A New Lunch Lady Graphic Novel: Lunch Lady and the Schoolwide Scuffle by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new First Clues: Mysteries for Kids books: Lunch Lady and the Schoolwide Scuffle by Jarrett J. Krosoczka, a Lunch Lady Graphic Novel.

For more information about the book, which is recommended for readers aged 10 to 12, see a synopsis, below.

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Lunch Lady and the Schoolwide Scuffle by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Series: Lunch Lady
Publisher: Knopf Books
Format(s): Paperback, eBook

Lunch Lady and Betty have been unceremoniously cut from the school budget, and the timing couldn't be worse — the villains from all nine of her previous adventures are worming their way back into Thompson Brook with a masterfully devious plan.

Will the Breakfast Bunch still be able to count on Lunch Lady's superhero gadgets and abilities to save the school, or are they on their own?

Don't miss Lunch Lady's swashbuckling finale!

      

Stolen, A Lucy Kincaid Mystery by Allison Brennan, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Stolen by Allison Brennan, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Minotaur 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 (01/26/2014 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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Stolen by Allison Brennan
A Lucy Kincaid Mystery (6th in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books

Nothing is more important to private investigator Sean Rogan than his relationship with FBI trainee Lucy Kincaid. But when his past catches up with him, Sean faces an ultimatum: clear his name and help the FBI take down a rogue agent, or go to prison and lose everything he holds dear. With only Agent Noah Armstrong as his back-up and forced to keep Lucy in the dark, Sean steps back into his old world. But the longer he's undercover, the more dangerous the game becomes. More than Sean's future with Lucy is at stake — so is his life.

Lucy can't imagine Sean would keep secrets from her — until an FBI agent casts doubt about who he really is … and who he used to be. Why did Sean quit his job with his brother and move to New York? Why hasn't he told her anything about his new job? With more questions than answers, Lucy doesn't know who to believe or who she can trust. All she knows is that Sean is in grave danger, and this time, it's personal.

      

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An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris, New in Bookstores in January 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during January 2014 by Knopf, is An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris.

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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An Officer and a Spy
Robert Harris

Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of the counterespionage agency that "proved" Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans.

At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus's guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military.

As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held beliefs about his country, and about himself.

        

Telemystery: Denise Mina's Alex Morrow Crime Novels to be Adapted for Television

Director and producer Ridley Scott is developing an as yet untitled television crime drama based on the "Alex Morrow" mysteries by Denise Mina.

"It's a series of five books set in the contemporary Glasgow underworld," said the author, "and is being developed for a big series which will be like a Glasgow version of The Sopranos."

Mina introduced Detective Inspector Alex Morrow in 2010's Still Midnight. The most recent book to be published in the US, The Red Road, hits bookshelves next month.

Emily Dickinson Is Dead, A Homer Kelly Mystery by Jane Langton, 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 Emily Dickinson Is Dead by Jane Langton. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Sunday, January 26, 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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Emily Dickinson Is Dead by Jane Langton
A Homer Kelly Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Mysterious Press

Winner of the 1984 Nero Award.

Although she spent her life withdrawn from the people of Amherst, Massachusetts, every man, woman, and English professor in this small university town claims ownership of poet Emily Dickinson. They give tours in her house, lay flowers on her grave, and now, as the hundredth anniversary of her death approaches, they organize festivals in her name. Dickinson scholar Owen Kraznik has just been railroaded into organizing the festival when Amherst starts to burn.

As the fire consumes a fourteen-story university dormitory, transcendentalist scholar and occasional sleuth Homer Kelly considers that it may have been set on purpose. Two students die in the blaze, but neither was the arsonist's target. Emily Dickinson wrote countless poems on the nature of mortality, but before Amherst can celebrate her words, death will leap off the page.

        

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The Blind Spy, A Moscow Spy Thriller by Alex Dryden, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Blind Spy by Alex Dryden, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Ecco.

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 (01/26/2014 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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The Blind Spy by Alex Dryden
A Moscow Spy Thriller (3rd in series)
Publisher: Ecco

Russia has never accepted Ukraine's independence and now the Patrioti — Putin, his elder statesmen, and seasoned generals dedicated to rebuilding their fallen empire — are using the KGB's controversial elite and clandestine forces of Department S to destabilize the young democratic nation and bring it back under Russian control.

