Fox Hunt by James Phelan is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Fox Hunt by James Phelan as today's free mystery ebook (A Lachlan Fox Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 20, 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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Fox Hunt
James Phelan
A Lachlan Fox Thriller
Publisher: Diversion Books

It's hard to bury a past. Lachlan Fox is about to discover it's ever harder to dig it back up.

While most of the world's Intel resources have been tied up in Afghanistan and Iraq, the president of Chechnya has been making plans — and the clock is ticking. A world away, off Christmas Island, ex-navy operative Lachlan Fox is on a diving trip with his best friend, Alister Gammaldi.

From the moment they lift a mysterious metallic object off the sea floor of the Indian Ocean, the two men set in motion a chain of events that will drag them into the corrupt world of international politics and arms races.

  

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The Max Segal Series by Dan Greenburg is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Max Segal Series by Dan Greenburg as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Sunday, April 20, 2014. We're hightlighting the first book in the series, below.

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Love Kills
Dan Greenburg
The Max Segal Series
Thomas & Mercer

The attractive redhead at the A&P checkout counter opens her checkbook and begins writing a check, unaware that she’s signing her own death warrant. The man behind her in the dark overcoat memorizes the address on her check. When she leaves the A&P, he follows her home. In the next few weeks he tracks her every move … and when she rebuffs his advances, he stabs her.

Five women, chosen at random, fall victim to a man the press dubs the Hyena. The NYPD has no leads until young Babette Watson walks into homicide detective Max Segal’s office. She tells him she’s had disturbing visions of all the crimes before they happened. Dubious, Max takes a chance in believing the pretty psychic, and it isn’t long before they’re on the Hyena’s trail. But the Hyena knows they’re tracking him, and it won’t be long before he strikes.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140420)

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

• The New Release is New York Mysteries: Secrets of the Mafia (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is The Secret Order: Masked Intent, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Unfinished Tales: Illicit Love, just $2.99 through Sunday, April 21, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — This weekend only: All Standard and Collector's Edition Games are Half Off! Use coupon code HUNT to get any Collector's Edition game for just $9.99; use coupon code SAVE to get any Standard game for just $4.99. Offer valid through April 20th, 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 New York Mysteries: Secrets of the Mafia (Collector's Edition)

New York, 1955. It's become dangerous in the city. The mafia is trying to seize power. But recently, a new force appeared. A far more terrible force. Over the last few days, five mafia bosses have disappeared in mysterious circumstances. A strange liquid and a butterfly were found at the scenes of the disappearances. But this isn't what scared the citizens … Children started to disappear in the city. All of them drew exactly the same butterflies before they disappeared. This forced detectives and journalists alike to start their investigations.

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: A bonus chapter in the underground city; An integrated strategy guide; Collections, morphing objects, trophies, and bonus puzzles; and Wallpapers, concept art, soundtracks and much more.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is The Secret Order: Masked Intent

Sarah receives shocking news from her father. One of the newest members in the Order of the Griffins has turned traitor, murdering one of the Secret Five, the heads of the Order. What's worse is that very traitor is about to join the Secret Five, and he's wearing a mask that gives him supernatural abilities. Sarah has to race back through time and search for the one artifact that can subdue the mask: a magical scepter. Hop aboard the Royal Griffin and help Sarah unmask the traitor before he destroys the Order in this exhilarating 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 — Sunday, April 20, 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 Unfinished Tales: Illicit Love

Thumbelina had the perfect happy ending, until the Raven Queen crashed her wedding, kidnapping her prince. To make matters worse, the Raven Queen locked her up in a dungeon! Will she be able to escape and rescue her prince before he becomes the Raven King? When you're only a few inches tall, you need all the allies you can get, but beware! Anyone you meet could be a spy working for the Queen! Join Thumbelina as she journeys across the fantastic Kingdom of the Floral Elves in this charming hidden-object puzzle adventure 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, April 21, 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: Waiting for Wednesday by Nicci French

A Mysterious Review of Waiting for Wednesday by Nicci French. A Frieda Klein Mystery.

Review summary: The two primary storylines of this well-structured mystery, while completely separate (and which never overlap), actually work quite well together. It takes a while to set the stage for all that is to come, but once in place and underway it is definitely worth the time spent seeing how it all plays out. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Waiting for Wednesday
Nicci French
A Frieda Klein Mystery
Viking (April 2013)

Publisher synopsis: Ruth Lennox, housewife and mother of three, is found dead in a pool of her own blood. Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson can't piece together a motive and calls in Frieda, hoping her talents will offer a new angle on the case.

When it emerges that the mother was hiding a scandalous secret, her family closes ranks. Frieda herself is distracted, still reeling from an attempt on her life, and struggling with her own rare feelings of vulnerability. Then a patient's chance remark sends Frieda down a dangerous path that seems to lead to a serial killer who's long escaped detection. Is Frieda getting closer to unraveling either case? Or is she just the victim of her own paranoid, fragile mind? Because, as Frieda knows, every step closer to a killer is one more step into a darkness from which there may be no return.

