Extended Family by Patrick Kendrick is Today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Extended Family by Patrick Kendrick as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, July 11, 2012.

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Extended Family by Patrick Kendrick
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

About Extended Family (from the publisher): Dr. Harmon Gettys is the perfect man: tall, dark, handsome, and brilliant. He'd seemingly be a catch for any woman—especially those who desire an apparently charmed offspring. But Gettys uses his seed for murder, to create a legacy of violence.

For Fire Marshal Greymon Gift, gruesome burn-related murders are nothing new. But a sudden spike in his jurisdiction has Gift on high alert. When an FBI investigation links multiple arson scenes to the deceased Dr. Gettys, Gift is pulled even deeper into a case that's hot enough to start a conflagration. He knows that even if Gettys were alive, such an assortment of violent crimes could never be committed by just one man. So who is spreading these horrors from coast to coast?

Gift and FBI Agent Rose Cleary partner up to stop the growing number of savagely murdered victims, but can they uncover the truth before they wind up on the list of the dead? Extended Family offers a thrilling look into the heart of darkness. Horrifying and suspenseful, the novel explores the idea that evil can be passed like a torch from one generation to the next. As Gettys proved—and Gift is about to find out—sometimes all it takes is a spark to set the family tree ablaze.

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 Wednesday, July 11, 2012 only.

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Fifth and Final Season of Damages Premieres July 11th on DirecTV

The fifth and final season of Damages premieres tomorrow, Wednesday July 11th, 2012 on DirecTV.

The season is subtitled "Patty vs. Ellen". The founder of a controversial website devoted to government and corporate transparency gets sued after his most recent information leak does not go as planned. It's the perfect stage for the ultimate showdown between the mentor (Glenn Close) and her former protégée (Rose Byrne).

Watch a trailer for the season below.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay to be Two Films; Release Dates Announced

Lionsgate announced today the premiere dates for the two films that will be adapted from the third and final book in the "Hunger Games" trilogy by Suzanne Collins.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — adapted from the second book in the series — was previously announced to be in theaters November 22nd, 2013.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay will be split into two films, the first to be released on November 21st, 2014 with the second a year later on November 20th, 2015.

Mark your calendars!

Huge Summer Sale on 25 Mysterious Press eBooks

Mysterious Press announced a "huge summer sale" today, discounting 25 of its ebook titles to $3.99 or less. (Most list for $9.99.) No end date was mentioned, but we don't expect this sale to last very long.

We're providing a list (below) of the titles included in the sale, with links for more information or to purchase Kindle versions from Amazon.com. Here's a "short-cut" link to most of the titles.

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The Seventeen Widows of Sans Souci by Charlotte Armstrong
The Big Kiss-Off of 1944 by Andrew Bergman
Rilke on Black by Ken Bruen
Dog Eat Dog by Edward Bunker
Suicide Season by Rex Burns
Blue Eyes by Jerome Charyn
The Orchids by Thomas Cook
The Devil's Redhead by David Corbett
Man on a Rope by George Harmon Coxe
Another Woman's House by Mignon Eberhart
The Villiers Touch by Brian Garfield
The Ninth Directive by Adam Hall
It's Not a Pretty Sight by Gar Anthony Haywood
Shallow Graves by Jeremiah Healy
Penance by David Housewright
Bullet for a Star by Stuart Kaminsky
The Transcendental Murder by Jane Langton
Act of Fear by Dennis Lynds
Danger Is My Line by Stephen Marlowe
Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Marc McShane
Miss Lizzie by Walter Satterthwait
Her Forbidden Knight by Rex Stout
Finnegan's Week by Joseph Wambaugh
The Hot Rock by Donald Westlake
The Witch and the Borscht Pearl by Angela Zeman

Important Note: 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.

This Week's New Games of Mystery and Suspense — and more — from Big Fish Games (120710)

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.

We're using a script to embed an RSS feed from Big Fish Games, which is updated daily, but if you cannot see the box below — or have scripts blocked — you can use this link to see the relevant page on BigFishGames.com.

