The White Flamingo by James A. Newman is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The White Flamingo by James A. Newman as today's free mystery ebook (A Joe Dylan Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 02, 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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The White Flamingo
James A. Newman
A Joe Dylan Mystery
Publisher: Spanking Pulp Press

Fun City is run by corrupt officials and respectable gangsters wallowing in luxury mansions in the hills high above the harbour, the beach, and the neon jungle.

When vice worker Tammy is found mutilated on top of a pool table, an effete pervert, and son to the 1970's pin-up beauty queen once known as The White Flamingo, is locked up.

Can Detective Joe Dylan find the killer before he becomes one of the hunted?

  

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Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry is Today's Kindle Daily Deal for Kids

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal for Kids.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, September 02, 2013.

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Walls Within Walls
Maureen Sherry
A Mystery Adventure
HarperCollins

After their father, a video-game inventor, strikes it rich, the Smithfork kids find they hate their new life. They move from their cozy Brooklyn neighborhood to a swanky apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. They have no friends, a nanny who takes the place of their parents, and a school year looming ahead that promises to be miserable.

And then, one day, Brid, CJ, and Patrick discover an astonishing secret about their apartment: The original owner, the deceased multimillionaire Mr. Post, long ago turned the apartment itself into a giant puzzle containing a mysterious book and hidden panels — a puzzle that, with some luck, courage, and brainpower, will lead to discovering the Post family fortune. Unraveling the mystery causes them to race through today's New York City — and to uncover some long-hidden secrets of the past.

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for September 02, 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:

A C E G N S T W Y

This character "died" in the title of a Sarah Bruni psychological thriller (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!

A New MystereBook: Island of Bones by P. J. Parrish

Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers …

Island of Bones by P. J. Parrish is the fifth mystery in this series featuring PI Louis Kincaid, this time set in Florida. It was first published by Pinnacle in 2004.

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Island of Bones by P. J. Parrish
A Louis Kincaid Thriller
Publisher: Our Noir

In the wake of a hurricane a tiny skull washes up in front of detective Louis Kincaid's cottage. Days later, the bullet-riddled body of a woman surfaces on a nearby island. She has no identification … except for a unique coral ring. Sensing a connection, Louis begins his investigation, a search for the truth that will lead him down a trail of secrets and lies — to the Island of Bones, where evil never dies and the living never escape.

  

The Girl Who Disappeared Twice, a Forensic Instincts Mystery by Andrea Kane, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Girl Who Disappeared Twice by Andrea Kane, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Mira 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 (09/01/2013 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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The Girl Who Disappeared Twice by Andrea Kane
A Forensic Instincts Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Mira Books

Read our review of The Girl Who Disappeared Twice by Andrea Kane

Despite all her years determining the fates of families, judge Hope Willis couldn't save her own. Her daughter taken, she's frantically grasping at any hope for Krissy's return. Her husband dead-set against it, Hope calls a team not bound by the legal system.

Forensic Instincts: a behaviorist. A techno-wizard. An intuitive. An ex-Navy SEAL. Unconventional operatives. All with unique talents and personal reasons for joining Casey Woods's group, they'll do whatever it takes.

Able to accurately read people after the briefest of encounters, Casey picks up in the Willis household signs of a nervous spouse, a guilty conscience, a nanny that hides on her phone. Secrets beg to creep into the open.

Forensic Instincts will dig through each tiny clue and eliminate the clutter, working around the clock. But time is running out, and Casey's team knows that the difference between getting Krissy back and her disappearing forever could be as small as a suspect's rapid breathing, or as deep as Hope's dark family history.

    

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Review: A Murder in Passing by Mark de Castrique

A Mysterious Review of A Murder in Passing by Mark de Castrique. A Sam Blackman Mystery.

Review summary: A very interesting and in many ways clever story is crafted from a missing photograph in this modern mystery that incorporates a real historical time and place. More of a howdunit than a whodunit, the plot moves along at a steady pace, keeping the reader's interest throughout, though coming to an end in a not-unexpected manner. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

A Murder in Passing
Mark de Castrique
A Sam Blackman Mystery
Poisoned Pen Press (July 2013)

Publisher synopsis: In Asheville, North Carolina, the Blackman & Robertson Detective Agency faces a disturbing reality — no clients. Sam Blackman finds inactivity intolerable. So when partner Nakayla Robertson suggests a mushroom hunt on the site of an historic, freed-slave commune called The Kingdom of the Happy Land, Sam reluctantly agrees. When he stumbles across a skeleton, his adventure mushrooms into a case of murder. But it isn't his case. He has no client, and the local authorities tell him to butt out.

