MystereBooks: This Week's Update of Kindle Books Priced $2.99 or Less (120616)

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.

The number of new titles added this week is unusually large, so here's a quick overview …

• We found two mysteries each from Kensington and Midnight Ink to add. It's hard to go wrong with any book published by these companies.

• Poisoned Pen Press recently announced that it had lowered the price of mysteries in several of its series, even going so far as to offer the first in these series for free! This new promotion seems to have replaced its previous 99 cent title offering, but many of those books haven't yet been repriced so it's definitely worth taking a look.

• Oceanview Publishing lowered the price of many of its titles this past week, most to $1.99. Though we added a bunch of titles to our list, no doubt we missed a handful. Check out the complete selection using this link.

• Tyrus Books also lowered the price for a large selection of books to $1.99, including series books by D. C. Brod, Reed Farrel Coleman, Victoria Houston, Mary Logue, and Randall Peffer. We've included many of them here, but there's bound to be a few we overlooked. Use this link to see what's currently available.

Shown below are some of the new titles we added today; click on the cover or title to purchase the Kindle edition.

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.

In Search of the Rose Notes by Emily Arsenault.

The Third Coincidence by David Bishop.
A Jack McCall Mystery (1st).

Error in Judgment by D. C. Brod.
A Quint McCauley Mystery (2nd).

Masquerade in Blue by D. C. Brod.
A Quint McCauley Mystery (3rd).

Brothers in Blood by D. C. Brod.
A Quint McCauley Mystery (4th).

Paid in Full by D. C. Brod.
A Quint McCauley Mystery (5th).

Heartstone by D. C. Brod.

Stuff Dreams Are Made Of by Don Bruns.
A James Lessor and Skip Moore Mystery (2nd).

Stuff to Spy For by Don Bruns.
A James Lessor and Skip Moore Mystery (3rd).

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff by Don Bruns.
A James Lessor and Skip Moore Mystery (4th).

Riptide by Margaret Carroll.

Pepperoni Pizza Can Be Murder by Chris Cavender.
An Eleanor Swift Mystery (2nd).

The Fourth Victim by Reed Farrel Coleman.
A Joe Serpe Mystery (3rd).

Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman.
A Moe Prager Mystery (4th).

Empty Ever After by Reed Farrel Coleman.
A Moe Prager Mystery (5th).

Twin Killing by Marshall Cook.
A Monona Quinn Mystery (3rd).

In the Shadow of the Glacier by Vicki Delany.
A Molly Smith Mystery (1st).

Valley of the Lost by Vicki Delany.
A Molly Smith Mystery (2nd).

Scare the Light Away by Vicki Delany.

Catch Your Death by Louise Voss and Mark Edwards.

Red Sky, Red Dragonfly by John Galligan.

Out of Time by Samantha Graves.

Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood.
A Corinna Chapman Mystery (1st).

Heavenly Pleasures by Kerry Greenwood.
A Corinna Chapman Mystery (2nd).

Devil's Food by Kerry Greenwood.
A Corinna Chapman Mystery (3rd).

Bitter Legacy by H. Terrell Griffin.
A Matt Royal Mystery (5th).

Deadly Currents by Beth Groundwater.
A Mandy Tanner Mystery (1st).

Pocket-47 by Jude Hardin.
A Nicholas Colt Mystery (1st).

Dead Renegade by Victoria Houston.
A Paul "Doc" Osborne, Loon Lake Mystery (10th).

Dead Creek by Victoria Houston.
A Paul "Doc" Osborne, Loon Lake Mystery (2nd).

Dead Water by Victoria Houston.
A Paul "Doc" Osborne, Loon Lake Mystery (3rd).

Dead Frenzy by Victoria Houston.
A Paul "Doc" Osborne, Loon Lake Mystery (4th).

Dead Hot Mama by Victoria Houston.
A Paul "Doc" Osborne, Loon Lake Mystery (5th).

Dead Jitterbug by Victoria Houston.
A Paul "Doc" Osborne, Loon Lake Mystery (6th).

Dead Madonna by Victoria Houston.
A Paul "Doc" Osborne, Loon Lake Mystery (8th).

Dead Hot Shot by Victoria Houston.
A Paul "Doc" Osborne, Loon Lake Mystery (9th).

Shoulder Bags and Shootings by Dorothy Howell.
A Haley Randolph Mystery (3rd).

