The Profiler's Daughter by P. M. Steffen is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Profiler's Daughter by P. M. Steffen as today's third free mystery ebook (A Sky Stone Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 25, 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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The Profiler's Daughter
P. M. Steffen
A Sky Stone Thriller
Publisher: Lion Dog Press

Sky Stone was born into the wealth and privilege of Boston's oldest Brahmin family but chooses instead to follow in the footsteps of her deceased father, legendary FBI profiler Monk Stone.

In the chilly morning hours before the Boston Marathon, when a beautiful university student is found strangled and mutilated, her body left at the base of Heartbreak Hill, Sky returns from self-imposed exile to investigate. Thirty-six hours into the investigation, Sky's world turns upside down when she is fired from the Homicide team. They pin the murder on an innocent man, forcing Sky into a life-threatening game of cat and mouse with the real killer.

From the stately mansions of Beacon Hill to the flat scrubland of central Texas, Sky keeps the reader on a razor's edge, culminating in a no-holds-barred shoot-out.

  

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28 Pages by Allen Mitchum is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature 28 Pages by Allen Mitchum as today's second free mystery ebook (A Suspense Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 25, 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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28 Pages
Allen Mitchum
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Spartan North Publishing

Heather Grahl, a young Washington, D.C. lawyer, receives a call one morning bearing devastating news: police in the Bahamas discovered her sister's decapitated body. With no apparent suspects or motive, the authorities offer little help in solving the crime.

Determined to find her sister's killers, Heather sacrifices her career and risks her life pursuing the murderers. Through her investigation, she uncovers evidence linking the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.S. to the gruesome killing and learns of a shocking Saudi conspiracy against the United States that her sister died trying to expose. Together with a mysterious ally, Heather races to reveal the deadly Saudi conspiracy before she shares her sister's fate.

  

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Troubled Sea by Jinx Schwartz is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Troubled Sea by Jinx Schwartz as today's free mystery ebook (A Hetta Coffey Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 25, 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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Troubled Sea
Jinx Schwartz
A Hetta Coffey Mystery
Publisher: Jinx Schwartz

Hetta and Jenks Jenkins live a life many only dream of aboard their 42-foot boat in Mexico's hauntingly beautiful Sea of Cortez. But their chosen sea has a serpent: Mexico's out-of-control drug trade.

After witnessing a drug-deal gone wrong, they set off a deadly chain of events that lands them in a sea of intrigue involving a best friend, the Mexican Federal Police, the DEA, US Coast Guard, the INS, and a nasty drug cartel.

  

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They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, September 25, 2013.

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They Found Him Dead
Georgette Heyer
A Superintendent Hannasyde Mystery
Sourcebooks Landmark

One heir after another turns up dead …

Silas Kane's sixtieth birthday party is marred by argument and dissension amongst his family, and then the next morning, Kane is found dead. The coroner's verdict of death by misadventure would seem to confirm that Silas accidentally lost his way in the fog. But then his heir is shot, and threats are made against the next in line to inherit his fortune.

The redoubtable Superintendent Hannasyde is called in to investigate. All clues point to an apparently innocuous eighty-year-old woman, but as the Inspector delves further into the case, he discovers that nothing is quite as it seems …

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Telemystery: Teaser Poster for Bates Motel Season 2

A teaser poster has been released by A&E for the second season of Bates Motel (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "Reopening 2014".

In this contemporary prequel to the genre-defining film Psycho, viewers learn the twisted backstory of the relationship between Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and his mother Norma (Vera Farmiga), and how his psyche unravels during his teenage years.

Telemystery: NCIS To Air Backdoor Pilot for Potential Spin-Off Set in New Orleans

CBS Studios is going to try again to develop a spin-off from its NCIS franchise. Last year it aired a back-door pilot as part of its NCIS: Los Angeles crime drama, which the network passed on. Later this season it will air an as yet untitled two-part episode as part of NCIS set in New Orleans that it hopes will be picked up by the network for the Fall 2014 schedule.

