Stolen by Lucy Christopher is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Stolen by Lucy Christopher as today's Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Friday, March 07, 2014.

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

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Stolen
Lucy Christopher
A YA Novel of Suspense
Scholastic Press

Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty — rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar — pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away.

The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback.

This is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare — or die trying to fight it.

    

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Lunatic Detective by Sharon Sala is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Lunatic Detective by Sharon Sala as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Friday, March 07, 2014.

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Lunatic Detective
Sharon Sala
The Lunatic Life Series
Bell Bridge Books

The spirit is willing …

As Tara and Flynn are closing in on Dee Dee Broyles' killer, a deadly new ghost begins to threaten them. It's just another day in Tara's lunatic life …

All during the day at school, Tara kept picturing the moment when she and Nate would find DeeDee's grave. Even the classes she had with Flynn, who made everything fun, never seemed to end. By the time the last bell rang, she was fired up like a roman candle on the Fourth of July. She bolted from her seat, made a quick stop at her locker, and slipped out a side door instead of taking the front, knowing full well she was going to miss seeing Flynn. She didn't have time to delay or explain, and she had a feeling he wouldn't be all that thrilled in what she was doing. He was pretty cool about her psychic stuff, but digging for bodies fell way out of the realm of normal — even for her.

  

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Brandenburg by Glenn Meade is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Brandenburg by Glenn Meade as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Friday, March 07, 2014.

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Brandenburg
Glenn Meade
A Novel of International Intrigue
Howard Books

A secret that must never be revealed … An evil never meant to be repeated …

Seventy years ago, the greatest crime against humanity was committed. Today it's only a heartbeat away from happening again.

In Paraguay, an elderly businessman kills himself. In Berlin, a neo-Nazi is gunned down in the street.

Trying to connect the murders, intelligence agent Joe Volkmann, aided by a beautiful young German journalist, travels to Paraguay and discovers a clue — the charred remains of an old black-and-white photograph in a remote jungle house. A photograph that holds the first key to an extraordinary secret — and a plot to create the Fourth Reich.

Volkmann soon uncovers that a string of bizarre killings around the world are all linked by a single purpose. And he also discovers that the journalist he trusted, Erica Kranz, is somehow linked to the plan.

Haunted by the ghosts of the past, and desperate to unearth an extraordinary secret, Volkmann and Kranz are plunged into a dangerous world of terrorism, fanaticism, and deception as they stare true evil in the face.

  

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Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending March 07, 2014

A list of the top 15 Mystery Hardcover Bestsellers for the week ending March 7th, 2014 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

Another fairly quiet week with no change at the top of our list — Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn remains the number one bestseller.

One new title enters the list this week (rank in [brackets]).

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[15]: Bone Deep
Randy Wayne White
— Doc Ford (21st)

When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson's asks him to help recover a relic stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along — but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they've let themselves in for. Their search takes them to the part of Central Florida known as Bone Valley, famous primarily for two things: a ruthless subculture of black-marketers who trade in illegal artifacts and fossils, and a multibillion-dollar phosphate industry whose strip mines compromise the very ground they walk on.

Neither enterprise tolerates nosy outsiders. For each, public exposure equals big financial losses — and in a region built on a million-year accumulation of bones, there is no shortage of spots in which to hide a corpse. Or two.

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140307)

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

• The New Release is Riddles of Fate: Into Oblivion (Collector's Edition).

• 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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The New Release today is Riddles of Fate: Into Oblivion (Collector's Edition)

The kingdom of Riddlestone was renowned for its virtues and arts, but ever since the seven deadly sins came to town, the people's hearts have turned to darkness. Their rioting has plunged the city into chaos. Even the royal family is not above the suffering. The king is ill, his sons are behaving strangely, and his daughter has disappeared. The Queen has heard of your reputation and summoned you to help. Will you return Riddlestone to its former glory, or it will be swallowed forever by the darkness? Find out in the exciting hidden-object puzzle adventure!

