The Nero Decree by Gregory Lee is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Nero Decree by Gregory Lee as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, January 13, 2014.

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The Nero Decree
Gregory Lee
A Historical Thriller
Thomas & Mercer

As the Nazis come to power in Germany, a violent argument over a secret key causes young Johann to lose the only parent he has left. Worse, it is his half-brother, Dieter, who commits this horrific act of betrayal. Although their fragile family bonds are irrevocably destroyed, the brothers' paths are destined to cross again.

Years later, Hitler's army is on the verge of defeat as Soviet forces cross into Germany. Hiding in plain sight, Johann works to save German lives, secretly despising the Führer to whom Dieter has sworn his allegiance. Yet now it is Dieter who holds a terrible secret that threatens not just Johann and his family, but an entire city unsuspecting of the enemy within. As Germany falls before the Allies' merciless advance, Johann and Dieter are locked in their own furious battle. Who will be left standing in the wreckage of their homeland? The fate of not only the brothers themselves, but the entire city of Berlin, rests in their hands.

  

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for January 13, 2014

A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

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This week's letters and mystery clue:

A B C D K L N O W

This 2013 thriller by D. M Mitchell is set in early 19th century Regency England (9 letters).

We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140113)

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

• The New Release is Botanica: Earthbound.

• The Daily Deal is Golden Trails 2: The Lost Legacy, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Sable Maze: Sullivan River, just $2.99 through Sunday, January 19, 2014 only.

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

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The New Release today is Botanica: Earthbound

Play as two characters in this gripping hidden object puzzle adventure! Terror strikes the land of Botanica as a volcano erupts, threatening to destroy everything in its path. Play as Ellie Wright, a botanist looking for her father who disappeared 20 years ago. And play as Ian Garrett, a scientist who is trying to get back to his daughter on Earth. Follow their journey as they try to find their way back to Earth, a move that leads them straight into the volcano's path. Can you save everyone and get back home before it's too late?

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Golden Trails 2: The Lost Legacy

Travel back to the 18th century and uncover the secrets of bygone days with this fantastic Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game! After your Grandfather is accused of piracy and condemned to death, it’s up to you to discover the truth and save his life. Find the ship’s missing logbook to learn about a long forgotten legend, and go on the adventure of a lifetime!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Monday, January 13, 2014 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Sable Maze: Sullivan River

Every night you have the same nightmare. You see children wandering through a maze, crying for help. These sleepless nights are ruining your waking life. To stop them, you must return to Sullivan River Summer Camp to uncover what happened during that long-forgotten summer. Beware though, this camp isn't all that it seems. With every step, you can feel eyes watching you. Reveal the secret of the ancient labyrinth in this eerie Hidden Object Puzzle 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 19, 2014.

A Kindle Countdown Deal: The River Is Dark by Joe Hart

Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals, limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive books.

MystereBooks is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

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The River Is Dark by Joe Hart
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Black Spine Books
Price: $0.99 (as of 01/12/14 04:30 PM ET)

Ex-homicide detective Liam Dempsey is waiting to die. His career, the only thing he ever knew how to do well, is over. The single solace each day brings is the ever-growing contemplation of suicide.

But when his estranged brother and sister-in-law are brutally murdered in their bucolic town set on the banks of the Mississippi River, he is drawn into an investigation surrounding a string of killings unlike anything he has ever seen before. The murderer is ruthless, cunning, and without conscience.

Soon Liam learns that the river is dark. And so are its secrets.

  

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Cursed in the Act by Raymond Buckland, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Bram Stoker

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series mysteries: Cursed in the Act by Raymond Buckland and introducing Bram Stoker.

What we know about the character: Bram Stoker is the business manager for London’s Lyceum Theatre, and always expects the supernatural to be lurking around the corner.

For more information about his first case, see a synopsis of the book, below.

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Cursed in the Act by Raymond Buckland
Series: A Bram Stoker Mystery
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
Format(s): Trade Paperback, eBook

1881. When the star and owner of the Lyceum, Mr. Henry Irving, is poisoned on Hamlet’s opening night, it’s up to stage manager Harry Rivers to make sure the show goes on. Fortunately for Harry, Mr. Irving is able to pull through and walk the boards as planned. But when his understudy is killed the very next day, Harry’s boss, Bram Stoker, becomes convinced that foul play is afoot.

