Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140803)

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

• The New Release is Witch Hunters: Full Moon Ceremony (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is 9: The Dark Side, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is The Torment of Whitewall, just $2.99 through Sunday, August 03, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — This weekend only: All Collector's Editions are $8.99 each! Use coupon code COLLECT at check-out to purchase any Collector's Edition game for just $8.99. Offer valid through August 3rd, 2014 until 11:59 PM PT.

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

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The New Release is Witch Hunters: Full Moon Ceremony (Collector's Edition)

An old mirror reveals a terrible secret when a strange creature suddenly emerges and begins terrorizing your home. But you soon learn he's just a lackey for an even bigger threat — a group of evil witches who want to take over the world! Stopping them won't be easy, though. Your whole house has been enchanted with a series of deadly tricks and traps. A trip down the hallway is now a dangerous battle of will and wits. Can you overcome the obstacles and send the witches packing before the night is over? Find out in this thrilling Hidden Object Adventure game!

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: A bonus game from your sister's point of view; Replayable mini-games; Morphing object collectibles; Achievements; and Wallpaper, soundtracks, and concept art.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is 9: The Dark Side

End a centuries-old war between the Guardians and the Clan of the Nine! Are you the Last Descendant of whom the legend foretells, the one who will stop the darkness that haunts Prague? Find out in this incredible Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game! Take on dark enemies and solve perplexing puzzles as you explore the gorgeous city of Prague. Fulfill your destiny!

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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The current Catch of the Week is The Torment of Whitewall

Uncover the mystery of the Night Stalker! A shadowy figure has been stalking the streets of Whitewall, and young women have been disappearing without trace. Only one girl has managed to escape from the mysterious attacker, but she's not talking to anyone … Rumor has it that something strange and terrible happened to her that night. Rumor has it that this so-called Night Stalker is some kind of monster. As more and more people are driven from their homes by fear, you are called in to end the town's terrible torment.

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

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: Cradle to Grave by Eleanor Kuhns

A Mysterious Review of Cradle to Grave by Eleanor Kuhns. A Will Rees Mystery.

Review summary: Set in late 18th century New York, this is an enjoyable mystery with a complicated whodunit storyline that is best enjoyed by simply following along with the lead character as he does the ground work in solving the murders, and closes with a very touching, very appropriate ending. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Cradle to Grave
Eleanor Kuhns
A Will Rees Mystery
Minotaur Books (June 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Will Rees is adjusting to life on his Maine farm in 1797, but he's already hungering for the freedom of the road, and his chance to travel comes sooner than he expects. Lydia has just received a letter from her old friend Mouse, a soft-spoken and gentle woman who now lives in the Shaker community in Mount Unity, New York. To Lydia and Rees's astonishment, she's in trouble with the law. She's kidnapped five children, claiming that their mother, Maggie Whitney, is unfit to care for them.

Despite the wintry weather and icy roads, Rees and Lydia set out for New York, where they sadly conclude that Mouse is probably right and the children would be better off with her. There's nothing they can do for Mouse legally, though, and they reluctantly set out for home. But before they've travelled very far, they receive more startling news: Maggie Whitney has been found murdered, and Mouse is the prime suspect.

        

Airport, A Suspense Thriller by Arthur Hailey, Now Available at a Special Price

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy. Today, we're pleased to feature the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Open Road …

Airport by Arthur Hailey

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/02/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endangering thousands of lives. And in the air, a lone plane struggles to reach its destination.

Over the course of seven pulse-pounding hours, a tense human drama plays out as a brilliant airport manager, an arrogant pilot, a tough maintenance man, and a beautiful stewardess strive to avert disaster.

— Airport by Arthur Hailey

Heir Apparent, A Grace Smith Mystery by Liz Evans, New This Week from Endeavour Press

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 …

Heir Apparent by Liz Evans

A Grace Smith Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 08/02/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Grace Smith, Private Investigator, hasn't been doing a lot of investigating lately. With her cases drying up, her pitying co-worker hands her a client whose demands are too mundane for him to deal with. The client wants to leave her fortune to three strangers.

