Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom by Brian Olsen is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom by Brian Olsen as today's third free mystery ebook (A Future Next Door Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, July 20, 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.

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Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom
Brian Olsen
A Future Next Door Mystery
Publisher: Brian Olsen

Alan Lennox has been assigned yet another soul-crushing temp job, keeping him from his first loves — drinking, playing video games, and looking for a boyfriend. But Alan's new job proves to be anything but boring when his co-workers start turning up dead. The mysterious megacorporation Amalgamated Synergy has taken a deadly interest in Alan and his three roommates, and the hapless quartet are woefully unequipped to deal with the psychotic secretaries, murderous middle managers, and villainous vice-presidents hunting them down.

Their investigation leads them deep into Amalgamated Synergy's headquarters, but can Alan and his friends stay alive long enough to discover who — or what — waits for them on the top floor?

  

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Murder à la Carte by Susan Kiernan-Lewis is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder à la Carte by Susan Kiernan-Lewis as today's second free mystery ebook (A Maggie Newberry Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, July 20, 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.

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Murder à la Carte
Susan Kiernan-Lewis
A Maggie Newberry Mystery
Publisher: San Marcos Press

When Maggie agrees to move to France with her boyfriend — a French ex-confidence man who has just inherited a house and vineyard — she doesn't expect her year of French market shopping and weekend trips to Paris to be interrupted by a vicious murder in her living room.

Or that the bloody violence that occurred on their front doorstep sixty years earlier after the end of the Second World War might be connected.

  

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Last Chance Lassiter by Paul Levine is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Last Chance Lassiter by Paul Levine as today's free mystery ebook (A Jake Lassiter Novella; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, July 20, 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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Last Chance Lassiter
Paul Levine
A Jake Lassiter Novella
Publisher: Paul Levine

A prequel to To Speak for the Dead.

This time, the linebacker-turned-lawyer faces overwhelming odds. Lassiter represents Cadillac Johnson, an aging rhythm and blues musician who claims his greatest song was stolen by a top-of-the-charts hip-hop artist.

Lassiter's personal life is in chaos. He loses his job at a deep-carpet law firm and moves to a dumpy office in a Miami Beach parking garage. Then his lawyer-girlfriend, the ambitious Kim Coates, dumps him for not being "partnership material". Not only that, he faces disbarment after punching out his own client.

Only a few years out of law school, Lassiter is already developing his iconoclastic rules. "I will live by no code but my own." This time, that code could leave him disbarred or bankrupt … or worse.

  

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48 Crime Novels Published by Hard Case Crime is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature 48 Crime Novels Published by Hard Case Crime as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. We're featuring just one of the terrific books available in this promotion, below.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Saturday, July 20, 2013.

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Quarry's Ex
Max Allan Collins
A Quarry Crime Thriller
Hard Case Crime

Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one — by expecting trouble.

What he didn't expect was ever running into his ex again …

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (130720)

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

• The New Release is Haunted Legends: The Curse of Vox.

• The Daily Deal is Sister's Secrecy: Arcanum Bloodlines, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Spirit Walkers: Curse of the Cypress Witch, just $2.99 through Sunday, July 21, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Sizzling hot Two for One Summer Sale! This weekend only, get 2 games for the price of 1! Just use coupon code SUMMER for Collector's Editions, and coupon code HEATWAVE for standard version games. The sale starts on Saturday, July 20th, 2013 at 12:00am and ends on Sunday, July 21st, 2013 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time).

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

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Today's New Release is Haunted Legends: The Curse of Vox

You couldn't ignore Silvia Filler's heartfelt plea for help. The police gave up on her brother's murder case and you are her only hope. But that's not the biggest problem at hand — the Filler mansion is currently overrun with the spirits of Sylvia's ancestors! What brought them back? And what will bring them peace? All questions point to a mysterious book. But as you search for the answers, you realize that you are not alone in your hunt for the book. A mysterious little man is always one step ahead of you … and he's not playing nice! Track down the murderer and uncover a mysterious legend in this exciting 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 Sister's Secrecy: Arcanum Bloodlines

Ariel and Belle were dropped off at an orphanage long ago and cannot remember their parents. Now, Belle has been kidnapped and Ariel goes off in pursuit of her twin sister. Ariel's search leads her to a backwater European town that time forgot and where magic fills the air. The locals tell tales of bloodless bodies turning up and strange silhouettes floating in the night sky. Discover the connection between these strange events and Belle's abduction in this exciting hidden object puzzle adventure.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Saturday, July 20, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Spirit Walkers: Curse of the Cypress Witch

Lift a curse and save the Cypress Witch! Maylynn and a group of friends go on what was supposed to be an innocent hiking trip when one of her friends gets seriously hurt. Looking for help Maylynn ends up at a beautiful and majestic cypress tree. She meets a witch that offers to help in exchange for a favor first. Now you'll have to travel to a different time and dimension to undo a thing that once went wrong!

