Don't Look Twice by Andrew Gross is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Don't Look Twice by Andrew Gross as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, February 11, 2013.

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

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Don't Look Twice
Andrew Gross
A Ty Hauck Thriller
William Morrow

Detective Ty Hauck plunges into what seems like a vicious case of retribution and follows the trail to a sinister gambling scheme at an upstate casino. Until Annie Fletcher, a young restaurateur in the midst of rebuilding her life, witnesses something she shouldn't have — and immediately runs to him with what she knows.

Suddenly, Hauck is pulled into a rising storm far greater than it first appeared — a storm wide enough to encompass corruption inside Greenwich's circle of wealthy and powerful citizens. And punishing enough to consume Hauck's own family, and tear brothers apart forever … if it doesn't kill them first.

 

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Stone Maidens by Lloyd Devereux Richards is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Stone Maidens by Lloyd Devereux Richards as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, February 11, 2013.

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Stone Maidens
Lloyd Devereux Richards
A Thriller
Thomas & Mercer

As the chief forensic anthropologist for the FBI's Chicago field office, Christine Prusik has worked her fair share of bizarre cases. Yet this one trumps them all: a serial killer is strangling young women and dumping their bodies in the steep, forested ravines of southern Indiana.

With each victim, the killer leaves a calling card: a stone figurine carved like the spirit stones found among the primitive tribes of Papua New Guinea — the same tribes from whom Prusik narrowly escaped a decade earlier while doing field research. The similarity is eerie and, frankly, terrifying; Prusik still carries the scars from the tribesmen's attack.

But is the connection real? Or have the dark details of Prusik's nightmares finally wormed their way into her waking life?

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for February 11, 2013

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 E G H I M N R T

Travis McGee's latest case is a this "in pink" in a 1964 mystery by John D. MacDonald (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!

MystereBooks: Dead in the Water, a Stone Barrington Legal Thriller by Stuart Woods, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dead in the Water by Stuart Woods, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $1.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (02/10/2013 at 8:00 PM ET). 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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Dead in the Water by Stuart Woods
A Stone Barrington Mystery (3rd)
Publisher: HarperCollins

Stone Barrington only wants a winter getaway from the chill of New York in the beautiful, tropical Caribbean paradise of St. Mark's. But what the lawyer and ex-cop gets instead is the chance to defend Allison Manning. The beautiful young woman stands accused of killing her rich husband on board their luxurious yacht and then burying him at sea.

Stone isn't exactly conversant with the island country's law, but this much is clear to him: Allison is being railroaded by the perverse sense of justice of a prosecutor who will do anything to stay in office. Donning the robe and wig of a British barrister, Stone does everything he can to save Allison — from publicizing the case all over the American press to conducting the kind of smart, tough investigation that money can't buy.

Just when he has the jury in the palm of his hands, a shocking reversal of fortune changes everything. And what was once a sure thing begins to look a lot like a death sentence.

      

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MystereBooks: Rumble on the Bayou by Jana DeLeon, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Rumble on the Bayou by Jana DeLeon, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (02/10/2013 at 4:00 PM ET). 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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Rumble on the Bayou by Jana DeLeon
First published in paperback by Leisure Books (October 2006)

Big-city crime meets small-town moxie …

Deputy Dorie Berenger knew the day would go from bad to worse when she found a stoned alligator in the town drunk’s swimming pool. Then DEA agent Richard Starke shows up in Gator Bait, Louisiana, giving out orders and insults faster than you can cast a fishing line.

Dorie knows the residents of Gator Bait aren’t going to talk to a stranger, especially a Yankee, but she stuck with Richard until he catches his bad guy. With no other alternative to restore peace to the small town, Dorie agrees to help Richard catch a criminal and in the process, uncovers decades of secrets that have been hiding deep in the Louisiana bayou.

      

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MystereBooks: Kindle Format of Matt Witten's Second Jacob Burns Mystery Now Free Through February 14th

Mystery author Matt Witten, who was recently a guest on our site, e-mailed us this morning to let us know that the Kindle format of Grand Delusion, the second mystery in his "Jacob Burns" series, is available to download for free through Thursday, February 14th, 2013.

Screenwriter Jacob Burns was introduced in Breakfast at Madeline's, the winner of the 1998 Malice Domestic Grant for an unpublished writer. It was published the following year by Signet, which went on to publish all four books in the series. All four are now out of print, but Matt is re-publishing them as ebooks this year.

You can find more information about Grand Delusion — including a link to Amazon to download a copy — below.

