Lucky Man by Tony Dunbar is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Lucky Man by Tony Dunbar as today's free mystery ebook (A Tubby Dubonnet Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, May 06, 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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Lucky Man
Tony Dunbar
A Tubby Dubonnet Mystery
Publisher: booksBnimble

It's a city of sin. And murder is only one of them.

New Orleans Attorney Tubby Dubonnet is getting tired of his slow-moving, indolent city — with all its dirt and dancing, its colorful characters and corruption. For Tubby, a change of scenery might be in order, until a moralistic crusading prosecutor tries to destroy the career and reputation of Tubby's favorite judge.

Suddenly Tubby has a good reason to get out of bed in the morning. Because a little matter of office sex has turned into a nasty mystery of murder, rape, and suicide, real and imagined. And with more than a fair share of femmes fatales around him, and some dangerous criminals masquerading as reputable businessmen, Tubby suddenly has a lot more to do than avoid his next bottle and plot his next meal: he needs a lucky break — just to stay alive.

  

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Impact by Douglas Preston is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Impact by Douglas Preston as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, May 06, 2014.

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

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Impact
Douglas Preston
A Wyman Ford Thriller
Forge Books

Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia … to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world.

A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast … and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater.

A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing.

High resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars … and it appears to have been activated.

Sixty hours and counting.

    

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140506)

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

• The New Release is Jane Angel 2: Fallen Heaven.

• The current Catch of the Week is Death Upon an Austrian Sonata: A Dana Knightstone Novel, just $2.99 through Sunday, May 11, 2014 only.

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

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The New Release today is Jane Angel 2: Fallen Heaven

In the next exciting chapter in the Jane Angel series, Jane has mysteriously vanished and it's up to her sister, Nancy to solve the case. However, as Nancy delves deeper into a world of ancient conspiracies and the supernatural, she finds that this mystery isn't so easily solved. Can you help Nancy navigate through history in order to find her sister? Explore a sprawling and vivid world in this supernatural adventure!

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 Death Upon an Austrian Sonata: A Dana Knightstone Novel

Return to Europe in a brand new adventure as Dana Knightstone, the best-selling novelist who can see ghosts. When your cousin, famed musician Sebastian Knightstone, starts hearing eerie violin music in his Austrian manor, he asks for your help to investigate. But you're not the only one digging up the ghost's secrets — and you find yourself falling headlong into danger! Solve challenging puzzles as you trek through snowy Austrian landscapes in search of missing clues. Can you follow the ghost's trail before time runs out?

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 11, 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.

A New MystereBook: Buried Under Clutter by Jan Christensen

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 May 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Buried Under Clutter by Jan Christensen is the 2nd mystery is this series featuring professional organizer Tina Shaw.

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Buried Under Clutter by Jan Christensen
A Tina Tales Mystery
Publisher: Jan Christensen
Publication Date: May 02, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 05/05/14 5:30 PM ET)

Someone screams inside the old, neglected Victorian house next door, and Tina Shaw runs to find out what's wrong. A woman bursts out the door saying her aunt is dead. Murdered. Tina notices that the hallway is piled high with cartons. Later when the woman begs her to help clean up the house, Tina hesitates. She's just begun a career as a professional organizer, though, and her hands itch to start on a new job.

As Tina sifts through the clutter, she finds clues the murdered woman left behind. She learns the woman was rich, and all her relatives are suspects. But when the will is read, Tina and her family also become suspects. After her mother is arrested, Tina begins investigating in earnest with the help of her boyfriend, Hank (the Hunk). Will she find out who the killer is before her own life is put in danger?

  

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Review: Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano

A Mysterious Review of Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano. A Nearly Boswell Mystery.

Review summary: There are several aspects to this mystery that are quite compelling. The science and math clues make for a great puzzle and the whodunit element is very well handled. The lead character is creatively drawn, and should appeal to the intended audience of teen readers. There are a couple of drawbacks to the story, but on balance a very good start to this series. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Nearly Gone
Elle Cosimano
A Nearly Boswell Mystery
Kathy Dawson Books (March 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Nearly Boswell knows how to keep secrets. Living in a DC trailer park, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates. Like her mother's job as an exotic dancer, her obsession with the personal ads, and especially the emotions she can taste when she brushes against someone's skin. But when a serial killer goes on a killing spree and starts attacking students, leaving cryptic ads in the newspaper that only Nearly can decipher, she confides in the one person she shouldn't trust: the new guy at school — a reformed bad boy working undercover for the police, doing surveillance … on her.

Nearly might be the one person who can put all the clues together, and if she doesn't figure it all out soon — she'll be next.

        

A New MystereBook: Homicide in High Heels by Gemma Halliday

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 May 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Homicide in High Heels by Gemma Halliday is the 8th High Heels mystery with fashion designer Maddie Springer.