A&E Orders Pilot for Adaptation of Danish Crime Drama, Those Who Kill

Earlier this year A&E announced it had acquired the US development rights to the 5-episode Danish crime drama Den som dræber (Those Who Kill), which aired on TV2 during the Spring of 2011. (When the series was not renewed, a 6th episode was filmed to provide an ending, which was shown theatrically.)

Now we're learning that the cable network has ordered a pilot for the series. Glen Morgan will write the screenplay.

Den som dræber is based on an original concept by Danish crime novelist Elsebeth Egholm. The overall storyline follows a fictitious unit within Copenhagen Police that specializes in investigating serial murders.

You can watch the trailer for the series (in Danish) below, which gives a sense of what the show is about.

Mysteries by Laurence Shames and Kathy Hogan Trocheck, Now in eBook Format

We've discovered another batch of out-of-print series mysteries that have been newly reissued as ebooks. (To be fair, it looks like some of these may have been out a year or more and we're only now coming across them.)

From 1992 through 2000, Laurence Shames wrote eight "Key West" comic mysteries, the series theme here being the location rather than a recurring character.

In the mid-1990s, Kathy Hogan Trocheck, author of the Callahan Garrity mysteries, wrote two books featuring another character, Truman Kicklighter, an ex-AP reporter. This series is also set in Florida, though a little further up the west coast in the Tampa/St. Pete area.

All eight books are $2.99 each, though Amazon currently has them discounted to $2.51.

Important Note: The titles listed below were available for $2.99 or less 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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Florida Straits 
Laurence Shames
Series: A "Key West" Mystery (1st)

Scavenger Reef 
Laurence Shames
Series: A "Key West" Mystery (2nd)

Sunburn 
Laurence Shames
Series: A "Key West" Mystery (3rd)

Tropical Depression 
Laurence Shames
Series: A "Key West" Mystery (4th)

Virgin Heat 
Laurence Shames
Series: A "Key West" Mystery (5th)

Mangrove Squeeze 
Laurence Shames
Series: A "Key West" Mystery (6th)

Welcome to Paradise 
Laurence Shames
Series: A "Key West" Mystery (7th)

The Naked Detective 
Laurence Shames
Series: A "Key West" Mystery (8th)

Lickety-Split 
Kathy Hogan Trocheck
Series: A Truman Kicklighter Mystery (1st)

Crash Course 
Kathy Hogan Trocheck
Series: A Truman Kicklighter Mystery (2nd)

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120710)

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.

Meet the Detectives of Copper

There have been a number of promotional videos for the new BBC America historical crime drama Copper, with this latest one focusing squarely on the cops and the actors, who play them.

"If Corcoran, Maguire and O'Brien were around today doing what they do, they'd be out of jobs quicker than anybody!" says Tom Weston-Jones, who plays Kevin Corcoran, the lead "copper" in the series. "Kevin Corcoran is just like the Super Cop," adds Dylan Taylor, who plays Detective Andrew O'Brien. "In 1864, the Five Points New York, you don't want to be on the end of [Corcoran]'s overhand-right!"

Set in 1860s New York City, Copper follows Corcoran as he struggles 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.

Watch the latest video below. You can find more videos on the BBC America YouTube channel.

Michael Connelly Developing TV Crime Drama based on Harry Bosch Mysteries

Crime novelist Michael Connelly has teamed up with Eric Overmyer to bring his "Harry Bosch" mysteries to television. The proposed series will be produced by Fuse Entertainment, the same company behind The Killing and Burn Notice.

"There is so much Bosch material available that I've felt for a long time that the best way to maintain the integrity of the character would be to take him to television where some of the best character stuff is being done right now," said Connelly in a statement. "I love The Killing and I think teaming with Fuse and a writer of the quality and accomplishment of Eric is a fantastic combination."

Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, a detective with the LAPD, was introduced in the 1992 mystery The Black Echo, which went on to win Connelly an Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Sixteen novels have followed with the 18th in the series, The Black Box, to be published this coming November.

Harry's half-brother, attorney Mickey Haller, was featured in the film adaptation of the first book in another series of crime novels by Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer. A television series adaptation is currently in development at ABC.