Here's the storyline: The NCIS New Orleans office handles cases from Pensacola through Mississippi and Louisiana to the Texas panhandle. New Orleans with its rich setting of music, fun and debauchery is a magnet for military personnel on-leave. And with fun comes trouble. It is a natural backdrop for a unique character driven spin-off.

A New MystereBook: Antiques Slay Ride by Barbara Allan

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 …

Antiques Slay Ride by Barbara Allan is a short holiday-themed e-book novella featuring antiques dealer and series character Brandy Borne. The authors, husband-and-wife writing team of Barbara and Max Allan Collins, published their seventh full-length book in the series earlier this year, Antiques Chop.

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Antiques Slay Ride by Barbara Allan
A Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery Novella
Publisher: Kensington
Publication Date: September 24, 2013

The Christmas rush is on as Brandy Borne and her quaintly quirky mother, Vivian, sniff out plum collectibles for resale, only to find the owner of a Santa's workshop worth of treasures has received some deadly tidings. It's beginning to look a lot like murder … but who wanted the deceased closed for the holidays — permanently? Maybe a rival antiques dealer, a Grinch who collects Christmas? Or the victim's suspiciously frosty stepchildren?

Brandy and Vivian check their list of who's been naughty or nice, but it may take a Christmas miracle — and some help from Sushi, their elfin shih tzu — to tie a bow around the season's most wanted killer!

      

Telemystery: Teaser Poster for White Collar Season 5

A new teaser poster has been released by USA Network for the fifth season of White Collar (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "Don't take your eyes off him." As if!

Season 4 ended with Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) being arrested leaving Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) free to devise a means to keep him out of prison.

White Collar returns on Thursday, October 17, 2013 with an episode (appropriately) titled "The Boys Are Back", promising yet another exciting season in this series.

Review: Good As Gone by Douglas Corleone

A Mysterious Review of Good As Gone by Douglas Corleone. A Simon Fisk Thriller.

Review summary: This is an incredibly suspenseful and exciting first in series novel, grounded by the exceptional character of Simon Fisk. Fast paced with the bonus of an unexpected conclusion, this is one of the year's best thrillers. Don't miss it. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Good As Gone
Douglas Corleone
A Simon Fisk Thriller
Minotaur Books (August 2013)

Publisher synopsis: Former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk 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 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, or he can take the case and recover the missing girl. Simon sets out in pursuit of Lindsay 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 leave well alone.

      

Death of a Unicorn, A Novel of Suspense by Peter Dickinson, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Death of a Unicorn by Peter Dickinson, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Small Beer Press.

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 (09/24/2013 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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Death of a Unicorn by Peter Dickinson
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Small Beer Press

Mabs Millett is the reluctant heiress to Cheadle Abbey, one of Vanbrugh's monstrous piles. At a deb dance in the early 1950s she meets a financier who offers her a job as an assistant to the editor of the social diary on a magazine he has just bought, a cross between Punch and The Tatler.

She writes an account of a deb dance from the viewpoint of a feather-headed deb, which becomes a weekly feature in the magazine, and eventually a best-selling book, anticipating the U and non-U furor of a few years later.

Meanwhile she has become the financier's mistress, deeply in love with him and with her work. After ten months of happiness her world falls apart with his gunning down in a street in Buenos Aires. Thirty years later she is a hugely successful romantic novelist, exploiting her fan-base to attract tourists to Cheadle. An old colleague from the magazine asks to see her. Details emerge that cast fresh light on her lover's mysterious death, and eventually reshape her world.

This novel was first published in 1984 by Random House.

      

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Deadline by Sandra Brown, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Grand Central, is Deadline by Sandra Brown.

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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Deadline
Sandra Brown

Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call from a source within the FBI. A new development has come to light in a story that began 40 years ago. It could be the BIG story of Dawson's career one in which he has a vested interest.

