The Aegis Solution by John David Krygelski is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Aegis Solution by John David Krygelski as today's free mystery ebook (A Suspense Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, June 28, 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.

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The Aegis Solution
John David Krygelski
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Starsys Publishing

After the only child of the President — his teenaged daughter, Neve — commits suicide in a violent and senseless act, President Walker proposes an institution where people who have lost all hope may enter. Motivated by his grief and compassion, Aegis, intended to be a civilized alternative to suicide, is built and opened. There are only two rules in Aegis: no communication is allowed between the outside world and those who enter, and once individuals go in … they can never leave.

Twelve years pass and what began as a noble social experiment has turned into a hideous nightmare, fraught with controversy and public outrage. In response, Elias Charon is selected by the new President to be the first to enter Aegis and be allowed to leave. Ostensibly sent in to investigate the claims of abuse, a darker and heinous personal motive arises.

  

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Wild Horses by D'Ann Lindun is Today's Kindle Romantic Suspense Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Wild Horses by D'Ann Lindun as today's Amazon Kindle Romantic Suspense Daily Deal.

The deal price of $0.99 is valid only for today, Friday, June 28, 2013.

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Wild Horses
D'Ann Lindun
A Novel of Romantic Suspense
Crimson Romance

Her family ranch outside of Payson, Arizona, is the last place Castaña Castillo thought she'd ever see again. But when her mustang activist brother goes missing, Castaña returns home to lead the search. Years of bad blood between local law enforcement and the Castillo men lead Castaña to believe the local cops won't put out much effort to locate her brother. Especially since they think he murdered two federal wildlife agents.

Disgraced FBI agent Jake Breton needs to bring in Martin Castillo to redeem himself and resurrect his career. Falling in love with someone related to the suspect is the last thing he can afford to do. The last time he followed his heart, and not his head, it nearly cost him his life.

Danger, adventure, and death push Jake and Castaña together. Will they learn to trust each other and leave their pasts behind?

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Hush by Kate White is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Hush by Kate White as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Friday, June 28, 2013.

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Hush
Kate White
HarperCollins

When Lake Warren learns that her husband, Jack, is suing for full custody of their two kids four months after their separation, she's pretty certain that things can't get any worse. The upside is that she's working with the Advanced Fertility Center as a marketing consultant, alongside the attractive, flirtatious Dr. Keaton. But the morning after their one-night stand, Lake finds Keaton with his throat slashed and discovers that things can indeed become worse — they can become deadly.

So as not to jeopardize her case for custody, Lake is forced to lie to the police. Having just been intimate with a man who has been murdered, and wanting to protect herself from being charged with the crime, she begins her own search for the truth. Meanwhile, the police start looking at her closely, people at the clinic start treating her with hostility, and strange clues begin dropping — quite literally — on her doorstep, and Lake realizes that she is dangerously close to dark secrets, both about Keaton and the clinic. But can Lake stop what she's started before it's too late?

Read our review of Hush by Kate White.

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Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending June 28, 2013

A list of the top 15 Mystery Hardcover Bestsellers for the week ending June 28th, 2013 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

No change in the order of the top three bestsellers, with Dan Brown's Robert Langdon thriller, Inferno, remaining at the top of our list.

Two new titles debut (below; position in brackets).

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[8]: Second Honeymoon
James Patterson and Howard Roughan

A walk down the aisle, a resort hotel, a drink on the beach … for these unlucky couples, the honeymoon's over.

A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite — and never steps out again. When another couple is killed while boarding their honeymoon flight to Rome, it becomes clear that someone is targeting honeymooners, and it's anyone's guess which happy couple is next on the list.

FBI Agent John O'Hara is deep into solving the case, while Special Agent Sarah Brubaker is hunting another ingenious serial killer, whose victims all have one chilling thing in common.

As wedding hysteria rises to a frightening new level, John and Sarah work ever more closely together in a frantic attempt to decipher the logic behind two rampages.

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[14]: The Eye of God
James Rollins
— SIGMA Force (9th)

In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive search for its valuable cargo: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy — and a shocking image of the eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin.

At the Vatican, a package arrives containing two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA evidence reveals that both came from the same body: the long dead Mongol king Genghis Khan.

Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to discover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (130628)

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

• The New Release is Witches' Legacy: Lair of the Witch Queen (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is 1 Moment of Time: Silentville, 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.

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

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Today's New Release is Witches' Legacy: Lair of the Witch Queen (Collector's Edition)

A few years have passed since you rescued Lynn from Elizabeth, the witch who murdered her family, and now Lynn has grown into a young woman with awakened magical powers. When she receives a letter from Germany about Elizabeth, Lynn opens a portal to chase after her. Her thirst for revenge has enraged her, and an evil force is using that to pull Lynn deep into the darkness. You must find your young ward and stop her before the Witch Queen's evil plan comes to pass in this cunning Hidden-Object Puzzle Adventure game.

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: integrated strategy guide; bonus chapter featuring an extended epilogue; replay puzzles; and wallpapers, screensavers, and soundtrack.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is 1 Moment of Time: Silentville

Uncover a mystery and save a town from a curse! Once upon a time in the small, undistinguished town of Silentville people started disappearing — one by one. Even the visitors suddenly disappeared without a trace. Airplanes and birds, trains and pedestrians, drivers, tourists and even bicyclers — all of them have vanished! Will you be able to solve the mystery and release Silentville from its cursed non-existence?

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Friday, June 28, 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.

