Inn Keeping with Murder by Lynn Bohart is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Inn Keeping with Murder by Lynn Bohart as today's free mystery ebook (An Old Maids of Mercer Island Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 21, 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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Inn Keeping with Murder
Lynn Bohart
An Old Maids of Mercer Island Mystery
Publisher: Little Dog Press

When seventy-three year old Martha Denton drops dead into her peach cobbler at the St. Claire Inn no one is surprised. After all, Martha had a heart condition. But when her death is ruled a murder, the inn's owner, Julia Applegate, becomes the prime suspect.

Julia recruits her "sixty-something" group of friends to launch their own investigation. Together with the inn's resident ghosts, including Julia's recently deceased mother who has learned to use a cell phone, they go after the truth.

Add to that a talking parrot who likes to quote old movies, a Harlequin Great Dane, two miniature Dachshunds, a very handsome detective (or two), and get ready for a romp down mystery lane!

  

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Evil, Inc. by Glenn Kaplan is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Evil, Inc. by Glenn Kaplan as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, December 21, 2013.

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

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Evil, Inc.
Glenn Kaplan
Forge Books

Ken Olson thought he had it all — a loving wife, a beautiful baby, and a career on the fast track. But soon after his big promotion, his whole world is shattered by a monstrous crime. A crime committed by the CEO of his own company. A crime his company will cover up at any cost.

Stripped of everything but his passion to bring the CEO to justice, Olson uncovers the dark and dangerous world behind the corporate jets and executive mansions — the private armies of mercenary killers who do the corporation’s dirtiest work under the guise of "plausible deniability", the offshore banking havens with their clandestine black-hole accounts, and the relentless greed of the lucky few at the top.

Olson's struggle pits him against a host of deadly rivals — the most brutal killer in the international private military underworld, the network anchorwoman with a beautiful face and not a hint of conscience, the aristocrat who pulls the strings of power and never dirties his hands, the hot young actress who makes sex a tool of deception, and, of course, his own chief executive, a bloodthirsty psychopath who has hijacked the corner office.

 

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Dexter, The Complete Series is Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day

Our featured Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day for December 21st, 2013, is Dexter: The Complete Series on DVD and Blu-ray Disc — save up to 61%!

Based on a character created by crime novelist Jeff Lindsay, Michael C. Hall stars as Dexter Morgan, a man who leads a double life as an incredibly likeable forensics expert for the Miami Police Department and as an emotionless vigilante serial killer. Taught by his foster father to harness his lust for blood and killing, Dexter lives by his own strict moral code — he only kills murderers who can't otherwise be brought to justice. Dexter is a killer who grapples with fitting into society while, at the same time, he struggles with his inability to feel emotion. The irony of Dexter's life is that he works closely as a blood splatter analyst with the very people who hunt his kind — the police homicide department.

Own it all: 8 seasons, an exclusive art book and a bonus disc of killer special features … in a collectible slide box inspired by the one Dexter himself uses on the show to catalog his kills.

Save up to 61% on these extraordinary sets, December 21st, 2013 only. Click on the image, below, to visit the product detail page on Amazon.com.

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (131221)

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

• The New Release is Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival.

• The Daily Deal is Weird Park: Scary Tales, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is The Great Unknown: Houdini's Castle, just $2.99 through Sunday, December 22, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Winter Sale!: $8.99 for any Collector's Edition game! Use coupon code FROST at check-out to purchase any Collector's Edition game for just $8.99. Offer valid through December 22nd, 2013 only until 11:59 PM PT.

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

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The New Release today is Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival

Madame Fate returns … from the dead! This is Fate's Carnival as you've never seen it before, with old acts like Amazing Larry and Marlena Mermaid in the most harrowing predicaments! Can you stop fate before it's too late? Or will the creepy carnival curse stop you?

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Weird Park: Scary Tales

Louis the Clown and Mr. Dudley are back in an all-new adventure that will take you through the dark corners of history's most famous fairytales to rescue children trapped in a frightening netherworld! Louis is up to his old tricks as he casts each child in the role of a legendary fairytale character and then creates the visually stunning but twialay out. Use your skills and intellect to find hidden objects and solve puzzles as you make your way through the stories of Cinderella, Peter Pan, Aladdin and more! With its spellbinding story, extraordinary atmosphere and stunning cinematics, this is an instant hidden object classic!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Saturday, December 21, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is The Great Unknown: Houdini's Castle

Your honeymoon is cut short when your plane crashes on an uncharted island. You awake to discover a madman has kidnapped your husband. To get him back, you'll have to use all your wits to pass his sinister tests and solve the mysteries of Houdini's castle. Along the way, you'll uncover Houdini's secret past and learn about the brilliant apprentice who changed his life. Can you expose Houdini's greatest trick to save your husband and escape the island? Take the challenge in this thrilling 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 22, 2013.

Review: The Raven's Eye by Barry Maitland

A Mysterious Review of The Raven's Eye by Barry Maitland. A Brock and Kolla Mystery.

