Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Monday, June 24, 2013.

Note: The price has been matched by Amazon.com for today only.

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Gods and Beasts
Denise Mina
An Alex Morrow Mystery
Little, Brown

It's the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the door. He opens the door and bows his head; the robber fires off the AK-47, tearing the grandfather in two.

DS Alex Morrow arrives on the scene and finds that the alarm system had been disabled before the robbery. Yet upon investigation, none of the employees can be linked to the gunman. And the grandfather — a life-long campaigner for social justice — is above reproach. As Morrow searches for the killer, she discovers a hidden, sinister political network. Soon it is chillingly clear: no corner of the city is safe, and her involvement will go deeper than she could ever have imagined.

 

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Dixie Divas by Virginia Brown is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dixie Divas by Virginia Brown as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, June 24, 2013.

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Dixie Divas
Virginia Brown
A Dixie Diva Mystery
Bell Bridge Books

"You found my philandering ex-husband?" Bitty asked. "Where? Mexico? Paris? In Tupelo with a cocktail waitress?" "In your closet," I answered. "Dead."

Break out the hoop skirts and the zinfandel. The Divas are on the case.

Wine. Chocolate. Transvestite strippers. Just another good-time get-together for the Dixie Divas of historic Holly Springs, Mississippi, where moonlight and magnolias mingle with delicious smalltown scandal.

But Eureka "Trinket" Truevine, the newest Diva, gets more than she bargained for when she finds her best Diva girlfriend Bitty Hollandale's ex-husband in Bitty's hall closet. He's dead. Very dead. Now Trinket and the Divas have to help Bitty finger the murderer and clear her name.

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for June 24, 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:

B C E I K N R T Z

This Lisa Jackson detective is partnered with Reuben Montoya in a series set in New Orleans (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 (130624)

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

• The Daily Deal is Final Cut: Death on the Silver Screen, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Fabled Legends: The Dark Piper, just $2.99 through Sunday, June 30, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — It is Bonus Punch Monday! Receive a BONUS PUNCH with every game purchase, only on Mondays.

Visit the Omnimystery Entertainment Network for more games of mystery and suspense!

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Today's Daily Deal is Final Cut: Death on the Silver Screen

Unravel the mystery of your father's death and brother's bizarre disappearance! Your father was a famous movie director who liked to invent elaborate locks and devices. A mysterious villain demands you track down the pieces to his greatest and perhaps most deadly invention of all time! If you don't, your brother will suffer the same fate as your father. Return to the family Art Deco mansion and golden era movie backlots to look for clues about a past you never knew your father had and the dark secrets behind the villain's quest for his deadly invention.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Monday, June 24, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Fabled Legends: The Dark Piper

The Dark Piper strikes! The fiend unleashes infested rodents into the town of Hamelin using the magical Pied Piper Flute. As the Fabled Inspector, you are summoned by the duke to investigate and stop this mysterious figure. Defeat the Dark Piper before he leaves a trail of destruction all across Europe!

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, June 30, 2013.

Review: Sacred Games by Gary Corby

A Mysterious Review of …

Sacred Games by Gary Corby. A Nicolaos, Ancient Greece Mystery.

Review summary: This murder mystery is written in a manner that, at least when considered at first, shouldn't work … but does. The dialog and many of the mannerisms of the characters are quite contemporary though almost everything else about the story is from some two thousand years ago. Imagine Perry Mason in ancient Greece. A most entertaining, if not altogether demanding, crime novel. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Sacred Games
Gary Corby
A Nicolaos, Ancient Greece Mystery
Soho Crime (May 2013)

Publisher synopsis: It is the Olympics of 460 BC. Nico's best friend, Timodemus, is a competitor in the pankration, the deadly martial art of ancient Greece. Timo is hot favorite to win. His only serious rival is Arakos from Sparta. When Arakos is found beaten to death, it is obvious Timodemus must be the killer. Who else could have killed the second-best fighter in all Hellas but the very best? The Judges of the Games sentence Timodemus to be executed in four days' time, as soon as the Sacred Games have finished.

Complicating everything is the fact that Athens and Sparta are already at each other's throats, in the opening stages of a power struggle for control of Hellas. If an Athenian is found to have cheated at the Games by murdering a Spartan, it will be everything the hawks in Sparta need to declare open war the moment the Sacred Truce is over. And that's a war Athens cannot hope to win.

