Saturday's Child by Ray Banks is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Saturday's Child by Ray Banks as today's second free mystery ebook (A Cal Innes Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, January 23, 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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Saturday's Child
Ray Banks
A Cal Innes Mystery
Publisher: Blasted Heath

Cal Innes is fresh out of Strangeways, playing PI and running from a past muddied with ties to local ganglord Uncle Morris Tiernan. When Tiernan tells him to track down a rogue casino dealer who's absconded with a hefty chunk of cash, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernan's psychotic son.

Finding the thief proves potentially fatal as the case points north to Newcastle and the sordid truth threatens to put blood on his hands. With Tiernan's son on his tail, and a Manchester cop determined to put Innes back on the spurs, Saturday's child definitely has to work hard to keep living.

  

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Wood's Reef by Steven Becker is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Wood's Reef by Steven Becker as today's free mystery ebook (A Mac Travis Adventure Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, January 23, 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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Wood's Reef
Steven Becker
A Mac Travis Adventure Thriller
Publisher: White Marlin Press

It's easy to become invisible in the Florida Keys. Mac Travis was doing his best to keep a low profile: diving, fishing and enough salvage work to pay his bills. It's a good life until he discovers something while spearfishing that could change the pristine Keys forever. His drunken crewman soon lets out the secret and his life is instantly changed.

A corrupt presidential candidate will do whatever it takes to hide his secret. An exiled coke dealing terrorist sees this as his opportunity to redeem himself. A local con man loyal only to himself is looking for a quick payoff.

When Mac's friend and mentor is injured, his estranged daughter reluctantly comes to his aid. The two soon put aside their differences and join forces to bury the secret where it won't be found.

  

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Japantown by Barry Lancet is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Japantown by Barry Lancet as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, January 23, 2014.

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Japantown
Barry Lancet
A Jim Brodie Mystery
Simon & Schuster

Five bodies. One clue. Not a trace of the killer.

San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie recently inherited a stake in his father's Tokyo-based private investigation firm, which means the single father of six-year-old Jenny is living a busy intercontinental life, traveling to Japan to acquire art and artifacts for his store and con­sulting on Brodie Security's caseload at home and abroad.

One night, an entire family is gunned down in San Francisco's bustling Japantown neighbor­hood, and Brodie is called on by the SFPD to decipher the lone clue left at the crime scene: a unique Japanese character printed on a slip of paper drenched in blood.

Brodie can't read the clue. But he may have seen it before — at the scene of his wife's death in a house fire four years ago.

With his deep array of Asian connections and fluency in Japanese, Brodie sets out to solve a seemingly perfect crime and at the same time learn whether his wife's tragic death was more than just an accident. And as he unravels a web of intrigue stretching back centuries and con­nected to the murders in San Francisco, the Japantown killer retaliates with a new target: Brodie's daughter.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140123)

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

• The New Release is Secret Bunker USSR.

• 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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The New Release today is Secret Bunker USSR

Your fiancée Emily has been kidnapped by a mysterious scientist! Unravel the mystery of the enemy's lair — Secret Bunker USSR — and rescue Emily before she is subjected to dangerous experiments! Untangle a web of mysteries kept in the abandoned military bunker, where encrypted documents, secret doors and hidden mechanisms are just a handful of the deadly traps you will face. With more than fifty stunning locations and a myriad of challenging puzzles, Secret Bunker USSR presents an unforgettable gaming experience!

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.

A New MystereBook: Standing on the Beach by M. J. Cody

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 …

Standing on the Beach by M. J. Cody seems to be this author's first mystery, an intense psychological suspense novel that takes Norris Reed on a journey from her contemporary, sophisticated and familiar culture of Seattle to a wilderness of loss in the foreign landscape of Juneau, Alaska.

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Standing on the Beach by M. J. Cody
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Etown Press
Publication Date: January 21, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 01/22/14 04:30 PM ET)

Threading her way through a precarious web of deceit, Norris follows every lead she can to find her vanished lover, Jimmy Ketah. The few who have information disappear. Or die. The helicopter pilot Drew Murdoch helps in her quest and detective Alex Tanner begins to believe her. But can she trust them?

The unwinding of her sanity, the dead-end clues, haunting prophetic dreams and murders in her wake have Norris on the run. She will not stop until she finds out what happened to Jimmy Ketah.

Or someone stops her.

  

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A Kindle Countdown Deal: Orinoco by Dan Pollock

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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Orinoco by Dan Pollock
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Tusitala Press
Price: $0.99 (as of 01/22/14 03:30 PM ET)

First published by Pocket Books in 1994 under the title Pursuit Into Darkness.

Standing tall against the landscapes, in his ranch hat and tooled-leather boots, is the larger-than-life figure of Sam Warrender. An Oklahoma wildcatter turned maverick CEO, Sam has never yet walked away from a fight. After battling a corporate cabal led by his hand-picked successor, he hustles his twin-prop Cessna two-thousand miles south into Venezuela's mesa-studded Gran Sabana to stop Caracas politicos and anti-globalist protesters from shutting down his company's mining operation.

Once on the ground, Sam finds a new perspective (and a surprising May-September romance), but even more enemies — including his Korean corporate rival, Duk-Won Lee, now actively blocking Sam's every move. And a far more ruthless adversary awaits — an aging caraqueño guerrilla who has emerged from retirement to settle old scores with one last grand act of terrorist mayhem.

