Paranormal Mystery and Steampunk Fantasy, New This Week from Carina Press

Carina Press is a digital-first imprint from Harlequin, publishing books in an interesting and diverse selection of genres including contemporary romance, steampunk, gay/lesbian fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, and — but of course — mystery and suspense.

Two new titles are being released this week:

Night of the Dark Horse, an Allegra Fairweather Mystery (listed under Paranormal Mystery); and …

Clockwork Mafia by Seleste deLaney (listed under Steampunk Fantasy).

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Night of the Dark Horse
Janni Nell
An Allegra Fairweather Mystery

Just another typical week in the life of a paranormal investigator.

I had barely arrived in Ireland to investigate a pooka terrorizing the villagers of Dingaleen when I got called to ride the fairy horse myself. When a pooka calls, you answer — and hold on for dear life.

Unfortunately, the beast tossed me into a bog. Fortunately, my gorgeous guardian angel fished me out. Just barely.

You see, Casper is still weak from tangling with an evil spirit on our last case. So he's not even much help to me in the land o' the green. The powers-that-be are even hinting at retirement …

But I won't lose Casper. Not now. Not ever. As luck would have it, I have a chance, albeit a slim one, to save him and get the answers I need to solve the pooka case — if I just take a wee trip through Fairyland. Except angels aren't welcome there, humans can't eat, drink or sleep there, and time is running out.

      

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Clockwork Mafia
Seleste deLaney

Inventor Henrietta Mason is retiring from airships and adventuring to return home to Philadelphia. Determined to erase all trails leading to her late father's duplicity, she dismantles his lab and removes all records of the Badlands gold. While in the city, she can't resist the lure of a charity gala but winds up regretting the whole experience. Well, everything except a heart-racing dance with a certain U.S. Marshal.

His career and vengeance on the line, Carson Alexander must prove a connection between Senator Mason and the mafia. He lucked out happening across Mason's strikingly beautiful daughter, only to have her slip through his fingers. On a desperate hunt to track her down, he never expects his search to take him into the brutal Badlands.

With a mechanically enhanced enforcer after them, only Carson knows the extent of the danger they face. He'll have to win over Henrietta's trust, and her heart, before it's too late …

      

Telemystery: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, the Complete Collection 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 one complete collection from our site being released this week.

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Lord Peter Wimsey
Complete Collection

Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in the original BBC adaptations of the Dorothy L. Sayers crime thrillers. Running at least three hours each, these dramas do full justice to Sayers's vivid characters, trenchant wit, and lavish 1920s settings.

The five mysteries in this complete collection set — which have previously been released as two DVD sets — are …

• Clouds of Witness: Death hits close to home when Lord Peter's future brother-in-law is murdered.

• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: Two siblings die on the same day, leaving Wimsey to untangle who will inherit their fortune.

• Murder Must Advertise: Lord Peter goes undercover at Pym's Publicity to investigate the death of a copywriter.

• Five Red Herrings: With six potential suspects, Wimsey must determine who murdered an unpopular artist.

• The Nine Tailors: The detective stumbles upon a decades-old case involving stolen emeralds and unidentifiable corpses.

  

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Ancient Echoes by Joanne Pence is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Ancient Echoes by Joanne Pence as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Paranormal Novel of Suspense; Kindle format only).

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Ancient Echoes
Joanne Pence
A Paranormal Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Quail Hill Publishing

Over two hundred years ago, a covert expedition shadowing Lewis and Clark disappeared into the wilderness of Central Idaho. Now, seven anthropology students and their professor vanish in the same area. The key to finding them lies in an ancient secret, one involving alchemy, gold, and immortality … a secret that men throughout history have sought to unveil.

Michael Rempart is a brilliant archeologist whose colorful and controversial career has earned him admiring fans and implacable foes, but he is plagued by a troubling sense of the supernatural and a mysterious spiritual intuitiveness. Joining Rempart in this adventure are a CIA consultant on paranormal phenomena, a washed-up local sheriff, and a former scholar of Egyptology. All must overcome their personal demons as they attempt to save the students and, ultimately, the world.

  

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San Francisco Secrets by Greg Messel is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature San Francisco Secrets by Greg Messel as today's third free mystery ebook (A Sam Slater Mystery; Kindle format only).

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San Francisco Secrets
Greg Messel
A Sam Slater Mystery
Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing

Noted novelist and newspaper editor Edgar Watson Howe once said. "A man who can keep a secret may be wise but he is not half as wise as a man with no secrets to keep."

