Code Name: Katarina by Shane O'Brien MacDonald is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Code Name: Katarina by Shane O'Brien MacDonald

A Kiki Claymore Mystery

Publisher: Ankerville Street Productions

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 25, 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.

A philanthropist and visionary in the computer world, Gargamel Tossert is the last person authorities would suspect of bombing a Los Angeles skyscraper — connecting California's internet to the rest of the world. Unfortunately for him, Kiki Claymore is right on his trail. Why? Because Tossert has brainwashed Kiki's old roommate, Aislinn Rousseau, as his own agent of evil.

But when Kiki is forced to secretly escape the United States, all because of Tossert's actions, she refuses to stay undercover. Kiki demands to infiltrate Tossert's network, and rescue Aislinn from his influence. The trail leads to a secret bunker under Katarina, a historic neighborhood of Stockholm, Sweden.

With the unlikely help of the Hell's Angels, Kiki races against time to save her friend. And stop Tossert's plan to bring the world to its knees — by destroying every automobile built in the last twenty years with a deadly computer virus.

— Code Name: Katarina by Shane O'Brien MacDonald

The Sleuth Sisters by Maggie Pill is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

The Sleuth Sisters by Maggie Pill

A Sleuth Sisters Mystery

Publisher: Gwendolyn Press

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 25, 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.

Recently unemployed, Faye Burner talks her semi-retired sister Barbara into opening a detective agency. Their first few months are disappointing. No one in their small town believes two fifty-something women can succeed as detectives.

Faye wants to ask their well-connected sister Retta for help, but Barb insists she's too bossy and manipulative to be part of their business. While that's true, Faye can't resist letting Retta in on their first real case when they're hired to find Neil Brown, a man accused of murdering his wife and brother-in-law. While Retta is helpful, Barb and she are both interested in the handsome new police chief, which makes having them in the same room together uncomfortable.

When the sisters locate Brown, bad things begin to happen, escalating from scare tactics to assault to murder. Someone doesn't want the old case stirred up, and that person is willing to kill again. If the Sleuth Sisters don't work together, they'll be less one sibling!

— The Sleuth Sisters by Maggie Pill

Cold Case Squad by Edna Buchanan is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Cold Case Squad by Edna Buchanan as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, November 25, 2014.

Cold Case Squad by Edna Buchanan

A Cold Case Squad Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/25/2014 at 6:10 AM ET).

  

Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.

A man and a woman are shot dead at a strip club in Miami Beach. A few hours later, an explosion rocks a child's birthday party, killing a father of three. The murders go unsolved and the blast is deemed an accident.

Twelve years later, a blonde walks into the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad. She's been seeing her husband everywhere she goes. Trouble is, he's been dead for twelve years …

— Cold Case Squad by Edna Buchanan

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141125)

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

• Our Featured Title is Columbus: Ghost of the Mystery Stone.

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

— ♦ —

Our Featured Title is Columbus: Ghost of the Mystery Stone

After crashing his ship, and being tossed overboard, Columbus sees a beautiful apparition reaching out to him. Waking up on a mysterious island, Columbus begins to explore his surroundings and stumbles upon ancient treasures and perplexing puzzles. Find important items that will help you move on in this fun 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

The Midwife's Tale, A Historical Mystery by Sam Thomas, 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, Minotaur Books …

The Midwife's Tale by Sam Thomas

A Historical Mystery

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.

It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels' hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget's friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer.

Bridget joins forces with Martha Hawkins, a servant who's far more skilled with a knife than any respectable woman ought to be. To save Esther from the stake, they must dodge rebel artillery, confront a murderous figure from Martha's past, and capture a brutal killer who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks. The investigation takes Bridget and Martha from the homes of the city's most powerful families to the alleyways of its poorest neighborhoods. As they delve into the life of Esther's murdered husband, they discover that his ostentatious Puritanism hid a deeply sinister secret life, and that far too often tyranny and treason go hand in hand.

