Holy Death by Harol Marshall is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Holy Death by Harol Marshall as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Polly Berger Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, March 08, 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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Holy Death
Harol Marshall
A Polly Berger Mystery
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Faux southern belle Cinda Mae Bradbury, a stripper at The CatWalk two doors down from P.I. Polly Berger's office in Hollywood, hires Polly to find the person poisoning her boyfriend at the Santa Muerte Sunday masses. Polly knows about the Holy Death cult, a Mexican spin-off of Catholicism, but she disagrees with Cinda Mae's assumption that the Saint is trying to kill her good-looking boyfriend in order to sleep with him in heaven.

When Cinda Mae's soon-to-be-ex-husband turns up dead, and Cinda's boyfriend is charged with the murder, Polly turns for help to her ex-husband Johnny Birdwhistle, a Detective Third Grade with the Hollywood Police Department (HYPD). With the additional help (and sometimes interference) from Polly's part-time secretary, stand-up comic Bunny Contreras, the three become embroiled in an investigation that includes the smuggling of undocumented workers, romantic triangles, and more murder and mayhem than Polly ever bargained for, but that's the way Polly rolls.

  

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Beware the Jabbwock by Chester D. Campbell is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Beware the Jabbwock by Chester D. Campbell as today's third free mystery ebook (A Post Cold War Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, March 08, 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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Beware the Jabbwock
Chester D. Campbell
A Post Cold War Thriller
Publisher: Night Shadows Press

As the Cold War struggles to a close and the Soviet Union disintegrates, rogue elements on both sides of the Iron Curtain join in a deadly plot to maintain their hold on power, codenamed Operation Jabberwock. Telephone intercepts trigger a CIA investigation, but doubters among the higher-ups task a veteran clandestine officer with a drinking problem to track down Jabberwock with only an outsider for help.

Cameron Quinn recruits an old buddy, ex-FBI Agent Burke Hill, whose tarnished career had ended years before. Hill soon finds himself alone in the chase, with enough evidence to convince himself of the plot's potential danger, but shut out by an obsessive bureaucrat. He links up with Quinn's daughter in a race against time to find the shocking answer, a plot to assassinate the American and Russian presidents. Attempting to thwart it could cost both his life and that of the woman he loves.

  

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Children of the Dust by R. S. Coates is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Children of the Dust by R. S. Coates as today's second free mystery ebook (A Thi Nguyen Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, March 08, 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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Children of the Dust
R. S. Coates
A Thi Nguyen Mystery
Publisher: R. S. Coates

Someone wants Thi dead, and she has no idea why, let alone who. What terrible secret lies behind the hatred that threatens to destroy her life?

Thi Nguyen is an Amerasian woman conceived in Vietnam in 1975 but born and educated in the United States. Protected from discrimination by her Cambodian mother, Diem, Thi knows nothing about her American father except that he died in combat. She is proud of her heritage.

However, as the story unfolds, her charmed life is marred by her mother's secrets and the reality of a war that no one wants to remember. Though born an American citizen, Thi discovers that she is considered a child of the dust.

  

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Angel's Bidding by Sharon Short is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Angel's Bidding by Sharon Short as today's free mystery ebook (A Patricia Delaney, eGumshoe Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, March 08, 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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Angel's Bidding
Sharon Short
A Patricia Delaney, eGumshoe Mystery
Publisher: Cornerstone Communications

A valued representative of Kauffman Real Estate and Auctioneering vanishes, and $100,000 in cash disappears from the company safe. But even more bizarre, old Friedrich Kauffman is receiving threatening notes — all skewered by antique hatpins that once belonged to his mother. To solve this baffling mystery, Kauffman's anxious daughter Elsa turns to computer-whiz P.I. Patricia Delaney for help.

But Delaney's tell-all computer databases and personal snooping quickly uncover more than the respectable Kauffmans wish to reveal, including shady business practices, bitter sibling rivalries, and Friedrich's corpse, stabbed in the chest with a twelve-inch-long haptin shaped like an angel. It will not be the last.

  

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Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, March 08, 2014.

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Mrs. Poe
Lynn Cullen
A Historical Romance
Gallery Books

1845: New York City is a sprawling warren of gaslit streets and crowded avenues, bustling with new immigrants and old money, optimism and opportunity, poverty and crime. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" is all the rage — the success of which a struggling poet like Frances Osgood can only dream. As a mother trying to support two young children after her husband's cruel betrayal, Frances jumps at the chance to meet the illustrious Mr. Poe at a small literary gathering, if only to help her fledgling career. Although not a great fan of Poe's writing, she is nonetheless overwhelmed by his magnetic presence — and the surprising revelation that he admires her work.

