Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (131129)

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

• Our Featured Title is Living Legends: Ice Rose.

• The Daily Deal is Grim Tales: The Legacy, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Awakening: The Skyward Castle, just $2.99 through Sunday, December 01, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — 24-Hour Black Friday Sale: All Games are Two for the Price of One! Use coupon code BLACK to get a second Collector's Edition game for free when you purchase one; use coupon code FRIDAY to get a second Standard Edition game for free when you purchase one. Offer valid on Friday, November 29th, 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 Living Legends: Ice Rose

Novelist Edward Grand has found evidence of a terrible tragedy in the city of Rosemount and sets off to investigate! Help Edward gather information for his new book and explore the Castle of Ice Queen in this incredible Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game. Scour the frozen landscapes and thaw out important locations as you solve an intriguing mystery!

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Grim Tales: The Legacy

After getting married to the love of her life, it seems like a happy ending is right around the corner for your sister. However, all is not well. The sounds of ravenous beasts echo through the halls of the once great estate and your sister is missing! Use your Hidden Object talents to track down her family and save them!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Friday, November 29, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Awakening: The Skyward Castle

This is the tale of young Princess Sophia, who awakens from a magical century-long slumber into a land threatened by an ancient evil. Braving the dangers of an unfamiliar world, Princess Sophia has travelled far to discover the fate of her exiled kingdom. Having no magic of her own in a land built with living magic, she must overcome the many foes, perils and obstacles with her wit, skill and allies. Can Princess Sophia lift the curse that plagues her people? Find out in this epic conclusion!

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, December 01, 2013.

Hostage by Kay Hooper, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this month by Berkley Hardcover, is Hostage by Kay Hooper.

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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Hostage
Kay Hooper
Series: Bishop: Special Crimes Unit (2nd)

Haven operative Luther Brinkman has been sent into the wilderness of the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee to locate escaped felon Cole Jacoby, a mentally unstable bank robber. Supposedly, Jacoby hid more than ten million dollars from his last heist before he was captured — and rather mysteriously escaped federal custody. And once Brinkman finds Jacoby, the agent is left severely wounded, with no way to convey his location to Haven.

Callie Davis, an agent with the FBI's Special Crimes Unit, has been in the area for some time, due to the foresight of her boss and unit chief, Noah Bishop. But when she finds the wounded Brinkman, her rescue mission turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

What neither Luther nor Callie know is that their quarry is far more than an escaped bank robber. And that in hunting him, they will find themselves being hunted by him, and will discover him to be the worst monster either of them has ever known.

      

A New MystereBook: Cut Short by Leigh Russell

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 …

Cut Short by Leigh Russell introduces Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel, a police officer in the small English town of Woolsmarsh. It was first published in trade paperback by No Exit Press in 2009.

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Cut Short by Leigh Russell
A Geraldine Steel Mystery
Publisher: Witness Impulse
Publication Date: November 26, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 11/28/13 12:30 PM ET)

D.I. Geraldine Steel relocates to the quiet rural town of Woolsmarsh, thinking she's found a restful place where she can battle her demons in private. But when she finds herself pitted against a twisted killer preying on young local women in the park, she quickly discovers how wrong she is …

When an unwitting bystander comes forward as a witness, she quickly becomes the murderer's next obsession. And Geraldine Steel is locked in a race against time, determined to find the killer before yet another victim is discovered. But can she save the lives of the town's young women — or will Geraldine herself become the killer's ultimate trophy?

  

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Taking Care of Business by Tristi Pinkston is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Taking Care of Business by Tristi Pinkston as today's fifth free mystery ebook (An Estelle Watkins Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, November 28, 2013 at 7:50 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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Taking Care of Business
Tristi Pinkston
An Estelle Watkins Mystery
Publisher: BigWorldNetwork.com

Estelle Watkins has no intention of becoming a detective. Her one stint as an elderly, female Magnum P.I. was enough for her.

