The Devil's Violin by Art Johnson is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Devil's Violin by Art Johnson as today's third free mystery ebook (A Suspense Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, May 01, 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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The Devil's Violin
Art Johnson
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Story Merchant Books

The world's most prized violin becomes the centerpiece of intrigue as FBI Special Investigator Chris Clarke and his partner Carlos "Chubbs" Gonzales weave their way through a maze containing a notorious assassin, Illuminati, secret documents, a master violin forger and his deceptive and charismatic daughter, a Hollywood film producer and one of L.A.'s finest and most neurotic sneak-thieves.

The chase across two continents resolves in an art gallery in the South of France for a shocker of an ending.

FBI Special Investigator Chris Clarke doesn't like "… anything or anyone" in his way while working a case. In his seventeen years with the Bureau, he has dealt with everything from retrieving stolen works of art to tackling some of the world's biggest scumbags.

With his diverse background of art evaluation and Desert Storm duty, Chris Clarke is ready for all comers. Only one fugitive haunts his thoughts: the notorious and ruthless assassin known only as "The Man in Black", whose trail of contract killings had never led law enforcement to anything but a figure lurking in the shadows.

One morning in August 2010, "The Man in Black" suddenly popped up, seen by witnesses in Cremona, Italy to have been in the area where a young violinist was found dead with his throat cut. Chris Clarke and Gonzales head off to Europe to track down the assassin while attempting to decode the mystery that lies behind the motive.

Weeks before, Hollywood movie-mogul Max Pendleton, who loves fine works of art, no matter how they are acquired, hires veteran sneak-thief Gus Edward Happy to fly to Europe and steal the most valuable violin in existence — the famed violin coveted by the Jimi Hendrix of the nineteenth century, Niccolo Paganini — thought to be in league with the devil because his genius was unexplainable in earthly terms.

Through a tangled web involving Illuminati, secret documents in the possession of Paganini at his death, a master violin forger and his deceptive daughter, thieves, and assassins, Clarke faces the challenge of his career as he and his partner Gonzales move across Italy to the South of France where pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place with the Devil's Violin center stage, leading to a rapid-fire conclusion.

  

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Common Enemy by Sandra Dailey is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Common Enemy by Sandra Dailey as today's second free mystery ebook (A Suspense Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, May 01, 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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Common Enemy
Sandra Dailey
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Jordan Holbrook is the single mother of a five-year-old daughter. She's just inherited her grandmother's house in South Florida where she's hiding from an abusive ex-husband who's been released from prison early. A new man in her life isn't part of her plans.

Connor McCrae is a handyman who lives out of his van. He walked away from a privileged life and loving family after being badly scarred in a vicious attack. He doesn't believe a woman's love is in the cards for him.

They are brought together by a rundown house, a mutual attraction, and a common enemy: Bobby Ray Butler, who is cutting a path of murder and mayhem through south Florida in his quest for vengeance against his ex-wife.

Can Connor protect Jordan and her daughter from the enraged Bobby Ray? Can Jordan learn to trust men again? If anyone has a say in this — it's Connor.

  

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Last Act of All by Aline Templeton is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Last Act of All by Aline Templeton as today's free mystery ebook (A Crime Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, May 01, 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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Last Act of All
Aline Templeton
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Endeavour Press

Ugly, remote and inbred, the village of Radnesfield in the Fens has lived with its secrets for centuries. Inevitably, its inhabitants greet the intrusion of television soap star Neville Fielding and his wife Helena with deep suspicion. But no one anticipates the storm that will cause havoc in this small, rural community.

Driven by Neville's brutal philandering, Helena divorces him and remarries into one of Radnesfield's oldest families. When Neville is murdered she is caught out in a string of lies and confesses to the killing. But Detective Sergeant Frances Howarth is haunted by a nagging fear for Helena's own safety.

With her release from prison the storm breaks, and Radnesfield's diseased heart is shockingly exposed … and the last act of all is more shocking than anyone could have imagined.

  

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Corrupt Practices by Robert Rotstein is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Corrupt Practices by Robert Rotstein as today's Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, May 01, 2014.

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

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Corrupt Practices
Robert Rotstein
A Parker Stern Legal Thriller
Seventh Street Books

Parker Stern's legal career is on the rise. But when his mentor Harmon Cherry commits suicide, Parker gets stage fright so severe that he becomes paralyzed whenever he steps into a courtroom.

