Heart Failure by Richard L. Mabry is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Heart Failure by Richard L. Mabry as today's Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, February 11, 2014.

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

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Heart Failure
Richard L. Mabry
A Medical Thriller
Thomas Nelson

When her fiancé's dangerous secrets turn her work upside down, a beautiful doctor must choose between her own safety and the man she loves — and thought she knew.

Dr. Carrie Markham's heart was broken by the death of her husband two years ago. Now, just as her medical practice is taking off, her fresh engagement to paralegal Adam Davidson seems almost too good to be true … until a drive-by shooting leaves Carrie on the floor of his car with glass falling around her.

When he confesses that Adam isn't his real name and that he fled the witness protection program, Carrie is left with an impossible choice: should she abandon the fiancé she isn't sure she really knows, or accept his claim of innocence and help him fight back against this faceless menace?

While Carrie struggles to decide whether to follow her heart or her head, the threats against them continue to escalate. Her life — as well as Adam's — depends on making the right choice … and the clock is ticking.

    

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140211)

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

• Our Featured Title is Secrets of the Dark: Eclipse Mountain.

• 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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Our Featured Title today is Secrets of the Dark: Eclipse Mountain

Save your friend from the Demon of Darkness! Follow clues left by stone monks in a deserted town in Thailand to uncover a thrilling mystery. Battle the dark and magical werecreatures that want to sacrifice your friend in this macabre 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 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.

A New MystereBook: Other People's Houses by Susan Rogers Cooper

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 February 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Other People's Houses by Susan Rogers Cooper is the third mystery in this series featuring Oklahoma Sheriff Milt Kovak. It was first published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press in November, 1990. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

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Other People's Houses by Susan Rogers Cooper
A Milt Kovak Mystery
Publisher: Susan Rogers Cooper
Publication Date: February 02, 2014
Price: $0.99 (as of 02/10/14 06:30 PM ET)

Milt Kovak, head of the homicide division for a rural Oklahoma sheriff's department, probes the mysterious deaths of five people from carbon monoxide poisoning.

  

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Review: North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo

A Mysterious Review of North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo.

Review summary: There is a lot to like about this suspense thriller. The storyline is a strong one and there are several elements that one suspects may be the key to the solution to the mystery, and yet it isn't clear which are important and which are incidental. A significant drawback: it's written in first-person present, which does the story no favors. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

North of Boston
Elisabeth Elo
Viking (January 2014)

Publisher synopsis: When the fishing boat Pirio is on is rammed by a freighter, she finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic. Somehow, she survives nearly four hours in the water before being rescued by the Coast Guard. But the boat's owner and her professional fisherman friend, Ned, is not so lucky.

Compelled to look after Noah, the son of the late Ned and her alcoholic prep school friend, Thomasina, Pirio can't shake the lurking suspicion that the boat's sinking — and Ned's death — was no accident. It's a suspicion seconded by her deeply cynical, autocratic Russian father, who tells her that nothing is ever what it seems. Then the navy reaches out to her to participate in research on human survival in dangerously cold temperatures.

With the help of a curious journalist named Russell Parnell, Pirio begins unraveling a lethal plot involving the glacial whaling grounds off Baffin Island. In a narrow inlet in the arctic tundra, Pirio confronts her ultimate challenge: to trust herself.

        

A New MystereBook: Once Upon a Masquerade by Tamara Hughes

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 February 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Once Upon a Masquerade by Tamara Hughes is a stand-alone in which a Prince Charming meets his match, a Cinderella with a secret, and a happily ever after that could never be …

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Once Upon a Masquerade by Tamara Hughes
A Novel of Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Entangled Scandalous
Publication Date: February 10, 2014
Price: $0.99 (as of 02/10/14 05:30 PM ET)

Self-made shipping magnate Christopher Black first spies Rebecca Bailey at a masquerade ball and is captivated by her refreshing naivete and sparkling beauty. She's a stark contrast to the hollow behavior of the ton and the guile of his former fiancee, but the closer he gets to her secrets, the further she pushes him away.

Rebecca is drawn to the charismatic Christopher from the first, but she cannot risk him discovering that she is really a housemaid impersonating an heiress. Her father's life depends on it.

When Christopher's investigation of the murder of his best friend leads him straight to Rebecca, he fears his ingenue may be a femme fatale in disguise. Now he must decide if he can trust the woman he's come to love, or if her secrets will be his downfall.

        

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The Blue Zone, A Suspense Thriller by Andrew Gross, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

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 (02/10/2014 at 5:00 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 Blue Zone by Andrew Gross
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: HarperCollins

Kate Raab's life seems almost perfect: her boyfriend, her job, her family … until her father runs into trouble with the law. His only recourse is to testify against his former accomplices in exchange for his family's placement in the Witness Protection Program. But one of them gets cold feet. In a flash, everything Kate can count on is gone.

Now, a year later, her worst fears have happened: Her father has disappeared — into what the WITSEC agency calls "the blue zone" — and someone close to him is found brutally murdered. With her family under surveillance, the FBI untrustworthy, and her father's menacing "friends" circling with increasing intensity, Kate sets off to find her father — and uncover the secrets someone will kill to keep buried.

        

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A New MystereBook: Twelve To Murder by Lauren Carr

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 February 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Twelve To Murder by Lauren Carr is the latest mystery in this popular series featuring former Maryland homicide detectdive, now independent sleuth Mac Faraday.

