Hounds of Autumn by Heather Blackwood is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Hounds of Autumn by Heather Blackwood as today's second free mystery ebook (A Steampunk Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, March 30, 2013 at 7:20 AM ET. 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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Hounds of Autumn
Heather Blackwood
A Steampunk Thriller
Publisher: Triple Hare Press

They say that the moor has eyes.

It is 1890, and the windswept moors hold dark secrets. Chloe Sullivan is an amateur inventor whose holiday takes a dark turn when her friend and colleague, one of the few female mechanical experts in the British Empire, is murdered.

A black mechanical hound roams the moors, but could it have killed a woman? And what secrets are concealed within the dark family manor?

Accompanied by her naturalist husband and clockwork cat, Chloe is determined to see her friend's killer found.

But some secrets have a terrible cost.

  

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Forsaken by Andrew Van Wey is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Forsaken by Andrew Van Wey as today's free mystery ebook (A Novel of Art, Evil, and Insanity; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, March 30, 2013 at 7:10 AM ET. 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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Forsaken
Andrew Van Wey
A Novel of Art, Evil, and Insanity
Publisher: Greywood Bay

A beautiful house, a loving wife. Two kids, a dog, and a professorship teaching art restoration at the local university. Your name is Dan Rineheart. You've got it all.

On the cusp of autumn a mysterious painting arrives. No name. No date. No signature or frame. Only a note that reads: Here in art, denial. It's a disturbing work of grotesque perfection; two children with cruel eyes, a window onto an endless field, and a dying tree on top of a hill. A work of art … that changes with each viewing.

  

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Six Stephenie Meyer Novels are Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Six Stephenie Meyer Novels as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. All four books in "The Twilight Saga", an "Eclipse" novella, and her latest novel, The Host, are included in today's deal.

The deal price of $2.99 each is valid only for today, Saturday, March 30, 2013.

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Six Stephenie Meyer Novels
Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown

Bella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella, the person Edward holds most dear.

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Telemystery: Season Premiere Dates for The Killing, True Blood, and Copper

We have three telemystery series season premiere dates for you today.

• The Killing Season 3 with a two-hour episode on Sunday, June 2nd at 8 PM (ET/PT) on AMC.

• True Blood Season 6 on Sunday, June 16th at 10 PM (ET/PT) on HBO.

• Copper Season 2 on Sunday, June 23rd at 10 PM (ET/PT) on BBC America.

Keep up to date on the status of your favorite mystery and suspense television with our Telemystery Scoresheet. We've updated it with today's news.

Review: Deadly Virtues by Jo Bannister

A Mysterious Review of …

Deadly Virtues by Jo Bannister.

Review summary: This is an exceptionally well-crafted mystery, headlined by two extraordinary leads, who are about as endearing as characters come. The murder mystery storyline is clever and deceptively simple, and plays to the strengths of both characters. It would be a crime, as it were, if these two did not make a return appearance. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Deadly Virtues
Jo Bannister
Minotaur Books (March 2013)

Publisher synopsis: The town of Norbold, England is famous for its low crime rate, thanks to the zero-tolerance policy of Chief Superintendent John Fountain. And Norbold's newest police recruit, Hazel Best, is happy to help keep it that way. But numbers never tell the whole story, do they?

Jerome Cardy knew he was going to die. He also knew that it would be made to appear like an accident. He might not be able to prevent it, but Jerome was determined to make sure that someone knew what was going to happen — even if that someone was a man with a concussion lying with his dog in a jail cell next to him.

After Jerome is found beaten to death by a fellow inmate in another cell, Ash is unable to forget Jerome's last awkward words to him: "I had a dog once. Othello. That was its name. Othello." Certain there is a hidden message in these words, Ash is determined to discover the truth. But it won't be easy — no one believes his account of that night. And Hazel Best must decide whether pursuing the truth is worth her career.

      

MystereBooks: Law and Order by Dorothy Uhnak, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Law and Order by Dorothy Uhnak, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Open Road.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $1.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/29/2013 at 3:00 PM ET). 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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Law and Order by Dorothy Uhnak
Publisher: Open Road

First published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster in 1973, this crime novel was adapted for the 1976 made-for-television movie Law and Order.

Harlem, just before midnight. A New York Police Department cop and his partner pull up in front of a tenement. A short while later, Sergeant Brian O'Malley is dead from a stab wound to the jugular, and a prostitute has fallen down an airshaft to oblivion.

A few years after his father is given a hero's funeral, Brian Thomas O'Malley Jr. graduates from the police academy. As he rises quickly through the ranks of the NYPD, O'Malley discovers that some secrets are better left buried. Through the ensuing decades, as he raises a family of his own, O'Malley must cope with the fallout of a cover-up, until a fresh crime brings the plot full circle. Will the son have to pay for the sins of the father?

    

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MystereBooks: Criminal Intent by Sheldon Siegel, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Criminal Intent by Sheldon Siegel, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/29/2013 at 2:30 PM ET). 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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Criminal Intent by Sheldon Siegel
A Mike Daley Legal Thriller (3rd in series)
Publisher: Sheldon Siegel

First publisher in hardcover by Putnam in 2002.

You can pick your friends, they say, but you can't pick your family. And lately, Mike Daley's family has been keeping him very busy.

An ex-priest, ex-public defender, and ex-corporate lawyer, Daley and his former wife, Rosie Fernandez, now run their own San Francisco criminal defense firm. Most of their cases are fairly small-time, which is why it would be surprising that the person accused of murdering movie director Richard (Big Dick) MacArthur is calling them — except that the accused is Rosie's own niece, Angelina.

