Deadly Memories by S. D. O'Donnell is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Deadly Memories by S. D. O'Donnell as today's free mystery ebook (A Novel of Suspense; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 23, 2013 at 7:10 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.

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Deadly Memories
S. D. O'Donnell
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: WindStorm Books

Who is the beautiful Jayne Doe? And why does someone want to kill her?

Ex-detective Saul Becker learned the hard way not to get involved in the troubles of beautiful women. But what else can he do when a barefoot, catatonic Jayne Doe turns up practically in his backyard? Who is she, and what is she so afraid of?

Jayne Doe doesn't remember anything about her life before she crawled into a hollow tree at the lake next to Saul's home. All she knows is that she's afraid of something — or someone.

Together, Saul and Jayne set out to uncover her past. But they are in more danger than they know, and it will take all of Saul's skill and training to track down the past that's stalking them.

  

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Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, April 23, 2013.

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Pretty Little Liars
Sara Shepard
HarperTeen

This book is the basis for the ABC Family series Pretty Little Liars.

Everyone has something to hide — especially high school juniors Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna.

Spencer covets her sister's boyfriend. Aria's fantasizing about her English teacher. Emily's crushing on the new girl at school. Hanna uses some ugly tricks to stay beautiful.

But they've all kept an even bigger secret since their friend Alison vanished.

How do I know? Because I know everything about the bad girls they were, the naughty girls they are, and all the dirty secrets they've kept. And guess what? I'm telling.

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Mystery and Suspense Films: Gangster Squad, 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 …

Gangster Squad starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Jessica Stone, and Sean Penn.

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

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Gangster Squad (2013)

Directed by Ruben Fleischer from an adapted screenplay by Will Beall, and based on the book Gangster Squad by Paul Lieberman. Watch a trailer for the film below.

Film Synopsis (from the studio): Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop — except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen's world apart.

Running time: 113 minutes. Rating: Rated R for strong violence and language.

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MystereBooks: Treachery in Bordeaux by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Treachery in Bordeaux by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Le French Book.

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 (04/22/2013 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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Treachery in Bordeaux by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen
A Benjamin Cooker, Winemaker Detective Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Le French Book

In modern-day Bordeaux, there are few wine estates still within the city limits. The prestigious grand cru Moniales Haut-Brion is one of them. When some barrels turn, world-renowned winemaker turned gentleman detective Benjamin Cooker starts asking questions. Is it negligence or sabotage? Who would want to target this esteemed vintner? Cooker and his assistant Virgile Lanssien search the city and the vineyards for answers, giving readers and inside view of this famous wine region.

      

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MystereBooks: Hostage in Havana by Noel Hynd, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Hostage in Havana by Noel Hynd, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Zondervan.

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 (04/22/2013 at 12:30 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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Hostage in Havana by Noel Hynd
An Alexandra LaDuca Thriller (4th in series)
Publisher: Zondervan

U.S. Treasury Agent Alexandra LaDuca leaves her Manhattan home on an illegal mission to Cuba that could cost her everything. Accompanying her is the attractive but dangerous Paul Guarneri, a Cuban-born exile who lives in the gray areas of the law. Together, they plunge into subterfuge and danger.

Without the support of the United States, Alex must navigate Cuban police, saboteurs, pro-Castro security forces, and an assassin who follows her from New York. Bullets fly as allies become traitors and enemies become unexpected friends. Alex, recovering from the tragic loss of her fiance a year before, reexamines faith and new love while taking readers on a fast-paced adventure.

    

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Review: Evil in All its Disguises by Hilary Davidson

A Mysterious Review of …

Evil in All its Disguises by Hilary Davidson. A Lily Moore Mystery.

Review summary: This is a suspenseful mystery, one in which the reader is in as much doubt about what's going on as travel writer Lily Moore is. An intriguing aspect of the story is the history of Acapulco as a playground for the stars of Hollywood's Golden Era. It makes for an interesting backdrop to the quandary Lily finds herself in. (Click here for text of full review.)

