Here is today's list of the top bestselling free Kindle mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers.
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Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120704)
Review: Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics by John Feinstein
We've just published our Review of Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics by John Feinstein. A Stevie and Susan Carol Sports Mystery. Knopf Hardcover, May 2012.
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50% Off Popular Top-Rated Games through July 8th at Big Fish Games
Big Fish Games wants to help you celebrate the 4th of July by offering over 300 of its most popular, highly rated games for half off!
From today through Sunday, July 8th, 2012, selected Collector's Edition games are just $9.99; standard games are $4.99.
Two coupon codes are available, and may be used as often as you like: STARS for the Collector's Edition games; STRIPES for the standard games.
Visit this page to see a list of the games available. About half — 150 or so — are adventure or hidden object games and many of these have mystery or suspense themes.
Have a safe and fun Independence Day holiday!
Jazz Funeral by Julie Smith is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Jazz Funeral by Julie Smith 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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Jazz Funeral by Julie Smith
Publisher: booksBnimble
This is the third mystery (of nine, originally published between 1990 and 2003) featuring the New Orleans homicide detective.
About Jazz Funeral (from the publisher): Everybody loved easygoing Ham Brocato, producer of the successful New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival; even so, he ends up stabbed to death in his kitchen on the eve of the fest. Spunky New Orleans Homicide Detective Skip Langdon acquires a ready-made suspect list from the victim's live-in lover, feisty and swiftly rising star Ti-Belle Thiebaud, and sets out to solve the murder. To complicate the case, the victim's sixteen-year-old aspiring blues musician sister has disappeared, and Skip suspects that if the young woman isn't herself the murderer, she's in mortal danger from the person who is.
Skip doesn't miss much as she probes the victim's tangled relationships, including Ariel Bruge, Ham's assistant, apparently a woman scorned; his father George, enmeshed with family members in a bitter disagreement over the family's lucrative Po' Boy chain; and Patty, the distraught stepmother.
With her long-distance love, Steve Steinman, and her quirky landlord, Jimmy Dee, to assist her, Skip trails an elusive killer through a sweltering early summer in the steamy Big Easy, a lively blend of both big city and gossipy small town, in a tale of southern kinships gone awry.
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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Illegal by Paul Levine is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Illegal by Paul Levine 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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Illegal by Paul Levine
Publisher: Nittany Valley
About Illegal (from the publisher): Haunted by a tragedy in his past and wanted by the cops for his latest malfeasance, trial lawyer Jimmy “Royal” Payne needs to skip town. That’s when he crosses paths with twelve-year-old Tino Perez, newly arrived from Mexico with no money and no papers. The gutsy kid first robs Payne, then pleads for his help. Marisol, the boy’s mother, is missing, after crossing the border with a vicious coyote.
Payne doesn’t go out of his way for anyone. But ex-wife Sharon, the L.A.P.D. detective he still loves, gives him a choice: help the boy or go to jail.
Following a chain of greed, corruption, and betrayal, Payne traces Marisol’s steps from Mexicali to California’s Hellhole Canyon, swept into the dark current of illegal immigration, human trafficking, and sexual slavery. Soon the cynical lawyer and the savvy kid are bonding … and battling cunning predators on both sides of the border. It’s the two of them against an army of cops, coyotes, vigilantes, and sex slavers. Most dangerous of all is Simeon Rutledge, a wealthy grower and the biggest employer of farm workers in California.
Just why is Rutledge willing to bribe Payne—or kill him—to keep Marisol under wraps? Will Payne’s quest redeem his mistakes and resurrect his dead marriage—or get him buried in a shallow grave? Either way, he’ll find out there’s no escaping his past …
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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Dead Pan by Gayle Trent is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dead Pan by Gayle Trent 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 Pan by Gayle Trent
A Daphne Martin Mystery
Publisher: Bell Bridge Books
This is the second mystery featuring the cake decorator in a small town in Virginia.
About Dead Pan (from the publisher): Cake decorator Daphne Martin once again finds herself and her cakes at the center of a murder mystery. Half the town gets sick following a cake event, but for poor Fred Duncan, a bout with potential food poisoning quickly turns fatal. Now it's up to Daphne to sort through the likely suspects and figure out who frosted Fred.
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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Assumed Dead by Eleanor Sullivan is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Assumed Dead by Eleanor Sullivan 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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Assumed Dead by Eleanor Sullivan
A Monika Everhardt Mystery
Publisher: Hilliard & Harris
This is the third mystery to feature the head nurse at St. Teresa’s Hospital in South St. Louis.
