New from Harlequin Intrigue: Snowed In by Cassie Miles

Every month Harlequin publishes several new novels of mystery and suspense. We are pleased to present in this post one of its new March, 2014 titles, published in the Harlequin Intrigue series.

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Snowed In by Cassie Miles
Publisher: Harlequin Intrigue
List Price: $4.99 (ebook), $5.50 (paperback)

A small-town innkeeper's life is transformed by a sexy army ranger …

Rescuing a beautiful woman from four armed men wasn't how Blake Randall planned to spend his army leave. But as chief security detail at his best friend's wedding, the ranger's mission is just beginning. A blizzard has cut off Sarah Bentley's Colorado B and B from the outside world, trapping them with a killer.

Snowed in with the rugged stranger who already saved her life once, Sarah has no choice but to trust Blake. As passion ignites, she realizes he's more than a strong shoulder to lean on. With danger escalating, it's time to listen to what her heart's telling her: with Blake by her side, they can survive anything …

        

Scent of Evil, A Joe Gunther Mystery by Archer Mayor, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Scent of Evil by Archer Mayor, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, MarchMedia.

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 (03/08/2014 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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Scent of Evil by Archer Mayor
A Joe Gunther Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: MarchMedia

When the body of a fast-living young stockbroker is found in a shallow grave, suspicion first falls on a cuckolded policeman. Lt. Joe Gunther investigates the increasingly bizarre details of the crime, but finds that he’s too far behind events to prevent a second murder. Indeed, whoever is responsible always seems to be a few steps ahead, as if there’s a leak on the force.

Sweltering August heat does nothing to calm the increasingly agitated town selectmen, who demand results.

        

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A New MystereBook: Whipping Boy by Katherine Tomlinson

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 …

Whipping Boy by Katherine Tomlinson is a noir-cozy novella (43,000 words), and the first in a new mystery series.

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Whipping Boy by Katherine Tomlinson
Publisher: Dark Valentine Press
Publication Date: March 07, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 03/08/14 12:30 PM ET)

Murder hits close to home for criminalist Lark Riordan when a neighbor's son is killed and another neighbor is arrested for the crime.

Teaming up with homicide detective Max Siwek to investigate the case, Lark encounters family secrets, old grudges, and dysfunctional relationships that make her own life seem normal. And that's saying something because her father is a self-involved actor who's just been nominated for an Oscar, and she and Max have a thing for each other even though he's her stepbrother.

It's … complicated.

  

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Telemystery: Fox Gives Early Renewals to Bones, The Following, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Fox has given early renewals to three Telemystery series:

• Bones, based on a character created by crime novelist Kathy Reichs, will return for a tenth season;

• The Following has been renewed for a third season; and

• Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a cop-based comedy, will return for a second season.

An Excerpt from Retribution by Anderson Harp

Retribution by Anderson Harp

We are delighted to welcome thriller writer Anderson Harp to Omnimystery News today.

Andy's debut novel, Retribution (asdf), is a fast-paced, suspenseful military/political thriller, where a dangerous successor to bin-Laden envisions a new, pure Islamic state in the Middle East and plots to cripple the U.S. by sending a nuclear bomb to eliminate the city of Chicago. He brings his over 30 years of service in the military to writing this realistic thriller.

We are pleased to introduce you to Retribution with an excerpt from the prologue.

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THE PILOT TURNED TO THE BACK, LOOKED at the stacked bricks just behind her seat. Red wires led from a button on the yoke to the center of the block. It wasn't the plastic explosive that mattered. At best, that would leave a small crater. It was what was in the center of the blocks that mattered. Death, she had long ago decided, would not be nearly so bad as her life. She tasted the salt of the tears as they rolled down her face and smiled.

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Photo provided courtesy of
Anderson Harp

Anderson Harp served 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising through the ranks to become a Colonel. His stations included: the Pentagon, South Korea, Central America, the Persian Gulf, Europe, Camp Pendleton, the Marine Mountain Training Center, Fort Benning, Fort Sill, and Camp LeJeune. He has served as the Officer in Charge of Crisis Action Team for Marine Forces Central Command. His decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal and Navy Commendation Medal. As an officer in the Marine Corps Reserve, he was mobilized for Operation Enduring Freedom and served with MarCent's Crisis Action Team.

Anderson Harp lives with his family in Columbus, Georgia. For more information about the author and his work, please visit his website at AndersonHarp.net.

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Retribution
Anderson Harp
A Suspense Thriller

The remote and impenetrable Pakistani mountains have offered refuge to the worst enemies of civilization since the time of Alexander. Now, the world faces a new challenge. Reared from birth to harbor a seething hatred, a lone man is about to unleash a firestorm that will rage for centuries. And the window of opportunity to stop him is shutting much faster than Washington D.C. can hope to deal with.

A top lethal operative, Will Parker is embedded within the terrorist's ranks to stop this catastrophic disaster. But with a nuclear core on its way to the U.S., Parker will go to any lengths to stop a biological terror more lethal than anything the USA — and the world — has ever faced.

        

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
Publisher:

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.

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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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.

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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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.

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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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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