Then Marsha Montgomery comes to the office asking Sam and Nakayla to investigate a burglary at her mother's home. Someone stole a rifle and a photograph of Marsha's mother, grandmother, and great grandmother taken in 1932 by renowned photographer Doris Ulmann. The site of the photograph is The Kingdom of the Happy Land. The date of the burglary, 1967. Marsha's visit is no coincidence. Sam's being played. But why?

When Marsha's eighty-five-year-old mother Lucille is arrested for murder, Sam has his answer and his case. Is the skeleton that of Jimmy Lang, Marsha's white father and her mother's lover, who disappeared in 1967 right after interracial couples were allowed to marry in North Carolina? Jimmy's brother says no. Jimmy left to seek his fortune after Lucille rejected his marriage proposal. But others stood to gain from his disappearance. A veil of betrayal and deceit hides a killer desperate to protect a dark secret, and no one, not even Sam, is safe from the deadly consequences of a murder in passing.

      

Two Cree Black Mysteries by Daniel Hecht, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature the first two "Cree Black" mysteries by Daniel Hecht, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Bloomsbury.

The ebook format of these titles were priced at $2.99 each from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (09/01/2013 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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City of Masks by Daniel Hecht
A Cree Black Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Parapsychologist Cree Black is the founder of a small, nonprofit paranormal research group based in Seattle. Using scientific technologies, historical research, and psychology, Cree and her colleagues investigate claims of ghosts and other paranormal phenomena and try to help the living cope with troubling and inexplicable experiences. Cree herself is a natural empath — one who resonates so strongly with others that she is able to experience their haunts and fears.

Called to New Orleans to investigate a supposed haunting at the 150-year old Beauforte House, Cree's foremost challenge is to accommodate the psychological fragility of Lila Beauforte Warren, who claims to have witnessed terrifying phenomena at the house where she spent her childhood. Is Lila suffering from a neurological or psychiatric disorder, as her family believes, or has she witnessed verifiable paranormal activity?

To find out, Cree must enter her state of mind, spend long hours in the dim rooms of the old house, and unearth secrets from the Beauforte family's hidden past. She soon finds she cannot help Lila unless she solves her own hauntings — deals with her own memories, faces her grief over her husband's death, and confronts her reluctance to embrace normal life. In challenging the ghosts of Beauforte house and taking Lila's problems as her own, she has placed her own survival on the line.

    

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Land of Echoes by Daniel Hecht
A Cree Black Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Parapsychologist Cree Black is called to investigate a fascinating case unfolding in the vast high desert of New Mexico. When Tommy Keeday, a student at a boarding school for gifted Navajo teens, is suddenly seized by a frightening and violent illness, his family believes he is possessed by the hostile spirit of a dead ancestor. In desperation, principal Julieta McCarty calls on Psi Research Associates of Seattle for help.

Is Tommy Keeday just a sensitive teenager, seeking attention by acting out bizarre symptoms, or is he suffering from an exotic brain disorder? Or is there truth in the Navajo legends of witches, Skinwalkers, and malevolent ghosts? As the terrifying symptoms worsen and Tommy's resistance wanes, it becomes clear that Cree and her colleagues are in a race against time. Their investigation takes them back to Julieta McCarty's buried past and to crucial moments in the history of the Navajo people, and pits them against present-day mining interests with secrets they'll kill to keep hidden.

    

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The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star by Susan Wittig Albert, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Berkley Hardcover, is The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star by Susan Wittig Albert.

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

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The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star
Susan Wittig Albert
Series: Darling Dahlias (4th)

The Texas Star herself — Miss Lily Dare, the "fastest woman in the world" — is bringing her Dare Devils Flying Circus to Darling. Unfortunately, she's also bringing a whole lot of trouble. As the Dahlias prepare for the annual Watermelon Festival — where they will present the famous female aviatrix with her own Texas Star hibiscus — rumors are flying.