The lucky benefactors have already been picked — all Grace has to do is find out as much about them as possible, and report back to the lonely millionairess, without giving the game away. Easy? Not quite.

It turns out that these harmless strangers may not be as harmless after all, with Grace stumbling upon a juicy conspiracy that involves all three of her chosen subjects. She can't help but get caught up in it — and as she delves deeper into her investigation, things start to get messy …

— Heir Apparent by Liz Evans

Deadly Recall, A Suspense Thriller by Donnell Ann Bell, Now Available at a Special Price

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy. Today, we're pleased to feature the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Bell Bridge Books …

Deadly Recall by Donnell Ann Bell

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Bell Bridge Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/02/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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A terrifying memory is locked deep inside her. A killer wants to keep it that way.

As a nine-year-old child, Eden Moran witnessed the murder of her beloved teacher, Sister Beatrice. Her mind blocked the horrifying memory, and now, seventeen years later, Eden still can't recall what she saw that fateful day at Albuquerque's St. Patrick's Church. The nun's remains have been unearthed at a local construction site, and Albuquerque police detective, Kevin Dancer, starts pressuring Eden to search the shadows of her terror for clues.

Eden insists she didn't see the killer that day. She can't even remember knowing Sister Beatrice. Regardless, Detective Dancer refuses to give up on her. He's not only hell-bent on solving the crime, he's falling in love with her. If her memories resurface, she'll be in danger, and he wants to protect her. The killer seems determined that she'll take the memory to an early grave.

— Deadly Recall by Donnell Ann Bell

Go Go Gato by Max Everhart, a New 1st in Series Title Introducing Eli Sharpe

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series titles, a mystery, thriller or suspense novel that introduces a recurring character (or characters) …

Go Go Gato by Max Everhart

Eli Sharpe (1st in series)

Publisher: Camel Press

  

What we know about the character: Eli Sharpe is an Asheville, North Carolina-based ex-ballplayer turned private investigator, who specializes in investigating professional athletes. For more information about his first investigation, see a synopsis of the book, below.

When "Go Go" Gato, a young Cuban baseball player, goes missing mid-season, his agent hires PI Eli Sharpe to investigate. Eli, an ex-player himself, delves into Go Go's secret life, which includes a drug problem, a rich society girlfriend, and a druggie single-mom fiancée.

Eli is determined to locate the young man before one of the nasty people in his life — or his own bad habits — do him in.

— Go Go Gato by Max Everhart

The Cats that Chased the Storm, A Cats That … Cozy Mystery by Karen Anne Golden, Now Available at a Special Price

Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals are limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive books.

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

The Cats that Chased the Storm by Karen Anne Golden

A Cats That … Cozy Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Karen Anne Golden

Price: $0.99 (as of 08/02/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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It's early spring in Erie, Indiana, and the weather has turned most foul. Katherine "Katz" Kendall, heiress to the Colfax fortune, is living in a pink mansion, caring for her three Siamese and Abby the Abyssinian. Severe thunderstorms frighten the cats, but Scout is better than any weather app. A different storm is brewing, however, with a discovery that connects great-uncle William Colfax to the notorious gangster John Dillinger.

Why is the Erie Historical Society so eager to get William's personal papers? Is the new man in Katherine's life a fortune hunter? Will Abra mysteriously reappear, and is Abby a magnet for danger?

— The Cats that Chased the Storm by Karen Anne Golden

No Safe House by Linwood Barclay, New in Bookstores during August 2014

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during August 2014 is …

No Safe House by Linwood Barclay

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: NAL Hardcover

        

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

More about our featured title, below …

Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family, who first appeared in No Time for Goodbye, experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry's wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to ruin her relationship with them permanently. Their daughter, Grace, is rebelling against her parents' seemingly needless overprotection. Terry is just trying to keep his family together. And the entire town is reeling from the senseless murder of two elderly locals.

But when Grace foolishly follows her delinquent boyfriend into a strange house, the Archers must do more than stay together. They must stay alive. Because now they have all been unwillingly drawn into the shadowy depths of their seemingly idyllic hometown.

