All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, October 31, 2012.

Review: Red Rain by R. L. Stine

A Mysterious Review of …

Red Rain by R. L. Stine.

Review summary: This is a suspenseful, alarming, and somewhat thought-provoking book with an unexpected ending that will keep readers engaged until the very end. R. L. Stein — already well known for his young adult and teen books — is sure to be an adult horror novelist for quite some time. (Click here for text of full review.)

Twin Peaks: The Complete Series is Amazon's TV Deal of the Week

This week's Amazon TV Deal of the Week is Twin Peaks: The Complete Series (Definitive Gold Box Edition).

Twin Peaks aired for two seasons on ABC, from April 1990 through June 1991. The primary storyline followed FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), who is sent to the Washington State town of Twin Peaks to investigate the murder of teenager Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee).

Created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, Twin Peaks defies easy categorization. There is, of course, the murder mystery itself but there are also significant elements of suspense, even the supernatural. The melodramatic interpersonal relationships reminiscent of soap operas is also present.

The first season of the series was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards, winning two (costume design and single camera editing). The second season was nominated for 4 Emmys.

Special Dispensations by S. I. Wells is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Special Dispensations by S. I. Wells as today's fifth free mystery ebook (A Legal Thriller; Kindle format only).

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.

Full Bone Moon by G. Cameron Fuller is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Full Bone Moon by G. Cameron Fuller as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Murder Mystery Inspired by Actual Events; Kindle format only).

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.

The Surest Poison by Chester D. Campbell is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Surest Poison by Chester D. Campbell as today's third free mystery ebook (A Sid Chance Mystery; Kindle format only).

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.

Implicated by Peter Michael Rosenberg is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Implicated by Peter Michael Rosenberg as today's second free mystery ebook (A Contemporary Thriller; Kindle format only).

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.

Murder Spins a Tale by Veryl Ann Grace is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder Spins a Tale by Veryl Ann Grace as today's free mystery ebook (A Flock and Fiber Mystery; Kindle format only).

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.

Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, October 31, 2012.

Note: The price has been matched by Amazon.com for today only.

New Poster for Hitchcock

A new poster for Hitchcock has been released by the studio (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "Behind every Psycho is a great woman."

Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century, Alfred Hitchcock (played by Anthony Hopkins), and his wife and partner Alma Reville (Helen Mirren). The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock's seminal movie, Psycho.

Directed by Sacha Gervasi from an adapted screenplay by John J. McLaughlin, and based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello (details below), Hitchcock opens in limited release in the US on November 23rd, 2012. (It will premiere at the AFI Fest on November 1st.)

Promotional Poster for Stoker

A promotional teaser poster for the suspense thriller Stoker has been released by the studio (right; click for larger image).

India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) was not prepared to lose her father and best friend Richard (Dermot Mulroney) in a tragic auto accident. The solitude of her woodsy family estate, the peace of her tranquil town, and the unspoken somberness of her home life are suddenly upended by not only this mysterious accident, but by the sudden arrival of her Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), whom she never knew existed. When Charlie moves in with her and her emotionally unstable mother Evie (Nicole Kidman), India thinks the void left by her father's death is finally being filled by his closet bloodline. Soon after his arrival, India comes to suspect that this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives. Yet instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless young woman becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

Directed by Park Chan-wook from an original screenplay by Wentworth Miller, Stoker opens in limited release in the US on March 1st, 2013.

Telemystery: Production Update for Adaptation of Louise Penny's Still Life

Last June we reported that Louise Penny's multiple award-winning debut novel Still Life was being adapted into a two-hour made-for-television movie for CBC.

Today CBC News has an update on the production, which is underway in Montreal.

Nathaniel Parker — who many of you will recognize as Inspector Lynley from the long-running series of mysteries adapted from Elizabeth George's novels — stars as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache with the Sûreté du Quebec.

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (121030)

Here is today's list of the Bestselling Free Kindle Crime Fiction: the top nine mysteries, novels of suspense, 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 click on the image to the right or use this link to see the relevant page on Amazon.com, which includes a list of both the Top 100 Paid and Top 100 Free Kindle Mysteries and Thrillers.

Review: Münster's Case by Håkan Nesser

A Mysterious Review of …

Münster's Case by Håkan Nesser. A Van Veeteren Mystery.

Review summary: The titular case is interesting on its own merits, but the investigation moves along very slowly and very methodically, with little of substance happening — or even being revealed — over much of the first half of the book. The latter chapters, however, are riveting and well worth the pathway taken to get there. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Münster's Case
Håkan Nesser
A Van Veeteren Mystery
Pantheon (August 2012)

Publisher synopsis: For Waldemar Leverkuhn the day could not have begun more auspiciously. He and three of his friends, all retirees, have just won the lottery. It's a modest sum when split four ways—certainly not enough to lift Waldemar out of the plain apartment he shares with his quiet, weary wife — but it's enough for the old men to toast their good luck with a blowout at their favorite bar. The celebration ends, however, with Waldemar drunk, stumbling, belligerent, and eventually dead in his own bed, stabbed twenty-eight times in the chest with a carving knife.

Taking charge of the case is Intendent Münster, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren's longtime right-hand man, and his beguiling colleague Ewa Moreno. They seem to have a surefire lead with the disappearance of one of Waldemar's friends on the same night as the murder, but after a cursory look into his whereabouts produces more questions than answers, the investigation suddenly seems to solve itself when Marie-Louise Leverkuhn, Waldemar's wife, confesses to the crime and calmly resigns herself to her fate. The case is, but all accounts, closed. That is, until one of the Leverkuhns' neighbors in the same unassuming block of apartments goes missing and turns up — spectacularly, gruesomely — in pieces around the city.

      

MystereBooks: Two Novels of Horror and Suspense by Sarah Langan, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature two novels of horror and suspense by Sarah Langan, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

We generally don't include horror novels on our site, but with tomorrow being Halloween, we thought it might make for an interesting and not entirely inappropriate change of pace.

Sarah Langan is a three-time Bram Stoker Award winner, twice for her novels — one of which is included in this promotion — and once for a short story.

The ebook format of these titles were listed at $0.99 each from the listed vendors (below) 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.