Blood Country by Mary Logue is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blood Country by Mary Logue as today's second free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically for a limited time only or until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.

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Blood Country by Mary Logue
A Claire Watkins Mystery
Publisher: Tyrus Books

This is a repeat freebie from last October, the first in a series that currently spans eight books and introduces western Wisconsin Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins.

About Blood Country (from the publisher): When Landers Anderson — an elderly neighbor who befriended Claire and and her daughter Meg — dies of a heart attack after being sideswiped with a shovel, Claire determines to find the culprit. This involves delving into Landers's family history and investigating the machinations of a right-wing group, Homeowners of America, that is buying up property to build an environmentally unsound development.

At the same time, Meg fearfully admits to Claire that she saw the man who killed her father, Claire's husband Steve, a former Twin Cities cop. Claire contacts her former partner, Det. Bruce Jacobs, and prods him into accelerating the investigation into Steve's death.

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Directed Verdict by Randy Singer is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Directed Verdict by Randy Singer as today's free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically for a limited time only or until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.

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Directed Verdict by Randy Singer
Non-Series
Publisher: Tyndale House

Originally published in 2002, this is the author's first (of eight to date) legal thriller.

About Directed Verdict (from the publisher): In Saudi Arabia, two American missionaries are targeted by the infamous religious police — Muttawa. The man is tortured and killed; his wife arrested on trumped-up charges before being deported to the United States. Compelled by the injustice of her plight, young attorney Brad Carlson files an unprecedented civil rights suit against Saudi Arabia and the ruthless head of the Muttawa. But the suit unleashes powerful forces that will stop at nothing to vindicate the Arabian kingdom. Witnesses are intimidated and some disappear; jurors are bribed; and a member of Brad’s own team may be attempting to sabotage the case. As Brad navigates a maze of treachery and deception, he must gamble his case, his career, and the lives of those he loves on his ability to bring justice to one family, challenge the religious intolerance of a nation, and alter the course of international law.

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Special Offer: Ten Poisoned Pen Press eBooks for 99 Cents Each

Poisoned Pen Press is currently offering 10 of its mystery ebook titles for only 99 cents each. All are series books and all but one are the first in the series.

We've had the pleasure of reading and reviewing books by each of these authors, but have actually only reviewed two of the promoted titles. One of these, Artifacts by Mary Anna Evans, appeared on our Best of 2003 list and remains one of our favorite mystery series. (We've reviewed all six titles in the series to date.)

For your convenience, we've listed all 10 books below with links to purchase popular ebook editions. There's no indication on the publisher's website how long these books will be available at this price, thus, as always, please confirm the price of your download before completing your transaction.

The Old Buzzard Had It Coming by Donis Casey. Alafair Tucker, an Oklahoma farmer. Set in the early 20th century.
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In the Shadow of the Glacier by Vicki Delany. Molly Smith, a police constable in British Columbia.
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Artifacts by Mary Anna Evans. Faye Longchamp, an archaeology student, later a graduate, in Florida.
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Interrupted Aria by Beverle Graves Myers. Tito Amato, an opera singer. Set near Venice during the Baroque period.
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The Heat of the Moon by Sandra Parshall. Rachel Goddard, a veterinarian in Virginia.
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Artscape by Frederick Ramsay. Ike Schwartz, a former CIA agent in western Virginia.
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Four for a Boy by Eric Mayer and Mary Reed. John, Lord Chamberlain for Justinian I. Set in the eastern Roman Empire in the early 6th century.
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Wine of Violence by Priscilla Royal. Prioress Eleanor. Set in late 13th century England.
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Concrete Desert by Jon Talton. David Mapstone, a history professor-turned-deputy sheriff in Maricopa County (Phoenix, Arizona).
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Desert Wives by Betty Webb. Lena Jones, a private investigator in Arizona.
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Coming Home by P. D. Martin is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Coming Home by P. D. Martin as today's fifth free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically for a limited time only or until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.

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Coming Home by P. D. Martin
A Sophie Anderson Mystery
Publisher: Murderati Ink

Coming Home is officially the sixth book in the Sophie Anderson series, but it's a little different from the previous books in the series. It was written as an interactive ebook with input from anyone who wanted to affect the plot and outcome of a crime fiction novel. Anyone and everyone could vote, watching their plot choices come to life as the author posted the next chapter in the book online six days later.

The author has stated that this book marks the end of the series.

About Coming Home (from the publisher): When FBI profiler Sophie Anderson gets a call at 2 AM from her parents in Australia, she knows something is up. But nothing can prepare her for the bombshell … a boy has been found murdered in almost the exact circumstances as her brother, his body dumped meters from the original crime scene.

With thirty years between the crimes, Sophie flies home to investigate the new murder with the hope of also solving her brother's cold case. However the emotional pressure cranks up a notch when another young boy goes missing.

Sophie couldn't save her brother, but can she save this boy and bring the perpetrator to justice?

