Amber Nine by John Gardner is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Amber Nine by John Gardner as today's second free mystery ebook (A Boysie Oakes Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 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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Amber Nine
John Gardner
A Boysie Oakes Thriller
Publisher: Endeavour Press

Just when Boysie Oakes thinks he is out of the liquidating business, he finds himself on the sunny shores of Lake Maggiore. His task? To make sure that a Member of Parliament breathes his last breath. But a straightforward mission start to go awry when his mark turns up dead without Boysie lifting a finger. Who killed him? And why?

It is only when he is introduced to a sadistic finishing school, run by the mysterious and dangerous Doctor Klara Thirel, that the mystery starts to unravel. Surrounded by troubled girls galore, including a certain Petronella Witching, Boysie is pulled into the biggest espionage foul-up of the century.

With the help of Petronella, as well as a handful of self-important, and at times incompetent secret agents, Boysie dives into the mysteries behind the dead Member of Parliament, the sexually charged finishing school, and — most of all — who and what is behind the top-secret Amber Nine.

  

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Darkness Once More by Grant Fieldgrove is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Darkness Once More by Grant Fieldgrove as today's free mystery ebook (An Archie Lemons Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 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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Darkness Once More
Grant Fieldgrove
An Archie Lemons Mystery
Publisher: Grant Fieldgrove

Recently widowed private eye, Full House superfan and go-to guy for all random pop culture questions long past their sell-by date, Archie Lemons starts his first case since his finding his wife murdered in their home.

Will this case help snap him from his reverie or will it prove to be his final undoing?

  

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Mission to Paris by Alan Furst is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Mission to Paris by Alan Furst as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, April 08, 2014.

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

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Mission to Paris
Alan Furst
The Night Soldiers Series
Random House

Late summer, 1938. Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie. The Nazis know he's coming — a secret bureau within the Reich has been waging political warfare against France, and for their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence.

What they don't know is that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an informal spy service run out of the American embassy.

    

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The Bone Secrets Series is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Bone Secrets Series as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Tuesday, April 08, 2014. We're hightlighting the first in the series, below.

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Hidden
Kendra Elliot
The Bone Secrets Series
Montlake Romance

Eleven years ago, the Co-ed Slayer murdered nine female students on the Oregon State University campus. Lacey Campbell barely escaped his attack, but lost her best friend whose remains were never found. As the sole surviving victim, Lacey helped send the sadistic serial killer to prison for life.

Now a forensic odontologist examining teeth and bones for the state Medical Examiner, Lacey is devastated when she arrives at a crime scene and identifies the skeletal remains as her college friend's.

The remains are discovered on the land of ex-cop Jack Harper. Sparks fly between him and Lacey, even as they realize that the prosecution's witnesses from a decade ago are now being murdered one by one. All the evidence points to the Co-ed Slayer as the culprit — only, he's long since dead. So who's the new killer? And is Lacey next in line to die?

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140408)

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

• Our Featured Title is Final Cut: Encore.

• The current Catch of the Week is Twilight Phenomena: The Lodgers of House 13, just $2.99 through Sunday, April 14, 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: Encore

Your murderous half-sister has escaped, and you've got the last piece of your father's treacherous film projector. The breakout success story returns for an encore as you uncover the truth about your father's dark secrets and find out who's really behind his death and 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 Twilight Phenomena: The Lodgers of House 13

It is 1980s England and there's a beautiful 3-floor mansion in the shade of branchy trees. With a friendly landlord and inexpensive rent, most people would envy those who live here. But bloody things are happening inside of this house. Guests are beheaded, and with every new victim humankind is getting closer to meeting a horrible monster. Is there anyone to prevent this nightmare?

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, April 14, 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.

Nominees for the 2014 Thriller Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2014 Thriller Awards have been announced by the International Thriller Writers organization. The winners will be announced at ThrillerFest IX on July 12th, 2014 in New York City.

Best Novel Nominees …
• Her Last Breath by Linda Castillo (Minotaur Books)
• Never Go Back by Lee Child (Delacorte Press)
• Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner (Dutton)
• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (Scribner)
• Criminal Enterprise by Owen Laukkanen (Putnam)
• White Fire by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central)
• The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper (Simon & Schuster)

Best First Novel Nominees …
• Montana by Gwen Florio (Permanent Press)
• Resolve by J. J. Hensley (Permanent Press)
• Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman (Minotaur Books)
• Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews (Scribner)
• The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton (Minotaur Books)
• Out of Range by Hank Steinberg (William Morrow)
• The Intercept by Dick Wolf (Harper)

Best Paperback Original Nominees …
• Cold Snap by Allison Brennan (Minotaur Books)
• Buried by Kendra Elliot (Montlake Romance)
• His Majesty's Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal (Bantam)
• The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon (William Morrow)
• Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus (Minotaur Books)
• Deadly Harvest by Michael Stanley (Harper)

