Another Extended Trailer for Copper

A new, extended 2-plus minute trailer for the BBC America original crime drama Copper has been released by the network. While we've seen some of this footage before, much of what's included is new. There's also a bit more of a soundtrack here, which adds interest as well as depth to the images.

Starring Tom Weston-Jones as one of New York City's finest in 1984, Copper premieres on Sunday, August 19th at 10 PM (ET/PT).

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120803)

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 Discounts for Two More Poisoned Pen Press 1st-in-Series Mysteries

Earlier this week we mentioned that specialty mystery publisher Poisoned Pen Press had discounted the first two ebooks in the "David Mapstone" series by Jon Talton.

Today we're learning that two additional first-in-series titles have been discounted to just 99 cents (but currently available free from iTunes). All three books are listed below.

We've had the pleasure to read and review two of these titles.

In 2009, Judy Clemens, the author of the "Stella Crown" mysteries, began a new series, introducing Casey Maldonado and her constant companion Death in Embrace the Grim Reaper. In our review, we said, "In an odd couple sort of way, they make a good pair of amateur sleuths and their first case (as it were) is a remarkably impressive debut." (Mysterious Reviews, 2009.)

Mark de Castrique published his first mystery in 2003, introducing funeral home owner "Buryin'" Barry Clayton, who would appear in a total of five books in the series. We've read three of them, including the first, Dangerous Undertaking, appreciating not only the character but the rich description of the North Carolina setting. (The author has gone on to write another series featuring PI Sam Blackman and most recently, a stand-alone that could serve as the first in a third series, The 13th Target. You can find links to all our reviews of this author's books on Mysterious Reviews.)

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Concrete Desert
Jon Talton
A David Mapstone Mystery (1st in series)

Having recently lost his job as a history professor, Mapstone returns to his boyhood home of Phoenix, Arizona, but finds the Southwest city he knew dramatically changed. It's now a haven for wealthy retirees and a seasonal retreat for West Coast "sophisticates".

To Mapstone, who has a strong personal feeling for the area's history, it seems a foreign place. There remain, however, pockets of his earlier life, some welcome, some not. Mapstone eagerly accepts a temporary job from his old friend and Maricopa County Chief Deputy Mike Peralta: Look into still-open cases that have languished for years in the department's file cabinets and see if he can close any.

A less welcome voice from the past is the college sweetheart, who appears at his door one evening. True to his memory of her, she is there because she wants something. Never mind that she had abruptly abandoned him 20 years ago for a wealthier lover. Now her sister is missing. Will Mapstone look for her? Although Mapstone's search for the missing woman is quickly resolved when her body is discovered in the desert, he is stunned to find an echo of the past in the grisly discovery. The dead sister has been found in circumstances identical to a sensational 40-year-old unsolved murder he is researching for Peralta.

Mapstone's dogged investigation of both murders bridges the chasm of clashing cultures, meshing his own long-ago memories and the stories from some of the city's old inhabitants with the tangled doings of newcomers and their acolytes, young women eager to share the lifestyle of tainted wealth, drugs, and careless violence.

      

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Embrace the Grim Reaper
Judy Clemens
A Casey Maldonado, "Grim Reaper" Mystery (1st in series)

Casey Maldonado’s life is over – at least as she knows it. In one brief moment of fire and wrenching metal, everything important was gone. The car manufacturer was generous with its settlement, but it can never be enough. Her family and friends – not to mention her lawyers – want her to go for more. More money. More publicity. More everything. But Casey is done. No financial gain or courtroom retribution will bring back what really matters. So she packs up, puts her house on the market, and leaves town. Her only companion – Death, who won’t take her, but won’t leave her alone.

Stopping on a whim in Clymer, a small blue-collar town in the midst of Ohio farmland, Casey discovers a town wrapped in tragedy. Not only is HomeMaker, the town’s appliance factory and main employer, moving to Mexico, but the town has been rocked by the suicide of a beloved single mother. Casey is drawn to the town, and soon realizes that many of the citizens don’t believe the verdict of suicide at all. Death encourages her to investigate, and she uncovers information that points to the factory. Was the victim’s death a cover-up? Did she truly have the means – as she claimed – to keep the factory from leaving town? When Casey begins to receive messages that she should leave well enough alone, she decides she’d be better off back on the road, but the murderer can’t let her go with everything she knows …

      

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Dangerous Undertaking
Mark de Castrique
A Barry Clayton Mystery (1st in series)

Barry Clayton has a job he doesn't want. When his father is stricken with Alzheimer's, Barry leaves the Charlotte police force for the small mountain community of Gainesboro, North Carolina, where his family runs the local funeral home. "Buryin' Barry" reluctantly assumes the mantle of town undertaker, trying to fit his life into this somber profession.

