The "Shetland Quartet" of crime novels by Ann Cleeves are being developed into a crime drama for BBC One.
In what is likely to be considered a "pilot", Shetland will be adapted from the third book in the series, Red Bones. Douglas Henshall has been cast in the lead role of Detective Jimmy Perez, recently widowed, a native Shetlander who has returned home after a long spell away. When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the island community is intrigued to know if it's an ancient find or a contemporary mystery. And when an elderly woman is shot on her land in a tragic accident, Perez and his team find themselves at the center of two feuding families whose envy, greed and bitterness has divided the surrounding community.
"I'm delighted that my old friends from ITV Studios have teamed up with the BBC to create a television adaptation of the Jimmy Perez book Red Bones," said Cleeves. "I couldn't be in safer hands. And it's brilliant that the UK now has its own Nordic TV drama!"
The first book in the quartet, Raven Black, was the winner of the 2006 CWA Gold Dagger Award.
Ann Cleeves is also the author of the "Vera Stanhope" mysteries, which have been adapted by ITV into the series Vera.
Monday, May 07, 2012
Red Bones by Ann Cleeves to be Adapted for Television
In Deep Voodoo by Stephanie Bond is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature In Deep Voodoo by Stephanie Bond as today's free mystery ebook.
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In Deep Voodoo by Stephanie Bond
Publisher: HarperCollins
About In Deep Voodoo (from the publisher): There's something strange afoot in the small town of Mojo, Louisiana. Yet even as the annual voodoo festival gets underway, Penny Francisco, who runs a health food business, refuses to believe in black magic. Her mind is on celebrating her divorce from her lying, cheating husband Deke.
Fueled by run-ins with her ex-mother-in-law and Deke's busty mistress, Penny is eager for the "emancipation party" her friends plan. When she receives a Deke voodoo doll as a gag gift, she sticks it with a pin as a joke. But when Deke winds up fatally stabbed, the police aren't laughing.
A junk-food junkie P.I. offers his services, and although Penny is wary of the sexy Cajun's motives (and his diet), she's desperate. Dodging a media sideshow and a looming murder rap, Penny realizes that somehow she's landed herself in deep voodoo.
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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for May 07, 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:
D E F H I N O T W
A 2012 suspense novel by Titania Hardie references this type of "house" (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, May 06, 2012
New Poster for Snow White & the Huntsman
A new poster featuring the three principal characters of the action-adventure thriller Snow White & the Huntsman has been released by the studio (right; click for larger version).
Kristen Stewart stars as Snow White, the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Charlize Theron) out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) dispatched to kill her. Sam Claflin joins the cast as the prince long enchanted by Snow White's beauty and power.
Directed by Rupert Sanders from a screenplay by Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock, and Hossein Amini, Snow White & the Huntsman opens in theaters June 1st, 2012. Watch a brief (30-second) "Character Role Call" below.
Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120506)
Here is today's list of the top bestselling free Kindle mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers.
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New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith as today's fifth free mystery ebook.
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New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith
A Skip Langdon Mystery
Publisher: Minotaur Books/booksBnimble
This book was the winner of the 1991 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
About New Orleans Mourning (from the publisher): It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and civic leader and socialite Chauncy St. Amant has been crowned Rex, King of Carnival. But his day of glory comes to an abrupt and bloody end when a parade-goer dressed as Dolly Parton guns him down. Is the killer his aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Or some unknown player? Turns out the king had enemies.
Enter resourceful heroine Skip Langdon, a rookie police officer and former debutante turned cynic of the Uptown crowd. Scouring the streets for clues, interviewing revelers and street people with names like Jo Jo, Hinky, and Cookie, and using her white glove contacts, the post-deb rebel cop encounters a tangled web of brooding clues and ancient secrets that could mean danger for her — and doom for the St. Amants.
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The Captain Must Die by Robert Colby is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Captain Must Die by Robert Colby as today's fourth free mystery ebook.
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The Captain Must Die by Robert Colby
Publisher: Prologue Books
This pulp novel was originally published in 1959.
About The Captain Must Die (from the publisher): For twelve long years they remembered. For twelve long years they plotted. And now Captain Driscoll was going to pay for what he had done to them during the war.
