We've just published our Review of One Blood by Graeme Kent. A Ben Kella and Sister Conchita Mystery. Soho Crime Hardcover, February 2012.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Review: One Blood by Graeme Kent
Free MystereBooks Today: Two More New, Two Repeat Titles
MystereBooks is pleased to feature two more new and several repeat titles as today's additional free mystery ebooks. These titles were listed as free as of the date and time of this post. 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 prices of the books before completing your transaction.
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Stress Fracture by D. P. Lyle A Dub Walker Mystery Publisher: Medallion Press
Crime scene and evidence analyst Dub Walker is introduced in this mystery.
About Stress Fracture (from the publisher): When Dub Walker's close friend Sheriff Mike Savage becomes the victim of a gruesome murder, the forensic expert is called upon to track down the serial killer who's been terrorizing the county. Having been involved in more than 100 cases of foul play and witnessed the bloody remains of rape, torture, and unthinkable mutilation, Dub thought he had seen it all — yet the killer is unlike any murderer Dub has ever encountered. Vacillating between wildly divergent personalities fueled by post traumatic stress disorder — at times calm, cold, and calculating; at others maniacal and out of control — the psychopath taunts, threatens, and outmaneuvers Dub at every turn. The stakes are suddenly elevated as Dub uncovers a deadly conspiracy tainted with unrestrained greed, corruption, and ties to the military establishment and the medical community.
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The Voynich Cypher by Russell Blake A Steven Cross (Steven Archer) Thriller Publisher: Manana Publishing
About The Voynich Cypher (from the publisher): When a sacred relic is stolen from its subterranean guarded vault, Dr. Steven Cross, amateur cryptographer, becomes embroiled in a deadly quest to decipher one of history's most enigmatic documents — a 15th century parchment written entirely in unbreakable code … The Voynich Manuscript. Stalked by secret societies, and aided by the daughter of a murdered colleague, a trail of riddles catapults Cross from England to Italy to the Middle East, where a Byzantine web of ancient secrets leads him to a revelation so profound it will change the world order.
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The Halo Effect by M. J. Rose A Butterfield Institute Thriller Publisher: Mira Books
About The Halo Effect (from the publisher): The first book in the Butterfield Institute series featuring sex therapist Dr. Morgan Snow. In each book she struggles with the conflict of preserving her patient's privacy and the dangerous and sometimes criminal things she hears. She sees everything from the abused to the depraved, from the couples grappling with sexual boredom to twisted sociopaths with dark, erotic fetishes and the Butterfield institute is the sanctuary where she helps soothe and heal these battered souls.
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Friends, and Other Perishables by Dale Whisman A Carl Jacobs Mystery Publisher: Deadly Niche Press
Written by a licensed private investigator, this first in a series of three (to date) introduces PI Carl Jacobs.
About Friends, and Other Perishables (from the publisher): Carl Jacobs agrees to meet an informant, Jimmy "The Blue" Jay, a man Carl grew up with. Jimmy has been a guest in Carl's house and is considered almost a member of the family by Carl's wife, Sherry, and their two young daughters. But apparently Jimmy has other friends. As soon as Carl arrives, Jimmy starts shooting at him from a dark alley. Carl is wounded but returns fire, and Jimmy is killed. Now Carl has to find out why Jimmy tried to murder him. The solution to this puzzle becomes even more urgent when subsequent attempts are made on Carl's life. The answer he seeks lies somewhere within the maze of a multi-million dollar insurance fraud scheme perpetrated by an attorney and a chiropractor, and a lot of very greedy "accident victims". Some people prove ruthless when millions of dollars are at stake. And some men can be even more ruthless when their families are threatened.
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Review: When the Smoke Clears by Lynette Eason
We've just published our Review of When the Smoke Clears by Lynette Eason. A "Deadly Reunions" Mystery. Revell Trade Paperback, February 2012.
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New Preview Video for Sherlock, Season Two
PBS has uploaded a preview video of the second season of Sherlock; we've embedded it below.
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Sherlock Holmes in this contemporary update of the character created by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Masterpiece Mystery! will air the three episodes of this second season beginning May 6th, 2012, adapted from the Holmes' stories A Scandal in Belgravia, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Final Problem (filmed as "The Reichenbach Fall"). These episodes aired in the UK earlier this year.
