Ashes and Bones, An Emma Fielding Mystery by Dana Cameron, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Ashes and Bones by Dana Cameron, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

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 (02/02/2014 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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Ashes and Bones by Dana Cameron
An Emma Fielding Mystery (6th in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

Just when everything is going beautifully for archaeologist Emma Fielding — a position at a respected university, a beautiful home in New England, and the warm love of a devoted husband — her world starts to crumble. What begins as a series of seemingly innocent gestures — the anonymous delivery of gifts and flowers to Emma's family and friends — soon progresses to secret, sadistic acts designed to destroy her reputation, her character, and her career.

Someone has instituted a brilliantly insidious campaign of personal terror against Emma Fielding, and she is certain she knows who it is: a cunning and dangerous enemy whom everyone but she believes is dead. But with no proof, no clues, and no allies, Emma will have to fight alone in the dark to rescue a life being rapidly reduced to ashes … if she can survive long enough to do so.

        

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Glass Houses by Terri Nolan, a New Paperback Original in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by Midnight Ink, is Glass Houses by Terri Nolan.

For a list of more new paperback mysteries, thrillers, and novels of suspense published this month, visit our Mystery Bookshelf page for February 2014. For hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries for a selection of books published during February 2014.

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Glass Houses
Terri Nolan
Series: A Birdie Keane Thriller

When investigative journalist Birdie Keane's latest story reveals the shocking truth about a famous cold case, she teams up with her cousin, homicide detective Thom Keane, to deal with the aftermath.

But Thom may be in more trouble than Birdie. Assigned to a high-profile murder he should have nothing to do with, Thom suspects he's being set up by the top brass. Still fighting the fallout from their family's past misdeeds, the Keane cousins have a lot to lose … including their lives.

    

No Lesser Plea, A Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Mystery by Robert K. Tanenbaum, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature No Lesser Plea by Robert K. Tanenbaum, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Open Road.

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 (02/02/2014 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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No Lesser Plea by Robert K. Tanenbaum
A Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Open Road

Butch Karp must stop a murderer who is manipulating the law to escape punishment …

Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp has been around New York long enough to realize that the judicial system can be dirty and cynical. But he still believes in justice.

So when a vicious sociopath tries to dodge a brutal murder charge by convincing the court he is incompetent to stand trial, Karp teams up with firecracker Assistant DA Marlene Ciampi to unleash the full force of their relentless energy, hardboiled wit, and passion for the truth to put the killer away for good. They will accept no lesser plea.

        

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Lion Plays Rough by Lachlan Smith, New in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by Mysterious Press, is Lion Plays Rough by Lachlan Smith.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for February 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of February 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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Lion Plays Rough
Lachlan Smith
Series: Leo Maxwell (2nd)

Leo Maxwell always lived in the shadow of his older brother Teddy, one of San Francisco's most ruthless and effective criminal defense lawyers. Then a gunman shot Teddy in the head. Although Teddy survived the shooting, he has been left disabled and dependent on Leo, now a criminal defense attorney practicing in Oakland. The Maxwell brothers are living together in Oakland while Leo, chafing in his role as junior attorney in his former sister-in-law's small criminal defense firm, is on the lookout for the big case that will make his reputation. He thinks he's found that when a mysterious woman nearly runs him down, then appears at his office to hire him to defend her brother on a murder charge. One problem: Leo hasn't actually met the client when he sets out to investigate what seems like a hot tip on a burgeoning scandal in the Oakland Police Department. Leo takes a series of photographs that seem to blow the lid on deep-set corruption in the Department. However, when he brings these pictures to the attention of the District Attorney's office, he quickly learns that all is not as it seems, beginning with Leo's client and the alluring woman who hired him. Leo's "client" is actually represented by Nikki Matson, one of Oakland's most notorious gangland lawyers. What's more, the client doesn't know anything about Leo being hired to defend him, and claims not even to have a sister.

