The Spring by Clifford Irving is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Spring by Clifford Irving as today's second free mystery ebook (A Legal Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, May 20, 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.

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 Spring
Clifford Irving
A Legal Thriller
Publisher: Clifford Irving

Dennis Conway, New York criminal lawyer, has moved to Colorado to marry Sophie, the beautiful mayor of the 9,000-feet-high secluded hamlet of Springhill. When his new in-laws are charged with hunting down and murdering two of their close friends, Dennis is shocked, disbelieving, and he defends Sophie's parents at trial in Aspen.

But this snowbound mountain town has a remarkable secret to protect from outsiders — a secret worth dying for, and perhaps worth killing for.

  

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One By One by Yawatta Hosby is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature One By One by Yawatta Hosby as today's 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 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.

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One By One
Yawatta Hosby
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Dream Snatcher Press

Alone in the woods, thirty miles from civilization with no cell phone reception, the weekend turns into a deadly game when a killer hunts Rae and her friends. They struggle to stay alive and discover the truth.

Is someone stalking them, or is there a killer among the group?

  

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The Yard by Alex Grecian is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Yard by Alex Grecian as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, May 20, 2014.

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

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The Yard
Alex Grecian
A Murder Squad Mystery
Berkley

Victorian London — a violent cesspool of squalid depravity. Only twelve detectives — The Murder Squad — are expected to solve the thousands of crimes committed here each month. Formed after the Metropolitan Police's spectacular failure in capturing Jack the Ripper, the Murder Squad suffers the brunt of public contempt. But no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own.

A Scotland Yard Inspector has been found stuffed in a black steamer trunk at Euston Square Station, his eyes and mouth sewn shut. When Walter Day, the squad's new hire, is assigned to the case, he finds a strange ally in Dr. Bernard Kingsley, the Yard's first forensic pathologist. Their grim conclusion: this was not just a random, bizarre murder but in all probability, the first of twelve. Because the squad itself it being targeted and the devious killer shows no signs of stopping before completing his grim duty. But Inspector Day has one more surprise, something even more shocking than the crimes: the killer's motive.

    

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Long Gone by Alafair Burke is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Long Gone by Alafair Burke as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, May 20, 2014.

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Long Gone
Alafair Burke
A Novel of Suspense
Harper

What if everything you thought you knew turned out to be a lie?

After a layoff and months of struggling, Alice Humphrey finally lands her dream job managing a new art gallery in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking District. According to Drew Campbell, the well-heeled corporate representative who hires her, the gallery is a passion project for its anonymous, wealthy, and eccentric owner. Her friends think it sounds too good to be true, but Alice sees an opportunity to make a name for herself beyond the shadow of her famous father, an award-winning and controversial filmmaker.

Everything is perfect until the morning Alice arrives at work to find the gallery gone — the space stripped bare as if it had never been there — and Drew Campbell's dead body on the floor. Overnight, Alice's dream job has vanished, and she finds herself at the center of a police investigation, with the evidence mounting against her. The phone number Drew gave her links back to a disposable phone. The artist whose work she displayed doesn't seem to exist. And the dead man she claims is Drew has been identified as someone else.

When police discover ties between the gallery and a missing girl, Alice knows she's been set up. Now she has to prove it — a dangerous search for answers that will entangle her in a dark, high-tech criminal conspiracy and force her to unearth long-hidden secrets involving her own family … secrets that could cost Alice her life.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140520)

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

• Our Featured Title is Shattered Minds: Masquerade.

• The Daily Deal is Family Tales: The Sisters, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Brink of Consciousness: The Lonely Hearts Murders, just $2.99 through Sunday, May 25, 2014 only.

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

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Our Featured Title today is Shattered Minds: Masquerade

Stop the villainous Visage from ruining Mardi Gras in this incredible Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game! Visage has unleashed a fog that has wiped away the faces of everyone in town. As Visage wreaks havoc on New Orleans, the Boudreaux family, who were thought to be long dead when their mansion burned down, has returned to take revenge on the town. Learn the dark secret of Visage and the Boudreaux family and stop them once and for all.

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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Today's Daily Deal is Family Tales: The Sisters

Over and over the same nightmare is following you: your sister Anna is trapped in a strange existence, begging you to help her escape. But what if these are not just random nightmares? Worried and stressed, you drive to your parents' house only to find it hollow and cold. As you try to follow the hints and footsteps left by your sister, the distant memories of childhood are conjured around you, and your sister’s story of psychological trauma is revealed. As you make your way through one empty, dilapidated room after another, you realize that the once familiar home of your family is now a terrifying psychiatric asylum, and you have somehow entered another world: the doom reality of the Dark Lord. Will you be able to find your sister and bring her back from this horrible reality? Can you stop the Dark Lord?