BBC has already commissioned a third season of the series.
So mark your calendars for May 6th! We can hardly wait ourselves.
8th Jesse Stone Movie May Be Last One for CBS
Benefit of the Doubt, the eighth "Jesse Stone" movie is scheduled to air on Sunday, May 20th, but Tom Selleck — who plays the character — says it may be the last … at least for CBS.
"Bless them, they've done eight of these and they always perform far above what's normally in the time slot, but they are constantly perplexed: 'We're not in the two-hour movie business.'", he says in an interview with Zap2It. "That being said, that's not the end of Jesse, or at least I don't think so. There are a lot of other entities, whether cable or even feature films, but this is most likely the last one on CBS. I'm not done with the character, though."
We're fans of the series, based on a character created by Robert B. Parker, and hope that Selleck — who recently assumed the role of executive producer for the films and has co-written the screenplays for the last couple — can find a way to continue the "Jesse Stone" franchise.
OMN Welcomes Mystery Author Virginia Benson
Omnimystery News is pleased to welcome Virginia Benson, whose second novel — but her first mystery — is Engineered Murder.
Today Virginia's protagonist, Bernard Knowlton, would like to introduce himself — and his first case — to our readers.
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My name is Detective Knowlton and my sergeant, Officer Arthur Corn, and I are enjoying Christmas Past. It is well into the first month of the New Year, and I have just begun a new diet. Juanita Corn, wife of Sgt. Corn, is expecting hers and Arthur's first baby and all is going well in Wichita, Kansas. That is, it was going well … until murder invades our prairie town and stakes a claim.
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Virginia Benson
It is blizzard conditions outside and my patrol beat has summoned me from my cozy fire and surround-sound music out into a blizzard to investigate a dead body in the library of Pollard and Thorne Engineering Company. I am fifty years old, overweight, a widower with a daughter in university, and I was planning to keep my feet propped up all evening and read a good book.
Forty minutes later, Sgt. Corn and I stand in the doorway of the firm's library and look at the body sprawled on the bloody Oriental rug. Who is it? Why is it here? The body lying on the exquisite Persian rug has been bludgeoned into an unsightly mess, but I can tell this was once a beautiful woman. The books on the shelves cannot talk or they might tell me what happened. Sgt. Maybre has given a cup of coffee to the cleaner, Sharon, who discovered the body and she waits in the kitchen of the firm for her interviewer. Maybe I'll get some answers then.
A bronze replica of Rodin's "The Thinker" is lying blood-covered at my feet. I have climbed the library ladder to the top of the stacks where it once rested. Who removed it? When I find that out, you might think I would have my killer; but it is a lot more complicated than that. As are most murders. Love, fear, money: one or all can play a part when a human being takes a life.
I have my qualms, and as I feared, another murder site soon will call to me. A former employee of this engineering company ― killed in a particularly callous, vicious manner ― will call to me from beyond the grave to find another killer. Or perhaps it is the same one who killed here tonight.
Who is this fiend? Something tells me I will have to employ all my police skills to find out who committed this murder.
[An aside from the author] Knowlton doesn't know it now, but he will have to travel to South Florida to investigate a fatal traffic accident that he will discover is tied to this murder. With good detective work he and Corn will find not only who killed but why.
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When not teaching computer applications at a technical school near her home in Pompano Beach, Florida, Virginia Benson reads (a lot of mysteries), enjoys the ocean nearby, dines with friends, and, of course, writes. Learn more about her and her books at VirginiaBenson.com.
And here's a special offer from Virginia: If you are one of the first two (2) people to visit her website and enter your name and address in the form which you will find there under the Contact tab, she will mail you a courtesy trade paperback edition of Engineered Murder. All she asks in return is that upon reading the mystery you post a review of it at Amazon.com.
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About Engineered Murder:
When Sharon came to clean the offices of a Wichita, Kansas engineering firm, she didn't expect to find a dead body in the firm's library. Pollard and Thorne Engineering, Inc., is engaged in designing plans for a controversial project for the U.S. government that moves the firm into the cross-hairs of the guns of opponents. Police Detective Bernard Knowlton and Sgt. Corn must find out what would make someone take the enormous risk of killing the victim at work.
