Two for Justice by K. J. Rivera is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Two for Justice by K. J. Rivera as today's third free mystery ebook (A Leah and Sebastian Reyes Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, May 16, 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.

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Two for Justice
K. J. Rivera
A Leah and Sebastian Reyes Mystery
Publisher: K. J. Rivera

Newlyweds Leah and Sebastian Reyes were out of work and living with parents when a random encounter led them to pursue a new career as private investigators.Thanks to the prominent judge John Campbell business is going well. They appear to be getting back on their feet when they are hired to find a missing girl and are rewarded with their largest payday yet.

Everything is derailed when a horrific discovery leads them to find out the truth about who is hiring them and why. Leah and Sebastian are pushed to the limits as they fight to find the truth, bring justice to light and stay alive.

  

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Death by Obsession by Jaden Skye is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Death by Obsession by Jaden Skye as today's second free mystery ebook (The Caribbean Murder Series; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, May 16, 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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Death by Obsession
Jaden Skye
The Caribbean Murder Series
Publisher: Jaden Skye

A huge destination wedding, merging two blueblood families, is about to take place in St. Martin, when Cindy and Mattheus get an emergency call from the father of the bride. He wants them to come down to the island immediately and dig up dirt on the groom. He can't shake his bad feeling about the guy, even though all his other investigations didn't turn up a thing.

Cindy and Mattheus, who have been spending time building their relationship and are much closer, agree to come down on a lark and see what they can find. With help from informants from the seamy side of the island, they stumble upon a shocking secret that no one knows about: not his friends, not his family, and not his bride.

Cindy and Mattheus disagree about what should be done. But as the father confronts the bride with the news, it sets off a dramatic and unexpected response. Soon, a sudden death follows.

As all of this is going on, Cindy unexpectedly discovers something that also shakes her world: Mattheus, too, has a deep, dark secret that he has never told her. As Cindy and Mattheus investigate the awful homicide, they must also deal with this new revelation which threatens to tear their relationship apart.

  

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Dying Words by C. A. Larmer is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dying Words by C. A. Larmer as today's free mystery ebook (A Ghostwriter Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, May 16, 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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Dying Words
C. A. Larmer
A Ghostwriter Mystery
Publisher: Larmer Media

When a dying man utters Roxy Parker's name with his final, gasping breath, our favorite ghostwriter is thrown into the middle of her most baffling — and brutal — cozy mystery yet. Why would a guy Roxy barely knows call out her name on his deathbed? What did he give her that holds the key to his murder? And is it linked to a ghoulish burglar who is hot on Roxy's trail?

Roxy is hired by the dead man's baffled daughter to find a missing photograph. At first glance, the portrait of six friends looks innocent enough but behind the beaming smiles hides a secret so chilling, even Roxy Parker will be swept off her high-heeled feet.

As our merlot-swilling heroine races to find the photo before the burglar beats her to it, she uncovers more than a simple happy snap — two of the people in the photo have been murdered and there are more corpses to come. But why? What secret does the image hold? And why is someone trying to silence everyone involved?

  

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Gun Games by Faye Kellerman is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Gun Games by Faye Kellerman as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Friday, May 16, 2014.

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

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Gun Games
Faye Kellerman
A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Mystery
William Morrow

LAPD lieutenant detective Decker and his wife, Rina, have willingly welcomed fifteen-year-old Gabriel Whitman, the son of a troubled former friend, into their home. While the enigmatic teen seems to be adapting easily, Decker knows only too well the secrets adolescents keep — witnessed by the tragic suicide of another teen, Gregory Hesse, a student at Bell and Wakefield, one of the city's most exclusive prep schools.

Gregory's mother, Wendy, refuses to believe her son shot himself and convinces Decker to look deeper. What he finds disturbs him. The gun used in the tragedy was stolen — evidence that propels him to launch a full investigation with his trusted team, Sergeant Marge Dunn and Detective Scott Oliver. But the case becomes darkly complicated by the suicide of another Bell and Wakefield student — a death that leads them to uncover an especially nasty group of rich and privileged students with a predilection for guns and violence. Decker thought he understood kids, yet the closer he and his team get to the truth, the clearer it becomes that he knows very little about them, including his own charge, Gabe. The son of a gangster and an absent parent, the boy has had a life filled with too much free time, too many unexplained absences, and too little adult supervision.

Before it's over, the case and all its terrifying ramifications will take Decker and his detectives down a dark alley of twisted allegiances and unholy alliances, culminating at a heart-stopping point of no return.

    

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Seven Grams of Lead by Keith Thomson is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Seven Grams of Lead by Keith Thomson as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Friday, May 16, 2014.

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Seven Grams of Lead
Keith Thomson
A Techno-Thriller
Anchor

Russ Thornton is a hard-hitting journalist known for his ability to take on big targets in government and in business. An old flame, now a Capitol Hill staffer, contacts him out of the blue wanting to disclose some top-secret information. But she is gunned down in cold blood, right in front of him. Worse, the killers are concerned about what Thornton knows, and who he may tell.

He finds himself in a game of cat-and-mouse, where the stakes are life and death and the surveillance technology is so sophisticated that he wouldn't believe it existed — if it weren't implanted in his own head.

  

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Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending May 16, 2014

A list of the top 15 Mystery Hardcover Bestsellers for the week ending May 16th, 2014 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

No change at the top with The Target by David Baldacci remaining our number one bestseller. But lots of other changes, with five new titles entering the list — position in [brackets].

