The Flight of the Silvers by Daniel Price is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Flight of the Silvers by Daniel Price as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Monday, February 10, 2014.

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

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The Flight of the Silvers
Daniel Price
A Fantasy Thriller
Blue Rider Press

Without warning, the world comes to an end for Hannah and Amanda Given. The sky looms frigid white. The electricity falters. Airplanes everywhere crash to the ground. But the Givens are saved by mysterious strangers, three fearsome and beautiful beings who force a plain silver bracelet onto each sister’s wrist. Within moments, the sky comes down in a crushing sheet of light and everything around them is gone.

Shielded from the devastation by their silver adornments, the Givens suddenly find themselves elsewhere, a strange new Earth where restaurants move through the air like flying saucers and the fabric of time is manipulated by common household appliances.

Soon Hannah and Amanda are joined by four other survivors from their world — a mordant cartoonist, a shy teenage girl, a brilliant young Australian, and a troubled ex-prodigy. Hunted by enemies they never knew they had and afflicted with temporal abilities they never wanted, the sisters and their companions begin a cross-country journey to find the one man who can save them— before time runs out.

    

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The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham as today's Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, February 10, 2014.

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The White Cottage Mystery
Margery Allingham
A Murder Mystery
Bloomsbury

Author's first mystery, a stand-alone published in 1928 a year before she began her series with Albert Campion.

Eric Crowther knew everybody's secrets, so there was no shortage of suspects when he was found shot at the White Cottage. Chief Inspector Challenor and his son Jerry had to look deep into everyone's past — including the dead man's — before they could be sure who had pulled the trigger.

With a country house, blackmail and murder, this story has all the making for a classic cozy mystery.

    

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The Wrong Hostage by Elizabeth Lowell is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Wrong Hostage by Elizabeth Lowell as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, February 10, 2014.

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The Wrong Hostage
Elizabeth Lowell
A Novel of Romantic Suspense
HarperCollins

Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law — lives it, breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned down.

Except once.

Joe Faroe has learned that laws are made by politicians, and politicians are all too human. He believes in the innocents, the ones getting ground up by governments that are too polarized or too corrupt to protect their own citizens. He's been through the political meat grinder himself. It cost him his career, his freedom, and the woman who still haunts him. Since then Faroe has worked outside the rules and politics of government as a kidnap specialist for St. Kilda Consulting, a Manhattan-based global business that concentrates on the shadow world where governments can't go. He is good at his work — intelligent, confident, ruthless.

Until a friend dies trying to kill him.

Now Faroe is out of the business. Retired. He's through trying to save a world that doesn't want to be saved.

Then Grace comes to him, past and present collide, and Faroe finds himself sucked back into the shadows, tracking a violent killer who holds the life of Grace's son in his bloody hands.

  

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for February 10, 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 E H I K N P R T

This 9th Ellie Quicke mystery by Veronica Heley has murder here (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 (140210)

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

• The New Release is Haunted Train: Spirits of Charon.

• The Daily Deal is Mountain Trap: The Manor of Memories, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Mystery Trackers: The Four Aces, just $2.99 through Sunday, February 16, 2014 only.

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

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The New Release today is Haunted Train: Spirits of Charon

Charon's train has left the station, and you’ll never believe who’s on board … You and your fiancée were supposed to be happy, but someone's destroyed your wedding day, and your lives together. Now her ghost beckons to you from the train of death. Can you put this vicious deed to rest — and help Charon bring justice to your love's tragic end?

