Those of the Margin by T. Patrick Phelps is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Those of the Margin by T. Patrick Phelps

A Derek Cole Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Jabby House Publications

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

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Private Investigator Derek Cole is used to working challenging and dangerous cases, but when Cole is hired by Maggie Bryant, whose son is convinced that a ghost is visiting him, Cole is thrown into a world of unexplainable paranormal events, complete with a 20-year-old murder mystery, which is at the heart of his case.

Forming an unlikely investigative team consisting of a priest and a stay at home mother, Cole's team unravels the mysteries of both his client's hauntings and the 20 year old murder case. And when an elderly ghost hunter is found murdered, Cole and his team face a danger that none of them knew even existed.

But not all ghosts are created equal. Some have unlocked the mysteries of the after life and prove to be more than just spirits.

— Those of the Margin by T. Patrick Phelps

Every Dead Thing by John Connolly is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Every Dead Thing by John Connolly as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, October 28, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.com.

Every Dead Thing by John Connolly

A Charlie Parker Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Pocket Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/28/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).

Winner of the 2000 Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel.

    

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Haunted by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, and tormented by his sense of guilt, former NYPD detective Charlie Parker is a man consumed by violence, regret and the desire for revenge.

But when his ex-partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker embarks on an odyssey that is to lead him to the heart of organized crime; to an old black woman who dwells by a Louisiana swamp and hears the voices of the dead; to cellars of torture and murder; and to a serial killer unlike any other, an artist who uses the human body as his canvas and takes faces as his prize, the killer known only as the Traveling Man.

— Every Dead Thing by John Connolly

Untraceable by Laura Griffin is Today's Romantic Suspense Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Untraceable by Laura Griffin as today's Romantic Suspense Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, October 28, 2014.

Untraceable by Laura Griffin

The Tracers Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Pocket Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/28/2014 at 6:20 AM ET).

  

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Alex Lovell makes people disappear. Turns out, she's not the only one …

Private investigator Alexandra Lovell uses computer skills and cunning to help clients drop off the radar and begin new lives in safety. Melanie Bess, desperate to escape her abusive cop husband, was one of those clients. But when Melanie vanishes for real, Alex fears the worst, and sets out to discover what happened. Using every resource she can get her hands on — including an elite team of forensic scientists known as the Tracers, and a jaded, sexy Austin PD detective — Alex embarks on a mission to uncover the truth.

As far as homicide cop Nathan Deveraux is concerned, no body means no case. But as much as he wants to believe that Alex's hunch about Melanie's murder is wrong, his instincts — and their visceral attraction — won't let him walk away. As a grim picture of what really happened begins to emerge, Nathan realizes this investigation runs deeper than they could ever have guessed. And each step nearer the truth puts Alex in danger of being the next to disappear …

— Untraceable by Laura Griffin

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141028)

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

• Our Featured Title is Redemption Cemetery: Curse of the Raven.

• The current Catch of the Week is Silent Scream II: The Bride, just $2.99 through Sunday, November 02, 2014 only.

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

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Our Featured Title is Redemption Cemetery: Curse of the Raven

After getting into a car accident, you wander into a mysterious graveyard while searching for help. The doors slam shut behind you and you realize that you are trapped! Escape from the eerie Redemption Cemetery by helping trapped spirits save their loved ones, and free their souls! Use your Hidden Object skills to help these ghosts and escape!

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 Silent Scream II: The Bride

Jessica would never imagine that her big day would turn out to be a nightmare; they had an accident and Jonathan McNealy, her husband, is missing. Things just got more and more bizarre when she encountered a mysterious girl who seemed to be leading her to Jonathan. Jessica had a feeling that the girl was connected to Jonathan. Did she cause the car accident in the first place? Return to the abandoned mansion and search for clues.

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

Review: A Distance To Death by Holly Menino

A Mysterious Review of A Distance To Death by Holly Menino. A Tink Elledge Mystery.

Review summary: The murder mystery here is a little thin, though the characters are generally interesting and the mountain setting nearly ideal. However, without a compelling crime plot to draw readers in and keep them engaged, this is an easy book to put down and possibly forget to pick back up again. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

A Distance To Death
Holly Menino
A Tink Elledge Mystery
Minotaur Books (August 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Tink Elledge is a woman who doesn't take well to sitting still — not when it comes to husbands, not when it comes to looking after her stepson Stephen, and certainly not when it comes to horses. So when she gets the chance to ride in a competition again — even on a trail as grueling as the steep twists and turns of the legendary Tevis endurance trail ride — she jumps at it. In the Sierra mountain wilderness, she and her friend Isabel — an avid horsewoman and Darwin devotee — will race across one hundred miles of spectacular gorges and cross heart-stopping fords.

