First Murder by Fred Limberg is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature First Murder by Fred Limberg as today's free mystery ebook (A Murder Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, March 13, 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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First Murder
Fred Limberg
A Murder Mystery
Publisher: CreateSpace

Tony de Luca has been a detective for all of 14 hours when he catches his first case, the murder of Deana Fredrickson. Following veteran Ray Bankston's lead he and the team try to unravel the mystery of who would kill the much loved and respected woman. And why?

Ray and Tony soon latch onto the slimmest of threads. Deana's group of girlfriends. The "Go Girls", a midwestern version of "Real Housewives of the Twin Cities" have been taking trips together for years. Vegas. Mexico. LA. With no apparent motive and no suspect, the detectives can only keep digging, trying to get into the lives of the women who were Deana's best friends.

As the ''Go Girls" grudgingly give up details of their travels and adventures Tony and Ray come across a tenuous connection to one of Deana's son's roomates and are reluctantly dragged into the sordid world of pay-per-view internet porn.

Then things get interesting …

  

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Blood Men by Paul Cleave is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blood Men by Paul Cleave as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $0.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, March 13, 2013.

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Blood Men
Paul Cleave
Atria Books

Edward Hunter has it all — a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future … and a very dark past. Twenty years ago, New Zealand's first serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in the country's most hellish of penitentiaries. That man was Edward's father. Edward has struggled his entire life to put the nightmares of his childhood behind him.

But a week before Christmas, violence once again makes an unwelcome appearance into his world. Suddenly he's going to need the help of his father, a man he hasn't seen since he was a boy. Is Edward destined to be just like him, to become a man of blood?

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MystereBooks: Triple Crossing by Sebastian Rotella, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Triple Crossing by Sebastian Rotella, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Mulholland Books.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/12/2013 at 8:30 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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Triple Crossing by Sebastian Rotella
Publisher: Mulholland Books

Valentine Pescatore, a volatile rookie Border Patrol agent, is trying to survive the trenches of The Line in San Diego. He gets in trouble and finds himself recruited as an informant by Isabel Puente, a beautiful U.S. agent investigating a powerful Mexican crime family.

As he infiltrates the mafia, Pescatore falls in love with Puente. But he clashes with her ally Leo Mendez, chief of a Tijuana anti-corruption unit. Politically charged violence escalates, plunging Pescatore into the lawless "triple border" region of South America and a showdown full of bloodshed and betrayal.

      

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MystereBooks: Hunt the Wolf, a SEAL Team Six Thriller by Don Mann, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Hunt the Wolf by Don Mann with Ralph Pezzullo, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Mulholland Books.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/12/2013 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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Hunt the Wolf by Don Mann with Ralph Pezzullo
A SEAL Team Six Thriller (1st in series)
Publisher: Mulholland Books

In the midst of a grueling training exercise, Thomas Crocker, USN, unearths a pocket of terrorism that leads straight from the slopes of K2 to the cities of Europe and the Middle East. Crocker and his team, who are trained for the most intense kinds of combat in the most extreme environments, must blaze through a perilous web of terrorist cells to track down a ruthless sheikh who is running an international kidnapping ring before his captives pay the ultimate price.

      

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MystereBooks: Slip & Fall by Nick Santora, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Slip & Fall by Nick Santora, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Mulholland Books.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/12/2013 at 7:30 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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Slip & Fall by Nick Santora
Publisher: Mulholland Books

Read our review of Slip & Fall by Nick Santora

Faced with a struggling practice, a pregnant wife, and a sister in trouble, Robert Principe realizes the white-collar world isn't as easy as he thought. He needs money. Fast.

Desperate, he approaches his wiseguy cousin Jackie with an insurance scheme — a way for the Mob to collect from guys who owe but can't pay, and a chance for Robert to use his law degree to make a few quick bucks when he needs it most.

Robert thinks it will be a one-time thing. It isn't. The scheme works well — too well. The money flows, the violence escalates, and Robert soon learns that getting out of a deal with the Mafia isn't exactly easy … especially when the FBI is onto you.

      

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MystereBooks: Turning Angel by Greg Iles, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Turning Angel by Greg Iles, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Scribner.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/12/2013 at 4:30 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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Turning Angel by Greg Iles
A Penn Cage Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Scribner

As two of the most prominent citizens of Natchez, Drew Elliott and Penn Cage sit on the school board of their alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep. When the nude body of a young female student is found near the Mississippi River, the entire community is shocked — but no one more than Penn, who discovers that his best friend was entangled in a passionate relationship with the girl and may be accused of her murder.

On the surface, Kate Townsend seems the most unlikely murder victim imaginable. A star student and athlete, she'd been accepted to Harvard and carried the hope and pride of the town on her shoulders. But like her school and her town, Kate also had a secret life — one about which her adult lover knew little. When Drew begs Penn to defend him, Penn allows his sense of obligation to override his instinct and agrees. Yet before he can begin, both men are drawn into a dangerous web of blackmail and violence. Drew reacts like anything but an innocent man, and Penn finds himself doubting his friend's motives and searching for a path out of harm's way.

More dangerous yet is Shad Johnson, the black district attorney whose dream is to send a rich white man to death row in Mississippi. At Shad's order, Drew is jailed, the police cease hunting Kate's killer, and Penn realizes that only by finding Kate's murderer himself can he save his friend's life.

