Black Flag by Jake Morris is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Black Flag by Jake Morris as today's third free mystery ebook (An Action Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 16, 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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Black Flag
Jake Morris
An Action Thriller
Publisher: Black Flag Books

When ex-soldier Owen Gallagher accepts a freelance surveillance assignment he thinks it's just another job - but that is before he breaks his own rules: the rules that keep him safe and sane.

As he struggles to find the enigmatic young woman who has drawn him back to a world of violence and death, Gallagher is propelled into the midst of a labyrinthine plot to lure the UK and US into war with Iran.

With the help of former colleagues he goes on the offensive, seeking among the shadows of global security inhabited by intelligence operatives and terrorists. On their journey through this maze of conspiracy, betrayal and intrigue, the comradeship of veterans binds together a group of men fighting a new kind of battle, in a war where politics and deceit are the real weapons of mass destruction.

  

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Evil Deeds by Joseph Badal is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Evil Deeds by Joseph Badal as today's second free mystery ebook (A Bob Danforth Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 16, 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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Evil Deeds
Joseph Badal
A Bob Danforth Thriller
Publisher: Suspense Publishing

On a sunny spring day in 1971 in a quiet Athenian suburb Bob and Liz Danforth's morning begins just like every other morning: Breakfast together, Bob roughhousing with Michael. Then Bob leaves for his U.S. Army unit and the nightmare begins, two-year-old Michael is kidnapped.

So begins a decades-long journey that takes the Danforth family from Michael's kidnapping and Bob and Liz's efforts to rescue him, to Bob's forced separation from the Army because of his unauthorized entry into Bulgaria, to his recruitment by the CIA, to Michael's commissioning in the Army, to Michael's capture by a Serb SPETSNAZ team in Macedonia, and to Michael's eventual marriage to the daughter of the man who kidnapped him as a child.

  

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The Lotus Cross by Ray Anderson is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Lotus Cross by Ray Anderson as today's free mystery ebook (A Novel of Suspense; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 16, 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 Lotus Cross
Ray Anderson
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Dark Planet Publishing

The Lotus Cross has its origins in Christ's resurrection. As Christ rose from the dead in 33 AD, the apostles and Jesus' followers rejoiced. Yet as history records, Thomas the Apostle did not witness the event and questioned the resurrection of his teacher. To placate his doubt, eight days after the resurrection, Doubting Thomas, as he would later become known, came into the presence of the risen Christ. He touched the hands that had been nailed to the cross, and thrust his fingers into the wound made by the sword of a Roman soldier.

His doubt replaced by faith, Thomas spread the early Christian faith into the East, establishing his church in India in 54 AD. He had a bronze vessel forged to contain the preserved blood of Christ. He called it the Lotus Cross, because the cross holding the pouch with traces of the blood was fashioned upon a base shaped as a lotus flower. In the seventh century the Lotus Cross was moved to China and Christianity flourished. In the ninth century the Lotus Cross was hidden to protect it from those seeking to destroy it. It would remain lost until a recent discovery.

In an age of advanced scientific techniques and recombinant DNA analysis, the blood-flecked pouch hidden within the Lotus Cross could yield the key to the second coming of Christ. Professor Michael Drake sets off to find the ancient artifact. With the help of other archaeologists, the British Secret Service and members of a secret Christian group, he uncovers the secret within the Lotus Cross, but not without great risk.

  

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for September 16, 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 B C D E J K O U

This series character was introduced in Scott J. Holliday's Stonefly (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!

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (130916)

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

• The New Release is Awakening: The Sunhook Spire.

• The current Catch of the Week is Shattered Minds: Encore, just $2.99 through Sunday, September 22, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — It is Bonus Punch Monday! Receive a BONUS PUNCH with every game purchase, only on Mondays.

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

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Today's New Release is Awakening: The Sunhook Spire

Long ago, a kingdom was cast into darkness. Its king and queen were cursed to a deep sleep. Their daughter, Princess Sophia, ascended the throne and brought hope to the kingdom. In her quest to awaken her parents from their slumber, Sophia learned of a powerful Enchantress who could undo the spell. Alas! On her way to the Enchantress' lair at Sunhook Spire, she was beset by treacherous mercenaries. Can the young Queen escape the mercenaries and get to Sunhook Spire safely? After a thousand years of separation, will Sophia finally meet her parents? Scale the heights of Sunhook Spire, rescue the Enchantress and uncover the tower's mysteries in this epic journey!

