Paper Phoenix by Michaela Thompson is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Paper Phoenix by Michaela Thompson as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Mystery of San Francisco in the '70s; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 20, 2013 at 7:40 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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Paper Phoenix
Michaela Thompson
A Mystery of San Francisco in the '70s
Publisher: booksBnimble

First comes divorce, then comes murder … or at least sweet thoughts of murder.

Maggie Longstreet has plenty of them after slimy, ambitious Richard trades her in for a more recent model. She’s so depressed she can barely get out of bed when Larry Hawkins, a seemingly not-at-all depressed acquaintance, commits suicide out of the blue. Suddenly Maggie goes on high alert, remembering something her evil ex said about Larry — something highly suspicious.

And from there, it's just a short segué to a bracing new development …

  

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Cutting Edge by Robert W. Walker is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Cutting Edge by Robert W. Walker as today's third free mystery ebook (A Lucas Stonecoat Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 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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Cutting Edge
Robert W. Walker
A Lucas Stonecoat Mystery
Publisher: Robert W. Walker

To a killer, murder is a game. To the victims, death is all too real.

But when a popular computer game inspires a virtual crime wave, a female police psychiatrist must enlist a former police detective to help her cross the edge between games and reality, genius and insanity, life and death …

(First published in paperback by Jove in February 1997.)

  

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Chasing the Lost by Bob Mayer is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Chasing the Lost by Bob Mayer as today's second free mystery ebook (A Green Berets Novel; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 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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Chasing the Lost
Bob Mayer
A Green Berets Novel
Publisher: Cool Gus Publishing

Horace Chase arrives on Hilton Head Island to pay his last respects at the Intracoastal Waterway where his late mother's ashes were spread and to inspect the home his mother left him in her will. He's been recently forced into retirement, his divorce is officially final, and now he's standing in the middle of the front yard of his ‘new' house where a tree has crashed right through the center of it.

What could possibly go wrong?

Within six hours of arriving on Hilton Head, Chase is exchanging gunfire with men who've kidnapped a young boy and tried to grab the boy's mother, Sarah Briggs. Soon he's waist deep in an extortion plot to funnel a hundred million dollars of Superbowl on-line gambling money into an offshore bank account or else the boy dies.

Dave Riley has long retired from the military and living peacefully on sleepy Dafuskie Island off the coast of South Carolina. Sort of. Actually he's bored, feeling old, and just a bit cranky running his deceased uncle's small-time bookie operation.

Horace Chase, meet Dave Riley. Riley-Chase.

Chase and Riley assemble a team of misfits and eccentrics as they take on the powerful Russian mob in the lawless tidal lands of the Low Country to get the boy back.

  

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The Boots Are Red by Adam Lawson is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Boots Are Red by Adam Lawson as today's free mystery ebook (A Cigars and Legs Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 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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The Boots Are Red
Adam Lawson
A Cigars and Legs Mystery
Publisher: Adam Lawson

Ron Cavanaugh flew a fighter over Korea, at one point taking shrapnel, and then spent time recovering in England. He thought coming home, a home he left in anger before joining the Air Force, would be a break from the violence. Until he found out that his mentor, a grizzled, cynical old gumshoe named Kate Nass, had been murdered. There were no answers forthcoming from the residents of the small town, or their police. Ron began looking for answers on his own.

What he discovered was more than he expected. A criminal conspiracy, running deep and with deeper pockets. Drugs, weapons, and sex — all for sale, all under the table, and all at the expense of the innocent citizens of Escagoula Point. And all protected from on high.

Audrey Carmen, his leggy love interest, served as an interesting distraction … or did she?

  

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Outerborough Blues by Andrew Cotto is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Outerborough Blues by Andrew Cotto as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, August 20, 2013.
Note: The price has been matched by Amazon.com for today only.

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Outerborough Blues
Andrew Cotto
A Brooklyn Mystery
Ig Publishing

A beautiful young French girl walks into a bar, nervously lights a cigarette, and begs the bartender for help in finding her missing artist brother. In a moment of weakness, the bartender — a lone wolf named Caesar Stiles with a chip on his shoulder and a Sicilian family curse hanging over him — agrees.

While Caesar is initially trying to earn an honest living at the neighborhood watering hole, his world quickly unravels. In addition to being haunted by his past, including a brother who is intent on settling an old family score, Caesar is being hunted down by a mysterious nemesis known as The Orange Man.