Mr. Irving has a list of enemies longer than a Shakespearean soliloquy, any of whom would have been happy for the curtain never to rise. It soon becomes clear that nefarious, possibly magical, methods are being employed to shut the play down. With more cast and crew members falling victim to the increasingly dangerous accidents on set, it’s up to Harry and Stoker to figure out which of Irving’s critics has a voodoo vendetta …

        

The Last Dead Girl by Harry Dolan, New in Bookstores in January 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during January 2014 by Putnam, is The Last Dead Girl by Harry Dolan.

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 Last Dead Girl
Harry Dolan
Series: David Loogan (3rd)

On a rainy night in April, a chance encounter on a lonely road draws David into a romance with Jana Fletcher, a beautiful young law student. Jana is an enigma: living in a run-down apartment and sporting a bruise on her cheek that she refuses to explain. David would like to know her secrets, but he lets them lie — until it's too late.

When Jana is brutally murdered, the police consider David a prime suspect. But as he sets out to uncover the truth about Jana, he begins to realize he's treading a very dangerous path — and that her killer is watching every move he makes.

        

McNally's Secret, An Archy McNally Mystery by Lawrence Sanders, 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 McNally's Secret by Lawrence Sanders. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Sunday, January 12, 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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McNally's Secret by Lawrence Sanders
An Archy McNally Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Open Road

Lawrence Sanders introduces his most disarming detective in this powerhouse novel of passion, murder, and unabashed greed.

Inveterate playboy Archy McNally gets paid to make discreet inquiries for Palm Beach's power elite. But keeping their dirty little secrets buried will take some fancy footwork in McNally's latest case.

A block of priceless 1918 US airmail stamps has gone missing from a high-society matron's wall safe. Lady Cynthia Horowitz, now on her sixth husband, is a nasty piece of work who lives in a mansion that looks like Gone With the Wind's Tara transplanted to southern Florida. McNally's search takes him into a thickening maze of sex, lies, scandal, and blackmail. When passion erupts into murder and McNally must dig even deeper to uncover the truth, he unearths a shocking secret that could expose his own family's skeletons.

      

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A Kindle Countdown Deal: Turn On a Dime by Tiffany Snow

Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals, limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive books.

MystereBooks is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

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Turn On a Dime by Tiffany Snow
A Companion to the Kathleen Turner Series
Publisher: Tiffany Snow
Price: $0.99 (as of 01/12/14 12:30 PM ET)

Blane Kirk is a Navy SEAL turned high-powered attorney with old money and an even older pedigree. Yes, he plays the field, changing women as often as he changes his ties, but they’re not complaining. He has only two rules – 1) Don’t date employees and 2) Don’t get emotionally involved. Those rules have served him well. He sees no reason to change his ways, until his Runner, an employee in his law firm named Kathleen Turner, does an unexpected face plant in his lap.

Kathleen’s too young, too innocent, and suddenly much too vulnerable when her friend is murdered and Blane knows she could be next. Keeping her alive means keeping her close, but can Blane keep her safe...from him? Kathleen’s like no woman he’s ever met, and protecting her could be the one thing he never expected that would make his life turn on a dime.

  

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New Poster for the Sundance Channel Series The Red Road

A new poster (right; click for larger image) has been released by Sundance Channel for its new drama The Red Road.

A local sheriff (Martin Henderson) struggles to keep his family together while simultaneously policing two clashing communities: the small town where he grew up just outside of New York City, and the neighboring mountains — home of a federally unrecognized Native American tribe. After a terrible tragedy and cover-up further divides these worlds, an uneasy alliance is forged between the officer and a dangerous member of the tribe (Jason Momoa). As each of the two men find themselves increasingly compromised by the other and the emotional ghosts of their collective pasts begin to emerge, the lives of both quickly unravel, leading to terrible consequences.

The Red Road premieres on Thursday, February 27th, 2014. Watch a trailer for the series, below.

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She's Gotta Be Mine by Jennifer Skully is Today's second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature She's Gotta Be Mine by Jennifer Skully as today's second free mystery ebook (The Cottonmouth Series; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, January 12, 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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She's Gotta Be Mine
Jennifer Skully
The Cottonmouth Series
Publisher: Jasmine Haynes

Dumped? For her husband's high school sweetheart he hasn't seen in twenty years? Roberta Jones Spivey isn't going to lay down for that. Instead, she reinvents herself and the new Bobbie Jones — new haircut, new name, new attitude — follows her soon-to-be ex to the small Northern California town of Cottonmouth.

