Telemystery: Archer, Barney Miller, Copper, The Following, and Midsomer Murders, 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 five series from our site being released this week.

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Archer
Season Four

Swing back into action with Sterling Archer — the world's greatest spy — and the agents of ISIS for another hilarious season of cocktails, carousing and animated awesomeness!

Follow the team around the globe, from the mysterious Bermuda Triangle all the way to the Vatican, as they bicker, backstab and bumble their way through assassination plots, an ill-advised marriage, an unexpected pregnancy, and a venomous snake bite in a very, very bad place!

Packed with terrorist threats, sexual shenanigans, and all things inappropriate, Archer Season Four comes fully loaded with outrageous top-secret extras!

The fifth season of Archer premieres on FX Networks on Monday, January 13th, 2014.

        

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Barney Miller
Season Four

Captain Barney Miller (Hal Linden) is the kind of cop we'd all like to meet. He somehow manages to maintain order over a group of inner-city detectives who gamble for a hobby, get hit on by anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. These colorful characters worked together to make one of the funniest sitcoms ever and is cemented in classic TV status.

This fourth season of Barney Miller originally aired on ABC from September 1977 through May 1978.

  

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Copper
Season Two

Veteran actor Donal Logue joins the cast this season as a General who has recently returned from the battlefields of the Civil War to his station in Five Points. The political boss of the Sixth Ward is reasserting himself as one of the most influential and powerful men in the city's political machine.

Meanwhile, Detective Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones) struggles to keep the untamed, post-war city in line while dealing with the horrible truth about what happened to his wife and child — and his best friend's betrayal. As he attempts to rebuild his life, those around him strive to find their place in the American saga — be it for good or evil.

This second (and final) season of the series originally aired on BBC America during Summer 2013. It was not renewed for a third season.

        

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The Following
Season One

When notorious serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) escapes from death row and embarks on a new killing spree, the FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon), a psychologically scarred veteran who captured Carroll nine years earlier, after Carroll murdered 14 female students on a college campus where he taught literature.

Knowing Carroll better than anyone and close with Carroll's ex-wife, Claire, Hardy works closely with an FBI team, which includes no-nonsense agent Jennifer Mason and sharp upstart Mike Weston, and soon discovers that Carroll was not only communicating with a network of killers in the outside world, but has much more planned than just a prison escape — and there's no telling how many additional killers are out there.

The Following returns to Fox for its second season on Monday, January 20th, 2014.

        

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Midsomer Murders
Series 6

Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for nice-guy Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) and his eager assistant, Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy (Daniel Casey), in this series based on characters created by crime novelist Caroline Graham.

This sixth set, released on the original UK broadcast order, and now with SDH subtitles, includes:

• A Talent for Life — Sordid affairs and financial secrets simmer beneath the surface of a village until a double murder stirs the waters.

• Death and Dreams — Investigating a string of deaths in Midsomer Worthy, Barnaby follows a trail of strange clues.

• Painted in Blood — When a is stabbed to death, two National Intelligence Squad agents take over the case.

• A Tale of Two Hamlets — As someone decimates the Smyth-Webster family, bad blood erupts between two villages.

• Birds of Prey — Barnaby and Troy try to link a suicide over a financial investment with a plan to steal valuable falcon eggs.

  

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Midsomer Murders
Series 7

Detective Sergeant Dan Scott (John Hopkins) joins the cast, replacing DS Troy as Barnaby's partner, in this seventh set of the series, released on the original UK broadcast order, and now with SDH subtitles.

This set includes:

• The Green Man — Troy passes his inspector's exam and has one last case with Barnaby.

• Bad Tidings — Barnaby's new partner gets a baptism by fire with a case implicating Cully's old schoolmates.

• The Fisher King — A maze of Celtic rites masks a murderer.

• Sins of Commission — The detectives discover a hotbed of corruption within a highbrow literary crowd.

• The Maid in Splendour — A local pub figures in a case involving secret business deals and unrequited love.

