Silk by Chris Karlsen is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

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Silk by Chris Karlsen

The Bloodstone Series

Publisher: Books To Go Now

… as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

  

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It is the time of Jack the Ripper, the widowed Queen Victoria sits on the throne of England. The whole of London is on edge wondering when or where Jack will kill next. The Palace, Parliament, and the press are demanding the police do more to find him.

In another part of London, rough-around-the-edges war hero, Metropolitan Detective Inspector Rudyard Bloodstone has his own serial killer to find. Inter departmental rivalries, politics, and little evidence to go on hamper the investigation at every turn. In a battle of wills, Bloodstone presses forward following his instincts in spite of the obstacles.

Adding to those problems, away from the strains of the investigation, he is engaged in the ups and downs of a new relationship with a lovely hat maker.

— Silk by Chris Karlsen

The Crucible by Matt Lynn is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

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The Crucible by Matt Lynn

A Richard Hannay Thriller

Publisher: Endeavour Press

… as today's third free mystery ebook.

  

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The year is 1923. Sir Richard Hannay witnesses a murder on the ski slopes of Switzerland, but the local police seem intent on ignoring the crime. The fiancée of the murdered man tracks Hannay down bearing a ring engraved with mysterious runes, left to her by her dead fiancé. She begs him to help find the killer.

Hannay is sent undercover on a mission to Europe to uncover the meaning of the ring. It soon emerges that a plot with terrible consequences is being hatched. The murder was just one piece of the puzzle, and Hannay suspects that his old nemesis, Otto von Schwabing, is pulling the strings behind the scenes.

As he gets closer to unravelling the mystery, he finds himself in mortal peril. All around him, political unrest boils just beneath the surface as post-WWI Germany struggles to deal with its new, crushing poverty. An enigmatic, dangerous leader is gaining traction in the south of Germany. Will Hannay crack the code before the conspirators seize power? Or will a bloody coup plunge Europe into another war?

— The Crucible by Matt Lynn

To Helen Back by Susan McBride is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

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To Helen Back by Susan McBride

A River Road Mystery

Publisher: Witness Impulse

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

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When Milton Grone turns up dead in tiny River Bend, Illinois, nearly all the would-be suspects have the perfect alibi: attending Thursday night's town meeting. And as Milton was hardly beloved, plenty of folks had a reason to do him in …

+Grone's next-door neighbor was furious about a fence that encroached on her property, among other wicked deeds. A pair of zealous tree huggers wanted Grone's hide for selling a parcel of pristine land to a water park. Grone's current and ex-wife both wanted a cut of the profits, which Grone seemed unwilling to share. Even the town preacher knew Grone's soul was beyond saving.

Though most of River Bend would rather reward the killer than hang him, Sheriff Biddle's not about to let this one go … and neither is Helen Evans. With a penchant for puzzles and an ear for innuendo, Helen quickly fingers the culprit before Biddle puts the wrong suspect in jail.

— To Helen Back by Susan McBride

Spycatcher by Matthew Dunn is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

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Spycatcher by Matthew Dunn

The Spycatcher Series

Publisher: William Morrow

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

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Will Cochrane is the CIA's and MI6's most prized asset … and their deadliest weapon. Since childhood, the only world he has ever known is a clandestine realm of elaborate lies and unholy alliances — where trust is rare, betrayal comes cheap, and a violent death is often the penalty for being outplayed by an opponent. Cochrane has never been outplayed … so far.

Now his controllers have a new game: neutralize one of the world's most wanted terrorists, believed to be a general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Cochrane's unpredictability makes him the one agent capable of catching his adversary off guard, and he believes he has the perfect plan. But on a breakneck race through the capitals of Europe and into America's northeast, the spycatcher will discover that his prey knows the game all too well … and his agenda is more terrifying than anyone could have imagined.

— Spycatcher by Matthew Dunn

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141217)

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

• Our Featured Title is Jane Croft: The Baker Street Murder.

• The Daily Deal is Alex Hunter: Lord of the Mind, 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.

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

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Our Featured Title is Jane Croft: The Baker Street Murder

Help the famous Detective Croft solve the case of the Baker Street Murder, and uncover the conspiracy about the murder of her partner! Find clues and interview suspects in different locations that will keep you guessing! Bring justice to a murderer, and avenge your fallen partner.

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 Alex Hunter: Lord of the Mind

Alex Hunter thought the case of the missing professor would be an easy paycheck. But his investigation has proven to be anything but simple. With hours of captivating game time, a richly detailed world, and a storyline inspired by classic detective novels, this casual game will thrill fans looking for their next great adventure!

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

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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.