        

Double Espresso, A Loretta Kovacs Mystery by Anthony Bruno, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Double Espresso by Anthony Bruno, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Diversion Books.

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 (04/19/2014 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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Double Espresso by Anthony Bruno
A Loretta Kovacs Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Diversion Books

Loretta Kovacs races to keep one hitman from killing another. The intended victim is a valuable government witness against the mob, and a dirty FBI agent is helping the bad guys.

Loretta must fend off the advances of an amorous mob boss while babysitting the cantankerous witness in Seattle — Java City — as she desperately struggles to kick her caffeine habit.

  

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A New MystereBook: Gone and Done It by Maggie Toussaint

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 …

Gone and Done It by Maggie Toussaint introduces amateur sleuth Baxley Powell, who's got challenges a-plenty. For starters, she inherited the family trait of dreamwalking, a talent that she didn't want. But it's growing on her, like the odd white streak in her forelock now that she's come into her full power.

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Gone and Done It by Maggie Toussaint
A Baxley Powell, Dreamwalker Mystery
Publisher: Five Star
Publication Date: April 18, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 04/19/14 4:30 PM ET)

While planting a cherry tree, landscaper Baxley Powell discovers a human skull buried in the sand. After calling the sheriff, Baxley uses her dreamwalking abilities to get a jump-start on identifying the victim. Then deputies arrive, and, believing she's tampering with evidence, taser her. Emotions flare, but the sheriff agrees to hire her as a consultant. With a daughter to support and bills she can't pay, Baxley is motivated to succeed.

Things get dicey when she unearths a murder victim on the same jobsite, planting Baxley in the suspect pool. For calling unwanted attention to her private retreat, Baxley's landscaping client fires her, stiffing her for the plants and labor.

Meanwhile, her father retires as county dreamwalker, passing the community service responsibility along to her.

Baxley's dreamwalking sideline competes for her time with her day jobs of landscaping and pet-sitting. Folks show up on her doorstep at all hours to pass messages to the departed. Though her money problems persist, food randomly appears at her door, and her hair develops a telltale white streak in the forelock overnight.

Just what every young woman wants, a permanent bad hair day.

Threats to her safety mount as Baxley delves into the victim's life — in both worlds. With a killer dogging her heels and spirits nipping at her mind, Baxley follows her dreams to find the truth.

  

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Mr. Tea and the Traveling Teacup, A Madeline's Teahouse Mystery by Leslie Matthews Stansfield, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Mr. Tea and the Traveling Teacup by Leslie Matthews Stansfield, 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 (04/19/2014 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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Mr. Tea and the Traveling Teacup by Leslie Matthews Stansfield
A Madeline's Teahouse Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Cozy Cat Press

After the death of their mother, sisters Terry and Karen Sutter turn their childhood home into a teahouse. It's a dream come true, but the dream begins to resemble a nightmare when teacups start crashing to the floor in the middle of the night. Could the teahouse be haunted?

There's a list of possible ghostly candidates: the prior owner who is rumored to have left behind a buried treasure, two spinster neighbors who disappeared without a trace over forty years ago, or perhaps it is Terry and Karen's own mother trying to communicate with them. Karen, the older sister, thinks running a haunted teahouse might be fun, until the sisters come home one night to find the attic stairs covered in a trail of what appears to be blood. Is it a ghost or is it a warning?

The teahouse's new mascot, a psychic macaw, may provide some unexpected clues, but the sisters will encounter many more surprises before they solve this mystery.

  

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Ghost of a Gamble by Sue Ann Jaffarian, New in Bookstores in April 2014

Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during April 2014 by Berkley Prime Crime, is Ghost of a Gamble by Sue Ann Jaffarian.

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

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Ghost of a Gamble
Sue Ann Jaffarian
Series: A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery

Spiritual medium Emma Whitecastle knows a good ghost when she feels one — like her own sweet Granny Apples, long gone but still as famous for her apple pies as she is for helping her great-great-great-granddaughter get to the core of the most baffling mysteries …

When Emma gets word of a sticky spirit problem in Las Vegas, she and the ghost of Granny Apples hit the road for Sin City. The spooked one is Dolly, a former showgirl. Dolly is haunted by Lenny, a dead Vegas hood worried about an aging mobster named Nemo coming after the leggy old bombshell. Dolly's playing dumb, but Emma's making a blind bet that she knows more about Nemo than she admits.

When Nemo is found dead, Dolly goes missing — and lands herself on a short list of suspects. Emma, Granny, and their pals comb Las Vegas to find her, only to discover the truth behind a casino heist gone bad, a hidden stash of stolen loot, and a missing wise guy who's not letting death come between him and setting things straight. And Emma and Granny Apples aren't about to fold until they save Dolly's neck and put her past to rest.

