The Advocate by Teresa Burrell is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Advocate by Teresa Burrell as today's second free mystery ebook.

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The Advocate
Teresa Burrell
Publisher: Silent Thunder Publishing

Suffering from the mysterious disappearance of her brother five years before, Sabre Brown has handled nearly every case imaginable as a children’s legal advocate. That is, until her partner gives her the easiest case on the roster—advocating for two children taken from their parents after a potentially abusive argument.

Sabre’s gut tells her there’s more amiss than meets the eye, and her gut is rarely wrong. As she digs into the history of this broken family, Sabre discovers a web of deceit, corruption, and murder that spans the continent.

  

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Intrusion by Arlene Kay is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Intrusion by Arlene Kay as today's free mystery ebook.

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Intrusion
Arlene Kay
Publisher: Mainly Murder Press

Young widow Elisabeth Buckley sleepwalks through life until her best friend's murder changes everything. To avenge his death and salve her own conscience, Elisabeth plunges into the high-stakes world of a Boston biotech firm where a ruthless killer stalks his prey. Along with her makeup maven pal Candace, Elisabeth confronts a host of suspects including a randy cardiologist, a cash-strapped scientist and a gorgeous Frenchman who makes her dizzy. Can she find the murderer and reclaim her own life, or is Elisabeth the next victim?

  

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CBS Orders Pilot for Backstrom, based on a Character Created by Leif G. W. Persson

CBS has ordered a pilot for Backstrom, based on a character created by Swedish crime novelist Leif G. W. Persson. The project is being developed by Hart Hanson, who is also behind the Bones series on Fox, which is based on the mysteries by Kathy Reichs.

Last year we reported that Fox was committed to a pilot for the series, but apparently that never moved forward.

Persson introduced Stockholm police inspector Evert Backstrom in 2005 in Linda … som i Lindamordet (Linda … as in the Linda Murder), the first English translation of which will be published later this year. In 2008 he wrote the second in the series, Den som dödar draken (He Who Kills the Dragon), which we believe is the most recent to feature Backstrom. (Persson is also the author of the "Lars Martin Johansson" mystery series.)

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Linda, as in the Linda Murder
Leif G. W. Persson
An Evert Backstrom Mystery

In the middle of an unusually hot Swedish summer, a young woman studying at the Vaxjo Police Academy is brutally murdered. Police Inspector Evert Backstrom is unwillingly drafted in from Stockholm to head up the investigation.

Egotistical, vain and utterly prejudiced against everything, Backstrom is a man who has no sense of duty or responsibility, thinks everyone with the exception of himself is an imbecile and is only really capable of warm feelings towards his pet goldfish and the nearest bottle of liquor. If they are to solve the case, his long suffering team must work around him, following the scant few leads which remain after Backstrom's intransigence has let the trail go cold.

This title is not yet available in the US. It will be published by Doubleday in the UK in October, 2012.

Christine Falls by Benjamin Black: A First in Series MystereBook

Christine Falls by Benjamin Black. A Quirke Mystery. First Appearance: March 2007.

It's no secret that first-time crime novelist Benjamin Black is, indeed, Booker Prize-winning author John Banville. In an entertaining twist on the use of a pen name, Banville even "confronts" Black in an interview published just after Christine Falls landed on bookshelves in 2007. We had the pleasure of reading and reviewing the novel when it first came out, calling it "a stylish, atmospheric thriller that is both beautifully written and solidly plotted." (Mysterious Reviews, 2007.)

Black's protagonist is Dublin pathologist Quirke, and the mysteries in the series — there are, to date, four with the fifth, Vengeance, to be published next month — are set in the 1950s. The author describes Quirke as "a tall, powerful character more at ease among the cold silent slabs than the company of his fellow men" and yet through his investigations he "discovers that the living might just be every bit as captivating as the dead."

The publisher, Henry Holt, is currently offering the ebook formats of this first in series for just $3.99. We think you'll find Christine Falls just as we did, an "elegantly crafted book with [a] haunting story [that] is deeply satisfying."

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Christine Falls
Benjamin Black
A Quirke Mystery
Henry Holt, April 2010 ebook

Also available: Hardcover, Trade Paperback, Audible Audio formats

It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpse — and concealing the cause of death.