Dahlias president Liz Lacy learns from newspaperman Charlie Dickens that Miss Dare has been threatened and her plane sabotaged. Apparently the bold and beautiful barnstormer has made plenty of enemies. And is it possible she may even be involved with the husband of one of Darling's local ladies?

And speaking of wings, the new cook at Myra May's Darling Diner can fry a chicken and whip up a sweet potato meringue pie like nobody's business. But why is she keeping her past such a mystery?

As the Texas Star barnstorms into town, Liz and Verna Tidwell offer to help bring down a saboteur who may be propelled by revenge. Before it's all over, there will be plenty of black eyes and dark secrets revealed …

      

A New MystereBook: The Back Wing by Mike Befeler

Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers …

The Back Wing by Mike Befeler is the first book in a paranormal geezer-lit mystery series by the author of the Paul Jacobson geezer-lit mysteries.

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The Back Wing by Mike Befeler
A Harold McCaffrey Mystery
Publisher: Courtney Literary

Grieving widower Harold McCaffrey moves into the Mountain Splendor Retirement Home and finds himself living in the Back Wing with a group of strange residents — aging witches, vampires, werewolves and shape-shifters. He bonds with his fellow denizens, especially Bella, who has promise of becoming more than just a friend.

Things are looking up for Harold — until he and Bella must use all their normal and extra-normal skills to solve two murders in this very unique retirement community.

  

MystereBooks: Unnatural Causes by P. D. James, 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 Unnatural Causes by P. D. James. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Sunday, September 01, 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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Unnatural Causes by P. D. James
An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
Publisher: Touchstone

Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer — but no murder from his imagination could equal the ghastliness of his own death. When his grotesquely mutilated corpse is found in a drifting dinghy, ripples of horror spread among his bizarre neighbours: the cruel and cynical drama critic, the celebrated recluse, the rakish young heir, the terrified woman waiting for her killer in a lonely house …

It is up to Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh and his extraordinary aunt to discover the shocking truth about Seton's past — before the plot takes another murderous turn.

  

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Four Fly Fishing Mysteries by John Galligan, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature four "Fly Fishing Mysteries" by John Galligan, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Tyrus Books.

The ebook format of these titles were priced at $1.99 each from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (09/01/2013 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 Nail Knot by John Galligan
A Fly Fishing Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Tyrus Books

Driven by tragedy to turn his back on human society, the Dog is on a quest to fish himself into oblivion. And he's nearly made it. Plying the back highways of America in a wounded old RV … provisioned with a supply of peanut butter sandwiches, bad cigars, and vodka-Tang … armed with a loaded pistol (for when the money runs out) … the Dog is nearly at the end of his tether when he rolls into little Black Earth, Wisconsin, intending to fish the yellow sally stonefly hatch … and finds a body instead.

Who killed Jake Jacobs, fellow fly fisher and late-coming agitator who was trying to save Black Earth Creek? Why was Jacobs disfigured in such a peculiar way? Why does the Dog give a damn? Can he rekindle his faith and interest in humankind? By caring about the death of a stranger, can the Dog recover his own life? Can he untie The nail knot?

  

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The Blood Knot by John Galligan
A Fly Fishing Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Tyrus Books

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The Clinch Knot by John Galligan
A Fly Fishing Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Tyrus Books

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The Wind Knot by John Galligan
A Fly Fishing Mystery (4th in series)
Publisher: Tyrus Books

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A New MystereBook: The Law of Second Chances by James Sheehan

Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers …

The Law of Second Chances by James Sheehan is the second legal thriller in this series in which crime, dark secrets and a desperate race against time come together.

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The Law of Second Chances by James Sheehan
A Jack Tobin Mystery
Publisher: Center Street

Jack Tobin, a Florida trial lawyer, is committed to justice for the innocent. But when he's presented with Henry Wilson's case, he's unsure of the convict's innocence. Wilson has eight weeks to live, and Tobin has to decide if he can and will help him.

Benny Avrile is a small-time thief with his eye on an oil man's big billfold. But Benny is way over his head on this one. The robbery goes bad, and the oil man ends up dead. Just when Benny's fate is all but sealed, an old friend from Jack's past reaches out …

The clock is ticking on Henry Wilson's life, the cops are in hot pursuit of Benny, and back at home, there are dark clouds on the horizon for Jack and his beautiful wife, Pat.