Black as Snow by Nick Nolan is Today's Kindle Fantasy Thriller Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Black as Snow by Nick Nolan as today's Amazon Kindle Fantasy Thriller Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, November 12, 2013.

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Black as Snow
Nick Nolan
A Fantasy Thriller
AmazonEncore

Sebastian Black is a god amongst men: he's devastatingly handsome and charismatic — and telepathic. So when his scheming mother, prophetess Kitty Black, announces that her son is the “next species of man,” the world begins taking notice. Together, Kitty and Sebastian forge a spiritual movement that celebrates "divine evolution" while warning of a mass extinction. But just as their fame and wealth are building, a tragedy befalls one of Sebastian's disciples, and threats from Christian militants become too real to ignore.

Sebastian flees Los Angeles — and his mother — in search of peace and freedom. One by one he encounters "common" people who astonish him with their uncomplicated stories of love and compassion: an aging lesbian couple; a Mexican handyman; a shy, anorexic woman; a recovering meth addict; a gay teenager; and an unthinking college jock. Surprisingly, each has a profound effect upon this arrogant young "messiah".

As Sebastian drifts further away from Kitty, she becomes more determined to preserve their celebrity status and glittering lifestyle. She sets out to reel Sebastian back to her — even if it means conspiring with his enemies, in particular a dashing young Spaniard who darkly mirrors Sebastian's supernatural talents and good looks. But not even the telepathic Sebastian can foresee what happens next.

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (131112)

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

• Our Featured Title is Murder Island: Secret of Tantalus.

• The current Catch of the Week is Written Legends: Nightmare at Sea, just $2.99 through Sunday, November 17, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Two days only: Series Spotlight — All Standard and Collector's Edition Mystery Case File Games are Sale Priced! Use coupon code CASEFILES to get any Collector's Edition game for just $6.99 or to get any Standard game for just $3.49. Offer valid through November 13th, 2013 only until 11:59 PM PT.

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

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Our Featured Title today is Murder Island: Secret of Tantalus

Welcome to a world of danger and suspense in this thrilling Hidden Object Adventure game! You're invited to a gorgeous, isolated Greek island for your high school reunion. Upon arrival, you notice that something isn't right. One by one, your former classmates get killed — all the murders mirroring tragic Greek myths. Discover clues, locate missing objects, and solve dangerously perplexing puzzles to avoid being next on the mysterious killer's list!

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 Written Legends: Nightmare at Sea

A peaceful sea voyage with your father turns into a Nightmare at Sea when your ship is sunk by the legendary Davy Jones. As you begin to explore the bottom of the ocean, you will discover you are not the only one to suffer this fate. Uncover the secrets of Davy Jones as you meet the other lost souls he has trapped for eternity in this intense Hidden Object 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, November 17, 2013.

A New MystereBook: Lucky Sevens by Cynthia Vespia

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 November 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

Lucky Sevens by Cynthia Vespia is a contemporary thriller based in Las Vegas with a touch of magic on the side. It tells a gritty, true-to-life tale that captures the spirit of sin city and focuses on the raw human emotions of the people who live, work, and play there.

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Lucky Sevens by Cynthia Vespia
Publisher: Original Cyn
Publication Date: November 10, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 11/11/13 04:30 PM ET)

Luca "Lucky" Lucazi is a man who lives for the job, until the job starts to threaten his life. A former Navy Seal, Lucky is ideal as the head of security for Lucky Sevens Casino.

But when major names at the casino start falling victim to deadly and suspicious "accidents" Lucky must find out if a crazed killer is on the loose. Now Lucky must fight his way through a cast of eccentric characters only Las Vegas could spawn, and his own battle with alcoholism, before his lover Brooklyn — the sweethearted stripper — becomes the next victim. But when Lucky faces off with illusionist Christopher King, endowed with real magic powers, will his luck finally run out?

      

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Black Irish, A Suspense Thriller by Stephen Talty, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Black Irish by Stephen Talty, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Ballantine Books.

