The winners of 2013 Thriller Awards were announced over the weekend recognizing the best in the genre as selected by the International Thriller Writers organization.
• Best Novel: Spilled Blood by Brian Freeman (SilverOak)
• Best Paperback Original: Lake Country by Sean Doolittle (Bantam)
• Best First Novel: The 500 by Matthew Quirk (Little, Brown)
• Best Short Story: "Lost Things" by John Rector (Thomas & Mercer)
• Best Young Adult Novel: False Memory by Dan Krokos (Hyperion Books)
• Best eBook Original Novel: Blind Faith by C. J. Lyons (C. J. Lyons)
Anne Rice was this year's ThrillerMaster, with special recognition going to Steve Berry, who received the Literary Silver Bullet Award and the USO, which received the Corporate Silver Bullet Award, for outstanding contributions to the thriller genre.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Winners of the 2013 Thriller Awards Announced
Veronica Mars to be Featured in New Mystery Book Series
Vintage Books, an imprint of Random House, has announced that Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas will write a two-book series that continues the adventures of Nepture's resident detective.
The first currently untitled book is scheduled to be published in February 2014, with a storyline that is expected to be a continuation of that presented in the film currently in production at Warner Bros. (The current synopsis on the publisher's website reads, "The first book in an original mystery series featuring twenty-eight-year-old Veronica Mars, back in action after the events of Veronica Mars: The Movie. With the help of old friends — Logan Echolls, Mac Mackenzie, Wallace Fennel, and even Dick Casablancas — Veronica is ready to take on Neptune's darkest cases with her trademark sass and smarts."
"I started my career as a novelist," said Thomas. "Veronica Mars was first imagined as a novel. I'm thrilled that I'm going to get the opportunity to continue telling Veronica Mars stories in a form I've loved and missed."
Telemystery: Damages, Endeavour, and Matlock, 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, Blu-ray disc, or Video-on-Demand, is profiling three series from our site being released this week.
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Damages
Season Five
To win at all costs, sometimes you pay the ultimate price.
In the final season of the award-winning legal thriller, which aired during Summer 2012 on DirecTV, powerhouse attorney Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) and her ex-protégé Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) face off in a fatal double showdown: the wrongful death case against a charismatic, international cyber-hacker (Ryan Phillippe), and a devastating custody battle pitting Patty against her own son resulting in a series finale as explosive as it is unexpected.
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Endeavour
Season One
Before Inspector Morse, there was the rookie Constable Morse, fed up with police work and ready to nip his career in the bud by handing in his resignation. That is, until a murder turned up that only he could solve.
Shaun Evans returns in four new episodes as the young Endeavour Morse … before his signature red Jaguar, but with his deductive powers already running in high gear.
This first season of the series, which also includes the pilot, recently concluded its US airing on PBS's Masterpiece Mystery!
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Matlock
Season Nine
Andy Griffith stars as defense attorney Ben Matlock, a Harvard-educated, fiery southerner, who charges $100,000 a case to brilliantly defend his clients by finding the real killer.
This ninth and final season of the popular series originally aired on ABC from October 1994 through May 1995.
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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.
An Unmarked Grave, a Bess Crawford Mystery by Charles Todd, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, William Morrow.
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 (07/15/2013 at 3:30 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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An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
A Bess Crawford Mystery (4th in series)
Publisher: William Morrow
In the spring of 1918, the Spanish flu epidemic spreads, killing millions of soldiers and civilians across the globe. Overwhelmed by the constant flow of wounded soldiers coming from the French front, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford must now contend with hundreds of influenza patients as well.
However, war and disease are not the only killers to strike. Bess discovers, concealed among the dead waiting for burial, the body of a murdered officer — a man who not only served in her father's former regiment but was also a family friend.
Before she can report the terrible news, Bess falls ill, the latest victim of the flu. By the time she recovers, the officer has been buried, and the only other person who saw the body has hanged himself. Or did he?
