Just minutes ago Universal Studios released a restricted — for language — clip from the film Savages, adapted from the crime novel by Don Winslow. The scene, embedded below, is titled "Elena confronts Lado" (featuring, respectively, Salma Hayek and Benicio Del Toro) and if this is typical of the tension this film can generate, it ought to be a terrific thriller.
Savages opens in theaters July 6th, 2012.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Restricted Film Clip from Savages
Finalists for the 2012 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards Announced
The finalists for the 2012 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards have been announced, including those for the John Spray Mystery Award, which recognizes an original work or mystery or suspense in English by a Canadian author aimed at readers ages eight to sixteen. The winners will be announced at the TD Canadian Children's Literature Awards and Prix TD de Littérature Canadienne pour l’Enfance et la Jeunesse, two invitation-only gala events in Toronto and Montreal later this fall.
The John Spray Mystery Award finalists are …
• True Blue by Deborah Ellis (Pajama Press)
• Charlie's Key by Rob Mills (Orca Book Publishers)
• The Dragon Turn by Shane Peacock (Tundra Books)
• Held by Edeet Ravel (Annick Press)
• The Case of the Missing Deed by Ellen Schwartz (Tundra Books)
Kindle Mysteries Priced $2.99 or less
Discover Kindle Mysteries priced $2.99 or less from these publishers …
Down & Out Books
Midnight Ink
Minotaur Books
Oceanview Publishing
Poisoned Pen Press
Some of you may have noticed something new in our sidebar: "Discover Kindle Mysteries priced $2.99 or less from these publishers …".
We've observed over the past few months that publishers are more frequently promoting some of their e-book titles by temporarily discounting them, usually to $2.99 or less (but sometimes a bit more … though it's not uncommon to find some for free). The titles they select change on a regular basis so we thought it might be useful to have a general link to publishers of mystery, suspense and thriller ebooks, which are currently promoting books priced $2.99 or less — and make it readily accessible to regular readers via our sidebar. (We've specifically selected the Kindle versions of these books to highlight as they seem to be the most popular.)
The links in the graphic above (and on the sidebar) are active. We'll periodically rotate the publishers listed and try to make sure there are more than just one or two titles from which to choose for each publisher.
Jurassic Park 4 Gets New Screenwriters
Universal Pictures has taken a(nother) step towards making a fourth "Jurassic Park" film by hiring screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver to pen the script. The pair most recently worked together on the original screenplay for Rise of the Planet of the Apes and will adapt the Pierre Boulle novel La Planète des Singes as Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, tentatively scheduled for release in 2014.
Steven Spielberg is expected to co-produce this fourth film, though he won't be directing it.
We have somewhat ambivalent feelings about continuing the film series/franchise. The first film, Jurassic Park, adapted from the 1990 thriller by Michael Crichton, remains one of our all time favorites, but the second was a disaster — no pun intended — and the third just so-so. We definitely think there's a continuing story to be told here, so will be looking forward to seeing how the project progresses.
(Related article: Deadline.)
Cat's Paw by L. A. Taylor is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Cat's Paw by L. A. Taylor 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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Cat's Paw by L. A. Taylor
Publisher: FTL Publications
About Cat's Paw (from the publisher): Miranda Glivven's husband left home months ago on a secret assignment for the Governor and has not returned. Even his letters have stopped. With no news and no idea what has happened to him, Miranda goes on a search for her missing husband, accompanied only by a stray cat. On reaching her husband's last known location, she finds the local authorities uninterested in helping to find him. Worse, some of the local citizens suspect Miranda of using magic, a treasonous offense, because of the unusual cat that has followed her on her quest. Although Miranda has always believed that magic is superstitious nonsense, she finds the circumstances of her beloved husband's disappearance growing more and more mysterious …
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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Mindscream by R. D. Zimmerman is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Mindscream by R. D. Zimmerman 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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Mindscream by R. D. Zimmerman
Publisher: ScribblePub
About Mindscream (from the publisher): With the sudden death of her husband, Nina finds herself left alone with their baby and her Alzheimers-sticken father. Unwilling to accept her husband's death, Nina and a local reporter discover a frightening pattern … that young men and women all over town are dying of "heart attacks" at an alarming rate.