But Cougar, the powerful private intelligence company that overshadows even the CIA in its reach, learns of Russia's plans and strikes at the heart of its plot with its own lethal weapon — the gorgeous ex-KGB colonel Anna Resnikov. More than a gifted spy and expert killer, Anna lost the love of her life and the father of her child at the hands of her former countrymen. Her defection to Cougar has made her the most wanted woman in Russia, but she'll risk any danger to herself for the chance to destroy the evil that rules her homeland. And on the ground in Ukraine, she meets a formidable foe, a mysterious KGB spy whose aims are suspiciously unclear but whose power is unmistakably deadly.

  

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A New MystereBook: Double Dip by Gretchen Archer

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 …

Double Dip by Gretchen Archer is the second mystery in this series featuring casino security guard Davis Way.

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Double Dip by Gretchen Archer
A Davis Way Mystery
Publisher: Henery Press
Publication Date: January 24, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 01/26/14 12:30 PM ET)

It's Davis Way's first slot-tournament season. And it may be her last.

Things are dicey at work. A personal assistant goes missing, a little old lady goes on a suspicious winning streak, and a Bellissimo executive goes gaga for Davis. She follows a disappearing slot-tournament player trail to the So Help Me God Pentecostal Church in Beehive, Alabama, then jumps headlong into a high stakes holy scandal.

She's on a losing streak at home, too. Her days, nights, and dinners run together, as Davis juggles a revolving door of uninvited guests, namely her rotten ex-ex-husband, Eddie Crawford. And Bradley Cole thinks three's a crowd.

The worst? Davis doesn't feel so hot. Maybe it's the banana pudding, or maybe it's a little bundle of something else.

  

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Telemystery: Update on Production of Foyle's War Season 8

We have an update on the production of the eighth season of Foyle's War.

Filming has begun on three new 120-minute episodes, which follow Foyle's battles in the dangerous world of espionage, at a time in Great Britain's history when political and foreign governmental relationships were delicately balanced. Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) is now a Senior Intelligence Officer for the secret service, MI5, following the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War in England.

Each episode has been written by series creator Anthony Horowitz. The stories will explore the world of the American and German businesses that were accused of fueling Hitler's War Machine and will reflect on the tangled web of promises to the Jews to create a state of Israel in British Palestine. The major blight of post war Britain, the Black Market, will be focused on as will some of the darkest secrets from operations conducted by the British Special Operations Executive during WWII.

Honeysuckle Weeks will once again star as Samantha Stewart, Daniel Weyman as Adam Wainwright, Ellie Haddington as Hilda Pierce, Tim McMullan as Valentine and Rupert Vandsittart as Sir Alec Myerson.

Filming will continue through April 2014 and the season will premiere in the UK and the US in 2015. We can hardly wait.

The Barry Island Murders by Andrew Peters is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Barry Island Murders by Andrew Peters as today's second free mystery ebook (A Chief Superintendent Williams Casebook; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, January 26, 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.

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 Barry Island Murders
Andrew Peters
A Chief Superintendent Williams Casebook
Publisher: Andrew Peters

Retired Chief Superintendent Williams (the semi-legendary "Williams Of The Yard") has sold the serialisation rights to his memoirs, and is dictating them to a reporter from a leading national newspaper.

In this first (and very possibly last) volume, he takes us back to the '60s and his days as a young detective in the Playground of the South Glamorgan Glitterati … Barry Island.

In these three cases, bodies keep turning up in unusual locations. Will Williams' budding detective skills be equal to the task of catching any of the murderers? Will his current gin intake permit him to remember any of the details?

Transcribed from the original interviews, the only changes made have been to names, places, dates and facts. Oh, and cutting out all the heavy swearing.

  

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The Secret by Ken McClure is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Secret by Ken McClure as today's free mystery ebook (A Dr. Steven Dunbar Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, January 26, 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.

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 Secret
Ken McClure
A Dr. Steven Dunbar Thriller
Publisher: Saltoun

Ex-Special Forces medic Dr Steven Dunbar is distraught when he hears of the death of his old friend, Dr Simone Ricard of Médicins sans Frontières at a scientific meeting in Prague. When he learns that Simone had gone there to publicise the CIA's use of fake vaccination teams in the Pakistan/Afghanistan border region to gather intelligence — an area where she and her team had been working with the World Health Organisation to eradicate polio — he begins to doubt the reported accidental cause of her death.

Was the hunt for Bin Laden all that was going on in that region or could there be something even more sinister?

  

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The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter is Today's Historical Thriller Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter as today's Historical Thriller Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, January 26, 2014.

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The Monuments Men
Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter
A Historical Thriller
Center Street

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.

In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Momuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.

Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.

The basis for the film of the same title starring George Clooney and Matt Damon, opening in theaters February 4th, 2014.

