Nominees for the 2012 Bloody Scotland Crime Novel of the Year Award Announced

The nominees (short list) for the inaugural 2012 Bloody Scotland Crime Novel of the Year Award have been announced by the festival organizers. The award recognizes and rewards excellence in Scottish crime writing, and is open to writers born in Scotland, living in Scotland, or whose books are set in Scotland.

The winner will be announced on Sunday September 16th, 2012 during Bloody Scotland.

The nominees are …

• A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming (HarperCollins)
• Redemption by Will Jordan (Random House)
• Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr (Quercus)
• The Lewis Man by Peter May (Quercus)
• Gods & Beasts by Denise Mina (Orion)
• Dead Men & Broken Hearts by Craig Russell (Quercus)

The Mystery Bookshelf: Thick as Thieves by Peter Spiegelman

The Mystery Bookshelf, where you can discover a world of mystery and suspense, is pleased to feature a new crime novel we recently received from the publisher.

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Thick as Thieves by Peter Spiegelman
Vintage (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: July 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-9705-0

About Thick as Thieves (from the publisher): Carr — ex-CIA — is the reluctant leader of an elite crew planning a robbery of such extraordinary proportions that it will leave them set for life. Diamonds, money laundering, and extortion go into a timed-to-the-minute scheme that unfurls across South America, Miami, and Grand Cayman Island. Carr's cohorts are seasoned pros, but they're wound drum-tight — months before, the man who brought them together was killed in what Carr suspects was a setup. And there are other loose ends: some of the intel they're paying for is badly inaccurate, and one of the gang — lately, Carr's lover — may have an agenda of her own. But Carr's biggest problems are yet to come, because few on his crew are what they seem to be, and even his own past is a lie.

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About the author: Peter Spiegelman is the author of award-winning "John March" mystery series. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Mr. Spiegelman spent nearly twenty years in the financial services and software industries, and worked with leading banks and brokerages around the world. He lives in Connecticut. For more information about the author and his books, visit his website at PeterSpiegelman.com.

 Crime novels by Peter Spiegelman reviewed by Mysterious Reviews: Thick as Thieves (2011).

Memories Can Be Murder by Connie Shelton is Today's Sixth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Memories Can Be Murder by Connie Shelton 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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Memories Can Be Murder
Connie Shelton
A Charlie Parker Mystery
Publisher: Secret Staircase Books

This is the fifth mystery in this series.

A trip to the attic can be a voyage into a frightening past …

Charlie Parker has no idea, when she begins organizing storage space for her fiance's move-in, that simply cleaning out the attic will throw her back in time to the events leading up to her parents' fatal plane crash. Drake will arrive in a few days and Charlie is making room to combine their two households.

But the dusty attic holds more than just memories. In her father's small leather notebook is a cryptic message that translates into danger for Charlie as she discovers that his top secret work as a scientist at Sandia Labs during the Cold War years still has certain people worried.

  

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Just Add Salt by Jinx Schwartz is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Just Add Salt by Jinx Schwartz as today's fifth free mystery ebook.

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Just Add Salt
Jinx Schwartz
A Hetta Coffey Mystery
Publisher: Treble Heart Books

This is the second mystery in this series.

Miffed that vacation plans with her chronically absent boyfriend Jenks Jenkins have gone awry, Hetta Coffey accepts a job in Baja. So what if she and her friend Jan are spectacularly unqualified to take her yacht on a thousand mile cruise in the eastern Pacific Ocean in the middle of hurricane season? Hiring a handsome, if somewhat fishy captain for the trip might keep them off the rocks, but probably won't do the same for her future with Jenks. Meanwhile, a little eye candy on board can't be all bad.

Hetta's unmanageable independence impels her to tackle the very profitable, if environmentally and politically incorrect project south of the border. True to form, her irreverent nature and disregard for danger soon swamps her in a sea of inconvenient bodies, illegal aliens, a pesky whale, and a menacing Mexican machinator. And without her usual arsenal of firepower.

