Death Comes in Threes by Marja McGraw is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Death Comes in Threes by Marja McGraw as today's free mystery ebook (A Sandi Webster Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, February 17, 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.

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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Death Comes in Threes
Marja McGraw
A Sandi Webster Mystery
Publisher: Marja McGraw

P.I. Sandi Webster was instrumental in putting David Smith in prison for murder. What's he been up to during his prison time? He's murdered a guard and escaped, and he's coming after Sandi.

Stanley Hawks was one of Sandi's first clients and now works for her as a researcher. He knew about David. Can he help Sandi?

To make matters worse, her menopausal mother, her elderly neighbor, and her closest friend are all in danger because they won't leave her side. Are the four women a match for a vengeful killer?

Maybe he's not a match for them.

  

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Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, February 17, 2014.

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

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Promise of Blood
Brian McClellan
The Powder Mage Trilogy
Orbit

Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and the greedy to scramble for money and power by Tamas's supposed allies: the Church, workers unions, and mercenary forces.

Stretched to his limit, Tamas is relying heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be his estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty is being tested by blackmail.

Now, as attacks batter them from within and without, the credulous are whispering about omens of death and destruction. Just old peasant legends about the gods waking to walk the earth. No modern educated man believes that sort of thing. But they should …

    

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for February 17, 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:

C H I L N O R S Y

Craig McDonald's direct-to-ebook thrillers feature this writer (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 (140217)

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

• The New Release is Order of the Light: The Deathly Artisan.

• The Daily Deal is 3 Days: Zoo Mystery, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Time Relics: Gears of Light, just $2.99 through Sunday, February 23, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Presidents Day Sale: All games are Two for the Price of One! Use coupon code ABE for Collector's Edition games and use coupon code GEORGE for Standard games. Offer valid through February 17th, 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 Order of the Light: The Deathly Artisan

Rural Smalltown used to be peaceful, until a burst of paranormal activity turned everything upside-down. People are fleeing for their lives as paintings come to life and poltergeists destroy their property. As the newest initiate of the Order of the Light, it's your job to investigate the reason behind this chaos. You'll have to explore every inch of the town if you want to find the truth. The Order has outfitted you with their latest gadgets, including a ghost-catching device, but will that be enough to stop whoever is behind this?

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

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Today's Daily Deal is 3 Days: Zoo Mystery

Five of the world's most unique animals stolen! Help Anna track down and return these rare animals to her uncle's zoo. The ultra-picky zoo inspectors are on their way, so you will only have three days to solve this mystery and save the zoo. This Hidden Object Adventure game is full of challenging minigames and dark secrets. Will you be able to capture the crook and save the family zoo?

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Monday, February 17, 2014 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Time Relics: Gears of Light

For hundreds of years, the clock tower at the edge of town has been a landmark and a tourist attraction. The tower itself appears to never age, and the small town’s inhabitants are prosperous and happy. Enter the Hands of Fate — a mysterious group whose objective is to keep the continuum of time running smoothly. You play as a member of the Hands of Fate determined to collect all the Gears of Light and return them to their rightful place in the tower thus restoring time to its rightful place — but, is it already too late?

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 23, 2014.

A New MystereBook: Eye of the Beholder by Melanie Jackson

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 …

Eye of the Beholder by Melanie Jackson

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Eye of the Beholder by Melanie Jackson
A Miss Henry Mystery
Publisher: Brian Jackson
Publication Date: February 14, 2014
Price: $0.99 (as of 02/16/14 05:30 PM ET)

Miss Henry did not like being out where the woodbine twinethed. Especially not when a hurricane arrived, cutting short the art festival. With the airport shut down and all the hotels full, Miss Henry decided to accept the offer of the festival organizer's chauffeur and accompany him to a local plantation to wait out the storm.

But she arrived only to find the house in disarray and the residents missing. Cut off from help and alone except for the man who brought her to the plantation, can she stay safe and also figure out what has happened at the mansion without disappearing herself?

  

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New MystereBooks: Two Dan Rhodes Mysteries by Bill Crider

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 …

Murder Most Fowl by Bill Crider is the seventh mystery in the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, first published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press in 1994, and now available as an ebook. The eighth in the series, below, is also new in digital format.

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Murder Most Fowl by Bill Crider
A Dan Rhodes Mystery
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Publication Date: February 15, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 02/16/14 04:30 PM ET)

For an officer of the law, Blacklin County, Texas, used to be pretty peaceful, but now, what with the emu-rustling, cockfights, and protests at the new Wal-Mart store — not to mention murder &mdashp Sheriff Dan Rhodes has his hands full.

Hit hard by the collapse of his little hardware store, Elijah ("Lige") Ward has taken to chaining himself to the Wal-Mart doors and generally making a nuisance of himself. And when Lige's dead body turns up, floating down a river in a portable toilet, Rhodes finds he has quite a case to investigate. What was the connection between Lige and chickens? Lige and the Palm Club? And was he involved in the area's emu thefts?

It seems that raising emus ("taste like steak, not chicken") is a booming business, so much so that emu ("calmer than ostriches and more resistant to disease") are being stolen left, right, and center by would-be emu ranchers with little respect for the law.

From theft to murder, the local crime spree seems unstoppable. But with a little help from the computer foisted on him by aging deputies Hack and Lawton, plus some good old-fashioned detective work, Rhodes just may be able to straighten out his county.

  

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Winning Can Be Murder by Bill Crider
A Dan Rhodes Mystery
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Publication Date: February 15, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of ET)

It's been a while since Sheriff Dan Rhodes's football days, but things haven't really changed, at least not with state playoffs coming up and excitement for the local high school team heating up to a fever pitch.

