A teaser poster has been released by AMC for its new crime drama Low Winter Sun (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "Good man. Cop. Killer."
A contemporary story of murder, deception, revenge and corruption in a world where the line between cops and criminals is blurred. Based on a 2006 British mini-series of the same title, the storyline opens with the murder of a cop by a fellow Detroit detective. Seemingly the perfect crime, in reality the murder activates forces that will forever alter the detective's life, and pull him into the heart of the Detroit underworld.
Starring Mark Strong (pictured), Low Winter Sun premieres on Sunday, August 11th, 2013.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Telemystery: Teaser Poster for Low Winter Sun
Review: The Last Girl by Jane Casey
A Mysterious Review of …
The Last Girl by Jane Casey. A Maeve Kerrigan Mystery.
Review summary: This is a terrific police procedural, with several interesting character-driven storylines. The interpersonal relationships, both professional and personal, that are often so intrusive, are multi-dimensional and nicely integrated here. Overall, this is a well written, finely crafted crime novel. (Click here for text of full review.)
Our rating:
The Last Girl
Jane Casey
A Maeve Kerrigan Mystery
Minotaur Books (May 2013)
Publisher synopsis: Vast wealth offers London defense attorney Philip Kennford a lot of things: a gorgeous house with a pool in the backyard, connections in the top echelons of society, a wardrobe worthy of Milan runways. But his money doesn't provide a happy marriage, or good relationships with his twin daughters … and it does nothing to protect his family when someone brutally murders his wife and daughter in their own home.
When Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan arrives at the scene, the two survivors — Philip and his second favorite daughter, Lydia — both claim to have seen nothing, but it's clear right away that this is an unhappy family accustomed to keeping secrets. Maeve soon finds herself entangled in a case with a thousand leads that all seem to point nowhere, and it doesn't help that her boss, whom she trusts more than almost anyone, is starting to make decisions that Maeve finds questionable at best.
Angels & Demons, a Robert Langdon Mystery by Dan Brown, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Atria 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 (06/27/2013 at 3:30 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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Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
A Robert Langdon Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Atria Books
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol — seared into the chest of a murdered physicist — he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati … the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy — the Catholic Church.
Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.
Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair … a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.
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A Cry in the Night, a Novel of Suspense by Mary Higgins Clark, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Cry in the Night by Mary Higgins Clark, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Simon & Schuster.
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 (06/27/2013 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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A Cry in the Night by Mary Higgins Clark
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
When Jenny MacPartland meets the man of her dreams while working in a New York art gallery, she's ecstatic. Painter Erich Krueger — whose exquisite landscapes are making him a huge success — is handsome, sensitive … and utterly in love with her. They marry quickly and Jenny plans a loving home on Erich's vast Minnesota farm.
But lonely days and eerie nights strain her nerves to the breaking point and test her sanity. Caught in a whirlpool of shattering events, Jenny soon unearths a past more terrifying than she dares imagine … tragic secrets that threaten her marriage, her children, her life.
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Blood Hollow, a Cork O'Connor Mystery by William Kent Krueger, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Atria 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 (06/27/2013 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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Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger
A Cork O'Connor Mystery (4th in series)
Publisher: Atria Books
When the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year's Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn's self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork O'Connor, Aurora's former sheriff, isn't about to hang the crime on the kid, whom O'Connor is convinced is innocent.
In an uphill battle to clear Solemn's name, Cork encounters no shortage of adversity. Some he knows all too well — small-town bigotry and bureaucracy foremost among them. What Cork isn't prepared for is the emergence of a long-held resentment hailing from his own childhood. And when Solemn reappears, claiming to have seen a vision of Jesus Christ in Blood Hollow, the mystery becomes thornier than Cork could ever have anticipated.
