The 2012 BAFTA Craft Awards were handed out last night and Sherlock — currently airing on PBS Masterpiece Mystery! — took home a number of honors.
The episode "A Scandal in Belgravia" won for Editing: Fiction, Sound: Fiction, and Writing for series co-creator Steven Moffat.
Another crime drama, The Shadow Line, won for Director: Fiction.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Sherlock, The Shadow Line Winners at 2012 BAFTA Craft Awards
Finalists for 2012 Benjamin Franklin Awards Announced
The finalists for the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Awards have been announced by the Independent Book Publishers Association. These awards recognize excellence in independent publishing and are given out to the best books in several categories, including Mystery/Suspense. The winners will be announced on June 4th, the eve of BookExpo America 2012.
Mystery/Suspense Finalists …
• Public Anatomy by A. Scott Pearson (Oceanview Publishing)
• The Rock Hole by Reavis Z. Wortham (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Opium Equation by Lisa Wysocky (Cool Titles)
Lawyers, Guns and Money by J. D. Rhoades is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Lawyers, Guns and Money by J. D. Rhoades 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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Lawyers, Guns and Money by J. D. Rhoades
Publisher: J. D. Rhoades
This stand-alone thriller is by the author of the Jack Keller mysteries.
About Lawyers, Guns and Money (from the publisher): Andy Cole has a problem. Local crime boss Voit Fairgreen has just dropped a bag full of cash on his desk and hired him to defend Voit's brother Danny on a murder charge. Andy's one of the movers and shakers in the small southern town of Blainesville, and Voit figures Andy's the kind of inside guy that can cut a deal to get his baby brother out of the jam.
The problem is that Danny just might be innocent. But someone powerful needs this case buried, and if an innocent man dies for that, so be it.
Andy Cole is a guy who's made a good living by going along to get along. He's been willing to bend every rule, except Rule One — always get paid. But this case will cause him to re-examine his life and push him and his lover, beautiful newspaper editor Elizabeth Sinclair, to risk everything — including their lives — for the truth.
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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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for May 14, 2012
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!).
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This week's letters and mystery clue:
E H I K N O P R S
This colorful animal is mentioned in the title of a Robert Greer murder mystery (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, May 13, 2012
First Trailer for True Blood Season 5
HBO has released a new trailer for the fifth season of True Blood; we've embedded it below.
Based on the series of Sookie Stackhouse "Southern Vampire" mysteries by Charlaine Harris, this season is expected to generally follow the storyline of the fifth book in the series, Dead as a Doornail — the cover of which, not coincidentally, is the same as this season's teaser poster. (A tie-in edition of the book is being published next week.)
True Blood returns on Sunday, June 10th, 2012.
Telemystery: CBS Orders 3 and Cancels 3 Prime Time Crime Series
The last of the networks, CBS, announced today what series they were ordering, renewing, and canceling for the 2012 Fall season.
Among the new series are Elementary (Sherlock Holmes in contemporary New York City), Vegas (based on the story of Ralph Lamb, who became the sheriff of Clark County Nevada in the 1960s), and Golden Boy (one cop's rise from officer to police commissioner). We're disappointed to see that Applebaum, based on the "Mommy Track" mysteries by Ayelet Waldman, didn't make the cut.
Renewals include CSI: NY, which apparently was doubtful … and was considered a toss-up with its franchise mate from Florida as to which to keep. Speaking of which …
The long-running CSI: Miami has been canceled as well as newcomers NYC 22 and Unforgettable.
Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120513)
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.
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 …
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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.
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
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.
Our rating:
Available to purchase from …
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.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
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.
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