Four new character posters have been released (via Yahoo! Movies) for the new Sherlock Holmes movie, A Game of Shadows, which we're displaying below. Click on the image for a larger version.
The posters depict Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes, Jude Law as Dr. John Watson, Noomi Rapace as Simza, and Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows opens in US theaters December 16th, 2011.
Thursday, November 03, 2011
New Character Posters for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
The Likeness by Tana French Optioned for Film
Tana French's second Cassie Maddox mystery, The Likeness, has been optioned for film. Stephanie Savage will write the adapted screenplay.
Six months after the events of In the Woods — the first book in the series, which has also been optioned for film — an urgent telephone call beckons Cassie to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used. Suddenly, Cassie must discover not only who killed this girl, but more importantly, who is this girl?
(Source: Deadline|Hollywood.)
Authors of Supernatural Thriller Black Light Adapting their own Novel for Film
Two of the three co-authors of the recently published supernatural thriller Black Light — Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan — are adapting their own novel for film.
Black Light introduces private investigator Buck Carlsbad. Buck's got a way with spirits that no one else can match. He was normal, once. Until Something Horrible killed his parents and left him for dead.
Buck has spent years using his gift to trace his family. It's his only hope of finding out what happened to them — and what made him the way he is.
Now the voices say that something big is coming. Buck already knows what it is — a super high-tech bullet train running express across a stretch of unforgiving desert known for the most deadly paranormal events in history. A place where Buck almost died a few years ago, and where he swore he would never return.
But as the train prepares to rumble down the tracks, Buck knows it can only be the inevitable hand of fate pulling him back to the most harrowing unfinished case of his career at four hundred miles per hour.
(Source: Deadline|Hollywood.)
New Red Band Trailer for 21 Jump Street
Columbia Pictures has released a new red-band trailer for its theatrical film update of the late 1980s television crime drama 21 Jump Street. We've embedded it below.
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill star as police officers who work undercover as high school students to control youth crime. And while this short synopsis is exactly what the TV series was about, we have to say this trailer looks absolutely nothing like the TV series we remember watching.
21 Jump Street opens in theaters March 16th, 2012.
November's Selection of Amazon Kindle Books Priced $3.99 or less
Every month, Amazon selects 100 Kindle books and prices them at $3.99 or less. We've scoured through the November selection and picked out the really important ones — mystery/suspense novels and thrillers — and listed them below. Click on the title for more information.
Important Note: The prices listed are only available through the month of November 2011 and may change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of book before completing your purchase.
• Bangkok 8 by John Burdett. A Sonchai Jitpleecheep Mystery (1st in series). $1.99.
• Falling to Pieces by Vannetta Chapman. A Deborah and Callie Amish Mystery (1st in series). $3.99.
• Prey by Michael Crichton. $3.99.
• Don't Look Back by Lynette Eason. A Women of Justice Mystery (2nd in series). $2.99.
• Sugartown by Loren D. Estleman. An Amos Walker Mystery (5th in series). $1.99.
• Change-Up by John Feinstein. A Steve and Susan Sports Mystery (4th in series). $3.99.
• Under Cover of Daylight by James W. Hall. A Thorn Thriller (1st in series). $3.99.
• Stealing Trinity by Ward Larsen. $2.99.
• Wined and Died by Cricket McRae. A Sophie Mae Reynolds Homecrafting Mystery (4th in series). $1.99.
• A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin. An Inspector Rebus Mystery (15th in series). $1.99.
• The Absent Author by Ron Roy. An A-to-Z Mystery (1st in series). $2.99.
• The Sticking Place by T. B. Smith. A Luke Jones Mystery (1st in series). $2.99.
• The Valley of Shadows by Mark Terry. A Derek Stillwater Mystery (4th in series). $2.99.
OMN Welcomes Mystery Author Bobby Cole
Omnimystery News is pleased to welcome Bobby Cole, whose debut thriller is The Dummy Line (AmazonEncore, October 2011 Trade Paperback and ebook editions).
Today Bobby writes about two sides of a thrilling adventure: the hunter and the hunted. And he's also offering one of our readers a chance to win a copy of his book; see entry details below.
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Have you ever been in the later winter woods at night? The dark landscape has a way of soaking up every sound and leaving a hush of total silence. That is until a coyote howls, telling the world he is hunting and found a fresh scent. Even the smooth sound of a barred owl hooting can be unsettling. The woods at night are a totally different place than the woods in the daylight. A seasoned hunter, who knows the ways of the night woods, will pause and listen intently to confirm each sound.