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Friends, and Other Perishables by Dale Whisman is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Friends, and Other Perishables by Dale Whisman as today's fourth free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically for a limited time only or until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.

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Friends, and Other Perishables by Dale Whisman
A Carl Jacobs Mystery
Publisher: Deadly Niche Press

Written by a licensed private investigator, this first in a series of three (to date) introduces PI Carl Jacobs.

About Friends, and Other Perishables (from the publisher): Carl Jacobs agrees to meet an informant, Jimmy "The Blue Jay", a man Carl grew up with. Jimmy has been a guest in Carl's house and is considered almost a member of the family by Carl's wife, Sherry, and their two young daughters. But apparently Jimmy has other friends.

As soon as Carl arrives, Jimmy starts shooting at him from a dark alley. Carl is wounded but returns fire, and Jimmy is killed. Now Carl has to find out why Jimmy tried to murder him. The solution to this puzzle becomes even more urgent when subsequent attempts are made on Carl's life.

The answer he seeks lies somewhere within the maze of a multi-million-dollar insurance fraud scheme perpetrated by an attorney and a chiropractor, and a lot of very greedy accident victims. Some people prove ruthless when millions of dollars are at stake. And some men can be even more ruthless when their families are threatened.

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Review: Code Blood by Kurt Kamm

Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews: Code Blood by Kurt Kamm.

The Walk by Lee Goldberg is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Walk by Lee Goldberg as today's third free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically for a limited time only or until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.

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The Walk by Lee Goldberg
Publisher: Five Star

About The Walk (from the publisher): It's one minute after the Big One.

Marty Slack, a TV network executive, crawls out from under his Mercedes. Downtown L.A. is in ruins. The sky is thick with black smoke. His cell phone is dead. The freeways are rubble. The airport is demolished. Buildings lay across streets like fallen trees. It will be days before help can arrive. Marty has been expecting this day all his life. He's prepared. He knows there is only one thing he can do … that he must do: get home to his wife Beth, go back to their gated community on the far edge of the San Fernando Valley. All he has to do is walk.

But he will quickly learn that it's not that easy. Looters rampage through the streets. His dangerous, unpredictable journey home will take him through the different worlds of what was once Los Angeles. There's no power. No running water. No order. Marty Slack thinks he's prepared. He's wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, a journey that will test the limits of his endurance and his humanity, a trek from the man he was to the man he can be … if he can survive … The Walk.

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Nuclear Winter Wonderland by Joshua Corin is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Nuclear Winter Wonderland by Joshua Corin as today's second free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically for a limited time only or until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.

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Nuclear Winter Wonderland by Joshua Corin
Publisher: Kunati

About Nuclear Winter Wonderland (from the publisher): Adam Weiss’ twin sister, Anna, is kidnapped by Ebbetts, an unpleasant and possibly cancer-ridden man who might have plans that involve a nuclear device. Desperately searching for Anna, Adam acquires a couple of sidekicks: Filbert, a man of small stature who used to do something brutal for the Mob, and Cherry Sundae, a Croatian female clown who only speaks Spanish.

If all that isn’t enough to make you dive right into the novel, consider this: it is remarkably polished and stylishly written (remarkably, because the author hasn’t been doing this for years: this is his first novel). It is richly comic, surreal without being silly — except where it intends to be silly — and playful in its use of language.

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Nice Girl Does Noir by Libby Fischer Hellmann is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Nice Girl Does Noir by Libby Fischer Hellmann as today's free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically for a limited time only or until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.

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Nice Girl Does Noir by Libby Fischer Hellmann
A Short Story Collection
Publisher: CreateSpace

About Nice Girl Does Noir (from the publisher): A collection of crime fiction short stories in print, some of them award-winners, by the author of the Ellie Foreman and Georgia Davis mystery series and featuring her series characters.

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The Séance by Heather Graham is Today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Séance by Heather Graham as today's Barnes&Noble Daily Find. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, January 14, 2012.

Note: Amazon.com is matching the price for this ebook for today only.

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The Séance by Heather Graham
Publisher: Mira Books

About The Séance (from the publisher): A chill falls over Christina Hardy's housewarming party when talk turns to a recent murder that has all the hallmarks of the so-called "Interstate Killer" murders from fifteen years before. To lighten the mood, the guests drag out an old Ouija board for a little spooky fun…and that's when things become truly terrifying.

Summoned by the Ouija board, the restless spirit of Beau Kidd, the lead detective—and chief suspect—on the original case, seeks Christina's help: the latest killing isn't a copycat crime, and he wants his name cleared. Back in the real world, cop-turned-writer Jed Braden is skeptical of Christina's ghostly encounters, but his police sources confirm all the intimate details of the case—her otherworldly source is reliable, and the body count is growing.

The spirits are right. The Interstate Killer is still out there, and Christina's life is hanging in the balance between this world and the next.

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