Mister Monday by Garth Nix is Today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find for Families

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Mister Monday by Garth Nix as today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find for Families. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, April 12, 2012.

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Mister Monday by Garth Nix
The Keys to the Kingdom
Publisher: Scholastic

This is the first book (of seven) in this series of young adult fantasy novels.

About Mister Monday (from the publisher): Meet Arthur, an ordinary boy with a few problems on his hands. And his week has only just begun …

Arthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. He is, in fact, supposed to die an early death. But his life is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock.

Arthur is safe — but his world is not. Along with the key comes a plague brought by bizarre creatures from another realm. A stranger named Mister Monday, his avenging messengers with blood stained wings, and an army of dog-faced Fetchers will stop at nothing to get the Key back — even if it means destroying Arthur and everything around him.

Desperate, Arthur ventures into a mysterious house — a house only he can see. It is in this house that Arthur must unravel the secrets of the Key — and discover his true fate …

When the Great Architect of All disappeared ten thousand years ago, she left a Will to be executed by her seven Trustees. But Mister Monday and his fellow traitors from the house broke the Will into seven fragments, scattered them across space and time, and seized the seven Keys to the Kingdom for themselves. Now a fragment of the Will has escaped and seeks its Rightful Heir. Arthur, a reluctant hero, is the one who must solve the great mystery — day by day, key by key, realm by realm — and restore order to a universe in chaos.

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The Titanic Tragedy by William Seil is Today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Titanic Tragedy by William Seil as today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, April 12, 2012.

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The Titanic Tragedy by William Seil
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Publisher: Titan Books

About The Titanic Tragedy (from the publisher): Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson board the Titanic in 1912, where Holmes is to carry out a secret government mission. Soon after departure, highly important submarine plans for the US navy are stolen. Holmes and Watson work through a list of suspects which includes Colonel James Moriarty, brother to the late Professor Moriarty. Will they find the culprit before tragedy strikes?

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Two More Teaser Videos for the Looper Trailer

Two days ago we posted a trailer for the trailer for Looper, not realizing at the time that this was going to be a daily event. Since then, two more trailers for the trailer have been released; we've embedded them below. Both feature Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the film's screenwriter/director Rian Johnson discussing various elements of the film.

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.

Looper opens in theaters September 28th, 2012.

Teaser Poster for The Host, adapted from the novel by Stephenie Meyer

The first teaser trailer for the adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's The Host was released a few weeks ago and now a new teaser poster — which is remarkably similar to the book's cover — has been uploaded to the film's Facebook page (right; click for a slightly larger version). The poster's tagline: "You will be one of us."

Directed by Andrew Niccol from his own adapted screenplay, the film stars Saoirse Ronan as Melanie Stryder, whose body has been invaded by Wanderer (played by Diane Kruger). This alien species takes over the minds of its human hosts, leaving the body intact, but Melanie is refusing to relinquish possession of hers.

As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she's never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love.

Ths Host is currently scheduled to open in theaters March 29th, 2013.

BBC America to Co-Produce Mini-Series Adaptation of The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst

Earlier this month we reported on some of the deals coming out of MIPTV, the annual international marketplace for television.

One of these deals was an adaptation of Alan Furst's historical thriller The Spies of Warsaw. Today, BBC America announced that it was joining in on the production, with the mini-series — four 45-minute episodes — to premiere on the US cable network.

The storyline is set in the years leading up to World War II and will follow French and German intelligence operatives, who are locked in a life-and-death struggle in the espionage arena. At the French embassy, the new military attaché, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier (played by David Tennant), a decorated war hero of the 1914 war, is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw. At the same time, the handsome aristocrat finds himself in a passionate love affair with Anna (Janet Montgomery), a Parisian lawyer for the League of Nations. Their complicated love affair intensifies as German tanks drive through the Black Forest.

On-location production is expected to begin next month in Poland.

(Source: Press release.)

Review: Murder at the Lanterne Rouge by Cara Black

We've just published our Review of Murder at the Lanterne Rouge by Cara Black. An Aimée Leduc Investigation. Soho Crime Hardcover, March 2012.

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Lockout Opens in Theaters Friday, April 13th

The space prison-based action-thriller Lockout opens in theaters this Friday, April 13th, 2012.

Set in the near future, the storyline follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent (Guy Pearce), whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter (Maggie Grace) from rioting convicts at a maximum-security prison orbiting 50 miles above the earth.

Directed by James Mather from an original screenplay by Stephen St. Leger, Lockout is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and language including some sexual references.

Watch a trailer for the film below.

The Mystery Bookshelf: Stolen Lives by Jassy Mackenzie, a Jade de Jong Mystery

The Mystery Bookshelf, where you can discover a world of mystery and suspense, is pleased to feature a new crime novel we recently received from the publisher.

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Stolen Lives by Jassy Mackenzie
A Jade de Jong Mystery (2nd in series)
Soho Crime (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: April 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-61695-067-5

About Stolen Lives (from the publisher): When wealthy Pamela Jordaan hires PI Jade de Jong as a bodyguard after her husband Terrance disappears, Jade thinks keeping an eye on this anxious wife will be an easy way to earn some cash. But when a determined shooter nearly kills them both and Jade finds Terrance horrifically tortured and barely alive, she realizes that she has been drawn into a wicked game.

At the same time, her relationship with police superintendent David Patel is on the rocks, and things only get more complicated when his son is kidnapped and his wife is blackmailed. It soon becomes clear that the kidnapping and the attempted killings of Pamela and her husband are tied to a human trafficking ring that stretches from Johannesburg to London.

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About the author: Born in Rhodesia (as, she notes, all ex-Zimbabweans still prefer to call it), Jassy MacKenzie moved to South Africa when she was eight years old. She loves the energy, danger and excitement of Johannesburg, and believes there is no better place for a thriller writer. Jassy lives in Kyalami with her partner Dion, two horses and two cats. Visit her website at JassyMackensie.com.

 Crime novels by Jassy Mackenzie reviewed by Mysterious Reviews: Random Violence (2010) and Stolen Lives (2011).

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Mark Walhberg Interested in Playing The Partner in Film Adaptation of John Grisham's Novel

Earlier this year we reported that John Grisham's eighth legal thriller The Partner was being adapted for film. (All seven of the author's books that preceded this one have also been adapted.)

Now we're learning that Mark Wahlberg is interested in the role of Patrick Lanigan, a partner in a Biloxi law firm who is presumed dead after a car accident, but who is really living in Brazil under an assumed name. The question his former partners are asking: What happened to a fortune that suddenly disappeared from the firm's offshore account after Lanigan "died"?

Though the actor is reportedly in "early talks" with the producers, we can totally see Wahlberg in this role.

(Related article: Variety.)

AMC to Develop Television Adaptation of Crime Comic Thief of Thieves

AMC is developing a television adaptation of the new crime comic series Thief of Thieves. (The first issue came out just this past February; the third issue publishes today.)

Written by Robert Kirkman and Nick Spencer with art by Shawn Martinbrough, the comic is centered around Conrad Paulson, who lives a secret double life as master thief Redmond. There is nothing he can't steal, nothing he can't have … except for the life he left behind. Now, with a grown son he hardly knows, and an ex-wife he never stopped loving, Conrad must try to piece together what's left of his life, before the FBI finally catch up to him … but it appears they are the least of his worries.

"Much like The Walking Dead brought horror to television in a unique and groundbreaking way, I feel Thief of Thieves can do the same thing for heist stories, showing the humanity of all the characters, including the criminals," Kirkman says.

(Related article: The Hollywood Reporter.)