Telemystery: NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles, and Revenge, 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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NCIS
Season Ten

NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) is more than just an action drama. With liberal doses of humor, it's a show that focuses on the sometimes complex and always amusing dynamics of a team of special agents led by Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) forced to work together in high-stress situations. From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, these special agents travel the globe to investigate all crimes with Navy or Marine Corps ties.

This 10th season of the series aired on CBS from September 2012 through May 2013. It has been renewed for an 11th season.

      

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NCIS: Los Angeles
Season Four

NCIS: Los Angeles is a drama about the high stakes world of the Office of Special Projects (OSP), a division of NCIS that is charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals that pose a threat to the nation's security. By assuming false identities and utilizing the most advanced technology, this team of highly trained agents goes deep undercover, putting their lives on the line in the field to bring down their targets.

Starring Chris O'Donnell as Special Agent "G" Callen and LL Cool J as his partner, Special Agent Sam Hanna, this 4th season of the series aired on CBS from September 2012 through May 2013. It has been renewed for a 5th season.

      

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Revenge
Season Two

Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp) returns to the Hamptons with a vengeance. Her enemies may be the same, but her mission now takes on a new, suspenseful twist. Emily will stop at nothing to uncover the secrets of her father's murder, but the web of deceit is larger than she ever imagined. Now, with her mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) in the picture, even more will be revealed.

Watch the sparks fly as Daniel and Ashley begin a torrid romance, while stunning events change the face of Amanda and Jack's relationship, and new faces mean more trouble for Emily and Victoria, while a mysterious man from Emily's past adds to her complications.

This 2nd season of the series aired on ABC from September 2012 through May 2013. It has been renewed for a 3rd season.

      

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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.

Please Welcome Mystery Author Kate Eileen Shannon

with Kate Eileen Shannon

We are delighted to welcome mystery author Kate Eileen Shannon to Omnimystery News today, courtesy of Great Escapes Book Tours, which is coordinating her current book tour. We encourage you to visit all of the participating host sites; you can find her schedule here.

Kate's debut mystery Social Insecurity (CreateSpace; March 2013 trade paperback, and ebook formats) introduces PI Brigid Kildare and we asked Kate to tell us about her new series.

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Kate Eileen Shannon

When is a series not a series? When it is a serial. Let me explain.

I have always been a big fan of mysteries. Cozies in particular. But I always just picked up what was on the "new" shelf at the library. Once in a while I would check if there were any other books by that author at my branch and get them as well. (I have a book a night habit.)

But then I discovered the Cozy Mystery List. I started ordering entire series through the library using the interlibrary loaning. And I love reading an entire series. But what makes a series book work as a stand alone is a lot of backstory repetition. Which can get boring when you are reading the series one book right after the other and I ended up skimming large sections. I don't need to hear Suzie Sunshine is divorced from her jerk of a husband and now dating the wonderful cop she met back in book one over and over and over again. I have a good memory. And I think most really avid readers do as well. I know the repetition is something that is complained about in a lot of the reader and writer groups I belong to. But it is seen as a necessary evil. Why? These people complaining about it obviously don't need it so why is it necessary?

So I decided to do something different as well as stop insulting the intelligence of the reader. Historically, many books were written as a serial, a chapter a week in a newspaper or magazine. Amazon is putting some books out that way now. You pay once and get a new chapter every week, automatically, on your Kindle. So I decided to make the whole series a serial. You get a whole book each time but it is one continuous flow. There will be a warning on the first page of each book from two onward. So this series is a serial and you need to read it in order or there will be a lot you don't "get". You won't be able to pick up say book seven, never having read one through six, and have as much of an understanding of what is happening as someone who had read all the books from the beginning.

I'll give you an example. Brigid Kildare is an amputee. In Social Insecurity there is a scene where there is an explanation of the different prosthetics, artificial legs, she has and why as well a brief mention to another character later in the book about why she is an amputee (birth defect). These things will not get repeated in every book. They will never be repeated again. So if you haven't read book one and just happen to pick up book three, Dying Over Spilled Milk, and you come to a scene where Brigid is running, trips, and she goes one way and her leg goes another … you would be a bit confused/shocked. It's different and I will just have to see how well it is received.

