Deadline by Judy McDonough is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Deadline by Judy McDonough

The Bayou Secrets Saga

Publisher: Judy McDonough

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

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More on today's free book, below.

Caroline's life is on track. She's about to get her nursing degree and she's engaged to rich, handsome Trevor. But, before they get married, Trevor wants Caroline to spend the summer in Louisiana, getting to know her father, who's never been in her life. She reluctantly agrees and heads south, deep into bayou country where she meets Cade.

Charming and handsome, he's pulling out all the stops to convince her that he's the man for her, not Trevor. As she becomes frightened by a series of strange accidents that began after her arrival, she learns that the woman haunting her dreams is actually a long-dead family member come to warn her about the men in her life. Caroline soon realizes that if she doesn't solve the mysteries from the past, they could permanently alter her future.

— Deadline by Judy McDonough

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140914)

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

• The New Release is Shrouded Tales: The Spellbound Land (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is Mystery Age: Liberation of Souls, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Matchmaker: Curse of Deserted Bride, just $2.99 through Sunday, September 14, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — This weekend only: All Collector's Editions are just $8.99 each! Use coupon code COLLECT at check-out to purchase any Collector's Edition game for just $8.99. Offer valid through September 14th, 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 Shrouded Tales: The Spellbound Land (Collector's Edition)

When you were a girl, the Master of Shadows banished your mother to the Shadow Realm, sealing your city inside an impenetrable dome. But today, your magic finally awakens! Now you have to the power to free your mother and end the Master's reign of terror. Get help from the legendary barons and your friends in town to unlock your magical potential and return light to the city of Havenwick. Uncover the secrets of the Shadow Realm and use its power to overcome obstacles in the real world. You'll need all your wits to defeat the Master of Shadows once and for all in this exciting 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: Enjoy a whole new adventure in High City; A bonus quiz and lost collectibles; Soundtrack, concept art, and wallpapers; and a Comprehensive Strategy Guide.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Mystery Age: Liberation of Souls

The treacherous god of chaos has fled to the east, conquering an entire desert kingdom in his wake. Every man, woman, and child who got in his way became trapped in a mysterious orb, including you! Now you find yourself in a strange realm, where villagers have been turned to things like plants, ice, and scarecrows. To free them, you must defeat the Chaos God once and for all! But watch out — his minions are hiding around every corner! Overcome their evil and escape from the orb in this exciting Hidden Object adventure!

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.

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The current Catch of the Week is Matchmaker: Curse of Deserted Bride

It's the return of the famous matchmaker! Helen Jones settles in a town veiled in mystery, and takes on its intrigues. Your task is to puzzle out a sinister curse and help the townspeople find love again! Assisted by the appealing matchmaker, you will plunge deeper and deeper into the town's whirlpool of secrets and find yourself in the middle of events leading to a surprise ending.

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

Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending September 13, 2014

A list of the top 15 Mystery Hardcover Bestsellers for the week ending September 13th, 2014 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

Last week's featured title, Personal, the 19th Jack Reacher thriller by Lee Child, takes over the top spot this week.

Three new titles enter the list this week; debut position in [brackets].

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[10]: Festive in Death
J. D. Robb
— The Eve Dallas Series (39th)

Personal trainer Trey Ziegler was in peak physical condition. If you didn't count the kitchen knife in his well-toned chest.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas soon discovers a lineup of women who'd been loved and left by the narcissistic gym rat. While Dallas sorts through the list of Ziegler's enemies, she's also dealing with her Christmas shopping list — plus the guest list for her and her billionaire husband's upcoming holiday bash.

Feeling less than festive, Dallas tries to put aside her distaste for the victim and solve the mystery of his death. There are just a few investigating days left before Christmas, and as New Year's 2061 approaches, this homicide cop is resolved to stop a cold-blooded killer.

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[11]: The Monogram Murders
Sophie Hannah
— The Hercule Poirot Series (1st)

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.

Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at the fashionable Bloxham Hotel have been murdered, a cufflink placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim …

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[14]: Blind Spot
Reed Farrel Coleman
— The Jesse Stone Series (13th)

It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and still longer since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a major league baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team at a hip New York city hotel, he is forced to grapple with his memories and regrets over what might have been.

