Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStefano is Today's Teen Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStefano as today's Teen Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, January 22, 2014.

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Perfect Ruin
Lauren DeStefano
The Internment Chronicles
Simon & Schuster

Morgan Stockhour knows getting too close to the edge of Internment, the floating city in the clouds where she lives, can lead to madness. Even though her older brother, Lex, was a Jumper, Morgan vows never to end up like him. If she ever wonders about the ground, and why it is forbidden, she takes solace in her best friend, Pen, and in Basil, the boy she's engaged to marry.

Then a murder, the first in a generation, rocks the city. With whispers swirling and fear on the wind, Morgan can no longer stop herself from investigating, especially once she meets Judas. Betrothed to the victim, he is the boy being blamed for the murder, but Morgan is convinced of his innocence. Secrets lay at the heart of Internment, but nothing can prepare Morgan for what she will find — or whom she will lose.

  

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I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, January 22, 2014.

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I, Sniper
Stephen Hunter
A Bob Lee Swagger Mystery
Simon & Schuster

Four famed '60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose ninety-three kills were considered the leading body count tally among American marksman in Vietnam, was the shooter. But as the Bureau, led by Special Agent Nick Memphis, bears down, Hitchcock commits suicide. In closing out the investigation, Nick discovers a case made in heaven: everything fits, from timeline, ballistics, and forensics to motive, means, and opportunity. Maybe it's a little too perfect.

Nick asks his friend, the retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to examine the data. Using a skill set no other man on earth possesses, Swagger soon discovers unseen anomalies and gradually begins to unravel a sophisticated conspiracy — one that would require the highest level of warcraft by the most superb special operations professionals. As Swagger penetrates the deepest secrets of the sniper world and its new technology, Nick stands firm in the face of hardball PR initiatives and an inflamed media calling for his ouster.

Swagger soon closes in, and those responsible will stop at nothing to take him out. But these heavily armed men make the mistake of thinking they are hunting Bob, when he is, in fact, hunting them.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140122)

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

• Our Featured Title is Fear For Sale: Mystery of McInroy Manor.

• The current Catch of the Week is Mayan Prophecies: Ship of Spirits, just $2.99 through Sunday, January 26, 2014 only.

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

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Our Featured Title today is Fear For Sale: Mystery of McInroy Manor

Emma Roberts has been tasked with writing a story about an old haunted manor for Fear for Sale Magazine. The estate has been locked up for years, but a sizable donation from Emma’s editor has opened up the home for exploration. Unravel the tale of the demise of the McInroy family, and set their souls free in this dark and mysterious Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure 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 Mayan Prophecies: Ship of Spirits

Climb aboard an ancient Spanish galleon lost in time as a Coast Guard officer tracking an elusive criminal. As you explore the vastness of a ship lost in time, what mysteries will you uncover amidst its Mayan idols, menacing sea creatures, and exotic treasures? Find out in this exciting new Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game on the open seas!

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 26, 2014.

Review: Chilled To the Bone by Quentin Bates

A Mysterious Review of Chilled To the Bone by Quentin Bates. A Gunnhildur Gísladóttir Mystery.

Review summary: It is a little tricky to navigate this crime novel at first, what with the large cast of characters and the rapidly changing points of view setting up the various subplots. But it does move along quickly, and while there are plenty of false leads and dead-end paths, the storylines do start to merge, resulting in a nicely complex, very satisfying mystery. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Chilled To the Bone
Quentin Bates
A Gunnhildur Gísladóttir Mystery
Soho Crime (December 2013)

Publisher synopsis: When Sergeant Gunnhildur Gísladóttir of the local police force is called in to investigate the death of a man found tied to a bed in one of Reykjavík's nicest hotels, she finds no sign of criminal activity but suspects there may be more to the case than meets the eye. Could the death of the shipowner be related to a local gangster's recent return to Iceland after many years abroad?

What begins as a straightforward case for Gunnhildur soon explodes into a dangerous investigation, involving a discreet bondage society that ruthless men will go to violent extremes to keep secret.

      

A New MystereBook: Blackwater Crossing by David Griffin

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 …

Blackwater Crossing by David Griffin is the first book in "The Border Series". It isn't clear from the synopsis whether this series will be character-based or setting-based, but we're guessing a bit of both.

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Blackwater Crossing by David Griffin
The Border Series
Publisher: Zeal Books
Publication Date: January 20, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 01/21/14 04:30 PM ET)

A fistful of trophy buckles and a dusted-off Counterintelligence degree are poor currency in a fight with a drug cartel. But rodeo cowboy Lonnie Bowers has little else when he attempts to rescue his best friend from a Mexican drug cartel.

Lonnie's career is fading, and the only part left of his marriage to Clarissa is the lawyer bills. But when she is mauled in a cougar attack, Lonnie knows he has to see her one last time. The visit is a disaster, and Lonnie walks away with deep regret for what he has squandered. He crosses the border into Mexico, but in his search for Brian in the high Sierra Madre, he comes face to face with a brutal, lingering death.