Photo provided courtesy of
Bobby Cole
When you’re disoriented the vast woods can seem to go on forever. The huge trees are like giant skeletons and the only witnesses to whatever has occurred or is about to happen.
Running for your life the woods can offer a million places to hide and none of them will offer the comfort of safety. Each muddy foot print leaves a trail and a flashlight as comforting as it can be, is a visual locator beacon for anyone looking for you.
Having hunted and having been around various hunting camps all my life, I was able to pull from my experiences to add authenticity of this story. I know what the woods are like at night, I’ve lived being unnerved by sounds. This is my story. I’ve been preparing to write it all my life and didn’t know it.
Imagine being chased into a vast swamp by a gang of blood crazed rednecks at night. Then imagine having a nine year little girl totally depending on you to take care of her. Add a teenage girl who just witnessed the same rednecks beat her boyfriend senseless and you have the premise for my new suspense thriller, The Dummy Line.
Jake Crosby takes his small daughter on a weekend hunting trip to his remote camp in the vast swamp in rural Alabama. When some deeply disturbed redneck criminals arrive to rob the camp, Jake is forced to kill one in an effort to protect his daughter. With the only exit blocked Jake grabs Katy and they take off deeper into the darkness of the vast swamp, on a collision course with danger.
It’s here, while being chased by revenged crazed rednecks that Jake learns just how dark the woods are, how silent they can be and there is no place to hide. He also learns just how far a man will go to protect what he loves.
Life changing decisions begin happening in rapid fire causing readers to wonder “how would I have handled that situation.” As I wrote the story and heard Jakes voice in my mind I know I did. It’s easy to second guess from the comfort of a reading chair and the situations Jake finds himself in are certainly thought provoking.
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Bobby Cole is an avid wildlife manager, hunter, and supporter of the Catch-A-Dream Foundation, who loves writing suspenseful thrillers in his free time. He lives with his wife and daughter in West Point, Mississippi. For more information about the author and his book, including a sample chapter, visit ReadBobbyCole.com.
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About The Dummy Line:
Avid hunter Jake Crosby is thrilled that his nine-year-old daughter Katy shares his love of the outdoors. His wife, Morgan, on the other hand, does not, which means Jake and Katy enjoy an abundance of hunting, fishing, and camping trips together. So when they head off into the Alabama woods for a spring turkey hunt, Jake expects nothing out of the ordinary. But even his worst nightmares could not prepare him for what befalls them that evening, when a band of drug dealers attempts to break into their remote camp.
Desperate to protect his daughter and himself, Jake makes a gut-wrenching decision. His quick thinking enables him and Katy to escape … but brings the gang of vengeful criminals hot on their trail. Gambling on his knowledge of the land and hunting skills, he leads their bloodthirsty pursuers on a perilous cat-and-mouse game deep within the Noxubee River swamp. Jake knows they all won’t come out alive — but he will do whatever is necessary to make sure Katy does.
For a chance to win a copy of The Dummy Line, courtesy of Little Bird Publicity, visit Mystery Book Contests, click on the "Bobby Cole: The Dummy Line" contest link, enter your name, e-mail address, and this code (2972) for a chance to win! (One entry per person; contest ends 11/09/2011.)
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Review: Skating Over the Line by Joelle Charbonneau
Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews: Skating Over the Line by Joelle Charbonneau.
Harlequin Worldwide Mystery Titles for November 2011
eHarlequin.com has released the list of November 2011 titles for its Worldwide Mystery imprint, your partner in crime. Amateur sleuths, traditional cozies, police procedurals and private-eye fiction, written by award-winning authors.
For more information about the book from eHarlequin.com, click on the title or cover.
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Alibi for a Cold Winter's Night
A Cybil Quint Mystery (3rd in series)
Murder strikes a homeless shelter and fledgling private investigator Cybil Quindt volunteers in the kitchen to investigate. The first victim was found behind the wheel of the shelter delivery truck. The second, an elderly homeless woman, died after eating a shelter meal. Cybil wonders if the real target is the homeless … or the shelter itself, built on prime real estate.
Meanwhile, a case involving a very rich cheating husband puts her undercover in a local industrial company. She nails the cheater and the girlfriend, and she makes a surprising connection to the shelter—but not before the lovers end up dead. Though the wife is the prime suspect, Cybil believes greed is a more likely motive for murder. She follows clues left in the killer's wake … straight into a very dangerous—and tragic—discovery.
