Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Twilight by Stephenie Meyer as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, February 13, 2014.

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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
The Twilight Saga
Little, Brown

Bella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn.

Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella, the person Edward holds most dear.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140213)

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

• The New Release is Bluebeard's Castle: Son of the Heartless.

• 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 Bluebeard's Castle: Son of the Heartless

Eighteen years have passed since the last of Bluebeard's wives managed to escape with her life, and the life of their unborn son. As he approaches manhood, the young man now faces nightmares that threaten to drive him mad. His aunt reveals the true tale of his father's past. If he does not destroy the immortal heart that cursed his father, he shall die before his next birthday. Even as he approaches Bluebeard's Castle he can feel his heart slowing. He doesn't have much time. He must find the dark heart … or die trying in this heart-pounding 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: A Midwinter Murder by Peter Tonkin

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 …

A Midwinter Murder by Peter Tonkin is the third mystery in this series featuring sword-master Tom Musgrave and set in late 16th century England.

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A Midwinter Murder by Peter Tonkin
A Tom Musgrave, Elizabethan Murder Mystery
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Publication Date: February 03, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 02/12/14 06:30 PM ET)

Christmas 1594. Tom Musgrave is called away from the dress rehearsal of A Midsummer Night's Dream to receive terrible news: his brother John has been found dead, frozen with terror in the branches of a tree. Rumour has it that the Barguest, a mythical monstrous hound, is loose on the Scottish Borders …

Tom rides north to investigate — only to find himself embroiled in a dark, deadly political conspiracy, where even his swordsmanship and logic may not help him …

Can Tom solve the mystery of his brother's death? Or is there more than meets the eye to this Midwinter Murder?

  

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Review: Rosemary and Crime by Gail Oust

A Mysterious Review of Rosemary and Crime by Gail Oust. A Piper Prescott Mystery.

Review summary: The whodunit element of is nicely handled here, but it is the cast of characters that is the real treat as is the setting in small-town Georgia. Humorous, often whimsically funny, this is an enjoyable cozy mystery and a solid start to this series. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Rosemary and Crime
Gail Oust
A Piper Prescott Mystery
Minotaur Books (December 2013)

Publisher synopsis: Piper Prescott, a transplanted Yankee living in the South, has got her sass back. She might be down, but don't count her out. "Change of life?" she asks. Bring it on. Recently divorced, Piper decides to pursue a dream she's secretly harbored: owning her own business, Spice it Up!, a spice shop in her adopted hometown, Brandywine Creek, Georgia.

But Piper's grand opening goes awry when the local chef who's agreed to do a cooking demo is found stabbed. Not only did Piper find the body, she handled the murder weapon and doesn't have a witness to her alibi, making the case look like a slam dunk to brand new police Chief Wyatt McBride.

Desperate to uncover the truth — and prove her innocence — Piper enlists the help of her outspoken BFF Reba Mae Johnson to help track down the real culprit. The pair compile a lengthy list of suspects and work to eliminate them using their own creative brand of sleuthing techniques including stakeouts, breaking and entering, and one very unorthodox chocolate pie.

When Piper narrowly avoids being a victim of a hit-and-run, she knows she's getting closer to the truth, but can she catch the killer and clear her name before she becomes the next victim?

        

A New MystereBook: Deadly Curse by Tony Evans

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 …

Deadly Curse by Tony Evans is the second mystery in this historical series featuring attorney Jonathan Harker.

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Deadly Curse by Tony Evans
A Jonathan Harker Mystery
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Publication Date: February 10, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 02/12/14 05:30 PM ET)

The year is 1897. Four years have passed since Jonathan Harker, his quick-witted wife Mina and Professor Van Helsing destroyed Count Dracula in the Carpathian Mountains. But when the trio reunite at Van Helsing’s London villa, they once again find themselves mixed up in a mysterious sequence of murders.

A series of strange and gruesome killings are taking place across London. They seem to be connected to a collection of Ancient Egyptian artefacts, originally buried in the tomb of Pharaoh Karnos II. But Scotland Yard are refusing to accept that a long dead pharaoh could be exerting any influence over these deaths in the metropolis.

Aided by Egyptologist Sarah Wilton, Harker and his friends must carry out their own careful investigations into the murders. Can Jonathan Harker solve this terrifying mystery? Or will he too fall prey to the deadly curse?

