Sherlock Holmes and the Frightened Golfer by J. M. Gregson is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Sherlock Holmes and the Frightened Golfer by J. M. Gregson

A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche

Publisher: Endeavour Press

… as today's third free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 17, 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.

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.

London, February 1896. A bright crisp day is the first hint of the spring to come, a welcome intrusion into the winter gloom of the great industrial city. But as Watson welcomes the sun and tries to cheer up a restless Holmes, there is an urgent knock at the door of 221B Baker Street. A moment later, a large man bursts into the living quarters of the famous detective.

Alfred Bullimore is a very skilled but also an extremely frightened golfer and he brings with him one of the strangest cases ever to be recorded in Dr Watson's assiduous notes. What had seemed at first to be no more than tasteless horseplay at Royal Blackheath Golf Club is now threatening to escalate into serious violence. Already there has been an attack upon an elderly member walking his dog at dusk, and soon this is followed by an attempt at murder, which brings Holmes and Watson swiftly to the scene of the crime at the famous old golf club. Bullimore is a good enough golfer to mount a serious challenge to win the Open Championship of 1896.

But as his successes accumulate in the month before the Open, the threat to his safety seems ever greater. The climax of the tale is set thrillingly on the last day of the 1896 Open Championship at Muirfield, with the solution as unexpected as it is timely.

— Sherlock Holmes and the Frightened Golfer by J. M. Gregson

Tourist Trapped by K. J. Klemme is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Tourist Trapped by K. J. Klemme

The Trapped Trilogy

Publisher: Travels and Travails Publishing

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 17, 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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More on today's free book, below.

Crackerjack divorce attorney Amanda Sloane spends her life defending the soon-to-be-ex-wives of Chicago's upper crust, but her orderly world crumbles when her estranged father persuades her to help search for the half-sister she's resented for thirty years.

Amanda drags along computer-geek-turned-attorney Chad Cooper, and together they chase across the Yucatan, pursuing an ever-changing string of leads. The duo encounters treacherous alliances, attacks on their associates, and a deadline for a hefty ransom.

Amanda digs up more than clues when their search collides with the past she believed long buried. Old memories chip away at pretenses, threatening to crush Amanda's carefully constructed life.

Time is running out. When the bullets start to fly, Amanda and Chad wonder: who will survive Cancun?

— Tourist Trapped by K. J. Klemme

Mad Dog Justice by Mark Rubenstein is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

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Mad Dog Justice by Mark Rubenstein

The Mad Dog Series

Publisher: Thunder Lake Press

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 17, 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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Roddy Dolan, a surgeon, and Danny Burns, an accountant, are being hunted as prey. Whoever is after them, and for whatever reason, they are in the crosshairs of killers. Their lives are unravelling. They must hide, send their families away, and leave everything behind.

As the jaws of the vise grow tighter, Roddy and Danny are not sure they can even trust each other. And the police are asking all the wrong questions.

— Mad Dog Justice by Mark Rubenstein

Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Monday, November 17, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline

A Rosato and Associates Novel (11th in series)

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/17/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).

    

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Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin.

Meanwhile, Alice takes over Bennie's life, impersonating her at work and even seducing her boyfriend in order to escape the deadly mess she has made of her own life. But Alice underestimates Bennie and the evil she has unleashed in her twin's psyche, as well as Bennie's determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge.

Bennie must face the twisted truth that she is more like her sister Alice than she could have ever imagined, and by the novel's shocking conclusion, Bennie finds herself engaged in a war she cannot win — with herself.

— Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline

The Seventh Victim by Mary Burton is Today's Romantic Suspense Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Seventh Victim by Mary Burton as today's Romantic Suspense Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, November 17, 2014.

The Seventh Victim by Mary Burton

A Texas Rangers Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Zebra Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/17/2014 at 6:20 AM ET).

Read our review on Mysterious Reviews.

  

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It's been seven years since the Seattle Strangler terrorized the city. His victims were all young, pretty, their lifeless bodies found wrapped in a home-sewn white dress. But there was one who miraculously escaped death, just before the Strangler disappeared.

Lara Church has only hazy memories of her long-ago attack. What she does have is a home in Austin, a job, and a chance at a normal life at last. Then Texas Ranger James Beck arrives on her doorstep with shattering news: The Strangler is back. And this time, he's in Austin.

He's always craved her, even as he killed the others. For so long he's been waiting to unleash the beast within. And this time, he'll prove he holds her life in his hands-right before he ends it forever …

— The Seventh Victim by Mary Burton

Over 20 Top-Rated Mysteries and Thrillers is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Over 20 Top-Rated Mysteries and Thrillers as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Monday, November 17, 2014. We're highlighting one of the titles in this post.

In Broad Daylight by Seth Harwood

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/17/2014 at 6:10 AM ET).

  

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FBI agent Jess Harding treks back to Anchorage to hunt down a sadistic killer who's reemerged from a five-year hiatus — a killer who has already slipped her grasp once before. The endless days of an Alaskan summer can't thwart the fiend's plans as he slashes his way through the rural community, where everyone knows your name and always distrusts the outside.