For there, they will be reconnected with the man who saved their lives seven years ago, but who still remains a ruthless, unrepentant criminal. They will encounter killers for hire working all sides. And they will learn that there are some things people value much more than money, and will do anything to get it.

Caught in a labyrinth between family loyalty and ultimate betrayal, Terry must find a way to extricate his family from a lethal situation he still doesn't fully comprehend. All he knows is that to live, he may have to do the unthinkable …

— No Safe House by Linwood Barclay

Mountain Rescue by Hope White, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in August 2014

Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title from Harlequin, published this month …

Mountain Rescue by Hope White

Series: Echo Mountain

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

For more information about the book, see a synopsis, below.

Saving lives and finding love in the mountains of Washington State …

It took just one look in Quinn Donovan's eyes and Wilhelma "Billie" Bronson knew the search and rescue volunteer had saved her life. Again. But this time her fall down a mountain was no accident. It seemed her past had come back to haunt her, and trusting Quinn to protect her was the best way to stay alive.

Before long, though, old feelings resurfaced, and being around him became more challenging than figuring out who wanted to hurt her. And why they'd stop at nothing to spoil any possible future with Quinn.

— Mountain Rescue by Hope White

Wrecked, A Regan Reilly Mystery by Carol Higgins Clark, Now Available at a Special Price

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy. Today, we're pleased to feature the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Scribner …

Wrecked by Carol Higgins Clark

A Regan Reilly Mystery (13th in series)

Publisher: Scribner

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/02/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Private Investigator Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack "no relation" Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, are about to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. They are looking forward to a quiet romantic weekend out of town. Wouldn't you know their choice of destination provides them with anything but!

Regan and Jack had considered going to Bermuda, but instead they decide to spend four days at his parents' beautiful beachfront home on Cape Cod, a wonderful spot where they'd never been alone. During the summer the house overflowed with Jack's family, bubbling with activity from morning until night. But to be up there for a weekend in April, just the two of them, sounded like a perfect escape.

Arriving at the Cape late at night, Regan and Jack are just in time to experience the beginning of a major storm. The next morning, Cape Cod Bay is quite a sight, churning with whitecaps. The wind is howling ferociously. Sheets of rain are pelting the house. Regan is looking forward to settling in the den with Jack and watching the storm.

However, the best laid plans …

In the bedroom, Regan opens the curtains to find Skip, the Reillys' young caretaker, pressing his nose against the glass, supposedly checking for leaks. A moment later, Jack arrives home from the market, two gossipy older women who live up the street in tow. A branch crashed through their living room window, and they need a place to stay. When Regan thought things couldn't get any worse, Skip comes running into the house, distraught that he'd just discovered Adele Hopkins, the woman renting the house next door, in a heap at the bottom of her staircase to the beach. Regan and Jack run back down with him, but huge waves are crashing on the shore. Hopkins is gone, presumably swept out to sea.

Who was Adele Hopkins? No one knows. The sixty-ish loner, who moved in five months ago, shunned her neighbors. Even her landlords, friends of the Reillys, have no idea how to locate her next of kin. Discovered in her dining room are stacks of apology cards she'd not yet sent and bags of decorative pillows that are embroidered with the saying grudge me, grudge me not.

Regan and Jack begin an investigation to help their friends track down Hopkins's family. They start by interviewing two young women who own the shop where Adele had bought the pillows. Pippy and Ellen opened Pillow Talk after they both lost their jobs. When a newspaper article revealing the terrible way the women had been treated by their former employers was posted on the Internet, business took off, they started to become well-known, and the Pillow Talk website became a place for people who had had similar experiences to vent their feelings.

Pippy and Ellen just received an anonymous e-mail from someone who spews venom about her former rowing coach — Adele Hopkins. Could she be the same Adele Hopkins?

Regan and Jack's search for clues to this mysterious woman's identity makes for an anniversary weekend they'll never forget!

