This weekend only — through Sunday, August 5th, 2012 — Books-a-Million is offering two coupons for savings on almost everything in their online store, plus a couple of other promotions.
The coupons …
AFFAUGTEN: Save 10% on your entire purchase. (It says "restrictions apply" but we couldn't find any information on what they might be.)
BAK2SKL: Save 25$ on purchases of $100 or more. (No mention of "restrictions" here.)
Other promotions …
Super Summer Sale: All bargain prices slashed an additional 25%. (Prices reflect discount; no coupon required.)
$50 Reward Card Free with Purchase of Nook Tablet 16GB: This is a repeat of a previous offer, and is a pretty good deal as it effectively discounts the standard $249 price of the device to just $199. (There's no mention of a coupon code required.)
The B-A-M Reaping Giveaway: Celebrate the DVD release of The Hunger Games. Enter daily for a chance to win $50 Gift Card plus a prize from 1 of Panem's 13 Districts. (This promotion started a couple of days ago, with the first winner already posted on the bookseller's website.)
Important Note: All coupon codes and promotions above (except the giveaway) end this Sunday, August 5th, 2012.
Friday, August 03, 2012
New Books-a-Million Coupons and Promotions, This Weekend Only
Bahama Burnout by Don Bruns is Today's Sixth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bahama Burnout by Don Bruns as today's sixth 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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Bahama Burnout
Don Bruns
A Mick Sever Mystery
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
In our review of this fifth mystery in the series, we said, "[W]ith its atmospheric setting and colorful characters it is probably the author's best to date."
For rock and roll writer Mick Sever, another story, another deadly island paradise is all in a day's work. This time, Mick heads to Nassau, Bahamas, home of the legendary Highland Studio. Known for pumping out hits that burn up the charts, Highland is where the magic happens-or rather, where the magic happened until a devastating fire destroyed the entire studio. No one knows how the fire started, who started it-or whose body was found among the charred ruins.
Sent to get the inside story on the opening of the new Highland Studio, Mick finds this is hardly the Phoenix-rising-out-of-the-ashes story he expected. Some say the studio's haunted, some say it's cursed, but one thing is for sure: someone-or something-wants to stop the music. A smashed guitar and erased tracks send a subtle warning, but murder? That's an entirely different tune. If Mick doesn't act fast, Highland Studio, along with everything and everyone in its path, could go up in smoke. It's not always better to burn out than to fade away.Read our review of Bahama Burnout by Don Bruns.
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Moonbird Boy by Abigail Padgett is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Moonbird Boy by Abigail Padgett as today's fifth free mystery ebook.
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Moonbird Boy
Abigail Padgett
A Bo Bradley Mystery
Publisher: Abigail Padgett
Originally published by Mysterious Press in 1996, this is the fourth mystery in this series.
Bo fights her way out of the dark side of her bipolar disorder when a friend is murdered, throwing his difficult son into the child protective system for which she works.
Ghost Flower Lodge is an unconventional psychiatric treatment facility run by a band of Kumeyaay Indians, and host to Bo after the death of her dog casts her into an acute depressive episode. But when another guest at the lodge, successful comedian Mort Wagman, is shot and killed, Bo drags herself back to life in order to help Mort’s strange son, Bird, now an orphan. And in the process discovers a human evil more toxic than rattlesnake venom.
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The Charlestown Connection by Tom MacDonald is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Charlestown Connection by Tom MacDonald as today's fourth free mystery ebook.
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The Charlestown Connection
Tom MacDonald
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
Dermot Sparhawk, a former All American Boston College football hero, is stacking cans in a parish food pantry in Boston's Charlestown, when his godfather, Jeepster Hennessey, shows up with a knife in his back and dies at Dermot's feet. Once slated for a professional football career, now a recovering alcoholic, with a torn-up knee, Dermot sets out to solve the murder of his godfather with the help of his Micmac Indian cousin, his paraplegic tenant, and a former teammate.
Dermot's investigation has him tangling with members of the IRA, FBI, and the Boston mob. He also is forced to contend with Charlestown's code of silence and the norms of the neighborhood where he grew up.
Feeling like he did at the height of his game, Dermot uses his Native American intuition and Irish good looks to help him uncover clues. Dermot stumbles upon bits and pieces of information that he cobbles together into an unlikely theory which leads him on an unexpected trail and to a new mystery that could cost him his life.
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In for a Penny by Maggie Toussaint is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature In for a Penny by Maggie Toussaint as today's third free mystery ebook.
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In for a Penny
Maggie Toussaint
A Cleopatra Jones Mystery
Publisher: Five Star/Muddle House Publishing
This is the first mystery in this series.
When irrepressible accountant Cleopatra Jones overshoots the sixth green, her golf ball lands in the biggest hazard of her life, the inseam of a dead banker. Murder rocks this small Maryland town and old secrets cast suspicion on Cleo’s best friend.
Cleo sets out to prove her friend is innocent. Her sleuthing is hampered by her damaged instincts, a jumbo dog, and her wacky, engaging family. As head of the household, Cleo will do anything to protect her children.
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Supreme Betrayal by Steve Nyman is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Supreme Betrayal by Steve Nyman as today's second free mystery ebook.
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Supreme Betrayal
Steve Nyman
Publisher: Blue Water Research
An Army officer murdered in cold blood. A ship with deadly cargo is bound for the American coast. Only one man can unravel the plot, but Andrew Douglas always plays by the rules. The former FBI Agent carries out his mission, and follows orders to the letter. Now, the rules have changed, but the stakes are higher, much higher.
