Waiting for Armando by Judith K. Ivie is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Waiting for Armando by Judith K. Ivie as today's second free mystery ebook.

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Waiting for Armando by Judith K. Ivie
A Kate Lawrence Mystery
Publisher: Mainly Murder Press

About Waiting for Armando (from the publisher): When prominent attorney Alain Girouard is found murdered, and his secretary becomes the leading suspect, Kate Lawrence and her colleagues band together to exonerate one of their own.

Possibilities include the many women Girouard discarded over the years, a horticulturist with an interest in deadly flora, the victim’s wife, who has a surprising lover of her own, and a local clairvoyant.

Each clue puts Kate closer to the truth but further into danger when the murderer decides to put an end to her meddling.

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Deadly Friendship by Sam Phillips is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Deadly Friendship by Sam Phillips as today's free mystery ebook.

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Deadly Friendship by Sam Phillips
A Rick Cunningham Mystery
Publisher: Crossroads Publishing

About Deadly Friendship (from the publisher): Rick Cunningham can’t believe his ears when a caller to a radio talk show accuses his friend and co-worker, Marty Farber, of planting a pipe-bomb in a school classroom that blew his teacher to bits. The sixteen-year old crime was never solved, alleges the caller, because Marty’s influential father conspired with police to cover it up. The caller concludes with the veiled threat that providence is about to take revenge on all of the participants in the crime.

About to wrap up a financial consulting job for Fort Lauderdale’s Century Bank, Rick is asked by Marty’s father, Louis, president of the bank, to discreetly search out the identity and whereabouts of the caller. Louis refuses to enlist the aid of the law, citing the negative publicity that could result for his family as well as the bank. Although inwardly concerned that Louis may be planning to harm the caller, Rick agrees, and is immediately confronted with the mysterious death of the former police chief, one of those on the telephone caller’s list!

Casting aside continuing struggles with his romantic life, Rick enters the Farbers’ murky world of secrets, conspiracies and murder.

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Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage is Today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage as today's Barnes&Noble Daily Find. The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, February 25, 2012.

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Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage
A Mario Silva Investigation
Publisher: Soho Crime

This is a terrific debut to a terrific series — we've reviewed all five books in the series to date — set in present day Brazil. We called Blood of the Wicked "a strongly written and powerful novel that will be remembered long after the final pages are read."

About Blood of the Wicked (from the publisher): In the remote Brazilian town of Cascatas do Pontal, where landless peasants are confronting the owners of vast estates, the the bishop arrives by helicopter to consecrate a new church and is assassinated.

Mario Silva, Chief Inspector for Criminal Matters of the Federal Police of Brazil, is dispatched to the interior to find the killer. The Pope himself has called Brazil’s president; the pressure is on Silva to perform. Assisted by his nephew, Hector Costa, also a federal policeman, Silva must battle the state police and a corrupt judiciary as well as criminals who prey on street kids, the warring factions of the Landless League, the big landowners and the Church itself, in order to solve the initial murder and several brutal killings that follow. Justice is hard to come by. An old priest, a secret liberation theologist, finally metes it out.

Read our review of Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage.

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New Poster, Trailer for Action Thriller The Raid: Redemption

A new poster (right; click for larger image) and trailer (below) for the martial arts action-thriller The Raid: Redemption has been released. The tagline: "1 ruthless crime lord. 20 elite cops. 30 floors of chaos."

The film stars Iko Uwais as Rama, a member of a special forces team, who arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord. The building has become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched by the police. When a spotter blows their cover, Rama and his team must fight their way through every floor and every room not just to complete their mission … but to survive their bloody ordeal.

Also known as Serbuan maut — its original Indonesian title — the film is directed by Gareth Evans from his own screenplay. It opens in limited release in New York and Los Angeles on March 23rd, 2012.

Rex Libris Comic Film Adaptation Gets New Screenwriter

Walden Media is reportedly moving forward with the film adaptation the comic series "Rex Libris" by hiring Ben Zazove to write the screenplay. The studio acquired the rights last year from Warner Bros., where it had been in back-burner development for years.