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Evil in All its Disguises
Hilary Davidson
A Lily Moore Mystery
Forge Books (March 2013)

Publisher synopsis: When travel writer Lily Moore joins a group of journalists for an all-expenses-paid press junket to Acapulco, Mexico, she expects sun, sand, and margaritas. Instead, she finds that the Mexican city, once the playground of Hollywood stars, is a place of faded glamour and rising crime. Even the luxurious Hotel Cerón, isolated from the rest of the town, seems disturbing to her, with its grand, empty rooms, ever-watchful staff, and armed guards patrolling the grounds.

Lily isn't the only one who suspects something rotten under the hotel's opulent facade. Skye McDermott, another journalist on the trip, asks Lily for help with an article she's working on about fraud and corruption in the hotel industry. Skye claims she's eager to write a piece of real journalism rather than the fluff she's known for. But she also lets slip that she's deeply upset at a lover who jilted her, and she plans to exact her revenge by exposing his company's illegal activities.

After Skye disappears suddenly, Lily suspects that her friend is in grave danger. But the hotel's staff insists that everything is fine and refuses to contact the police. Only after Lily tries — and fails — to leave the Hotel Cerón does she discover the truth: the journalists are prisoners in a gilded cage.

Too late, Lily realizes that she has been maneuvered into the role of bait in a vicious, vengeful plot. Faced with unthinkable choices, Lily must summon all her strength to survive, confront the past she's still running from, and save other lives.

      

Telemystery: The Commissario Guido Brunetti 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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The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries
Episodes 15 and 16

Venice provides the backdrop for these made-for-television feature-length adaptations of the bestselling novels by Donna Leon, which feature the singular Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe's most beautiful locations.

Uwe Kockisch stars as Brunetti, a police inspector with a keen mind, razor-sharp wit, and a touch of melancholy. He strives to bring criminals to justice, but experience has taught him that countless things work against that human frailty, corruption, and police incompetence being chief among them. He takes refuge from the job in the company of his loving wife Paola, a university literature professor, and two teenage children, Raffi and Chiara.

Two episodes are featured on this set: "Through a Glass, Darkly"; and "Suffer the Little Children".

  

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Also being released this week, a second DVD set with Episodes 17 and 18: "The Girl of His Dreams"; and "Looks are Deceiving".

  

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Both sets are in German with English subtitles.

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Visit the Telemystery website to discover more television mystery series currently available on and coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or video on demand.

Smoke by Bruce Rubenstein is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Smoke by Bruce Rubenstein as today's fifth free mystery ebook (A Martin McDonough Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 22, 2013 at 7:50 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.

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Smoke
Bruce Rubenstein
A Martin McDonough Mystery
Publisher: Calumet Editions

It's 1934, the depth of the Great Depression, but business is good for Martin McDonough, a private eye who is in the right place at the right time. There are plenty of unsolved murders in St. Paul, a city with such a corrupt police force that it has become a haven for trigger-happy gangsters. McDonough is used to solving crimes the easy way, by persuading his copper pals to give him the low down.

But when a newspaperman becomes the victim of a gang hit, and his pretty widow wants to know why, things get complicated. McDonough might end up dead, or worse yet, married.

  

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The Unforgiving Minutes by Mary Monica Pulver is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Unforgiving Minutes by Mary Monica Pulver as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Peter Brichter Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 22, 2013 at 7:40 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.

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The Unforgiving Minutes
Mary Monica Pulver
A Peter Brichter Mystery
Publisher: FTL Publications

First published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press in 1988.

Police officer Otto Peter Brichter is an outstanding detective, though socially awkward. An investigation of a local crime ring brings him to Tretower Ranch, where he meets Nick Tellios and his niece, Katherine McLeod Price. Kori, as she is called, is a young reclusive woman whose primary interest is in the horses on the ranch. Brichter falls head over heels in love with her, but the trauma of her parents' murder as a young child still haunts her and makes her distant.

As Brichter's investigation continues, he finds that Tellios is linked to the local organized crime syndicate, and that Tellios is exploiting Kori and keeping her a virtual prisoner. When Kori is kidnapped, the evidence increasingly points to Tellios being behind it. Brichter finds that this is just the beginning of a mystery with far-reaching implications, some of which go back to the unsolved killing of Kori's parents.