Dutch Me Deadly by Maddy Hunter.
An Emily Andrew, Passport to Peril Mystery (7th).

Exit Wounds by J. A. Jance.
A Joanna Brady Mystery (11th).

Pursuit by Elizabeth Jennings.

Shadows Still Remain by Peter de Jonge.

Collision of Lies by John LeBeau.
A Franz Waldbaer Mystery (2nd).

Thunder Beach by Michael Lister.

Dark Coulee by Mary Logue.
A Claire Watkins Mystery (2nd).

Maiden Rock by Mary Logue.
A Claire Watkins Mystery (6th).

Point No Point by Mary Logue.
A Claire Watkins Mystery (7th).

The Charlestown Connection by Tom MacDonald.

Spin a Wicked Web by Cricket McRae.
A Sophie Mae Reynolds, Homecrafting Mystery (3rd).

Public Anatomy by A. Scott Pearson.
An Eli Branch Mystery (2nd).

Old School Bones by Randall Peffer.
A Cape Islands Mystery (2nd).

Bangkok Dragons, Cape Cod Tears by Randall Peffer.
A Cape Islands Mystery (3rd).

Listen to the Dead by Randall Peffer.
A Cape Islands Mystery (4th).

The Valley of Shadows by Mark Terry.
A Derek Stillwater Mystery (4th).

The Cactus Garden by Robert Ward.

Dead Tease by Victoria Houston is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dead Tease by Victoria Houston 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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Dead Tease by Victoria Houston
A Paul "Doc" Osborne, Loon Lake Mystery
Publisher: Tyrus Books

This is the 12th, and most recent (March 2012), mystery in this series featuring the fly fisherman.

About Dead Tease (from the publisher): A hot August afternoon and Midwest Clinic CEO John McNeil has been working late. Working on his latest conquest, that is. Jen Williams is twenty-six, in charge of graphics for the hospital's PR division—and quite attractive in a healthy, athletic kind of way. She is quick to laugh and a little too quick to fall for guys. She is no virgin. And she is one of three women — including his wife — intimately familiar with McNeil.

When Jen's youthful body is found with a single stab wound through the heart, suspicion falls on both McNeil's wife, who insists she is being stalked, and the striking hospital physician with whom he had just ended an affair. Pressure to find the killer falls on Loon Lake Police Chief Lewellyn "Lew" Ferris and Dr. Paul "Doc" Osborne, the retired dentist and forensic dental expert whom she has deputized to help with the investigation—when they are not taking a break for fishing and other personal pursuits. When the mayor demands Lew take early retirement — and Doc has to babysit his teenage granddaughter who won't stop texting — the frustrations mount.

Desperate for a few hours off—and persuaded by Ray Pradt (a fishing guide who wears a stuffed trout on his head, so they should have known better)—to try fly fishing from kayaks, Doc and Lew find themselves in life-and-death straits on the river. This leads to an unexpected and macabre discovery that just may break the case.

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

Blood on the Tongue by Stephen Booth is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blood on the Tongue by Stephen Booth 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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Blood on the Tongue by Stephen Booth
A Ben Cooper and Diane Fry Mystery
Publisher: Westlea Books

This is the third mystery to feature the Derbyshire county detectives.

About Blood on the Tongue (from the publisher): It wasn't the easiest way to commit suicide. Marie Tennent seems to have curled up in the freezing snow on Irontongue Hill and stayed there until her body was frosted over like a supermarket chicken. And hers isn't the only death the Derbyshire police have to contend with — not after the discovery of a baby in the wreckage of an old Airforce bomber, and the body of a man dumped by the roadside.

As if three bodies on her hands isn't enough, snow and ice have left half of "E" Division out of action, and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry is forced to partner with DC Gavin Murfin. She and Ben Cooper were never a match made in heaven — but, next to Murfin, working with Ben starts to look like a dream. Cooper is on a trail of his own, though — and one as cold as the Peak District January.

In an equally bitter winter in 1945 an RAF bomber crashed on Irontongue Hill, killing everyone except the pilot, who walked away and disappeared. Now the pilot's grand-daughter is in Derbyshire desperate to clear his name, and Ben can't help taking an interest.

But is a fifty-year-old mystery really the best use of police time? Or does a vicious attack in the dark Edendale back streets prove that the trail isn't quite so cold as he thought?

