A New MystereBook: Murder Games by Elisabeth Crabtree

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 …

Murder Games by Elisabeth Crabtree is the fourth mystery in this cozy series featuring amateur sleuth Grace Holliday.

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Murder Games by Elisabeth Crabtree
A Grace Holliday, Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Elisabeth Crabtree
Publication Date: December 29, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 12/30/13 01:30 PM ET)

It's all fun and games … until someone dies.

It's the Crystal Palace Hotel's 5th annual murder mystery game extravaganza. A weeklong event of clues, costumes, red herrings, suspense, chills and murders spread across the hotel's expansive mountaintop acres.

Kyle and Grace have secured two tickets to the most coveted game the Crystal Palace has to offer. Two days at Murder Manor, a Victorian mansion secluded far away from the hotel and nestled within an elaborate hedge maze. Two days of safe murderous fun or so they thought but when a dead body is found floating in the pond near the hotel and rumors abound of a killer lurking on the grounds, Grace begins to wonder whether they are truly safe and how can you know what's real when every one is pretending to be someone they're not. With only each other to rely on, Grace and Kyle go on the hunt for a dangerous killer stalking the manor and its guests.

  

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A Kindle Countdown Deal: The Last Mountains by Rick Craig

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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The Last Mountains by Rick Craig
A Tom Hadley Mystery
Publisher:
Price: $0.99 (as of 12/30/13 01:00 PM ET)

When Park Service climbing ranger Tom Hadley finds a fallen climber's body on the Grand Teton, he believes his troubled eleven-year-old son has caused a terrible accident. But evidence of murder plunges the father and son into a mystery they must solve together to save their fragile relationship.

All Tom wants from the summer of 2002 is to become a better father and reassemble the life that fell apart when a brain injury ended his promising Himalayan mountaineering career.

But the murder pulls him into a web of terrorists, American agents and political intrigue as the country moves toward war. Tom foils an apparent assassination attempt on the Vice President, but it may be his son the only one who can identify the killer from the mountain who is really in danger.

  

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A New MystereBook: Temptation by Fire by Tiffany Allee

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 …

Temptation by Fire by Tiffany Allee asks the question, Can a woman trust a man, who hunts for vengeance?

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Temptation by Fire by Tiffany Allee
A Novel of Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Entangled Ignite
Publication Date: December 30, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 12/30/13 12:30 PM ET)

Visions of death haunt her … Vengeance consumes him … Love could save their souls …

Ava Keller sees the future. When she suffers a horrifying vision of a man's violent death, she knows from experience nothing she does will stop it from becoming a reality. But when she meets a strong, broken man, he makes her want to believe in second chances.

Tortured by his past, Karson has worked tirelessly to wreak vengeance on the demons who murdered his family. But when Ava inadvertently disrupts his intricate plan for revenge, his focus shifts to an all-consuming need to keep her alive and in his arms.

Thrown together by fate, Ava and Karson explore their new feelings and discover hope for the future. But they must battle the demons threatening humanity to find a destiny worthy of their love.

  

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Jesse Stone: The Complete Set is Amazon's TV Deal of the Week

This week's Amazon TV Deal of the Week is Jesse Stone: The Complete Set.

A must-own for Jesse Stone fans, this highly collectable box set features all eight mysteries starring Tom Selleck as Jesse Stone, the tough and troubled chief of police of a small New England town. Struggling to keep his demons under control, Stone exposes killers, cover-ups, dark secrets and more in these hard-boiled thrillers. Based on a character created by crime novelist Robert B. Parker, several of these made-for-television movies are adapted from the novels in the series.

This week only, save 55% on these popular made-for-television movies. Offer ends January 4th, 2014.

Last Chance To Run by Dianna Love is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Last Chance To Run by Dianna Love as today's second free mystery ebook (A Novel of Romantic Suspense; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 30, 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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Last Chance To Run
Dianna Love
A Novel of Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Silver Hawk Press

To an undercover agent, she's a Person of Interest. He's interested.

Escaping the compound of a deadly international felon — with a fortune in rare, stolen coins hidden on her body — elite athlete Angel Farentino has to make the most important run of her life. Literally. With her father in prison, where he belongs, and a prior undeserved conviction hanging over her head, she has nowhere to turn and no one to trust. Definitely not law enforcement who railroaded her through a judicial nightmare. One step ahead of lethal men and dogs on her trail, she runs into the arms of a dark stranger willing to help her if she'd let him. But that would only get the sexy pilot killed.