Review summary: This is a multi-layered crime novel, centered primarily on DI Kathy Kolla while DCI Brock deals with the new commander and all the politics that accompany any change in leadership. The multiple storylines are interesting in and of themselves, but how they are interwoven makes for an exceptionally satisfying mystery. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Raven's Eye
Barry Maitland
A Brock and Kolla Mystery
Minotaur Books (October 2011)

Publisher synopsis: DI Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard is called in as a matter of course by the local Paddington police when a woman turns up dead in what appears to be an accident. On her houseboat, Vicky Hawks is found by one of her neighbors having apparently succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning due to improper ventilation of the narrowboat's heating system. But while the cause of death seems apparent and there's no reason for Kolla to think otherwise, something about this death still bothers her.

Meanwhile, her boss, DCI Brock, is wrestling with harsh budget cuts and a new Commander who is determined to make fundamental changes to the system — including limiting resources devoted to investigations. Struggling against the limitations imposed by the new order at Scotland Yard, Brock and Kolla find themselves pulling at the loose strings in the death of Vicky Hawks, trying to find out who she really was, what she was up to, and how her death might be related to another earlier tragic accidental death.

      

Telemystery: ABC Orders Two Pilots for Serial Murder Mystery Dramas

ABC has ordered pilots for two serial murder mystery dramas.

First is one that we reported on last August when it the project was in the early stages of development: How To Get Away With Murder from Shonda Rhimes's Shondaland. The premise is a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor become involved in a murder plot that will rock the entire university and change the course of their lives. Peter Nowalk will write the script.

Second is Sea of Fire, adapted from the Dutch thriller Vuurzee, which we first reported about in Fall 2012 but did not get past the script stage. Vuurzee, which ran for two seasons in The Netherlands, is set in the fictional resort community of Boedzand and centers around the disappearance of a teenaged girl, an event that polarizes the town. Jenna Bans will write the screenplay for the pilot.

A New MystereBook: The Talionis Treatment by Aaron Fernandez

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 Talionis Treatment by Aaron Fernandez is the first in a new series set in the future and using anthromorphic animals as characters in lieu of humans.

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The Talionis Treatment by Aaron Fernandez
The Agency Series
Publisher: Aaron Fernandez
Publication Date: December 19, 2013
Price: $0.99 (as of 12/20/13 04:30 PM ET)

Facing a lull in cases, Sergei visits his recuperating father, only to receive a call for his assistance from a childhood acquaintance, Dana. Her brother has gone missing during a seemingly normal business trip. The trail leads him to an unlikely assistant, and down a road of complicity and far-reaching means he'd never had cause to consider in any prior assignment.

Even worse, the threat posed to Sergei and those around him is not limited to the life of the case. There is no rest for the wicked, and if Sergei wants to see justice done, there can't be any for him either.

  

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The Concrete River, A Jack Liffey Mystery by John Shannon, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Concrete River by John Shannon, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, MP Publishing.

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 (12/20/2013 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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The Concrete River by John Shannon
A Jack Liffey Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: MP Publishing

Jack Liffey lost his job, and then his wife and daughter.

All he had left was his ability to track down missing children, so he set up as a detective specializing in kidnappings.

A woman from Mexico shows up with only a few words of English, and when he sets off to find her daughter in the frightening urban nightmare of L.A., he is sucked into a violent world of developers and local politicos. Liffey soon discovers that nothing is what it seems … before long his search becomes a fight for redemption and for life itself in a world gone mad around him.

  

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A New MystereBook: Too Quiet in Brooklyn by Susan Russo Anderson

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 …

Too Quiet in Brooklyn by Susan Russo Anderson is the first in a new series by the author of the Serafina Florio mysteries.

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Too Quiet in Brooklyn by Susan Russo Anderson
A Fina Fitzgibbons Mystery
Publisher: Susan Russo Anderson
Publication Date: December 18, 2013
Price: $0.99 (as of 12/20/13 03:30 PM ET)

Twenty-two-year-old Fina Fitzgibbons stumbles upon a throttled woman in the heart of Brooklyn Heights and discovers that the dead woman's four-year-old grandson is also missing. She begins a wild hunt for the strangler-kidnapper, Ralph.

During the chase, she resists falling in love with her boyfriend, Denny, an NYPD patrol officer, steps on the toes of Detective First Grade Jane Templeton, and uncovers secrets about her own past.

In the end, Ralph has a deadly surprise for Fina.

  

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Killer Weed, An Ed Rosenberg Mystery by Michael Castleman, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Killer Weed by Michael Castleman, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, MP Publishing.

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 (12/20/2013 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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Killer Weed by Michael Castleman
An Ed Rosenberg Mystery (4th in series)
Publisher: MP Publishing

Out-of-work journalist Ed Rosenberg is turning his toking into a full-time job when Silicon Valley billionaire Gene Simons suddenly hires him to research the hippie era of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. Ed's reporter's instinct leads him to investigate the unsolved murder of Gene's mother, a low-level pot dealer brutally killed in Golden Gate Park in 1968.

Meanwhile, Ed's wife Julie has become the media maven for mayoral candidate Dave Kirsch, a former pot dealer and the author of best-selling guides to growing weed. In front of Julie's eyes, Kirsch is assassinated: suddenly Ed has another crime to unravel.

