Character Posters for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part Two

Three new character posters have been released for the fifth and final film in the "Twight Saga" series of adaptations, Breaking Dawn Part Two (below; click for larger versions). All have the tagline "Forever".

The film, directed by Bill Condon from a screenplay written by Melissa Rosenberg, opens in theaters November 16th, 2012.

Review: As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson

We've just published our Review of As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson. A Walt Longmire Mystery. Viking Hardcover, May 2012.

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Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120524)

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

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White Heat by Paul D. Marks is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature White Heat by Paul D. Marks 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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White Heat by Paul D. Marks
A Duke Rogers / Jack Riggs Mystery
Publisher: Timeless Skies Publishing

Paul D. Marks will be our guest blogger next Wednesday, May 30th!

About White Heat (from the publisher): P.I. Duke Rogers finds himself in a racially charged situation. The case might have to wait … The immediate problem: getting out of South Central Los Angeles in one piece during the 1992 Rodney King riots and that's just the beginning of his problems.

Private investigator Duke Rogers finds an old "friend" for a client. The client's "friend," an up and coming black actress, ends up dead. Duke knows his client did it. Now, feeling guilty, he wants to find the client/killer. He starts his mission by going to the dead actress' family in South Central L.A. — and while there the Rodney King riots ignite.

And while he tries to track down the killer he must also deal with the racism of his partner, Jack, and from the dead woman's brother, Warren. He must also confront his own possible latent racism — even as he's in an interracial relationship with the murder victim's dead woman's sister.

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 Kindle Edition Download Link.

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Enter to Win an Inspector Montalbano Gift Basket from Penguin Books

The Age of Doubt, the 14th book in Andrea Camilleri's "Inspector Montalbano" mystery series, is being published next week and to celebrate, Penguin Books is holding a giveaway … and a pretty amazing one at that.

One winner will receive the Grand Prize of an Inspector Montalbano Gift Basket that includes a variety of Italian foods such as pasta, sauce, olives, Italian desserts, roasted red peppers, olive oil, and cheese, along with all 14 novels in the Inspector Montalbano series. (See a photo of the Grand Prize at the bottom of this page.) Four second place winners will receive all 14 books in the series.

Visit the site's Facebook page to enter. (You will be asked to grant permission to the app to access your Facebook information.) The entry deadline is Tuesday, June 5th, 2012.

Separate from this, Penguin Books is also allowing us to give away a copy of The Age of Doubt to one of our readers. To enter our giveaway, visit Mystery Book Contests and click on the Andrea Camilleri: The Age of Doubt link, enter your name and e-mail address and this code, 8209, for a chance to win. One entry per person; our entry deadline is also Tuesday, June 5th, 2012.

About The Age of Doubt: The day after a storm, Inspector Montalbano encounters a strange woman who expresses interest in a certain yacht scheduled to dock that afternoon. Not long after she's gone, the yacht's crew reports finding a disfigured corpse. Also at anchor is a luxury vessel with a somewhat shady crew. Both boats will have to stay in Vigàta until the investigation is over and, based on information from the woman, Montalbano begins to think the occupants of the yacht might know more about the man's death than they're letting on.

Please Welcome Novelist Kfir Luzzatto

We are delighted to welcome Kfir Luzzatto as our guest blogger today.

Kfir's most recent novel is the thriller The Evelyn Project (Pine Ten, April 2012 trade paperback and ebook editions), which was inspired in part by his in-depth research into the family archives.

Today Kfir writes about "Donating Virtual Life with The Evelyn Project". And he's also offering one of our readers a chance to win a free ecopy of his book simply by joining his mailing list; see more details below.

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I am always taken by surprise when a story line somehow finds its way into my consciousness and, once settled there, demands to be written. Then I'm stuck with it, whether I like it or not. And, unfortunately, those story ideas don't come equipped with a well thought-out plot; instead, you get this rather fuzzy but nagging image that won't go away until the story is fully developed. This is what happened to me with The Evelyn Project.

