Blackbriar by William Sleator is Today's Teen Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Blackbriar by William Sleator as today's Teen Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, December 04, 2014.

Blackbriar by William Sleator

A YA Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Skyscape

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/04/2014 at 6:20 AM ET).

  

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Danny can feel something sinister about his new home, Blackbriar, an old, abandoned cottage in the English countryside. The residents of a nearby town refuse to speak of the house and can barely look Danny in the eyes. Then Danny begins to have strange dreams of fire and witches, and awakes to shrieks of laughter that seem to come from another time and place.

With help from his friend, Lark, Danny begins to unravel the mysteries of Blackbriar and its frightening past, through the discovery of an ancient doll and a chilling list of names and dates carved on the cellar door. But what might be most terrifying of all is the mystery that does not lie in the past but in the here and now …

— Blackbriar by William Sleator

Two Crime Novels by William Lashner is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Two Crime Novels by William Lashner as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Thursday, December 04, 2014. We're highlighting one of the titles in this post.

The Barkeep by William Lashner

A Crime Novel

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/04/2014 at 6:10 AM ET).

  

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Justin Chase is the perfect barkeep, tending bar as he lives his life, in a state of Zen serenity. At least until Birdie Grackle, a yellow-haired, foul-mouthed alcoholic from Texas, walks into his bar, orders a Mojito, and makes a startling confession.

Six years ago Justin's life was ripped apart when he discovered his mother's bludgeoned corpse in the foyer of the family home. Now Justin's father is serving a life sentence and Justin, after a stint in the asylum, drowns his emotions in a pool of inner peace. But when Birdie Grackle claims to be the hit man who murdered Justin's mother for the money, Justin is hurled back to the emotions, back to the past, and, most frighteningly of all, back to the father he has tried to leave behind.

Who hired Birdie Grackle to kill Justin's mother? As Justin pieces together the truth, a merciless killing machine begins stalking the barkeep, leaving a trail of dead in his wake. Someone wants to bury the truth, and maybe Justin, too. As the terror closes in, Justin had better find some answers and find them fast, because the stakes have been raised, his life is on the line, and murder is so not Zen.

— The Barkeep by William Lashner

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141204)

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

• Our Featured Title is Lara Gates: The Lost Talisman.

• The Daily Deal is Crystals of Time, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Azada: Elementa, just $2.99 through Sunday, December 07, 2014 only.

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Our Featured Title is Lara Gates: The Lost Talisman

Pieces of an ancient talisman have been separated, and now it’s up to you bring them back together before it is too late! Protect Banderville College and figure out who is behind this dastardly plan. Help Lara with your Hidden Object skills and get to the bottom of this intriguing mystery!

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Crystals of Time

Ashley, a professional thief, has inherited this vocation from her father. When her father suddenly goes missing one night while trying to sneak into the Three Oak Mansion, Ashley finds herself standing before the vast deserted estate with only a mysterious crystal to aid her in the recovery of her father. Using her crystal, Ashley must navigate through time and space to find the clues that will lead her to her missing father and help her solve the mystery of Three Oak Mansion. Join Ashley on an epic adventure!

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

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The current Catch of the Week is Azada: Elementa

Journey to amazing worlds as this whimsical saga continues! After its precious elements are stolen, Azada chooses you to find the elemental mages who can save this special world. But bad-guy Panoptes is waiting around every corner to stop you at any cost — or is he? Nothing in Azada is as it seems …

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.

The Murders of Richard III, A Jacqueline Kirby Mystery by Elizabeth Peters, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters

A Jacqueline Kirby Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/03/2014 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

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In a remote English manor house, modern admirersof the much-maligned King Richard III — one of Shakespeare's most extraordinary villains — are gathered for a grand weekend of dress-up and make-believe murder.

But the fun ends when the masquerade turns more sinister … and deadly. Jacqueline Kirby, an American librarian on hand for the festivities, suddenly finds herself in the center of strange, dark doings … and racing to untangle a murderous puzzle before history repeats itself in exceptionally macabre ways.

— The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters

New This Week: Death at the Voyager Hotel, A YA Murder Mystery by Kwei Jones-Quartey

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 December 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

Death at the Voyager Hotel by Kwei Jones-Quartey

A YA Murder Mystery

Publisher: Afram Publications

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/03/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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In the city of Accra, the Voyager Hotel is widely known as a well-run lodging perfectly suited to cash-strapped tourists. But one early March morning guest Heather Peterson, a beautiful young Oregonian teacher, is found dead at the bottom of the pool.