But when her husband's co-worker is murdered in their office and the victim's wife asks for help, Estelle can't turn her away. (She always has been a sucker for puppy-dog eyes.)

Investigating a murder in a Jackson-Hewitt office is taxing … which Estelle learns the hard way.

  

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Finding Family by Giacomo Giammatteo is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Finding Family by Giacomo Giammatteo as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Mystery Novella; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, November 28, 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.

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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Finding Family
Giacomo Giammatteo
A Mystery Novella
Publisher: Inferno Publishing

Blood flows south — the beginning  …

Dominic Mangini wanted what all 8-year-old boys want — time to laugh and play, loving parents, and enough food on the table. But in war-ravaged Sicily, food was scarce, and his parents were as scarred as the land.

His father said they must move to America so they could start over and be a family once again. Dominic got a new start, and he got a new family — but not the kind of family he expected.

  

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Badger Lake by Aaron Shaffer is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Badger Lake by Aaron Shaffer as today's third free mystery ebook (A Murder Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, November 28, 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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Badger Lake
Aaron Shaffer
A Murder Mystery
Publisher: Aaron Shaffer

Murder and corruption. A small-town news team. Tropical birds. Sharp-clawed badgers. A tornado. What could possibly go wrong?

After two strange murders in two days, small-town Badger Lake needs some heroes. A twisted, but strangely comical, storyline pits small-town television news against East Coast mob. Who are the heroes trying to find a pair of bumbling murderers? A motley crew, consisting of tropical bird-toting television reporter Walt Johnson, an intern who wants to be known as "Captain", and their TV station's peculiar management team — a cross-dressing general manager and a news director with a roughly ten-second attention span.

While attempting to solve the murders, the group of news men forms an alliance with a pair of well-educated, scantily-clad college women, and a lazy, but emotional, sheriff. There are painful encounters with wild animals, strange water chases involving boats and animals, a tornado, and many other scenarios that could only take place in one place: Badger Lake, Wisconsin.

  

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Paloma by Linda A. Lavid is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Paloma by Linda A. Lavid as today's second free mystery ebook (A Laurent & Dove Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, November 28, 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.

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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Paloma
Linda A. Lavid
A Laurent & Dove Mystery
Publisher: FCPressLLC

Paloma, a woman with three identities, is running hard and fast. Someone wants her dead. But which identity is the killer after? Max Laurent, retired FBI agent, throws himself into the mix.

Paloma must outwit the assassin. Max must outwit Paloma. Before coming to terms with past misunderstandings and a child long ago abandoned, they must, together or apart, find and eliminate the killer.

  

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Came a Shadow by Patrick Dakin is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Came a Shadow by Patrick Dakin as today's free mystery ebook (The Shadow Trilogy; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, November 28, 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.

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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Came a Shadow
Patrick Dakin
The Shadow Trilogy
Publisher: Patrick Dakin

When he is eight years old Reuben Sykes kills his abusive father in a remote cabin in the mountains of Virginia. Although the act brings with it a sense of tremendous relief, Reuben takes no pleasure in it. The subsequent murder of his sister, though, is an entirely different matter. When done, in fact, his only regret is that he can't kill her all over again.

Sixty-four years later, when four-year-old Sophie Crandall is abducted from her grandfather's home in rural Maine, the ensuing investigation brings answers none of those involved, least of all the police, want to hear.

  

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Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, November 28, 2013.

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Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger
A Novel
Atria Books

New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson's Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder.

Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family — which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother — he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years.

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (131128)

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

• Our Featured Title is Paranormal Crime Investigations: Brotherhood of the Crescent Snake.

