Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140107)

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

• Our Featured Title is The Invisible Man.

• The Daily Deal is The Missing: Island of Lost Ships, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Dark Parables: The Red Riding Hood Sisters, just $2.99 through Sunday, January 12, 2014 only.

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Our Featured Title today is The Invisible Man

Griffin's quest for invisibility has left him labeled as a "crazy scientist", and he must leave his sweetheart behind as he flees to escape his persecutors. Unravel the mystery of Griffin's strange experiment in this suspenseful hidden object game! You will solve puzzles and meet a cast of devious characters in your quest to find the truth. Will you be able to find your beloved Griffin before he disappears forever?

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

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Today's Daily Deal is The Missing: Island of Lost Ships

Your friend Robert was on the trail of an ancient artifact when he vanished at sea several days ago. You set out to search for him only to find yourself trapped on the mysterious Island of Lost Ships! Now you must save both Robert and yourself from the villainous Sea Dogs and their ruthless leader, the Admiral. Use your skills to uncover the secrets of the mysterious island and find your way home in this thrilling hidden-object adventure!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Tuesday, January 07, 2014 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Dark Parables: The Red Riding Hood Sisters

Play as the fabled detective and defeat the Wolf Queen! Centuries ago, the first Red Riding Hood defeated the wolf and established the Order of Red Riding Hood Sisters. Recently, the nefarious Wolf Queen entrapped the sisters and planned to unleash legions of ravaging wolves onto our world. Assist the Red Riding Hood Sisters in this thrilling Hidden Object 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, January 12, 2014.

Three Derrick Storm Short Stories by Richard Castle, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Three Derrick Storm Short Stories by Richard Castle, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Hyperion. We're highlighting the first in the series, A Brewing Storm, below.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 each from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (01/06/2014 at 7:30 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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A Brewing Storm by Richard Castle
A Derrick Storm Short Story (1st in series)
Publisher: Hyperion

When Derrick Storm needed to leave the CIA, he couldn't just retire. He had to fake his own death. So when his former boss calls in an old favor that will bring Storm out of early retirement and back to Washington to investigate a high-profile kidnapping, he knows there must be more at stake than the life of a Senator's son.

Working alongside, but not exactly with, bombshell FBI investigator April Showers, Storm must make sense of a confusing flurry of ransom notes and a complicated web of personal relationships and international politics. He'll get to the bottom of the kidnapping, but the storm is still brewing …

  

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Review: Storm Front by John Sandford

A Mysterious Review of Storm Front by John Sandford. A Virgil Flowers Mystery.

Review summary: The premise of this mystery is an intriguing, if also an overused and overworked, one, but the plot that is constructed in support of it here is really quite thin. Fans of this series will probably enjoy following along with Virgil as tracks his way through south central Minnesota, but it's not the best introduction to the character for new readers. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Storm Front
John Sandford
A Virgil Flowers Mystery
Putnam (October 2013)

Publisher synopsis: In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a message from Lucas Davenport: You're about to get a visitor. It's an Israeli cop, and she's tailing a man who's smuggled out an extraordinary relic — a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon.

Wait a minute, laughs Virgil. Is this one of those Da Vinci Code deals? The secret scroll, the blockbuster revelation, the teams of murderous bad guys? Should I be boning up on my Bible verses?

He looks at the cop. She's not laughing. As it turns out, there are very bad men chasing the relic, and they don't care who's in the way or what they have to do to get it. Maybe Virgil should start praying.

      

A New MystereBook: Dark Waters by J. B. Turner

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 …

Dark Waters by J. B. Turner is the second thriller featuring Miami Herald investigative reporter Deborah Jones.

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Dark Waters by J. B. Turner
A Deborah Jones Investigative Thriller
Publisher: J. B. Turner
Publication Date: January 04, 2014
Price: $4.99 (as of 01/06/14 04:30 PM ET)

How far would you go to uncover the truth?

When the partially dismembered body of a young man is found in the Florida Everglades, Deborah Jones, star reporter for the Miami Herald, finds herself caught up in a story that has ramifications far beyond anything she could have ever imagined.

