A new poster has been released by Open Road Films for the action thriller Homefront (right; click for larger image).
The storyline is centered on a widowed ex-DEA agent (Jason Statham), who retires to a small town for the sake of his 10-year-old daughter. The only problem is he picked the wrong town.
Directed by Gary Fleder from an adapted screenplay by Sylvester Stallone and based on the novel Homefront, the sixth thriller to feature ex-cop Phil Broker by Chuck Logan, Homefront opens in theaters November 28, 2013.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
New Poster for Action Thriller Homeland, Adapted from Chuck Logan's Novel
Telemystery: Graceland Renewed for a 2nd Season
USA Network has renewed Graceland for a 13-episode second season.
"[Series creator] Jeff Eastin has once again delivered for USA Network," network president Chris McCumber said in a statement. "Graceland's brilliant serialized storytelling mixed with striking cinematography and a captivating ensemble cast has clearly resonated with a wide audience. [We] anticipate Graceland will be a long-term player for the network." (Easton also created White Collar for the network.)
Keep up to date on the status of your favorite mystery and suspense television with our Telemystery Scoresheet. We've updated it with today's news.
Pest Control, A Bob Dillon Mystery by Bill Fitzhugh, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Pest Control by Bill Fitzhugh, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Poisoned Pen Press.
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 (09/10/2013 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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Pest Control by Bill Fitzhugh
A Bob Dillon Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Bob Dillon can't get a break. A down-on-his-luck exterminator, all he wants is his own truck with a big fiberglass bug on top — and success with his radical new, environmentally friendly pest-killing technique. So Bob decides to advertise. Unfortunately, one of his flyers falls into the wrong hands.
Marcel, a shady Frenchman, needs an assassin to handle a million-dollar hit, and he figures that Bob Dillon is his man. Through no fault — or participation — of his own, this unwitting pest controller from Queens has become a major player in the dangerous world of contract murder. And now Bob's running for his life through the wormiest sections of the Big Apple — one step ahead of a Bolivian executioner, a homicidal transvestite dwarf, meatheaded CIA agents, cabbies packing serious heat … and the world's number-one hit man, who might just turn out to be the best friend Bob's got.
Important Note: This book was listed at the above mentioned price 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.
Interrupted Aria, A Tito Amato Mystery by Beverle Graves Myers, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Interrupted Aria by Beverle Graves Myers, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Poisoned Pen Press.
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 (09/10/2013 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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Interrupted Aria by Beverle Graves Myers
A Tito Amato Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Venice, 1731. Opera is the popular entertainment of the day and the castrati are its reigning divas. Tito Amato, mutilated as a boy to preserve his enchanting soprano voice, returns to the city of his birth with his friend Felice, a castrato whose voice has failed.
Disaster strikes Tito's opera premier when the singer loses one beloved friend to poison and another to unjust accusation and arrest. Alarmed that the merchant-aristocrat who owns the theater is pressing the authorities to close the case, Tito races the executioner to find the real killer. The possible suspects could people the cast of one of his operas: a libertine nobleman and his spurned wife, a jealous soprano, an ambitious composer, and a patrician family bent on the theater's ruin.
With carnival gaiety swirling around him and rousing Venetian passions to an ominous crescendo, Tito finds that the most astonishing secrets lurk behind the masks of his own family and friends.
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A New MystereBook: City of Bells by Kim Wright
Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers …
City of Bells by Kim Wright is the fourth "City of Mystery" book in this series featuring Scotland Yard Detective Trevor Welles, this time on his way to Bombay to investigate a murder.
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City of Bells by Kim Wright
A Trevor Welles, "City of" Mystery
Publisher: Kim Wright
Publication Date: September 07, 2013
Geraldine Bainbridge is well known among her fashionable circa-1889 London set as an heiress, a philanthropist, and a supporter of highly unsuitable causes, including women's rights. Fiercely independent, she is proud of having arrived at the age of 69 without ever having been, in her words, "netted and mounted". But when a mysterious letter arrives from India — sent from a long-ago lover now jailed for the murder of his wife — even Gerry's friends and family realize that they know very little of her romantic past.
As Geraldine journeys to assist with Anthony's defense, she is joined by her close friend Detective Trevor Welles, head of Scotland Yard's first forensics unit, as well we the rest of the Thursday Night Murder Games Club. The group has scarcely arrived in Bombay when it becomes clear this is no ordinary domestic crime, but rather a case with far-reaching political implications, whose roots stretch back to the Great Mutiny of 1857. Scrambling to unravel the clues before the body count goes yet higher, the Club must contend with documents which fall to dust in the wake of white termites, a tree whose sap yields "the perfect murder weapon", the stubborn headmistress of an orphanage, and a meddling politician who seems determined to thwart the investigation at every turn.
As they combat the heat, the insects, the monsoons, and the petty prejudices of the Raj, often finding themselves more in sympathy with the suspects than the victims, Trevor and the others are forced to confront an uncomfortable question: Is murder ever justifiable?