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Grand Delusion
Matt Witten
A Jacob Burns Mystery (2nd in series)

Jacob Burns is getting used to the good life in Saratoga Springs. With a spot of money in the bank and a loving family at home, he's never been happier. Except that his drug-dealing neighbors' rowdy antics keep him up all night. Complaining to the cops doesn't bring satisfaction — possibly because the dealers' landlord is a cop himself!

Jacob and his fellow Saratogians are trying to clean up their down-and-dirty West Side neighborhood. But when the cop landlord — Jacob's personal nemesis — is murdered, Jacob becomes the prime suspect. Jacob ends up on the run from the law, with nobody he can truly count on except his own family — and a homeless nine-year-old boy who may hold the key to solving the murder.

  

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Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (130210)

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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Review: Unnatural Habits by Kerry Greenwood

A Mysterious Review of …

Unnatural Habits by Kerry Greenwood. A Phryne Fisher Mystery.

Review summary: This one of the more troubling cases that attracts Phryne's attention. Fortunately, lighter elements balance the darker side of the crime plot, most notably in the form of 14-year-old Tinker, the newest member of Phyne's household, and a self-styled apprentice detective. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Unnatural Habits
Kerry Greenwood
A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Poisoned Pen Press (January 2013)

Publisher synopsis: 1929: Girls are going missing in Melbourne. Little, pretty golden-haired girls. And not just pretty. Three of them are pregnant, poor girls from the harsh confines of the Magdalene Laundry. People are getting nervous.

Polly Kettle, a pushy, self-important Girl Reporter with ambition and no sense of self preservation, decides to investigate — and promptly goes missing herself.

It's time for Phryne and Dot to put a stop to this and find Polly Kettle before something quite irreparable happens to all of them. It's all piracy and dark cellars, convents and plots, murder and mystery … and Phryne finally finds out if it's true that blondes have more fun.

      

Bond 50: The Complete 22 Film Collection on Blu-ray, Now Available at a Special Price This Week Only

This week, through Saturday February 16th, 2013 you can save an additional $30 from Amazon's already low price on Bond 50: The Complete 22 Film Collection on Blu-ray.

This collection includes all 22 James Bond feature films from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace and more than 130 hours of bonus features including never-before-seen content from the Bond archives, and more. Nine of these titles are available on Blu-ray for the first time ever: Goldeneye, Octopussy, The Spy Who Loved Me, You Only Live Twice, The Living Daylights, Tomorrow Never Dies, Diamonds are Forever, A View to a Kill and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Cinemystery: Production Update on Film Adaptation of Elmore Leonard's The Switch

Way back in 2010 we first learned about the film adaptation of Elmore Leonard's crime novel The Switch. Production is finally underway in Connecticut with a possible release date later this year.

The Switch is a prequel to Rum Punch, which was adapted into the 1997 film Jackie Brown. The two main characters in that film were played by Samuel L. Jackson and Robert de Niro; in this new film, they will be played by Yaslin Bey and John Hawkes.

Here's the studio's official synopsis for the as yet untitled film:

Jennifer Aniston plays Margaret "Mickey" Dawson, a loving, if-not naive housewife whose husband, Frank Dawson, has been embezzling millions for years and keeping the cash in off-shore accounts without her knowledge. Two career criminals, Louis Gara and Ordell Robbie (played by John Hawkes and Yasiin Bey, respectively), catch wind of his scam and figure if they hold Mickey for ransom, Frank would have no choice but to pay up a million dollars. Except, what they don't plan on is that Frank's head over heels for his sex-kitten mistress, Melanie, and doesn't want his wife back. What follows is an unbelievable sequence of double crosses, plot twists and violence that could only come from the mind of Elmore Leonard.

Daniel Schechter is directing his own adapted screenplay.

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The Switch
Elmore Leonard

Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara hit it off in prison, where they were both doing time for grand theft auto. Now that they're out, they're joining forces for one big score. The plan is to kidnap the wife of a wealthy Detroit developer and hold her for ransom.

But they didn't figure the lowlife husband wouldn't want his lady back. So it's time for Plan B and the opportunity to make a real killing — with the unlikely help of a beautiful, ticked-off housewife who's hungry for a large helping of sweet revenge.

      

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Deadly Pedigree by Jimmy Fox is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Deadly Pedigree by Jimmy Fox as today's third free mystery ebook (A Nick Herald, Genealogical Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, February 10, 2013 at 7:30 AM ET. 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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Deadly Pedigree
Jimmy Fox
A Nick Herald, Genealogical Mystery
Publisher: CreateSpace

Climbing Louisiana family trees can be deadly.

Nick Herald, a professional genealogist working in New Orleans, searches for possible Louisiana relatives of a lonely Holocaust survivor. After the shocking murder of the elderly man who was his client, Nick fears that something much more sinister than innocent genealogical curiosity lurks in the shadows.