Thirteen issues of the comic, written and illustrated by James Turner, were published from August 2005 through October 2008. The first five issues were collected into the graphic novel Rex Libris, Volume One: I, Librarian, with the remaining issues in Rex Libris, Volume Two: Book of Monsters.

Rex Libris is the Head Librarian at Middleton Public Library. His unending struggle against the forces of ignorance and darkness leads him to travel to the farthest reaches of the galaxy in search of overdue books. Wearing his super thick bottle glasses, and armed with an arsenal of high technology weapons, he strikes fear into recalcitrant borrowers, and can take on virtually any foe from zombies to renegade literary characters.

(Related article: Variety.)

New Hardcover Mysteries for March 2012

The Hidden Staircase Mystery Books has updated its list of new hardcover mysteries with books scheduled for publication in March 2012. Please note that some titles may publish early, and may already be available, and some may be delayed, published at a later date.

Below we're listing those authors with returning series characters, new series characters, and non-series or stand-alone mysteries in separate sections. All titles are available on our March new mystery books page, which will become the default home page for the site on March 1st.

• Authors with mysteries featuring returning series characters (in italics) this month:

Hal Ackerman (Harry Stein, 2nd) —  Jane Adams (Naomi Blake, 7th) —  Susan Wittig Albert (China Bayles, 20th) —  Ted Bell (Alexander Hawke, 7th) —  Cara Black (Aimée Leduc, 12th) —  Rhys Bowen (Molly Murphy, 11th) —  C. J. Box (Joe Pickett, 12th) —  Laura Childs (Theodosia Browning, Tea Shop, 13th) —  Jane K. Cleland (Josie Prescott, Antiques, 7th) —  Jack Coughlin and Donald A. Davis (Sniper, 5th) —  Clive Cussler and Justin Scott (Isaac Bell, 5th) —  David Dickinson (Lord Francis Powerscourt, 11th) —  Paul Doherty (Brother Athelstan, 11th) —  Alex Dryden (Moscow Spy Thrillers, 3rd) —  Kate Ellis (Wesley Peterson, 16th) —  Mary Anna Evans (Faye Longchamp, 7th) —  Kate Flora (Joe Burgess, 3rd) —  Joanne Fluke (Hannah Swensen, 15th) —  Christopher Fowler (Bryant and May, 9th) —  Kerry Greenwood (Corinna Chapman, 6th) —  Elizabeth Gunn (Sarah Burke, 4th) —  Jane Haddam (Gregor Demarkian, 27th) —  C. S. Harris (Aurora Teagarden, 5th) —  Charlaine Harris (Sebastian St. Cyr, 7th) —  Veronica Heley (Abbot Agency, 5th) —  Victoria Houston (Paul "Doc" Osborne, Loon Lake, 12th) —  Merry Jones (Harper Jennings, 2nd) —  John J. Le Beau (Franz Waldbaer, 2nd) —  Adrian Magson (Harry Tate, 3rd) —  Lou Manfredo (Joe Rizzo, 3rd) —  Scott Mariani (Ben Hope, 7th) —  Keith McCarthy (Lance Elliot, 3rd) —  Gerard O'Donovan (Mike Mulcahy, 2nd) —  Brad Parks (Carter Ross, 3rd) —  Thomas Perry (Jane Whitefield, 7th) —  Leif G. W. Persson (Lars Martin Johansson, 5th) —  Mary Reed and Eric Mayer (John the Eunuch, 9th) —  Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, 3rd) —  Roz Southey (Charles Patterson, 6th) —  Sally Spencer (Inspector Blackstone, 9th) —  Lyndon Stacey (Charlie Whelan, 2nd) —  Olen Steinhauer (Milo Weaver, 3rd) —  Jon Stock (Daniel Marchant, 2nd) —  James Thompson (Kari Vaara, 3rd) —  Kate White (Bailey Weggins, 6th) —  Randy Wayne White (Doc Ford, 19th) —  Tina Whittle (Tai Randolph, 2nd) —  Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs, 9th)