Best Short Story Nominees …
• "Baggage of Eternal Night" by Eric Guignard (JournalStone)
• "Waco 1982" by Laura Lippman (Grand Central)
• "The Gallows Bird" by Kevin Mims (Ellery Queen)
• "Footprints in the Water" by Twist Phelan (Ellery Queen)
• "Doloroso" by Stephen Vessels (Ellery Queen)

Best Young Adult Nominees …
• The Rules For Disappearing by Ashley Elston (Hyperion)
• Scorched by Mari Mancusi (Sourcebooks Fire)
• Escape from Eden by Elisa Nader (Merit Press)
• All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill (Hyperion)
• I Am The Weapon by Allen Zadoff (Little, Brown)

Best eBook Original Nominees …
• The World Beneath by Rebecca Cantrell (Rebecca Cantrell)
• The Burning Time by J. G. Faherty (JournalStone)
• Terminus by Joshua Graham (Redhaven Books)
• No Dawn For Men by James Lepore and Carlos Davis (The Story Plant)
• Out of Exile by Luke Preston (Momentum)

Review: Distortion by Terri Blackstock

A Mysterious Review of Distortion by Terri Blackstock. A Moonlighters Novel of Suspense.

Review summary: This is a thrilling, suspense-filled story with a cast of very strong, appealing characters, who work together, friends and family, in a time of crisis. The well-crafted plot will draw readers in and keep them guessing as to how it will all turn out. This intense, exceptional novel is highly recommended. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Distortion
Terri Blackstock
A Moonlighters Novel of Suspense
Zondervan (March 2014)

Publisher synopsis: When Juliet Cole's husband of fifteen years is murdered before her eyes, she thinks it was a random shooting. Devastated and traumatized, she answers hours of questioning, then returns home to break the tragic news to her boys. But a threatening voicemail takes this from a random shooting to a planned, deliberate attack.

Juliet realizes that she and her children are in danger too, unless she meets the killers' demands. But as she and her sisters untangle the clues, her husband's dark secrets come to light. The more she learns, the more of her life is dismantled. Was her husband an innocent victim … or a hardened criminal?

        

A New MystereBook: Death of a Princess by T. C. Barnes

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 April 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Death of a Princess by T. C. Barnes is the third book by this author, another foray into the mind of madness, mayhem, and murder.

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Death of a Princess by T. C. Barnes
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: T. C. Barnes
Publication Date: April 06, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 04/07/14 05:30 PM ET)

After barely surviving a vicious attack by Richard Allan Estes, the most sadistic and brilliant serial killer she's ever come across, FBI Profiler Kayleen Archer goes back home again, retreating to the small, rural town in North Carolina that she abandoned long ago. With nothing one and no one left to keep the darkness at bay, she lives in a gray world of fear; her dog, her gun, and a bottomless stash of liquor being the only things to keep her company. As such, she spends her days drinking, and praying that Estes, who remains at large, will not come back to finish the job.

Yet when a little girl goes missing from a local beauty pageant, only to turn up murdered the very next day, Kayleen is called upon to help by someone she had desperately hoped to never see again, the one man she simply cannot refuse — her first love and first loss, Sheriff Caleb Stone.

Although Kayleen wants nothing more than to drown herself and her past in an endless stream of vodka, she soon must face a harshly bitter truth: helping Caleb solve this case just might be the only chance she has to escape the black, gaping chasm into which she's fallen.

But can she give up the solace of her alcohol-induced haze long enough to regain her razor-sharp, intuitive focus? And, if she delves deeply, yet again, into the mind of another monster, will it destroy her as she fears? Or, could it possibly help her break free from the chains of terror and regret once — and finally — for all?

  

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Voice Mail Murder, A Pamela Barnes Mystery by Patricia Rockwell, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Voice Mail Murder by Patricia Rockwell, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Cozy Cat 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 (04/07/2014 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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Voice Mail Murder by Patricia Rockwell
A Pamela Barnes Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Cozy Cat Press

Who stabbed the philandering football coach in the back? Was it one of the three women who left romantic voice mail messages on the cell phone found next to his body in the motel room?

The police don't have a clue. None of the coach's family, friends, or colleagues recognize the voices of the unidentified women — and probable mistresses. Who could they be? This sounds like a case for Pamela Barnes, local Psychology professor, acoustics expert, and sometimes amateur sleuth. Can she identify the three women (and potential murder suspects) from just the sound of their voices on the voice mail?

Who are these mystery women and how did the popular coach manage to conduct affairs with all of them unbeknownst to everyone around him? And how did he keep his trio of lovers from finding out about each other — or did he? It's a tangled romantic web that ultimately led to murder and Pamela Barnes is determined to figure it out.

