Deadly Secrets by Terry Odell is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

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Deadly Secrets by Terry Odell

A Mapleton Mystery

Publisher: Terry Odell

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

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Mapleton, Colorado's police chief, Gordon Hepler, would rather be on the streets than behind a desk dealing with budgets and the town council, but he promised his late mentor he'd accept the position. And to Gordon, a promise is a promise, even if the person you made it to isn't around anymore. However, doubts creep in, and he wonders if he was shoved into the job because his mentor thought he couldn't cut it on the streets.

Everything changes when a fatal traffic accident well outside Mapleton seems connected to elderly Rose and Sam Kretzer, two of Mapleton's most beloved citizens. The arrival of Megan, the Kretzer's grown ward, and Justin, their grandson add to his troubles when Megan is mugged. In addition, Justin is renovating his grandparents' house despite their objections, and then someone breaks in and the house is ransacked. When Gordon ties the car accident to a grisly murder in Mapleton — the first anyone in town can remember — he's afraid he's into more than he bargained for.

His fears are realized when his investigation seems to link the Kretzers to a Nazi war criminal. Can he work with the big-city detective brought in to assist? Will he be able to solve the crime without revealing the secrets of his citizens?

— Deadly Secrets by Terry Odell

Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, November 08, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen

A Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: Ballantine

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/08/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).

Read our review 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

Risky Business by Nora Roberts is Today's Nook Daily Find

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Risky Business by Nora Roberts as today's Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, November 08, 2014.

Risky Business by Nora Roberts

A Novel of Romantic Suspense

Publisher: Silhouette

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/08/2014 at 6:30 AM ET).

    

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Cozumel had been home to Liz Palmer for ten years. She was settled, respected. Her Black Coral Dive Shop was the best on the island. She no longer missed Houston, or thought about the man who didn't want her or their child.

And for two short weeks, Cozumel was home to Jerry Sharpe, the diving instructor she'd hired. Until they found him — murdered. Suddenly Jonas Sharpe, Jerry's twin brother, stormed into her well ordered life with grief in his eyes and revenge in his heart. He plunged them both into the desperate world of drug smugglers — and into the dangerous depths of passion.

— Risky Business by Nora Roberts

The Perfect Assassin by Ward Larsen is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Perfect Assassin by Ward Larsen as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, November 08, 2014.

The Perfect Assassin by Ward Larsen

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/08/2014 at 6:10 AM ET).

  

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One perfect shot will change the course of history …

Christine Palmer, a young American doctor sailing solo across the Atlantic, makes an incredible discovery — a man narrowly clinging to his life in the frigid waters. But there is much more to this desperate survivor than meets the eye.

David Slaton is a Kidon — a highly-trained, highly-precise, and highly-dangerous assassin. The Kidon is both the hunter and the hunted, and he and Christine are in grave danger. Will they win in this race against time?

— The Perfect Assassin by Ward Larsen

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141108)

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

• The New Release is League of Light: Wicked Harvest.

• The Daily Deal is Otherworld: Shades of Fall, just $2.99 today only!

• 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 League of Light: Wicked Harvest

The League of Light needs your help solving another exciting case! Children have been going missing in the town of Blake's Mountain in the days leading up to the fabled Red Moon. No one really knows what will happen on that night, but everyone agrees it can't be good … Strange creatures creep through the shadows, and the citizens fear for their safety. Can you uncover the secrets of Blake's Mountain and rescue the missing children in this spooky Hidden Objects Puzzle Adventure game? We believe in you, detective!

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

Also available for this game:

• Get the Strategy Guide
• Check out the Blog Walkthrough
• For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition

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Today's Daily Deal is Otherworld: Shades of Fall

Go on a quest to defeat an ancient evil. There's a magical world hidden beneath ours in this hidden-object puzzle adventure — but first you must gain the Sight to save it! The Shade is more powerful than ever, and magical creatures across the land tremble at the passing of the seasons. Continue the struggle with Fiona and the Storm Cat as fall sets in and discover secrets in both our world and in the Otherworld. Can you stop the Shade before the Eternal Winter arrives?

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 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: Ghost Month by Ed Lin

A Mysterious Review of Ghost Month by Ed Lin.

Review summary: This is an odd crime novel in which the mystery of who killed the narrator's ex-girlfriend and why is completely secondary to a running commentary from him on all things Taiwanese. None of the characters are all that interesting or engaging in this storyline that is, for the most part, simply tedious to read. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Ghost Month
Ed Lin
Soho Crime (July 2014)

Publisher synopsis: August is Ghost Month in Taiwan — a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, commemorate ancestors, and avoid unlucky situations, large purchases, and bodies of water. Jing-nan, a young man who runs a food stand in a bustling Taipei night market, doesn't consider himself superstitious, but this August is going to haunt him no matter what he does.

