Afloat, A Novel of Suspense by Erin Healy, Now Available at a Special Price

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Afloat by Erin Healy

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Price: 99¢ (as of 07/18/2016 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

Dark waters are rising. Who will stay afloat?

Architect Vance Nolan has crafted a marvel — shining apartments floating in the peaceful cove of a winding river. The project is partially occupied and about to make investors rich when a sinkhole gives way.

Torrential rains quickly flood the cove, leaving a handful of builders, investors, and residents cut off from the rest of the world.

The motley group is bitterly divided over how to survive.

Vance insists they wait for rescue. Developer Tony Dean wants to strike out into the darkness. And single-mom Danielle Clement, obligated to each man and desperate to protect her young son, Simeon, isn't sure which one is wiser.

Power failure, an unnatural daytime darkness, explosions, and a murder expose hidden intentions and dark histories. Then Simeon spots something strange underwater — beautiful, shifting lights in the dark depths.

In this watery world, everyone's secrets will eventually come to light. And deliverance may mean more than just getting out alive.

— Afloat by Erin Healy

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Review: The Scandal by John Grisham

A Mysterious Review of The Scandal by John Grisham. A Theodore Boone Novel.

Review summary: For a series about a "teen lawyer", Teddy Boone actually does no lawyering here. Indeed, he's more of a bystander watching the action around him. This isn't necessarily a bad entry, but it could have been a much better one with a little more action by the series lead and a little more substance to the story. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Scandal
John Grisham
A Theodore Boone Novel
Dutton (May 2016)

Publisher synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in Strattenburg. He has even helped bring a fugitive to justice. But even a future star lawyer like Theo has to deal with statewide standardized testing.

When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a suspicious increase in scores at another local middle school, Theo finds himself thrust in the middle of a cheating scandal. With insider knowledge and his future on the line, Theo must follow his keen instincts to do what's right in the newest case for clever kid lawyer Theo Boone.

The Fifth Assassin, The Culper Ring Series by Brad Meltzer, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer

The Culper Ring Series (2nd in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/18/2016 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination attempts on the President of the United States.

Four have been successful.

But now, Beecher White discovers a killer in Washington, D.C., who's meticulously re-creating the crimes of these four men. Historians have branded them as four lone wolves. But what if they were wrong?

Beecher is about to discover the truth: that during the course of a hundred years, all four assassins were secretly working together. What was their purpose? For whom do they really work? And why are they planning to kill the current President?

Beecher's about to find out. And most terrifyingly, he's about to come face-to-face with the fifth assassin.

— The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer

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New This Week: Candied Maple Bacon Murder, A Donut Hole Cozy Mystery by Susan Gillard

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Candied Maple Bacon Murder by Susan Gillard

A Donut Hole Cozy Mystery (13th in series)

Publisher: Guardian Publishing

Price: 99¢ (as of 07/18/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

See all thirteen mysteries in the Donut Hole Cozy Series for $2.99 or less each on Kindle.

When Heather Shepherd gets a frantic call from Honey Trickle, asking for help, she's incredibly concerned, but that concern turns into downright horror when it's revealed that Honey has been murdered … right on Heather's front porch.

She's angry and determined to bring the killer to justice, especially after she discovers that Amy's boyfriend, Kent, might be a suspect. Armed with her superior investigating skills and enough Candied Maple Bacon Donuts to feed an army — and half the country — Heather sets out to solve the case. But things back at the bakery are heating up, especially with a new store competing for the attention of some of her most loyal customers. And Ryan's new 'boss' isn't making things any easier.

Heather has to focus on finding the truth and avoided the treacherous tall tales of one of Hillside's newest residents. Solving this one could be more difficult than icing a donut, fresh out the oven.

— Candied Maple Bacon Murder by Susan Gillard

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The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu, A David Bengu Mystery by Michael Stanley, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu by Michael Stanley

A David Bengu Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 99¢ (as of 07/18/2016 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Read our review of The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu by Michael Stanley on Mysterious Reviews.

Two vicious murders, only hours apart …

Normally a peaceful wilderness retreat, the Jackalberry bush camp has suddenly become a ghastly crime scene — and the details are still emerging when Detective David "Kubu" Bengu is assigned to the case. Zimbabwean teacher Goodluck Tinubu and another tourist have been found bludgeoned to death, while another guest at the camp — rumored to be a dissident wanted in Zimbabwe — has disappeared without a trace.

With the local police unable — or unwilling — to provide much assistance, Detective Kubu relies on his own instincts to track down those responsible for the crimes. But a startling piece of forensic evidence from Goodluck Tinubu's murder adds a complicated twist to the investigation, and Kubu must work fast to solve a seemingly impossible riddle before any more Jackalberry guests meet their death. Suspecting that everyone at the camp has something to hide, the wily detective from Gaborone sets a clever trap to find the truth.

