A Touch of Danger by Grant Fieldgrove is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

A Touch of Danger by Grant Fieldgrove

An Archie Lemons Mystery

Publisher: Grant Fieldgrove

… as today's third free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of December 15, 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.

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While on vacation with his family, Archie witnesses a murder that nobody seems to believe actually happened. With the suspect being a famous Hollywood star and a corpse that has been dragged into the ocean, not even the local police are willing to help.

Now, with his new sidekick Elise, he must figure out this mystery, starting at the end with the murderer, and ending at the beginning with a victim that no one seems to be missing.

— A Touch of Danger by Grant Fieldgrove

Brand Loyalty by F. M. Kahren is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Brand Loyalty by F. M. Kahren

A Matt Rommel Mystery

Publisher: F. M. Kahren

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of December 15, 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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Retired from the Marine Corps and the California Department of Corrections, Major Matt Rommel's life has been one long exercise in applied violence. A docent at San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor, he spends his days surrounded by art treasures and his nights in the Mission District at Vince's bar.

The years have also changed the life of Carolyn Kast, leaving her with a failed marriage to a man committed only to his forlorn hope of a technology company. Now, Carolyn is a single mother in her middle forties with a fledgling ad agency and two partners who are always at each other's throats. Worse, it is becoming clear that someone is trying to kill her.

Six-year-old Aubrey knows what to do. Go to the museum, to the man she has decided is an enforcer for Santa Claus: The Scary Man!

— Brand Loyalty by F. M. Kahren

A Matter of Trust by Lis Wiehl is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

A Matter of Trust by Lis Wiehl

A Mia Quinn Mystery

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of December 15, 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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One minute Mia Quinn is in herbasement, chatting on the phone with a colleague at the prosecutor's office.The next minute she hears a gunshot over the line, and Mia listens in horror asher colleague and friend Colleen bleeds to death.

Mia's a natural for heading up themurder investigation, but these days it's all she can do to hold her lifetogether. As a new widow with a pile of debts, a troubled teenaged son, and a four-year-oldwho wakes up screaming at night, she needs more time with her family, not less — andworking Colleen's case will be especially demanding. But Colleen was herfriend, and she needs to keep her job. So Mia reluctantly teams up withdetective Charlie Carlson to investigate. But the deeper they dig, the morecomplications unfold — even the unsettling possibility that someone may be comingafter her.

— A Matter of Trust by Lis Wiehl

Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day: $125 Off the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9"

Our featured Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day for Monday, December 15th, 2014 is $125 off the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9" tablet!

Today only, enjoy special savings on the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9" with Wi-Fi. It's perfect for work or play, with a powerful 2.2 GHz quad-core processor, a resolution HDX display, world-class Dolby audio, and a highly portable design. $224 to $339, depending on configuration.

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141215)

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

• The New Release is Haunted Legends: Stone Guest.

• The Daily Deal is Empress of the Deep 3: Legacy of the Phoenix, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is European Mystery: Scent of Desire, just $2.99 through Sunday, December 21, 2014 only.

• 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 Haunted Legends: Stone Guest

Your friend, a brilliant doctor, thought his artificial heart would be the cure for his dying son. But soon after, orphans of the town began to mysteriously vanish, and the town accuses the doctor of black magic. Who is behind these devilish doings? Can your detective work unravel the mystery before the hearts of the captured children stop beating forever? Find out in this exciting 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 Empress of the Deep 3: Legacy of the Phoenix

After vanquishing her evil twin, Pandora, Empress Anna must find her lost tribe. In a fever dream she learns they are threatened by a cursed colossus on a distant and mysterious temple city, adrift on the waves below. Helped by the ghost of Jacob and an ancient phoenix she escapes the burning palace in the clouds and finds the beautiful floating city, constructed by her lost people. But where have they gone? Only a sinister two-headed wizard and his cats remain. Can she trust him? Will he help her find the lost tribe before the colossus fully awakens?

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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The current Catch of the Week is European Mystery: Scent of Desire

Stop a maniac's murderous trail of fragrance and deception! You've barely settled into your retirement in the peaceful French countryside, when you receive an urgent request from Paris. Young women are disappearing in broad daylight, the authorities are baffled, and the person responsible is still on the loose! How could any able-bodied detective refuse such a case? Stay on scent of the murderer in this intriguing 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.