— Wrecked by Carol Higgins Clark

A Dash of Midnight, A Collection of Cozy Mysteries by Karen MacInerney, Cricket McRae, and Deborah Sharp, New This Week from Midnight Ink

Midnight Ink is a fresh voice in mystery fiction committed to publishing suspenseful tales of all types: hard-boiled thrillers, cozies, historical mysteries, amateur sleuth novels, and more. It's always midnight somewhere.

A Dash of Midnight by Karen MacInerney, Cricket McRae, and Deborah Sharp

A Collection of Cozy Mysteries

Publisher: Midnight Ink

Price: $7.99 (as of 08/02/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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In this collection of three cozy mysteries, no murder can go unsolved. Whether they're at a bed and breakfast on the Maine coast, down on the organic farm, or in the driver's seat of a turquoise convertible, the characters and their antics never fail to entertain.

Murder on the Rocks by Karen MacInerney. Book 1 of the Gray Whale Inn Mysteries.

Trading in Texas heat for Maine's tangy salt air, Natalie Barnes risked it all to buy the Gray Whale Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast on Cranberry Island. She adores whipping up buttery muffins and other rich breakfast treats for her guests until she finds an overbearing land developer dead. Includes recipes!

Deadly Row to Hoe by Cricket McRae. Book 6 of the Home Crafting Mysteries.

Harvest time in Cadyville, Washington, finds Sophie Mae Ambrose volunteering at the local organic farm — and trying to make a little sprout of her own with Barr, her police detective husband. But when a dead body is discovered in the farm's compost heap, Sophie Mae presses her network of friends and neighbors into action.

Mama Does Time by Deborah Sharp. Book 1 of the Mace Bauer Mysteries.

Meet Mama: a true Southern woman with impeccable manners, sherbet-colored pantsuits, and four prior husbands, able to serve sweet tea and sidestep alligator attacks with equal aplomb. Mama's antics — especially her penchant for finding trouble — drive her daughters Mace, Maddie, and Marty to distraction, especially when she finds a body in the trunk of her turquoise convertible.

— A Dash of Midnight by Karen MacInerney, Cricket McRae, and Deborah Sharp

Enter to Win — The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo

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One (1) winner will receive a copy of …

Title: The Dead Will Tell
Author: Linda Castillo
Series: A Kate Burkholder Mystery
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
List Price: $25.99

Use the form below to submit your entry. One entry per person; US residents only. Entry period ends Saturday, August 09, 2014. (If you cannot see the entry form, use this link.)

Synopsis: Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time — and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave.

On a late-night shift, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called to the scene of an apparent suicide — an old man found hanging from the rafters in his dilapidated barn. But evidence quickly points to murder and Kate finds herself chasing a singularly difficult and elusive trail of evidence that somehow points back to the tragedy of that long ago incident. Meanwhile, Kate has moved in with state agent John Tomasetti and for the first time in so long, they're both happy; a bliss quickly shattered when one of the men responsible for the murders of Tomasetti's family four years ago is found not guilty, and walks away a free man. Will Tomasetti be pulled back to his own haunted past?

When a second man is found dead — also seemingly by his own hand — Kate discovers a link in the case that sends the investigation in a direction no one could imagine and revealing the horrifying truth of what really happened that terrible night thirty-five years ago, when an Amish father and his four children perished — and his young wife disappeared without a trace.

And, as Kate knows — the past never truly dies …

— The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo

Please Welcome Novelist Jay B. Gaskill

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We are delighted to welcome novelist Jay B. Gaskill to Omnimystery News today.

Jay's new novel is Gabriel's Stand (Central Avenue Publishing; May 2014 trade paperback and ebook formats) and his publisher has made available to us both a background for the author as well as his inspiration for the book.

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Jay B. Gaskill

A New Author to Follow …

Jay Gaskill is a well-known California trial lawyer who gave up his "life of crime" to write stories and essays about the human condition. Gaskill's legal career (with the exception of a restorative period as a "country lawyer" in Idaho) was spent as an urban public defender, inhabiting jails and appearing in courtrooms throughout Alameda County, one of the nation's most diverse and crime-ridden jurisdictions. It was a rich source of insights into the human condition. As Gaskill put it, "I learned much more than the craft of a defense lawyer over those years because I was so intensely curious about the riddle of moral failure.".

