A New MystereBook: Alaska Wilde by S. A. Ferkey

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 February 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Alaska Wilde by S. A. Ferkey is an action adventure novel, in which a mild-mannered horticulture writer and waitress-turned-hunting guide battle Ice Age killers, and each other, in the wilds of Alaska.

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Alaska Wilde by S. A. Ferkey
An Action Adventure Novel
Publisher: S. A. Ferkey
Publication Date: February 05, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 02/14/14 05:30 PM ET)

When a hunter returns from the Alaska Bermuda Triangle missing part of his leg and all the others in his hunting party, he can't stop ranting about the "dinosaurs" that attacked him and his fellow hunters.

Jay Widford, a mild-mannered horticulture writer from New York, sees this as a chance to nab the story of the century and also to redeem himself as a man. Unfortunately, the only available hunting guide in a 100-mile radius is Alaska "Allie" Wilde, a beautiful but high strung woman with a jealous ex.

By the end of the first day, Allie is ready to strangle know-it-all Jay, and Jay finds it impossible to deal with Allie's mood swings. If that isn't enough, Alaska's ex-husband begins stalking them from an ultralight plane. But when her ex runs out of gas and crashes into a crater filled with the very beasts Jay and Allie have been searching for.

Jay suddenly has his big action adventure story, but also a big problem. He and Allie are now trapped inside the crater, too, and will most likely suffer the same fate as Alaska's ex. Their only hope for survival is to take refuge in a row of deep grooves that line the walls of the crater.

Escape looks impossible, but even if they do manage to escape Mother Nature's steady stream of obstacles, how can they keep the boars from following them? More importantly, do even worse dangers lay in wait ahead of them?

  

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Judgment and Wrath, A Joe Hunter Mystery by Matt Hilton, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Judgment and Wrath by Matt Hilton, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (02/14/2014 at 5:00 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Judgment and Wrath by Matt Hilton
A Joe Hunter Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

Former Special Forces military operative-turned-problem solver Joe Hunter is enjoying a quiet, new life in Florida when he's approached by a man who wants Hunter to bring his daughter home. Marianne, her father says, is being held by an abusive boyfriend, millionaire Bradley Jorgenson, and her rescue is imperative. But the girl Hunter discovers at Jorgenson's luxurious island residence seems happy, and her beau harmless and loving. the real problem is Dantalion.

A brilliant, sadistic psychopath — a merciless contract killer with a terrifying personal agenda — Dantalion has his sights set on the couple when he shows up at Jorgenson's mansion. Suddenly the only choice is to run, as a simple snatch-and-grab becomes a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in the Florida swamplands, a desperate battle for survival against a maniac who'll let nobody live who stands in his way … not even Joe Hunter.

        

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A New MystereBook: Still The One by Lisa Hughey

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 February 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Still The One by Lisa Hughey is the fourth entry in the Family Stone series of romantic suspense novellas.

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Still The One by Lisa Hughey
A Family Stone Novella of Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Lisa Hughey
Publication Date: February 07, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 02/14/14 04:30 PM ET)

Jack Stone, former Navy SEAL, and oldest Stone sibling is determined to keep his family strong. Family is everything. So he starts Global Humanitarian Relief and Stone Consulting to do some good and keep his family together.

But when he has to team up with his old flame, Bliss, on a missing persons case, an evil threatens him, his family and the one woman he could never forget and doesn't want to let go.

Can these two former lovers put aside past hurts and heal their hearts?

  

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Absolute Zero, A Phil Broker Thriller by Chuck Logan, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Absolute Zero by Chuck Logan, 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 (02/14/2014 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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Absolute Zero by Chuck Logan
A Phil Broker Thriller (3rd in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

On one of the coldest nights in Minnesota history, the difference between life and death is literally the blink of an eye for Phil Broker, until recently St. Paul's most successful undercover cop. That blink will convey the urgent warning of a comatose man who knows the dark truth binding Broker to a remarkable cast of characters — a weary anesthesiologist, a brilliant surgeon, a wealthy novelist, his exwife (a reformed exotic dancer), and her unrepentant pimp.