The Riptide Ultra-Glide, A Serge Storms Mystery by Tim Dorsey, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Riptide Ultra-Glide by Tim Dorsey

A Serge Storms Mystery (16th in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/16/2014 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

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When newly unemployed Patrick and Barbara McDougal decide a vacation in Florida is just what they need to put life back on the right track, awful accommodations, a robbery, and a not-so-helpful police department make them rethink their decision to drown their troubles in paradise.

Luckily, charismatic (and crazy!) tour guide Serge Storms and his sidekick, Coleman, are up for another action-packed adventure in this outrageous crime thriller that Tim Dorsey fans won't soon forget.

— The Riptide Ultra-Glide by Tim Dorsey

New This Week: The Kizuna Coast, A Rei Shimura Mystery by Sujata Massey

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 …

The Kizuna Coast by Sujata Massey

A Rei Shimura Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Ikat Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/16/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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When a devastating earthquake rocks Japan's northeast cost, a tsunami follows and Rei Shimura is swept into her most rugged adventure yet.

The mystery begins with an SOS from Rei's friend, the antiques dealer Mr. Ishida, trapped among thousands of displaced and dead on the Tohoku coast. Rei rushes to Tokyo, where she discovers Ishida Antiques may have been burglarized.

Rei takes Mr. Ishida's abandoned dog, Hachiko, on a volunteer bus to the ravaged town of Sugihama. But Mr. Ishida's got more work for her, since he lost contact with his antiques apprentice Mayumi and is frantic with worry. He won't leave Sugihama without knowing the fate of the troubled 19-year-old girl from a famous lacquer-making family.

Calling on disaster survivors and volunteers — and her knowledge of Japanese manners and history — Rei investigates the suspicious disappearance. From Sugihama's muddy shops and shelters, to the buzzing bars and bathhouses of Tokyo, it's a suspenseful journey. But as Rei draws closer to the truth, she realizes that she's being stalked. Who is following her — and can she survive the wave of danger she never saw coming?

— The Kizuna Coast by Sujata Massey

Bird Box, A Suspense Thriller by Josh Malerman, Now Available at a Special Price

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Bird Box by Josh Malerman

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Ecco

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/16/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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Something is out there … Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from …

Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now, that the boy and girl are four, it is time to go. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat — blindfolded — with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them. But is it man, animal, or monster?

Engulfed in darkness, surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Malorie embarks on a harrowing odyssey — a trip that takes her into an unseen world and back into the past, to the companions who once saved her. Under the guidance of the stalwart Tom, a motely group of strangers banded together against the unseen terror, creating order from the chaos. But when supplies ran low, they were forced to venture outside — and confront the ultimate question: in a world gone mad, who can really be trusted?

— Bird Box by Josh Malerman

13 Hollywood Apes, A Layla Remington Mystery by Gil Reavill, New This Week from Alibi

Alibi is a digital-only imprint of Random House dedicated to publishing mystery and thriller books.

We've selected one of their recently published titles to feature here today …

13 Hollywood Apes by Gil Reavill

A Layla Remington Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Alibi

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/16/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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A chilling tale of murder and mayhem among humans and their closest evolutionary relatives — a primate family that may just be too close for comfort.

As a wildfire rages outside the Odalon Animal Sanctuary in the rugged Santa Monica foothills, the retired Hollywood movie chimpanzees housed there are shot and left for dead. When Malibu detective Layla Remington reaches the grisly scene the next morning, she's deeply disturbed — and even more confused. The victims are not human, so the attack cannot be classified as homicide. Yet someone clearly wanted these animals dead, and executed them with ruthless efficiency. Miraculously, there is one survivor: a juvenile male named Angle.

But as Layla reaches the veterinarian's office where Angle is recovering, a man with rock-star good looks and a laid-back Southern California attitude swoops in and removes him. And just like that, an unusual case turns truly bizarre. Soon reports surface of ferocious attacks against Odalon employees … with Angle as the prime suspect. As a wave of senseless violence reaches its apex, Layla chases a mystery man and his chimp — but everything comes back to that terrible night at the sanctuary.

— 13 Hollywood Apes by Gil Reavill

The Killing, A Novel of Suspense by David Hewson, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Killing by David Hewson

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Pan

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/16/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

Based on the first season of the Danish crime drama Forbrydelsen.

  

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Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs … There is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a slow approaching zigzag, marching through the Pineseskoven wasteland, through the Pentecost Forest.

The chill water, the fear, his presence not so far away …

There is one torchlight on her now, the single blazing eye. And it is here …

Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen police department before moving to Sweden. But everything changes when nineteen-year-old student, Nanna Birk Larsen, is found raped and brutally murdered in the woods outside the city. Lund's plans to relocate are put on hold as she leads the investigation along with fellow detective Jan Meyer.

While Nanna's family struggles to cope with their loss, local politician, Troels Hartmann, is in the middle of an election campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen. When links between City Hall and the murder suddenly come to light , the case takes an entirely different turn.

