Death by Drowning by Abigail Keam is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Death by Drowning by Abigail Keam as today's second free mystery ebook (A Josiah Reynolds Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 02, 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.

For a summary of all of today's featured titles, plus any that may have appeared before and are repeat freebies, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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Death by Drowning
Abigail Keam
A Josiah Reynolds Mystery
Publisher: Worker Bee Press

In spite of having to recover from serious injuries from her fall down a cliff with O'nan, Josiah Reynolds is back to sleuthing. This time her friend, Irene Meckler, asks Josiah to investigate the death of her nephew which was ruled accidental. Irene has her doubts.

Along with her best friend Matt, and Jake Dosh, a physician assistant hired by Josiah's daughter, Josiah again makes the rounds of quirky characters that can only be found in the mysterious world of antebellum homes, bourbon and horse racing of Kentucky's Bluegrass region.

  

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The Season of Sin by Stacy Deanne is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Season of Sin by Stacy Deanne as today's free mystery ebook (A Bree Morris and Steven Kemp Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 02, 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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The Season of Sin
Stacy Deanne
A Bree Morris and Steven Kemp Mystery
Publisher: Peace in the Storm Publishing

Detective Brianna "Bree" Morris's psychiatrist, Dr. Nadia Hollister, is stabbed to death in her upstairs bathroom. Brianna, who is at Nadia's while the murder happens, is the only witness. Unfortunately she was knocked unconscious by the killer and only has the memory of the killer's scent to go on.

Brianna and her partner and ex-lover Steven Kemp sign on to help Homicide Detective Jayce Matthews solve the case. With Nadia's journals as her guide, Bree learns that Nadia was keeping a devastating secret that has something to do with her adopted daughter. The renowned doctor was not whom she seemed to be and her secret may not have only got her killed but could ruin the foundation of her entire family.

The police hunt for suspects but Nadia's secret could wreck the lives of many, all who have motive to kill her.

The deeper Brianna and Steven dig into Nadia's past; the more they question whether Nadia was the true victim after all.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (130402)

Here is today's mystery and suspense update from Big Fish Games …

• The Daily Deal is Rita James and the Race to Shangri La, just $2.99 today only!.

• The current Catch of the Week is Witches' Legacy: The Charleston Curse, just $2.99 through Sunday, April 07, 2013 only.

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Today's Daily Deal is Rita James and the Race to Shangri La

Join the "more brave than brilliant" Rita James on another whirlwind adventure in search of the mythical paradise of Shangri-La! Travel with Rita, Sebastian, Dr. James, and Marbles the one eyed monkey to a land of mystery where few have ventured in this mesmerizing Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game. Find the legendary city while being chased by the sinister Dr. Stroheim!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Tuesday, April 02, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Witches' Legacy: The Charleston Curse

End the Charleston Curse before it wipes out an entire family and save a young girl! After finding out that you are the last living relative to a young orphan named Lynn, you discover the terrifying tale of her family. The Charlestons have been systematically killed by a witch and now it's up to you to protect Lynn!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game at the special price of $2.99 through Sunday, April 07, 2013.

MystereBooks: Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Touchstone.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (04/01/2013 at 8:30 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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Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
A Gus Carpenter Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Touchstone

Winner of the 2009 Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel.

Read our review of Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley

In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lake — the same snowmobile that went down with Starvation's legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn's accident happened five miles away on a different lake. As rumors buzz about mysterious underground tunnels, the evidence from the snowmobile says one thing: murder.

Gus Carpenter, editor of the local newspaper, has recently returned to Starvation after a failed attempt to make it big at the Detroit Times. In his youth, Gus was the goalie who let a state championship get away, crushing Coach's dreams and earning the town's enmity. Now he's investigating the murder of his former coach. But even more unsettling to Gus are the holes in the town's past and the gnawing suspicion that those holes may conceal some dark and disturbing secrets secrets that some of the people closest to him may have killed to keep.

      

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MystereBooks: A Test of Wills by Charles Todd, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Test of Wills by Charles Todd, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

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 (04/01/2013 at 8:00 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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A Test of Wills by Charles Todd
An Ian Rutledge Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

In 1914, Ian Rutledge left a brilliant career at Scotland Yard to fight in the Great War. Now, in 1919, he is back, burdened with a heavy secret: he is still suffering from shell shock. With him almost constantly is the cynical, taunting voice of the young Scots soldier he was forced to have executed on the battlefield for refusing to fight.

