Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (131209)

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

• The New Release is Cursery: The Crooked Man and the Crooked Cat.

• The current Catch of the Week is Dark Arcana: The Carnival, just $2.99 through Sunday, December 15, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — It is Bonus Punch Monday! Receive a BONUS PUNCH with every game purchase, only on Mondays.

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

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The New Release today is Cursery: The Crooked Man and the Crooked Cat

For more than a century, girls of a certain age have been mysteriously vanishing, never to be seen again. Some say they were taken by the Crooked Man, who always travels with a strange little black cat at his side. Now he’s kidnapped your very own sister! You’ve got to unravel the riddles in the Cursery and find out who's the mastermind behind this whole evil plot. Save your sister, as well as his other kidnap victims … Defeat the Crooked Man and his servant … Uncover the story behind the Crooked Man’s actions … Reveal the mystery of the cursed nursery rhymes, the Cursery …

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 Dark Arcana: The Carnival

Find the missing woman lost in a mysterious Carnival of Horrors. Investigate two worlds: the one you know and an alternate plane existing behind the Hall of Mirrors. There you'll discover the secret of an ancient being known as the Evil One. Travel through dimensions, reveal the story of star-crossed lovers, and stop the Evil One from breaking its magical chains and invading our world in this exciting Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure 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, December 15, 2013.

Onion Street, A Moe Prager Mystery by Reed Farrel Coleman, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Onion Street by Reed Farrel Coleman, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Tyrus 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 (12/08/2013 at 6:00 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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Onion Street by Reed Farrel Coleman
A Moe Prager Mystery (8th in series)
Publisher: Tyrus Books

It's 1967 and Moe Prager is wandering aimlessly through his college career and his life. All that changes when his girlfriend Mindy is viciously beaten into a coma and left to die on the snow-covered streets of Brooklyn. Suddenly, Moe has purpose. He is determined to find out who's done this to Mindy and why. But Mindy is not the only person in Moe's life who's in danger. Someone is also trying to kill his best and oldest friend, Bobby Friedman.

Things get really strange when Moe enlists the aid of Lids, a half-cracked genius drug pusher from the old neighborhood. Lids hooks Moe up with his first solid information. Problem is, the info seems to take Moe in five directions at once and leads to more questions than answers. How is a bitter old camp survivor connected to the dead man in the apartment above his fixit shop, or to the OD-ed junkie found on the boardwalk in Coney Island? What could an underground radical group have to do with the local Mafioso capo? And where do Mindy and Bobby fit into any of this?

Moe will risk everything to find the answers. He will travel from the pot-holed pavement of Brighton Beach to the Pocono Mountains to the runways at Kennedy Airport. But no matter how far he goes or how fast he gets there, all roads lead to Onion Street.

  

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A New MystereBook: Divided Within by John Guillen

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 December 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

Divided Within by John Guillen introduces Houston PI Andrew Banks.

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Divided Within by John Guillen
An Andrew Banks Mystery
Publisher: John Guillen
Publication Date: December 07, 2013
Price: $0.99 (as of 12/08/13 05:30 PM ET)

Houston area private eye Andrew Banks is hired by sixteen-year-old Mercedes Vega to determine what's dividing her parents. As soon as he meets the rest of the Vega family he realizes that the situation is only one step from becoming dire.

He puts the safety of the family over everything else until the case hits much too close to home and it becomes a race against a wealthy restaurant owner that ultimately turns deadly.

  

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Ratlines, A Crime Thriller by Stuart Neville, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Ratlines by Stuart Neville, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Soho Crime.

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 (12/08/2013 at 5:00 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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Ratlines by Stuart Neville
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Soho Crime

Read our review of Ratlines by Stuart Neville

Ireland 1963. As the Irish people prepare to welcome President John F. Kennedy to the land of his ancestors, a German national is murdered in a seaside guesthouse. Lieutenant Albert Ryan, Directorate of Intelligence, is ordered to investigate. The German is the third foreigner to die within a few days, and Minister for Justice Charles Haughey wants the killing to end lest a shameful secret be exposed: the dead men were all Nazis granted asylum by the Irish government in the years following World War II.

A note from the killers is found on the dead German's corpse, addressed to Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favorite commando, once called the most dangerous man in Europe. The note simply says: "We are coming for you."

As Albert Ryan digs deeper into the case he discovers a network of former Nazis and collaborators, all presided over by Skorzeny from his country estate outside Dublin. When Ryan closes in on the killers, his loyalty is torn between country and conscience. Why must he protect the very people he fought against twenty years before? Ryan learns that Skorzeny might be a dangerous ally, but he is a deadly enemy.

