When Nothing Else Was Right by Carol Costa is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

When Nothing Else Was Right by Carol Costa

A Dana Sloan Mystery

Publisher: Open Books Press

… as today's third free mystery ebook. This is a repeat freebie that was last featured on our site on July 03, 2012.

  

This title was listed for free as of September 06, 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.

Dana Sloan's investigation into the disappearance of a talented singer, who has run off with money belonging to the mob, is sidetracked when the girl's husband confesses to killing her. The confession is a lie and the case quickly becomes a dangerous web of deceptions and related crimes.

Identity theft, murder, and an attempt on Dana's life send her across the country to find the missing girl before the mob catches up with her. For once, investigative reporter Sloan and her boyfriend, Detective Al Bruno, are working a case together, and uncover new evidence that heals a family torn apart by tragedy nineteen years earlier.

— When Nothing Else Was Right by Carol Costa

Dream Queen by Betsy Thornton is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Dream Queen by Betsy Thornton

A Chloe Newcombe Prequel Mystery

Publisher: Mango & Pat

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of September 06, 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.

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Chloe Newcombe arrives in Arizona from New York City to see her bad boy brother Danny and his new girl friend Kristi who live in Dudley. They stop at a restaurant in a small town on the way to Dudley and Danny disappears, nowhere to be found. Frustrated Chloe and Kristi continue on to Dudley, but the next day Kristi disappears too.

Chloe begins a search for her brother and for answers that take her deep into a past that changes the way she thinks about everything.

— Dream Queen by Betsy Thornton

Misfortune Cookies by Linda P. Kozar is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Misfortune Cookies by Linda P. Kozar

An Until the Fat Lady Sings Mystery

Publisher: Linda P. Kozar

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of September 06, 2014 at 7:00 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.

Best friends Sue Jan and Lovita run a beauty shop/boutique in the little West Texas town of Wachita. They share a passion of food and fun. But one day, over lunch in a Chinese restaurant, Lovita opens a fortune cookie with a sinister message: "Your father was murdered …", a clue that leads them to God, an international spy ring and several devastatingly handsome strangers.

A most unlikely pair of detectives, these girlfriends "Comb" the countryside with style, sarcasm, and lots of Szechwan.

— Misfortune Cookies by Linda P. Kozar

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140906)

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

• The New Release is Mayan Prophecies: Blood Moon.

• The Daily Deal is Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Spirits of Mystery: The Dark Minotaur, just $2.99 through Sunday, September 07, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — End of Summer Sale! All Games Are 60% Off this weekend only! Use coupon code SUMMER at check-out to purchase any Collector's Edition game for $7.99 or use coupon code SUNSET for Standard Edition games at just $3.99. Offer valid through September 7th, 2014 only 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 Mayan Prophecies: Blood Moon

Wild jaguars are running loose down the streets of a coastal South American town, but this is no act of nature — a hooded man is transforming people into jaguars and controlling them! U.S. Coast Guard Officers Alexis and Gregory are on the case, but they're up against a mighty foe. A young Mayan priestess claims that the Jaguar God is behind the attacks, continuing a war with the Moon Goddess that has raged for centuries. You'll need all your skills to save the world from erupting into chaos in this thrilling Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink

Earthquakes are causing cities around the world to crumble! Dr. Ambrose Ink, one of the foremost scientific minds, has vowed to stop this unnatural phenomenon. All the clues point to Castle Barber, overlooking the quiet mountain town of Hochwald. Shortly after arriving though, Dr. Ink vanishes. Now it's up to you, Agent Evangeline Glass, to save him. You'll have to think fast to outwit soldiers, golems, and a crafty mechanical genius who always plans one step ahead. Stop the earthquakes before more cities fall in this thrilling Hidden-Object Puzzle Adventure game.

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.

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The current Catch of the Week is Spirits of Mystery: The Dark Minotaur

In the dark of night, an elusive figure breaks in to the royal menagerie and steals four magic animals, your childhood companions and dearest friends. It is up to you to save them! Take the journey to discover more about the Dark Minotaur who threatens the magical world. Can you save them in time?

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.

New This Week: The Destruction of Neva, An Ardis Cole Mystery by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson

Omnimystery News is pleased to present 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 September 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

The Destruction of Neva by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson

An Ardis Cole Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Rowe Publishing

Price: $3.99 (as of 09/05/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Ardis Cole is summoned to Russia to help Grant Merlin's friend, Nikolai Savik, locate a priceless marble statue called Neva. The life-sized sculpture vanished along with the artist, Nikolai's uncle Treve Savik, seven years ago. Most people believe Treve destroyed his masterpiece then committed suicide after being jilted by the statue's beautiful model, Varina Morinsky.

On the way to the Savik mansion Ardis is nearly pushed to her death in the Moscow subway. Once in St. Petersburg instead of finding the sculpture, Ardis discovers the grave of a murder victim, buried for seven years.