Between figuring out who's sabotaging his undercover work for the DEA and trying to save his baby sister from herself, Zane Jackson has enough on his plate. The last thing he needs is to get entangled with a woman who's treading on the wrong side of the law. But when the long-legged distraction races into the middle of his operation and stows away on his plane, a primal need to protect forces Zane to risk everything, starting with his heart.

  

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Krabi Keep by T. J. BaRoss is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Krabi Keep by T. J. BaRoss as today's free mystery ebook (An International Adventure Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 30, 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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Krabi Keep
T. J. BaRoss
An International Adventure Mystery
Publisher: T. J. BaRoss

Can you decipher the riddle?

After six years of duty in the navy, Dalton Paine returns home to Alaska anxious to see his Aunt Kate, who raised him, to marry his Thai girlfriend, who waited for him, and to follow the trail of his ancestors, who were gold rush prospectors.

Mourning his aunt's untimely death days before his arrival, he follows his legacy upriver only to find what he never expected, an amulet and a journal on a 250 year old skeleton.

Beached in a storm on an uncharted island, and befriended by the Thai monk who saved his schooner, and entrusted with the delivery of an amulet, and cursed in the task by war and shipwreck, and revealing the secret with his last scribbled breath was the amulet really a map to a hidden treasure?

Only after his girlfriend's younger sister is kidnapped back in Thailand does Dalton find that question in need of an urgent answer.

  

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The Lorien Legacies Trilogy by Pittacus Lore is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Lorien Legacies Trilogy by Pittacus Lore as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. We're hightlighting the first in the series, I Am Number Four, below.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Monday, December 30, 2013.

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I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore
The Lorien Legacies Trilogy
HarperCollins

Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books — but we are real.

Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. we have lived among you without you knowing.

But they know.

They caught Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.
They killed them all.

I am Number Four.

I am next.

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for December 30, 2013

A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

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This week's letters and mystery clue:

C D F G H I L N O

This literary thriller by Donna Tartt was published in late 2013 (with "The") (9 letters).

We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (131230)

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

• The New Release is Death at Cape Porto: A Dana Knightstone Novel.

• The current Catch of the Week is Margrave: The Blacksmith's Daughter, just $2.99 through Sunday, January 05, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — BFG 2013 Customer Favorites Awards! 60 Award Winners for only $4.99 each!. Choose any, or all, of these 60 standard edition games — including three in the Best Mystery Game category — and use coupon code WINNER at checkout. This promotion is valid through January 3rd, 2014 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 Death at Cape Porto: A Dana Knightstone Novel

Return to Europe in a brand new adventure as Dana Knightstone, the best-selling novelist with a gift for clairvoyance. A tragic legend attracts you to Portugal, where you were planning to set the backdrop of your latest love story. But upon checking into a mysterious hotel, you discover that your abilities are not just limited to interacting with ghosts. Delve into a past obscured by untruths that have imprisoned an innocent soul who, without your help, will never have the chance to clear his name. Find clues buried in old newspaper clippings and collect useful items as you explore the romantic locales of Portugal.

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 Margrave: The Blacksmith's Daughter

The town of the Cyclops appears for a single day once every three hundred years, on an island lost to cartographers. On this Day of Alignment, the town rises and sets with the midsummer sun. As the Margrave saga nears its devastating conclusion, Edwina Margrave embarks on a rescue mission into the town. Her only chance of escape is to return life to the arcane machines, and hope to the sole survivor of an ancient war. Prepare yourself for the adventure of a lifetime: the legacy of an entire civilization depends upon your cunning and compassion.

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, January 05, 2014.

The Ghosts of Belfast, A Crime Thriller by Stuart Neville, Now at a Special Price

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

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 (12/29/2013 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 Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Soho Crime

Read our review of The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville

Winner of the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Fegan has been a "hard man", an IRA killer in northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted day and night by twelve ghosts: a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC constable, and seven other of his innocent victims. In order to appease them, he's going to have to kill the men who gave him orders.

As he's working his way down the list he encounters a woman who may offer him redemption; she has borne a child to an RUC officer and is an outsider too. Now he has given Fate — and his quarry — a hostage. Is this Fegan's ultimate mistake?

