A New MystereBook: Sinker by Rex Kusler

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 during November 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

Sinker by Rex Kusler is the sixth mystery featuring former Las Vegas homicide detective Jim Snow, now a partner in James & James investigations.

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Sinker by Rex Kusler
A Las Vegas Mystery
Publisher: Rex Kusler
Publication Date: November 25, 2013
Price: $3.99 (as of 11/26/13 04:30 PM ET)

Former Las Vegas Homicide Detective Jim Snow has found himself in a tenuous position with his partner Alice James. She's the other half of their Private Eye firm James & James and she's back in her hometown tending to her sick mother and contemplating a career change.

This leaves Snow alone in Las Vegas to work his newest case involving the drowning of a former Deputy District Attorney on Lake Mead. But that's only half the job. He'll also have to find the victim's monkey that was with her in her boat that night — and babysit until he can find a primate shelter with a vacancy.

Snow struggles to uncover the events leading up to the drowning, dealing with a diverse assortment of suspects including the victim's twin sister, an ambulance-chasing estranged husband, an unscrupulous loan shark, and an ex-convict with a bad attitude.

Adding to Snow's frustration sifting through the clues, he'll have to work this case on his own — with a monkey riding shotgun instead of the brilliant Alice James.

  

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Subterranean, A Novel of Suspense by James Rollins, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Subterranean by James Rollins, 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 (11/26/2013 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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Subterranean by James Rollins
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: HarperCollins

Beneath the ice at the bottom of the Earth is a magnificent subterranean labyrinth, a place of breathtaking wonders — and terrors beyond imagining. A team of specialists led by archaeologist Ashley Carter has been hand-picked to explore this secret place and to uncover the riches it holds. But they are not the first to venture here — and those they follow did not return. There are mysteries here older than time, and revelations that could change the world. But there are also things that should not be disturbed — and a devastating truth that could doom Ashley and the expedition: they are not alone.

      

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A New MystereBook: Broken Wings by Mara Jacobs

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 during November 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

Broken Wings by Mara Jacobs is the first in the Blackbird & Confessor series of romantic suspense novels.

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Broken Wings by Mara Jacobs
A Blackbird & Confessor Novel of Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Copper Country Press
Publication Date: November 25, 2013
Price: $3.99 (as of 11/26/13 03:30 PM ET)

I could tell you my name, but then I'd have to kill you.

Forced to live in seclusion, my only contact with the outside world is with my online chat buddies. I give out different screen names with every person except with one: Confessor. To him, and only him, my name is Blackbird. He is my soul mate. At least online.

I make a living buying and selling used computers. Usually I can just ignore the stuff that's left on the machine by the previous owner, but the desktop picture on my newest acquisition stops me cold. It's the face of the man who killed my father twenty years ago. The man who sent me into hiding. The first time, anyway.

I start digging through the machine, telling Confessor about my every move. Except the part about wanting to avenge my father's murder.

A dead body gives me the perfect excuse to leave my nest and head to Tennessee, to find the murderer, and to reclaim my life. Once there, I find myself torn between two men, and pining for my mysterious Confessor. And just when I think I've got things solved, my past is revealed, throwing my plans of vengeance into chaos.

  

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A Darker Domain, A Suspense Thriller by Val McDermid, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Darker Domain by Val McDermid, 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 (11/26/2013 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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A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: HarperCollins

Read our review of A Darker Domain by Val McDermid

Fife, Scotland, 1985. Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wrong and Grant is killed. Her son disappears without a trace — until 2008, when a tourist in Tuscany stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that reopens the investigation.

Fife, 1984. At the height of the politically charged national miners' strike, Mick Prentice abandons his family to join the strikebreakers down south. Labelled a blackleg scab, he's as good as dead as far as his friends and relatives care. Twenty-three years later, a young woman walks into a police station to report Mick Prentice missing. Detective Karen Pirie, head of the Cold Case Review Team, wants to know why it's taken so long for anyone to notice.

For Pirie, already immersed in the Prentice investigation, a second foray into a 1980s investigation gone cold — this time, the Grant kidnapping — offers an opportunity to make her mark. But it's sure to come at an extremely high price. As she works to unravel these mysteries, two decades of secrets will lead Karen Pirie into a dark domain of violence and betrayal — darker than any she has yet encountered.

      

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Cross My Heart by James Patterson, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this month by Little, Brown, is Cross My Heart by James Patterson.

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

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Cross My Heart
James Patterson
Series: Alex Cross (21st)

Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart — nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses Alex's strength as a weapon against him in the most unsettling and unexpected novel of James Patterson's career.

When the ones Cross loves are in danger, he will do anything to protect them. If he does anything to protect them, they will die.

      

Portrait of a Spy, A Gabriel Allon Mystery by Daniel Silva, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva, 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 (11/26/2013 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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Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva
A Gabriel Allon Mystery (11th in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

In a dangerous world, one extraordinary woman can mean the difference between life and death …

For Gabriel and his wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London — a visit to a gallery in St. James's to authenticate a newly discovered painting by Titian, followed by a quiet lunch. But a pair of deadly bombings in Paris and Copenhagen has already marred this autumn day. And while walking toward Covent Garden, Gabriel notices a man he believes is about to carry out a third attack. Before Gabriel can draw his weapon, he is knocked to the pavement and can only watch as the nightmare unfolds.

