As part of a program set up by HBO, the cable network has been releasing fan posters created for its series. The first "Game of Thrones" fan poster depicted a sigil for House Stark. We had expected to other house posters to follow, but instead, the second fan poster is far more dramatic … and gives away a major plot point from the first season (if you haven't already seen it). We've drawn a black border around it for the purposes of this post, but the original (click for larger image) does not include it.
Game of Thrones, adapted from the series of "A Song of Ice and Fire" epic fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, returns to HBO on April 1st, 2012.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Second Game of Thrones Fan Poster for Season Two
Seeking Justice Opens in Limited Release March 16th
Nicolas Cage stars as Will Gerard, a happily married family man whose quiet life is turned upside-down when his wife, Laura, is brutally attacked one night while leaving work in the crime thriller Seeking Justice, which opens in limited release this Friday, March 16th, 2012. "Vengeance always has a price."
At the hospital, waiting for news about his wife's condition, Will is approached by Simon (Guy Pearce), who proposes an intriguing offer: Simon will arrange to have a complete stranger exact vengeance on Laura's attacker, in exchange for a favor from Will in the near future. Distraught and grief-stricken, Will consents to the deal, unwittingly pulling himself into a dangerous underground vigilante operation. While continuing to protect his wife from the truth, he quickly discovers that his quest for justice could lead to frightening and deadly consequences.
Directed by Roger Donaldson from a screenplay co-written by Robert Tannen and Todd Hickey, Seeking Justice is rated R for violence, language and brief sexuality. Watch a trailer for the film below.
21 Jump Street Opens in Theaters March 16th
"They thought the streets were mean. Then they went back to high school." That's the premise of 21 Jump Street, a crime comedy that opens in theaters this Friday, March 16th, 2012. (A more recent tagline for the film: "The're too old for this shift."
Loosely based on the late 1980s television show of the same title, the film stars Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill as young cops, who are recruited to be part of a resurrected undercover program. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Jenko and Schmidt risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring in a local high school. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind.
Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller from a screenplay by Michael Bacall, 21 Jump Street is rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, teen drinking and some violence. Watch one of several trailers released for the film below.
Today's MystereBooks: Two More Free, Several Repeat Titles
MystereBooks is pleased to feature two more new and several repeat titles as today's free mystery ebooks.
These titles were 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 prices of the books before completing your transaction.
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I Think I Love You by Stephanie Bond
Publisher: NeedToRead Books
About I Think I Love You (from the publisher): Twenty years ago, the Metcalf sisters witnessed a murder and formed a pact of silence. Now they're estranged and scattered because they all fell in love with the same man. When the sisters converge at their childhood home, old wounds are laid open against the backdrop of liquidating their parents' antiques business. And when the playboy who broke up their family shows up, things go from bad to worse!
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One Hoof in the Grave by Carolyn McSparren
A Merry Abbott, Carriage Driving Mystery
Publisher: Belle Books
About One Hoof in the Grave (from the publisher): Once again, Merry Abbott has to catch a killer in the high-stakes world of carriage driving competitions.
Nothing ruins an elegant Southern horse show like finding a murdered man with a tent spike through his neck. Merry's at the top of a long list of suspects who have plenty of reason to want the victim dead. But soon it becomes obvious that she's also at the top of the real murderer's next-to-die list.
Climb into the carriage seat for a wild ride as Merry hunts for clues, teaches her first (and maybe last) driving clinic, tries to rein in her attraction for a handsome GBI agent, and dodges a killer.
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Honk Honk, My Darling by James Finn Garner
A Rex Koko, Private Clown Mystery
Publisher: CreateSpace
This first (in a series?) of "clown noir" introduces Rex Koko and was the winner of the 2011 Chicago Writers Association's Book of the Year Award in the non-traditional fiction category.
About Honk Honk, My Darling (from the publisher): It's 1944, in a dirty, crowded American city. As different groups struggle to scratch out a living, territorial boundaries remain clearly marked. The Chinese stay in Chinatown. Negroes crowd into Black Bottom. And the circus folks — faded stars, hangers-on and those kinkers temporarily down on their luck — keep their distance from "respectable society" in a sawdusty ghetto called Top Town.