  

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Midnight Murders by Katherine John is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Midnight Murders by Katherine John as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

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Midnight Murders
Katherine John
A Trevor Joseph Mystery
Publisher: Accent Press

Compton Castle is a Victorian psychiatric hospital long overdue for demolition. Its warrens of rooms and acres of grounds, originally designed as a sanctuary for the mentally ill, now provide the ideal stalking ground for a serial killer.

Physically and mentally battered after his last case, Sergeant Trevor Joseph is a temporary inmate — but the hospital loses all therapeutic benefit when a corpse is dug out of a flowerbed. Then more bodies are found; young, female and both linked to the hospital. Everyone within the mouldering walls is in danger while a highly unpredictable malevolence remains at large. And, as patients and staff are interrogated by the police, the apparently motiveless killer watches and waits for the opportunity to strike again …

  

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Diary of Murder by Jean Henry Mead is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Diary of Murder by Jean Henry Mead as today's third free mystery ebook.

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Diary of Murder
Jean Henry Mead
A Logan & Cafferty Mystery
Publisher: Medallion Books

Dana Logan and Sarah Cafferty are vacationing in their motorhome in Colorado when Dana learns of her sister's death. The mystery writer's husband says it's suicide but Dana knows her sister would never take her own life.

When they arrive in Wyoming, they discover more than Georgi's diary which tells of her harrowing life in her mansion. Placing their own lives in danger and that of Dana's journalist daughter Kerrie, they seek out the killer and stumble over more bodies as well as a vicious drug ring.

  

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Tribe by R. D. Zimmerman is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Tribe by R. D. Zimmerman as today's second free mystery ebook.

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Tribe
R. D. Zimmerman
A Todd Mills Mystery
Publisher: ScribblePub

All he remembered was the furtive encounter, the terror of discovery, the burning cigarette … and the voyeur on the fire escape plummeting to his death. For twenty years, Todd Mills was safe, closeted, building his career as a two-time Emmy Award-winning TV reporter. He had it all--until his double life became front-page news. Since his lover's murder, Todd hadn't worked. It was the first pause in his professional life.

Now he's out, warily beginning a romance with police detective Steve Rawlins, when an old friend, an ex-girlfriend, calls for help. The son she gave up for adoption years before has found her — but as Todd steps in to help, he's forced to face the nightmare of his own buried past, as murderous secrets return to kill again.

  

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Blood Money by Brian Springer is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blood Money by Brian Springer as today's free mystery ebook.

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Blood Money
Brian Springer
A Greg Kelton Thriller
Publisher: Ann Egan Publishers

Jessica Robbins created a vaccine that could cure the human race of one of our most deadly diseases. And what did she get for it? Picked up by a secret government agency and locked away in a safehouse. And the vaccine was squashed as though it never existed.

Enter vigilante-for-hire Greg Kelton. He's hired by an old friend to rescue Jessica but the operation goes awry. Now Kelton's on the run with Jessica stuck to his hip and an ever-increasing bevy of government agents hunting them.

As the noose tightens and they have to take more desperate actions to stay a step ahead of the government, the bond between them tightens, forcing Kelton to face a past that has left him a fractured, wounded man in order to expose a conspiracy that could change the world as we know it.

  

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This Week's Bestselling Mystery and Suspense Television and Film on Demand (120810)

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

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.

Review: Going to the Bad by Nora McFarland

A Mysterious Review of …

Going to the Bad by Nora McFarland. A Lilly Hawkins Mystery.