Sherlock Holmes at the Raffles Hotel, A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche by John Hall, 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 …

Sherlock Holmes at the Raffles Hotel by John Hall

A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/14/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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London, 1905. After the death of his second wife, and with patient numbers falling, Doctor Watson is considering retirement. That is, until he gets an urgent telegram from Martha, the housekeeper of an old friend.

Sherlock Holmes is ill. Watson must make his way to his cottage in the village of Fullworth as soon as possible. But he arrives to find Holmes alive and well, if a little melancholy. The telegram was a clever ploy by Martha to return Holmes to his former vigour.

In the village, Arshak Sarkies suggests a holiday for the pair as his guests at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore — it should be just what the doctor ordered. But knowing Holmes, they will only be able to tempt him abroad with the promise of one last case …

When they finally arrive at the hotel, it seems that Watson's scheme has come true after all. The wealthy wife of a hotel resident, Mr Derek Masterton, has been found dead in her apartment, her "Singapore Sugarplum" sweets laced with arsenic. With her money protected by a will, who would have the motive to kill Mrs Masterton? How could they have gotten so close, and have predicted her every move? And what of the strange goings-on reported by the butler?

Thrown back into the investigating game, Holmes and Watson must use all their deductive powers to solve the case of the poisoned sugarplums.

— Sherlock Holmes at the Raffles Hotel by John Hall

Frame Change, A Nina Bannister Mystery by T'Gracie and Joe Reese, Now Available at a Special Price

Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals are limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive books.

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

Frame Change by T'Gracie and Joe Reese

A Nina Bannister Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Cozy Cat Press

Price: $0.99 (as of 12/14/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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Nina Bannister loves to paint, and she thinks her hobby is painless enough. But she is wrong. Her love of doing seascapes leads to a friendship with a young ex docent from The Chicago Art Museum — and to their entry into the murky and dangerous world of international art smuggling.

Can she save her young friend, who has been kidnapped to the mountains of southern Austria? Can she determine the identity and motives of the mysterious Red Claw? Can she see the real painting that is hidden beneath the false one?

Her success in these matters — indeed her very survival — depend on her ability to perform a last ditch frame change!

— Frame Change by T'Gracie and Joe Reese

The Death Card, A Charlie Raven Adventure by Jan Needle, 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 …

The Death Card by Jan Needle

A Charlie Raven Adventure

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/14/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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The middle of the eighteenth century. France and England are at war. Charlie Raven is part of the crew on board the Pointer, trying to gain control of the seas. His captain Hector Maxwell is a cruel master. He commands the sloop Pointer with an iron hand, and scant regard for morals or for men. And he has an irrational hatred towards Charlie.

The crew have clashed with smugglers from the Isles of Scilly, with deaths on both sides. And Maxwell is determined to punish the islanders, even though they see themselves as patriotic Englishmen. How far will Maxwell go in his bid for power? And can Charlie avoid his iron fist? Or will he be dealt the death card?

— The Death Card by Jan Needle

The Devil's Waters, A USAF Pararescue Thriller by David L. Robbins, 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, Thomas & Mercer …

The Devil's Waters by David L. Robbins

A USAF Pararescue Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/14/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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A giant freighter in the Gulf of Aden holds secret cargo that could bring down the governments of four nations. When Somali pirates grab the ship, the order comes down: get the freighter back, at all costs.

Only one combat group is close enough to respond before the hijacked freighter reaches Somali waters: the elite US Air Force pararescue unit — the PJs — stationed in Djibouti. Though their mission is to save lives, and their oath is "That Others May Live," the PJs are battle-tested. The team doesn't hesitate because one of their own, Sgt. LB DiNardo, is already onboard the hijacked ship.

LB has three tasks: provide intel on the pirates, stay alive until the team arrives, and withstand the humiliation of breaking the PJs' cardinal rule: Never be the one who needs rescuing.

At the head of the pirates is the shrewd and ruthless Yusuf Raage, a clan leader who will sacrifice anything and anyone to keep his captured ship. The PJs have a mere hour to take down the ship before the Air Force blows it up. Even if they survive the wrath of Yusuf Raage, more secrets and danger await them.

— The Devil's Waters by David L. Robbins

Treacherous Intent by Camy Tang, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in December 2014

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

Treacherous Intent by Camy Tang

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

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

Danger at her doorstep …

Private investigator Elisabeth Aday thinks her California women's shelter is a safe haven — until skip tracer Liam O'Neill shows up. While searching for a missing woman, Liam unwittingly puts Elisabeth in the crosshairs of the deadly drug gang that is trailing his target. To stay alive, they must find the woman before the gang finds them. And when a second rival gang joins the search, the threats multiply.