Almost at once it turns deadly. At the graveside service for an elderly woman, a grieving grandson strides in like Clint Eastwood in a duster, rips out a shotgun, and murders his family. Then the shooter turns the weapon on Barry. "Take a message to my grandmother," Dallas Willard shouts. "Tell her they tried to take the land. Tell her I love her." The blast hits Barry in the shoulder.

Barry is not cut from the same black cloth as his father, and his irreverent wit and independence have already won him the friendship of the county sheriff, Vietnam War hero Tommy Lee Wadkins. Besides, Barry's a police pro. Though his wounds are in the hands of local surgeon Susan Miller, Barry begins search for both the killer and the reason for his crime. It isn't long before a second shooting occurs — but Dallas Willard's body is then discovered at the bottom of a quarry pond, indisputable evidence that someone else committed the second crime, someone who now has his sights set on Barry …

    

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New Alibris Coupon Codes (120803)

We're beginning to think we missed the memo that today is National Bookseller Coupon Day because now we have a new set of coupons from Alibris, offering up to 15% off your entire purchase (excluding shipping and taxes, if applicable).

Alibris is the premier online marketplace for independent sellers of new and used books, music, and movies, as well as rare and collectible titles. And this weekend only, through August 5th, 2012, you can save on your purchase by applying these coupon codes at checkout:

HUNDRED: Save $5 off your purchase of $50 or more.

YEARS: Save $10 off your purchase of $80 or more.

SOLITUDE: Save $15 off your purchase of $100 or more.

Remember, the above coupons expire on August 5th, 2012.

New Kobo Coupon Code (120803)

From now through Monday, August 6th, 2012, Kobo is offering 25% off a single title from a select group of ebooks.

Here is the code — lwaug325xy — and here is the link to the list of eligible books, many of which are crime fiction (mysteries, suspense novels, and thrillers). There is a good mix of adult titles and young adult titles listed, including all three "Hunger Games" books (and the trilogy as a single book; an additional 25% on this ebook is a very good deal indeed, reducing the already discounted price of $27.99 to just $20.99).

Remember … this promotion ends on August 6th, 2012 at 11:59 PM ET.

New Books-a-Million Coupons and Promotions, This Weekend Only

This weekend only — through Sunday, August 5th, 2012 — Books-a-Million is offering two coupons for savings on almost everything in their online store, plus a couple of other promotions.

The coupons …

AFFAUGTEN: Save 10% on your entire purchase. (It says "restrictions apply" but we couldn't find any information on what they might be.)

BAK2SKL: Save 25$ on purchases of $100 or more. (No mention of "restrictions" here.)

Other promotions …

Super Summer Sale: All bargain prices slashed an additional 25%. (Prices reflect discount; no coupon required.)

$50 Reward Card Free with Purchase of Nook Tablet 16GB: This is a repeat of a previous offer, and is a pretty good deal as it effectively discounts the standard $249 price of the device to just $199. (There's no mention of a coupon code required.)

The B-A-M Reaping Giveaway: Celebrate the DVD release of The Hunger Games. Enter daily for a chance to win $50 Gift Card plus a prize from 1 of Panem's 13 Districts. (This promotion started a couple of days ago, with the first winner already posted on the bookseller's website.)

Important Note: All coupon codes and promotions above (except the giveaway) end this Sunday, August 5th, 2012.

Bahama Burnout by Don Bruns is Today's Sixth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bahama Burnout by Don Bruns as today's sixth 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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Bahama Burnout
Don Bruns
A Mick Sever Mystery
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

In our review of this fifth mystery in the series, we said, "[W]ith its atmospheric setting and colorful characters it is probably the author's best to date."

For rock and roll writer Mick Sever, another story, another deadly island paradise is all in a day's work. This time, Mick heads to Nassau, Bahamas, home of the legendary Highland Studio. Known for pumping out hits that burn up the charts, Highland is where the magic happens-or rather, where the magic happened until a devastating fire destroyed the entire studio. No one knows how the fire started, who started it-or whose body was found among the charred ruins.