Adding to this combustible mix, Caesar is a white man living in a deep-rooted African American community with decidedly mixed feelings about his presence. In the course of his search for the French girl's missing brother, Caesar tumbles headlong into the shadowy depths of his newly adopted neighborhood, where he ultimately uncovers some of its most sinister secrets.

 

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Four Triple Threat Thrillers by Lis Wiehl is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature four "Triple Threat" thrillers by Lis Wiehl with April Henry as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. (More information about the first in the series, Face of Betrayal, below.)

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

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Face of Betrayal
Lis Wiehl with April Henry
A Triple Threat Thriller

While home on break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares television reporter Cassidy Shaw, Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce, and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. Together, these life-long friends call themselves The Triple Threat — a nickname derived from their favorite dessert as well as their uncanny ability to crack cases from their three unique positions of power.

Together, they must find the one face of betrayal amidst a crowd of growing suspects — including a US Senator — before they become the next victims.

Click on the Amazon button to see also the special Whispersync offer associated with this title.

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Devil Said Bang, a Sandman Slim Thriller by Richard Kadrey, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

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 (08/19/2013 at 6:30 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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Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey
A Sandman Slim Thriller (4th in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

What do you do after you've escaped Hell, gone back, uncovered the true nature of God, and then managed to become the new Lucifer?

Well, if you're James Stark, you have to figure out how to run Hell while also trying to get back out of it … again. Plus there's the small matter of surviving. Because everyone in Heaven, Hell, and in between wants to be the fastest gun in the universe, and the best way to do so is to take down Lucifer, a.k.a. James Stark.

And it's not like being in L.A. is any better — a serial-killer ghost is running wild and Stark's angelic alter ego is hiding among the lost days of time with a secret cabal who can rewrite reality. Starting to care for people and life again is a real bitch for a stone-cold killer.

    

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Nothing Personal, a Novel of Romantic Suspense by Eileen Dreyer, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Nothing Personal by Eileen Dreyer, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

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 (08/19/2013 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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Nothing Personal by Eileen Dreyer
A Novel of Romantic Suspense
Publisher: HarperCollins

Trauma nurse Kate Manion is viewing her own hospital from the other side. Badly injured in an auto accident, she's laying in her own ICU, strapped down, paralyzed and unconscious. And yet, somehow, she managed to kill her nurse.

The murder was an accident; Kate swears. But the accidental murders keep happening. Has someone taken Kate's "murderous" act as a mandate to kill off anyone making life difficult for the staff?

As corpses pile up, Kate realizes only she can stop the serial killer who is acting out the fantasy of every staff member at St. Simon's Hospital, and who could be one of Kate's closest friends.

With only a burned-out forensic pathologist willing to help, Kate must wade through greed, politics, secrets and suspicion to unearth a murderer she doesn't want to find; before he — or she — strikes too close to home.

      

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Telemystery: ABC Orders Legal Thriller Project, How To Get Away With Murder

ABC has put into development a legal thriller centered on "a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor who become entangled in a murder plot that will rock their entire university and change the course of their lives."

Titled How To Get Away With Murder, this "sexy, suspense-driven" project comes from Shondaland (Shonda Rhimes, Private Practice, Grey's Anatomy, Scandal) and ABC Studios.

(via Deadline)

Buy 1 Kindle Mystery from Amazon.com, Get Up To 12 More for $1 Each

Amazon is having a "buy one, get a second (or third or fourth … up to 12) for a $1 each" sale for several of its Kindle book categories including — you guessed it! — mystery, suspense and thriller.

There are 12 Kindle book titles that can be purchased for a dollar each; you can see the list using this link.

To qualify and receive a credit for this promotion, you must first purchase a book from this page by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on September 9th, 2013. After placing your order, you will receive an e-mail indicating that a credit to purchase any of the 12 Kindle mysteries, novels of suspense or thriller for $1 has been applied to your account automatically. You must complete your order of the dollar book(s) before this promotion expires at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on October 9th, 2013.

There are (as of the date and time of this post) 105 titles from which you can select for your first book. The 12 titles featured for a dollar each are:

Daddy's Home by A. K. Alexander;
Brainrush by Richard Bard;
The Shadow Hunter by Michael Prescott;
The Enemy of My Enemy by Richard Bard;
Thicker than Water by G. M. Ford;
Arctic Fire by Stephen W. Frey;
The Trinity Game by Sean Chercover;
The Colonel's Mistake by Dan Mayland;
The Immortalists by Kyle Mills;
A Small Fortune by Audrey Braun;
They Never Die Quietly by D. M. Annechino; and
The Basement by Stephen Leather.