— The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu by Michael Stanley

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New This Week: Reunion, An Abby Chilton Mystery by Doug Romig

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Reunion by Doug Romig

An Abby Chilton Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Doug Romig

Price: $3.99 (as of 07/18/2016 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

See also the first mystery in this series, Shrink, for $2.99 on Kindle.

FBI profiler Abby Chilton is back and getting into the mind of another killer. Twenty-somethings are dying to get to their ten-year high school reunion — literally. All the cool kids from ten years ago — the ones who tortured everyone — are turning up dead from mysterious strokes.

Abby and her new partner, Seneca Jenks, must follow the trail of bodies leading up to the Reunion.

— Reunion by Doug Romig

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The Monkey's Raincoat, An Elvis Cole Mystery by Robart Crais, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Monkey's Raincoat by Robart Crais

An Elvis Cole Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Crimeline

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/18/2016 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Winner of the 1988 Anthony Award for Best Novel. Winner of the 1988 Macavity Award for Best First Novel.

When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-deco office, she's lost something very valuable — her husband and young son. The case seems simple enough, but Elvis isn't thrilled. Neither is his enigmatic partner and firepower Joe Pike.

Their search down the seamy side of Hollywood's studio lots and sculptured lawns soon leads them deep into a nasty netherworld of drugs and sex — and murder. Now the case is getting interesting, but it's also turned ugly. Because everybody, from cops to starlets to crooks, has declared war on Ellen and Elvis.

— The Monkey's Raincoat by Robart Crais

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New This Week: Any Given Sundae, An Australian Amateur Sleuth Mystery by Morgana Best

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Any Given Sundae by Morgana Best

An Australian Amateur Sleuth Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Cozy Mystery Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 07/18/2016 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

See all five mysteries in the Australian Amateur Sleuth Series for $2.99 or less each on Kindle.

Sibyl Potts has finally been awarded her long-awaited property settlement, and her ex-husband has been sentenced for her attempted murder. Yet just as all seems well in her world, the body of one of Cressida's boarders is found in her cottage next to a half eaten ice cream sundae.

When all the evidence points to Sibyl as the culprit, how will she solve the crime and prove her innocence?

— Any Given Sundae by Morgana Best

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The Lincoln Myth, A Cotton Malone Mystery by Steve Berry, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry

A Cotton Malone Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/18/2016 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge: save thousands of American lives, or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever?

The present: In Utah, the fabled remains of Mormon pioneers whose nineteenth-century expedition across the desert met with a murderous end have been uncovered. In Washington, D.C., the official investigation of an international entrepreneur, an elder in the Mormon church, has sparked a political battle between the White House and a powerful United States senator. In Denmark, a Justice Department agent, missing in action, has fallen into the hands of a dangerous zealot — a man driven by divine visions to make a prophet's words reality. And in a matter of a few short hours, Cotton Malone has gone from quietly selling books at his shop in Denmark to dodging bullets in a high-speed boat chase.

All it takes is a phone call from his former boss in Washington, and suddenly the ex-agent is racing to rescue an informant carrying critical intelligence. It's just the kind of perilous business that Malone has been trying to leave behind, ever since he retired from the Justice Department. But once he draws enemy blood, Malone is plunged into a deadly conflict — a constitutional war secretly set in motion more than two hundred years ago by America's Founding Fathers.

From the streets of Copenhagen to the catacombs of Salzburg to the rugged mountains of Utah, the grim specter of the Civil War looms as a dangerous conspiracy gathers power. Malone risks life, liberty, and his greatest love in a race for the truth about Abraham Lincoln — while the fate of the United States of America hangs in the balance.

— The Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry

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Nun But The Brave by Alice Loweecey, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2016 …

Nun But The Brave by Alice Loweecey, A Giulia Driscoll Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Henery Press

  

Giulia Driscoll's sister-in-law barges into Driscoll Investigations and promptly passes out from OD'ing on an unknown drug. Two OD'd teenagers are found dead in the park and behind a convenience store. DI's new client insists her missing twin sister is not dead and enlists Giulia as the "Missing Person Whisperer." Hooray for steady work?

The missing sister's trail leads to married, pregnant, ex-nun Giulia's first experience with online dating sites, to the delight of her husband and employees. Those dates lead her to local Doomsday Preppers. They grow their own everything, and that everything may be connected to the drugs, her sister-in-law, and the missing twin. These Preppers are about to learn the true meaning of doom.

— Nun But The Brave by Alice Loweecey

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Die Again, A Rizzoli & Isles Mystery by Tess Gerritsen, Now Available at a Special Price

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Die Again by Tess Gerritsen

A Rizzoli & Isles Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/18/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

When Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are summoned to a crime scene, they find a killing worthy of the most ferocious beast — right down to the claw marks on the corpse. But only the most sinister human hands could have left renowned big-game hunter and taxidermist Leon Gott gruesomely displayed like the once-proud animals whose heads adorn his walls. Did Gott unwittingly awaken a predator more dangerous than any he's ever hunted?

