Mystery and Suspense Films: Runner Runner, 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 …

Runner Runner starring Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck.

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

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Runner Runner (2013)

Directed by Brad Furman from an original screenplay by Brian Koppelman and David Levien. Watch a trailer for the film below.

Film Synopsis (from the studio): Princeton grad student Richie (Justin Timberlake), believing he's been swindled, travels to Costa Rica to confront online gambling tycoon Ivan Block (Ben Affleck). Richie is seduced by Block's promise of immense wealth, until he learns the disturbing truth about his benefactor. When the FBI tries to coerce Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever: attempting to outmaneuver the two forces closing in on him.

Running time: 91 minutes. Rating: Rated R for language and some sexual content.

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Hard As It Gets, A Hard Ink Novel of Romantic Suspense by Laura Kaye, 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 Hard As It Gets by Laura Kaye. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, January 06, 2014 at 1:30 PM ET, and should be available at this price through the end of the month.

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Hard As It Gets by Laura Kaye
A Hard Ink Novel of Romantic Suspense (1st in series)
Publisher: Avon

Tall, dark, and lethal …

Trouble just walked into Nicholas Rixey's tattoo parlor. Becca Merritt is warm, sexy, wholesome — pure temptation to a very jaded Nick. He's left his military life behind to become co-owner of Hard Ink Tattoo, but Becca is his ex-commander's daughter. Loyalty won't let him turn her away. Lust has plenty to do with it too.

With her brother presumed kidnapped, Becca needs Nick. She just wasn't expecting to want him so much. As their investigation turns into all-out war with an organized crime ring, only Nick can protect her. And only Becca can heal the scars no one else sees.

Desire is the easy part. Love is as hard as it gets. Good thing Nick is always up for a challenge.

        

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Term Limits, A Suspense Thriller by Vince Flynn, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Term Limits by Vince Flynn, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Atria Books.

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 (01/06/2014 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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Term Limits by Vince Flynn
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Atria Books

In one bloody night, three of Washington's most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people. No one, they warn, is out of their reach — not even the president.

A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals the killers are elite military commandos, but no one knows exactly who they are or when they will strike next.

Only Michael O'Rourke, a former U.S. Marine and freshman congressman, holds a clue to the violence: a haunting incident in his own past with explosive implications for his country's future.

    

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New from Carina Press: Ashes & Alchemy by Cindy Spencer Pape

Carina Press is a digital-first imprint from Harlequin, publishing books in an interesting and diverse selection of genres including contemporary romance, steampunk, gay/lesbian fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, and — but of course — mystery and suspense.

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Ashes & Alchemy by Cindy Spencer Pape
The Gaslight Chronicles
Publisher: Carina Press
Publication Date: January 06, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 01/06/14 12:30 PM ET)

London, 1860: Police inspector Sebastian Brown served Queen and country in India before returning to England to investigate supernatural crimes alongside the Order of the Round Table. If his wifeless, childless life feels a little empty sometimes, that's not too great a price to pay in the name of duty.

Minerva Shaw is desperately seeking a doctor when she mistakenly lands on Sebastian's doorstep. Her daughter Ivy has fallen gravely ill with a mysterious illness — the same illness, it seems, that's responsible for taking the lives of many of Ivy's classmates.

Seb sniffs a case, and taking in Minnie and Ivy seems the only way to protect them while he solves it. But as mother and daughter work their way into his heart and Seb uses every magickal and technological resource he can muster to uncover the source of the deadly plague, it's he who will need protecting — from emotions he'd thought buried long ago.

        

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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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