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

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The current Catch of the Week is Shattered Minds: Encore

Reveal the twisted plan of a deranged magician! You are a detective with a knack for dealing with strange cases and your Chief has a new case for you to investigate. After a series of vanishing famous monuments the world over, you are sent to Paris, France to investigate a possible link between the disappearances and a calling card left behind at the crime scenes. Play through challenging hidden object games and perplexing puzzles in an attempt to unravel the mystery in this thrilling hidden object adventure game!

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 22, 2013.

A New MystereBook: Flee from the Past by Carolyn Hart

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 …

Flee from the Past by Carolyn Hart is one of the author's earliest novels of suspense, first published by Bantam in 1973 and later by Five Star in 1998.

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Flee from the Past by Carolyn Hart
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Oconee Spirit Press
Publication Date: September 12, 2013

In 1966, Ann Severin was a carefree college student in Italy … until she disappeared without a trace.

Six years later, wife and mother Janey Hamilton is targeted by someone threatening to expose the truth about her connection to Ann and the horrible crime she committed. Janey thought she had outrun her past, but her secrets cast a long shadow.

  

The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Forge Books, is The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan.

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 Wrong Girl
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Series: Jane Ryland (2nd)

Does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret? Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the ultimate betrayal — reuniting birth parents with the wrong children.

For detective Jake Brogan and his partner, a young woman's brutal murder seems a sadly predictable case of domestic violence, one that results in two toddlers being shuttled into the foster care system. Then Jake finds an empty cradle at the murder scene. Where is the baby who should have been sleeping there?

Jane and Jake are soon on a trail full of twists and turns that takes them deep into the heart of a foster care system in crisis and threatens to blow the lid off an adoption agency scandal. When the threatening phone calls start, Jane knows she is on the right track … but with both a killer at large and an infant missing, time is running out …

      

MystereBooks: Drop Dead Divas by Virginia Brown, 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 Drop Dead Divas by Virginia Brown. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Sunday, September 15, 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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Drop Dead Divas by Virginia Brown
A Dixie Divas Mystery
Publisher: Bell Bridge Books

Welcome to a genteel world of pimento cheese finger sandwiches, tall libations in frosted glasses, stiletto heels, aging southern-belle sisterhood, and murder …

Trinket Truevine, her pal Bitty and their raucous divas friends in the historic small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi, have solved the murder of Bitty's ex-senator husband, Phillip. Now, the Divas are sleuthing again. Their pal Naomi Spencer has been accused of murdering her fiancé, drag race champion Race Champion. Soon, Naomi turns up dead, too. Talk about a fly in the martini …

  

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Regulated for Murder, A Michael Stoddard, American Revolution Thriller by Suzanne Adair, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Regulated for Murder by Suzanne Adair, 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 (09/15/2013 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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Regulated for Murder by Suzanne Adair
A Michael Stoddard, American Revolution Thriller (1st in series)
Publisher: Suzanne Adair

Bearing a dispatch from his commander in coastal Wilmington, North Carolina, redcoat Lieutenant Michael Stoddard arrives in Hillsborough in February 1781 in civilian garb. He expects to hand a letter to a courier working for Lord Cornwallis, then ride back to Wilmington the next day.

Instead, Michael is greeted by the courier's freshly murdered corpse, a chilling trail of clues leading back to an execution ten years earlier, and a sheriff with a fondness for framing innocents — and plans to deliver Michael up to his nemesis, a psychopathic British officer.

  

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A New MystereBook: The ET Murders by Mark Bouton

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 ET Murders by Mark Bouton is the third book in this "FBI Thriller" series featuring Max Austin investigating the reality of UFOs.

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The ET Murders by Mark Bouton
A Max Austin Thriller
Publisher: Mark Bouton
Publication Date: September 13, 2013

FBI agents are being brutally murdered, and a bizarre trail of clues lead to Roswell and Area 51. FBI agent Max Austin hunts vicious killers targeting a group seeking to expose operations at Area 51 that could endanger mankind. Max must determine whether UFOs and aliens are real, and if so, whether they're dangerous to earthlings.

In the end, can the FBI take on ET at Area 51 and prevent a war of the worlds?

      

2013 Bloody Scotland Crime Novel of the Year is How a Gunman Says Goodbye by Malcolm MacKay

Malcolm MacKay's How a Gunman Says Goodbye was honored with the 2013 Bloody Scotland Crime Novel of the Year Award yesterday at an awards dinner during the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival.

Magnus Linklater, chair of the judging panel, said, "Malcolm Mackay brings something new to the crime genre with this novel. This is no straight Glasgow gangland book, but a brave and involving psychological study of the cycle of life."

