Omnimystery News is pleased to help promote World Book Night, the goal of which is to give books to new readers, to encourage reading, to share your passion for a great book. The entire publishing, bookstore, library, author, printing, and paper community is behind this effort with donated services and time.
You can help too! Book-loving volunteers are needed to fan out across America on April 23, 2012 — the UNESCO International Day of the Book. Just take 20 free copies of a book to a location in your community, and you just might change someone's life. These books will be specially-produced, not-for-resale World Book Night U.S. paperback editions, and there will be 30 titles for you to choose from — including, we're pleased to see, a number of mysteries and suspense novels.
Please sign up to be a volunteer by February 1st 6th (deadline extended!) by visiting WorldBookNight.org.
Friday, January 20, 2012
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Murder at the War by Mary Monica Pulver is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder at the War by Mary Monica Pulver as today's second free mystery ebook.
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Murder at the War by Mary Monica Pulver
A Peter Brichter Mystery
Publisher: St. Martin's Press/FTL Publications
The author of the popular "Needlecraft" mysteries, Monica Ferris began writing mysteries in the 1980s using her maiden name. Nominated for an Anthony Award for Best First Novel, Murder at the War is the first of five books in this series.
About Murder at the War (from the publisher): The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is a group of enthusiasts who research and selectively re-create the Middle Ages for knowledge and for fun. At their events, they wear historical clothing and call each other by medieval-style character names. Once a year, they meet to display their handiwork and stage a mock medieval war.
Policeman Peter Brichter (known in the SCA as Stefan von Helle) and his wife, Kori (known as Katherine of Tretower) go to the war for the fun. But the revelry turns deadly serious when a known troublemaker, Thorstane Shieldbreaker, is actually murdered. The local police, anxious to find the culprit, turn their attention to Peter and Kori as suspects once they find the two have quarreled with Thorstane. It is up to Lord Stefan and Lady Katherine, with their inside knowledge of the SCA, to clear their names and solve the crime.
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The Delilah Complex by M. J. Rose is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Delilah Complex by M. J. Rose as today's free mystery ebook.
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The Delilah Complex by M. J. Rose
A Butterfield Institute Thriller
Publisher: Mira Books
This is the second book in this series, one that we called in our review "an unusually effective mystery".
About The Delilah Complex (from the publisher): As one of New York's top sex therapists, Dr. Morgan Snow sees everything from the abused to the depraved. The Butterfield Institute is the sanctuary where she tries to heal these battered souls.
The Scarlet Society is a secret club of twelve powerful and sexually adventurous women. But when a photograph of the body of one of the men they're recruited to dominate — strapped to a gurney, the number 1 inked on the sole of his foot — is sent to the New York Times, they are shocked and frightened. Unable to cope with the tragedy, the women turn to Dr. Morgan Snow. But what starts out as grief counseling quickly becomes a murder investigation, with any one of the twelve women a potential suspect.
The case leads Detective Noah Jordan — a man with whom Morgan has shared a brief, intense connection — to her office. He fears the number on the man's foot hints that the killings have just begun. With her hands tied by her professional duty, Morgan is dangerously close to the demons in her own mind — and the flesh-and-blood killer.
Read our review of The Delilah Complex by M. J. Rose.
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Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending January 20, 2012
A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending January 20th, 2012 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.
We're not sure we've ever seen this happen before, but after spending much of 2010 at number one and then finally dropping out of the top 10, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson has retained the top spot on our list this week. It's by only the barest of margins, but still … wow!
One new title debuts.
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Entering the list at number 12 is the 17th mystery to feature national park ranger Anna Pigeon, The Rope by Nevada Barr, a prequel to the series.
In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna goes hiking into the park never to return. Her co-workers think she’s simply moved on — her cabin is cleaned out and her things gone. But Anna herself wakes up, trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies and no clear memory of how she found herself in this situation.
As she slowly pieces together her memory, it soon becomes clear that someone has trapped her there, in an inescapable prison, and no one knows that she is even missing. Plunged into a landscape and a plot she is unfit and untrained to handle, Anna Pigeon must muster the courage, determination and will to live that she didn’t even know she still possessed to survive, outwit and triumph.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
The World Will Be Watching: A New Poster for The Hunger Games
A new poster for the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games has been released (right; click for larger version). The tagline: "The world will be watching."
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. A twisted punishment for a past uprising and an ongoing government intimidation tactic, The Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which "Tributes" must fight with one another until one survivor remains.
Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she's ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
The Hunger Games stars Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, and Josh Hutcherson as her fellow competitor Peeta. The film also stars Liam Hemsworth as her friend Gale and Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy.
The Hunger Games opens in US theaters March 23rd, 2012. Watch a trailer for the film below.
New Poster for Safe, an Action Thriller with Jason Statham
A new poster for the Jason Statham action thriller — actually, that's probably a bit redundant; we're not sure we've ever seen a Jason Statham film that wasn't an action thriller — Safe has been released (right; click for larger version).
Statham stars as Luke Wright, a second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, who lives a numbing life of routine beatings and chump change … until the day he blows a rigged fight. Wanting to make an example of him, the Russian Mafia murders his family and banishes him from his life forever, leaving Luke to wander the streets of New York destitute, haunted by guilt, and tormented by the knowledge that he will always be watched, and anyone he develops a relationship with will also be killed.
But when he witnesses a frightened twelve-year-old Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same gangsters who killed his wife, Luke impulsively jumps to action … and straight into the heart of a deadly high-stakes war. Mei, he discovers, is no ordinary girl, but an orphaned math prodigy forced to work for the Triads as a "counter." He discovers she holds in her memory a priceless numerical code that the Triads, the Russian mob and a corrupt faction of the NYPD will kill for.
