Just last week we had the first look at Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross in the next "Bourne" thriller, The Bourne Legacy, and now a new teaser — and minimalist — poster has surfaced for the film.
wcmartell added a nice explanation to our post for why Matt Damon, who appeared in the first three films of the franchise as Jason Bourne, is not appearing in this one despite the inclusion of the name "Bourne" in the title. But that's not the only confusing aspect to the film. The fourth book in the series is also titled The Bourne Legacy — written by Eric Van Lustbader, who took over the series after the death of Robert Ludlum — but this movie is being filmed from an original screenplay, not one adapted from the book.
So it probably goes without saying that the tagline shown in the poster is all too apt: "Prepare for the unexpected."
The Bourne Legacy opens in theaters August 3rd, 2012.
Monday, January 09, 2012
New Teaser Poster for The Bourne Legacy
Telemystery: Columbo, Hawaii Five-O, and Pacific Blue, 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 or Blu-ray disc, is profiling one made-for-television movies set and two series seasons being released this week.
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More than a decade after Columbo left the air as a regular part of NBC's Mystery Movie, Peter Falk reprised the iconic character of LAPD homicide detective Lt. Columbo in some 24 television movies for ABC, which aired on an irregular basis from 1989 through 2003.
Columbo: The Movie Collection 1994-2003 is the final set (of four released) in this series of movies. Available on DVD the set consists of the seven movies that aired during this period. Guest stars for these movies include Rue McClanahan, George Wendt, William Shatner, and Tyne Daly
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Jack Lord stars as Steve McGarrett, head of an elite police unit based in Honolulu, in Hawaii Five-O.
This long-running series aired for twelve seasons. In this final season, the team is going out with a bang … and taking every thief, thug, and cold-blooded murderer with them. It all culminates in a showdown between McGarrett and his ultimate nemesis.
Hawaii Five-O: Season Twelve is available on DVD and Amazon Instant and consists of 19 episodes that originally aired on CBS from October 1979 through April 1980.
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An ensemble cast portraying an elite division of the Santa Monica Police Department, who patrol their beaches on bicycles, in Pacific Blue.
From chasing down pick-pockets and purse-snatchers to investigating top-secret homicides, these law enforcement officers keep the warm, sunny beaches safe, no matter the cost. Featuring a stellar, sexy cast of characters, their relationships sizzle as temptation and desire stir up conflicting personal and professional interests.
Pacific Blue: The Complete Series is available on DVD and consists of 101 episodes that originally aired on USA Network from March 1996 through April 2000. Also being released this week: Pacific Blue: Season One on DVD.
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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.
Short Lists for the 2011 Indie Lit Awards Announced
The Independent Literary Awards were begun last year, with winners selected by book bloggers. This year, the category of mystery has been added, with the nominees (short lists) for the 2011 awards announced this past weekend. The winners will be announced in mid-March 2012.
Mystery Short List:
• A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
• The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey (Dutton)
• Fun & Games by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland Books)
• The Cut by George Pelecanos (Reagan Arthur)
• Missing Daughter, Shattered Family by Liz Strange (MLR Press)
(Hat tip to Elizabeth A. White via Mystery Fanfare for alerting us to this news.)
To Speak for the Dead by Paul Levine is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature To Speak for the Dead by Paul Levine as today's free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically for a limited time only or 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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To Speak for the Dead by Paul Levine
A Jake Lassiter Mystery
Publisher: Bantam/Nittany Valley
Paul Levine, an attorney himself, introduces ex-jock turned Miami trial lawyer Jake Lassiter in this first of this long-running — 8 books over a period of 21 years — series.
About To Speak for the Dead (from the publisher): If dead men could talk, Miami trial lawyer Jake Lassiter would be out of a job. As it is, the “ex-football player, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things” has an uncanny knack for digging up the truth … and the trouble that usually comes with it.
This time, he’s defending Dr. Roger Salisbury, an orthopedic surgeon and enigmatic womanizer charged with medical malpractice in the death of wealthy Philip Corrigan. But what appears to be a routine case takes a sinister turn when Susan, the dead man’s daughter, insists that the doctor and her sexy stepmother, Mrs. Melanie Corrigan, conspired to kill her father. Now, Susan wants Lassiter to prove it.
Lassiter would love to help the lovely and willful Susan, but how can he defend his client for malpractice while building a case against him for murder? Meanwhile, Corrigan’s beautiful widow makes a play for Lassiter, even as she continues to hold the brilliant surgeon under her spell.
Turning for help to his old friend, retired coroner Charlie Riggs, Lassiter hopes to get the evidence he needs from the dead man himself. Could the late Philip Corrigan reveal whether his death was accidental or homicidal?
