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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120429)
CrimeFest 2012: Official Program, Award Nominees
CrimeFest 2012 is less than a month away, and the organizers have released a final program for the event. Get plenty of rest beforehand as there is a lot to see and do!
It all starts on Thursday afternoon, May 24th and runs almost non-stop until noon on Sunday, May 27th in Bristol. Featured guests include Lee Child, Sue Grafton, P. D. James, Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström, 2012 CWA Diamond Dagger recipient Frederick Forsyth, and toastmaster Jeffery Deaver. There's far too much to make note of here, but you can see all the details on the official program. (Our friends in the UK spell it "programme".) Information on how to get to the event, where to stay, and things to see and do before and afterwards can be found on the event's website.
There will be awards news as well. On Friday night, the Crime Writers' Association will announce the shortlist for this year's Dagger Awards. Then on Saturday night at a gala dinner, the winners of the CrimeFest Awards will be recognized. The nominees for these awards were announced earlier this week, and are …
Best Abridged Crime Audiobook:
• Lee Child: The Affair read by Kerry Shale (Random House Audiobooks)
• James Henry: First Frost read by David Jason (Random House Audiobooks)
• Simon Kernick: The Payback read by Daniel Weyman (Random House Audiobooks)
• Donna Leon: Drawing Conclusions read by Andrew Sachs (Random House Audiobooks)
• Alexander McCall Smith: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party read by Adjoa Andoh (Hachette Digital)
Best Unabridged Crime Audiobook:
• Ben Aaronovitch: Rivers of London read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Orion Audio)
• Michael Connelly: The Fifth Witness read by Peter Giles (Orion Audio)
• David Hewson: The Fallen Angel read by Saul Reichlin (Whole Story Audio Books)
• Anthony Horowitz: The House of Silk read by Derek Jacobi (Orion Audio)
• S. J. Watson: Before I Go To Sleep read by Susannah Harker (Random House Audio)
The Goldsboro Last Laugh Award (best humorous crime novel):
• Declan Burke: Absolute Zero Cool (Liberties Press)
• Colin Cotterill: Killed at the Whim of a Hat (Quercus)
• Chris Ewan: The Good Thief's Guide to Venice (Simon & Schuster)
• Christopher Fowler: Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood (Doubleday)
• Carl Hiaasen: Star Island (Sphere)
• Doug Johnstone: Smokeheads (Faber and Faber)
• Elmore Leonard: Djibouti (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• L. C. Tyler: Herring on the Nile (Macmillan)
The eDunnit Award (best crime fiction ebook first published in both hardcopy and in electronic format):
• Linwood Barclay: The Accident (Orion)
• Thomas Enger: Burned (Faber and Faber)
• Dennis Lehane: Moonlight Mile (Little, Brown)
• Adrian Magson: Death on the Rive Nord (Allison & Busby)
• Denise Mina: The End of the Wasp Season (Orion)
• Steve Mosby: Black Flowers (Orion)
• George Pelecanos: The Cut (Orion)
Two Crime Novels Win Manitoba Book Awards
The Manitoba Writers Guild and the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers announced the winners of the Manitoba Book Awards yesterday. Two crime novels were honored.
In a special genre fiction award named for Winnipeg mystery author Michael Van Rooy, who died last year, the winner was The Thirteen by Susie Moloney (Random House).
The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction also went to a mystery, The Girl in the Wall by Alison Preston (Signature Editions).
Today Only! Over 100 Kindle Mysteries for 99 Cents Each!
Today's Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day is an amazing one: 135 Kindle Mysteries for 99 cents each. (The standard price is $3.99.)
Published by Prologue Books, these are long out of print titles that are now available exclusively as ebooks.
To get you started, one of the 136 titles listed is free! Don't Cry for Me by William Campbell Gault is available for free from today through May 5th.
Here's a link to the Gold Box Deal of the Day but remember, this 99 cent each offer is available today only, Sunday April 29th, 2012. The free book offer is available through May 5th, 2012.
