This Week's New Mystery/Suspense Title from Carina Press

Carina Press is a digital-first imprint from Harlequin, publishing books in an interesting and diverse selection of genres including contemporary romance, steampunk, gay/lesbian fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, and — but of course — mystery and suspense.

Here is this week's new ebook (listed under Romantic Suspense) …

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Shadow Valley
Kate Sherwood

What could be worse than having a long-over affair with your boss — the governor — hit the headlines? Professional and personal exile. Banished from the state capital to ride out the media storm in Shadow Valley, Montana, Megan Archer is tasked with promoting cooperation between local police and the federal agents investigating the area's drug trade.

When she's rescued from a near-drowning by handsome Joe Cody, Megan thinks things might be looking up. Until she finds out that her savior is an alleged drug kingpin and head of a notorious crime family. Yes, Joe has an edge, but the attraction between them is too intense to resist. She refuses to believe that the guy who saved her is a criminal.

Megan has a responsibility to the law, but in this case a job well done might mean Joe's downfall. And as Megan uncovers more secrets, it becomes clear that Joe's not the only one in town who can't be trusted. Something's rotten in Shadow Valley …

      

Telemystery: Alcatraz, Columbo, The Firm, Mr. Lucky, and Psych, 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 five series on our site being released this week.

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Alcatraz
The Complete Series

This Fox thriller series is centered on the mystery of the "63s", the forgotten prisoners who mysteriously disappeared from Alcatraz Island Federal Penitentiary in 1963.

Now, unexplainably, these criminals are returning to the streets of San Francisco to repeat their grisly crimes … not a day older than when they initially disappeared almost fifty years ago.

Enlisted by the close-to-the-vest Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill) and his equally elusive associate Lucy Bannerjee (Parminder Nagra), the driven detective Madsen (Sarah Jones) and fresh-faced Diego "Doc" Soto (Jorge Garcia) delve into the mystery of the 63s return, uncovering a much larger, more sinister threat.

Alcatraz aired for just one shortened season of 13 episodes in early 2012.

      

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Columbo
The Complete Series

Peter Falk is a four-time Primetime Emmy Award-winner for his iconic role as the beloved, trenchcoat-wearing Police Lieutenant Columbo.

And now, for the first time ever, the two pilots, all 43 episodes from its seven seasons on NBC, and all 26 episodes and specials that aired on ABC — 69 episodes in total — are together in this 34-disc anthology.

Every criminal, every innocent victim (and some not-so-innocent ones), and every wily deduction are here in one definitive collection.

Seemingly befuddled but always brilliant, the cigar-chomping detective will have you following the clues and asking "just one more thing" until the last case is cracked.

  

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The Firm
The Complete Series

As a young associate Mitch Lucas brought down Bendini Lambert & Locke a prestigious Memphis law firm operating as a front for the Chicago Mob. His life was never the same.

After a difficult ten years which included a stay in the Federal Witness Protection Program Mitch (Josh Lucas) and his family emerge from isolation determined to reclaim their lives and their future — only to find that past dangers are still lurking and new threats are everywhere.

Based on characters created by John Grisham in his bestselling novel of the same title, his NBC mid-season series aired for one season, from January through June 2012.

    

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Mr. Lucky
The Complete Series

Blake Edwards again teams up with composer Henry Mancini in this stylish adventure-crime series starring the dashing John Vivyan as a suave professional gambler and Ross Martin as his good friend Andamo.

The series opens with Mr. Lucky and Andamo running a successful casino in Andamo's island homeland, Chobolbo. After a brush with the country's corrupt dictator, they lose everything when Andamo is discovered running guns to the rebels in Mr. Lucky's yacht, Fortuna, and must escape by means of a small boat. Their fortunes take a turn for the better when Lucky wins enough money gambling to buy another yacht, which he christens Fortuna II. They turn her into a floating casino, and then an upscale restaurant, anchored in international water off the American coast.

The floating casino attracts a colorful cast of characters, including beautiful women, criminals on the lam and others hiding from criminals.

Mr. Lucky aired for just one season on CBS from October 1959 through June 1960. Though ratings were high, the series sponsors elected not to continue financial support, effectively canceling it.

  

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Psych
Season Six

The world's most dynamic — and oddball — detective duo get more than they bargained for when they take on con-artists, masked vigilantes and Darth Vader collectibles in the wild sixth season of Psych.

Fake "psychic detective" Shawn Spencer (James Roday) and his best bud, Burton "Gus" Guster (Dulé Hill), go undercover, behind the scenes and over the top to solve some of the most off the wall crimes imaginable. But how long can these super sleuths keep their psychic secret safe?

This sixth season of the series aired during Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 on USA Network. It has been renewed for a seventh season, which is scheduled to premiere in February 2013.

    

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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.

