Mystery Book Review: The Guilty by Jason Pinter

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of The Guilty by Jason Pinter. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

The Guilty by Jason Pinter
A Henry Parker Mystery

Mira Books (Mass Market Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-7783-2463-X (077832463X)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7783-2463-8 (9780778324638)
Publication Date: March 2008
List Price: $7.99

Synopsis (from the publisher): Justice is as fast as a bullet…

As I lie in bed with Amanda, ignoring another late-night call from my ex, a shot rings out in the New York night and a beautiful starlet dies outside the city's most popular nightclub. This is the kind of story I was born to chase—but I never dreamed this story began over a hundred years ago. …

Suddenly another life is taken, the bullet fired from one of the deadliest guns ever made. Both victims are highly controversial, their murders more like public executions. My search leads me into the twisted world of The Boy—a world defined by a demented code of honor and shocking, long-buried secrets of the world's most infamous outlaw.

When this assassin realizes I'm getting too close to the truth, uncovering the past could jeopardize everything I care about. Because in his world there's a fine line between good and evil, and the difference between innocence and guilt depends on who's holding the gun. …

Review: Investigative journalist Henry Parker probes the murders of four prominent people, all within days of each other, in The Guilty, the second thriller in this series by Jason Pinter.

"Some reporters are always a step behind. Some reporters always keep pace. Some reporters are always a step ahead. What kind of a reporter are you?" So asks a plaque placed outside the news division of The Gazette, a hard-hitting newspaper in New York City. Henry Parker has vowed to be a step ahead, no matter what. The murders have the city on edge and Henry tries to not only find the reasons behind their deaths but possibly even the person responsible. The only clue: the victims were killed with an antique Winchester rifle. His investigation takes him from the ghettos of the city to the open plains of New Mexico. And he makes a truly amazing connection between a modern killer and an outlaw from the wild west.

The book's title, The Guilty, is intentionally ambiguous. Who are the guilty? Certainly Henry himself, who is presented as a flawed individual, especially in his personal life, and in particular in his relationships with women. In the killer's mind, however, the victims are "guilty of the degeneration of society by their ethical and moral failures." But why kill them with a famous (or possibly infamous) weapon from the late 1800s? This connection between crimes of the past and the present murders makes for a compelling thriller and the best passages in the story follow Henry's research, watching him link together the pieces of this puzzle. There is a bit of hero worship, or maybe romanticizing, for the outlaws of the past (Billy the Kid, Jesse James, and others) that seems at odds with Henry's investigation of the killings, but that's a minor criticism.

Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of The Guilty and to Precedent Media for providing a copy of the book for this review.

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for March 24, 2008

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!).

This week's letters and mystery clue: A D E G L N O R U. This St. Louis private investigator is featured in a series by John Lutz (9 letters).

New! We now have our puzzles 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!

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Compendium of Mystery News 080323

A compendium of recently published mystery news articles:

• In a press release, Her Interactive has officially announced the title of the 18th installment in the Nancy Drew PC game series, Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice. The game is expected to be available this July for purchase. A short (40 second) trailer for the game is also available on the Her Interactive website. [MBN note: All of the current Nancy Drew PC games are available on the Games of Mystery website, including the new Nancy Drew DS game released earlier this year. Also available are Nancy Drew Strategy Guides for many of the games.]

• Reuters is reporting that one of Britain's best-known children's book series, the Famous Five by Enid Blyton, is being turned into a 21st century cartoon for Disney. "The Famous Five themes of adventure, mystery and friendship are as relevant and appealing to kids today as they were 70 years ago," said the Disney Channel's Steve Aranguren in a statement. [MBN note: The original Famous Five series books are available on the First Clues: Mysteries for Kids website.]

• Time Magazine interviews Rita Mae Brown who, they say, is nothing if not versatile: feminist activist, mystery writer, lesbian pioneer, fox hunter, screenwriter, novelist, animal rescuer.

• The New York Times has brief overviews and reviews of half a dozen or so recently published mysteries and thrillers.