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 (11/11/2013 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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Black Irish by Stephen Talty
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Ballantine Books

Absalom "Abbie" Kearney grew up an outsider in her own hometown. Even being the adopted daughter of a revered cop couldn't keep Abbie's troubled past from making her a misfit in the working-class Irish American enclave of South Buffalo. And now, despite a Harvard degree and a police detective's badge, she still struggles to earn the respect and trust of those she's sworn to protect. But all that may change, once the killing starts.

When Jimmy Ryan's mangled corpse is found in a local church basement, this sadistic sacrilege sends a bone-deep chill through the winter-whipped city. It also seems to send a message — one that Abbie believes only the fiercely secretive citizens of the neighborhood known as "the County" understand. But in a town ruled by an old-world code of silence and secrecy, her search for answers is stonewalled at every turn, even by fellow cops. Only when Abbie finds a lead at the Gaelic Club, where war stories, gossip, and confidences flow as freely as the drink, do tongues begin to wag — with desperate warnings and dire threats. And when the killer's mysterious calling card appears on her own doorstep, the hunt takes a shocking twist into her own family's past. As the grisly murders and grim revelations multiply, Abbie wages a chilling battle of wits with a maniac who sees into her soul, and she swears to expose the County's hidden history — one bloody body at a time.

      

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A New MystereBook: The Billionaire's Will by Marti Talbott

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 November 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

The Billionaire's Will by Marti Talbott is the new in ebook romantic thriller from the author of the popular Highlander and Scandalous Duchess series.

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The Billionaire's Will by Marti Talbott
Publisher: Marti Talbott
Publication Date: November 10, 2013
Price: $0.99 (as of 11/11/13 03:30 PM ET)

The Harlan Detective Agency was the best there was when it came to finding missing people. They were also the most expensive, so it was no coincidence that they were hired to find the heir to a fortune totaling over $1.6 billion.

Nicholas Gladstone left everything to a granddaughter he didn't know he had until a week before he died, but which one was it — the maid secretly working in the parent's home, an office worker, or the young woman tragically killed in a car accident?

      

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Nerves of Steel, A Hart and Drake Novel of Romantic Medical Suspense by C. J. Lyons, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Nerves of Steel by C. J. Lyons, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Legacy 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 (11/11/2013 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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Nerves of Steel by C. J. Lyons
A Hart and Drake Novel of Romantic Medical Suspense (1st in series)
Publisher: Legacy Books

Dr. Cassandra Hart is fighting a war. And losing. A deadly drug epidemic, a killer stalking her hospital … meet the ER doctor who never gives up.

Cassie's Pittsburgh ER has been deluged by young patients who have overdosed on a new drug, FX. After Cassie discovers that the source of the FX on the streets is her own hospital, her best friend is killed, and Cassie's life is threatened. She is forced to place her trust in Detective Mickey Drake.

Drake's irascible charm eventually penetrates the barriers Cassie has built around herself, and their relationship progresses from professional to passionate. After Cassie discovers the truth behind the thefts, she and Drake must confront a killer. In the end, their only weapons are their new-found love and the courage it gives them.

    

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Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Minotaur Books, is Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming.

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

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Through the Evil Days
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Series: Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne (8th)

On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire. The extent of the tragedy isn't known until the next day, when the charred remains of a man and woman are recovered — along with evidence showing they were shot execution style.

The last thing Russ needs are two potential homicides. He's struggling with the prospect of impending fatherhood, and his new wife is not at all happy with his proposal for their long-delayed honeymoon: a week ice-fishing at a remote Adirondack lake.

St. Alban's Church is still in turmoil over the Reverend Clare Fergusson's news that she's five and a half months pregnant — but only two and a half months married. Worried her post-deployment drinking and drug use may have damaged the baby, she awaits the outcome of the bishop's investigation into her "unpriestly" behavior: a scolding, censure, or permanent suspension.

Officer Hadley Knox is having a miserable January as well. Her on-again, off-again lover, Kevin Flynn, has seven days to weigh an offer from the Syracuse Police Department that might take him half a state away. And her ex-husband's in town — threatening to take custody of their kids unless Hadley pays him off with money she doesn't have.