Photo provided courtesy of
Kfir Luzzatto

Evelyn (or, rather Evelina, as she was named in my native Italy) was my great aunt. She died of tuberculosis in 1894. She was only 26 years old. My great-grandfather was an influential politician who left no stone unturned to try to save his daughter and got her the best medical care that was available at the turn-of-the-century, among which praying was probably the most effective measure.

Evelyn's studio portrait, which I used in the book cover, hangs on the wall beside my writing desk. My second daughter, Lilach, is her living image and her 26th birthday is approaching fast. That might have been a catalyst for me to write the book, although the sad story of Evelyn's death was always a part of my family's ethos; I must've sucked it in with my milk because I can't remember the first time her name was mentioned. When my parents died I was left with the responsibility to make sure that my family history would not be forgotten. That entailed a lot of reading in books, documents and letters, which brought Evelyn's figure increasingly to life for me. I learned of her warm relation with her father through letters she had written to him, and I discovered more than I already knew about my great-grandfather's devotion to her.

Throughout my reading and learning one persistent thought kept popping up in my head: today her death would have been an unnecessary tragedy; with readily-available antibiotics an otherwise healthy young woman would not have succumbed to her illness. So what if it was possible to go back in time and save her using medical technology commonly available today? It is probable that saving Evelyn's life would not have changed the course of history (contrary to what many science fiction books would predict), but even if it did, preventing her father's private hell would have been well worth the price.

Having got emotionally involved in her story I realized that I had to do more than just sit there and shake my head in sorrow. I couldn't just let Evelyn fade away in those yellowing papers. I had to do right by her (whatever that meant). My investigation of Evelyn's misfortune allowed me to put myself in my great-grandfather's shoes, to feel the emotions that he must have felt (he was approximately my age when Evelyn died) and to test the length to which a father would go in an attempt, no matter how futile, to save his child.

Overall, writing this book turned out to be an exceptionally emotional journey for me. Sometimes I felt ashamed that I was enjoying writing it. Instead of dishing out a uniformly gloomy piece I was writing a fast-paced thriller that, beside the suspense, also has its hilarious moments.

This is not the first time that inspiration has come to me like an assignment from above without any real control from my side. I have learned not to fight the impulse and, instead, to embrace it and to allow myself to be taken on an emotional roller coaster ride without a clear vision of where the journey is likely to end.

I don't believe in stereotyping ghosts, so I won't say that I recognize Evelyn's hand or my great-grandfather's stick behind my urge to write the story. It is true, however, that now I feel much closer to them than I did before; they have assumed characters and a presence so real that at times it feels as if we had actually met. I often wondered whether they would have grudged me the use I made of their characters in a commercial book, but something tells me that if they can see us they understand that this is my way to give Evelyn some of the life she has been denied, even if only on paper.

But this is not only about Evelyn. My great-grandfather was no less of a victim to her disease than she was. The Evelyn Project is my tribute to them both.

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Photo provided courtesy of
Kfir Luzzatto

Kfir Luzzatto was born and raised in Italy, and moved to Israel as a teenager. He acquired the love for the English language from his father, a former U.S. soldier, a voracious reader and a prolific writer. Kfir has a PhD in chemical engineering and works as a patent attorney.

He lives in Omer, Israel, with his full-time partner, Esther, their four children, Michal, Lilach, Tamar and Yonatan, and the dog Elvis.

For more information about Kfir and his books, please visit his website at KfirLuzzatto.com.

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About The Evelyn Project:

A loving father's cry for help gets into the wrong hands, and a hundred years later things get out of control.

Evelyn's father did everything in his power to save his dying daughter, black magic included. But when a century later his plea for help gets into the wrong hands, all hell breaks loose. Caught in the slippery battlefield between the Vatican and a cult that wants to change the past, a young Italian professor and a beautiful French aspiring actress are too busy running away from murder and conspiracy to let physical attraction develop into love. And it doesn't help that the Her Majesty's Secret Service decides to take an interest in what everybody else is doing and to pull some strings of its own.

