Arab Summer by David Lender is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Arab Summer by David Lender as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, April 15, 2013.

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Arab Summer
David Lender
A Sasha del Mira Mystery (3rd in series)
Thomas & Mercer

Newlywed Sasha Del Mira thinks she's left her harrowing past with the CIA behind her … until her husband is murdered. There's only one man who can be behind this: Saif Ibn Mohammed al-Aziz, once Sasha's lover and now the leader of a Muslim terrorist group. Seeking revenge, Sasha returns to the CIA and goes undercover in pursuit of Saif.

Meanwhile, Saif plots an Arab Spring uprising intended to violently overthrow the Saudi Arabian government in the holiest of places at the holiest of times: the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Can Sasha save the world from a fundamentalist reign of terror, or will she be forced to become the madman's wife?

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for April 15, 2013

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:

1 3 7 A D I L N S

This is the title of Jeremy Robinson's 2013 adventure thriller (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!

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (130415)

Here is today's mystery and suspense update from Big Fish Games …

• The Daily Deal is Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Bedtime Stories: The Lost Dreams, just $2.99 through Sunday, April 21, 2013 only.

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Today's Daily Deal is Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill

Special Enquiry Detail detectives Turino and Lamonte are back for another case! A serial murderer known as the Engagement Killer is loose in the city and has been killing young brides. Work the crime scenes, interview key people and find your way out of a web of clues and false leads. Help Turino and Lamonte gather facts and collect evidence to catch the murderer before he kills again. Immerse yourself in this exciting Hidden Object game and bring the killer to justice!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Monday, April 15, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Bedtime Stories: The Lost Dreams

Change the course of history by helping your relatives during key moments of their lives! Change the past and make your family's faces shine in a family photo. Help out an unaccomplished prima ballerina, a genius detective, a recognized chocolatier, and a famous adventurer in this incredible Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game. Relive crucial moments and change the past.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game at the special price of $2.99 through Sunday, April 21, 2013.

MystereBooks: The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Ballantine Books.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $1.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (04/14/2013 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 Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen
A Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Ballantine Books

The TNT crime drama Rizzoli & Isles is based on these series characters.

It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death.

The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city's streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that's what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her — literally and figuratively — she is determined to finally end Hoyt's awful influence … even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad.

But Rizzoli isn't counting on the U.S. government's sudden interest. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isn't counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta.

      

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Harbor Ice by K. D. Mason is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Harbor Ice by K. D. Mason as today's third free mystery ebook (A Jack Beale Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 14, 2013 at 7:30 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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Harbor Ice
K. D. Mason
A Jack Beale Mystery
Publisher: Bigwig Books

When a woman's body is found under a slab of ice in the New Hampshire coastal town of Rye Harbor, the discovery triggers a series of events that will eventually threaten the life of Max, the feisty redheaded bartender at Ben's Place, and others as well. It is up to her best friend, Jack Beale, to unravel the mystery that takes them from coastal New England to Taos, New Mexico and Switzerland.

  

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Relative Malice by Marla Madison is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Relative Malice by Marla Madison as today's second free mystery ebook (A Crime Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 14, 2013 at 7:20 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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Relative Malice
Marla Madison
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Marla Madison

When four family members are found dead after a home invasion, Detective Kendall Halsrud takes charge of the case. In the murder house, she discovers an empty crib with blood drops next to it on the wood floor. The family: a father, mother, teenage daughter, and young son have been fatally shot … but where is baby Philly?

The desperate search to find the child derails when a man is arrested for murdering the family and claims to have killed the baby. Suspecting he had an accomplice, Kendall isn't convinced. Refusing to give up on finding the child, Kendall persists in unearthing the family's secrets. With the help of a hacker turned spurious fortune-teller and a former cop hired by the missing baby's uncle, she discovers a furtive pedophile ring is planning on buying and sharing a baby. Can she stop them while there's time to save Philly?

  

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Broken Ferns by Toby Neal is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Broken Ferns by Toby Neal as today's free mystery ebook (A Lei Texeira, "Lei Crime" Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 14, 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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Broken Ferns
Toby Neal
A Lei Texeira, "Lei Crime" Mystery
Publisher: Toby Neal

The island of Oahu is warm breezes, skyscrapers and green mountains — but a daring young thief is out to make a statement, and Special Agent Lei Texeira's new career is already on the line.

Lei Texeira has made a difficult transition from detective on Maui to the FBI on Oahu — and her first big case as an agent draws national media attention. With her typical jump-first, look-later style, she pursues her quarry from Oahu to the outer islands, rousing old conflicts and new heartbreak.