As the spring of 1958 arrives in San Francisco, it seems that baseball player turned private eye, Sam Slater and his fiancée, TWA stewardess Amelia Ryan, are surrounded by people who have secrets.

A prominent doctor, John O'Dell is being blackmailed by someone who has discovered a dark secret from his past. When the private investigator trying to catch the blackmailer is murdered, Dr. O'Dell hires Sam Slater to try to pick up the pieces. Someone is playing for keeps and will do anything to protect their own secrets.

Meanwhile, Amelia begins her new job as an international stewardess which takes her on adventures to New York City, London, Paris and Rome. In hot pursuit is a womanizing older pilot who has his sights set on Amelia.

Their lives get even more complicated when a mysterious woman from Sam's past returns.

Sam and Amelia's relationship will be tested as they work together to solve the mystery on the foggy streets of San Francisco.

  

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At Any Cost by Steven T. Collis is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature At Any Cost by Steven T. Collis as today's second free mystery ebook (A Novel of Suspense; Kindle format only).

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At Any Cost
Steven T. Collis
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: CreateSpace

They poisoned her. Alexis Davis knows at least this much. She knows it's why she and many others have suffered miscarriage after miscarriage after miscarriage. She knows it's why she cringes with everything she eats, wondering if every bite is tainted, crippling her body's ability to produce life. But who? And why?

Alexis will stop at nothing to find the answers, and she will soon learn that they will pay any cost to silence her. Some things are worth sacrificing everything.

  

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One Right Thing by Matthew Iden is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature One Right Thing by Matthew Iden as today's free mystery ebook (A Marty Singer Mystery; Kindle format only).

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One Right Thing
Matthew Iden
A Marty Singer Mystery
Publisher: Matthew Iden

Retired DC Homicide detective Marty Singer is driving through Virginia when he sees a billboard by the side of the road with the picture of a man and a simple, stunning question:

J. D. HOPE WAS MURDERED ON MAY 6TH. DO YOU KNOW WHY?

To most, the message means nothing. But Marty stops the car, turns around, and rushes headlong into a deadly mix of drugs, lies, and double-crosses.

Because Marty's got his own history with the man on the sign … and he needs to find out who murdered J. D. Hope and why if he wants to do one right thing.

  

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The Watchman by Robert Crais is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Watchman by Robert Crais as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, April 29, 2013.

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The Watchman
Robert Crais
A Joe Pike Mystery

When the U. S. Marshals and the finest private security firm that money can buy can't protect Larkin Conner Barkley from the men who want her dead, her wealthy family hires the one man money can't buy to protect their daughter — Joe Pike. Joe owes a bad man a favor, and the favor is to protect Larkin, a spoiled, self-centered, rich girl who happens to be a federal witness in a case the feds are putting together to bust a crime cartel linking organized mobsters and West Coast industrialists. And when Pike learns that the man he'll be working for is one of his oldest and most trusted friends — his former LAPD training officer, Bud Flynn — Pike signs on and commits himself to protecting the girl's life.

But Pike and the girl immediately come under intense fire, and Pike realizes that someone is leaking information that could get them both killed. Turning to his friend Elvis Cole for help, Pike's investigation soon reveals a web of lies and deceptions, half-truths and betrayals, and the stunning revelation that even the cops are not who they seem.

Read our review of The Watchman by Robert Crais.

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for April 29, 2013

A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

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This week's letters and mystery clue:

A D E G N O R V Y

His thrillers include Bad Desire and Wedding Night (9 letters).

We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!

Mr. E. Reviews Killing Them Softly

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This has got to be one of the worst films I have ever seen. Indeed, there is so little to like about this film that I can hardly think of any element or aspect to it that is worthy of even faint praise. Too much talking, too little story, and no subtlety whatsoever in taking a decent crime novel and morphing it into a barely watchable political parable.

Read the full text of our review at Mr. E. Reviews Killing Them Softly.

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MystereBooks: Bones To Ashes by Kathy Reichs, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bones To Ashes by Kathy Reichs, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Scribner.

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Bones To Ashes by Kathy Reichs
A Temperance Brennan Mystery (10th in series)
Publisher: Scribner

The Fox crime drama Bones is based on this series character.

Temperance Brennan is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Évangéline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Évangéline was the most exotic person in Tempe's eight-year-old world. When Évangéline disappeared, Tempe was warned not to search for her, that the girl was "dangerous".

