Keeping Secrets by Cathi Stoler is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Keeping Secrets by Cathi Stoler as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Laurel and Helen New York Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, March 06, 2014 at 7:15 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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Keeping Secrets
Cathi Stoler
A Laurel and Helen New York Mystery
Publisher: Camel Press

Laurel Imperiole, a reporter for New York's Women Now magazine, has just received a series of emails from Anne Ellsworth, a young woman in fear for her life. Anne has discovered that her fiancé has several aliases and is terrified of what he will do if he finds out. Laurel, who empathizes with Anne, sees an opportunity to rescue her and write a story on hidden identities that will help her readers avoid similar predicaments. Helen McCorkendale, a private eye and close friend, agrees to investigate both Anne's fiancé, David, and Laurel's banker boyfriend, Matt.

Laurel had planned to use Matt as the good guy in the story — the one with nothing to hide — but Anne's situation and Matt's sudden strange behavior are making her paranoid. Soon Helen and Laurel find that they have stirred up a hornet's nest buzzing with vengeful Mafiosi, greedy bankers, and dirty politicians. In desperation they turn to Aaron Gerrard, Laurel's ex-boyfriend and head of New York's Identity Theft Squad, for advice. Aaron, who has never forgiven Laurel for "betraying" him by concealing information important to one of his cases, reluctantly agrees to help.

The women discover that everything is connected, and everyone has something to hide. Will the secrets Laurel and Helen disclose keep them alive or seal their fates?

  

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Bad Blood by Ray Zdonek is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bad Blood by Ray Zdonek as today's third free mystery ebook (A Lee Kosak Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, March 06, 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.

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Bad Blood
Ray Zdonek
A Lee Kosak Mystery
Publisher: Ray Zdonek

An extremist right-wing leader is found murdered in the Indiana Dunes. Is it a political assassination or a personal vendetta?

Jazz DJ and radio talk show host Lee Kosak finds himself face to face against blind ambition and protected privilege. When more casualties pile up, he must ferret out a dark and elusive secret hidden for decades.

  

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Murder by Syllabub by Kathleen Delaney is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder by Syllabub by Kathleen Delaney as today's second free mystery ebook (An Ellen McKenzie Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, March 06, 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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Murder by Syllabub
Kathleen Delaney
An Ellen McKenzie Mystery
Publisher: Camel Press

A ghost in Colonial dress has been wreaking havoc at an old plantation house in Virginia. The house is owned by Elizabeth Smithwood, the best friend of Ellen's Aunt Mary. Mary is determined to fly to the rescue, and Ellen McKenzie has no choice but to leave her real estate business and new husband to accompany her. Who else will keep the old girl out of trouble?

When Ellen and Aunt Mary arrive, they find that Elizabeth's "house" comprises three sprawling buildings containing all manner of secret entrances and passages, not to mention slave cabins. But who owns what and who owned whom?

After Monty — the so-called ghost and stepson of Elizabeth's dead husband — turns up dead in Elizabeth's house, suspicion falls on her. Especially when the cause of death is a poisoned glass of syllabub taken from a batch of the sweet, creamy after-dinner drink sitting in Elizabeth's refrigerator. Monty had enemies to spare. Why was he roaming the old house? What was he searching for?

To find the truth, Ellen and her Aunt Mary will have to do much more than rummage through stacks of old crates; they will have to expose two hundred years of grudges and vendettas. The spirits they disturb are far deadlier than the one who brought them to Virginia.

  

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Finding Sarah by Terry Odell is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Finding Sarah by Terry Odell as today's free mystery ebook (A Pine Hills Police Novel of Romantic Suspense; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, March 06, 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.

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Finding Sarah
Terry Odell
A Pine Hills Police Novel of Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Terry Odell

Being robbed at gunpoint wasn't part of Sarah Tucker's business plan. Neither was falling in love with the detective who arrived to solve the case.

All Sarah wants is success for her gift boutique, the one she and her husband created. Now, she's living a hand-to-mouth existence. Her husband died a year earlier in a car accident — an accident that was ruled suicide, denying her his life insurance money. Burdened by guilt that she was somehow to blame for his death, Sarah faces one business setback after another. Determined to succeed on her own, she fights off a meddling sister-in-law as well as offers of financial assistance from a former boyfriend. Unaware someone is setting her up for failure, she's totally unprepared to find herself fighting for survival.

