The Riptide Ultra-Glide, A Serge Storms Mystery by Tim Dorsey, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Riptide Ultra-Glide by Tim Dorsey, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, William Morrow.

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 (01/01/2014 at 4:30 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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The Riptide Ultra-Glide by Tim Dorsey
A Serge Storms Mystery (16th in series)
Publisher: William Morrow

When newly unemployed Patrick and Barbara McDougal decide a vacation in Florida is just what they need to put life back on the right track, awful accommodations, a robbery, and a not-so-helpful police department make them rethink their decision to drown their troubles in paradise.

Luckily, charismatic (and crazy!) tour guide Serge Storms and his sidekick, Coleman, are up for another action-packed adventure in this outrageous crime thriller.

        

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The Long Quiche Goodbye, A Charlotte Bessette, Cheese Shop Mystery by Avery Aames, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Berkley.

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The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames
A Charlotte Bessette, Cheese Shop Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Berkley

Winner of the 2010 Agatha Award for Best First Mystery Novel.

Welcome to the grand opening of Fromagerie Bessette. Or as it's more commonly known by the residents of small-town Providence, Ohio — the Cheese Shop. Proprietor Charlotte Bessette has prepared a delightful sampling of bold Cabot Clothbound Cheddar, delicious tortes of Stilton and Mascarpone, and a taste of Sauvignon Blanc — but someone else has decided to make a little crime of passion the piece de resistance.

Right outside the shop Charlotte finds the shop's landlord with an olive-wood handle knife jutting out of his chest, and Charlotte's grandmother is the prime suspect.

      

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Bruno, Chief of Police, A Bruno, Chief of Police Mystery by Martin Walker, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Vintage.

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 (01/01/2014 at 3:30 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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Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
A Bruno, Chief of Police Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Vintage

Meet Benoît Courrèges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the South of France. He's a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rhythms of country life. He has a gun but never wears it; he has the power to arrest but never uses it.

But then the murder of an elderly North African who fought in the French army changes all that. Now Bruno must balance his beloved routines — living in his restored shepherd's cottage, shopping at the local market, drinking wine, strolling the countryside — with a politically delicate investigation. He's paired with a young policewoman from Paris and the two suspect anti-immigrant militants.

As they learn more about the dead man's past, Bruno's suspicions turn toward a more complex motive.

        

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The Informationist, A Vanessa Michael Munroe Mystery by Taylor Stevens, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Informationist by Taylor Stevens, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Broadway Books.

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The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
A Vanessa Michael Munroe Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Broadway Books

Vanessa "Michael" Munroe deals in information — expensive information — working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen. As his protégé, she earned the respect of the jungle's most dangerous men, cultivating her own reputation for years until something sent her running. After almost a decade building a new life and lucrative career from her home base in Dallas, she's never looked back.

Until now.

A Texas oil billionaire has hired her to find his daughter who vanished in Africa four years ago. It's not her usual line of work, but she can't resist the challenge. Pulled deep into the mystery of the missing girl, Munroe finds herself back in the lands of her childhood, betrayed, cut off from civilization, and left for dead. If she has any hope of escaping the jungle and the demons that drive her, she must come face-to-face with the past that she's tried for so long to forget.

        

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Secrets & Lies by Raymond Benson, New in Bookstores in January 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during January 2014 by Oceanview Publishing, is Secrets & Lies by Raymond Benson.

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

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Secrets & Lies
Raymond Benson
Series: Judy Cooper, "Black Stiletto" (4th)

It is 1961. Judy, the Stiletto, meets Leo, a charismatic man who convinces her to move to Los Angeles when she is "run out" of New York by increasingly hazardous police heat. But soon Judy suspects that Leo is not the white knight she first thought. Leo, who has connections with the West Coast mobs, has plenty of skeletons in his closet. His mysterious sister, Christina, who once served time for armed robbery, could also be a threat to the Stiletto's new life in California.

Meanwhile, in the present, Alzheimer's-stricken Judy takes a turn for the worse as Martin comes to grips with the imminent end of his mother's life. And when elements from the Stiletto's past once again appear to threaten Martin's family, it is up to his daughter Gina to step up and take matters into her own hands.