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Tuesday, May 20, 2014 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Brink of Consciousness: The Lonely Hearts Murders

How far will you go to save your only daughter's life? Is there a limit? Help Owen Wright rescue his daughter from the clutches of the Lonely Hearts Killer, the mysterious figure who kidnaps and murders people who have suffered a love gone wrong. Unravel the intrigue, put a stop to the whirlwind of crime that has paralyzed this late 19th century British city. Olivia must live! The killer must be brought to justice! Only you can do it!

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 25, 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: Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well by Nancy Atherton

A Mysterious Review of Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well by Nancy Atherton. An Aunt Dimity Mystery.

Review summary: Mysteries don't get much more cozy than those in this series. The puzzle posed by the titular wishing well, which does seem capable of granting one's wish, is an intriguing one, and the solution absolutely charming in its design and quite clever in its execution. The path taken to learn the truth is a remarkably enjoyable one. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well
Nancy Atherton
An Aunt Dimity Mystery
Viking (April 2014)

Publisher synopsis: When a strapping young Australian named Jack MacBride arrives in Finch to wrap up his late uncle’s affairs, heads turn in the sleepy English village. But when Lori volunteers to help Jack clear out his uncle’s overgrown garden, they discover something even more shocking than a stranger turning up in Finch.

After Lori laughingly tosses a coin into the garden’s old well and makes a wish, she is baffled to find that the wish seems to have come true. Word spreads, and the villagers turn out in droves to make wishes of their own. But as they soon learn, one person’s wish is another person’s worst nightmare and the village is thrown into chaos.

As more and more wishes come true, Lori resolves to find out what’s really going on. Is handsome Jack somehow tricking his neighbors? Or are they fooling themselves? With Aunt Dimity’s otherworldly help, Lori discovers that the truth is even more marvelous than a magical wishing well.

        

A New MystereBook: Gold-Diggers, Gamblers and Guns by Ellen Mansoor Collier

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 …

Gold-Diggers, Gamblers and Guns by Ellen Mansoor Collier is the third entry in this series of Jazz Age mysteries.

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Gold-Diggers, Gamblers and Guns by Ellen Mansoor Collier
A Jazz Age Mystery
Publisher: DecoDame Press
Publication Date: May 18, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 05/19/14 4:30 PM ET)

During Prohibition in 1920s Galveston, the Island was called the "Free State of Galveston" due to its lax laws and laissez faire attitude toward gambling, girls and bootlegging. Young society reporter Jasmine (Jazz) Cross longs to cover hard news, but she's stuck between two clashing cultures: the world of gossip and glamour vs. gangsters and gamblers.

After Downtown Gang leader Johnny Jack Nounes is released from jail, all hell breaks loose: Prohibition Agent James Burton's life is threatened and he must go into hiding for his own safety. But when he's framed for murder, he and Jazz must work together to prove his innocence. Johnny Jack blames Jasmine's half-brother Sammy Cook, owner of the Oasis speakeasy, for his arrest and forces him to work overtime in a variety of dangerous mob jobs as punishment.

When a bookie is murdered, Jazz looks for clues linking the two murders and delves deeper into the underworld of gambling: poker games, slot machines and horse-racing. Meanwhile, Jazz tries to keep both Burton and her brother safe, and alive, while they face off against a common enemy.

  

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Severed Trust, The Men of the Texas Rangers by Margaret Daley, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Severed Trust by Margaret Daley, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Abingdon Press.

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 (05/19/2014 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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Severed Trust by Margaret Daley
The Men of the Texas Rangers (4th in series)
Publisher: Abingdon Press

The day Sadie Thompson finds her high school student, Lexie, asleep in class and can't wake her is the day she realizes how entrenched a prescription drug ring is in her school. As Sadie is pulled into doing something about the growing problem, she becomes involved with Ethan Stone — a Texas Ranger who suspects the drug ring reaches far beyond the high school.

Helping Lexie recover from the overdose, Sadie feels she is making a difference — until the 16-year-old's best friend dies from the apparent mixing of various prescription drugs. Lexie doesn't think her friend took her own life, but her relationship with her Uncle Ethan is precarious and she doesn't know if either he or Sadie will help her discover the truth.

  

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Killing Ruby Rose by Jessie Humphries, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Ruby Rose

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series mysteries: Killing Ruby Rose by Jessie Humphries and introducing Ruby Rose.

What we know about the character: Seventeen-year-old Ruby Rose is known for her killer looks, her killer SAT scores, and even her killer taste in shoes — but only her victims will know how killer she really is.