  

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A New MystereBook: Desert Gold by Sharon Starns

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 December 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

Desert Gold by Sharon Starns is the third mystery in this "Blue Moon" mystery series featuring motel owner Sage Spencer.

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Desert Gold by Sharon Starns
A Sage Spencer, Blue Moon Mystery
Publisher: Racine House
Publication Date: December 07, 2013
Price: $3.99 (as of 12/08/13 04:30 PM ET)

When life hands you zucchini, make zucchini bread. That’s Sage Spencer’s philosophy. But when she takes a freshly-baked loaf to her friend Artemis, he’s missing, and one of her motel guests is dead.

A twisted tale of rebellion and redemption plays out against the backdrop of the desert town of Cactus Springs. Throw in a visit from Sage’s son, a new romance, and a couple of engaging dogs, and you have a story that will keep you guessing from beginning to end.

  

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Iron Lake, A Cork O'Connor Mystery by William Kent Krueger, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Atria 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 (12/08/2013 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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Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
A Cork O'Connor Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Atria Books

Winner of the 1999 Anthony Award for Best First Novel.

Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota. Embittered by his "former" status, and the marital meltdown that has separated him from his children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Once a cop on Chicago's South Side, there's not much that can shock him. But when the town's judge is brutally murdered, and a young Eagle Scout is reported missing, Cork takes on a mind-jolting case of conspiracy, corruption, and scandal.

As a lakeside blizzard buries Aurora, Cork must dig out the truth among town officials who seem dead-set on stopping his investigation in its tracks. But even Cork freezes up when faced with the harshest enemy of all: a small-town secret that hits painfully close to home.

      

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A New MystereBook: The Case of Tiffany's Epiphany by Jim Stevens

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 December 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

The Case of Tiffany's Epiphany by Jim Stevens is the third mystery in this series featuring PI Richard Sherlock.

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The Case of Tiffany's Epiphany by Jim Stevens
A Richard Sherlock Mystery
Publisher: Creative Inc. Publishing
Publication Date: December 06, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 12/08/13 03:30 PM ET)

Richard Sherlock is back on the case when his attractive, blonde assistant, Tiffany Richmond, takes a sip of a loaded cocktail putting her life into a complete tailspin. This sets off a chain reaction of twists, turns, and troubles, which only Sherlock, can untangle.

Along the way, Sherlock discovers dirty money being laundered, drug deals going down, shots fired, an exploding club scene, and a kidnapping, where Sherlock is forced to go to McDonald's for lunch. Add in a dead bartender, buffed bodybuilders, body-buddy bouncers, a Behemoth, a very bad basketball team, and Tiffany's tipsy torment, and Sherlock not only has to figure out whodunit, but why they did it.

  

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1222, A Hanne Wilhelmsen Mystery by Anne Holt, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature 1222 by Anne Holt, 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 (12/08/2013 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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1222 by Anne Holt
A Hanne Wilhelmsen Mystery (8th in series)
Publisher: Scribner

A train on its way to the northern reaches of Norway derails during a massive blizzard, 1222 meters above sea level. The passengers abandon the train for a nearby hotel, centuries-old and practically empty, except for the staff. With plenty of food and shelter from the storm, the passengers think they are safe, until one of them is found dead the next morning.

With no sign of rescue, and the storm continuing to rage, retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to investigate. Paralysed by a bullet lodged in her spine, Hanne has no desire to get involved. But she is slowly coaxed back into her old habits as her curiosity and natural talent for observation force her to take an interest in the passengers and their secrets. When another body turns up, Hanne realizes that time is running out, and she must act fast before panic takes over. Complicating things is the presence of a mysterious guest, who had travelled in a private rail car at the end of the train and was evacuated first to the top floor of the hotel. No one knows who the guest is, or why armed guards are needed, but it is making everyone uneasy. Hanne has her suspicions, but she keeps them to herself.

Trapped in her wheelchair, trapped by the storm, and now trapped with a killer, Hanne must fit the pieces of the puzzle together before the killer strikes again.

      

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Hunt the Falcon by Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this month by Mulholland Books, is Hunt the Falcon by Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo.

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

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Hunt the Falcon
Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo
Series: SEAL Team Six (3rd)

SEAL Team Six is chasing "The Falcon", an Iranian terrorist who has been stealing Libyan nuclear material. The hunt takes the team from Bangkok to Caracas in search of The Falcon's forces. Crocker convinces the powers that be to allow him to operate in Iran, and he and the team go in full black in order to take down their mark.