What buried secrets haunt the present? To find out, Nick warily navigates a dangerous forest of mysteries with roots in Jewish and African American tribulations and triumphs. His investigation delves deeply into the unique history and complex ethnic gumbo of Louisiana. He struggles to unravel a tangled tale of betrayal, bigotry, lust, shame, and love spanning oceans and continents and two centuries of Louisiana’s past, back to the Civil War, slavery days, and beyond. Ultimately, Nick makes courageous decisions to right old wrongs and expose the guilty, while fighting desperately to outsmart his foes, stay alive, and save all that he holds dear.

  

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The Cathari Treasure by Daniel Arthur Smith is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Cathari Treasure by Daniel Arthur Smith as today's second free mystery ebook (A Cameron Kincaid Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, February 10, 2013 at 7:20 AM ET. 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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The Cathari Treasure
Daniel Arthur Smith
A Cameron Kincaid Mystery
Publisher: Holt Smith Ltd.

A coveted prize has surfaced in New York drawing Celebrity Chef Cameron Kincaid into an 800-year-old war.

In 1208 the clandestine Rex Mundi began the Albigensian crusade in an effort to gain control of the treasure held by the Cathar. For thirty-six years the Languedoc region south of France was washed in blood. By 1244 the last of the Cathari were eradicated when the Château de Montségur finally fell. Though the Rex Mundi searched everywhere, the Cathari Treasure remained elusive.

After thwarting assassins in the library of his restaurant Le Dragon Vert Cameron, a suave former Legionnaire, vows to escort a young woman and her guardian to safety. Cameron learns from the two the secret Cathari faith and of the Rex Mundi that believe the women are key to the long sought Cathari Treasure.

Relentlessly pursued from the Le Dragon Vert in New York, through the streets of Boston, Montreal, Toronto, and Quebec, Cameron tires of fleeing. The Rex Mundi will ultimately wipe out the Cathari to get the treasure unless Cameron takes the battle to them, a confrontation to seal his fate or ensure the survival of the two women and a faith he does not fully understand.

  

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Blood of the Lamb by Michael Lister is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blood of the Lamb by Michael Lister as today's free mystery ebook (A John Jordan Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, February 10, 2013 at 7:10 AM ET. 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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Blood of the Lamb
Michael Lister
A John Jordan Mystery
Publisher: Pulpwood Press

Florida prison chaplain John Jordan's search for the peace that has so long eluded him is interrupted by an unimaginable murder. Attempting to be a good man in a very bad place while also maintaining his shaky sobriety, John investigates the murder of the seven year-old adopted daughter of ex-con turned televangelist, Bobby Earl Caldwell, a murder committed in John's own locked office when Bobby Earl conducts a service in the Potter Correctional Institution chapel.

This unspeakable act, and the investigation that follows, will force John to confront his own fears and beliefs, causing this man of mercy to thirst for justice. Torn between the seemingly conflicting roles he's asked to assume — cop and cleric — John must struggle to figure out his identity as well as that of the killer's, but his past continues to haunt him in the form of troubling thoughts of failure and the resurfacing of his ex-wife, Susan.

Putting aside his distrust of the slick televangelist and his seductive wife, John must ignore intimidation and resist manipulation to find a killer among some very unusual suspects — including two murderers, a child molester, a teacher with something to hide, and Bobby Earl Caldwell himself whose very act of exposing his daughter to such risk causes John to suspect him from the very beginning.

Amid private crises and the torturous experiences of a thoughtful, sensitive man working in such a pitiless place, nothing short of death will end John's search for the person who killed little Nicole Caldwell. Uncovering the guilt, restoring the balance, John seeks pardon from the self-inflicted life sentence he's serving and exoneration from the burden of regret he bears.

  

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Review: The Lawyer's Lawyer by James Sheehan

A Mysterious Review of …

The Lawyer's Lawyer by James Sheehan. A Jack Tobin Legal Thriller.

Review summary: This is an exciting, smartly plotted, edge of your seat-type legal thriller. What works best are the series of conflicts that are set up, some quite unexpectedly, that both balance and play off each other, which are accompanied by several cleverly devised twists and turns that keep the reader invested in the outcome. A riveting novel, one not to be missed. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Lawyer's Lawyer
James Sheehan
A Jack Tobin Legal Thriller
Center Street (January 2013)

Publisher synopsis: Tobin, known as the lawyer's lawyer — the guy the best lawyer's say they'd want to represent them in a courtroom battle — undertakes the representation of a serial killer who he believes to be innocent. The Chief of Police is outraged, the citizens of Oakville where the murders occurred, erupt, and the State Attorney is out for blood as Jack challenges the criminal justice system once again.

      

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (130209)

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; as an alternative, 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.