Thank you so much for having me here and let me just mention the second book, Meditated Murder, will be available shortly. Visit some of the other stops on the tour and be sure to comment at each stop to increase your chances of winning one of the books. Be sure to leave your email address. I'll be announcing the winners on my blog one week after the tour closes, on September 9th.

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Kate Eileen Shannon is a Writer, Artist, and sometimes Real Estate Agent — as she says, "a purveyor of ephemera and bagatelle". Trifles. Little things. Here today, gone tomorrow. In other words, a little of this, a bit of that.

She has had three husbands and two children; lived in Ireland, Rhode Island, and Florida; owned a brake repair shop, an art gallery, a farm, and a boat building business; been a Realtor, a title examiner, a real estate closer, and a government employee which led her straight to being unemployed, laid off, made redundant.

Kate is currently living in Rhode Island overlooking the water and a lighthouse; with her husband, Dick Thomas (who won't let her have a cat); where she spends her time painting, drawing, and of course working on the next book in the Brigid Kildare mystery series, Meditated Murder.

For more information about the author and her work, please visit her website at KateShannon.com or find her on Facebook and Twitter.

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Social Insecurity
Kate Eileen Shannon
A Brigid Kildare Mystery

Brigid Kildare is not your typical hard boiled private eye. But she doesn't pretend to be. No matrimonial. No child custody. No bodyguard or surveillance work. No process serving. Brigid is strictly data. Asset searches, background searches, computer security, pre-employment screening, and basically any type of records research is what she deals in. And you really could not expect anything else. After all, your average five foot tall, blue eyed, blond (one friend describes her as looking like a Christmas tree angel) is rarely the person you would send out after a bail jumper. Oh, and there is that whole one leg thing — ADA aside, most people don't think of an amputee as the go to person for a security job.

Professional PI Brigid Kildare turns amateur sleuth when old ladies in the Federal Hill area of Providence start to go missing and she can't get the police to believe her. As her assistant and long time friend, Kevin, puts it: "Honey, if an old lady like Jessica Fletcher can do it, a one-legged PI and her gay PA can do it too!" Brigid solves the mystery, along with an odd cast of friends and family, but not before four old ladies have died, she has caught the eye of a handsome Providence detective, and she discovers that not everyone who is close to her is what they appear to be.

    

A Dubious Position by Gerald J. Kubicki and Kristopher Kubicki is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Dubious Position by Gerald J. Kubicki and Kristopher Kubicki as today's third free mystery ebook (A Colton Banyon Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 19, 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.

For a summary of all of today's featured titles, plus any that may have appeared before and are repeat freebies, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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A Dubious Position
Gerald J. Kubicki and Kristopher Kubicki
A Colton Banyon Mystery
Publisher: CreateSpace

Colton Banyon starts a new position at a prestigious law firm, which has been arranged by the President of the United States. He quickly discovers that this is no ordinary law firm. All the workers have special talents and are often called upon by the government to help stop situations that the government can't solve themselves.

He is on the job for only a few hours when a major crisis arises. War between Mexico and the United States is brewing, and he needs to find a way to defuse it. Someone is creating disasters on both sides of the Rio Grande, and they must be stopped.

Loni and the Patel sisters are not around to help. They have left the country for an adventure of their own, one in which they have the opportunity to find a valuable treasure. Only Eric Grey and Banyon are left to solve and stop the crisis. They employ several of the law firm's contract employees and set about finding answers. On top of that, they must deal with murders, kidnappings, bombings, and a Mexican hit squad out to kill them.

They soon discover that the Effort, the longtime American Nazi organization, is involved, and Banyon hatches a complicated plan to take down the leaders. He then lures the hit squad to Las Vegas for a final showdown in one of America's national parks. But things never go as planned.

  

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Westerfield's Chain by Jack Clark is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Westerfield's Chain by Jack Clark as today's second free mystery ebook (A Nick Acropolis Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 19, 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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Westerfield's Chain
Jack Clark
A Nick Acropolis Mystery
Publisher: Jack Clark

It was another nothing case. That's the only kind private eye Nick Acropolis seemed to get lately. But this one leads to Westerfield's Pharmacy, which sits in the heart of Chicago's West Side ghetto, surrounded by ruins.

Nick was a real cop years ago, a homicide detective, and there's something about the drugstore that gets the old juices flowing. There's no customers for one thing. No pharmacist either, and nobody seems to know where the boss, Eugene Westerfield, has gone.

