Kill Order by Charlie Flowers is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Kill Order by Charlie Flowers as today's third free mystery ebook (A Riz Sabir Thriller; Kindle format only).

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

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Kill Order
Charlie Flowers
A Riz Sabir Thriller
Publisher: Endeavour Press

An ex al-Qaeda jihadi, Rizwan Sabir is now a fixer for a shadowy branch of the Ministry of Defence. He has teamed up professionally and romantically with Holly "Bang-Bang" Kirpachi — a hard-bitten girl gang leader. Their marriage was set to be the social event of the season. Until the wedding celebrations were interrupted by a series of murders in the East End of London. Someone is copying Jack the Ripper with a new spate of gruesome killings in Whitechapel.

Riz and Bang-Bang are assigned to the case — but this is no easy mystery to crack. Can they catch the killer before he strikes again? Or are there other, darker forces at work?

  

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Red Tide by Peg Brantley is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Red Tide by Peg Brantley 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, October 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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Red Tide
Peg Brantley
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Bark Publishing

When both old and new secrets are uncovered at a burial site, the timetable of a madman moves up …

Jamie Taylor and her human remains detection dog set out to find some bodies buried for more than a decade. They found them — and some new surprises as well. Some families would find closure while others would have their lives ripped apart.

Agent Nicholas Grant becomes embroiled in the case while battling his own demons.

A madman watches from the distance while officials expose his clandestine playground, forcing him to speed up his plans for devastation.

Can a dog handler and a troubled FBI agent stop him before he kills thousands of innocent people?

  

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Exile on Slain Street by P. J. Morse is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Exile on Slain Street by P. J. Morse as today's free mystery ebook (A Clancy Parker Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, October 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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Exile on Slain Street
P. J. Morse
A Clancy Parker Mystery
Publisher: P. J. Morse Books

Clancy Parker thought she'd been hired to protect the show's star, grunge-rock guitar god Patrick Price, from a stalker, but she quickly realizes she's dealing with a clever murderer whose arsenal includes booby-trapped stripper poles and sabotaged stretch Hummers. As members of the cast and production team are killed one by one, Clancy finds herself with few allies. She's at the mercy of a nosy camera crew and, even worse, reality show contestants who will do anything for fame.

However, Clancy is the right woman for this challenge. She plays guitar for a band, and she fancies herself a rock ‘n' roll detective, like Kinky Friedman, only a whole lot prettier. With her music background, Patrick Price can't resist her, but the attentions of a horny rock star threaten to distract her from her original purpose, which is to save her client's life.

  

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Review: Bad Blood by Arne Dahl

A Mysterious Review of Bad Blood by Arne Dahl. An "A-Unit" Mystery.

Review summary: This police procedural takes an incredibly long time to get started. But the storyline is a strong one and it is unlikely that any reader will "figure it out" much before the end. If readers can hang on through what is a seriously tedious beginning, they will be rewarded with what is, on balance, a really solid entry in this series. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Bad Blood
Arne Dahl
An "A-Unit" Mystery
Pantheon (August 2013)

Publisher synopsis: When a Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death in a janitor's closet at Newark International Airport, the police realize that the murderer made off with the victim's ticket and boarded a flight to Stockholm. Swedish authorities are placed on high alert, but the killer manages to slip through the customs dragnet and vanishes into the night.

With no clear motive in sight, Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of Intercrime's A-Unit take over the investigation. They learn that the method of torture used was not only a highly specialized means of extracting information secretly developed during the Vietnam War — allowing the victim to whisper, but not to scream — but also that it was the modus operandi of an allegedly deceased homicidal maniac known only as the Kentucky Killer.

As additional victims are discovered on the outskirts of Stockholm and the terror grows, the team finds itself coming up empty-handed. Hjelm and Holm fly to New York, hoping to discover both the killer's identity and the source of his interest in Sweden. What they quickly learn, searching through the past, is that bad blood always comes back around.

