Hush by Carey Baldwin is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Hush by Carey Baldwin

A Tangleheart Novella of Romantic Suspense

Publisher: Carey Baldwin

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 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.

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.

Anna Kincaid was the turned-down page corner in the book of Charlie Drexler's life. When the reformed bad boy returns to his hometown of Tangleheart, Texas to make peace with his dark past and make amends to those he's wronged, he's also hoping for a second chance at love with the girl he left behind.

Charlie "Drex" Drexler was the love of Anna's life but she never found the courage to tell him. Not surprising, since silence was a way of life for Anna. When her mother left town, abandoning seven-year old Anna and her big sister Simone, Anna didn't speak above a whisper for years. Now Charlie's back looking to reconnect and Anna's big sister and infant nephew have suddenly gone missing.

Will Anna find her voice in time to save her beloved sister? And can Drex and Anna mend their broken hearts while dodging bullets and racing to bring mother and baby home safely? Coming home has never been this sexy … or this dangerous.

— Hush by Carey Baldwin

Darkness on the Edge of Town by J. Carson Black is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Darkness on the Edge of Town by J. Carson Black

A Laura Cardinal Mystery

Publisher: Breakaway Media

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

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Laura Cardinal: Packs a SIG Sauer P226 9mm. Investigates homicides in small towns that have limited resources. Brings justice to murder victims — and to their killers. Laura's job description: Criminal Investigator with the Arizona Department of Public Safety. But maybe it should just say "Troubleshooter."

Used to be kids played outdoors until time for dinner, now social media's the new game in town. These days, they play on their smartphones. But with more freedom comes greater danger. Mobile devices are a conduit into a child's life, not just for friends but for those who intend harm.

When Laura investigates the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl found in a town's park bandshell, she knows immediately what she's up against: a cunning sexual predator. But why is she plagued by the abduction of a schoolmate eighteen years earlier?

In a runaway case that propels Laura from a lavish Tucson estate to the secretive heart of a northern Florida town, she must confront the ghosts of her own past. Then another child goes missing — and Laura must race the clock to find her.

— Darkness on the Edge of Town by J. Carson Black

Carved in Bone by Jefferson Bass is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Carved in Bone by Jefferson Bass as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, November 06, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.com.

Carved in Bone by Jefferson Bass

A Bill Brockton, Body Farm Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/06/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).

    

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Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now he's being called upon to help solve a baffling puzzle in a remote mountain community.

The mummified corpse of a young woman dead for thirty years has been discovered in a cave, the body bizarrely preserved and transformed by the environment's unique chemistry. But Brockton's investigation is threatening to open old wounds among an insular people who won't forget or forgive. And a long-buried secret prematurely exposed could inflame Brockton's own guilt — and the dangerous hostility of bitter enemies determined to see him fail … by any means necessary.

— Carved in Bone by Jefferson Bass

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141106)

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

• The New Release is Psycho Train.

• The current Catch of the Week is Surface: The Soaring City, just $2.99 through Sunday, November 09, 2014 only.

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

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The New Release is Psycho Train

Save your daughter from an evil ghost! Explore the train and its abandoned station, search for well-hidden clues, and solve mind-bending puzzles. Each step forward will reveal more of the shocking truth behind your daughter's disappearance! Don't let your fears get the better of you, and don't look away, no matter what you see. Board Psycho Train, and begin your journey towards the unknown!

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

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The current Catch of the Week is Surface: The Soaring City

Search for your brother, Jeremy, in a beautiful world where the sky is as wide as your imagination! Jeremy was a great inventor who discovered a magnificent land soaring in the sky. He created wings for the people, making them free. The new citizens were happy … until one day Jeremy was kidnapped and blamed for conducting inhumane experiments. It's up to you to save your brother from imprisonment and redeem his good name.

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: Shadows on a Maine Christmas by Lea Wait

A Mysterious Review of Shadows on a Maine Christmas by Lea Wait. A Maggie Summer, Antique Print Mystery.

Review summary: The mystery plot is well-structured and interesting, with characters and a setting that are totally engaging, drawing the reader into the story and keeping the pages turning. Overall, a solid entry in this very enjoyable series. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Shadows on a Maine Christmas
Lea Wait
A Maggie Summer, Antique Print Mystery
Perseverance Press (September 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Antique print dealer Maggie Summer has come to Maine for a storybook Christmas with her beloved Will Brewer and his Great-Aunt Nettie, who has gathered together her longtime friends for holiday celebrations. Maggie and Will love each other, although Maggie is determined to adopt children and Will has misgivings. But this problem is put on hold when Maggie hears cryptic references by Aunt Nettie's old friends to buried secrets from their youth.

One elderly woman suffers from dementia, remembering those past events better than the gifts she just opened. Will she blurt out information about an old crime so dangerous that someone would commit murder to prevent its being revealed?

Blackmail and murder are only the beginning. It may be a Merry Christmas — but who will still be around to see in a Happy New Year?