And that's when the miracles start happening …
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The Trouble with Fate, a Mystwalker Novel by Leigh Evans, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Trouble with Fate by Leigh Evans, 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 (06/27/2013 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 Trouble with Fate by Leigh Evans
A Mystwalker Novel (1st in series)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
My name is Hedi Peacock and I have a secret. I'm not human, and I have the pointy Fae ears and Were inner-bitch to prove it. As fairy tales go, my childhood was damn near perfect, all fur and magic until a werewolf killed my father and the Fae executed my mother. I've never forgiven either side. Especially Robson Trowbridge. He was a part-time werewolf, a full-time bastard, and the first and only boy I ever loved. That is, until he became the prime suspect in my father's death …
Today I'm a half-breed barista working at a fancy coffee house, living with my loopy Aunt Lou and a temperamental amulet named Merry, and wondering where in the world I'm going in life. A pretty normal existence, considering. But when a pack of Weres decides to kidnap my aunt and force me to steal another amulet, the only one who can help me is the last person I ever thought I'd turn to: Robson Trowbridge. And he's as annoyingly beautiful as I remember. That's the trouble with fate: Sometimes it barks. Other times it bites. And the rest of the time it just breaks your heart. Again …
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Case Histories, a Jackson Brodie Mystery by Kate Atkinson, Now at a Special Price
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Case Histories by Kate Atkinson, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Little, Brown.
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 (06/27/2013 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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Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
A Jackson Brodie Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Little, Brown
Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night.
Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack.
Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making — with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband — until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.
Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigator Jackson Brodie begins investigating all three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge …
This novel was adapted for an episode of the television series Case Histories starring Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie. Read Mr. E.'s review of Case Histories Season One.
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Submissions Now Being Accepted for the 2013 Bloody Scotland Short Story Competition
Bad Luck and Trouble …
That's the theme of this year's Bloody Scotland Short Story Competition. There is a 3000 word limit and the theme can be interpreted in any way as long as it fits within the broad category of "crime fiction".
With the aim of discovering the next big name in crime fiction, this competition gives previously unpublished writers the opportunity to have their work on the Bloody Scotland website, where authors, agents, publishers and readers will have the opportunity to see it.
As if that wasn't enough, the winner will also receive £1000, a weekend pass to Bloody Scotland 2013 and a bottle of whisky. Two runners up will win a selection of tickets for events at Bloody Scotland 2013. Bloody Scotland opens, appropriately enough, on Friday September 13th, 2013.
Entries to the competition must be received by Sunday, July 28th, 2013. For more information, visit the competition webpage for all the details.
Cinemystery: Film Adaptation of The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery a Possible Project for Johnny Depp
It's not quite a throw-away comment, but in a recent interview with PopSugar Johnny Depp suggests that one of his next projects — whether to produce or star isn't clear — might be a film adaptation of The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery, the third and final (due to the author's death) book in this series by Kyril Bonfiglioli.
"It's a very funny series of books," Depp says, "and a very interesting character."
More about the book, which was first published in 1996 and long out of print, below.
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The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery
Kyril Bonfiglioli
Kyril Bonfiglioli's final novel follows the Hon. Charlie Mortdecai from adventure to misadventure via Jersey and Moscow to a final showdown in a Buckinghamshire bungalow of unparalleled hideousness.
Tackling en route an unhealthy sprinkling of well-seasoned academics, a cryptic monk, an aristocratic Chief Constable, and more spies than you could shoehorn into a black stretch limo, Mordecai finds himself embroiled in another mission of international insecurity.
Left unfinished at the time of the author's death, Craig Brown supplies the plot-resolving final chapter.
Telemystery: Fox Announces Fall 2013 Premiere Dates
Fox has announced its series Fall 2013 premiere dates.
All times, below, are ET/PT.
Monday (09/16/2013) …
8 PM: Bones (9th season)
9 PM: Sleepy Hollow (series premiere)
Note: Bones will be moving to Fridays on November 8th.
Monday (11/04/2013) …
8 PM: Almost Human (series premiere)
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.
A Conversation with Jacqueline T. Lynch, Author of the Double V Mysteries
with Jacqueline T. Lynch
We are delighted to welcome mystery author Jacqueline T. Lynch to Omnimystery News today, courtesy of Cozy Mystery Books Tours, which is coordinating her current book tour. We encourage you to visit all of the participating host sites; you can find her schedule here.
Jacqueline is the author of a cozy mystery series, the first entry of which is Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red (Jacqueline T. Lynch, March 2011 ebook formats). The second book is Speak Out Before You Die (Jacqueline T. Lynch, August 2012 trade paperback and ebook formats). We recently had the opportunity to discuss the series with her.