The search for the missing sculpture becomes a hunt for a dangerous killer — one who will not hesitate to strike again.

— The Destruction of Neva by Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson

The Hot Spot, A Crime Thriller by Charles Willliams, 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 present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Open Road …

The Hot Spot by Charles Willliams

A Crime Thriller

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/05/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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For Madox, a dull town, a beautiful woman, and an easy bank heist spell doom …

In a town so small that Main Street is only three blocks long, there isn't a lot to do — other than work, ogle women, and think about fast ways to get rich. After a year of aimless wandering, Madox has landed here, nearly broke and with no prospects but a dead-end job selling cars to yokels.

Until one afternoon a fire at the burger joint draws the attention of everyone in town — including the men who are supposed to be guarding the bank. It's almost too good to be true, but there it is — $15,000 lying around, watched by no one. Now all Madox needs is a little nerve and a second distraction. And while one woman will give him the nerve, another will make him ready to kill.

— The Hot Spot by Charles Willliams

New This Week: Falling Apart at the Edges, A Suspense Thriller by Maynard Sims

Omnimystery News is pleased to present 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 September 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

Falling Apart at the Edges by Maynard Sims

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Maynard Sims

Price: $3.99 (as of 09/05/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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John Blake fights crime the only way he knows how, fast and dirty. There is a killer on the streets and John has to track him down.

When his wife is kidnapped and he has to find her, his personal life starts to spin out of control. Blake has his own set of moral codes that allow him to challenge the evils he sees on the streets on his own terms. But can he win his battles and save his marriage and his career?

— Falling Apart at the Edges by Maynard Sims

As the Pig Turns, An Agatha Raisin Mystery by M. C. Beaton, 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 present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Minotaur Books …

As the Pig Turns by M. C. Beaton

An Agatha Raisin Mystery (22nd in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 09/05/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Winter Parva is a "picturesque" (touristy) Cotswold village with gift shops, a medieval market hall, and thatched cottages. After a disappointing Christmas season, the parish council has decided to hold a special event in January, complete with old-fashioned costumes, morris dancing, and a pig roast on the village green.

Always one for a good roasting, Agatha Raisin organizes an outing to enjoy the merriment. The rotary spit turning over a bed of blazing charcoals is sure to please on this foggy and blistery evening. But as the fog lifts slightly, the sharp-eyed Agatha notices something peculiar about the pig: a tattoo of a heart with an arrow through it and the name Amy.

— As the Pig Turns by M. C. Beaton

The Joke House Mystery by David A. Adler, a New Cam Jansen Mystery

Omnimystery News is pleased to present in this post a new First Clues: Mysteries for Kids series title published this month …

The Joke House Mystery by David A. Adler

Series: Cam Jansen

Publisher: Viking

Format(s): Hardcover, eBook

Recommended for Junior Sleuths, Ages 7 to 9

  

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

Aunt Molly has entered a joke-telling contest at a local comedy club and Cam, her best friend Eric, and Mr. Jansen are in the audience to watch her perform. The prizes are exciting, but the competition is stiff — there's a prop comic, a knock-knock joker, and more! As the show starts, Cam notices that one of the prizes, an engraved silver plate, has disappeared. Suddenly, everyone in the club becomes a suspect.

Can Cam solve the mystery of the missing prize or will she be laughed out of the Joke House?

— The Joke House Mystery by David A. Adler

Graveyard of Memories, A John Rain Thriller by Barry Eisler, 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 present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Thomas & Mercer …

Graveyard of Memories by Barry Eisler

A John Rain Thriller (8th in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/05/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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What makes a legendary assassin? For John Rain, it was the lessons of love, war, and betrayal he learned in Tokyo in 1972 …

Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handler, delivering cash to corrupt elements of the Japanese government. But when a delivery goes violently wrong, Rain finds himself in the crosshairs of Japan's most powerful yakuza clan. To survive, Rain strikes a desperate deal with his handler: take out a high-profile target in the Japanese government in exchange for the intel he needs to eliminate his would-be executioners.

As Rain plays cat and mouse with the yakuza and struggles to learn his new role as contract killer, he also becomes entangled with Sayaka, a tough, beautiful ethnic Korean woman confined to a wheelchair. But the demands of his dark work are at odds with the longings of his heart — and with Sayaka's life in the balance, Rain will have to make a terrible choice.

— Graveyard of Memories by Barry Eisler

Tomorrow's Vengeance by Marcia Talley, New in Bookstores during September 2014

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

Tomorrow's Vengeance by Marcia Talley

A Hannah Ives Mystery (13th in series)

Publisher: Severn House

      

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

More about our featured title, below …

While at Calvert Colony, a life care community centre in Maryland, and at lunch with her friend, retired mystery author and amateur painter L.K. "Naddie" Bromley and her neighbour Sophia Milanesi, who survived the closing years of the Second World War in a convent in Italy, Hannah meets Filomena Buccho, a personable young Argentine server. Her brother, Raniero, also works at the Colony as chef.