Jesse left more behind him than unresolved feelings about the play that ended his baseball career. The darkly sensuous Kayla, his former girlfriend and current wife of an old teammate is there in New York, too. As is Kayla's friend, Dee, an otherworldly beauty with secret regrets of her own. But Jesse's time at the reunion is cut short when, in Paradise, a young woman is found murdered and her boyfriend, a son of one of the town's most prominent families, is missing and presumed kidnapped.

Though seemingly coincidental, there is a connection between the reunion and the crimes back in Paradise. As Jesse, Molly, and Suit hunt for the killer and for the missing son, it becomes clear that one of Jesse's old teammates is intimately involved in the crimes. That there are deadly forces working below the surface and just beyond the edge of their vision. Sometimes, that's where the danger comes from, and where real evil lurks. Not out in the light — but in your blind spot.

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Circle of Influence, A Zoe Chambers Mystery by Annette Dashofy, 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, Henery Press …

Circle of Influence by Annette Dashofy

A Zoe Chambers Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Henery Press

Price: $0.99 (as of 09/13/2014 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

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Zoe Chambers, paramedic and deputy coroner in rural Pennsylvania's tight-knit Vance Township, has been privy to a number of local secrets over the years, some of them her own. But secrets become explosive when a dead body is found in the Township Board President's abandoned car.

As a January blizzard rages, Zoe and Police Chief Pete Adams launch a desperate search for the killer, even if it means uncovering secrets that could not only destroy Zoe and Pete, but also those closest to them.

— Circle of Influence by Annette Dashofy

A Denial of Death, A Helen Binney Mystery by Gin Jones, New This Week from Gemma Halliday

Gemma Halliday Publishing is a boutique publisher of light-hearted mystery, romantic suspense and romantic comedy novels, perfect for popping into your beach bag for a weekend away or cozying up beside a warm fire for a quiet night in.

We've selected one of their recently published titles to feature here today …

A Denial of Death by Gin Jones

A Helen Binney Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Gemma Halliday

Price: $0.99 (as of 09/13/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Helen Binney projected a powerful image as the former governor's wife, and she's not about to let a little thing like illness force into doing anything less now. While her pushy nieces think she's at death's door, her handsome lawyer friend thinks she's a hot magnet for trouble … and her new gal-pals think she's a brilliant amateur detective!

When those new gals give her an interesting project, Helen can't refuse proving her usefulness to the nay-sayers in her life. She quickly dives into investigating the disappearance of a member of their charitable knitting group.

But when the yarn trail leads to a husband in denial, a secret bank account, and a shallow grave, it's clear that someone else sees Helen in yet another unflattering light: as a threat that needs to be permanently neutralized! If Helen can keep her wits about her, she may be able to untangle herself from one sticky situation, and catch a killer in the process.

— A Denial of Death by Gin Jones

Random, A Rachel Narey Mystery by Craig Robertson, 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, Simon & Schuster …

Random by Craig Robertson

A Rachel Narey Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/13/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

The first three books in this series — including Snapshot and Cold Grave — are discounted to $1.99 each.

  

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Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings; no kind of pattern or motive; an entirely different method of murder each time, and nothing that connects the victims except for the fact that the little fingers of their right hands have been severed.

If DS Rachel Narey could only work out the key to the seemingly random murders, how and why the killer selects his victims, she would be well on her way to catching him. But as the police, the press and a threatening figure from Glasgow's underworld begin to close in on The Cutter, his carefully-laid plans threaten to unravel — with horrifying consequences.

— Random by Craig Robertson

A Singular Mission, An Olympia Brown Mystery by Judith Campbell, New This Week from Mainly Murder Press

Whether you are seeking cozies, quirky character studies, hard-boiled detectives, or lively amateur sleuths, Mainly Murder Press offers mystery fans the best of today's new authors in this popular genre.

In this post, we've selected one of their recently published titles to feature here today …

A Singular Mission by Judith Campbell

An Olympia Brown Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Mainly Murder Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 09/13/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Olympia accepts a winter contract in a picture-book church on Cape Cod, but someone in that idyllic setting is watching and waiting.