  

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The Immortal Circus by A. R. Kahler is Today's Kindle Fantasy Thriller Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Immortal Circus by A. R. Kahler as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, April 14, 2013.

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The Immortal Circus
A. R. Kahler
A Cirque des Immortels Serial Novel
47North

This book was initially released in episodes as a Kindle Serial. All five episodes are now available as a complete book.

Murdered contortionists aren’t exactly what Vivienne signed up for when she ran away to join the circus. But like most things under the big top, nothing is what it seems. With a past she can't quite remember, Vivienne finds that running away forever might not be as appealing as it once sounded—because forever means something quite different at the Cirque des Immortels.

Aided by her friends Kingston — a feisty stage magician whose magic is quickly stealing her heart — and his sarcastic assistant Melody, Vivienne finds herself racing against the clock to discover the culprit behind a series of deaths that should be impossible. However, the answer she seeks might reveal more about her own bloody past — and future — than she bargains for.

The show's just beginning.

Step right up …

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Say You're Sorry by Michael Robotham is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Say You're Sorry by Michael Robotham as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, April 14, 2013.

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Say You're Sorry
Michael Robotham
A Joe O'Loughlin Mystery
Mulholland Books

When pretty and popular teenagers Piper Hadley and Tash McBain disappear one Sunday morning, the investigation captivates a nation but the girls are never found.

Three years later, during the worst blizzard in a century, a husband and wife are brutally killed in the farmhouse where Tash McBain once lived. A suspect is in custody, a troubled young man who can hear voices and claims that he saw a girl that night being chased by a snowman.

Convinced that Piper or Tash might still be alive, clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin and ex-cop Vincent Ruiz, persuade the police to re-open the investigation. But they are racing against time to save the girls from someone with an evil, calculating and twisted mind …

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (130414)

Here is today's mystery and suspense update from Big Fish Games …

• The New Release is Small Town Terrors: Pilgrim's Hook (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is Veronica Rivers: The Order of the Conspiracy, just $2.99 today only!.

• The current Catch of the Week is Brink of Consciousness: Dorian Gray Syndrome, just $2.99 through Sunday, April 14, 2013 only.

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Today's New Release is Small Town Terrors: Pilgrim's Hook (Collector's Edition)

The only person that could bring you back to Pilgrim's Hook has called you out of the blue. Return to your childhood home and save your twin brother from the dark forces that have invaded this coastal village. The few remaining residents of Pilgrim's Hook appear slightly mad and something strange is happening to those that resist the call of the sea. You are the last hope in this decades long struggle between good and evil, sand and surf, and land and sea. Do you have the strength to defeat this evil that lurks beneath the ocean?

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: bonus chapter beneath the sea; integrated strategy guide; and achievements and morphing collectibles.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour.

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Today's Daily Deal is Veronica Rivers: The Order of the Conspiracy

After having a strange vision, famous pilot Veronica Rivers finds a mysterious warning claiming that disaster is about to strike! Veronica's vacation is about to end abruptly, as she has to travel across the globe to take on a brand new case. Discover who has been following Veronica, and what exactly they want from her! Use your Hidden Object skills to find the Gates of Destiny!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Sunday, April 14, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Brink of Consciousness: Dorian Gray Syndrome

Help Sam Wilde rescue his love Anna in this incredible Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game! Sam's every move is being tracked so he has to be extra careful. Putting his journalistic talents to the test, Sam must find the maniac who has kidnapped Anna, and stop him before its too late. Explore gorgeous locations and solve tricky puzzles to stop an evil maniac!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game at the special price of $2.99 through Sunday, April 14, 2013.

Graphic Novel News: Moriarty by Daniel Corey and Anthony Diecidue to be Issued as Deluxe Hardcover

Image Comics has announced that the Moriarty series of comics will be released as a single, deluxe hardcover volume in May, 2013.

Written by Daniel Corey and Anthony Diecidue and based on a character created by Arthur Conan Doyle, the 9-issue series is divided into two parts: "The Dark Chamber" and "The Lazarus Tree" (already available separately as trade paperbacks).

It is the dawn of World War I, and Sherlock Holmes has been dead for 20 years. Professor James Moriarty is a lost man, but he's called back into the fray when MI5 blackmails him into finding Holmes' long-lost brother, Mycroft. What at first appears to be a routine case leads to a web of intrigue that involves a psychic box and its creator, a woman from Moriarty's past, and a new villain that threatens to be greater than Moriarty ever was.

Last year, Corey announced he was teaming up with Raymond Schnurr to bring the first story arc — "The Dark Chamber" — to the stage as a musical along the lines of Les Misérables, Sweeny Todd and Phantom of the Opera. However, we haven't heard much about this project recently so aren't quite sure at what stage, as it were, it may be in.