But when Masud Abaza and his wife, Safa, move into the community and Masud is found murdered, his head bashed in by a croquet mallet, suspicion falls on Raniero, who has made no secret of his neo-Fascist sentiments. Hannah and Naddie agree to investigate, uncovering old crimes and reigniting ancient quarrels that know no boundaries of place or time.

— Tomorrow's Vengeance by Marcia Talley

The Trouble with Tulip, A Smart Chick Mystery by Mindy Starns 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 present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Harvest House Publishers …

The Trouble with Tulip by Mindy Starns Clark

A Smart Chick Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Price: $0.99 (as of 09/05/2014 at 2:00 PM ET).

All three books in this series — which includes Blind Dates Can Be Murder and Elementary, My Dear Watkins — are currently available for 99 cents each (as of the date and time of this post).

  

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Josephine Tulip is definitely a smart chick, a twenty — first century female MacGyver who writes a helpful hints column and solves mysteries in her spare time. Her best friend, Danny, is a talented photographer who longs to succeed in his career … perhaps a cover photo on National Geographic?

When Jo's next — door neighbor is accused of murder, Jo realizes the police have the wrong suspect. As she and Danny analyze clues, follow up on leads, and fall in and out of trouble, she recovers from a broken heart and he discovers that he has feelings for her. Will Danny have the courage to reveal them, or will he continue to hide them behind a façade of friendship?

— The Trouble with Tulip by Mindy Starns Clark

Rebel Without a Cake by Jacklyn Brady, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2014 …

Rebel Without a Cake by Jacklyn Brady

The Rita Lucero, Piece of Cake Series (5th)

Publisher: Berkley

  

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for September 2014. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of September 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

More about our featured title, below …

In the still of the night …

Halloween is approaching, and the co-owners of Zydeco Cakes, Rita Lucero and her former mother-in-law, Miss Frankie, have scored a sweet treat — a fantastic catering opportunity that could lead to a rich future for their bakery. But their good news is quickly rattled by a bump in the night when Miss Frankie's neighbor, Bernice, barrels into her kitchen toting a Bible and a gun, and serves up a story about a ghost at her window.

Bernice swears she just saw the ghost of her moonshiner uncle who disappeared in the swamp fifteen years ago. And when her cousin soon goes missing in the same swamp, Bernice is certain someone's playing a nasty trick, and convinces Rita and Miss Frankie to help her investigate. They'll just need to watch their steps, as these ladies are liable to get mired in a very swampy mystery …

— Rebel Without a Cake by Jacklyn Brady

A Brush with Death, A Penny Brannigan Mystery by Elizabeth J. Duncan, 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 present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Minotaur Books …

A Brush with Death by Elizabeth J. Duncan

A Penny Brannigan Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/05/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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When Penny Brannigan inherits a charming, old-fashioned cottage in the North Wales town of Llanelen, she soon realizes she has come into more than what real estate agents like to describe as a desirable period property: She's also acquired memories, mystery, and an unsolved, decades-old crime.

As Penny sorts through the belongings of her benefactor, a deceased teacher, she comes upon a packet of letters from a promising young Liverpool artist, A. Jones, who was killed in an accident in 1970. An artist herself, Penny sets out to discover who killed this painter, and is helped by a small group of townsfolk, including her business partner, Victoria Hopkirk.

While at a retrospective art exhibition in Liverpool, Penny recognizes what she believes to be a watercolor painted by Jones. But it is attributed to another artist, leading her to suspect that art theft was at the heart of the case, and that Jones's death was no accident.

— A Brush with Death by Elizabeth J. Duncan

New This Week: Hijack, A Royal Military Police Crime Thriller by Wendy Cartmell

Omnimystery News is pleased to present 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 September 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

Hijack by Wendy Cartmell

A Royal Military Police Crime Thriller (2nd in series)

Publisher: Costa Press

Price: $0.99 (as of 09/05/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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A hostage situation places the UK Government at the mercy of its worst enemies — terrorists returning from Syria, bringing the ISIS Jihad to the shores of Britain …

When a tranquil train journey over the Ribblehead Viaduct, a 100' structure high on the Yorkshire Moors, turns into something far more dangerous, Sgt Billy Williams of the Royal Military Police, a branch of the British Army, becomes self-appointed champion of the hostages.

Sgt Major Crane and Corporal Dudley-Jones toil away in the background, working with military leaders and the intelligence services, to bringing the hijacking to a safe conclusion. But can British police detective Mike Keane negotiate with the terrorists to get the hostages out alive? Can anyone reason with a psychotic killer?

— Hijack by Wendy Cartmell