Review: Death in the Vines by M. L. Longworth

A Mysterious Review of Death in the Vines by M. L. Longworth. An Antoine Verlaque and Marine Bonnet Mystery.
Review summary: The murder mystery storyline here takes a backseat to the creatively drawn cast and the backdrop of beautiful French countryside with liberal references to good food and wine and the people who enjoy them. There are some twists and turns in the investigation, but this novle will likely be mostly enjoyed for its characters and setting. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Death in the Vines
M. L. Longworth
An Antoine Verlaque and Marine Bonnet Mystery
Penguin (May 2013)

Publisher synopsis: Olivier Bonnard, the owner of Domaine Beauclaire winery, is devastated when he discovers the theft of a priceless cache of rare vintages. Soon after, Monsieur Gilles d'Arras reports that his wife, Pauline, has vanished from their lavish apartment. As Judge Antoine Verlaque and Commissioner Paulik tackle the case (with a little help from Marine Bonnet), they receive an urgent call: Bonnard has just found Madame d'Arras — dead in his vineyard.

      

Holy Orders by Benjamin Black, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Henry Holt, is Holy Orders by Benjamin Black.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for August 2013. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of August 2013 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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Holy Orders
Benjamin Black
Series: Quirke (6th)

The latest Quirke case set in Dublin at a moment when newspapers are censored, social conventions are strictly defined, and appalling crimes are hushed up. Why? Because in 1950s Ireland the Catholic Church controls the lives of nearly everyone.

But when Quirke's daughter Phoebe loses her close friend Jimmy Minor to murder, Quirke can no longer play by the Church's rules. Along with Inspector Hackett, his sometime partner, Quirke investigates Jimmy's death and learns just how far the Church and its supporters will go to protect their own interests.

      

MystereBooks: Murder in the Casbah of Cats by Kent Conwell, 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 Murder in the Casbah of Cats by Kent Conwell. This Kindle book was listed at $2.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, August 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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Murder in the Casbah of Cats by Kent Conwell
A Tony Boudreaux Mystery
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

It should've been an easy job for a private investigator — house-sit some cats for a couple weeks and rake in a few thousand bucks thanks to their eccentric owner's bottomless bank account. Practically a vacation. At least, that's what Tony Boudreaux figures until he finds himself trying to herd a veritable horde of cats, navigate a sprawling mansion with hidden tunnels, and deal with an eccentric staff who all harbor their own secrets. And that's before the murder …

After witnessing a homicide on his first night on the job, Tony soon finds himself fending off attempts on his own life, unraveling a massive drug-dealing ring, and dealing with the not-entirely-unwanted attentions of a spoiled heiress — all while keeping the mansion's many feline inhabitants alive and well.

Now Tony must dig up clues on a fifteen-year-old murder mystery and determine what it has to do with the recent death. And the cats themselves may be his only chance of getting out of this deadly predicament alive.

  

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The Trouble with Witches, an Ophelia and Abby Mystery by Shirley Damsgaard, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Trouble with Witches by Shirley Damsgaard, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

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 (08/19/2013 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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The Trouble with Witches by Shirley Damsgaard
An Ophelia and Abby Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

Ophelia has always considered her psychic abilities an imposition, except for those times she's been able to put her paranormal talents to good use — like when a friend asks her to help find a missing teenager. Unfortunately it means she and Abby, her kindly, canny sorceress granny, will be taking to the road to pursue the vanished girl in the wilds of Minnesota.

The signs are pointing toward the secluded new age research facility of Jason and Juliet Finch, who live with their troubled — and possibly matricidal — thirteen-year-old niece. And a bizarre local murder that follows their arrival — plus the appearance of a mysterious Native American shaman — only emphasize the urgency of Ophelia and Abby's hunt, drawing them into a web of dark secrets and to the last place they'd ever wish to be: a cottage in the woods where true evil quite possibly resides.

    

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Money Land, a James Pruett Mystery by R. S. Guthrie, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Money Land by R. S. Guthrie, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Blu Pencil Publishing.

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 (08/19/2013 at 12:30 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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Money Land by R. S. Guthrie
A James Pruett Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Blu Pencil Publishing

When a small plane bound for the Canadian border carrying money for the Sustantivo Cartel smashes into the glacial Wind River Mountains, the event brings a heartless evil presence to one of the more remote places on earth.

The tail of the plane is discovered, empty. No drugs. No money. Shortly afterward, people start dying. When the cartel comes to town, Pruett will do anything within his power to save his town, his people, the land, and his family. Anything.

  

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