There, under garish neon and tattered canvas, audiences come every night for cheap thrills, both wholesome and not. Fire eaters perform for gin money. Gypsies reveal the future (and for a sawbuck can make it happen). Daredevils cheat Death time after time, but once. And witness to it all is one of the most loved and notorious figures in Top Town, a tough joey with a deadly past and a nose for picking all the wrong fights: Rex Koko, private clown.
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The Walk by Lee Goldberg
Publisher: Five Star
About The Walk (from the publisher): It's one minute after the Big One.
Marty Slack, a TV network executive, crawls out from under his Mercedes. Downtown L.A. is in ruins. The sky is thick with black smoke. His cell phone is dead. The freeways are rubble. The airport is demolished. Buildings lay across streets like fallen trees. It will be days before help can arrive. Marty has been expecting this day all his life. He's prepared. He knows there is only one thing he can do … that he must do: get home to his wife Beth, go back to their gated community on the far edge of the San Fernando Valley. All he has to do is walk.
But he will quickly learn that it's not that easy. Looters rampage through the streets. His dangerous, unpredictable journey home will take him through the different worlds of what was once Los Angeles. There's no power. No running water. No order. Marty Slack thinks he's prepared. He's wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, a journey that will test the limits of his endurance and his humanity, a trek from the man he was to the man he can be … if he can survive … The Walk.
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Mortal Sin by Paul Levine
A Jake Lassiter Mystery (4th in series)
Publisher: Nittany Valley Productions
About Mortal Sin (from the publisher): Jake Lassiter has an ethical dilemma that isn't on the Bar exam.
He's sleeping with Gina Florio and defending Gina's husband Nicky in a wrongful death suit. Complicating the issue: Nicky is mob-connected and homicidal in his own right.
It all begins when environmentalist Peter Tupton freezes to death on Florio's property on the hottest day of a sweltering Miami summer. Hired to defend Florio in a civil suit, Lassiter becomes convinced that Tupton's death was no accident.
The trail of evidence takes Lassiter deep into the Everglades, where Florio has hatched a scheme to bring casino gambling to an Indian reservation. But that's only a cover for a more sinister ploy that oozes corruption, blood, and money. One false move, and Jake will be gator bait.
It's the toughest case yet for the ex-linebacker, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things. Hard-boiled and philosophical, the savvy lawyer lives by his own rules. "They don't call us sharks for our ability to swim." In a world of deceit, perversity, and mayhem, he risks body and soul for truth, justice and the Lassiter Way.
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ABC's Suspense Drama Missing Premieres Thursday, March 15th
How far would you go to save the only thing you have left in the world? After a murder took Paul Winstone's (Sean Bean) life, his wife Becca (Ashley Judd) and their son Michael (Nick Eversman) struggled to rebuild their lives. Now, ten years later, Michael goes missing under suspicious circumstances … and Becca will do anything it takes to find him in the new ABC international suspense thriller Missing.
Ever since Michael saw his father Paul blown up when he was just 8-years old, Becca has always been a tad overprotective. But she couldn't say no to Michael's amazing opportunity to study in Rome. Just a few weeks into his trip, however, Michael disappears. Becca flies to Rome for answers, but no one takes her seriously — so she takes matters into her own hands. You see, Becca isn't just a mother looking for her son. Both she and Michael's father used to be lethal CIA agents, and whoever took Michael messed with the wrong mother. Now, if Becca wants to find her son alive, she will have to rely on old friends and reopen old wounds. Her resourcefulness, skill and determination will be put to the test — but a mother's love knows no limits.
In the premiere episode ("Pilot"), which airs tomorrow, Thursday March 15th at 8 PM (ET/PT) on ABC, Becca learns that her son has disappeared while studying abroad, and it's a race against time when she travels to Europe to track him down. Watch a preview for the series below.
One Shot to Open in Theaters December 21st, 2012
In a sure sign of confidence in its film, Paramount has moved up the release date for the film adaptation of Lee Child's 2005 Jack Reacher thriller One Shot to December 21st, 2012. (World War Z was currently slated to be released on this date by the studio, but it has been moved to June 21st, 2013.)
The film stars Tom Cruise as Reacher. What we know about the film's storyline seems to follow the overall plot of the book:
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me.
And sure enough, ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter — a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not right — and soon the slam-dunk case explodes.