Soon, Dawson is covering the disappearance and presumed murder of former Marine Jeremy Wesson, the biological son of the pair of terrorists who remain on the FBI's Most Wanted list. As Dawson delves into the story, he finds himself developing feelings for Wesson's ex-wife, Amelia, and her two young sons. But when Amelia's nanny turns up dead, the case takes a stunning new turn, with Dawson himself becoming a suspect. Haunted by his own demons, Dawson takes up the chase for the notorious outlaws … and the secret, startling truth about himself.

      

Telemystery: BBC One Orders River, a Crime Drama from Abi Morgan

BBC One has ordered a 6-episode crime drama titled River, written by Abi Morgan, who won an Emmy Award this year for her work on BBC Two's The Hour.

John River is a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault-line is the fragility of his mind — a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest. A man who must walk a professional tightrope between a pathology so extreme he risks permanent dismissal, and a healthy state of mind that would cure him of his gift.

"River is a fractured mind navigating a brutal world," said Morgan. "And he does it wearing a police badge. I can't think of a better home for it than the BBC."

Charlotte Moore, Controller of BBC One, added, "River is full of intriguing twists and turns and I was truly gripped when the script came in. Abi's one of Britain's most distinctive and original storytellers and her ability to push the boundaries of the genre in surprising ways makes River her perfect debut on BBC One."

Filming is expected to begin in London next year with a premiere date in 2015.

MystereBooks: Running Cold by Harry Shannon, 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 Running Cold by Harry Shannon. This Kindle book was listed at $0.99 as of the date and time of this post, Tuesday, September 24, 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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Running Cold by Harry Shannon
A Mick Callahan Novel
Publisher: Harry Shannon

Media psychologist Callahan is a failed Navy Seal, a recovering alcoholic and a loyal friend. He's also a man with a hot temper and a talent for getting himself into trouble and now Callahan finds himself up against an angry young soldier just home from Afghanistan.

Wes McCann's father is a compulsive gambler and one of Mick's clients. His brutal murder sets these two dangerous men on a collision course.

  

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Mr. Churchill's Secretary, A Maggie Hope Mystery by Susan Elia MacNeal, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Bantam.

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 (09/24/2013 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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Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal
A Maggie Hope Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Bantam

London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. Her indefatigable spirit and remarkable gifts for codebreaking, though, rival those of even the highest men in government, and Maggie finds that working for the prime minister affords her a level of clearance she could never have imagined — and opportunities she will not let pass. In troubled, deadly times, with air-raid sirens sending multitudes underground, access to the War Rooms also exposes Maggie to the machinations of a menacing faction determined to do whatever it takes to change the course of history.

Ensnared in a web of spies, murder, and intrigue, Maggie must work quickly to balance her duty to King and Country with her chances for survival. And when she unravels a mystery that points toward her own family's hidden secrets, she'll discover that her quick wits are all that stand between an assassin's murderous plan and Churchill himself.

      

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A New MystereBook: Catered To Death by Marlo Hollinger

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 …

Catered To Death by Marlo Hollinger is romance novelist Nell Musolf's debut mystery, published as written by Marlo Hollinger.

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Catered To Death by Marlo Hollinger
A Midlife Crisis Mystery
Publisher: Cozy Cat Press
Publication Date: September 22, 2013

Steve and Dee Dee Pearson enjoy that rare thing — a happy marriage. The only fly in their marital bliss is the fact that they are approaching retirement with only one pension (Steve's). Dee Dee hopes to remedy their financial situation by starting a catering business. Her first job is at Eden Academy, a private school staffed by teachers who loathe one another and a principal who is strongly lacking in principles, especially when it comes to his female employees.

When the principal winds up dead after Dee Dee's luncheon, Dee Dee's paycheck is put on what looks like permanent hold. Dee Dee decides to help find out who murdered the principal so that she can be assured that her very first catering job will be paid in full. Dee Dee investigates all of the teachers at Eden Academy and discovers that any one of them could have finished off their boss.