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Omnimystery News: Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red introduces what would seem on the surface to be a mismatched pair of amateur sleuths, a museum administrator and an ex-con. What can you tell us about them?
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Jacqueline T. Lynch
Jacqueline T. Lynch: The relationship between my two main characters, Juliet Van Allen and Elmer Vartanian, is intended to be a kind of subplot to the mysteries, another mystery. They come from different worlds, were thrown together by tragic circumstances in the first book, form a partnership out of self-preservation, and then as the books progress, they come to rely more on each other to solve crimes in the books that follow. Their developing relationship, its ups and downs, interests me just as much as the current puzzle they're working on, and I hope it will interest the reader, too.
OMN: Why did you choose to write a cozy mystery series?
JTL: I am fond of the cozy market as a reader, and as a writer, I find the fans of cozy mysteries have such a wide range of personal interests that the possibilities for plot, setting, and characters are really endless.
OMN: Tell us about the setting for the books.
JTL: Hartford, Connecticut in 1949 is the setting for Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red, and the settings use the streets and neighborhoods, and the Wadsworth Atheneum art museum, which are factual. I did take liberties describing an elaborate exurcsion into the museum through an air vent, and the description of some offices there are my own invention. The galleries and paintings described are factual. Juliet's apartment and the Van Allen mansion are fictional.
I am familiar with all of the locations used in the books, have been there, or make further research trips when I need to, which is always fun.
OMN: You write several blogs, including one about New England travels — research for your books, no doubt! — and another about old movies. Does any of the latter find its way into your books?
JTL: I love watching old movies. The mood of some of the old Film Noir movies certainly influence me, but no one particular movie gave me the inspiration to write this book or this series.
OMN: What kinds of questions do you get from readers?
JTL: Some readers ask me when the main characters, Juliet and Elmer, are going to get together romantically. I get a kick out of that. They likely will sometimes, but they're both very stubborn. They both have a lot of emotional baggage to deal with first.
OMN: What's next for you?
JTL: I'm working on the third series in the Double V Mystery series (V is for the characters' surnames: Van Allen and Vartanian). This one is to be called Dismount and Murder, and will be set in the Litchfield hills of Connecticut at a prestigious horse show.
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Jacqueline T. Lynch has had several plays published and produced around the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands. Her one-act play In Memory of Trixie Gazelle was chosen as a winner in the 2010 Nor'Eastern Playwright's Showcase of the Vermont Actors' Repertory Theatre in Rutland, Vermont, and another, One Good Turn, premiered as a winner of the 2011 Northern Kentucky University Y.E.S. Festival. She has published articles and short fiction in regional and national publications, writes Another Old Movie Blog and New England Travels, and Tragedy and Comedy in New England blogs.
To learn more about the author and her work, please visit her website at JacquelineTLynch.com or find her on Facebook and Twitter.
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Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red
Jacqueline T. Lynch
A Double V Mystery (1st in series)
In Hartford, Connecticut, 1949, Juliet Van Allen, a museum administrator, returns home from work early to find her artist husband having an affair with another woman. Juliet slips unseen back to her office, where she meets an intruder. Elmer Vartanian, recently released from prison for a museum robbery, is coerced into helping scout the museum for a heist by a gang that has kidnapped his daughter. Since Juliet left her apartment, her husband has been murdered. She is the prime suspect, and Elmer is her only alibi.
Juliet, the rebellious only daughter of a wealthy financier, and Elmer, a lower-class ex-convict who has educated himself in prison, learn to rely on each other. Juliet is Elmer's guide to a post-world that has changed so much since he entered prison. He feels guilty for having missed his daughter's childhood, for being safe when friends were killed in World War II, and is bewildered over atomic energy, Modern Art, ballpoint pens, and frozen orange juice concentrate.
Juliet is not sure she believes Elmer's story. Elmer is not sure she didn't kill her husband. They are compelled to work together, dogged by the scandal-monger newsman, the shrewd police detective, and scrutinized by the even more judgmental eye of Hartford's elite in world where Modern Art meets old-fashioned murder.
