The Diviners by Libba Bray is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Diviners by Libba Bray as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, November 20, 2013.

Note: The price has been matched by Amazon.com for today only.

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The Diviners
Libba Bray
The Diviners Series
Little, Brown

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us?

Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City — and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.

Evie worries he'll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.

As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfurled in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened …

 

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Escape from Eden by Elisa Nader is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Escape from Eden by Elisa Nader as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, November 20, 2013.

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Escape from Eden
Elisa Nader
A Suspense Thriller for Teens
Merit Press

Since the age of ten, Mia has rebelled against the iron fist of a fundamentalist preacher who lured her mother away to join a fanatical family of followers. At "Edenton", a supposed Garden of Eden deep in the South American jungle, everyone follows the reverend's strict and arbitrary rules — even about whom they can marry. Mia dreams of slipping away from the armed guards who keep the faithful in and the curious out.

When the rebellious Gabe, a new boy, arrives with his family, Mia sees her chance to escape and to free her family. But the scandalous secrets the two discover beyond the compound's facade are more shocking than anything they imagined. While Gabe has his own terrible secrets, he and Mia bond together, more than friend and freedom fighters.

But there's no time to think about love as they race against time to stop the reverend's paranoid plan to free his flock — but not himself — from this corrupt world. Can two kids crush a criminal mastermind? And who will die in the fight to save the ones they love from a madman whose only concern is his own secrets?

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (131120)

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

• Our Featured Title is Inspector Magnusson: Murder on the Titanic.

• The Daily Deal is Letters from Nowhere, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Guardians of Magic: Amanda's Awakening, just $2.99 through Sunday, November 24, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Huge One Day Sale! Collector's Editions are just $6.99 each with coupon code BIG while Standard Edition games are just $3.49 each with coupon code DEAL. Offer valid today only, November 20th, 2013 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 Inspector Magnusson: Murder on the Titanic

Unravel a tale of murder and conspiracy on the famous RMS Titanic. Help Professor Jakob Magnusson as you travel from the depths of the engine room to the finest suites aboard the great ship to uncover who murdered lowly coal tender Charles Taylor, and why. Solve puzzles and expose clues in this thrilling adventure to piece together the evidence that reveals the dark conspiracy connecting the murder to the doomed ship's tragic destiny!

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Letters from Nowhere

Help Audrey find her missing husband! After disappearing mysteriously, the only clue left behind are the Letters from Nowhere! Dramatic and captivating story, heaps of mysterious letters, tons of Hidden Objects and much more await you in this captivating game. Meet eccentric characters, explore enigmatic locations, and find important clues!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Wednesday, November 20, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Guardians of Magic: Amanda's Awakening

Join Amanda on this astounding journey between scientific and magical realms! Explore 27 wondrous scenes and solve masterful puzzles to find the balance. Cast spells with your wand, build magical devices, and use technological savvy to stop Dr. Magus. With impressive mini-games, an engaging story, and an amazing ending, this game is a wonderful escape that's certain to please.

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 24, 2013.

Review: Dust by Patricia Cornwell

A Mysterious Review of Dust by Patricia Cornwell. A Kay Scarpetta Mystery.

Review summary: The storyline here is a complicated one, as most featuring Kay Scarpetta are, but one that can readily be followed and one that holds the reader's interest. It is definitely one of the better entries in this fine, long-running series. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Dust
Patricia Cornwell
A Kay Scarpetta Mystery
Putnam (November 2013)

Publisher synopsis: Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she's awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino.

A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT and it's suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears she's been murdered, mere weeks before the trial of her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial managers, and Scarpetta doubts it's a coincidence. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy.

At a glance there is no sign of what killed Gail Shipton, but she's covered with a fine dust that under ultraviolet light fluoresces brilliantly in three vivid colors, what Scarpetta calls a mineral fingerprint. Clearly the body has been posed with chilling premeditation that is symbolic and meant to shock, and Scarpetta has reason to worry that the person responsible is the Capital Murderer, whose most recent sexual homicides have terrorized Washington, D.C. Stunningly, Scarpetta will discover that her FBI profiler husband, Benton Wesley, is convinced that certain people in the government, including his boss, don't want the killer caught.

