Invisible Shadows by Jack Shadows is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Invisible Shadows by Jack Shadows as today's third free mystery ebook (A Dent Drift Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 22, 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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Invisible Shadows
Jack Shadows
A Dent Drift Thriller
Publisher: Shadows Publishing

In a desperate chase unsanctioned by both his chief and by Japanese authorities, Denver homicide detective Dent Drift negotiates the dark haunts of Tokyo in a last ditch effort to stop an unstoppable killer whose wake of terror has cut through three continents and is now entering Japan.

  

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Without Any Warning by Peggy A. Edelheit is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Without Any Warning by Peggy A. Edelheit as today's second free mystery ebook (A Samantha Jamison Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 22, 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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Without Any Warning
Peggy A. Edelheit
A Samantha Jamison Mystery
Publisher: Telemachus Press

Why did my friend disappear, and then a few years later mysteriously reappear on my doorstep? As an author, all I want to do is rent a house on the beach in Ocean City, New Jersey to write my next novel in peace and quiet.

Unable to resist digging deeper, I am thrown into another web of intrigue, lies and cover-ups, involving two things from my past; one I thought I had closed the book on, and another whose book is mysteriously left open; two mysteries that I shockingly find are somehow connected.

Without any warning, I am left to figure out why my storyline turns deadly with me caught in the crosshairs.

  

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Armoires and Arsenic by Cassie Page is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Armoires and Arsenic by Cassie Page as today's free mystery ebook (A Darling Valley Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, August 22, 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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Armoires and Arsenic
Cassie Page
A Darling Valley Mystery
Publisher: Helen Cassidy Page

What would you do if you sent a $30,000 piece of furniture out for repair and it came back with a deadly package inside?

That's the dilemma facing Olivia M. Granville, OMG to her friends and foes, as though the award-winning architect, interior designer and antiques dealer didn't have enough on her hands.

Olivia, a transplanted Los Angeleno, is the newest resident of Darling Valley, a picturesque town just outside of San Francisco and home of the DV Bills, as Olivia calls the largest concentration of billionaires anywhere in the country. Like the Astors and Rockefellers of old who outdid each other building humongous summer cottages in Newport, the DV Bills outdo each other with eye-popping piles of sticks stuffed with museum quality art hidden in the Marin hills. It was Olivia's plan to make a killing decorating them.

What Olivia liked best about moving to sleepy Darling Valley from LA was the absence of crime. No worrying about parking her car on a side street because it might get stolen. Nobody slipping sticky fingers into her purse and lifting her wallet while an accomplice distracted her at the sale rack at Neiman's. Not having to trip over a dead body blocking the doorway of her office building while the LAPD took their sweet time locking down the crime scene. But the best part of living in Darling Valley was never having to find herself sitting across from Brooks at a dinner party while he romanced his new girlfriend and referred to Olivia as a client.

What she hated about Darling Valley was the 400 miles between its pristine mansions and gritty but happening LA. Not far enough to save her from becoming Detective Gurmeet Richards' lead suspect in a killing of a different kind. Yes, that's Detective Richards of the devastating velvety eyes.

Olivia should have remembered the advice her tea-leaves reading friend, Tuesday, gave her before she left LA. You get what you resist.

  

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Four Stacy Justice Mysteries by Barbra Annino is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature four "Stacy Justice" mysteries by Barbra Annino as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Thursday, August 22, 2013.

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Opal Fire
Barbra Annino
A Stacy Justice Mystery
Thomas & Mercer

Stacy Justice is just your average green-eyed, redheaded, twenty-something witch who would rather focus on her job as a reporter than practice the crazy magic her grandmother and great-aunts are into. She's perfectly content to spend her free time hanging with her cop boyfriend and her gassy Great Dane and helping her cousin Cinnamon run the Black Opal bar. But when the Opal goes up in flames, Stacy may need that magic after all.

The blaze was arson — and Cinnamon is the prime suspect. Determined to clear her cousin's name, Stacy digs deep into the crime and makes a shocking discovery amid the rubble. It's clear someone wants her dead — and she'll have to dodge everything from angry motorists to exploding chickens to survive. It's time to dust off her so-called magic skills. But will they be there when she needs them?

