ComingSoon.net is reporting that a film adaptation of the 1995 thriller Dead Reckoning by Susan and Pierre LaTour, Jr., is being planned. Cody Horn ( Twelve , Flipped ) is in negotiations to star. The plot involves Catherine Lakey, a chemistry professor, who disappears one morning while walking along a Cape Cod beach. The police assume she committed suicide, but the woman’s niece, Nancy, is not convinced. She soon learns that little is arbitrary in her aunt’s disappearance, and that the tiny clues left behind point to more than her aunt’s whereabouts.

Book Quote: “He always sings in the car. He has a low voice scraped out by cigarettes and all the yelling he does. His big pointy Adam’s apple bobs up and down, turning the tanned skin white wherever it moves. He reaches for the puppy in my lap. ‘You’s a good little rascal. Yes you is,’ he says in his dog voice, a happy, hopeful voice he doesn’t use much on people.” Book Review: Review by Jill I. Shtulman (JUL 30, 2010) Years ago, I sent out a birthday invitation with the theme, “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” Funny – or so I thought. But for Daley Amory, the main character of Lily King’s poignant and at times heartbreaking Father of…

Several years ago we had the pleasure of reviewing Nick Santora ’s debut novel Slip and Fall . Yesterday, Mullholland Books announced that they have signed the author, who is also the writer/creator of several television series including the suspense drama Prison Break , to write a thriller titled Fifteen Digits , “about five ‘invisible’ thieves who work under the radar at a white shoe New York law firm and perpetrate a multi-million dollar heist.” Mulholland Books is a new crime novel imprint of Little, Brown .

Book Quote: “…But what I really mean is Poor us. All three of us have had terrible things happen – murder, cancer, abandonment – and for the first time I’m tempted to tell Robbie about Rachel. It’s not sympathy I want but the credibility that comes with having faced and lived through something tragic. I can say that I understand, and I do, but to Robbie and Alice – who know nothing of my past – my words would sound hollow……I say nothing.” Book …

Games of Mystery is pleased to announce the availability of a new mystery casual game from Big Fish Games released today and available to BFG Club members. You can find out more about these games by visiting our Mystery Games: Big Fish Download Games page or by clicking on the links provided below. —

“It’s a strange world. Let’s keep it that way.” This is the motto or mantra of Planetary , the story of three spacetime archaeologists in search of all things weird. It stars Elijah Snow, a man born in 1900, who, despite his years, still looks fabulous in all white; Jakita Wagner, the strong, silent supermodel who likes to punch things; and The Drummer, the cool nerd who can hear and interpret signals emitted from just about anything that emits signals. Deep secrets haunt the team—when the series begins, Elijah has gaping holes…

In a press release today (read it on /Film ), Columbia Pictures announced that Len Wiseman is in negotiations to direct the Kurt Wimmer-written film adaptation of the short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick, effectively moving the project forward after being somewhat in limbo for 16 months or so now. A classic sci-fi thriller, it was originally made into the 1990 film Total Recall starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Studios today are loathe to use the word “remake”, so Columbia is calling this “a new, contemporized adaptation” based on the film, but, somewhat oddly, not on the source material. For more information about the original adaptation, visit Cinemystery: Total Recall .

Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com – Q & A, Novel about an orphan boy who is a waiter and a contestant of an Indian version of ‘Who want to be a millionaire’. Slumdog…is made from this book.

Stefanie Syman’s book examines how yoga, the centuries-old spiritual discipline, became a fitness routine for American athletes, C.E.O.’s, movie stars and soccer moms.

There are two phases that most kids go through at some point in their young lives. The first phase begins when they decide reading is boring. The second begins when they decide that “bathroom humor” (as my mother always diplomatically called it) is an endless source of hilarity. So what do you do when these two phases happen simultaneously?

Book Quote: “Pat Tillman understood that outside the wire, bad things happen. But he was an optimist. Archetypically American, he was confident that right would prevail over wrong. When he swore the oath of enlistment in the summer of 2002, he trusted that those responsible for sending him into battle would do so in good faith. At the time, he didn’t envisage that any of them would trifle with his life, or misrepresent the facts of his death, in order…

Amazon.com announced this morning its latest Kindle, a Wi-Fi only version of the standard Kindle that retains all of the features of the original (except, of course, 3G wireless) and weighs slightly less. The Kindle Wi-Fi , available only in graphite (as shown), is currently priced at $139 and will begin shipping August 27, 2010; it may be pre-ordered now.

If you have not already read The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger , there probably isn’t anything I can say that would get you to read it now. I could not do a series on love stories without including it though. It is one of my favorite books of the past decade, and at its heart it is a timeless love story. Henry and Clare’s relationship is complicated, imperfect, challenging; but it is also beautiful, deep and full of the kind of longing and waiting that set timeless love stories apart from romance novels. If you haven’t read it yet, what are you waiting for?!

Like DVDs, electronic books for the iPad are now being loaded with extras, including video clips that are integrated with text.

Bones of Contention by Jeanne Matthews . A Dinah Pelerin Mystery. Poisoned Pen Press Hardcover, June 2010. Jeanne Matthews introduces 30-year-old underemployed Dinah Pelerin, who is unexpectedly summoned to the home of a distant (in more ways than one) and dying uncle — “a chain-puller extraordinaire and a master of manipulation” — in Bones of Contention . Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews: Bones of Contention by Jeanne Matthews . —