A Charming Crime, A Magical Cures Mystery by Tonya Kappes, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Charming Crime by Tonya Kappes, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (12/31/2013 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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A Charming Crime by Tonya Kappes
A Magical Cures Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Tonya Kappes

June Heal has nothing to lose when she relocates her homeopathic cure shop, A Dose of Darla, from the flea market booth in her home town, to a quaint shop in the cozy but unusual little town of Whispering Falls, Kentucky. Or so it seems.

Whispering Falls has a lot of secrets. From talking snow globes to whispering animals not to mention a few sprinkles of fairy dust, June realizes Whispering Falls is more magical than she thought … literally.

June discovers she was born into a family of psychics, and her homeopathic cures truly are magical. Unfortunately, they are not magical enough to save her from being the number one murder suspect when a member of the community that she had just had a disagreement with shows up face down in the lake with June’s lucky charm in the victim’s grasp.

Add to that an attraction to her high school best friend, Sheriff Oscar Park and Mr. Prince Charming, her cat, is stealing charms from Belle’s Baubles, June is forced to clear her name in more ways than murder. After all, they don’t have cauldrons in jail.

  

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A New MystereBook: Road Closed 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 December 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

Road Closed by Leigh Russell is the second mystery to feature Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel.

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Road Closed by Leigh Russell
A Geraldine Steel Mystery
Publisher: Witness Impulse
Publication Date: December 31, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 12/31/13 12:30 PM ET)

When a man dies in a gas explosion, the police suspect arson. The Murder Investigation Team is called in to examine the evidence, but the case takes on a new and terrible twist when a local villain is viciously attacked.

As the police inquiries lead from an expensive Harchester Hill estate to the local brothel, a witness dies in a hit-and-run. Was it coincidence … or cold-blooded murder? The Murder Investigation Team has problems of its own — and so does Geraldine Steel. A shocking revelation threatens her peace of mind as the investigation races toward its dramatic climax.

      

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Telemystery: Death in Paradise Season 3 to Premiere on BBC One in January 2014

BBC One has announced that the third season of the crime drama Death in Paradise will premiere in January 2014.

The first two seasons of the series starred Ben Miller as Detective Inspector Richard Poole, who had been sent to the tiny Caribbean island of Saint-Marie to solve a mysterious murder. However, this third season sees the tragic murder of DI Poole and the arrival of new detective, DI Humphrey Goodman, played by Kris Marshall.

Battling their grief and determined to catch the killer of their friend, Camille (Sara Martins), Fidel (Gary Carr) and Dwayne (Danny John-Jules) are joined by DI Goodman to help them get to the bottom of the tragic and mysterious case. Unfortunately, Humphrey's naturally bumbling and accident-prone ways mean he doesn't make a great first impression.

Death in Paradise Seasons 1 and 2 are finally coming to DVD here in the US, though we don't (yet) have a firm date of release for them.

Star Gazer by Jeanne McCafferty is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Star Gazer by Jeanne McCafferty as today's third free mystery ebook (A Mackenzie Griffin Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 31, 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.

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Star Gazer
Jeanne McCafferty
A Mackenzie Griffin Mystery
Publisher: Irish Cabrini Creative

Someone is stalking Peter Rossellini, America's newest pop music sensation. But this is no ordinary celebrity stalker — because this someone is killing Rossellini lookalikes, and leaving each crime scene in an eerie recreation of one of Rossellini's music videos.

Lt. Mario Buratti hates the weird cases, but at least he has the help of Dr. Mackenzie Griffin, criminal psychologist and consultant to the NYPD. It becomes Mac's job to sift through a dizzying universe of possible suspects, from Rossellini's most fanatical fans, to music industry insiders, resentful wannabes, a bitter ex-partner, and a grieving ex-lover.

The body count keeps climbing as Mac and Buratti narrow the lists of suspects. But they both know time is running out, and this time Mac suspects that Rossellini himself is the intended victim. Someone is setting the stage for a hit that's to die for.