Meanwhile, Stephen and Tink's husband, Charlie, are nearby working on a new partnership with the brilliant but secretive scientist James Grant-Worthington. When Grant-Worthington suddenly dies of not-so-natural causes, the entire deal is thrown into question. Eager to help, Tink begins searching for clues, starting with Josh Untemeyer, the PR manager for the institute Grant-Worthington founded to promote the theory of intelligent design, who has also been pursuing Isabel. As Tink and Isabel join the pack of elite riders and their horses scramble up the vertiginous, narrow trail, Josh goes missing. Tink must sort through the secrets and lies in a race against time to cross the finish line and save the two people she cares for.

        

Poison Blonde, An Amos Walker Mystery by Loren D. Estleman, 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, Forge Books …

Poison Blonde by Loren D. Estleman

An Amos Walker Mystery (16th in series)

Publisher: Forge Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 10/27/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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A sizzling Latina singer spells murder for Detroit's best P.I.

Who is Gilia Cristobal?

She's simply one of the hottest of hot Latina singers. Nothing in her life, however, is simple. In her native land she was involved with people the government didn't like, and she barely escaped with her life to start fresh in the United States. In her wake she left behind accusations about a former lover, about violence, and about blackmail. Now she's in Detroit to make music and wants Amos Walker to protect her from those who have threatened her life. She also wants him to investigate someone from the darkest chapter of her former life. When Walker realizes that Gilia's main man, recently out of prison, doesn't regret the time he nearly killed Walker, what first seemed like an easy payday starts looking more and more like a losing proposition. Latin heat, indeed.

— Poison Blonde by Loren D. Estleman

Taste of Treason, The Tudor Enigma Series by April Taylor, New This Week from Carina Press

Carina Press is a digital-first imprint from Harlequin, publishing books in an interesting and diverse selection of genres including contemporary romance, steampunk, gay/lesbian fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, and — but of course — mystery and suspense.

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

Taste of Treason by April Taylor

The Tudor Enigma Series (2nd in series)

Publisher: Carina Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 10/27/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Blood, frogs and a deadly threat to the firstborn …

Luke Ballard, Dominus Elemancer and Privy Inquirer into Divers Mischiefs and Grievances, has grown his magical powers since his last encounter with the Sunderers, dark sorcerers who will stop at nothing — including partnering with England's mortal enemies — to destroy the throne. But is he skilled enough to protect his own and prevent tragedy from reaching the royal family?

The continuation of Tudor rule and the future of England's true religion rest with King Henry IX's new bride, Queen Madeline of Scotland. Pregnant with a possible heir, she's nearly killed — twice — in incidents that bizarrely mimic the Plagues of Egypt. And she is not alone. All of Hampton Court, it seems, has been surrounded by a dark cloud of otherworldly danger.

Fearful for his wife and unborn child, King Henry can only turn to one man.

— Taste of Treason by April Taylor

Gaudy Night, A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers, 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 …

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery (12th in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/27/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Back at Oxford for her reunion, Harriet Vane, Lord Peter's beloved, finds herself in mortal danger …

Since she graduated from Oxford's Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame by writing novels about ingenious murders. She also won infamy when she was accused of committing a murder herself. It took a timely intervention from the debonair Lord Peter Wimsey to save her from the gallows, and since then she has devoted her spare time to resisting his attempts to marry her. Putting aside her lingering shame from the trial, Harriet returns to Oxford for her college reunion with her head held high — only to find that her life is in danger once again.

The first poison-pen letter calls her a "dirty murderess," and the ones that follow are no kinder. As the threats become more frightening, she calls on Lord Peter for help. Among the dons of Oxford lurks a killer, but it will take more than a superior education to match Lord Peter and the daring Harriet.

— Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

New This Week: Older Than Goodbye, A Judd Wheeler Mystery by Richard Helms

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 …

Older Than Goodbye by Richard Helms

A Judd Wheeler Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Five Star

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/27/2014 at 3:30 PM ET).

  

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Being police chief in tiny Prosperity, North Carolina, typically meant that Judd Wheeler mostly handed out traffic tickets and quelled the occasional domestic dispute. Being shot during a routine investigation changed all that.

Within weeks of Wheeler's return to the job, a banker and his wife disappear, and the most hated man in town is brutally murdered. Compounding his troubles is the return of Wheeler's best childhood friend Sean "Shug" Burch, an ex-convict turned celebrity country-blues singer whom Wheeler helped put in prison for rape almost thirty years earlier, and who may be seeking revenge.

Formerly a bucolic country paradise, Prosperity has become a hotbed of crime, and only Chief Judd Wheeler — with the assistance of an unexpected ally — can bring it back to order.