Gabriel's Stand takes place in a near-future America in which a powerful and dangerous group of extremists, posing as traditional environmentalists, implement a well-funded plan to seize power by exploiting a "back door" embedded in the US constitution. These over-the-top cultists secretly believe that the earth, Gaia, is a living being that has been infected by the human pathogen: They will be Gaia's antibodies.

The novel's two puzzles (that such lunatics could realistically hope to succeed; and that a single US senator could reasonably hope to hope stop them) are gripping and persuasively answered. But these puzzles are trumped by the novel's core mystery: How the general public could sleep though its fatal disarmament. As Louise Berker, the Gaia cult's leader, said: "We will take away humanity's medical defenses and let the plagues do Gaia's work."

Terrible crimes remain officially unsolved: a firebombing with a thousand casualties, a covert kidnapping, and a few assassinations. But these were just stepping stones to the end game: mass murders in the service of a radical depopulation agenda achieved through natural means. Before the sleeping public stirs, the criminals have become the government. In the last section of the novel, a popular physician will face federal felony charges for his crimes — having used and sold forbidden technologies to heal his fellow human beings.

This is Gaskill's third work of fiction, with all three released by Central Avenue Publishing of British Columbia.

Germs of a Thriller …

As a law student during UC Berkeley's student protest days, Gaskill witnessed movement politics from the inside, and he saw the faces hidden behind the public veneer. These were the true-believer ideologues, the inner circle camouflaged by moderate and respectable types. The blithely unaware innocents formed the "front," the people Lenin had called the "useful idiots" of the revolution. In those turbulent protest days, a latent ideological strain was germinating almost unnoticed. Its acolytes would include the "Earth First" activists who were to take up the cause of eco-terrorism. Their slogan, "Earth First!" actually meant "Humans last!" The germs that would later ripen in Gabriel's Stand were first planted in Berkeley California.

After working "in the pits" as a public defender trial lawyer, the author served for a decade as the 7th chief Public Defender of Alameda county, where he supervised 100 lawyers in a diverse jurisdiction about the same size as New York City's five boroughs. After finally leaving public service, Gaskill was asked to serve as a moot court judge in an international law contest. His research revealed that the Treaty Clause of the US Constitution is a back door that can be exploited to enable a stealth coup d'état. The setting for Gabriel's Stand was complete.

The author has conducted confidential interviews with more than 10,000 criminals over his decades of public service. He has written extensively about crime, punishment, and criminal justice, and he has appeared as a criminal trial commentator on CBS 48 Hours. He is currently working on a new novel, When Angel's Died, a crime thriller with a disturbing psychological theme, set in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Jay Gaskill served for ten years as the 7th Chief Public Defender for Alameda County, before finally leaving his "life of crime" to attend to writing projects. Having face-to-face meetings with more than 10,000 criminals over the decades of his public service, Gaskill came away with a sharp sense of "reality's underbelly." He has published articles on crime, punishment, criminal justice and the human condition and has appeared on CBS 48 Hours. His research into extreme mass movements, and first-hand knowledge of the "infallible gullibility" of their naïve followers (from his days a law student in Berkeley during the riotous period), inform his writing.

For more information about the author, please visit his website at JayGaskill.com.

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Gabriel's Stand
Jay B. Gaskill
A Thriller

Gabriel Standing Bear, a senator and popular environmentalist, has led some of the most effective ecological protection work to date. But ongoing climate chaos and environmental hysteria have spawned an anti-technological movement with a chilling hidden agenda: Gaia — the earth is a living organism and humans are a pathogen. The extremists running the movement are rich, charismatic and powerful and are plotting a political takeover to move forward with Gaia’s final cure: selective human extinction.