  

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In His Eyes, A Novel of Suspense by Nina Pierce, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature In His Eyes by Nina Pierce, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Seaside Publications.

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 (02/12/2014 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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In His Eyes by Nina Pierce
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Seaside Publications

It's always wonderful to be noticed … or is it?

To those around her, Maggie Callaghan appears to have the perfect life — a handsome husband, three beautiful children, and her own business. But beneath her thin veneer lies a dark past and self-doubts.

When evidence of her husband's infidelity surfaces, Maggie leases a cottage on the Maine coast and prepares for her inevitable divorce. But a serial killer is on the hunt — and he's marked Maggie as his next victim.

Now her beachside retreat is the focus of an undercover FBI investigation targeting the murderer who's left a trail of bodies across two states. As lies and secrets are revealed, Maggie realizes her life depends on knowing who's protecting her — and who's got her in his sights.

      

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A New MystereBook: Rogue Wave by Jane Thornley

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 …

Rogue Wave by Jane Thornley is the first in a new series of "Crime by Design" mysteries featuring knitter Phoebe McCabe.

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Rogue Wave by Jane Thornley
A Phoebe McCabe, Crime by Design Mystery
Publisher: Riverflow Press
Publication Date: February 10, 2014
Price: $3.95 (as of 02/12/14 04:30 PM ET)

Unemployed textile artist Phoebe McCabe wants desperately to find her missing brother and to knit the fraying edges of her life together, so when her godfather, Max Baker, asks her help to track Toby's last steps in Bermuda, she can't refuse.

Only Max, an arts and antiques dealer, isn't telling the whole story, nor is her father, whose deteriorating dementia hides a family secret that has stymied her since childhood. Phoebe agrees to enter the estate of a Bermudan fiction author on a ruse in order to untangle the knots of her brother's hidden life, but nothing and no one are who they seem, and the stakes are smeared in blood.

Surrounded by thieves and killers, Phoebe pitches herself against the treacherous beauty of an island, as well as all the perilous greed of the human heart. Sunken treasure, betrayal, and heartbreak plunge her closer to her missing brother, but what she discovers in the end not only shocks her world, but changes her view of everyone in it, including herself.

  

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Priceless, A Kick Keswick Mystery by Marne Davis Kellogg, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Priceless by Marne Davis Kellogg, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.

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 (02/12/2014 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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Priceless by Marne Davis Kellogg
A Kick Keswick Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Marne Davis Kellogg

Kick Keswick has lived an extraordinary life. For twenty-five years she was the power behind the throne at a venerable London auction house and a master jewel thief. (Stealing only from those who deserved it, of course.) That changed when she fell in love with Commander Thomas Curtis of Scotland Yard and retired to Provence to live respectably, surrounded by beautiful food, wine and picnics in lavender-filled fields.

But now, someone is stealing irreplaceable jewels from Paris to Portofino — and using Kick's signature techniques. To make matters worse, Thomas has disappeared with her secret cache of precious stones.

It looks like someone is trying to lure Kick out of retirement, and perhaps Thomas is involved.

      

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The Deliverance of Evil by Robert Costantini, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Michele Balistreri

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series mysteries: The Deliverance of Evil by Robert Costantini and introducing Michele Balistreri.

What we know about the character: Commissario Michele Balistreri is a police officer in Rome, Italy.

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

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The Deliverance of Evil by Robert Costantini
Series: A Michele Balistreri Mystery
Publisher: Quercus
Format(s): Hardcover, eBook

With excitement over Berlusconi rise to power and Italy in a state of gleeful and frenzied anticipation over the national soccer team's improbable run to the 1982 World Cup, Italians are filled with hopeful feelings. The night before the big match, Elisa Sordi — an attractive eighteen year-old employed by the Vatican — vanishes. The case falls to a young, hedonistic post-Fascist officer named Michele Balistreri. Headstrong and ambivalent about spending his life as a policeman, Balistreri is annoyed to be interrupted during the festivities and takes the case lightly. But when Elisa's tortured corpse surfaces in the Tiber, Balistreri doubts he will ever be able to forgive himself for his inattention. After the man he arrested for the murder is exonerated, and tantalizing links to the Vatican and top right-wing politicians ignored, the case is never solved. Despondent, Michele spirals into drinking and depression.