  

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The Winter Deception by Khaleel Datay is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Winter Deception by Khaleel Datay as today's second free mystery ebook (A Nick Winter Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 31, 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.

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The Winter Deception
Khaleel Datay
A Nick Winter Mystery
Publisher: Khaleel Datay

An academic in Eastern History attached to Oxford University, Nick Winter was also a former consultant to British Intelligence in Iraq.

When the opportunity arises to find out more of his own link to Mother India, he accepts a contract to find a terrorist in Mumbai. A sixth sense tells him something about the terrorist didn't quite add up and he decides to investigate. That was his first mistake.

His digging soon makes him the target of a vicious manhunt. Was it a former employer or someone he helped put behind bars?

After meeting gorgeous ladies' tennis star Jasminder Singh, he is convinced she held the key to the mystery. He pursues her to Africa, but can he lie to her while still having feelings for her? When she is brutally attacked after a tennis exhibition, he's drawn into the search for a missing data card, a terrorist mastermind and his own sanity.

What's on the card, and why are both Indian Intelligence and the British Security Service so interested? Previous terrorist attacks pointed fingers at the Pakistanis. Were they the masterminds of another planned attack? With governments prepared to kill, the stakes are high. Hunted by a rogue intelligence agent, and his former masters in MI6, only Winter can stop downtown Mumbai from becoming the victim of another terrorist disaster.

Or can he?

  

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Stolen by Rebecca Muddiman is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Stolen by Rebecca Muddiman as today's free mystery ebook (A Novel of Psychological Suspense; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 31, 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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Stolen
Rebecca Muddiman
A Novel of Psychological Suspense
Publisher: Moth Publishing

When Abby Henshaw is brutally attacked by two strangers in the countryside, her first thought is for the safety of her baby daughter, Beth. But what follows is a mother's worst nightmare: Beth is gone and Abby's world collapses around her.

As DI Michael Gardner begins to investigate Abby and her family, he discovers lives built on secrets and betrayals. Under pressure from his bosses to find the missing child and to unearth the truth, Gardner finds himself struggling to stay emotionally removed from the case, and from Abby herself.

After the authorities finally shelve their investigation, Abby receives a message telling her where she can find her daughter. But how can she convince those around her that the girl really is Beth when they are the very people she knows least?

  

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Six Years by Harlan Coben is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Six Years by Harlan Coben as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, December 31, 2013.

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

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Six Years
Harlan Coben
Dutton

Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd.

But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd's wife he's hoping for … but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, she's been married to Todd for almost two decades, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life — a time he has never gotten over — is turned completely inside out.

As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can't be found, or don't remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake's search for the woman who broke his heart, who lied to him, soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on a carefully constructed fiction.

Read our review of Six Years by Harlan Coben.

 

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (131231)

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

• Our Featured Title is Haunted Legends: The Curse of Vox.

• The Daily Deal is The Beast of Lycan Isle, just $2.99 today only!

• 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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Our Featured Title today is Haunted Legends: The Curse of Vox

You couldn't ignore Silvia Filler's heartfelt plea for help. The police gave up on her brother's murder case and you are her only hope. But that's not the biggest problem at hand … The Filler mansion is currently overrun with the spirits of Sylvia's ancestors! What brought them back? And what will bring them peace? All questions point to a mysterious book. But as you search for the answers, you realize that you are not alone in your hunt for the book. A mysterious little man is always one step ahead of you … and he's not playing nice! Investigate a house brimming with spirits while you track down the murderer and uncover a mysterious legend in this exciting Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is The Beast of Lycan Isle

Luna has been summoned by Tara, her best friend, to an ancient village on a remote island. Tara needs Luna's expertise on a newly unearthed artifact that might prove the existence of the legendary cult of the Madra Alta or Wolf Man. But when she arrives the locals are acting very strangely, her friend has disappeared, and terrible clues reveal a situation beyond her worst nightmare. She must rely on her fearless wit and trusted allies to find her friend. She must dig deep into the instincts and courage of her own inner animal to defeat the Wolf King himself.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Tuesday, December 31, 2013 — for $2.99.

