The Rose Red Reaper by Kristi Loucks is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Rose Red Reaper by Kristi Loucks as today's second free mystery ebook (A Chicago Serial Crimes Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 07, 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.

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 Rose Red Reaper
Kristi Loucks
A Chicago Serial Crimes Thriller
Publisher: Kristi Loucks

Lt. Commander Mason Cole never intended to follow his brother into law enforcement, but the murder of a loved one gave him the motivation needed to take a position as the head of Chicago's Serial Crimes Unit. Along with his brother, Detective Devon Cole, former FBI Profiler and Technical Analyst Melinda Kade and Detective Piper Torello, Mason is tasked with finding some of the cities most prolific serial killers.

As a former Navy SEAL, Mason has seen some of the worst the world has to offer, but nothing could have prepared him for his initiation into the world of a serial killer.

Their first case came with a gruesome introduction from a man who has given himself his own press ready moniker. Known for his macabre signature and the white rose he leaves at the scene with a calling card signed in blood.

Mason and his team will pursue the killer through the vast streets of Chicago, across the affluent suburbs of the North Shore following cryptic clues left at each crime scene and pointing them to a web of violence dating back to The Reaper's own childhood.

Complications begin to arise when The Reaper makes a connection to the woman that Mason loves. Dakota Rose Shelton. The stunning, raven-haired beauty that has carefully salvaged Mason's broken heart may also be the key to ending The Reaper's bloody reign. Left blind by a childhood illness, she must help them to assemble the pieces of the Reaper's past with no visual memories to aid her.

Can Dakota help the team put the pieces together before The Reaper targets one of there own? And will she be able to fight off a killer that she cannot see?

  

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The Art of Murder by Louis Shalako is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Art of Murder by Louis Shalako as today's free mystery ebook (A Gilles Maintenon Mystery; iTunes format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 07, 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 Art of Murder
Louis Shalako
A Gilles Maintenon Mystery
Publisher: Louis Shalako

Whether it's murder or suicide, there must be some compelling motive …

Theo Duval had the perfect life. A locked room with the only key in the decedent’s pocket, a book on hypnotism, and one very rich and very dead inventor present Inspector Gilles Maintenon of the Sûreté with a problem. Why would a young, healthy, and successful man, with a beautiful fiancé, and a thriving company kill himself?

  

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Kill Me Twice by Roxanne St. Claire is Today's Kindle Romantic Suspense Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Kill Me Twice by Roxanne St. Claire as today's Amazon Kindle Romantic Suspense Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, September 07, 2013.

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Kill Me Twice
Roxanne St. Claire
The Bullet Catchers Series
Pocket Books

She has a body to kill for … and a bodyguard to die for …

Alex Romero is the hottest "Bullet Catcher" in the business. Tall, dark, and deadly if necessary, this high-priced bodyguard's got the muscle and the moves — especially when it comes to the ladies. Alex can keep his beautiful clients out of danger, but sometimes they can't keep their hands off of him. Now Alex has one last chance to prove he belongs among the elite force known as The Bullet Catchers, but his assignment is stacked … against him.

Private investigator Jasmine Adams is fiercely independent and fearless under pressure — she doesn't need some hunk-for-hire's help to catch the creep stalking her twin sister. But when Jazz uncovers bigger forces targeting her sister for death, she's glad to have Alex's brain and brawn handy. From the steamy streets of Miami to the sultry beaches of Key West, Alex and Jazz try to fight temptation as they race to keep a madman from fulfilling his promise to kill not just once, but twice. And some temptations are too powerful to resist …

Important Note: This book was listed at the price mentioned above on the date and time of this post. Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase.

The First Rule of Swimming by Courtney Angela Brkic is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The First Rule of Swimming by Courtney Angela Brkic as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, September 07, 2013.

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The First Rule of Swimming
Courtney Angela Brkic
A Novel of Suspense
Little, Brown

A woman must leave her island home to search for her missing sister-and confront the haunted history of her family …

Magdalena does not panic when she learns that her younger sister has disappeared. A free-spirit, Jadranka has always been prone to mysterious absences.

But when weeks pass with no word, Magdalena leaves the isolated Croatian island where their family has always lived and sets off to New York to find her sister. Her search begins to unspool the dark history of their family, reaching back three generations to a country torn by war.

Important Note: This book was listed at the price mentioned above on the date and time of this post. Prices can and do change without prior notice. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your purchase.

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (130907)

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

• The New Release is Nearwood.

• The Daily Deal is Mystic Legacy: The Great Ring, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Rite of Passage: The Perfect Show, just $2.99 through Sunday, September 08, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — This weekend only: Buy one standard edition game and get a second for just 99 cents! Use coupon code 99CENTS at check-out and your second standard PC or Mac game will be discounted. Use as many times as you'd like! Offer valid through Sunday, September 8th, 2013 until 11:59 PM PT.

