Mysterebooks: Poisoned Pen Press's March Madness Sale Continues … for now

For the past couple of months specialty mystery publisher Poisoned Pen Press has been offering a number of its ebook titles at deeply discounted prices. We checked the site this morning and there's no new promotion for April — yet — but eleven of its "March" titles are still available for 99 cents each. (We checked all four vendors this morning to confirm the pricing.) We suspect these prices won't last much longer, so if you didn't have a chance to take advantage of getting these titles last month, you still have the opportunity to do so … at least as of today!

All but one of the books below are first in series, and more than half have been reviewed by us.

Important Note: These titles were listed as available for 99 cents each 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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Relative Danger
Charles Benoit

Past Imperfect 
Kathleen Hills
Series: A John McIntire Mystery (1st in series)

Lone Star 
Ed Ifkovic
Series: An Edna Ferber Mystery (1st in series)

The Ragtime Kid
Larry Karp
Series: A Scott Joplin Ragtime Mystery (1st in series)

The Loud Adios
Ken Kuhlken
Series: A Hickey Family Mystery (1st in series)

Liar, Liar
K. J. Larsen
Series: A Cat DeLuca Mystery (1st in series)

Night Kill 
Ann Littlewood
Series: An Iris Oakley Mystery (1st in series)

Dry Bones 
Peter May
Series: An Enzo Macleod Mystery (1st in series); originally published as Extraordinary People

Murder in Mykonos 
Jeffrey Siger
Series: An Andreas Kaldis Mystery (1st in series)

Mew is for Murder
Clea Simon
Series: A Theda Krakow Mystery (1st in series)

Fiddle Game 
Richard A. Thompson
Series: A Herman Jackson Mystery (1st in series)

First Drop by Zoë Sharp is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature First Drop by Zoë Sharp as today's fourth 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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First Drop by Zoë Sharp
A Charlie Fox Mystery
Publisher: Minotaur Books

This is the fourth mystery in the Charlotte "Charlie" Fox series.

About First Drop (from the publisher): It should have been an easy introduction to Charlie Fox’s new career as a bodyguard. In fact, it should have been almost a working holiday. She just has to look after the gawky fifteen-year-old son of a rich computer programmer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Trey Pelzner is theme park mad and in theory all Charlie has to do is baby-sit him on the rollercoasters.

The last thing anyone expected was a determined attempt to snatch the boy, or that Trey’s father and their entire close protection team − including Charlie’s boss, Sean Meyer − would disappear off the face of the earth at the same time.

Now somebody out there wants the boy badly and they’re prepared to kill anyone who gets in their way. Evading them, in a strange country, takes all the skill and courage Charlie possesses.

Important Note: This book was listed for free on the date and time of this post. Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase.

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The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff 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 Price by Alexandra Sokoloff
Publisher: Minotaur Books

In our review of this stand-alone, we called it "a mesmerizing yet decidedly eerie novel … fascinating, absorbing, and hard to put down."

About The Price (from the publisher): Boston's Briarwood Medical Center is a bewildering maze of six separate hospitals symbiotically entwined, connected by glass bridges, underground tunnels, indoor and outdoor gardens — its own self-contained city. But Briarwood, like every hospital, is also a threshold … to the other side.

Idealistic Boston District Attorney Will Sullivan has it all: a beautiful, beloved wife, Joanna; an adorable five-year old daughter, Sydney, and a real shot in the Massachusetts Governor's race. Then Will's life is shattered when Sydney is diagnosed with a malignant, inoperable tumor. Now Will and Joanna are living at Briarwood Hospital, waiting for their daughter to die. Joanna is slowly losing her mind with grief and Will himself starts to question his own sanity. He has begun to see bizarre and inexplicable things around him — patients disappearing from elevators, monstrous nuns watching from the shadows.

The strange occurrences seem to center around a charismatic counselor named Salk, who befriends Will and talks mysteriously about the power of faith to heal. But when Sydney suddenly, miraculously begins to improve, Will suspects that Joanna has made a terrible bargain to save their daughter's life. Now he must uncover the truth in order to save them all.

Read our review of The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff.

Important Note: This book was listed for free on the date and time of this post. Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase.

Download Link(s):

Amazon Free Kindle Edition Download Link.

For more free mystery ebooks, visit our Free MystereBooks page.

The Grey Tier by Michele Scott is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Grey Tier by Michele Scott 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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The Grey Tier by Michele Scott
A Dead Celeb Mystery
Publisher: D'Vine Press

This new series is by the author of the "Wine Lover's" and "Horse Lover's" mystery series.