  

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You Know Who I Am by Diane Patterson is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature You Know Who I Am by Diane Patterson as today's third free mystery ebook (A Drusilla Thorne Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 22, 2013 at 7:30 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.

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You Know Who I Am
Diane Patterson
A Drusilla Thorne Mystery
Publisher: Airgead Publishing

Drusilla Thorne's husband Colin walks out on their marriage of convenience with style: he disappears right in the middle of their magic act. Before he vanishes, though, he steals a bracelet from her, a bracelet that could tip off the people who've been searching for Drusilla and her younger sister Stevie for years. Drusilla won't allow that to happen.

When she finds Colin in Los Angeles, he's dead. Before dying, he got the both of them involved in a nasty game of Hollywood blackmail. The investigating detective finds out her identity is as fake as her marriage was and he's determined to find her guilty of something. Her lawyer might have more allegiance to the shadowy figure footing the bill than to her. And her sister does something Drusilla can only hope they live to regret.

Drusilla had better figure out who killed Colin before everything comes apart and the police figure out who she really is.

  

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Too Little, Too Late by Marta Tandori is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Too Little, Too Late by Marta Tandori as today's second free mystery ebook (A Crime Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 22, 2013 at 7:20 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.

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Too Little, Too Late
Marta Tandori
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: CreateSpace

A young runaway takes refuge in a makeshift shack under the Hollywood Freeway, forcing the autistic woman in it to find milk for her sickly newborn — a search that ultimately ends in tragedy when the woman is run down by a hit-and-run driver after a violent confrontation with several teenagers. When one of those teenagers, seventeen-year-old Karen Devane, is implicated in the woman's homicide, the tabloids are quick to exploit the tragedy, thanks to Karen's recent antics as a spoiled Tinseltown "celebrat" riding on the coattails of her famous grandmother, the legendary Kate Stanton. Complicating matters is the dead woman's daughter, who's determined that Karen be held accountable for her mother's death, even after the charges against Karen are dropped. With tensions between Karen and her family near breaking point and the paparazzi relentlessly hounding her every move, Karen makes a startling discovery which finally puts her on the road to redemption – and links the dead woman to her beloved grandmother.

Karen's discovery raises a host of troubling questions for Kate, forcing her to revisit the horrors of her past in search of answers. But Kate soon realizes that some questions are better left unasked after a seemingly random shooting leaves her granddaughter fighting for her life and Kate scrambling to stay one step ahead of a killer who's determined to end her life in order to save his own.

  

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The Consultant by Claude Bouchard is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Consultant by Claude Bouchard as today's free mystery ebook (The Vigilante Series; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 22, 2013 at 7:10 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.

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The Consultant
Claude Bouchard
The Vigilante Series
Publisher: Claude Bouchard

The friendly takeover of CSS Inc. leaves computer executive Chris Barry unemployed, very wealthy and pleased with the situation.

But the hiatus is short-lived …

As a result of his involvement in the recent Vigilante investigation, Barry is approached by Jonathan Addley and invited to join Discreet Activities, a government agency of the clandestine variety.

Accepting, he promptly takes on his first assignment under the guise of an IT consultant, to investigate possible links between a local import business and the murder of its MIS director.

As he discovers the firm is being used to import narcotics, his cover is blown and things get personal, spurring him to show that murderers, drug lords, biker gangs and kidnappers are no match for … The Consultant

  

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King of Swords by Russell Blake is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature King of Swords by Russell Blake as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, April 22, 2013.

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King of Swords
Russell Blake
The Assassin Series
Reprobatio Ltd.

The G-20 Financial Summit is planned for San Jose Del Cabo. The world's pre-eminent finance ministers will attend, along with the presidents of the U.S. and Mexico. Captain Romero Cruz of the Mexican Federal Police uncovers an assassination plot against the attendees. In a roller-coaster race against the clock, Cruz must track and stop El Rey, the "King of Swords" — a faceless super-assassin responsible for a string of the world's most spectacular killings, before he turns the G-20 into a slaughterhouse.

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for April 22, 2013

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:

E G I L N O T U Y

A 2013 psychological thriller by Lisa Ballantyne has this title (with "The") (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!