— The Midwife's Tale by Sam Thomas

Alex, A Camille Verhoeven Mystery by Pierre Lemaitre, 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, MacLehose Press …

Alex by Pierre Lemaitre

A Camille Verhoeven Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: MacLehose Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

Winner of the 2013 CWA International Dagger.

  

Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.

Alex Prevost — kidnapped, savagely beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a tiny wooden cage — is running out of time. Her abductor appears to want only to watch her die. Will hunger, thirst, or the rats get her first?

Apart from a shaky eyewitness report of the abduction, Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads, and no family or friends anxious to find a missing loved one. The diminutive and brilliant detective knows from bitter experience the urgency of finding the missing woman as quickly as possible — but first he must understand more about her.

As he uncovers the details of the young woman's singular history, Camille is forced to acknowledge that the person he seeks is no ordinary victim. She is beautiful, yes, but also extremely tough and resourceful. Before long, saving Alex's life will be the least of Commandant Verhoeven's considerable challenges.

— Alex by Pierre Lemaitre

New This Week: In a Bind, A California Corwin, P. I. Mystery by D. D. VanDyke

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 …

In a Bind by D. D. VanDyke

A California Corwin, P. I. Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Reaper Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.

When a blackmailed drag queen walks into Cal Corwin's P. I. agency, she quickly throws herself into the investigation, but with each new clue she finds the case gets murkier, its web of lies more tangled.

When murder rears its ugly head, it becomes clear more is at stake than money, and Cal must watch her own back even as she tries to find the culprit.

— In a Bind by D. D. VanDyke

Snow White Must Die, An Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff Mystery by Nele Neuhaus, 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, Minotaur Books …

Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus

An Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.

On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer.

On a September evening eleven years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls vanished from the village without a trace. In a trial based only on circumstantial evidence, twenty-year-old Tobias Sartorius, Rita Cramer's son, was sentenced to ten years in prison. Bodenstein and Kirchhoff discover that Tobias, after serving his sentence, has now returned to his home town. Did the attack on his mother have something to do with his return?

In the village, Pia and Oliver encounter a wall of silence. When another young girl disappears, the events of the past seem to be repeating themselves in a disastrous manner. The investigation turns into a race against time, because for the villagers it is soon clear who the perpetrator is — and this time they are determined to take matters into their own hands.

— Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus

Serpents Rising by David A. Poulsen, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Adam Cullen and Mike Cobb

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) …

Serpents Rising by David A. Poulsen

An Adam Cullen and Mike Cobb Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Dundurn

  

What we know about the characters: Ex-cop Mike Cobb is a private detective; Adam Cullen is a crime writing journalist. For more information about their first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

In 2005, journalist Adam Cullen's wife, Donna, is killed by an arsonist. In desperation after police, fire department, and insurance investigators all give up trying to find the culprit, Cullen hires private detective Mike Cobb, but he, too, is stymied. Seven years later, Cobb re-enters Cullen's life. A search for a crack-addicted teenage runaway is tangled up with Calgary's most ruthless criminal organization — and a possible lead on Donna's killer.

The parallel investigations take the two onto Calgary's meanest streets, populated by a vicious biker gang, a silky-smooth pedophile, and an assortment of people who aren't at all what they seem.

As they weave their way through long-buried secrets, Cullen and Cobb will come face-to-face with a cruelty they could never have expected … and a killer about to strike again.

— Serpents Rising by David A. Poulsen

You Should Have Known, A Literary Mystery by Jean Hanff Korelitz, 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, Grand Central …

You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz

A Literary Mystery

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.

Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son, Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of the forthcoming You Should Have Known, a book in which she castigates women for not valuing their intuition and calls upon them to pay attention to their first impressions of men.