Maura fears that this isn't the killer's first slaughter, and that it won't be the last. After linking the crime to a series of unsolved homicides in wilderness areas across the country, she wonders if the answers might actually be found in a remote corner of Africa.

Six years earlier, a group of tourists on safari fell prey to a killer in their midst. Marooned deep in the bush of Botswana, with no means of communication and nothing but a rifle-toting guide for protection, the terrified tourists desperately hoped for rescue before their worst instincts — or the wild animals prowling in the shadows — could tear them apart. But the deadliest predator was already among them, and within a week, he walked away with the blood of all but one of them on his hands.

Now this killer has chosen Boston as his new hunting ground, and Rizzoli and Isles must find a way to lure him out of the shadows and into a cage. Even if it means dangling the bait no hunter can resist: the one victim who got away.

— Die Again by Tess Gerritsen

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White Bone by Ridley Pearson, New in Bookstores during July 2016

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

White Bone by Ridley Pearson, a Grace Chu and John Knox, Risk Agent Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Putnam

 

When ex — military contractor John Knox receives a text from partner Grace Chu warning that she fears her cover may have been blown while on assignment, he jumps into action. Knox must locate her overseas handlers, convince them of the threat, and then attempt to retrace the well-hidden steps of a woman who had been attempting to determine how one million euros' worth of AIDS vaccine disappeared, all while eluding angry poachers on a parallel trail.

Corruption isn't a "problem" in Kenya, it's the way of doing business. The poaching of ivory from African elephants, driven by insatiable demand from mainland China, fuels constant blood and slaughter. Knox faces police, national rangers, journalists, and safari companies who are each in their own symbiotic relationship with elephants, both good and bad. As the threat from Al-Shaabab militants interferes with his pursuit of Grace, Knox finds himself pitted against the most savage and suicidal fighters in the world. And there's this woman, Grace, always in his head. His gut. As Grace watches as her civilized self slips away while abandoned in the bush, Knox races against the clock to find her.

— White Bone by Ridley Pearson

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Telemystery: Person of Interest (5th and Final Season), 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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Person of Interest

Season Five

   

For years, the Person of Interest team of tech genius Harold Finch, ex-agent John Reese, NYPD Detective Lionel Fusco, cyber-hacker Root and missing-in-action operative Sameen Shaw have been protected by The Machine, but as worlds collided and a rival AI known as Samaritan finally cornered The Machine inside the nation's power grid, it was the POI team's turn to protect Finch's creation.

In the fifth and final season of this CBS series, the cold war is over. The world around us might look the same, but something has drastically changed. Samaritan's lethal "correction" has initiated its control. Finch's Machine is essentially dead. Shaw is still missing. And the team is once again hiding in plain sight. But with Samaritan's invisible grip tightening everywhere, will Finch be able to rebuild and resurrect The Machine? And if he does, will it be the same Machine when it comes back online?

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Fatal Headwind by Leena Lehtolainen, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2016 …

Fatal Headwind by Leena Lehtolainen, A Maria Kallio Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: AmazonCrossing

  

After months of maternity leave, tough-talking Espoo police detective Maria Kallio is ready to return to work. But before assuming her new post as head of the Violent Crime Unit, she vacations with her husband and daughter on the island of Rödskär. There Kallio learns that, one year earlier, her ex-boyfriend Harri had mysteriously fallen to his death from the isle's steep and treacherous cliffs.

On the anniversary of that event, Harri's boss, the CEO of an allegedly nontoxic paint company, loses his life on those very same rocks. In light of such a coincidence, Kallio searches for the link between these two tragedies and is soon convinced that they weren't accidents — they were murders. As the Finnish nights grow longer, so too does the list of suspects. Was the CEO's disillusioned wife involved? His environmental-activist son? Or perhaps his rebellious daughter? Or might the culprit be his half brother, an adventurous sailor whom Kallio finds altogether a little too intriguing?

— Fatal Headwind by Leena Lehtolainen

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Brain Storm, An Angela Richman Mystery by Elaine Viets, Now Available To Pre-Order at a Special Price

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Brain Storm by Elaine Viets

An Angela Richman Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/18/2016 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car crash kills a Forest teenager, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her investigation is hardly underway, however, when she suffers a series of crippling strokes. Misdiagnosed by the resident neurologist, Dr. Gravois, and mended by gauche yet brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Jeb Travis Tritt, Angela faces a harrowing recovery.

It's a drug-addled, hallucinating Angela who learns that Dr. Gravois has been murdered … and the chief suspect is the surgeon who saved her life. Angela doesn't believe it, but can she trust her instincts? Her brain trauma brings doubts that she'll ever recover her investigative skills. But she's determined to save Dr. Tritt from a death-row sentence — even if her progress is thwarted at every turn by a powerful and insular community poised to protect its own.

— Brain Storm by Elaine Viets

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