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Mountain Trap: The Manor of Memories

Save your best friend in this exciting Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game. What will you do if the vacation of your dreams doesn't go as planned? If your friend is alone in a foreign country and gets into trouble, will you have enough strength and courage to help her? Join this fascinating journey and face the 200-year mystery of the manor Ardennes. Find out how strong friendship ties are and discover to what extremes unrequited love is ready to go!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Monday, February 10, 2014 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Mystery Trackers: The Four Aces

The entire town of Brightfield was evacuated after a series of bizarre animal attacks. Now, strange creatures roam the streets, danger lurks around every corner and you've just landed smack in the middle of it all. As you begin to investigate, you discover that the attacks may have been part of a whole series of crimes committed in town, all tracing back to an organization called the Four Aces. But just who are the Aces and what is their plan? With the help of your trusty canine companion, Elf, you must keep digging to get to the bottom of things. Good luck out there, Detective. You're going to need it!

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 16, 2014.

Winners of the 2014 Lovey Awards Announced

The winners of the 2014 Lovey Awards were announced last night during this year's Love is Murder Mystery Conference.

Up to ten categories are eligible to be honored (depending on the number of nominees) with this year's winners taking awards home in six of them:

• Best First Novel: One Man's Castle by J. Michael Major

• Best Traditional/Amateur Sleuth: Peak Season for Murder by Gail Lukasik

• Best Paranormal/Sci-Fi: Girl Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie by Christine Verstraete

• Best Suspense: The Black Stiletto: Stars & Stripes by Raymond Benson

• Best Series: Close-Up On Murder (Murder, She Wrote) by Donald Bain

• Best Short Story: "Harry's Loss of Grace" by Luisa Buehler

Mr. E. Reviews Vera Set 3

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In this set of four feature-length episodes based on characters created by crime novelist Ann Cleeves, DCI Vera Stanhope's tone is not quite as strident as in the past but she's still the boss and she still knows how to run a homicide investigation. Overall, this outstanding series, including this third season, is highly recommended.

Read the full text of our review at Mr. E. Reviews Vera Set 3.

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A New MystereBook: An Improper English Mission by Judith Campbell

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 1900 priced $4.99 or less …

An Improper English Mission by Judith Campbell is the sixth mystery in this series featuring Reverend Doctor Olympia Brown.

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An Improper English Mission by Judith Campbell
An Olympia Brown Mystery
Publisher: Mainly Murder Press
Price: $2.99 (as of 02/09/14 04:30 PM ET)

When Olympia Brown is invited to attend a religious conference in England, she soon discovers there is more than faith on the agenda. Someone on staff has a well-calculated plan to destroy The Moorlands, including the great stone house itself.

Olympia discovers embezzlement, tainted food and a prescient housecat named Thomas, all of which eventually fit into a pattern — but not before she falls victim to a killer's twisted plot. With Father Jim in the States, Frederick must assist his lady wife in this page-turning tale of hatred and revenge.

  

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Indispensable Party, A Sasha McCandless Legal Thriller by Melissa F. Miller, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Indispensable Party by Melissa F. Miller, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Brown Street Books.

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 (02/09/2014 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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Indispensable Party by Melissa F. Miller
A Sasha McCandless Legal Thriller (4th in series)
Publisher: Brown Street Books

In the name of science, an international team of researchers creates a deadly virus capable of killing untold millions. While the U.S. government quietly stockpiles a vaccine, a militaristic group of doomsday preppers begins to mobilize in response to the economic collapse they're convinced is coming.

Sasha McCandless has put danger and intrigue behind her to focus on her blessedly unexciting commercial litigation practice and couldn't be further removed from the escalating tension. That is, until her boyfriend, Leo Connelly, the new chief security officer for the vaccine manufacturer, discovers someone's been looting the cache.

Then the Doomsday virus is stolen and a researcher is murdered. Sasha and Leo have just three days to prevent the release of the ultimate biochemical weapon. Sasha's saved her share of innocent lives in the past. But this time can she really save the world?

  

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A Fatal Slip by Meg London, New in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by Berkley Prime Crime, is A Fatal Slip by Meg London.