Now Reacher is teamed with a beautiful young defense lawyer, moving closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. Reacher knows that no two opponents are created equal. This one has come to the heartland from his own kind of hell. And Reacher knows that the only way to take him down is to match his ruthlessness and cunning — and then beat him shot for shot.
One Shot is directed by Christopher McQuarrie — who won an Academy Award for his original screenplay The Usual Suspects — from an adapted screenplay co-written with Josh Olson.
A False Dawn by Tom Lowe is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature A False Dawn by Tom Lowe as today's fifth free mystery ebook.
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A False Dawn by Tom Lowe
A Sean O'Brien Mystery
Publisher: Minotaur Books/Kingsbridge
About A False Dawn (from the publisher): After thirteen years as a homicide detective, his wife dead, and his best friend shot in a robbery, Sean O'Brien feels like he's been through a war. He leaves the streets of Miami for a simpler life on the banks of the St. Johns River near the Ocala National Forest. What he discovers there, however, opens a dark door to something more frightening than anything he ever investigated in Miami.
O'Brien has bought an old, rundown home and begun repairs when he sees a man walking chest-deep in the nearby alligator-infested river. The man is holding a pole, searching for something. Soon afterward, O'Brien finds a young woman hidden near the river, and she's clinging to life. She whispers something cryptic in his ear.
O'Brien made a promise to his dead wife, Sherri, that he was through with crime investigation. It was a promise he meant to keep. When he makes a second promise to the brutally beaten girl, it's one he believes the local authorities will keep. Since the victim is a “nobody,” he finds he can't count on them to pursue justice. Torn between his two promises, O'Brien is irrevocably plunged into the cold, lethal world of human trafficking and sexual slavery, where a brilliant killer believes he is working for the greater good, and will alter his evil plan to include O'Brien.
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The Last Matryoshka by Joyce Yarrow is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Last Matryoshka by Joyce Yarrow as today's fourth free mystery ebook.
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The Last Matryoshka by Joyce Yarrow
A Jo Epstein Mystery
Publisher: Istoria Books
About The Last Matryoshka (from the publisher): Roped into helping her socially inept, émigré stepfather, Nikolai, escape the clutches of a blackmailer, performance poet and private investigator Jo Epstein enters a world where criminals enforce a 19th-century code of honor, threats arrive inside not-so-traditional Matryoshka (nesting) dolls, and fashion models adorn themselves with lewd prison tattoos. From Vladimir Central Prison to the brooding Russian forest, Jo races against the clock to solve crimes committed on two continents.
Read our review of The Last Matryoshka by Joyce Yarrow.
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Optical Delusions in Deadwood by Ann Charles is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Optical Delusions in Deadwood by Ann Charles as today's third free mystery ebook.
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Optical Delusions in Deadwood by Ann Charles
A Violet Parker, Deadwood Mystery
Publisher: Corvallis Press
This is the second book (of two to date) in this series featuring the amateur sleuth, who enjoys speaking with the dead.
About Optical Delusions in Deadwood (from the publisher): Someone is spreading rumors around Deadwood that Violet Parker likes to chat with dead folks.
With her reputation endangered, her bank account on the verge of extinction, and her career at risk of going up in flames, Violet is desperate. When the opportunity to sell another vintage home materializes, she grabs it, even though this "haunted" house was recently the stage for a two-act, murder-suicide tragedy.
Ghost or no ghost, Violet knows this can't be as bad as the last house of horrors she tried to sell, but sexy Doc Nyce has serious doubts. Her only hope of hanging on to her job is to prove that the so-called, ghostly sightings are merely the eccentric owner's optical delusions.
But someone — or something — in the house wants Violet stopped … dead.
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Shadow of Innocence by Ric Wasley is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Shadow of Innocence by Ric Wasley as today's second free mystery ebook.
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Shadow of Innocence by Ric Wasley
A Michael "Mick" McCarthy Mystery
Publisher: Kunati/Imajin Books
About Shadow of Innocence (from the publisher): Blair Prentiss Vanderwall, the beautiful, pampered, pseudo-hippie daughter of a wealthy socialite family summering in Newport, Rhode Island, is found dead on a beach and the last person to be seen with her is the cousin of Mick’s army buddy, Smitty.
