Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson 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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Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson
Publisher: Prologue Books

About Badge of Evil (from the publisher): Originally published in 1956 by Robert Allison Wade and H. Bill Miller, who wrote under the pseudonym Whit Masterson, the film based on this outstanding American suspense-thriller stars Charles Heston, Janet Leigh and Orson Welles, who plays the part of a tough veteran cop whose reputation is at stake in the solution of a brutal murder …

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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Twenty Novels Adapted for Film is Today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Twenty Novels Adapted for Film by as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $0.99 each is valid only for today, Sunday, May 13, 2012.

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Twenty Novels Adapted for Film
Publisher: RosettaBooks

About Twenty Novels Adapted for Film (from the publisher): This collection of 20 novels includes only a handful of mysteries and thrillers — we're featuring, as an example, Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman, filmed as Lannigan's Rabbi — but for fans of film adaptations, it's a terrific place to pick up the original source material for just a dollar each.

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, May 13, 2012 only.

Download Link(s):

Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

Special Offer: Kindle Edition of Gutshot Straight by Lou Berney with Bonus Excerpt, Free to Pre-Order

As of the date and time of this post, HarperCollins is offering a special edition of Lou Berney's debut crime caper Gutshot Straight as a free Kindle download. (As always, prices can and do change without notice, so please confirm the price of the book before 1-click ordering.)

This particular edition won't be delivered to your Kindle until June 12th … and it will include an excerpt from the next Heather Wells mystery by Meg Cabot, Size 12 and Ready to Rock, which is scheduled to be published July 10th. (A description of Meg Cabot's book is given instead of that for Gutshot Straight on the latter book's pre-order page, which we believe to be a simple error on the part of either the publisher or Amazon.)

Gutshot Straight, originally published in hardcover in 2010, features Charles "Shake" Bouchon, a professional wheel man, who walks out of prison after a three-year stretch for grand theft auto. Now he's got only two problems: he's too nice a guy for the life he's led and not nice enough for any other.

So he says yes when he's asked to run a simple errand for his former boss and lover, Alexandra Ilandryan, the formidable pakhan of the Armenian mob in Los Angeles. All Shake has to do is deliver a package to Las Vegas and pick up a briefcase.

Only the package turns out to be a wholesome young housewife named Gina whose husband has run afoul of Dick Moby, aka "The Whale," an unpleasant four-hundred-pound Vegas strip-club owner. Shake hates to think what's going to happen to Gina when he delivers her to The Whale, so in a move that's as noble as it is boneheaded, he decides to set her free.

Now Shake and Gina are on the run to Panama, hoping to unload the very valuable — and highly unusual — contents of The Whale's briefcase. Shake could end up a rich man, but first he'll have to outmaneuver two angry crime bosses, a murderous Armenian thug plagued by erectile superfunction, a former pro football player who blames Shake for his romantic woes, and a billionaire swindler with a flair for the theatrical. Not to mention, and not the least, Shake will need to survive his own heart, since he's going to discover that wholesome housewife Gina is even more intriguing, and a lot more complicated, than he ever imagined.

Review: Unwanted by Kristina Ohlsson

We've just published our Review of Unwanted by Kristina Ohlsson. A Fredrika Bergman Mystery. Atria Books Hardcover, February 2012.

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Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120512)

Here is today's list of the top bestselling free Kindle mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers.

We're using a script to embed an RSS feed from Amazon.com, which is updated hourly, but if you cannot see the box below — or have scripts blocked — you can use this link to see the relevant page on Amazon.com.

MystereBooks: This Week's Update of Kindle Books Priced $2.99 or Less (120512)

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.

A quick additional note: Yesterday we featured the 10 new discounted titles from Poisoned Pen Press, so we aren't repeating them here. But they are included in our updated list.

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.

Try Dying by James Scott Bell.
A Ty Buchanan Mystery (1st).

In Deep Voodoo by Stephanie Bond.

212 by Alafair Burke.
An Ellie Hatcher Mystery (3rd).

Power Down by Ben Coes.

Don of the Dead by Casey Daniels.
A Pepper Martin Mystery (1st).

Murder One by Robert Dugoni.
A David Sloane Mystery (4th).

(We know from the publisher that this title will be discounted until May 21st, 2012.)

Fatal Tango by Wolfram Fleischhauer.

Red Flags by Juris Jurjevics.

Death, Taxes and a French Manicure by Diane Kelly.
A Tara Holloway Mystery (1st).

The Forgotten Mission by Gus Leodas.

Silence by Thomas Perry.