• The Daily Deal is Web of Deceit: Black Widow, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Awakening: The Skyward Castle, just $2.99 through Sunday, December 01, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Thanksgiving Sale: All Standard Edition games are just $4.99! Use coupon code GOBBLE at check-out to purchase any Standard Edition PC or Mac game for just $4.99. Offer valid November 28th, 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 Paranormal Crime Investigations: Brotherhood of the Crescent Snake

Use your Paranormal Crime Investigation skills to solve a string of bizarre murders plaguing the city of New Orleans and stop an ancient magical cult from summoning their monstrous snake god. Called in by Louisiana's PCI central command to investigate a murder using dark magic rituals, you quickly discover the strange and worrying recent happenings in the city are all connected to a strange and ancient cult, the Brotherhood of the Crescent Snake.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Web of Deceit: Black Widow

You're drawn into a web of deceit when your train stops in Andville, where the Black Widow lies in wait. Follow a trail of clues and dead husbands as you explore this once picturesque town now at the mercy of the Black Widow and her mechanical minions. What drives her lust for revenge? Where is the root of her strange power? Uncover the bizarre history — and mystery — of this little town. And track down the Black Widow in time to foil her devious plot for revenge!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Thursday, November 28, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Awakening: The Skyward Castle

This is the tale of young Princess Sophia, who awakens from a magical century-long slumber into a land threatened by an ancient evil. Braving the dangers of an unfamiliar world, Princess Sophia has travelled far to discover the fate of her exiled kingdom. Having no magic of her own in a land built with living magic, she must overcome the many foes, perils and obstacles with her wit, skill and allies. Can Princess Sophia lift the curse that plagues her people? Find out in this epic conclusion!

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, December 01, 2013.

A New MystereBook: Door To Door by P. J. Sheehan

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 …

Door To Door by P. J. Sheehan is the first in a series of mysteries featuring Barry Soldat, accidental and reluctant detective.

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Door To Door by P. J. Sheehan
A Barry Soldat Murder Mystery
Publisher: P. J. Sheehan
Publication Date: November 25, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 11/27/13 04:30 PM ET)

Barry Soldat just wants to make it from Tuesday to Wednesday without getting into trouble. But trouble is everywhere. He gets fired. His girl friend dumps him. Three punks try to beat him up.

Meanwhile, five people have been killed with the same gun — a homeless man, three women, and a priest. The priest was his ex-wife's nephew, and she asks Barry to gather her nephew's personal effects. A small favor, she calls it, but somehow it looks like trouble.

Barry's not a hero. He's a decent guy trying to help, but no one wants to cooperate. Monsignor Murray won't tell him the whole story. Lieutenant Reille challenges him. A shadowy businessman tells him to leave town.

He needs a break. Saturday night, trying to relax at Maxi's Bar, Barry suddenly realizes who the killer is.

And that's when his troubles really begin.

  

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Random, A Crime Thriller by Craig Robertson, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Random by Craig Robertson, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Simon & Schuster.

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 (11/27/2013 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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Random by Craig Robertson
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings; no kind of pattern or motive; an entirely different method of murder each time, and nothing that connects the victims except for the fact that the little fingers of their right hands have been severed.

If DS Rachel Narey could only work out the key to the seemingly random murders, how and why the killer selects his victims, she would be well on her way to catching him. But as the police, the press and a threatening figure from Glasgow's underworld begin to close in on The Cutter, his carefully-laid plans threaten to unravel — with horrifying consequences.

  

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A New MystereBook: The Executive Graveyard by Shaye Mann

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 Executive Graveyard by Shaye Mann is, according to the author, "based on my personal experience at the park and figments of my wild imagination."

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The Executive Graveyard by Shaye Mann
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Shaye Mann
Publication Date: November 26, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 11/27/13 03:30 PM ET)

Deep in the canyons of Southern Utah lies nature's deadliest predator: man. The location is Zion National Park, host to three million tourists each year. But unfortunately, not all of them make it out alive.

Nick Perrone is a successful executive whose wife is seven months pregnant with a child he never wanted. Wyatt Orr is a struggling Homicide Detective who joined the force after failing to save his father from an armed burglar.