For more information about her first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

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Killing Ruby Rose by Jessie Humphries
Series: A Ruby Rose Mystery
Publisher: Skyscrape
Format(s): Mass Market Paperback, eBook

Ever since her dad, an LAPD SWAT sergeant, died, Ruby has been trying to stay focused on school (the top spot in her class is on the line) and spending time with friends (her Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks are nothing if not loyal). But after six months of therapy and pathetic parenting by her mom, the District Attorney, Ruby decides to pick up where her dad left off and starts going after the bad guys herself.

When Ruby ends up killing a murderer to save his intended victim, she discovers that she's gone from being the huntress to the hunted. There's a sick mastermind at play, and he has Ruby in his sights. Ruby must discover who's using her to implement twisted justice before she ends up swapping Valentino red for prison orange.

With a gun named Smith, a talent for martial arts, and a boyfriend with eyes to die for, Ruby is ready to face the worst. And if a girl's forced to kill, won't the guilt sit more easily in a pair of Prada peep-toe pumps?

  

Open Road Mysteries: The Tumbler, A Gabriel Du Pré Mystery by Peter Bowen

Every month Open Road makes available a list of mystery, suspense, and thriller ebooks at discounted prices.

Today, we are pleased to feature one of these titles, The Tumbler by Peter Bowen, now just $1.99. (Price verified on May 19, 2014 as of 3:00 PM ET.)

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The Tumbler by Peter Bowen
A Gabriel Du Pré Mystery (11th in series)
Publisher: Open Road

When a bullying billionaire comes after Du Pré, the part-time investigator will stop at nothing to protect what's his …

A rumor circulates around academic circles that the long-lost journals of Lewis and Clark are in the possession of hard-bitten Montana fiddler Gabriel Du Pré. A few years ago, Du Pré led a documentary film crew down the Missouri River to commemorate the bicentennial of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition, but he won't say whether or not he has the journals. Only Benetsee, Du Pré's mysterious spiritual guide, has any idea where the journals are, and only a fool would try to make Benetsee talk when he doesn't feel like it.

It's quite possible, though, that billionaire Markham Millbank is a fool. His money cannot persuade Du Pré, and so he begins to consider other forms of pressure. When two of Du Pré's friends are kidnapped, the fiddler faces a tough decision: hand over the journal or risk their lives to keep it out of the wrong hands.

  

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The Kraken Project by Douglas Preston, New in Bookstores in May 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during May 2014 by Forge Books, is The Kraken Project by Douglas Preston.

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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The Kraken Project
Douglas Preston
Series: 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?

        

ITV's Broadchurch Wins Three BAFTA Awards

The BAFTA Awards were handed out last night and the ITV crime drama Broadchurch was recognized with three honors for its first season, including Best Drama. Olivia Colman took home the Leading Actress award while David Bradley won for Supporting Actor.

Broadchurch, which has been renewed for a second season, is being remade as Gracepoint here in the US, a 10-episode "mystery event" that will air on Fox in Fall 2014.

Smashed by Rex Kusler, New on The Mystery Bookshelf in May 2014

Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during May 2014 by Thomas & Mercer, is Smashed by Rex Kusler.

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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Smashed
Rex Kusler
Series: An Alice James and Jim Snow Mystery

Private eyes Jim Snow and Alice James are baffled by their new client, Cassie Lane, a buxom casino slot technician who hires them to investigate the murder of her ex-lover, Billy Ryan.

Billy, a professional horseplayer, has been shot outside his home after a night at the casino with his friend Dean Kale. Later, his stolen car strikes and kills a pregnant teen in a hit-and-run not far from the scene of his murder.

Who wanted Billy dead? His wife, Gina, an attractive blonde, is said to be a former model with a rap sheet, but is she not what she seems? Her two derelict brothers? Or was the hit-and-run victim really the intended target, and Billy's shooting and the theft of his car a premeditated step in the crime?

As Cassie's behavior becomes ever more bizarre, Snow and Alice make a startling discovery that forces them to consider their own client a suspect.

  

The Expats, A Suspense Thriller by Chris Pavone, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Expats by Chris Pavone, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Broadway Books.

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 (05/19/2014 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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The Expats by Chris Pavone
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Broadway Books

Winner of the 2013 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and winner of the 2013 Anthony Award for Best First Novel.

In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg, Kate Moore's days are filled with playdates and coffee mornings, her weekends spent in Paris and skiing in the Alps. But Kate is also guarding a tremendous, life-defining secret & mdash; one that's become so unbearable that it begins to unravel her newly established expat life.

She suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be; her husband is acting suspiciously; and as she travels around Europe, she finds herself looking over her shoulder, increasingly terrified that her own past is catching up with her.

As Kate begins to dig, to uncover the secrets of the people around her, she finds herself buried in layers of deceit so thick they threaten her family, her marriage, and her life.

  

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