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Homicide in High Heels by Gemma Halliday
A Maddie Springer, High Heels Mystery
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
Publication Date: May 03, 2014
Price: $4.99 (as of 05/05/14 4:30 PM ET)

It's springtime in California! The flowers are in bloom, the fashion week runways are fierce, and fans of America's favorite pastime are filling the baseball stadiums to root for their favorite team. But when the girlfriend of the L.A. Stars rookie MVP winds up dead at a chic Beverly Hills salon, it's suddenly up to fashion designer Maddie Springer to track down the "Tanning Salon Killer".

Armed with the help of her wacky cast of friends and family, Maddie finds herself with a list of suspects that includes the cast of the reality TV show Baseball Wives, a desperate blackmail victim, and an entire baseball team!

If Maddie can brave the hot dogs and cat fights, she just might be able to catch a killer … before he strikes again!

  

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Fatal Decree, A Matt Royal Mystery by H. Terrell Griffin: 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 Fatal Decree by H. Terrell Griffin. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, May 05, 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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Fatal Decree by H. Terrell Griffin
A Matt Royal Mystery (7th in series)
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Read our review of Fatal Decree by H. Terrell Griffin

When a serial killer shows up on Longboat Key, Florida after a twelve year absence, Matt Royal is stymied. The first woman killed on Longboat Key has ties to a secretive government agency for which Matt's best friend Jock Algren works. Was this a coincidence or was she a targeted kill?

Matt's friend, Longboat Key detective Jennifer Diane (J.D.) Duncan investigates the murders but also seems to be a target of the killer. Why? And where has the killer been for the past twelve years? And why has he come to Longboat Key when his earlier kills were all in Miami?

The mystery deepens when Guatemalan gang-bangers try to kill Matt and J.D. and suspicions grow that Mexican drug cartels are somehow involved. The director of Jock's agency orders him to do whatever is necessary to find the killer because of the death of the woman with connections to the agency. Will Jock simply take out the murderer or allow J.D. and the law to arrest, try and convict the bad guys?

Matt's life is further complicated by J.D.'s growing dissatisfaction with island living and her thoughts of returning to Miami.

  

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The Watchman by Adrian Magson, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Marc Portman

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series mysteries: The Watchman by Adrian Magson and introducing Marc Portman.

What we know about the character: He's a professional shadow. A watcher who provides protection in potentially hostile situations. He works in the background, stays off the record. Often the people he's guarding have no idea he's there. Some people know him as Marc Portman.

For more information about his first case, see a synopsis of the book, below.

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The Watchman by Adrian Magson
Series: A Marc Portman Thriller
Publisher: Severn House
Format(s): Hardcover, eBook

When two British intelligence agents are despatched to negotiate the release of a group of western hostages in Somalia, veteran MI6 operator Tom Vane realizes that something about this operation doesn't stack up. Unwilling to see two promising officers sacrificed in what he believes to be a suicide mission, he covertly hires deep cover specialist Marc Portman to protect them.

Heading for the wild, lawless land on the Kenyan/Somali border, Portman soon realizes that the British Intelligence Services have been double-crossed. Can he survive long enough to keep his charges alive and prevent a catastrophe?

  

Blood of Cain, A Sean O'Brien Thriller by Tom Lowe: 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 Blood of Cain by Tom Lowe. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, May 05, 2014 at 3:00 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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Blood of Cain by Tom Lowe
A Sean O'Brien Thriller (5th in series)
Publisher: Kingsbridge Entertainment

When Courtney Burke appears at Ponce Marina on a humid summer morning, she leaves Sean O'Brien with a haunting tale. Her story could lead O'Brien down a path that began with a brutal rape forty years earlier and hidden family secrets spawned from the desecration of the innocent. O'Brien learns that Courtney is linked to a series of carnival murders. Police are convinced she's a serial killer, and all of her victims are men. But like the illusions found in the carnival's House of Mirrors, nothing is as it appears. Just beyond the looking glass is where evil watches from a one-way mirror.

When Courtney faces a conviction for murder, O'Brien remembers something she told him, something so strange he'd originally dismissed it. To alter the future, to save Courtney's life, O'Brien must penetrate dark deeds that began in a church forty years earlier.

  

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Wolf by Mo Hayder, New in Bookstores in May 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during May 2014 by Atlantic Monthly Press, is Wolf by Mo Hayder.

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

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Wolf
Mo Hayder
Series: Jack Caffery (7th)

When a vagrant — the Walking Man — finds a dog wandering alone with the words “HELP US” written on its collar, he's sure it's a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Detective Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery is reluctant to get involved — until the Walking Man promises new information regarding the childhood abduction of Caffery's brother in exchange for the detective's help tracking down the dog's owners. Caffery has no idea who or what he is searching for, but one thing he is sure of: it's a race against time.