  

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Nightfall by Anne Stuart is Today's Romantic Suspense Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Nightfall by Anne Stuart as today's Romantic Suspense Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, January 26, 2014.

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Nightfall
Anne Stuart
A Novel of Romantic Suspense
Bell Bridge Books

This is my fate … to die for unspeakable crimes. All I ask is that a stranger give herself to me and to my secrets.

Richard Tiernan has been sentenced to death. With an ulterior motive and a heart full of dark truths, he agrees to tell all to an ailing writer whose greed and ambition are so strong that he will even give his own daughter to Richard in return for one last Pulitzer-winning story.

I want Cassidy Roarke. I need her. But she has to prove she's worthy. That she can be trusted.

Cassidy's spent her life struggling to earn her father's respect and love. Now his health is failing, and her feelings for him are even more complex. Loyalty is a sacrifice. Daughters can be broken by their fathers. She has to help when he calls. He's bailed Richard Tiernan out of prison just long enough to coax the shocking facts out of him. What happened that night? What did Tiernan really do to his family?

Her father will sell his soul to the Devil before he dies. So be it.

Richard Tiernan may take them both to Hell.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140126)

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

• The New Release is Mystery Tales: The Lost Hope (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is Spirits of Mystery: The Dark Minotaur, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Mayan Prophecies: Ship of Spirits, just $2.99 through Sunday, January 26, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — This weekend only: Buy One Collector's Edition Game and Get a Second for Just $1.99! Select two Collector's Edition games, use coupon code BOGO199 and the second game will be just $1.99. Use as many times as you'd like. Offer valid through January 26th, 2014 only until 11:59 PM PT.

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

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The New Release today is Mystery Tales: The Lost Hope (Collector's Edition)

Several years ago you suffered a tragedy. Your sister Margaret died. Margaret lived with her husband, Emmett, in a small little village lost in the mountains. After her death, Emmett, overcome with grief, disappeared from the town. And now many years later, you have received a mysterious letter in which he invites you meet with your dead sister. You are so intrigued by this unexpected letter that you head to the village of Reagan, where your sister had lived and where she was buried. Learn whether you will meet your sister and discover what mortal dangers you will face …

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Spirits of Mystery: The Dark Minotaur

In the dark of night, an elusive figure breaks in to the royal menagerie and steals four magic animals, your childhood companions and dearest friends. It is up to you to save them! Take the journey to discover more about the Dark Minotaur who threatens the magical world. Can you save them in time?

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Sunday, January 26, 2014 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Mayan Prophecies: Ship of Spirits

Climb aboard an ancient Spanish galleon lost in time as a Coast Guard officer tracking an elusive criminal. As you explore the vastness of a ship lost in time, what mysteries will you uncover amidst its Mayan idols, menacing sea creatures, and exotic treasures? Find out in this exciting new Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game on the open seas!

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 26, 2014.

A New MystereBook: New Math Is Murder by Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa

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 …

New Math Is Murder by Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa is the author's debut mystery, and possibly the first in a new series.

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New Math Is Murder by Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa
A Murder Mystery
Publisher: Cup of Tea Books
Publication Date: January 23, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 01/25/14 04:30 PM ET)

Reporter Colleen Caruso was never good at math …

A stingy ex-husband, a teenage daughter, and a rusted-out Ford Escort have multiplied her troubles. Tripping over a dead body while on her morning jog seems like another incident for the minus column.

But then her new editor at the newspaper gives her a regular column detailing the investigation. He's handsome, single, and just a bit mysterious. Suddenly, Colleen's life is on the plus side.

Unfortunately, 1 dead algebra teacher + 2 secret affairs + 4 suspicious suspects quickly adds up to 3 perilous "accidents" for Colleen.

Which means Colleen needs to come up with the solution to the murder … before the killer removes her from the equation.

  

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Raw Justice, The Justice Series with Jenny Lane by Diane Capri, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Raw Justice by Diane Capri, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, AugustBooks.

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 (01/25/2014 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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Raw Justice by Diane Capri
The Justice Series with Jenny Lane (5th in series)
Publisher: AugustBooks

Three unlikely events explode thrusting young lawyer Jennifer Lane into the abyss of her family's secret history. Family records search, DNA, and more reveal stolen lives and a stolen cure for deadly hepatitis C.

A bewildering maze of betrayal, intrigue, and murder, put Jennifer's license to practice law, her heart, and her very life on the line. Judge Willa Carson watches while Jennifer rescues herself from Denton's raw justice. Who will survive?

  

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