  

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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.

The Woman from the Blue Lias by D. M. Mitchell is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Woman from the Blue Lias by D. M. Mitchell as today's third free mystery ebook (A Murder Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, January 06, 2014 at 7:00 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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The Woman from the Blue Lias
D. M. Mitchell
A Murder Mystery
Publisher: Agamemnon Independent Publishing

Toby Turner didn't expect to stumble upon the remains of a human skeleton, washed down from the cliff top by a recent landslip.

He runs a small bookshop in the quiet seaside town of Lyme Regis in Dorset. His life's not quite on track; his bookshop's not doing too well, for one thing, and he's not sure his relationship with his girlfriend-cum-fiancé Trisha is going anywhere either – at least, nowhere she would like it to go.

Toby takes a walk along the Blue Lias cliffs on Monmouth Beach to think things through, and here he finds the body of a woman; a woman, it transpires, who was murdered in 1978.

The gruesome discovery and the resulting media attention he receives would have been hard enough to cope with, but he soon suspects the woman who keeps coming into his shop is the woman from the Blue Lias, that he is being haunted by the very woman he found on the beach.

What's more, he finds himself falling for her, eventually feeling he is unable to live without her. Is she real, or is he imagining things? His strange obsession starts to have a negative effect on his life and his health, which begins to deteriorate.

He decides to try and solve the mystery of her death and why she chose him, of all people, hoping by discovering what happened to her all those years ago they can both find peace. And so begins Toby Turner's bizarre journey of discovery that will lead him into very dark and dangerous territory.

His search leads him to a hotel that used to stand high on the cliff, lost to a landslide in the 1980s, and to an old musician called Steely Jacobs who appears to be linked to the dead woman. But events take an unexpectedly disturbing contemporary turn when Toby discovers his best friend Mark has been secretly amassing information on a number of missing young women going back a decade or more.

He learns about Mark's secret past and how he'd been implicated in the murder of his teenage girlfriend. Is this tragic death connected to the list of missing young women he's made? And what has their disappearance got to do with the body Toby discovered on the beach, a woman murdered thirty-five years ago? How is all this connected to the mysterious hotel called the Belle Vue, long ago collapsed into the sea, and the aged guitarist called Steely Jacobs?

Not only has he uncovered a body, Toby Turner had inadvertently scuffed away the thin covering of dirt from dark, long-held secrets that will lead him into a corrupt world of vice and murder. His life will never be the same again.

  

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The Ophelia Trap by Kate Burns is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Ophelia Trap by Kate Burns as today's second free mystery ebook (A Julia Henry Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, January 06, 2014 at 6:45 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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The Ophelia Trap
Kate Burns
A Julia Henry Mystery
Publisher: Smashwords

Julia and her family may have escaped the rent trap … but curiosity has drawn a predator home.

When Julia Henry's former neighbour plunges eight stories to her death in the snow, she's convinced her previous landlords harassed the woman to suicide. But as she investigates, another dead girl turns up with a connection to a serial rapist.

Julia and her husband have put as much distance as they could afford between them and the landlords who put them through hell, and stories from humiliated tenants match Julia's own. She's determined to prove their tactics resulted in tragedy. But the half-empty building is hemorrhaging tenants, the girl's boyfriend comes complete with a wife and daughter, and the best friend overdosed days after giving police their only description of a serial rapist.

Now it seems someone wants Julia buried under the heaviest blizzard in thirty years. But when one of her daughters is targeted for a brutal attack steps from home, two nightmares converge.

  

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Convictions by Frederic Lindsay is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Convictions by Frederic Lindsay as today's free mystery ebook (A Jim Meldrum Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, January 06, 2014 at 6:30 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.

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Convictions
Frederic Lindsay
A Jim Meldrum Mystery
Publisher: Endeavour Press

Detective Inspector Jim's Meldrum's career fighting crime has taken a heavy toll. It's cost him his marriage, alienated his daughter — and hardened him to the senseless brutality and greed of Scotland's criminals.

