This Week's Bestselling Mystery and Suspense Television and Film Video on Demand (120727)

Here is this week's list of the top bestselling mystery and suspense television and film videos available to download from Amazon Instant.

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Teaser Trailer for Six BBC Dramas

BBC One has posted a brief teaser trailer with scenes from six of its upcoming dramas, all of which have a crime or suspense element.

Hunted: An original eight-part suspense thriller set in the world of international espionage.

Good Cop: An original four-part drama in which a Liverpool cop begins to question the difference between right and wrong.

Accused: A drama series following people accused of crimes as each awaits the verdict of their trial.

Shetland: A two-part drama set in the Isles, adapted from the series of mysteries by crime writer Ann Cleeves.

Ripper Street: An eight-part period police drama that will transport viewers to the actual 1889 setting of the East End murders.

The Secret of Crickley Hall: A three-part ghost tale adapted from a novel by James Herbert.

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120727)

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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New Poster for 666 Park Avenue

ABC has been releasing a series of posters for its new series 666 Park Avenue, most incorporating a spiral staircase into the image. This new one (right; click for larger image) seems particularly intriguing. The tagline: "New York's most seductive address."

Loosely based on the supernatural mystery 666 Park Avenue by Gabriella Pierce — the ebook and its sequel are still priced just 99 cents! — the series introduces Jane Van Veen (Rachael Taylor) and Henry Martin (Dave Annable), an idealistic young couple from the Midwest, who arrive in New York City, the glamorous center of industry and media, they are offered the opportunity to manage the historic Drake. Jane, a small town girl with big ambitions, always knew she wanted to be an architect. Henry, a member of the Mayor’s staff, is grounded, intelligent and tenacious. They are lured by the intoxicating lifestyle of New York's wealthy elite.

Gavin Doran (Terry O'Quinn), who has many skeletons in his own closet, is at the height of his world and commands the dark power of The Drake. Olivia (Vanessa Williams), his beautiful but enigmatic, supportive wife, wears her elegance, wealth and position in society as armor … but cracks will slowly be revealed.

666 Park Avenue premieres Sunday, September 30th at 10 PM (ET/PT).

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Murder in the Air by Marilyn Levinson is Today's Sixth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder in the Air by Marilyn Levinson as today's sixth free mystery ebook.

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Murder in the Air
Marilyn Levinson
A Lydia Krause, Twin Lakes Mystery
Publisher: CreateSpace

After the 70-year-old remains of a teenaged boy are uncovered at a Twin Lakes excavation site, Lydia Krause's elderly neighbor comes to her for advice. Daniel Korman wonders if he should report an old crime or let sleeping dogs lie.

Then Daniel is murdered, and Lydia sets out to find his killer. She investigates his boyhood friends and greedy relatives, putting her own life in danger and infuriating her homicide detective lover.

  

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Get 30% Off Mystery and Suspense, This Weekend at Kobo

From now through July 30th, 2012, Kobo is offering 30% off select mysteries and thrillers from Open Road. And by "select", we mean almost 200 titles, so there is a lot to select from!

Most books are already discounted, but you can take an additional 30% off your purchase by using coupon code openroad30. (The fine print says one coupon per customer, but it isn't clear if can be used multiple times or not.)

Remember … this promotion ends on July 30th, 2012 at 11:59 PM ET.

One for Sorrow by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature One for Sorrow by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer as today's fifth free mystery ebook.

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One for Sorrow
Mary Reed and Eric Mayer
A John the Eunuch Mystery
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

Originally published in 1999, this is the first mystery in this historical series set during the reign of Emperor Justinian I (527-565).

Byzantium, capitol of the 6th century Roman Empire, simmers a rich stew of creeds, cultures, and citizens with a sprinkling of cutthroats and crimes.

John the Eunuch, Emperor Justinian's Lord Chamberlain, orders a Christian court while himself observing the rites of Mithra. Thomas, a knight from Britain, Ahasuerus, a soothsayer, and two ladies from Crete stir up events and old memories for John, who must ask how the visitors link to the death of Leukos, Keeper of the Plate. An Egyptian brothel keeper and a Christian stylite know more than they are telling …

  

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Desert Wives by Betty Webb is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Desert Wives by Betty Webb as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

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Desert Wives
Betty Webb
A Lena Jones Mystery
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

Originally published in 2003, this is the second mystery featuring the Arizona private investigator.

Polygamy can be murder! That’s what private detective Lena Jones learns when she helps thirteen year old Rebecca escape from Purity, a polygamy compound hidden in a desolate area near straddling Utah/Arizona border.

When Rebecca’s mother is arrested for the murder of Prophet Solomon Royal, Rebecca’s intended husband, Lena enters Purity masquerading as a polygamist wife to uncover the real murderer. In doing so, Lena finds out more than she bargained for—the shocking secret the cult’s Circle of Elders will kill to keep. During her investigations, Lena also discovers more about her own past. At the age of four she was found lying unconscious by the side of an Arizona highway, a bullet robbing her of her memories. Raised in a series of foster homes, Lena does not remember her real name nor the names of her parents. She thinks she has put the past behind her, but the sins of Purity’s polygamous mothers and fathers force her to reexamine the few memories she has of her own mother the woman who shot her …

  

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Shadow of Reality by Donna Fletcher Crow is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Shadow of Reality by Donna Fletcher Crow as today's third free mystery ebook.

