The Marauders, A Novel of Suspense by Tom Cooper, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Marauders by Tom Cooper

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Crown

Price: $1.99 (as of 04/25/2016 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

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When the BP oil spill devastates the Gulf coast, those who made a living by shrimping find themselves in dire straits. For the oddballs and lowlifes who inhabit the sleepy, working class bayou town of Jeannette, these desperate circumstances serve as the catalyst that pushes them to enact whatever risky schemes they can dream up to reverse their fortunes.

At the center of it all is Gus Lindquist, a pill-addicted, one armed treasure hunter obsessed with finding the lost treasure of pirate Jean Lafitte. His quest brings him into contact with a wide array of memorable characters, ranging from a couple of small time criminal potheads prone to hysterical banter, to the smooth-talking Oil company middleman out to bamboozle his own mother, to some drug smuggling psychopath twins, to a young man estranged from his father since his mother died in Hurricane Katrina.

As the story progresses, these characters find themselves on a collision course with each other, and as the tension and action ramp up, it becomes clear that not all of them will survive these events.

— The Marauders by Tom Cooper

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Review: The Lavendar Lane Lothario by David Handler

A Mysterious Review of The Lavendar Lane Lothario by David Handler. A Berger and Mitry Mystery.

Review summary: The murder case is an intriguing one and seems to suit the series characters well. Featuring a diverse cast of suspects, it is pleasant reading, with a number of humorous elements to keep things on the lighter side, and overall a solid entry in this entertaining series. (Click here for text of full review.)

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The Lavendar Lane Lothario
David Handler
A Berger and Mitry Mystery
Minotaur Books (February 2016)

Publisher synopsis: Every year, the Gant family performs an annual ritual desecrating the tomb of Aurora Bing. The Gants have held a grudge against the legendary silent film star for almost eighty years, but for Shem Gant and his son, things have become personal. Aurora's only grandchild, Hubie Swope, has shut down Shem's notoriously rowdy beachfront bar, and refuses to allow The Pit to reopen until Shem undertakes expensive upgrades. This means war. And when The Pit catches fire and Hubie Swope's charred remains are found in the rubble, it also means murder.

Who killed Hubie Swope? Crime-fighting duo Mitch and Des have no idea. Not only are Shem and his son prime suspects, but so are the women in Hubie's life. To their surprise, Mitch and Des discover that Dorset's building inspector, a quiet widower who repaired cuckoo clocks in his little house on Lavender Lane, was secretly juggling four girlfriends at once. And then there's Gaylord Holland, a builder who had a beef of his own with Hubie. Dorset is in turmoil, and only New York City film critic Mitch Berger and Connecticut State Police Resident Trooper Des Mitry can put it back together.

Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man, An 87th Precinct Novel by Ed McBain, Now Available at a Special Price

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Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man by Ed McBain

An 87th Precinct Novel

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 04/25/2016 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

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Between a highly successful cat burglar and a hippie crucifixion, the 87th Precinct definitely doesn't need the Deaf Man showing up again — especially since his two previous appearances resulted in blackmail, murder, and general havoc. But at least they have him now … unless he had them first.

The Deaf Man can hardly contain his glee. Detective Steve Carella is about to inadvertently help him rob a bank. Each day, he mails Carella a picture to keep the game going. The first two are pictures of J. Edgar Hoover, while the next ones involve George Washington. All are clues, obviously. But how do they add up? And will the 87th Precinct find out before the Deaf Man has the last laugh?

— Let's Hear It For The Deaf Man by Ed McBain

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New This Week: Loose Ends, A YA Novel of Suspense by Anna Willman

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Loose Ends by Anna Willman

A YA Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Anna Willlman

Price: $2.99 (as of 04/25/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

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It's not that she's squeamish, but really, murder is just not Amy Lynn's thing. Now that she's 15, Amy's mother wants her to start helping out in the family murder-for-hire business. But Amy would rather become a marine biologist. Amy's mother has a mania for following the rules. And one of her rules is always eliminate loose ends.

Amy worries — if she doesn't cooperate, will she be grounded? Or will she become her mother's next loose end?

And if mother love wins out over the rules, will the mysterious Broker who sends them their deadly assignments allow Amy to escape the family tradition?

— Loose Ends by Anna Willman

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Hustle, A Crime Novel by Tom Pitts, Now Available To Pre-Order at a Special Price

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Hustle by Tom Pitts

A Crime Novel

Publisher: Down & Out Books

Price: $3.99 (as of 04/25/2016 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

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Two young hustlers, caught in an endless cycle of addiction and prostitution, decide to blackmail an elderly client of theirs. Donny and Big Rich want to film Gabriel Thaxton with their cell phones during a sexual act and put the video up on YouTube. Little do they know, the man they've chosen, a high-profile San Francisco defense attorney, is already being blackmailed by someone more sinister: an ex-client of the lawyer's.