Haunted by his failure to stop the massacre of innocents, Gabriel returns to his isolated cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, until a summons brings him to Washington and he is drawn into a confrontation with the new face of global terror. At the center of the threat is an American-born cleric in Yemen to whom Allah has granted "a beautiful and seductive tongue". A gifted deceiver, who was once a paid CIA asset, the mastermind is plotting a new wave of attacks.

Gabriel and his team devise a daring plan to destroy the network of death from the inside, a gambit fraught with risk, both personal and professional. To succeed, Gabriel must reach into his violent past. A woman waits there — a reclusive heiress and art collector who can traverse the murky divide between Islam and the West. She is the daughter of an old enemy, a woman joined to Gabriel by a trail of blood.

      

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A New MystereBook: Black at Heart by Leslie A. Kelly

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 during November 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

Black at Heart by Leslie A. Kelly is the third book in the Black CAT series, in which a team of hotshot FBI agents work to find out if one of their own has become a vigilante killer.

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Black at Heart by Leslie A. Kelly
A Black CATs Novel
Publisher: LK Books
Publication Date: November 25, 2013
Price: $3.99 (as of 11/26/13 01:30 PM ET)

Supervisory Special Agent Wyatt Blackstone is famed for his cool control and his intellect. But his world was shattered when Lily, a vulnerable young agent on his team was brutally murdered.

Now, a killer is committing horrible crimes, leaving a lily as a calling card, and he and the rest of the Black CATs have to revisit a crime that haunts them all!

  

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Beyond Malice, A Legal Thriller by Rebecca Forster, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Beyond Malice by Rebecca Forster, 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 (11/26/2013 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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Beyond Malice by Rebecca Forster
A Legal Thriller
Publisher: Rebecca Forster

When the law is business as usual, the deal can be deadly …

Unlike her much younger sister Nora, attorney Amanda Cross has worked hard for everything she has — which isn't much. But the tables turn one day when the evidence in the grisly murder of a partner's wife at a prestigious law firm points to Nora.

Abandoned by the legal community, Nora reluctantly turns to her sister for help. Armed with a tenacious spirit, no leads, no experience in defending a murder charge, Amanda has to free her sister from what the D.A. claims is an open-and shut case.

With the help of an handsome assistant-for-hire with a chip on his shoulder, this outgunned lawyer peels away the protective layers surrounding some very upright types to reveal intentions that seem to be beyond reproach, but are, in fact, beyond malice.

  

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A New MystereBook: Blood from Stone by Frances Fyfield

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 during November 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

Blood from Stone by Frances Fyfield was first published in 2008 and won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the year. This is its first time in ebook format.

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Blood from Stone by Frances Fyfield
A Twisting Tale of Suspense
Publisher: Witness Impulse
Publication Date: November 26, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 11/26/13 12:30 PM ET)

When the body of a successful criminal lawyer is found outside a chic London hotel, it looks like a suicide. For those who knew her, the woman's death is a shock — Marianne Shearer was at the pinnacle of her career, wealthy and stylish — but for the police, the case is open-and-shut.

There's something strange about the circumstances, though, something that prompts her colleague Peter Friel to dig deeper. Little by little, he discovers that things are not as they seem. In her final days, Marianne appears to have left a series of small, almost imperceptible clues — clues that point to a far more sinister truth.

  

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Mystery and Suspense Films: RED 2, New This Week on DVD

Checking through our list of films currently scheduled for release this week on DVD and/or Blu-ray disc, we are pleased to feature one that falls into the mystery, suspense, thriller, crime and/or adventure category …

RED 2 starring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung Hun Lee, with Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren.

See also a list of current mystery and suspense DVD, Blu-ray, or VOD deals on Amazon.com.

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RED 2 (2013)

Directed by Dean Parisot from a screenplay by Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber, and based on characters created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner. Watch a trailer for the film below.

Film Synopsis (from the studio): Retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing, next-generation lethal device that can change the balance of world power. To succeed, they'll need to survive an army of relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials, all eager to get their hands on the technologically advanced super weapon. The mission takes Frank and his motley crew to Paris, London and Moscow.

Outgunned and outmanned, they have only their cunning wits, their old-school skills, and each other to rely on as they try to save the world-and stay alive in the process.

Running time: 116 minutes Rating: Rated PG-13 for pervasive action and violence including frenetic gunplay, and for some language and drug material.

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A Conversation with Translator Julie Rose

with Julie Rose

We are delighted to welcome translator Julie Rose to Omnimystery News today.

Julie Rose is the translator (from French to English) of the cli-fi thriller The Greenland Breach by Bernard Besson (Le French Book; October 2013 ebook formats) and we recently had the chance to catch up with her to talk about her work.

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Omnimystery News: We've interviewed many authors but you have the honor of being the first translator we've had the opportunity to talk to. Tell us a little more about yourself.

