Reluctant Medium by G. G. Collins is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Reluctant Medium by G. G. Collins as today's third free mystery ebook (A Rachel Blackstone Paranormal Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, February 22, 2014 at 7:00 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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Reluctant Medium
G. G. Collins
A Rachel Blackstone Paranormal Mystery
Publisher: Chamisa Canyon Publishing

All Rachel Blackstone wants is to talk with her father; solve the mystery of how he died. Using a Native American ceremony given to her by a shaman, she summons him in this paranormal mystery/fantasy. Instead, a soul intent on revenge slips through and threatens people she loves.

Now the Santa Fe, New Mexico reporter must follow the evil spirit, uncover its purpose and send it back. The shape-shifter has horrific powers. Rachel is tormented by what she has unleashed. There's more. She's seeing dead people; which frankly give her the creeps. Some are helpful; others lead her away from the truth. One spirit, a lone wolf, seems to have an uncertain allegiance. What she, and friend Chloe, uncover is an earthly scam involving both the quick and the dead.

Rachel must play a dangerous game of supernatural treasure hunt to stop the ruthless ghost. To survive, she must discover her own powers during a climatic storm of earth, wind and fire. To fail is to die.

  

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Daily Grind by Mike Klumpp is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Daily Grind by Mike Klumpp as today's second free mystery ebook (A Doug Daily Murder Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, February 22, 2014 at 6:45 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.

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Daily Grind
Mike Klumpp
A Doug Daily Murder Mystery
Publisher: Digital Publishing Xtreme

Despite being the top detective from New Orleans’ First Precinct, Doug Daily needs to get two things straight; his life and the fact that he is not guilty.

This murder mystery which begins in the French Quarter leads the reader on a chase to Lafayette, Louisiana and back in an attempt to solve the question of who murdered Glenda Daily, Doug’s ex-wife.

Read along as Doug eats and drinks his way through another killing in the Big Easy.

  

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The Confetti Killer by Chris Myers is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Confetti Killer by Chris Myers as today's free mystery ebook (A Crime Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, February 22, 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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The Confetti Killer
Chris Myers
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Books on the Edge

In the 1980s, the Confetti Killer terrorized Chicago, leaving a trail of blood and glitter. Fifty years after the infamous unsolved slayings, a copycat killer thrusts Kylie Watts' upcoming book into the limelight. Normally, she holes up in her Virginia home and writes true crime, using her dreams of the past to solve cold cases. She hopes to put the original Confetti Killer nightmares to rest by cracking the fifty-year-old mystery.

Detective Egan forces Kylie out of seclusion and into the current day investigation. Her intimate knowledge of the cold case and uncanny insight into the Confetti Killer's mind arouse his suspicions. His penchant for blondes and addiction to the powerful narcotic Tranquility cloud his judgment. While chasing the killer, her seductive powers lure him into her bleak world of pain and deception.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140222)

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

• The New Release is Myths of the World: Spirit Wolf.

• The Daily Deal is Dark Canvas: A Brush With Death, 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 — Save Some Gold! All Games Are 40% Off this weekend only! Use coupon code MEDAL at check-out to purchase any Standard Edition for $5.99 or Collector's Edition game for just $11.99. Offer valid through February 23rd, 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 Myths of the World: Spirit Wolf

The wolf spirit still haunts … will you heed its call? You're an expert in Native American symbolism who's been called to investigate some glowing glyphs. Your amulet, which has been in your family for generations, begins to glow as soon as you arrive, as if it's part of this place. As you begin to investigate, you encounter strange ghosts from the past. Find out what caused their rift all those generations ago and how you're connected to this place and its spirit.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Dark Canvas: A Brush With Death

Uncover the mystery behind an artist's deadly talent! Your daughter, Angie, was traveling through Europe when she vanished without a trace. Her last letter urged you to come to a remote island town in Italy, where she had stumbled upon a dark secret. When you arrive, you learn that there has been a series of tragic deaths in town, accompanied by sightings of a legendary spirit called the Silhouette. With no way of knowing who would be next, citizens turned to Virgil, a local artist who could famously predict the future through his paintings. Now you must seek out Virgil and his mysterious paintings before you and your daughter become the next victims of his deadly predictions!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Saturday, February 22, 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: Lunch Lady and the Schoolwide Scuffle by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

A Mysterious Review of Lunch Lady and the Schoolwide Scuffle by Jarrett J. Krosoczka. A Lunch Lady Comic Mystery.

Review summary: This is a strong final chapter to this graphic novel series, one that will not only entertain its intended audience of elementary school readers but may also have their parents chuckling at some of the antics and the cleverly designed devices used during the "schoolwide scuffle". (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Lunch Lady and the Schoolwide Scuffle
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
A Lunch Lady Comic Mystery
Knopf (January 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Lunch Lady and Betty have been unceremoniously cut from the school budget, and the timing couldn't be worse — the villains from all nine of her previous adventures are worming their way back into Thompson Brook with a masterfully devious plan.

