The Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed blog is reporting that actor Robert De Niro and mystery author Richard Price have sold a script for a new crime drama to CBS.
Titled Rookies, the storyline involves a team of six new cops who are sent into high-crime areas.
Price is no stranger to film or television. Two of his novels, Clockers and Freedomland, have previously been adapted for film (he also wrote the screenplay for the latter), and his television credits include writing five episodes of the series The Wire.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Robert De Niro and Richard Price Sell Crime Drama Concept to CBS
The Violet Hour by Daniel Judson
The Mystery Bookshelf, where you can discover a library of new mysteries, is pleased to feature a new mystery series title we recently received from the publisher.
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The Violet Hour by Daniel Judson
Non-series
Minotaur Books (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: October 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-38358-9
About The Violet Hour (from the publisher): Bridgehampton mechanic Caleb Rakowski gets paid under the table at his friend Eric Carver’s auto repair shop and lives in an apartment above it. He’s good at his job and he’s making a decent living, but right now he’s sheltering a pregnant friend who’ll do anything to keep her abusive husband away from her. Cal has sworn to protect her. Little does he know, though, the trouble destined to come down over the course of three days—Mischief Night, Halloween, and the Day of the Dead—when he learns the truth about his friend and boss Eric Carver and what he’s been hiding all these years.
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About Daniel Judson: A Shamus Award winner for The Poisoned Rose and a three-time finalist, he attended Southampton College, and his time in the Hamptons (particularly the parts that don’t make the society pages) was the inspiration for the setting and characters in The Violet Hour. He now lives in Connecticut.
Read the first chapters of The Violet Hour below.
And Then There Was One by Patricia Gussin (Book Review)
And Then There Was One by Patricia Gussin. Non-series. Oceanview Publishing Hardcover, October 2010.
Patricia Gussin explores what happens to a family's dynamics when two of their three children, identical triplets, disappear without a trace, in And Then There Was One, the author's fourth novel of suspense.
Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews: And Then There Was One by Patricia Gussin.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
ABC's Body of Proof Delayed until Mid-Season
When we were reporting on new Prime Time Crime series for this television season, we noted that ABC had not scheduled its series Body of Proof starring Dana Delany. Although several sources were speculating that the network would debut the series in late October, Variety is now reporting that its premiere date has been delayed until "mid-season", when it can be given a better time slot by the network.
Body of Proof features Dr. Megan Hunt (Delany), a brilliant neurosurgeon at the top of her game, whose world is turned upside down when a devastating car accident puts an end to her time in the operating room. Megan resumes her career as a medical examiner determined to solve the puzzle of who or what killed the victims of crime.
Bloody Twist by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera (Book Review)
Bloody Twist by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera. A Lupe Solano Mystery. Miramar Publishing Trade Paperback, June 2010.
Miami private investigator Guadalupe "Lupe" Solano is hired to do a background check on a client of defense attorney Tommy McDonald, who has retained him in the event she's charged with the murder of two men she knew, in Bloody Twist, the seventh mystery in this series by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera.
Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews: Bloody Twist by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera.
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TNT Orders Pilot for Raymond Chandler-style Series
The Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed blog is reporting that TNT has ordered a pilot for Hollywood and Vine, a Raymond Chandler-style mystery series in which the lead character, a private eye, is described as "possessing stoic charm and an uncompromising set of personal values that will let nothing deter him in his search for the truth -– even if it means taking on the upper echelons of power in a city balanced precariously between the glamour of Hollywood and Beverly Hills and the dual threat of organized crime and a corrupt police department."
Daniel Pyne (The Sum of All Fears, The Manchurian Candidate) will write the screenplay and executive produce.
Greg Rucka to Write New Series of Thrillers for Mulholland Books
Mulholland Books, the new crime imprint of Little, Brown, announced today that Greg Rucka will write a new series of three thrillers for the publisher, a "reverse Bourne Identity" scenario involving a former Delta Force operator who discovers that his allies are pursuing a dark agenda far different than his own.
The announcement was made at the end of a highly entertaining post by Rucka, in which he talks about some of the things he's done in the name of research for his books. "I love doing research. It's like cheating, but with permission."
Inspector Lewis, New This Week on DVD
Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive selections of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and suspense television mystery series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling one series being released this week.
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Kevin Whately returns as Inspector Lewis in a third season of the popular detective series. In five new episodes, Lewis and his young partner, Detective Sergeant Hathaway (Laurence Fox), continue solving cases in the seemingly perfect academic haven of Oxford.
Inspector Lewis is a spin-off of the long-running Inspector Morse series, and features characters created by crime novelist Colin Dexter, who is a consultant on the series.
The Inspector Lewis: Series Three DVD set of 3 discs contain the five episodes that originally aired on Masterpiece Mystery! during August and September 2010.