Realizing he's the only person Mei can trust, Luke tears a swath through the city's brutal underworld to save an innocent girl's life … and perhaps even redeem his own.
Safe is scheduled to be in theaters April 27th, 2012. Watch a trailer for the film below.
Nominations for the 2012 Edgar Awards Announced
The nominations for the 2012 Edgar Awards have been announced by the Mystery Writers of America, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2011.
The awards will be presented to the winners at the 66th Gala Banquet, April 26, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.
Best Novel
• The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Putnam)
• Gone by Mo Hayder (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)
• 1222 by Anne Holt (Scribner)
• Field Gray by Philip Kerr (Putnam)
Best First Novel
• Red on Red by Edward Conlon (Spiegel & Grau)
• Last to Fold by David Duffy (St. Martin's Press)
• All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press)
• Bent Road by Lori Roy (Dutton)
• Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder (Minotaur Books)
Best Paperback Original
• The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit Books)
• The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle (Felony & Mayhem)
• The Dog Sox by Russell Hill (Caravel Mystery Books)
• Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley (Harper)
• Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis (Random House)
Best Fact Crime
• The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins (Crown)
• The Savage City by T. J. English (William Morrow)
• Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard (Doubleday)
• Girl, Wanted by Steve Miller (Berkley)
• The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal (Viking)
Best Critical/Biographical
• Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
• On Conan Doyle by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
• Detective Women by Philippa Gates (SUNY Press)
• The Tattooed Girl by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer, and John-Henri Holmberg (St. Martin's Griffin)
• Scripting Hitchcock by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (University of Illinois Press)
Best Short Story
• "Marley's Revolution" (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine) by John C. Boland
• "Tomorrow's Dead" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine) by David Dean
• "The Adakian Eagle" (Down These Strange Streets) by Bradley Denton
• "Lord John and the Plague of Zombies" (Down These Strange Streets) by Diana Gabaldon
• "The Case of Death and Honey" (A Study in Sherlock) by Neil Gaiman
• "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine) by Peter Turnbull
Best Juvenile
• Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger (Amulet Books)
• It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster)
• Vanished by Sheela Chari (Hyperion)
• Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
• The Wizard of Dark street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Edmont)
Best Young Adult
• Shelter by Harlan Coben (Putnam)
• The Girl Is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines (Roaring Creek Press)
• The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Putnam)
• The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (Knopf)
• Kill You Last by Todd Strasser (Egmont)
Best Play
• Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club by Jeffrey Hatcher (Arizona Theater Company)
• The Game's Afoot by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse)
Best Television Episode Screenplay
• "The Life Inside" (Justified) by Benjamin Cavell
• "Part 1" (Whitechapel) by Ben Court and Caroline Ip
• "Innocence" (Blue Bloods) by Siobhan Byrne O'Connor
• "Pilot" (Homeland) by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, and Gideon Raff
• "Mask" (Law & Order: SVU) by Speed Weed
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "A Good Man of Business" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine) by David Ingram
Grand Master: Martha Grimes
Raven Awards:
M is for Mystery Bookstore
Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries
Ellery Queen Award: Joe Meyers, Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group: by
Simon & Schuster/Mary Higgins Clark Award
• Now You See Me by S. J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
• Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron (William Morrow)
• Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick (Minotaur Books)
• Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown)
• Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely (Minotaur Books)
(Source: Press release.)
ToxiCity by Libby Fischer Hellmann is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature ToxiCity by Libby Fischer Hellmann as today's second free mystery ebook.
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ToxiCity by Libby Fischer Hellmann
A Georgia Davis Mystery
Publisher: The Red Herrings
A dark police procedural and thriller, this third mystery to feature private investigator Georgia Davis is set ten years before the series debut, Easy Innocence.
About ToxiCity (from the publisher): Georgia Davis was once a police officer on the force in a Chicago suburb. And while homicides are rare on the North Shore, three bodies turn up in quick succession — all of them dumped in waste disposal dumpsters or landfills. The investigations into the murders test the mettle and professionalism of a combined police task force. Along the way, they also test the strength of Georgia's relationship with one of the detectives working the case. While Georgia, her detective boyfriend Matt, and his sometime partner John Stone pit their skills against those of an inventive killer, the daughter of a real estate mogul — who just happens to have her eye on Matt — complicates matters.
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Adjourned by Lee Goldberg is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Adjourned by Lee Goldberg as today's free mystery ebook.
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Adjourned by Lee Goldberg
The Jury Series
Publisher: Adventures in Television
This action/adventure novel was published in 1985 by Lee Goldberg under the pen name Ian Ludlow. Originally titled Make Them Pay, it is the second of the four books in this series.
About Adjourned (from the publisher): After a family tragedy, Brett Macklin has sworn to take the law into his own hands and make the guilty pay. This time, Macklin's target is Wesley Saputo, porn kingpin and murderer, who has slipped through the courts time after time, only to kidnap, rape and kill again … and again. Macklin's mission: locate and destroy Saputo before he finds another innocent life to destroy.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Haywire Opens in Theaters Friday, January 20th
This Friday, January 20th, the action thriller Haywire opens in theaters. The film's tagline: "They left her no choice."
Gina Carano stars as Mallory Kane, a highly trained operative, who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency. Suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must find the truth in order to stay alive. Using her black-ops military training, she devises an ingenious — and dangerous — trap. But when things go haywire, Mallory realizes she'll be killed in the blink of an eye unless she finds a way to turn the tables on her ruthless adversary.
The film, directed by Steven Soderbergh, also stars Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas, and Michael Douglas.
Watch a trailer for Haywire below.