Meanwhile, Crocker's estranged father — a former firefighter and hell-raiser who was kicked out of the Navy as a young seaman — reappears, forcing Crocker to recognize his life outside the shadows of SEAL life. It's not easy when work calls over 300 days of the year, and when it's this essential to take an enemy down.

      

Killing a Cold One, A Grady Service, Woods Cop Mystery by Joseph Heywood, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Killing a Cold One by Joseph Heywood, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Lyons Press.

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 (12/08/2013 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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Killing a Cold One by Joseph Heywood
A Grady Service, Woods Cop Mystery (9th in series)
Publisher: Lyons Press

Every fall in northern Michigan brings a spate of dogman sightings. A radio DJ's invention, the dogman was created as an attention-getting joke. But millions of Michiganders believe in angels and vampires, werewolves, Bigfoot … and the dogman.

Late summer, the horribly mutilated bodies of two Native American girls are found in a tent in a remote campground in the Huron Mountains. Grady Service, who wants nothing more than to return to patrolling his beloved Mosquito Wilderness, is called into the case. Strange animal tracks are found, mayhem ensues, a bloody trail of victims begins to accumulate, and the governor, in a political panic, and on her way out of office, orders Grady to hunt down and eliminate the killer — on her office's dime.

Grady Service does not believe in Easter bunnies, Santa Claus, or dogmen, and the "monster" hunt that unfolds builds to a violent finish in some of the Upper Peninsula's harshest and deadliest terrain.

  

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MystereBooks: Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke, 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 Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Sunday, December 08, 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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Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke
A Hackberry Holland Mystery
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town with a deep and abiding respect for the citizens in his care. Still mourning the loss of his cherished wife and locked in a perilous almost-romance with his deputy, Pam Tibbs, a woman many decades his junior, Hackberry feeds off the deeds of evil men to keep his own demons at bay.

When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert and reports it, Hack's investigation leads to the home of Anton Ling, a regal, mysterious Chinese woman whom the locals refer to as La Magdalena and who is known for sheltering illegals. Ling denies having seen the victim or the perpetrators, but there is something in her steely demeanor and aristocratic beauty that compels Hackberry to return to her home again and again as the investigation unfolds. Could it be that the sheriff is so taken in by this creature who reminds him of his deceased wife that he would ignore the possibility that she is just as dangerous as the men she harbors?

The danger in the desert increases tenfold with the return of serial murderer Preacher Jack Collins. Presumed dead, Preacher Jack has reemerged with a calm, single-minded zeal for killing that is more terrifying than the muzzle flash of his signature machine gun. But this time he and Sheriff Holland have a common enemy.

      

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Deck the Halls, A Holiday Classic Mystery by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Deck the Halls by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, 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 (12/08/2013 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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Deck the Halls by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
A Holiday Classic Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Three days before Christmas, Regan Reilly, the dynamic young sleuth featured in the novels of Carol Higgins Clark, meets Alvirah Meehan, the famous lottery winner and amateur detective who has appeared in several previous books by Mary Higgins Clark, when they both arrive at a New Jersey dentist's office. Alvirah is to accompany her husband home after a particularly grueling session, while Regan is there in hopes of connecting with her busy father, who is scheduled for a routine visit.

Once it becomes apparent that Luke Reilly is not going to keep his appointment, Alvirah offers the deeply troubled Regan a lift home. When a call comes through on Regan's cell phone, telling her that her father and his driver, Rosita Gonzalez, are being held for $1,000,000 ransom, Alvirah insists that Regan allow her to lend a hand in trying to gain their release, for while Regan may be a licensed private detective, based in Los Angeles, Alvirah has many valuable contacts among the ranks of New York's law enforcement community.

Further complicating the situation is the fact that Regan's mother, the popular and very successful mystery writer Nora Regan Reilly, was hospitalized only the day before with a badly broken leg, and Regan must comfort her while trying to meet the harsh demands of her father's kidnappers — and their tough deadline.

With Alvirah's help, Jack Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, is called back from his Christmas holiday to lead the investigation, which becomes more and more tricky as the kidnappers, two men who are not just rank amateurs but also laughably inept — and, therefore, all the more dangerous and unpredictable — make known their demands.

Meanwhile, Luke and Rosita, held captive in a decrepit houseboat moored in the Hudson River, become increasingly concerned not only for their welfare, but for that of their loved ones as well. Luke's wife is in the hospital, and Rosita's two small boys are with a young, unreliable babysitter, while a winter storm gathers force, further endangering them and complicating events.

      

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