• Authors with mysteries introducing characters (in italics) in a new series this month:

Nicci French (Frieda Klein)

• Authors with non-series or stand-alone mysteries this month:

Marian Babson —  Dan Barden —  Louis Begley —  Suzanne Brockmann —  Harlan Coben —  Mike Cooper —  Stephen Dau —  Byron L. Dorgan and David Hagberg —  Tom Epperson —  Lyndsay Faye —  Matthew Glass —  Heather Graham —  Robert Greer —  Gemma Halliday —  Nick Harkaway —  Noah Hawley —  Jonnie Jacobs —  Steven John —  A. J. Kazinski —  Ted Kosmatka —  Joe R. Lansdale —  Owen Laukkanen —  Adam Levin —  Fuminori Nakamura —  James Patterson and David Ellis —  Richard North Patterson —  Chris Pavone —  Frank Peretti —  Tim Powers —  James Rollins —  M. J. Rose —  Kieran Shields —  Jack Steel —  Maggie Toussaint —  Andrew Vachss —  Kate Wilhelm —  Irvin D. Yalom

For more information on any of these titles, please visit the March new mysteries page on our website. If you're interested in new paperbacks, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where you can discover a library of new mystery, suspense and thriller books, also updated with March 2012 releases.

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Review: Left for Dead by J. A. Jance

Read our … Review of Left for Dead by J. A. Jance. An Ali Reynolds Mystery. Touchstone Hardcover, February 2012.

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Big Leagues by Jen Estes is Today's Sixth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Big Leagues by Jen Estes as today's sixth free mystery ebook.

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Big Leagues by Jen Estes
A Cat McDaniel Mystery
Publisher: Camel Press

About Big Leagues (from the publisher): Rookie sportswriter Cat McDaniel is on deck in Sin City for the job of a lifetime with baseball's hottest team. The Las Vegas Chips have the best record in baseball, snagging two trophies in their first three years. Erich König, German wunderkind and the Desert's most eligible bachelor, showers her with confidence as her new boss. She's falling faster than a sinkerball for her neighbor — a biology professor whose fetal pigs know more about baseball than he does. She even makes a frienemy at the office, minus the friend and double the enemy: as the team's junior reporter, Dustin Carlyle was on-deck for Cat's position and now he's desperate to get her out of the lineup. Save for the scheming coworker, it's everything she wanted … until a star outfielder's heart stops. When Cat uncovers a baseball conspiracy behind his death, she becomes the newest player in an extreme game of hardball.

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A World I Never Made by James Lepore is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A World I Never Made by James Lepore as today's fifth free mystery ebook.

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A World I Never Made by James Lepore
Publisher: The Story Plant

We called this debut novel "an interesting and well-developed character study" but not so much a novel of suspense.

About A World I Never Made (from the publisher): Pat Nolan, an American man, is summoned to Paris to claim the body of his estranged daughter Megan, who has committed suicide. The body, however, is not Megan's and it becomes instantly clear to Pat that Megan staged this, that she is in serious trouble, and that she is calling to him for help.

This sends Pat on an odyssey that stretches across France and into the Czech Republic and that makes him the target of both the French police and a band of international terrorists. Joining Pat on his search is Catherine Laurence, a beautiful but tormented Paris detective who sees in Pat something she never thought she'd find — genuine passion and desperate need. As they look for Megan, they come closer to each others' souls and discover love when both had long given up on it.

Juxtaposed against this story is Megan's story. A freelance journalist, Megan is in Morocco to do research when she meets Abdel Lahani, a Saudi businessman. They begin a torrid affair, a game Megan has played often and well in her adult life. But what she discovers about Lahani puts her in the center of a different kind of game, one with rules she can barely comprehend. Because of her relationship with Lahani, Megan has made some considerable enemies. And she has put the lives of many--maybe even millions — at risk.

Read our review of A World I Never Made by James Lepore.