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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.

Jokerman, A John Purkiss Thriller by Tim Stevens, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Jokerman by Tim Stevens, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (12/30/2013 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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Jokerman by Tim Stevens
A John Purkiss Thriller (3rd in series)
Publisher: Tim Stevens

On a summer's morning in the leafy, well-to-do English county of Surrey, the Home Secretary is conducting a highly secret meeting with a member of MI5, the British Security Service. A sniper takes aim, hits his target, and a chain of events is set in motion that will have momentous repercussions.

John Purkiss is tasked with hunting down rogue spies within SIS, Britain's overseas intelligence service. So when he's asked to investigate an assassination suspected to have been the work of an agent within MI5, he refuses. The Security Service can catch its own rats.

Then Purkiss is subject to a violent attack in his own home, an attack which leaves his closest friend near to death. And suddenly he has a personal reason for becoming involved.

Gradually his pursuit of the truth exposes a tortuous conspiracy which reaches deep into the heart of British counterintelligence and the body politic. Forced to enlist the help of an old enemy, a man he'd sworn to kill, and in an atmosphere of increasing paranoia and distrust, Purkiss finds himself doubting the motives of the very people closest to him, as he nears the final, climactic showdown with the killer known as the Jokerman …

  

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A New MystereBook: Lowcountry Lies by Darlene Gardner

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 …

Lowcountry Lies by Darlene Gardner was previously published in 1992 by Silhouette under the title Wade Conner's Revenge and as written by Julia Quinn. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

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Lowcountry Lies by Darlene Gardner
A Saltwater Novel of Romantic Suspense
Publisher:
Publication Date: December 28, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 12/30/13 04:30 PM ET)

When evil invades her town for a second time and a little girl is missing, she needs to team up with the man she loved and betrayed to find the truth.

Years ago, Leigh Hampton could have given Wade Conner an alibi when he was accused of an unspeakable crime. Too afraid of her father's wrath, Leigh didn't say a word. Now Wade has come back to their sleepy, southern town, and another little girl has suddenly, mysteriously vanished.

Wade has made a success of himself far from Kinley, but the townspeople still consider him that good-for-nothing Conner boy. Leigh can't rewrite the past, but she knows the crime will never be solved as long as Wade is the prime suspect.

It's up to Leigh to convince Wade that together they have the best chance to track down the real criminal. And maybe, just maybe, they'll also find a future for themselves.

  

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A Thin Film of Lies, A Faith-Based Crime Thriller by C. S. Lakin, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Thin Film of Lies by C. S. Lakin, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Ubiquitous Press.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (12/30/2013 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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A Thin Film of Lies by C. S. Lakin
A Faith-Based Crime Thriller
Publisher: Ubiquitous Press

Homicide detective Fran Anders's latest case throws her into the lives of Mike and Alisa Jepson, a couple whose marriage is disintegrating fast.

When leads coming into the precinct point at Mike Jepson as guilty of murder, Fran watches the damage wrought on this couple, yet is unable to ignore the incriminating evidence. When Mike ends up arrested and in jail, Alisa takes comfort in a friend — Dee Dee — who moves in with her but soon becomes her worst nightmare. Mike hires a PI who uncovers clues to who is setting Mike up, but Alisa is caught in a trap before Mike can protect her.

Although Fran reaches out to Alisa during her crisis of faith, she is unable to stop events from barreling toward a crash. Yet, despite the tragedies to follow, Fran sees how God has used the Jepsons' trials and pain to bring Alisa back into His arms, with hope that Mike might follow suit.

  

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A New MystereBook: Belize Blues by Dick Kalla

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 …

Belize Blues by Dick Kalla takes the reader from a secret nuclear facility in Pakistan, to the small Caribbean country of Belize and finally to the streets of the capital of the United States.