Winners of the 2011 Agatha Awards Announced
The winners of the 2011 Agatha Awards were announced last night by the organizers of Malice Domestic for books published last year. Honoring the "traditional" mystery, the winners (below) were selected by the attendees of the conference.
• Best Mystery Novel: Three-Day Town by Margaret Maron (Grand Central)
• Best First Mystery Novel: Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown)
• Best Non-Fiction: Books, Crooks and Counselors by Leslie Budewitz (Linden)
• Best Short Story: "Disarming" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, June 2011) by Dana Cameron
• Best Children's/Young Adult: The Black Heart Crypt by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)
• Best Historical Novel: Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
The Curse of Senmut by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Curse of Senmut by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson 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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The Curse of Senmut by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson
An Ardis Cole Mystery
Publisher: Rowe Publishing
About The Curse of Senmut (from the publisher): Outside a small village near the Valley of the Kings, archaeologist Ardis Cole arrives in Egypt to help excavate a tomb recently discovered by her mentor, Jane Darvin. When Jane is murdered, Ardis must assume responsibility for the project.
With the help of mysterious Blake Lydon, she must unravel the tomb’s mystery—an ancient secret concerning two miniature obelisks of gold hidden by Queen Hatshepsut’s love, Senmut, over 2000 years ago.
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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Cole and the Cactus Thief by Alan Tootill is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Cole and the Cactus Thief by Alan Tootill 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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Cole and the Cactus Thief by Alan Tootill
Publisher: Alan Tootill
Special thanks to the author for alerting us to this fourth mystery to feature the private investigator.
About Cole and the Cactus Thief (from the publisher): Unable to rest on his laurels, Martin finds himself involved in the suspicious deaths of two local councilors. Martin knows the two were linked by the case he was investigating, but was it coincidence they both seemed to have died of heart attacks within a day of each other? And why was Councillor Patton's car where it was when he was found dead at the wheel?
Martin has a major puzzle on his hands. Not to mention the thorny problem of who is stealing prize-winning cacti from Roselake's greenhouses.
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Cloud Crash by Phil Edwards is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Cloud Crash by Phil Edwards 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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Cloud Crash by Phil Edwards
Publisher: Harrison-Mills Media
About Cloud Crash (from the publisher): A mad bomber crosses the country with nothing to lose and orders to kill. He won't stop until the "cloud computing" that powers the internet is destroyed. But he's not acting alone — he's part of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of power.
His only obstacle? A team of professionals with serious flaws: a corporate investigator who's too brash to stay out of trouble, a hermit-like blogger with crippling paranoia, and a beautiful public relations expert with her own fair share of secrets. They'll have to work together to discover the true source of the attacks — before it's too late.
Along the way, they'll come in contact with modern technology's greatest risks. The chase takes them from Silicon Valley to New York City, with stops at Napa and Area 51 in between. They'll have to move quickly — there's only one chance to keep the cloud from crashing.
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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Don't Cry for Me by William Campbell Gault is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Don't Cry for Me by William Campbell Gault 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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Don't Cry for Me by William Campbell Gault
Publisher: Prologue Books
About Don't Cry for Me (from the publisher): He was a heel … a blue-blood gone bad, a low-brow with class, a bum with an income. He liked low-slung cars and top-heavy girls, and he took his pleasure where he found it. He was the consort of bookies, dope-peddlers, crooks; the buddy of has-beens, tough guys, and junkies. He dreamed the big dream, but played it small … free wheeling it down hill all the way, with a crack-up — and murder — at the bottom. Too many slow horses, too many fast women, and finally, one loaded cigarette; and after that … trouble: a woman who wouldn’t stay, a dead man’s face that wouldn’t go away, and an alibi that wouldn’t stick …
Also … Don't miss today's Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day, over 100 Kindle Mysteries published by Prologue Books for 99 cents each!
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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Dead Game by Kirk Russell is Today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dead Game by Kirk Russell as today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, April 29, 2012.
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Dead Game by Kirk Russell
A John Marquez Mystery
Publisher: Chronicle Books
This is the third mystery (of four to date) to feature the California Fish & Game warden.
