Whiskey Rebellion by Liliana Hart is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Whiskey Rebellion by Liliana Hart as today's third 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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Whiskey Rebellion by Liliana Hart
An Addison Holmes Mystery
Publisher: Bodysways Publishing

About Whiskey Rebellion (from the publisher): My name is Addison Holmes, and I teach history at James Madison High School in Whiskey Bayou, Georgia. You might be under the assumption that my life went to the dogs when my fiancé left me at the altar for the home economics teacher, or when I got notice that my apartment building was going to be condemned, or even when I was desperate enough to strip to my unmentionables to earn some extra cash. The truth is that I'm pretty much used to disasters following me around on a daily basis, but I could have gone without finding my principal dead in the parking lot of a seedy gentlemen's club.

After the initial shock of finding my first dead body, which included throwing back shots of Jack Daniels like it was water, I decided to take stock of my life. I was in a desperate situation and if the school board ever found out I'd been a stripper, even a bad stripper, I'd be jobless as well as fiancé-less and homeless. Fortunately, I had a friend who felt sorry enough for me to give me a job doing some surveillance work at her detective agency. Not to mention the fact that I was now able to stick my nose into other people's business for a good cause, find a murderer, and pick up helpful tips from an incredibly attractive detective.

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Project Moses by Robert B. Lowe is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Project Moses by Robert B. Lowe 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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Project Moses by Robert B. Lowe
Publisher: Enzo Publications

This author won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for investigative journalism. This is his first novel.

About Project Moses (from the publisher): After several years of zealous investigative reporting on the East Coast, reporter Enzo Lee is enjoying his new, quiet life in San Francisco, churning out light, fluffy features for the local paper. Lee adores his North Beach apartment and days filled with running, tai chi, great food, and women. Life is good.

So when Lee’s boss orders him to cover the mysterious deaths of a local judge and prosecutor, he is flushed out of his comfort zone and thrust into a story that is both exhilarating and dangerous.

With help from the judge’s attractive niece Sarah Armstrong, Lee begins to uncover a bioterrorism scandal. The perpetrators will kill to conceal and Lee and Sarah soon become their prime targets. Will the pair evade their hunters and piece together the story before time runs out?

Or will the government agents and Silicon Valley titans who are the masterminds behind the scandal stop the pair and add them to the list of victims?

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A Rush to Violence by Christopher Smith is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Rush to Violence by Christopher Smith as today's free mystery ebook.

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A Rush to Violence by Christopher Smith
Publisher: Fifth Avenue Productions

About A Rush to Violence (from the publisher): A billionaire investor dealt a grisly death.

The suspects? Six of his seven children, all so desperate for their father's money, they'd kill for it.

His seventh child, Camille, a former assassin who left that life behind to raise her now sixteen-year-old daughter Emma, must tap into old instincts to learn who killed her father and why. What she never sees coming are Emma's plans to go into Manhattan and find out on her own.

Meanwhile, Camille must be found. Private investigator Marty Spellman is threatened by a mysterious man to find her. He has seventy-two hours or do so--or members of his own family die.

Over the course of one day, Spellman, Camille, Emma and Spellman's own fifteen-year-old daughter, Beth, must intervene to finish this and shut it down. Twists abound. Few are who they appear to be. Soon, all parties are in a rush to violence, but in spite of how quickly they act, it's clear that no one is safe.

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Review: Fallen Angels by Connie Dial

We've just published our Review of Fallen Angels by Connie Dial. An "LAPD" Mystery. The Permanent Press Hardcover, April 2012.

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Five New Savages "Interrogation Series" Videos

Last Friday we featured three new television spots for the crime thriller Savages. Today the studio released five more videos, embedded below, part of its "interrogation series" featuring interviews with the actors in character.

The five interviewees are Ben and Chon (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch), their girlfriend Ophelia (Blake Lively), and two members of the Mexican Baja Cartel that wants to take over their operation (Salma Hayek as Elena and Benicio Del Toro as Lado).

Adapted from the novel by Don Winslow — who co-wrote the screenplay with director Oliver Stone and Shane Salerno — the storyline follows Ben and Chon, who raise some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town … until the cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. But they underestimate the unbreakable bond among these three friends when Ben and Chon — with the reluctant, slippery assistance of a dirty DEA agent (John Travolta) — wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel.

Savages opens in theaters on July 6th, 2012.