Scarpetta and her colleagues are up against a force far more sinister than a sexual predator who fits the criminal classification of a "spectacle killer". The murder of Gail Shipton soon leads deep into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organized crime, and shocking corruption at the highest levels.

      

Bookish: What Lost and Star Trek Fans Will Love about J. J. Abrams' Book S.

J. J. Abrams — the creative mind behind the television series Alias, and Lost, and the Star Trek film prequels, and much more — has co-written his first novel with Doug Dorst. Simply titled S., it was published last month by Mulholland Books.

Though we haven't actually seen the book, Nathan Rostron and Natalie Zutter describe it for us: "The book comes in a sleek black slipcase emblazoned with a scripted S., but when you pull it out, you're holding what looks to be an old-school library book called Ship of Theseus — complete with pages that are yellowed with time and graffitied with notes in the margins — and a list of due dates stamped in the back. Take care riffling through the pages — you might displace the postcards, letters and news clippings that are tucked within them."

We're providing the publisher's synopsis of what the book is about, below, but those who have followed Abrams' work to date will want to know … "What Lost and Star Trek Fans Will Love about J. J. Abrams' Book S." by Nathan Rostron and Natalie Zutter for Bookish.

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S.
J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst

One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.

A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown.

The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V. M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.

The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him.

The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears.

  

A New MystereBook: Trust Me by Jeff Abbott

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 …

Trust Me by Jeff Abbott

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Trust Me by Jeff Abbott
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Grand Central
Publication Date: November 19, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 11/19/13 04:30 PM ET)

First published in hardcover by Dutton in July 2009.

Luke Dantry finds the bad guys … before they're bad guys. He works for a Washington, D.C. think tank as a minor academic who studies the online venting of would-be extremists, trying to identify those who will move from threatening words to deadly action. Anonymously typing from his computer as he monitors a loose collection of enraged loners, Luke thinks his identity is safe — but he is wrong.

Suddenly kidnapped and left for dead in an isolated cabin, Luke soon realizes that the people he's been watching and studying are more organized and dangerous than he ever imagined. And they aren't the only ones who've kept an eye on him. Now with his former targets — and the federal government — tracking every move he makes, Luke must decipher a murderous web of connections that reaches into his own broken past. Only Luke can stop a looming threat that may kill countless people — including himself.

      

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A Kindle Countdown Deal: Another Man's Treasure by S. W. Hubbard

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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Another Man's Treasure by S. W. Hubbard
A Romantic Thriller
Publisher: S. W. Hubbard
Price: $0.99 (as of 11/19/13 04:00 PM ET)

On a snowy Christmas Eve, a beautiful young mother goes out to buy a few last minute gifts and never returns. Thirty years later, her daughter picks up her trail …

As the owner of an estate sale business, Audrey Nealon knows a lot about art, antiques, and the unlikely places old people hide their treasures. But the shabby home of an elderly widow holds alarming surprises: street drugs in the silverware drawer, a trunkful of jewels in the attic, and the distinctive ring Audrey's mother was wearing the night she disappeared. Believing the truth will bring her peace, Audrey relentlessly pursues clues to her family's troubled history.

But each fact Audrey uncovers drags her further away from the love she craves, and puts her on a collision course with people more determined, more ambitious, and more dangerous than she can fathom. Ultimately, some truths are too awful to bear, and too terrible to share.

  

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A New MystereBook: Cold Comfort by Charles Todd

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 …

Cold Comfort by Charles Todd

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Cold Comfort by Charles Todd
An Ian Rutledge Mystery Novella
Publisher: William Morrow Impulse
Publication Date: November 19, 2013
Price: $1.99 (as of 11/19/13 03:30 PM ET)

t's 1915, and the Great War is barely six months old. Lieutenant Ian Rutledge has left behind his career at Scotland Yard and is now serving in France. He's temporarily with the sappers — men digging underground tunnels toward the German lines to set off explosions under the enemy trenches. In his sector, Rutledge and his men set their charges and get out of the tunnel as fast as possible. But the charges don't go off. It's madness to go back down and find out why, but Rutledge and Private Williams volunteer. They barely make it back before the tunnel blows up. Rutledge suspects that two Welsh miners cut the fuse too long, even though they deny it.

Then Williams confides to Rutledge that these same men, half brothers Taffy Jones and Aaron Lloyd, have tried before this to kill him. And they're determined enough to risk other men's lives as well. Rutledge discovers in the midst of a raging battle that murder has made its way to France, and he must find a way to prove it.

