Monday, July 30, 2012

Sweet and Lowdown by Lise McClendon is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature Sweet and Lowdown by Lise McClendon as today's fifth free mystery ebook.

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Sweet and Lowdown by Lise McClendon

Sweet and Lowdown
Lise McClendon
A Dorie Lennox, Swing Town Mystery
Publisher: Thalia Press

Originally published by Minotaur Books in 2002, this is the second mystery in this series.

Europe is at War. Nazi bombers are hammering London. Wendell Willkie is giving Roosevelt a run for his money. In Kansas City, Dorie Lennox and her partner Amos Haddam are trying to keep the blond and beautiful Thalia Hines from destroying herself. It's not easy.

The girl has every reason to escape the cold stone mansion where her mother lies dying. Eveline Hines is a decorated war hero during the First World War. Now she's struggling to protect her only daughter from men who lust over her inheritance even more than her curves.

In the rich milieu of a bygone time, an America preparing for war provides color for the intimate portrait of a powerful woman bearing witness to the destruction of all she loves. For the Hines family, nothing will ever be the same in this powerful story of maternal love and family secrets, and the disastrous attempts to mingle them.

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Rock Deadly by Kathryn Lively is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature Rock Deadly by Kathryn Lively as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

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Rock Deadly by Kathryn Lively

Rock Deadly
Kathryn Lively
A Lerxst Johnston Mystery
Publisher: DLP Books

This book was previously published as titled Dead Barchetta.

Music tutor by day and tribute band guitarist by night, Matt "Lerxst" Johnston has woman problems. Well, maybe for a musician that's normal.

1) There's the willowy redhead who tries to kill him in his sleep. 2) There's the hot for music teacher cougar who wants help adjusting her "G-string." 3) There's the knife-wielding rock chick with a soft spot for strays.

And … there's grandma, and her "herb garden," legal only if you have a card, and definitely not in Virginia! Normal? Heh.

Before Lerxst can find normal, he must learn the truth about his would-be killer, his family, and himself. And what a long, strange trip it is …

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Academic Body by Shirley S. Allen is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature Academic Body by Shirley S. Allen as today's third free mystery ebook.

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Academic Body by Shirley S. Allen

Academic Body
Shirley S. Allen
Publisher: Mainly Murder Press

Retired theatrical director Paul Godwin longs for the life of a college professor … but can he woo his famous wife away from the New York stage to become part of his academic life in small-town Maine?

Not easily, especially after the dean accuses him of having a fling with a student and then is found dead in circumstances that make Paul a prime suspect in the investigation. Paul's efforts to discover the real culprit provoke dangerous reprisals, but he must succeed to save his new career, his marriage — and perhaps his life.

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Senator by Richard Bowker is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature Senator by Richard Bowker as today's second free mystery ebook.

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Senator by Richard Bowker

Senator
Richard Bowker
Publisher: ePublishing Works!

Jim O'Connor, the Republican senator from Massachusetts, is charming, intelligent, well-spoken — and a future contender for the presidency. A handsome, charismatic family man, his ongoing affair with a beautiful journalist could prematurely shatter his White House hopes — a problem that is seriously compounded when he discovers his mistress brutally murdered in her Boston apartment.

Suddenly O'Connor is a homicide suspect — with November on the horizon and a tough re-election campaign spinning out of control. And now the Senator must hunt down a killer in the capital of lies — in order to salvage a badly battered political career … and, perhaps, save his own life as well.

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Sweet Dreams by Aaron Patterson is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature Sweet Dreams by Aaron Patterson as today's free mystery ebook.

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Sweet Dreams by Aaron Patterson

Sweet Dreams
Aaron Patterson
A Mark Appleton Thriller
Publisher: StoneHouse Ink

This is the "uncut" edition of the book, with deleted scenes, editing notes, and author interviews.

Mark Appleton is living the American Dream. Beautiful wife, loving daughter, and a high paying job in New York City. But when his family are killed in a accident he must reinvent himself. A year later in the midst of putting his life back together, Mark finds out that his family was killed and it was no accident. Mark will stop at nothing to hunt down the men responsible for the death of his family and what he finds will change his life forever.

Kirk Weston is a Detroit detective. He hates his job, his ex-wife, and his life. He is hand selected to help the FBI on a high profile case and just when he thinks things could not get any worse …

They do.

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for July 30, 2012

A new 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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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for July 30, 2012

This week's letters and mystery clue:

A F I L M N O R S

Mons Kallentoft series character is this Swedish police detective (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, July 29, 2012

Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason at a Special eBook Price

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We're not sure if we simply missed this title yesterday when we updated our weekly list of Kindle Mysteries for $2.99 or less — or maybe it was newly discounted just today — but Minotaur Books is offering the ebook format of Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason for just $2.99.

Originally published in 2001 in Iceland under the title Grafarpogn, Silence of the Grave is the fourth mystery in the Reykjavik Murder series, though only the second to be translated into English, and features Detective Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson and his team of police officers. It was honored with the CWA Gold Dagger Award in 2005 for best crime novel of the year.

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Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason

Silence of the Grave
Arnaldur Indriðason
A Reykjavik Murder Mystery

When a corpse is found on a hill outside the city, Detective Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson and his team think the body may have been buried for some years.

While Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own family, slowly but surely he finds out the truth about another unhappy family. Few people are still alive who can tell the tale, but even secrets taken to the grave cannot remain hidden forever.