With his daughter's babysitter as his guide, Penn penetrates the secret world of St. Stephen's, a place that parents never see, where reality veers so radically from appearance that Penn risks losing his own moral compass. St. Stephen's is a dark mirror of the adult world, one populated by steroid-crazed jocks, girls desperate for attention, jaded teens flirting with nihilism, and hidden among them all — one true psychopath. It is Penn's journey into the heart of his alma mater that he finds that the intersection of the adult and nearly adult worlds is a dangerous place indeed. By the time Penn arrives at the shattering truth behind Kate Townsend's death, his quiet Southern town will never be the same.

      

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EW Interviews Charlaine Harris, Author of the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries

Entertainment Weekly has published an interview with Charlaine Harris, in which she discusses the end of her "Sookie Stackhouse" Southern vampire mysteries. The HBO series True Blood is based on the character — if not always the storylines in the books.

Harris was asked if she was satisfied with the way the series comes to a close. "It's the ending I had planned all along, maybe from like the second book on. There will be people who are super happy and there will be people who will not be happy, but you have to stay true to your own vision."

And when asked if she would ever write an episode for True Blood … "Oh gosh, no. It would be very hard for me to adapt to their storyline. They obviously know what they're doing and I have no idea where they're going, which is kind of a funny and exciting place for me to be."

Read the whole interview here.

Dead Ever After, the final book in the series, is published this May (and may be pre-ordered).

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Dead Ever After
Charlaine Harris
A Sookie Stackhouse, Southern Vampire Mystery (13th and final in series)

There are secrets in the town of Bon Temps, ones that threaten those closest to Sookie — and could destroy her heart …

Sookie Stackhouse finds it easy to turn down the request of former barmaid Arlene when she wants her job back at Merlotte's. After all, Arlene tried to have Sookie killed. But her relationship with Eric Northman is not so clearcut. He and his vampires are keeping their distance…and a cold silence. And when Sookie learns the reason why, she is devastated.

Then a shocking murder rocks Bon Temps, and Sookie is arrested for the crime.

But the evidence against Sookie is weak, and she makes bail. Investigating the killing, she'll learn that what passes for truth in Bon Temps is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough …

      

MystereBooks: Horns by Joe Hill, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Horns by Joe Hill, 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 (03/12/2013 at 6:00 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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Horns by Joe Hill
Publisher: HarperCollins

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a pair of horns growing from his temples.

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 had been 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. But Merrin's death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. Nothing Ig can do or 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 — a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. It's time for a little revenge … it's time the devil had his due …

Horns has been adapted for film, with Daniel Radcliffe starring as Ig Perrish. It is scheduled to be in theaters October 11th, 2013.

      

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MystereBooks: Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Grand Central.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/12/2013 at 5:30 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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Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith
A Leo Demidov Thriller (3rd in series)
Publisher: Grand Central

Leo Demidov is no longer a member of Moscow's secret police. But when his wife, Raisa, and daughters Zoya and Elena are invited on a "Peace Tour" to New York City, he is immediately suspicious.

Forbidden to travel with his family and trapped on the other side of the world, Leo watches helplessly as events in New York unfold and those closest to his heart are pulled into a web of political conspiracy and betrayal — one that will end in tragedy.

In the horrible aftermath, Leo demands only one thing: to investigate the killer who destroyed his family. His request is summarily denied. Crippled by grief and haunted by the need to find out exactly what happened on that night in New York, Leo takes matters into his own hands. It is a quest that will span decades, and take Leo around the world — from Moscow, to the mountains of Soviet-controlled Afghanistan, to the backstreets of New York — in pursuit of the one man who knows the truth: Agent 6.

      

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MystereBooks: The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Mulholland Books.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/12/2013 at 5:00 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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The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen
Publisher: Mulholland Books

Zed is an agent from the future. A time when the world's problems have been solved. No hunger. No war. No despair.

His mission is to keep it that way. Even if it means ensuring every cataclysm throughout history runs its course — especially The Great Conflagration, an imminent disaster in our own time that Zed has been ordered to protect at all costs.

Zed's mission will disrupt the lives of a disgraced former CIA agent; a young Washington lawyer grieving over the loss of her brother, a soldier in Iraq; the oppressed employee of a foreign diplomat; and countless others. But will he finish his final mission before the present takes precedence over a perfect future? One that may have more cracks than he realizes?

      

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Telemystery: Benedict Cumberbatch Confirms 4th Season of Sherlock

Benedict Cumberbatch has confirmed that there will be a fourth season of Sherlock.

"We've agreed to two more series [seasons] but I could get into trouble for saying that," he revealed at the South Bank Show Awards today. (The "we" includes co-star Martin Freeman, who plays John Watson in the series.) "All I know at the moment is I'm doing these three [episodes of the upcoming season] and another three."

The first of the three episodes of the third season begins filming next week. No premiere date for the season has (yet) been announced by the BBC, on which it will air first.

MystereBooks: Too Much Stuff by Don Bruns, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Too Much Stuff by Don Bruns, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Oceanview Publishing.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/12/2013 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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Too Much Stuff by Don Bruns
A James Lessor and Skip Moore Mystery (5th in series)
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

A 1935 hurricane in the Florida Keys destroyed the East Coast Railway, killed five-hundred people and blew away the town of Islamorada. Lost in that storm was Mathew Kriegel, a finance director for the railroad, and one and a quarter million dollars in gold.

Now newly minted private investigators Skip More and James Lessor, of More Or Less Investigations have been hired to find that lost treasure. Fighting off competitors, scuba diving, digging in a spooky cemetery and almost getting killed is only part of their job. Skip and James have stumbled onto the biggest most dangerous adventure of their lives.

    

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