Julie Rose: I've translated many theoretical and critical books, written by demanding French thinkers, and I love and need that connection. But, before this, I've also done a populist novel by Alexandre Dumas, père, and Victor Hugo's mammoth Les Misérables. Dumas' Knight of Maison-Rouge is an action novel and, so, also a thriller, of sorts; and Les Misérables has to rate as one of the first and best crime thrillers, among all the other things that wonderful novel is.

I chose to translate The Greenland Breach because I couldn't put it down. It has that essential quality of a successful thriller: you have to know what happens next — whodunit and why. It was a lot of fun and so liberating, but serious at the same time. What could be more serious than catastrophic climate change and the geopolitical fallout?

OMN: What specifically, as a translator, did you find most interesting about The Greenland Breach?

JR: What's really striking about the book is its theatricality. Besson is a kind of playwright: he has a great feel for dramatic structure and how to chop up the action and build tension. But the theatricality also lies in the way scenes are set up and their visual power. We're left with quite overwhelming images. Some things still take my breath away, months after finishing the translation.

OMN: What do you see your primary role to be when translating a book?

JR: In any translation the overrriding task is to reproduce the author's "voice" — style — as accurately as you can in your own words: it's a double act. What happened here was that the writing sometimes needed to be trimmed a little so that nothing got in the way of the action and the sharpness of the focus. It wasn't "edited" so much as fine-tuned.

OMN: What is the best advice you've received as a translator?

JR: Let yourself go! I mean this in two senses: let go of your self — BE the author you're translating; and be bold — make that creative leap. The only thing that can be the same as the original is the original. So don't be timid, don't be reverential. You'll kill the thing you love that way.

OMN: Complete this sentence for us: "I am a mystery/thriller translator and thus I am also …".

JR: "I am a mystery/thriller translator and thus I am also a realist". Fact is, crime mysteries and thrillers deal in reality, they nail a good chunk of it and define the era. Naturally, the best do this in good, precise prose that can also be poetic: there is no opposition between realism and an imaginative grasp of language.

OMN: What kinds of books did you read when you were young?

JR: I read all the Russian classics in translation when I was twelve. I may well have been burn-out by thirteen, as then, when I could, I read Le Grand Meaulnes, over and over again.

OMN: And what do you read now for pleasure?

JR: I read thrillers, at night, both for pleasure and to relax. That may sound strange, but I'm working on language all day, solving riddles of meaning. I need other kinds of riddles to solve — although I almost never try to solve them. I just go with the flow, but it's totally absorbing: an adrenalized package of reality and an otherworld, at the same time. The thrillers I read have to be very good quality. Then you're getting the lot: a good read, wonderful language, a sense of learning about the world, however bleak or illusory that may be.

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Julie Rose has translated some of France's most highly prized writers, both classical and contemporary and is best known for her critically acclaimed translation of Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Misérables. Rose has always been an avid reader of crime fiction.

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The Greenland Breach
Bernard Besson
Translated by Julie Rose
A Cli-Fi Spy Novel

The Arctic ice caps are breaking up. Europe and the East Coast of the Unites States brace for a tidal wave. Meanwhile, former French intelligence officer John Spencer Larivière, his karate-trained, steamy Eurasian partner, Victoire, and their computer-genius sidekick, Luc, pick up an ordinary freelance assignment that quickly leads them into the heart of an international conspiracy. Off the coast of Greenland, a ship belonging to the French geological research firm Terre Noire is in serious trouble. The murder of an important scientist jeopardizes evacuation. Is it related to the firm's explorations? Is the rival Canadian-based scientific and economic development corporation, Northland Group, involved?

On land another killer is roaming the icy peaks after researchers, while a huge crevasse splits Greenland apart. What are the connections? In the glacial silence of the great north, a merciless war is being waged. Global warming and subsequent natural disasters hide international rivalries over discoveries that will change the future of humanity.

        

First Monday Murder by Lisa Love Harris is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature First Monday Murder by Lisa Love Harris as today's free mystery ebook (A Jimmie Rae, Flea Market Mystery ; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, November 26, 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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First Monday Murder
Lisa Love Harris
A Jimmie Rae, Flea Market Mystery
Publisher: Cotton Pickin' Press

Driven by her mantra of "peace, love, and all the good stuff" and her junkin' addiction, Jimmie Rae cruises the Texas blacktops looking for vintage treasures and unique antiques. She gets more than she bargains for when she finds a stash of stolen goods in a junk store bathroom and then discovers a fellow antique dealer murdered at the flea market.

The police detective on the case is also her broken-hearted former high school sweetheart and much to Jimmie Rae's distress, he's more than a little eager to pin her for the theft and murder. The assistance offered by a sexy new antique dealer seems too good to be true, but the way things are going, she can't afford to turn him down.

Just as she begins to fall in love with him and allow him to collect her heart like a cheap Cracker Jack prize, the obvious hits her--he may be the killer she seeks. The truth emerges in pieces just like the pattern on her Depression-era quilt.

In true Lone Star style, Jimmie Rae goes after the killer alone, uncovering a bigger-than-Texas sized crime ring that strikes closer to home than she imagines.

  

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