But then coach Brady Meredith is found shot to death in his car, and his murder leads to troublesome rumors concerning illegal betting, black market steroids and the sheriff's old nemesis, a biker named Rapper, who has reappeared in Blacklin County.

Too many coincidences for Rhodes's comfort. Especially when another corpse makes it a second down for a killer determined to lead Sheriff Rhodes into a game of sudden death.

  

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Straits of Fortune, A Crime Thriller by Anthony Gagliano, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Straits of Fortune by Anthony Gagliano, 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 (02/16/2014 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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Straits of Fortune by Anthony Gagliano
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: HarperCollins

Ex-cop Jack Vaughn, the best thing to happen to crime fiction since Chandler's Philip Marlowe hung up his holster, moved from the gritty streets of New York to Miami to work as a personal trainer. The sun, sand, and tanned bodies of Miami are a welcome distraction from the haunting memory of another cop's death in New York. But when he becomes involved with millionaire businessman Colonel Patterson, he realizes his newfound peace is short-lived.

The Colonel offers Jack a hundred grand to do a seemingly simple favor. But getting involved with the Colonel also means getting involved with his daughter, the exotic wild child Vivian, who once broke Jack's heart. Jack had sworn to forget her, but this memorable cast of characters lures him back into their double-dealing circle.

The deeper he gets, the more Jack finds himself entangled in an ever-expanding web of lies, lust, and violence.

        

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Books, Cooks, and Crooks by Lucy Arlington, 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 Books, Cooks, and Crooks by Lucy Arlington.

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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Books, Cooks, and Crooks
Lucy Arlington
Series: A Lila Wilkins, Novel Idea Mystery

Lila Wilkins — literary agent and sleuth — is setting up a delicious cookbook fair. But the tension in the kitchen is about to boil over …

Inspiration Valley, North Carolina, is bubbling with excitement for the Taste of the Town festival, and Lila is right in the middle of it all. Along with her coworkers at the Novel Idea Literary Agency, Lila is organizing a grand celebrity chef event, featuring food television's biggest stars, complete with cooking demonstrations, cookbook giveaways, and even a culinary writing contest.

But just as the celebration is about to start, the demo kitchen blows up, taking one of the star cooks with it. With all the explosive egos of the cook's colleagues, it's hard to find someone who didn't have a motive to eliminate the competition. Now Lila will have to scramble to figure out which of her clients is a killer — before someone else gets burned.

        

Vatican Knights, A Suspense Thriller by Rick Jones, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Vatican Knights by Rick Jones, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Hive Collective.

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 (02/16/2014 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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Vatican Knights by Rick Jones
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Hive Collective

While on a visit to the United States, Pope Pius XIII is kidnapped by a terrorist cell calling itself the Soldiers of Islam. If the United States and its allies do not meet their demands, they will execute the pope. So when FBI Specialist Shari Cohen is called to duty to track down the terrorist cell responsible, she learns that she is not alone.

Deep behind the Vatican walls a secret order dispatches a clandestine op group of elite commandos known as the Vatican Knights. Their mission: bring the pope back alive. As Cohen and the Knights work in tandem they uncover a White House conspiracy involving high-ranking members on Capitol Hill.

When she begins to get too close to the truth about the pope's kidnapping, she becomes the target of indigenous forces trying to keep the conspiracy safe. However, in order to get to her they must go through the Vatican Knights.

  

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Concealed in Death by J. D. Robb, New in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by Putnam, is Concealed in Death by J. D. Robb.

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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Concealed in Death
J. D. Robb
Series: Eve Dallas (38th)

In a decrepit, long-empty New York building, Lieutenant Eve Dallas's husband begins the demolition process by swinging a sledgehammer into a wall. When the dust clears, there are two skeletons wrapped in plastic behind it. He summons his wife immediately — and by the time she's done with the crime scene, there are twelve murders to be solved.

The place once housed a makeshift shelter for troubled teenagers, back in the mid-2040s, and Eve tracks down the people who ran it. Between their recollections and the work of the force's new forensic anthropologist, Eve begins to put names and faces to the remains. They are all young girls. A tattooed tough girl who dealt in illegal drugs. The runaway daughter of a pair of well-to-do doctors. They all had their stories. And they all lost their chance for a better life.

Then Eve discovers a connection between the victims and someone she knows. And she grows even more determined to reveal the secrets of the place that was called The Sanctuary — and the evil concealed in one human heart.

        

Whiplash, A Dreamland Thriller by Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Whiplash by Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice, 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 (02/16/2014 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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Whiplash by Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice
A Dreamland Thriller (11th in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

Peace is an illusion … the Apocalypse is days away.

The world’s attention is focused on the historic plans of the U.S. and Iranian presidents to lay down their swords. But on the African continent, one man holds the power to obliterate the peace by unleashing terror and global chaos — and no one sees it coming.

Hiding behind the bloody madness of tribal warfare in the Horn of Africa, Iranian functionary-turned-fanatic Bani Aberhadji has achieved the impossible — single-handedly creating a vast, invisible network dedicated to the construction, delivery, and detonation of a nuclear nightmare. Only by chance are American agents now learning of its existence, and it may already be too late.

Born from the ashes of Dreamland, the covert strike force Whiplash is armed and ready to spring into action — led by Dreamland veterans Danny Freah and former acepilot, now Washington insider, Breanna Stockard. But Aberhadji’s web of death is wide and well concealed … and the doomsday clock is ticking.

        

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