They weren't going to kill him right away. First there would be only little things, irritating things, that would build and grow and tighten until Captain Driscoll became afraid. Then they'd begin their reign of terror. That would be the best part. The three revenge-hungry men would savor those moments like a good wine.
And when Captain Driscoll was a broken, sobbing man, when his sanity was almost gone, they would murder him.
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I Have a Secret by Cheryl Bradshaw is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature I Have a Secret by Cheryl Bradshaw as today's third free mystery ebook.
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I Have a Secret by Cheryl Bradshaw
A Sloane Monroe Mystery
Publisher: Pixie Publishing
This novella-length novel is the third mystery in this series.
About I Have a Secret (from the publisher): It's been twenty years since PI Sloane Monroe has returned to her hometown of Tehachapi, California, but when a former classmate is stabbed and tossed overboard during the high school reunion cruise, Sloane isn't about to allow a murderer to run free in her own backyard. But in a town where everyone is harboring secrets, how many more men will die before she discovers the truth?
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Backyard Bones by Nancy Lynn Jarvis is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Backyard Bones by Nancy Lynn Jarvis as today's second free mystery ebook.
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Backyard Bones by Nancy Lynn Jarvis
A Regan McHenry Mystery
Publisher: Good Read Mysteries
This is the second mystery to feature the Santa Cruz real estate agent.
About Backyard Bones (from the publisher): It's not the first time Regan has experienced déjà -vu. But when the sensation involves finding a second body buried where one was found just weeks before, déjà -vu takes on new meaning.
,br>Someone murdered a girl on her seventeenth birthday, and as Regan delves into the motive behind the girl's murder, she discovers many people are trying to hide secrets about their entanglement with the dead teenager. Regan must figure out which of them is a murderer, and she has to do it carefully or she'll become the killer's next victim.
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Monet's Palette by Jean Sheldon is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Monet's Palette by Jean Sheldon as today's free mystery ebook.
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Monet's Palette by Jean Sheldon
Publisher: Wellworth Publishing
This stand-alone, just released this week as an ebook, will be published in a print edition next month.
About Monet's Palette (from the publisher): Rayna Hunt is an artistic, passionate soul, with a good sense of humor and a great outlook on life. When an accident crushes the hand that guides her brush, she loses more than her ability to paint. Using settlement money from the accident, Rayna buys a small warehouse and converts it into a classroom studio and a home for her and her daughter. For three years, she teaches others to paint and ignores the reality that without the color and light she lives to create, her spirit grows thin. Her daughter recognizes the emotional devastation and begins a successful crusade to convince her to paint. As she retrains the damaged hand, Rayna finds her quiet life again disrupted when she becomes a suspect in a forgery case. Her students, a diverse group of ages and personalities, take more than a casual interest. They, along Stratford Museum director and previous romantic interest, Paul Lingstrum, and a Chicago Police detective recovering from her own loss, work to clear Rayna and solve the crime.
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The Deal by Adam Gittlin is Today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Deal by Adam Gittlin as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $0.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, May 06, 2012.
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The Deal by Adam Gittlin
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
In our review of this book, we said, "[This] is a fast paced financial thriller with a perplexing plot that is riddled with schemes and conspiracies. The author clearly knows the ins and outs of the commercial real estate business and brings them to life here in ways that seem fantastic yet plausible."
About The Deal (from the publisher): Everything about Jonah Gray screams success—expensive clothes, a Park Avenue penthouse, and a seven-figure income. A cutthroat, rainmaking New York City commercial real estate broker, Jonah craves opulence and power. He beds models, romps the globe on weekends, and sees the world as his for the taking. Jonah Gray has it all. Or at least, he had it all.
When Andreu Zhamovsky, a close family friend, presents Jonah with the deal of a lifetime, Jonah jumps at the chance. All Jonah has to do is act quickly, invest half a billion dollars in prime NYC office buildings, and collect a huge payoff.
But there is much more to this deal than Jonah had ever contemplated, and this golden opportunity turns out to be anything but.
Along with this deal comes one of the world's rarest and most valuable antiques planted in Jonah's briefcase, and within days of signing on, Jonah is mysteriously thrust into the epicenter of an international and personal scandal.
Forced to explore a whole new territory where he can trust no one, and where danger, death, and deception lurk at every corner, Jonah will learn some painfully hard lessons about the quest for true wealth.
