The Numbers Game by John Stanley is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Numbers Game by John Stanley as today's free mystery ebook (A Crime Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, January 04, 2014 at 6:30 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.

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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The Numbers Game
John Stanley
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Not So Noble Books

When a body is found in a house on a street marked for demolition, superintendent Danny Radford and his team immediately come up against the actions of the developers and local activists, all of whom seem intent on thwarting their investigation.

As more bodies are discovered it becomes clear a serial killer is at work, but will the interference of politicians into the police's work allow the murderer to avoid Radford's efforts to bring him to justice for his homicidal games?

  

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Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda as today's Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, January 04, 2014.

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Visitation Street
Ivy Pochoda
A Literary Thriller
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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The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, January 04, 2014.

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The Curiosity
Stephen P. Kiernan
A Suspense Thriller
William Morrow

Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ice. Remarkably, the frozen man is brought back to the lab and successfully reanimated. As the man begins to regain his memories, the team learns that he was — is — a judge, Jeremiah Rice, and the last thing he remembers is falling overboard into the Arctic Ocean in 1906.

Thrown together by circumstances beyond their control, Kate and Jeremiah grow closer. But the clock is ticking and Jeremiah’s new life is slipping away … and all too soon, Kate must decide how far she is willing to go to protect the man she has come to love.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140104)

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

• The New Release is Secret Trails: Frozen Heart.

• The Daily Deal is Fallen: The Flowers of Evil, 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 — This weekend only: All Standard and Collector's Edition Games are 50% Off! Use coupon code HALFOFF to get any Collector's Edition game for just $9.99; use coupon code WEEKEND to get any Standard game for just $4.99. Offer valid through January 5th, 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 Secret Trails: Frozen Heart

Bloomingspring has always been your favorite place to visit, not just because of the year-round sunny weather, but because your little sister Emma, calls it home. You're planning a secret visit for Emma's birthday, but your surprise is ruined by a freak blizzard in the middle of July! What caused this storm? And who is that suspicious man slinking around Emma's house? No sooner have you reunited with your sister than she is kidnapped. Rescue Emma and bring summer back to Bloomingspring in this gorgeous 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 Fallen: The Flowers of Evil

You've seen a lot as a doctor, but after making a simple house call, you stumble into a supernatural investigation. A little girl is suffering a high fever after being attacked by a monster, and she's not the only one. The city is quarantined as mysterious flowers begin to sprout all over Blackburn. Who's behind this? How are all the clues connected? There's only one way to find out … in this mysterious Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Saturday, January 04, 2014 — 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.

A Deeper Darkness, A Samantha Owens Mystery by J. T. Ellison, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Deeper Darkness by J. T. Ellison, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Mira 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 (01/03/2014 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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A Deeper Darkness by J. T. Ellison
A Samantha Owens Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Mira Books

As a medical examiner, Samantha Owens knows her job is to make a certain sense of death with crisp methodology and precision instruments.

But the day the Tennessee floods took her husband and children, the light vanished from Sam's life. She has been pulled into a suffocating grief no amount of workaholic ardor can penetrate — until she receives a peculiar call from Washington, D.C.

On the other end of the line is an old boyfriend's mother, asking Sam to do a second autopsy on her son. Eddie Donovan is officially the victim of a vicious carjacking, but under Sam's sharp eye the forensics tell a darker story. The ex-Ranger was murdered, though not for his car.

Forced to confront the burning memories and feelings about yet another loved one killed brutally, Sam loses herself in the mystery contained within Donovan's old notes. It leads her to the untouchable Xander, a soldier off-grid since his return from Afghanistan, and then to a series of brutal crimes stretching from that harsh mountainous war zone to this nation's capital. The tale told between the lines makes it clear that nobody's hands are clean, and that making sense of murder sometimes means putting yourself in the crosshairs of death.

    

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New Japanese Poster for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

A new Japanese poster has been released by Paramount Pictures for the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (right; click for larger image). The Japanese title: エージェント·ライアン (Agent: Ryan).

Chris Pine stars as Jack Ryan in an original story as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. The story follows him from 9/11, through his tour of duty in Afghanistan, which scarred him forever, and into his early days in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the modern CIA, where he becomes an analyst under the guardianship of his handler, Harper (Kevin Costner). When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancée Cathy (Keira Knightley).

Directed by Kenneth Branagh from an screenplay by Adam Cozad and David Koepp and based on a character created by Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit opens in US theaters January 17, 2014; the film opens in Japan a month later on February 14th, 2014.

Back from the Dead, A Novel of Suspense by Peter Leonard, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Back from the Dead by Peter Leonard, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, The Story Plant.

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 (01/03/2014 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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Back from the Dead by Peter Leonard
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: The Story Plant

Bahamas, 1971. Ernst Hess, missing and presumed dead, regains consciousness to find himself stuck in a hospital bed on a strange ward in a foreign country. He must do what he needs to do to get his life back and to finish the job he has been doing for decades.

Harry believes he has already stopped Hess. When he finds out that the war criminal has somehow survived, Harry must do the only thing he can do — kill Hess again — even if it means crossing continents and putting his life and the lives of those that matter to him on the line.

        

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Eggs in a Casket by Laura Childs, New in Bookstores in January 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during January 2014 by Berkley Hardcover, is Eggs in a Casket by Laura Childs.

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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Eggs in a Casket
Laura Childs
Series: Cackleberry Club (5th)

While Petra handles the breakfast rush at the Cackleberry Club, the café's other two owners, Suzanne and Toni, head to Memorial Cemetery to help prepare for its 150th anniversary celebration. But as they search the winding paths for the historical society tent, they discover something else out of place: the body of ex-prison warden Lester Drummond lying facedown in someone else's freshly dug grave.