Rich Baxter, an ex-colleague, calls from jail and asks Parker to represent him. Baxter has been charged with embezzling millions from his church, a powerful cult that Parker despises. At their first meeting, Baxter surprises Parker by claiming that Harmon Cherry did not commit suicide, but was murdered by someone connected to the church. Parker doesn't believe it until Baxter is found hanging in his cell. Ultimately, Parker agrees to represent Baxter's father in a lawsuit brought by the church.

In the process of representing his client and uncovering the truths behind the deaths of his friends, Parker must overcome his own long-buried secrets and deep-seated fears.

    

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The Night Prowler Series by J. T. Geissinger is Today's Fantasy Suspense Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Night Prowler Series by J. T. Geissinger as today's Fantasy Suspense Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Thursday, May 01, 2014. We're hightlighting the first book in the series, below.

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Shadow's Edge
J. T. Geissinger
The Night Prowler Series
Montlake Romance

Deep within the primeval forests of southern England, a race of beautiful, savage shape-shifters lives hidden from the everyday world. Bound together by ancient bloodlines and a ruthless code of secrecy that punishes traitors with death, the Ikati send their leader Leander on a mission to capture one raised outside the tribe before she can expose their secret. When Leander tracks the unsuspecting outsider to Southern California, the hardened warrior is prepared for a fight — but not for the effect the sensual young beauty has on his heart.

Jenna spent her childhood in hiding, on the run from someone — or something — her parents refused to discuss. She trusts no one, not since her father's mysterious disappearance, not since her mother's sudden death, and definitely not since she began exhibiting strange, superhuman abilities. When handsome, enigmatic Leander appears, promising answers to the mysteries that shroud her past, she knows she shouldn't trust him either. But their connection is undeniable, and as powerful as the enemy hell-bent on destroying every one of their kind …

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140501)

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

• The New Release is Demon Hunter: Chronicles from Beyond — The Untold Story.

• The current Catch of the Week is Mysteries of the Mind: Coma, just $2.99 through Sunday, May 04, 2014 only.

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

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The New Release today is Demon Hunter: Chronicles from Beyond — The Untold Story

The late Professor Ashmore was as brilliant as he was kind. After taking you in as a child, the professor raised you as his own on Iowa Island. After having been away from the Island for years, you find that you've been overwhelmed by an ominous feeling that the professor is dead. The newspaper confirms this uneasy feeling, but no one has been able to determine how it happened. It's up to you to return to the island and find who's responsible for this terrible crime. Uncover the secrets of your supernatural past.

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

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The current Catch of the Week is Mysteries of the Mind: Coma

Everyone deserves a second chance. You've been in an accident and are fighting your way out of a coma. Inside your mind, you must explore your deepest memories in order to right the past and set yourself free. First you'll go back to visit your mother, with whom you were estranged before she died. Now's your chance to uncover the mystery of your rift and show her what she meant to you. Explore nostalgic locations and meet other people from your past in this moving, dramatic hidden-object puzzle adventure game. There's also a guiding spirit whose true identity is yours to uncover. What happened all those years ago when your family was changed forever? The thing that really keeps you trapped might surprise you.

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, May 04, 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.

New from Endeavour Press: Making a Killing by J. M. Gregson

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.

We've selected one of their recently published mystery, suspense, thriller or crime titles to feature here today …

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Making a Killing by J. M. Gregson
A Lambert and Hook Mystery
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Publication Date: April 28, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 04/30/14 5:30 PM ET)

Lydon Hall is, as the estate agent's brochure puts it, a house full of character. But its many interesting features should surely not include a corpse in the elegant drawing-room? Is this death the suicide it appears to be?

Superintendent John Lambert and Sergeant Bert Hook are brought in to investigate the tight-knit village community which houses Lydon hall. And everyone one they meet seems suspicious.

From the glamorous French widow of the deceased to the man living rough on the moor they all seem to know more about this death than is at first apparent. Moreover, it gradually emerges that the staff of the estate agency he owned all had their different reasons for disliking the dead man …

First published by Collins Crime in 1991, this book's original title is For Sale — With Corpse.

  

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Borderlands, A Benedict Devlin Mystery by Brian McGilloway, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Borderlands by Brian McGilloway, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Minotaur Books.

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 (04/30/2014 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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Borderlands by Brian McGilloway
A Benedict Devlin Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books

Winter 2002. The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone-Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the Borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation. The only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl's finger and an old photograph, left where she died.

