Good Cop, Dead Cop by Jennifer Petkus is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Good Cop, Dead Cop by Jennifer Petkus as today's second free mystery ebook.

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Good Cop, Dead Cop by Jennifer Petkus
An AfterNet Mystery
Publisher: Mallard Mysteries

About Good Cop, Dead Cop (from the publisher): Alex Munroe hated being dead, but he hated not being a cop even more. Luckily the discovery of the afterlife means death isn't quite the disability it once was and new technology has allowed him to partner with rookie cop Linda Yamaguchi. Of course technology still can't give him a physical body or the ability to interact with the billions of other dead people, except through the Internet. But technology has allowed Alex to expand his mind and access the world of information in ways he would have never thought possible when alive, which is a useful skill when the dead start to go missing, and it's up to Alex and Linda to solve the mystery of their disappearance.

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Hazardous Duty by Christy Barritt is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Hazardous Duty by Christy Barritt as today's free mystery ebook.

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Hazardous Duty by Christy Barritt
A Gabby St. Claire, Squeaky Clean Mystery
Publisher: Princeton Halls Press

This is the first mystery in this series.

About Hazardous Duty (from the publisher): Gabby St. Claire dropped out of school on her way to completing a degree in forensic science. Instead, she did the next best thing: she started her own crime scene cleaning business. When a routine cleaning job uncovers a murder weapon the police overlooked, she realizes that the wrong person is in jail. But the owner of the weapon is willing to do anything to keep Gabby quiet. With the help of her neighbor, Riley Thomas, Gabby plays detective. But can Riley help her before another murder occurs?

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Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending July 13, 2012

A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending July 13th, 2012 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

No change at the top this week with the stand-alone thriller Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn remaining a solid number 1.

It's a busy summer week! Three new titles debut.

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In one of the highest debuts we've seen in a long time, the second book in the "All Souls Trilogy", Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness, comes in at number 6.

Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies, subterfuge, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the mysterious School of Night that includes Christopher Marlowe and Walter Raleigh. Here, Diana must locate a witch to tutor her in magic, Matthew is forced to confront a past he thought he had put to rest, and the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens.

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Three spots lower is the fifth "Michael Bennett" mystery, I, Michael Bennett by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge.

Detective Michael Bennett arrests an infamous Mexican crime lord in a deadly chase that leaves Bennett's lifelong friend Hughie McDonough dead. From jail, the prisoner vows to rain epic violence down upon New York City-and to get revenge on Michael Bennett.

To escape the chaos, Bennett takes his ten kids and their beautiful nanny, Mary Catherine, on a much-needed vacation to his family's cabin near Newburgh, New York. But instead of the calm and happy town he remembers from growing up, they step into a nightmare worse than they could have ever imagined. Newburgh is an inferno of warring gangs, and there's little the police-or Bennett-can do to keep the children safe.

As violence overwhelms the state, Bennett is torn between protecting his hometown and saving New York City. A partner in his investigations, federal prosecutor Tara McLellan, brings him new weapons for the battle-and an attraction that endangers his relationship with Mary Catherine.

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Finally, at number 14 is the latest "FBI Suspense" thriller, Backfire by Catherine Coulter.

San Francisco Judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, is presiding over the trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill — accused in a string of murders — when the proceedings take a radical turn. Federal prosecutor Mickey O'Rourke, known for his relentless style, becomes suddenly tentative in his opening statement, leading Hunt to suspect he’s been threatened — suspicions that are all but confirmed when Hunt is shot in the back.

Savich and Sherlock receive news of the attack as an ominous note is delivered to Savich at the Hoover Building: YOU DESERVE THIS FOR WHAT YOU DID. Security tapes fail to reveal who delivered the tapes. Who is behind the shooting of Judge Ramsey Hunt? Who sent the note to Savich? And what does it all mean? Savich and Sherlock race to San Francisco to find out … watching their backs all the while.

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First 2 Minutes of Dexter Season 7

If you don't want to see the first 2-plus minutes of the Season 7 premiere of Dexter, do not click the play button below!

But if you do, Showtime has released a scene that picks up right where Season 6 ended.

The new season begins September 30th.

Official Comic-Con Poster for Total Recall

The official Comic-con poster for Total Recall was released today (via Yahoo! Movies) — right; click for slightly larger image — that has the same basic image as the Swedish version we posted yesterday. The poster's tagline is also the same: "Is it real. Is it recall."

Welcome 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 US theaters August 3rd, 2012.

Artscape, the First Ike Schwartz Mystery by Frederick Ramsay, Now at a Special eBook Price

Poisoned Pen Press just e-mailed us to let us know that the first mystery in the "Ike Schwartz" series, Artscape by Frederick Ramsay, is now available in Kindle format for just 99 cents; it's free from iTunes (for a limited time only; see vendor buttons below). We'll be adding this title together with the second in the series in our weekly update of Kindle Mysteries for $2.99 or less this coming Saturday.

Ike Schwartz thought he could return to his hometown and ditch the demons that pursue him. More than anything, he wanted to blot out the pain and anger that came when his wife of less than a month was gunned down in a CIA foul-up. So he buried himself as sheriff in rural Picketsville, Virginia, a community indistinguishable from any of the hundreds of small towns that hang like beads on Interstate 81 running from Pennsylvania down to Georgia.
Aside from its Civil War history, Picketsville's only real claim to fame is Callend College, a private women's school located just within its corporate limits. The college is notable, in turn, for housing one half of the billion dollar Dillon art collection, carefully secured in an underground bunker originally built in the late 1950s as a super bomb shelter.