In the small town of Kindred, everyone knows everyone, and Lester was no exception. Suzanne knew him as the creepy guy who made unwanted advances on her friend Missy Langston. But now it appears the man was hiding a few secrets…and at least one of them was worth killing for.

As the case cracks open, there are plenty of suspects to consider — from recent parolees to Missy herself, who Suzanne and Toni saw speeding away just before they found the body. Now, with a cemetery celebration in the offing, and the local authorities in over their heads, it's up to the Cackleberry Club to unscramble the clues and clear their friend's name.

        

New Trailer for the Mystery Drama Veronica Mars

A new trailer has been released by Warner Bros. for the mystery drama Veronica Mars (embedded, below).

Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) gets pulled back to her hometown, an ex-boyfriend with baggage, and an unraveling murder mystery.

Directed by Rob Thomas from an original screenplay by Rob Thomas and Dianne Ruggiero, Veronica Mars opens in theaters March 14, 2014.

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Cat Fear No Evil, A Joe Grey Mystery by Shirley Rousseau Murphy, at a Special Price during January 2014

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 Cat Fear No Evil by Shirley Rousseau Murphy. This Kindle book was listed at $0.99 as of the date and time of this post, Friday, January 03, 2014 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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Cat Fear No Evil by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
A Joe Grey Mystery (9th in series)
Publisher: HarperColllins

When antiques and valuables begin to disappear from residents' homes, Joe Grey, Feline Detective, knows that something is very wrong in sleepy Molena Point, California. Lost are a five hundred thousand dollar painting, a diamond choker, and most shocking to Joe, his owner Clyde's vintage Packard roadster.

But even a seasoned tomcat like Joe isn't prepared for the return of a yellow-eyed, sinister black cat who had terrorized him and his girlfriend Dulcie years before. The acid-tongued Azrael had paired with an old crook to loot the town and spread fear among the unsuspecting residents. Could Azrael and his partner be connected to this new set of crimes?

But when a local waiter dies mysteriously at the art opening of one of Joe and Dulcie's closest human friends, the pair know that someone much more powerful and evil than Azrael's aging human friend is involved. And when miles away in San Francisco the cats' friend Kate — a woman with a mysterious, troubling secret — is followed by a stranger and robbed, the cats dig in their claws and investigate. Along with their tattercoat friend Kit, they pass clues to the police, and under the often sceptical eye of Clyde, slowly begin to sniff out the truth.

        

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From the Ashes, A Suspense Thriller by Jeremy Burns, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature From the Ashes by Jeremy Burns, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, The Story Plant.

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 (01/03/2014 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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From the Ashes by Jeremy Burns
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: The Story Plant

Graduate students Jonathan and Michael Rickner, sons of eminent archaeologist Sir William Rickner, are no strangers to historical mysteries and archaeological adventures. But when Michael is discovered dead in his Washington, D.C. apartment, Jon refuses to believe the official ruling of suicide. Digging deeper into his brother's work, he discovers evidence that Michael was murdered to keep his dissertation research buried.

Joined by Michael's fiancée Mara Ellison, Jon travels to New York where he uncovers the threads of a deadly Depression-era conspiracy — one entangling the Hoover Administration, the Rockefellers, and the rise of Nazi Germany — and the elite cadre of assassins that still guard its unspeakable secret.

Finding themselves in the crosshairs of the same men who killed Michael, Jon and Mara must navigate a complex web of historical cover-ups and modern-day subterfuge, outwitting and outrunning their all-powerful pursuers as they race through the monuments and museums of Manhattan in a labyrinthine treasure hunt to discover the last secret of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., before their enemies can bury the truth — and them — forever.

        

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A New MystereBook: A Cuban Death by David 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 January 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

A Cuban Death by David Anderson is the third police procedural in this series, featuring Detective Sergeant Nicholas Drumm.

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A Cuban Death by David Anderson
A Nicholas Drumm Mystery
Publisher: David Anderson
Publication Date: January 02, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 01/03/14 12:30 PM ET)

A young man is killed when he falls from a seventh-floor balcony at a resort in Cuba. Is it suicide? Is it a murder, or just a horrible accident? Is it any business of Homicide Detective Sergeant Nicholas Drumm, fully occupied with a string of brutal sexual assaults in York?

From the beautiful sandy beaches of Cuba's southern shore to the frozen streets of York, Ontario, this mystery pits a determined detective against a range of foes, including his superior officer.

  

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Footprints in the Sand, A Piper Donovan Mystery by Mary Jane Clark, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Footprints in the Sand by Mary Jane Clark, 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 (01/03/2014 at 12:00 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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Footprints in the Sand by Mary Jane Clark
A Piper Donovan Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: William Morrow

It's the dead of winter and struggling actress and wedding-cake decorator Piper Donovan is thrilled to be in warm and romantic Sarasota, Florida, enjoying the powdery white beaches, soothing seas, and golden sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico. She and her family are there to celebrate her beloved cousin's wedding. Not only is Piper creating the sugar-sand-dollar-festooned wedding cake, she's also the maid of honor.

But a cloud seems to be hovering over the whole affair. Shortly after a bridesmaid mysteriously disappears, a kindly neighbor's car is run off the road and a prospective witness, an innocent Amish teenager, is threatened to keep silent. Then a body is found on the beach where the wedding will take place. With the nuptials threatened, it falls to Piper to unmask a killer. Could it be the wedding planner with something to hide? A doctor and his wife who collect unusual Japanese figurines? The best man, an ex–drug dealer with lecherous eyes and roving hands? What about her cousin's future stepfather — or even the bridegroom himself?

As Piper gets close to figuring out who's been covering his guilty footprints in the sand, the cunning killer has already set his sights on Piper as his next victim!

    

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