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Choke on Your Lies by Anthony Neil Smith is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Choke on Your Lies by Anthony Neil Smith as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

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Choke on Your Lies by Anthony Neil Smith
Publisher: Anthony Neil Smith

The author calls this stand-alone a "homage to one of his favorite detectives, Nero Wolfe."

About Choke on Your Lies (from the publisher): Octavia VanderPlatts is wealthy, powerful, and "comfortable with her weight" — or to hear her say it, a "rich fat b****." Her IQ is at the genius level, and she uses it to manipulate and frighten anyone who tries to get in her way. She controls an empire built on discrimination lawsuits won against some of the nation's top companies. On top of that, Octavia doesn't care one wink what people think of her.

So when she offers her old friend poetry professor Mick Thooft some help in his impending divorce, he smells an ulterior motive. Maybe because Frances didn't invite Octavia to the wedding for fear of her clearing the buffet. Not only does Octavia want to help, but she's got evidence — plenty of scandalous photos. That's not Mick's style, so he turns her down flat … until he discovers that Fran's trying to take their home based on a near-perfect forgery of his signature. After that he and Octavia charge forward, but soon find they're in deeper than they realized — robot pens, swinger clubs, and a blackmail scheme that holds an entire college faculty hostage.

Just when Mick and Octavia are on the cusp of victory, it all goes terribly wrong. Mick is framed for murder and someone targets Octavia's immense wealth and secret backyard greenhouse full of exotic marijuana. With no one on their side except Octavia's butler Jennings, her new personal chef Harriet, and their "Amazon Warrior" lawyer Pamela, Octavia and Mick must find a way to turn the tables before they end up broke, humiliated, and in prison.

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Death Troupe by Vincent H. O'Neil is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Death Troupe by Vincent H. O'Neil as today's third free mystery ebook.

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Death Troupe by Vincent H. O'Neil
Publisher: CreateSpace

This 2011 stand-alone — which could also serve as the first of a new series — is by the winner of the 2005 St. Martin's Press / Malice Domestic Best Traditional Mystery Novel Contest.

About Death Troupe (from the publisher): The Jerome Barron Players have a problem. Their writer, Ryan Betancourt, has killed himself under mysterious circumstances and they need a replacement right away. The Players, unofficially known as Death Troupe, come together once a year to perform a high-end murder mystery play written specifically for that season’s host town. Their writer has to possess special talents, as there’s a wager involved: If the townspeople can correctly identify the murderer before the show’s final act, they don’t have to pay for the engagement. So far, no town has ever won the bet.

Enter Jack Glynn, original writer for the Barron Players. He and Ryan wrote two Death Troupe engagements before Ryan stole Jack’s girlfriend, lead actress Allison Green. Although Jack found fame in Hollywood after quitting the troupe, eccentric director Jerome Barron convinces him to return for one show: The upcoming engagement in the Adirondack town of Schuyler Mills.

It is only then that the troupe’s advance man, private investigator Wade Parker, tells Jack of the strange events which surrounded the group’s previous engagement in Red Bend, California. A local retiree killed himself a few days after the performance—an act Wade suspects was prompted by the storyline of Ryan’s final play. He also reveals that Ryan was greatly unnerved by anonymous third parties who had interfered with the group’s marquee clue distribution.

This is one of the unique features of Death Troupe: As the performance approaches, clues are sprinkled through the town in a variety of ways, from fake headstones bearing characters’ names to real players acting out their assigned roles. In Red Bend, a stranger pretending to be a troupe member had dropped clues that were surprisingly accurate, and Ryan had reacted badly to this—perhaps badly enough to kill himself.

Events take a sinister turn shortly after Jack arrives in the small, snow-covered village of Schuyler Mills. Someone leaves a bizarre arrangement of black roses and plastic skulls in his hotel room. Ryan’s missing notebook from the Red Bend engagement turns up, and it contains an alarming tale of psychological harassment. The people of Schuyler Mills are enthusiastic about Jack’s presence, but he knows that many of them, from the local community theater group to the town mayor, could have ulterior motives.

