Losers Live Longer by Russell Atwood is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Losers Live Longer by Russell Atwood as today's fifth free mystery ebook.

This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Losers Live Longer by Russell Atwood
A Payton Sherwood Mystery
Publisher: Hard Case Crime

Originally published in 2009, this is the second mystery to feature the New York City private investigator. The special edition ebook also features the bonus mystery story "East Village Noir".

About Losers Live Longer (from the publisher): The death of legendary private eye George Rowell looked like an accident – but searching for the truth behind it will put down-and-out East Village detective Payton Sherwood on the trail of a runaway investment scam artist, a drug-addicted reality TV star – and the bewitching beauty whose appearance set it all in motion …

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Tarquin's Rock by Andrea Stein is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Tarquin's Rock by Andrea Stein as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Tarquin's Rock by Andrea Stein
A Minerva Society Mystery
Publisher: GM Media

About Tarquin's Rock (from the publisher): Twenty-something writer Lia Mitchell is living the perfect big city life. Great career — check; nice apartment — check; date with a cute guy — check; membership in an underground secret society — check.

The Minerva Society is network of highly influential people to whom Lia owes everything. So when the Minerva Society calls, Lia has to listen. She’s been drafted to retrieve the secret files of recently deceased Marilyn Cruz, an up and coming politician. Marilyn’s little black book may or may not contain information that some people want to stay buried.

Lia reluctantly accepts the job, only to find that it means a return to home – and her estranged family, When she returns to the wealthy horse country of New Jersey she finds that the quiet woods and idyllic farms hide secrets, deep secrets. When everyone she knows — and some people she doesn’t — warn her to stop asking questions, Lia digs in, especially when she realizes that Marilyn’s death may not be an accident — and the Lia’s own sister may be next to face danger.

Important Note: This book was listed for free on the date and time of this post. Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase.

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The Brat by Gil Brewer is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Brat by Gil Brewer as today's third free mystery ebook.

This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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The Brat by Gil Brewer
Publisher: Prologue Books

This Fawcett Gold Medal pulp novel was originally published in 1957.

About The Brat (from the publisher): She looked at the rotting, sun-blasted shack, the one room where they all lived, slept, made love, died. Looked at the dusty lawn where no grass grew. At the steaming swamp, at her tobacco-spitting mother. Saw the sly, lustful eyes of her father’s friends. Then she looked at her own lush beauty. Get me out of here, she prayed. Oh, please get me out of here! I’ll pay any price.

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The Saucy Lucy Murders by Cindy Keen Reynders is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Saucy Lucy Murders by Cindy Keen Reynders as today's second free mystery ebook.

This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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The Saucy Lucy Murders by Cindy Keen Reynders
A Lexie Lightfoot and Lucy Parnell Mystery
Publisher: Medallion Press

This is the first mystery featuring the sisters, co-owners of the Saucy Lucy Café in Moose Creek Junction, Wyoming.

About The Saucy Lucy Murders (from the publisher): Hometown and family beckon Lexie when she can no longer tolerate her husband’s wandering eye. Bereft, she moves with her teenage daughter Eva back to Moose Creek Junction, Wyoming, to be near her sister Lucy and open a business—The Saucy Lucy Café. Lexie’s sister is a churchgoing woman who believes her sister must remarry in order to enter the kingdom of heaven, and suddenly, Lexie finds herself back in the dating pool. The trouble is, all of her dates wind up at Stiffwell's Funeral Parlor—dead. Gossiping townspeople begin to mistrust the sisters while café customers and eligible men dwindle. Business is down the toilet and, according to Lexie, the police simply aren't getting the job done. She declares it's time to intervene.

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Two Mysteries by Gregg E. Brickman is Today's Featured Set of Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature two mysteries — featuring two different series characters — by Gregg F. Brickman as today's set of mystery ebooks.

These titles were listed as free as of the date and time of this post. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Imperfect Contract by Gregg E. Brickman
A Sophia Burgess and Ray Stone Mystery
Publisher: CreateSpace

About Imperfect Contract (from the publisher): Driven from police work by the cold realities of the job—getting shot can do that—Sophia Burgess finds her place in nursing. She brought with her the qualities that made her a good cop—fierce independence, inquiring mind, and edgy personality.

Then the victim comes to her.

Sophia's patient dies, but not from natural causes. She uses her clinical acumen as a nurse, her deductive skills as a former cop, and her police detective ex-fiancée to find the killer.

Important Note: This book was listed for free on the date and time of this post. Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase.

