Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter is Today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find for Families

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter as today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find for Families. The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, April 10, 2012.

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Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter
A Gallagher Girls Mystery
Publisher: Hyperion

This is the second mystery in this series for young adults set at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women.

About Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (from the publisher): After staking out, obtaining, and then being forced to give up her first boyfriend, Josh, all Cammie Morgan wants is a peaceful semester. But that's easier said than done when you're a CIA legacy and go to the premier school in the world … for spies.

Cammie may have a genius I.Q., but there are still a lot of things she doesn't know. Like, will her ex-boyfriend even remember she exists? And how much trouble is she really in after what happened last semester? And most of all, why is her mother acting so strangely?

Despite Cammie's best intentions to be a normal student, danger seems to follow her. She and her friends learn that their school is going to play host to some mysterious guests — code name: Blackthorne. Then she's blamed for a security breach that leaves the school's top secret status at risk.

Soon, Cammie and her friends are crawling through walls and surveilling the school to learn the truth about Blackthorne and clear Cammie's name. Even though they have confidence in their spy skills, this time the targets are tougher (and hotter), and the stakes for Cammie's heart — and her beloved school — are higher than ever.

Important Note: Barnes&Noble updates its Nook Daily Find every day at approximately midnight PT. The title referenced above is available at a discounted price for Tuesday, April 10, 2012 only.

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Last Exit in New Jersey by C. E. Grundler is Today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Last Exit in New Jersey by C. E. Grundler as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $0.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, April 10, 2012.

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Last Exit in New Jersey by C. E. Grundler
A Hazel Moran Mystery
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Gritty, offbeat, and darkly funny, this modern mystery introduces an unforgettable new protagonist to the ranks of literature's hard-boiled detectives.

About Last Exit in New Jersey (from the publisher): Nice young ladies really shouldn't be dumping bodies at sea. Then again, that isn't stopping Hazel Moran, and she can't figure where anyone got the idea she was nice to begin with.

Raised aboard her father's aging schooner and riding shotgun in their eighteen-wheeler, she can handle almost anything on the road or water; it's her people skills that need work. Normally that isn't an issue—most people tend to leave her alone behind the wheel of a Kenworth. But when twenty-year-old Hazel and her father become the targets of some unsavory characters hunting for her missing cousin, their stolen tractor trailer, and a delivery that never arrived, she knows it's time to heed a lesson learned from her favorite hard-boiled paperbacks: playing nice will only end in tears.

It'll take all her ingenuity, not to mention some fishing tackle and high voltage, if Hazel hopes to protect her family and unravel this tangle of greed and betrayal. And anyone who gets too close, no matter the intent, will discover just how dangerous Hazel truly is as she sets in motion a twisted plan to uncover the truth, settle some scores, and not wind up dead in the process.

Important Note: Amazon.com updates its Kindle book deal every day at approximately midnight PT. The title referenced above is available at a discounted price for Tuesday, April 10, 2012 only.

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Watch, more importantly Listen, to a New Trailer for Zoë Sharp's Crime Novel Fifth Victim

Singer/songwriter Beth Rudetsky dropped us a line today, asking us to take a look at a book trailer for Zoë Sharp's new Charlie Fox mystery Fifth Victim … and we're so glad she did. Rudetsky wrote and performed the song that is used as as the soundtrack for the trailer, and what a hauntingly beautiful song it is. (We've embedded the book trailer below.)

So many book trailers use stock images and stock audio and are ho-hum at best — we rarely feature them on our site as a result — but this one includes live action video and the mesmerizing song by Rudetsky, which we're assuming was written specifically for this trailer.

This is what a book trailer should be, enticing a potential reader to reach out for the book. Enjoy …

New TV Spot for Action Thriller Safe

Lionsgate has just released a new 30-second TV spot for the action thriller Safe, starring the man with the gun, Jason Statham.

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 (Catherine Chan), 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.

Written and directed by Boaz Yaking, Safe is scheduled to be in theaters April 27th, 2012.

Teaser Trailer for the Trailer for Looper

We're wondering if producing a trailer for a trailer is becoming a new trend …

The latest example is for the sci-fi thriller Looper. In the video below, screenwriter/director Rian Johnson appears with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who stars in the film, and show us a few quick clips from the movie … but basically the message is, come back in 3 days to see the trailer.