About The Grey Tier (from the publisher): Introducing Evie Preston: Small-town girl and under-the-radar healer, currently trapped in a po-dunk Texas town but yearning for something more. When fate gives her the opportunity to move to Hollywood to follow her dreams, Evie finds herself navigating through the land of glitz and glamour, and the realm of (dead) celebrities …

Raised in Brady, Texas by her minister father and her beauty shop-owner mother, Evie has been trying get out of town for years. When an old family friend gives her an unexpected gift on her birthday, Evie finally gets the chance to start fresh out west. Against her father’s wishes, she packs up her guitar, her dog, Mama Cass, and heads for California.

Once in L.A., Evie finds a singing gig at a local dive bar where she meets a slew of interesting characters including the owner himself, a former child star with a hidden past. She also scores a day job doing make-up for a famous and foul-mouthed pop diva. One of the job perks includes house sitting at a Hollywood Hills mansion. But what Evie doesn’t know is the house is also home to some famous celebrity spirits, including that of former Grunge rocker, Lucas Minx.

As if things weren’t complicated enough, Evie finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery and discovers she’s being targeted by some nasty spirits. And to top things off, she’s developed a Texas-sized crush on her hot, but very dead, roommate, Lucas.

Maybe her dad was right and the City of Angels really is the City of Devils — all of them after her.

Important Note: This book was listed for free on the date and time of this post. Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase.

Download Link(s):

Amazon Free Kindle Edition Download Link.

For more free mystery ebooks, visit our Free MystereBooks page.

Guilt Trip by Ben Rehder is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Guilt Trip by Ben Rehder as today's 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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Guilt Trip by Ben Rehder
A Blanco County Mystery
Publisher: Minotaur Books

This is the fourth mystery in this comic crime series set in Texas.

About Guilt Trip (from the publisher): Life has been quiet lately in rural Blanco County, Texas — and that suits game warden John Marlin just fine. He's happy to spend his time protecting the local wildlife from poachers and the poachers from the local wildlife. There may be a shortage of attractive single women in town, a source of some frustration to Marlin over the years, but he's never really let it bother him. Luckily, every now and then an incident comes along to spice things up. When the tequila-slamming, skirt-chasing treasurer of the local Rotary Club goes missing, and his vehicle is found in the river the day after a big flood, Marlin knows he's found his latest distraction. At nearly the same time, a house down the road explodes in a shower of drug paraphernalia, and an exotic car turns up stolen from the missing man's barn. Marlin and good friend Sheriff Bobby Garza are soon overwhelmed, trying to figure out how everything connects together.

Important Note: This book was listed for free on the date and time of this post. Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase.

Download Link(s):

Amazon Free Kindle Edition Download Link.

For more free mystery ebooks, visit our Free MystereBooks page.

Nominees for the 2012 Thriller Awards Announced

A nominees for the 2012 Thriller Awards have been announced by the International Thriller Writers organization, recognizing the best in crime thriller fiction. The winners will be announced during ThrillerFest VII in New York City this July, 2012.

The nominees are:

Best Hardcover Novel …
• Buried Secrets by Joseph Finder (St. Martin’s Press)
• A Hard Death by Jonathan Hayes (Harper)
• 11/22/63 by Stephen King (Scribner)
• The Ridge by Michael Koryta (Little, Brown)
• The Two Deaths Of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey (Dutton) 

Best Paperback Original …
• The Last Minute by Jeff Abbott (Sphere)
• Threat Warning by John Gilstrap (Pinnacle)
• The Glass Demon by Helen Grant (Delacorte Press)
• The Queen by Steven James (Revell) 
• Already Gone by John Rector (Thomas & Mercer)

Best First Novel …
• The Genesis Key by James Barney (Harper)
• She Can Run by Melinda Leigh (Montlake Romance)
• Spiral by Paul McEuen (The Dial Press)
• The Fund by H. T. Narea (Forge Books)
• Midnight Caller by Leslie Tentler (Mira)

Best Short Story …
• "One More Lie" by James Scott Bell (Compendium Press)
• "Anything to Win" by Michael Lewin (Strand Magazine)
• "Happine$$" by Twist Phelan (Mystery Writers of America Presents The Rich and the Dead, Grand Central Publishing)
• "Half-Lives" by Tim L. Williams (Dell Magazine)
• "A Hostage Situation" by Dave Zeltserman (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)

 indicates a review by Mysterious Reviews.

(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare for alerting us to this information.)