The victim had contacted Deborah anonymously just the day before, promising her top-secret government documents if she'd agree to a meeting. But he didn't show up, calling to say he feared for his life. Deborah Jones is a woman not easily deterred by threats.

But when a second person dies in mysterious circumstances, it is clear to her and to everyone on her newspaper that Deborah could be next on the assassin's list.

  

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The Justice Series, A Boxed Set of Three Thrillers by M. A. Comley, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Justice Series by M. A. Comley, 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 (01/06/2014 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 Justice Series by M. A. Comley
A Boxed Set of Three Thrillers
Publisher: M. A. Comley

The three books in the Justice series in a special edition boxed set.

Cruel Justice

The headless body of a wealthy widow is discovered decomposing in Chelling Forest. Then a second victim is found. Detective Inspector Lorne Simpkins and her partner, DS Pete Childs are assigned the case. Before they can discover the identity of the killer they must make a connection between the two victims.

After a third murder, Lorne receives a grisly surprise. Clearly, a vicious serial killer is on a rampage … and Lorne has become the killer's fixation.

Lorne can't allow her failing marriage or her new boss —a man with whom she shares a sensuous secret — keep her from focusing on her job. She must catch the macabre murderer, or risk becoming the next victim.

Impeding Justice

For eight long years, Detective Inspector Lorne Simpkins has tracked the vicious criminal known as The Unicorn. But the killer has frustrated MI6 at every turn and remained successful at impeding justice.

When Lorne is targeted in a trap that results in the death of her partner, the tragedy shakes her confidence to the core. Before she has time to recoup, her teenage daughter is kidnapped. More than Lorne's professional reputation rests on her bringing The Unicorn to justice.

Final Justice

A ruthless killer returns — and former DI Lorne Simpkins is forced to revisit her ugly past.

After suffering a breakdown and quitting the force, Lorne Simpkins finds herself embroiled in an MI6 covert operation to hunt down her old enemy, a sadistic and merciless criminal whose ambition is to become the world's richest man.

Lorne tracks the madman through France, attempting to thwart his plans and bring her long-time nemesis to final justice.

  

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Daddy's Little Girl, A Crime Thriller by Mary Higgins Clark, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Simon & Schuster.

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 (01/06/2014 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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Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven years old when her fifteen-year-old sister, Andrea, was murdered near their home in Oldham-on-the-Hudson, a rural village in New York's Westchester County. There were three suspects: Rob Westerfield, nineteen-year-old scion of a wealthy, prominent family, whom Andrea has been secretly dating; Paul Stroebel, a sixteen-year-old schoolmate, who had a crush on Andrea; and Will Nebels, a local handyman in his forties.

It was Ellie who had led her parents to a hideout in which Andrea's body was found — a secret hideaway in which she met her friends. And it was Ellie who was blamed by her parents for her sister's death for not telling them about this place the night Andrea was missing. It was also Ellie's testimony that led to the conviction of the man she was firmly convinced was the killer. Steadfastly denying his guilt, he spent the next twenty-two years in prison.

When he comes up for parole, Ellie, now an investigative reporter for an Atlanta newspaper, protests his release. Nonetheless, the convicted killer is set free and returns to Oldham. Determined to thwart his attempts to whitewash his reputation, Ellie also returns to Oldham, intent on creating a Website and writing a book that will conclusively prove his guilt. As she delves deeper into her research, however, she uncovers horrifying and heretofore unknown facts that shed new light on her sister's murder. With each discovery, she comes closer to a confrontation with a desperate killer.

    

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The Way of All Fish by Martha Grimes, New in Bookstores in January 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during January 2014 by Scribner, is The Way of All Fish by Martha Grimes.

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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The Way of All Fish
Martha Grimes
Series: Candy and Karl (2nd)

Candy and Karl, hitmen with a difference — they have scruples — once again venture into the murky Manhattan publishing scene. This time they come to the aid of a writer who is being sued by her unscrupulous literary agent, L. Bass Hess, a man determined to get a 15 percent commission for a book he didn't sell.

