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Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Review: The Fishy Business by Maxwell Eaton III
Fox Cancels Terra Nova
Fox has canceled its prehistoric thriller Terra Nova. It premiered last September and aired 12 titled episodes (including the 2-part opening episode, "Genesis") through December 2011.
We tuned in to the first 15-20 minutes of the first episode, thought it moved along far too slowly to watch in real time, and decided to catch it later On Demand. We never did. Maybe that says something about how impatient we are as viewers, the need to be immediately engaged otherwise we look elsewhere.
The studio and producers are reportedly trying to interest other networks in continuing the series.
The Killing Room by John Manning is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Killing Room by John Manning as today's third free mystery ebook.
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The Killing Room by John Manning
Publisher: Pinnacle
About The Killing Room (from the publisher): Old houses have their secrets.
The Young residence — a beautiful Maine mansion overlooking the Atlantic — is no exception. But the secrets here are different. They can kill …
Carolyn Cartwright, private detective and ex-FBI agent, has been hired by Howard Young to investigate a string of gruesome family deaths. The crimes are horrific, brutal, and senseless. And the time has come for the killing to begin again …
One by one, members of the Young family are chosen to die. Old and young, weak and strong, no one is safe from a killer with a limitless thirst for revenge. And the only way for Carolyn to uncover the shocking truth is to enter the room no one has ever left alive — and make herself the next target …
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Becoming Quinn by Brett Battles is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
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Becoming Quinn by Brett Battles
A Jonathan Quinn Mystery
Publisher: Brett Battles
This novella is a prequel to the Jonathan Quinn series, the second of which — The Deceived — was the winner of the 2009 Barry Award for Best Thriller.
About Becoming Quinn (from the publisher): Most careers begin with an interview and a handshake. Others require a little … something more.
Meet Jake Oliver. The day will come when he's one of the best cleaners in the business, a man skilled at making bodies disappear. At the moment, however, he's a twenty-two year old rookie cop, unaware his life is about to change.
In a burning barn a body is found — and the fire isn't the cause of death. The detectives working the case have a pretty good idea about what went down. But Officer Oliver thinks it's something else entirely, and pursues a truth others would prefer remain hidden — others who will go to extreme lengths to keep him quiet.
Every identity has an origin. This is Quinn's.
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The Black Minute by Christopher Valen is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
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The Black Minute by Christopher Valen
A John Santana Mystery
Publisher: Conquill Press
This second mystery in this series was the winner of the 2009 Reader Views First Place Award for Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Horror Novel.
About The Black Minute (from the publisher): When the body of a young, Hmong woman is found on Harriet Island near the Mississippi River, it appears to be a simple case of murder and revenge. But what begins as a routine investigation soon becomes something far more sinister. Paired with a Hmong partner he’s not sure he can trust, and attracted to a beautiful woman with dark secrets, St. Paul Homicide Detective John Santana is drawn into a maze of political intrigue and broken promises made during the Vietnam War. Trusting his instincts and determined to find justice, Santana uncovers a web of lies and a terrifying plot that could lead to a national disaster — and to his own death.
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Quiver by Holly Luhning is Today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Quiver by Holly Luhning as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, March 06, 2012.
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Quiver by Holly Luhning
Publisher: Pegasus
A masterful debut thriller about the original female Dracula and an underground gothic cult reenacting her ritualized killings in present day London.
About Quiver (from the publisher): In sixteenth-century Hungary, Countess Elizabeth Bathory tortured and killed over six hundred servant girls in order to bathe in their blood. She believed this practice would keep her skin youthful and her beauty immortal.
Quiver tells the story of Danica, a forensic psychologist who works at a former insane asylum-turned-forensic hospital. One of Danica’s mental patients is Malcolm Foster, who is imprisoned for murdering a fourteen-year-old girl. Foster is a menacing but fascinating patient and Danica begins to suspect that Foster may have been the head of a Gothic cabal idolizing Bathory. Her peers dismiss her discoveries, while disturbing incidents begin following her home from work.
Soon after her arrival in London, Danica receives a mysterious note from Maria, a seductive archivist with whom Danica has had an intriguing and complicated past. Maria claims she has Bathory’s diaries that chronicle her relentless torture of young women. As Maria increasingly insinuates herself into Danica’s life, soon Danica is in too deep to notice that Maria’s motivations are far from selfless; in fact, they may just cost Danica her life.
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Monday, March 05, 2012
Director Hired for Film Adaptation of Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner
It was back in May 2010 that we last reported on the film adaptation of Carpe Demon, the first mystery in the Kate Connor, Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom series by Julie Kenner.
Today we're learning that a screenplay has been written — by Dan Hagerman and Kevin Hagerman — and that Andre Øvredal (TrollHunter) will direct.
Carpe Demon introduces Kate Connor, a woman who put her career aside to raise kids in the suburbs. She hasn't, for instance, hunted a demon in ages.
That must be why she missed the one wandering through the pet food aisle of the San Diablo WalMart. Unfortunately, he managed to catch her attention an hour later — when he crashed into the Connor house, intent on killing her.
Now Kate has to clean up the mess in her kitchen, dispose of a dead demon, and pull together a dinner party that will get her husband elected to County Attorney — all without arousing her family's suspicion. Worse yet, it seems the dead demon didn't come alone …
It's time for Kate Connor to go back to work.
The fifth, and most recent, book in the series is Demon Ex Machina, which was published in 2009.
(Related article: Empire.)
Screenwriter Hired for Film Adaptation of The Expats by Chris Pavone
CBS Films is quickly moving forward with its film adaptation of The Expats by Chris Pavone, hiring Alex Holmes (House of Saddam) to write the screenplay. The studio optioned the book, which is published tomorrow, last month.
The book's storyline follows Kate Moore, a working mother struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage … and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start anew.
She begins to reinvent herself as an expat, finding her way in a language she doesn't speak, doing the housewifely things she's never before done — play dates and coffee mornings, daily cooking and never-ending laundry. Meanwhile, her husband works incessantly, at a job Kate has never understood, for a banking client she's not allowed to know. He's becoming distant and evasive; she's getting lonely and bored.
Then another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they say they are, and she's terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun, a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money, and finally unravels the mind-boggling long-play con that threatens her family, her marriage, and her life.
(Related article: The Hollywood Reporter.)
Cogan's Trade Film Adaptation Now Titled Killing Them Softly
We actually haven't heard much recently about the film adaptation of Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins. The film stars Brad Pitt as Jackie Cogan, a mob enforcer called in when a high-stakes card game under the protection of the Mob is taken.
But the film apparently has a new title; Variety reporter Jeff Sneider tweeted last night, "Mini-scoop: The Brad Pitt pic Cogan's Trade has been retitled Killing Them Softly."
Hmm ... kind of an odd choice, in our opinion. It's not as if Cogan's Trade is a common film title. Maybe that's why they pay the film producers the big bucks, to make important decisions like this!
Cogan's Trade … err, Killing Them Softly … opens in theaters September 21st, 2012.
Mr. E. Reviews The Son of No One
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This film is a near-to-complete miss on several levels … which is really discouraging as it boasts a stellar cast and a strong premise. The director/screenwriter seems to have been far too focused on individual elements of the film that were not important to the story to the detriment of the film as a whole.
Read the full text of our review at Mr. E. Reviews The Son of No One.
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