Backed by the last few bucks from McCarthy & Son Private Investigations, Mick and and his petite but tough-as-nails lover Bridget fire up Mick's motorcycle and head to Newport to retrace the last weeks of Blair's life, from the marble mansions of Newport to the free-flowing, free-love hippie crash pads and smoke-filled bars on Cape Cod, and backstage at the Newport Folk Festival.
As the shadows in Blair's life begin to take on a terrifying persona, threatening all who seek to shine a light on the mystery, Mick and Bridget must ask the real question — not who would have loved to wring Blair Vanderwall's pretty little neck … but who wouldn't.
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The Last Witness by Joel Goldman is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Last Witness by Joel Goldman as today's free mystery ebook.
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The Last Witness by Joel Goldman
A Lou Mason Mystery
Publisher: Pinnacle/Joel Goldman
This is the second book (of five to date) to feature the Kansas City trial attorney.
About The Last Witness (from the publisher): Hired to defend the accused murderer of a local lawyer and political fixer, Jack Cullan, Mason finds himself working for none other than his friend and landlord, ex-cop Wilson "Blues" Bluestone Jr. With private files that rivaled those of J Edgar Hoover, Cullan had the goods on any number of Kansas City high-rollers, from Mayor Billy Sunshine on down. But the homicide detective on the case has it in for Blues, who faces the death penalty if he's convicted. Digging deeper, Mason unearths the kind of secrets someone will do anything to keep. And as he closes in on a desperate killer who's leaving a bloody trail through very high places, Mason may be setting himself up as the next target.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
New Swedish Teaser Poster for Snabba Cash II
A new Swedish teaser poster for Snabba Cash II has been released by the studio (right; click for slightly larger version).
We had originally read that the film was adapted from the final two books in the "Stockholm Noir Trilogy" by crime novelist Jens Lapidus … though we could have been wrong about this. Indeed, if our Swedish-to-English translator is right, this second film is set a couple of years after the events of the first and features the same characters but a new storyline. We've also read that a third film may be planned, with a screenplay to be written by Lapidus. (Snabba Cash, released in 2006, and based on the first book in the trilogy, is coming to theaters in the US this July. And speaking of that first book, it is being published in English in the US in April as Easy Money; it is on our TBR stack.)
Snabba Cash II stars Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) as Johan "JW" Westlund, who is drawn into the world of organized crime for the money to support a lifestyle well above his means.
Directed by Babak Najafi from a screenplay co-written by Peter Birro and Maria Karlsson, the film opens in Sweden on August 17th, 2012. Watch a trailer for the film below.
Enter To Win a The Hunger Games Prize Package from Kobo
Read the books before you see the movie for a chance to win a "The Hunger Games" prize package from Kobo.
Purchase any of the books in "The Hunger Games" trilogy or the film guides between March 13th and March 27th, 2012 for a chance to win a grand prize package consisting of:
• Kobo Touch eReader;
• The Hunger Games Gift Pack; and a
• $50 Movie voucher.
Three secondary prizes of a The Hunger Games Gift Pack are also available.
May the odds be ever in your favor!
(This contest is open to residents of USA and Canada. See the Kobo contest page for terms and conditions and how to enter without a purchase.)
Winners of the 2012 Spotted Owl Awards Announced
The Friends of Mystery announced today the winner of the 2012 Spotted Owl Award, given for the best crime novel by a Pacific Northwest author.
This year's winner is Bill Cameron for County Line.
The organization also selected Dove Season by Johnny Shaw to receive a special Stan Johnson Outstanding Debut Mystery award.
Warner Bros. Options Comic Mandrake the Magician for Film
Warner Bros. has acquired the film rights to the comic strip character Mandrake the Magician.
Created by Lee Falk, Mandrake the Magician has been mystifying readers since 1934. The dapper, mustached magician works his debonair magic and uses his legendary powers of hypnotism and illusion to combat crime.
This wouldn't be the first time the character appeared on screen. Warren Hull played Mandrake the Magician in a 12-episode serial that was released in 1939. In 1954, a made-for-television film featuring the character aired with Coe Norton starring, with another television movie in 1979 starring Anthony Herrera.
Not unlike what it did for Sherlock Holmes, the studio intends to give Mandrake the Magician a freshening while keeping the time period in which the character appears intact.
(Related article: The Hollywood Reporter.)
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