Quite the contrary, in fact …

Readers who join the author's mailing list in the next 10 days — before June 4th, 2012 — will be entered in a drawing for a free ecopy of The Evelyn Project. Join using this link (on the author's website).

The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine 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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The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine
A Solomon vs. Lord Legal Thriller
Publisher: Bantam/Nittany Valley

This is the second mystery to feature the Coral Gables blueblood, Victoria Lord, who plays by the rules, and Coconut Grove beach bum, Steve Solomon, who makes up his own.

About The Deep Blue Alibi (from the publisher): The action starts when a boat runs aground in the Florida Keys. Aboard are a thousand hundred-dollar bills and two men, one shot by a speargun. The other man is Victoria’s "Uncle Grif", who desperately needs a lawyer … or two. But Grif, charged with murder, is a lawyer’s worst nightmare, a client who keeps secrets. Just what is he planning in the Florida Keys and why would he kill an investigator for the Environmental Protection Agency?

The tale roams from the streets of Miami to a waterfront nudist colony to a Key West courtroom with Solomon and Lord – squabblers extraordinaire – fighting all the way. Will they succeed in defending Grif? Will they learn the truth? And will they end the case as partners and lovers or enemies and litigants?

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):

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International Trailer for Total Recall

Last month we posted what we called the first international trailer for Total Recall. We always try to link to uploads made by the studio, but since that video has since been deleted we can't be sure if it is the same as the one released by Sony Pictures today.

Anyway, we'll repeat the information we provided in that previous post here … together with the new (?) trailer from Sony (embedded below).

Inspired anew by the famous short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick, the film welcomes you to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he's got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life — real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police — controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world — Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

Directed by Len Wiseman from a screenplay by Mark Bomback, James Vanderbilt, and Kurt Wimmer, Total Recall opens in theaters August 3rd, 2012.

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120523)

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

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New Carina Romantic Suspense eBooks for May 2012

Each month, Omnimystery News is pleased to present new mystery and suspense titles from Carina Press, an ebook only publisher. Links are provided to purchase the ebook from, where available, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble, Kobo Books, or the Apple iBookstore.

There are so many titles being released during May and early June 2012 that we're splittling the list into two. This post contains the titles listed as "Romantic Suspense"; our next list will include "Mystery" titles.

And — as of the date and time of this post — Shannon Curtis's book, Guarding Jess, is listed as available for only 99 cents at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. This is, no doubt, a limited time offer, so please check and confirm the price of the book before you complete your purchase.

New ebooks of mystery and suspense for May 2012 from Carina Press include:

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Hunting the Shadows by Alexia Reed
A Shadow Ops Project Thriller (1st in series)

Amy has spent her life in isolation. Locked away in the Centre, a secret government facility where children with extraordinary abilities are raised as highly skilled fighters, she longs for a normal life. A life where being around people doesn't overload her sensitive telepathic mind. A life where she can't see through the eyes of a murderer as he hunts down his next victim …

J.C. Nikolaiev was a top researcher, but when his conscience got the better of him, he tried to destroy his work and free his subjects--and was imprisoned as a traitor. To save himself and prevent more people from dying, J.C. must catch the serial killer stalking the halls of the facility. But his only leads come from a woman whose thoughts have invaded his mind …

Finally out of the psych ward, Amy joins forces with J.C. to find the killer before he closes in on them. Can their growing attraction withstand the truths they uncover?

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Guarding Jess by Shannon Curtis
A McCormack Security Agency Mystery (2nd in series)

Jessica Pennington's work as an etiquette coach requires her to be polite and proper at all times, especially now that she has a book coming out. The only thing that rattles her reserve is the increasingly violent emails and texts from her persistent stalker. With the book launch in jeopardy, she reluctantly hires a bodyguard.