— Death at the Voyager Hotel by Kwei Jones-Quartey

Water Like a Stone, A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mystery by Deborah Crombie, Now Available at a Special Price

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Water Like a Stone by Deborah Crombie

A Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/03/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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When Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit, and Toby for a holiday visit to his family in Cheshire, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich's pretty buildings and the historic winding canal, and young Kit is instantly smitten with his cousin Lally.

But their visit is marred by family tensions exacerbated by the unraveling of Duncan's sister Juliet's marriage. And tensions are brought to the breaking point on Christmas Eve with Juliet's discovery of a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn — a tragedy hauntingly echoed by the recent drowning of Peter Llewellyn, a schoolmate of Lally's.

Meanwhile, on her narrowboat, former social worker Annie Lebow is living a life of self-imposed isolation and preparing for a lonely Christmas, made more troubling by her meeting earlier in the day with the Wains, a traditional boating family whose case precipitated Annie's leaving her job.

As the police make their inquiries into the infant's death, Kincaid discovers that life in the lovely market town of his childhood is far from idyllic and that the dreaming reaches of the Shropshire Union Canal hold dark and deadly secrets … secrets that may threaten everything and everyone he holds most dear.

— Water Like a Stone by Deborah Crombie

New This Week: Sacrificial Offerings, A Leal and Hart Mystery by Michael A. Black

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Sacrificial Offerings by Michael A. Black

A Leal and Hart Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/03/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

First published in hardcover by Five Star in 2012. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

  

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Things couldn't be worse for Sergeant Frank Leal. He's assigned a homicide at a seedy motel that suddenly develops into a heater. Leal's regular partner, Olivia Hart, is reassigned to the SWAT team. He's also saddled with a college intern tweeting his every move and Hart's replacement is a rubber-gun-squad candidate who has conversations with a hand-puppet named Oscar.

Hart's secretly assigned to an internal affairs investigation to determine which members of the SWAT team are stealing the money during drug raids. She's thrust into a non-stop series of dangerous raids that require all of her skills.

After a few more murders by a ruthless street gang, Leal wonders if they'll end up as sacrificial offerings in the escalating conflict.

— Sacrificial Offerings by Michael A. Black

Hercule Poirot's Christmas, A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie, Now Available at a Special Price

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Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/03/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered when the tyrannical Simeon Lee is found dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man.

— Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

Death With All the Trimmings by Lucy Burdette, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014 …

Death With All the Trimmings by Lucy Burdette

A Key West Food Critic Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Signet

  

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The only snow in Key West this Christmas is Hayley Snow, food critic for Key Zest magazine, who is not getting time off for the holiday … or time off from murder …

It may be Christmastime, but thoughts of peace on earth, good will toward men, don't seem to extend to the restaurant biz. Hayley has been assigned to interview Edel Waugh, chef/owner of Key West's hottest new restaurant. But off the record, Edel reveals someone's sabotaging her kitchen and asks Hayley to investigate.

Things heat up fast when the restaurant is set on fire — and a body is discovered in the charred wreckage. Is someone out to destroy the chef's business — or actually kill her? Amid holiday festivities like the lighted boat parade and visiting relatives who stir up mixed emotions, Hayley needs to smoke out an arsonist and a killer who may turn up the heat on her next …

— Death With All the Trimmings by Lucy Burdette

The Walnut Tree, A Bess Crawford, Holiday Mystery by Charles Todd, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Walnut Tree by Charles Todd

A Bess Crawford, Holiday Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/03/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Paris, 1914. Lady Elspeth Douglas is visiting friends when the shadow of war falls across Europe. As her French fiancé races to rejoin his unit, she tries to reach England, only to be trapped on the French coast amid refugees and wounded men. Elspeth pitches in to help wounded soldiers, getting closer and closer to the Front, soon finding herself in danger as enemy shells fall. Captain Peter Gilchrist comes to her rescue, pulling her away from the battle and to safety. But before they can properly say goodbye, they are separated.

In London, Elspeth is haunted by all she's witnessed, and she can't forget the gallant man who saved her. Without her guardian's consent, she trains as a nurse. She's determined to return to France to do her part, and to find the man she has no right to love. Then everything goes wrong. In this world of uncertainty, can love survive, or will Elspeth's troubled heart become another casualty of this terrible war?

— The Walnut Tree by Charles Todd

Crimson Angel by Barbara Hambly, New in Bookstores during December 2014

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

Crimson Angel by Barbara Hambly, a Benjamin January Mystery (13th in series)

Publisher: Severn House

      

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When Jefferson Vitrack — the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife — turns up on January's doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France's most profitable colony — until the blood-chilling repression practiced there by the whites upon their slaves triggered a savage rebellion. The world's only Black Republic still looks with murderous mistrust upon any strangers who might set foot there, and January is in no hurry to go.

