New Trailer for Dexter Season 7

Last month we had the first teaser trailer for the seventh season of Dexter. Today we have the first full-length, 2+ minute, trailer for the series. "No one escapes the dark passenger."

The Showtime crime drama stars Michael C. Hall as Miami forensic blood spatter expert — and serial killer — Dexter Morgan … and the seventh season picks up right where the cliff-hanging sixth season ended.

Dexter Season 7 premieres on September 30th at 9 PM (ET/PT).

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120816)

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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Please Welcome Hillel F. Damron, Author of the Gideon Gold Mysteries

with Hillel F. Damron

We are delighted to welcome novelist Hillel F. Damron to Omnimystery News today.

Hillel's new "Gideon Gold's Investigation", the second in the series, is Unidentified Woman (August 2012 ebook formats) … and we are pleased to feature an excerpt from the opening chapter of the book. We also have a video trailer for the book (embedded below).

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Capirato, Mexico. October 12, 1976

If life is a garden,
Women are the flowers.
Men are the gardeners,
Who pick up the prettiest ones.

 I sing this song while jumping rope with Adela, my best friend, before going off to school. I'm only twelve, but Mami keeps telling me I should grow up and stop jumping rope. Do things girls my age are supposed to be doing, like help her in the kitchen and learn how to sew. I hate it when she says that. I keep holding tight to the rope that connects me to my childhood, afraid of losing it, afraid of growing up. It's as if somehow, don't know how, I know what lies ahead.
 The dirt road to school, that's what lies ahead, where Adela and I run hand in hand. We skip between the small stones, still singing that silly song a boy at school taught us yesterday, about the flowers and the gardeners. And laughing about it, too, questioning who is the prettiest one: her or me? And this boy, Angelo his name, is he in love with me or with her?
 We come off the bend to the only half paved road in our poor little village, happy to bounce on solid ground. Just then a black car suddenly stops near us making noise and raising dust. Never before in my life have I seen such a beautiful, shiny car. I can see myself reflected in it, like in a twisted mirror.
 But only for a second. Because the back window rolls down immediately and a man pokes out his head, asking me for my name. "Maria," I say. (I hate my name, it's so … so ordinario.) He asks me to come over and show him the way to our school. I don't know why I didn't run away at that moment. Maybe it's because Mami always told me to obey men. Especially older men.
 He opens the door when I get closer and grabs me by the hand and pulls me inside. He is strong and he places me in the back between his legs, pushing my head down. I left my schoolbag on the dirt road behind. But why, I will need it soon? No matter, Adela will bring it to school. Of course she would. That's where we are going, isn't it? It's only a game.
 The car takes off screaming. I want to scream, too, but I can't. His stinky hand is on my mouth. It hurts so much so I bite it. He curses bad words and hits me on the back of my head. Now I really scream. He is strangling me. I can't breathe. His firm thighs clap my hips. I can't move. I can't shout. I close my eyes.
 When I close my eyes, I'm afraid the world that was promised me — going to school with Adela, meeting Angelo and our other friends there, studying history which I like the most, our daytrip next week to the Mayan ruins, graduation, going to trade school, falling in love, marrying and having children — may be gone and lost forever. And together with the cloud of dust I imagine the speeding car is raising behind as it leaves our village, an evil cloud is falling over me. Covering me with eternal darkness and sadness.

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Hillel F. Damron

Hillel F. Damron was born in Israel to parents who survived the Holocaust. He was an officer at an elite paratroops unit and was wounded in battle. He studied films at the London Film School and became a film director of TV documentaries, a feature film, and numerous video shorts. He is the award-winning author of a sci-fi novel, short stories and film reviews. His novel Very Narrow Bridge, a first in the series of Gideon Gold's Investigations, was published last year.

This year in February he was awarded Moment Magazine's prize for winning its memoir contest with his entry The Sweet Life.

For more information about the author and his books, visit his website at HillelBridge.com or find him on Facebook and Twitter.

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Unidentified Woman
Hillel F. Damron
A Gideon Gold's Investigation

A story of rape, revenge, and redemption.

A young Mexican girl, Maria Sanchez, is kidnapped on her way to school one morning. She is enslaved and repeatedly, brutally raped by paying customers, mostly Americans. But she survives and grows up to become an independent young woman living in Los Angeles. She tracks down all those men who wronged her, exerting a deadly, unusual punishment.

On her footsteps, following the police and FBI's failure to capture her is a reluctant, amateur private investigator, Gideon Gold: a former commander of an elite Israeli paratroops unit and a Mossad secret agent. His frantic pursuit of her takes unexpected twists and turns, culminating in a dramatic, compelling game of cat-and-mouse, which will change both of their lives forever.