The Original Alibi, A Matt Kile Mystery by David Bishop, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Original Alibi by David Bishop, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Telemachus Press.
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 (09/10/2013 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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The Original Alibi by David Bishop
A Matt Kile Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Telemachus Press
Eleven years ago General Whittaker, long retired, former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, bought an alibi for his grandson who had been arrested for the murder of his fiancée, Ileana Corrigan, and the general's unborn great grandson. The charges were soon dropped and the grandson released. General Whittaker is now dying and he can no longer restrain his doubts. The question that has haunted him all these years must be answered. Did his money save his innocent grandson or cheat justice?
The general hires Matt Kile to thaw this cold case. The solution of the crime is complicated by the passage of years and an excess of suspects, including the general's grandson, the general's promiscuous adult daughter … and even the general himself.
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Review: The Never List by Koethi Zan
A Mysterious Review of The Never List by Koethi Zan.
Review summary: The premise of this novel of psychological suspense is an intriguing one, especially with respect to a putative puzzle element. But there isn't much follow-through, most particularly with the characters, who aren't credibly drawn and act in ways contrary to how they are presented. (Click here for text of full review.)
Our rating:
The Never List
Koethi Zan
Viking (July 2013)
Publisher synopsis: For years, best friends Sarah and Jennifer kept what they called the “Never List”: a list of actions to be avoided, for safety's sake, at all costs. But one night, against their best instincts, they accept a cab ride with grave, everlasting consequences. For the next three years, they are held captive with two other girls in a dungeon-like cellar by a connoisseur of sadism.
Ten years later, at thirty-one, Sarah is still struggling to resume a normal life, living as a virtual recluse under a new name, unable to come to grips with the fact that Jennifer didn't make it out of that cellar. Now, her abductor is up for parole and Sarah can no longer ignore the twisted letters he sends from jail.
Finally, Sarah decides to confront her phobias and the other survivors — who hold their own deep grudges against her. When she goes on a cross-country chase that takes her into the perverse world of BDSM, secret cults, and the arcane study of torture, she begins unraveling a mystery more horrifying than even she could have imagined.
Three Novels of Suspense by Sandra Brown, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature three stand-alone novels of suspense by Sandra Brown, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Grand Central.
The ebook format of these titles were priced at $2.99 each from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (09/10/2013 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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The Alibi by Sandra Brown
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Grand Central
Hammond Cross hails from a wealthy Charleston family, but he eschews his heritage and the advantages it affords, even going far as to choose public service over a more lucrative career in criminal defense. He's ambitious, and has his sights set on higher offices, but his goals aren't strictly politically motivated. He's also an aggressive prosecutor out to win for all the right reasons. He believes in what he's doing and devotes himself to bringing criminals to justice.
Until …
He unwittingly becomes the alibi of an accused murderer.
The captivating and elusive woman with whom he had spent an overnight getaway — a meeting he mistook as happenstance — becomes the prime suspect in the most important criminal case Hammond's career. If he prosecutes it successfully, he'll inherit the top position from the retiring County Solicitor. If he doesn't, he'll have many people to answer to … not the least of which is himself.
To admit his own culpability is self-destructive. To fail is unthinkable. To win is to sacrifice the woman he's come to love.
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The Crush by Sandra Brown
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Grand Central
As a surgeon, Dr. Rennie Newton is the consummate professional. When she's summoned to jury duty, she brings to the courtroom the same level of competence and composure that she displays in the operating room. It is this commitment to precision that compels her to deliver a not guilty verdict in the murder case against notorious contract killer Ricky Lozada. It will be the most regrettable decision of her life … because Rennie's trial with Lozada doesn't end with his acquittal.
Her carefully structured life begins to crumble when a rival colleague is brutally slain. Lozada's menacing shadow looms over the murder, but it's Rennie the investigators focus on as the prime suspect. The privacy she has cultivated and protected at all costs is violated by the police as well as Lozada. And when he begins an earnest courtship, insinuating himself into every aspect of her life, it becomes terrifyingly clear that he is obsessed with having her.
Wick Threadgill is a detective on indefinite leave from the Fort Worth PD, who has his own personal agenda for the contract killer. Temperamental, bitter, and driven by loyalty and love, Wick is determined to destroy Lozada … as determined as Lozada is to possess Rennie Newton.
In order to defeat Lozada — and save their lives — Rennie and Wick form an uneasy alliance. Mistrustful of each other, they know only one thing with absolute certainty — like one of Lozada's prize scorpions, when this killer strikes, they won't see it coming.
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The Switch by Sandra Brown
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Grand Central
Gillian and Melina Lloyd are identical, almost interchangeable, twins. Both are successful businesswomen. Both are single. But in one regard there is a dissimilarity: They share the same impulses, but Melina acted on them. She plunged headfirst off the high diving board. Gillian would stand with her toes curled over the end of it until dared to dive in.
Another difference between them is that Gillian wants a child. Feeling her biological clock ticking, she opts to undergo artificial insemination using donor sperm.
Christopher "Chief" Hart is the first Native American astronaut, NASA's poster boy, a national figure. In Dallas to collect an award, Chief's media escort is Melina Lloyd. Or is it?
