Spending Spree by Ryan Wiley is Today's second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Spending Spree by Ryan Wiley as today's second 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 08, 2014 at 6:45 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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Spending Spree
Ryan Wiley
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Ryan Wiley

What would you do if you had one hundred thousand dollars to spend every day for the rest of your life?

Johnny Davis is a twenty-five year old loser, still living with his parents and working the same job he did when he was sixteen. A few days after his mom helps him open his very own checking account, Johnny discovers something unusual — a one hundred thousand-dollar deposit that is definitely not from his parents.

He soon finds that whatever amount he spends in one day is fully reimbursed the following morning. His friend, Dave, convinces him not to tell anyone and to go on the spending spree of a lifetime — which is exactly what Johnny does.

But where's the money coming from? And how much trouble is Johnny in for when someone finds out?

The answers turn out to be far worse than he ever could have imagined.

  

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The Cardholder by Kelly O'Callan is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Cardholder by Kelly O'Callan as today's free mystery ebook (A Novel of Suspense; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, January 08, 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.

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The Cardholder
Kelly O'Callan
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Kelly O'Callan

Dr. Margaret Simmons has a huge ego when it comes to her work and reputation. So when a gigolo named Mick Dillon pays the top-notch Philadelphia therapist a visit, asking her to help him with his quest to learn how to fall in love, Maggie cannot resist the unique challenge of having him as a patient.

Her zeal to ensure success in helping Mick with his issues causes Maggie to cross several professional lines — including secretly involving her sister, Annie. But, little does Maggie realize that her unethical practices in Mick's therapy will lead to a series of disastrous consequences in her life.

  

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The Survivors Club by J. Carson Black is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Survivors Club by J. Carson Black as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, January 08, 2014.

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The Survivors Club
J. Carson Black
A Suspense Thriller
Thomas & Mercer

Detective Tess McCrae investigates a grisly crime scene in the ghost town of Credo, Arizona. To an ordinary investigator, the evidence suggests a cartel drug hit. But Tess, with a nearly faultless photographic memory, is far from ordinary, and she sees what others might miss: this is no drug killing. Someone went to gruesome lengths to cover up this crime.

The killer's trail leads Tess from Tucson to California; from anti-government squatters in the Arizona mountains to the heights of wealthy society, including the rich and powerful DeKoven family, who've dominated Arizona commerce and politics since the 1800s. But as Tess follows the trail of gore and betrayal, perfect and indelible in her memory, she uncovers far more than one man's murder, and solves much more than one isolated crime.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140108)

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

• The New Release is Esoterica: Hollow Earth.

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

Visit the Omnimystery Entertainment Network for more games of mystery and suspense!

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The New Release today is Esoterica: Hollow Earth

The fabled land of Agartha awaits your discovery in three episodes of adventure and mystery! Experience an edge-of-your seat sci-fi adventure that will take you to the depths of the planet, the bad guys nipping at your heels every step of the way! Dazzling art, professional vocal work, and jaw dropping production values will be your companions as you explore underwater caves, a subterranean jungle teeming with bizarre life forms, and the laboratory of an evil genius. Just be careful who you trust.

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 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.

A New MystereBook: Murder Dives the Caribbean by Bonnie J. Cardone

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 …

Murder Dives the Caribbean by Bonnie J. Cardone is the third mystery to feature part-time forensic photographer Cinnamon Greene.

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Murder Dives the Caribbean by Bonnie J. Cardone
A Cinnamon Greene Adventure Mystery
Publisher: Sea Scenes
Publication Date: January 05, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 01/07/14 05:30 PM ET)

Cinnamon Greene and her boyfriend Danny Decker are scuba diving at night off a Caribbean island when a dead body plummets through the water and lands on the sand in front of them. The deceased planned to build a golf course that many believed would pollute the ocean. The suspects in his death include the owners of the resort where Danny and Cinnamon are staying.

A part-time forensic photographer for her home town police force, Cinnamon uncovers a tangled trail of clues involving unlikely liaisons, an old book and unrequited love that culminates in a terrifying night spent drifting in shark infested waters.

  

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Telemystery: HBO's True Detective Promotional Package

We received a large package this afternoon and were rather shocked to discover what was inside: a structure of tied twigs placed within a once water-soaked (though now dried) bankers box labeled "Louisiana State Evidence" (image, right; click for larger version).

