New This Week: Somebody's Dead in Snellville, A Sheila Travis Mystery by Patricia Sprinkle

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 …

Somebody's Dead in Snellville by Patricia Sprinkle

A Sheila Travis Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Bella Rosa Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/28/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

First published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press in 1992. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

  

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After her most recent foray into detection, Sheila Travis is more than happy to concentrate on her job as Director of International Relations for Hosokawa International. Unfortunately, her relative peace and quiet is short-lived.

Coming home from an exhausting business trip, all Sheila wants to do is go to sleep. Instead, she is dragooned by her young neighbor. Sara Sims Tait into a Sims family dinner out in Gwinnett County.

Each day, the greater metropolitan area of Atlanta moves a little further into Gwinnett County, and Sara Sims's contentious family — part upwardly mobile, part solid dirt farmers — sees big dollar signs when major developers express interest in Grandma Sims's farmland. Too bad she won't sell.

Greed and anger are powerful influences, but when the murderer strikes, Grandma Sims is not the victim, and it is up to Sheila and her irrepressible, aristocratic Aunt Mary to untangle the complicated web of motives, opportunities, and relationships that connect the Sims family to murder.

— Somebody's Dead in Snellville by Patricia Sprinkle

Amazon has Black Friday deals on Kindles and Fire tablets!

Amazon has Black Friday deals on Kindles and Fire tablets!

Save $30 on a Kindle Touch or a Fire HD7; and Save $20 on a Kindle Paperwhite or a Fire HD6.

This is a limited time offer, with prices expected to be valid through November 30th, 2014.

Above High Tide by Blair Polly is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Above High Tide by Blair Polly

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Blair Polly

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 28, 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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More on today's free book, below.

Investigator Sam McKee likes to spend his holiday time beach-combing for jade and other artifacts on New Zealand's rugged West Coast. But when he stumbles across a strange man digging a grave up on the river flats, and then catches the same man staring at a pretty young girl in the local village, his holiday plans are thrown into chaos.

Lydia would rather live with someone other than Mr G, but she doesn't have a safe exit strategy and Mr G isn't the sort of man a girl says no to.

Mr G wants it all. His brothels make him plenty of money, but that's not enough. His property empire, held together with blackmail and extortion, is under threat, and he will do whatever it takes to keep it.

Sam will need all his skills as an investigator, diplomat, and gambler if he's to satisfy a violent egomaniac, especially one who's out for blood. Can he save the life of someone who's just made a stupid mistake without risking his own, or will he end up buried above high tide?

— Above High Tide by Blair Polly

Keep Me Safe by Maya Banks is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Keep Me Safe by Maya Banks as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Friday, November 28, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

Keep Me Safe by Maya Banks

A Slow Burn Novel of Romantic Suspense (1st in series)

Publisher: Avon

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/28/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).

    

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When Caleb Devereaux's younger sister is kidnapped, this scion of a powerful and wealthy family turns to an unlikely source for help: a beautiful and sensitive woman with a gift for finding answers others cannot.

While Ramie can connect to victims and locate them by feeling their pain, her ability comes with a price. Every time she uses it, it costs her a piece of herself. Helping the infuriatingly attractive and impatient Caleb successfully find his sister nearly destroys her. Even though his sexual intensity draws her like a magnet, she needs to get as far away from him as she can.

Deeply remorseful for the pain he's caused, Caleb is determined to make things right. But just when he thinks Ramie's vanished forever, she reappears. She's in trouble and she needs his help. Now, Caleb will do risk everything to protect her — including his heart …

— Keep Me Safe by Maya Banks

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141128)

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

• Our Featured Title is Ghost Encounters: Deadwood.

• The Daily Deal is Mirror Mysteries, just $2.99 today only!

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

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Our Featured Title is Ghost Encounters: Deadwood

The town of Deadwood is being terrorized by the ghost of a murderous outlaw! Break Blackjack's evil curse and save the day while enjoying the incredible Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure gameplay. After killing 21 men while he was alive, Blackjack is back to kill many more! Grave robbers have unleashed a phantom curse and condemned the entire town. One by one the townsfolk are dropping dead and now it's up to you to save them!

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Mirror Mysteries

A young family stops at a mysterious old home for a picnic and as the mother closes her eyes to enjoy the sun, she hears a horrific crash, the kids! As she enters the house, she is confronted by a mystical mirror thats taken her kids and locks them away in a magical world. A Hidden Object quest is placed upon you to not just save the children, but to help a unique character in very mystical places! Can you solve the mirror mysteries?

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

Presumption of Guilt by Marti Green, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014 …

Presumption of Guilt by Marti Green

Innocent Prisoners Project

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

  

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 …

Twelve years ago, teenager Molly Singer was tried and convicted for murdering her parents. She was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison, torn away from her newborn daughter, and forsaken by those closest to her. But now, a series of anonymous letters proclaim her innocence — and point a finger at a deadly conspiracy.