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Twelve To Murder by Lauren Carr
A Mac Faraday Mystery
Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Publication Date: February 09, 2014
Price: $0.99 (as of 02/10/14 04:30 PM ET)

Two people are brutally murdered in their summer place on Deep Creek Lake. Suspected of the murders, former child star and one-time teenybopper idol Lenny Frost takes innocent bystanders hostage in a local pub and demands that Mac Faraday find the killer.

Can Mac save the hostages and himself from the wrath of the enraged has-been by piecing together the clues in less than twelve hours, or will it be a fatal last call at the stroke of midnight?

  

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Cut and Run, A Whit Mosley Thriller by Jeff Abbott, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Cut and Run by Jeff Abbott, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Grand Central.

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 (02/10/2014 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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Cut and Run by Jeff Abbott
A Whit Mosley Thriller (3rd in series)
Publisher: Grand Central

She's a liar. She's a thief. She's a killer. She's his mother. And he'll take on the world to save her.

With his father near death, Judge Whit Mosley launches a search for his mother, who abandoned the family thirty years ago and vanished into the criminal underworld. Hoping to heal the wounds of the past, Whit finds Eve — framed for murder and for stealing five million dollars from a Houston crime cartel desperate to regain their lost power. He has one impossible chance to save his mother: take her on the run, outsmart a gang of sophisticated killers, and find the missing millions.

Caught in a nightmare of double crosses and vicious schemers, Whit turns his back on law and order for the one person he most wants to trust but knows the least — a dangerous woman who may be plotting the cruelest deception of all.

Pre-order Today (Publication Date: 04/29/2014)

      

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Body Slam by Rex Burns, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Jim Raiford and his daughter Julie

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series mysteries: Body Slam by Rex Burns and introducing Jim Raiford and his daughter Julie.

What we know about the characters: Jim Raiford and his daughter Julie are PIs in the Touchstone Agency.

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

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Body Slam by Rex Burns
Series: A Touchstone Agency Mystery
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Format(s): Trade Paperback, eBook

Targeted by thugs, a wrestling impresario reaches out to an old friend …

When Otto Lidke got a tryout in pro football, he hired a lawyer friend named Jim Raiford to handle his contract. The negotiations were bungled, forcing both men into a career change. Trying to start a pro wrestling circuit in Denver, Lidke runs afoul of the national federation, which does everything it can — legal and otherwise — to stamp out his new venture. When shady business practices escalate into threats on his life, Lidke calls on Raiford, now a private investigator, to dig up some dirt on the men who are trying to put him out of business.

But instead he gets Raiford's daughter, Julie — a whip-smart sleuth looking to prove she's every bit as savvy as her father. As Julie and her dad dig into the vicious world of small-time wrestling, they find that though the fights may be fixed, the danger is all too real.

        

Power Blind, A Graham Gage Thriller by Steven Gore, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Power Blind by Steven Gore, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Harper.

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 (02/10/2014 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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Power Blind by Steven Gore
A Graham Gage Thriller (3rd in series)
Publisher: Harper

In Washington, Senator Landon Meyer — leading presidential candidate and pivotal voice in a divided senate — imposes his choices to fill two Supreme Court vacancies on the President. In San Francisco, Charlie Palmer — a specialist in burying the crimes of the political and financial elite — lies paralyzed by a gunshot. Linking the two is the senator's all-too-cunning brother — a federal judge secretly managing his campaign.

An hour before his death, Palmer reaches out to private investigator Graham Gage, a man he's both feared and admired, but his words remain choked in his throat. A funeral-day burglary of Palmer's office and a wife's plea for the truth about her husband's misdeeds plunge Gage into a morass of murder, corporate cover-ups, and corrupted justice that masks a political money-laundering scheme threatening to destroy not only our democracy, but all that is dear to Gage …

  

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After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman, New in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by William Morrow, is After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman.

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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After I'm Gone
Laura Lippman

When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative — if not all legal — businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes.

Though Bambi has no idea where her husband — or his money — might be, she suspects one woman does: his mistress, Julie. When Julie disappears ten years to the day that Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she's left to join her old lover — until her remains are eventually found.

Now, twenty-six years after Julie went missing, Roberto "Sandy" Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases for some extra cash, is investigating her murder. What he discovers is a tangled web stretching over three decades that connects five intriguing women. And at the center is the missing man Felix Brewer.

Somewhere between the secrets and lies connecting past and present, Sandy will find the truth. And when he does, no one will ever be the same.

        

Telemystery: ITV Orders 8th Season of Inspector Lewis

ITV has commissioned an eighth season — six one-hour episodes — of Inspector Lewis.

Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox reprise their roles as the detectives who investigate grisly murders against the backdrop of the beautiful university spires of Oxford. But this time it's different …

After an extended break from the Police, Hathaway (Laurence Fox) has been promoted to Inspector. When the chemistry that exists with Lewis eludes Hathaway, retired Lewis (Kevin Whately) is drafted back to renew their partnership. The combination of Robbie Lewis's instinct for tracking murderers and unraveling motives and Cambridge graduate James Hathaway's deep thinking and erudite approach has served the duo well in the past. It's a new dynamic for the detectives, however, but one they'll have to come to terms with quickly if they are to achieve results.

The new season will go into production in March 2014 and once again feature the beautiful locations in and around the city of Oxford, including the Cherwell and Isis rivers and the magnificent university colleges.

Based on characters created by crime novelist Colin Dexter, the author continues his association with Inspector Lewis acting as consultant on all aspects of production.