And yet the murder of an elderly blind man — just another statistic — continues to haunt him fifteen years after the event. For all those years the man convicted of the crime, Hugh Keaney, has protested his innocence — and without an admission of guilt there is no parole for a man serving life for murder. When he learns that Keaney has gone on a hunger strike, however, Meldrum finds he can no longer live with his doubts about the case.

From the genteel terraces of Edinburgh to Glasgow's tenements, from the tormented beauty of Co. Armagh to the deceptive peace of the Loire valley, Meldrum searches for answers to why the blind man had to die. And yet, the more he discovers, the bigger the case gets — and the more serious the consequences.

But there are some convictions a man just can't shake. In physical danger, with his career at risk, and family and loved ones under threat, Jim Meldrum must consider just how high a price he's prepared to pay for justice.

  

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Rules of Murder by Julianna Deering is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Rules of Murder by Julianna Deering as today's Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Monday, January 06, 2014.

Note: The price has been matched by Amazon.com for today only.

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Rules of Murder
Julianna Deering
A Drew Farthering Mystery
Bethany House

Drew Farthering loves a good mystery, although he generally expects to find it in the pages of a novel, not on the grounds of his country estate. When a weekend party at Farthering Place is ruined by murder and the police seem flummoxed, Drew decides to look into the crime himself. With the help of his best friend, Nick Dennison, an avid mystery reader, and Madeline Parker, a beautiful and whip-smart American debutante staying as a guest, the three try to solve the mystery as a lark, using the methods from their favorite novels.

Soon, financial irregularities at Drew's stepfather's company come to light and it's clear that all who remain at Farthering Place could be in danger. Trying hard to remain one step ahead of the killer — and trying harder to impress Madeline — Drew must decide how far to take this game.

    

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Unintended Consequences by Marti Green is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Unintended Consequences by Marti Green as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, January 06, 2014.

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Unintended Consequences
Marti Green
A Legal Thriller
Thomas & Mercer

Nineteen years ago, Indiana police found the body of a young girl, burned beyond recognition and buried in the woods. They arrested George Calhoun for murdering his daughter, and his wife testified against him at the trial. George maintains he didn't do it. That the body isn't his little Angelina. But that's all he's ever said — no other defense, no other explanation. The jury convicted him. Now his appeals have been exhausted, and his execution is just six weeks away.

Dani Trumball, an attorney for the Help Innocent Prisoners Project, wants to believe him. After all, there was no forensic evidence to prove that the body in the woods was George's daughter. But if the girl isn't Angelina, then who is it? And what happened to the Calhouns' missing daughter? Despite the odds, the questions push Dani to take the case.

For nineteen years, George Calhoun has stayed silent. But he's ready to talk, and if the story he tells Dani is true, it changes everything.

  

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for January 06, 2014

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 C E H I K R S T

The title of the first Seagate and Miner mystery by Mike Markel features a big this (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 (140106)

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

• The New Release is The Agency of Anomalies: Mind Invasion.

• The Daily Deal is Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Dark Parables: The Red Riding Hood Sisters, just $2.99 through Sunday, January 12, 2014 only.

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

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The New Release today is The Agency of Anomalies: Mind Invasion

All they wanted was a cure, but what they got was terror! Return once again as a detective for the Agency of Anomalies. This time you're called to a health spa in the Alps, where an evil professor has something terrible in mind for his unwitting patients.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief

Once upon a time, there was a man who went from town to town with songs and poetry, capturing the souls of children. From generation to generation, the tale was told. But every fairy tale has its true bitter beginning. Now a new evil has visited the town of Arbourshire, and children have been going missing. A mysterious puppet theatre seems to be at the centre of their disappearance. The town is in an uproar! A mob roams the streets and the Brothers Grimm have assigned the task of discovering the truth behind the Fairy Tale Mystery to you! Discover the truth behind the myth and save the children!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Monday, January 06, 2014 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Dark Parables: The Red Riding Hood Sisters

Play as the fabled detective and defeat the Wolf Queen! Centuries ago, the first Red Riding Hood defeated the wolf and established the Order of Red Riding Hood Sisters. Recently, the nefarious Wolf Queen entrapped the sisters and planned to unleash legions of ravaging wolves onto our world. Assist the Red Riding Hood Sisters in this thrilling Hidden Object Adventure game!