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Pre-Order Discounted Mysteries: Featured Titles for 03/25/2008

Amazon.com recently began offering an additional 5% discount on selected titles if ordered before the publication date. We've collected the most popular mysteries that are included in this program and listed them on a new site, Pre-Order Mysteries.

Each week we'll feature here those titles that are scheduled for publication during the coming week to alert you that the pre-order discount from Amazon.com for these titles will end after the books are published. On the Pre-Order Mysteries website, we have eligible titles scheduled to be published over the next 6 weeks that you may pre-order.

This week's featured pre-order discounted mysteries:

Death Walked In by Carolyn G. Hart. The 18th mystery in the Death on Demand series featuring mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling. Scheduled publication date: 03/25/2008.

Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson. Scheduled publication date: 03/25/2008.

Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman. The 22nd mystery for psychologist Alex Delaware. Scheduled publication date: 03/25/2008.

Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry. The 25th case for Victorian London police inspector Thomas Pitt. Scheduled publication date: 03/25/2008.

Miss Julia Paints the Town by Ann B. Ross. The 9th mystery featuring North Carolina amateur sleuth Miss Julia. Scheduled publication date: 03/27/2008.

To qualify for the additional 5% discount at checkout, you must order these books prior to their date of publication. See the terms and conditions for the 5% discount program on the Amazon.com site or at Pre-Order Mysteries.

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Mystery Book Review: The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
A Quirke Mystery

Henry Holt (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 0-8050-8153-4 (0805081534)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8153-4 (9780805081534)
Publication Date: March 2008
List Price: $25.00

Synopsis (from the publisher): Two years have passed since the events of Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, his surrogate father lies in a convent hospital paralyzed by a devastating stroke, and Phoebe, Quirke’s long-denied daughter, has grown increasingly withdrawn and isolated.
 
With much to regret from his last inquisitive foray, Quirke ought to know better than to let his curiosity get the best of him. Yet when an almost forgotten acquaintance comes to him about his beautiful young wife’s apparent suicide, Quirke’s “old itch to cut into the quick of things, to delve into the dark of what was hidden” is roused again. As he begins to probe further into the shadowy circumstances of Deirdre Hunt’s death, he discovers many things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger to those he loves.

Review: Benjamin Black's second novel to feature Quirke, The Silver Swan, has the Dublin pathologist facing personal battles as well as professional ones when he fails to quell his curiosity and performs an autopsy on a woman who purportedly accidentally drowned in the sea.

The autopsy probably wouldn't have even happened. Autopsies aren't required for accident victims, yet when the husband of the dead woman, an old school chum, asks Quirke specifically not to perform an autopsy, he can't help but wonder why. There's no water in her lungs and he finds a fresh puncture wound with traces of morphine in her blood. Still, for reasons he's not even sure of himself, he lies to the coroner's court and testifies that she accidentally drowned. In a case of the police chief knowing Quirke lied and Quirke knowing the chief knows this, they both begin quiet, but separate, investigations into the true circumstances of the woman's death.

The sequence of events in The Silver Swan is so improbable that it almost seems is if the message here is, truth is stranger than fiction. But this is fiction. And as a mystery or suspense novel, it completely misses the mark. To be sure, the book is beautifully written with masterfully crafted narrative effortlessly flowing down the page. It's a genuine pleasure to read such elegant prose. But the plot seems incomplete or maybe it's just weakly executed.

A minor difficulty in navigating this book is the intertwined inclusion of chapters that relate the backstory of the dead woman, Deidre Hunt who is also known as Laura Swan. The two timelines eventually come together in the end at a point that is supposed to be climatic but falls far short. Instead of being revealing and surprising, it's all rather expected, even routine. It's a bit disappointing.

Quirke's character, already well developed from his introduction in Christine Falls, continues to evolve here. This complex man is the core of these books and one of the reasons this series excels. Read The Silver Swan because it is a superbly written atmospheric novel with multi-dimensional characters; just don't expect any mystery here.

Special thanks to Henry Holt for providing an ARC of The Silver Swan for this review.

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Mystery Bestsellers for March 21, 2008

A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending March 21, 2008 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.