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This Week's Bestselling Large Print Mystery and Suspense Books (120729)

Bestselling Large Print Mysteries and Thrillers from Amazon.com

Here is this week's list of the top ten bestselling mystery and suspense books in large print format from Amazon.com.

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Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120729)

Top 100 Free Kindle Mysteries and Thrillers, updated hourly by Amazon.com

Here is today's list of the Bestselling Free Kindle Crime Fiction: the top nine mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers.

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New Poster for Elementary, This Fall on CBS

Elementary (CBS, Fall 2012)

A promotional poster for Elementary has been released by CBS (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "New Holmes. New Watson. New York."

Jonny Lee Miller stars as Sherlock Holmes in this contemporary update of the character created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Lucy Liu plays his sidekick, Dr. Joan Watson. The crime-solving pair will crack some of NYPD's most impossible cases on Thursdays, this Fall on CBS. (The series premiere is September 27th at 10 PM ET/PT.)

Watch a "behind the scenes" video for the series from last May below.

FX Orders Pilot for The Bridge

Bron | Broen

FX Networks has ordered a pilot for The Bridge, based on the Swedish/Danish television co-production of Bron | Broen.

The 10-episode first season of the Nordic crime drama aired in late 2011 on SVT (Sweden) and DR (Denmark). A second season has been ordered, which is set to begin production later this year.

The storyline is set in Malmö and Copenhagen and follows the investigation of a spectacular murder that has taken place in the middle of the Öresund bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark — the body of a woman is found cut in half, each half in one country — forcing the Swedish and Danish police to work closely together to solve the crime.

The US version is expected to take place in El Paso (Texas) and Juárez (Chihuahua), where the American and Mexican police must cooperate to hunt down a serial killer.

Watch a trailer for the DVD/Blu-ray release for the first season of the original series (now available in the UK but not yet in the US) below.

So Help Me God by Larry D. Thompson is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature So Help Me God by Larry D. Thompson as today's fifth free mystery ebook.

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So Help Me God by Larry D. Thompson

So Help Me God
Larry D. Thompson
Publisher: Story Merchant Books

Miraculously awakening from a twelve-year coma, television evangelist Thomas Jeremiah Luther eagerly resumes his world-wide ministry while secretly plotting to seize control of conservative Christian political power in America.

When a teenage member of Luther’s congregation almost dies from an abortion, he convinces her family to file a multi-million dollar medical malpractice case against the physician and abortion clinic. The right verdict will shut down abortion clinics all over the country and send the religious right and power brokers of all stripes flocking to his door.

With two powerful and charismatic lawyers arguing the case, the nation is riveted to this landmark courtroom battle where the one of the most heated points in the national debate will be decided: When exactly does life begin?

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Hooligans by William Diehl is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature Hooligans by William Diehl as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

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Hooligans by William Diehl

Hooligans
William Diehl
Publisher: Story Merchant Books

Jake Kilmer is a cop for the Feds. His specialty is a branch of the Mafia known as the Cincinnati Triad. He's pursued them for years, and now they've set up shop in Dunetown, Georgia.

This time, they will not escape the Hooligans, a tough squad of ex-cops that Jake has organized.

This time, he'll settle the score once and for all …

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The Hunt by William Diehl is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Hunt by William Diehl as today's third free mystery ebook.

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The Hunt by William Diehl

The Hunt
William Diehl
Publisher: Story Merchant Books

This thriller was originally titled 27 when first published by Villard in 1990.

As the world trembles with the approach of World War II, a woman dies at the hands of Hitler's henchmen. Her murder forever changes her lover, Francis Scott Keegan, a relentless anti-Nazi mercenary, who becomes locked in a desperate cat-and-mouse game with the Third Reich's perfect spy, a man of a thousand faces.

In an arena that encompasses presidents and gangsters, spies and sirens, the deadly present and the dark past, Keegan pursues his elusive quarry into the cutting edge of world events—and into the secret inner workings of a terrifying mission known only as "27".

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Bloody Murdock by Robert J. Ray is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bloody Murdock by Robert J. Ray as today's second free mystery ebook.

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Bloody Murdock by Robert J. Ray

Bloody Murdock
Robert J. Ray
A Matt Murdock Mystery
Publisher: Camel Press

This is the first mystery (of five) in this series, originally published in 1986 by St. Martin's Press.

PI and ex-cop Matt Murdock is picky about the cases he takes on. Being a bodyguard isn’t his favorite gig, especially when the client is a high-handed number-cruncher like Ellis Dean. But Murdock is short on funds, and the case is a puzzler. It doesn’t hurt that it features the death, accidental or otherwise, of a beautiful woman.

Murdock has a weakness for damsels in distress, even after it’s a little late for rescue. Gayla Jean Kirkwood, killed in a car wreck on the Pacific Coast Highway, was a good-time girl, high-class waitress and wannabe starlet. Dean fires Murdock and ends up dead, clearing the way for Murdock to sign on with Gayla Jean’s sister, Meg Kirkwood, a gorgeous dead ringer for her sister. The case will offer other female distractions, including a fresh-faced and overly eager girl reporter. Who would want Gayla Jean dead? Was it a scorned lover? Someone at the chic club where she worked? The men who paid to photograph her naked? Or was she simply collateral — the real target being the Mexican actor driving the doomed car?

As his investigation continues, Murdock and his client will discover just how dirty deals in Hollywood can get. If they live long enough.

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