Attorney Dani Trumball specializes in defending the wrongfully imprisoned at the Help Innocent Prisoners Project. But taking Molly's case means taking on a hard-hearted justice system that doesn't like do-overs … and a merciless killer who will do anything to keep a secret history of dirty deals buried. Only the truth will set Molly free and reunite her broken family. And only Dani has any chance of finding it in a showdown that will push her legal talents — and her survival skills — to the very edge.

— Presumption of Guilt by Marti Green

A Billion Ways to Die by Chris Knopf, New in Bookstores during November 2014

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

A Billion Ways to Die by Chris Knopf, A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: The Permanent Press

    

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 …

Arthur Cathcart and Natsumi Fitzgerald wanted to believe they were free of the nearly invisible, malignant forces they had pursued, and been pursued by, across continents and oceans. The slightly brain-damaged,tech freak researcher and the blackjack dealing psychologist had convinced themselves that life aboard a sail boat in the Caribbean, incognito and in love, could be a lasting refuge. The death of that illusion was as brutal as it was abrupt. Even people who knew how to dodge ruthless outlaws and relentless law enforcement learned there were powers from which no one could ever hide.

Not in the 21st century. Not if you wanted more than to simply exist. To truly live in the world, you had to have a world that allows you to live. Soldiers fighting in Vietnam had a saying when pinned down under enemy fire: The only way out is through. And so it is that Arthur and Natsumi take to the fight, where the full expanse of both the virtual and material world is the field of engagement. Nearly blind to the threats that surround them, yet searching for that impossible path back to the ordinary lives they'd been forced to abandon.

Wiser, stronger and more experienced than they ever imagined they'd be in the art of clandestine combat, Arthur and Natsumi understand what makes you strong can also get you killed in a hurry. That the reserves of resilience and determination aren't limitless, that the power of intellect and craft dwindles in the face of a pitiless and resolute foe.

That there are a billion ways to die, but only one way to live.

— A Billion Ways to Die by Chris Knopf

Legends Can Be Murder by Connie Shelton, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014 …

Legends Can Be Murder by Connie Shelton

A Charlie Parker Mystery (15th in series)

Publisher: Secret Staircase

  

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 …

Charlie Parker and her husband Drake Langston accept a job with Gold Trail Adventures in Skagway, Alaska, flying visitors by helicopter to remote cabin sites to experience the outdoor lifestyle and seek their fortunes. It isn't long before one of the guests finds a set of bones in an old mine, remains that date back decades. His hands full with present-day cases, police chief Sam Branson tells Charlie and her new reporter friend, Mina Gengler, that they are free to investigate.

A second body is found, bringing up a lot of questions. Charlie gets a peek into the lives and times of Gold Rush-era Alaskans when she discovers a box of old letters written by one of the stampeders and begins to wonder if it's possible that the two bodies are connected? And why does it seem that someone in Skagway today doesn't want the women to dig for the truth?

— Legends Can Be Murder by Connie Shelton

No Harm by Wendy Hornsby is Today's Open Road Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature No Harm by Wendy Hornsby as today's Open Road Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, November 27, 2014.

No Harm by Wendy Hornsby

A Kate Teague Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/27/2014 at 7:50 AM ET).

  

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After her mother's savage murder, Kate Teague becomes the killer's next target …

Ash falls on the cemetery like grey snow, blown in from a wildfire that burns a mile off. A crowd has turned out to watch Kate bury her mother, not because they loved her — nobody loved her — but out of curiosity. This town has never seen a murder so brutal. Suspecting a mugging gone wrong, the police comb the area for drug addicts. But then they find the rich old lady's purse, full of cash and credit cards.

The purse surfaced on the beach of Kate's family home three days after the attack, which means the murderer is nearby — and heiress Kate appears to be the next target. After the first attempt on her life fails, Kate starts her own investigation. Everyone in town had a reason to hate her mother, but why would anybody try to kill Kate Teague?

— No Harm by Wendy Hornsby

Double Indignity by James Finn Garner is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Double Indignity by James Finn Garner

A Rex Kobo, Private Clown Mystery

Publisher: James Finn Garner

… as today's third free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 27, 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.

In Top Town, a ghetto full of washed-up circus lifers in the shadow of a big city, audiences come every night for cheap thrills, both wholesome and not. Fire eaters perform for gin money. Gypsies reveal the future (and for a sawbuck can make it happen). Daredevils cheat Death time after time, but once. And witness to it all is one of the most loved and notorious figures in Top Town, a tough joey with a deadly past and a nose for picking all the wrong fights: Rex Koko, private clown.

