Deadly Colors by Benjamin Ryan T. is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Deadly Colors by Benjamin Ryan T. as today's free mystery ebook (A Cedar Ridge Crime Novel; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, January 02, 2014 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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Deadly Colors
Benjamin Ryan T.
A Cedar Ridge Crime Novel
Publisher: Benjamin Tiller

After arresting notorious Blood member Garrett Moore, Jeremiah does his best to prevent murders connected to Garrett's family and friends. His obsessive pursuit of the illusive drug lords complicates his life, putting himself and others at risk.

Jeremiah's deep character flaws and checkered past cloud his judgment at times, forcing him into compromising situations. He must make hard decisions in order to keep his own life, and the lives of unexpected allies, out of harm's way.

  

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The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, January 02, 2014.

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

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The Shining Girls
Lauren Beukes
A Novel of Suspense
Mulholland Books

Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future.

Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.

At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of the shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing into another time after each murder, untraceable-until one of his victims survives.

Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the ex-homicide reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on the impossible truth …

    

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Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, January 02, 2014.

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Red Sparrow
Jason Matthews
A Spy Thriller
Scribner

In present-day Russia, ruled by blue-eyed, unblinking President Vladimir Putin, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the post-Soviet intelligence jungle. Ordered against her will to become a "Sparrow", a trained seductress, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a young CIA officer who handles the Agency's most important Russian mole.

As the action careens between Russia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and the United States, Dominika and Nate soon collide in a duel of wills, tradecraft, and — inevitably — forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but those of others as well. As secret allegiances are made and broken, Dominika and Nate's game reaches a deadly crossroads. Soon one of them begins a dangerous double existence in a life-and-death operation that consumes intelligence agencies from Moscow to Washington, DC.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140102)

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

• The New Release is Campgrounds: The Endorus Expedition.

• 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 Campgrounds: The Endorus Expedition

With a priceless artifact as your guide, you and Addie lead an expedition of stalwart explorers through long forgotten lands. These explorers are relying on you to create campsites for them to stay safe and warm as they brave the unknown. Relive the artifact's tale of an ancient civilization as they travelled to sandy beaches, through dense jungles, over high mountains and deep into mysterious caves. Encounter quirky characters, discover hidden treasures and rebuild ancient structures. Can you find what lies at the end of the artifact's tale? Find out in this new and exciting Time Management game!

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 Riptide Ultra-Glide, A Serge Storms Mystery by Tim Dorsey, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Riptide Ultra-Glide by Tim Dorsey, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, William Morrow.

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 (01/01/2014 at 4:30 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 Riptide Ultra-Glide by Tim Dorsey
A Serge Storms Mystery (16th in series)
Publisher: William Morrow

When newly unemployed Patrick and Barbara McDougal decide a vacation in Florida is just what they need to put life back on the right track, awful accommodations, a robbery, and a not-so-helpful police department make them rethink their decision to drown their troubles in paradise.

Luckily, charismatic (and crazy!) tour guide Serge Storms and his sidekick, Coleman, are up for another action-packed adventure in this outrageous crime thriller.

        

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The Long Quiche Goodbye, A Charlotte Bessette, Cheese Shop Mystery by Avery Aames, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Berkley.

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 (01/01/2014 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 Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames
A Charlotte Bessette, Cheese Shop Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Berkley

Winner of the 2010 Agatha Award for Best First Mystery Novel.

Welcome to the grand opening of Fromagerie Bessette. Or as it's more commonly known by the residents of small-town Providence, Ohio — the Cheese Shop. Proprietor Charlotte Bessette has prepared a delightful sampling of bold Cabot Clothbound Cheddar, delicious tortes of Stilton and Mascarpone, and a taste of Sauvignon Blanc — but someone else has decided to make a little crime of passion the piece de resistance.

Right outside the shop Charlotte finds the shop's landlord with an olive-wood handle knife jutting out of his chest, and Charlotte's grandmother is the prime suspect.

      

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Bruno, Chief of Police, A Bruno, Chief of Police Mystery by Martin Walker, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Vintage.

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 (01/01/2014 at 3:30 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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Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
A Bruno, Chief of Police Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Vintage

Meet Benoît Courrèges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the South of France. He's a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rhythms of country life. He has a gun but never wears it; he has the power to arrest but never uses it.

But then the murder of an elderly North African who fought in the French army changes all that. Now Bruno must balance his beloved routines — living in his restored shepherd's cottage, shopping at the local market, drinking wine, strolling the countryside — with a politically delicate investigation. He's paired with a young policewoman from Paris and the two suspect anti-immigrant militants.

As they learn more about the dead man's past, Bruno's suspicions turn toward a more complex motive.

        

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The Informationist, A Vanessa Michael Munroe Mystery by Taylor Stevens, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Informationist by Taylor Stevens, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Broadway Books.

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 (01/01/2014 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 Informationist by Taylor Stevens
A Vanessa Michael Munroe Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Broadway Books

Vanessa "Michael" Munroe deals in information — expensive information — working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen. As his protégé, she earned the respect of the jungle's most dangerous men, cultivating her own reputation for years until something sent her running. After almost a decade building a new life and lucrative career from her home base in Dallas, she's never looked back.

Until now.

A Texas oil billionaire has hired her to find his daughter who vanished in Africa four years ago. It's not her usual line of work, but she can't resist the challenge. Pulled deep into the mystery of the missing girl, Munroe finds herself back in the lands of her childhood, betrayed, cut off from civilization, and left for dead. If she has any hope of escaping the jungle and the demons that drive her, she must come face-to-face with the past that she's tried for so long to forget.

        

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Secrets & Lies by Raymond Benson, New in Bookstores in January 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during January 2014 by Oceanview Publishing, is Secrets & Lies by Raymond Benson.

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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Secrets & Lies
Raymond Benson
Series: Judy Cooper, "Black Stiletto" (4th)

It is 1961. Judy, the Stiletto, meets Leo, a charismatic man who convinces her to move to Los Angeles when she is "run out" of New York by increasingly hazardous police heat. But soon Judy suspects that Leo is not the white knight she first thought. Leo, who has connections with the West Coast mobs, has plenty of skeletons in his closet. His mysterious sister, Christina, who once served time for armed robbery, could also be a threat to the Stiletto's new life in California.

Meanwhile, in the present, Alzheimer's-stricken Judy takes a turn for the worse as Martin comes to grips with the imminent end of his mother's life. And when elements from the Stiletto's past once again appear to threaten Martin's family, it is up to his daughter Gina to step up and take matters into her own hands.

        

Murder Past Due, A Cat in the Stacks Mystery by Miranda James, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder Past Due by Miranda James, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Berkley.

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 (01/01/2014 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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Murder Past Due by Miranda James
A Cat in the Stacks Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Berkley

There's a cat in the stacks … and he makes the purr-fect partner for a librarian turned sleuth.

Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows librarian Charlie Harris — and his Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. They also know his former classmate-turned-famous bestselling novelist, Godfrey Priest.

But someone in Athena took Godfrey off the bestseller lists — permanently, and with extreme prejudice. Now, Charlie and Diesel must browse through the history section of the town's past to find a killer.

      

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