigeria. Summer of 1968. The war in Biafra is in full swing. Ethan Whittmore is a Captain of the Royal Marines, training government troops in support of the Nigerians.

When he learns of his brother's disappearance, a doctor with the Red Cross, he takes it upon himself to find his brother, dead or alive.

His efforts will lead him through the Nigerian jungles and rainforests amidst a bloody civil war. What lays at the end of the road though will be more than just an unexpected surprise and lots of broken promises …

  

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For more free mystery ebooks, visit our Free MystereBooks page.

Six Suspense Thrillers by Sandra Brown is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature six suspense thrillers by Sandra Brown as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. We're highlighting one of the titles, Exclusive, below.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Saturday, August 31, 2013.

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Exclusive
Sandra Brown
A Suspense Thriller
Grand Central

A second-stringer with first-class talent, Barrie Travis is stuck at a low-budget independent television station struggling to survive among the giant networks. Then, suddenly, she receives an invitation from First Lady Vanessa Merritt for an off-the-record conversation. Barrie's reporter's instincts are instantly aroused.

During a furtive, emotionally charged meeting, Barrie sees that the President's beautiful wife is stunned by grief after the crib death of her infant son. Vanessa's motive for meeting Barrie seems to be to share her heartache with another woman. What Barrie overlooks in her excitement at hearing the confidences of the First Lady are the questions she should be asking: Why would Vanessa Merritt call her? And why would the President's wife hint to an unknown reporter that her child may have been murdered?

Blind to everything but getting her exclusive, Barrie is determined to investigate the death of the President's child. But she soon realizes that getting her story will test her ethics and her patriotism. Would she expose information that could topple the presidency?

She confronts this problem when she tracks down Gray Bondurant, a former presidential aide and war hero who shunned the politics of Washington in favor of life on a remote Wyoming ranch. And when they both begin to follow a trail of lies and intrigue right to the White House door, Barrie's exclusive puts at least three people on the firing line: the First Lady, Gray, and herself — as crimes and ambitions combine to endanger their lives and the future of the nation.

Click on the Amazon button to see also the special Whispersync offer associated with this title.

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (130831)

Here is today's mystery and suspense update from Big Fish Games …

• The New Release is Mystery Trackers: Silent Hollow.

• The Daily Deal is Redemption Cemetery: Grave Testimony, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Whispers, just $2.99 through Sunday, September 01, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Labor Day Weekend Sale: 50% Off All Standard and Collector's Edition Games! Use coupon code LABORDAY to get any Collector's Edition game for just $9.99; use coupon code WORKERS to get any Standard game for just $4.99. Offer valid through September 2nd, 2013 only until 11:59 PM PT.

Visit the Omnimystery Entertainment Network for more games of mystery and suspense!

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Today's New Release is Mystery Trackers: Silent Hollow

There are screams heard in Silent Hollow … Trouble at the Mystery Trackers headquarters means you're called in to help. With a few extra abilities, not to mention your trusty sidekick, Elf, you just might save the day! Uncover the treachery of a centuries-old turncoat in this incredible follow-up to the bestselling Mystery Trackers series.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour.

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Today's Daily Deal is Redemption Cemetery: Grave Testimony

Escape a cursed island inhabited by lost souls! After a strange twist of fate, you find yourself stranded on an eerie island. As you search for a way to cross the treacherous waters, an otherworldly boatman appears and tells you the only way to return home alive is to help three of the poor spirits trapped on the island. Travel through history and right the wrongs of the past to earn your passage home in this thrilling Hidden Object adventure!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Saturday, August 31, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Whispers

While doing some fieldwork Charlotte Davis has her soul captured by an evil sorcerer! Help her escape his terrifying clutches and return to her body! Escape from the sorcerer's home with the help of another captured spirit and use your willpower to return to your body in this incredible Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game. Travel through dangerous locations and make it home safely!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game at the special price of $2.99 through Sunday, September 01, 2013.

A New MystereBook: The Killing Rain by P. J. Parrish

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 …

The Killing Rain by P. J. Parrish is the sixth entry in this series featuring PI Louis Kincard, first published by Pinnacle in 2005. It also introduces Joe Frye, a former Miami homicide detective who later gets her own series, though the two appear together in several of the books that follow.

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The Killing Rain by P. J. Parrish
A Louis Kincaid Thriller
Publisher: Our Noir

A deep freeze is bearing down on the Florida Everglades, the kind of brutal storm the locals call a killing rain. For detective Louis Kincaid, the coldest night of the year has brought a terrifying new chill — the kidnapping of a boy who has come to look up to Louis as a father-figure.

But Louis soon realizes this is not a routine kidnapping. It is the start of a killing spree by two ruthless men who are using the boy as a pawn in a deadly game. With time running out, Kincaid must track his twisted adversaries who are one step away from committing the ultimate horror.

  

Telemystery: Crossing Lines Renewed for a 2nd Season

The French-German produced English-language crime drama Crossing Lines has been renewed for a second 12-episode season … though NBC, which aired the first season this summer has not committed to airing it next year.

The series is centered on the International Criminal Court's (fictional) special crime unit that investigates crimes that cross international borders, and stars William Fichtner as a former NYPD detective specifically recruited to be a part of the team that also includes members from France, Italy, Germany, and Northern Ireland.

Keep up to date on the status of your favorite mystery and suspense television with our Telemystery Scoresheet. We've updated it with today's news.

Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Scribner, is Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for August 2013. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of August 2013 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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Bones of the Lost
Kathy Reichs
Series: Temperance Brennan (16th)

When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. The girl's body shows signs of foul play. Inside her purse, police find an airline club card bearing the name of prominent local businessman John-Henry Story, who died in a horrific fire months earlier. How did Story and the girl know each other? Was she an illegal immigrant turning tricks? Was she murdered? Was he?

Tempe must also examine a bundle of Peruvian dog mummies confiscated by U.S. Customs. A Desert Storm veteran named Dominick Rockett stands accused of smuggling the objects into the country. Could there be some connection between the trafficking of antiquities and the trafficking of humans?

As the complications pile on, Tempe must also grapple with personal turmoil. Her daughter, Katy, grieving the death of her boyfriend in Afghanistan, impulsively enlists in the army. Meanwhile, Katy's father, Pete, is growing frustrated by Tempe's reluctance to finalize their divorce. As pressure mounts from all corners, Tempe soon finds herself at the center of a conspiracy that extends all the way from South America to Afghanistan and right to the center of Charlotte.