Ed's research into Haight-Ashbury's tie-dyed past introduces him to a rogue's gallery of aging hippies, who, he discovers, may have been involved in Kirsch's demise. Then bullets start flying at Ed.

  

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Innocent Blood by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell, New in Bookstores This Month

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this month by William Morrow, is Innocent Blood by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell.

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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Innocent Blood
James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell
Series: Order of the Sanguines (2nd)

A vicious attack at a ranch in California thrusts archaeologist Erin Granger back into the folds of the Sanguines, an immortal order founded on the blood of Christ and tasked with protecting the world from the beasts haunting its shadows and waiting to break free into the sunlight. Following the prophetic words found in the Blood Gospel — a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries — Erin must join forces with Army Sergeant Jordan Stone and the dark mystery that is Father Rhun Korza to discover and protect a boy believed to be an angel given flesh.

But an enigmatic enemy of immense power and terrifying ambition seeks the same child — not to save the world, but to hasten its destruction. For any hope of victory, Erin must discover the truth behind Christ's early years and understand His first true miracle, an event wrapped in sin and destruction, an act that yet remains unfulfilled and holds the only hope for the world.

The search for the truth will take Erin and the others across centuries and around the world, from the dusty plains of the Holy Land to the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean, from the catacombs of Rome to an iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea, and at last to the very gates of Hell itself, where their destiny — and the fate of mankind — awaits.

      

The Poisoned Pencil Announces Debut Title, Death Spiral by Janie Chodosh

The Poisoned Pencil, the new young adult mystery imprint of Poisoned Pen Press, has announced its debut title: Death Spiral by Janie Chodosh.

"Typically, young adult fiction is published without categories or subgenres, unlike adult fiction, which is published with any number of subcategories, such as romance, mystery, thriller, science fiction, and others," said Robert Rosenwald, Publisher at The Poisoned Pencil. "YA, to most publishers, is just an age designation with an untapped market. For us, it's a chance to give mysteries to an audience that is constantly facing the unknown, the unexpected, and even the dangerous."

Death Spiral seems like an apt first choice for the imprint. Here's a synopsis:

Faith Flores is a work in progress. She wants to go to college and study science, but she's not exactly college material. Thanks to her junkie mom, Faith has never known a stable life.  But when her mom drops dead, Faith is the only one who cries. The cops say it was an overdose, but Faith doesn't buy it.   Her search for the truth leads Faith from the drug houses and methadone clinics of North Philly to the million-dollar science labs of the pharmaceutical industry.

Death Spiral will be published in April 2014 in trade paperback and ebook format.

A Kindle Countdown Deal: When Pigs Fly by Bob Sanchez

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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When Pigs Fly by Bob Sanchez
A Mack Durgin Mystery
Publisher: Bob Sanchez
Price: $1.99 (as of 12/20/13 01:30 PM ET)

Retired cop Mack Durgin used to bust perpetrators in Massachusetts, but now he's widowed and living in Arizona. When a FedEx driver drops off an urn filled with his friend's ashes at his front door, Mack reluctantly knows he must fulfill George Ashe's final wish: to have his remains spread over the Grand Canyon.

But Mack has no clue what lies hidden within the urn besides his friend's ashes. On his journey through the desert, Mack meets the entrancing Calliope Vrattos, a former waitress in a bar that holds Elvis impersonation contests. Diet Cola is an ex-con who loves greasy food, but more than anything else, he desperately wants what he hid in the urn. Cola hooks up with a pair of loony housebreakers, a bald Elvis impersonator, and a dopehead with an outline of his brain tattooed on his skull.

With a bit of luck and a lot of junk food, they trace Mack to the little town of Pincushion, Arizona. George Ashe may not be alive, but his remains are having the adventure of a lifetime. As Mack encounters one crazed character after another in his quest to fulfill his friend's last wish, he realizes that life is a gamble and that pigs really do fly.

  

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Bad Debts, A Jack Irish Mystery by Peter Temple, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bad Debts by Peter Temple, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, MP Publishing.

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 (12/20/2013 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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Bad Debts by Peter Temple
A Jack Irish Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: MP Publishing

Winner of the 1997 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel.

A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn't ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: His beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long, and he's still cooking for one.

When Danny turns up dead, Jack is forced to take a walk back into the dark and dangerous past.

  

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A New MystereBook: So Long & Arrivederci by Reed Robson

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 …

So Long & Arrivederci by Reed Robson is a tale of doggie noir, the first in the Moondog P.I. series.

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So Long & Arrivederci by Reed Robson
A Moondog P.I. Mystery
Publisher: Reed Robson
Publication Date: December 19, 2013
Price: $3.99 (as of 12/20/13 12:30 PM ET)

"It's a dog eat dog world out there. It's survival of the fittest or the smartest, or the dogged — that's me."

Moondog is down to his last dime when an unpromising case takes an unexpectedly dangerous turn. With help from his loyal secretary, Trixy Townmouse, and ex-girlfriend, glamorous lounge singer Kitty Kat to nurse his bruises, Moondog might finally bring down Dogtown's nortorious crime boss, Pugface Maroon once and for all. If only he didn't have a crippling fear of guns …

  

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