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: Gripping bonus gameplay; Unlockable collectibles and achievements; Stunning wallpapers and concept art; Downloadable soundtracks; and an Integrated strategy guide.

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 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.

Winners of the 2014 Pinckley Prizes Announced

Laura Lippman and Gwen Florio are the recipients of the inaugural Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction, named to honor the memory of Diana Pinckley, longtime crime fiction columnist for The New Orleans Times-Picayune. The prizes will be presented March 22nd, 2014, at the 28th annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. The presentation will take place at the historic Beauregard-Keyes House at 5 PM. The Prizes are presented by the Women's National Book Association of New Orleans, of which Diana Pinckley was a founding member.

Laura Lippman was selected as the first Pinckley Prize winner for her Distinguished Body of Work. In a statment from the awards committee, "Laura Lippman is one of those writers whose dedication to her home town of Baltimore has captivated American readers. She has created an enduring sleuth in Tess Monaghan, a complex character dealing with the issues that every contemporary woman confronts. And more than that, in her stand-alone works, Lippman has transcended the limits and challenges of genre to become a distinguished writer of social realism. All that, and she has a wicked sense of humor!"

Montana resident Gwen Florio won the Pinckley Prize for a Debut Novel, for her first book, Montana, published by Permanent Press. "Out of a field of excellent debut crime novels, we picked Montana because we completely fell in love with the main character. It's often difficult to pinpoint why someone is lovable. Suffice to say that Gwen Florio's protagonist Lola fully lives on the page, and what is even more compelling about this brave, irascible character is that she continues to live after the book is closed. She's fearless, flawed, intelligent, reckless, and funny, but most of all, she is defined by loyalty to her friend and a relentless pursuit of her killer."

Nominees for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards honoring the best in LGBT fiction have been announced by the Lambda Literary Foundation, including those in the categories of Gay and Lesbian Mystery. The winners will be announced on Monday evenin, June 2nd, 2014 at a ceremony in New York City.

The nominees are …

Gay Mystery:

• The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari by Sarah Black (Dreamspinner Press)
• In Real Life by Jonathan Gregory (Amazon Digital Services)
• Baton Rouge Bingo by Gerg Herren (Bold Strokes Books)
• The Prisoner of the Riviera by Janice Law (Mysterious Press)
• Fierce by David Lennon (Blue Spike)
• Pretty Boy Dead by Jon Michaelsen (Wilde City Press)
• Foxed by Garry Ryan (NeWest Press )
• How To Greet Strangers by Joyce Thompson (Lethe Press)
• Boystown 5: Murder Book by Marshall Thornton (MLR Press)
• Pawn of Satan by Mark Zubro (MLR Press)

Lesbian Mystery:

• The Killer Wore Leather by Laura Antoniou (Cleis Press)
• The Rainey Season by R. E. Bradshaw (R. E. Bradshaw Books)
• High Desert by Katherine V. Forrest (Spinsters Ink)
• The Wild Beasts of Wuhan by Ian Hamilton (Picador)
• Taken by the Wind by Ellen Hart (Minotaur Books)
• Death of the Demon by Anne Holt (Scribner)
• Cross and Burn by Val McDermid (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Turning on the Tide by Jenna Rae (Bella Books)
• Point of Betrayal by Ann Roberts (Bella Books)
• She Overheard Murder by Jean Sheldon (Wellworth Publishing)
• Web of Obsessions by Diane Wood (Bella Books)

A New MystereBook: Death on a Longship by Marsali Taylor

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 …

Death on a Longship by Marsali Taylor was first published as an ebook in 2012. This edition is from a different publisher, and newly subtitled "A Cass Lynch Mystery".

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Death on a Longship by Marsali Taylor
A Cass Lynch Mystery
Publisher: Accent Press
Publication Date: March 05, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 03/06/14 05:00 PM ET)

When she wangles the job of skippering a Viking longship for a film, Cass Lynch thinks her big break has finally arrived — even though it means returning home to the Shetland Islands, which she ran away from as a teenager.