He is shocked to the core when he learns his ex-girlfriend from high school has been murdered. She was found scantily clad and shot in the chest on the side of a highway where she was selling betel nuts to passing truck drivers. Beyond his harrowing grief for this lost love of his life, Jing-nan is also confused by the news: "betel nut beauties" are usually women in the most desperate of circumstances; the job is almost as taboo as prostitution. But Julia Huang had been the valedictorian of their high school, and the last time Jing-nan spoke to her she was enrolled in NYU's honor program, far away in New York.

The facts don't add up. Julia's parents don't think so, either, and the police seem to have closed the case without asking any questions. The Huangs beg Jing-nan if he can do some investigating on his own — reconnect with old classmates, see if he can learn anything about Julia's life that she might have kept from them. Reluctantly, he agrees, for Julia's sake; but nothing can prepare him for what he learns, or how it will change his life.

        

Home Through the Dark, A Novel of Suspense 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 …

Home Through the Dark by Anthea Fraser

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/07/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Virginia Clements was looking for a fresh start. Leaving her actor husband, after discovering his infidelity, she travelled under the assumed name of Ginnie Durrell. When her car crashes in the coastal town of Westhampton, she decides that this is as good a place as any to begin anew.

Her love of the stage draws her to a troupe of actors. But they have more on their minds than just acting. Each cast member has a strange interest in her past life; some know her real name, others start asking questions …

When Ginnie accidentally intercepts a phone call demanding a large sum of money to be dropped off in payment for a suspicious act, a trail of unsettling clues begins. Silent, anonymous phone calls, doorbells ringing in the night, footsteps in the dark, and a figure on her balcony. What are the actors of The Little Theatre trying to hide? Who is disrupting the peace she had so desperately hoped to find? What deadly secrets lie in this sleepy seaside town?

For Ginnie, who had wished for a new life, this is just the beginning …

— Home Through the Dark by Anthea Fraser

New This Week: The Careless Word, A Marc Craig Crime Novel by Catriona King

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 …

The Careless Word by Catriona King

A Marc Craig Crime Novel (8th in series)

Publisher: Crooked Cat Publishing

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/07/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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When something from Belfast's troubled past happens again in 2014, everyone fears the worst and Marc Craig's team is called.

They find a place of contemplation and a distant country linked in an unexpected way. One which no-one could have foretold.

The team also gains a new member, and in the background preparations continue for a momentous event, but everything depends on the case being solved first.

— The Careless Word by Catriona King

Azrael, A Clifford Driscoll Mystery by William L. DeAndrea, 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 …

Azrael by William L. DeAndrea

A Clifford Driscoll Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/07/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Allan Trotter goes head to head with the Angel of Death …

Allan Trotter's counter-espionage service began at birth: His father, the head of an ultra-secret intelligence wing of the US government, deliberately conceived him with a gorgeous Russian spy. Raised to navigate a crooked world, Trotter was immersed in deception, danger, and narrow escapes. He's a perfectly honed agent, but he desperately wants a normal life.

Trotter is pulled out of his life of seclusion, though, when the Russian spy outfit Cronus sends their Angel of Death, Azreal, to a sleepy town in Upstate New York to knock off innocent people. The aim? To scare back a stray agent: Petra Hudson, now the happy CEO of a media conglomerate worth billions, who has put her spying past behind her — or so she thinks. Ignorant of her mother's double life, Hudson's daughter, Regina, a newspaper editor, has unknowingly alerted the Agency. And since fighting Cronus is the one thing that can give Trotter's life meaning, when he learns that Regina — a kindred victim of the organization — is at risk, the stakes feel even more crucial.

— Azrael by William L. DeAndrea

Snow White Red-Handed by Maia Chance, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Ophelia Flax

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) …

Snow White Red-Handed by Maia Chance

A Ophelia Flax, Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

What we know about the character: Ophelia Flax is a variety hall actress in this fairy tale-based series set in the mid-1860s. For more information about her first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

Miss Ophelia Flax is a Victorian actress who knows all about making quick changes and even quicker exits. But to solve a fairy-tale crime in the haunted Black Forest, she'll need more than a bit of charm …

1867: After being fired from her latest variety hall engagement, Ophelia acts her way into a lady's maid position for a crass American millionaire. But when her new job whisks her off to a foreboding castle straight out of a Grimm tale, she begins to wonder if her fast-talking ways might have been too hasty. The vast grounds contain the suspected remains of Snow White's cottage, along with a disturbing dwarf skeleton. And when her millionaire boss turns up dead — poisoned by an apple — the fantastic setting turns into a once upon a crime scene.