Police Detective Randy Detweiler thinks the crook is a thief who's been evading cops all over the state. A routine robbery investigation turns into the biggest challenge of his career when he falls in love with the victim, and he starts crossing professional boundaries. When Sarah disappears, he's afraid all his detective skills might not be enough to find her in time to save her life.

  

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Virals by Kathy Reichs and Brandan Reichs is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Virals by Kathy Reichs and Brandan Reichs as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, March 06, 2014.

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

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Virals
Kathy Reichs and Brandan Reichs
A YA Mystery Adventure
Razorbill

Adventure is in Tory Brennan's blood. After all, she's the grandniece of world-famous forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Always up for a challenge, Tory and her science-geek friends spend their time exploring the marshlands of Loggerhead Island, home to the very off-limits Loggerhead Island Research Institute, where something strange is going on.

After rescuing a stray wolfdog pup from a top-secret lab, Tory and her friends are exposed to a rare strain of canine parvovirus, changing them — and their DNA — forever. Now they are more than friends. They are a pack. They are Virals. And they're dangerous to the core.

But are they unstoppable enough to catch a cold-blooded murderer?

    

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Solo by Jack Higgins is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Solo by Jack Higgins as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, March 06, 2014.

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Solo
Jack Higgins
A Suspense Thriller
Open Road

A father's quest for vengeance draws him into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a veteran assassin …

Piano virtuoso John Mikali's flair as a musician is matched only by his skill as an assassin. The trail of bodies he's left in his wake is proof. But when he kills a young woman while fleeing from a murder scene, the woman's father, a special forces soldier in the British military, vows to avenge his daughter's death.

Now, both men are locked in a deadly game, playing for the ultimate stakes.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140306)

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

• Our Featured Title is Final Cut: Death on the Silver Screen.

• The current Catch of the Week is Web of Deceit: Black Widow, just $2.99 through Sunday, March 09, 2014 only.

Visit the Omnimystery Entertainment Network for more games of mystery and suspense!

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Our Featured Title today is Final Cut: Death on the Silver Screen

Unravel the mystery of your father's death and brother's bizarre disappearance! Your father was a famous movie director who liked to invent elaborate locks and devices. A mysterious villain demands you track down the pieces to his greatest and perhaps most deadly invention of all time! If you don't, your brother will suffer the same fate as your father. Return to the family Art Deco mansion and golden era movie backlots to look for clues about a past you never knew your father had and the dark secrets behind the villain's quest for his deadly invention.

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

Also available for this game:

• Get the Strategy Guide
• Check out the Blog Walkthrough
• For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition

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The current Catch of the Week is Web of Deceit: Black Widow

You're drawn into a web of deceit when your train stops in Andville, where the Black Widow lies in wait. Follow a trail of clues and dead husbands as you explore this once picturesque town now at the mercy of the Black Widow and her mechanical minions. What drives her lust for revenge? Where is the root of her strange power? Uncover the bizarre history — and mystery — of this little town. And track down the Black Widow in time to foil her devious plot for revenge!

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, March 09, 2014.

Also available for this game:

• Get the Strategy Guide.
• Check out the Blog Walkthrough.
• For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition.

A Kindle Countdown Deal: Too Beautiful to be Working Nights by David Thayer

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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Too Beautiful to be Working Nights by David Thayer
An Arthur Murray Thriller
Publisher: David Thayer Consulting
Price: $0.99 (as of 03/05/14 05:00 PM ET)

In 1964 New York, charismatic insurance investigator Arthur Murray is falling in love with a beautiful young widow, Thea Monroe. A ship in the harbor has brought a Cuban defector, a murderer, and thief to New York just in time for Che Guevara's visit to the United Nations. Thea is accused of insurance fraud and is under threat from a mobster who wants revenge for his losses in Havana, revenge that could ignite a new Cuban missile crisis.

Arthur has to choose between Thea's safety and his own as he battles powerful forces plotting to throw the world into turmoil. Can either of them survive and stay together?

  

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Review: No One To Trust by Lynette Eason

A Mysterious Review of No One To Trust by Lynette Eason. A "Hidden Identity" Mystery.