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

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Today's New Release is Nearwood

Can a young woman single-handedly change the fate of a magical kingdom? Set out on a voyage with Jane Lockwood into a mysterious world of danger and adventure, into a whirlwind of magic and wonder! As you encounter a host of unusual and amusing creatures and help them in their troubles, you will inch closer and closer to your final goal — finding Jane's long-lost parents, all the while freeing the great and wise Time Keepers from the grip of oblivion. Find out why time came to a standstill, and drive the ancient evil out of Nearwood once and for all! Bring back peace and quiet to the land! Save Nearwood!

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Mystic Legacy: The Great Ring

A peaceful vacation turns into a travel nightmare! When you follow your friend, Mark, away from the tour group to visit a remote Romanian castle, Mark is suddenly dragged away and bitten by what appears to be a vampire! But things only get stranger as you explore the castle … It turns out the blood-sucking vampire who kidnapped your friend only drinks fake blood. So what are you really up against? And why does Mark seem to know more about the castle than he's letting on? Get to the bottom of an ancient mystery in this thrilling Hidden Object adventure!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Saturday, September 07, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Rite of Passage: The Perfect Show

You are a teacher in Everlake, a small town recently struck by a series of unexplained child abductions. When your student goes missing, it is up to you to take up the role of a detective and save the children. On your quest you will uncover secrets, solve challenging problems and encounter enigmatic characters with unclear motives. In the town of Everlake nothing is at it seems, as the story of crime, mystery and supernatural events unfolds before your eyes. At the center of it all stands the old puppet theater and its elusive patron. The Perfect Show is coming.

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, September 08, 2013.

Telemystery: HBO's True Detective To Premiere January 2014

Back in June HBO released the first teaser trailer for its new series True Detective. Now we're learning when it will premiere … sort of: January 2014. No specific date was mentioned by the premium cable network, but it does narrow it down a bit.

The 8-episode opening season stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as, respectively, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, who are on the hunt for a cold case serial killer in Louisiana. If renewed for a second season, it will feature two different detectives on a different case.

A full trailer for True Detective will air this Sunday.

A New MystereBook: Billboard Man by Jim Fusilli

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 …

Billboard Man by Jim Fusilli is the second novel in this series featuring a drifter, who is pulled off the long, dark road once again — long enough for him to find that the world is small when so many people want him dead.

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Billboard Man by Jim Fusilli
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

A man alone takes to the road following the brutal murder of his wife. After years lost to drifting and isolation — except for the comfort of the kind of women he cannot deny — he finds himself swept into a world of violence and danger, his life in the hands of a madman. Freed by an unexpected savior, he returns to the road, still a haunted man who remains the target of his estranged daughter's scorn.

But as he wanders from the red-rock spires of Arizona to Sun Studios in Memphis, he succumbs to sordid temptation—and is soon accused of murder. To clear himself, he must find the real killer, unaware that his nemesis, a Wall Street power broker, is manipulating him from afar and has unleashed a killer on his trail — and the trail of his daughter.

  

Scholastic To Publish Dog Detective Mystery Series for Kids by Spencer Quinn

Peter Abrahams, writing as Spencer Quinn, will write a middle-grade mystery series featuring a dog detective, to be published by Scholastic.

The series will pair an 11-year-old girl named Jolene with her dog Bowser. In the first unnamed book of the series, scheduled to be published in 2015, when a prize stuffed marlin is stolen from her Grammy's bait and tackle shop along the Louisiana coast, Jolene and Bowser decide to take the case. But what looks like a straight-forward break-in soon becomes as tangled as a tourist's fishing line.

Abrahams is the author of the Agatha Award-winning Echo Falls series for young readers. As Quinn, he writes the Chet and Bernie mysteries for adults.

Review: The Right Side of Wrong by Reavis Z. Wortham

A Mysterious Review of The Right Side of Wrong by Reavis Z. Wortham. A Red River Mystery.

Review summary: Not so much a whodunit — although there is that element to the story — this novel is more of a slice-of-life adventure for the Parker family, and a glimpse of what it might have been like to be the law in rural Texas in the mid-1960s. A different kind of a mystery, but a satisfying one nonetheless. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Right Side of Wrong
Reavis Z. Wortham
A Red River Mystery
Poisoned Pen Press (July 2013)

Publisher synopsis: It's near the end of 1965 and Constable Cody Parker of Center Springs, Texas, has a frightening sense of gathering storm clouds. His dreams prove accurate when he is ambushed and nearly killed on a lonely country road during an unusually heavy snowfall. The attack leads locals to worry that a terrifying killer known as “The Skinner” has returned.

As his nephew, Cody, recovers, Constable Ned Parker struggles to connect a seemingly unrelated series of murders, and the people of northeast Texas wonder why their once peaceful community has suddenly become a dangerous place to live.

Investigating, Ned, Cody, and deputy John Washington cross paths with many colorful characters: cranky old Judge O.C. Rains; the jittery little farmer Isaac Reader; the Wilson boys, Ty Cobb and Jimmy Foxx; and a mysterious old man named Tom Bell. Of course, Ned's preteen grandchildren, Top and Pepper, are underfoot at every turn.