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[8]: The Son
Jo Nesbo

Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man. Sonny's been in prison for a dozen years, nearly half his life. The inmates who seek out his uncanny abilities to soothe leave his cell feeling absolved. They don't know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habit — or where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug. Or that he's serving time for other peoples' crimes.

Sonny took the first steps toward addiction when his father took his own life rather than face exposure as a corrupt cop. Now Sonny is the seemingly malleable center of a whole infrastructure of corruption: prison staff, police, lawyers, a desperate priest — all of them focused on keeping him high and in jail. And all of them under the thumb of the Twin, Oslo's crime overlord. As long as Sonny gets his dope, he's happy to play the criminal and the prison's in-house savior.

But when he learns a stunning, long-hidden secret concerning his father, he makes a brilliantly executed escape from prison — and from the person he'd let himself become — and begins hunting down those responsible for the crimes against him. The darkly looming question is: Who will get to him first — the criminals or the cops?

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[11]: The Skin Collector
Jeffery Deaver
— Lincoln Rhyme (11th)

The killer's methods are terrifying. He stalks the basements and underground passageways of New York City. He tattoos his victims' flesh with cryptic messages, using a tattoo gun loaded with poison, resulting in an agonizing, painful death.

When a connection is made to the Bone Collector-the serial killer who terrorized New York more than a decade ago-Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are immediately drawn into the case.

Rhyme, Sachs, and the NYPD must race against time to answer the many questions the investigation uncovers: Whom will the killer attack next? What is the message behind the victims' tattoos? Does the killer's own inking — a fanged centipede sporting a woman's face — hold any significance? And what is his ultimate mission?

As time runs out, Rhyme discovers that the past has returned to haunt him in the most troubling way imaginable.

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[13]: Any Other Name
Craig Johnson
— Walt Longmire (10th)

Walt is sinking into high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Conally, asks him to take on a mercy case in an adjacent county. Detective Gerald Holman is dead and Lucian wants to know what drove his old friend to take his own life. With the clock ticking on the birth of his first grandchild, Walt learns that the by-the-book detective might have suppressed evidence concerning three missing women.

Digging deeper, Walt uncovers an incriminating secret so dark that it threatens to claim other lives even before the sheriff can serve justice — Wyoming style.

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[14]: The Kraken Project
Douglas Preston
— Wyman Ford (3rd)

NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn's great moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, but the surface is unpredictable and dangerous, requiring the probe to contain artificial intelligence software. To this end, Melissa Shepherd, a brilliant programmer, has developed "Dorothy", a powerful, self-modifying AI whose true potential is both revolutionary and terrifying. When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during testing, Dorothy flees into the internet.

Former CIA agent Wyman Ford is tapped to track down the rogue AI. As Ford and Shepherd search for Dorothy, they realize that her horrific experiences in the wasteland of the Internet have changed her in ways they can barely imagine. And they're not the only ones looking for the wayward software: the AI is also being pursued by a pair of Wall Street traders, who want to capture her code and turn her into a high-speed trading bot.

Traumatized, angry, and relentlessly hunted, Dorothy has an extraordinary revelation — and devises a plan. As the pursuit of Dorothy converges on a deserted house on the coast of Northern California, Ford must face the ultimate question: is rescuing Dorothy the right thing? Is the AI bent on saving the world … or on wiping out the cancer that is humankind?

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[15]: The Kill Switch
James Rollins and Grant Blackwood
— SIGMA Force (10th)

The mission seems simple enough: extract a pharmaceutical magnate from Russian soil, a volatile man who holds the secret to a deadly bioweapon. But nothing is as it appears to be. A conspiracy of world-shattering scope unravels as former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his stalwart companion, Kane, a military working dog of exceptional abilities, struggle to keep one move ahead of their deadly enemies.

From the frozen steppes of Russia to the sun-blasted mountains of South Africa and Namibia, a biological threat millions of years in the making strikes out at the heart of America. All that stands in the way from a global apocalypse: one man and his dog. But can even Tucker and Kane thwart an ecological menace out of the ancient past to save the world's future?

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140516)

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

• The New Release is Grim Tales: The Vengeance (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is Secrets of the Seas: Flying Dutchman, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake, just $2.99 through Sunday, May 18, 2014 only.

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

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The New Release today is Grim Tales: The Vengeance (Collector's Edition)

You've been summoned to court to provide testimony in a trial against your nephew James, who stands accused of murdering his sister. By using your power to learn an object's history simply by touching it, you must examine evidence from the crime scene to determine what really happened to Elizabeth. Can you prove James innocent and find the real killer? As you explore the family mansion, a dark force is trying to cover up the truth! Watch your step, or you could be next! Follow the trail and crack the case in this thrilling hidden-object puzzle adventure game!

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: Bonus chapter featuring a new story; Gather evidence to present at court; Collect figures for more story info; Use the available Strategy Guide; and Get soundtracks, concept art, and wallpapers.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Secrets of the Seas: Flying Dutchman

Uncover the Sea Secrets of the Flying Dutchman! Find hidden objects and solve adventuresome puzzles in this oceanic 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 — Friday, May 16, 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 Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake

Uncover the evil legend that haunts a forgotten town! In 1973, something wicked took over the town of Bitterford, Maine, after an unsuspecting inmate unearthed a mysterious object from beneath the prison floor. Years later, Bitterford lies in ruin. You must join forces with psychic Cassandra Williams, played by award-winning actress Lea Thompson, to investigate the events that led to the town's destruction. Only you can expose the evil that lurks in the depths of Shadow Lake. But beware … what you discover may haunt you forever.

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 18, 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.