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Belize Blues by Dick Kalla
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Dick Kalla
Publication Date: December 28, 2013
Price: $0.99 (as of 12/30/13 03:30 PM ET)

Powerful Hurricane Kirk has just devastated the U.S. Gulf coast. Right behind Kirk, Hakim Jamali, an al-Qaeda senior operative, and his small band of committed Jihadists sweep ashore bent on causing maximum destruction to the "Great Satan".

Tom Nillson, ex-college All American football player, former U.S. Navy SEAL and recently retired Department of State Security Officer has lost the love of his life, his wife Pam. He is a shattered man, turning to a bottle to try to ease his overwhelming sorrow. Tom moves to Belize to get away from the memories. In an island in a swamp on the Belize/Mexican border he discovers Hakim and his men waiting for the opportunity to deliver their special package to the U.S. Tom's path crosses Hakim's with explosive results and the race is on as Tom works to try to convince Belize authorities and later Homeland Security and others of the severity of the evidence he has brought them. The security of the United States and its leaders is in jeopardy and Tom is the only one who can prevent the unthinkable from happening.

  

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The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen, A Historical Mystery by Lindsay Ashford, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen by Lindsay Ashford, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Sourcebooks Landmark.

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 (12/30/2013 at 3:00 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen by Lindsay Ashford
A Historical Mystery
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark

"Where would I begin to explain it all …?"

Twenty-six years have passed since the death of Jane Austen.

Armed with a lock of Austen's hair as perhaps her best clue, Anne Sharp, former governess to the Austen family and Jane's close friend, has decided at least to tell her story — a story of family intrigues, shocking secrets, forbidden loves, and maybe even murder …

  

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Dead Man's Fancy by Keith McCafferty, New in Bookstores in January 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during January 2014 by Viking, is Dead Man's Fancy by Keith McCafferty.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for January 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of January 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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Dead Man's Fancy
Keith McCafferty
Series: Martha Ettinger and Sean Stranahan (3rd)

Wolves howl as a riderless horse returns at sunset to the Culpepper Dude Ranch in the Madison Valley. The missing woman, Nanika Martinelli, is better known as the Fly Fishing Venus, a red-haired river guide who lures clients the way dry flies draw trout.

As Sheriff Martha Ettinger follows hoof tracks in the snow, she finds one of the men who has fallen under the temptress's spell impaled on the antler tine of a giant bull elk, a kill that's been claimed by a wolf pack. An accident? If not, is the killer human or animal? With painter, fly fisherman, and sometimes private detective Sean Stranahan's help, Ettinger will follow clues that point to an animal rights group called the Clan of the Three-Clawed Wolf and to their svengali master, whose eyes blaze with pagan fire.

In their most dangerous adventure yet, Stranahan and Ettinger find themselves in the crossfire of wolf lovers, wolf haters, and a sister bent on revenge, and on the trail of an alpha male gone terribly wrong.

        

Telemystery: Perry Mason Movies, New This Week on DVD

Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or Video-on-Demand, is profiling one movie collection from our site being released this week.

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Perry Mason
The Movie Collection 1

He's back on the case! Based on novels by Erle Stanley Gardner, the Perry Mason Movie Collection, Volume 1 brings the beloved televised films to DVD for the first time ever!

After a long and fulfilling career, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr), the famed defense attorney known for his ability to prove his client's innocence through deduction and keen intellect, has traded his briefcase for a gavel and now serves as an appellate court judge. But when his long-time secretary, Della Street (Barbara Hale), is charged with murder, it's the perfect motive for Mason to resign his judgeship, team up with private investigator Paul Drake, Jr. (William Katt), and take up her defense.

In this gripping 6-movie set, follow along as mysteries are uncovered and justice is served by the memorable TV attorney who started it all.

The made-for-television movies included in this set are:

• Perry Mason Returns
• The Case of the Notorious Nun
• The Case of the Shooting Star
• The Case of the Lost Love
• The Case of the Sinister Spirit
• The Case of the Murdered Madam

  

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Visit the Telemystery website to discover more television mystery series currently available on and coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or video on demand.