Nine "Burglar" Mysteries by Lawrence Block is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Nine "Burglar" Mysteries by Lawrence Block as today's Kindle Daily Deal. We're highlighting one of the titles, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, below.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Tuesday, March 11, 2014.

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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
Lawrence Block
A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery
HarperCollins

Winner of the 1979 Nero Award.

Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone legit — almost — as the new owner of a used bookstore in New York's Greenwich Village. Of course, dusty old tomes don't always turn a profit, so to make ends meet, Bernie's forced, on occasion, to indulge in his previous occupation: burglary. Besides which, he likes it.

Now a collector is offering Bernie an opportunity to combine his twin passions by stealing a very rare and very bad book-length poem from a rich man's library.

The heist goes off without a hitch. The delivery of the ill-gotten volume, however, is a different story. Drugged by the client's female go-between, Bernie wakes up in her apartment to find the book gone, the lady dead, a smoking gun in his hand, and the cops at the door. And suddenly he's got to extricate himself from a rather sticky real-life murder mystery and find a killer — before he's booked for Murder One.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140311)

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

• Our Featured Title is Art of Murder: Secret Files.

• The Daily Deal is Amaranthine Voyage: The Tree of Life, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Cursed Wedding, just $2.99 through Sunday, March 16, 2014 only.

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

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Our Featured Title today is Art of Murder: Secret Files

Crack another case with Nicole Bonnet and help the DEA bring down an evil Mexican drug cartel! DEA Specialist Professor J. Brenner has been kidnapped by the cartel, and an undercover Special Agent has been murdered! Identify the criminals as you use your wits to save Brenner in this exciting Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game!

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

Also available for this game:

• Check out the Blog Walkthrough

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Today's Daily Deal is Amaranthine Voyage: The Tree of Life

During your career as an archaeologist, you firmly believed that the Tree of Life was simply a myth. However, once you uncover a magical artifact, you open brand new worlds of possibility. You're whisked away to a lush world that is slowly being poisoned by a mysterious dark force. Your artifact is the key to restoring this beautiful world, but dark forces stand in your way. Protect the artifact and save this dying world in this thrilling Hidden-Object Puzzle Adventure game.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Tuesday, March 11, 2014 — for $2.99.

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 Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Cursed Wedding

After being called to Paris to help your friend Veronica, you find yourself in the middle of a shocking mystery. The ancient werewolf Mephistus has appeared in town seeking revenge on Veronica and her fiancé just days before their wedding. Explore the gorgeous streets of Paris as you uncover the truth behind the ancient werewolf curse in this thrilling Hidden Object game!

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 16, 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.

Review: Cockroaches by Jo Nesbø

A Mysterious Review of Cockroaches by Jo Nesbø. A Harry Hole Mystery.

Review summary: One of the strengths of this crime novel is that a murder investigation takes a number of credible turns, all leading down pathways that may or may not be the right one. And while there is some lack of character definition and development, the primary plot is so strong, the mystery so well devised, that this minor flaw is readily forgiven. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Cockroaches
Jo Nesbø
A Harry Hole Mystery
Vintage Crime (February 2014)

Publisher synopsis: When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case.

But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise, Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, trying to piece together the story of the ambassador's death even though no one asked him to, and no one wants him to — not even Harry himself.

        

Iced To Death by Peg Cochran, New in Bookstores in March 2014

Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during March 2014 by Berkley Prime Crime, is Iced To Death by Peg Cochran.

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

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Iced To Death
Peg Cochran
Series: A Gigi Fitzgerald, Gourmet De-Lite Mystery

Gigi Fitzgerald, owner of Gigi's Gourmet De-Lite, knows how to put her clients' cravings on ice. But catching a slippery killer is more of a challenge …

Gigi's business may be hot, but her home life is leaving her cold. Her sister, Pia, has dropped in for an unannounced visit and, much to Gigi's chagrin, has immediately fallen for handsome bar owner Declan McQuaid. So when Declan asks Gigi to help him prep for a big engagement party, she's not only dealing with the heat of the kitchen and her own feelings for Declan, but Pia's jealousy.

However, Gigi's rising temperature quickly chills when the host of the party is found stabbed to death with an ice pick in back of the pub. Now, as Gigi's beau, Detective Mertz, hones in on Declan as a possible murderer, Gigi will have to shave down the growing list of suspects quickly, before Pia's newfound love interest finds himself locked in the cooler …

        

A Prayer for the Dying, A Martin Fallon Thriller by Jack Higgins, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Prayer for the Dying by Jack Higgins, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Open Road.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/10/2014 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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A Prayer for the Dying by Jack Higgins
A Martin Fallon Thriller
Publisher: Open Road

An ex-IRA soldier must save a priest targeted for elimination to gain absolution for his violent past …

Everyone has demons to overcome, but Martin Fallon has more than most. A ruthless hitman and executioner for the IRA, Fallon is haunted by a mistake that led to the explosion of a school bus full of children.

When he's threatened by the sadistic Meehan brothers, Fallon must agree to one last hit. But this time there's a witness: a priest named Father De Costa. And when everyone else wants the Father dead, Fallon is determined to protect him, to earn redemption from his life of crime and forgiveness for the blood on his hands.