Sent to get the inside story on the opening of the new Highland Studio, Mick finds this is hardly the Phoenix-rising-out-of-the-ashes story he expected. Some say the studio's haunted, some say it's cursed, but one thing is for sure: someone-or something-wants to stop the music. A smashed guitar and erased tracks send a subtle warning, but murder? That's an entirely different tune. If Mick doesn't act fast, Highland Studio, along with everything and everyone in its path, could go up in smoke. It's not always better to burn out than to fade away.

Read our review of Bahama Burnout by Don Bruns.

  

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Moonbird Boy by Abigail Padgett is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Moonbird Boy by Abigail Padgett 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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Moonbird Boy
Abigail Padgett
A Bo Bradley Mystery
Publisher: Abigail Padgett

Originally published by Mysterious Press in 1996, this is the fourth mystery in this series.

Bo fights her way out of the dark side of her bipolar disorder when a friend is murdered, throwing his difficult son into the child protective system for which she works.

Ghost Flower Lodge is an unconventional psychiatric treatment facility run by a band of Kumeyaay Indians, and host to Bo after the death of her dog casts her into an acute depressive episode. But when another guest at the lodge, successful comedian Mort Wagman, is shot and killed, Bo drags herself back to life in order to help Mort’s strange son, Bird, now an orphan. And in the process discovers a human evil more toxic than rattlesnake venom.

  

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The Charlestown Connection by Tom MacDonald is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Charlestown Connection by Tom MacDonald 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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The Charlestown Connection
Tom MacDonald
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Dermot Sparhawk, a former All American Boston College football hero, is stacking cans in a parish food pantry in Boston's Charlestown, when his godfather, Jeepster Hennessey, shows up with a knife in his back and dies at Dermot's feet. Once slated for a professional football career, now a recovering alcoholic, with a torn-up knee, Dermot sets out to solve the murder of his godfather with the help of his Micmac Indian cousin, his paraplegic tenant, and a former teammate.

Dermot's investigation has him tangling with members of the IRA, FBI, and the Boston mob. He also is forced to contend with Charlestown's code of silence and the norms of the neighborhood where he grew up.

Feeling like he did at the height of his game, Dermot uses his Native American intuition and Irish good looks to help him uncover clues. Dermot stumbles upon bits and pieces of information that he cobbles together into an unlikely theory which leads him on an unexpected trail and to a new mystery that could cost him his life.

  

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In for a Penny by Maggie Toussaint is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature In for a Penny by Maggie Toussaint 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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In for a Penny
Maggie Toussaint
A Cleopatra Jones Mystery
Publisher: Five Star/Muddle House Publishing

This is the first mystery in this series.

When irrepressible accountant Cleopatra Jones overshoots the sixth green, her golf ball lands in the biggest hazard of her life, the inseam of a dead banker. Murder rocks this small Maryland town and old secrets cast suspicion on Cleo’s best friend.

Cleo sets out to prove her friend is innocent. Her sleuthing is hampered by her damaged instincts, a jumbo dog, and her wacky, engaging family. As head of the household, Cleo will do anything to protect her children.

  

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Supreme Betrayal by Steve Nyman is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Supreme Betrayal by Steve Nyman 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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Supreme Betrayal
Steve Nyman
Publisher: Blue Water Research

An Army officer murdered in cold blood. A ship with deadly cargo is bound for the American coast. Only one man can unravel the plot, but Andrew Douglas always plays by the rules. The former FBI Agent carries out his mission, and follows orders to the letter. Now, the rules have changed, but the stakes are higher, much higher.

Threats against his young family, a newspaper reporter hot on his heels as he rushes to prevent the deadly assault from the sea, all weigh heavily on his moral compass. Even the U.S. Constitution and the very foundation of the American government are at risk.

Andrew has found himself in the middle of a maelstrom, with no escape.

      

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Watches of the Night by Sally Wright is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Watches of the Night by Sally Wright as today's 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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Watches of the Night
Sally Wright
A Ben Reese Mystery
Publisher: Severn House

This is the fifth book in this series.

Ben Reese, university archivist and part-time investigator, is alarmed when his old friend Kate Lindsay receives a disturbing package. It contains her husbands eyeball, retrieved from the front line and posted arriving twenty years later.

Kate needs some answers so decides to visit veteran Ross MacNab, but when MacNab commits suicide hours before she arrives, Kate fears foul play. Ben's suspicions, meanwhile, rest on another war comrade, but army records show he died years before …

  

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