Using her father's connections in the military, Bess begins to piece together what little evidence she can find to unmask the elusive killer and see justice served. But she must be as vigilant as she is tenacious. With a determined killer on her heels, each move Bess makes could be her last.
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MystereBooks: All 18 Joe Grey Mysteries by Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature all 18 "Joe Grey" mysteries by Shirley Rousseau Murphy, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.
The ebook formats of these titles were priced from $0.99 to $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (07/15/2013 at 3:00 PM). 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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Cat on the Edge by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Cat Under Fire by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (2nd in series)
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Cat Raise the Dead by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (3rd in series)
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Cat in the Dark by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (4th in series)
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Cat to the Dogs by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (5th in series)
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Cat Spitting Mad by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (6th in series)
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Cat Laughing Last by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (7th in series)
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Cat Seeing Double by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (8th in series)
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Cat Fear No Evil by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (9th in series)
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Cat Cross Their Graves by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (10th in series)
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Cat Breaking Free by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (11th in series)
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Cat Pay the Devil by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (12th in series)
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Cat Deck the Halls by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (13th in series)
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Cat Playing Cupid by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (14th in series)
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Cat Striking Back by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (15th in series)
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Cat Coming Home by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (16th in series)
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Cat Telling Tales by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (17th in series)
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Cat Bearing Gifts by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (18th in series)
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Two Friendship & Honor Mysteries by Giacomo Giammatteo, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature the first two books in the "Friendship & Honor" mystery series by Giacomo Giammatteo, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Inferno Publishing.
The ebook formats of these titles were priced at $0.99 each from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (07/15/2013 at 2:30 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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Murder Takes Time by Giacomo Giammatteo
A Friendship & Honor Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Inferno Publishing
Nicky Fusco thought he knew right from wrong, living by an oath of friendship & honor with his three best friends. But life took them down separate paths, and the oath was broken. Secrets were kept. Years later they are reunited and the bonds of their friendship are brutally tested, putting them on a collision course set in motion long ago.
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Murder Has Consequences by Giacomo Giammatteo
A Friendship & Honor Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Inferno Publishing
For a select few people, friendship lasts forever. Nicky Fusco and Frankie Donovan were friends like that, but that was years ago. Now Frankie's a detective in Brooklyn's Homicide department, and Nicky is a reformed hit man. But when Frankie gets in trouble — and the law can't help him — he turns to Nicky.
The problem is that Nicky promised his family, and God, that he'd go straight.
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The Headhunter's Daughter, an Amanda Brown Mystery by Tamar Myers, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Headhunter's Daughter by Tamar Myers, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.
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 (07/15/2013 at 2:00 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 Headhunter's Daughter by Tamar Myers
An Amanda Brown Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Read our review of The Headhunter's Daughter by Tamar Myers
In 1945, an infant left inadvertently to die in the jungles of the Belgian Congo is discovered by a young Bashilele tribesman on a mission to claim the head of an enemy. Recognized as human — despite her pale white skin and strange blue eyes — the baby is brought into the tribe and raised as its own. Thirteen years later, the girl — now called "Ugly Eyes" — will find herself at the center of a controversy that will rock two separate societies.
Young missionary Amanda Brown hears the incredible stories of a white girl living among the Bashilele headhunters. In the company of the local police chief, Captain Pierre Jardin, and with the witch doctor's wife, the quick-witted Cripple, along as translator, Amanda heads into the wild hoping to bring the lost girl back to "civilization". But Ugly Eyes no longer belongs in their world—and the secrets surrounding her birth and disappearance are placing them all in far graver peril than anyone ever imagined.
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MystereBooks: Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver, Available this Month at a Special Price
Every month Amazon releases a new selection of Kindle books priced $3.99 or less.
Today's featured title from the Mystery & Thrillers category is Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:30 PM ET, and should be available at this price through the end of the month.
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Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: HarperCollins
"Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher.
But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona, to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life.
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