Murder in Half Moon Bay by Nancy Jill Thames is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Murder in Half Moon Bay by Nancy Jill Thames

A Jillian Bradley Mystery

Publisher: Nancy Jill Thames

… as today's third free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 24, 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.

All Jillian Bradley wants is to spend a quiet weekend by the ocean and enjoy her afternoon tea.

But a startling discovery draws Jillian and her garden club friends into solving a mystery that threatens her life and changes her future.

— Murder in Half Moon Bay by Nancy Jill Thames

Without a Trace by Colleen Coble is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Without a Trace by Colleen Coble

A Rock Harbor Mystery

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 24, 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.

When a plane carrying Bree Nicholls' husband and son disappears, her life changes forever. Her relentless determination to find them starts an investigation that links their disappearance to a violent crime threatening to tear the peaceful town of Rock Harbor apart.

— Without a Trace by Colleen Coble

Hard Aground by James W. Hall is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Hard Aground by James W. Hall

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: James W. Hall

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 24, 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.

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.

Buried treasure. 450 years ago a treasure ship went down. In Miami, the heat hasn't let up yet …

Hap Tyler windsurfs on Biscayne bay, hears voices, seduces young women, and lives on the edge of history in his family's old-money mansion amid Miami's pastel glitz. But while Hap stumbles around in the shadow of his more successful older brother, Daniel, a tangled web of deception and greed is being spun around him — a web that leads Daniel to his death.

Trying to solve his brother's murder, Hap collides with a 450-year-old secret: the disappearance of $400 million in a sunken Spanish plunder. Daniel's upscale girlfriend is close to digging up the treasure, an avaricious senator has already tasted it, and a stone-cold killer will stop at nothing to bring it home. The century-old city of Miami is a town that murder built. One of its darkest secrets and greatest treasures is about to be exposed.

— Hard Aground by James W. Hall

The Girl in 6E by A. R. Torre is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Girl in 6E by A. R. Torre as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Monday, November 24, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

The Girl in 6E by A. R. Torre

A Deanna Madden Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Redhook

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).

    

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My life inside this apartment is simple. It works, as long as I follow the rules.

1. Don't leave the apartment. Not in case of fire, not to mail a letter, not to run an errand. The door stays shut, and I stay inside.
2. Don't get attached to clients. I take off my clothes, I stand in front of the camera, and I perform. What they want, I give. Their secrets, I keep. Everything I tell them, is a lie.
3. Don't kill anyone. I've obeyed that rule for over three years.

My life, inside this apartment was simple, and it worked. Then, I started breaking rules.

— The Girl in 6E by A. R. Torre

15 Mrs. Bradley Mysteries by Gladys Mitchell is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature 15 Mrs. Bradley Mysteries by Gladys Mitchell as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Monday, November 24, 2014. We're highlighting one of the titles in this post.

Death at the Opera by Gladys Mitchell

A Mrs. Bradley Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 6:10 AM ET).

  

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Hillmaston School has chosen The Mikado for their next school performance and, in recognition of her generous offer to finance the production, their meek and self-effacing arithmetic mistress is offered a key role. But when she disappears mid-way through the opening night performance and is later found dead, unconventional psychoanalyst Mrs. Bradley is called in to investigate.

To her surprise, she soon discovers that the hapless teacher had quite a number of enemies — all with a motive for murder …

— Death at the Opera by Gladys Mitchell

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141124)

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

• The New Release is Myths of the World: Black Rose.

• Today's Special Deal — It is Bonus Punch Monday! Receive a BONUS PUNCH with every game purchase, only on Mondays.

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

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The New Release is Myths of the World: Black Rose

Vampire hunting is a full-time job, and your latest lead has brought you and your partner to Louisiana. Hop aboard a Mississippi River cruise, and get to work! You must investigate the riverboat passengers to expose a vampire who's carrying an ancient artifact that could spell disaster in the wrong hands. Just be wary of who you trust … Even a seemingly normal person might be under the spell of the cunning vampire, luring you into a trap. Uncover the clues and unmask the true villain in this heart-pounding 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

New This Week: This Means War!, A Donovan Creed Novel by John Locke

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 …

This Means War! by John Locke

A Donovan Creed Novel (12th in series)

Publisher: Telemachus Press

Price: $0.99 (as of 11/23/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Donovan Creed emerges from the darkest phase of his life, just in time to romance his houseguest, Trudy Lake, and deal with an unprecedented nuclear threat from a Syrian national who wants to get laid before blowing up the White House.

Add to the mix a task-oriented housewife, a stone killer, a dying grandmother, a crazed hillbilly, a bag lady, The Swingin' Grouchos, nine dogs, and Callie Carpenter, and what could possibly go wrong?