Review summary: This is a fast-reading mystery, with a good mix of characters: good guys, bad guys, and the ones that could be either — or both. There's a fair amount of humor here as well, which is used to balance the sometimes dark narrative as Lilly pursues her risky investigation. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Going to the Bad
Nora McFarland
A Lilly Hawkins Mystery
Touchstone (August 2012)

Publisher synopsis: Working as a TV news photographer at her hometown television station, Lilly has documented Bakersfield’s most violent crimes and tragic accidents. To stay sane and avoid burnout, she’s developed a wicked sense of humor and a very thick skin. For her, a vicious shooting is just another day on the job. But what if the victim is someone she loves? Thrown off balance by the brutal attack on her uncle Bud in her own home, Lilly decides to handle the tragedy the only way she knows how. Using all her TV station’s resources and her own considerable skills, Lilly dives headlong into the investigation. But even with the assistance of her well-meaning but eccentric coworkers, this story may prove her last. Because as Lilly untangles a history of her uncle’s misdeeds and betrayals, a clever killer is preparing to strike again. Can she break the story in time to prevent another murder, or will Lilly be the next victim?

    

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120810)

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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Teaser Trailer for Ripper Street

A teaser trailer for the BBC One/BBC America co-production of Ripper Street aired yesterday in the UK; we've embedded it below. It is, however, more like a trailer for a trailer, since we've read that the full trailer for the historical crime drama is expected to be released on August 12th; two days from now.

The 8-episode series will focus on the H Division of the Metropolitan police, who had to try to calm a panicked capital after the gruesome Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, as well as searching for the elusive culprit.

We can't nail down a premiere date, either in the UK or US, for the series, though it is expected to be sometime this Fall.

New Poster, Trailer for Crime Thriller Deadfall

A new poster (right; click for slightly larger image) and trailer (below) have been released by the studio for the crime thriller Deadfall.

Siblings Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde) are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong. When a car accident leaves their wheel man and a state trooper dead, they split up and make a run for the Canadian border in the worst of circumstances a near whiteout blizzard. While Addison heads cross-country, creating mayhem in his wake, Liza is picked up by ex-boxer Jay (Charlie Hunnam), en-route for a Thanksgiving homecoming with his parents, June (Sissy Spacek) and retired sheriff Chet (Kris Kristofferson). It’s there the siblings are reunited in a terse and thrilling showdown that pushes the bonds of family to the limit.

Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky from an original screenplay by Zach Dean, Deadfall opens in limited released December 7th, 2012. (It premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival.)

The Devil's Bounty by Sean Black is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Devil's Bounty by Sean Black as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

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The Devil's Bounty
Sean Black
A Ryan Lock Thriller
Publisher: Sean Black Digital

This is the fourth book in this series, published in hardcover in the UK last week and not yet available in print in the US.

Convicted of a series of horrific crimes against young women in the up-market California town of Santa Barbara, wealthy playboy Charlie Mendez has fled across the US border into Mexico. As one bounty hunter after another meets a grisly end at the hands of the murderous drug cartel his family have hired to keep him safe, it seems that Mendez is one fugitive destined to remain beyond the reach of the law.

Or at least that's how it looks until one determined victim persuades high-end security specialist Ryan Lock and his partner, retired Marine Ty Johnson, to take on the case.

Plunged into a nightmare world where no one can be trusted, least of all the authorities, the two men discover a city more deadly than any war zone. Worse still, when an attractive young American tourist is snatched from the streets, it appears that Mendez has returned to his old ways. But in order to stop him before he claims another victim, will Lock and Ty have to pay the Devil's Bounty?

  

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Dying Wishes by Judith Ivie is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dying Wishes by Judith Ivie as today's third free mystery ebook.

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Dying Wishes
Judith Ivie
A Kate Lawrence Mystery
Publisher: Mainly Murder Press

This is the fifth mystery in this series featuring the amateur sleuth.

Kate's turning 50, and as if that weren't depressing enough, she's about to become a grandmother-twice. Her investigation of a mysterious death at the Vista View retirement complex opens her eyes to the new realities of aging, some of which send her reeling. What really happened to the wealthy, tennis-playing cougar in Building One? Are residents covering up a sex-for-hire scandal? Will Kate's longtime friend lose her job as Vista View's business manager? Kate makes it her business to discover the truth — or die trying.

  

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