    

Return of the Thin Man, Two Thin Man Screenplay Novellas by Dashiell Hammett, 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, Mysterious Press …

Return of the Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

Two Thin Man Screenplay Novellas

Publisher: Mysterious Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/05/2014 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

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Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett's last — and most successful — novel. Following the enormous success of "The Thin Man" movie in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to write stories for additional films. He wrote two full-length novellas, for the films that became "After the Thin Man" and "Another Thin Man".

Bringing back his classic characters, retired private investigator Nick Charles and his former debutante wife Nora, who return home to find Nora's family gardener murdered, pulling the couple back into another deadly game of cat and mouse. Hammett has written two fully satisfying "Thin Man" stories, with classic, barbed Hammett dialogue and fully developed characters.

— Return of the Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

A Shroud for Delilah, A David Webb Mystery by Anthea Fraser, 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 …

A Shroud for Delilah by Anthea Fraser

A David Webb Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/05/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Kate Romilly left her old life behind when she left her unfaithful husband. Moving to the small town of Broadminster with her young son was a fresh start. Closer to her best friend, with a good job, a new flat, it was a chance to start again. But a killer is attacking divorcees …

At the scene of each crime, the name "Delilah" is scrawled in lipstick on the victim's mirror.

The danger is coming closer to home. Kate starts receiving strange "gifts", a dead pigeon, a dismembered moth — she fears she may be the next target.

Chief Inspect Webb and Sergeant Jackson are in a race against time to unravel this seemingly impossible mystery and find the culprit before the next dead body found is Kate Romilly's.

— A Shroud for Delilah by Anthea Fraser

Running from the Devil, An Emma Caldridge Mystery by Jamie Freveletti, 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, HarperCollins …

Running from the Devil by Jamie Freveletti

An Emma Caldridge Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/05/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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Emma Caldridge, a chemist for a cosmetics company, is en route from Miami to Bogotá when her plane is hijacked and spins out of control into the mountains near the Venezuelan border. Thrown unhurt from the wreckage, she can do nothing but watch as guerrillas take the other passengers hostage.

An endurance marathon runner, Emma silently trails the guerrillas and their captives, using her athletic prowess and scientific knowledge to stay alive. Those skills become essential when she discovers an injured passenger, secret government agent Cameron Sumner, separated from the group. Together they follow the hostages, staying one step ahead by staying one step behind.

Meanwhile, as news of the hijacking breaks in Washington, the Department of Defense turns to Edward Banner, former military officer and current CEO of a security consulting firm, for help. Banner quickly sends a special task force to the crash site, intent on locating the survivors before it's too late.

But finding Emma and Sumner is only the beginning, as Banner starts to realize that Emma was on a personal mission when the plane went down. There is more to the beautiful, talented biochemist than anyone ever imagined, for in her possession is a volatile biological weapon in an ingenious disguise, one that her enemies have set for auction to the highest bidder.

— Running from the Devil by Jamie Freveletti

New This Week: Lightning on a Quiet Night, A Novel of Suspense by Donn Taylor

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 November 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

Lightning on a Quiet Night by Donn Taylor

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/05/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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In the years following World War II, a town too proud of its own virtues has to deal with its first murder …

Despite the implications of this crime, the town of Beneficent, Mississippi, population 479, tries desperately to hold onto its vain self-image. The young veteran Jack Davis holds that idyllic vision of the town and tries to share it with Lisa Kemper, newly arrived from Indiana. But she is repelled by everything in it.

While the sheriff tries to find the murderer, Jack and Lisa's contentious courtship reveals the town's strange combination of astute perceptions and surprising blind spots. Then they stumble onto shocking discoveries about the true nature of the town. But where will those discoveries lead? To repentance or to denial and continuation in vanity?

— Lightning on a Quiet Night by Donn Taylor

The Final Reckoning, A Suspense Thriller by Sam Bourne, 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, HarperCollins …

The Final Reckoning by Sam Bourne

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/05/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Once an idealistic lawyer, Tom Byrne will work for anyone now, if the money's right. An official at the United Nations needs him to placate the family of a harmless old man mistaken for a suicide bomber and shot to death by UN Security. But Byrne soon discovers this victim was not quite as innocent as he appeared to be.

Together with the dead man's daughter, Byrne uncovers the existence of a clandestine brotherhood responsible for hundreds of unexplained deaths worldwide. Now Tom is a marked man — a target of assassins who will destroy him for what he's learned — as he races to unearth a mystery buried for more than six decades … the last great secret of World War II.

— The Final Reckoning by Sam Bourne

The Siegel Dispositions by David E. Grogan, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Steve Stilwell

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) …

The Siegel Dispositions by David E. Grogan

A Steve Stilwell Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Camel Press

  

What we know about the character: Retired Navy-JAG officer Steve Silwell is an attorney in Williamsburg, VA. For more information about his first investigation, see a synopsis of the book, below.

On September 30, 1997, in Düsseldorf, Germany, an old Jewish man named Emil Weisentrope is shot dead. That same day in Williamsburg, Virginia, Steve Stilwell hangs out his shingle after serving 22 years as a Navy "JAG."

Steve's first assignment as a civilian attorney is to update the will of a 70-year-old Auschwitz survivor, Professor Felix Siegel. Accompanying the professor is his beautiful but surly adopted daughter, Michelle. Michelle will inherit, but there's a catch. The first $1.5 million of Siegel's fortune goes to three wartime friends … if they survive him. If they don't, their shares belong to Michelle.