        

Murder Past Due, A Cat in the Stacks Mystery by Miranda James, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder Past Due by Miranda James, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Berkley.

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 (01/01/2014 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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Murder Past Due by Miranda James
A Cat in the Stacks Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Berkley

There's a cat in the stacks … and he makes the purr-fect partner for a librarian turned sleuth.

Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows librarian Charlie Harris — and his Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. They also know his former classmate-turned-famous bestselling novelist, Godfrey Priest.

But someone in Athena took Godfrey off the bestseller lists — permanently, and with extreme prejudice. Now, Charlie and Diesel must browse through the history section of the town's past to find a killer.

      

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Crashed, A Junior Bender Mystery by Timothy Hallinan, at a Special Price during January 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 Crashed by Timothy Hallinan. This Kindle book was listed at $2.99 as of the date and time of this post, Wednesday, January 01, 2014 at 1:30 PM ET, and should be available at this price through the end of the month.

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Crashed by Timothy Hallinan
A Junior Bender Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Soho Crime

Junior Bender is a Los Angeles burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses when he was fourteen years old, he's never once been caught. But now, after twenty-two years of an exemplary career, Junior has been blackmailed by Trey Annunziato, one of the most powerful crime bosses in LA, into acting as a private investigator on the set of Trey's porn movie venture, which someone keeps sabotaging. The star Trey has lined up to do all that's unwholesome on camera is Thistle Downing, America's beloved child star, who now lives alone in a drug-induced stupor, destitute and uninsurable. Her starring role will be the scandalous fall-from-grace gossip of rubber-neckers across the country. No wonder Trey needs help keeping the production on track.

Junior knows what that he should do — get Thistle out and find her help — but doing the right thing will land him on the wrong side of LA's scariest mob boss. With the help of his precocious twelve-year-old daughter, Rina, and his criminal sidekick, Louie the Lost (an ex-getaway driver), Junior has to figure out a miracle solution.

      

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Death by Darjeeling, A Theodosia Browning, Tea Shop Mystery by Laura Childs, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Berkley.

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 (01/01/2014 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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Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs
A Theodosia Browning, Tea Shop Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Berkley

Ordinarily, Charleston's Indigo Tea Shop is an oasis of calm. But when tea shop owner Theodosia Browning caters the annual Lamplighter Tour of historic homes, one of the patrons turns up dead. Never mind that it's Hughes Barron, a slightly scurrilous real estate developer. Theodosia's reputation is suddenly on the line.

Aided by her friends and fellow tea shop entrepreneurs, Theo sets about to unravel the mystery of the deadly Darjeeling and encounters a number of likely suspects. Tanner Joseph, the fiery environmentalist, held a grudge against the developer for his misuse of land. Timothy Neville, the octogenarian major domo for the Heritage Society, opposed Hughes Barron's election to the board. And Barron's unsavory partner might very well profit from a cleverly written buy-sell agreement!

    

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Murder in the Marais, An Aimée Leduc Investigation by Cara Black, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder in the Marais by Cara Black, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Soho Crime.

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 (01/01/2014 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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Murder in the Marais by Cara Black
An Aimée Leduc Investigation (1st in series)
Publisher: Soho Crime

Aimée Leduc, a Parisian private investigator, has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation — no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an old Jewish man approaches Aimée with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aimée unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting.

When she goes to drop off her findings at her client's house in the Marais, Paris's historic Jewish quarter, she finds the old woman strangled, a swastika carved on her forehead. With the help of her partner, René, Aimée sets out to solve this horrendous crime, but finds herself in an increasingly dangerous web of ancient secrets and buried war crimes.

      

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New Poster for the Action Thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

A new poster — which is basically a variant of the international one we posted in November — has been released by Paramount Pictures for the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (right; click for slightly larger image). The tagline: "Trust no one."

Chris Pine stars as Jack Ryan in an original story as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. The story follows him from 9/11, through his tour of duty in Afghanistan, which scarred him forever, and into his early days in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the modern CIA, where he becomes an analyst under the guardianship of his handler, Harper (Kevin Costner). When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancée Cathy (Keira Knightley).

Directed by Kenneth Branagh from an original screenplay by Adam Cozad and David Koepp and based on a character created by Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit opens in theaters January 17, 2014.