Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140218)

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

• Our Featured Title is Mountain Crime: Requital.

• The Daily Deal is Time Mysteries: The Final Enigma, 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.

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Our Featured Title today is Mountain Crime: Requital

Someone is killing the guests at a mountain resort, and you could be next if you don't figure out the mystery and solve a mountain crime! Take the role of a doctor who's summoned to a remote hotel to tend to a patient, and hold on to your sanity as you discover the first victim moments upon arriving at the retreat. Search for clues, crack brain-bending puzzles, and read newspaper clippings that reveal the hotel's horrific past in this incredible Hidden Object game!

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Time Mysteries: The Final Enigma

When Esther Ambrose receives a letter from her uncle prompting her to attend a meeting with a mysterious man, she can't possibly understand what it will lead to. Her journey will take her across time and space, as she tries to right old wrongs and influence the past to change the future. Esther will meet powerful allies, but also dangerous foes, whose only goal is to challenge her and make her fail. Help her rise to the challenge and save the world from catastrophe!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Tuesday, February 18, 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.

Review: The Blood Promise by Mark Pryor

A Mysterious Review of The Blood Promise by Mark Pryor. A Hugo Marston Mystery.

Review summary: The characters in this mystery are well-drawn and from a reader's perspective, approachable. A 200-year-old sailor's chest is linked in a clever way to a present-day murder as is one of the character's interest in genealogy. All in all, a solid entry in this series and an entertaining read. (Click here for text of full review.)

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The Blood Promise
Mark Pryor
A Hugo Marston Mystery
Seventh Street Books (January 2014)

Publisher synopsis: In post-Revolution Paris, an old man signs a letter in blood, then hides it in a secret compartment in a sailor's chest. A messenger arrives to transport the chest and its hidden contents, but then the plague strikes and an untimely death changes history.

Two hundred years later, Hugo Marston is safeguarding an unpredictable but popular senator who is in Paris negotiating a France/U.S. dispute. The talks, held at a country chateau, collapse when the senator accuses someone of breaking into his room. Theft becomes the least of Hugo's concerns when someone discovers a sailor's chest and the secrets hidden within, and decides that the power and money they promise are worth killing for.

But when the darkness of history is unleashed, even the most ruthless and cunning are powerless to control it.

        

Digging Up Mr. Posey, A Housewives through the Decades Mystery by Minda Webber and Marilyn Webber, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Digging Up Mr. Posey by Minda Webber and Marilyn Webber, 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 (02/17/2014 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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Digging Up Mr. Posey by Minda Webber and Marilyn Webber
A Housewives through the Decades Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Minda Webber and Marilyn Webber

In the small town of Stepp's Ford, no one expected treachery among their own because everyone knew their neighbor … or so they thought. What they'll learn is that everyone has secrets. And some are worth killing for in small town America.

July 2, was a day like any other, or so it appeared to those on Twilight Circle until the Omega salesman disappeared, the Weldons moved into the house across the street, and Dana Wynters and her nephew, Remy, found strange tracks in the woods nearby. In addition, a handsome stranger has rented the garage apartment next door to Dana.

Sam "Mac" Macready claims to be a mystery writer, although Dana rarely sees him writing. Still, her two neighbors encourage Dana to snatch Mac up before some other divorcee lands him.

But Dana and Mac's romance keeps hitting a snag, because in this quiet, little town murder may have been done. And it seems all the neighbors have skeletons in their closets and they'll do anything to keep their secrets buried. Especially Mac.

  

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Runner by Patrick Lee, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Sam Dryden

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series mysteries: Runner by Patrick Lee and introducing Sam Dryden.

What we know about the character: Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California.

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

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Runner by Patrick Lee
Series: A Sam Dryden Mystery
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Format(s): Hardcover, eBook

While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into Sam Dryden on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she's running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal — to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for as long as she can remember, has been kept in a secret prison by forces within the government. But she doesn't know much beyond her own name, Rachel. She only remembers the past two months of her life — and that she has a skill that makes her very dangerous to these men and the hidden men in charge.