Between Nikki's star client, who happens to be one of Oakland's most feared gang leaders, and certain elements within the Oakland police, Leo realizes that he has unwittingly made himself enemy number one within the criminal community as well as the police department. Both sides want him silenced before he uncovers the full extent of a scandal that is poised to engulf the city and ignite a firestorm of repercussions. Hounded by threats from all sides, Leo soon finds himself framed for murder and sent to jail with a price on his head.

Even if Leo can survive, he's a marked man unless he can bring those responsible for the murders to justice. Bodies pile up as Leo closes in on his pursuers while at the same time, his pursuers close on him. Yet the truth is far more sinister, as Leo must confront the one person he never would have suspected …

        

Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, A Canon Sidney Chambers, Grantchester Mystery by James Runcie, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Bloomsbury.

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 (02/02/2014 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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Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie
A Canon Sidney Chambers, Grantchester Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester and Honorary Canon of Ely Cathedral, is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the colour of hazelnuts and a reassuringly gentle manner, Sidney is an unconventional clergyman and can go where the police cannot.

Sidney, together with his roguish friend Inspector Horatio "Harry" Keating, must enquire into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Year's Eve dinner party, the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter and a shocking art forgery the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger.

Sidney discovers that being a detective, like being a clergyman, means that you are never off duty, but alongside the mysteries he solves he manages to find time for a keen interest in cricket, warm beer and hot jazz, and the works of Tolstoy and Shakespeare — as well as a curious fondness for a German widow three years his junior.

        

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New from Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Moving Target by Kimberly Van Meter

Every month Harlequin publishes several new novels of mystery and suspense. We are pleased to present in this post one of its new February, 2014 titles, published in the Harlequin Romantic Suspense series.

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Moving Target by Kimberly Van Meter
Publisher: Harlequin Romantic Suspense
List Price: $4.99 (ebook), $5.50 (paperback)

"I don't think I can live with what I've done …"

In an effort to cure an ailing relative, Dr. Kat Odgers makes a revolutionary new drug — and powerful new enemies. She has no idea what her latest concoction is capable of, but Jake Isaacs knows. And Jake must get to Kat before someone else does. Her safety is his mission, but the assignment gets complicated when a strong mutual attraction threatens to throw him off course. Centered in the crosshairs of corrupt adversaries, Jake and Kat must suppress their growing passions and focus on survival. But when Kat's formula falls into the wrong hands, they may face full knowledge of the drug's catastrophic effects.

        

Death at Charity's Point, A Brady Coyne Mystery by William G. Tapply, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Death at Charity's Point by William G. Tapply, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Open Road.

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 (02/02/2014 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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Death at Charity's Point by William G. Tapply
A Brady Coyne Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Open Road

A Boston lawyer investigates a prep school teacher's suspicious suicide …

Brady Coyne never meant to become the private lawyer to New England's upper crust, but after more than a decade working for Florence Gresham and her friends, he has developed a reputation for discretion that the rich cannot resist. He is fond of Mrs. Gresham — unflappable, uncouth, and never tardy with a check — and he has seen her through her husband's suicide and her first son's death in Vietnam. But he has never seen her crack until the day her second son, George, leaps into the sea at jagged Charity's Point.

The authorities call it a suicide, but Mrs. Gresham cannot believe her son, like his father, would take his own life. As Brady digs into the apparently blemish-free past of this upper-class prep school history teacher, he finds dark secrets. George Gresham may not have been suicidal, but that doesn't mean he wasn't in trouble.

        

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A New MystereBook: Bait & Switch by Jerusha Jones

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 …

Bait & Switch by Jerusha Jones is the first in a new series by the author of the Imogen Museum mysteries.

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Bait & Switch by Jerusha Jones
A Mayfield Mystery
Publisher: Jerusha Jones
Publication Date: January 31, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 02/02/14 12:30 PM ET)

When Nora Sheldon's husband is kidnapped while they're on their honeymoon, all her hopes and plans tumble into a nightmare. Then the FBI comes knocking. Turns out Nora doesn't know her husband as well as she thought she did, and the feds are equally anxious about Skip's fate.