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Illegally Dead by Gregg E. Brickman
A Tony Conte Mystery
Publisher: CreateSpace

About Illegally Dead (from the publisher): Tony Conte, ex-Special Forces medic and martial arts expert turned nurse, is stretched to his limit when the legal and medical professions’ traditional combat zone turns deadly. He has two passions in life, his family and his career, and both are threatened. Faced with a mountain of charges and counter charges, Tony plunges into the fray. The battle moves from the courtroom to the emergency room and catches Tony in the middle. When the person dearest to him becomes ill, he’s distracted, but Tony can only keep his wife’s doctor out of jail if he can stay out of jail himself.

Important Note: This book was listed for free on the date and time of this post. Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase.

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The Vegas Knockout by Tom Schreck is Today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Vegas Knockout by Tom Schreck as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, July 01, 2012.

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The Vegas Knockout by Tom Schreck
A Duffy Dombrowski Mystery
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

This is the fourth, and most recent published (May 2012), mystery in this series featuring the New York social worker and pro-boxer.

About The Vegas Knockout (from the publisher): Duffy Dombrowski just accepted a dream job: chief sparring partner for Russian heavyweight contender Boris Rusakov in Vegas. His obstinate basset hound, Al, and a few friends join Duffy for the ride — but before Duffy knows it, his trip turns into a nightmare. Someone's killing local Mexican workers, friends and relatives of Duffy's gym buddies. And to make matters worse, Duffy's got Boris's Russian mobster pals chasing him with murder on their minds.

Important Note: Amazon.com updates its Kindle book deal every day at approximately midnight PT. The title referenced above is available at a discounted price for Sunday, July 01, 2012 only.

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Brazilian Poster for Taken 2

We're really taking — excuse the pun — to this series of posters for Taken 2. Earlier today we had a US version (together with the international trailer) and now here's the Brazilian version (right; click for larger image). The Portguese title is Busca Implacável 2 — Relentless Search 2. The poster's tagline: Eles querem vingança. Mas escolheram o cara errado. ("They want revenge. But they chose the wrong guy.")

Shown pondering his next step, with the merest hint of a gun in his right hand, Liam Neeson reprises his role as Bryan Mills, who in this film is taken hostage during his family's vacation in Istanbul. Bryan enlists the aid of his daughter, Kim, to help them escape, and uses an advanced level of special forces tactics to get his family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers one by one.

Directed by Olivier Megaton from a screenplay by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, Taken 2 opens on October 5th, 2012.

Review: Death and Transfiguration by Gerald Elias

We've just published our Review of Death and Transfiguration by Gerald Elias. A Daniel Jacobus Mystery. Minotaur Books Hardcover, June 2012.

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Three Titles from Kobo are Today's Featured Set of Free MystereBooks

MystereBooks is pleased to feature three titles from Kobo as today's set of free mystery ebooks. (There is additional availability from other vendors, as shown.)

These titles were listed as free as of the date and time of this post. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Calamity Jayne by Kathleen Bacus
Publisher: Love Spell

This is the first mystery, of five published, in this series.

About Calamity Jayne (from the publisher): Tressa Jayne Turner has had it up to here with the never-ending string of dumb-blonde jokes and a longtime nickname that's harder to get rid of than lint from a belly button. Dubbed "Calamity Jayne" by Iowa Department of Natural Resources officer, Rick Townsend, Tressa's out to gain a little hometown respect — or die trying.

Unfortunately, that may be the case. She's just been handed the perfect opportunity to get "Ranger Rick," the doubting Don Juan of the DNR, and a sketpical citizenry to take her seriously. How? By solving a murder no one else believes happened … No one, that is, except the killer.

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Gutshot Straight by Lou Berney
Publisher: HarperCollins

This special ebook edition also includes a sneak peek of the author's next book, Whiplash River, scheduled to be published in July 2012.

About Gutshot Straight (from the publisher): When Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man, walks out of prison after a three-year stretch for grand theft auto, he's got only two problems: he's too nice a guy for the life he's led and not nice enough for any other.

So he says yes when he's asked to run a simple errand for his former boss and lover, Alexandra Ilandryan, the formidable pakhan of the Armenian mob in Los Angeles. All Shake has to do is deliver a package to Las Vegas and pick up a briefcase.

Only the package turns out to be a wholesome young housewife named Gina whose husband has run afoul of Dick Moby, aka "The Whale," an unpleasant four-hundred-pound Vegas strip-club owner. Shake hates to think what's going to happen to Gina when he delivers her to The Whale, so in a move that's as noble as it is boneheaded, he decides to set her free.

