MystereBooks: Dogs Don't Lie, the 1st Pet Noir Mystery by Clea Simon, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dogs Don't Lie by Clea Simon, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Poisoned Pen Press.

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 (04/02/2013 at 8:00 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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Dogs Don't Lie by Clea Simon
A Pru Marlowe, Pet Noir Mystery (1st)
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

Pru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic. A tough girl on the run from her own gift, Pru left the big city to return to her picturesque Berkshires hometown looking for a little peace. Too bad that her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up with Lily, a rescue dog, and Charles, her person.

Now Charles is dead, and Lily looks good for it. After all, Lily is a pitbull, a fighting-ring dropout, and way too traumatized to give Pru a clear picture of what she has witnessed.

But Pru knows something about bad girls trying to clean up, and, with a sense of justice strong enough to overcome her dislike of human society, she takes the case. Listening to the animals, Pru picks up clues — and learns there are secrets in the pretty little town that make murder look simple. Unable to tell anybody about her psychic abilities, uncertain at times about her own sanity, Pru comes to realize that if she clears Lily, she'll likely become the prime suspect — or the next victim.

While the only creature she can totally trust is her crotchety tabby Wallis, Pru's got to uncover the real killer — and find a way to live with her gift — before the real beasts in the town savage her and those she has come to love.

      

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Wired by Judith Gaines is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Wired by Judith Gaines as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Jade Weekes Art Mystery; Kobo and iTunes formats).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 02, 2013 at 7:40 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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Wired
Judith Gaines
A Jade Weekes Art Mystery
Publisher: Judith Gaines

Jade Weekes emerged from the oily wash of the Seine five years ago with no memory of her life, but an uncanny knowledge of fine art, museum security, and a knack for walking away with priceless treasures. Now she's tracking an elusive Van Gogh with ties to an underworld struggle that will reveal her forgotten past.

Jade Weekes leaves Paris to track a priceless Van Gogh from St. Pete to Chicago. Her contacts are shady and she is beginning to think there is more to this job than a buyer wanting a gift for his wife. Otherwise, why would Simon Morrell, a rival thief, cross her path just as the FBI begins asking questions?

Caught up in the six billion dollar international art theft industry, she enlists help from unlikely sources: film actor Alex Ford, and veteran FBI specialists Stewart Connor and John Young.

No one is who they seem, most of all Jade Weekes.

    

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Pawnbroker by Jerry Hatchett is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Pawnbroker by Jerry Hatchett as today's third free mystery ebook (A Suspense Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 02, 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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Pawnbroker
Jerry Hatchett
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Red House Publishing

Would you give killers what they want to get them to leave you and your family alone? Gray Bolton might, if he knew what "it" was.

His life as a pawnbroker in a Mississippi town is good. He has a beautiful family and the future looks bright. Then he kills an armed robber and discovers that he was anything but a common criminal. Trouble cascades upon Bolton from the police, from home, and from unknown parties who may be the most vicious of all. They all appear to be after the same thing and they will all do anything to get it. Unfortunately, Bolton has no idea what that thing is.

His battle to find out will test him in ways he couldn't have imagined, and the stakes are simple: Everything.

  

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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.

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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.

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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)