— This Means War! by John Locke

In the Shadow of Lies, An Oliver Wright Mystery by M. A. Adler, 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, She Writes Press …

In the Shadow of Lies by M. A. Adler

An Oliver Wright Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: She Writes Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/23/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Richmond, California. World War II. A cross burning takes innocent lives and unsettles the town. After Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, American Italians start to disappear, a rapist promises to revisit his victims, and someone viciously beats shipyard workers — to death. His failure to solve these seemingly unrelated events haunts homicide detective Oliver Wright, even after he reenlists in the Marines and finds himself fighting in the Pacific.

Oliver returns to Richmond near the end of the war, injured and afraid his career is over. But when an Italian Prisoner of War is murdered the night the Port Chicago Mutiny verdicts are announced, and black soldiers are suspected of the crime, the Army asks Oliver to find out the truth. He joins forces with an Italian POW captain and with a black MP embittered by a segregated military. During their investigation, these unlikely allies expose layers of deceit and violence that stretch back to World War I, and uncover a common thread that connects the earlier crimes.

— In the Shadow of Lies by M. A. Adler

Blacklands, A Novel of Suspense by Belinda Bauer, 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, Simon & Schuster …

Blacklands by Belinda Bauer

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/23/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

Winner of the 2010 CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel.

  

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Eighteen years ago, Billy Peters disappeared. Everyone in town believes Billy was murdered — after all, serial killer Arnold Avery later admitted killing six other children and burying them on the same desolate moor that surrounds their small English village. Only Billy's mother is convinced he is alive. She still stands lonely guard at the front window of her home, waiting for her son to return, while her remaining family fragments around her.

But her twelve-year-old grandson Steven is determined to heal the cracks that gape between his nan, his mother, his brother, and himself. Steven desperately wants to bring his family closure, and if that means personally finding his uncle's corpse, he'll do it.

Spending his spare time digging holes all over the moor in the hope of turning up a body is a long shot, but at least it gives his life purpose.

Then at school, when the lesson turns to letter writing, Steven has a flash of inspiration … Careful to hide his identity, he secretly pens a letter to Avery in jail asking for help in finding the body of "W.P." — William "Billy" Peters.

So begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game.

Just as Steven tries to use Avery to pinpoint the gravesite, so Avery misdirects and teases his mysterious correspondent in order to relive his heinous crimes. And when Avery finally realizes that the letters he's receiving are from a twelve-year-old boy, suddenly his life has purpose too.

Although his is far more dangerous …

— Blacklands by Belinda Bauer

Fatal Brushstroke by Sybil Johnson, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Aurora Anderson

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) …

Fatal Brushstroke by Sybil Johnson

An Aurora Anderson Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Henery Press

  

What we know about the character: Computer programmer and tole-painting enthusiast Aurora (Rory) Anderson lives in Vista Beach, a quiet California beach community where violent crime is rare and murder even rarer. For more information about her first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

A dead body in her garden and a homicide detective on her doorstep …

Rory Anderson doesn't envision finding either when she steps outside to investigate the frenzied yipping coming from her own backyard.

Suspicion falls on Rory when the body buried in her flowerbed turns out to be someone she knows — her tole painting teacher, Hester Bouquet. Just two weeks before, Rory attended one of Hester's weekend seminars, an unpleasant experience she vowed never to repeat. As evidence piles up against Rory, she embarks on a quest to identify the killer and clear her name. Can Rory unearth the truth before she encounters her own brush with death?

— Fatal Brushstroke by Sybil Johnson

Thirteen Hours, A Benny Griessel Thriller by Deon Meyer, 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, Atllantic Monthly Press …

Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer

A Benny Griessel Thriller (2nd in series)

Publisher: Atllantic Monthly Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/23/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Morning dawns in Cape Town, and for homicide detective Benny Griessel it promises to be a very trying day. A teenage girl's body has been found on the street, her throat cut. She was an American — a PR nightmare in the #1 tourist destination in South Africa. And she wasn't alone. Somewhere in Cape Town her friend, Rachel Anderson, an innocent American, is hopefully still alive.

On the run, Rachel is terrified, unsure where to turn in the unknown city. Detective Griessel races against the clock, trying to bring her home safe and solve the murder of her friend in a single day. Meanwhile, he gets pulled into a second case, the murder of a South African music executive. Griessel's been sober for nearly six months — 156 days. But day 157 is going to be tough.

— Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer

Into a Raging Blaze by Andreas Norman, New in Bookstores during November 2014

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

Into a Raging Blaze by Andreas Norman, A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Quercus

        

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 …

In September 2011, things are going well for Carina Dymek. The intelligent, determined young woman has expertly carried out her duties as EU Coordinator for the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A promotion is likely any day now.