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, July 21, 2013.

MystereBooks: Michael W. Sherer's Emerson Ward Mysteries Now Available as eBooks

Michael W. Sherer announced today that his Emerson Ward mystery series is now available in ebook format.

We're featuring the first in the series, An Option on Death, below. First published in 1988, it introduces Emerson Ward, a freelance writer and amateur sleuth in Chicago.

The other titles in the series are Little Use for Death, Death Came Dress in White, A Forever Death, Death Is No Bargain, and Death on a Budget.

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An Option on Death
Michael W. Sherer
An Emerson Ward Mystery

Emerson Ward is in love. The kind of old-fashioned love that makes him want to carve "EW Loves JP" on a tree. He's known Jessica Pearson for a long time. They almost made it work once, but she wasn't ready. Now she's back, ready for love, for Emerson. But just as suddenly she's gone again, accidentally killed by a stray bullet that comes bursting through Emerson's living room window. Or is it murder?

The only way Emerson can get on with his life is to find out who killed Jessica, and why. He does have clue: When Jessica reappeared on his doorstep, one of her suitcases contained a quarter of a million dollars — in cash — and a pile of confirmation statements revealing a tangled web of stock transactions.

His quixotic search for the truth leads Emerson to the Bahamas, Florida, New York and back to Chicago on a trail strewn with dead bodies, smuggling, missing persons and too many people who aren't what they appear or who they say they are. All have something to hide and everything to lose if Emerson uncovers their secrets. And they'll do anything to stop him.

  

MystereBooks: New Mac Faraday Mystery by Lauren Carr, Now Available at a Special Price

Lauren Carr's fifth "Mac Faraday" mystery isn't scheduled to be published until September, but it looks like the author couldn't wait to share Mac and Gnarly's new adventure with readers as the ebook version of The Murders at Astaire Castle was published yesterday. And the news gets better. It's priced at just 99 cents! And the best news? All the books in the series are just 99 cents (as of the date and time of this post).

More about the latest in the series, below.

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The Murders at Astaire Castle
Lauren Carr
A Mac Faraday Mystery

Never tell Mac Faraday not to go someplace.

Spencer's police chief, David O'Callaghan, learns this lesson the hard way when he orders Mac to not go to the south end of Spencer's mountaintop — even though he owns the property. It doesn't take long for Mac to find out what lies on the other side of a stone wall and locked gate with a warning for visitors to keep out.

Topping the list of the ten top haunted places in America, Astaire Castle is associated with two suicides, three mysterious disappearances, and four murders since it was built almost a century ago — and Mac Faraday owns it!

In spite of David's warning to keep out, Mac can't resist unlocking the gate to see the castle that supposedly hasn't seen a living soul since his late mother had ordered it closed up after the double homicide and disappearance of Damian Wagner, a world-famous master of horror novels.

What was supposed to be a quick tour of a dusty old castle turns into another Mac Faraday adventure when Astaire Castle becomes the scene of even more murders. Mac is going to need to put all of his investigative talents to work to sort out this case that involves the strangest characters he has run into yet — including a wolf man. No, we're not talking about Gnarly.

  

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Bury Your Dead, an Armand Gamache Mystery by Louise Penny, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Minotaur 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 (07/19/2013 at 6:00 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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Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
An Armand Gamache Mystery (6th in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books

Winner of the 2006 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Winner of the 2006 CWA New Blood Dagger Award. Winner of the 2007 Anthony Award for Best First Novel.

It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society — where an obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it?

Although he is supposed to be on leave, Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from the village of Three Pines, where beloved Bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder. "It doesn't make sense," Olivier's partner writes every day. "He didn't do it, you know." As past and present collide in this astonishing novel, Gamache must relive the terrible event of his own past before he can bury his dead.

  

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Telemystery: Teaser Poster for CBS's Hostages

A new teaser poster has been released by CBS for its new Fall 2013 series Hostages (right; click for larger image).

This high-octane thriller is centered on a family taken hostage in their own home. Toni Collette stars as a surgeon caught in the middle of a grand political conspiracy, who is ordered to assassinate the President of the United States in order to save her family. Dylan McDermott stars as the lead hostage taker compelled to do the wrong thing for the right reasons in this taut drama filled with unexpected twists and turns.

Hostages premieres on Monday, September 23rd, 2013 at 10 PM. Watch a first look video for the series, below.

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Telemystery: New Poster for Fox Series Sleepy Hollow

A new poster has been released by Fox for its new fantasy crime drama Sleepy Hollow (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "Don't lose your head".

In this modern-day retelling of Washington Irving's classic tale, Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to find that the world is on the brink of destruction and that he is humanity's last hope, forcing him to team up with a contemporary police officer (Nicole Beharie) to unravel a mystery that dates back to the founding fathers.

Sleepy Hollow premieres on Monday, September 16, 2013 at 9 PM ET/PT.