When Olympia is trapped inside the old church along with her stalker in a killer New England blizzard, husband Frederick is too far away to help, and the police can't reach her. Olympia becomes both the hunter and the hunted, and only she or the predator will survive the night.

— A Singular Mission by Judith Campbell

Heatwave, A Naomi Blake Mystery by Jane A. Adams, 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 …

Heatwave by Jane A. Adams

A Naomi Blake Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 09/13/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

First published in hardcover by Severn House in 2004, this is its first appearance as an ebook.

  

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August. A long-running heatwave has been dominating the news for weeks, and a state of lethargy is affecting everyone — not least blind ex-policewoman Naomi Blake, who is experiencing a restless dissatisfaction with life in general.

One ordinary Monday Naomi and her friends Harry and Patrick are in a high-street bank when an armed gang storm the building and take it hostage. Naomi — particularly vulnerable because of her lack of sight — is one of the captives. During the next few days, tensions rise as the situation grows fraught with danger, and the extreme heat intensifies …

However, under the tight control of an unpredictable and volatile persecutor, Ted Harper, the heat is the least of Naomi's worries. She knows this man. Knows who and what he was and the knowledge does nothing to reassure her …

Ted Harper never forgets and never forgives …

— Heatwave by Jane A. Adams

Caught Dead Handed by Carol J. Perry, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Lee Barrett

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) …

Caught Dead Handed by Carol J. Perry

A Lee Barrett, Witch City Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kensington

  

What we know about the character: Lee Barrett is a reporter with WICH-TV in Salem, Massachusetts. For more information about her first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

She's not a psychic — she just plays one on TV.

Most folks associate the city of Salem, Massachusetts with witches, but for Lee Barrett, it's home. This October she's returned to her hometown — where her beloved Aunt Ibby still lives — to interview for a job as a reporter at WICH-TV. But the only opening is for a call-in psychic to host the late night horror movies. It seems the previous host, Ariel Constellation, never saw her own murder coming.

Lee reluctantly takes the job, but when she starts seeing real events in the obsidian ball she's using as a prop, she wonders if she might really have psychic abilities. To make things even spookier, it's starting to look like Ariel may have been an actual practicing witch — especially when O'Ryan, the cat Lee and Aunt Ibby inherited from her, exhibits some strange powers of his own. With Halloween fast approaching, Lee must focus on unmasking a killer — or her career as a psychic may be very short lived …

— Caught Dead Handed by Carol J. Perry

New This Week: Death in the English Countryside, A Kate Sharp, Murder on Location Mystery by Sara Rosett

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 …

Death in the English Countryside by Sara Rosett

A Kate Sharp, Murder on Location Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Sara Rosett

Price: $0.99 (as of 09/13/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Location scout and Jane Austen aficionado, Kate Sharp, is thrilled when the company she works for lands the job of finding locations for a new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, but then her boss, Kevin, fails to return from a scouting trip to England. Afraid that Kevin has slipped back into some destructive personal habits he struggles with, Kate travels to England to salvage Kevin's and the company's reputation before word gets out that he is missing.

Things go from bad to worse when Kate arrives in Nether Woodsmoor, a quaint village of golden stone cottages and rolling green hills, only to find no trace of Kevin except his abandoned luggage. Even the rumpled, easygoing local scout they consulted, Alex, doesn't know where Kevin might be.

Increasingly worried about Kevin and with an antsy director waiting for updates about the preproduction details, Kate embarks on a search that includes a pub crawl and cozy cottages as well as stately country manors. But Kevin remains missing, and she begins to suspect that the picturesque village and beautiful countryside may not be as idyllic as they seem.

— Death in the English Countryside by Sara Rosett

The Edison Effect by Bernadette Pajer, New in Bookstores during September 2014

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

The Edison Effect by Bernadette Pajer

A Benjamin Bradshaw Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

        

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 …

Inventor Thomas Alva Edison is a ruthless businessman, intent on advancing General Electric and beating all rivals like Nikola Tesla and Westinghouse. Edison has agents in place in Seattle but he's come himself in pursuit of a mysterious invention lost in 1901 in Elliott Bay. When Edison asks for information, few refuse. But not University of Washington Professor Benjamin Bradshaw who's earned a reputation as a private investigator where science — electricity — is concerned. Bradshaw hopes that the lost device, one conceived in anger by an anarchist and harnessed for murder, will elude Edison's hired divers.