James Patterson's 7th Heaven remains in the top position this week, but a new title on the list debuts in the 4th spot.

Killer Heat is the 10th legal thriller to feature Manhattan District Attorney Alex Cooper by Linda Fairstein. Just as Alex is claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: the body of a young woman has been found in an abandoned building. The brutality of the murder is disturbing enough, but when a second body, beaten and disposed of in exactly same manner, is found off the Belt Parkway, the city’s top brass want the killer found fast, before the tabloids can start churning out ghoulish serial killer headlines. Between dodging the bullets of the gang members who are infuriated by Alex’s most recent courtroom victory and keeping a rendezvous with a charming restaurateur, a serial killer on the loose is the last thing she needs on her plate right now. Then a third victim is found, and it becomes clear to Alex and her team that time is not on their side. Publishers Weekly calls Killer Heat "nail-biting" and Library Journal adds, "Fairstein delivers a scorcher of a crime novel."

On our bestseller page, we've added an icon next to every title that is available for immediate download onto the Amazon Kindle. To learn about this wireless reading device, visit the Amazon Kindle page for more information. And don't forget to check our Pre-Order Mysteries page where you can save an additional 5% when you purchase your mystery books prior to their publication date.

The top four mystery bestsellers this week are shown below:

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Mystery Book Review: A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer
Non-series

St. Martin's Press (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 0-312-37929-3 (0312379293)
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-37929-2 (9780312379292)
Publication Date: March 2008
List Price: $27.95

Synopsis (from the publisher): Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig never should have met. One evening, Danny, an East End cockney who works as a garage mechanic, takes his fianceé up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. He crosses the path of Spencer Craig, a West End barrister posed to be the youngest Queen’s Counsel of his generation.

A few hours later Danny is arrested for murder and later is sentenced to twenty-two years in prison, thanks to irrefutable testimony from Spencer, the prosecution's main witness.

Danny spends the next few years in a high-security prison while Spencer Craig’s career as a lawyer goes straight up. All the while Danny plans to escape and wreak his revenge.

Review: A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer is a modern update of the classic tale of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge.

Danny Cartwright is an uneducated garage mechanic who is falsely accused of murder but found guilty and sentenced to twenty-two years in the highest security prison in the land. He has no thought of fortune or redemption, just revenge – revenge against the four prominent men who were involved in the killing of his best friend, and who were the prosecution’s prime witnesses at his trial. He figures he has twenty-two years to plan his perfect revenge. By a twist of fate, however, fortune becomes a part of Danny’s life when he is released as someone he befriended in prison, the heir to a vast estate. He now has the means to act on his revenge. But what of redemption?

From a general plot outline perspective, there is little difference between A Prisoner of Birth and The Count of Monte Cristo from which the novel is clearly derived. The author here, however, instills into his characters personalities that make them individuals and not merely copies of the original characters created by Dumas. There are a few plot inventions that seem a bit contrived in order to match the basic story in classic tale, but fortunately these are compensated with an ample number of new twists and turns that are introduced here.

Intelligently written, A Prisoner of Birth is in many ways an original story embedded within a comfortable and familiar plot, the result being a tremendously satisfying novel.

Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of A Prisoner of Birth and to Authors on the Web for providing an a copy of the book for this review.

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Games of Mystery: Host Your Own Murder Mystery Party

Games of Mystery, your online source for mystery-themed games, parties, and vacations, has updated its website to include a Host Your Own Murder Mystery Evening page of games.

Put murder on the menu and host a dinner party with a difference! Host Your Own Murder Mystery Evening games come complete with invitations, menu suggestions, tips on home decoration, character guides and an audio CD. Terrific fun, these games provide great opportunities for you and your guests to dress-up, get into character, and really 'ham-it-up' as you try to figure out whodunit!

Developed by Cheatwell Games, there are five titles available in this series: The Curse of the Mummy, Dead on Time, Death in the Ring, The Porthole Affair, The Shotgun Affair. All are designed for groups of 6 to 8 players.

Also available on the Games of Mystery website is a list of mystery parties available from Host-Party.com. Games are sorted by age group, Mystery Parties for Adults, Mystery Parties for Teens, and Mystery Parties for Kids, and are frequently updated with new mystery party ideas.

