The Last Call by George Wier is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Last Call by George Wier as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Bill Travis Mystery; Kindle, Kobo, and iTunes formats).

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The Last Call
George Wier
A Bill Travis Mystery
Publisher: Flagstone Books

Bill Travis, an unmarried, unattached investment counselor rapidly approaching his fortieth birthday, conceives that he may not live the most exciting of lives, yet Julie Simmons, his first appointment that Monday, is deeply in trouble. She has taken a North Texas quarter horse racer and liquor baron named Archie Carpin — the last of a dynasty of criminals from the 1920's — for a ride and cleaned him out of a neat two million bucks. And thus begins the adventure of Bill's life.

Ensues a chase north across Texas to recover the money and shake the pursuit of a couple of rednecks with a penchant for rifles and rigged explosives. Yet, through all this action the compelling tale of yet another mystery — an 80-year-old missing person's case — begins to unravel.

      

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Fiddleback by Jeff Vrolyks is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Fiddleback by Jeff Vrolyks as today's third free mystery ebook (A Psychological Thriller; Kindle, Kobo, and iTunes formats).

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Fiddleback
Jeff Vrolyks
A Psychological Thriller
Publisher: Jeff Vrolyks

Mae Clark is a ten-year-old girl with abusive parents and an imaginary friend named Breuer. Breuer has ideas to help Mae, ideas that aren’t very nice. Breuer isn't as imaginary as Mae thinks.

Tag Baylor is a bartender who writes fiction as a hobby, posting his works on an amateur website. The heroine in his stories is a young woman named Mae Clark. A man claiming to be Mae Clark’s husband emails Tag, threatening tremendous bodily harm if he continues writing about Mae. Tag is stunned: Mae Clark is a figment of his imagination. Or is she?

Warning: Book depicts explicit acts of violence. Discretion advised.

      

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Last Call by Rob Cornell is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Last Call by Rob Cornell as today's second free mystery ebook (A Ridley Brone Mystery; Kindle format only).

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Last Call
Rob Cornell
A Ridley Brone Mystery
Publisher: Paradox Publications

Running a karaoke bar is no way for an ex-PI to make a living.

Just ask Ridley Brone, a California private investigator who returns to his Michigan hometown when he inherits his estranged parents' multimillion dollar estate. The songs his mom and dad wrote made them rich, but their popular karaoke bar, the High Note, made them famous. Now Ridley owns a bar he doesn't have a clue how to manage, and his every effort seems only to further tarnish his parents' legacy.

Then Ridley's high school love, Autumn, shows up asking for help. She suspects her husband of having an affair and wants Ridley to find the truth. Itching to do the kind of work he knows, Ridley takes her case. But after he finds her husband murdered, the karaoke bar feels like vacation compared to the hard job of proving Autumn's innocence.

  

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The Sweet Redemption by Thomas Stienstra is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Sweet Redemption by Thomas Stienstra as today's free mystery ebook (A Kristopher Korg Mystery; Kindle format only).

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The Sweet Redemption
Thomas Stienstra
A Kristopher Korg Mystery
Publisher: Wild Earth Press

The shadow side of the music industry, crime, and the power of unseen forces are on the same stage.

Inspector Kristopher Korg, a week from being forced into retirement, is charged to investigate the disappearance of a rock star manager. With young partner Jeremy Sager, they bore into the shadow side of show business, where the trail leads to rock star Jesse James Johnson and his entourage, big money, greed, passion, sex and multiple murders.

  

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The Many Lives of Lilith Lane by E. V. Anderson is Today's Kindle Daily Deal for Teens

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Many Lives of Lilith Lane by E. V. Anderson as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal for Teens.

The deal price of $1.98 is valid only for today, Friday, February 01, 2013.

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The Many Lives of Lilith Lane
E. V. Anderson
A Mystery Adventure
Plympton

Seventeen-year-old Lilith Lane has a hunk of a boyfriend, a wicked tongue, and a talent for solving the mysteries that pop up in her small home town of Mirabalis. But when her little sister goes missing in the middle of the night, both Lilith's detective skills and her recall of sophomore year physics are put to the ultimate test.

To save her sister, Lilith must race against the clock with the help of Dr. Hammer, a mad scientist who pushes Lilith off the edge — literally — of his reality-bending skyscraper. Lilith's world is turned upside down by her sister's disappearance, and a skyscraper that is also a portal to a parallel universe suddenly doesn't seem that surreal. With Dr. Hammer's help, Lilith must put her girl detective skills to the test and try to save her sister.

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A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith is Today's Kindle Noir Fantasy Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith as today's Amazon Kindle Noir Fantasy Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Friday, February 01, 2013.

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A Suspension of Mercy
Patricia Highsmith
A Novel of Noir Fantasy
W. W. Norton

Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife, Alicia — at least he has thought about it, compulsively, over and over again, plotting schemes, designing escapes, forging alibis. Of course he has; he's a mystery-script writer.

But when Alicia takes a long unannounced vacation, Sydney seizes the opportunity to perfect his artistic method.