Deep in the lair of notorious drug dealers, Elisabeth can't tell which is more dangerous — the criminals after her … or her growing feelings for the man at her side.

— Treacherous Intent by Camy Tang

Revenge!, An International Thriller by Noel Hynd, Now Available at a Special Price

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Revenge! by Noel Hynd

An International Thriller

Publisher: Red Cat Tales

Price: $0.99 (as of 12/14/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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US Air Force Lt. Richard Silva's hell on earth begins in the fall of 1970 when his plane is shot down over North Vietnam. Silva is captured and taken to a POW camp where he is turned over to a shadowy interrogator who specializes in the systematic torture of American prisoners. Miraculously, Silva survives and returns to the US.

He finds an America that is profoundly different from the country he left. But America isn't the only thing that has changed. Silva's mind has been horribly altered. For him there is only one way out: Find the man who tortured him. Find him and kill him. With only a few clues to his enemy's true identity, Silva embarks on a manhunt.

Silva quickly penetrates a shadowy underworld of politicians, criminals and intelligence agents in New York, Washington andultimately in Paris. In France, he further burrows into a nether world of professional killers, political extremists, cops and assassins. Along the way, he finds romance with a beautiful young artist and rediscovers his own humanity, all the while drawing closer to the man he must murder in order to redeem his own soul.

— Revenge! by Noel Hynd

One to Go by Mike Pace, New in Bookstores during December 2014

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

One to Go by Mike Pace, A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

        

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for December 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of December 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

More about our featured title, below …

Tom Booker is a new attorney at a powerful Washington law firm. Texting while driving across Memorial Bridge, he loses control and crashes into an oncoming minivan carrying his own daughter and three of her friends. The minivan tips up on two wheels, about to flip over into the Potomac. Time freezes, he's alone on the bridge. A young couple approaches and offers him a re-wind. The crash would be averted, the children saved. All he must do is kill someone every two weeks — anyone — a "soul exchange." A moment later, Tom is back in his spinning car, but averts the deadly crash. He laughs about the hallucination, attributing it to bumping his head on the steering wheel when his car came to an abrupt stop.

But his encounter wasn't a hallucination. Two weeks later, the minivan driver is brutally murdered. Tom receives a text: one down, four to go. He has never shot — much less owned — a gun in his life, and now must turn himself into a serial killer or his daughter and her friends will die.

— One to Go by Mike Pace

Cold Case in Cherokee Crossing by Rita Herron, New from Harlequin Intrigue in December 2014

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

Cold Case in Cherokee Crossing by Rita Herron

Imprint: Intrigue

  

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A decades-old cold case is testing everything one Texas Ranger thought he knew about obtaining justice …

A lot of men on death row profess their innocence. Those men are mostly just scared of dying. Jaxon Ward understands that, but as a Texas Ranger he needs to uphold the law. Yet the story Avery Tierney tells him … He's convinced her brother is awaiting execution while the real killer remains at large.

Searching for the murderer opens old wounds for Avery, and now she has to face a past so traumatic she blocked it out. A past not so dissimilar to Jax's. Before long, the only comfort they find is in each other's arms. Avery's lost everything once before. And now, if she loses Jaxon, she fears she'll never recover.

— Cold Case in Cherokee Crossing by Rita Herron

New This Week: Lawn Order, A Margaret and Bitsy Mystery by Molly MacRae

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 …

Lawn Order by Molly MacRae

A Margaret and Bitsy Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Darkhouse Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/14/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

First published in hardcover by Five Star in 2011. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

  

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Margaret Welch is in her idea of heaven. She has what many people only dream of — a successful bookstore in a charming old house. Even better, she and her bookstore are located in Stonewall, a picturesque town nestled in the foothills of Tennessee's Blue Ridge Mountains. Unfortunately, Margaret also has a sister — Bitsy.

The morning Bitsy flings a dead pigeon on her sales counter, Margaret decides to redefine her mission in life. "Never assume anything as far as Bitsy is concerned" sound like sane words to her, and that's good, because Margaret's going to need them.

— Lawn Order by Molly MacRae

Mystery Godoku Puzzle for December 15, 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 G H I N O P R T

This is the title of Michael W. Sherer's 3rd Blake Sanders thriller (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!