Meant for Her by Amy Gamet is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Meant for Her by Amy Gamet 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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Meant for Her
Amy Gamet
A Love and Danger Thriller
Publisher: Amy Gamet

A raging fire consumes a Florida hotel room, leaving behind the charred remains of a mystery man and the key to a safe deposit box. What's inside leads investigators to Julie Trueblood, a woman who is not what she seems, and a secret that only she can decipher.

Julie's life has been devastated once before, and she has spent the last ten years trying to separate herself from history. The fire forces open the door to her past, bringing her face-to-face with her greatest fears, and her only hope for the future.

As the Navy investigator on the case, Hank Jared realizes he's three steps behind the moment he walks in the door. While he works to unravel the truth behind his assignment, passion ignites between him and Julie. Will he choose the love of a woman he doesn't completely trust, or the Navy career he has worked for his entire life?

  

Important Note: This book was listed for free on the date and time of this post. Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase.

For more free mystery ebooks, visit our Free MystereBooks page.

Warned Off by Richard Pitman and Joe McNally is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Warned Off by Richard Pitman and Joe McNally 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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Warned Off
Richard Pitman and Joe McNally
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

This is the first mystery in this series written by an ex-jockey and racing journalist.

From Champion Jockey at 22 to down-and-out at 27, Eddie Malloy is bitter and desolate, reduced to living in an ancient caravan working for a tyrannical horse dealer. Estranged from his family and the sport he loves, Eddie cannot forget or forgive the racing authorities for believing false allegations of horse doping against him which robbed him of his riding licence.

With another miserable Christmas looming, Eddie's discovery of murder victim Danny Gordon in the racing capital of Newmarket offers him a perilous path to the resurrection of his career. He must balance that ultimate reward against the risk of becoming a victim of Gordon's ruthless killers.

  

Important Note: This book was listed for free on the date and time of this post. Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase.

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Two Thrillers by Lewis Perdue are Today's Featured Free MystereBooks

MystereBooks is pleased to feature two thrillers by Lewis Perdue as today's free mystery ebooks.

These titles were 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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Perfect Killer
Lewis Perdue
Publisher: Sudden Pacific Publishing

Set against the backdrop of the violent and gothic scenes of the American South, this fact-based thriller begins when a prominent Mississippi civil rights attorney asks renowned neurosurgeon Bradford Stone to help her save the life of a white racist condemned to death for the cold case murder of a black man.

Stone, a former elite Marine Recon operative has no idea that he is about to be dragged through a deadly past he thought he had escaped once and for all.

The mystery centers on a top-secret military project on military head injury cases and which has now used that data to create the ultimate human killing machine.

For more than seventy years, the Pentagon has sought the Holy Grail of combat medicine: a chemical compound that would turn ordinary soldiers into weapons of mass destruction, the Perfect Killers. Now, after decades of covert trial and error which have resulted in troubling side effects such as the My Lai massacre, Enduring Valor is ready to be implemented on a massive scale — despite devastating side-effects.

Before he knows it, Stone himself in the sights of the Project's director, a retired general and war hero turned presidential candidate. To get back his life, and expose the truth, Stone must struggle with the South's racist legacy, the demons of his past and penetrate the very heart of the lethal conspiracy.

  

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Die By Wire
Lewis Perdue
Publisher: Sudden Pacific Publishing

When guardian sniper Mira Longbow arrives in Amsterdam to take out the head of a global child-smuggling ring, she quickly stumbles across a diabolically creative, high-tech jihad that will bring the West to its knees.

Problem is, she also crosses paths with Jackson Day, an unexpected visitor, and would-be lover from her turbulent past in Iraq.

Day is a deadly effective loner assigned to the Army's Asymmetric Warfare Command whose motto (and his) is "Never Fight Fair."

So, when Day shows up to enlist her gift for languages to decipher a tangle of voices recorded of a high-level terror meeting at a remote Iranian safe house, she wants nothing to do with him or his distractions from her mission.

But, after the heat of their first encounter, they put aside their simmering differences when it's clear that Khan Nasiri — the same wealthy shipping tycoon behind the child bride smuggling operation -- is a terror mastermind who has discovered that every modern fly-by-wire passenger aircraft is a disaster waiting to fall out of the sky.

And Nasiri intends to demonstrate to the world just how easily fly-by-wire can become die-by-wire. Cyber-jihad everywhere, anywhere. Death on demand.

The countdown begins.

And they are the only two people on the planet who can stop it in time.

  

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Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, October 15, 2012.

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Into the Darkest Corner
Elizabeth Haynes
Harper

Catherine Bailey has been enjoying the single life long enough to know a catch when she sees one. Gorgeous, charismatic and spontaneous, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. And her friends clearly agree, as each in turn falls under his spell.

But what begins as flattering attentiveness and passionate sex turns into raging jealousy, and Catherine soon learns there is a darker side to Lee. His increasingly erratic, controlling behaviour becomes frightening, but no one believes her when she shares her fears. Increasingly isolated and driven into the darkest corner of her world, a desperate Catherine plans a meticulous escape.