What follows is a flirtation, then a seduction, then an illicit affair … and with each clandestine encounter, Frances finds herself falling slowly and inexorably under the spell of her mysterious, complicated lover. But when Edgar's frail wife Virginia insists on befriending Frances as well, the relationship becomes as dark and twisted as one of Poe's tales. And like those gothic heroines whose fates are forever sealed, Frances begins to fear that deceiving Mrs. Poe may be as impossible as cheating death itself.

  

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Rogue Force by Dale Brown is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Rogue Force by Dale Brown as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, March 08, 2014.

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Rogue Force
Dale Brown
A Techno-Thriller
HarperCollins

His election promised a new day for America … but dangerous storm clouds are on the horizon. The newly inaugurated president, Joseph Gardner, pledged to start pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq on his first day in office — no questions asked. Meanwhile, former president Kevin Martindale and retired Air Force lieutenant-general Patrick McLanahan have left government behind for the lucrative world of military contracting. Their private firm, Scion Aviation International, has been hired by the Pentagon to take over aerial patrols in northern Iraq as the U.S. military begins to downsize its presence there.

Yet Iraq quickly reemerges as a hot zone: Kurdish nationalist attacks have led the Republic of Turkey to invade northern Iraq. The new American president needs to regain control of the situation — immediately — but he's reluctant to send U.S. forces back into harm's way, leaving Scion the only credible force in the region capable of blunting the Turks' advances.

But when Patrick McLanahan makes the decision to take the fight to the Turks, can the president rein him in? And just where does McLanahan's loyalty ultimately lie: with his country, his commander in chief, his fellow warriors … or with his company's shareholders?

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140308)

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

• The New Release is Dark Parables: Jack and the Sky Kingdom.

• The Daily Deal is Maestro: Music from the Void, just $2.99 today only!

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

• Today's Special Deal — Women's Day Sale! All Games Are 60% Off this weekend only! Use coupon code EQUAL at check-out to purchase any Standard Edition game for $3.99 or use coupon code STRONG for Collector's Edition games at just $7.99. Offer valid through March 9th, 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 Dark Parables: Jack and the Sky Kingdom

The legendary Sky Kingdom suddenly appears and a destructive barrage is unleashed upon an unsuspecting town. Play as the Fairytale Detective and embark on an investigation to rescue the townspeople. In this quest, you will meet Jack — an infamous treasure hunter who shares a secret past with the Kingdom — and discover the tragic history behind the chaos.

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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Today's Daily Deal is Maestro: Music from the Void

The Maestro’s back in this exciting encore to Notes of Life! Eerie music fills the air in Vienna, where shadows terrorize people in the streets. Two musical prodigies have gone missing. Can you save them without striking a single false note?

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Saturday, March 08, 2014 — for $2.99.

Also available for this game:

• Get the Strategy Guide.
• Check out the Blog Walkthrough.

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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.

The Chinese Shawl, A Miss Silver Mystery by Patricia Wentworth, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Chinese Shawl by Patricia Wentworth, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Open Road.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $1.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/07/2014 at 5:00 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 Chinese Shawl by Patricia Wentworth
A Miss Silver Mystery
Publisher: Open Road

Miss Silver must intervene when an age-old family feud returns with fatal effect …

All London loves Tanis Lyle. A beautiful amateur who happened accidentally on a career in the theater, she has just finished filming her first motion picture. Though hardly beautiful, the young woman has electric charm, and seems to hypnotize all who meet her. This is the effect she has on Laura Fane, a distant cousin who has long heard rumors of the great beauty who, because of a long-standing family feud, she has never been allowed to meet.

When Tanis's life is cut short by an unknown hand, Miss Silver hunts for the killer. As she and Laura quickly learn, great beauty invites hate just as readily as it does love.

        

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A New MystereBook: A Case for Old Spies by Gini Anding

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 …

A Case for Old Spies by Gini Anding may be the first in a new series, by the author of the Amy Page/Jean-Michel Jolivet series of "witness" mysteries.

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A Case for Old Spies by Gini Anding
A Murder Mystery
Publisher: Gini Anding
Publication Date: March 04, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 03/07/14 04:30 PM ET)

What happens to old spies in retirement? Do they simply fade away, never to be heard from again? How do former covert agents accustomed to working clandestinely on a need-to-know basis reorganize their lives? Zach, a weapons expert and trained assassin, wondered from time to time what he was doing as deputy sheriff on Chipley Island. And then the body of a man he had thought dead for many years rolled up on the beach — on his beach at Pirate's Cove — out of the blue.

Chipley Island is not just any island in Virginia. It is the brainchild of the body in the wetsuit. The man was second-in-command to retired U.S. Navy Adm. Jackson Lee Andrews. Together, the two men directed a top secret agency for the President, and when the group was dissolved, the admiral helped set them up on the island. Did he have an ulterior motive.