      

Warner Bros. Options Jo Nesbø's Blood on the Snow for Film

We recently reported on Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø assuming the pen name Tom Johansen for his next book, to be published in Fall 2014.

We're now learning (via Deadline) that Blood on the Snow has been preemptively optioned for film by Warner Bros. The storyline is centered on a man hired by his boss to kill his wife only to fall for her instead. (We're hoping there's more to it than that!)

A second book under contract (working title More Blood on the Snow), to be published in 2015, is apparently not part of this deal.

A New MystereBook: Nightlife by Matthew Quinn Martin

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 during October 2013 priced $3.99 or less …

Nightlife by Matthew Quinn Martin is an action-packed debut horror novel that pits a feisty bartender and a mysterious loner against bloodthirsty terrors as alluring as they are deadly.

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Nightlife by Matthew Quinn Martin
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Pocket Star
Publication Date: October 21, 2013

Nightclub bartender and serial heartbreaker Beth Becker might be a cynic. But when her best friend goes missing Halloween night, Beth knows it's up to her to find out what happened.

Her quest will take her on an odyssey through the crumbling city of New Harbor, Connecticut. Along the way she meets a homeless prophet warning of something he calls the "Night Angel" — a bloodthirsty creature that feeds on the forgotten. And she will form an unlikely bond with a hunted stranger who knows all too well what stalks the streets at night.

The strange man tells Beth the hideous truth about the nightmare creatures that have haunted mankind's imagination for eons — creatures the world calls vampires. Together they are the only hope for New Harbor, but to defeat what lurks in the shadows they'll have to conquer something far stronger than fear — their own desires.

      

Hallowe'en Party, A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, William Morrow.

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 (10/21/2013 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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Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Publisher: William Morrow

Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver has been invited to a Hallowe'en party at Woodleigh Common. One of the other guests is an adolescent girl known for telling tall tales of murder and intrigue — and for being generally unpleasant. But when the girl, Joyce, is found drowned in an apple-bobbing tub, Mrs Oliver wonders after the fictional nature of the girl's claim that she had once witnessed a murder.

Which of the party guests wanted to keep her quiet is a question for Ariadne's friend Hercule Poirot. But unmasking a killer this Hallowe'en is not going to be easy — for there isn't a soul in Woodleigh who believes the late little storyteller was actually murdered.

    

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The 7th Woman, A Nico Sirsky, Chief of Police Mystery by Frédérique Molay, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The 7th Woman by Frédérique Molay, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Le French Book.

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 (10/21/2013 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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The 7th Woman by Frédérique Molay
A Nico Sirsky, Chief of Police Mystery
Publisher: Le French Book

There's no rest for Paris's top criminal investigation division, La Crim'. Who is preying on women in the French capital? How can he kill again and again without leaving any clues?

A serial killer is taking pleasure in a macabre ritual that leaves the police on tenterhooks. Chief of Police Nico Sirsky — a super cop with a modern-day real life, including an ex-wife, a teenage son and a budding love story — races against the clock to solve the murders as they get closer and closer to his inner circle.

  

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Duck the Halls by Donna Andrews, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Minotaur Books, is Duck the Halls by Donna Andrews.

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

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Duck the Halls
Donna Andrews
Series: Meg Langslow (16th)

A few nights before Christmas, Meg is awakened when volunteer fireman Michael is summoned to the New Life Baptist Church, where someone has rigged a cage full of skunks in the choir loft. The lengthy process of de-skunking the church requires its annual pre-Christmas concert to relocate to Trinity Episcopal, where Mother insists the show must go on, despite the budget-related protests of Mr. Vess, an elderly vestryman. Meanwhile, when Meg helps her grandfather take the skunks to the zoo, they discover that his boa has been stolen — only to turn up later during the concert, slithering out from the ribbon-bedecked evergreens. The next morning is Sunday, and the congregation of St. Byblig's, the local Catholic church, arrive to find it completely filled with several hundred ducks.