As the weeks go by, someone begins distributing clues that Jack doesn’t recognize, from a plastic head stuck in an ice-fishing hole to confidential information scrawled on a billboard. Reading Ryan’s notebook, Jack begins to fear that the same web that snared his old writing partner in Red Bend is being spun around him in Schuyler Mills.

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Free Range Institution by Michael Haskins is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Free Range Institution by Michael Haskins as today's second free mystery ebook.

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Free Range Institution by Michael Haskins
A Mick Murphy Mystery
Publisher: Five Star

This is the second mystery to feature Key West (Florida) journalist Liam Michael "Mad Mick" Murphy.

About Free Range Institution (from the publisher): Key West begins to look the the Wild West as Murphy and his ragtag team of friends gets involved with stopping a drug shipment from arriving on the island. Soon corrupt city and federal officials work with a mercenary in charge of a Colombian drug smuggling team to get Murphy at any cost. Murphy's friend, the local chief of police is looking for him too, to explain the violence that seems to continually lead back to Murphy. Murphy's black-bag friend, Norm, shows up to help and enlists some members of JIATF, a federal agency responsible for tracking drug traffickers. The climatic end begins off the Bahamian island of Cay Sal with the drug shipment arrival via a Albatross seaplane and finally ends in the fishing shacks of Stock Island, Key West's working class neighborhood.

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Friends on Fire by Dale Whisman is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Friends on Fire by Dale Whisman as today's free mystery ebook.

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Friends on Fire by Dale Whisman
A Carl Jacobs Mystery
Publisher: Deadly Niche Press

This is the third (and presumably final) book in this mystery series.

About Friends on Fire (from the publisher): Start with one private investigator who is afraid of fire, add a beautiful psychopath who gets her kicks watching people burn, toss in a former CIA agent accused of treason and top off the mix with a couple of successful but corrupt businessmen who got their start by smuggling opium out of Vietnam, and you've cooked up a deadly smorgasbord of violence and revenge enough to satisfy the most ravenous hunger for action.

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Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending February 24, 2012

A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending February 24th, 2012 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

Vince Flynn's 12th Mitch Rapp thriller Kill Shot repeats as number one this week.

One new title debuts and another moves up into the top 15.

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New at number 9 is — we've lost count … let's just call it the nth "In Death" mystery — Celebrity in Death by J. D. Robb.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It's a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the director's luxury building.

Now she's at the center of a crime scene — and Eve is more than ready to get out of her high heels and strap on her holster and step into the role she was born to play: cop.

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Moving up from 22 last week to 14 this week is Restless in the Grave by Dana Stabenow, which brings together both of the author's series characters, Kate Shugak and Liam Campbell.

Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in the fiery crash of his Piper Super Cub. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including his betrayed wife, his bullied children, and Liam’s wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With few places to turn, Liam asks his former mentor Niniltna post commander Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings Kate onto the case.

Working undercover as—of all things—a waitress at Bill’s Bar and Grill, Kate learns over beer and burgers that Grant’s business had expanded meteorically over the last two years. After buying the closed Air Force base south of town from the federal government at a bargain-basement price, he became a fixed-base operator running his fishing, hunting, and flight-seeing business, servicing planes flying through the area, and most interestingly and lucratively, getting into the air freight business. But what kind of freight was he moving, and where?

The answers involve Kate in her most challenging case to date, one that starts with murder and quickly sprawls into a much larger conspiracy ranging from the darkest family secrets to treason and beyond.

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FX Renews Archer for a 4th Season

FX Networks has renewed Archer for a fourth season.

"It was an easy decision to order more Archer," said Executive Vice President of Original Programming Nick Grad. "Adam, Matt, and our amazing voice cast are delivering one of the funniest and smartest shows on television. It has deservedly grown beyond its initial cult following to become both a critical and ratings success. It is a true asset to the FX comedy roster."

Archer is a half-hour animated series set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), a spy agency where espionage and global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other.

FX is currently airing the third season of the series, which can be seen on Thursdays at 10 PM (ET/PT).