MystereBooks: L.A. Requiem, an Elvis Cole Mystery by Robert Crais, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Ballantine 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. 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.

Cinemystery: Chase Novak's Gothic Horror Novel Breed Optioned for Film

Chase Novak's novel of Gothic horror, Breed (Mulholland Books, September 2012), has been optioned for film by Summit Entertainment. Burr Steers will direct his own adapted screenplay.

Chase Novak is a pen name used by Scott Spencer and as such is his "first" book. As Spencer, the author has written a number of literary novels, two of which have been adapted for film: Endless Love (1979 and adapted in 1981) and Waking the Dead (1986 and adapted in 2000).

A sequel to Breed is planned.

MystereBooks: Kindle eBooks Priced up to 88% Off, Now Through December 22nd

Amazon is promoting over 500 Kindle ebooks priced up to 88% off, now through December 22nd, 2012.

They've conveniently broken down this list into several sub-categories, including one featuring Mysteries & Thrillers. We took a look at this sub-list of 32 titles — which are all priced $2.99 or less — and believe most have been featured elsewhere, either as part of this month's 100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or less or as part of our own 100 Kindle mystery books priced $2.99 or less. Still, it's definitely worth a look, especially since there may be cross-over titles featured in other categories that may be of interest.

Important Note: Any prices and/or special deals mentioned above were correct as of the date and time of this post. 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.

Mystery and Suspense Films: The Bourne Legacy, 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 and/or adventure category …

The Bourne Legacy starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Albert Finney, and Joan Allen.

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

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (121210)

Here is today's list of the Bestselling Free Kindle Crime Fiction: the top nine mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers.

We're using a script to embed an RSS feed from Amazon.com, which is updated hourly; as an alternative, you can click on the image to the right or use this link to see the relevant page on Amazon.com, which includes a list of both the Top 100 Paid and Top 100 Free Kindle Mysteries and Thrillers.

Telemystery: Chiller, JAG, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Mission: Impossible, 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 or Blu-ray disc, is profiling four series from our site being released this week.

A $50 Discount on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9" is Today's Amazon Kindle Gold Box Deal of the Day

The Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day for
Monday, December 10th, 2012 is $50 Off Kindle Fire HD 8.9".

Enter Promotional code FIREHD89 at checkout to save on Kindle Fire HD 8.9" and Kindle Fire HD 8.9" 4G LTE. Enjoy your favorite apps, games, movies, magazines, websites, and more on a large, beautiful 8.9" HD display.

The special deal for the Kindle Fire HD 8.9" is valid only for today, December 10th, 2012.

Cold Crossover by Tom Kelly is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Cold Crossover by Tom Kelly as today's fifth free mystery ebook (An Ernie Creekmore, "Chilling Northwest" Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. 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.

Bloody Pulp by Mike Attebery is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bloody Pulp by Mike Attebery as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Brick Ransom Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. 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.

The Jazz Cage by Ray Chen Smith is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Jazz Cage by Ray Chen Smith as today's third free mystery ebook (A Historical Crime Drama; Kindle format only).

This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. 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.

Vampire Defense by James D. Bell is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Vampire Defense by James D. Bell as today's second free mystery ebook (A Legal Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. 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.

The Taste of Fear by Jeremy Bates is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Taste of Fear by Jeremy Bates as today's free mystery ebook (An Adventure Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. 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.

Persona Non Grata by Ruth Downie is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Persona Non Grata by Ruth Downie as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $0.99 is valid only for today, Monday, December 10, 2012.

Mystery Godoku Puzzle for December 10, 2012

A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

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This week's letters and mystery clue:

A C F K O R S T X

The seventh mystery in the Jane Arnold series by Rita Mae Brown has this title (9 letters).

We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!

MystereBooks: A Collection of Eight Scott Drayco Short Stories by BV Lawson

We're fans of author BV Lawson, both for her entertaining blog — In Reference To Murder — and her short stories. Earlier this year, the author won the Short Story Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society for one of her stories, "Touch of Death" (Absent Willow Review, April 2011).

And with respect to her stories, Lawson has now discounted a collection of eight "Scott Drayco" mysteries to just $1.99 (Kindle format only; details below). We've had the pleasure of reading these tales, and can enthusiastically recommend them.

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (121209)

Here is today's list of the Bestselling Free Kindle Crime Fiction: the top nine mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers.

