Telemystery: Law & Order, Poirot, and White Collar, 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 three series — one with three seasons — from our site being released this week.

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Law & Order
Season Fifteen

In the compelling fifteenth year of Dick Wolf’s iconic series, the Manhattan criminal justice team tries not to let departmental shake-ups impact their abilities to pursue the riveting cases that have shocked the city.

Detective Joe Fontana (Dennis Farina) and ADA Alexandra Borgia (Annie Parisse) bring their expertise to grim crimes regarding fake flu vaccines and con men, while ADA Serena Southerlyn (Elisabeth Röhm) exits after her strong opinions put her at odds with her colleagues in the death of a controversial rap producer.

  

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Law & Order
Season Sixteen

Gripping life-or-death drama. Intelligent dialogue. Ripped-from-the-headlines scenarios. They’re all here in this 16th season of this long-running series.

Annie Parisse and Dennis Farina return for their final season as ADA Alexandra Borgia and Detective Joe Fontana, who take on cases involving a grim sterilization campaign, post-partum psychosis and a death so disturbing to Lieutenant Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson) that she flirts with perjury in the name of justice.

      

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Law & Order
Season Seventeen

The storylines remain as compelling as ever, but this seventeenth season of Law & Order brings big changes to the men and women working in New York City’s criminal justice system.

Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin) earns his promotion to Senior Detective, Nina Cassady (Milena Govich) joins the Department for her short tenure as a detective, DA Arthur Branch (Fred Thompson) finishes his time as the District Attorney and Jack McCoy (Sam Waterson) serves his final days in the courtroom before taking on his boss’s position.

      

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Poirot
Series Thirteen

David Suchet portrays the brilliant Belgian sleuth in these final five mysteries of the series.

Lavish productions and pitch-perfect performances from Suchet and an outstanding supporting cast perfectly capture the spirit of Agatha Christie’s beloved crime stories.

The episodes are:

"Elephants Can Remember";
"The Big Four";
"Dead Man’s Folly";
"The Labours of Hercules"; and
"Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case".

    

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White Collar
Season Five

Catch up with television's smartest, sexiest con-man-turned-crime-fighter before the final season!

In Season 5, $1.8 million in gold coins is missing, an elusive precious diamond is about to be found, and Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) has a new handler — and a new love interest. But all is fair in love and crime, and the closer Neal gets to the mysterious Rebecca Lowe, the greater the danger for everyone in his life.

The sixth and final (shortened) season of the series begins this Thursday, November 6th, on USA Network.

      

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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.

Scratched by J. J. Partridge, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014 …

Scratched by J. J. Partridge

An Algy Temple Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Koehler Books

  

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for November 2014. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of November 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

More about our featured title, below …

When Algy Temple, pool player, sleuth and Ivy League university lawyer, investigates the highly suspicious death of a retired university don, his contemporaneous involvement in a high stakes pool tournament in Providence becomes a tiresome, contentious obligation that must be endured. As he delves into the life of the deceased, he unexpectedly finds himself on a path that leads him to Rome, the vendetta-ridden Boot of Italy and into a haunted past of corruption and conspiracy with a linkage to the tournament, gambling, shylocks, and mobsters unexpected even in Providence where old world shadows hang heavy in the air.

Add an abduction, a Ponzi, an outraged Italo-American community locked in a culture war with the University, a hustler's last gambit for recognition, and a fiancé focused on their wedding in two weeks, his investigation becomes a match of wits with a dead man, and a pool wager of life and death.

— Scratched by J. J. Partridge

Death of an Englishman, A Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia Mystery by Magdalen Nabb, Now Available at a Special Price

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy. Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Soho Crime …

Death of an Englishman by Magdalen Nabb

A Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Soho Crime

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/03/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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It is just before Christmas and the marshal wants to go South to spend the holiday with his wife and family, but first he must recover from the flu (which has left the Florentine caribinieri short-handed) and also solve a murder. A seemingly respectable retired Englishman, living in a flat on the Via Maggio near the Santa Trinita bridge, was shot in the back during the night. He was well-connected and Scotland Yard has dispatched two officers to "assist" the Italians in solving the crime.

But it is the marshal, a quiet observer, not an intellectual, who manages to figure out what happened, and why.

— Death of an Englishman by Magdalen Nabb

Mystery Godoku Puzzle for November 03, 2014

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 B C D E L M R U

Mary Kennedy's mysteries are centered around this group of people (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!

Enter to Win — The Buried, a Novel of Romantic Suspense by Shelley Coriell

Omnimystery News invites you to Enter to Win a copy of The Buried by Shelley Coriell, courtesy of Grand Central Publishing.

Three (3) winners will receive a copy of …

Title: The Buried
Author: Shelley Coriell
Series: The Apostles Series
Publisher: Forever
Format: Mass Market Paperback
List Price: $8.00

Use the form below to submit your entry. One entry per person; US residents only. Entry period ends Monday, November 10, 2014. (If you cannot see the entry form, use this link.)

Synopsis: Successful, ambitious state prosecutor Grace Courtemanche is at the top of her game. Then she gets a chilling call from a young woman claiming to be buried alive. Desperate to find the victim before it's too late, Grace will do whatever it takes … even if it means excavating the darkest secrets of her own past and turning to the one man she thought she would never see again.

FBI agent Theodore "Hatch" Hatcher is a man without roots-and that's the way he likes it. But when a grisly crime shatters Cyprus Bend, Florida, Hatch is dragged back to the small town-and the one woman-he hoped was in his rearview for good. Forced to confront the wreckage of their love affair, Hatch and Grace may just find that sometimes the deepest wounds leave the most beautiful scars-and that history repeating itself may just be what they need to stop a killer … and save their own hearts.

— The Buried by Shelley Coriell