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, January 12, 2014.

A Kindle Countdown Deal: Long Way Down by Paul Carr

Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals, limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive books.

MystereBooks is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

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Long Way Down by Paul Carr
A Sam Mackenzie Mystery
Publisher: Paul Carr
Price: $0.99 (as of 01/05/14 05:30 PM ET)

Candi Moran is in trouble. Vince La Salle, a Miami loan shark, wants her dead because she knows too much about his secret in the Caribbean. Candi is shot by one of La Salle's men and turns to Sam Mackenzie for help. Sam, who is good with a gun, takes on the job, but he soon learns that Candi left out some dangerous details as he unravels La Salle's sordid past.

La Salle is involved in a high-stakes project in the Caribbean, but where he's getting his money is the big mystery. Sam dodges bullets, missiles, karate kicks, and sharks. He gets help from an associate, John Templeton Smith III (J.T.), but Sam worries that J.T.'s greed might get them both killed as they navigate a serpentine trail of assassins, con artists and deadly financiers.

  

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A New MystereBook: Northern Soul by Steven Savile and Steve Lockley

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 January 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Northern Soul by Steven Savile and Steve Lockley is the first full length Jack Stone thriller (after a novella and short story, published last year), a tale of murder, blackmail and betrayal on the streets of Newcastle.

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Northern Soul by Steven Savile and Steve Lockley
A Jack Stone Thriller
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Publication Date: January 03, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 01/05/14 04:30 PM ET)

Will Platt, an old school friend, reaches out to Jack. Just one job. A simple one, a pick up from a bonded warehouse down south. Jack Stone knows what trouble smells like. It smells like Will Platt. Jack wants no part of the job. But sometimes it's hard to walk away from trouble. That's because trouble has a way of looking for men like Jack Stone. A stroll down memory lane — which is run-down and desperate like the rest of this seedy part of town — turns into a world of hurt, Jack's innate sense of justice is tested to the limits when instead of a simple buzz cut he's treated to a front row seat for an extortioner's shakedown.

He can't just sit by idly and watch. Jack's not that kind of man.

So Jack makes a deal with the devil, he'll do a job for them to pay off the old man's debt.

Lenny Parker's looking for a woman, Sindy Nightingale, an old cabaret singer from the 70s club circuit, a proper heart breaker, the kind of woman young boys pinned up posters of on their bedroom walls and fantasized about. The problem is Sindy doesn't want to be found. By the time Jack understands why it's too late, he's brought the devil to her door.

  

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A Kindle Countdown Deal: Killer by Stephen Carpenter

Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals, limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive books.

MystereBooks is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

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Killer by Stephen Carpenter
A Jack Rhodes Mystery
Publisher: Stephen Carpenter
Price: $2.99 (as of 01/05/14 03:30 PM ET)

Jack Rhodes is an author and former boxer who was on his way to literary success when his life was blown apart by the horrific suicide of his fiancee.

Devastated, Jack went on a fifteen-month alcoholic spiral into near-oblivion before eventually working past his demons to become a best-selling crime novelist. But just as Jack is finishing his fourth book about a vicious serial killer, the LAPD interrupts his quiet routine with news of what appears to be a copycat murder from his first book. There's just one problem — the murder took place before Jack's book was published.

Jack begins to investigate, using techniques he learned through his meticulous research with police and FBI investigators. To his horror, Jack discovers that each of the murders he has imagined are all real … down to the most harrowing details. And Jack is Suspect Number One.