Taking risks has been the hallmark of Jonah's career. But this time, the stakes are much, much higher and Jonah will put everything—and everyone—he loves at risk.
Closing this deal could mean losing it all.
Read our review of The Deal by Adam Gittlin.
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120505)
Here is today's list of the top bestselling free Kindle mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers.
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MystereBooks: This Week's Update of Kindle Books Priced $2.99 or Less (120505)
Every month Amazon publishes a list of 100 Kindle books priced $3.99 or less. We thought we'd take that idea and improve on it, publishing a list of 100 Kindle mystery books priced $2.99 or less and updating it every week!
Here is our general criteria for selecting titles to include: books from major or specialty publishers of crime fiction and those written by authors familiar to us. There are far more than 100 to choose from, so we use our best judgment to narrow it down.
Shown below are some of the new titles we added today.
A couple more notes. As of today, Poisoned Pen Press's April selection of 99 cent mystery ebooks are still available at this price point … though they will revert to their standard price any day now. We're hoping that the publisher will come out with a new "May" list soon.
Also … check out this selection of titles from StoneHouse Ink. We didn't add any of these titles to our list this week but wanted to make sure you were aware of this interesting and diverse selection of mysteries and thrillers.
Important Note: Prices can and do change without prior notice! We strongly urge you to confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase is the price of the book.
Get Fluffy by Sparkle Abbey.
A Pampered Pets Mystery (2nd).
Resolutions by Jane Adams.
A Rina Martin Mystery (4th).
Nip, Tuck, Dead by Lori Avocato.
A Pauline Sokol Mystery (5th).
Dixie Divas by Virginia Brown.
A Dixie Divas Mystery (1st).
The Guy Next Door by Meggin Cabot.
Pray for Silence by Linda Castillo.
A Kate Burkholder Mystery (2nd).
Witch Hunt by Shirley Damsgaard.
An Ophelia and Abby Mystery (4th).
For Better or Hearse by Laura Durham.
An Annabelle Archer Mystery (2nd).
Dim Sum Dead by Jerrilyn Farmer.
A Madeline Bean, Catering Mystery (4th).
Murder on a Girls' Night Out by Anne George.
A Southern Sisters Mystery (1st).
To Collar a Killer by Lee Charles Kelley.
A Jack Field and Jamie Cutter Mystery (3rd).
A Bad Day for Pretty by Sophie Littlefield.
A Stella Hardesty Mystery (2nd).
Murder Most Maine by Karen MacInerney.
A Natalie Barnes Mystery (3rd).
Night of the Living Deb by Susan McBride.
A Debutante Dropout Mystery (4th).
Caged by Hilary Norman.
A Sam Becket Mystery (4th).
Roman Blood by Steven Saylor.
A Gordianus the Finder, Roma sub Rosa Mystery (1st).
Trouble in Spades by Heather Webber.
A Nina Quinn Mystery (2nd).
TV Spot for Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
CBS has released a 30-second TV spot for Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt. Based on a character created by Robert B. Parker, Tom Selleck stars as Jesse Stone in this 8th made-for-television movie in the series, filmed from an original screenplay co-written by Selleck and Michael Brandman. (Following Parker's death, his estate agreed to allow Brandman to continue the series of "Jesse Stone" mysteries. The 10th, Killing the Blues, was published last September.)
The storyline finds Jesse as he struggles to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob-related double homicide.
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt airs on CBS May 20th, 2012 at 9 PM (ET/PT).
Reviews of Mystery and Suspense Books for Kids, New This Week on Book Trends (120505)
Book Trends, a review site for young adult and children books, published several new book reviews this past week. We're presenting here a summary of those in the mystery/suspense/thriller category.
Illuminate by Aimee Agresti. A Gilded Wings Novel (Book One). Lexile measure: N/A. Reviewed by a 6th grade student, who writes, "[This] is an exciting read. It is full of action and adventure. I enjoyed the novel because it kept me at the edge of my seat the entire time, and it will also surely keep you at the edge of your seat too." (Read the full review here.)
For more reviews of children and young adult books of all genres, visit Book Trends; their reviews will amaze you! You can also follow Book Trends on Twitter.