A murderous speed freak named Dustin has already permeated the attorney's life and Dustin has plans for the old man. The lawyer calls upon an old biker for help and they begin a violent race to suppress his deadly secret.

— Hustle by Tom Pitts

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New This Week: Silver, A Suspense Thriller by Mark L. Fowler

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Silver by Mark L. Fowler

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Bloodhound Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 04/25/2016 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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A writer murdered. A reader with a dangerous obsession. A killer who shouldn't exist …

When romance novelist Joy Haversham is murdered she leaves behind a husband, daughter and Silver, a disturbing, unfinished manuscript the publishing world are desperate to read. But her grieving husband, Roger, refuses to allow publication. Roger wants to lock himself away with his memories. But the fans have other ideas.

Nick Slater, a former reporter and successful novelist who covered the trial, remains obsessed with the unanswered questions surrounding Joy's death. Determined to learn the truth Nick finds himself in trouble. And the evidence he will find is … impossible.

— Silver by Mark L. Fowler

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Medusa's Web, A Novel of Suspense by Tim Powers, Now Available at a Special Price

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Medusa's Web by Tim Powers

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 04/25/2016 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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In the wake of their Aunt Amity's suicide, Scott and Madeline Madden are summoned to Caveat, the eerie, decaying mansion in the Hollywood hills in which they were raised. But their decadent and reclusive cousins, the malicious wheelchair-bound Claimayne and his sister, Ariel, do not welcome Scott and Madeline's return to the childhood home they once shared. While Scott desperately wants to go back to their shabby South-of-Sunset lives, he cannot pry his sister away from this haunted "House of Usher in the Hollywood Hills" that is a conduit for the supernatural.

Decorated by bits salvaged from old hotels and movie sets, Caveat hides a dark family secret that stretches back to the golden days of Rudolph Valentino and the silent film stars. A collection of hypnotic eight-limbed abstract images inked on paper allows the Maddens to briefly fragment and flatten time — to transport themselves into the past and future in visions that are both puzzling and terrifying. Though their cousins know little about these ancient "spiders" which provoke unpredictable temporal dislocations, Ariel and Claimayne have been using for years — an addiction that has brought Claimayne to the brink of selfish destruction.

As Madeline falls more completely under Caveat's spell, Scott discovers that to protect her, he must use the perilous spiders himself. But will he unravel the mystery of the Madden family's past and finally free them … or be pulled deeper into their deadly web?

— Medusa's Web by Tim Powers

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New This Week: Storm Surge, A Quin St. James and Mike McCleary Mystery by T. J. MacGregor

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Storm Surge by T. J. MacGregor

A Quin St. James and Mike McCleary Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 04/25/2016 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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This is a new ebook edition of a book published in hardcover by Hyperion in 1993.

Quin St. James, now a mother as well as a crack private investigator, leaves her home north of the city to get to the bottom of the mysterious death of old friend and mentor Charlie Potemkin, a criminologist and former instructor at the CIA Academy in Langley, Virginia. A series of cryptic notes and photographs, which Charlie mails to friends right before his death, provides fragments of a puzzle Quin is determined to piece together with the aid of her husband and partner.

All paths in the investigation seem to lead back to Lawrence Crandall, a real-estate developer with grandiose plans to turn Miami Beach into a fabulous Deco-inspired resort. The Sea Witch, former home to Charlie Potemkin and other retirees, sits smack in the middle of a stretch of beach Crandall must have to complete his schemes. Leaving their daughter in the care of her aunt, Quin and Mike set out to penetrate the layers of intrigue that surround Crandall and his associates. As Mike McCleary conducts his own investigation with the help of Boone, a retired gumshoe, Quin finds herself in grave danger, and torn psychically by the conflicting demands of her profession and motherhood.

— Storm Surge by T. J. MacGregor

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Crunch Time, A Goldy Shultz Mystery by Diane Mott Davidson, Now Available at a Special Price

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Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson

A Goldy Shultz Mystery (16th in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 04/25/2016 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz cooks up bigtrouble as she tries to help her longtimefriend and fellow chef Yolanda Garcia. Whenthe rental house shared by Yolanda and herirrepressible aunt Ferdinanda is destroyed byarson, the pair move in with cop-turned-PIErnest McLeod. But then Ernest is shot deadand his house is set on fire, nearly killing Goldy,Yolanda, Ferdinanda, and nine beagle puppiesthat Ernest had recently rescued from a puppymill.

Concerned for her friends, Goldy invites themto stay with her while the sheriff's departmentinvestigates. Yet even Goldy's house isn't safe,and after a failed break-in by an unknownintruder a cop is sent to keep an eye on things.Then a second body is found.

Swapping her chef's hat for a sleuthing cap,the intrepid Goldy steps up the investigation.But she's got to move fast. It's crunch time toclose in on a killer, before he can close in on her.

— Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson

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The Cryptic Cipher by Denver Acey, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during April 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during April 2016 …

The Cryptic Cipher by Denver Acey, A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Cedar Fort

  

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Yesterday in Panama, ten masked gunmen assassinated the vice president of the United States. The only clue to find them is an encrypted message that nobody can decode.

Not even expert hacker Tanner Stone.

But when it seems that the key to cracking it lies in Guatemala, Tanner and his family quickly find themselves on a last-minute vacation — an undercover mission to locate an ancient cipher! What they discover there may entangle them in the deadliest plot ever against the United States.

— The Cryptic Cipher by Denver Acey

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Stone and Snow, A Raleigh Harmon Mystery by Sibella Giorello, Now Available at a Special Price

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Stone and Snow by Sibella Giorello

A Raleigh Harmon Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Running Girl Productions

Price: 99¢ (as of 04/25/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Secrets run deep …

Raleigh Harmon, teen geologist, has a seriously dysfunctional southern family, an encyclopedic knowledge of criminal codes, and a literally odd best friend named Drew Levinson.

After surviving a terrifying experience, Raleigh's ready to relax and enjoy the Christmas season with her new boyfriend.

But her smart and kind classmate Sloane Stillman is suddenly found dead — by suicide. Only Drew refuses to believe it. Drew says science can prove Sloane didn't kill herself. And the harder Raleigh tries to show Drew the truth, the more she herself questions the facts, and the people she once trusted.

Christmas swirls in like a snowstorm, and Drew spirals downward, burying Raleigh under mountains of evidence about Sloane's suicide, threatening to destroy everything, including Raleigh's new relationship with her boyfriend.

Desperate to put the pieces back together, Raleigh digs for answers, trying to uncover what really happened on that cold, silent night when Sloane Stillman lost her life.

— Stone and Snow by Sibella Giorello

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Murder at the 42nd Street Library by Con Lehane, New in Bookstores during April 2016

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during April 2016 is …

Murder at the 42nd Street Library by Con Lehane, a Raymond Ambler Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

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Raymond Ambler and his partners in crime-solving track down a killer, shining a light on the dark deeds and secret relationships that are hidden deep inside the famous flagship building at the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.

In their search for the reasons behind the murder, Ambler and his crew uncover sinister, and profoundly disturbing, relationships among the scholars studying in the iconic library. Included among the players are a celebrated mystery writer who has donated his papers to the library's crime fiction collection; that writer's long-missing daughter, a prominent New York society woman with a hidden past, and more than one of Ambler's colleagues at the library. Shocking revelations lead inexorably to the traumatic events that follow — the reading room will never be the same.

— Murder at the 42nd Street Library by Con Lehane

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Telemystery: Doctor Blake Mysteries, 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 one series from our site being released this week.

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Doctor Blake Mysteries

Season One

 

Medical cases turn to murder cases in this Australian series starring Craig McLachland as Dr. Lucian Blake, a quiet, thoughtful man with a painful past.

Haunted by searing memories of World War II, and by the heartbreaking loss of his secret Chinese wife and daughter, Dr. Blake returns to his Australian hometown in 1959 to continue his father's practice and serve as the town's chief medical officer.

Sharpen your skills and test your nerves with the good doctor in ten highly satisfying murder cases.

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Death Deals a Hand by Janet Dawson, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during April 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during April 2016 …

Death Deals a Hand by Janet Dawson, A California Zephyr Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Perseverance Press

  

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It's April 1953, and Zephyrette Jill McLeod is back on the rails, aboard the fabled train called the California Zephyr. Heading west from Chicago to the San Francisco Bay Area, Jill looks forward to reuniting with family members and the new man in her life. She's learned to expect and deal with just about anything on the train, from troublesome passengers to long-lost relatives to high-stakes poker games.

But the stakes just got even higher: Death has a seat at the table.

— Death Deals a Hand by Janet Dawson

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Nightmares Can Be Murder, A Dream Club Mystery by Mary Kennedy, Now Available at a Special Price

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Nightmares Can Be Murder by Mary Kennedy

A Dream Club Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Berkley

Price: $1.99 (as of 04/25/2016 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Business consultant Taylor Blake has returned to Savannah, Georgia, to help her sister Allison turn her dream of running an old-fashioned candy store into a reality. Allison is also interested in dream interpretation and invites Taylor to her Friday night Dream Club, where members meet once a week to share and analyze their dreams.

When a local dance instructor, Chico Hernandez, is found dead in his studio, and the murder scene has an eerie resemblance to one of the dreams shared at their meeting, Taylor can't help but be intrigued. And when her sister, who was briefly involved with the dance teacher, becomes the prime suspect, Taylor and their fellow club members can't be caught napping. It's up to them to dream up a solution to the murder before Allison faces a real-life nightmare.

— Nightmares Can Be Murder by Mary Kennedy

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