The winners of the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards have been announced by ForeWord Reviews, recognizing the best in independent publishing.
In addition to the winners of the Mystery and Thriller & Suspense categories (listed below), the top prize for fiction went to All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen, which was one of our top picks as the best mystery of 2011. (You can read our review on Mysterious Reviews.)
• Mystery: Gold: Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid (Bywater Books)
• Mystery: Silver: Poison Makers by Jimmy Olsen (Hoffman House Press)
• Mystery: Bronze: Medieval Murders by Aaron Stander (Writers and Editors)
• Thriller/Suspense: Gold: Fly by Night by Ward Larsen (Oceanview Publishing)
• Thriller/Suspense: Silver: The Parsifal Pursuit by Michael McMenamin and Patrick McMenamin (Enigma Books)
• Thriller/Suspense: Bronze: Waiting for the Bones by Donna Cousins (iUniverse)
(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare for alerting us that the winners had been announced.)
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Winners of the 2011 ForeWord Awards
Radical Equations by Robert Spiller is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Radical Equations by Robert Spiller 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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Radical Equations by Robert Spiller
A Bonnie Pinkwater Mystery
Publisher: Courtney Literary
This is the fourth and most recent (March 2012) mystery in this series featuring the Colorado schoolteacher.
About Radical Equations (from the publisher): Math teacher extraordinaire and inveterate busybody, Bonnie Pinkwater is at it again. When she and her Wiccan sidekick Rhiannon Griffith are out hiking and find the body of Bonnie's boss, Vice Principal Clarence Murphy, their day takes a decided turn for the worse. But when that same body disappears then reappears seated at his desk, amid the wreckage in a tornado-ravaged high school, Bonnie proclaims things downright weird and decides to nose around. What show up are killer motorcyclists, suspicious preachers, tyrannical dwarves, high-stakes poker games, land-grabbing CEOs, and a damaged math genius desperately needing her help. As Bonnie and Rhiannon sort through a rising body count, Bonnie comes to a disturbing conclusion. Whoever is murdering the good citizens of East Plains, Colorado, has decided to eliminate one meddlesome math teacher.
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Under the Shadows Moon by T. L. Haddix is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Under the Shadows Moon by T. L. Haddix as today's second free mystery ebook.
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Under the Shadows Moon by T. L. Haddix
Publisher: Streetlight Graphics
The is the second novel of romantic suspense in the "Shadows Collection", stand-alones set in small town Indiana.
About Under the Shadows Moon (from the publisher): Journalist Beth Hudson knows her hometown. When disappearances are coupled with strange nighttime events on local farms, she puts two and two together to make a terrifying picture. She turns to her friends, family and a mysterious, handsome stranger for assistance in rooting out the truth, determined to solve the mysteries before another person disappears.
As if that weren't enough, her contentious relationship with Detective Ethan Moore takes an unexpectedly tragic turn. Will Beth be able to figure out what is going on in time to stop a dangerous killer, or will she be the next victim?
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Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah Shlian and Joel Shlian is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah Shlian and Joel Shlian as today's free mystery ebook.
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Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah Shlian and Joel Shlian
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
About Rabbit in the Moon (from the publisher): San Francisco, 1989: Forty years after Mao and his People’s Liberation Army set poised to change China forever, Dr. Lili Quan prepares for a journey that will change her life forever. To honor her mother’s dying wish that Lili “return home,” Lili reluctantly sets out for China.
For Lili, a passionate idealist, this will be an extraordinary trip filled with remarkable discoveries – from meeting and falling in love with Chi-Wen Zhou, a victim of the Cultural Revolution and zealous Taoist, to finding Dr. Ni-Fu Cheng, the grandfather Lili believed had died years ago. But Dr. Cheng has made the most remarkable discovery of all: he’s discovered the secret to long life.
As Dr. Cheng’s only relative, Lili’s life is in jeopardy. As greedy and unscrupulous men vie for control of the most earth-shattering discovery of the century, Lili Quan could become a pawn in a deadly and dangerous international game.
Before Lili can hold the key to the future, she must unlock the deadly secrets of the past.
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In the Courts of the Sun by Brian D'Amato is Today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal
MystereBooks is pleased to feature In the Courts of the Sun by Brian D'Amato as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, June 24, 2012.