With the help of Oscar Linstrom, an old colleague who wants to be more than friends, Jess attempts to immerse herself in the area's culture, leading her to a strange rural village inhabited by Russian Old Believers hell-bent on protecting their way of life. Even the locals are outsiders to the Old Believers, and Jess needs a safehaven in the glare of daylight because a blood-stained message left at the scene of the most recent murder says Jess is no longer the hunter — but the hunted.

— In Broad Daylight by Seth Harwood

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141117)

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

• The New Release is Echoes of the Past: Wolf Healer.

• The Daily Deal is Grimville: The Gift of Darkness, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Dreamscapes: The Sandman, just $2.99 through Sunday, November 23, 2014 only.

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

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The New Release is Echoes of the Past: Wolf Healer

For ages, the dark Warriors have been attacking the kingdom. You and your fellow Healers have always pushed them back … but this time, the Warriors were too strong! Now, you and the Elder's daughter, Mira, are all that's left of the Healer clan. You must protect Mira at all costs and restore the kingdom before evil reigns forever. But you have a trick up your sleeve — Healers are able to transform into wolves! Use this special power to help you as you undertake your dangerous journey in this 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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Today's Daily Deal is Grimville: The Gift of Darkness

Darkness has engulfed the quiet town of Grimville! Use all your cunning and wits to unravel the evil intrigues and save Grimville from the invasion of Darkness in this exciting hidden-object puzzle adventure game! Interact with characters to find more details in your investigation, uncover the old legend of the Magic Tower and the Gift of Darkness, and solve the mystery of the missing mayor. Your choices determine the ending. What will you choose: the path of justice or selfishness?

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 Dreamscapes: The Sandman

Young Laura didn't have bad dreams after her father gave her the Dreamcatcher. But one day Laura loses the Dreamcatcher and she gets trapped in a nightmare that might never end. Be the one to save her! Travel to Laura's dreamworlds, fight her deepest fears and solve numerous puzzles to find hints to Laura's salvation in this breathtaking 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:

• Check out the Blog Walkthrough.

Deadly Suspicions, An Alexandra Best Mystery by Jean Saunders, 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 …

Deadly Suspicions by Jean Saunders

An Alexandra Best Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/16/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Some cases just won't stay closed …

The whereabouts of missing sixteen-year-old Steven Leng seemed to have been solved with the traumatic discovery of his mutilated hand in the woods. Everyone was satisfied that the schoolboy was the victim of a tragic accident. But his mother never gave up on her son and ten years later she remains convinced he is still alive.

Private Investigator Alexandra Best, freshly relocated from London to Bristol, unwillingly takes on the case, despite the attempts of the police to warn her off. Running into stony silence wherever she goes, Alexandra tries to track down Steven's school friends. It seems everyone knows more than they are willing to admit to. And the possibility that Steven was murdered becomes more and more plausible.

When Alexandra discovers a link between Steven's group of friends and the cult-like religious group, the Followers, the case becomes even more sinister. Watchful eyes are on Alexandra's every move and the closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she is in …

— Deadly Suspicions by Jean Saunders

New This Week: Cold Light of Day, A Cold Justice Romantic Thriller by Toni Anderson

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 …

Cold Light of Day by Toni Anderson

A Cold Justice Romantic Thriller (3rd in series)

Publisher: Toni Anderson

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/16/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Physicist Scarlett Stone is the daughter of the man considered to be the most notorious Russian agent in FBI history. With her father dying in prison she's determined to prove he's innocent, but time is running out. Using a false identity, she gains access to the Russian ambassador's Christmas party, searching for evidence of a set-up.

Former Navy SEAL, now FBI Special Agent, Matt Lazlo, is instantly attracted to Scarlett but life is too complicated to pursue a politician's daughter. When he discovers she lied to him about her identity, he hunts her down with the ruthless efficiency he usually reserves for serial killers.

Not only does Scarlett's scheme fail, it puts her in the sights of powerful people who reward unwanted curiosity with brutality. The FBI — and Matt — aren't thrilled with her, either. But as agents involved in her father's investigation start dying, and the attempts to stop Scarlett intensify, Matt and his colleagues begin to wonder. Could they have a traitor in their midst?

As Scarlett and Matt dig for the truth they begin to fall passionately for one another. But the real spy isn't about to let anyone uncover their secrets, and resolves to remain firmly in the shadows — and for that to happen, Matt and Scarlett have to die.

— Cold Light of Day by Toni Anderson

Tea with the Black Dragon, A Novel of Suspense by R. A. MacAvoy, 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 …

Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/16/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter Elizabeth is in trouble, she just does not know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth for years. Now Elizabeth has sent her a plane ticket and reserved a room for her at San Francisco's most luxurious hotel. Yet she has not tried to contact Martha since she arrived, leaving her lonely, confused, and a little bit worried.