Four years later, Lee is behind bars and Catherine—now Cathy—compulsively checks the locks and doors in her apartment, trusting no one. But when an attractive upstairs neighbour, Stuart, comes into her life, Cathy dares to hope that happiness and love may still be possible … until she receives a phone call informing her of Lee's impending release. Soon after, Cathy thinks she catches a glimpse of the former best friend who testified against her in the trial; she begins to return home to find objects subtly rearranged in her apartment, one of Lee's old tricks. Convinced she is back in her former lover's sights, Cathy prepares to wrestle with the demons of her past for the last time.

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for October 15, 2012

A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

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This week's letters and mystery clue:

A C J K M N O R U

This Australian PI is featured in a series of mysteries by G. S. Manson (9 letters).

We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!

Teaser Poster for Carrie

The first teaser poster for the remake of the 1976 thriller Carrie has surfaced (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "You will know her name."

We don't have an official synopsis from the studio yet, though we're assuming it won't stray too far from either Stephen King's novel or the first film. We do know that Chloë Grace Moretz is starring as Carrie White, with Julianne Moore playing her mother; Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie played those parts in the original, both earning an Oscar nomination for their respective performances.

Directed by Kimberly Peirce from an adapted screenplay by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Carrie opens in theaters March 15th, 2013.

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Carrie
Stephen King

In one way or another, everybody abused Carrie. Her fanatical mother forbade this sixteen-year-old misfit everything that was young and fun. She was teased and taunted by her classmates, misunderstood by her teachers, and given up as hopeless by almost everyone.

But Carrie had a secret: she possessed terrifying telekinetic powers that could make inanimate objects move, a lighted candle fall, or a door lock. Carrie could make all kinds of startling bizarre, and malevolent things happen. And so she did one night, when feeling scorned and humiliated … and growing angrier and angrier … she became the vengeful demon who let the whole town feel her power.

      

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (121014)

Here is today's list of the Bestselling Free Kindle Crime Fiction: the top nine mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers.

We're using a script to embed an RSS feed from Amazon.com, which is updated hourly, but if you cannot see the box below — or have scripts blocked — you can click on the image to the right or use this link to see the relevant page on Amazon.com, which includes a list of both the Top 100 Paid and Top 100 Free Kindle Mysteries and Thrillers.

Review: Broken Harbor by Tana French

A Mysterious Review of …

Broken Harbor by Tana French. A Dublin Murder Squad Mystery.

Review summary: This part psychological thriller, part police procedural is a solid, if flawed, entry in this series. Beautifully written, the story takes far too long to cover what is, in effect, a narrow, self-contained investigation with just a handful of characters, and concludes on an ambiguous note. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Broken Harbor
Tana French
A Dublin Murder Squad Mystery
Viking (July 2012)

Publisher synopsis: Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy plays by the book and plays hard. That's what's made him the Murder squad's top detective — and that's what puts the biggest case of the year into his hands.

On one of the half-built, half-abandoned "luxury" developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children are dead. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care.

At first, Scorcher and his rookie partner, Richie, think it's going to be an easy solve. But too many small things can't be explained. The half dozen baby monitors, their cameras pointing at holes smashed in the Spains' walls. The files erased from the Spains' computer. The story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder who was slipping past all the locks.

And Broken Harbor holds memories for Scorcher. Seeing the case on the news sends his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family one summer at Broken Harbor, back when they were children.

      

Download a Free Preview of the Graphic Novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Volume 1

A couple of weeks ago we mentioned that a free preview of the upcoming graphic novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Volume 1 was available on EW.com. What we didn't realize was that a day later the publisher, Vertigo, made that preview available to download for free from the major ebook vendors.

See more information about the book and the preview download links below, but be advised: This is a large download — over 1.2 GB — and can only be viewed on certain devices. For example, the Kindle version is only available for Kindle Fire and Kindle for Android.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Volume 1 is published in hardcover on November 13th, 2012.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Volume 1
Denise Mina
The Millennium Trilogy Graphic Novels

Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.

This graphic novel, to be published in two volumes, is adapted from the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. The links below are to a free 25-page preview of the book.

    

Today's Amazon Local Deal: $2 off Amazon Instant Video

Today's Amazon Local Deal is a free voucher worth $2 off any Amazon Instant Video purchase or rental. (You may have to look at the bottom of the page under "More Deals" to find it.) A credit card is required to obtain the voucher, but you won't be charged. The voucher must be used by October 31st, 2012 or it will expire. It looks like this might be a two-day deal, expiring late on Monday October 5th, but quantities are limited so if this offer is of interest to you, don't delay!

There are over 120,000 videos from which to choose. Visit the Amazon Instant Video page to search for new releases in films, the latest episodes on television, and special deals, including a large selection of $1.99 rentals (which would be free with the voucher).

We're leaning towards using our voucher to pick up a Jesse Stone movie. We actually own them all on DVD — visit our Telemystery: Jesse Stone page for a list of titles — but are beginning to build our online digital library and believe any of these movies would make a great addition to it.