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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A Fatal Slip
Meg London
Series: An Emma Taylor, Sweet Nothings Mystery

From selling camisoles to solving crimes, the ladies of the Sweet Nothings lingerie shop in Paris, Tennessee, will make this Valentine's a day to remember …

For Valentine's Day, Emma Taylor and her aunt Arabella have organized a special evening for men only to shop for their sweethearts in the Sweet Nothings lingerie shop, complete with champagne and hors d'oeuvres. But when a former valentine shows up, Aunt Arabella is not her usual bubbly self.

Art dealer Hugh Granger is still a charmer, though. He invites the women to a ball he's having to celebrate his birthday and his return to Paris, Tennessee. But when Granger is pushed from the balcony, it paints a sinister picture for Aunt Arabella, who gets framed … for her old flame's murder.

        

Artifact, A Jaya Jones, Treasure Hunt Mystery by Gigi Pandian, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Artifact by Gigi Pandian, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Henery Press.

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 (02/09/2014 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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Artifact by Gigi Pandian
A Jaya Jones, Treasure Hunt Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Henery Press

When historian Jaya Jones receives a mysterious package containing a jewel-encrusted artifact, she discovers the secrets of a lost Indian treasure may be hidden in a Scottish legend. But she's not the only one on the trail.

From San Francisco to the Highlands of Scotland, Jaya must evade a shadowy stalker as she follows hints from the hastily scrawled note to a remote archaeological dig. Helping her decipher the cryptic clues are her magician best friend, a devastatingly handsome art historian with something to hide, and a charming archaeologist running for his life.

When a member of the dig's crew is murdered, Jaya must figure out which of the scholars vying for her affections might be the love of her life — and which one is a killer.

  

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Killer by Jonathan Kellerman, New in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by Ballantine Books, is Killer by Jonathan Kellerman.

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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Killer
Jonathan Kellerman
Series: Alex Delaware (29th)

The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is much about the siblings he has failed to comprehend. And when the court battle between the Sykes sisters erupts into cold, calculating murder and a rapidly growing number of victims, Alex knows he's been snared in a toxic web of pathology.

Nothing would please Alex more than to be free of the ugly spectacle known as Sykes v. Sykes. But then the little girl at the center of the vicious dispute disappears and Alex knows he must work with longtime friend Detective Milo Sturgis, braving an obstacle course of Hollywood washouts, gangbangers, and self-serving jurists in order to save an innocent life.

        

Down and Dead in Dixie, The Down and Dead, Inc. Series by Vicki Hinze, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Down and Dead in Dixie by Vicki Hinze, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Magnolia Leaf Press.

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 (02/09/2014 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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Down and Dead in Dixie by Vicki Hinze
The Down and Dead, Inc. Series (1st in series)
Publisher: Magnolia Leaf Press

To live, sometimes ya gotta die!

Daisy Grant is in a heap of trouble. She stumbles into a mob turf war and now somebody wants her dead. Daisy may be small-town to the bone, not at all the kind of woman to deal with the Southern Mafia, but she knows how to get creative fast!

Enter the way-too-attractive Mark Jensen. He didn't mean to rescue anybody, and he certainly didn't mean to go on the run because of a stubborn, sassy woman.

Soon they are up to their ears in so many wacky characters they don't know who's on their side. Daisy and Mark decide that to live, sometimes ya gotta die. And sometimes to die right takes … practice.

  

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New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense: Treacherous Slopes by Terri Reed

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 Love Inspired Suspense series.

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Treacherous Slopes by Terri Reed
Publisher: Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense
List Price: $5.99 (ebook), $5.99 (paperback)

A champion ski jumper, Nick Walsh wants one thing: to win the gold for his late brother. Nick has always blamed himself for his family's tragic loss — and so does everyone else. To complicate things, sweet and shy reporter Julie Frost insists on doing a story about him.

But as Nick gets closer to achieving his dream, someone will do anything to stop him. Somehow, Nick must keep Julie from getting too close as they confront a threat that can destroy them both. Julie and Nick are on the verge of discovering the truth about his brother's death … unless an unknown murderer finds them first.