Noah Samuels hates stuck-up, prim people like Jessica. He's more the blunt, straightforward type. But to advance up the ranks at McCormack Security, he has to take the high-profile assignment. After a near miss on his first day on the job, Noah realizes that the stalker isn't just hype cooked up to sell books--the threat is real.

As the stalker escalates from letters to letter bombs, Noah sees a vulnerable side of Jessica that rouses more than just his protective instincts. But can she let down her guard long enough to trust Noah before it's too late?

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Edge of Light by Cynthia Justlin
Non-series

Taken prisoner by a ruthless group of anarchists deep in the Cambodian jungle, anthropologist Jocelyn Hewitt is isolated in a dark prison cell. Without chance of rescue. Or hope. Until the man in the next cell reaches out to let her know she's not as alone as she thinks.

CIA agent Oliver Shaw has been held prisoner for over two years. Forced to witness the brutal torture and slow murder of his entire team, his spirit is not just broken, it's crushed. He no longer believes in hope. Until he hears Jocelyn through the wall, and suddenly feels like a glimpse of light is trying to reach in …

Jocelyn's heart aches for the tortured man whose presence and voice give her the courage to risk their escape. But first she'll have to remind Oliver who he once was, what he once loved, and bring him back to life. Only then will they have a chance for freedom — and the kind of love neither ever thought possible.

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Negotiating Point by Adrienne Giordano
A Private Protectors Thriller Novella

As a hostage negotiator for Taylor Security, Gavin Sheppard has just been given the toughest assignment of his career: securing the release of his boss's pregnant wife. He's uneasy negotiating a rescue without the involvement of the police, but with the life of a woman and her unborn child on the line there's no time to play by the rules. He'll have to work closely with the one woman who could prove to be a distraction …

Janet Fink, the agency's tech geek, is conflicted about working alongside the man she's irresistibly attracted to. Though she's determined not to risk her career by getting involved with a coworker, especially a superior, she can't forget the passionate kiss they once shared …

With the kidnappers' deadline fast approaching, Gavin and Janet must combine their skills to bring the missing woman home alive. But their undeniable chemistry is making it difficult to keep their relationship purely professional …

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Carina Press, a division of Harlequin, is a digital-first publisher offering ebooks in a variety of genres, including mystery. eBooks from Carina can be read on the Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, B&N Nook, Kobo eReader, BlackBerry and mobile phones.

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Rookie Blue Season 3 Premieres Thursday May 24th on ABC

The third season of Rookie Blue premieres tomorrow, Thursday May 24th, on ABC at 10 PM (ET/PT).

Produced (and set) in Canada, the series follows the lives of five rookie cops, who trained together at the Academy. Now they're walking the beat together. They've experienced a learning curve that's steeper than they ever imagined, and they've learned first-hand that making a rookie mistake could cost them — or someone else — their life.

In the third season opener, titled "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life", Andy McNally (Missy Peregrym) faces a tribunal that will decide her reinstatement; and a drunken driver (guest star William Shatner) with a grudge against the police causes a multicar crash.

For some reason, ABC has deleted all its promos for the series from its YouTube channel, so we're embedding the GlobalTV season three trailer. (Rookie Blue airs on GlobalTV in Canada.)

Special Offer: Three eMysteries by J. T. Ellison at Discounted Prices

We've taken to updating our Kindle Mysteries for $2.99 or less webpage on Saturdays, but we wanted to let you know about this special offer today … just in case it's only available for a day or so.

Mira Books has discounted ebook editions of the first three titles in "Taylor Jackson" mystery series by J. T. Ellison to just $1.99 (as of the date and time of this post). We don't know how long they will be available at this price — we couldn't find any information about this deal on either the publisher's or author's website — so please confirm the price before checking out. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book.

The three titles are …

All the Pretty Girls (1st in series: Kindle; NookBook; iTunes): When a local girl falls prey to a sadistic serial killer, Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson and her lover, FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, find themselves in a joint investigation pursuing a vicious murderer. The Southern Strangler is slaughtering his way through the Southeast, leaving a gruesome memento at each crime scene — the prior victim's severed hand.