  

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Murder on Aconcagua, A Summit Murder Mystery by Charles G. Irion and Ronald J. Watkins, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder on Aconcagua by Charles G. Irion and Ronald J. Watkins, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Irion Books.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (01/22/2014 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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Murder on Aconcagua by Charles G. Irion and Ronald J. Watkins
A Summit Murder Mystery (5th in series)
Publisher: Irion Books

Scott Devlon is once again sent by the US Defense Intelligence Agency on another climbing expedition. This time the mountain is Aconcagua, the highest in South America. His mission is to confirm a report that three Inca golden idols have been discovered and are headed to Venezuelan strongman, Hugo Chavez.

Legend says he who possesses them is invincible. Scott's assignment is to prevent that from taking place but he quickly learns that there are those who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get their hands on the idols.

  

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Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd, New in Bookstores in January 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during January 2014 by William Morrow, is Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd.

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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Hunting Shadows
Charles Todd
Series: Ian Rutledge (16th)

A society wedding at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire becomes a crime scene when a man is murdered. After another body is found, the baffled local constabulary turns to Scotland Yard. Though the second crime had a witness, her description of the killer is so strange its unbelievable.+++Despite his experience, Inspector Ian Rutledge has few answers of his own. The victims are so different that there is no rhyme or reason to their deaths. Nothing logically seems to connect them—except the killer. As the investigation widens, a clear suspect emerges. But for Rutledge, the facts still don't add up, leaving him to question his own judgment.+++In going over the details of the case, Rutledge is reminded of a dark episode he witnessed in the war. While the memory could lead him to the truth, it also raises a prickly dilemma. To stop a murderer, will the ethical detective choose to follow the letter—or the spirit—of the law?

        

Zero-Degree Murder by M. L. Rowland, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Grace Kinkaid

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series mysteries: Zero-Degree Murder by M. L. Rowland and introducing Grace Kinkaid.

What we know about the character: Search and rescue expert Gracie Kinkaid risks her life on a daily basis to save strangers.

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

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Zero-Degree Murder by M. L. Rowland
Series: A Grace Kinkaid, Search and Rescue Mystery
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
Format(s): Mass Market Paperback, eBook

Search and rescue expert Gracie Kinkaid risks her life on a daily basis to save strangers. But going up against a coldhearted murderer is one kind of danger she's not prepared for …

As a volunteer for Timber Creek Search and Rescue, missing out on holiday festivities is nothing new to Gracie. After all, disasters don't stop happening because of a cooked turkey. So when Gracie is called out on Thanksgiving for four hikers missing in the wilderness of Southern California, she packs up her gear and heads out to find them.

The mission quickly goes from routine to deadly. An early season blizzard sets in. The one missing person the team does find, famous actor Rob Christian, remembers being attacked by someone else on the trail, someone trying to kill him. And Gracie's partner leaves to get backup, taking the radio — their only link to the outside world — with him.

Alone in the mountains, Gracie will have to use all her expertise to keep Rob alive. But with an unknown killer lurking somewhere in the dark, even that might not be enough to save them …

        

Murder Alfresco, A Sunny McCoskey, Napa Valley Mystery by Nadia Gordon, 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 Murder Alfresco by Nadia Gordon. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Wednesday, January 22, 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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Murder Alfresco by Nadia Gordon
A Sunny McCoskey, Napa Valley Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Chronicle Books

Returning from a party late one night, chef Sunny McCoskey is the first to discover the body of a murdered woman left outside a local winery, and she may even have witnessed the killer driving away.

Thrust into the center of a crime that has rattled the tranquil Napa Valley, Sunny pursues her own investigation, a journey that takes her from Northern California's wine country to the insular houseboat community along the San Francisco Bay. Uncovering a tangle of secret liaisons, Sunny closes in on the murderer, who responds with one more desperate act.

        

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Scrapbook of Secrets, A Cumberland Creek Mystery by Mollie Cox Bryan, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Scrapbook of Secrets by Mollie Cox Bryan, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Kensington.

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 (01/22/2014 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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Scrapbook of Secrets by Mollie Cox Bryan
A Cumberland Creek Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Kensington

Having traded in her career as a successful investigative journalist for the life of a stay-at-home mom in picturesque Cumberland Creek, Virginia, Annie can't help but feel that something's missing. But she finds solace in a local "crop circle" of scrapbookers united by chore-shy husbands, demanding children, and occasional fantasies of their former single lives. And when the quiet idyll of their small town is shattered by a young mother's suicide, they band together to find out what went wrong.

Annie resurrects her reporting skills and discovers that Maggie Rae was a closet scrapbooker who left behind more than a few secrets — and perhaps a few enemies. As they sift through Maggie Rae's mysteriously discarded scrapbooks, Annie and her "crop" sisters begin to suspect that her suicide may have been murder. It seems that something sinister is lurking beneath the town's beguilingly calm façade — like a killer with unfinished business.

        

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New from Witness Impulse: The Heretics by Rory Clements

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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The Heretics by Rory Clements
A John Shakespeare Mystery
Publisher: Witness Impulse
Publication Date: January 21, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 01/22/14 12:30 PM ET)

An exorcism … a siege … a stealthy killer … What else could go wrong?

John Shakespeare — intrepid private detective and brother to a rising young playwright in Elizabethan London — is approached by a condemned Jesuit priest with an unusual proposition: the Father is haunted by the memory of Thomasyn Jade, a teenage girl subjected to brutal exorcism rites a decade past. He wants Shakespeare to track her down and offer reparations for her treatment.

As Shakespeare begins his investigation, a plot to assassinate the Queen is underway, and rumors of a papist conspiracy begin swirling from Seville. And when, one by one, Shakespeare's trusted spies are horribly murdered, all clues seem to be linked to the mysterious Thomasyn Jade.

        

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