Gordon-Levitt plays a hired gun named Joe, who finds himself the target of his future self (played by Bruce Willis), who travels back from the future to kill him. (We're always confused by time travel movies but, hey, it's got Bruce Willis and that's all we need to know.)

Looper opens in theaters September 28th, 2012.

Mystery and Suspense Films, New This Week on DVD (120410)

Checking through our list of films currently scheduled for release this week on DVD and/or Blu-ray disc, shown below are those that fall into the mystery, suspense, thriller and adventure categories.

See also a list of current mystery and suspense DVD, Blu-ray, or VOD deals on Amazon.com.

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The Terrorists (1974)

Film Synopsis (from the studio): This film from 1974 doesn't appear to have ever been released theatrically in the US.

A gang of international terrorists kidnaps a British ambassador and demand the release of their cohorts, who are imprisoned in England. Meanwhile, a Scandinavian security expert (Sean Connery) plays hardball to secure the ambassador's release. But as the police close in on their targets, the criminals hijack an airliner and a tense standoff develops from the airport in Oslo.

Ian McShane co-stars in this explosive action thriller.

Rated PG. Running time: 89 minutes.

Review: Death at the Jesus Hospital by David Dickinson

We've just published our Review of Death at the Jesus Hospital by David Dickinson. A Lord Francis Powerscourt Mystery. Soho Constable Hardcover, March 2012.

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Reelz to Broadcast Canadian Thriller Series XIII

This is apparently old news, first reported in the press months ago, but is new to us.

Reelz — a cable station we confess having never heard of before — has acquired the Canadian original thriller series XIII to air later this year here in the US.

Based on the graphic novels written by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by William Vance, the series features a character known only a XIII — from a tattoo on his chest — an amnesiac, who seeks to discover his concealed past.

The first season of the series originally aired on the Canadian cable channel Showcase in Spring 2011; you can see a promotional trailer from last year below. A second season is currently in production.

XIII stars Stuart Townsend as the titular character, a skilled and lethal secret agent who escapes from an Eastern European Rendition Camp with a surgically altered face and an identity handed to him by a mysterious stranger.

Recruited to a secret organization committed to bringing down the United States Government, XIII has no memory of his past, how he was trained or why. Hunted by a dark anti-government organization, he quickly realizes that the closer he gets to uncovering the riddle, the more complex and deadly the mission becomes.

While living through an ever-evolving government conspiracy, XIII's quest is to discover his true identity at any cost.

Telemystery: Adam-12 and Logan's Run, New This Week on DVD

Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling two series being released this week.

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Martin Milner and Kent McCord star as LAPD officers in the crime drama Adam-12, the call sign used by their patrol car.

Created by Jack Webb as a spin-off to his popular crime series Dragnet, and based on real police events around the city of Los Angeles, this seventh and final season finds the officers busting scam artists, training rookies, working narcotics, searching for missing persons, tracking a suicidal man, dealing with a citizen hell-bent on taking the law into his own hands and more.

Adam-12: Season Seven is available on DVD and consists of episodes that originally aired on NBC during the 1974/1975 television season.

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Logan's Run is one of those borderline series we list here, not really neatly fitting into any of our stock "telemystery" categories. The fact that Gregory Harrison is holding a futuristic gun of some sort on the DVD cover is probably as good a reason as any to include it here!

Harrison does star at the titular Logan in this sci-fi series loosely based on the 1967 thriller Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. The episodes pick up where the film adaptation of the book ended, with Logan 5 and Jessica 6 on the run in a post-apocalyptic United States.

Logan's Run: The Complete Series is available on DVD and consists of episodes that originally aired for one shortened season on CBS from September 1977 to February 1978.

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Visit the Telemystery website to discover more television mystery series currently available on and coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or video on demand.

Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackmann is Today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackmann as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, April 09, 2012.

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Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackmann
Publisher: Soho Press

About Rock Paper Tiger (from the publisher): American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is down and out in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighur—a member of a Chinese Muslim minority—at the home of her sort-of boyfriend Lao Zhang turns her life upside down. Lao Zhang disappears, and suddenly multiple security organizations are hounding her for information. They say the Uighur is a terrorist. Ellie doesn’t know what’s going on, but she must decide whom to trust among the artists, dealers, collectors, and operatives claiming to be on her side—in particular, a mysterious organization operating within a popular online role-playing game. As she tries to elude her pursuers, she’s haunted by memories of Iraq. Is what she did and saw there at the root of the mess she’s in now?

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