      

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The Blood Gospel, The Order of the Sanguines Series by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Blood Gospel by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, William Morrow.

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 (11/19/2013 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 Blood Gospel by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell
The Order of the Sanguines Series (1st in series)
Publisher: William Morrow

An earthquake in Masada, Israel, kills hundreds and reveals a tomb buried in the heart of the mountain. A trio of investigators — Sergeant Jordan Stone, a military forensic expert; Father Rhun Korza, a Vatican priest; and Dr. Erin Granger, a brilliant but disillusioned archaeologist — are sent to explore the macabre discovery, a subterranean temple holding the crucified body of a mummified girl.

But a brutal attack at the site sets the three on the run, thrusting them into a race to recover what was once preserved in the tomb's sarcophagus: a book rumored to have been written by Christ's own hand, a tome that is said to hold the secrets to His divinity. The enemy who hounds them is like no other, a force of ancient evil directed by a leader of impossible ambitions and incalculable cunning.

From crumbling tombs to splendorous churches, Erin and her two companions must confront a past that traces back thousands of years, to a time when ungodly beasts hunted the dark spaces of the world, to a moment in history when Christ made a miraculous offer, a pact of salvation for those who were damned for eternity.

    

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The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Mulholland Books, is The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi.

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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The Lost Girls of Rome
Donato Carrisi

Sandra Vega, a forensic analyst with the Roman police department, mourns deeply for a marriage that ended too soon. A few months ago, in the dead of night, her husband, an up-and-coming journalist, plunged to his death at the top of a high-rise construction site. The police ruled it an accident. Sanda is convinced it was anything but.

Launching her own inquiries, Sanda finds herself on a dangerous trail, working the same case that she is convinced led to her husband's murder. An investigation which is deeply entwined with a series of disappearances that has swept the city, and brings Sandra ever closer to a centuries-old secret society that will do anything to stay in the shadows.

      

Elvis and the Dearly Departed, A Southern Cousins Mystery by Peggy Webb, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Elvis and the Dearly Departed by Peggy Webb, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Kensington.

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 (11/19/2013 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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Elvis and the Dearly Departed by Peggy Webb
A Southern Cousins Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Kensington

They say you can't get to Heaven without passing through the Eternal Rest Funeral Home. And no one gets into Eternal Rest without passing muster with Elvis — the basset hound who's convinced he's the reincarnation of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Brewing up a big ol' pitcher of Mississippi mystery, Peggy Webb's delightful new series is as intoxicating as the Delta breeze.

Normally, Callie Valentine Jones spends her days fixing up the hairdos of the dead, but when the corpse of local, prominent physician Dr. Leonard Laton goes missing, it's bad for business. So Callie and her cousin Lovie (Eternal Rest's resident wake caterer) have no choice but to go in hot pursuit of the recently embalmed, last seen bound for Vegas by way of downtown Tupelo.

In Vegas, Callie and Lovie hit the jackpot when they find the dearly departed inside a freezer owned by his showgirl mistress, Bubble Malone. But their luck runs out when Bubble decides to join her man in the afterlife. With the poisonous Laton family tree providing plenty of rotten suspects, Callie, along with some help from her basset hound, Elvis, is determined to crack this case — and have a killer singing "Jailhouse Rock" in time for her next haircutting appointment …

      

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MystereBooks: 101 Nights by Christoph Spielberg, 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 101 Nights by Christoph Spielberg. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Tuesday, November 19, 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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101 Nights by Christoph Spielberg
A Felix Hoffmann Mystery
Publisher: AmazonCrossing

It's been 101 days since Dr. Felix Hoffmann's girlfriend, Celine, left Berlin in a humanitarian convoy carrying aid to Kurdish northern Iraq. Now her coffin returns home. The story from Baghdad is that Celine orchestrated the very bomb attack that killed her, but a devastated Felix cannot believe that Celine would willingly participate in such an act. Certain clues — as well as questioning from German, Iraqi, and American agencies — further raise his suspicions.

Amid a web of lies and deceptions, Felix uncovers terrifying secrets that point to an international conspiracy. The closer he gets to the truth, the greater the danger becomes, and it could stop the doctor's investigation — permanently.

  

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