Ambitious TV reporter Whitney Connolly is certain the Southern Strangler is her ticket out of Nashville; she's got a scoop that could break the case. She has no idea how close to this story she really is — or what it will cost her.

As the killer spirals out of control, everyone involved must face a horrible truth — that the purest evil is born of private lies.

14 (2nd in series: Kindle; Nookbook; iTunes): Ten victims, each with pale skin and long dark hair. All have been slashed across the throat, the same red lipstick smeared across their lips.

In the mid-1980s the Snow White Killer terrorized the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. Then suddenly the murders stopped. A letter from the killer to the police stated that his work was done.

Now four more bodies are found, marked with his fatal signature. The residents of Nashville fear a madman has returned, decades later, to finish his sick fairy tale. Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson believes the killings are the work of a copycat killer who's even more terrifying. For this monster is meticulously honing his craft as he mimics famous serial murders … proving that the past is not to be forgotten.

Judas Kiss (3rd in series: Kindle; Nookbook; iTunes): It was a murder made for TV: a trail of tiny bloody footprints. An innocent toddler playing beside her mother's bludgeoned body. Pretty young Corinne Wolff, seven months pregnant, brutally murdered in her own home.

Cameras and questions don't usually faze Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson, but the media frenzy surrounding the Wolff case is particularly nasty … and thorough. When the seemingly model mommy is linked to an amateur porn Web site with underage actresses and unwitting players, the sharks begin to circle.

The shock is magnified when an old adversary uses the sexy secret footage to implicate Taylor in a murder — an accusation that threatens her career, her reputation and her relationship.

Both cases hinge on the evidence — real or manufactured — of crimes that go beyond passion, into the realm of obsessive vengeance and shocking betrayal. Just what the networks love.

Please Welcome Singer/Songwriter Beth Rudetsky

A few weeks ago singer/songwriter Beth Rudetsky wrote us, asking if we'd take a look at a trailer for Zoë Sharp's new Charlie Fox mystery Fifth Victim. We did, and were struck with how well the visual images were paired with the music and gave a real sense of what the book was about. We asked Beth to tell us a little more about her collaboration with the author — which she did — and she was kind enough to allow us to share her story with our readers.

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Zoë Sharp and I began communicating with each other last November. One of the things that Zoë shared with me is that she has a great passion for music and listens to many different kinds of music that inspire her and that fit the mood of the character as she writes. We found that we have a lot of music and artists that we both enjoy listening to and that we also look to be filled up and moved by an artist and their song. I shared with her also that I've had a passion for reading mystery and crime-thriller novels since I was a kid. In reading a great novel, I'm always drawn first to the character's emotions, the struggles that come from these emotions along with the psychology behind how the character's mind works and how he/she got to be in the situation that becomes the story in the book. I then offered to share some of my songs that I had written and recorded for Zoë to listen to, which she loved. She was thrilled and wrote to me how she loves my voice and my vocal range and how my songs stay with her. I was inspired by the characters of the many books that I’ve read that were written by her over the years and wanted to write a song for her specifically. We then decided that I would write the song for a book-trailer/video of her novel, Fifth Victim, which was released in the U.S. this year.

Photo provided courtesy of
Beth Rudetsky

We talked about how her protagonist was struggling with conflicting emotions of staying with someone or letting them go. It was then that I came up with the idea of how I wanted to shape the lyrics into a story about the character not wanting to be a victim emotionally and also tying it into at the same time to being a victim physically, tying it into Zoë's story in Fifth Victim. I write character-driven songs and usually write out the lyrics first that tell a short story about the emotions that consume the character, the questions the character has about their plight that is reflective of the emotions they possess and also the character questioning in the song how their life arrived at this point that makes these emotions so resonant and dominant in their thoughts and lives. Many times, my lyrics reflect the character's plight being unresolved, just like what can happen in life. I don't like to wrap things up neatly with a bow. My songwriting also reflects what I have psychologically observed about people over the years and the questions I have about what makes them tick internally. My songs also question and reflect on my own thoughts and emotions many times.