Visit Games of Mystery for all types of mysterious fun!

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Compendium of Mystery News 080319

A compendium of recently published mystery news articles:

• USA Today has 5 questions for mystery author Laura Lippman.

• The Writing Show is hosting its third annual First Chapter of a Novel Contest with a top prize of $1000. There is an entry fee of $25 (if submitted prior to May 20, 2008). See the press release for more details including the contest website.

• The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced its finalists for the 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Winners will be announced on May 29, 2008. Categories include Women's Mystery and Men's Mystery.

• The Daily Yomiuri is reporting that mystery writer Jiro Akagawa has published his 500th novel titled The Ball at Castle Dracula. The author disagrees, stating that Calico Cat Holmes' Tea Party is the 500th. Regardless, that's a lot of mysteries! He first started writing in 1977 and turns out 10-20 books a year.

• Publishers Weekly talks to Ben LeRoy, publisher of Bleak House, who has established a niche in the marketplace by focusing on noir fiction and hard-boiled mysteries.

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Mystery Book Review: Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson
An Inspector Alan Banks Mystery

William Morrow (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 0-06-054437-6 (0060544376)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-054437-9 (9780060544379)
Publication Date: March 2008
List Price: $24.95

Synopsis (from the publisher): One morning in March, on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea, a woman named Karen Drew is found in her wheelchair with her throat slit. Back in Eastvale on that same morning, in a tangle of narrow alleys behind a market square, the body of Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled.

Two murders ... two towns ...

On loan to a sister precinct, Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot draws the first case. Karen Drew seems to have lived a quiet and nearly invisible life for the past seven years. Try as she might, Annie turns up nothing in the woman's past that might have prompted someone to wheel her out to the sea and to her death.

Meanwhile, in the Hayley Daniels murder, Chief Inspector Alan Banks has suspects galore. Everywhere she went, the nineteen-year-old student attracted attention. Anyone could have followed her on the night she was out drinking with friends, making sure she never made it back home.

Then a breakthrough spins Annie's case in a shocking and surprising new direction, straight toward Banks. Coincidence? Not in Eastvale. Banks and Annie are searching for two killers who might strike again at any moment and with bloody fury.

Review: Chief Inspector Alan Banks investigates one murder while his colleague Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot is assigned to a second in Friend of the Devil, the 17th mystery in this long running series by Peter Robinson.

Alan's case is the rape and murder of a young woman in a building located in The Maze, a labyrinth of alleys dating back to the 18th century. Found by the building's owner, she had been out drinking with friends the previous night before wandering off alone. Annie's case is the gruesome murder of a quadriplegic, a woman confined to a wheelchair, who is found on the top of a cliff overlooking the sea, her throat slit. The cases have nothing in common, but when a policeman is killed in The Maze, his throat slit in a manner eerily similar to the murder Annie is investigating, they begin to wonder if there might be a connection. And if so, what could possibly link these crimes together.

Friend of the Devil alternates point of view between Alan and Annie, with each getting about equal time. This allows the reader to appreciate the different approaches these detectives take in their respective investigations as well as get a sense of how they act in both their personal and professional lives. The depth of character development here is quite remarkable, and their infrequent scenes together have a subtle intensity.

Of the two murder investigations, Annie has by far the more interesting of the two possibly because, from a plot perspective, it is more complex and involved. While Alan is pounding the payment as it were, Annie is piecing together a puzzle that ultimately spans many years and involves an unsolved murder that took place in the vicinity of where her victim was found. It's all very intriguing and absorbing up until the very end when Alan comes riding like a knight on a white horse to Annie's rescue as she confronts the killer. This concluding cliché aside, Friend of the Devil is an exceptional mystery.

Special thanks to HarperCollins for providing a copy of Friend of the Devil for this review.

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Mysteries on TV: The Untouchables and The Wild Wild West

Mysteries on TV, your source for the most complete selection of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and suspense television mystery series now available or coming soon to DVD, has two series that have season DVDs being released this week.