But when Vitrack is murdered, and attempts are made on January's wife and himself, he understands that he has no choice. He must seek the treasure himself, to draw the unknown killers into the open, a bloody trail that leads first to Cuba, then to Haiti, and finally to the secret that lies buried with the accursed gold.

— Crimson Angel by Barbara Hambly

Cat Deck the Halls, A Joe Grey Mystery by Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Now Available at a Special Price

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Cat Deck the Halls by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

A Joe Grey Mystery (13th in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/03/2014 at 2:00 PM ET).

  

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The charming seaside village of Molena Point, California, leads one to expect a quiet traditional Christmas surrounded by family and friends — but not this holiday season. Instead of singing carols and climbing into Christmas trees, Joe Grey, feline P.I., is faced with his most difficult case yet — and that's saying a lot for a wily tomcat who for years has been solving crimes the police can't even crack.

At midnight in the deserted gardens of the shopping plaza, a stranger lies dead beneath the village Christmas tree; the only witness to the shooting is a little child. But when the police arrive, summoned by an anonymous phone call of feline origin, both the body and the child have disappeared. As police scramble for leads, the grey tomcat, his tabby lady, and their tortoiseshell pal, Kit, launch their own unique investigation.

Together Joe Grey, Dulcie, and Kit face their most heartbreaking case yet as they care for the child who may be the killer's next target. Trying to sort out perplexing clues amidst the happiness of the season, they shadow a cast of colorful characters. But neither the police nor their unknown feline assistants are aware that they might have stumbled over the murderer and never known it, until an electrifying final scene when the killer's identity is revealed.

— Cat Deck the Halls by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Keeper of the Castle by Juliet Blackwell, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014 …

Keeper of the Castle by Juliet Blackwell

A Haunted Home Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Signet

  

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San Francisco contractor — and reluctant ghostbuster — Mel Turner gets hired for a job that's to die for …

Lately, Mel has been worried about finding enough historic renovation work to pay the bills. But while Turner Construction is in need of a project, Mel's boyfriend, Graham, has his hands full managing the reconstruction of an ancient building shipped over from Scotland.

With the job plagued by rumors that the stones are cursed, Graham brings in Mel to look for paranormal activity. And while the ghost of a charming Scottish clansman does seem to be hanging around the site, the real shock comes when they stumble upon a body.

When the original construction crew starts running scared, Mel brings in her team to finish the job. Now all she has to do is nail down the killer, and put the spirits to rest, before anyone else winds up heading for the highlands …

— Keeper of the Castle by Juliet Blackwell

The Body in the Sleigh, A Faith Fairchild Mystery by Katherine Hall Page, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Body in the Sleigh by Katherine Hall Page

A Faith Fairchild Mystery (18th in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/03/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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All the Fairchilds are spending the Christmas holidays on idyllic Sanpere Island. While the Reverend Thomas Fairchild recuperates from surgery, his caterer wife, Faith, rejoices in the rare family-time together. But Faith's high spirits are dampened when she discovers the body of a young woman in an antique sleigh in front of the Historical Society. The victim, a teenage drug addict, was beloved by many — and her untimely death rocks the tight-knit island community.

Meanwhile, local spinster Mary Bethany finds a newborn baby boy in her barn on Christmas Eve, along with a note left in the basket and an alarming amount of cash. As Faith tries to locate the child's mother, she realizes his abandonment may be connected to the dead teen's last days — and that, like death and life on Sanpere, evil and redemptive goodness are also intertwined.

— The Body in the Sleigh by Katherine Hall Page

Murder Will Out, An Agatha Christie Mystery by Alison Joseph, 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 …

Murder Will Out by Alison Joseph

An Agatha Christie Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/03/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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1923. The Great War is over, but the ghosts of the dead still linger. Agatha Christie was one of the lucky ones — her husband returned from the conflict — and for her, and her local neighbours, life has resumed. Agatha is beginning to gain some notoriety for her crime writing and she is busy working on her latest novel. But then her neighbour tells her there has been a real "murder at the vicarage" — a young man, Cecil Coates, has been poisoned, and due to Christie's expertise in the crime genre, the neighbourhood wants her to investigate.

At first Agatha is reluctant to get involved. After all, she is a writer, not a detective. But then Robert Sayer, godson of her neighbour, and one of the main suspects in the case, appeals to her directly for help, and she finds herself being drawn in …

What secrets and lies are lying beneath the village's tranquil exterior? Can Agatha Christie use her imagination to draw the murderer out?

— Murder Will Out by Alison Joseph