Keyhole Spring by Mary Frisbee is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Keyhole Spring by Mary Frisbee as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Trout Brooke Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 15, 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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Keyhole Spring
Mary Frisbee
A Trout Brooke Mystery
Publisher: Mary Frisbee

While helping twelve-year-old Tommy Sharpe recover from the violence she experienced in Puzzle Creek, Trout Brooke, a dog-loving, book-devouring painter of environmental disasters, shares the story of her own past assault — also a revelation to Brooke's mother Mary Beth, with whom she was reunited in Satori Ranch.

As Brooke's tale unfolds, we learn of the events that transformed this environmentalist into a seemingly fearless defender of women's rights: In 2008, after a violent assault in her home in Silverplate, Montana, Brooke manages to make a strong recovery and take back the power from her attacker. Because of her brilliant visual memory, rapist Wayne Ripplinger is brought to justice. Mysteriously, Ripplinger escapes, starting a chain of events in which Brooke ferrets out the solutions to two brutal murders — one current, another from the past.

  

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Murder on Moloka'i by Chip Hughes is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder on Moloka'i by Chip Hughes as today's third free mystery ebook (A Kai Cooke, Surfing Detective Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 15, 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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Murder on Moloka'i
Chip Hughes
A Kai Cooke, Surfing Detective Mystery
Publisher: Island Heritage

When Boston heiress Adrienne Ridgely strides into his Honolulu office, Surfing Detective Kai Cooke likes what he sees, but doubts what he hears. Adrienne's sister, environmental activist Sara Ridgely-Parke, plunged to her death from a mule on Moloka'i — the first fatal incident on the soaring cliffs above Kalaupapa's fabled leper colony. Murder, cries Adrienne, perpetrated by Sara's ex-husband, developer J. Gregory Parke. Cooke flies to Moloka'i, tracking tantalizing leads to an unlikely murder that, despite himself, he starts to believe in.

Was the mule prodded or spooked or drugged? Did Parke do it for vengeance, or Adrienne for an inheritance, as Parke alleges? Soon Kai uncovers a motive more noxious than either of these — entangling him in the shady dealings of big-time developers, corrupt politicians, and underworld thugs. As he hops from island to island seeking a pivotal clue, the clock ticks down on more than the P.I.'s case or even his own life. The future of Moloka'i itself is at stake.

  

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Other People's Skeletons by Julie Smith is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Other People's Skeletons by Julie Smith as today's second free mystery ebook (A Rebecca Schwartz Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 15, 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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Other People's Skeletons
Julie Smith
A Rebecca Schwartz Mystery
Publisher: booksBnimble

Rebecca's shocked when Chris Nicholson, her glamorous law partner, is arrested for murder — but not nearly so shocked as when she discovers Chris can't come up with an alibi. What she was doing, Chris says, involves a secret so damaging she'd be drummed out of San Francisco legal circles if anyone knew. All she'll say is what her secret isn't — crime, drugs, sex, alcohol, addiction, illness (mental or otherwise), or an eating disorder. So what's left? Sure enough, when Rebecca uncovers it, her world tilts on its axis — and continues to list, ever more dangerously, as the story picks up speed and this formerly rational lawyer finds her worldview threatened by things she never knew existed. At least not in her circle! And Chris is far from the only one with a skeleton in her closet.

The murdered man, Jason McKendrick, was a much-loved columnist, a carefree bachelor with a million glamorous women, who also happened to have a very special friend who slept on a filthy mattress in his apartment. As Rebecca and Chris peel back the layers of Jason's complicated world, they find he was leading not just a double life, but maybe many more. Only one person knows what made him tick. But can she stay alive long enough to tell his story?

  

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Murder on the Down Low by Pamela Samuels-Young is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder on the Down Low by Pamela Samuels-Young as today's free mystery ebook (A Vernetta Henderson Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 15, 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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Murder on the Down Low
Pamela Samuels-Young
A Vernetta Henderson Mystery
Publisher: Goldman House Publishing

A high-profile lawsuit erupts into chaos, revealing its place in a larger spree of violence in this scandalous tale of lust, lies, and vengeance. A brazen gunman is targeting prominent African American men on the streets of Los Angeles, and police are completely baffled.

At the same time, savvy big-firm attorney Vernetta Henderson and her outrageous sidekick, Special, lead the charge for revenge against a man whose deceit caused his fianceé's death. For Special, hauling the man into court and suing him for wrongful death just isn’t good enough.

While she exacts her own brand of justice, a shocking revelation connects the contentious lawsuit and the puzzling murders.

  

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