A camping trip seems like the perfect opportunity for these estranged friends to reconnect — and what better place than Zion? But after a heated argument, Wyatt backs out, leaving Nick to go alone.

Now Nick is missing and the authorities suspect he staged his own disappearance.

But Wyatt doesn't believe it, and finds himself en route to Utah fighting old and new demons. When he discovers Nick has been kidnapped, the pieces of an incomprehensible puzzle of human depravity and corporate greed begin falling into place. With every twist raising the stakes, it becomes a furious race against the clock. Something sinister hides behind those canyon walls, and if Wyatt can't uncover it in time, he, Nick, his wife and their unborn child will be forced to pay the ultimate price.

  

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Heart of the Assassin, The Assassin Trilogy by Robert Ferrigno, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Heart of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Scribner.

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 (11/27/2013 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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Heart of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno
The Assassin Trilogy (3rd in series)
Publisher: Scribner

The year is 2045 and a warrior battles to save America from an Islamic mastermind …

Time is running out for the Islamic Republic and the Bible Belt, the two warring nations that arose when the former United States split apart after an economic collapse left tens of millions unemployed and desperate for leadership. Weakened by their endless conflict, both countries are now threatened by the expansionist dreams of the Aztlán Empire (formerly known as Mexico) to the south, which has steadily encroached deep into the regions once called California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Riven by intellectual and social decay, both the Islamic Republic and the Belt are at the brink of collapse.

The only solution is to reunite the countries and regain America's former power and global standing. And there's only one man who can do it: Rakkim Epps, genetically enhanced shadow warrior and hero of the two previous books in Robert Ferrigno's astonishing Assassin Trilogy.

Time is also running out for Epps's archenemy, the Old One, the sly, immensely rich Muslim fanatic who seeks to create one world under his domination. Now more than one hundred and fifty years old, he is dying and unhappily knows it. His solution is to reunite the Islamic Republic and the Bible Belt his way, and his plan involves his voluptuous but deadly daughter, Baby, and none other than Rakkim himself. The Old One is aided by his sadistic, carbon-skinned enforcer, Gravenholtz, whom Rakkim failed to kill in an earlier encounter and who now wishes to kill Rakkim and those he loves.

Meanwhile, there is a rumor of a discovery of a sacred relic in the contaminated ruins of Washington, D.C., a radiation zone peopled by diseased zombies and daring treasure hunters. It is into this deadly wasteland that Rakkim must secretly travel and retrieve the icon if he is to defeat Gravenholtz, Baby, and the Old One, and have even a chance to unite the two halves of America.

  

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The Missing Dough by Chris Cavender, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this month by Kensington, is The Missing Dough by Chris Cavender.

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 Missing Dough
Chris Cavender
Series: Eleanor Swift, Pizza Lovers (6th)

The only thing Eleanor Swift loves more then A Slice of Delight — her Timber Ridge, North Carolina pizzeria — is her sister Maddy. So when Maddy's cheating ex-husband Grant shows up with some pie-in-the-sky idea to win Maddy back, Eleanor is happy to see her sister swiftly show him the door. But they both know Grant isn't done yet.

Especially when he picks a fight with Maddy's fiancée Bob in front of the whole town at the annual Founder's Day Festival. Naturally, when Grant is later found stabbed in the heart with a barbeque skewer, Bob is featured on the police chief's menu as Suspect #1. And when it turns out that Maddy stands to gain a different kind of dough — and lots of it — from Grant exiting this world, she and Eleanor know it's up to them to cook up an investigation to find the real killer.

Was it that female singer at the festival who wanted a word with the recently deceased? Or maybe Grant's haughty sister, who's colder then a day-old pizza? Or Grant's "business partner", who seemingly had the opportunity, means, and motive to mortally skewer Maddy's ex-husband? Only one thing is for sure: Eleanor and Maddy need to turn up the heat and deliver this killer … or their next scrumptious pizza may be their last!