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Shadow of Reality
Donna Fletcher Crow
Publisher: StoneHouse Ink

The setting was all her fantasies come true: an elegant English manor house in the 1930's. The man was even more than she had dreamed: Sir Gavin Kendall— sophisticated, brilliant, rich and captivated by her.

Until murder intervened.

Will Elizabeth's lifelong dreams become reality or will she fall prey to the vicious murderer lurking in the shadows at an exotic mystery weekend high in the Rockies? Will Elizabeth discover the narrow line between fantasy and reality in time to achieve her dreams?

  

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Project Nevis by James Piper is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Project Nevis by James Piper as today's second free mystery ebook.

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Project Nevis
James Piper
A Bryce Carr Thriller
Publisher: McLeod Hill Publishing

For Bryce Carr, investigating corporate fraud is what he does best: uncover the evidence, testify in court, recover the stolen money. He expected precisely that when a New York investment bank hired him to investigate a fraud in their derivatives division. Someone had stolen millions, but who and why?

He uncovered the who: Mike Fallor, a bank employee, but Fallor wasn’t talking and the money went offshore.

Determined to catch Fallor, Carr goes after him, but when he discovers the stolen money is being used to finance a secret CIA operation, he becomes caught up in a world where the tools of the trade are assault rifles and explosives, not pencils, calculators or notepads.

  

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Turtle Baby by Abigail Padgett is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Turtle Baby by Abigail Padgett as today's free mystery ebook.

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Turtle Baby
Abigail Padgett
A Bo Bradley Mystery
Original Publisher: Mysterious Press

This is the third mystery to feature the San Diego Juvenile Court investigator.

A poisoned eight-month-old Maya baby boy living with paid caretakers on the American side of San Diego’s Mexican border grabs Bo’s heart and sends her into Tijuana, where she can legally investigate nothing, in search the little boy’s mother.

When the mother, a successful singer from Guatemala, dies onstage in a Tijuana bar from the effects of a different poison, Bo finds herself snarled in a web of international intrigue.

Drug addiction, the music scene, Mayan history and the always-maddening restrictions of Bo's job combine in a fascinating tale that will determine the future of an orphaned baby, and Bo herself.

  

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Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending July 27, 2012

A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending July 27th, 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 … this week just besting last week's featured title, The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva.

Two new titles enter the list this week.

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At number 8 is the 11th Scot Harvath thriller, Black List by Brad Thor.

Somewhere deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress never get to see it — only the President and a secret team of advisers. Once your name is on the list, it doesn't come off … until you're dead.

Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath's name.

Somehow Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way.

Somewhere, someone, somehow can put all the pieces together. The only question is, will Harvath get to that person before the United States suffers the most withering terrorist attack ever conceived?

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Two spots lower at number 10 is the fourth "Dublin Murder Squad" mystery, Broken Harbor by Tana French.

Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy plays by the book and plays hard. That's what's made him the Murder squad's top detective — and that's what puts the biggest case of the year into his hands.

On one of the half-built, half-abandoned "luxury" developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children are dead. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care.

At first, Scorcher and his rookie partner, Richie, think it's going to be an easy solve. But too many small things can't be explained. The half dozen baby monitors, their cameras pointing at holes smashed in the Spains' walls. The files erased from the Spains' computer. The story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder who was slipping past all the locks.

And Broken Harbor holds memories for Scorcher. Seeing the case on the news sends his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family one summer at Broken Harbor, back when they were children.

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New Hardcover Mysteries for August 2012

The Hidden Staircase Mystery Books has updated its list of new hardcover mysteries with books scheduled for publication in August 2012. Please note that some titles August publish early, and August already be available, and some August be delayed, published at a later date.

Below we're listing those authors with returning series characters, new series characters, and non-series or stand-alone mysteries in separate sections. All titles are available on our August new mystery books page, which will become the default home page for the site on August 1st.

• Authors with mysteries featuring returning series characters (in italics) this month:

Sarah Andrews (Em Hansen, 9th) —  Benjamin Black (Quirke, 5th) —  Fiona Buckley (Ursula Blanchard, 10th) —  Chelsea Cain (Archie Sheridan, 5th) —  Judy Clemens (Casey Maldonado, Grim Reaper, 4th) —  Barbara Cleverly (Joe Sandilands, 10th) —  Douglas Corleone (Kevin Corvelli, 3rd) —  Cleo Coyle (Clare Cosi, Coffeehouse, 11th) —  Bill Crider (Sheriff Dan Rhodes, 19th) —  Garry Disher (Wyatt, 5th) —  Paul Doiron (Mike Bowditch, 3rd) —  Carole Nelson Douglas (Midnight Louie, 24th) —  Susan Dunlap (Darcy Lott, 5th) —  Matthew Dunn (Will Cochrane, 2nd) —  Gerrie Ferris Finger (Moriah Dru, 2nd) —  Anthea Fraser (Rona Parish, 7th) —  Tess Gerritsen (Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles, 10th) —  Jeanne Glidewell (Lexie Starr, 3rd) —  Dolores Gordon-Smith (Jack Haldean, 6th) —  W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV (Men at War, 7th) —  Peter Guttridge (Brighton Trilogy, 3rd) —  C. J. Henderson ("The Spider" —  Graham Ison (Hardcastle, 10th) —  Marilyn Jax (Caswell & Lombard, 3rd) —  Julie Kramer (Riley Spartz, 5th) —  William Kent Krueger (Cork O'Connor, 12th) —  D. P. Lyle (Dub Walker, 3rd) —  Matt Lynn (Steve West, Death Force, 4th) —  Annette Mahon (Maggie Browne, St. Rose Quilting Bee, 4th) —  Nancy Martin (Blackbird Sisters, 8th) —  William Martin (Peter Fallon, 5th) —  Pat McIntosh (Gil and Alys Cunningham, 9th) —  Mat Johnson and Andrea Mutti (Graphic Novel —  James Patterson (Maximum Ride, 7th) —  Louise Penny (Armand Gamache, 8th) —  Anne Perry (William Monk, 18th) —  Frederick Ramsay (Ike Schwartz, 8th) —  Cornelia Read (Madeline Dare, 4th) —  Kathy Reichs (Temperance Brennan, 15th) —  Michael Ridpath ("Fire and Ice", 2nd) —  Les Roberts (Milan Jacovich, 16th) —  Peter Steiner (Louis Morgon, 4th) —  Jaden Terrell (Jared McKean, 2nd) —  P. J. Tracy (Grace MacBride, Monkeewrench, 6th) —  Stephen White (Alan Gregory, 19th) —  Amanda Kyle Williams (Keye Street, 2nd)

• Authors with mysteries introducing characters (in italics) in a new series this month:

Janet Hubbard (Max Maguire, Vengeance in the Vineyard) —  Thomas Mogford (Spike Sanguinetti) —  R. N. Morris (Silas Quinn)

• Authors with non-series or stand-alone mysteries this month:

Charlotte Vale Allen —  Louise Black —  Bruce Bradley —  Rita Mae Brown —  Tania Carver —  Thomas H. Cook —  David Cristofano —  Charles Cumming —  Kim Fay —  Dan Fesperman —  Kathleen George —  Mischa Hiller —  Jennifer Hillier —  Robert E. Hirsch —  Gregg Hurwitz —  Stephen M. Irwin —  Lisa Jackson —  R. J. Jagger —  Jay Caspian Kang —  Julia Keller —  Henry Kellerman —  Michael Koryta —  Roberta Kray —  Laura Lippman —  Charles D. Martin —  Glenn Meade —  Ken Pelham —  Robert C. Pritikin —  Joanne Reay —  Ruth Rendell —  David Rich —  Karen Robards —  Julia Stuart —  Dustin Thomason —  Norah Vincent —  Ariel S. Winter —  Richard Woodman —  A. J. Zerries

For more information on any of these titles, please visit the August new mysteries page on our website. If you're interested in new paperbacks, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where you can discover a library of new mystery, suspense and thriller books, also updated with August 2012 releases.

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This Week's Bestselling Mystery and Suspense Television and Film Blu-ray Discs (120726)

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

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Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein: A First in Series MystereBook

Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein. An Alex Cooper Mystery. First Appearance: June 1996.

Linda Fairstein served as head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's office from 1976 until 2002. It was during her tenure that she drew upon her own experience and wrote her first "Alex Cooper" mystery, Final Jeopardy, featuring a character whose profession, knowledge and expertise of the field is much like that of her own.

In 2001, Final Jeopardy was adapted into a made-for-television movie that aired on ABC, starring Dana Delany as Alexandra Cooper.

Pocket Books is currently offering the ebook format of Final Jeopardy for $3.99. And the deal gets better: the next eight ebooks in the series — Likely To Die,Cold Hit, The Deadhouse, The Bone Vault, The Kills, Entombed, Death Dance and Bad Blood — are all currently priced at just $3.99. (You can use this link to see the complete list on Amazon.com.)

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Final Jeopardy
Linda Fairstein
An Alex Cooper Mystery
Pocket Books, July 2003 ebook

Also available: Mass Market Paperback, Audible Audio formats

Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder. But the actual victim was Isabella Lascar, the Hollywood film star who sought refuge at Alex's Martha's Vineyard retreat. Was Isabella targeted by a stalker or — mistaken for Alex — was she in the wrong place at the wrong time?

In an investigation that twists from the back alleys of lower Manhattan to the chic salons of the Upper East Side, Alex knows she's in final jeopardy … and time is running out. She has to get into the killer's head before the killer gets to her.

      

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