We're using a script to embed an RSS feed from Amazon.com, which is updated hourly; as an alternative, you can click on the image to the right or use this link to see the relevant page on Amazon.com, which includes a list of both the Top 100 Paid and Top 100 Free Kindle Mysteries and Thrillers.

This Week's Amazon TV Deal of the Week: DVD Sets of Inspector Lewis and Inspector Lynley

This week's Amazon TV Deal of the Week is two complete series from Masterpiece Mystery!: Inspector Lewis (which we believe is only the first four seasons, so not really "complete") and Inspector Lynley.

• Inspector Lewis

In this spin-off from the Inspector Morse mystery series, Kevin Whately reprises his role as (now) Inspector Robert "Robbie" Lewis. His partner is Detective Sergeant James Hathaway (played by Laurence Fox). The characters are based on those created by crime novelist Colin Dexter.

The series premiered in 2006 with a pilot episode, which was followed by three feature-length episodes in the first season that aired in early 2007. Since then, each season has been comprised of four episodes.

Inspector Lewis has been renewed for a seventh season, which we have learned will be the final in the series.

• Inspector Lynley

Based on a character created by crime novelist Elizabeth George, Nathaniel Parker stars as Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley, the 8th Earl of Asherton. He is assisted in his investigations by Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers (played by Sharon Small).

Twenty-three feature-length episodes aired in the series over a seven year period. All of the episodes in the first two seasons, and two from the third, are adapted from Elizabeth George's "Inspector Lynley" novels.

New Brazilian Poster for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

There's nothing subtle about this new Brazilian poster for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (right; click for larger image). Titled João & Maria in Brazil ("John & Mary"), the tagline is "Um conto clássico … Uma nova versão" ("A classic tale … A new version").

Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star as Hansel and Gretel 15 years after the traumatic incident involving a gingerbread house. The siblings have evolved into vengeful bounty hunters dedicated to exterminating witches. Over the years, they have become expert hunters, famous for their proficiency at tracking and taking down their prey. Although still recovering from their ordeal, their work is relatively easy as for an unknown reason harmful spells and curses do not work well against them.

The Mayor of Augsburg recruits them to rid the town and nearby forests of an evil sorceress (Famke Janssen) who is planning to sacrifice many local children at the witches' gathering during the upcoming "Blood Moon" night in two days time. To make things worse, the duo also has to deal with the brutal Sheriff Berringer (Peter Stormare) who has taken power in Augsburg and conducts a very indiscriminate witch-hunt of his own.

Paramount released a red-band (age-restricted) trailer for the film about a month ago, which we don't think we featured here, so we've embedded a copy of it below. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters opens in US (and Brazil) theaters January 25th, 2013.

Telemystery: New Poster, Trailer for Cinemax Series, Banshee

Cinemax has released a new poster (right; click for larger image) and trailer (below) for its upcoming crime series Banshee. The poster's tagline: "Small Town. Big Secrets."

Antony Starr stars as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pennsylvania, where he continues his criminal activities, even as he's hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier.

Banshee premieres on Friday, January 11th, 2013 at 10 PM ET/PT.

Enter to Win a Free Game from Big Fish Games!

Two weeks ago Big Fish Games released Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake, the latest entry in the popular "Mystery Case Files" series of casual adventure games developed by the company. The game features film and television star Lea Thompson and her daughter Madelyn Deutch in key roles.

"[A]fter working on this game I have become a born-again gamer," said Ms. Thompson. "This game was fun to work on, and I enjoyed working with the team from Big Fish Studios. As an added bonus, I got to work with my daughter."

In Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake, something wicked took over the town of Bitterford, Maine, in 1973 after an unsuspecting inmate unearthed a mysterious object from beneath the prison floor. Years later, Bitterford lies in ruin.

Ms. Thompson plays Cassandra Williams, a psychic medium who helps the Master Detective solve puzzles during their investigation of this eerie ghost town's mysterious destruction. Her daughter, Madelyn, stars as a co-host of a Ghost Patrol TV show that is filming on-scene to uncover the haunted legacy of the town.

This past summer, both actresses traveled to places in and around Seattle to work with Big Fish's in-house studio to film the live scenes that are used in the game.

To celebrate the launch of this new game in the MCF series, Big Fish Games is giving three of our readers a chance to win a free game! Simply send a message to games@omnimystery.com with the words "Shadow Lake 2012" in the subject line and you're entered to win! (One entry per person, US residents only. No purchase is required to enter or to win. Entry period ends at 11:59 PM EST on December 14th, 2012.)

Watch a trailer for MCF: Shadow Lake below …