We immediately recognized the twigs — something similar was hanging from a tree in the trailer for HBO's upcoming series True Detective — and sure enough inside the box lid is stamped "HBO" and "#TrueDetective". Kind of a creepy but also kind of an effective promotion!

Here's a synopsis from the network for the series, followed by the trailer.

In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson) are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge in 2012 as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they'd left behind. In learning about each other and their killer, it becomes clear that darkness lives on both sides of the law.

True Detective premieres this Sunday, January 12th, 2014, on HBO.

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A New MystereBook: Through the Window by Rhys Bowen

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 …

Through the Window by Rhys Bowen is a short story featuring Rhys Bowen's series character, Molly Murphy (though she is now Molly Sullivan).

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Through the Window by Rhys Bowen
A Molly Murphy Mystery Story
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Publication Date: January 07, 2014
Price: $0.99 (as of 01/07/14 04:30 PM ET)

Molly Murphy — now Molly Sullivan — is absolutely thrilled to give birth to her first child, a beautiful little boy named Liam.

But while confined to bed rest for the weeks following his birth, she finds herself watching the activity across the street through her window, and she soon begins to notice some odd goings-on that set her detective's sixth sense to tingling.

      

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Into the Shadows, A Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham Mystery by Shirley Wells, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Into the Shadows by Shirley Wells, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, C & R Crime.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $1.35 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (01/07/2014 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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Into the Shadows by Shirley Wells
A Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: C & R Crime

When Rodney Hill, wrongly arrested for a series of murders, hangs himself, Jill Kennedy, the forensic psychologist whose profile led to Hill's arrest, gives up her work with the police and moves to the peaceful village of Kelton Bridge to write self-help books, enjoy a quiet life with her cats and perhaps an occasional flutter on the horses.

Then the likeable but unremarkable vicar's wife, Alice Trueman, is brutally murdered, and Jill discovers that Kelton Bridge is far from the quiet refuge she had anticipated. According to DCI Max Trentham, Jill's ex-colleague and ex-lover, the case if pretty cut and dried — Alice's son was found standing over her body with the murder weapon in his hand. But he won't talk.

And that's not all. Someone is intent on reminding Jill that she made a mistake in the Rodney Hill case. Is it a malicious joke, or is there a more deadly agenda? It begins to look as if real killer — the man who should have stood in Rodney Hill's shoes, the man still terrorizing the Lancashire Pennines — is stalking her. And that is a truly terrifying thought.

  

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Winterlude, A Gunnhildur Gísladóttir Mystery Story by Quentin Bates, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Winterlude by Quentin Bates, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, C & R Crime.

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 (01/07/2014 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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Winterlude by Quentin Bates
A Gunnhildur Gísladóttir Mystery Story
Publisher: C & R Crime

It's a bitter winter morning when Sergeant Gunnhildur is called to the scene of a violent killing in an abandoned industrial unit. Gunna and her sidekick Helgi quickly find that the battered victim had no shortage of enemies.

The case takes Gunna around Reykjavík's darker side and Helgi to the bleak rural district he grew up in as they work out who was prepared to take a grudge as far as murder.

(This story bridges the gap between the second and third books in this series, Cold Comfort and Chilled to the Bone.)

  

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Delivering Death by Julie Kramer, New in Bookstores in January 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during January 2014 by Atria Books, is Delivering Death by Julie Kramer.

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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Delivering Death
Julie Kramer
Series: Riley Spartz (6th)

TV reporter Riley Spartz is a star investigative journalist for Channel 3 — and no stranger to the seedier side of her hometown. But when she receives a package of smelly human teeth in the mail at work, she's quickly embroiled in a homicide investigation that spirals into one of the odder cases the Minneapolis police force has ever seen. Though the cops try to keep certain grisly details quiet, this murder has a strange twist — it seems that the killer wants the crime publicized.