About Dead Game (from the publisher): Ex-DEA agent John Marquez, now head of the undercover unit of the California Department of Fish and Game, is closing in on sturgeon poachers, whose highly profitable caviar trade is backed by the Russian mafia. When his key confidential informant disappears, Marquez follows the trail directly into the middle of a deadly FBI operation and a web of conflicting loyalties.
Important Note: Barnes&Noble updates its Nook Daily Find every day at approximately midnight PT. The title referenced above is available at a discounted price for Sunday, April 29, 2012 only.
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120428)
Here is today's list of the top bestselling free Kindle mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers.
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Telemystery: Prime Time Crime Network Pilot Update
In just a couple of weeks, the television networks will be announcing their Fall 2012 schedule, together with the new series that will premiere.
We've gone over our notes and checked with a few entertainment websites, and present below a summary of prime time crime pilots ordered by the networks that have been mentioned as potential series for the new season. Titles, where one exists, are subject to change; a logline or premise is included.
As the networks announce their schedules, we'll keep you posted on what has been confirmed as a go and what has been back-burnered or shelved.
ABC …
• 666 Park Ave.: Based on a storyline in Gabriella Pierce's supernatural novel of the same title, this drama features a young couple, who accepts an offer to manage one of the most historic apartment buildings in New York City. They soon begin to experience strange occurrences, which complicate and endanger the lives of everyone in the building.
• Gotham: After pursuing a seemingly unsolvable case, a female cop discovers a magical world that exists within New York City, a world that goes unseen by normal humans, and takes all of the familiar NYC landmarks and reinvents them in a magical otherworldly manner.
• Last Resort: This international action-thriller-soap follows the story of establishing a new society in a world held hostage by the crew of a ballistic missile submarine, who have captured a remote NATO outpost and declared themselves a nuclear nation.
• Penoza: Based on the Dutch television series of the same title, this crime drama centers on the widow of an assassinated criminal, who is forced to adopt her husband's role in an organized-crime syndicate in order to protect her family.
CBS …
• Applebaum: Based on a character created by mystery author Ayelet Waldman, this "Mommy Track" mystery series features a former public defender, who becomes a private investigator to keep from being bored to death as a stay-at-home mom.
• Elementary: There are two twists in this contemporary reimagining of the famous consulting detective: Sherlock Holmes lives in New York City and Watson is a woman.
• Golden Boy: This drama tracks one cop's meteoric rise from officer to detective to police commissioner.
• Trooper: This drama is centered on a common-sense mother turns New York state trooper.
• Untitled: The story of Ralph Lamb, a rodeo cowboy who became the sheriff of Clark County (which includes Las Vegas) in the 1960s.
• Widow Detective: After losing three partners in the line of duty, a decorated police detective becomes surrogate husband, lover, and father to their families in this drama.
Fox …
• Guilty: This legal thriller is centered on a brilliant, morally questionable defense attorney, who uses his unusual methods to solve cases after he's been falsely convicted of fraud and stripped of his license. A subplot involves his search for the man who set him up.
• The Asset: A spy thriller centered on a New York City-based female CIA agent with a very specialized and controversial area of expertise.
• Untitled: An orphaned 17-year-old daughter of a CIA operative encounters a mysterious rogue agent-assassin, who serves as both her surrogate father and professional mentor in the spy world in this drama.
• Untitled: The complex relationship between a diabolical serial killer and the damaged FBI agent who took him down is the focus of this thriller. After the killer escapes, the agent is reactivated and discovers that he is no longer just hunting one man, but a massive cult of serial killers created and manipulated during his time in prison.
NBC …
• Hannibal: Based on a character created by Thomas Harris and more specifically adapted from the novel Red Dragon, this thriller features FBI agent Will Graham and his mentor Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who are re-introduced at the beginning of their budding relationship.
• Infamous: Previously titled Notorious, this thriller features a female detective, who returns undercover to the wealthy family she grew up in — as the maid's daughter — to solve the murder of the notorious heiress who was once her closest friend.