After Professor Siegel's untimely and violent death, Steve begins his search for the beneficiaries, only to learn that two — including Emil Weisentrope — have already died under suspicious circumstances. Although the German police investigating the Weisentrope case are convinced Michelle is behind the killings, Steve needs to be sure.

Determined to find the connection between the Siegel dispositions and the murders, he begins a frantic search for answers. His own life and that of the final beneficiary hang in the balance as he struggles to stay ahead of a cold-blooded and elusive killer.

— The Siegel Dispositions by David E. Grogan

Defensive Wounds, A Theresa MacLean Mystery by Lisa Black, 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, William Morrow …

Defensive Wounds by Lisa Black

A Theresa MacLean Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/05/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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When Marie Corrigan, a Cleveland defense attorney with a history of falsifying evidence, is found dead at the Ritz-Carlton, most would agree that she had it coming. Before entering the crime scene, Theresa knows she's walking into a forensic nightmare — for hotels are teeming with trace evidence. But what she finds is even worse than she imagined.

Then two more bodies show up in quick succession, and Theresa's investigation takes on a whole new urgency as authorities suspect they have a serial killer on their hands. But as she searches for the connection between the victims, Theresa begins to fear that both she and her daughter are closer to danger than they realize. And a mother will stop at nothing to protect the life of her child.

— Defensive Wounds by Lisa Black

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie by Rita Mae Brown, New in Bookstores during November 2014

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

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie by Rita Mae Brown, a "Sister" Jane Arnold, Foxhunting Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: Ballantine

        

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

More about our featured title, below …

Sister Jane and the Jefferson Hunt Club have traveled from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to the Bluegrass State of Kentucky to ride with the members of the Woodford Hounds — in the teeth of foul weather. Sister knows better than anyone that an ill wind blows no good.

After the hunt, Sister Jane and her boyfriend, Gray Lorillard, head to a sumptuous party on a nearby estate, also home to a historic equine graveyard. The revelry is interrupted by jarring news: The discovery of grisly remains in the cemetery that are decidedly not equine.

Now Sister and her hounds are on the case, digging up clues to an old murder that links three well-connected Southern families. When mayhem follows the Jefferson Hunt back to Virginia, the deadly doings become all too real: A dear friend of Sister's is found murdered. Sister and her animal friends must work fast to find a clever killer determined to keep deep-rooted secrets buried.

— Let Sleeping Dogs Lie by Rita Mae Brown

Secrets of Sloane House, A Chicago World's Fair Mystery by Shelley Gray, 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, Zondervan …

Secrets of Sloane House by Shelley Gray

A Chicago World's Fair Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Zondervan

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/05/2014 at 2:00 PM ET).

  

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Against the backdrop of the 1893 World's Fair, a young woman finds employment with an illustrious Chicago family — a family who may guard the secret of her sister's disappearance …

Sloane House is among the most gilded mansions of Gilded Age Chicago. Rosalind Perry, the new housemaid, pours the morning coffee before the hard gaze of her mistress.

"It's simple, Rosalind," she says. "I am Veronica Sloane, heiress to one of the country's greatest fortunes. You are simply one in a long line of unsuitable maids."

Back on the farm in Wisconsin, Rosalind's plan had seemed logical: Move to Chicago. Get hired on at Sloane House. Discover what transpired while her sister worked as a maid there — and follow the clues to why she disappeared.

Now, as a live-in housemaid to the Sloanes, Rosalind realizes her plan had been woefully simple-minded.

She was ignorant of the hard, hidden life of a servant in a big, prominent house; of the divide between the Sloane family and the people who served them; and most of all, she had never imagined so many people could live in such proximity and keep such dark secrets.

Yet, while Sloane House is daunting, the streets of Chicago are downright dangerous. The World's Fair has brought a new kind of crime to the city … and a lonely young woman is always at risk. But when Rosalind accepts the friendship of Reid Armstrong, the handsome young heir to a Chicago silver fortune, she becomes an accidental rival to Veronica Sloane.

As Rosalind continues to disguise her kinship to the missing maid — and struggles to appease her jealous mistress — she probes the dark secrets of Sloane House and comes ever closer to uncovering her sister's mysterious fate. A fate that everyone in the house seems to know … but which no one dares to name.

— Secrets of Sloane House by Shelley Gray

The Bullet Catch by John Gaspard, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014 …

The Bullet Catch by John Gaspard

An Eli Marks Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Henery Press

  

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

More about our featured title, below …

Newly-single magician Eli Marks reluctantly attends his high school reunion against his better judgment, only to become entangled in two deadly encounters with his former classmates. The first is the fatal mugging of an old crush's husband, followed by the suspicious deaths of the victim's business associates.

At the same time, Eli also comes to the aid of a classmate-turned-movie-star who fears that attempting The Bullet Catch in an upcoming movie may be his last performance. As the bodies begin to pile up, Eli comes to the realization that juggling these murderous situations — while saving his own neck — may be the greatest trick he's ever performed.

— The Bullet Catch by John Gaspard