In a desperate gamble to salvage his sanity, Rutledge takes up his duties at Scotland Yard. But a colleague, jealous of Rutledge's pre-war successes, has learned his secret and maneuvers to have him assigned to a case that promises to spell disaster no matter what the outcome. In a Warwickshire village, a popular retired military officer has been murdered, and the chief suspect is, unhappily for the Inspector, a much-decorated war hero and a friend of the Prince of Wales.

Rutledge, fighting his malady and the tormentor in his head (who is the personification of his own doubts and guilt), doggedly goes about his investigation. He digs into the lives of the villagers: the victim's ward, a young woman now engaged to the chief suspect; a local artist shunned because of her love for a German prisoner; the reclusive cousins whose cottage adjoins the dead man's estate. But the witness who might be able to tell him the most is a war-ravaged ex-soldier who chills Rutledge with the realization that if he loses control of himself, he could become this man.

      

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Mystery and Suspense Films: John Dies at the End and The Sweeney, New This Week on DVD

Checking through our list of films currently scheduled for release this week on DVD and/or Blu-ray disc, we are pleased to feature two that fall into the mystery, suspense, thriller and/or adventure category …

John Dies at the End starring Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, and Doug Jones; and …

The Sweeney starring Ray Winstone, Ben Drew, Hayley Atwell, Steven Mackintosh, Paul Anderson, Alan Ford, and Damian Lewis.

See also a list of current mystery and suspense DVD, Blu-ray, or VOD deals on Amazon.com.

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John Dies at the End (2013)

Written and directed by Don Cocarelli and based on the novel of the same title by John Wong (pen name of Jason Pargin). Watch a red-band trailer for the film below.

Film Synopsis (from the studio): It's all about the Soy Sauce, a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. Users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John (Rob Mayes)and David (Chase Williamson), a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't.

Running time: 99 minutes. Rating: Rated R for bloody violence and gore, nudity, language and drug content.

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The Sweeney (2013)

Directed by Nick Love from an original screenplay co-written with John Hodge.

Film Synopsis (from the studio): Armed and dangerous the Sweeney Flying Squad are London's elite crime fighting force. Led by legendary Detective Jack Regan (Ray Winstone) they are not afraid to use old school bare-knuckle tactics to bring down the modern underworld. Now with a master criminal on the loose and a major bank heist in progress Regan will do whatever it takes to get the job done even if that means defying the orders of his boss (Damian Lewis) and taking the law into his own hands.

Running time: 112 minutes. Rating: Rated R for violence and language throughout and some sexual content.

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MystereBooks: The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller, Available this Month at a Special Price

Every month Amazon releases a new selection of Kindle books priced $3.99 or less.

Today's featured title from the Mystery & Thrillers category is The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller. This Kindle book was listed at $2.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, April 01, 2013 at 1:30 PM ET, and should be available at this price through the end of the month.

More information about the book is below; if other vendors have priced-matched this title, links to their sites are also shown.

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The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
A Laurence Bartram Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Read our review of The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller

London, 1920. In the aftermath of the Great War and a devastating family tragedy, Laurence Bartram has turned his back on the world. But with a well-timed letter, an old flame manages to draw him back in. Mary Emmett's brother John — like Laurence, an officer during the war — has apparently killed himself while in the care of a remote veterans' hospital, and Mary needs to know why.

Aided by his friend Charles — a dauntless gentleman with detective skills cadged from mystery novels — Laurence begins asking difficult questions. What connects a group of war poets, a bitter feud within Emmett's regiment, and a hidden love affair? Was Emmett's death really a suicide, or the missing piece in a puzzling series of murders? As veterans tied to Emmett continue to turn up dead, and Laurence is forced to face the darkest corners of his own war experiences, his own survival may depend on uncovering the truth.

    

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Nominees for the 2013 Thriller Awards Announced

The International Thriller Writers have announced the nominees for the 2013 Thriller Awards recognizing the best books published in this genre during 2012. Two new categories have been added this year: Best Young Adult Novel and Best eBook Original Novel.

The winners will be announced during ThrillerFest (July 2013, New York City).