Telemystery: Teaser Poster for Low Winter Sun

A teaser poster has been released by AMC for its new crime drama Low Winter Sun (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "Good man. Cop. Killer."

A contemporary story of murder, deception, revenge and corruption in a world where the line between cops and criminals is blurred. Based on a 2006 British mini-series of the same title, the storyline opens with the murder of a cop by a fellow Detroit detective. Seemingly the perfect crime, in reality the murder activates forces that will forever alter the detective's life, and pull him into the heart of the Detroit underworld.

Starring Mark Strong (pictured), Low Winter Sun premieres on Sunday, August 11th, 2013.

Review: The Last Girl by Jane Casey

A Mysterious Review of …

The Last Girl by Jane Casey. A Maeve Kerrigan Mystery.

Review summary: This is a terrific police procedural, with several interesting character-driven storylines. The interpersonal relationships, both professional and personal, that are often so intrusive, are multi-dimensional and nicely integrated here. Overall, this is a well written, finely crafted crime novel. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Last Girl
Jane Casey
A Maeve Kerrigan Mystery
Minotaur Books (May 2013)

Publisher synopsis: Vast wealth offers London defense attorney Philip Kennford a lot of things: a gorgeous house with a pool in the backyard, connections in the top echelons of society, a wardrobe worthy of Milan runways. But his money doesn't provide a happy marriage, or good relationships with his twin daughters … and it does nothing to protect his family when someone brutally murders his wife and daughter in their own home.

When Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan arrives at the scene, the two survivors — Philip and his second favorite daughter, Lydia — both claim to have seen nothing, but it's clear right away that this is an unhappy family accustomed to keeping secrets. Maeve soon finds herself entangled in a case with a thousand leads that all seem to point nowhere, and it doesn't help that her boss, whom she trusts more than almost anyone, is starting to make decisions that Maeve finds questionable at best.

      

Angels & Demons, a Robert Langdon Mystery by Dan Brown, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Atria Books.

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 (06/27/2013 at 3:30 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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Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
A Robert Langdon Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Atria Books

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction.

When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol — seared into the chest of a murdered physicist — he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati … the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy — the Catholic Church.

Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.

Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair … a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.

  

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A Cry in the Night, a Novel of Suspense by Mary Higgins Clark, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Cry in the Night by Mary Higgins Clark, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Simon & Schuster.

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 (06/27/2013 at 3:00 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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A Cry in the Night by Mary Higgins Clark
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

When Jenny MacPartland meets the man of her dreams while working in a New York art gallery, she's ecstatic. Painter Erich Krueger — whose exquisite landscapes are making him a huge success — is handsome, sensitive … and utterly in love with her. They marry quickly and Jenny plans a loving home on Erich's vast Minnesota farm.

But lonely days and eerie nights strain her nerves to the breaking point and test her sanity. Caught in a whirlpool of shattering events, Jenny soon unearths a past more terrifying than she dares imagine … tragic secrets that threaten her marriage, her children, her life.

  

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Blood Hollow, a Cork O'Connor Mystery by William Kent Krueger, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Atria Books.

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 (06/27/2013 at 2:30 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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Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger
A Cork O'Connor Mystery (4th in series)
Publisher: Atria Books

When the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year's Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn's self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork O'Connor, Aurora's former sheriff, isn't about to hang the crime on the kid, whom O'Connor is convinced is innocent.

In an uphill battle to clear Solemn's name, Cork encounters no shortage of adversity. Some he knows all too well — small-town bigotry and bureaucracy foremost among them. What Cork isn't prepared for is the emergence of a long-held resentment hailing from his own childhood. And when Solemn reappears, claiming to have seen a vision of Jesus Christ in Blood Hollow, the mystery becomes thornier than Cork could ever have anticipated.

And that's when the miracles start happening …

  

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The Trouble with Fate, a Mystwalker Novel by Leigh Evans, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Trouble with Fate by Leigh Evans, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, St. Martin's Press.

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 (06/27/2013 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 Trouble with Fate by Leigh Evans
A Mystwalker Novel (1st in series)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

My name is Hedi Peacock and I have a secret. I'm not human, and I have the pointy Fae ears and Were inner-bitch to prove it. As fairy tales go, my childhood was damn near perfect, all fur and magic until a werewolf killed my father and the Fae executed my mother. I've never forgiven either side. Especially Robson Trowbridge. He was a part-time werewolf, a full-time bastard, and the first and only boy I ever loved. That is, until he became the prime suspect in my father's death …

Today I'm a half-breed barista working at a fancy coffee house, living with my loopy Aunt Lou and a temperamental amulet named Merry, and wondering where in the world I'm going in life. A pretty normal existence, considering. But when a pack of Weres decides to kidnap my aunt and force me to steal another amulet, the only one who can help me is the last person I ever thought I'd turn to: Robson Trowbridge. And he's as annoyingly beautiful as I remember. That's the trouble with fate: Sometimes it barks. Other times it bites. And the rest of the time it just breaks your heart. Again …

      

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Case Histories, a Jackson Brodie Mystery by Kate Atkinson, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Case Histories by Kate Atkinson, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Little, Brown.

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 (06/27/2013 at 1:30 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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Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
A Jackson Brodie Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Little, Brown

Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night.

Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack.

Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making — with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband — until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.

Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigator Jackson Brodie begins investigating all three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge …

This novel was adapted for an episode of the television series Case Histories starring Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie. Read Mr. E.'s review of Case Histories Season One.

  

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