What better way to show him — and his sweetheart — what he's missing in the brand new Bobbie Jones than taking up with the town's local bad boy — who's also reputed to be a serial killer. Nick Angel is devilishly handsome and sexy as all get-out. In a word, perfect.

It's all going exactly according to plan … until a real murder rocks the little town of Cottonmouth. Of course, Nick didn't do it … did he?

  

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Artfully Yours by Nageeba Davis is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Artfully Yours by Nageeba Davis as today's free mystery ebook (A Maggie Kean Misadventure; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, January 12, 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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Artfully Yours
Nageeba Davis
A Maggie Kean Misadventure
Publisher: Barrel Boat Enterprises

Maggie Kean life is turning upside down. First, there's her ongoing relationship with the sexy detective, the man who drives her crazy outside of the bedroom and, well, equally as crazy inside the bedroom. Maggie knows that her feelings for Sam Villari have grown way past anything she's ever experienced before, but that doesn't stop her from fighting it.

Then there's the ongoing struggle with her father, a man who abandoned her emotionally the day her mother died. But now, years later, he's reaching out to Maggie, hoping she can forgive him — hoping it's not too late to get past the hurt and anger to rebuild their bond as father and daughter.

And then there's the mystery of Kelly Martin, a budding young artist Maggie has taken under her wing. But one night, Kelly's running scared and it's up to Maggie, amateur sleuth that she is, to find out what has happened and who is out to hurt her.

  

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The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, January 12, 2014.

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

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The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor
Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga
The Walking Dead Series
St. Martin's Press

In the Walking Dead universe, there is no greater villain than The Governor. The despot who runs the walled-off town of Woodbury, he has his own sick sense of justice: whether it’s forcing prisoners to battle zombies in an arena for the townspeople’s amusement, or chopping off the appendages of those who cross him.

Now, for the first time, fans will discover how The Governor became the man he is, and what drove him to such extremes.

    

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The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls by John R. King is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls by John R. King as today's Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, January 12, 2014.

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

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The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls
John R. King
A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche
Forge Books

Probably the most infamous story in the Sherlock Holmes canon is "The Final Problem" as it relates the facts of the death/murder of the master detective at Reichenbach Falls. On May 4, 1891, the detective met his archenemy Professor Moriarty on a ledge above the falls; the two became locked in a titanic hand-to-hand struggle before both tumbled over the precipice, presumably to their deaths, as witnessed afar by Dr.Watson. The outcry against the death of such a popular character was so great that in 1901 Conan Doyle was forced to give in to the pressure of his fan mail. He resurrected the detective by claiming that Holmes had managed to grab a tuft of grass during the fall into the "dreadful cauldron" and so had lived to solve another mystery.

But what really happened that infamous day at Reichenbach Falls and why did Holmes disappear in the aftermath? And what of the infamous Moriarty? How did a noble mathematician become the Napoleon of Crime?

It turns out that the events were not just witnessed by Watson but by another young detective of the Victorian era — Carnacki the Ghost Finder. Carnacki rescues an amnesiac gentleman from the base of the falls only to find himself and his companion doggedly pursued by an evil mastermind whose shadowy powers may reach from the bloody crime scenes of White Chapel to far beyond the grave.

    

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The Aloha Reef Series by Colleen Coble is Today's Kindle Romantic Suspense Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Aloha Reef Series by Colleen Coble as today's Kindle Daily Deal. We're highlighting the first in the series, Distant Echoes, below.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Sunday, January 12, 2014.

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Distant Echoes
Colleen Coble
The Aloha Reef Series
Thomas Nelson

In the land of aloha and paradise, dark secrets lurk just below the surface.

When a tragic accident downs a tourist boat off the coast of Hawaii, dolphin researcher Kaia Oana is one of the first in the water, risking her own life to try and save others. She's enlisted to help the U.S. Navy find out what really happened — utilizing her specially trained dolphins to help.

Kaia and Lieutenant Commander Jesse Matthews team up in the investigation — but as they edge closer to the truth about the incident, their own lives are threatened. Will a spirit of grace and forgiveness prevail or will it be overshadowed by the distant echoes of past pain and the imminent danger from a cold-blooded killer?

  

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