The Mystery Bookshelf: Niceville by Carsten Stroud

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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Niceville by Carsten Stroud
Knopf (Hardcover)
Publication Date: June 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-70095-7

About Niceville (from the publisher): A boy literally disappears from Main Street. A security camera captures the moment of his instant, inexplicable vanishing. An audacious bank robbery goes seriously wrong: four cops are gunned down; a TV news helicopter is shot and spins crazily out of the sky, triggering a disastrous cascade of events that ricochet across twenty different lives over the course of just thirty-six hours.

Nick Kavanaugh, a cop with a dark side, investigates. Soon he and his wife, Kate, a distinguished lawyer from an old Niceville family, find themselves struggling to make sense not only of the disappearance and the robbery but also of a shadow world, where time has a different rhythm and where justice is elusive.

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About the author: Carsten Stroud realized long ago that he was a One Trick Pony and that his one trick was "telling a good story". He began to write everything from magazine articles to fiction and non-fiction books and screenplays on subjects ranging from cops to horse cavalry to surgeons and US Marshals, winning along the way a multitude of National Magazine Awards, making the New York Times Best-Seller list, and selling several books to Hollywood. Learn more about the author at his website, CarstenStroudBooks.com.

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The Dark Monk, a sequel to The Hangman's Daughter, Publishes Today

Back in 2010 AmazonCrossing, an imprint of Amazon.com, published its first title, The Hangman's Daughter, a Kindle version of the English-language translation of the 2008 historical thriller Die Henkerstochter by Oliver Pötzsch. It became a runaway bestseller.

Today, the sequel is published: The Dark Monk. It is 1660. Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the Bavarian Alps, ensuring every farmer and servant is indoors on the night a parish priest discovers he's been poisoned. As numbness creeps up his body, he summons the last of his strength to scratch a cryptic sign in the frost.

Following a trail of riddles, hangman Jakob Kuisl; his headstrong daughter, Magdalena; and the town physician's son team up with the priest's aristocratic sister to investigate. What they uncover will lead them back to the Crusades, unlocking a troubled history of internal church politics and sending them on a chase for a treasure of the Knights Templar.

But they're not the only ones after the legendary fortune. A team of dangerous and mysterious monks is always close behind, tracking their every move, speaking Latin in the shadows, giving off a strange, intoxicating scent. And to throw the hangman off their trail, they have ensured he is tasked with capturing a band of thieves roving the countryside attacking solitary travelers and spreading panic.

A&E Sets New Premiere Date for Coma Miniseries

For those of you who may have wondered what happened to A&E's 4-hour miniseries Coma, which was supposed to premiere this past Memorial Day weekend, the cable network cleared up that little mystery by announcing today that its modern day retelling of Robin Cook's thriller — and Michael Crichton's film adaptation — will now premiere this coming Labor Day weekend. The two day event will begin on Monday, September 3rd and conclude the following day.

Executive produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, the storyline in Coma follows a young doctor (Lauren Ambrose), who discovers that something sinister is going on in her hospital after routine procedures send more than a few seemingly healthy patients into comas on the operating table. Mikael Salomon directs the John J. McLaughlin screenplay.

A&E hasn't (yet) uploaded a trailer to its YouTube Channel, but you can watch a preview video on its website.

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120612)

Here is today's list of the top bestselling free Kindle mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers.

We're using a script to embed an RSS feed from Amazon.com, which is updated hourly, but if you cannot see the box below — or have scripts blocked — you can use this link to see the relevant page on Amazon.com.

Mystery and Suspense Films, New This Week on DVD (120612)

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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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Film Synopsis (from the studio): Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room... until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large—Professor Moriarty—and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade, points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder—a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by Professor Moriarty. The cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead of Holmes as he spins a web of death and destruction—all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history.

Directed by Guy Ritchie from an original screenplay by Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle, the film runs 129 minutes and is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and some drug material.

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Thin Ice (2012)

Film Synopsis (from the studio): Greg Kinnear stars as Mickey Prohaska, a small-time insurance agent looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife and escape the frigid Wisconsin weather. This self-proclaimed master of spin believes that salesmanship is about selling a story — all he needs is a sucker willing to buy it. He hits pay dirt with a lonely retired farmer (Alan Arkin), who is sitting on something much bigger than an insurance commission. But Mickey's attempt to con the old man spins out of control when a nosy, unstable locksmith with a volatile temper (Billy Crudup) dramatically ups the stakes, trapping him in a spiral of danger, deceit and double-crossing.

Directed by Jill Sprecher from a script co-written with her sister Karen Sprecher, the film — which was originally titled The Convincer — runs 93 minutes and is rated R for for language, and brief violent and sexual content.

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