Meanwhile, the Anchor-Ferrers, a wealthy local family, are fighting for their lives in their remote home ten miles away. Two men have tricked their way into the house and are holding the family for ransom. Yet as the captors' demands become increasingly bizarre and humiliating, it becomes clear that this is more than a random crime — it's a personal vendetta.

        

Save Up To $40 on Kindle Fire Tablets for a Limited Time Only

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In celebration of Mother's Day, Amazon is offering savings on Kindle Fire tablets.

Save $20 to $40 on Kindle Fire tablets. The best deal here: $40 off a Kindle Fire 7" HD tablet with 16 GB of storage.

These are limited-time offers, and likely to end this coming Sunday, so if you've been waiting for your favorite Kindle to go on sale, this is the time to buy!

Death of a Mad Hatter by Jenn McKinlay, New on The Mystery Bookshelf in May 2014

Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during May 2014 by Berkley Prime Crime, is Death of a Mad Hatter by Jenn McKinlay.

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

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Death of a Mad Hatter
Jenn McKinlay
Series: A Scarlett Parker, Hat Shop Mystery

One in a milliner …

Scarlett Parker and her British cousin, Vivian Tremont, are hard at work at Mim's Whims — their ladies' hat shop on London's chic Portobello Road — to create hats for an Alice in Wonderland themed afternoon tea, a fund-raiser for a local children's hospital. It seems like a wonderfully whimsical way to pass the hat, and Scarlett and Viv are delighted to outfit the Grisby family, the hosts who are hoping to raise enough money to name a new hospital wing after their patriarch.

Unfortunately, the Grisby heir will not live to see it — he's been poisoned. When traces of the poison are found on the hat Scarlett and Viv made for him, the police become curiouser and curiouser about their involvement. Now the ladies need to don their thinking caps and find the tea party crasher who's mad enough to kill at the drop of a hat …

  

The Game, A Mary Russell Mystery by Laurie R. King, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Game by Laurie R. King, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Bantam.

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 (05/05/2014 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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The Game by Laurie R. King
A Mary Russell Mystery (7th in series)
Publisher: Bantam

It's only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year's visit from Holmes's brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O'Hara — the same Kimball known to the world through Kipling's famed Kim. Inexplicably, O'Hara withdrew from the "Great Game" of espionage and now he has just as inexplicably disappeared.

When Russell discovers Holmes's own secret friendship with the spy, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But Russell soon learns that in this faraway and exotic land, it's often impossible to tell friend from foe — and that some games aren't played for fun but for the highest stakes of all … life and death.

  

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New from Carina Press: Stranger on the Shore by Josh Lanyon

Carina Press is a digital-first imprint from Harlequin, publishing books in an interesting and diverse selection of genres including contemporary romance, steampunk, gay/lesbian fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, and — but of course — mystery and suspense.

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Stranger on the Shore by Josh Lanyon
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Carina Press
Publication Date: May 05, 2014
Price: $4.99 (as of 05/05/14 12:30 PM ET)

Twenty years ago, little Brian Arlington was kidnapped from his family's Long Island estate and was never seen again. The trail went cold, but investigative journalist Griff Hadley has always thought there was more to the story — much more. When the Arlingtons' patriarch invites him to stay at their estate to research his true crime book, Griff can't say no. It's the story of a lifetime.

But not everyone is happy about Griff's presence. Relatives and staff alike regard him coldly, including Pierce Mather, the Arlingtons' attractive lawyer, who is more than a little wary of Griff's motives.

When a stranger shows up claiming to be the long-lost Brian, Griff and Pierce are united in their suspicions. Startled to have found an ally in the buttoned-up lawyer, Griff soon realizes it's hard to keep a professional distance. Even in the midst of a groundbreaking investigation, even in the face of a shocking family secret.

  

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Dennis Lehane's Novel Based on his Film Screenplay The Drop to be Published in August 2014

The Drop, a crime thriller starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and the late James Gandolfini with a screenplay by Dennis Lehane, is due to open in theaters in September 2014 but a month before that a novel of the same title is scheduled to be published by William Morrow.

"Early this year, my publisher asked me to consider writing a novel version, which I normally would have balked at," Lehane told The Boston Globe. "But there was all this stuff I loved from the original novel and then all this other stuff I loved that got cut from the script and still more scenes I loved that ended up being cut from the film itself, and I thought it might all make a really cool book."

The "original novel" that Lehane mentions is an unpublished book he wrote over 10 years ago that served as the basis for his short story "Animal Rescue", which was published in the 2009 anthology Boston Noir. It is this short story, about a killing resulting from a lost and contested pit bull, that inspired the film The Drop.

No synopsis yet on The Drop (the novel), but look for it on August 19th, 2014.