Nico and his partner in sleuthing, the annoyingly clever priestess Diotima, have four days to save their friend and avert a war that would tear their world apart.

      

Secret Justice, a Justice Series Thriller by Diane Capri, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Secret Justice by Diane Capri, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, AugustBooks.

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 (06/23/2013 at 12:00 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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Secret Justice by Diane Capri
A Justice Series Thriller (3rd in series)
Publisher: AugustBooks

During Tampa's annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival, murder chases Judge Willa Carson's beloved secretary into a world of secrets, corruption, bank fraud, and art theft.

Margaret Wheaton becomes mysteriously involved with a smarmy jeweler. When Margaret's husband is killed in Willa's home and the jeweler ends up dead, too, Margaret is the number one suspect. Judge Willa sets out to prove Margaret innocent, dodging killers throughout Tampa's month-long pirate attack until she discovers secret justice.

    

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Beauty To Die For, a Juliette Taylor, Spa Mystery by Kim Alexis and Mindy Starns Clark, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Beauty To Die For by Kim Alexis and Mindy Starns Clark, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, B&H 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 (06/23/2013 at 11:30 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.

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Beauty To Die For by Kim Alexis and Mindy Starns Clark
A Juliette Taylor, Spa Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: B&H Books

Juliette Taylor walked away from her career as a supermodel twenty-five years ago. Now approaching fifty — an emotionally complex milestone — she co-owns a beauty supply company that makes skincare products for salons and spas. Her niche is pampering Christian women who usually spend more time caring for others than for themselves under the slogan: Isn't it time someone took care of YOU for a change?

When Juliette arrives at the Palm Grotto Spa to host a spiritual retreat, she runs into an old modeling colleague, Raven, who had always been disliked in the industry for many reasons. She isn't there for the retreat; in fact, her presence at the spa is somewhat mysterious.

Not long after Raven makes a cryptic threat to Juliette, the unsympathetic back-then beauty is found dead, poisoned by something in the green clay of a chai soy wrap. The following morning, a banner for the retreat has been unceremoniously altered: It's your turn to be nurtured, to be restored … to be murdered.

Suspicion is directed at Juliette who has history with Raven and certainly knows how to use beauty products. But for murder?! Now she must find the real killer before the police really take care of her.

    

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Bitter Truth, a Victor Carl Mystery by William Lashner, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bitter Truth by William Lashner, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (06/23/2013 at 11:00 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.

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Bitter Truth by William Lashner
A Victor Carl Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

A stained legal career spent defending mob enforcers, two-bit hoods, and other dregs of humanity has left Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl jaded and resentful — until a new client appears to offer him an escape and a big payday. Caroline Shaw, the desperate scion of a prominent Main Line dynasty, wants him to prove that her sister Jacqueline's recent suicide was, in fact, murder before Caroline suffers a similar fate.

It is a case that propels Carl out of his courtroom element and into a murky world of fabulous wealth, bloody family legacies, and dark secrets. Victor Carl would love nothing more than to collect his substantial fee and get out alive. But a bitter truth is dragging him in dangerously over his head, and ever closer to the shattering revelation that the most terrifying darkness of all lies not in the heart of a Central American jungle … but in the twisted soul of man.

      

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The Grey Beginning, a Novel of Suspense by Barbara Michaels, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Grey Beginning by Barbara Michaels, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (06/23/2013 at 10:30 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.

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The Grey Beginning by Barbara Michaels
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: HarperCollins

Devastated by her husband's death, Kathy Malone has traveled to his childhood home, hoping to come to terms with the recent tragedy. Here in the beautiful rolling hills of Tuscany, she seeks solace — and discovers something sinister instead.

Befriending a lonely boy named Pietro and accepting the chilly hospitality of the aristocratic Contessa Morandini, Kathy begins to uncover the pieces of an ominous puzzle and hints of a deadly obsession. And now she has stumbled upon a murderous plot that could cost Kathy her life — for it was meant to stay hidden … forever.

      

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Death on the River Walk, a Henrie O Mystery by Carolyn Hart, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Death on the River Walk by Carolyn Hart, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (06/23/2013 at 10:00 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.

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Death on the River Walk by Carolyn Hart
A Henrie O Mystery (5th in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins no longer chases hot stories all over the world, but murderous mysteries seem to find her. This time, a frantic phone call from an old and dear friend on the other side of the world sends Henrie O rushing to the fabled city of San Antonio to check out the baffling disappearance of her friend's devoted granddaughter, Iris Chavez. Iris, employed at the Tesoros Gallery on San Antonio's famous River Walk, has suddenly dropped from sight without a word.