Then the "accidents" begin — and when a dead woman turns up on the boat's deck, Cass realises that she, her family and her past are under suspicion from the disturbingly shrewd Detective Inspector Macrae.

Cass must call on all her local knowledge, the wisdom she didn't realise she'd gained from sailing and her glamorous, French opera singer mother to clear them all of suspicion — and to catch the killer before Cass becomes the next victim.

  

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A New MystereBook: Grind Joint by Dana King

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 …

Grind Joint by Dana King was originally published in trade paperback last fall. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

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Grind Joint by Dana King
A Penns River Novel
Publisher: Dana King
Publication Date: March 04, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 03/06/14 04:00 PM ET)

Penns River hopes for a Lazarus-like economic resurrection when the Allegheny Casino is built in an abandoned strip mall. What the town gets more closely resembles Frankenstein's monster.

The casino owner wants a cash cow, his partner is laundering money, and Russian mobsters connected to the silent partner want to push what's left of the Pittsburgh mob out of the picture altogether.

This is more than the town is equipped to handle, though it is not without resources of its own, notably two native sons — police detective Ben "Doc" Dougherty, and his cousin, Chicago private investigator Nick Forte — who refuse to allow Penns River to become collateral damage.

  

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A New P. K. Pinkerton Western Mystery: The Pistol-Packing Widows by Caroline Lawrence

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new First Clues: Mysteries for Kids books: The Pistol-Packing Widows by Caroline Lawrence, a P. K. Pinkerton Western Mystery.

For more information about the book, which is recommended for readers aged 8 to 10, see a synopsis, below.

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The Pistol-Packing Widows by Caroline Lawrence
Series: P. K. Pinkerton
Publisher: Putnam
Format(s): Hardcover, eBook

P.K. Pinkerton's detective agency is thriving in Virginia City — until the evening P.K. is abruptly stuffed into a turnip sack and tossed into the back of a wagon! Surfacing in Chinatown, P.K. is forced into taking a job trailing the abductor's fiancé in Carson City.

Danger lurks at every turn. P.K. must battle quicksand, escape the despicable former Deputy Marshall, Jack Williams, and save Poker Face Jace from certain death at the hands of the fatal "Black Widow", who is courting P.K.'s friend and mentor.

Master-of-disguise P.K. Pinkerton has almost perfected the art of staying hidden in plain sight, but when the stakes become life or death, the only thing that can save the young detective is to give away the biggest secret of all.

        

A New MystereBook: Green Eyes in Las Vegas by A. R. Winters

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 …

Green Eyes in Las Vegas by A. R. Winters is the second mystery in this series of humorous crime capers.

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Green Eyes in Las Vegas by A. R. Winters
A Tiffany Black Mystery
Publisher: A. R. Winters
Publication Date: March 05, 2014
Price: $0.99 (as of 03/06/14 03:00 PM ET)

When cupcake-loving croupier and private investigator Tiffany Black witnesses a handsome, green-eyed man making a getaway after an art heist, she finds her normally chaotic life becoming even more complicated.

Tiffany flits between her two new cases — investigating the missing Van Gogh, and the murder of a Hollywood starlet with a secret life. When her investigation takes an intriguing turn and a man with mesmerizing green eyes comes into her life, Tiffany starts to wonder if this man might be the missing link between both crimes.

When her octogenarian friend Glenn starts dating a very inappropriate woman, and Nanna starts calling a twenty-something-year-old her "boyfriend", Tiffany wonders if being attracted to a potential criminal might not be so crazy after all.

As she follows the investigation from movie sets to museums, danger strikes a little too close to home when Tiffany discovers that not only was the dead girl being stalked, someone with a deadly motive appears to be watching her too …

  

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Why Kings Confess by C. S. Harris, New in Bookstores in March 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during March 2014 by NAL Hardcover, is Why Kings Confess by C. S. Harris.