Cinemystery: Film Adaptation of Zulu by Caryl Férey To Close Cannes Film Festival

The crime thriller Zulu has been selected to close this year's Cannes Film Festival on May 26th, 2013.

Directed by Jérôme Salle from a screenplay co-written by Salle and Julien Rappeneau, and based on the novel of the same title by Caryl Férey, the film stars Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom as police officers in South Africa investigating a brutal murder during the period of apartheid. (More details about the book, below.)

The festival opens with another film adapted from a novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, with Leonardo DiCaprio as the 1920s millionaire Jay Gatsby, played by Robert Redford in the 1974 version of the film.

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Zulu
Caryl Férey

Winner of the 2008 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Best Crime Novel.

As a child, Ali Neuman ran away from home to escape the Inkatha, a militant political party at war with the then-underground African National Congress. He and his mother are the only members of his family that survived the carnage of those years and the psychological scars remain.

Today, Neuman is chief of the homicide branch of the Cape Town police, a job in which he must do battle with South Africa's two scourges: widespread violence and AIDS. When the mutilated corpse of a young white woman is found in the city's botanical gardens, Neuman's job gets even more difficult. He is chasing one false lead after another when a second corpse, again that of a white woman, is found. This time, the body bears signs of a Zulu ritual. A new evil has insinuated itself into this recently integrated city. And a new drug: traces of an unknown narcotic have been found in the blood of both victims.

The investigation will take Neuman back to his homeland, where he will discover that the once bloody killing fields have become the ideal no-man's land for unscrupulous multinationals, and that the apparatchiks of apartheid still lurk in the shadows and the back rooms of a society struggling toward reconciliation.

      

MystereBooks: The Big O by Declan Burke, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Big O by Declan Burke, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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 (04/13/2013 at 5:00 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 Big O by Declan Burke
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Karen can't go on pulling stick-ups forever, but Rossi is getting out of prison any day now and she needs the money to keep Anna out of his hands. This new guy she's met, Ray, just might be able to help her out, but he wants out of the kidnap game now the Slavs are bunkering in.

And then there's Frank, the discredited plastic surgeon who wants his ex-wife snatched — the ex-wife being Madge, who just happens to be Karen's best friend. But can Karen and Ray trust each other enough to carry off one last caper? Or will love, as always, ruin everything?

  

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Review: Murder Below Montparnasse by Cara Black

A Mysterious Review of …

Murder Below Montparnasse by Cara Black. An Aimée Leduc Investigation.

Review summary: The storyline in this murder mystery is really quite interesting but takes a long time to get started and is wildly overcomplicated once it does, taking the most serpentine path possible to get from point A to point B. It's a journey worth taking, but does get rather tiring along the way. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Murder Below Montparnasse
Cara Black
An Aimée Leduc Investigation
Soho Crime (March 2013)

Publisher synopsis: When Aimée's long-term partner and best friend René leaves their detective agency for a new job in Silicon Valley, Aimée knows she can handle the extra workload. At least, that what she tells herself. Repeatedly.

But all bets are off when Yuri Volodya, a mysterious old Russian man, hires Aimée to protect a painting. By the time she gets to his Montparnasse atelier, the precious painting has already been stolen, leaving Aimée smelling a rat. The next day, Yuri is found tortured to death in his kitchen. To top it all off, it looks like Aimée isn't the only one looking for the painting. Some very dangerous people are threatening her and her coworkers, and witnesses are dropping like flies. Now Aimée has to find the painting, stop her attackers, and figure out what her long-missing mother, who is on Interpol's most wanted list, has to do with all this — fingers crossed she wasn't Yuri's murderer, despite clues pointing in that direction.

Obviously, René doesn't need to worry. Aimee has things under control.

      

Graphic Novel News: Once Upon a Time Cover

The cover of the graphic novel adaptation from ABC's Once Upon a Time has been released by Marvel (right; click for larger image).

Subtitled "Shadow of the Queen!", the storyline is an extension of the seventh episode from the first season of the series, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter".

The Evil Queen has, quite literally, captured the Huntsman's heart, and now he's her slave. This is the never-before-told tale behind their twisted relationship, and what happens when a good man is forced to do bad.

When Regina cooks up yet another devious plan to capture Snow White, this time by allying with a pack of power-hungry werewolves, the Huntsman comes face-to-face with his past, and an independent spirit in Red Riding Hood that just may match his own. Can these two break free of the forces that bind them and save Snow White? When put to the test, where will the Huntsman's loyalties lie? Has the Evil Queen stolen his heart in more ways than one?

Once Upon a Time will be published in September 3rd, 2013.