Two Sliding Sideways Mysteries by Emily Senecal is Today's Featured Free MystereBooks
MystereBooks is pleased to feature two "Sliding Sideways" mysteries by Emily Senecal as today's free mystery ebooks (Kindle format only).
These titles were listed for free as of the date and time of this post, June 27, 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.
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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Strangers on This Road
Emily Senecal
A Sliding Sideways Mystery
Publisher: Emily Senecal
One beautiful day in the quiet Catalina Island town of Avalon, Lainey Parker met her destiny …
Lainey has lived in Avalon for nearly a year, working at the local grocery store, taking time to decide what she wants to do with her life now that she's finished high school and left her unhappy childhood home. She's just getting by, minding her own business, not looking for adventure or excitement. Never in her wildest dreams imagining that she would be thrown headlong into the middle of an international crime investigation, complete with shadowy villains. Or that she would soon be spending time with an unbelievably handsome and charming stranger, who raises more mysterious questions than he answers — a stranger with whom she shares a strong, strange kinship from the first moment they meet.
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Danger in Academia
Emily Senecal
A Sliding Sideways Mystery
Publisher: Emily Senecal
Who knew academic life could be so dangerous?
Lainey Parker, now a senior at Columbia College in New York, is as concerned as the rest of her classmates when her favorite professor goes missing. But unlike her fellow students, Lainey happens to witness two very suspicious characters searching the professor's office for a mysterious "item". And when a certain agent for Interpol shows up to investigate, the very same man who broke Lainey's heart four years before, things really begin to get interesting — not to mention deadly.
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No Mark Upon Her by Deborah Crombie is Today's Nook Daily Find
MystereBooks is pleased to feature No Mark Upon Her by Deborah Crombie as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.
The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, June 27, 2013.
Note: The price has been matched by Amazon.com for today only.
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No Mark Upon Her
Deborah Crombie
A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mystery
William Morrow
When a K9 search-and-rescue team discovers a woman's body tangled up with debris in the river, Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid finds himself heading an investigation fraught with complications. The victim, Rebecca Meredith, was a talented but difficult woman with many admirers — and just as many enemies. An Olympic contender on the verge of a controversial comeback, she was also a high-ranking detective with the Met — a fact that raises a host of political and ethical issues in an already sensitive case.
To further complicate the situation, a separate investigation, led by Detective Inspector Gemma James, Kincaid's wife, soon reveals a disturbing — and possibly related — series of crimes, widening the field of suspects. But when someone tries to kill the search-and-rescue team member who found Rebecca's body, the case becomes even more complex and dangerous, involving powerful interests with tentacles that reach deep into the heart of the Met itself.
Surrounded by enemies with friendly faces, pressured to find answers quickly while protecting the Yard at all costs, his career and reputation on the line, Kincaid must race to catch the killer before more innocent lives are lost — including his own.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
This Friday in Theaters: White House Down Starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx
White House Down. Opens in theaters June 26, 2013.
Capitol Policeman John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx). Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.
Directed by Roland Emmerich from an original screenplay by James Vanderbilt.
Running time: 131 minutes. Rated PG-13 for prolonged sequences of action and violence including intense gunfire and explosions, some language and a brief sexual image.
Watch a trailer for the film below:
Telemystery: The Rules for NBC's Siberia
NBC's new reality show drama Siberia premieres on July 1st, and the network has released a preview video that outlines the "rules" of the game (embedded, below).
The series premise involves an unexplained event from 1908, which occurred deep in the remote Siberian territory of Tunguska. Now, 100+ years later, 16 reality show participants descend on Tunguska unknowing of the land's mysterious past. These contestants, from varied walks of life, will attempt to battle the elements and each other in a quest to survive the harsh winter and claim a large cash prize. What is initially met with unbridled enthusiasm quickly turns to sheer panic as a series of strange events begin to occur. The contestants soon attribute the occurrences to ruses set up by the producers, even dismissing the death of a fellow contestant as accidental. When a contestant is badly injured and no help arrives, the contestants meet the chilling realization that the strange occurrences are not part of the show. With their safety threatened, competing contestants must band together in an effort to survive.
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