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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Chill Run by Russell Brooks is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Chill Run by Russell Brooks 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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Chill Run by Russell Brooks
Publisher: Russell Brooks
About Chill Run (from the publisher): Starving author Eddie Barrow, Jr, will do anything to get a book deal with a NYC publisher. Even if it means getting caught by the media while engaging in S&M with a female celebrity as a publicity stunt. What Eddie gets instead are details of a billion dollar fraud scheme from a suicidal client who's fatally shot minutes later. Now on the run from the law and the killers, Eddie seeks help from two unlikely friends — an alcoholic and a dominatrix. With few resources, Eddie races to clear his name, unveil the fraud scheme, and expose the killers before he becomes their next victim.
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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Night Corridor by Joan Hall Hovey is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Night Corridor by Joan Hall Hovey 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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Night Corridor by Joan Hall Hovey
Publisher: Books We Love
About Night Corridor (from the publisher): After nine years in Bayshore mental institution, once called the lunatic asylum, Caroline Hill is finally being released. There will be no one to meet her. Her parents who brought her here … are dead. They have found her a room in a rooming house, a job washing dishes in a restaurant. She will do fine, they said. But no one told that women in St. Simeon are already dying at the hands of a vicious predator. One, an actress who lived previously in her building. And others. And now, as Caroline struggles to survive on the outside, she realizes someone is stalking her. But who will believe her? She's a crazy woman after all. Then, one cold winter's night on her way home from her job, a man follows and is about to assault her when a stranger intercedes. A stranger who hides his face and whispers her name.
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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Until Next Time by Kevin Fox is Today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Until Next Time by Kevin Fox as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, June 21, 2012.
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Until Next Time by Kevin Fox
Publisher: Algonquin Books
About Until Next Time (from the publisher): For Sean Corrigan the past is simply what happened yesterday, until his twenty-first birthday, when he is given a journal left him by his father's brother Michael—a man he had not known existed. The journal, kept after his uncle fled from New York City to Ireland to escape prosecution for a murder he did not commit, draws Sean into a hunt for the truth about Michael's fate.
Sean too leaves New York for Ireland, where he is caught up in the lives of people who not only know all about Michael Corrigan but have a score to settle. As his connection to his uncle grows stronger, he realizes that within the tattered journal he carries lies the story of his own life—his past as well as his future—and the key to finding the one woman he is fated to love forever.
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 Thursday, June 21, 2012 only.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Special Offer: Three Dale Brown Dreamland eThrillers
We were poking around Amazon looking for new discounted mysteries and thrillers and noticed that HarperCollins has lowered the price of three ebook editions of Dale Brown "Dreamland" thrillers to just 99 cents. We're listing them below, with links to purchase from Amazon and iTunes … though only two are currently available at this price from iTunes. (Three other titles are just a dollar more; you can use this link to see all six of these Dale Brown ebooks on Amazon.com. We haven't yet figured out a convenient way of doing something similar for iTunes.)
Important note: Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of the sale is the price of the book.
Dale Brown
Series: Dreamland (3rd)
Dale Brown
Series: Dreamland (8th)
Dale Brown
Series: Dreamland (9th)
Important Note: Prices can and do change without notice. The price shown on the vendor website at the time of the sale is the price of the book. Please confirm the price before completing your purchase.
Hard Case Crime to Publish Illustrated Crime Novel, Seduction of the Innocent by Max Allan Collins
In our previous post we happened to mention specialty publisher Hard Case Crime in reference to a new title being published this month. Afterwards we thought we'd surf — Gosh … does anyone still use that term in the context of the Internet? We're probably dating ourselves here … — on over the publisher's website to see what's new.