  

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A Kindle Countdown Deal: Double Take by J. P. David

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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Double Take by J. P. David
A Hank Hammond Mystery
Publisher: J. P. David
Price: $0.99 (as of 12/29/13 03:30 PM ET)

One dead body? That's almost expected when you're in the private eye biz. But when a second one pops up in even more bizarre circumstances it's enough to make even Hank Hammond, P.I. do a double take …

As the newest private investigator in Kingston Beach, Hank Hammond has all the signs of success that he could possibly ask for: the latest detective gear, a shiny red Corvette, an office within a successful attorney's building, and — most importantly — the professional services of Lori Reed, a brilliant and beautiful executive assistant.

If only Hank had a client.

Enter a cantankerous millionaire. And enter a collection of murderers, thieves, embezzlers, and other assailants including body-building twins and the local police department, all wanting a piece — or preferably pieces — of Hank.

  

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Wish You Were Here, A Mrs. Murphy Mystery by Rita Mae Brown, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Bantam.

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 (12/29/2013 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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Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown
A Mrs. Murphy Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Bantam

Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy — and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen.

Small towns are like families: Everyone lives very close together … and everyone keeps secrets. Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town-until its secrets explode into murder.

Crozet's thirty-something post-mistress, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, has a tiger cat (Mrs. Murphy) and a Welsh Corgi (Tucker), a pending divorce, and a bad habit of reading postcards not addressed to her. When Crozet's citizens start turning up murdered, Harry remembers that each received a card with a tombstone on the front and the message "Wish you were here" on the back. Intent on protecting their human friend, Mrs. Murphy and Tucker begin to scent out clues.

Meanwhile, Harry is conducting her own investigation, unaware her pets are one step ahead of her. If only Mrs. Murphy could alert her somehow, Harry could uncover the culprit before the murder occurs — and before Harry finds herself on the killer's mailing list.

    

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Easy Day for the Dead by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin, New in Bookstores This Month

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this month by Gallery Books, is Easy Day for the Dead by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin.

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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Easy Day for the Dead
Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin
Series: SEAL Team Six Outcasts (2nd)

Drawn from the elite SEAL Team Six, these men and women are working deep in a program called Bitter Ash: taking on the kind of missions that, if they were exposed, will always be denied. For these warriors, every op is the highest possible risk and any moment could be the last. So they deal with it. And then wait for the next call.

Now the call has them parachuting into a harsh desert on the border with Afghanistan, meeting a beautiful agent who will lead them to a top-secret Iranian site that must be totally destroyed. For Alex Brandenberg and his fellow SEALs, this mission is like most others: Nothing goes according to plan. And when they're done, they've only just begun.

Going back into Iran for a second time brings Brandenberg and his team face-to-face with a maniacal Revolutionary Guard officer who knows Alex's identity and is hot on his trail. The SEALs must free a hostage in Lebanon. Then the fight takes them halfway around the world — in a frantic battle of courage and fighting skill that America cannot afford to lose.

      

Visitation Street, A Literary Mystery by Ivy Pochoda, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Ecco.

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 (12/29/2013 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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Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda
A Literary Mystery
Publisher: Ecco

It's summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see.

And then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore; semi-conscious in the weeds.

This shocking event will echo through the lives of a diverse cast of Red Hook residents. Fadi, the Lebanese bodega owner, hopes that his shop will be the place to share neighborhood news and troll for information about June's disappearance. Cree, just beginning to pull it together after his father's murder, unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect, but an enigmatic and elusive guardian is determined to keep him safe.

Val contends with the shadow of her missing friend and a truth she buries deep inside. Her teacher Jonathan, a Julliard School dropout and barfly, wrestles with dashed dreams and a past riddled with tragic sins.

  

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A New MystereBook: The Suicide Squad by T. J. Waters

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 Suicide Squad by T. J. Waters is the third in the author's series of CIA spy thrillers.

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The Suicide Squad by T. J. Waters
A CIA Mystery
Publisher: T. J. Waters
Publication Date: December 27, 2013
Price: $0.99 (as of 12/29/13 01:30 PM ET)

Reece McNair, Carter Stephens, Brian Godfrey, Amir Farajian, and Kristen Hayes become close friends while at the Farm, the CIA's legendary training facility where they were taught the tradecraft of spies.

While they are deployed in Iraq, insurgents kidnap Reece. Anticipating she would be executed for propaganda purposes, her friends conduct an unsanctioned rescue operation, facing serious repercussions.

Threatened by termination and federal charges, an unlikely savior appears. The head of the CIA's reviled counterintelligence division convinces the rogue team to work for her as an alternative to criminal prosecution.

Each of them hides a secret worthy of immediate termination and is rightly delighted to avoid a federal investigation. The entrapped ensemble soon specializes in finding and forestalling spies targeting U.S. interests.

  

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