Stuff to Spy For by Don Bruns is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Stuff to Spy For by Don Bruns as today's third free mystery ebook.

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Stuff to Spy For
Don Bruns
A James Lessor and Skip Moore Mystery
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are still stuck in dead-end jobs, still living in their ratty apartment in Carol City, Florida, and still dreaming of hitting the big time. It seems those dreams are finally within reach when James lands a job to install a state-of-the-art security system for Synco Systems. There's a huge commission — and plenty of strings — attached.

To collect on the cash, James will have to provide additional services by assuming the role of pretend boyfriend of Sarah Crumbly, an employee who's having an affair with Sandler Conroy, Synco's married president.

When Sandler's wife offers James a tidy sum for the dirty details about what's going on at Synco, James and Skip resurrect their entrepreneurial dreams and go into the business of being spies. The spymobile-their beloved, rattletrap of a boxtruck-is on its last legs, and they'll have to spend a small fortune on spy equipment, but there's no business like spy business.

In this spy game, James and Skip may be the ones who get played — or worse.

Read our review of Stuff to Spy For by Don Bruns.

  

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Missing by Barry Crowther is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Missing by Barry Crowther as today's second free mystery ebook.

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Missing
Barry Crowther
A Matt Spears Mystery
Publisher: CreateSpace

Debt collector Matt Spears isn't having a good day. He's being framed by the cops over an alleged assault and has inexplicably found himself indebted to the blind, but ruthless gangster, Vincent Barbour. When Barbour’s supposedly dead niece, Emma, surfaces in a graphic sexual video on a porn site, he asks Matt to find her in exchange for wiping the slate clean.

Within a matter of hours, Matt is plunged into a world of sex, blackmail and murder. Trying to unravel the mysteries of a troubled young girl's disappearance, he discovers the dark side of the porn industry, complicated family secrets, government corruption, sadistic gangsters, and narcissistic celebrities who all come together to find a girl who is simply … missing.

  

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Florida Heat by Rainy Kirkland is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Florida Heat by Rainy Kirkland as today's free mystery ebook.

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Florida Heat
Rainy Kirkland
Publisher: RKPublishing

Florida heat is murder … and the bodies are stacking up at an alarming rate. From the moment Probation Officer Jo Cazimer witnesses a murder her life is in jeopardy.

Working with her best friend Detective Kate Snow they struggle to identify the killer. But in Florida the snakes slither, the gators are hungry and a serial killer is on the loose.

  

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Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, October 03, 2012.

Note: The price has been matched by Amazon.com for today only.

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Scarpetta
Patricia Cornwell
A Kay Scarpetta Mystery
Berkley

This is the 13th mystery in this series.

Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk — and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.

The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder … that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered — and more violent deaths will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges: Whoever is committing the crimes knows where his prey is at all times. Is it a person, a government? And what is the connection between the victims?

In the days that follow, Scarpetta; her forensic psychologist husband, Benton Wesley; and her niece, Lucy, who has recently formed her own forensic computer investigation firm in New York, will undertake a harrowing chase through cyberspace and the all-too-real streets of the city — an odyssey that will take them at once to places they never knew, and much, much too close to home.

 

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MysteryeBooks: Poisoned Pen Press Announces Three Newly Discounted eMysteries

More good news from Poisoned Pen Press, which has just announced three more of its titles are free on iTunes, 99 cents on Amazon and Kobo. One of these books — Effigies — is the third in the "Faye Longchamp" series of mysteries by Mary Anna Evans, which we highly recommend. Indeed, we've read all the books in the series, and have enjoyed each and every one.

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Winter of Secrets
Vicki Delany
A Molly Smith Mystery (3rd in series)

Siblings Wendy and Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and their friends are in the peaceful mountain town of Trafalgar, B.C. enjoying a two-week vacation of skiing, drinking, drugs, and sex. But tragedy strikes when two of the group crash through the ice into the frozen river.