It's clear that some serious holiday pranksters are on the loose, and Meg is determined to find them. But before she can, a fire breaks out at Trinity, and Mr. Vess is discovered dead. Who would have murdered such a harmless — if slightly cranky — old man? Who has the time during the busy holiday season to herd all of these animals into the town's churches? And will Meg ever be able to finish all of her shopping, wrapping, cooking, caroling, and decorating in time for Christmas Eve?

      

Stray Bullets, An Ari Greene Legal Thriller by Robert Rotenberg, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Stray Bullets by Robert Rotenberg, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Touchstone.

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 (10/21/2013 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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Stray Bullets by Robert Rotenberg
An Ari Greene Legal Thriller
Publisher: Touchstone

Outside a busy downtown doughnut shop, gunshots ring out and a young boy is critically hurt. Soon Detective Ari Greene is on scene. How many shots were fired? How many guns? How many witnesses?

With grieving parents and a city hungry for justice, the pressure is on to convict the man accused of this horrible crime. Against this tidal wave of indignation, defence counsel Nancy Parish finds herself defending her oldest and most difficult client.

But does anyone know the whole story?

      

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MystereBooks: Angel Wings by Howard Kaminsky, 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 Angel Wings by Howard Kaminsky. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, October 21, 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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Angel Wings by Howard Kaminsky
A Danny Martell Mystery
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

As a veteran member of the Providence police department's elite homicide squad, Detective Danny Martell has seen his fair share of dead bodies. But he's never seen anything quite like this. Women around the city are being brutally murdered, their dead faces elaborately made up and fabric angel wings attached to their lifeless bodies. The attacks are immediately dubbed "the Angel Murders" — yet it doesn't take long for the deadly crime wave to drag Danny into his own personal hell …

Because soon after the killings begin, Danny's wife, Linda, abruptly disappears. And when his worst fears are realized, a grief-stricken Danny redoubles his efforts to hunt down the deranged serial killer. But is Linda just another random "angel"? Or is she the victim of a copycat killer with a vendetta against Danny?

  

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Into the Deep, A Bree Nicholls Mystery by Colleen Coble, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Into the Deep by Colleen Coble, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Thomas Nelson.

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 (10/21/2013 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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Into the Deep by Colleen Coble
A Bree Nicholls Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Thomas Nelson

A canine search-and-rescue team find the missing link between disparate crimes that have authorities perplexed …

A local scientist misses his son's birthday party and turns up dead in Lake Superior. A radical environmental group blames a mysterious lab for dead fish found in a remote stream. Then an Alzheimer's patient goes missing and his home is ransacked.

Bree Nichols and her beloved search-and-rescue dog, Samson, pitch in to help investigate the events disrupting their small community. But new discoveries soon throw her shaky love life into tilt, dredge up her painful past, and threaten her family. Bree must dive deep for the faith to keep going, the strength to defend those she cares about, and the courage to keep her fearful heart open to love.

  

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A New MystereBook: Kickout Clause by Jenna Bennett

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 during October 2013 priced $3.99 or less …

Kickout Clause by Jenna Bennett is the 7th book in the Cutthroat Business mysteries featuring Southern Belle and Realtor Savannah Martin in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Kickout Clause by Jenna Bennett
A Savannah Martin Mystery
Publisher: Magpie Ink
Publication Date: October 12, 2013

When Shelby Ferguson, Savannah's ex-husband's new wife, begs Savannah's help in figuring out what's going on with Bradley, Savannah can't in good conscience say no. Shelby has no one else to turn to, no one to whom she can admit that her marriage is on the rocks and that Bradley may be straying.

But helping Shelby turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg. With two different sets of buyers vying to purchase Mrs. Jenkins's house, and an escaped prisoner targeting Savannah, she has more than enough to deal with. And that's before TBI rookie Manny Ortega is shot down in cold blood.

With Savannah's boyfriend Rafe Collier, and their friend, homicide detective Tamara Grimaldi, busy looking for Manny's murderer, it's up to Savannah to juggle buyers and agents and vandals and lawyers, and come out on top … without losing her Southern Belle poise or her life in the process.