In the "Our Books" section, we noticed a new book by Max Allan Collins, Seduction of the Innocent. But what really attracted our attention was the fact that it seems to be a cross between a crime novel and a graphic crime novel, an illustrated crime novel, if you will.
Here's the publisher's synopsis of the book:
"Comic books are corrupting America's youth!
"Or so the esteemed Dr. Werner Frederick would have people believe — people like the Congressmen holding hearings on banning violent crime and horror "funny books." And when the crusade provokes a most un-funny murder, Jack Starr — comics syndicate troubleshooter — has no shortage of suspects. Was it the knife-wielding juvenile delinquent or the naked seductress? Perhaps a frustrated publisher or an outraged cartoonist. Or was it a comic book reader …?
"Inspired by the real-life 1950s witch-hunt against Tales From the Crypt publisher EC Comics, Seduction of the Innocent pulls back the curtain for an insider's view of the history of comics — and features more than a dozen brand new illustrations in the classic EC style by comic book legend Terry Beatty!"
A whodunit-style mystery to look forward to. It is expected to hit bookstores in February 2013. You can read a sample chapter here.
Mysterious Press Reissues Joseph Koenig's Crime Novels as eBooks
Mysterious Press continues to introduce readers to older, and in many cases long out of print, crime novels by reissuing them in ebook format. This week's announcement covers four stand-alone books by former crime reporter Joseph Koenig, originally published in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And in something of a grand circle, one of these titles — Koenig's first, Floater — was published in hardcover by the "original" Mysterious Press in 1986.
Earlier this month, Hard Case Crime published a new crime novel by Joseph Koenig, False Negative, his first in nearly 20 years, featuring an investigative reporter working on a story some very powerful men would rather see covered up than covered.
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The Mystery Bookshelf: The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn, a Chet and Bernie Mystery
The Mystery Bookshelf, where you can discover a world of mystery and suspense, is pleased to feature a new crime novel we recently received from the publisher.
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The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn
A Chet and Bernie Mystery (4th in series)
Atria Books (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: June 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-5710-7
About The Dog Who Knew Too Much (from the publisher): Bernie is invited to give the keynote speech at the Great Western Private Eye Convention, but it’s Chet that the bigshot P.I. in charge has secret plans for. Meanwhile Chet and Bernie are hired to find a kid who has gone missing from a wilderness camp in the high country. The boy’s mother thinks the boy’s father — her ex — has snatched the boy, but Chet makes a find that sends the case in a new and dangerous direction. As if that weren’t enough, matters get complicated at home when a stray puppy that looks suspiciously like Chet shows up. Affairs of the heart collide with a job that’s never been tougher, requiring our two intrepid sleuths to depend on each other as never before.
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About the author: Spencer Quinn lives on Cape Cod with his dog, Audrey, working on the next "Chet and Bernie" mystery. Visit him on his website, ChetTheDog.com.
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Telemystery: TNT Passes on Scent of the Missing
Last month TNT — which already has a strong line-up of crime dramas — announced a number of projects it was considering moving forward to the pilot stage, at least two or three of which are likely to make the cut.
Even before that, L. A. Noir based on John Buntin's 2009 book of the same title, was greenlighted and looks good to be getting a series order … though that hasn't happened yet.
But another series project has been dropped from consideration: Scent of the Missing, based on the book by Susannah Charleson, which was actually ordered to pilot last September and cast a month later.
We'll keep you posted on any further news from the cable network.
(Related story: Deadline.)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Opens in Theaters on June 22nd
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Opens in theaters June 22, 2012.
The storyline is based on a document recently discovered by the author (screenwriter) titled The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, given to him by a vampire named Henry Sturges. "[H]enceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion," Lincoln writes. "I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose …"
The president (played by Benjamin Walker) has learned that blood-thirsty vampires are planning to take over the United States, and makes it his mission to eliminate them, thus becoming history's greatest hunter of the undead.
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov from a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith, who adapted from his own 2010 novel of the same title.
Running time: 105 minutes Rated R for violence throughout and brief sexuality.
Watch a trailer for the film below:
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