Nazareth Child by Darrell James is Today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Nazareth Child by Darrell James as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, May 12, 2012.

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Nazareth Child by Darrell James
A Del Shannon Mystery
Publisher: Midnight Ink

This debut mystery was the winner of this year's Left Coast Crime Eureka! Award.

About Nazareth Child (from the publisher): A smart and determined field operative in Tucson, Del Shannon has earned a reputation for being nearly invincible in tracking down missing persons. Ironically, the only person Del has not been able to locate is the mother she's never known. Deep in the Appalachian hills of Kentucky, the Feds are investigating Nazareth Church, an isolated religious compound led by faith healer Silas Rule. People desperate for salvation are giving up everything they own—and are never heard from again.

Del is recruited when the FBI discovers that her father owns an abandoned house in the clannish community. Hoping to locate her mother, she goes undercover with ATFE agent Frank Falconet, a New Yorker who is battling his own demons. Caught in a deadly web of lies, scheming, and righteous threats of damnation, Del risks everything to find the truth. What secrets is Nazareth Church hiding? And could Silas Rule hold the key to her mother's past?

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 Saturday, May 12, 2012 only.

Download Link(s):

Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

Telemystery: Today's Prime Time Crime 2012 Fall Season Update

Here is today's prime time crime update summary on new, renewed, and canceled series.

ABC: Renews Body of Proof. Cancels Missing and The River. Orders 666 Park Ave., Last Resort, and Red Widow (formerly known as Penoza).

NBC: Cancels Awake, Harry's Law.

New Selection of 99 Cent Poisoned Pen Press eMysteries

Though they haven't announced it on their website yet, it looks like specialty mystery publisher Poisoned Pen Press has released a new selection of ebooks priced at just 99 cents each! We found 10 titles we hadn't seen before (listed below) but all of April's selected titles are still discounted so there is a lot to choose from. (Use this general link to see all Poisoned Pen Press titles currently available for 99 cents each.)

Important Note: The titles listed below were 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 price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Spiked 
Mark Arsenault
Series: An Eddie Bourque Mystery (1st in series)

The Reunion 
Curt Autry

Final Approach 
Rachel Brady
Series: An Emily Locke Mystery (1st in series)

The Poet's Funeral 
John M. Daniel
Series: A Guy Mallon Mystery (1st in series)

Speak Now 
Margaret Dumas
Series: A Charley Fairfax Mystery (1st in series)

The Coffin Trail 
Martin Edwards
Series: A Lake District Mystery (1st in series)

Pest Control 
Bill Fitzhugh
Series: A Bob Dillon Mystery (1st in series)

Looking for Chet Baker 
Bill Moody
Series: An Evan Horne Mystery (5th in series)

Mute Witness 
Charles O'Brien
Series: An Anne Cartier Mystery (1st in series)

The Rock Hole 
Reavis Z. Wortham
Series: A Ned Parker Mystery (1st in series)

Special Offer: Robert Dugoni's Murder One eBook Now Just $1.99 (limited time only)

Here's a special ebook offer: Robert Dugoni's fourth legal thriller to feature David Sloane, Murder One, is currently available to download for just $1.99! (Kindle, Nook, and iTunes versions are available at this price, from now through May 21st, 2012. As always, please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.)

We missed reviewing Murder One when it was published last year, but we greatly enjoyed the previous two in the series, calling Wrongful Death "among the best books to be published [in 2009]" and saying that 2010's Bodily Harm "is an exciting thriller populated with crisply drawn characters."

In Murder One, a year after the devastating murder of his wife, attorney David Sloane has returned to Seattle after three months in Mexico. At a black-tie dinner where he's been persuaded to give the keynote address, Sloane reconnects with Barclay Reid, opposing counsel in his most prominent case. Barclay is suffering from her own personal tragedy — the death of her teenage daughter from a drug overdose. In the aftermath, Barclay has begun an intense crusade against the Russian drug traffickers she holds responsible for her daughter's death, pursuing them with a righteousness that matches Sloane's own zeal for justice. Despite their adversarial past, Sloane is drawn to Barclay and for the first time since his wife died, he finds himself beginning to have romantic feelings again.

But when Barclay's crusade stalls and a Russian drug dealer turns up dead, she stands accused of murder, and Sloane is her chosen defender. Amid the swirling media frenzy, in his first criminal case, Sloane finds himself once again in harm's way, while mounting evidence suggests that Barclay is a woman with many secrets — and may not be quite as innocent as she seems.

The fifth book in the series, The Conviction, publishes next month.