Genre Watch: New Mysteries and Thrillers for the Kindle

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Spend less time searching for new genre fiction and more time reading it as I watch for newly-released genre fiction in the Kindle Store so you don't have to. Recent and choice genre fiction releases in mystery and suspense fiction include:

The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen. Ballantine Books, 2011. Print Length: 336 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (31 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.44. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
This is the ninth in Gerritsen's series of thrillers featuring Boston detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles. All can be read as stand-alone offerings, but if you'd like to start with the first published - The Surgeon - it's available in a Kindle edition. Rizzoli & Isles also have their own TV series airing Monday nights on TNT.

"In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, the body nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair — not human — cling to her body. They are Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make a startling discovery: This violent death had a chilling prequel. Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. One woman connected to that massacre is still alive: a mysterious martial arts master who knows a secret she dares not tell, a secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of Chinatown." - the author's website.

Fallen by Karin Slaughter. Delacorte Press, 2011. Print Length: 400 p Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (60 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.44. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother’s house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn’t see is her mother... But Faith isn’t just a cop anymore - she’s a witness. She’s also a suspect..." - from the hardcover edition.

Hotel Bosphorus by Esmahan Aykol. Translated by Ruth Whitehouse. Bitter Lemon Press, 2011. Print Length: 224 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $9.99; Paperback $10.91. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Kati Hirschel, in her thirties, is the proud owner of Istanbul’s only crime bookshop. When the German director of a film starring an old school friend is found murdered in his hotel room Kati cannot resist the temptation to start her own maverick investigation. After all her friend Petra is the police’s principal suspect and reading all those detective novels must have taught Kati something. This is a crime story but also a wonderful book about Istanbul and Turkish society. It uses humour, social commentary and even erotic fantasy to expose Western European prejudices about Turkey as well as Turkish stereotyping of other Europeans." - Bitter Lemon Press.

Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver. Publisher. Print Length: Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (49 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $14.20. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran of the Afghan War, has been recruited to a new organization. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defense, its very existence deniable. Its aim: To protect the Realm, by any means necessary. A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: Casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected. And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche." - author's website.

Unraveled by Maggie Sefton. Berkley, 2011. Print Length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (9 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99; Hardcover $15.02. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
This is book nine in the Knitting Mysteries series that began with Knit One, Kill Two.

"Spring is in the air of Fort Connor, Colorado - a time of new beginnings for the House of Lambspun knitters. But for fellow knitter Jennifer's new real estate client, it is his end. He's been murdered and Kelly Flynn is left unraveling a tangle of clues. This may prove to be her most challenging project yet." - Publisher.

Tigerlily's Orchids by Ruth Rendell. Simon and Schuster, 2011. Print Length: 272 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (12 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99; Hardcover $17.16. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Is it dangerous to know too much about your neighbors? When Stuart Font decides to throw a housewarming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building - three flippant young girls, a lonely spinster, a man with a passion for classical history, and a woman determined to drink herself to death. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. He considered inviting a few other friends, but he definitely does not want his girlfriend, Claudia, in attendance, as he would also have to invite her lawyer husband. As it turns out, the party will be one everyone remembers..." - Amazon.
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