Could the past be the only clue to present violence as an icy winter looks set to get even chillier?

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

Getting Lucky by Bob Sanchez is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Getting Lucky by Bob Sanchez 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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Getting Lucky by Bob Sanchez
Publisher: iUniverse

About Getting Lucky (from the publisher): When beautiful Bonita Esquivez hires P.I. Clay Webster to find her husband, Lucky, Clay expects an easy missing-person case. But when Bonita bites a poisoned bonbon, more than a quick buck is at stake. Clay needs to establish exactly who Lucky is and determine if his client could be lying to him.

Fifty-five-year-old Clay Webster knows pain; he lost his thirty-year marriage, his son, Sean, and his twenty-eight-year police career. Trying to build a new life, his wit is his weapon, and humor is his first line of defense against life's assaults. His search for Lucky centers primarily on Lowell, Massachusetts, where he tries to save a drowning teenager in a canal and hires yet another teenager, Denton La Rock Junior, who has been making prank phone calls to his home. Clay looks for links between Lucky and A Touch of Love, the new porn shop in town.

Meanwhile, Senator Carleton Swinburne rails against the city's perceived moral decay, personified partly by ex-cops such as Clay Webster. Perhaps Chantal Ladoute, Clay's old friend the ex-nun, will be his moral gyroscope as he navigates an increasingly dangerous course.

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

The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson is Today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, June 16, 2012.

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The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
A Walt Longmire Mystery
Publisher: Penguin

This first mystery in this series introduces Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, which also serves as the basis for the new A&E western crime drama Longmire.

About The Cold Dish (from the publisher): Sheriff Walt Longmire knows he’s got trouble when Cody Pritchard is found dead. Two years earlier, Cody and three accomplices had been given suspended sentences for raping a Northern Cheyenne girl. Is someone seeking vengeance? Longmire faces the most volatile and challenging case in his twenty-four years as sheriff and means to see that revenge, a dish that is best served cold, is never served at all.

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, June 16, 2012 only.

Download Link(s):

Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

New Trailer for the Fifth and Final Season of Damages

"You want to end this once and for all? Now's your chance."

We admit we kind of lost track of Damages after it was canceled by FX Networks in 2010. We absolutely loved the show, more specifically Glenn Close as attorney Patricia Hewes, but we didn't have DirecTV — which picked up the series for its fourth, and now its fifth and final season — and quite frankly it simply disappeared from our radar.

Now, with the series coming to a close — the final season premieres on DirecTV next month — a 30-second trailer has been released, reminding us of how much we've missed. There's nothing in the trailer about the season's overall storyline, but we so much appreciate when a series is allowed to bring closure to all that has happened thus far, which we're assuming will be the case here.

Director Oliver Stone Talks about the Grow House on the Set of Savages

Earlier today we mentioned two new posters for the film adaptation of Don Winslow's crime thriller Savages … and now we're embedded an absolutely fascinating video of director Oliver Stone talking about the "Grow House", the site where characters Ben and Chon (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch) create the product that has attracted so much attention from the Mexican Baja cartel.

"We had to create synthetic marijuana," says Stone. "It's very hard to create that glow. There's a mist on good marijuana that we feel, there's a crystalline effect. It's really the THC … But I can guarantee you that not one ounce of real grass is on that movie set."

Savages opens in theaters July 6th, 2012.

New Poster for Indie Thriller Home Sweet Home

A new — or at least a different — poster has been released for the indie thriller Home Sweet Home (right; click for larger version). The poster's tagline: "Sometimes you are not welcome." (We get it, but it seems a little weak … though we do like the suspense evoked by the ajar door. The doormat is a bit Halloween-ish, though.)

Alexandra Boylan stars as Gwen Stevens, a lone woman who battles two psychotic squatters for her home … and her life.

Job, parents, money, apartment — Gwen has lost everything. Seeking to regain control of her quickly disintegrating life, Gwen returns to her remote childhood home to sift through her past and focus on finding new direction. Her quest for control is quickly challenged when she discovers that the house that was once her sanctuary is now someone else's domain — and she is not welcome. Two psychotic squatters leave Gwen terrorized, tormented, and far from help. Gwen's retreat devolves into a battle for her home and, ultimately, a desperate fight for her life.

The film is directed by John K. D. Graham from an original screenplay by Andrew Boylan. No release date is given for the film — it appears to us to have been made at least a year or two ago and is almost certainly is destined to be direct to DVD — but a trailer is available on the studio website. (We couldn't find an embeddable version.)