The contract killers join forces with publishing mogul Bobby Mackenzie and megabestselling writer Paul Giverney to rid the mean streets of Hess, not by shooting him, but by driving him crazy. They are helped by other characters from Foul Matter and a crew of new colorful personalities, including an out-of-work Vegas magician, an alligator wrangler, a glamorous Malaysian con lady, and Hess's aunt in Everglades City, who has undergone a wildly successful sex change.

        

Mystery and Suspense Films: Runner Runner, New This Week on DVD

Checking through our list of films currently scheduled for release this week on DVD and/or Blu-ray disc, we are pleased to feature one that falls into the mystery, suspense, thriller, crime and/or adventure category …

Runner Runner starring Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck.

See also a list of current mystery and suspense DVD, Blu-ray, or VOD deals on Amazon.com.

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Runner Runner (2013)

Directed by Brad Furman from an original screenplay by Brian Koppelman and David Levien. Watch a trailer for the film below.

Film Synopsis (from the studio): Princeton grad student Richie (Justin Timberlake), believing he's been swindled, travels to Costa Rica to confront online gambling tycoon Ivan Block (Ben Affleck). Richie is seduced by Block's promise of immense wealth, until he learns the disturbing truth about his benefactor. When the FBI tries to coerce Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever: attempting to outmaneuver the two forces closing in on him.

Running time: 91 minutes. Rating: Rated R for language and some sexual content.

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Hard As It Gets, A Hard Ink Novel of Romantic Suspense by Laura Kaye, 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 Hard As It Gets by Laura Kaye. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, January 06, 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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Hard As It Gets by Laura Kaye
A Hard Ink Novel of Romantic Suspense (1st in series)
Publisher: Avon

Tall, dark, and lethal …

Trouble just walked into Nicholas Rixey's tattoo parlor. Becca Merritt is warm, sexy, wholesome — pure temptation to a very jaded Nick. He's left his military life behind to become co-owner of Hard Ink Tattoo, but Becca is his ex-commander's daughter. Loyalty won't let him turn her away. Lust has plenty to do with it too.

With her brother presumed kidnapped, Becca needs Nick. She just wasn't expecting to want him so much. As their investigation turns into all-out war with an organized crime ring, only Nick can protect her. And only Becca can heal the scars no one else sees.

Desire is the easy part. Love is as hard as it gets. Good thing Nick is always up for a challenge.

        

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Term Limits, A Suspense Thriller by Vince Flynn, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Term Limits by Vince Flynn, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Atria 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 (01/06/2014 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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Term Limits by Vince Flynn
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Atria Books

In one bloody night, three of Washington's most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people. No one, they warn, is out of their reach — not even the president.

A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals the killers are elite military commandos, but no one knows exactly who they are or when they will strike next.

Only Michael O'Rourke, a former U.S. Marine and freshman congressman, holds a clue to the violence: a haunting incident in his own past with explosive implications for his country's future.

    

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New from Carina Press: Ashes & Alchemy by Cindy Spencer Pape

Carina Press is a digital-first imprint from Harlequin, publishing books in an interesting and diverse selection of genres including contemporary romance, steampunk, gay/lesbian fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, and — but of course — mystery and suspense.

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Ashes & Alchemy by Cindy Spencer Pape
The Gaslight Chronicles
Publisher: Carina Press
Publication Date: January 06, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 01/06/14 12:30 PM ET)

London, 1860: Police inspector Sebastian Brown served Queen and country in India before returning to England to investigate supernatural crimes alongside the Order of the Round Table. If his wifeless, childless life feels a little empty sometimes, that's not too great a price to pay in the name of duty.

Minerva Shaw is desperately seeking a doctor when she mistakenly lands on Sebastian's doorstep. Her daughter Ivy has fallen gravely ill with a mysterious illness — the same illness, it seems, that's responsible for taking the lives of many of Ivy's classmates.

Seb sniffs a case, and taking in Minnie and Ivy seems the only way to protect them while he solves it. But as mother and daughter work their way into his heart and Seb uses every magickal and technological resource he can muster to uncover the source of the deadly plague, it's he who will need protecting — from emotions he'd thought buried long ago.

        

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