Is international intrigue the reason for the death of Caroline Moore, the young, beautiful project manager of the government project; or does the reason lie closer to home? Kevin Moore, the disingenuous husband of the victim, has the best of motives, perhaps, but his grief at her death appears genuine. Chase Pollard, wife of the senior partner, has a strong motive for killing Caroline and appears a good candidate, but she has, perhaps, extracted revenge in a more satisfyingly feminine way.
The two partners of the firm, Dr. Garrison Pollard and Baxter Thorne, both have lives that might not bear too much scrutiny, and it appears to Knowlton that they are desperate that he not open too many closets. Other employees of the firm, past and present, have reasons to dislike Caroline.
The day of Caroline's funeral there is another murder and there is a body dumped on her fresh grave. Now, Detective Knowlton must enter a race to prevent a desperate killer from striking a third time. He pulls the curtains in the book-shrouded room whereupon Caroline Moore lies murdered, pokes under the Oriental rug soaked with her blood, and sweeps out evidence that ranges from a fatal accident on Florida's I-95 to a Washington D.C. cabal, and back to the small firm. When the second murder occurs, he vows to prevent a desperate killer from striking once more.
Papoosed by Patricia Rockwell is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Papoosed by Patricia Rockwell as today's second free mystery ebook.
This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. 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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Papoosed by Patricia Rockwell
An Essie Cobb, Senior Sleuth Mystery
Publisher: Cozy Cat Press
This is the second mystery (of two to date) in this series.
About Papoosed (from the publisher): The Happy Haven Assisted Living Facility is a home for senior citizens — not newborn babies. So, when one of the kitchen workers asks ninety-year-old resident Essie Cobb to secretly care for his missing co-worker's infant, she is flabbergasted but determined. Along with her intrepid friends — Marjorie, Opal, and Fay — amateur sleuth Essie sets out to hide and protect the baby — and find his missing mother.
Unfortunately, Essie is expecting to deal with exterminators, suspicious neighbors, virus outbreaks, and the snowstorm of the century. Luckily, Essie is one smart cookie, and if anyone can manage to reunite a mother and child right before Christmas — it's Essie.
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Noho by James Davis is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Noho by James Davis as today's free mystery ebook.
This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. 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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Noho by James Davis
Publisher: Wild Wolf
About Noho (from the publisher): When a dead dancing girl with all the wrong connections is found with Nick Valentine's name scrawled on a scrap of paper in her pocket, life gets a lot more complicated for the disgraced Great War hero. Unwillingly drawn into a web of espionage and crime in the underbelly of 1930's London, Nick soon discovers that who killed her may be less important than why.
With British Intelligence leaning on Nick to use his underworld connections to investigate the girl's killing, it soon becomes clear that there's more to the murder than meets the eye. Nick soon finds himself at odds not just with the authorities, but on the wrong side of Soho's gangland bosses and pursued by a foreign spy ring.
Trawling Fitzrovia and Soho's demi-monde of clubs, cabarets and pubs for answers, Nick realizes that the stakes go beyond national security, and that no one can be trusted. As the net closes and the case draws to an increasingly bloody conclusion, Nick is left to tie up the loose ends at a terrible personal cost.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Two New Teaser Videos for The Killing Season Two
AMC has released two teaser trailers for the second season of The Killing; we've embedded them below.
Gotta give AMC credit: they realize that they — or more specifically, the series showrunner Veena Sud — botched the viewer experience with the first season and are doing their best to put a positive spin on the second season, with statements like "Last season was just the beginning: The investigation that became an obsession reopens as Sarah Linden delves deeper into the mystery of who killed Rosie Larsen."
Despite our general admiration for the characters and storyline from the first season, we're still torn about whether or not we'll tune in again. It's impossible to forget, and so hard to forgive, the arrogance shown by Veena Sud last season that we're understandably reluctant to invest precious hours of our time in the show, with the very real possibility of being bitterly disappointed by her again.
The second season premieres on Sunday, April 1st, 2012, at 8 PM (ET/PT) with a two-hour episode.
CBS Renews Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, CSI, and 5 more Crime Dramas
CBS officially announced the renewal of 18 series today, including the following prime time crime dramas (in alphabetical order):
• Blue Bloods
• Criminal Minds
• CSI
• Hawaii Five-0
• The Mentalist
• NCIS
• NCIS: Los Angeles
• Person of Interest
Current CBS shows that are not on this list are not officially canceled … so stay tuned (as it were).
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