Is it a revenge killing, or something more? Riley's investigation takes her inside a lucrative identity theft ring that links low-life crooks like now-dead Leon Akume to white-collar opportunists like once-wealthy Jack Clemens. Despite a prime motive for murder, Jack also has the ultimate alibi: he's behind bars. While Riley pushes to keep the homicide in the news, her boss is convinced that coverage of the Mall of America's unique version of a royal wedding is key to the station winning ratings. As the stakes continue to rise for her job and her life, Riley must outwit the killer in a trap that could leave yet another person dead …

        

Ragtime in Simla, A Joe Sandilands Mystery by Barbara Cleverly, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Ragtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, C & R Crime.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $1.35 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (01/07/2014 at 1:30 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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Ragtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly
A Joe Sandilands Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: C & R Crime

Simla 1922. While the rest of India bakes in the hot season, up in the pine-scented coolness of the Himalayan hills the English have recreated a vision of home. Here are half-timbered houses, amateur theatricals, gymkhanas and a glittering vice-regal court for the socialites. The summer capital of the British Raj is fizzing with the energy of the jazz age. It is toward this country that detective Joe Sandilands is heading as the guest of the governor of Bengal.

But when Joe's travelling companion, a Russian opera singer, is shot dead at his side on the road to Simla, he finds himself plunged into a murder investigation. As Joe begins to unravel the mystery which has its roots in the aftermath of the First World War, he discovers that behind the sparkling facade of Simla lies a trail of murder, vice and blackmail.

  

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Wild Justice, An Amanda Jaffe Thriller by Phillip Margolin, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Wild Justice by Phillip Margolin, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperColllins.

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 (01/07/2014 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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Wild Justice by Phillip Margolin
An Amanda Jaffe Thriller (1st in series)
Publisher: HarperColllins

Vice squad detective Bobby Vasquez, for months on the trail of a slippery underworld figure, receives an anonymous tip that directs him to a mountain cabin. He races through the idyllic Oregon woods, expecting to close the book on a long-standing vendetta. What he finds instead opens a Pandora's box of horror that will haunt him to his dying day.

Within hours, Vincent Cordoni — a brilliant surgeon with a history of violence and drug abuse — is arrested for a heinous crime. Facing a seemingly insurmountable wall of evidence, he turns to Portland's top criminal defense attorney, Frank Jaffe-who, along with his ambitious daughter, Amanda, must put on an inspired defense. Amanda's first taste of criminal defense work is as intoxicating as it is chilling, but it raises moral questions she's loath to address. Is she defending an innocent man? Or is she using her considerable skills to set a monster free? Then Cardoni disappears under bizarre circumstances. Four years later, a second set of murders has begun.

Has Cardoni resurfaced to ply his deadly trade anew? Is there a copycat killer? Or has the real killer been someone else all along? The police will do everything they can to stop Cardoni — but they have to find him first.

Following a twisting trail of clues, including a harrowing diary that clinically records the killer's horrible deeds, Amanda Jaffe and Bobby Vasquez join the hunt-and themselves become targets of the twenty-first century's first genuinely monstrous psychopath.

        

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New from Witness Impulse: Blind to the Bones by Stephen Booth

Every week, Witness Impulse — an imprint of William Morrow — releases new suspense and thriller digital originals, typically priced at just $2.99 each.

MystereBooks is pleased to present you with one of this week's titles …

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Blind to the Bones by Stephen Booth
A Ben Cooper and Diane Fry Mystery
Publisher: Witness Impulse
Publication Date: January 07, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 01/07/14 12:30 PM ET)

And as it grew dark, Withens became almost entirely silent. Except for the screaming.

A small village in the Peak District, Withens is troubled by theft and vandalism, mostly generated by local family-from-hell, the Oxleys. Now it is the focus of a murder investigation — a man's body has been found on the bleak moors nearby, and the man is an Oxley. To crack the case, DC Ben Cooper must break open the delinquent clan.

His boss, DS Diane Fry, is also in Withens. Grim new evidence has turned up in the case of a missing student but her parents refuse to believe she could be dead.

The darkness in Withens's heart is growing. And things are only going to get nastier …

        

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New Poster, Trailer for House of Cards Season 2

A new poster (right; click for larger image) and trailer (embedded, below) have been released by Netflix for the second season of its political thriller House of Cards. The poster's tagline: "There are two kinds of pain."

Frank Underwood's (Kevin Spacey) rapid ascension to the heights of power means big changes for both him and Claire (Robin Wright), but his sudden rise creates powerful enemies and the increasing chance that his dark secrets will be exposed. There is but one rule: Hunt or be hunted.

House of Cards Season 2 premieres exclusively on Netflix in all territories on February 14th, 2014.

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