That case is bad enough, but the family problems don't end there: Rosie's brother, Tony, may be on the wrong end of a strong-arm graft proposal; the son of one of the firm's lawyers has just been busted on a drug charge; Mike is having a clandestine affair with a woman judge … and Rosie herself has a dark secret that may make all of it seem irrelevant.

  

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MystereBooks: The Burning by Jane Casey, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Burning by Jane Casey, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Minotaur Books.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/29/2013 at 2:00 PM ET). 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 Burning by Jane Casey
A Maeve Kerrigan Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books

The Burning Man. It's the name the media has given a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London's parks. And now there's a fifth.

Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable, keen to make her mark on the murder task force. Her male colleagues believe Maeve's empathy makes her weak, but the more she learns about the latest victim, Rebecca Haworth, from her grieving friends and family, the more determined Maeve becomes to bring her murderer to justice. But how do you catch a killer no one has seen when so much of the evidence has gone up in smoke?

      

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MystereBooks: Dead Shot, a Sniper Thriller by Jack Coughlin, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dead Shot by Jack Coughlin with Donald A. Davis, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, St. Martin's Press.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/29/2013 at 1:30 PM ET). 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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Dead Shot by Jack Coughlin with Donald A. Davis
A Sniper Thriller (2nd in series)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

In Baghdad's Green Zone, an Iraqi scientist is murdered just before he is to reveal the monstrous secret that Saddam Hussein took to his grave: the Palace of Death, home to a chemical weapon that Islamic militants quietly have been developing and whose formula is nearly complete. The assassination is the work of a mysterious sniper called Juba, who was originally trained by the British but now works with a twisted mastermind determined to wrest leadership of the terrorist world from Al Qaeda.

Kyle Swanson, once the top sniper in the Marine Corps, has become the key member in a secret special operations team known as Task Force Trident. When Juba tests the new weapon by killing hundreds of people at a British royal wedding in London, Swanson is assigned to hunt down his old special ops rival.

The birth of a new reign of global terror can be stopped only by a confrontation between the two best snipers in the world, a duel in which the first shot wins. Usually.

      

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MystereBooks: Placebo by Steven James, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Placebo by Steven James, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Revell.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $1.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/29/2013 at 1:00 PM ET). 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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Placebo by Steven James
A Jevin Banks Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Revell

Read our review of Placebo by Steven James

While covertly investigating a controversial neurological research program, exposé filmmaker Jevin Banks is drawn into a far-reaching conspiracy involving one of the world's largest pharmaceutical firms. After giving up his career as an escape artist and illusionist in the wake of his wife and sons' tragic death, Jevin is seeking not only answers about the questionable mind-to-mind communication program, but also answers to why his family suffered as they did.

    

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Review: If Snow Hadn't Fallen by S. J. Bolton

A Mysterious Review of …

If Snow Hadn't Fallen by S. J. Bolton. A Lacey Flint Novella.

Review summary: The storyline in this novella is set between the events of the first two books in this series and is written in a manner that provides a transition — mostly from a character development perspective — from one to the other. As such, it works well as an interesting, thought-provoking stand-alone story but doesn't really provide much of an introduction to Lacey Flint. (Click here for text of full review.)

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If Snow Hadn't Fallen
S. J. Bolton
A Lacey Flint Novella
Minotaur Books (April 2013)

Publisher synopsis: Just weeks ago, a Jack the Ripper copycat terrorized London, leaving London police officer Lacey Flint scarred both physically and emotionally. Still recovering from the ordeal and technically off-duty, Lacey almost ignores it when she hears a call for back-up as she's heading home. But she's close by and figures they could use her help. She could never have expected the horrible crime she would witness on arriving at the scene, or the frightening twists the case would being to take.

      

MystereBooks: Elusive by Sara Rosett, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Elusive by Sara Rosett, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/29/2013 at 12:00 AM ET). 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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Elusive by Sara Rosett
An Zoe Hunter, On the Run Mystery
Publisher: Sara Rosett

Zoe Hunter loves living on the edge. Free-spirited and spontaneous, she's built a life stringing together various freelance gigs that keep her bank account barely in the black.

But when her ex, Jack, goes missing along with several million dollars from his business and the FBI zeros in on her as a person of interest, Zoe's life goes from delightfully unpredictable to downright frightening.

Plunged into a world of fake identities, deception, and murder, she's afraid to trust anyone. Zoe impulsively skips town in a search for answers that takes her from Las Vegas to Italy, but instead of tracking down answers, she only uncovers more questions.

Who was Jack? Is he dead or did he fake his disappearance? And, what was he mixed up in — art theft, the mafia, espionage … or all three?

      

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Red Contract by Peter Wilben is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Red Contract by Peter Wilben as today's third free mystery ebook (A Joe Grace Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, March 29, 2013 at 7:30 AM ET. 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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Red Contract
Peter Wilben
A Joe Grace Thriller
Publisher: Orchard Wall Publishing

Wall Street is soaring and so is the share price of pharma giant Trident Drug … rumor on the street is they have discovered a cure for AIDS.

But when the scientist responsible disappears, ex-commando-turned-financial hot shot Joe Grace finds himself under pressure from one of his key investors to track down the missing man.

On a breathtaking chase from Dublin to New York, from Mexico to Moscow, Joe, a man fighting his own demons, finds himself in a place of no return where friends are few and the price for staying alive is paid in blood.

  

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