Review summary: This is a fast-paced mystery novel filled with volatile twists and turns. The primary characters are well-drawn, their situation realistically depicted, the action exciting and tense. All in all, a creatively devised and ultimately inspiring novel of suspense. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

No One To Trust
Lynette Eason
A "Hidden Identity" Mystery
Revell (January 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Summer Abernathy wakes up one morning to find her husband missing, three men in her home intent on finding him, and the life she's been living based on a lie. Which Kyle Abernathy did she marry? The computer programmer she met in line at the bank? Or the one who was apparently using that image as a cover story?

The search for her husband — and answers — takes Summer ever deeper into a world of organized crime where people are used one moment and discarded the next. And with her deepest relationship of trust already shattered, Summer doesn't know who to believe.

        

A New MystereBook: Conduit by Angie Martin

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 March 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Conduit by Angie Martin is a psychological thriller, which asks, Hos do you hide from a killer when he's in your mind?

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Conduit by Angie Martin
An Emily Monroe Mystery
Publisher: Indie World Publishing
Publication Date: March 04, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 03/05/14 04:00 PM ET)

Emily Monroe conceals her psychic gift from the world, but her abilities are much too strong to keep hidden from an equally gifted killer. A savvy private investigator, she discreetly uses her psychic prowess to solve cases. When the police ask her to assist on a new case, she learns the killer they seek is not only psychic, but is targeting her.

The killer wants more than to invade her mind; he wants her. Believing they are destined for each other, he uses his victims as conduits to communicate with her, and she hears their screams while they are tortured. She opens her minds to help the victims, but it gives him a portal that he uses to lure her to him. With the killer taking over her mind, she must somehow stop him before she becomes his next victim.

  

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Natural Causes by James Oswald, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Anthony McLean

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series mysteries: Natural Causes by James Oswald and introducing Anthony McLean.

What we know about the character: Anthony McLean is a Detective Inspector in Edinburgh (Scotland).

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

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Natural Causes by James Oswald
Series: An Anthony McLean Mystery
Publisher: Mariner Books
Format(s): Trade Paperback, eBook

First published in the UK in May 2013 and short-listed for the CWA New Blood (Debut) Dagger Award, the ebook for this title was released in the US in October 2013. This is its first appearance in print in the US.

A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a room that has lain sealed for the last sixty years. Her remains are carefully arranged in what seems to have been a macabre ritual.

For newly appointed Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean, this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority, but he is haunted by the young victim and her grisly death. Meanwhile, the city is horrified by a series of bloody killings — deaths for which there appears to be neither rhyme nor reason, and which leave Edinburgh's police at a loss.

McLean is convinced that these deaths are somehow connected to the terrible ceremonial killing of the girl, all those years ago. It is an irrational theory. And one that will lead McLean closer to the heart of a terrifying and ancient evil …

        

A New MystereBook: Burnout by Teresa Trent

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 March 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Burnout by Teresa Trent is the fifth book of the Pecan Bayou mystery series. All the characters you've come to know and love are back and you'll find plenty of the Happy Hinter's recipes and tips included at the end of the book.

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Burnout by Teresa Trent
A Betsy Livingston, Pecan Bayou Mystery
Publisher: Teresa Trent
Publication Date: March 03, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 03/05/14 03:00 PM ET)

It's November in Pecan Bayou, Texas and while the town is getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday a deadly fire breaks out at the newspaper office. When Rocky, the editor is nowhere to be found, Betsy refuses to believe he has perished in the fire.

The entire town is coming down with the stomach flu and Betsy must deal with her husband's new-found celebrity as an on-air weatherman filling in for and under-the-weather Hurricane Hal. Leo loves all the attention he's getting, especially from the sexy administrative assistant who works at the station. Is their new marriage in trouble already?

  

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Black Horizon by James Grippando, New in Bookstores in March 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during March 2014 by Harper, is Black Horizon by James Grippando.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for March 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of March 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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Black Horizon
James Grippando
Series: Jack Swyteck (11th)

Three summers after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, oil is again spewing into the ocean — from a drilling explosion in Cuban waters sixty miles off the Florida Keys, creating a politically complex and volatile situation.

Representing an American woman whose Cuban husband was killed on the rig, Jack finds himself in dangerous waters when he discovers that his incendiary case may be lethally connected to his new wife Andi's undercover assignment for the FBI … and that the looming environmental catastrophe may have been no "accident" at all.