It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidious — and very well-guarded — secrets of Dublin's high Catholic society, among them members of his own family.

      

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This Week's Bestselling Mystery and Suspense Audiobooks (120730)

Here is this week's list of the top ten bestselling mystery and suspense audiobooks (books on CD).

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Review: Shades of Murder by Lauren Carr

We've just published our Review of Shades of Murder by Lauren Carr. A Mac Faraday Mystery. Acorn Book Services Trade Paperback, May 2012.

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New US Trailer for Taken 2

A new US theatrical trailer for the thriller Taken 2 has been released by studio (via Yahoo! Movies), which we've embedded below.

Liam Neeson reprises his role as Bryan Mills, a retired CIA agent who stopped at nothing to save his estranged teenage daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) from Albanian kidnappers — the storyline from the 2008 film Taken. When the father of one of the kidnappers swears revenge and takes Bryan and his wife hostage during their family vacation in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to help them escape, and uses the same advanced level of special forces tactics to get his family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers one by one.

Directed by Olivier Megaton from a screenplay by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, the film opens on October 5th, 2012.

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120730)

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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Telemystery: Fog and Crimes, New This Week on DVD

Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling one series being released this week.

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Luca Barbareschi stars as Commissario Franco Soneri in the Italian crime drama Nebbie e Delitti (Fog and Crimes), based on a character created by mystery author Valerio Varesi and set in the Ferrara region of the country.

Almost as inscrutable as the River Po itself, Soneri stands brooding at crime scenes chomping on a cigar, trying to see what others are missing.

Nebbie e Delitti (Fog and Crimes): Season One is available on DVD and consists of four episodes that originally aired on Rai TV in 2005: "The River of Fog", adapted from the first book in the series, Il fiume delle nebbie, which also gives the drama its title; "Rooms for Rent"; "Trying to Forget"; and "The Mystery Film Club".

The episodes are in Italian with English subtitles.

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Visit the Telemystery website to discover more television mystery series currently available on and coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or video on demand.

Karin Slaughter's Criminal: Enter to Win a Copy of this Will Trent Mystery!

with Karin Slaughter

We are thrilled to welcome crime novelist Karin Slaughter as our guest today, courtesy of Authors on the Web.

Karin's new mystery is the latest in her "Will Trent" series, Criminal (Delacorte Press, July 2012 hardcover, audiobook, and ebook formats), an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompasses forty years, two chillingly similar murder cases, and a good man’s deepest secrets.

We have the opportunity to give away a copy of Criminal to two of our readers; details below.

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Photo provided courtesy of
Karin Slaughter; Photo credit © Alison Rosa

A long-time resident of Atlanta, Karin Slaughter began her rural Georgia "Grant County" mysteries in 2001 with Blindsighted, which introduced series characters Dr. Sara Linton, the town’s pediatrician and coroner; Jeffrey Tolliver, her wayward ex-husband and chief of police; and Lena Adams, the county’s only female detective. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent was introduced in the 2006 novel Triptych, though he has made a couple of appearances in Grant County of the years.

In addition to her series books, Karin is also the author of the darkly comic stand-alone Martin Misunderstood, published in 2008.

For more information about Karin and her books, please visit her website at KarinSlaughter.com.

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Criminal
Karin Slaughter
A Will Trent Mystery
Delacorte Press, July 2012

Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before — when Will’s father was imprisoned for murder — this was his home …

Flash back nearly forty years. In the summer Will Trent was born, Amanda Wagner is going to college, making Sunday dinners for her father, taking her first steps in the boys’ club that is the Atlanta Police Department. One of her first cases is to investigate a brutal crime in one of the city’s worst neighborhoods. Amanda and her partner, Evelyn, are the only ones who seem to care if an arrest is ever made.

Now the case that launched Amanda’s career has suddenly come back to life, intertwined with the long-held mystery of Will’s birth and parentage. And these two dauntless investigators will each need to face down demons from the past if they are to prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed.

          

For a chance to win a copy of Criminal, courtesy of Authors on the Web, visit Mystery Book Contests, click on the "Karin Slaughter: Criminal" contest link, enter your name, e-mail address, and this code — 6641 — for a chance to win! (One entry per person; contest ends August 6th, 2012.)