Into the story steps Mayland Long, a distinguished-looking and wealthy Chinese man who lives at the hotel and is drawn to Martha's good nature and ability to pinpoint the truth of a matter. Mayland and Martha become close in a short period of time and he promises to help her find Elizabeth, making small inroads in the mystery before Martha herself disappears. Now Mayland is struck by the realization, too late, that he is in love with Martha, and now he fears for her life.

Determined to find her, he sets his prodigious philosopher's mind to work on the problem, embarking on a potentially dangerous adventure.

— Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy

The Ghost Backstage by Dori Hillestad Butler, a New The Haunted Library Mystery for Cadet Sleuths

Omnimystery News is pleased to present in this post a new First Clues: Mysteries for Kids series title published this month …

The Ghost Backstage by Dori Hillestad Butler

Series: The Haunted Library

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Format(s): Hardcover, Paperback, eBook

Recommended for Junior Sleuths, Ages 7 to 9

  

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

Kaz and Claire's new detective agency is a success! Their latest case, though, is proving to be the hardest yet.

When Claire's classmate says he saw a ghost backstage while rehearsing the school play, Kaz goes to school with Claire to investigate. From the description the boy gave, Kaz is sure it's his mom — but where has she gone? Kaz and Claire search everywhere and find no trace of her, but the mysterious ghostly activities are still happening …

— The Ghost Backstage by Dori Hillestad Butler

Sign of the Cross, A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery by Thomas Mogford, 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, Bloomsbury …

Sign of the Cross by Thomas Mogford

A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/16/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Just as a degree of calm returns to Spike Sanguinetti's life in Gibraltar, he receives the shocking news that his Maltese uncle and aunt are dead after a domestic dispute escalated into a blood-soaked murder-suicide.

Accompanied by his aging father, Spike crosses the Mediterranean to Malta for the funerals. It falls to Spike, a lawyer, to act as executor of the wills. The more he looks into his relatives' deaths, however, the more he is faced by a troubling question: what could have prompted a mild-mannered art historian to stab his wife to death, then turn the knife upon himself?

After reuniting with an ex-girlfriend, Zahra, now working in Malta as a translator, Spike embarks on a dangerous trail that leads all the way from the island's squalid immigrant tent camps to the ornate palazzos of the legendary Knights of St John. In Malta, the oldest Christian nation in the world, self-interest can masquerade as charity, and what first appears to be worthless can prove valuable beyond price.

— Sign of the Cross by Thomas Mogford

The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, 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 Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, a Nicolas Fox and Kate O'Hare Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Bantam

        

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 …

The FBI had one demand when they secretly teamed up Special Agent Kate O'Hare with charming con man Nicolas Fox — bring down the world's most-wanted and untouchable felons. This time it's the brutal leader of a global drug-smuggling empire. The FBI doesn't know what their target looks like, where he is, or how to find him, but Nick Fox has a few tricks up his sleeve to roust this particular Knipschildt chocolate — loving drug lord.

From the streets of Nashville to the back alleys of Lisbon, from the rooftops of Istanbul to the middle of the Thames, Nick and Kate chase their mark. When they find themselves pitted against a psychopathic bodyguard and a Portuguese enforcer who gets advice from a pickled head, they decide it's time to enlist some special talent — talent like a machete-wielding Somali pirate, a self-absorbed actor, an Oscar-winning special effects artist, and Kate's father Jake, a retired Special Forces operative. Together they could help make this Fox and O'Hare's biggest win yet … if they survive.

— The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

Designated Target by Karen Anders, New from Harlequin Romantic Suspense in November 2014

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

Designated Target by Karen Anders

Series: To Protect and Serve

Imprint: Romantic Suspense

  

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

Criminals want her mind … Her protector wants her love …

Special agent Vincent Fitzgerald's mission is to find missing naval scientist Dr. Skylar Baang. The brilliant Filipino American beauty has been kidnapped for her knowledge and research on top secret projects. But even after Vin rescues her from a dangerous group, he knows they'll be back.

A long-ago promise has kept Skylar committed to her work — love is a distraction she's never allowed herself. Now in the protective custody of a complicated NCIS agent who surprises her at every turn, Skylar wants to stop thinking and start feeling. But as the thugs come after her, she'll need everything she is — and smart, sexy Vin — to stay alive.

— Designated Target by Karen Anders

Heartbroken, A Novel of Suspense by Lisa Unger, 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, Crown …

Heartbroken by Lisa Unger

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Crown

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/16/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real generation-old love story that ended in tragedy.

On the other side of town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. She's in a dead-end job and is involved with the wrong man; she can feel herself being drawn into darkness, with horrific consequences. With nowhere to go, she finds herself on the run.

Without knowing each other, and with lives that couldn't be more different, Kate and Emily head to the same point on the map: Heart Island, an idyllic place in the middle of a lake in the Adirondacks, owned for generations by Birdie Burke's family. The harsh and unyielding Birdie is at one with this island, which has a terrifying history all its own. She, too, has consequences to face.

— Heartbroken by Lisa Unger