Now Shake and Gina are on the run to Panama, hoping to unload the very valuable — and highly unusual — contents of The Whale's briefcase. Shake could end up a rich man, but first he'll have to outmaneuver two angry crime bosses, a murderous Armenian thug plagued by erectile superfunction, a former pro football player who blames Shake for his romantic woes, and a billionaire swindler with a flair for the theatrical. Not to mention, and not the least, Shake will need to survive his own heart, since he's going to discover that wholesome housewife Gina is even more intriguing, and a lot more complicated, than he ever imagined.

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A Slice of Murder by Chris Cavender
Publisher: Kensington

This is the first mystery for pizzeria owner Eleanor Swift.

About A Slice of Murder (from the publisher): Not too much happens in the sleepy little town of Timber Ridge, North Carolina — which is fine with pizza-purveyor extraordinaire Eleanor Swift. The spunky owner of A Slice of Delight is trying to mend her broken heart and could use a little quiet time. But when a late night delivery customer turns up dead, she's in for just the opposite in this delicious mystery series debut, featuring pizza as the prima character …

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Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120630)

Here is today's list of the top bestselling free Kindle mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers.

We're using a script to embed an RSS feed from Amazon.com, which is updated hourly, but if you cannot see the box below — or have scripts blocked — you can use this link to see the relevant page on Amazon.com.

MystereBooks: This Week's Update of Kindle Books Priced $2.99 or Less (120630)

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.

A couple of notes before we get to this week's new additions.

• It's always good to check in periodically with Poisoned Pen Press. This week we found five mysteries in the "Posadas County" series by Steven F. Havill that have recently been reduced to $2.99 or less; one, the first in series, is $0.99.

• Another specialty mystery publisher, Oceanview Publishing, frequently rotates its selection of titles priced $2.99 or less. We added the "Sammy Greene" mysteries by Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid to our list this week.

• Bell Bridge Books publishes mostly romance novels, but a handful of their authors also write mysteries and romantic suspense. It isn't often we see any of their Kindle books in our "price range", but there is one this week, Mai Tai One On, the first mystery in the "Em Johnson, Tiki Goddess" series by Jill Marie Landis. Her new book in the series, Two to Mango, was just published. (We're seeing a tropical "numbered" theme going on here!)

Below are listed the new $2.99 or less titles we added today; click on the cover or title for more information or to purchase the Kindle edition.

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.

D. R. T. (Dead Right There) by Ray Ellis.
A Nate Richards Mystery (2nd).

Heartshot by Steven F. Havill.
A Posadas County Mystery (1st).

Bitter Recoil by Steven F. Havill.
A Posadas County Mystery (2nd).

Twice Buried by Steven F. Havill.
A Posadas County Mystery (3rd).

Scavengers by Steven F. Havill.
A Posadas County Mystery (10th).

Red, Green, or Murder by Steven F. Havill.
A Posadas County Mystery (16th).

They're Watching by Gregg Hurwitz.

Mai Tai One On by Jill Marie Landis.
An Em Johnson, Tiki Goddess Mystery (1st).

Dead Air by Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid.
A Sammy Greene Mystery (1st).

Devil Wind by Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid.
A Sammy Greene Mystery (2nd).

The Lost Van Gogh by A. J. Zerries.

 

Reviews of Mystery and Suspense Books for Kids, New This Week on Book Trends (120630)

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.

The Nightmare Garden by Caitlin Kittredge. The Iron Codex Book Two. Lexile measure: N/A. Reviewed by a 6th grade student, who writes, "Many books seem very realistic, but not if they involve magic; unless, the story is in the future and written by Kaitlin Kittredge. She somehow twists and manipulates the idea of magic until it seems like reality." (Read the full review of this fantasy/suspense novel here.)

The Dead Gentleman by Matthew Cody. Lexile measure: N/A. Reviewed by a 6th grade student, who writes, "This book has a lot of detail and the characters are highly developed. The mix between science fiction and fantasy is also perfect. I definitely hope that Matthew Cody writes another book to make it a series." (Read the full review of this sci-fi fantasy/suspense novel 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.

Big Fish Games BOGO Collector's Editions, This Weekend Only

This weekend only, June 30th and July 1st, 2012, Big Fish Games is having a Buy One, Get One Free sale on Collector's Editions.

Here's how it works. Select two Collector's Edition games and add them to your cart. Apply the coupon code FREEGAME at checkout to realize your savings.

There is no limit on the number of games you can buy using the code. For example, buy six Collector's Edition games and you'll only be charged for three.

To get you started, here is a link to all of the Collector's Edition games on the site: hidden object, adventure, and more! Popular mystery titles include Final Cut: Death on the Silver Screen, Shadow Wolf Mysteries, Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles, the "Dark Tales of Edgar Allan Poe" series of games, and the "Mystery Case Files" games.

Remember, this Big Fish Games BOGO sale ends tomorrow, Sunday July 1st, 2012 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.