When Hadley discovers that the dead couple fostered an eight-year-old girl who was a recent liver donee, the search for the killer takes on a new and terrible urgency. With no access to immunosuppressant drugs, transplant rejection will kill the girl in a matter of days.

As a deadly ice storm downs power lines and immobilizes roads, Russ and Clare search desperately for the truth about the missing child, but the hunters will become the hunted when they are trapped in the cabin beside the frozen lake and stalked through the snowbound woods by a killer.

      

Review: Strange Bird by Anna Jansson

A Mysterious Review of Strange Bird by Anna Jansson. A Maria Wern Mystery.

Review summary: This is an incredibly uneven crime novel. In many ways it is more social commentary than mystery, and the two are not terribly well integrated or even well differentiated. Though the storyline here is creative, it isn't all that engaging, especially since it is easy to predict from very early on how it will all play out in the end, that is whodunit and why. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Strange Bird
Anna Jansson
A Maria Wern Mystery
Stockholm Text (August 2013)

Publisher synopsis: As the bird flu pandemic reaches Gotland Island, panic spreads among the inhabitants who are frantic for an elusive cure. In the desperation that rises, the hunt for scapegoats begins, and extremist and anti-immigrant groups gain ground.

Meanwhile, nurse Sandra Hägg makes a gruesome discovery at the health clinic where she works — a discovery that will cost her life. Soon Detective Inspector Maria Wern is assigned to solve the murder.

      

MystereBooks: Thunder and Rain by Charles Martin, 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 Thunder and Rain by Charles Martin. This Kindle book was listed at $3.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, November 11, 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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Thunder and Rain by Charles Martin
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Center Street

Third generation Texas Ranger Tyler Steele is the last of a dying breed — a modern day cowboy hero living in a world that doesn't quite understand his powerful sense of right and wrong and instinct to defend those who can't defend themselves. Despite his strong moral compass, Ty has trouble seeing his greatest weakness. His hard outer shell, the one essential to his work, made him incapable of forging the emotional connection his wife Andie so desperately needed.

Now retired, raising their son Brodie on his own, and at risk of losing his ranch, Ty does not know how to rebuild from the rubble of his life. The answer comes in the form of Samantha and her daughter Hope, on the run from a seemingly inescapable situation. They are in danger, desperate, and alone. Though they are strangers, Ty knows he can help — protecting the innocent is what he does best. As his relationship with Sam and Hope unfolds, Ty realizes he must confront his true weaknesses if he wants to become the man he needs to be.

      

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Diners, Dives & Dead Ends, A Rose Strickland Mystery by Terri L. Austin, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Diners, Dives & Dead Ends by Terri L. Austin, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Henery Press.

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 (11/11/2013 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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Diners, Dives & Dead Ends by Terri L. Austin
A Rose Strickland Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Henery Press

As a struggling waitress and part-time college student, Rose Strickland's life is stalled in the slow lane. But when her close friend, Axton, disappears, Rose suddenly finds herself serving up more than hot coffee and flapjacks. Now she's hashing it out with sexy bad guys and scrambling to find clues in a race to save Axton before his time runs out.

With her anime-loving bestie, her septuagenarian boss, and a pair of IT wise men along for the ride, Rose discovers political corruption, illegal gambling, and shady corporations. She's gone from zero to sixty and quickly learns when you're speeding down the fast lane, it's easy to crash and burn.

      

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A Kindle Countdown Deal: Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals, limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive books.

MystereBooks is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

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Elysium Dreams by Hadena James
The Dreams and Reality Series
Publisher: Hadena James
Price: $0.99 (as of 11/11/13 12:30 PM ET)

He skins his victims alive, taking pleasure from their pain …

In the cold, dark nights of Alaska, a hunter is stalking his prey. Once found, he takes them into the woods and skins them alive. The deaths are brutal and slow.

Aislinn Cain and the Serial Crimes Tracking Unit have just finished up another case when they get the call. Now they are packing their bags and heading for Alaska in March. Can the team overcome the harsh climate and hostile locals to catch their killer before he claims another trophy?

  

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