Bubblegum Smoothie by Ryan Casey is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

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Bubblegum Smoothie by Ryan Casey

A Blake Dent Mystery

Publisher: Higher Bank Books

… as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of October 12, 2014 at 7:30 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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Blake Dent is a bounty hunter who catches criminals for a living. He lives by the mantra that he's retired until he needs money to get by, which he spends on lavishly indulgent boy's toys. His only real goal in life is adding a curved TV to his enormous gadget collection.

But when someone starts brutally murdering people, Blake is forced to catch the killer by the inept and under-funded local police. Lured by the promise of a life-changing sum of money and blackmailed by his past, Blake must identify and stop the twisted murderer before their horrifying mission is completed.

— Bubblegum Smoothie by Ryan Casey

Dialogues of a Crime by John K. Manos is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

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Dialogues of a Crime by John K. Manos

A Crime Novel

Publisher: Amika Press

… as today's third free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of October 12, 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.

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1972. The Chicago Mob stands unchallenged, and college students with drugs provide fodder for political point-making. Michael Pollitz, a nineteen-year-old with connections to the Outfit, becomes one of those political pawns.

1994. Job-weary CPD Detective Larry Klinger becomes obsessed with a cold case from that pivotal moment twenty-two years ago. In the course of his investigation, he encounters questions of ethics, guilt, and justice that make him doubt certainties that have sustained him for decades.

— Dialogues of a Crime by John K. Manos

Whodunnit by J. P. Lomas is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

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Whodunnit by J. P. Lomas

An Unlucky 13 Mystery

Publisher: J. P. Lomas

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of October 12, 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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Detective Sergeant Frankie Greenhalgh is not best pleased to discover that her plans for a romantic weekend in The Highlands are ruined by a convention of diehard "Doctor Who" fans setting out to celebrate their show's 40th Anniversary. Rumours abound that the President of the True Who Society has a shock announcement to make on the day of the anniversary, but he is murdered before he can reveal all …

Meanwhile, in London, Frankie's colleagues in the elite investigation unit known as '13' continue to investigate a string of shocking allegations made against a number of high profile celebrities. As they struggle to find any evidence against two of Britain's best loved entertainers, their own lives are placed under unrelenting pressure.

Both Frankie and her colleagues soon discover that the real monsters are not alien creatures from another planet, but the very people we once willingly invited into our living rooms …

— Whodunnit by J. P. Lomas

Hanging Ten in Paris by Chip Hughes is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

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Hanging Ten in Paris by Chip Hughes

A Kai Cooke, Surfing Detective Mystery

Publisher: State Ridge Press

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of October 12, 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.

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He doesn't speak French. He's never been to Paris. Kai Cooke is an unlikely detective to investigate the hanging death there of a study abroad student from Hawai'i named Ryan Song. Except that Ryan was a surfer. With this thin connection to the case, Kai tries to piece together what happened in Paris, without ever leaving the islands. This means a challenging case. How will the Surfing Detective reconstruct a sequence of events that occurred months earlier and seven thousand miles away?

Kai, as always, rises to the occasion. And, as always, things turn out to be not as they seem. As he interviews a half dozen students and their professor who accompanied Ryan to Paris, Kai discovers that while their stories tally, none sounds like the truth. To get the to truth, he must dig deeper. What went down in Paris ends up astonishing even the detective himself.

— Hanging Ten in Paris by Chip Hughes

Fatal Decree by H. Terrell Griffin is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Fatal Decree by H. Terrell Griffin as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, October 12, 2014.

Fatal Decree by H. Terrell Griffin

A Matt Royal Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/12/2014 at 6:10 AM ET).

Read our review on Mysterious Reviews.

  

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When a serial killer shows up on Longboat Key, Florida after a twelve year absence, Matt Royal is stymied. The first woman killed on Longboat Key has ties to a secretive government agency for which Matt's best friend Jock Algren works. Was this a coincidence or was she a targeted kill? Matt's friend, Longboat Key detective Jennifer Diane (J.D.) Duncan investigates the murders but also seems to be a target of the killer. Why? And where has the killer been for the past twelve years? And why has he come to Longboat Key when his earlier kills were all in Miami?

The mystery deepens when Guatemalan gang-bangers try to kill Matt and J.D. and suspicions grow that Mexican drug cartels are somehow involved. The director of Jock's agency orders him to do whatever is necessary to find the killer because of the death of the woman with connections to the agency. Will Jock simply take out the murderer or allow J.D. and the law to arrest, try and convict the bad guys?

Matt's life is further complicated by J.D.'s growing dissatisfaction with island living and her thoughts of returning to Miami.