She's moved past her divorce and found true love in the arms of Jamal Badawi, an Egyptian-Swedish national. And she's been chosen to represent Sweden at an international meeting in Brussels on joint security policy. But she gets far more than she bargained for at the conference, when a nervous-looking man who only identifies himself as "Jean" approaches her during the lunch break outside and presses a USB storage device into her hand with little explanation. Carina is shocked and disturbed by what the contents of the letter reveal: High-level plans for a new pan-European intelligence service, bound by few if any national laws or international rules of conduct in its surveillance, arrest, and interrogation protocols. And its objectives are equally questionable, with a clear agenda to curb foreign immigration into the EU, and freely violate civil rights for the sake of pre-empting Arab terrorism.

When Carina dutifully presents the documents to her superiors at the MFA, they are not happy. Before long Carina is suspended, escorted from the building by security, and under investigation by SAPO, Sweden's Intelligence Agency. Initially SAPO agent Bente Jensen — another strong, resourceful woman — focuses on the question of how a rank-and-file MFA employee obtained this ticking time bomb of intelligence.

The stakes rise for both Carina and Bente when the British MI6 muscles in to Sweden, intent on affecting a quick resolution to the situation — and by any means necessary. They're particularly interested in Dymek's connection to Badawi, whom they know to be the nephew of a Muslim Brotherhood leader under numerous counterterrorism investigations. MI6 wants Badawi's uncle, and they want to be sure anyone with information about the secret intelligence service is definitively silenced. So when they learn of Carina's relationship with Jamal, they see a possible opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

— Into a Raging Blaze by Andreas Norman

Crossfire Christmas by Julie Miller, New from Harlequin Intrigue in November 2014

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

Crossfire Christmas by Julie Miller

Series: The Precinct

Imprint: Intrigue

  

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

An injured undercover agent must keep an innocent nurse from getting caught in the crossfire …

With his life bleeding out from bullet wounds and a car crash, Charles Nash's best option is to kidnap the innocent nurse who stops to help him. At gunpoint, the jaded DEA undercover agent offers Teresa Rodriguez a desperate deal: if she keeps him alive long enough to find out who's blown his cover and set him up to die, she'll be home for Christmas.

As the two go on the run from an unknown killer, the Good Samaritan gives Nash a bad case of unprofessional desire. He's drawn to the sexy little spitfire for her bravery, boldness and attitude. But how can he count on kissing her under the mistletoe when so many enemies are working to ensure they don't make it to the holidays?

— Crossfire Christmas by Julie Miller

Santa Cruise, A Holiday Mystery at Sea by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, 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, Scribner …

Santa Cruise by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark

A Holiday Mystery at Sea

Publisher: Scribner

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/23/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth; her husband, Willy; recently hitched private detective Regan Reilly and her groom, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad; and Regan's parents, Nora and Luke, are guests on the Royal Mermaid's maiden voyage, the Santa Cruise. The cruise is Commodore Randolph Weed's gift to a select group of people who in the last year "made the world a better place." What he really wants is good publicity that will generate future bookings for his struggling new venture. He also plans to scatter his beloved mother's ashes at sea during this four-day odyssey in the Caribbean. What he doesn't know is that his ne'er-do-well nephew, Eric, has smuggled two escaping criminals on board.

Alvirah won the cruise at a charity auction and persuaded the Reillys to accompany her and Willy. Other passengers include members of the Oklahoma Readers and Writers group, who volunteer their time teaching people to read. The group is planning a mystery seminar dedicated to a Ghost of Honor, the late Left Hook Louie, a champion prizefighter turned bestselling author. There are also ten men on board who had donated their time playing Santa Claus during the holiday season as well as assorted other charitable folk, all planning on a restful post-Christmas vacation.

The hoped-for tranquility soon vanishes. A terrified mystery fan swears she has spotted the Ghost of Honor in the ship's chapel. Two Santa suits disappear from a locked supply room. A storm develops, and in the infirmary an attempt is made on the life of a seemingly feeble passenger. Back in Miami, a TV reporter is turning the cruise into a public-relations nightmare, thanks to her spies on the ship.

As the Royal Mermaid sails through troubled waters, Alvirah, Regan, and Jack are uncovering the clues that lead them to dangerous criminals who were not on the original guest list!

— Santa Cruise by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark

Mystery Godoku Puzzle for November 24, 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:

D E G H N O R T U

Tim Lees' 2014 supernatural Field Ops thriller has this title, with "The" (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!