Soon Henrie O discovers that amidst the exquisite objects in the prestigious gallery and among the family members is hidden a dark secret--one Henrie O must uncover if she is to find Iris. Late one dark night on the River Walk, Henrie O sees a sprawled body … and realizes that treachery and disgrace lurk in the shadows of an old and respected business … and death awaits anyone daring to uncover the truth.

      

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Mayhem in Christmas River by Meg Muldoon is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Mayhem in Christmas River by Meg Muldoon as today's free mystery ebook (A Christmas River Cozy Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, June 23, 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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Mayhem in Christmas River
Meg Muldoon
A Christmas River Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Vacant Lot Publishing

It's July in Christmas River, and the temperature isn't the only thing flaring out of control.

After a fire destroys her best friend's ornament shop, pie baker extraordinaire Cinnamon Peters soon discovers that the blaze was no accident.

Just days before the annual Christmas River in July Parade and Play, it becomes clear that a maniac is roaming the tourist-packed streets of Christmas River.

And he's got a flair for the dramatic.

Will Cinnamon and her sheriff's deputy boyfriend find out who's behind the blaze before the rest of the town goes up in flames?

  

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For more free mystery ebooks, visit our Free MystereBooks page.

27 Spy Thrillers is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature 27 spy thrillers as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. (We're highlighting one of the titles, below.)

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Sunday, June 23, 2013.

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The Colonel's Mistake
Dan Mayland
A Mark Sava Thriller
Thomas & Mercer

Mark Sava, former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan, lives a quiet life as a professor at Western University in the city of Baku. But his peace is shattered by both the assassination of a high-level American during an international oil conference and the arrest of CIA operations officer Daria Buckingham for the crime.

Sava knows the Iranian American Buckingham well — he personally trained her — and doesn't believe she had anything to do with the murder, so he visits a CIA control center to discuss the situation with the new station chief. When no one answers the outside intercom, Sava overrides the security code and stumbles upon the grisliest scene of his career. Now, he can't help but wonder if he really knows Buckingham as well as he thought …

Determined to find out, Sava soon finds himself and a partner caught in the middle of the new Great Game — a deadly intelligence war over oil that has Iran, China, and the United States clawing at each other's throats. Meanwhile, Colonel Henry Amato, assistant to the US national security advisor, is keeping a close watch on the situation from Washington. His stake in the Great Game is high — and personal.

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (130623)

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

• The New Release is Calavera: Day of the Dead (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is Haunting Mysteries: The Island of Lost Souls, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Puppetshow: Return to Joyville, just $2.99 through Sunday, June 23, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Summer Solstice Sale! All standard edition games are $4.99 each through Sunday, June 23rd, 2013. Use coupon code SUMMER at check out.

Visit the Omnimystery Entertainment Network for more games of mystery and suspense!

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Today's New Release is Calavera: Day of the Dead (Collector's Edition)

She said yes! Alan was finally going to marry his sweetheart, Catalina. She only had one small request before the wedding, to ask for her father’s blessing. The young couple travels to the small town in Mexico where her father is from, arriving just in time for the annual Day of the Dead celebration. But when he doesn’t meet them at the train station, that’s only the beginning of their problems. Is it just the heat, or did that book talk to you? And that guy is definitely wearing a skeleton mask, right? Cross the border between life and death in this festive Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Haunting Mysteries: The Island of Lost Souls

Explore a mysterious island to free the trapped souls and reunite a love long lost! Trapped on a seemingly deserted Island after a malevolent force brings down your plane, you must discover what brought you to the Island and how you can escape its hold. Help the Island's former inhabitants as you make your way across the Island. Search stunning Hidden Object scenes and solve mind-bending puzzles as you uncover the truth in Haunting Mysteries: The Island of Lost Souls.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Sunday, June 23, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Puppetshow: Return to Joyville

Travel back in time to help stop a terrible fire that started Felicia down her destructive path! This time traveling adventure takes you back to Joyville when Felicia was a small child. With the help of Felicia, try to stop the fire that incinerated her fathers theater. This fire horribly burned Felicia, and caused her to turn evil. By changing the past, Felicia hopes for a chance at redemption. Discover who the true villain is in this captivating adventure!

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, June 23, 2013.