— Fatal Decree by H. Terrell Griffin

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141012)

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

• The New Release is Paranormal Pursuit: The Gifted One (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is Web of Deceit: Deadly Sands, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Timeless: The Lost Castle, just $2.99 through Sunday, October 12, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — This weekend only: All Standard and Collector's Edition Games are 50% Off! Use coupon code HALF to get any Collector's Edition game for just $9.99; use coupon code OFF to get any Standard game for just $4.99. Offer valid through October 12th, 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 Paranormal Pursuit: The Gifted One (Collector's Edition)

Every second counts in this breathtaking paranormal adventure! Lives are on the line as you race to keep a young boy with psychic abilities from falling into the hands of an evil politician. To evade the henchman sent to kill you and kidnap the child, you'll have to find cleverly hidden objects and solve cunning puzzles using the boy's abilities to manipulate time and matter. Each chapter in Paranormal Pursuit ends with a nail-biting escape sequence during which you must make the right choices to avoid capture. Your courage will be rewarded in this Collector's Edition of Paranormal Pursuit with Achievements and a host of unlockable content including a bonus adventure in which you investigate strange events on a remote island. What you find there will suggest the Paranormal Adventure saga is far from over.

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: Captivating story; Mind-bending puzzles; Thrilling escape sequences; Wallpapers, concept art, and more; and a Bonus chapter.

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 Web of Deceit: Deadly Sands

Track down a venomous killer! After receiving a distressing message from your uncle, you travel to the remote village of Transvaal. But when you arrive, your uncle is nowhere to be found. As you search for him, you learn that he has been traveling the world, hunting down a woman named Morgana, and that this is not the first town to encounter her deadly wrath. Soon, victims start piling up, all of them bearing the same strange bite mark, dripping with venom. But is this the work of Morgana … or something even more sinister? Tread carefully — the sands are always shifting 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 Timeless: The Lost Castle

Every night you've been haunted by visions of a man in a red hood, pleading for you to save an innocent soul. You pack your bags for Europe, but soon you'll find yourself headed for a different destination, stranded aboard a flying ship. In the distance, an ancient castle among the snowy mountains holds the key to releasing a young girl's spirit, but it also contains an ancient evil sleeping just under its foundations. Follow in the footsteps of the Man in Red and uncover his secrets in this mysterious Hidden-Object Puzzle Adventure game.

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

New This Week: A Reason To Kill, A Novel of Suspense by Carole Sojka

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 October 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

A Reason To Kill by Carole Sojka

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Carole Sojka

Price: $2.99 (as of 10/11/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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When nine strangers convene on a Florida beach to observe and protect the endangered loggerhead turtles nesting there, one dies of poisoned and another is killed soon after. So, who among the remaining wildlife supporters is also a killer?

Recently hired as a detective by the Burgess Beach Police Department, Andrea "Andi" Battaglia is looking to prove herself to her new boss, but the more clues she collects, the more secrets — and suspects — she uncovers, and her hopes for a quick result fade. As she works to figure out whodunit on the beach and beyond, she also struggles with her mother's critical illness, her own feelings of inadequacy, and her misgivings about her growing attraction to another cop.

— A Reason To Kill by Carole Sojka

New This Week: Super Chief, A John Tall Wolf Mystery by Joseph Flynn

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 October 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

Super Chief by Joseph Flynn

A John Tall Wolf Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Stray Dog Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/11/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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When a classic Super Chief locomotive disappears between L.A. and Chicago and the case is handed to the BIA's John Tall Wolf, he asks the obvious question, "How do you steal a train?" Once more, John is working with FBI Deputy Director Byron DeWitt, and the question he wants answered is a perennial favorite. "Are terrorists behind all this?"

Other possible suspects are Native Americans and two feuding Silicon Valley tech billionaires who were among the last people to see the Super Chief off from L.A.'s Union Station.

All trails lead to the one place John swore he'd never go: the reservation where he was born. Looks like a good place to avoid, too, when John learns his grandmother has put out a hit on him.

— Super Chief by Joseph Flynn

Low Rider, Another Car Noir by Philip Reed, 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, 280 Steps …

Low Rider by Philip Reed

Another Car Noir

Publisher: 280 Steps

Price: $2.99 (as of 10/11/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Harold Dodge heads back to L.A., trying to put his life back on track. But life continues to throw him some wicked curves. Vikki Covo, widow of Harold's former boss at the car dealership, is angling for a million-dollar settlement on her husband's life insurance policy. If Harold negotiates the settlement, he'll get 10% plus Vikki's gratitude.