I majored in Classical Piano performance at Hofstra University and studied piano and music theory with concert pianist Morton Estrin. He trained me to play as well as a concert pianist and I developed a strong technique in my hands and learned how to put together a piano recital, intensely preparing a year in advance for a big concert and to have the time to really know and absorb the compositions in my fingers, heart and mind. My favorite composers that I studied are Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Samuel Barber. I studied fiction writing with novelist and screenwriter Richard Price while also a student at Hofstra University. He taught me that a good writer grabs the reader's attention immediately and I utilize his teaching in writing the first few lines of my lyrics. I studied composing with composer Herbert Deutsch, where I first noticed that I was developing a sadness and yearning in the melodies and chord structure of my songs. These three teachers were instrumental in my development as a musician and songwriter. In my early twenties I discovered that I could sing and started putting together cabaret shows, singing and playing the piano for songs from the 1930's and 1940's, jazz, Broadway, singer-songwriters and popular ballads. One of the thrills I experienced was working for Burt Bacharach as a singer-pianist for three years every weekend at his restaurant on Long Island. I also sang background vocals on many pop and dance recordings over the years and composed music for film as well as singing the songs too.

It is very exciting for me to write songs for authors and I'm being told that I have created a new genre in writing a song specifically for an author's book-trailer. Usually trailers feature only stock sound effects and never an original song. When writing songs for an author, I read the author's novel and in addition I like the author to e-mail me in their own words a synopsis of the story in their book. When I compose a song for a mystery or crime-thriller author's novel, I find that I am able to intuitively tune into the character/s emotional plight as well as combining it with the author's story line. This combination creates a compelling and thrilling song. I am currently at work on writing a song for the book-trailer of crime-thriller author J. Carson Black's novel Icon, which will be released in June.

As well as a composer I am also a singer and approach singing the song that I write the way I approach all songs that I perform, which is using my voice to bring out the melody line and emotions of the character and find that I touch a listener deeply.

When I'm writing the music and lyrics to a song, if I find that I am grasped by the lyrics and jolted by the melody and the chords, then others are just as moved. It's an innate feeling that becomes transcendent and universal. I feel that music and books are very much related. They cannot be left inanimate or turn to dust. Music must be heard. Books must be read.

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Here is the trailer for Fifth Victim by Zoë Sharp, with music and lyrics by Beth Rudetsky …

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About Fifth Victim:

On Long Island, the playground of New York's wealthy and privileged, Charlie Fox is tasked with protecting the wayward daughter of rich businesswoman Caroline Willner. It seems that an alarming number of the girl's circle of friends have been through kidnap ordeals, and Charlie quickly discovers that the girl herself, Dina, is fascinated by the clique formed by these former victims.

Charlie worries that Dina's thrill-seeking tendencies will put both of them in real danger. But just as her worst fears are realized, Charlie receives devastating personal news. The man who put her partner Sean Meyer in his coma is on the loose.

She is faced with the choice between her loyalties to her client and avenging Sean, but the two goals are soon inextricably linked. The decisions Charlie makes now, and the path she chooses to follow, will have far-reaching consequences.

New Interactive Trailer for Snow White & the Huntsman

There's a new interactive trailer for Snow White & the Huntsman, which we've embedded below. As the trailer plays, moving your mouse over the image will present you with options to get more facts about the film, watch actor interviews, see a map of the film's setting, and more. (You might want to watch it full screen as there's a lot packed into a small space.)

Kristen Stewart stars as Snow White, the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Charlize Theron) out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) dispatched to kill her.

Directed by Rupert Sanders from a screenplay by Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock, and Hossein Amini, Snow White & the Huntsman opens in theaters a little over a week from now, on June 1st, 2012.