Is Skip Sheldon a con man or some kind of Robin Hood or simply misunderstood? And if he really loved her, why did he drag her into this mess?

She'd interrogate and then throttle him herself (and save his kidnappers the trouble) if she could — but she's not so sure he's still alive to bear the brunt of her worry.

Nora and her stalwart executive assistant, Clarice, seek refuge on one of Skip's properties — an abandoned poor farm on the edge of the Dark Divide in Washington State — to wait for a ransom call and entertain obnoxious FBI agents.

Can Nora wriggle through the maze of Skip's accounts and questionable acquaintances before she falls under suspicion herself? And for what crimes, exactly? She wishes she knew.

  

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Telemystery: Cinemax Renews Banshee for a Third Season

Cinemax has renewed its crime drama Banshee for a third season.

Antony Starr stars as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who tracks down Carrie Hopewell (Ivana Milicevic), his former lover and partner in crime, who has reinvented herself as the wife of the Banshee, PA prosecutor. In Banshee, Hood assumes the identity of the town's sheriff and continues his criminal activities, even as he's hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier.

Banshee is currently airing its second season at 10 PM (ET/PT) on Fridays.

Bad Guys by Anthony Bruno is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bad Guys by Anthony Bruno as today's second free mystery ebook (A Gibbons and Tozzi Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, February 02, 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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Bad Guys
Anthony Bruno
A Gibbons and Tozzi Mystery
Publisher: Diversion Books

FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons are odd-couple partners and dedicated mob-busters.

Hot-headed Tozzi goes renegade, and Gibbons is pulled out of retirement to stop him. Together they uncover a secret crime family headed by Richie Varga, a convicted mobster pulling the strings from the safety of the witness protection program.

When Tozzi gets involved with Varga's sexy ex, the fur really starts to fly.

  

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Suspicious Minds by Paul Bishop is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Suspicious Minds by Paul Bishop as today's free mystery ebook (A Cole Ramsey Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, February 02, 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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Suspicious Minds
Paul Bishop
A Cole Ramsey Mystery
Publisher: Paul Bishop

1977, the one and only king of rock-n-roll, Elvis Presley, is taken from the world far too soon, but the legend will never die.

1996, Elvis impersonator Cole Ramsey, a young man with enough voice and a style to take him to the top, receives a very odd phone call from an Icon dead for almost twenty years … Cole has heard all the Elvis conspiracy rumors, but … it couldn't be …

Before he knows it, however, Cole's life is turned upside down. He's on the run and up to his ears in Elvises … are they all impersonators or is one of them hiding from deadly suspicious minds …

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140202)

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

• The New Release is Fatal Passion: Art Prison (Collector's Edition).

• The current Catch of the Week is Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden, just $2.99 through Sunday, February 02, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Groundhog Weekend Sale!: All Collector's Edition games are just $8.99! Use coupon code SHADOW at check-out to purchase any Collector's Edition game for just $8.99. Offer valid through February 2nd, 2014 only until 11:59 PM PT.

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

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The New Release today is Fatal Passion: Art Prison (Collector's Edition)

One man's art is another man's prison. An eccentric artist's creations have sprung to life, and they're terrorizing a small town. And it just happens to be the day the love of his life marries another man. Can you beat the painted traps and find the missing bride and groom in this exciting new hidden-object adventure story?

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: More secrets to uncover in the bonus game; Achievements and replayable mini-games; Collectable birds throughout the game; Soundtracks, wallpapers, and concept art; and an Integrated Strategy Guide.

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 Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden

Find your missing fiancé in the deepest parts of the ocean! Discover and investigate a forgotten underwater city that hides many spine-chilling secrets and supernatural forces which still lurk in every corner of this mysterious world. Face an ancient evil that is hiding in the deepest chambers of the once idyllic city of Eden. Hold your breath and dive into this breathtaking underwater Hidden Object adventure!

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, February 02, 2014.