Sweet and Lowdown by Lise McClendon is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Sweet and Lowdown by Lise McClendon as today's fifth free mystery ebook.

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Sweet and Lowdown
Lise McClendon
A Dorie Lennox, Swing Town Mystery
Publisher: Thalia Press

Originally published by Minotaur Books in 2002, this is the second mystery in this series.

Europe is at War. Nazi bombers are hammering London. Wendell Willkie is giving Roosevelt a run for his money. In Kansas City, Dorie Lennox and her partner Amos Haddam are trying to keep the blond and beautiful Thalia Hines from destroying herself. It's not easy.

The girl has every reason to escape the cold stone mansion where her mother lies dying. Eveline Hines is a decorated war hero during the First World War. Now she's struggling to protect her only daughter from men who lust over her inheritance even more than her curves.

In the rich milieu of a bygone time, an America preparing for war provides color for the intimate portrait of a powerful woman bearing witness to the destruction of all she loves. For the Hines family, nothing will ever be the same in this powerful story of maternal love and family secrets, and the disastrous attempts to mingle them.

      

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Rock Deadly by Kathryn Lively is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Rock Deadly by Kathryn Lively as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

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Rock Deadly
Kathryn Lively
A Lerxst Johnston Mystery
Publisher: DLP Books

This book was previously published as titled Dead Barchetta.

Music tutor by day and tribute band guitarist by night, Matt "Lerxst" Johnston has woman problems. Well, maybe for a musician that's normal.

1) There's the willowy redhead who tries to kill him in his sleep. 2) There's the hot for music teacher cougar who wants help adjusting her "G-string." 3) There's the knife-wielding rock chick with a soft spot for strays.

And … there's grandma, and her "herb garden," legal only if you have a card, and definitely not in Virginia! Normal? Heh.

Before Lerxst can find normal, he must learn the truth about his would-be killer, his family, and himself. And what a long, strange trip it is …

  

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Academic Body by Shirley S. Allen is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Academic Body by Shirley S. Allen as today's third free mystery ebook.

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Academic Body
Shirley S. Allen
Publisher: Mainly Murder Press

Retired theatrical director Paul Godwin longs for the life of a college professor … but can he woo his famous wife away from the New York stage to become part of his academic life in small-town Maine?

Not easily, especially after the dean accuses him of having a fling with a student and then is found dead in circumstances that make Paul a prime suspect in the investigation. Paul's efforts to discover the real culprit provoke dangerous reprisals, but he must succeed to save his new career, his marriage — and perhaps his life.

  

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Senator by Richard Bowker is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Senator by Richard Bowker as today's second free mystery ebook.

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Senator
Richard Bowker
Publisher: ePublishing Works!

Jim O'Connor, the Republican senator from Massachusetts, is charming, intelligent, well-spoken — and a future contender for the presidency. A handsome, charismatic family man, his ongoing affair with a beautiful journalist could prematurely shatter his White House hopes — a problem that is seriously compounded when he discovers his mistress brutally murdered in her Boston apartment.

Suddenly O'Connor is a homicide suspect — with November on the horizon and a tough re-election campaign spinning out of control. And now the Senator must hunt down a killer in the capital of lies — in order to salvage a badly battered political career … and, perhaps, save his own life as well.

  

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Sweet Dreams by Aaron Patterson is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Sweet Dreams by Aaron Patterson as today's free mystery ebook.

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Sweet Dreams
Aaron Patterson
A Mark Appleton Thriller
Publisher: StoneHouse Ink

This is the "uncut" edition of the book, with deleted scenes, editing notes, and author interviews.

Mark Appleton is living the American Dream. Beautiful wife, loving daughter, and a high paying job in New York City. But when his family are killed in a accident he must reinvent himself. A year later in the midst of putting his life back together, Mark finds out that his family was killed and it was no accident. Mark will stop at nothing to hunt down the men responsible for the death of his family and what he finds will change his life forever.

Kirk Weston is a Detroit detective. He hates his job, his ex-wife, and his life. He is hand selected to help the FBI on a high profile case and just when he thinks things could not get any worse …

They do.

  

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