Hot Money by Mark Terry is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Hot Money by Mark Terry as today's third 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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Hot Money
Mark Terry
An Austin Davis Thriller
Publisher: OROX Books

When politicians want a problem spun, they hire a political consultant. When politicians want a problem to disappear, they hire political consultant Austin Davis. Austin is a man who knows where the Beltway skeletons are buried — sometimes because he's the one that buried them.

When Senator Stephen McGarrity finds a briefcase containing a million dollars in his office, Austin Davis is his go-to guy. But a lot of people want that money and are willing to kill for it. Austin Davis may be one of the greatest spin doctors in D.C., but he won't spin murder. But can he figure out the puzzle to the briefcase of hot money before he winds up on the wrong end of a gun?

  

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Blind Switch by John McEvoy is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blind Switch by John McEvoy as today's second 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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Blind Switch
John McEvoy
A Jack Doyle Mystery
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

This is the first mystery in this series.

Desperate Jack Doyle accepts a sketchy job which leads to a deadly game of fixing horse races and murder — of the four-legged kind …

One-time amateur boxer Jack Doyle, an irreverent and rebellious advertising account representative, goes to work one fine Chicago day and finds his desk — and his job — both gone. A two-time loser at the marriage game as well, Doyle, usually ultra-confident, fishes himself out of a bottle to take stock, realizing, "with a thumping finality, that Life sure as hell did have his number and was crunching it."

At loose ends, Doyle accepts a most unusual offer from an acquaintance, Moe Kellman, "furrier to the Mob," to fix a horse race.

Thus begins a chain of events that will lead the FBI to Doyle's door where they "co-opt" him into a quest after people who are maiming or killing thoroughbred horses for their insurance values. Their number one target is a loathsome media mogul who can't bear to lose at anything.

  

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Murder of a Dead Man by Katherine John is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder of a Dead Man by Katherine John as today's 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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Murder of a Dead Man
Katherine John
A Trevor Joseph Mystery
Publisher: Accent Press

This is the third book in this series, first published in the UK by Headline (1994) and later in the US by St. Martin's Press (1997).

Jubilee Street — the haunt of addicts and vagrants is a part of town to avoid at all costs, especially when it becomes the stalking ground of a brutal and ruthless murderer.

A drunken down and out is the first casualty, mutilated and burned alive but his grisly death raises even more problems for the investigating officers, Sergeants Trevor Joseph and Peter Collins.

They discover that their victim died two years earlier. So who is the dead man? And what was the motive for the bizarre crime? While they seek a killer in the dark urban underworld, the tally of corpses grows and the only certainty is that they can trust no man’s face as his own.

  

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The Gingerbread House by Carin Gerhardsen is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Gingerbread House by Carin Gerhardsen as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, August 16, 2012.

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The Gingerbread House
Carin Gerhardsen
A Conny Sjöberg, Hammarby Mystery
Stockholm Text

This is the first in this series of Swedish thrillers, originally published in 2008 as Pepparkakshuset.

In a short space of time, several gruesome and apparently unrelated murders occur in central Stockholm. When criminal investigator Conny Sjöberg and the Hammarby police begin to suspect that there’s a link between the murders, Sjöberg goes completely cold. There is a killer out there whose motives are very special — and very personal — and one who will not be deterred.

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White Lies by Jeremy Bates is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature White Lies by Jeremy Bates as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, August 16, 2012.

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White Lies
Jeremy Bates
Oceanview Publishing

While driving to a charming village tucked away deep in the Cascade Mountains of eastern Washington, where she is to begin a new job teaching high school English, Katrina Burton picks up a young hitchhiker who turns out to be drunk and predatory. Fearful for her safety, she lies about her destination in order to get him out of the car. But when she later discovers that he is a teacher at the same school, she finds herself feeding that initial lie with more lies.

Then Katrina meets a mysterious man. Handsome, charismatic and strong, he is exactly what she needs to extricate her from the expanding network of lies, now spinning out of control. She falls fast and hard for him.

But her perfect solution soon becomes a nightmare that lands her in the middle of a grisly murder. And Katrina's problems don't stop there. She must decide whether to betray her new love or to cover up the murder and hope for the best.

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Review: The Skeleton Box by Bryan Gruley

A Mysterious Review of …

The Skeleton Box by Bryan Gruley. A Gus Carpenter Mystery.