Rex is begged to bring in a runaway lion, but has his shoe eaten in the process. Trying to get repaid for the expensive footwear, he runs afoul of drug-pushing quacks, alligator hypnotists, Amazonian witch doctors and blue-nosed moral crusaders trying to shut down Top Town. Before the second act, menace fills the air like the smell of popcorn, whiskey and fear. The South American jungle was never so dangerous as the tawdry streets of "The next best thing to a circus."

It's three rings of danger, suspense and more danger. Lions! Lustful ladies! Lethal larries! As e.e. cummings said, "Damn everything, but the circus!"

— Double Indignity by James Finn Garner

Lemon Drops and Love by Angela Stevens is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Lemon Drops and Love by Angela Stevens

A Cocktail Series Mystery

Publisher: Angela Stevens

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 27, 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.

For years, Jude loved Maya from afar. When she falls into his arms at his sister's wedding, Jude decides he's waited long enough. But it's complicated. Maya's no longer the carefree, self-assured woman he once knew. Frightened, vulnerable, her confidence crushed, Maya is unable to see a way out of an abusive relationship.

But Jude Holland is not going to stand back and watch this happen. After rescuing her from Carl's clutches, he plans to stay and pick up the pieces, but he didn't bank on Carl's unwillingness to let go.

— Lemon Drops and Love by Angela Stevens

The Inspector's Daughter by Alanna Knight is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

The Inspector's Daughter by Alanna Knight

A Rose McQuinn Mystery

Publisher: Alanna Knight

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of November 27, 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.

Rose McQuinn returns to Edinburgh from the American wild west of 1895. Her baby has died while her husband Danny, working with Pinkerton's Detective Agency in Arizona goes missing. She has little time to grieve before she unwittingly takes on a new career by agreeing to investigate the strange behaviour of the husband of her childhood friend Alice.

But what appears to be an adulterous affair suggests something much more sinister, the brutal and still unsolved murder of a servant girl. Whatever heartbreak lies in store, Rose must discover the truth.

From her home in Solomon's Tower on Arthur's Seat, aided by a wild deerhound who befriends her, her fist investigation puts her own life in deadly danger.

— The Inspector's Daughter by Alanna Knight

The Bourne Retribution by Eric Van Lustbader is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Bourne Retribution by Eric Van Lustbader as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, November 27, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

The Bourne Retribution by Eric Van Lustbader

A Jason Bourne Thriller (11th in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/27/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).

    

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Bourne's friend Eli Yadin, head of Mossad, learns that Ouyang Jidan, a senior member of China's Politburo, and a major Mexican drug lord may have been trafficking in something far more deadly than drugs. Yadin needs Bourne to investigate. Bourne agrees, but only because he has a personal agenda: Ouyang Jidan is the man who ordered Rebeka — one of the only people Bourne has ever truly cared about — murdered. Bourne is determined to avenge her death, but in the process he becomes enmeshed in a monstrous world-wide scheme involving the Chinese, Mexicans, and Russians.

Bourne's increasingly desperate search for Ouyang takes him from Tel Aviv to Shanghai, Mexico City, and, ultimately, a village on China's coast where a clever trap has been laid for him. Bourne finds himself pursued on all sides and unsure whom he can trust. As he moves closer to Ouyang, closer to avenging the woman he loved, he also moves ever closer to his own death …

— The Bourne Retribution by Eric Van Lustbader

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141127)

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

• Our Featured Title is Fallen Shadows.

• Today's Special Deal — Today only: Thanksgiving Sale! All Standard Edition games are just $4.99 each! Use coupon code THANKS at check-out and your standard PC or Mac game will be discounted. Use as many times as you'd like! Offer valid today, Thursday, November 27th, 2014 until 11:59 PM PT.

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

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Our Featured Title is Fallen Shadows

Six months after Hurricane Katrina, you return from abroad to your childhood home in hopes of finding your missing grandfather. Believed to have been washed away during the storm, he has not been heard from since, but the signs point to a more sinister plot. Your return trip to New Orleans hasn't gone at all as planned, beginning with you waking up on the wrong side of a body bag zipper in the city morgue, trying to remember how you arrived. Put the pieces together!

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

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New This Week: Dead Cool, A Shara Summers Mystery by Sara Jayne Townsend

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 …

Dead Cool by Sara Jayne Townsend

A Shara Summers Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: MuseItUp Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/26/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Actress Shara Summers has settled in London and is "between jobs" when her Canadian ex-boyfriend David sails back into her life, begging to her to fill the backing singer vacancy in the up and coming band he's about to go on a European tour with. Short on funds and auditions Shara reluctantly agrees, but tragedy strikes at the opening night party when the band's charismatic front man Dallas Cleary Anderson falls to his death from a hotel window.

It soon becomes clear that Dallas did not fall, but was pushed. His arrogant and confrontational manner means there are no shortage of people who wanted him out of the band permanently — but who would resort to murder?

— Dead Cool by Sara Jayne Townsend