Dryden, who lost his wife and young daughter in an accident five years ago, agrees to help her try to unravel her own past and make sense of it, to protect her from the people who are moving heaven and earth to find them both. Although Dryden is only one man, he's a man with the extraordinary skills and experience — as a Ranger, a Delta, and five years doing off-the-book black ops with an elite team. But, as he slowly begins to discover, the highly trained paramilitary forces on their heels is the only part of the danger they must face. Will Rachel's own unremembered past be the most deadly of them all?

        

Lethal Force, A Jake Adams Thriller by Trevor Scott, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Lethal Force by Trevor Scott, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Salvo 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 (02/17/2014 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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Lethal Force by Trevor Scott
A Jake Adams Thriller (9th in series)
Publisher: Salvo Press

Jake Adams has seemingly retired and gone fly fishing in Patagonia. But his quiet retreat is interrupted when the Agency sends a man to retrieve him to testify before a congressional committee. His testimony quickly becomes an internet sensation — not a good thing for an autonomous operative.

Meanwhile, a college professor is murdered in Oregon and his colleague is nearly killed, sending him running for his life. Jake is drawn back into the shadowy world of espionage to retrieve this professor in Montana and secure his new technology that will make nuclear weapons obsolete.

Eventually, Jake finds himself in South Korea in a battle for his life to secure the technology, save a beautiful congresswoman, and stop a cabal of agents from a despotic regime and misguided opportunists.

      

Use this link to see more discounted titles by Trevor Scott on Amazon.com.

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Death of a Policeman by M. C. Beaton, New in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by Grand Central, is Death of a Policeman by M. C. Beaton.

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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Death of a Policeman
M. C. Beaton
Series: Hamish Macbeth (30th)

Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth.

Blair suggests that Cyril Sessions, a keen young police officer, visit the town of Lochdubh to monitor exactly what Macbeth does every day. Macbeth hears about Blair's plan and is prepared to insure that Cyril returns back to headquarters with a full report.

But Cyril is soon found dead and Hamish quickly becomes the prime suspect in his murder.

        

Telemystery: Game of Thrones, New This Week on DVD and Blu-ray Disc

Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or Video-on-Demand, is profiling one series from our site being released this week.

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Game of Thrones
Season Three

In the third season of this HBO drama series, based on the "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels by George R. R. Martin, the Lannisters are barely holding onto power after a savage naval onslaught from Stannis Baratheon, while stirrings in the North threaten to alter the overall balance of power in Westeros. Robb Stark, King in the North, is facing major calamity in his efforts to build on his victories over the Lannisters while beyond the Wall, Mance Rayder and his huge army of wildlings continue their inexorable march south.

Across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targaryen — reunited with her three fast-maturing dragons — attempts to raise an army to sail with her from Essos, in hopes of eventually claiming the Iron Throne.

    

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Visit the Telemystery website to discover more television mystery series currently available on and coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or video on demand.

Dixie Diva Blues, A Dixie Divas Mystery by Virginia Brown, 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 Dixie Diva Blues by Virginia Brown. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, February 17, 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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Dixie Diva Blues by Virginia Brown
A Dixie Divas Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Bell Bridge Books

You'd think a midnight prowler would have sense enough to get out after being discovered by a group of middle-aged women armed with flower vases. Or at least stop what he was doing. Not this one. Despite our menacing appearance, he kept opening cabinet doors and drawers.

Our intruder wore what looked like a black Ninja outfit. It did not flatter. He was a bit chunky and not much taller than me. Nor did he move very fast as Gaynelle and I bore down on him like a freight train. Instead of screaming in fear and fleeing out the front door — which stood wide open to help facilitate his escape — he turned away from the cabinet he had opened and threw something heavy. It was a Mason jar, and it hit poor Gaynelle right smack in the middle of the forehead. She dropped to the floor like a sack of flour. I looked down at her, then up at the masked intruder. Eyes glittered at me from the tiny eyeholes, and as he seemed to be unarmed — no more Mason jars at hand — I let out a bellow and charged him.