To keep from rising to the top of the suspect list, Ophelia fights through a bramble of elegant lies, sinister folklore, and priceless treasure, with only a dashing but mysterious scholar as her ally. And as the clock ticks towards midnight, she'll have to break a cunning killer's spell before her own time runs out …

— Snow White Red-Handed by Maia Chance

November Hunt, A Mira James, Murder-by-Month Mystery by Jess Lourey, 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, Midnight Ink …

November Hunt by Jess Lourey

A Mira James, Murder-by-Month Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Midnight Ink

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/07/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

This title is one of over 60 mysteries and thrillers included in Amazon's The Big Deal for November 2014.

  

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November in Battle Lake, Minnesota, is cold enough to freeze the balls off a pool table. lt's also deer hunting season. When Tom Kicker is killed in a hunting accident, Mira James is hired to investigate — a job that brings her closer to a P.I. license.

Braving subzero temps and shrieking blizzards, Mira uncovers a decades-old scandal that has never quite died, unlike the cold stiffs who are piling up in the town morgue. As she pieces together the clues, Mira discovers that Battle Lake's good-old boys have been up to some bad business. But with threats and enemies around every icy corner, she may not live long enough to expose the truth.

— November Hunt by Jess Lourey

The Promise by Robert Crais, New in Bookstores during November 2014

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

The Promise by Robert Crais, an Elvis Cole Mystery (13th in series)

Publisher: Putnam

        

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 …

When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case — until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and was being blackmailed to supply explosives components for a person or persons unknown.

Meanwhile, in another part of the city, LAPD officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, enter an abandoned building to locate an armed and dangerous thief, only to discover far more than they expected: The fugitive is dead, the building is filled with explosives, and Scott and Maggie are assaulted by a hidden man who escapes in the chaos, all as a bloodied Joe Pike watches from the shadows.

Soon, Scott and Maggie find themselves targeted by that man, and, as their case intertwines with Elvis and Joe's, joining forces to follow the trail of the missing woman as well. From inner-city drug traffickers to a shadowy group of Afghan war veterans with ties to a terrorist cell, the people they encounter on that trail add up to ever-increasing odds, and soon the four of them are fighting to find the woman not only before she is killed … but before the same fate happens to one of them.

— The Promise by Robert Crais

Plagued By Quilt by Molly MacRae, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014 …

Plagued By Quilt by Molly MacRae

A Kath Rutledge, Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Signet

  

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 …

Yarn shop owner Kath Rutledge is at a historic farm in Blue Plum, Tennessee, volunteering for the high school program Hands on History. But when a long-buried murder is uncovered on the property, Kath needs help from Geneva the ghost to solve a crime that time forgot …

Kath and her needlework group TGIF (Thank Goodness It's Fiber) are preparing to teach a workshop at the Holston Homeplace Living History Farm, but their lesson in crazy quilts is no match for the crazy antics of the assistant director, Phillip Bell. Hamming it up with equal parts history and histrionics, Phillip leads an archaeological dig of the farm's original dump site — until one student stops the show by uncovering some human bones.

When a full skeleton is later excavated, Kath can't help but wonder if it's somehow connected to Geneva, the ghost who haunts her shop, and whom she met at this very site. After Phillip is found dead, it's up to Kath to thread the clues together before someone else becomes history.

— Plagued By Quilt by Molly MacRae

Blind Spot, A Suspense Thriller by Nancy Bush, 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, Zebra Books …

Blind Spot by Nancy Bush

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Zebra Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/07/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

This title is one of over 60 mysteries and thrillers included in Amazon's The Big Deal for November 2014.

  

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The crime scene at an Oregon rest stop is brutal beyond belief — a young man's lifeless body cut to ribbons, and his pregnant girlfriend left alive but comatose …

Psychologist Claire Norris is assigned to treat the survivor at a private mental hospital. But there are no clues to the identity of the catatonic "Jane Doe." A difficult job only becomes more complicated with the arrival of ex-homicide detective Langdon Stone, who questions Claire's every move.Reluctantly working together, Claire and Lang begin to unravel the chilling truth about a twisted case — one with ties to a killer who is right in their midst, eager to see a mission of evil through to its terrifying end …

— Blind Spot by Nancy Bush

New This Week: The Hitwoman and the Poisoned Apple, Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman by JB Lynn

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 …

The Hitwoman and the Poisoned Apple by JB Lynn

Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman (8th in series)

Publisher: JB Lynn

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/07/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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How do you solve a murder when the victim is still alive?

Maggie Lee's murder mentor (and almost lover) Patrick Mulligan wants her to find out who poisoned him before it's too late. Keeping the man she loves alive would be hard enough if all she had to worry about was not getting caught, but nothing's ever that simple.

In between dealing with her strung out cat, searching for Patrick's poisoner, meeting a deadline to deliver a mysterious gift for her mobster boss and keeping a curious reporter on his toes, she finds herself entangled in the complicated (and potentially dangerous) romantic affairs of her Aunt Susan and her semi-psychic friend Armani.

Hearts and lives are in peril. Can the kooky, klutzy assassin save them?

— The Hitwoman and the Poisoned Apple by JB Lynn