Will the Breakfast Bunch still be able to count on Lunch Lady's superhero gadgets and abilities to save the school, or are they on their own?

Don't miss Lunch Lady's swashbuckling finale!

      

A New MystereBook: The Sleuth Sisters by Maggie Pill

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 …

The Sleuth Sisters by Maggie Pill is the first in a new series featuring two 50+ sisters, who open a detective agency. There's a third sister, but they don't want to include her because she's a pain. As we all know, things don't always work out like we plan.

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The Sleuth Sisters by Maggie Pill
A Sleuth Sisters Mystery
Publisher: Gwendolyn Press
Publication Date: February 19, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 02/21/14 04:30 PM ET)

We love our sisters, right? It's just that sometimes we love them BECAUSE of, and sometimes we love them in SPITE of.

But when murder's the crime and solving's your line, sisters count on sisters.

It's a family thing.

  

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The Merchant's Partner, A Knights Templar, Medieval West Country Mystery by Michael Jecks, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Merchant's Partner by Michael Jecks, 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 (02/21/2014 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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The Merchant's Partner by Michael Jecks
A Knights Templar, Medieval West Country Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

When the mutilated body of midwife and healer Agatha Kyteler is discovered in a hedge one frozen wintry morning, it at first appears the lack of clues will render the crime unsolvable — until a frightened local youth inexplicably flees his village and a hue and cry is raised.

Sir Baldwin Furnshill, once a Knight Templar, however, has doubts about the boy's guilt, and enlists friend and bailiff of Lydford Castle, Simon Puttock, in the hunt for a murderer. But what they seek lies somewhere on the darker side of the village of Wefford, beneath layers of jealousy, suspicion, and hatred — and the buried truth could prove fatal to anyone who disturbs it.

        

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The Poisoned Pawn by Peggy Blair, New in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by Pintail, is The Poisoned Pawn by Peggy Blair.

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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The Poisoned Pawn
Peggy Blair
Series: A Ricardo Ramirez Mystery

Detective Mike Ellis returns home after he is cleared in the death of a young boy while on vacation in Cuba, only to discover that his estranged wife, Hilary, is dead, and that he's the main suspect.

Meanwhile, Inspector Ramirez, head of the Havana Major Crimes Unit, is dispatched to Ottawa to take custody of a Cuban priest apprehended by authorities while in possession of a laptop full of child pornography.

Ramirez will uncover a web of deceit and depravity that extends from the corridors of power in Ottawa to the hallowed halls of the Vatican — and back again.

      

Murder, My Suite, A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery by Mary Daheim, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder, My Suite by Mary Daheim, 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 (02/21/2014 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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Murder, My Suite by Mary Daheim
A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery (7th in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

Gossip columnist Dagmar Delacroix Chatsworth and her yappy lapdog Rover's recent stay at the Hillside manor left hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn's nerves, and best bed linens, in tatters.

So Judith joins cousin Renie for some well-earned off-season R&R at Canada's famous Bugler Ski Resort — only to discover with horror that the swanky getaway is the next stop on detestable Dagmar's itinerary.

But it seems the cousins aren't the only guests with serious grudges against the dirt-disher and her malicious mutt. And when one of the despised lady's entourage is murdered on the snowless slopes, Judith sets out to corner a killer — before more hapless hangers-on discover that Dagner's company can be even more poisonous than her pen.

        

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The Red Road by Denise Mina, New in Bookstores in February 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during February 2014 by Little, Brown, is The Red Road by Denise Mina.

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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The Red Road
Denise Mina
Series: Alex Morrow (4th)

Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Michael Brown ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she's known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Brown's trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells.

When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who's expecting to be assassinated after a money laundering scheme goes bad, and a woman who's spying on the people who put her in jail, Morrow has her hands full. And that's before she even gets to her family issues.

        

A Kindle Countdown Deal: Rock Star Down by William Leslie

Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals, limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive books.

MystereBooks is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

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Rock Star Down by William Leslie
The Psychic Registry
Publisher: William Leslie
Price: $0.99 (as of 02/21/14 02:00 PM ET)

What happens when a pop-music princess turned reality-TV starlet is the prime suspect in her husband's murder? They call in Nathan Miller, an enigmatic ex-cop gone private detective. Why Miller? Because he's a psychic. And because he's the best.

Join Laurel Comfort, a beautiful young investigator with the City Attorney's office as she teams-up with Miller to catch the killer of a rock star. No secret is safe. And no heart is immune. He'll get inside of your head …

  

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The Prisoner of Heaven, A Novel of Suspense by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 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 The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Friday, February 21, 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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The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Harper

Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julian, and their close friend Fermin Romero de Torres is about to be wed.

But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. His appearance plunges Fermin and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940s and the early days of Franco's dictatorship.

The terrifying events of that time launch them on a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love and ultimately transform their lives.

  

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