Telemystery: Two Seasons of Silent Witness, New on DVD This Week

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 two seasons of a long-running series from our site being released this week.

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Silent Witness
Series One

In the first season of this long-running hit BBC crime thriller, first broadcast in 1996, forensic pathologist Dr. Samantha Ryan (Amanda Burton) helps solve murder cases with harrowing evidence that speaks louder than words. Her all-embracing, passionate notion of justice quite often does not accord with the police's objective of getting a conviction. While Cambridge police detectives interview witnesses who may or may not tell the truth, "Sam" extracts revealing truths from calcified bones, decomposed and charred bodies, tell-tale bruises and overlooked fingerprints. This can lead to trouble, both in her personal and professional lives, but to Sam, each dead body deserves nothing but the truth.

Brace yourself for twists and turns in four gripping episodes: the suspicious drowning of a six-year-old girl, the apparently ritual killing of a young man, a death in police custody, and the fiery murder of a refugee's business partner.

The most recent season of the series, its 17th, aired earlier this year and its DVD is also released this week (see next entry).

  

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Silent Witness
Series Seventeen

Prepare for gruesome crime scenes and intricate plot twists in the most recent season of this popular and long-running BBC crime thriller. Emilia Fox returns as forensic pathologist Dr. Nikki Alexander in five more chilling episodes.

What’s the missing link between a poisoned autistic boy and a soccer celebrity caught on a sex tape?  If a framed ex-soldier didn’t kill two gay boys, who did?  How to explain the buried remains of a lap dancer in rural Scotland and the body of a recently pregnant Northern Irish teenager, found in a suitcase?  Things get personal for Jack when his brother becomes a suspect.

Despite media pressure, police friction, death threats and romantic distractions, Nikki and the rest of the Lyell Centre team continue on an unwavering and hugely satisfying quest for the truth.

  

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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.

The Acquittal by Anne Laughlin, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014 …

The Acquittal by Anne Laughlin

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Bold Strokes Books

  

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for October 2014. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of October 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

More about our featured title, below …

Ex-Chicago cop and new PI Josie Harper has been hired by an outside group to clear the name of publisher Lauren Wade, recently acquitted of the murder of her lover. That means finding the real killer, a task made more difficult by Lauren's unwillingness to cooperate and a large family problem — Lauren's parents have been kidnapped for a ransom she can no longer pay. Josie has a big challenge of her own: how to redeem herself after losing her job as a detective. When Josie and Lauren join forces to rescue the parents, they discover they make a great team, in more ways than one.

Will Josie's troubled past come back to haunt her? And who did kill Lauren's lover?

— The Acquittal by Anne Laughlin

A Matter of Trust, A Mia Quinn Mystery by Lis Wiehl, Now Available at a Special Price

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy. Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Thomas Nelson …

A Matter of Trust by Lis Wiehl

A Mia Quinn Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Price: $2.99 (as of 10/20/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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One minute Mia Quinn is in herbasement, chatting on the phone with a colleague at the prosecutor's office. The next minute she hears a gunshot over the line, and Mia listens in horror asher colleague and friend Colleen bleeds to death.

Mia's a natural for heading up the murder investigation, but these days it's all she can do to hold her life together. As a new widow with a pile of debts, a troubled teenaged son, and a four-year-old who wakes up screaming at night, she needs more time with her family, not less — and working Colleen's case will be especially demanding. But Colleen was her friend, and she needs to keep her job. So Mia reluctantly teams up with detective Charlie Carlson to investigate. But the deeper they dig, the more complications unfold — even the unsettling possibility that someone may be coming after her.

— A Matter of Trust by Lis Wiehl

Mystery Godoku Puzzle for October 20, 2014

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 E G H I K M N O

He is the author of Sherlock Holmes and The Scottish Question (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!

Enter to Win — Death of a Bovver Boy by Leo Bruce

Omnimystery News invites you to Enter to Win a copy of Death of a Bovver Boy by Leo Bruce, courtesy of Chicago Review Press.

One (1) winner will receive a copy of …

Title: Death of a Bovver Boy
Author: Leo Bruce
Series: A Carolus Deene Mystery
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Format: Trade Paperback
List Price: $14.95

Use the form below to submit your entry. One entry per person; US residents only. Entry period ends Monday, October 27, 2014. (If you cannot see the entry form, use this link.)

Synopsis: The redoubtable schoolmaster-turned-detective Carolus Deene finds himself investigating yet another murder — this time among teenage outcasts and skinheads in rural 1970s England ("bovver boy" is slang for "skinhead"). After hearing about a young man's body — naked, hair shorn, wrists and ankles heavily bruised — lying in a ditch, Carolus knows that he has, at last, met the supreme challenge to test his powers of deduction.

Throughout the search for the boy's murderer, he finds himself infiltrating England's provincial "underworld" and gaining insight into the dead boy's unhappy background and surroundings. Encounters with a rude collection of thugs and punks lead him in one direction — all are equally dangerous and each might be to blame — and the idea that blaming the greasers and skinheads is too easy takes him elsewhere.

Originally published in the UK in 1974, this publication marks its US debut.

— Death of a Bovver Boy by Leo Bruce