But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

— You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Fear City by F. Paul Wilson, New in Bookstores during November 2014

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

Fear City by F. Paul Wilson, a Repairman Jack, Early Years Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Tor Books

        

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 …

Centered around an obscure group of malcontents intent on creating a terrible explosion in New York City in 1993, the final stages of young Jack becoming Repairman Jack are revealed.

It is a dark and terrible story, full of plots and needless mayhem, with secret agents, a freelance torturer, a secret society as old as human history, love, death, and a very bleak triumph. Jack threads his way through this intricate maze, as people he loves are stripped away from him in a way that presages the later epic series of novels.

— Fear City by F. Paul Wilson

Twelve Drummers Drumming, A Father Tom Christmas Mystery by C. C. Benison, 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, Delacorte Press …

Twelve Drummers Drumming by C. C. Benison

A Father Tom Christmas Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Price: $0.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 2:00 PM ET).

  

Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.

Father Tom Christmas moves to the picturesque English hamlet of Thornford Regis to become its new vicar and to seek a peaceful haven. But inside the empty village hall, the huge Japanese o-daiko drum that's featured in the May Fayre festivities has been viciously sliced open — and curled up inside is the bludgeoned body of Sybella Parry, the daughter of the choir director. Realizing this village is not the refuge he'd hoped for, Father Tom comes to a disturbing conclusion: Sybella's killer must be one of his parishioners.

No one is above suspicion — not Sebastian John, the deeply reserved verger, nor Mitsuko Drewe, a local artist, nor Colonel Northmore, survivor of a World War II prison camp. And over all hangs the long-unsolved mystery of a sudden disappearance, one that brought Father Tom to this picture-perfect place to live — or die.

— Twelve Drummers Drumming by C. C. Benison

Rogue Spy by Joanna Bourne, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014 …

Rogue Spy by Joanna Bourne

A Spymaster's Lady Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

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 …

Ten years ago he was a boy, given the name Thomas Paxton and sent by Revolutionary France to infiltrate the British Intelligence Service. Now his sense of honor brings him back to London, alone and unarmed, to confess. But instead of facing the gallows, he's given one last impossible assignment to prove his loyalty.

Lovely, lying, former French spy Camille Leyland is dragged from her safe rural obscurity by threats and blackmail. Dusting off her spy skills, she sets out to track down a ruthless French fanatic and rescue the innocent victim he's holding — only to find an old colleague already on the case. Pax.

Old friendship turns to new love, and as Pax and Camille's dark secrets loom up from the past, Pax is left with a choice — go rogue from the Service or lose Camille forever …

— Rogue Spy by Joanna Bourne

Murder as a Fine Art, A Historical Thriller by David Morrell, 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, Mulholland Books …

Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell

A Historical Thriller

Publisher: Mulholland Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

Winner of the 2014 Sue Feder Historical Memorial Award.

  

Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.

Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier.

The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives.

— Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell

New This Week: A Last Goodbye, An Ali Reynolds Mystery Novella by J. A. Jance

Ali Reynolds takes on double responsibilities as both sleuth and bride in this fun and exciting e-novella, a Kindle Single.

A Last Goodbye by J. A. Jance

An Ali Reynolds Mystery Novella

Publisher: Pocket Star

Price: $0.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.

Ali Reynolds is finally getting married to her longtime love B. Simpson. They wanted a simple Christmas Eve wedding, but nothing is ever simple with Ali. Even as a motley crew of her friends — Leland Brooks, Sister Anselm, and others — descend on Vegas, the bride-to-be finds herself juggling last-minute wedding plans and a mystery in the form of a stray miniature dachshund. Ali's grandson rescues the little dog, but Ali's not in the market for a new pet right before her honeymoon, and leaves no stone unturned in hunting for the dog's owner.

But what she finds is more than just a shaggy dog story … Bella's elderly owner has vanished, and her son seems to be behind it. So it's Ali and B. to the rescue — and still making it to the church on time!

— A Last Goodbye by J. A. Jance