While Devlin searches for the girl's killer, her father has his own ideas about who is responsible — and his own ideas about how to make them pay. Meanwhile, Devlin becomes reacquainted with an old flame eager to rekindle their affair.

Then another teenager is murdered, and Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings and the disappearance of a prostitute twenty-five years earlier — a case in which he fears one of his own colleagues is implicated. As a thickening snow storm blurs the border between North and South, Devlin finds the distinction between right and wrong, vengeance and justice, and even police officer and criminal becoming equally unclear.

  

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A New MystereBook: Deadly Arrangements by Annie Adams

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 …

Deadly Arrangements by Annie Adams is the second mystery in this cozy Flower Shop series featuring florist Quincy McKay.

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Deadly Arrangements by Annie Adams
A Quincy McKay, Flower Shop Mystery
Publisher: Annie Whittaker
Publication Date: April 28, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 04/30/14 4:30 PM ET)

Planning a wedding can be murder …

All florist Quincy McKay wants is success in business, a happy family and the perfect romance with Alex Cooper, the hottest cop in the state. Not necessarily in that order, of course. Is that so much to ask?

The trouble is, between Alex's job and planning weddings, it's getting harder and harder for Quincy and Alex to find any time to themselves. Every time the flames of passion ignite between them, someone or something shows up to fizzle the fire, including her meddling mother, her formerly absent father and even Elma, the handsiest waitress in the West.

Wedded bliss is contagious in small town Hillside. Should be great news for Quincy, except that one groom is missing and another is the prime suspect. Hard for a florist to make a living that way, and even harder for her to stay out of the investigation, especially when the suspect is her sidekick, K.C.'s fiancé.

Just when she thinks nothing else could go wrong, a ghost from Alex's past comes back to haunt them both, which could keep them apart forever, if someone doesn't kill Quincy first. She's stumbled into the clues to solve the case of the missing groom and finds a corpse as well, proving that planning a wedding can literally be murder.

  

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The Case of the Perjured Parrot, A Perry Mason Novel by Erle Stanley Gardner: Amazon's The Big Deal Promotion

Every so often Amazon releases a new selection of Kindle books priced up to 85% off as part of The Big Deal Promotion.

Today's featured mystery, suspense, or thriller title is The Case of the Perjured Parrot by Erle Stanley Gardner. This Kindle book was listed at $0.99 as of the date and time of this post, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 4:00 PM ET, and should be available at this price through Sunday, May 11, 2014.

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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The Case of the Perjured Parrot by Erle Stanley Gardner
A Perry Mason Novel
Publisher: Della Street Press

Did Wealthy Fremont Sabin divorce his wife before his untimely death? That's the multimillion-dollar question. And the right answer will mean a windfall for either the deal man's angry son or headstrong widow. Each has accused the other of destroying Sabin's will — and murdering Sabin. But with no document declaring to whom the affable eccentric intended to leave his fortune, Perry Mason faces a prickly puzzle.

Even more puzzling, however, is the talking parrot. Casanova was Fremon Sabin's beloved pet. But the bird found at the crime scene proves to be a foul-mouthed impostor. Suffice it to say that more than a few feathers will be ruffled as Mason sets out to clip a clever killer's wings.

  

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A New The Hardy Boys: The Secret Files Mystery: Fossil Frenzy by Franklin W. Dixon

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new First Clues: Mysteries for Kids books: Fossil Frenzy by Franklin W. Dixon, a The Hardy Boys: The Secret Files Mystery.

For more information about the book, which is recommended for readers aged 7 to 9, see a synopsis, below.

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Fossil Frenzy by Franklin W. Dixon
Series: The Hardy Boys: The Secret Files
Publisher: Aladdin
Format(s): Paperback, eBook

A missing dinosaur tooth makes for a massive investigation …

Frank and Joe are excited for their field trip to the Bayport Museum of Natural History with their science club. Not only will they get to see some awesome dinosaur skeletons on display, but they also get to go on their very own fossil dig on the museum grounds.

At the dig, fellow classmate Tico uncovers an old dinosaur tooth — even though Tico's biggest competition in the club, Aisha, claims she found it first. And when Tico realizes his tooth is missing — a tooth that turns out to be immensely valuable — all signs point to Aisha. But is she really the culprit? It's up to Frank and Joe to dig deep for the answers in a case that is bigger than they ever imagined!