And then Becky Westerfield shows up. She's taken a sudden leave from medical school to look for her father, who didn't call on her 25th birthday. Becky knows something must be wrong. Eugene Westerfield would never forget.

Becky and Nick join forces, going from one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country to one of its wealthiest suburbs. They visit housing projects, the morgue, and a decrepit nursing home, hidden away between railroad lines.

Becky discovers a city she never knew existed, and Nick surveys some depressing old haunts. Together, they eventually find Eugene Westerfield. But along the way they stumble into an intricate scheme of fraud and murder. Becky discovers that her father isn't the man she'd thought he was.

(First published by Minotaur Books in November 2002.)

  

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Rough Draft by Michael Robertson Jr. is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Rough Draft by Michael Robertson Jr. as today's free mystery ebook (A Novel of Suspense; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 19, 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.

For a summary of all of today's featured titles, plus any that may have appeared before and are repeat freebies, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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Rough Draft
Michael Robertson Jr.
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: MRob Media

When three of the world's most prominent horror writers are viciously blackmailed, they are left with no choice but to abandon their comfortable lifestyles and take up seclusion in a tiny cabin in the mountains of Colorado, just on the outskirts of a mysteriously deserted mining town.

As the three trapped writers work together, struggling to understand and meet the demands of their blackmailers, they soon realize that they aren't alone. There's something else out there in the woods with them — something that doesn't like visitors — and soon these masters of the macabre are caught right in the middle of their own very real horror story.

  

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for August 19, 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 B D E K M N O Y

Carl Hiaasen's 2013 comic Florida caper has this title (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!

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (130819)

Here is today's mystery and suspense update from Big Fish Games …

• The New Release is Legends of the East: The Cobra's Eye.

• The Daily Deal is Legends of Atlantis: Exodus, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Theatre of the Absurd, just $2.99 through Sunday, August 25, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — It is Bonus Punch Monday! Receive a BONUS PUNCH with every game purchase, only on Mondays.

Visit the Omnimystery Entertainment Network for more games of mystery and suspense!

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Today's New Release is Legends of the East: The Cobra's Eye

Stop a devastating war and save the man you love! A long-forgotten artifact has just resurfaced, and evil forces are racing to claim it. To make matters worse, the love of your life, Daniel, has somehow gotten himself mixed up in the mess. Now you must find Daniel and uncover the truth behind the legendary Cobra's Eye before the fate of the world is changed forever. Your destiny awaits you in this thrilling Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour.

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Today's Daily Deal is Legends of Atlantis: Exodus

Atlantis is facing its end of days and it's up to you to save the people and their kingdom! Massive tidal waves are sweeping away its coasts, earthquakes shake its mountains, its fields are in flames and its cities are falling apart. You are tasked to help evacuate the people and collect ancient Atlantean artifacts on the way. Prioritize your objectives and put your benevolent Queen's secret plan into action before devastation sinks the cities deep beneath the waves!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Monday, August 19, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Theatre of the Absurd

Scarlett Frost, specialist in the dark arts, has been summoned to a luxurious and remote theatre in the snowy Italian Alps. Could it be that the infamous and diabolical Hapsburg Cube has been found and purchased by the sinister theatre proprietor, Dr. Corvis? The cube is said to imprison a powerful and ancient Babylonian demon that would wreak hellish destruction if the cube should break. In a moment of desperate confusion the cube breaks and the demon bursts forth into the souls of the Dr. Corvis and his young Daughter Bethany. The ancient theatre in the lonely winter mountains becomes an arena of spiritual war, between the darkest forces of the underworld and the cunning and esoteric mind of Scarlett Frost. But Scarlett soon finds out that the only way to fight a demon this powerful is to become possessed by one herself. Only then can she acquire a ticket to the Theatre of the Absurd.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game at the special price of $2.99 through Sunday, August 25, 2013.

The Man in the Green Chevy, a Milt Kovak Mystery by Susan Rogers Cooper, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Man in the Green Chevy by Susan Rogers Cooper, 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 (08/18/2013 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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The Man in the Green Chevy by Susan Rogers Cooper
A Milt Kovak Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Susan Rogers Cooper

Chief Deputy Milt Kovak of Prophesy County, Oklahoma Sheriff's Department had a rapist and murderer on his hands. To make the whole thing really stink, the victims were little old ladies, the nice cookie-baking, sweater-knitting kind.