• Midnight Sun: Based on the Israeli crime thriller Timrot Asham (Pillars of Smoke), this drama is centered on a female FBI cult specialist, who starts an investigation following the mysterious disappearance of a commune in Alaska only to uncover a larger conspiracy.
The CW …
• Cult: After a rash of disappearances and a likely murder, an inquisitive, young female production assistant on a wildly popular television show called Cult joins a journalist-blogger in investigating the rabid fans of the series who might be re-creating crimes seen on the program in real life.
MystereBooks: This Week's Update of Kindle Books Priced $2.99 or Less (120428)
Every month Amazon publishes a list of 100 Kindle books priced $3.99 or less. We thought we'd take that idea and improve on it, publishing a list of 100 Kindle mystery books priced $2.99 or less and updating it every week!
Here is our general criteria for selecting titles to include: books from major or specialty publishers of crime fiction and those written by authors familiar to us. There are far more than 100 to choose from, so we use our best judgment to narrow it down.
Shown below are some of the new titles we added today.
And … as a reminder, these are the last few days for Poisoned Pen Press's April selection of 99 cent mystery ebooks.
Also … check out this selection of titles from Oceanview Publishing, several of which are free. (The free titles seem to change frequently so this link includes all titles priced up to $2.99, sorted by price.)
Important Note: Prices can and do change without prior notice! We strongly urge you to confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase is the price of the book.
Beast of Burden by Ray Banks.
A Cal Innes Mystery (4th).
Blood Sugar by Jim DeFilippi.
A Joe LaLuna Mystery (1st).
Souvenirs of Murder by Margaret Duffy.
A Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley Mystery (13th).
Scoop by Kit Frazier.
A Cauley MacKinnon Mystery (1st).
Dead Copy by Kit Frazier.
A Cauley MacKinnon Mystery (2nd).
Cocaineros Duel by John J. Gilmore.
A Skeleton in the Closet by Judith K. Ivie.
A Kate Lawrence Mystery (3rd).
Line of Sight by Jack Kelly.
Random Violence by Jassy Mackenzie.
A Jade de Jong Mystery (1st).
Current Affairs by Lane Stone.
A Tiara Investigations Mystery (1st).
Book of Nathan by Curt Weeden and Richard Marek.
Reviews of Mystery and Suspense Books for Kids, New This Week on Book Trends (120428)
Book Trends, a review site for young adult and children books, published several new book reviews this past week. We're presenting here a summary of those in the mystery/suspense/thriller category.
A King's Ransom by Jude Watson. The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers (Book Two). Lexile measure: 570L. Reviewed by a 7th grade student, who writes, "The author described everything with exceptional detail so I had a clear image in my mind at all times. The book was very well paced, not too slow or too fast the entire time, but varied in speed appropriately throughout the book. … Overall, the book was fantastic." (Read the full review here.)
For more reviews of children and young adult books of all genres, visit Book Trends; their reviews will amaze you! You can also follow Book Trends on Twitter.
Take a Number by Janet Dawson is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Take a Number by Janet Dawson 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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Take a Number by Janet Dawson
A Jeri Howard Mystery
Publisher: Fawcett/Janet Dawson
This is the second mystery (of ten to date) in this series featuring the Oakland (CA) private investigator.
About Take a Number (from the publisher): In Alameda County, east of San Francisco, the all-American pastimes of adultery, divorce, and mindless violence prosper — and Petty Officer First Class Sam Raynor, USN, fits right in. PI Jeri Howard is working for Raynor's battered wife, who wants not only a divorce but half of everything Raynor's got. It turns out Raynor's hidden some big bucks from Uncle Sam.
And that's not all he's hidden. Barely concealed behind his blond and muscled good looks is a vicious psychopath, whose wife-battering episodes are only the tip of an ugly iceberg. It seems Petty Officer Raynor's been getting away with murder … or close to it. And now that Jeri is on his trail, can murder be far behind?
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