About Assumed Dead (from the publisher): From the shadow of the St. Louis Arch to the ashes of the World Trade Center, this mystery pulses with the authentic excitement of a busy ICU as head nurse Monika Everhardt uncovers the mysterious connection between a battered wife, an unidentified car crash victim and a long-missing man while laying to rest some ghosts of her own.
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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The Watcher by Jo Robertson is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Watcher by Jo Robertson 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 Watcher by Jo Robertson
Publisher: CreateSpace
About The Watcher (from the publisher): Forensic psychiatrist Kate Myers believes the killer of two teenage girls in Bigler County, California, is the same man who savagely murdered her twin sister over fifteen years ago. Working on sheer tenacity, she sets out to prove it.
Deputy Sheriff Ben Slater hides his personal pain behind the job, but Kate's arrival knocks his world on its axis. He wants to believe her wild theory, but the idea of a serial killer with this pathology is bizarre.
Together they work to find a killer whose roots began in a small town in Bigler County, but whose violence spread across the nation.
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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Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Mr. E. Reviews 21 Jump Street
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If your expectations are set really, really low, this film is quite entertaining. Channing Tatum is surprisingly charming while Jonah Hill is predictably awful as two cops assigned to deter crime in high school. Based on the television series of the same title, it is harmless — and mindless — entertainment.
Read the full text of our review at Mr. E. Reviews 21 Jump Street.
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Mr. E. Reviews is your source for mystery, suspense, thriller, and crime drama reviews of television and film.
The Mystery Bookshelf: The Assassin in the Marais by Claude Izner, a Victor Legris 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 Assassin in the Marais by Claude Izner
A Victor Legris Mystery (4th in series)
Minotaur Books (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: July 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-00754-4
About The Assassin in the Marais (from the publisher): Paris, Spring 1892. Intrepid bookseller Victor Legris stumbles upon a new case to investigate when his business partner Kenji Mori’s apartment is burgled. Curiously, the only item stolen is a decorative goblet of little value. But on learning that two people who were connected to the goblet have been murdered, Victor becomes convinced of its secret significance. He launches himself into the investigation, which takes him through the underbelly of Paris, in hot pursuit of the goblet as it is thrown in the garbage, picked up by a rag collector, and resold by several antique merchants, all the while leaving more dead bodies in its wake. How quickly can Victor recover the goblet and end the killing spree, in a city beset with terrorist activity by anarchists?
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About the author: Claude Izner is the pseudonym of two sisters, Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefevre. Both are secondhand booksellers on the banks of the Seine and experts on nineteenth-century Paris.
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This Week's New Games of Mystery and Suspense — and more — from Big Fish Games (120703)
Here is this week's list of new games — many of which include elements of mystery and suspense — available to purchase and download from Big Fish Games.
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New Teaser Trailer for Jack Reacher
A Russian teaser trailer for the film Jack Reacher was uploaded to several sites earlier this week, but was quickly taken down. Now, Yahoo! Movies has an English version. It's the same as the Russian one, so our comments thereof apply here as well, specifically, there's really not much of interest in the trailer, which seems all action shots and no plot. And there's surprisingly little of Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher in the trailer; his Chevelle has a higher profile.
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie from his own adapted screenplay from the novel One Shot by Lee Child, Jack Reacher opens in theaters December 21st, 2012.
Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120703)
Here is today's list of the top bestselling free Kindle mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers.
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New, Extended Trailer for Copper
BBC America has released a new, extended trailer, about 90 seconds in length with brief behind-the-scenes footage, for its new crime drama Copper.
In 1864, he was New York's finest. Tom Weston-Jones stars as Kevin Corcoran, an intense, rugged Irish-immigrant cop working the city's notorious Five Points neighborhood. Corcoran is struggling to maintain his moral compass in a turbulent world while on an emotional and relentless quest to learn the truth about the disappearance of his wife and the death of his daughter.
We're liking the look of this show, though we're a bit iffy on Weston-Jones as the lead … and can't quite put our finger on just what it is that doesn't resonate with us. Maybe it's the hat. Hmm … definitely the hat.
Copper premieres on BBC America on August 19th at 10 PM (ET/PT).
Review: Riley Mack and the Other Known Troublemakers by Chris Grabenstein
We've just published our Review of Riley Mack and the Other Known Troublemakers by Chris Grabenstein. Harper Hardcover, April 2012.
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