Dead Sexy Books: Dangerously Thrilling Romance!

Dangerously thrilling romance! That is the tagline of the new imprint of Entangled Publishing, Dead Sexy Books.

Two ebook titles are featured in Dead Sexy's launch …

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Her Forgotten Betrayal
Anna DeStefano


Remembering will save her life. But will the truth destroy their love forever?

His mission orders: Infiltrate an FBI suspect's mountain retreat and obtain evidence of her guilt Her doctor's orders: Recuperate from a vicious shooting, and end her waking nightmares? What he doesn't know: Is she guilty, innocent, or crazy? Can she ever forgive his past betrayal? What she doesn't know: Anything about herself or her life before the attack...or if she can even trust the man with whom she is falling in love.

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Deadly Secrets, Loving Lies
Cynthia Cooke


Family secrets must be kept, and painful wounds must be ignored.

After an all-out assault by a vicious terrorist bent on destroying her entire family, a former government agent must break the strict rules she has always lived by when she emerges from hiding to reluctantly accept the help of her all-too-sexy ex-lover. Running a deadly race against time, they rush to rescue her kidnapped sister, find her missing father, and bring the notorious villain to justice. But nothing ever goes as planned. Bullets fly, danger abounds, and their passion reignites even faster than the lies are flowing. But their stubbornly held secrets just might spell the end of their rekindled love and hopes for the future … as well as their very lives.

Read an excerpt here.

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… with two more coming soon: No Hero by Mallory Kane and Sacrifice of Passion by Melissa Bourbon Ramirez.

Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, Entangled Publishing is an exclusive, boutique publisher of romantic fiction … and now romantic suspense! For more information, visit their website at EntangledPublishing.com.

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120615)

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.

New Banner-, Billboard-Sized Posters for Savages

We've previously written about the first poster for Savages, the film adaptation of the crime novel by Don Winslow; the first trailer; three TV spots; and the first of the new "interrogation series" videos with the actors in character.

Today we're seeing new billboard- and banner-sized posters for the film that we wanted to pass along. (Click on the images above right, below for larger versions.)

Directed by Oliver Stone from a screenplay co-written by Stone, Winslow, and Shane Salerno, Savages opens in theaters July 6th, 2012.

If It's Not One Thing, It's a Murder by Liz Wolfe is Today's Sixth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature If It's Not One Thing, It's a Murder by Liz Wolfe as today's sixth 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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If It's Not One Thing, It's a Murder by Liz Wolfe
A Skye Donovan Photographic Mystery
Publisher: Medallion Press

This is the first mystery (of two to date) in this series.

About If It's Not One Thing, It's a Murder (from the publisher): Skye Donovan has a life of structure and predictability after 22 years of marriage. Upon discovering another woman's underwear in her home, she suspects her husband is fooling around. She realizes her suspicions are both right and wrong when she walks in on him — and his boyfriend. Skye now finds herself confronting a new reality — she needs to start life over, find a new job, move to a new place, break the news to her teenage daughter, and worst of all, start dating again. Just when Skye thinks she has her best friend to help her through it all, corpses begin turning up — and that same friend is the prime suspect. To make things worse, she soon finds herself dealing with a handsome detective, a sexy writer, a pagan wedding, an unexpected pregnancy, and a new career. Now, amidst the chaos, she must exonerate her friend before the murderer strikes even closer to home.

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

The Man with No Time by Timothy Hallinan is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Man with No Time by Timothy Hallinan as today's fifth 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 Man with No Time by Timothy Hallinan
A Simeon Grist Mystery
Publisher: Hallinan Consulting

This is the fifth mystery (of six) in this series featuring the Los Angeles private investigator.

About The Man with No Time (from the publisher): Simeon Grist does a favor for the family of his sometimes-girlfriend, Eleanor Chan, and goes looking for two children who vanished in Chinatown. He quickly learns that he's gone straight through the looking glass and into a world where grieving parents are afraid to contact the police, where fear is the teacher and power is the law, where helpless people are shipped from China to America like so many pairs of shoes and forced into lives of toil and submission. He's perilously out of his element, drawn into a back-alley nightmare of tong wars, slavery, and murder — forced to play by rules he doesn't understand for the highest stakes of all.

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.

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