Threats against his young family, a newspaper reporter hot on his heels as he rushes to prevent the deadly assault from the sea, all weigh heavily on his moral compass. Even the U.S. Constitution and the very foundation of the American government are at risk.
Andrew has found himself in the middle of a maelstrom, with no escape.
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Watches of the Night by Sally Wright is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Watches of the Night by Sally Wright as today's free mystery ebook.
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Watches of the Night
Sally Wright
A Ben Reese Mystery
Publisher: Severn House
This is the fifth book in this series.
Ben Reese, university archivist and part-time investigator, is alarmed when his old friend Kate Lindsay receives a disturbing package. It contains her husbands eyeball, retrieved from the front line and posted arriving twenty years later.
Kate needs some answers so decides to visit veteran Ross MacNab, but when MacNab commits suicide hours before she arrives, Kate fears foul play. Ben's suspicions, meanwhile, rest on another war comrade, but army records show he died years before …
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Guilt by Degrees by Marcia Clark is Today's Nook Daily Find
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Guilt by Degrees by Marcia Clark as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.
The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Friday, August 03, 2012.
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Guilt by Degrees
Marcia Clark
A Rachel Knight Mystery
Publisher: Mainly Murder
Last month TNT announced it had optioned the "Rachel Knight" mysteries for a television crime/legal drama. This is the second book in the series.
Someone has been watching D.A. Rachel Knight — someone who's Rachel's equal in brains, but with more malicious intentions.
It began when a near-impossible case fell into Rachel's lap, the suspectless homicide of a homeless man. In the face of courthouse backbiting and a gauzy web of clues, Rachel is determined to deliver justice. She's got back-up: tough-as-nails Detective Bailey Keller.
As Rachel and Bailey stir things up, they're shocked to uncover a connection with the vicious murder of an LAPD cop a year earlier. Something tells Rachel someone knows the truth, someone who'd kill to keep it secret.
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Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending August 03, 2012
A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending August 3rd, 2012 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.
Still no change at the top this week with the stand-alone thriller Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn scoring well above the competition.
Two new titles enter the list this week (position in parentheses).
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(12): Odd Apocalypse
Dean Koontz
An Odd Thomas Mystery (5th in series)
Once presided over by a flamboyant Hollywood mogul during the Roaring '20s, the magnificent West Coast property known as Roseland is now home to a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants. And, at least for the moment, it's also a port in the storm for Odd Thomas and his traveling companion, the inscrutably charming Annamaria, the Lady of the Bell. In the wake of Odd's most recent clash with lethal adversaries, the opulent manor's comforts should be welcome. But there's far more to Roseland than meets even the extraordinary eye of Odd, who soon suspects it may be more hell than haven.
A harrowing taste of Roseland's terrors convinces Odd that it's time to hit the road again. Still, the prescient Annamaria insists that they've been led there for a reason, and he's promised to do his best for the ghost on horseback. Just how deep and dreadful are the mysteries Roseland and her masters have kept for nearly a century? And what consequences await whoever is brave, or mad, enough to confront the most profound breed of evil? Odd only knows. Like his acclaimed creator, the irresistible Odd Thomas is in top-notch form — as he takes on what may well be the most terrifying challenge yet in his curious career.
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(13): The Light Between Oceans
M. L. Stedman
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
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Thursday, August 02, 2012
Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire by Dean P. Turnbloom
A Mysterious Review of …
Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire by Dean P. Turnbloom.
Review summary: This novel creates a credible Victorian environment and is well structured but is also rather disappointing as it doesn't present Holmes with much of a challenge, and more importantly, lacks any element of whodunit or howdunit or whydunit for the reader. (Click here for text of full review.)
Our rating:
Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire
Dean P. Turnbloom
A Sherlock Holmes Story
MX Publishing (May 2012)
Publisher synopsis: In this fast-paced novel set in the Victorian London of 1888, a string of heinous murders in London's East End has Inspector Abberline of Scotland Yard baffled and his boss, Commissioner Sir Charles Warren furious that no arrests have been made of the culprit the newspapers have dubbed "Jack the Ripper".
With pressure for an arrest mounting, a reluctant Abberline calls on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for assistance. Using a combination of intuition, luck, and good old-fashioned police work, the trail they follow leads them directly to Baron Antonio Barlucci. The wealthy Italian financier is a long time family friend of Sir Charles and a ruthless vampire. His trail of blood stretches from Paris to London and if he's not captured soon an innocent young Italian immigrant will swing from the gallows for a murder he didn't commit.
The baron, though, has other plans. He's come to London to enlist the aid of a young American, Dr. Alan Tremaine, to cure his vampirism. To complicate matters, the baron has fallen in love with Sir Charles's niece, Abigail Drake.
This Week's Bestselling Mystery and Suspense Television and Film on Blu-ray Disc (120802)
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.
MystereBooks: The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly, Now at a Special Price
Little, Brown has just lowered the ebook price of the fourth "Harry Bosch" mystery by Michael Connelly to just $2.99. These temporary price reductions rarely last long; we encourage you to take advantage of them whenever become available.
Connelly has been in the news quite a bit recently. Last month we learned that the author has teamed up with Eric Overmyer on a project to bring his LAPD homicide detective to television. And just this week came the news that he has won the 2012 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for his fourth "Mickey Haller" mystery, The Fifth Witness.
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The Last Coyote
Michael Connelly
A Harry Bosch Mystery (4th in series)
Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime.
With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a past he has always avoided. It's clear that the case was fumbled and the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable. Someone powerful was able to divert justice and Harry vows to uncover the truth. As he relentlessly follows the broken pieces of the case, the stirred interest causes new murders and pushes Harry to the edge of his job … and his life.
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