The nominees are …

Best Novel:
• The Trinity Game by Sean Chercover (Thomas & Mercer)
• Spilled Blood by Brian Freeman (SilverOak)
• Catch Me by Lisa Gardner (Dutton Books)
• The Survivor by Gregg Hurwitz (St. Martin's Press)
• Defending Jacob by William Landay (Delacorte Press)

Best Paperback Original Novel:
• Pines by Blake Crouch (Thomas & Mercer)
• Lake Country by Sean Doolittle (Bantam)
• And She Was by Alison Gaylin (Harper)
• The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (Penguin Books)
• Night Blind by Michael W. Sherer (Thomas & Mercer)

Best First Novel:
• Don't Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur Books)
• The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen (Putnam)
• The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown)
• The 500 by Matthew Quirk (Little, Brown)
• Black Fridays by Michael Sears (Putnam)

Best Short Story:
• "The Devil To Pay" by David Edgerley Gates (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine)
• "The Street Ends at the Cemetery" by Clark Howard (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)
• "The Consumers" by Dennis Lehane (Mulholland Books)
• "The History Lesson" by Gordon Mceachern (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)
• "Lost Things" by John Rector (Thomas & Mercer)

Best Young Adult Novel:
• Don't Turn Around by Michelle Gagnon (HarperCollins)
• If We Survive by Andrew Klavan (Thomas Nelson)
• False Memory by Dan Krokos (Hyperion Books)
• Crusher by Niall Leonard (Delacorte Books)
• Dark Eyes by William Richter (Razorbill)

Best eBook Original Novel:
• Pandora's Temple by Jon Land (Open Road E-riginal)
• Blind Faith by C. J. Lyons (C. J. Lyons)
• Huntress Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff (Alexandra Sokoloff)
• Dead End Deal by Allen Wyler (Astor+Blue Editions)
• Dead Wrong by Allen Wyler (Astor+Blue Editions)

Telemystery: Dead Man's Gun, Dirk Gently, Highway Patrol, and The Killing, New This Week on DVD

Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or Video-on-Demand, is profiling four series from our site being released this week.

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Dead Man's Gun
Season One

This Showtime original series, narrated by Kris Kristofferson, aired for two seasons.

Set in the mythic old West, this first complete season uncovers the legend of a dead man's gun that grants whoever possesses it unforeseen powers, with usually dangerous results. As the pistol passes from person to person, the lives of those who possess it are forever transformed.

  

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Also be released this week, the second and final season of the series. In the ultimate episode, "A Just Reward", the origin of the gun is revealed.

Dead Man's Gun Season Two
  

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Dirk Gently
The Complete Series

Meet Dirk Gently. He's poorly dressed, perpetually insolvent … and uncommonly good at solving mysteries.

As proprietor of the Holistic Detective Agency, Dirk follows methods that are, in his own words, based on an almost unswerving belief in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Affably played by Stephen Mangan, Dirk is aided and frequently irritated by his hapless assistant, Richard MacDuff (Darren Boyd). Together, they tackle cases ranging from a missing cat to a murder that may involve the Pentagon.

Based on the novels by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Dirk Gently follows the detective as he spins coincidences into explanations for seemingly unsolvable mysteries. Although he's regarded as a mere con man by some, Dirk often delivers astonishing results with his unusual tactics.

  

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Highway Patrol
Season Two

Packed with fast motorcycles, powerful patrol cars, helicopters and two-way radios, this syndicated crime drama from the late 1950s screamed onto the scene destined to be one of the most popular television series of all time.

Starring Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews, the head of a police force in an unidentified Western US state (though clearly set in California), this action packed show filled with harrowing roadway adventures sped its way from the TV screen into pop culture with the catch phrase "10-4".

  

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Also being released this week, the third and fourth (and final) seasons of the series.

Highway Patrol Season Three
  

Highway Patrol Season Four
  

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The Killing
Season Two

After failing to close the case on "Who Killed Rosie Larson?" in the first season of this murder mystery, a poorly thought-out tactic which nearly cost this series its entire viewership, homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder resume their investigation into murder of a Seattle teenager, only to discover it may be part of a larger, more explosive conspiracy. As the case unfolds, it triggers shocking revelations and stunning twists that will keep you guessing until the riveting season conclusion … when the killer of Rosie Larsen will finally — finally — be revealed.

Based on the Danish television series Forbrydelsen, this season aired on AMC during late Spring 2012. The series was canceled (not surprisingly) by the network, but a complicated arrangement with NetFlix has resulted in an agreement for a third season, which premieres June 2nd, 2013 on AMC.

      

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Visit the Telemystery website to discover more television mystery series currently available on and coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or video on demand.