Thirty years later, flooded with memories, Tempe cannot help wondering if this skeleton could be the friend she lost so many years ago. And what is the meaning of the strange skeletal lesions found on the bones of the young girl?

Meanwhile, Tempe's beau, Ryan, investigates a series of cold cases. Three girls dead. Four missing. Could the New Brunswick skeleton be part of the pattern? As Tempe draws on the latest advances in forensic anthropology to penetrate the past, Ryan hunts down a serial predator.

    

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MystereBooks: Star Island by Carl Hiaasen, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Star Island by Carl Hiaasen, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Vintage.

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Star Island by Carl Hiaasen
A Clinton "Skink" Tyree Mystery (5th in series)
Publisher: Vintage

Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen — and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.

Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her "undercover stunt double", Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too "indisposed" — meaning wasted — to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott.

Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers (über-stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker-wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry's public — and from Cherry herself.

The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink — the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp — and now he's heading for Miami to find her …

Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry's motley posse does?

All will be revealed in this hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane.

    

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MystereBooks: Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Simon & Schuster.

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Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke
A Dave Robicheaux Mystery (13th in series)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

When Dave Robicheaux, now a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest always at the center of controversy, has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, he knows he has to return to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially. What he doesn't realize is that in doing so he is inviting into his life — and into the lives of those around him — an ancestral evil that could destroy them all.

The investigation begins innocently enough. Assisted by good friend and P.I. Clete Purcel, Robicheaux confronts the man they believe to be responsible for Dolan's beating, a drug dealer and porno star named Gunner Ardoin. The confrontation, however, turns into a standoff as Clete ends up in jail and Robicheaux receives an ominous warning to keep out of New Orleans' affairs.

Meanwhile, back in New Iberia, more trouble is brewing: Three local teenage girls are killed in a drunk-driving accident, the driver being the seventeen-year-old daughter of a prominent physician. Robicheaux traces the source of the liquor to one of New Iberia's "daiquiri windows", places that sell mixed drinks from drive-by windows. When the owner of the drive-through operation is brutally murdered, Robicheaux immediately suspects the grief-crazed father of the dead teen driver. But his assumption is challenged when the murder weapon turns up belonging to someone else.

The trouble continues when Father Jimmie asks Robicheaux to help investigate the presence of a toxic landfill near St. James Parish in New Orleans, which in turn leads to a search for the truth behind the disappearance many years before of a legendary blues musician and composer. Tying together all these seemingly disparate threads of crime is a maniacal killer named Max Coll, a brutal, brilliant, and deeply haunted hit man sent to New Orleans to finish the job on Father Dolan. Once Coll shows up, it becomes clear that Dave Robicheaux will be forced to ignore the warning to stay out of New Orleans, and he soon finds himself drawn deeper into a viper's nest of sordid secrets and escalating violence that sets him up for a confrontation that echoes down the lonely corridors of his own unresolved past.

    

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MystereBooks: Red Rain by R. L. Stine, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Red Rain by R. L. Stine, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Touchstone.

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Red Rain by R. L. Stine
Publisher: Touchstone

Travel writer Lea Sutter finds herself on a small island off the coast of South Carolina, the wrong place at the wrong time. A merciless, unanticipated hurricane cuts a path of destruction through the island and Lea barely escapes with her life.

In the storm's aftermath, she discovers two orphaned boys — twins. Filled with a desire to do something to help, to make something good of all she witnessed, Lea impulsively decides to adopt them. The boys, Samuel and Daniel, seem amiable and immensely grateful; Lea's family back on Long Island — husband Mark, a child psychologist, and their two children, Ira and Elena — aren't quite so pleased. But even they can't anticipate the twins' true nature — or predict that, within a few weeks' time, Mark will wind up implicated in two brutal murders, with the police narrowing in.

    

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MystereBooks: Cover Her Face by P. D. James, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Cover Her Face by P. D. James, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Simon & Schuster.

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Cover Her Face by P. D. James
An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Though Sally Jupp came from the village home for unmarried mothers, she seemed the ideal girl to help Mrs Maxie run a large house and look after her invalid husband. But the real Sally, pretty, ambitious and clever, was very different from the docile, repentant character she seemed to be. Murder shattered the tranquility of her new home and Chief Detective Inspector Adam Dalgliesh arrived in the peace of a country Sunday to investigate the killing of a character as mysterious as Sally herself.

    

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