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In the Courts of the Sun by Brian D'Amato
Publisher: NAL
About In the Courts of the Sun (from the publisher): December 21, 2012. The day time stops. Jed DeLanda, a descendant of the Maya living in the year 2012, is a math prodigy who spends his time playing Go against his computer and raking in profits from online trading. (His secret weapon? A Mayan divination game—once used for predicting corn-harvest cycles, now proving very useful in predicting corn futures—that his mother taught him.) But Jed's life is thrown into chaos when his former mentor, the game theorist Taro, and a mysterious woman named Marena Park, invite him to give his opinion on a newly discovered Mayan codex.
Marena and Taro are looking for a volunteer to travel back to 664 AD to learn more about a "sacrifice game" described in the codex. Jed leaps at the chance, and soon scientists are replicating his brain waves and sending them through a wormhole, straight into the mind of a Mayan king …
Only something goes wrong. Instead of becoming a king, Jed arrives inside a ballplayer named Chacal who is seconds away from throwing himself down the temple steps as a human sacrifice. If Jed can live through the next few minutes, he might just save the world.
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 Sunday, June 24, 2012 only.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012
Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120623)
Here is today's list of the top bestselling free Kindle mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers.
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Short Delay in Updating Kindle Mysteries Page
For the past few Saturdays, we've been publishing an updated list of 100 Kindle mystery books priced $2.99 or less. But this week we're going to delay our update until Monday because our current list includes so many titles from The Big Deal sale, which ends tomorrow, Sunday June 24th, 2012. After the books included in the sale are repriced, we'll remove them from our own list.
Thanks for your patience … and in the meantime, if you haven't taken advantage of the many mystery, suspense and thriller novels included in The Big Deal sale, you only have until tomorrow to do so!
The Last Witness by K. T. Roberts is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Last Witness by K. T. Roberts 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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The Last Witness by K. T. Roberts
Publisher: Carolyn Hughey
K. T. Roberts is a pen name used by romance novelist Carolyn Hughey. This title is her first mystery.
About The Last Witness (from the publisher): The first victim’s car is rammed into an embankment. The second takes a bullet to the back of the head. Two down and counting! Who’s next?
Detectives Tate Kensington and Zachary Gerard of the NYPD have two seemingly unrelated cases on their plate and aren’t making much progress toward a resolution of either one. Complicating the proceedings are Detective Kensington’s personal issues with weak women, violent men, and death threats. Other than that, she’s doing just fine except her ex-beau is now her boss.
Can the two detectives put the killer away without a body? And what if a grammar-school prank becomes the key to solving these two major cases?
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65 Below by Basil Sands is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature 65 Below by Basil Sands as today's second free mystery ebook.
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65 Below by Basil Sands
Publisher: CreateSpace
About 65 Below (from the publisher): At sixty-five degrees below zero exposed human flesh freezes solid within three minutes.
Retired Marine Master Sergeant Marcus Johnson returned to his family homestead in rural Alaska after twenty years chasing bad men. Now he wants nothing but to hunt and fish and run his trapline in peace and quiet, and no more war.
Lurking deep in a long forgotten bunker in the remote arctic hills is a decades old secret that could not be destroyed, and was never meant to be rediscovered.
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Let Us Prey by Jamie Lee Scott is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Let Us Prey by Jamie Lee Scott as today's free mystery ebook.
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Let Us Prey by Jamie Lee Scott
A Gotcha Detective Agency Mystery
Publisher: CreateSpace
This is the first title in this mystery series.
About Let Us Prey (from the publisher): Mimi Capurro, owner of Gotcha Detective Agency, has been hired to protect New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Silke, who was recently assaulted in the bathroom at a paranormal conference. Though Mimi is hired to act as bodyguard for Lauren’s upcoming book tour, plans change when Lauren's assistant is murdered and the slaying is a replica of a scene from Lauren’s newest novel. A novel that hit bookstores the same day as the killing.
Now instead of playing bodyguard, Mimi is cracking computer code, and chasing down vampires. These vampires come alive on the streets of Santa Cruz, as part of a live-role-playing game. Mimi must find the connection between the vampires and the author to track down the killer.
This would be much easier if Detective Nick Christianson wanted her investigating the case. Nick, Mimi’s old college fling, is the lead homicide investigator. Though he wants her off the case, he also wants to pump her for information. Nick may have used her in the past, but this time she’ll use him to try to catch the murderer first.
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