Vikki is one of those wicked curves and in the shape of a dollar sign. This means Harold could learn to love her almost as much he loves his '64 Chevy Impala. If only she was as easy to handle …

— Low Rider by Philip Reed

Weave of Absence by Carol Ann Martin, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014 …

Weave of Absence by Carol Ann Martin

A Della Wright, Weaving Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Signet

  

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

More about our featured title, below …

It's a joyous time at Dream Weaver — Della Wright's studio in small-town Briar Hollow, North Carolina — as part-time employee and full-time friend Marnie Potter is preparing for her upcoming marriage. Della has enlisted a tight-knit group of close friends to handweave a beautiful collection of fine household linens as a wedding gift for the happy couple.

But when Della notices Marnie's suave fiancé engaged in a heated argument with one of her students at the engagement party, she starts to worry that there may be something wrong with Marnie's Mr. Right. After the student turns up dead the next day, Della must weave together the clues to find the killer — before Marnie agrees to "Till death do us part."

— Weave of Absence by Carol Ann Martin

Six Days of the Condor, A Suspense Thriller by James Grady, 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 …

Six Days of the Condor by James Grady

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/11/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

The novel that inspired the Robert Redford film Three Days of the Condor …

  

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Sandwiches save Ronald Malcolm's life. On the day that gunmen pay a visit to the American Literary Historical Society, he's out at lunch. The Society is actually a backwater of the Central Intelligence Agency, where Malcolm and a few other bookworms comb mystery novels for clues that might unlock real life diplomatic questions. One of his colleagues has learned something he wasn't meant to know. A sinister conspiracy has penetrated the CIA, and the gunmen are its representatives. They massacre the office, and only learn later of Malcolm — a loose end that needs to be dealt with.

Malcolm — codename Condor — calls his handlers at the Agency, hoping for a safe haven, instead drawing another attempt on his life. With no one left to trust he goes on the run. But like it or not, Malcolm is the only person who can root out the corruption at the highest levels of the CIA.

— Six Days of the Condor by James Grady

Damage by Felix Francis, New in Bookstores during October 2014

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

Damage by Felix Francis, A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Putnam

        

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

More about our featured title, below …

Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as he's tailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, the last thing he expects to witness is a gruesome murder. Could it have something to do with the reason the trainer was banned in the first place — the administration of illegal drugs to his horses?

Then many more horses test positive for prohibited stimulants, and someone starts making demands, threatening to completely destroy the integrity of the racing industry. In order to limit the damage to the sport, it's critical that Jeff find the perpetrator … but he'll soon learn he's up against someone who will stop at nothing to prevail.

— Damage by Felix Francis

The Hill by Carol Ericson, New from Harlequin Intrigue in October 2014

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

The Hill by Carol Ericson

Series: Brody's Law

Imprint: Intrigue

  

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

As a P.I., he was used to protecting people. But one beautiful heiress is challenging every move he makes …

When P.I. Judd Brody agreed to safeguard socialite London Breck, he expected a fluff gig filled with parties and papparzzi. But the bombshell blonde was nothing like the wild princess he'd seen in the media … and his undeniable attraction to her was as real as the threats to her life.

The missteps of London's past didn't compare to the fear she now faced. With her sexy bodyguard by her side, she vowed to confront the conspiracy haunting her family. London couldn't imagine surviving this without Judd. She'd help him get the answers she needed. But she had no intention of watching him walk away once he did …

— The Hill by Carol Ericson

Echo Park, A Harry Bosch Mystery by Michael Connelly, 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, Little, Brown …

Echo Park by Michael Connelly

A Harry Bosch Mystery (12th in series)

Publisher: Little, Brown

Price: $2.99 (as of 10/11/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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In 1995, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the 22-year-old woman never turned up, dead or alive.

Now Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk, when he gets a call from the DA. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean about several other murders, including the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch must now take Raynard Waits's confession and get close to the man he has sought — and hated — for eleven years.

But when Bosch learns that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1995 that could have led them to Gesto's killer — and that would have stopped nine murders that followed — he begins to crack.

— Echo Park by Michael Connelly

Blackstone and the Burning Secret, A Sam Blackstone Mystery by Sally Spencer, 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 …

Blackstone and the Burning Secret by Sally Spencer

A Sam Blackstone Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/11/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

First published in hardcover by Severn House in 2005 under the title Blackstone and the Firebug.

  

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Inspector Sam Blackstone has dealt with arsonists before — but never one quite like this. If the arsonist's true purpose is to make the government hand over one hundred thousand pounds, why does he seem so reluctant to apply the necessary pressure? Why does he content himself with burning down a single warehouse, when he could set an entire riverside wharf ablaze? And why firebomb a single sloop, when it would have been just as easy to destroy the whole fleet?

In order to answer these questions, Blackstone — aided by Dr Ellie Carr, a passionate disciple of the new science of criminal pathology — must follow a trail of death and destruction. That trail will lead them to the very centre of government itself. And, not for the first time, Blackstone soon realises that in solving this case, he may well be destroying his own career.

— Blackstone and the Burning Secret by Sally Spencer