        

Open Road Mysteries for $1.99: Whiskey River, A Detroit Crime Novel by Loren D. Estleman

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 19, 2014 as of 3:00 PM ET.)

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Whiskey River by Loren D. Estleman
A Detroit Crime Novel (1st in series)
Publisher: Open Road

In the throes of Prohibition-era Detroit, one reporter follows the gripping and violent life of a man who helped keep the booze flowing …

Like nowhere else in America, Detroit flourished during Prohibition. The constant flow of liquor from across the Canadian border made Lake Erie a war zone, and lined the pockets of the men who ran the Purple Gang, the Unione Siciliana, and the Little Jewish Navy. As the mob bosses got rich, they mingled with the upper crust like never before. But Prohibition was more than just a boon for gangsters. For newspapermen, it was a dream come true.

It's 1928, and the Detroit Times' Connie Minor knows every thug, moll, and triggerman south of Eight Mile. He's drinking rotgut whiskey in a speakeasy on Vernor when he meets Jack Dance for the first time, and watches as the preening young hothead joins Joey Machine's mob. Over the next few years, the two mobsters will fight a battle for the soul of Detroit's underground, and Connie Minor will be there to cover every shot.

  

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The Target by David Baldacci, New in Bookstores in April 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during April 2014 by Grand Central, is The Target by David Baldacci.

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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The Target
David Baldacci
Series: Will Robie (3rd)

The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel.

Together, Robie and Reel's talents as assassins are unmatched. But there are some in power who don't trust the pair. They doubt their willingness to follow orders. And they will do anything to see that the two assassins succeed, but that they do not survive.

As they prepare for their mission, Reel faces a personal crisis that could well lead old enemies right to her doorstep, resurrecting the ghosts of her earlier life and bringing stark danger to all those close to her. And all the while, Robie and Reel are stalked by a new adversary: an unknown and unlikely assassin, a woman who has trained her entire life to kill, and who has her own list of targets — a list that includes Will Robie and Jessica Reel.

        

Murder In Thrall, A New Scotland Yard Mystery by Anne Cleeland, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder In Thrall by Anne Cleeland, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Kensington.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (04/19/2014 at 2:00 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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Murder In Thrall by Anne Cleeland
A New Scotland Yard Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Kensington

Can London's most elusive killer elude the keen minds of Scotland Yard's most unlikely pair of detectives?

An Irish redhead of humble beginnings and modest means, Kathleen Doyle is the antithesis of Chief Inspector Michael Sinclair, Lord Acton, the brilliant but enigmatic lord with a knack for solving London's most high profile homicides. When a horse trainer is found dead at a racetrack, the duo's investigation does little to deter the killer, who continues to strike, leaving them with more questions than answers. Jeopardizing the case are their colleagues at CID headquarters, whose nosing into the nature of Doyle and Acton's after hours relationship threatens to lay bare the most classified information of all.

As the murders pile up, Doyle and Acton uncover something far more sinisiter than they could have imagined. Now that they know too much, their partnership could be very brief indeed …

  

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New from Harlequin Intrigue: Primal Instinct by Janie Crouch

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

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Primal Instinct by Janie Crouch
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin Intrigue
Publication Date: April 01, 2014
List Price: $4.99 (ebook), $5.50 (paperback)

A killer stalks the city streets, and one FBI agent is determined to bring him down …

On the crowded streets of San Francisco, a serial killer watches and waits. Known only as "Simon Says", he lures his next victim while the FBI grasps for answers. Desperate, they turn to Adrienne Jeffries. Adrienne has an uncanny talent for getting inside the city's most dangerous minds. But first she'll have to get past FBI agent Conner Perigo.

Skeptical of Adrienne's abilities, Conner begrudgingly enlists her help … ;unprepared for the powerful attraction that could jeopardize their focus. With little time, and everything to lose, they must work to find Simon's next victim — before he does.

  

Of Grave Concern, An Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery by Max McCoy, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Of Grave Concern by Max McCoy, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Kensington.

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 (04/19/2014 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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Of Grave Concern by Max McCoy
An Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Kensington

In the Old West, legends die hard — and so do witnesses. But that won't stop psychic-turned-detective Ophelia Wylde from finding fresh graves, digging up clues, and catching wanted criminals — with a little help from the dead …

The Civil War is over, and many a young widow has turned to spiritualism to contact their husbands on "the other side." But Ophelia Wylde won't be fooled twice. After wasting her money on a phoney psychic, she decides if she can't beat 'em, join 'em. She leaves New Orleans and heads West, selling her services as a spiritual medium who speaks to the dead.

By the time she reaches Dodge City, business is booming. Except for a handsome but skeptical bounty hunter named Jack Calder, no one suspects Ophelia of running a con game — until an unfortunate "reading" of a girl who's still living exposes her to a townfull of angry customers. As punishment, the mob drags Ophelia to Boot Hill and buries her alive in a fresh grave overnight. That's when the dead start speaking. To her. For real. And for dead people, they've got lots to say …

  

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