It's bad news for both Dr. Ruth Harris, the newly hired president of the college, and for a shadowy group whose services have been contracted by Middle Eastern fanatics — The New Jihad — when the collection is scheduled to be removed to New York. The plan is to steal the half billion dollars worth of fine art and statuary, and ransom it back for millions.

With the closure of the facility imminent, the operation must be moved forward, which, in turn, creates unanticipated risks and problems. And everyone dismisses Ike Schwartz as a stereotypical rural sheriff. He is, however, a man with uncommon skills, a tough hide, and a notable past …

 

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This Week's Bestselling Mystery and Suspense Television and Film Blu-ray Discs (120712)

Here is this week's list of the top bestselling mystery and suspense television and film Blu-ray discs available from Amazon.com.

We're using a script to embed an RSS feed from Amazon.com, which is frequently updated, 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 Japanese Poster for The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games may have been held in March here in the US — and most of the rest of the world — but in Japan they aren't scheduled until September 28th.

To promote the film, the studio has released a Japanese poster (right; click for larger image).

There isn't enough katakana on the poster for us to read, so we're not able to provide much more information about what's exactly being said. We can pick out ハ ンガーゲーム but of course that's already helpfully translated below the text.

This should be the last major country to see the film. Catching Fire — the sequel — opens in the US in November 2013 with the final film adaptation of the trilogy, Mockingjay, spanning two films being released, respectively, in November 2014 and November 2015.

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120712)

Here is today's list of the Bestselling Free Kindle Crime Fiction: the top nine mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers.

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Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante, eBook Now Just 99 Cents

HarperCollins has lowered the price of the police procedural ebook Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante to just 99 cents (for a limited time only).

This crime novel introduces Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, a character brilliantly portrayed by Helen Mirren in the television series adaptation of the novel.

The moment Tennison takes over Scotland Yard's investigation into the death of sex worker Della Mornay, two grim facts become immediately clear to her. First, that the constabulary's old boy club is determined to hinder, harass, and undermine the new female DCI at every turn. And second, that their murder victim isn't Della Mornay.

Now the police are a step behind, and a madman is loose on the streets of London. To apprehend the criminal stalking women through the city's shadows, Tennison will have to steel herself against the hostility of her fellow officers and conceal her own mounting obsession with breaking through the glass ceiling of the station house — even as department politics, a crumbling relationship, and a wickedly elusive prime suspect threaten her very existence.

  

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Review: Wasted Space by J. W. Metcalf, Jr.

We've just published our Review of Wasted Space by J. W. Metcalf, Jr.. The Case Files of Tony Gavel. CreateSpace Trade Paperback, April 2012.

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Raven Strike by Dale Brown is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Raven Strike by Dale Brown as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

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Raven Strike by Dale Brown
A Dreamland Thriller
Publisher: HarperCollins

Published in 2011, this is the 13th thriller in this popular series co-written with Jim DeFelice.

About Raven Strike (from the publisher): The mission is classified … and illegal

In the blistering heat of the Sudan, the CIA has gone rogue. On the trail of a notorious terrorist, Agency operatives have overstepped their sanctioned boundaries. And now the ultimate weapon has fallen into the wrong hands.

As Danny Freah and his spec-ops team scramble to recover a top secret aircraft that has crashed in Africa, Whiplash Director Jonathon Reid finds himself mysteriously shut off from information about the robot drone and its mission. Maneuvering through the twisted back corridors of the CIA and Washington’s power elite, Reid discovers secrets both illegal and highly dangerous—a virtually unstoppable assassin and an out-of-control clique within the Agency.

Torn between loyalty and conscience, Reid must find a way to alert the President and avert a national disaster. But with the Whiplash team caught in the chaos of a brutal African civil war and CIA officials desperate to keep Reid from telling what he knows, a monster re-emerges to target its creators …

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Edited for Death by Michele Drier is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Edited for Death by Michele Drier as today's third free mystery ebook.

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Edited for Death by Michele Drier
Publisher: Mainly Murder Press

About Edited for Death (from the publisher): Amy Hobbes never expected to solve anything tougher than a crossword puzzle. When she left her job as a journalist in Southern California, she planned to give the adrenaline a rest, but her next job, managing editor of a local newspaper, delivers some surprises. After a respected Senator and World War II hero dies and two more people turn up dead, the news heats up. Both victims had ties to a hotel owned by the Senator's family. With the help of reporter pal Clarice and the new man in her life, Phil, Amy uncovers a number of shadowy figures, including a Holocaust survivor who's spent sixty years tracking down Nazi loot. It's a complex and dangerous puzzle, but Amy can't walk away until she solves it.

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Murder Déjà Vu by Polly Iyer is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder Déjà Vu by Polly Iyer as today's second free mystery ebook.

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Murder Déjà Vu by Polly Iyer
Publisher: Parkwood Press

About Murder Déjà Vu (from the publisher): Wealthy architect Reece Daughtry spent fifteen years in a Massachusetts prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Released on a technicality,he now makes his home in the mountains of North Carolina, building rock fireplaces for a waiting list of clients. His self-imposed solitude is shattered when author Dana Minette asks him to build a fireplace in her new house. Dana becomes more than a client, and for the first time in twenty years, Reece longs to be with someone other than himself.

Then a local woman is murdered in the same savage manner as the murder that sent Reece to prison. More than one person wants him to take the fall, including Dana’s ex-husband, the local prosecutor, who’s determined to convict Reece in the high-profile case. But Reece won’t be railroaded again. Four men were with him the night of the first murder. One of them is the killer. Reece goes underground to discover who’s setting him up and why. Dana insists on going along, and against his better judgment, he relents. With both the police and FBI on their trail, it’s a race against time and a crafty murderer who will kill again.

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