It's Christmas Eve and the snow-storm of the decade has settled over the town. Constables Molly Smith and Dave Evans have a busy shift attending fender-benders, tumbling pedestrians, and Christmas tree fires. Then, at the stroke of midnight, they are summoned to the scene of a car accident: a vehicle has gone off the snowy road into the river. Police, coroner, and medics all agree it was an accident. But when the autopsy reveals a shocking secret, Molly and Sergeant John Winters are plunged into a world of sexual predators, recreational drugs, privilege, and high-living.

Meanwhile, stalker Charlie Bassing is out of jail and looking for revenge, a handsome Mountie is giving Molly the eye, and her mother, Lucky, is cheerfully interfering in the investigation.

And all Molly Smith wants to do is ski the powder …

      

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Effigies
Mary Anna Evans
A Faye Longchamp Mystery (3rd in series)

Faye Longchamp and Joe Wolf Mantooth have traveled to Neshoba County, Mississippi, to help excavate a site near Nanih Waiya, the sacred mound where tradition says the Choctaw nation was born.When farmer Carroll Calhoun refuses the archaeologists' request to investigate an ancient Native American mound, Faye and her colleagues are disappointed. But his next action breaks their hearts: he tries to bulldoze the huge relic to the ground.

Faye and Joe rush to protect history, with their bodies if necessary. The situation grows more dangerous as Choctaws arrive to defend the mound and the farmer's white and black neighbors come to defend his property rights. A popular young sheriff is able to defuse the situation, but tempers are short.

That night, Calhoun is found dead, his throat sliced with a handmade stone blade. Was he killed by an archaeologist angered by his wanton destruction of history? Did a Choctaw take up arms to defend an embattled heritage? Did someone decide to even the score with an old rival?

The sheriff is well-aware that Faye and Joe were near the spot where Calhoun's body was found. The whole county saw their confrontation with him over the mound. And their combined knowledge of stone tools is impressive. They had motive, means, and opportunity—but so did almost everyone in Neshoba County.

      

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Sorrow Without End
Priscilla Royal
A Prioress Eleanor Mystery (3rd in series)

In 1271, tough-minded Ralf the Crowner, who's trying to bring a brutal serial killer to justice, prevails upon Eleanor to allow the mangled corpse of a lowly foot soldier to be laid in the chapel during his investigation. The "rule of Eve" prevails in Tyndal, where pious Eleanor resists the demands of rival monks who complicate Ralf's work with their own competing agendas for the priory's future.

Eleanor faces further challenges when a knight is slain and an infirmarian (or hospital) nun is beaten and raped before the altar.

Suspense builds amid a vivid backdrop of lepers wearing "clappers", a madman who chatters warnings, venal relic sellers and the shadowy "man from Acre", haunted by guilt for his wife's death at the hands of a sadistic crusader.

      

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Two TV Spots for Skyfall

Sony has uploaded two 30-second television spots for Skyfall, the 23rd "James Bond" film and the third starring Daniel Craig as 007.

After an operation in Istanbul ends in disaster, James Bond is missing and presumed to be dead, the identities of every active undercover MI6 agent are leaked onto the internet, and M becomes the subject of a government review over her handling of the situation. When the agency itself is attacked, Bond's sudden reappearance gives M the pretext she needs to seek out a dangerous villain claiming a personal connection to both of them — but as he follows a trail from London to the South China Sea, Bond soon finds his loyalty to M challenged over secrets from her past.

Directed by Sam Mendes from an original screenplay by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and John Logan, Skyfall opens in US theaters on November 9th.

Cinemystery: Daniel Radcliffe in Joe Hill's Horns

Entertainment Weekly has the first photo of Daniel Radcliffe in the film adaptation of Joe Hill's Horns (right; click for larger image). We were curious how they would handle the titular effect, and have to admit, we're quite impressed with how it looks.

"It's a very, very different type of part than anything I've done before," teases Radcliffe. Today marked the first time the actor settled into a Vancouver makeup chair for several hours of prosthetics application.

Radcliffe plays Ig Perrish in the film (book synopsis below), directed by Alexandre Aja from an adapted screenplay by Keith Bunin. We do not believe Horns has a release date yet.

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Horns
Joe Hill

At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.

Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more — he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.