        

New from Endeavour Press: Unfaithful Servant by Timothy Harris

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.

We've selected one of their recently published mystery, suspense, thriller or crime titles to feature here today …

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Unfaithful Servant by Timothy Harris
A Thomas Kyd Thriller
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Publication Date: April 29, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 04/30/14 3:00 PM ET)

In twenty-first century L.A, the truth is always more interesting than tabloid gossip. But when 14-year-old Hugo Vine tries to hire private-eye Thomas Kyd, Thomas is not sure he wants know the truth about the famous Vine family.

A recovering alcoholic still haunted by a terrible crime he committed in Vietnam involving a child, Kyd refuses to work for a minor who is apparently mentally unbalanced. Months later, Hugo's mother, Sally, hires Kyd against his will to keep a close watch on Hugo. Thrown together with the boy on a daily basis, Kyd discovers Hugo's life is haunted by the possibility his real father was murdered by the man who replaced him. Even worse, Hugo's own mother may have played a role in his death.

Kyd must test the limits of his own courage and humanity to save Hugo from the deadly web in which he's been caught. And he must resolve to be an unfaithful servant.

  

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Desperate by Daniel Palmer, New in Bookstores in April 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during April 2014 by Kensington, is Desperate by Daniel Palmer.

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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Desperate
Daniel Palmer

Gage Dekker still blames himself for the car accident that claimed the lives of his first wife and young son. Then he meets Anna, who understands grief all too well. Within a year, Gage and Anna are married, his career is thriving, and both feel ready to become parents once more.

After a heartbreaking miscarriage, they begin the long adoption process, until fate brings Lily into their lives. Young, pregnant, and homeless, Lily agrees to give her baby to Gage and Anna in exchange for financial support. It's the perfect arrangement for everyone. Seeing his wife's happiness and optimism for their new life and child, Gage begins to feel a sense of hope he thought he'd lost forever.

But something isn't right once Lily enters their lives. At work and at home, Gage is being sabotaged, first in subtle ways, then things take a more sinister turn. Every attempt he makes to uncover the truth only drives a wedge between him and Anna. Even as he's propelled toward an unthinkable choice to save his marriage and his job, Gage discovers that the most chilling revelations are still to come …

        

Sleep Tight, A Suspense Thriller by Rachel Abbott: Amazon's The Big Deal Promotion

Every so often Amazon releases a new selection of Kindle books priced up to 85% off as part of The Big Deal Promotion.

Today's featured mystery, suspense, or thriller title is Sleep Tight by Rachel Abbott. This Kindle book was listed at $0.99 as of the date and time of this post, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 2:00 PM ET, and should be available at this price through Sunday, May 11, 2014.

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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Sleep Tight by Rachel Abbott
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Rachel Abbott

When Olivia Brookes calls the police to report that her husband and children are missing, she believes she will never see them again. She has reason to fear the worst; this isn't the first tragedy that Olivia has experienced. Now, two years later, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Douglas is called in to investigate this family again, but this time it's Olivia who has disappeared. All the evidence suggests that she was here, in the family home, that morning.

But her car is in the garage, and her purse is in her handbag — on the kitchen table. The police want to issue an appeal, but for some reason every single picture of this family has been removed from albums, from phones, from computers.

And then they find the blood. Has the past caught up with Olivia?

  

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New from Endeavour Press: The Secret Houses by John Gardner

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.

We've selected one of their recently published mystery, suspense, thriller or crime titles to feature here today …

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The Secret Houses by John Gardner
A Spy Thriller
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Publication Date: April 29, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 04/30/14 1:30 PM ET)

Two families — the Railtons in Britain and the Farthings in America — are at the heart of a titanic political struggle, their fates intertwined in the secret world of Intelligence by blood, love, loyalty and betrayal.

The British Secret Intelligence Service and the American Office of Strategic Services are locked in a desperate struggle to destroy the war machine that threatens the future of the world — and once again the Railtons and the Farthings are drawn into the secret struggle.

Both families are intimately concerned in the fate of the Tarot resistance network, operated by Caspar Railton under the nose of the ruthless SS officer Hans-Dieter Klaubert, known as the Devil of Orléans. Caspar has recruited his nieces Caroline and Jo-Jo as undercover agents in France, and their disappearance coincided with the break-up of Tarot.

This sequel to The Secret Generations was first published in 1987.

  

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