For Broker it all began when he agreed to take three big-city professionals on a canoeing trip across Minnesota's most remote lakes. One of the three is horribly injured in a freak October blizzard, and Broker embarks on a white-knuckle rescue against time and the elements, ending with a writer in a coma and his accountant dead. Suspicious of foul play, Broker follows a twisted trail of manipulation and revenge that leads back to the writer's beautiful wife — and a ring of men caught in a deadly competition for her affections.

        

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India Black and the Gentleman Thief by Carol K. Carr, New in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by Berkley Trade, is India Black and the Gentleman Thief by Carol K. Carr.

For a list of more new paperback mysteries, thrillers, and novels of suspense published this month, visit our Mystery Bookshelf page for February 2014. For hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries for a selection of books published during February 2014.

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India Black and the Gentleman Thief
Carol K. Carr
Series: An India Black Mystery

India Black's double life operating a high-class brothel and running high-stakes espionage for Her Majesty's government can take its toll. But there's no rest for the weary — particularly when an international conspiracy comes knocking …

India Black is one of Victorian London's most respected madams — not a bloody postmistress. So when Colonel Francis Mayhew forwards a seemingly innocuous shipping bill to her address, she's puzzled. And when three thugs bust down her door, steal the envelope, and rough up both her and fellow agent French … well, that's enough to make India Black see red.

The veteran spies soon discover that Mayhew has been butchered in his own bedroom. An impromptu investigation leads them to London's docks, where India makes a startling discovery she can't bear to tell the rakish French — she has a history with their chief suspect, the gentleman thief who once stole her heart …

        

Body Copy, A Donald Tremaine Mystery by Michael Craven, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Body Copy by Michael Craven, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (02/14/2014 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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Body Copy by Michael Craven
A Donald Tremaine Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

Once the world's number one surfer, Donald Tremaine quit at the top of his game, moved into a trailer in Malibu, and became a detective. Beautiful women don't ask for his autograph anymore. Now they ask for his help — like the stunning Nina Aldeen, who wants Tremaine to solve the murder of her uncle, advertising mogul Roger Gale, brutally slayed in his L.A. office a year earlier.

The police investigation went nowhere. The suspects are many, and the victim had more secrets than anyone ever knew. But the closer Tremaine gets to the truth, the closer he comes to a killer who just might make his most complicated case his last.

        

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Moving Target by J. A. Jance, New in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by Touchstone, is Moving Target by J. A. Jance.

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

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Moving Target
J. A. Jance
Series: Ali Reynolds (9th)

Lance Tucker, an incarcerated juvenile offender doing time for expertly hacking into the San Leandro School District's computer system, is set on fire and severely burned one night while hanging Christmas decorations in a lockup rec room. The police say that he did it to himself, but B. Simpson, Ali Reynolds's fiancé and the man who helped put Lance in jail, feels obligated to get to the bottom of what really happened.

Lance is famous in the hacker world for developing GHOST, computer software that allows users to surf any part of the web completely undetected. And that kind of digital camouflage is seductive to criminal minds who will stop at nothing to get their hands on this revolutionary — and dangerous — technology.

Meanwhile, in England, Ali investigates the decades-old murder of Leland Brooks's father, which Leland himself was once suspected of committing. With Ali otherwise occupied and Lance receiving cryptic threats in the hospital, B. turns to Sister Anselm — a Taser-carrying nun and Ali's close friend — for help protecting the boy. With unsolved crimes on both sides of the Atlantic, Ali, B., and Sister Anselm are united by their search for answers — though being thousands of miles away may not be far enough to keep Ali from being drawn into the deadly line of fire.

        

Well Bred and Dead, A High Society Mystery by Catherine O'Connell, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Well Bred and Dead by Catherine O'Connell, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (02/14/2014 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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Well Bred and Dead by Catherine O'Connell
A High Society Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

Newly widowed Pauline Cook was once the toast of the Windy City elite — but now she's practically broke. At least she's in better shape than her dear departed friend Ethan Campbell, whose corpse Pauline has had the misfortune to discover.

A writer who chronicled the lives, loves, and ensembles of the Gold Coast's most elegant ladies, Ethan apparently took his own life — while inelegantly clad in old boxers, no less. And since no relatives are coming forward to claim Ethan's remains, it falls to Pauline to settle his final affairs … with her own dwindling funds.