His prime witness is Mrs. Laura Johnson-about thirty-five, three kids, and absentee husband-the sexiest woman Milt had ever seen. She'd identified a man in a green Chevy emerging from the murder scene. Find that man, he figured, find the killer.

Between digging unsuccessfully for leads and fighting-equally unsuccessfully-his growing attraction for the warm and inviting Laura, Milt figures the only solution is a new line of work. But Milt Kovak's not the kind of guy to take the easy way out-not when there's a crazed killer waiting eagerly to help him.

(First published by St. Martin's Press in January 1989.)

  

Also available for just 99 cents, the second mystery in the series, Houston in the Rearview Mirror, originally published by St. Martin's Press in January 1990.

  

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Blood Bond, a Joe Bashir Mystery by Sophie Littlefield, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blood Bond by Sophie Littlefield, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Pocket Star.

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 (08/18/2013 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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Blood Bond by Sophie Littlefield
A Joe Bashir Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Pocket Star

Sexy Pakistani-American Detective Joe Bashir is called to a crime scene in the wealthy foothills of California, where politically ambitious Bryce Engler's dinner party is ruined when a guest's body is found in a pool of blood. Two days later, Engler's beautiful wife Gail lies dead at the foot of a cliff on nearby Mount Diablo.

When Joe turns to Gail's sister Marva for insight into the family history, he discovers that thirteen years earlier, Gail was responsible for the hazing death of a fellow co-ed. Her then-boyfriend engineered a cover-up that deflected blame onto another girl. As Joe searches out everyone who might still hold a murderous grudge, he realizes there was more to the Engler marriage than meets the eye …

      

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Dang Near Dead, an Aggie Mundeen Mystery by Nancy G. West, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dang Near Dead by Nancy G. West, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Southwest Publications.

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 (08/18/2013 at 3:00 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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Dang Near Dead by Nancy G. West
An Aggie Mundeen Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Southwest Publications

Aggie and friend Meredith persuade Detective Sam to join them incognito on vacation at a Bandera, Texas dude ranch. Aggie will advise her column readers how to stay young and fresh outdoors in summer. But they encounter problems. Former ranch owners were found dead after changing their wills.

Ranch manager Bertha is jealous of her young assistant. Aggie and friends get a crash course in oil drilling, water shortage and the perils of bequeathing land while they deal with wranglers, snakes and poison ivy.

When an expert rider is thrown from her horse and lies hospitalized in a coma, Aggie is convinced somebody caused her to fall. Secrets are buried in these eighteen hundred acres. Despite Sam's warnings, Aggie concocts ingenious methods to expose the girl's assailant. Aggie wants to please Sam — she thinks she loves him — but curiosity drives her to probe deeper. When she scatters a hornet's nest of cowboys, more than one hombre in the bunch would like to slit her throat.

  

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Death Canyon by David Riley Bertsch, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Scribner, is Death Canyon by David Riley Bertsch.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for August 2013. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of August 2013 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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Death Canyon
David Riley Bertsch
Series: A Jake Trent Mystery

Early summer in Jackson, Wyoming, finds former East Coast prosecutor Jake Trent wading through a swift current of local politics, introspection, and tragedy.

After leaving law behind, Jake escaped big-city life to pursue his dream: setting up as a fishing guide and opening a small bed-and-breakfast in the West. Now three seemingly unrelated deaths have occurred in one day — unheard of in the scenic valley of Jackson Hole — disrupting Jake's contented new life.

A skier perishes in a freak late-season avalanche. A French couple is discovered mutilated — presumably by a bear — on a remote trail in Grand Teton National Park. On the Snake River, Jake himself finds the body of an expensively attired tourist fisherman. Meanwhile, a series of small earthquakes — not to mention a bitter dispute between land developers and a cultlike group of environmentalists — has left the townspeople uneasy.

Before long, the plausible explanations for each death dissolve. Could there be a sinister connection among them? When fresh evidence points to him as a suspect, Jake Trent is put on the defensive. Is someone out to frame him? Can Jake keep the demons from his past at bay while he tries to discover the truth behind the mysterious deaths?

Defying the police, Jake teams up with beautiful park ranger Noelle Klimpton to get to the bottom of this series of disturbing events. The trail leads right to the region's crown-jewel attraction: Yellowstone. What they discover will put both their lives at risk.