  

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The Janson Directive, A Paul Janson Thriller by Robert Ludlum, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Janson Directive by Robert Ludlum, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, St. Martin's 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 (02/17/2014 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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The Janson Directive by Robert Ludlum
A Paul Janson Thriller (1st in series)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Nobel laureate, international financier, and philanthropist Peter Novak — a billionaire who has committed his life and fortune to fostering democracy around the world through his Liberty Foundation — has been captured by the forces led by the near-mythical terrorist known as The Caliph. Holding Novak in a near impenetrable fortress, The Caliph has refused to negotiate for his release, planning instead to brutally execute Novak in a matter of days.

Running out of time and hope, Novak's people turn to a man with a long history of defeating impossible odds: Paul Janson. For decades, Janson was an operative and assassin whose skills and exploits made him a legend in the notorious U.S. covert agency Consular Operatations. No longer able to live with the brutality, bloodshed, and personal loss that marked his career, Janson has retired from the field and nothing could lure him back. Nothing except Peter Novak, a man who once saved Janson's life when everyone else was powerless to help.

With the considerable resources of The Liberty Foundation at his disposal, Janson hastily assembles a crack extraction team, setting in motion an ingenious rescue operation. But the operation goes horribly wrong and Janson is marked for death, the target of a "beyond salvage" order issued from the highest level of the government.

Now he is running for his life, pursued by Jessica Kincaid, a young agent of astonishing ability who — as a student of Janson's own lethal arsenal of tactics and techniques — can anticipate and counter his every move. To survive, Janson must outrace a conspiracy that has gone beyond the control of its originators. To win, he must counter it with a conspiracy of his own.

With mere days, perhaps only hours, remaining, and shadowed by a secret that links Janson's violent life with that of the visionary peacemaker Peter Novak, Janson's only hope is to uncover the nearly unimaginable truth behind these events — a truth that has the power to foment wars, topple governments, and change the very course of history.

        

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A New MystereBook: Focused on Murder by Linda Townsdin

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 …

Focused on Murder by Linda Townsdin introduces Britt Johansson, a kickass photojournalist with a big heart and bad social skills, who follows a coed's murder to the wilds of the US/Canadian border and lands in the crosshairs of an international crime ring.

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Focused on Murder by Linda Townsdin
A Spirit Lake Mystery
Publisher: Linda Townsdin
Price: $2.99 (as of 02/17/14 12:30 PM ET)

Britt Johansson is a former Pulitzer prize-winning LA Times photographer whose reckless behavior nearly ended her career. She gets a chance to redeem herself when she's working in Northern Minnesota and stumbles across an international crime ring that ultimately pits her and her brother against a psychopathic killer.

Her hometown of Spirit Lake is a perfect location for all kinds of dirty deeds: easy entry points along the vast wilderness of the US/Canadian border, an Indian reservation that’s off limits to most law enforcement, and a dangerously mistaken perception that nothing happens in small towns.

  

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This Week's Amazon TV Deal of the Week: Archer Seasons 1-4

This week's Amazon TV Deal of the Week is Archer Seasons 1 through 4 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

Suave secret agent Sterling Archer is the world's most dangerous spy, but political intrigue and global crises are nothing compared to the sexual tension and human resources crises at the intelligence agency where he works. Archer must deal with his over-bearing, over-sexed mother — who is also his boss — and his femme fatale ex-girlfriend who seems to be sleeping with everyone except him. Embezzlement, mind control, hangovers, and demented double crossings — they're all in a day's work in this outrageously raunchy comedy!

This week only, save up to 60% on the first four seasons of this popular television series. Offer ends February 22nd, 2014.