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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Why Kings Confess
C. S. Harris
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr (9th)

Regency England, January 1813: When a badly injured Frenchwoman is found beside the mutilated body of Dr. Damion Pelletan in one of London's worst slums, Sebastian finds himself caught in a high-stakes tangle of murder and revenge. Although the woman, Alexi Sauvage, has no memory of the attack, Sebastian knows her all too well from an incident in his past — an act of wartime brutality and betrayal that nearly destroyed him.

As the search for the killer leads Sebastian into a treacherous web of duplicity, he discovers that Pelletan was part of a secret delegation sent by Napoleon to investigate the possibility of peace with Britain. Despite his powerful father-in-law's warnings, Sebastian plunges deep into the mystery of the “Lost Dauphin,” the boy prince who disappeared in the darkest days of the French Revolution, and soon finds himself at lethal odds with the Dauphin's sister — the imperious, ruthless daughter of Marie Antoinette — who is determined to retake the French crown at any cost.

With the murderer striking ever closer, Sebastian must battle new fears about Hero's health and that of their soon-to-be born child. When he realizes the key to their survival may lie in the hands of an old enemy, he must finally face the truth about his own guilt in a past he has found too terrible to consider …

        

Nominees for the 2014 Petrona Award Announced

The nominees (short list) for the 2014 Petrona Award honoring the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year have been announced. The author must either be born in Scandinavia — Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden — or the plot must be set in Scandinavia. The winner will be announced in May 2014 at CrimeFest.

The nominess are …

• Closed for Winter by Jørn Lier Horst (Sandstone Press)
• Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indriðason (Harvill Secker)
• The Weeping Girl by Håkan Nesser (Mantle)
• Linda, as in The Linda Murder by Leif G. W. Persson (Doubleday)
• Someone To Watch Over Me by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Light in a Dark House by Jan Costin Wagner (Harvill Secker)

Hangman, A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Mystery by Faye Kellerman, at a Special Price during March 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 Hangman by Faye Kellerman. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Thursday, March 06, 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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Hangman by Faye Kellerman
A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Mystery (19th in series)
Publisher: William Morrow

High school senior Chris Whitman confessed to murdering his girlfriend to spare beautiful, vulnerable Terry McLaughlin from having to testify at his trial. Years later, when the truth set Chris free, he married Terry, changed his name to Donatti … and became a professional killer. Now Terry’s missing, Donatti’s disappeared — and their teenage son, Gabe, has no one to turn to except his mother’s friend, LAPD Detective Peter Decker, and Decker’s wife, Rina Lazarus.

The last thing Decker wants is Terry’s sociopathic husband back in his world. And the hunt for Terry must share center stage with another case when a young nurse’s body is found hanging from the rafters at a construction site. Caught between two troubling investigations and an increasingly precarious home life, Decker and Rina must make a difficult decision about sheltering Terry’s son … even as the shadow of a serial killer falls across their own imperiled family.

  

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Toxin, The Thriller in Paradise Series by Rob Swigart, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Toxin by Rob Swigart, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, booksBnimble.

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 (03/06/2014 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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Toxin by Rob Swigart
The Thriller in Paradise Series (2nd in series)
Publisher: booksBnimble

Hawaii police lieutenant Cobb Takamura and molecular biologist Chazz Koenig return in this tale in which the murder of an unpopular real estate developer leads to the inner circles of international defense.

On the same day that Victor Linz is shot during an early morning jog, reports filter in that an out-of-orbit satellite may land on Kauai. A reporter tailing an intelligence officer from the mainland is found near the remote site of the satellite crash; he is comatose and suffering from severe skin and internal ailments. Panic follows when a rumor spreads that the satellite carried a deadly toxin.

Cobb must conduct the murder investigation and maintain calm on the island all while negotiating with one of the murder suspects who is hijacking a commercial airliner. Meanwhile, Koenig races the clock to control the effects of the toxin.

  

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