Review summary: Good characters, great setting, so-so murder mystery plot. That about sums up this third, and potentially final, entry in this series. More often than not it seems like Gus is simply going through the motions, anxious to bring his investigation to a close but without any sense of accomplishment in doing so. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Skeleton Box
Bryan Gruley
A Gus Carpenter Mystery
Touchstone (June 2012)

Publisher synopsis: Mysterious break-ins are plaguing the small town of Starvation Lake. While elderly residents enjoy their weekly bingo night at St. Valentine’s Catholic Church, someone is slipping into their homes to rifle through financial and personal files. Oddly, the intruder takes nothing — yet the “Bingo Night Burglaries” leave the entire town uneasy.

Worry turns into panic when a break-in escalates to murder. Suddenly, Gus Carpenter, editor of the Pine County Pilot, is forced to investigate the most difficult story of his life. Not only is the victim his ex-girlfriend Darlene’s mother, but her body was found in the home of Bea Carpenter — Gus’s own mother. Suffering from worsening dementia and under the influence of sleeping pills, Bea remembers little of the break-in.

With the help of Luke Whistler, a former Detroit Free Press reporter who came north looking for slower days and some old-fashioned newspaper work, Gus sets out to uncover the truth behind the murder. But when the story leads him to a lockbox his mother has kept secret for years, Gus doesn’t realize that its contents could forever change his perception of Starvation Lake, his own family, and the value of the truth.

      

New Poster, Trailer for Seven Psychopaths

A new poster (right; click for larger image) and trailer (below) have been released by the studio for the comic crime thriller Seven Psychopaths. The tagline: "They won't take any shih tzu."

There's not much to the official synopsis … but then again, there probably doesn't need to be: A struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) beloved dog.

Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths opens in theaters October 12th, 2012.

New Poster for The Last Stand

A new poster for the action crime thriller The Last Stand has been released by the studio (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "Not in his town. Not on his watch."

Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his big-budget return in the film, in which he stars as Sheriff Owens, a man who has resigned himself to a life of fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Summerton Junction after leaving his LAPD post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with failure and defeat after his partner was crippled.

After a spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy, the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the hemisphere is hurtling toward the border at 200 mph in a specially outfitted car with a hostage and a fierce army of gang members. He is headed, it turns out, straight for Summerton Junction, where the whole of U.S. law enforcement will have their last opportunity to make a stand and intercept him before he slips across the border forever. At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately accepts responsibility for the face off.

The Last Stand, directed by Jee-woon Kim, is scheduled to open in US theaters January 18th, 2013.

This Week's Bestselling Mystery and Suspense Television and Film on DVD (120815)

Here is this week's list of the top bestselling mystery and suspense television and film on DVD available from Amazon.com.

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Georgette Heyer's eBooks Now Just $2.99

Georgette Heyer was a novelist, who wrote in several genres: historical drama, Regency romance, and crime fiction. Tomorrow would have been her 110th birthday — she died in 1974 — and to celebrate, Casablanca Sourcebooks, which publishes her books in digital format, has lowered the price of nearly all of her ebooks to $2.99.

You can use this link to see a list of all Georgette Heyer's Kindle books … or use this link to see a list of her Kindle books that are classified as mysteries and thrillers.

This offer is also for ebooks available via iTunes. We haven't quite figured out how to link to a selected list of products — here are two representative examples: A Blunt Instrument, featuring Inspector Hannasyde; and Duplicate Death, with Inspector Hemingway — but this link will bring up a list of all her books on iTunes.

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Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120815)

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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Amazon's The Big Deal for August, 500 Kindle Books for $3.99 or less

Amazon is back with The Big Deal, more than 500 Kindle books for $3.99 or less.

The books are conveniently broken down by price — 99 cent titles, $1.99 titles, $2.99 titles, and $3.99 titles — and while Amazon has also broken down the list by some genres, they haven't isolated the crime fiction titles. That's what we're here to do!

We've appended a few keywords — mystery, suspense, thriller, crime — to these lists and here are the results:

• The Big Deal 99 cent titles, filtered for crime fiction (20 books, by our count): Featured authors include Tom Lowe, Laurel Dewey, and Peter Leonard.

• The Big Deal $1.99 titles, filtered for crime fiction (33 books): Featured authors include Lee Goldberg, C. S. Challinor, and William Kienzle.

• The Big Deal $2.99 titles, filtered for crime fiction (4 books): Featured authors include Davis Bunn, Lynette Eason, and Amy Patricia Meade.

• The Big Deal $3.99 titles, filtered for crime fiction (3 books): Includes a "Kurt Wallander" mystery by Henning Mankell.

The Big Deal runs through August 23rd, 2012.

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