Jack winds up on the run, a fugitive haunted by his past and hunted by the very cops and FBI agents he has learned from and befriended. Jack must use every resource he has to prevent the murder of a woman he knows will be next in his series of novels. He must piece together shattered memories from the fragments he recalls during his drunken fifteen-month blackout.

  

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Spider Dance, A Novel of Suspense Featuring Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes by Carole Nelson Douglas, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Spider Dance by Carole Nelson Douglas, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Forge 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 (01/05/2014 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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Spider Dance by Carole Nelson Douglas
A Novel of Suspense Featuring Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes (8th in series)
Publisher: Forge Books

Irene Adler is the beautiful opera singer who bested the best detective in the world, the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes. She has spent years in self-imposed exile in Europe, in an attempt to reinvent herself and create a new life, because she cannot remember the old one. But now circumstances have forced this diva-turned-detective to investigate a past she doesn't remember — on her home ground.

Daredevil reporter Nelly Bly has lured Irene, her faithful chronicler and British parson's daughter Nell Huxleigh, and Holmes himself to America, offering information regarding Irene's parentage. New York City in 1889 proved to be both fascinating and perilous for Irene, and Nelly Bly's information was more harmful than helpful. Because now Irene and her allies — and enemies — must race to follow a deadly trail of hidden personal and political history back in time to the days of the California gold rush, thirty years earlier.

They are pursuing the complex and contradictory life story of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century, and before the intrigue-ridden quest is over, Irene and Nell will uncover murderous international political conspiracies, lost treasure, and finally … the full, shocking secret of Irene's birth.

  

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Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner, New in Bookstores in January 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during January 2014 by Dutton, is Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for January 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of January 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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Fear Nothing
Lisa Gardner
Series: D. D. Warren (5th)

The last thing Boston Detective D. D. Warren remembers is walking the crime scene after dark. Then, a creaking floorboard, a low voice crooning in her ear. She is later told she managed to discharge her weapon three times. All she knows is that she is seriously injured, unable to move her left arm, unable to return to work.

Six weeks later, a second woman is discovered murdered in her own bed, her room containing the same calling cards from the first: a bottle of champagne and a single red rose. The only person who may have seen the killer: Detective D. D. Warren, who still can't lift her child, load her gun, or recall a single detail from the night that may have cost her everything.

D.D. may not be back on the job, but she is back on the hunt. Because the Rose Killer isn't just targeting lone women, he is targeting D.D. And D.D. knows there is only one way to take him down: Fear nothing.

        

Tragic, A Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Mystery by Robert K. Tanenbaum, at a Special Price during January 2014

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 Tragic by Robert K. Tanenbaum. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Sunday, January 05, 2014 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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Tragic by Robert K. Tanenbaum
A Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Mystery (25th in series)
Publisher: Gallery Books

District Attorney Butch Karp goes up against a ruthless union leader with too much power, too many secrets, and too many enemies to silence … or kill.

Prizefighter tough. Street-hustler smart. Pit-bull vicious. Longshoremen's union leader Charlie Vitteli is like a cold-blooded villain straight out of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Busting heads on the docks of New York as a brash union organizer, taking no prisoners as the newest president of the North American Brotherhood of Stevedores, Vitteli clawed his way to the top of the heap — and no one's going to take him down now. Not if they value their lives.

Like Vince Carlotta. The union boss's fiercest rival has accused Vitteli of embezzlement, election rigging, and other abuses — and even called him a crook at a union meeting. Now Carlotta is just another corpse on the waterfront — allegedly gunned down by an armed robber. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Vitteli is somehow involved. But proving it is a whole other story.

Enter District Attorney Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene Ciampi. Drawn into the case by a friend who manages the East Village Women's Shelter, Marlene speaks to the abused girlfriend of a man who may or may not have been hired to kill Carlotta. Marlene follows her lead to three different assassins contracted for the hit. But connecting them to Vitteli — and proving it in court — could be the death of anyone who tries … unless Karp can uncover the one tragic flaw that could bring down the curtain on this Shakespearean villain once and for all.

  

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