— Older Than Goodbye by Richard Helms

The Travel Writer, A Jacob Smalls, Travel Writer Mystery by Jeff Soloway, 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, Alibi …

The Travel Writer by Jeff Soloway

A Jacob Smalls, Travel Writer Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Alibi

Price: $0.99 (as of 10/27/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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At a posh South American resort tucked into the lush jungles of the Andes, an American journalist has gone missing, leaving the hotel's PR agent, Pilar Rojas, with an international incident on her hands. Which is why she offers her ex-lover, travel writer Jacob Smalls, an all-expenses-paid trip to the resort in exchange for a puff piece extolling its virtues — and some behind-the-scenes digging into the disappearance. Intrigued by the prospect of winning Pilar back — and eager, as always, for freebies — Jacob hops the first flight to La Paz, Bolivia.

Although he hasn't seen Pilar in years, Jacob finds her just as intoxicating as he did when they were together. But from the moment he hits the city's cobbled streets, Jacob attracts all the wrong kinds of attention. Political flunkies and goons of all stripes try to scare him off the trail, while the missing woman's not-quite boyfriend insists on shadowing Jacob's every move. And amid ancient Incan hillside terraces, a world-class hotel conceals a secret that may kill.

— The Travel Writer by Jeff Soloway

Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas by Stephanie Barron, New in Bookstores during October 2014

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

Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas by Stephanie Barron, a Jane Austen Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Soho Crime

        

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 …

Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood: Mansfield Park is selling nicely; Napoleon has been banished to Elba; British forces have seized Washington, DC; and on Christmas Eve, John Quincy Adams signs the Treaty of Ghent, which will end a war nobody in England really wanted.

Jane, however, discovers holiday cheer is fleeting. One of the Yuletide revelers dies in a tragic accident, which Jane immediately views with suspicion. If the accident was in fact murder, the killer is one of Jane's fellow snow-bound guests. With clues scattered amidst cleverly crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlor games, and old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, whom can Jane trust to help her discover the truth and stop the killer from striking again?

— Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas by Stephanie Barron

Telemystery: Vera, New This Week on DVD

Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or Video-on-Demand, is profiling one series from our site being released this week.

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Vera
Set Four

Brenda Blethyn returns as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope, whose offbeat manner and frumpy appearance belie a knack for catching killers. Stanhope is ably assisted by Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth (David Leon), her colleague, confidante, and surrogate son. Ashworth tries to balance his family responsibilities with the demands of working for a boss who seems to have little else in her life but the job.

In this season, Stanhope and Ashworth take on four new cases on their Northumberland beat — the stabbing of a senior citizen aboard a rush-hour train, the brutal murder of a young professional at a beach resort, the shooting of a loner out on the moors, and the drowning of a respected businessman.

Based in part on books by crime novelist Ann Cleeves, this atmospheric drama delivers compelling characters, superb performances, and suspenseful mysteries.

  

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Visit the Telemystery website to discover more television mystery series currently available on and coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or video on demand.

New This Week: The Whispers, The Whispers Series by Lisa Unger

Lisa Unger begins a trilogy of e-novellas today centered on a psychic medium and the strange secrets she begins to uncover. The second in the series is published next month with the third and final entry in early January 2015.

The Whispers by Lisa Unger

The Whispers Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Pocket Star

Price: $0.99 (as of 10/27/2014 at 1:30 PM ET).

  

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It's a day like any other for Eloise Montgomery — until tragedy strikes. While she is recovering from a horrible accident that takes the lives of her husband and oldest daughter, and as she works to help her younger daughter move forward, Eloise experiences her first psychic vision. Though she struggles to understand her newfound gifts, Eloise finds a way use them to save lost women and girls — for whom her help may be the only way out …

— The Whispers by Lisa Unger

Ice Cold, A Rizzoli and Isles Mystery by Tess Gerritsen, 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, Ballantine …

Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen

A Rizzoli and Isles Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: Ballantine

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/27/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

Read our review of this book on Mysterious Reviews.

  

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A spur-of-the-moment ski trip becomes a bone-chilling nightmare when a wrong turn leaves Boston medical examiner Maura Isles marooned — far from home and help — in the snowbound Wyoming mountains. Seeking shelter from the cold, she and her traveling companions stumble upon Kingdom Come — a remote village of identical houses that seems to have become a ghost town overnight. But the abandoned hamlet has dark secrets to tell, and Maura's party may not be as alone as they think.

Days later, word reaches Boston homicide cop Jane Rizzoli that Maura's charred remains have been found at the scene of a car crash. But the shocking news leaves Jane with too many questions, and only one way to get answers. Determined to dig up the truth, she heads for the frozen desolation of Kingdom Come, where gruesome discoveries lie buried, and a ruthless enemy watches and waits.

— Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen

Mystery Godoku Puzzle for October 27, 2014

A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

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This week's letters and mystery clue:

A E G H I M N R T

This Henry Spearman mystery by Marshall Jevons suggests murder at this (9 letters).

We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!