Chief's life first collides, then becomes intertwined with that of the twins. A seemingly harmless prank results in disaster. And what appears at first to be an open-and-shut murder investigation, ultimately leads to a compound in the mountains of New Mexico where a madman is engineering his "new world order". If he's only partially successful, the consequences would be catastrophic and global in scope.
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W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton, New in Bookstores This Week
Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Putnam, is W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton.
For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for September 2013. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of September 2013 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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W is for Wasted
Sue Grafton
Series: Kinsey Millhone (23rd)
Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue.
The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Millhone's name and number was in his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if she could ID him.
Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes.
But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange linkages begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey literally finds the key to his identity. "And just like that," she says, "the lid to Pandora's box flew open. It would take me another day before I understood how many imps had been freed, but for the moment, I was inordinately pleased with myself."
In this multilayered tale, the surfaces seem clear, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised.
W is for … wanderer … worthless … wronged … W is for wasted.
MystereBooks: A Surprise for Abigail by Tracey J. Lyons, 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 A Surprise for Abigail by Tracey J. Lyons. This Kindle book was listed at $0.99 as of the date and time of this post, Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 1:30 PM ET, and should be available at this price through the end of the month.
More information about the book is below; if other vendors have priced-matched this title, links to their sites are also shown.
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A Surprise for Abigail by Tracey J. Lyons
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Cole Stanton was a man on the move. On his own since the death of his family, he drifted from place to place, guarding his heart from attachment to anything or anyone.
Meanwhile, Abigail Monroe was busy planning her wedding until she was jilted by her intended, Edward Quinn. Her heart broken and her hopes dashed, Abigail vowed to never fall in love again, fleeing to the town of Surprise to visit her sick Aunt Margaret.
However, when Abigail arrived, she found that her Aunt Margaret had an unorthodox request of her: become the town's first woman sheriff.
When Abigail agrees, her life quickly turns upside down. Her first arrest is none other than Cole Stanton, for drunken and disorderly conduct. After his arrest, it becomes clear to Abigail that Mr. Stanton could be much more than he seems. He may very well be a wanted man: wanted both by the law and by Abigail.
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The Shape Shifter, A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mystery by Tony Hillerman, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman, 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 (09/10/2013 at 1:00 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 Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman
A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mystery (18th in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Retirement has never sat well with former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. Now the ghosts of a still-unsolved case are returning to haunt him, reawakened by a photograph in a magazine spread of a one-of-a-kind Navajo rug, a priceless work of woven art that was supposedly destroyed in a suspicious fire many years earlier. The rug, commemorating one of the darkest and most terrible chapters in American history, was always said to be cursed, and now the friend who brought it to Leaphorn's attention has mysteriously gone missing.
With newly wedded officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito just back from their honeymoon, the legendary ex-lawman is on his own to pick up the threads of a crime he'd once thought impossible to untangle. And they're leading him back into a world of lethal greed, shifting truths, and changing faces, where a cold-blooded killer still resides.
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A New MystereBook: The Mayor of Lexington Avenue by James Sheehan
Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers …
The Mayor of Lexington Avenue by James Sheehan introduces attorney Jack Tobin, and in which heartbreak, tragedy, courtroom drama and the hope of redemption play out in this legal thriller.
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The Mayor of Lexington Avenue by James Sheehan
A Jack Tobin Mystery
Publisher: Center Street
Publication Date: September 10, 2013
Jack Tobin is a trial lawyer with a searing-hot reputation in Miami, far removed from his scrappy youth on the streets of New York.
But when a young man, Rudy, is railroaded into a murder conviction in the tiny Florida backwater of Bass Creek, Tobin resolves to pay back a debt to his best friend, the boy who once dubbed him "the Mayor of Lexington Avenue".
Telemystery: Teaser Poster for TNT's Mob City
A new teaser poster has been released by TNT for its upcoming crime drama Mob City (right; click for larger image).
The epic battle between a determined police chief and a dangerous mobster inflames 1940s Los Angeles in this series, based on the book L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City by John Buntin. The storyline opens in post-war Los Angeles, home to glamorous movie stars, powerful studio heads and returning war heroes. But it's also a city caught between a powerful and corrupt police force and an even more dangerous criminal network determined to make L.A. its West Coast base.
Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker (Neal McDonough) has made it his mission to free the city of criminals like Ben "Bugsy" Siegel (Ed Burns) and Mickey Cohen (Jeremy Luke), the ruthless king of the Los Angeles underworld. Parker also won't hesitate to go after anyone from his own police force who sells out honor and duty for the sake of a big payout. To carry out his sweep of organized crime, Parker sets up a new mob task force within the LAPD. Headed by Det. Hal Morrison (Jeffrey DeMunn), the task force includes Det. Joe Teague (Jon Bernthal), an ex-Marine who holds his cards close to his chest.
Mob City premieres on December 4th, 2013 at 10 PM ET/PT. Watch a sneak peak of the series, below.
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