Zach and his wife Josie, known for her eidetic memory and once a courier, gather the group and together they resolve to solve the case of the mysterious body on the beach, a spy of the old school, a legendary agent, and perhaps the best spy of all time. As Josie declares, "What was that old devil up to?"

  

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A Gentle Murderer, A Crime Thriller by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Gentle Murderer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Open Road.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $1.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/07/2014 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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A Gentle Murderer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Open Road

A frightening confession leads a priest to hunt down a murderer …

On a hot Saturday night in Manhattan, Father Duffy sits in a confessional, growing alarmed as he listens to the voice of a distraught young man who speaks of bloody hair and a dead woman and a compulsion to do things with a hammer that he does not understand. Before the priest can persuade the man to confess to the police, the killer flees, still clutching the hammer.

The next day, Father Duffy learns that a high-class call girl on the East Side has been savagely murdered, and no suspect has been found. As he searches for the disturbed young man who he fears will kill again, cerebral New York Police detective Sergeant Ben Goldsmith takes the lead in the investigation of the call-girl murder, racing against the clock to catch a very clever killer who, when enraged, cannot control his need to swing a hammer.

        

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A New MystereBook: Riptide by Michaela Thompson

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 …

Riptide by Michaela Thompson is the second mystery set on Florida's panhandle, originally published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press in 1994. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

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Riptide by Michaela Thompson
A Florida Panhandle Mystery
Publisher: booksBnimble
Publication Date: March 05, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 03/07/14 03:30 PM ET)

As intricate as a fisherman's net, this mystery fairly writhes with sinister delights — family secrets, family feuds, lost family fortunes, betrayals, puzzles, sunken treasure … and murder, of course. With a bit of illicit romance and treachery thrown in for seasoning. This rife atmosphere swirls around New york artist Isabel Anders, who's summoned home to tiny St. Elmo, Florida to deal with an emergency: the aunt who raised her has been brutally — and mysteriously — injured.

Isabel arrives to find the family mansion in ruins, her aunt living in a trailer, and, dangerous as a cottonmouth, the lover she left at sixteen just where he used to be. Waiting for her. Except now he's got a grudge against her, a secret of his own, and some unsavory companions. Just when Isabel's aunt seems to be getting better (but before she's able to talk again) she dies just as mysteriously as she was injured. Suspecting murder, Isabel quickly ties her aunt's death to another.

But to find the killer, she has to hack her way through a small-town jungle of intrigue and several generations of interrelated secrets …

  

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Screenscam, A Rep and Melissa Pennyworth Mystery by Michael Bowen, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Screenscam by Michael Bowen, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Poisoned Pen 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 (03/07/2014 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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Screenscam by Michael Bowen
A Rep and Melissa Pennyworth Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

Read our review of Screenscam by Michael Bowen

Attorney Rep Pennyworth has the client from hell …

Charlotte Buchanan, author of a mystery of no particular merit, contends her 1997 novel was stolen and used as the basis for a 1999 film. She wants to sue. Rep would blow her off, but Charlotte is the daughter of the CEO of Tavistock, Ltd., the firm's major corporate client. So, aided by his literature-addicted wife Melissa, Rep files suit. By return mail comes a death threat, a grisly version of "Hold Your Tongue …".

Then, in talks with the film's director, Hollywood legend Aaron Eastman, Rep discovers the outline of a bizarre scheme to destroy Eastman's credibility — and that of his films. Hoosiers Rep and Melissa aren't prepared for the larger licenses granted to political powerhouses, but they're quick on the uptake and soon armed.

      

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The Disappeared by Kristina Ohlsson, New in Bookstores in March 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during March 2014 by Atria Books, is The Disappeared by Kristina Ohlsson.

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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The Disappeared
Kristina Ohlsson
Series: Fredrika Bergman (3rd)

A young woman on her way to a party vanishes without a trace. Two years later, with all hope lost, her body turns up. Mercilessly dismembered, it has deteriorated considerably in its lonely burial spot on the edge of a forest. The forensic team is able to identify the body as that of Rebecca Tolle, a student at the nearby university.

Investigative analyst Fredrika Bergman and her team are assigned to solve the case and question those who may be responsible for Rebecca's brutal death. Soon, more bodies are found, in the same area. But the killer is still at large.

Fredrika discovers that when Rebecca died, she was researching a person with a dark past- one that Rebecca seems to have uncovered. Fredrika is deeply invested in the already heart-wrenching case, but when her lover's name comes up as a possible suspect, it might be too much for her to bear.

Did Rebcecca get too close to evil — prompting evil to react?