Soon, Lassiter finds himself embroiled in murder, missing persons, grave robbery, kinky sex, and deadly drugs as he searches Florida’s steamy streets and tropical waterways for a cold-blooded killer.
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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for January 09, 2012
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 D E K N O R W
Sara Paretsky’s 16th V. I. Warshawski mystery has this title (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!
Sunday, January 08, 2012
Chasin' the Wind by Michael Haskins is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Chasin' the Wind by Michael Haskins as today's second free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically for a limited time only or 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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Chasin' the Wind by Michael Haskins
A Mick Murphy Mystery
Publisher: Five Star
Key West (Florida) journalist Liam Michael "Mad Mick" Murphy is introduced in this mystery. The second in the series, Free Range Institution, was published last year.
About Chasin' the Wind (from the publisher): When officials sworn to uphold the law try to subvert it in Key West, Mad Mick is compelled to react. He and a ragtag group of citizens confront failed justice, but are left with only revenge as an option. Except, perhaps a renegade deal with the Cuban government.
Dodging treachery, Mad Mick Murphy goes headlong toward treason, dragging his team of "typical" islanders deeper into the mess they wanted to eliminate.
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My Gun Has Bullets by Lee Goldberg is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature My Gun Has Bullets by Lee Goldberg as today's free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically for a limited time only or 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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My Gun Has Bullets by Lee Goldberg
A Charlie Willis Mystery
Publisher: St. Martin's Press/CreateSpace
This first of two mysteries in this series featuring LAPD detective Charlie Willis was originally published in 1995. The author reissued this title and its sequel Beyond the Beyond — which he renamed Dead Space — in 2011.
About My Gun Has Bullets (from the publisher): When Beverly Hills Police Officer Charlie Willis pulls over a speeding Rolls Royce hell-bent for Neiman Marcus, he's surprised to see Esther Radcliffe, the geriatric star of the TV series Miss Agatha, behind the wheel. He's even more surprised when she guns him down and keeps on driving. A few hours later, he wakes up in the intensive care unit … to find a William Morris agent, a network president, and the head of Pinnacle Studios standing at the foot of his bed. They have a proposal for him: in exchange for conveniently forgetting who shot him, they'll make him the star of his own series, My Gun Has Bullets. So Charlie trades in his real badge for a fake one … and so begins an uproarious but deadly romp through the wonderful world of TV make-believe … with real bullets.
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The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey is Today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey as today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find. The deal price of $3.60 is valid only for today, Sunday, January 08, 2012.
Note: Amazon.com is matching the price of this ebook for today only.
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The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey
A Peter Diamond Mystery
Soho Crime
Peter Lovesey published The Last Detective in 1991, his third series character (after two historical series, one featuring Victorian detective Sergeant Cribbs and the other, Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales). It went on to win the 1992 Anthony Award for Best Novel. Lovesey continues to write mysteries featuring this character, which are published in the US by Soho Press. Last May, Soho reissued the first in this series, the title currently offered here.
About The Last Detective (from the publisher): A nude female corpse has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol. In order to solve the mystery of the "Lady in the Lake," Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen and defy his superiors on the force to save a woman unjustly accused of murder.
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Saturday, January 07, 2012
Antarkos Rising by Jeremy Robinson is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Antarkos Rising by Jeremy Robinson as today's second free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically for a limited time only or 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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Antarkos Rising by Jeremy Robinson
Non-Series
Publisher: Breakneck Media
This stand-alone futuristic thriller is by the author of the "Chess Team" mysteries.
About Antarkos Rising (from the publisher): A phenomenon known as crustal displacement shifts the Earth’s crust, repositioning continents and causing countless deaths. In the wake of the global catastrophe, the world struggles to take care of its displaced billions. But Antarctica, freshly thawed and blooming, has emerged as a new hope. Rather than wage a world war no nation can endure, the leading nations devise a competition, a race to the center of Antarctica, with the three victors dividing the continent.
It is within this race that Mirabelle Whitney, one of the few surviving experts on the continent, grouped with an American special forces unit, finds herself. But the dangers awaiting the team are far worse than feared; beyond the sour history of a torn family, beyond the nefarious intentions of their human enemies, beyond the ancient creatures reborn through anhydrobiosis — there are the Nephilim.
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Murder Over Easy by Marshall Cook is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder Over Easy by Marshall Cook as today's free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically for a limited time only or 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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Murder Over Easy by Marshall Cook
A Monona Quinn Mystery
Publisher: Tyrus Books
Small town Wisconsin newspaper editor "Mo" Quinn is introduced in this series of four (to date) mysteries.