However, there are things about Ethan's suicide that don't seem to add up: the ratty undergarments he "chose" to die in, for example … and the multiple birth certificates the police turn up in his apartment. Before she can truly lay her friend to rest, plucky Pauline's determined to get to the bottom of his increasingly suspicious death.

        

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Wrong Man Running, A Novel of Suspense by Alan Hruska, at a Special Price during February 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 Wrong Man Running by Alan Hruska. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Friday, February 14, 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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Wrong Man Running by Alan Hruska
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Severn House

Rick Corinth — driven careerist, brilliant prosecutor, and the heir apparent to the district attorney's job in Manhattan — is assigned a case involving a series of increasingly sadistic rapes. When the victims, all prominent women at the acme of their careers, begin identifying Corinth as their assailant, he takes flight.

No one who knows him well believes him capable of committing such shocking crimes, including his ex-wife. His children, made to suffer at school, are hurt and confused. And yet the evidence against him keeps mounting. When his ex-wife is herself sexually attacked, she in turn pegs Corinth as the culprit.

  

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Legal Thrillers: Exploring Justice on the Page, a New Video from Open Road

Open Road Integrated Media continues its promotion of legal thrillers this month with a new video that explores justice on the page.

"When you commit an evil act, it does not stop with the act." Thomas H. Cook, author of Blood Echoes, joins Robert K. Tanenbaum and Michael Ponsor to discuss what makes legal thrillers so compelling to read — and to write. Ponsor and Tanenbaum, who have both worked in the legal profession, explain the high tension found inside the courtroom, where violent and heinous crimes are brought to justice.

Watch the video (embedded below) and then follow up by exploring more about the books featured this month by these authors:

• No Lesser Plea, the first Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi legal thriller by Robert K. Tanenbaum. Karp must stop a murderer who is manipulating the law to escape punishment …

• Blood Echoes: The Infamous Alday Mass Murder and Its Aftermath by Thomas H. Cook. A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed.

• Hanging Judge by Michael Ponsor. Based on the experience of the author, a federal judge who in 2000 presided over the first capital case in Massachusetts in more than fifty years, this debut thriller offers an unprecedented inside view of a federal death penalty trial.

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A New MystereBook: Sandstorm by Gary Fidel

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 February 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Sandstorm by Gary Fidel is the second suspense novel in this series featuring Florida State Attorney's Office lawyer Rick Sands.

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Sandstorm by Gary Fidel
A Rick Sands Mystery
Publisher: Gary Fidel
Publication Date: February 12, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 02/14/14 12:30 PM ET)

No one tried to solve the lynchings that took place in the State of Florida — until Rick Sands and his partner, Ty King, are given an ultimatum by an unknown who calls himself Plessy: either they solve the brutal lynching of a WWII veteran that occurred before they were even born, or Plessy will blow up bridges and other key elements of the infrastructure of Daytona Beach.

Caught between federal and state law enforcement agencies seeking to cover-up their own complicity in the lynching and Plessy, who threatens to destroy the city and their lives, Rick Sands and Ty King find they can only survive by pursing the truth.

  

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Telemystery: BBC Two Orders to Series Original Spy Drama by Tom Rob Smith

BBC Two has ordered to series a 5-part original drama created by crime novelist Tom Rob Smith. Titled London Spy, it is centered on a young romantic drawn into the dangerous world of espionage.

"It's very exciting to have one of the best production companies in the country, Working Title, produce my first contemporary spy thriller series for BBC Two, unarguably the most prestigious home for drama in the UK," said Smith.

The logline reads, "In the centre of London is a street with the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service on one side and the headquarters of gay clubbing on the other. London Spy is the story of a chance romance between two people from opposite sides of that street. Danny — gregarious, hedonistic, romantic and adrift — falls for the anti-social, enigmatic and brilliant Alex. Just as the two of them realise that they're perfect for each other, Alex disappears."

"As a huge fan of Tom's novels, I am thrilled to be working with him on this original series for television which dazzles both in conception and execution," said Juliette Howell, Head of Television at Working Title. "We're delighted also to be making this with the BBC who, from the outset, have shared our passion for the project." Production begins later this year with an expected air date in 2015.

Tom Rob Smith's other project, a film adaptation of his thriller Child 44, is currently in post-production. It is expected in theaters in Fall 2014.