Twenty-four years later Italy is victorious once again in the World Cup, but the nation has changed. The balloon of optimism from the Eighties has deflated, and the now-gloomy nation suffers under the arrogant and corrupt Berlusconi government. A weak economy and chaotic immigration policies that have inflamed racist sentiments provide a stark contrast to the last time Italy tasted sweet soccer victory. Disturbingly, more lax divorce laws have spawned a trend of "revenge" violence against women who try to assert their independence.

Suddenly Sordi's mother apparently commits suicide, and then a slew of female corpses begin to turn up all with a letter of the alphabet carved into their bodies. The apparent hate behind the murders causes Balistreri to realize that the case that has haunted for twenty-four years may be heating up again, and with a newfound sense of purpose he charges into his work: the opportunity to redeem the darkest part of his past.

The murders continue, and what initially seemed to be the work of a lone psychopath reveals itself to be part of something much bigger and more dangerous. Finally Balistreri realizes that the letters marking each victim are spelling out a chilling message … addressed directly to him.

    

Twenty-Five Years Ago Today, A Murder Mystery by Stacy Juba, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Twenty-Five Years Ago Today by Stacy Juba, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Mainly Murder 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 (02/12/2014 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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Twenty-Five Years Ago Today by Stacy Juba
A Murder Mystery
Publisher: Mainly Murder Press

Read our review of Twenty-Five Years Ago Today by Stacy Juba

Kris Langley has always been obsessed with murder. She blames herself for the violent death of her cousin when they were kids and has let guilt invade every corner of her existence. Now an editorial assistant and obit writer for a Massachusetts newspaper, Kris stumbles across an unsolved murder while compiling "25 Years Ago Today" items from the microfilm. She grows fascinated with the case of a young cocktail waitress who was bludgeoned to death and dumped in the woods.

Determined to solve the case and atone for the death of her cousin, Kris immerses herself in the mystery of what happened to Diana Ferguson, a talented artist who expressed herself through haunting paintings of Greek mythology.

Not only does Kris face resistance from her family and her managing editor, she also clashes with Diana's suspicious nephew, Eric Soares — until neither she nor Eric can deny the chemistry flaring between them.

Kris soon learns that old news never leaves the morgue and that yesterday's headline is tomorrow's danger, for finding out the truth about that night twenty-five years ago may shatter Kris's present, costing her love, her career, and ultimately, her life.

      

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Nothing Personal by Mike Offit, New in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by St. Martin's Press, is Nothing Personal by Mike Offit.

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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Nothing Personal
Mike Offit

Warren Hament is a bright young man who wanders into a career in finance in the early 1980s. Nothing Personal is the extraordinary story of his rapid ascent toward success, painted against a landscape of temptation and personal discovery. Introduced to the seductive, elite bastions of wealth and privilege, and joined by his gorgeous and ambitious girlfriend, he gets a career boost when his mentor is found dead.

Warren soon finds himself at the center of two murder investigations as a crime spree seemingly focused on powerful finance wizards plagues Wall Street. The blood-soaked trail leads to vast wealth and limitless risk as Warren uncovers unexpected opportunity and unknown dangers at every turn and must face moral dilemmas for which he is wholly unprepared.

        

Cloaks and Veils, A Novel of Suspense by J. C. Carleson, at a Special Price during February 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 Cloaks and Veils by J. C. Carleson. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Wednesday, February 12, 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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Cloaks and Veils by J. C. Carleson
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

For disgraced CIA officer Dara McIntyre, a new assignment to monitor a troubled junior agent is yet another blow to her once high-flying career. Punished for her affair with a Jordanian spy, Dara is stuck in a dreary desk job at Langley headquarters when orders come down for her to assess whether recently widowed officer Caitlin Wolff is still fit to serve in the field.

Dara soon discovers that the grieving widow has dark secrets; Caitlin and her late husband, Jonathan, were running a lurid shadow operation. Convinced that the couple's unsanctioned acts led to Jonathan's murder, Dara investigates their final operation. Her mission to track the terrorists responsible for the murder and salvage her career takes Dara to the hedonistic playground of Dubai and the chaotic streets of Barcelona. But when the investigation takes a jarring turn, she can no longer be sure who — if anyone — she can trust.

  

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