    

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Call for the Dead, A George Smiley Novel by John le Carré, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Call for the Dead by John le Carré, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Penguin Books.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (01/21/2014 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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Call for the Dead by John le Carré
A George Smiley Novel (1st in series)
Publisher: Penguin Books

Pulled back from overseas duty during World War II, Smiley was redirected to face the threats of the Cold War. He had been asked to interview Samuel Fennan of the Foreign Office after an anonymous letter accused Fennan of Communist Party membership.

Smiley's report cleared him of the allegations, so he was stunned to learn that Fennan had died the day after the interview, leaving a suicide note that claimed his career had been ruined. Investigating circumstances that make no sense to him, Smiley gradually uncovers a spy ring and in so doing is led into a lethal duel of wits with the best of his war-time pupils.

  

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Bad Wolf by Nele Neuhaus, New in Bookstores in January 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during January 2014 by Minotaur Books, is Bad Wolf by Nele Neuhaus.

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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Bad Wolf
Nele Neuhaus
Series: Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff (6th)

On a hot June day, the body of a sixteen-year-old girl washes up on a riverbank outside of Frankfurt. She has been brutally murdered and shows signs of long-term abuse, but no one comes forward with any information as to her identity. Even weeks later, the local police have not been able to find out who she is. Then a new case comes in: A popular television host is attacked, raped, and locked in the trunk of her own car. She survives, barely, and is able to supply only vague hints to the police, having to do with her recent investigations into an organization whose members are from the highest echelons of society, and the potential uncovering of a shocking history they'd prefer to keep from the public eye.+++As the two cases collide, Inspectors Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein dig deep into the past and underneath the veneer of bourgeois society to come up against a terrible secret that is about to impact their personal lives as well. It is almost too late for a person very close to Pia before she and Oliver finally track down the big bad wolf.

        

Dead of Night, The Hidden Faces Series by Brandilyn Collins, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dead of Night by Brandilyn Collins, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Zondervan.

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 (01/21/2014 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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Dead of Night by Brandilyn Collins
The Hidden Faces Series (3rd in series)
Publisher: Zondervan

A string of murders terrorizes citizens in the Redding, California, area. The serial killer is cunning, stealthy. Masked by day, unmasked by night. Forensic artist Annie Kingston discovers the sixth body practically in her own back yard. Is the location a taunt aimed at her?

One by one, Annie must draw the unknown victims for identification. Dread mounts. Who will be taken next? Under a crushing oppression, Annie and other Christians are driven to pray for God's intervention as they've never prayed before.

        

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A Kindle Countdown Deal: Where There's No Will by Jim Flynn

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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Where There's No Will by Jim Flynn
A Legal Thriller
Publisher: Jim Flynn
Price: $0.99 (as of 01/21/14 01:30 PM ET)

Four years before his death from what appears to have been an agricultural accident, Jeremiah Cranston, a crusty old rancher with a large ranch near the Crested Butte, Colorado, ski area, made a will. In that will, he disinherited his two children and left his entire $18 million estate to two very different charitable organizations — the Western Gun Owners Association and the Colorado Springs Center for the Arts. But, at Cranston’s death, the original of his will can’t be found, raising a legal presumption he destroyed the will, in which event his children would inherit his estate.

Jack McConnell, a mid-fifties nuts and bolts Colorado Springs lawyer who would rather be fly fishing in the rivers and lakes of Colorado than practicing law, and who worries about growing old, has been hired by the personal representative named in the missing will to enforce the will. Cranston’s children resist, setting up a winner-take-all will contest to be decided by a jury in rural Gunnison County, Colorado.

  

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The Nomination, A Suspense Thriller by William G. Tapply, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Nomination by William G. Tapply, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Skyhorse Publishing.

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 (01/21/2014 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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The Nomination by William G. Tapply
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Vietnam War hero and Massachusetts Judge Thomas Larrigan is hand-picked by his friend the president to fill the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court. Larrigan seems like the perfect candidate: a family man with an uncontroversial judicial record. The president’s credibility needs a sure bet.

Larrigan will do anything to win the nomination, but he has some old skeletons rattling around in his closet. He calls his old Marine buddy, now a hit man, to sweep the closet clean. But there are a few skeletons Larrigan doesn’t know are still alive …

      

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New from Witness Impulse: Deep Sleep by Frances Fyfield

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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Deep Sleep by Frances Fyfield
A Helen West Mystery
Publisher: Witness Impulse
Publication Date: January 21, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 01/21/14 12:30 PM ET)

Pip Carlton, a good son and a devoted husband, is also a highly respected pharmacist, cherished by his loyal customers in Herringbone Parade. When his wife dies in her sleep, without cause and without pain, he is distraught. He struggles to take up the threads of his life, ignoring the rumors about Margaret's death, and relieved that the police are content to shrug off the mystery.

But Helen West, Solicitor and Crown Prosecutor, refuses to believe that Margaret simply slipped into her final slumber …

        

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