The Case of the Missing Servent, a Vish Puri Mystery by Tarquin Hall, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Case of the Missing Servent by Tarquin Hall, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Simon & Schuster.

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 (07/19/2013 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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The Case of the Missing Servent by Tarquin Hall
A Vish Puri Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India's swindlers, cheats, and murderers.

In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri's main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests.

But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri's resources to investigate. How will he trace the fate of the girl, known only as Mary, in a population of more than one billion? Who is taking potshots at him and his prize chili plants? And why is his widowed "Mummy-ji" attempting to play sleuth when everyone knows mummies are not detectives?

With his team of undercover operatives — Tubelight, Flush, and Facecream — Puri ingeniously combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago — long before "that Johnny-come-lately" Sherlock Holmes donned his deerstalker.

The search for Mary takes him to the desert oasis of Jaipur and the remote mines of Jharkhand. From Puri's well-heeled Gymkhana Club to the slums where the servant classes live, his adventures reveal modern India in all its seething complexity.

  

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Involuntary Witness, a Guido Guerrieri Legal Thriller by Gianrico Carofiglio, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Involuntary Witness by Gianrico Carofiglio, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Bitter Lemon Press.

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 (07/19/2013 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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Involuntary Witness by Gianrico Carofiglio
A Guido Guerrieri Legal Thriller
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press

A nine-year-old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well near a popular beach resort in southern Italy. In what looks like a hopeless case for Guido Guerreri, counsel for the defence, a Senegalese peddler is accused of the crime.

Faced with small-town racism fuelled by recent immigration from Africa, Guido attempts to exploit the esoteric workings of the Italian courts.

  

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Lost in Italy, the Italy Intrigue Series of Romantic Suspense by Stacey Joy Netzel, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Lost in Italy by Stacey Joy Netzel, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.

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 (07/19/2013 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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Lost in Italy by Stacey Joy Netzel
The Italy Intrigue Series of Romantic Suspense (1st in series)
Publisher: Stacey Joy Netzel

Halli Sanders spent two years planning the trip of a lifetime to Italy. Her itinerary did not include being stranded by her siblings, kidnapped by a sexy American movie star, dodging bullets, or fleeing criminals in a car chase around Lake Como. And that's just in the first three hours.

Trent Tomlin put his movie career on hold to investigate his brother's murder-ruled-suicide at his Italian villa. He's closing in on the suspects when an American tourist unwittingly films the murder of the retired cop helping him. The killers will stop at nothing to get the evidence — including holding Halli's family as collateral.

Thrust into the role of real-life hero, Trent finds himself falling for the Plain Jane whose beauty blossoms with every challenge they face. But how can he keep the evidence from the murderers to get justice for his brother and friend without betraying Halli and her family?

  

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MystereBooks: Midnight Alley by Miles Corwin, Available this Month at a Special Price

Every month Amazon releases a new selection of Kindle books priced $3.99 or less.

Today's featured title from the Mystery & Thrillers category is Midnight Alley by Miles Corwin. This Kindle book was listed at $2.99 as of the date and time of this post, Friday, July 19, 2013 at 1:30 PM ET, and should be available at this price through the end of the month.

More information about the book is below; if other vendors have priced-matched this title, links to their sites are also shown.

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Midnight Alley by Miles Corwin
An Ash Leving Thriller
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Ash Levine, the top detective in the LAPD's elite Felony Special Squad, is called out to solve the murder of two young black men found shot to death in a Venice alley. The case is a high priority because one of the victims is the son of City Councilman Isaac Pinkney, a frequent critic of the LAPD.

Searching for the killer throws Levine into the world of Los Angeless Russian Mafia, Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, and Middle Eastern archeologists.

Ash's history as a child of a Holocaust survivor gives him a unique perspective on murder, redemption, and justice. His background as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, and his relentless, single-minded focus on his investigations make him a thoroughly absorbing character.

As Ash closes in on the killer, the investigation becomes increasingly complex — and personal. Ash soon discovers that he is not just an investigator, but a target.

  

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Blind Faith, a Caitlyn Tierney Thriller by C. J. Lyons, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blind Faith by C. J. Lyons, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Minotaur 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 (07/19/2013 at 1:00 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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Blind Faith by C. J. Lyons
A Caitlyn Tierney Thriller
Publisher: Minotaur Books

Sarah Durandt knows the killer is dead. She watched him die from a lethal injection in the execution chamber. But Sarah finds little comfort in knowing that the deranged psychopath who murdered her husband and son will never kill again. Since he never revealed the location of their bodies, she never found a sense of closure. So now, Sarah has decided to return to her home in the Adirondacks, to search for whatever remains of her loved ones. An unmarked grave. An article of clothing. Anything to make this terrible dream seem real. But what Sarah uncovers is far more unnerving — and much too horrifying — to even consider …

Maybe they executed the wrong man. Maybe the killer is still out there.

Maybe, for Sarah, the nightmare is just beginning.

  

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