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

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (130822)

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

• The Daily Deal is Midnight Mysteries: Haunted Houdini Deluxe, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Theatre of the Absurd, just $2.99 through Sunday, August 25, 2013 only.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Midnight Mysteries: Haunted Houdini Deluxe

When Houdini’s promises of contact from beyond go unkept, his wife comes to you in a final plea to unravel his mysterious passing! He promised his wife that he would try to reach her from the afterlife, yet it was seen as the ultimate stunt. But after years of séances, Bess was never able to reach Harry in this life or the next, and her spirit has come to you in a final plea to reunite her with her partner!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Thursday, August 22, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Theatre of the Absurd

Scarlett Frost, specialist in the dark arts, has been summoned to a luxurious and remote theatre in the snowy Italian Alps. Could it be that the infamous and diabolical Hapsburg Cube has been found and purchased by the sinister theatre proprietor, Dr. Corvis? The cube is said to imprison a powerful and ancient Babylonian demon that would wreak hellish destruction if the cube should break. In a moment of desperate confusion the cube breaks and the demon bursts forth into the souls of the Dr. Corvis and his young Daughter Bethany. The ancient theatre in the lonely winter mountains becomes an arena of spiritual war, between the darkest forces of the underworld and the cunning and esoteric mind of Scarlett Frost. But Scarlett soon finds out that the only way to fight a demon this powerful is to become possessed by one herself. Only then can she acquire a ticket to the Theatre of the Absurd.

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, August 25, 2013.

Nightwork, a Dave Brandstetter Mystery by Joseph Hansen, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Nightwork by Joseph Hansen, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Open Road.

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 (08/21/2013 at 5:30 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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Nightwork by Joseph Hansen
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery (7th in series)
Publisher: Open Road

Gifford Gardens has gone to hell: Persistent flooding has reduced the neighborhood to a slum, a battleground for rival gangs. Anyone who can afford to leave has already pulled up stakes, and Paul and Angela Myers are among those who are left. To make ends meet, Paul takes on long-haul truck driving, which is as dangerous as it is lucrative, and it's not long before the job gets him killed.

One night, Paul's truck flies off a cliff and explodes in midair. Did he fall asleep at the wheel, or was he murdered? Keen-eyed insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter suspects a conspiracy. While digging into Paul's past, Dave will uncover a connection between his untimely death and the happier years of Gifford Gardens.

    

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A New MystereBook: Death at the Voyager Hotel by Kwei Quartey

Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found — and you may have missed — by sleuthing (as it were) through new titles from independent publishers …

Death at the Voyager Hotel by Kwei Quartey is a mystery novella, potentially the first in a new series, introducing amateur sleuth Paula Djan, a school principal in Accra, Ghana. Quartey is the author of the Darko Dawson mysteries, also set in Ghana, the first of which we rated one of the best books published in 2009.

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Death at the Voyager Hotel by Kwei Quartey
A Paula Djan Mystery
Publisher: Kwei Quartey

In the cosmopolitan West African city of Accra, the Voyager Hotel is widely known as a low-priced, well-run lodging perfectly suited to cash-strapped tourists. But one early March morning, it gains a notoriety it would rather not have. Hotel guest Heather Peterson, a beautiful, young Oregonian teacher, is found dead at the bottom of the pool. The police authorities deem it an accidental drowning, but that raises troubling questions. Heather was a strong swimmer. How could she have drowned, and why was she naked?

Paula Djan, principal of the school at which Heather was a volunteer, suspects foul play and begins to dig around. As she discovers an increasing number of suspects, she encounters hostility from the police investigators, who take a dim view of her snooping. But much more than stepping on a few toes, she may be headed down a dangerous path where the killer lies in wait with every intention to make Paula the second death at the Voyager Hotel.

      

Review: Death of a Dyer by Eleanor Kuhns

A Mysterious Review of Death of a Dyer by Eleanor Kuhns. A Will Rees Mystery.

Review summary: There is a strong sense of time and place in this historical mystery, so much so that it's easy to overlook some of the shortcuts that the plot takes in moving from one point to another. Readers will no doubt pick up on the hints as to the whodunit and whydunit long before the lead character does. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Death of a Dyer
Eleanor Kuhns
A Will Rees Mystery
Minotaur Books (June 2013)

Publisher synopsis: Will Rees feels at home. It's been a long time since he last felt this way — not since before his wife died years ago and he took to the road as a traveling weaver. Now, in 1796, Rees is back on his Maine farm, living with his teenaged son, David, and his housekeeper, Lydia — whose presence contributes more towards his happiness than he's ready to admit. But his domestic bliss is shattered the morning a visitor brings news of an old friend's murder.

Nate Bowditch and Rees hadn't spoken in many long years, but as children they were closer than brothers, and Rees feels his loss acutely. Asked to look into the circumstances surrounding Nate's death, Rees simply can't refuse. At the Bowditch farmstead, Rees quickly discovers that everyone — from Nate's frosty wife to his missing son to the shy serving girl — is hiding something. But are any of them actually capable of murder? Or does the answer lie elsewhere, behind stones no one even knew needed unturning?