Eliot Ness and his special agents of an elite Chicago crime squad in the 1930s during Prohibition were The Untouchables. Starring Robert Stack, the series aired on ABC for 4 seasons from 1959 through 1963. Despite being the target of various groups that decried its violence, it often ranked in the top 10 during its second season. Rumors also abounded that Desi Arnaz, the executive producer, was the target of hit men who didn't like the series attention on the Mafia.

The second season episodes have been split into two DVD sets. The Untouchables Season 2 Volume 1 DVD set of 4 discs contains the first 15 episodes of the second season that aired from mid-October 1960 through early February 1961.

Robert Conrad and Ross Martin were secret service agents James T. West and Artemus Gordon on The Wild Wild West. Airing on CBS from September 1965 through April 1969, the series was a bit of James Bond (with all his high-tech gadgets) set during the post-Civil War years in the US. A bit science fiction, western, and mystery, it appealed to a wide audience of viewers.

Both Robert Conrad and Ross Martin performed their own stunts. While filming an episode late in the third season, Conrad fell from a balcony and suffered a concussion. The episode (The Night of the Fugitives) eventually aired during the fourth season with footage of the fall left in. Ross Martin broke his leg during filming of a fourth season episode. Several weeks later he suffered a mild heart attack and was replaced for 4 episodes by Charles Aidman who played Jeremy Pike, also a master of disguise.

The Wild Wild West Season 4 DVD set of 6 discs contains all 23 episodes (including one 2-part episode) of the fourth and final season that aired from September 1968 through April 1969.

Visit the Mysteries on TV website to discover more television mystery series currently available on DVD.

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Mystery Book Review: Twisted by Andrea Kane

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of Twisted by Andrea Kane. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

Twisted by Andrea Kane
A Sloane Burbank Mystery

William Morrow (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 0-06-123678-0 (0061236780)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-123678-5 (9780061236785)
Publication Date: April 2008
List Price: $23.95

Synopsis (from the publisher): Women are disappearing ...

When Sloane Burbank, former FBI special agent, discovers that her closest childhood friend is among the missing, she launches into action, vowing to kick-start the stalled investigation. But she's no longer FBI and her involvement is unwanted, particularly by the agent in charge - her ex-love Derek Parker.

Derek has a hot new case on his hands, a string of murders in Chinatown that's threatening to erupt into gang warfare, and the missing person case is shoved to the back burner. Not even Sloane's out-of-the-blue appearance or the combustible unresolved feelings between them can change that - at least not at first. But soon it becomes terrifyingly clear that the disappearing women are part of a twisted, heinous crime spree that can't be ignored, especially when Sloane is revealed to be the missing piece of the perpetrator's puzzle - and the ultimate target.

Review: Andrea Kane introduces ex-FBI agent Sloane Burbank in Twisted, an aptly titled twist-filled thriller that tracks a serial killer in Manhattan.

Sloane Burbank works as a law enforcement consultant after a stint with the Manhattan District Attorney's office and several years with the FBI. She left the bureau after receiving a stab wound that resulted in the temporary loss of use of her right hand. While on a consulting assignment, she's contacted by the parents of a childhood friend who vanished a year ago. Although the FBI is still officially working on the case, there aren't many clues and little progress has been made. The lead investigator is Special Agent Derrick Parker who just happens to be Sloane's ex-partner and ex-lover. After Sloane insists that Derrick take a closer look at the disappearance of her friend, they discover a pattern emerging. Several other young, healthy, athletic, and educated women have also vanished. Sloane herself just happens to fit the profile of the missing women and is a potential target of an intelligent serial abductor.

Twisted is in many ways a sublime thriller. Sloane and Derrick's investigation veers off in unexpected directions that take the reader on a riveting journey. That the abductor is not known until the very end is a measure of how smartly written this book is. There's also the simmering personal and professional relationship between Sloane and Derrick that enhances the suspense created by the plot. Though positioned as a romantic thriller, there is far more thrill than romance in Twisted and the book should appeal to a wide range of readers who enjoy a truly superb mystery.

Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of Twisted and to Book Trends for providing an ARC of the book for this review.

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