  

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A New MystereBook: Murder is Elementary by Diane Weiner

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 April 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Murder is Elementary by Diane Weiner is the first mystery in this schoolhouse series and introduces newly retired music teacher Susan Wiles.

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Murder is Elementary by Diane Weiner
A Susan Wiles, Schoolhouse Mystery
Publisher: Cozy Cat Press
Publication Date: April 05, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 04/07/14 4:30 PM ET)

Susan Wiles is blissfully retired from her career as a music teacher. What a joy to be able to attend the holiday concert without worrying about how her chorus will perform. But wait. Where's the principal? Susan offers to check, only to find the principal lying dead on her office floor.

Of course, now that she's retired she has time to help the local police (one of whom is her daughter) solve the mysterious crime. Did the principal die of natural causes? The bruise on her face doesn't seem severe enough to be fatal. What about that funfetti cupcake sitting on her desk? Could she have been poisoned? Susan has just found the perfect retirement activity, much to her daughter's chagrin. And when the principal's teenage daughter, one of Susan's all time favorite students, asks for help — how can she say no?

Little does she realize that this crime will take her far from the schoolhouse doors, as she investigates a mystery that extends back into one family's painful past.

  

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A Kindle Mystery for $1.99: Airtight, An Action Thriller by J. P. Smith

Amazon is offering 80 Kindle Books for $1.99 has part of a promotion that extends until April 16th, 2014.

Most of these 80 books are mystery, thriller or suspense titles, and we are pleased to feature one of them, below.

(Price verified on April 07, 2014 as of 4:00 PM ET.)

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Airtight by J. P. Smith
An Action Thriller
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Nick Copeland has lost his mind only twice in his forty-eight years — once in college on a bad acid trip, and once at this very moment, as the mountain of bills he's been hiding from his family finally topples. But Nick's chance meeting with an old friend, Rob Johnson, pulls on the memory wires. Rob — who's already lost his wife and job — seems resigned to a life of basic cable and Chinese takeout. Suddenly, the answer to their problems arrives: two airtight jars of high-grade heroin they'd buried under the football field of their old college campus.

Returning to the scene of the crime-that-never-happened seems like a cinch — that is, until Nick takes a trip down Memory Lane and a sharp right turn on Law Enforcement Drive. This is not the beads-and-bellbottoms of their youths, but maybe the Stones were right, anyway: you can't always get what you want.

  

A New Eddie Red: Undercover Adventure: Mystery on the Museum Mile by Marcia Wells

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new First Clues: Mysteries for Kids books: Mystery on the Museum Mile by Marcia Wells, a Eddie Red: Undercover Adventure.

For more information about the book, which is recommended for readers aged 10 to 12, see a synopsis, below.

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Mystery on the Museum Mile by Marcia Wells
Series: Eddie Red: Undercover
Publisher: HMH Books
Format(s): Hardcover, eBook

Sixth grader Edmund Xavier Lonnrot, codename "Eddie Red", has a photographic memory and talent for drawing anything he sees.

When the NYPD is stumped by a mastermind art thief, Eddie becomes their secret weapon to solve the case, drawing Eddie deeper into New York's famous Museum Mile and closer to a dangerous criminal group known as The Picasso Gang.

      

Open Road Mysteries for $1.99: A Cool Breeze on the Underground, A Neal Carey Mystery by Don Winslow

Open Road has discounted 25 titles to just $1.99 as part of their Mystery Deals promotion to celebrate the Edgar Awards.

Titles include winners, nominees, books by Grand Masters and those receiving special Edgars, and we are pleased to feature one of them, below.

(Price verified on April 07, 2014 as of 3:00 PM ET.)

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A Cool Breeze on the Underground by Don Winslow
A Neal Carey Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Open Road

Streetwise and book-smart PI Neal Carey pursues a dangerous teenage runaway through London …

Neal Carey is a humble graduate student who dreams of becoming a literature professor. But he's also the employee of the Kitteredges, a secretive New England banking family that knows how to make the embarrassing problems of its most powerful clients disappear. When Allie Chase — the troubled daughter of a U.S. senator and presidential hopeful — falls into drug use and runs away to England, the Kitteredge family calls on Carey to track her down.

The raucous trail leads through London's darkest, dingiest corners as the brilliant and cynical Carey matches wits with his spoiled but precocious quarry.

  

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Playing with Fire by Renee Graziano, New in Bookstores in April 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during April 2014 by Forge Books, is Playing with Fire by Renee Graziano.

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

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Playing with Fire
Renee Graziano

Reign Grazi is no stranger to dangerous men. Her whole life, they've been there. Grandfathers, uncles, cousins … she knows the difference between people who made the rules and those who broke them. But she has no idea why someone might want her dead.

Nick Fattelli is handsome, sophisticated, and … an assassin. He doesn't know who hired him to take out Reign, but after they meet and sparks fly, he vows to protect her. Unless it's really him they are after …