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Hazards of the Game
A Cedar Harbor Mystery (3rd in series)
Recently widowed Paula Madigan agrees to house-sit for a friend on Puget Sound. Soon, new friends and a fresh perspective find her on the golf course, where to her shock, she discovers the bejeweled hand of a dead woman in the sand trap. The victim, unpopular at the country club, was suspected of sending nasty anonymous notes to other members. But when Paula receives her own ominous note after the murder, it's clear the writer—perhaps the killer—is alive and well.
Paula's life becomes even more complicated when the thirteen-year-old granddaughter she's never met visits for the summer. She's a typical teenager whose knack for sleuthing puts her in danger's path. Another murder occurs and Paula, desperate to protect her granddaughter, has to draw on all her detective skills—before death becomes par for the course.
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The Murder Hole
A Jean Fairbairn and Alasdair Cameron Mystery (2nd in series)
American journalist Jean Fairbairn, on an assignment for Great Scot magazine, is covering a new effort to unravel the mystery of Nessie, Scotland's Loch Ness monster. At the helm of the controversial probe is an American scientist who believes his technology will prove or disprove the monster's existence once and for all. But the locals—who profit from the tourist dollars Nessie brings—are protesting. So is an outspoken environmentalist, as the area is full of ancient Pictish artifacts … possibly a treasure trove.
As the mystery and magic of Nessie come to life in Jean's investigation, threatening letters and untimely death wreak havoc with the expedition. Jean must confront her turbulent feelings for investigating detective Alasdair Cameron, as the pair uncover the sinister truth about who stands to profit from Scotland's rich history—and who will die.
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Touch-Me-Not
A Victoria Trumbull Mystery (9th in series)
Victoria Trumbull, the nonagenarian poet, columnist and police deputy of Martha's Vineyard, requires the services of the town's electrician. But he's behaving oddly. His former assistant, fired for bad behavior, has gone missing. Someone is making obscene phone calls to members of the local knitting group and Victoria suspects a connection.
The first body is discovered in the book storage shed of the West Tisbury library. The mystery deepens when the electrician's anxious wife learns his terrible secret. Then another victim turns up, stabbed with a knitting needle. Spry and spirited ninety-two-year-old Victoria, with her brilliant insight into the darker side of the human condition, finds clues connecting several people's sordid pasts. And she discovers that age is no hindrance when she's all that stands between a killer and her family.
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The Paris Secret
Non-Series
Less than twenty-four hours after fleeing to Paris, Maya Sinclair is the prime suspect in a brutal murder—and targeted by the real killer. When she's viciously attacked in the gardens of Versailles, Maya barely escapes with her life thanks to sexy French journalist Simon Girard.
Simon has been investigating the mysterious death of his brother, an art forger with ties to the woman Maya is suspected of killing. Still healing from heartbreak of his own, Simon reluctantly joins forces with Maya, who has awakened feelings within him he thought long dead.
Their search for answers uncovers the existence of a secret society, and puts them on a quest to find a missing crucifix rumored to hold the key to everlasting life. Together, Maya and Simon must race through Paris to stay one step ahead of the killer. A killer who will do anything to ensure some secrets remain buried forever …
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Good Girls
Non-Series
The lives of three Southern women are tainted by one man—the charismatic, ruthlessly ambitious Jack Sullivan—until he's finally stopped by a bullet …
Suzanne: Beautiful, intelligent and burning for a career in the law, she is nearly destroyed by a single act of violence. Guarding her secret, she rises in her profession—then scandal breaks.
Taylor: Suzanne's sister. Marrying the man of the hour, she should have been happy forever. Instead, she's only a pawn in her husband's ruthless climb to the top.
Annie: Their eccentric cousin by marriage, she runs from the secrets of her heart. Tragedy brings her home and temptation beckons, but she vows not to repeat her mother's mistakes.
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Cold Turkey by Janice Bennett is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Cold Turkey by Janice Bennett as today's fifth free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically only until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.
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Cold Turkey by Janice Bennett
An Annike McKinley, Events Unlimited Mystery
Cerridwen Press
This mystery, the first of four in the series, introduces events organizer Annike McKinley.
About Cold Turkey (from the publisher): When Annike McKinley returns to her Aunt Gerda's home for Thanksgiving she finds the body of Clifford Brody, C.P.A., bleeding all over her aunt's tax receipts. While Sheriff Owen Sarkisian and the crime team track mud through the house, the Service Club of Upper River Gulch Environs (the SCOURGEs) sticks Annike with organizing the town's Thanksgiving weekend activities, which gives her the opportunity to investigate the murder on her own to clear the chief suspect her beloved aunt. She's soon up to her neck in pancake breakfasts, pie-eating contests, community dinners and a raffle prize that threatens to take over her life.