        

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Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer, New in Bookstores in March 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during March 2014 by St. Martin's Press, is Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer.

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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Be Careful What You Wish For
Jeffrey Archer
Series: The Clifton Chronicles (4th)

When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham.

Back in London, Harry and Emma's adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with a fellow student, Clive Bingham, who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until Priscilla Bingham, Jessica's future mother-in-law, has a visit from an old friend, Lady Virginia Fenwick, who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice.

Then, without warning, Cedric Hardcastle, a bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before, takes his place on the board of Barringtons. This causes an upheaval that none of them could have anticipated, and will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and Barrington families. Hardcastle's first decision is who to support to become the next chairman of the board: Emma Clifton or Major Alex Fisher?

        

A Kindle Countdown Deal: Fault Tree by Michaela Thompson

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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Fault Tree by Michaela Thompson
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: booksBnimble
Price: $0.99 (as of 03/10/14 02:00 PM ET)

"Placing blame," thinks Marina Robinson, "is my life's work. And why?" There's a lot in her past to account for — nightmares and terrors, crimes and betrayals that happened half a world away, ten years go. Now she's an engineer with a great job. She's a failure analyst, an investigator who figures out what causes accidents, and she's working on her most fascinating case — the fatal crash of a roller coaster — when suddenly the phone rings. And her world tilts …

The elusive, unidentified caller can be only one person — Catherine, her beloved younger sister who supposedly died in a fire ten years ago. Once again — for the moment abandoning her case — Marina is inexorably drawn back to India, the country that seduced her so long ago in so many ways, where something unspeakable happened to a child, and where she herself participated in misdeeds so shocking she can't forgive herself. She starts by tracking Catherine's lost lover, Nagarajan, the irresistibly charismatic guru under whose spell Catherine fell those many years ago, a man so dangerous, so full of hubris he took his name from Indian snake gods, and who at times seemed more serpent than human. But who is also reportedly dea — a suicide in a jail cell.

Thus begins an odyssey of fear and danger — far from dead, Nagarajan seems to be everywhere, and so do his disciples (at least those who haven't gone mad from guilt). Nowhere, it seems, is Marina safe, nor is anyone who knows anything about the young victim of Nagarajan's atrocities. Wherever she turns, the path seems strewn with fresh bodies. And just when the jig seems up, Marina calls on her skills as a failure analyst to pull off a surprise …

  

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Amber Beach, A Novel of Romantic Suspense by Elizabeth Lowell, 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 Amber Beach by Elizabeth Lowell. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, March 10, 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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Amber Beach by Elizabeth Lowell
A Novel of Romantic Suspense
Publisher: HarperCollins

Honor Donovan is a shrewd businesswoman, yet she has been shut out of Donovan International by her father and four brothers. When her favorite brother Kyle vanishes, along with a fortune in stolen amber, Honor's questions are ignored by the Donovan males. Defying them, she heads to the San Juan Islands of the Pacific Northwest in search of answers.

Honor needs a guide because she knows nothing about running a boat — and she knows nothing about Jake Mallory until he answers her ad. One of the things she doesn't know is that Jake is much more than a fishing guide. Until Kyle disappeared, Jake was brokering amber deals in the Baltic for Donovan International. Honor is completely unaware of the old wars, new politics, greed, and stolen amber that have lured ruthless, high-stakes players from around the globe.

Jake wants no part of the intrigue, or of a Donovan woman in his life, but he suspects the Donovans have set him up to take the fall for Kyle's treachery. The way Jake sees it, some Donovan is going to pay for his troubles, and it just may turn out to be Honor.

Jake and Honor cast off on a journeys moldering with distrust, betrayal, vengeance … and temptation. A hunger grows between them that is as dangerous as the secrets they keep. Alone at sea, they pursue the stubborn mystery of the Amber Room, flee from relentless enemies, and fight against trusting each other. Yet when Honor and Jake dare to confide in one another, they face a final truth: the penalty for betrayal is death; the reward is a lifetime …together.

        

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Pious Deception, A Kiernan O'Shaughnessy Mystery by Susan Dunlap, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Pious Deception by Susan Dunlap, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Open Road.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (03/10/2014 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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Pious Deception by Susan Dunlap
A Kiernan O'Shaughnessy Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Open Road

Former medical examiner Kiernan O'Shaughnessy investigates a scandalous suicide in a Catholic church …

Quick-witted, precise, and comfortable with corpses, Kiernan O'Shaughnessy was perfectly suited to life as a medical examiner. In her four years with the coroner's office, she never had one unhappy shift until the day they let her go. Enraged and adrift, she made her way to La Jolla, California, to set up a high-class private investigation service for medically suspicious deaths. She works only the cases she wants, and charges a steep enough fee that she can afford a cherry red Triumph and a former NFL player as a houseman. Her latest client is one of the biggest moneymakers on the planet: the Roman Catholic Church.

A troubled young priest is found hanged in Mission San Leo in Phoenix, Arizona. Hoping to avoid scandal, the bishop bypasses the police, and hires Kiernan to determine whether the death was an accident or a suicide. They ask her to be quiet, but the secrets she uncovers will make her want to sing louder than any church choir.

        

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