But Merrin's death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside …

Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look — a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It's time for a little revenge … It's time the devil had his due …

      

Mysterious Press Releases 10 Ben Kincaid Legal Thrillers and Two Stand-Alones by William Bernhardt in eBook Format

Mysterious Press released ten books in the "Ben Kincaid" series of legal thrillers plus two stand-alones by William Bernhardt this week in ebook format.

A former attorney himself, William Bernhardt's 1991 debut novel introduced dealistic defense attorney Ben Kincaid. Seventeen thrillers in the series followed, with the most recent, Capitol Betrayal, being published in 2010. He has also written another (much fewer in number) series of mysteries featuring police psychologist Susan Pulaski and several stand-alones.

We're providing a list of the newly re-released ebooks by William Bernhardt below, with a synopsis from the first in the series, Primary Justice.

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Primary Justice
William Bernhardt

After just a few hours on the job, a new lawyer lands his first murder case …

It's Ben Kincaid's first day as an associate at corporate giant Raven, Tucker & Tubb, and he's ready to start the long climb up the ladder to partnership. But he's barely cleared the first rung when a body trips him up.

Ben's first task is to arrange an adoption for one of the firm's biggest clients—a bit of grunt work that becomes interesting when he meets the child in question. Emily suffers from Korsakov's Syndrome, a rare disorder that prevents her from forming memories, and Jonathan and Bertha Adams want nothing more than to raise her as their own. But Kincaid has just begun getting the paperwork together when he gets a chilling phone call: Jonathan has been found dead, hacked to pieces in an alleyway. Investigating the killing will take Kincaid down a fearsome path, leading him to wish that, like Emily, he had the power to forget.

      

(2nd) Blind Justice — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo

(3rd) Deadly Justice — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo

(4th) Perfect Justice — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo

(5th) Cruel Justice — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo

(6th) Naked Justice — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo

(7th) Extreme Justice — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo

(8th) Dark Justice — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo

(9th) Silent Justice — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo

(10th) Murder One — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo

Stand-alone novels of suspense …

The Midnight Before Christmas — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo

Double Jeopardy — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo

New Poster for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

A new — and likely final — poster for the The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 has been released by the studio (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "The epic finale that will live forever."

Directed by Bill Condon from a screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg and adapted from the bestselling novel by Stephenie Meyer, the film opens in theaters November 16th, 2012.

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Breaking Dawn
Stephenie Meyer
The Twilight Saga (4th and final in series)

To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs.

Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life-first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed … forever?

      

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Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (121002)

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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The Mystery Bookshelf: Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming, a Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery

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.

Julia Spencer-Flemining was the winner of the 2001 SMP Best Traditional Mystery Novel Contest for In the Bleak Midwinter, which introduced Anglican priest Clare Fergusson and Chief of Police Russ Van Alstryne. Published by Minotaur Books in 2002, it went on to win numerous literary mystery awards.

Earlier this year Minotaur Books began reissuing the books in this series, in order, in new trade paperback editions. This is the third, first published published in 2004.

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Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery (3rd in series)
Minotaur Books (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: October 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-01604-1

About Out of the Deep I Cry (from the publisher): On April 1, 1930, Jonathan Ketchem's wife Jane walked from her house to the police department to ask for help in finding her husband. The men, worn out from a night of chasing bootleggers, did what they could. But no one ever saw Jonathan Ketchem again …

Now decades later, someone else is missing in Miller's Kill, NY. This time it's the physician of the clinic that bears the Ketchem name. Suspicion falls on a volatile single mother with a grudge against the doctor, but Reverend Clare Fergusson isn't convinced. As Clare and Russ investigate, they discover that the doctor's disappearance is linked to a bloody trail going all the way back to the hardscrabble Prohibition era. As they draw ever closer to the truth, their attraction for each other grows increasingly more difficult to resist. And their search threatens to uncover secrets that snake from one generation to the next-and to someone who's ready to kill.

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About the author: Julia Spencer-Fleming was born at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, spending most of her childhood on the move as an army brat. She studied acting and history at Ithaca College, and received her J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. She lives outside of Portland, Maine. Two of the books in this series — In the Bleak Midwinter and All Mortal Flesh — have won multiple literary mystery awards. For more information about the author and her books, visit her website at JuliaSpencerFleming.com.