      

Burning Rose, a Suspense Thriller by Shirley Kennett, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Burning Rose by Shirley Kennett, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Open Road.

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 (08/21/2013 at 4:00 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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Burning Rose by Shirley Kennett
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Open Road

Casey Washington is a freelance journalist with environmental convictions. When she lands a rare interview with Robert Gunner, CEO of World Power, a company building a controversial dam in the Amazon rainforest, she anticipates a personal triumph — only to have the story go terribly awry.

Heads of other big corporations start dying in gruesome fashion, at the hands of a mysterious group known as "The Six". Washington’s investigative instinct kicks in but her search is not made any easier by her improbable attraction to the reclusive CEO Gunner. Burning Rose is an eco-thriller full of puzzles and high-gear action with global consequences.

    

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Lonely Hearts, a Charlie Resnick Mystery by John Harvey, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Lonely Hearts by John Harvey, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Mysterious 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 (08/21/2013 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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Lonely Hearts by John Harvey
A Charlie Resnick Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Mysterious Press

Shirley Peters was murdered in her own home. A directionless young woman with a fondness for cheap red wine and a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, her death is just another in the files of the Nottingham detective's bureau. The police round up her ex-lover without much fuss, and are preparing to try him when another body surfaces. The method, the target, and the extreme violence are all a match for the killing of Shirley Peters. Nottingham is facing a serial killer.

Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick is the first to see the connection. Both victims placed ads in a citywide Lonely Hearts column, and the rumpled detective suspects that their killer found them by preying on their isolation. He has little time to find the killer before more women die and Nottingham erupts into panic.

    

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Fog of War, a Justin Hall Thriller by Ethan Jones, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Fog of War by Ethan Jones, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Ethan Jones.

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 (08/21/2013 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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Fog of War by Ethan Jones
A Justin Hall Thriller (3rd in series)
Publisher: Ethan Jones

When an Iranian nuclear scientist wants to defect, the Canadian Intelligence Service sends in its best agent, Justin Hall. After his mission is compromised and Justin barely escapes northern Iran with his life, he sets out to discover who has put him and the Service in grave danger.

CIA information about a traitor in the Service sends Justin into violence-soaked Somalia, where he quickly becomes ensnared in a web of lies and deceit. He's left with no choice but to go rogue and form an alliance with Romanov, a sinister Russian oil baron.

Cut off from the Service, Justin is forced to navigate through ever-shifting alliances and survive deep inside a Yemeni terrorist stronghold. All the while, he's being hunted by a traitor.

  

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Good As Gone by Douglas Corleone, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Minotaur Books, is Good As Gone by Douglas Corleone.

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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Good As Gone
Douglas Corleone
Series: Simon Fisk (1st)

Former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk now works as a private contractor, tracking down and recovering children who were kidnapped by their own estranged parents. He only has one rule: he won't touch stranger abduction cases. He's still haunted by the disappearance of his own daughter years ago when she was just a child, still unsolved, and stranger kidnappings hit too close to home.

Until, that is, six-year-old Lindsay Sorkin disappears from her parents' hotel room in Paris, and the French police deliver Simon an ultimatum: he can spend years in a French jail for his actions during a past case, or he can work with them now to find Lindsay Sorkin. So, Simon sets out in pursuit of the missing child and the truth behind her disappearance. But Lindsay's captors did not leave an easy trail, and following it will take Simon across the continent, through the ritziest nightclubs and the seediest back alleys, into a terrifying world of international intrigue and dark corners of his past he'd rather never face again.

    

Compromising Positions, a Judith Singer Novel by Susan Isaacs, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Compromising Positions by Susan Isaacs, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Open Road.

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 (08/21/2013 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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Compromising Positions by Susan Isaacs
A Judith Singer Novel (1st in series)
Publisher: Open Road

Though she can't admit it to herself, Judith Singer is bored. Each morning she kisses her husband on his way to work, and each evening she fixes him dinner. Three nights a week, they make tepid love. Life in their Long Island split-level is a ho-hum affair, but when a local dentist is murdered in his office, Judith's curiosity gets the better of her.

Judith soon learns that Dr. Fleckstein's private life wasn't as immaculate as his smile, and anyone in town might be the murderer. And when her neighbor becomes the chief suspect, Judith must find the real killer or risk losing her only friend in all of suburbia.

    

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