When Cody follows his main suspect across the Rio Grande into Mexico, Ned understands that to save his nephew, he will have to cross more than a river: he will have to cross over to the right side of wrong.

  

Voices of the Dead, a Novel of Suspense by Peter Leonard, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Voices of the Dead by Peter Leonard, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, The Story Plant.

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 (09/06/2013 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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Voices of the Dead by Peter Leonard
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: The Story Plant

The year is 1971. The place is Detroit. Harry Levin, a scrap metal dealer and Holocaust survivor, has just learned that his daughter was killed in a car accident. Traveling to Washington, DC to claim the body, he learns that the accident was caused by a German diplomat who was driving drunk. This is only the beginning of the horror for Harry, though, as he discovers that the diplomat will never face charges — he has already been released and granted immunity.

Enraged and aggrieved, Harry discovers the identity of his daughter's killer, follows him to Munich, and hunts him down. What Harry finds out about the diplomat and his plans will explode his life and the lives of everyone around him.

    

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Hearts of Sand by Jane Haddam, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Minotaur Books, is Hearts of Sand by Jane Haddam.

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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Hearts of Sand
Jane Haddam
Series: Gregor Demarkian (28th)

Alwych, Connecticut, is the stereotypical old money Connecticut beach town — the best families live in mini-mansions on Beach Drive, their children go to Alwych Country Day School, and the parents have memberships to the Atlantic Club. And Chapin Waring is the worst thing that ever happened to this town. She was a well turned-out debutante from one of the richest families in Alwych until thirty years ago when the young debutante, destined to attend the right school, marry the right man, and have the right life, was revealed to a bank robber and a murderer. She disappeared, never to be heard from again.

But Alwych has never forgotten her, or let her friends and family forget. So when, after a day of being spotted around town, Chapin turns up dead — stabbed to death in her family's old home — it's baffling. To learn why she died — and to end the rampant speculation and media coverage — Gregor Demarkian, retired profiler for the FBI, is brought in to finally solve the mysteries surrounding Chapin Waring. Not just how and why she died where she did, but where she'd been and what happened that night thirty years ago that set everything in motion.

      

MystereBooks: Clandestine by James Ellroy, 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 Clandestine by James Ellroy. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Friday, September 06, 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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Clandestine by James Ellroy
Publisher: Mysterious Press

A murder investigation nearly drives a beat cop to madness …

Despite the sunshine, high necklines, and demure purity of its silver-screen goddesses, Los Angeles in the 1950s is not a gentle place. Even as a young cop, Freddy Underhill knows this. Patrolling one of L.A.'s roughest districts, he sees the lust, rage, and madness that permeate the city—and stands in wonder and dismay at it all. He covers the beat with his partner Wacky Walker, a World War II veteran with a Medal of Honor, a drinking problem, and a serious obsession with death.

When an old flame of Freddy's is murdered, the investigation takes them deep into the shadiest part of the city, where Freddy will have to embrace the darkness if he wants to emerge with his life.

      

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Edge, a Romance on the Edge Novel by Tiffinie Helmer, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Edge by Tiffinie Helmer, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, The Story Vault.

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 (09/06/2013 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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Edge by Tiffinie Helmer
A Romance on the Edge Novel (1st in series)
Publisher: The Story Vault

Living on the edge can be murder …

Photojournalist Cache Calder lives to chase a great story. He's just returned from the Middle East after surviving a suicide bombing that left him injured and grief-stricken. The last thing he wants is to travel to the wilds of Alaska on a "Where Is She Now" Assignment. But when his editor informs him that his subject is former kidnapping victim, Amelia Bennett who jump-started his career twenty years earlier, he packs his bags.
,br>Mel Bennett's carefully maintained control unravels the moment she meets Cache Calder. Attraction flares for the man who seems to really "know" her. No one at the Edge of Reason Lodge is aware she was the young teenager who'd survived one of the most publicized kidnappings in recent history, and she wants it to stay that way. But she starts to question her heart and her sanity when unexplained incidents begin to happen and a deadly threat returns to finish what he'd started so long ago.

  

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A New MystereBook: Death with Reservations by Kate Kingsbury

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 …

Death with Reservations by Kate Kingsbury is the 10th mystery in this series, first published by Berkley Prime Crime in paperback in January 1998.

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Death with Reservations by Kate Kingsbury
A Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery
Publisher: Kate Kingsbury

Michel's cooking is renowned far and wide, and many of the guests patronize the Pennyfoot Hotel simply to enjoy his excellent cuisine. Therefore, when Lord Sittingdon appears to have died from ingesting Michel's famed lobster salad, the reputation of the hotel is at stake.

Cecily is faced with a dilemma that could very well signal the end of her illustrious career. Until circumstances suggest that the aristocrat was murdered, giving her a chance to save the hotel and bring a killer to justice.

  

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