Then one December morning in 1903, the Bon Marché's Department Store electrician is found dead in the Men's Wear Window clutching a festoon of Edison's new holiday lights. Bradshaw believes Edison has set a dangerous game in motion. Motives multiply as the dead man's secrets surface alongside rivalries at the Bon Marché. Bradshaw, his sleuthing partner Henry Pratt, and the Seattle PD's Detective O'Brien pursue leads, but none spark Bradshaw's intuition. His heart is not in the investigation but in a courtship that will force him to defy his Catholic faith or lose his beloved, Missouri. Then a crossroads in the case forces him to face his personal fears and his first professional failure. Whatever the outcomes, his life is about to change …

— The Edison Effect by Bernadette Pajer

Snow Blind by Cassie Miles, New from Harlequin Intrigue in September 2014

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

Snow Blind by Cassie Miles

Imprint: Intrigue

  

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

Anticipating a week of skiing and self-indulgence at a luxurious Colorado condo, Sasha Campbell gets more than she bargained for. Some innocent spying one evening takes a sinister turn when she witnesses a woman's murder. And unfortunately for Sasha, she could be next in line.

Brady Ellis is the only thing standing between predator and prey. The small-county deputy knows protecting Sasha will be his greatest challenge. And he's not taking any chances. Moving her from the resort to his family's ranch, Brady quickly finds himself drawn to Sasha in less than professional ways. But the job has to come first — especially when they wind up face-to-face with the killer.

— Snow Blind by Cassie Miles

New This Week: To the Breaking Pointe, A First Force Novel by Cindy McDonald

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 …

To the Breaking Pointe by Cindy McDonald

A First Force Novel (2nd in series)

Publisher: Acorn Book Services

Price: $2.99 (as of 09/13/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Five years ago, First Force operative Grant Ketchum let the ballerina of his dreams dance right out of his life …

After her American adoptive parents had been killed in an automobile accident, Silja Ramsay returned to her birthplace, Russia, to take the position of the principal dancer for the Novikov Ballet Company. She was living her dreams, and although they had very little contact, Grant was proud of her.

The owner and director of the ballet company, Natalia Novikov, has a dark secret: her beloved ballet company is almost broke. Natalia has become so desperate for funds to keep the company afloat that she's forced her dancers to prostitute themselves to financial contributors at exclusive after-show parties.

As the prima ballerina of the troupe, Silja has been exempt and kept in the dark about the parties, until a big-time American financier, who is obsessed with Silja, offers to bail the failing ballet company out and provide Natalia with everything she will ever need. His prerequisite: Silja must become his personal companion, live in his home, and fulfill his every desire.

Against her will, Silja is taken to the American's mansion, but before she goes she manages to send a text to the only man who can save her, Grant: HELP!

Now Grant Ketchum is on a mission to find his lost ballerina and rescue her from this powerful man's subjugation. He will do anything to get her out alive. If they survive, will he let her chasse out of his life again?

— To the Breaking Pointe by Cindy McDonald

New This Week: A Wedding and a Killing, A Mac Faraday Mystery by Lauren Carr

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 …

A Wedding and a Killing by Lauren Carr

A Mac Faraday Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: Acorn Book Services

Price: $0.99 (as of 09/14/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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When Mac Faraday decides to do something, there's no stopping him … even murder!

Not wanting to wait until their big day to start their life of wedded bliss, Mac Faraday and his lady love, Archie Monday, decide to elope to the little church where his ancestors had all married — along the tranquil shore of Deep Creek Lake. However, before they can say, "I do," the sanctuary erupts into chaos when Gnarly finds a dead body in the church office.

As they dive into the investigation, Mac and his team discover more questions than answers. What kind of person walks into a church and shoots a man for no apparent reason? How do you solve the murder of a man who has no enemies in the world? Which of the seemingly kind-hearted church members is really a cold-blooded killer?

Then, there is the all-important question, how long do Mac Faraday and his lady love have to wait to get married?

— A Wedding and a Killing by Lauren Carr