About Murder Over Easy (from the publisher): Monona Quinn thought moving from Chicago to rural Wisconsin would be the change of pace she was looking for. But when the popular owner of the local diner is murdered, she realizes she may not find what she was looking for.
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Friday, January 06, 2012
The Firm, based on the Legal Thriller by John Grisham, Premieres This Sunday on NBC
The Firm premieres this Sunday, January 8th, 2012 on NBC at 9 PM with a two-hour pilot episode.
Based on the legal thriller of the same title by John Grisham, The Firm continues the story of attorney Mitchell McDeere (played by Josh Lucas) and his family 10 years after the events of the book — and the 1993 film adaptation starring Tom Cruise. As a young associate, McDeere brought down the prestigious Memphis law firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke, which operated as a front for the Chicago mob — and his life was never the same. After a difficult decade, which included a stay in the Federal Witness Protection program, Mitch and his family now emerge from isolation to reclaim their lives and their future — only to find that past dangers are still lurking and new threats are everywhere.
Watch a promo for the series below.
Review: Getting Lucky by D. C. Brod
Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews: Getting Lucky by D. C. Brod.
Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q Mysteries to be Adapted for Film and Television
Adaptations of Danish crime novelist Jussi Adler-Olsen's first four titles in his "Department Q" series are being planned for film and television.
First up will be The Keeper of Lost Causes (Danish title: Kvinden i buret), which introduces homicide detective and cold case investigator Carl Mørck. Louise Vesth will write the screenplay. Denmark's Zentropa is producing with Danish commercial channel TV2 and German public broadcaster ZDF as partners. Production is expected to begin Fall 2012 with the first film premiering about a year later.
In our review of the book, we called this police procedural a "fine start to this series". The case involves a missing woman, a politician who vanished without a trace five years earlier. The world assumes she's dead. Mørck's colleagues snicker about the time he's wasting. "The pieces of the puzzle are all in the five-year-old file, and it's a pleasure following Mørck along as he puts them together." (Mysterious Reviews, 2011.)
The Keeper of Lost Causes — which was published as Mercy in the UK — is the only book in this series translated into English to date. The other three titles are Fasandræberne, Flaskepost fra P (which won the 2010 Harald Mogensen Prisen for best thriller and the 2010 Glass Key Award for best Scandanavian crime novel), and Journal 64.
(Related article: The Hollywood Reporter.)
Sean Bean Expected to Play DI Benny Griessel in Film Adaptation of Deon Meyer's Thirteen Hours
Earlier this week South African crime novelist Deon Meyer revealed (via Twitter) that Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy) is the likely choice to play Detective Inspector Benny Griessel in the film adaptation of Thirteen Hours (Afrikaans title: 13 Uur), the second book in the series to feature the police officer. Malcolm Kohll is writing the screenplay, with principal photography expected to begin in Cape Town this March.
About the book: At 05:36 the woman is running up Lion's Head. She is young, beautiful, American. And terrified. Because she is being hunted, like an animal.
At 05:37, the call wakes DI Benny Griessel. There's been a murder. A girl, her throat slit, her body lying next to St. Martini, the Lutheran Church in Long Street.
At 07:02, the hung-over, alcoholic former singing sensation Alexa Barnard discovers her philandering music mogul husband's body next to her on the floor — and a pistol just inches from her hand.
By nine o'clock, with two murders to solve and his own longing for the bottle almost unbearable, Griessel realizes his mentorship of a new generation of law enforcers is going to be a little more complicated than he anticipated.
Past noon, the race to save a young tourist from death becomes desperate and chaotic, and just before half past five, they shoot Griessel, right in the heart.
Fairly normal day, your typical thirteen hours of Cape Town homicide investigation.
WSJ Profiles Six Crime Novel Characters Portrayed in Film
Speaking of Jason Bourne — see our previous post — The Wall Street Journal has an entertaining look at six crime novel characters that have appeared in film and have also been portrayed by multiple actors. In addition to a description of the character, there is a summary of their appearance in print and in film, and a famous "quirk" of the character.
Listed are Sherlock Holmes ("Dozens of actors have played him in more than 200 films and TV shows."); Jason Bourne ("After an injury, Bourne can't remember anything, including his own identity. Hint: Bourne isn't his real name."); James Bond ("He is very good-looking. He reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael …"); Philip Marlowe ("A way with metaphor: It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window."); Jack Ryan ("[P]ortrayed by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck."); and Lisbeth Salander ("A penchant for revenge.").
(Related article: The Wall Street Journal.)