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The Pirate Coast by Richard Zacks is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Pirate Coast by Richard Zacks as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Friday, February 01, 2013.

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The Pirate Coast
Richard Zacks
Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
Hyperion

The true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their knees.

In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out in 1805 on a secret mission to over-throw the government of Tripoli. The operation was sanctioned by President Thomas Jefferson, but at the last moment he grew wary of "intermeddling" in a foreign government, and Eaton set off without proper national support.

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Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending February 01, 2013

A list of the top 15 Mystery Hardcover Bestsellers for the week ending February 1st, 2013 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

Despite a strong showing by Robert Crais's new stand-alone Suspect, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn retains the top spot on our list again this week. Two new books enter the list this week (positions in brackets).

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[11]: Insane City
Dave Barry

Seth Weinstein knew Tina was way out of his league in pretty much any way you could imagine, which is why it continued to astonish him that he was on the plane now for their destination wedding in Florida. The Groom Posse had already sprung an airport prank on him, and he'd survived it, and if that was the worst of it, everything should be okay. Smooth sailing from now on.

Seth has absolutely no idea what he's about to get into. In the next several hours, he and his friends will become embroiled with rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, a pimp as big as the Death Star, a very desperate Haitian refugee on the run with her two children from some very bad men, and an eleven-foot albino Burmese python named Blossom. And there're still two days to go before the wedding.

As it turns out, it's not smooth sailing, it's more like a trip on the Titanic. And the water below him is getting deeper every minute. By the end, amid gunfire, high-speed chases, and mayhem of the most unimaginable sort, violent men will fall, heroes will rise, and many lives will change.

Seth's, not least of all.

            

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[13]: Speaking from Among the Bones
Alan Bradley

Flavia de Luce (5th)

Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they're found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters' diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies.

Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred's death, the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place?

The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there's never such thing as an open-and-shut case.

            

Cinemystery: Don Winslow's The Power of the Dog to be Adapted for Film

Deadline is reporting that the screenwriters for the Swedish film adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will adapt Don Winslow's crime thriller The Power of the Dog.

Nikolag Arcel will direct a screenplay co-written with Rasmus Heisterberg and Shane Salerno, who was also co-wrote the screenplay of another Winslow adaptation, Savages. Shane and Winslow are also teaming up on the screenplay adaptation of the latter's Satori, which is in pre-production at Warner Bros.

No studio is attached to this new project yet.

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The Power of the Dog
Don Winslow

Art Montana is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father Parada is a powerful and uncorruptable Catholic priest. Callan is an Irish kid from Hell's kitchen who grows up to be a merciless hitman. And they are all trapped in the world of the Mexican drug Federación.

From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tiajuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.

      

Telemystery: Lifetime Orders Witches of East End to Series

Last summer Lifetime ordered a pilot for a potential series adaptation of Melissa de la Cruz's novel Witches of East End. Today we're learning that the cable network has moved forward with a 10-episode series order, which will premiere later this year.

Julia Ormond stars as Joanna Beauchamp, who, together with her two daughters Freya (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) and Ingrid (Rachel Boston), are living quiet lives in the Hamptons but are harboring a secret: they are witches. Maggie Friedman (Eastwick, Dawson's Creek) wrote the pilot screenplay and will executive produce.

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Witches of East End
Melissa de la Cruz

The three Beauchamp women — Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid — live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. Their beautiful, mist-shrouded town seems almost stuck in time, and all three women lead seemingly quiet, uneventful existences. But they are harboring a mighty secret — they are powerful witches banned from using their magic. Joanna can resurrect people from the dead and heal the most serious of injuries. Ingrid, her bookish daughter, has the ability to predict the future and weave knots that can solve anything from infertility to infidelity. And finally, there's Freya, the wild child, who has a charm or a potion that can cure most any heartache.

For centuries, all three women have been forced to suppress their abilities. But then Freya, who is about to get married to the wealthy and mysterious Bran Gardiner, finds that her increasingly complicated romantic life makes it more difficult than ever to hide her secret. Soon Ingrid and Joanna confront similar dilemmas, and the Beauchamp women realize they can no longer conceal their true selves. They unearth their wands from the attic, dust off their broomsticks, and begin casting spells on the townspeople. It all seems like a bit of good-natured, innocent magic, but then mysterious, violent attacks begin to plague the town. When a young girl disappears over the Fourth of July weekend, they realize it's time to uncover who and what dark forces are working against them.

      

New Poster, Trailer for Netflix Original Series, House of Cards

A promtional poster for the Netflix original series House of Cards has been released (right; click for larger image). All 13 episodes of the series will be available to view tomorrow, February 1st, only on Netflix.

Based on the BBC series of the same title, Kevin Spacey stars as Congressman Francis Underwood who, with his wife Claire (Robin Wright), will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This political drama/thriller penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex, and corruption in modern Washington DC.

Watch a promo video for the series, below.

Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (130131)

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; as an alternative, 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.