A fourth season of the series (called Series 5 in the UK) has been confirmed and is expected to air during 2011.
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Visit the Telemystery website to discover more television mystery series currently available on DVD and Blu-ray disc.
Drawn: The Painted Tower is BFG's Catch of the Week
From Monday, October 11th, through Sunday, October 17th, the Big Fish Games Catch of the Week is Drawn: The Painted Tower. Use the coupon code CATCH299 at checkout to purchase the game for just $2.99.
Enter the world of Drawn and unravel the secrets of the Painted Tower while overcoming challenging puzzles on your quest to save Iris.
A curse has locked each floor of the tower, and only the most creative adventurer can find a way through. Enter lush painted worlds and meet fantastic characters who will help you … and sometimes try to stop you, on your quest through this mysterious dream world.
Beware as darkness approaches the tower. Can you save her in time?
Find more (regularly priced) mystery games to download on our BFG Adventure Games and BFG Hidden Object Games pages.
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P. D. James Wins 2010 Nick Clarke Award for Broadcast Interview
In a press release yesterday, the BBC announced that crime novelist P. D. James is the winner of the 2010 Nick Clarke Award for her interview last December with BBC Director General Mark Thompson. The award recognizes and celebrates the best broadcast interview of the year.
"The broadcast interview is one of the most effective ways in which the major issues of today's world can be discussed," James said, "and I am greatly honoured to be the recipient of this important prize established in memory of a distinguished broadcaster."
Mystery Godoku Puzzle for October 11, 2010
A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.
Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).
This week's letters and mystery clue:
A E K M N O R S T
This secret agent’s name is in the title of a novel by Marc Holland (9 letters).
We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.
Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.
Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Evil for Evil by James R. Benn (Book Review)
Evil for Evil by James R. Benn. A Billy Boyle Mystery. Soho Press Hardcover, September 2009.
Military investigator Billy Boyle is sent to Northern Ireland to look into the theft of artillery and ammunition from a US Army depot, a mission for which he may have some personal conflict given his deep Irish family roots, in Evil for Evil, the fourth World War II mystery in this series by James R. Benn.
Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews: Evil for Evil by James R. Benn.
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Hardcover Mysteries Premieres Monday, October 11th, on Investigation Discovery
Tomorrow, Monday October 11th at 9 PM (ET/PT), a new series begins on Investigation Discovery: Hardcover Mysteries.
Over the course of eight weeks, Hardcover Mysteries will travel inside the minds of America's most popular novelists to explore the crossover from fact to fiction. How much of today's great mystery writing springs from the imagination ... and how much of it is ripped from the headlines? In this new series, top fiction crime writers share stories of real-life cases that inspired them to write, or captured their fascination.
First up is bestselling crime novelist David Baldacci, who talks about the 1964 murder of socialite Mary Meyer that was the inspiration for his 1996 debut thriller Absolute Power, which was also made into film starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman. Read more about the author and watch a preview video of the episode on Investigation Discovery: Hardcover Mysteries (David Baldacci).
Strange Cases: The Lighthouse Mystery, New at AVG
Games of Mystery is pleased to announce this week's new mystery and suspense casual and adventure games available for immediate download from Amazon Video Games.
A complete list of downloadable mystery games is available on our Games of Mystery: Amazon Video Games Download page.
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Strange Cases: The Lighthouse Mystery
FBI Agent Claire Ellery's latest strange case has become personal. Tom, her former partner, has died under bizarre circumstances. As Agent Ellery delves deeper into the mystery of his death, she finds that Tom himself has laid a trail of clues for her-a trail that leads her into a sinister web of corporate betrayal and the arcane. Follow the cards to solve this "Strange Case" and vindicate your partner's untimely demise.
See also the previous game in this series, Strange Cases: The Tarot Card Mystery.
ESRB Rating: Not Specified.
Windows Vista/XP (197 MB download).
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Saturday, October 09, 2010
The Bourne Legacy Won't Include Matt Damon as Jason Bourne ... and Won't Even Include Jason Bourne
A few days ago we reported that the fourth Bourne film was moving forward with a new director. Titled The Bourne Legacy, it is based on an original screenplay, and not on the fourth book of the series by Eric Van Lustbader (which also bears the title The Bourne Legacy).
Now that very same director, Tony Gilroy, has contacted Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere to clarify a few details about the film.
First, The Bourne Legacy will not only not star Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, it won't even include the character of Jason Bourne. "There will be a whole new hero, a whole new chapter ... this is a stand-alone project." Secondly, it is not a prequel or sequel to the original three films, but will feature a storyline that "enhances and advances and invites Jason Bourne's return [down the road]."
Overall, probably a pretty smart move on the part of the producers. Still, it's already confusing that the film's title matches one of the Bourne thrillers. Leaving Bourne out of the film entirely would only seem to add to the confusion. What do you think?
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