While Gabriel tries to stop the movement led by the sociopathic Louise Berker, his efforts are thwarted by his ambitious but naive daughter, Snowfeather, as she unwittingly supports Berker and her followers. When the US government ratifies a seemingly innocuous treaty that grants the fanatics supreme power, and starts a cascade of events that will lead to the movement's ultimate outcome, Snowfeather must find a way out while Gabriel and his few allies make a final stand against the most dangerous politics in history.

        

Between the Lies by Joy DeKok is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Between the Lies by Joy DeKok

The Northern Lights Series

Publisher: Infusion Publishing

… as today's third free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of August 02, 2014 at 7:20 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of the 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.

More on today's free book, below.

Her Cinderella night turned Titanic …

Everything was going just fine for Olivia Morgan. Until the dead guy in the elevator, her lover's dismissal of her, the loss of her dream job, and an FBI agent who is looking into the past she's worked so hard to hide. What's a woman to do when she's suddenly un-kept, a murder suspect, and has her own personal stalker?

Olivia uses her artistic talent to remember and reveal what she knows. Will it save or convict her?

— Between the Lies by Joy DeKok

Character and Fitness by C. M. Carleton is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Character and Fitness by C. M. Carleton

A Canton County Chronicles Mystery

Publisher: Hot Pen Press

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of August 02, 2014 at 7:10 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of the 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.

More on today's free book, below.

When Chief Justice Frederick Langston asks Canton County Circuit Court Clerk Kit Babcock for help, she is stunned.

The Chief Justice tells Kit that the Court wants to appoint her as special counsel to handle a reinstatement, a type of case in which a disbarred lawyer tries to get his or her license back. Without the Chief even mentioning the name, Kit immediately knows the identity of the disbarred lawyer in question.

Former Merritt Circuit Judge Elmer Ledbetter was the worst attorney Kit had ever prosecuted in her days as an Assistant Counsel for the Grievance Review Commission. Arrogant and mean, he continues to insist on his innocence — even though he was convicted by a federal jury of bribery and served time in prison. Now Elmer's back, wanting his license so he can run for circuit judge again. And although usually the lawyers at the Grievance Review Commission (where Kit used to work) handle reinstatement cases, the Supreme Court decides to disqualify the entire office for reasons that don't make sense to Kit. Feeling that she can't say no to the Chief Justice, Kit agrees to represent the GRC as special counsel.

To prepare for trial, one of the first people Kit contacts is Elmer's ex-wife, Alice Arnold. Alice isn't exactly thrilled to be drawn into the case, but she agrees to be interviewed. That same evening, Alice's law office in Merritt County is firebombed. Kit learns that Elmer and Alice's former law partner, Lin Pearson, still has an interest in the property. He gets it if Alice dies before he does.

After the arson, Kit is surprised when Alice is still willing to talk to her. Kit learns that Elmer abused Alice during their marriage and was a raging alcoholic. Kit expects Elmer to deny these accusations, setting up a problem with Elmer's honesty, a crucial issue in reinstatement cases. Alice tells Kit to interview Judge Beth Richmond, the woman who ran against Elmer when he was under indictment and beat him. There's no love lost between these two; Beth's father, the late attorney Wells Richmond, went straight to the FBI when Elmer solicited a bribe from him.

As Kit prepares for the hearing, she gets the unwelcome news that her office has been randomly chosen for a dreaded audit by the Supreme Court Clerk, Julian Hayes. Kit knows Julian from his days as a member of the Grievance Review Commission and knows he is a stickler for detail.

And when is the audit scheduled to begin?

The first day of the reinstatement hearing.

And between the reinstatement case and the audit, Kit has to make time to plan the state circuit court clerk convention. She ends up as the acting president after the president resigns — because of a bad audit.

The reinstatement hearing gets started, but then Alice, Kit's star witness, fails to appear and her body is found that same morning. And the death is not exactly an accident. Elmer is shaken by this turn of events and decides to hire an attorney, Scott Norton, who hopes to become state bar president.

But with Alice out of the picture, will Elmer Ledbetter get his license back?

The answer to that question becomes the least of Kit's worries as someone else ends up dead and the audit turns into a political and personal disaster.

— Character and Fitness by C. M. Carleton