After ordering Annike to stop interfering, Sarkisian is forced to beg the aid of her accounting skills to help unravel the case. She keeps a tight rein on her growing enjoyment of his company, though, for as the widow of a former sheriff of the county she is determined not to get romantically involved with another law officer. Then one of the suspects is found dead, stripped to his boxers and socks in a vat of apricot brandy. Before the murderer is captured, both Annike and Sarkisian narrowly avoid adding to the body count.
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Neon Dragon by John F. Dobbyn is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Neon Dragon by John F. Dobbyn as today's fourth free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically only until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.
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Neon Dragon by John F. Dobbyn
A Michael Knight and Lex Devlin Mystery
Oceanview Publishing
Introduced in a series of short stories, Boston attorneys Michael Knight and Lex Devlin got their first full-length novel with the 2007 publication of Neon Dragon. The third book in the series, Black Diamond, was published last month.
About Neon Dragon (from the publisher): Amid the flash and din of Boston's raucous Chinese New Year's celebration, an elderly man is shot while watching the parade from his window. Anthony Bradley, the son of an African-American judge, is standing across the street at the time and is immediately arrested for the crime.
Michael Knight, a young lawyer who's going places, is surprised when Judge Bradley asks him to defend his son in such a high profile and politically delicate case. Luckily, Knight finds powerful support from Lex Devlin, a senior partner at his firm. Once the foremost criminal defense attorney in Boston, Devlin has mysteriously withdrawn from defense work in recent years. As Knight and Devlin investigate and prepare their client's defense, Knight is forced to confront the murky allegations that eclipsed his mentor's career, and enter into the shadow world of gangland Chinatown.
From the halls of Harvard to the streets of Chinatown, Knight doggedly pursues an investigation that involves drugs, prostitution, human trafficking, and a corruption scandal that could bring down the most powerful people in Boston.
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Blood Island by H. Terrell Griffin is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blood Island by H. Terrell Griffin as today's free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically only until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.
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Blood Island by H. Terrell Griffin
A Matt Royal Mystery
Oceanview Publishing
When we reviewed this entertaining third entry in the series in 2009, we said, "Readers who seek fast and furious action in their mysteries need look no further than Blood Island. A cozy it most certainly is not." The sixth book in the series, Collateral Damage, is scheduled to be published next month.
About Blood Island (from the publisher): Matt Royal never has to look far for excitement. Excitement — and sometimes trouble — has a way of finding him first. But for this fun-loving lawyer turned beach bum, things are about to get serious. Dead serious.
When his ex-wife asks for help in tracking down her stepdaughter, last seen in Matt’s hometown of Longboat Key, Matt agrees to do a little searching.
But what looks like the case of one missing girl turns out to be something much bigger — and much more dangerous.
Enlisting the aid of his buddies Jock Algren and Logan Hamilton, Matt launches a full-speed-ahead search that leads from Longboat Key to Key West to an ominous strip of land called Blood Island.
But this is no island paradise. Blood Island is home base to a cult of religious zealots. And they’re making devastating plans that could change the world forever.
Bullets fly, and as the clock ticks down, it will be up to Matt to make sure that what happens on Blood Island stays on Blood Island.
Read our review of Blood Island by H. Terrell Griffin.
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Stuff to Die For by Don Bruns is Today's Second Featured Second Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Stuff to Die For by Don Bruns as today's second free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically only until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.
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Stuff to Die For by Don Bruns
A James Lessor and Skip Moore Mystery
Oceanview Publishing
This first in a series from the author of the Mick Sever mystery series introduces underemployed best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore.
About Stuff to Die For (from the publisher): James Lessor and Skip Moore are hardly on the fast track. While James works as a line cook at Cap'n Crab, Skip spends his days selling—or rather, attempting to sell—security systems to people who (a) have no money, and (b) have nothing they care to protect.
James and Skip aren't upwardly mobile, but they're about to get literally mobile when James spends a surprise inheritance on a white box truck. An investment in the future, he surmises, as these two are starting a business—solely devoted to hauling other people's stuff.
But the fledgling business takes a shocking turn when James and Skip unload the contents of their first moving job and find some unexpected cargo—a bloody human finger.
James and Skip must scramble to stay one step ahead of the perpetrators of the gruesome crime in this witty, gritty mystery about big dreams, big ideas—and big trouble.
Instead of chasing the American dream, James and Skip will be running for their lives.
Read our review of Stuff to Die For by Don Bruns.
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