Over the course of twenty days, suspect upon suspect emerges as violence and political intrigue cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer.

— The Killing by David Hewson

Meow If It's Murder by T. C. LoTempio, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Nora Charles

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) …

Meow If It's Murder by T. C. LoTempio

A Nick and Nora Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

What we know about the character: Nora Charles is a crime reporter in Cruz, California. Nick is her stray cat, with a talent for detection. For more information about her first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

Nora Charles doesn't believe in fate, even if she is a crime reporter who shares a name with a character from "The Thin Man". In fact, she's moving back to Cruz, California, to have a quieter life. But after finding an online magazine eager for material, and a stray cat named Nick with a talent for detection, Nora's not just reporting crimes again. She's uncovering them …

Back in her hometown, Nora reconnects with old friends and makes some new ones, like Nick, the charming feline who seems determined to be her cat. But not everything about Cruz is friendly. Writing for a local online magazine, Nora investigates the curious death of socialite Lola Grainger. Though it was deemed an accident, Nora suspects foul play. And it seems that her cat does too.

Apparently, Nick used to belong to a P.I. who disappeared while investigating Lola Grainger's death. The coincidence is spooky, but not as spooky as the clues Nick spells out for her with Scrabble letters — clues that lead her down an increasingly dangerous path. Whether fate put her on this case or not, solving it will take all of Nora's wits, and maybe a few of Nick's nine lives.

— Meow If It's Murder by T. C. LoTempio

Friend of the Devil, An Alan Banks Mystery by Peter Robinson, Now Available at a Special Price

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Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson

An Alan Banks Mystery (17th in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/16/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

Read our review of this book on Mysterious Reviews.

  

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Two murders … two towns …

A woman sits in a wheelchair perched on a cliff high above the sea, her throat slit from ear to ear …

In a maze of narrow alleys behind a market square, a teenaged girl has been murdered after a night of drunken revelries with her friends.

A pair of horrific crimes, the first — a seemingly senseless murder of a helpless paraplegic — falls to Inspector Annie Cabbot, on loan to a local police department. The terrible death of young Hayley Daniels becomes Chief Inspector Alan Banks's investigation.

But shattering revelations threaten to awaken the slumbering demons of earlier, darker times, and more blood is in the offing when the two cases brutally and unexpectedly collide.

— Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson

The Wolf and the Lamb by Frederick Ramsay, New in Bookstores during December 2014

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

The Wolf and the Lamb by Frederick Ramsay, a The Jerusalem Mysteries Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

        

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 …

It's Passover. Gamaliel, and his physician friend, Loukas, are crime-solving a third time — reluctantly. Pontius Pilate has been accused of murder. He denies the crime. If convicted, he might escape death but would be removed from Judea. Those rejoicing urge the Rabban to mind his own business. But Gamaliel is a Just Man which is, as Pilate points out, "your weakness and also your strength."

Knowing that exonerating the Roman could cost him his position, possibly his life, Gamaliel, as would Sherlock Holmes centuries later, examines evidence and sorts through tangled threads, teasing out suspects who include assassins, Roman nobles, Pilate's wife, rogue legionnaires, slaves, servants, thespians, and a race horse named Pegasus. Unusually, justice triumphs over enmity. Gamaliel is satisfied, High Priest Caiphas is irate, Loukas accepts an apprentice from Tarsus, and few notice the events of what will later be known as Easter.

— The Wolf and the Lamb by Frederick Ramsay

Solo, A James Bond Novel by William Boyd, Now Available at a Special Price

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Solo by William Boyd

A James Bond Novel

Publisher: Harper

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/16/2014 at 2:00 PM ET).

  

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It's 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James Bond — British special agent 007 — is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the established regime.

Bond's arrival in Africa marks the start of a feverish mission to discover the forces behind this brutal war — and he soon realizes the situation is far from straightforward. Piece by piece, Bond uncovers the real cause of the violence in Zanzarim, revealing a twisting conspiracy that extends further than he ever imagined.

— Solo by William Boyd

Shadow of Doubt by Nancy Cole Silverman, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014 …

Shadow of Doubt by Nancy Cole Silverman

A Carol Childs Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Henery Press

  

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for December 2014. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of December 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

More about our featured title, below …

When a top Hollywood Agent is found poisoned in the bathtub of her home, suspicion quickly turns to one of her two nieces. But Carol Childs, a reporter for a local talk radio station, doesn't believe it. The suspect is her neighbor and friend, and also her primary source for insider industry news. After a media frenzy pits one niece against the other — and the body count starts to rise — Carol knows she must save her friend from being tried in the court of public opinion.

But even the most seasoned reporter can be surprised, and when a Hollywood psychic shows up in Carol's studio one night and warns her there will be more deaths, things take an unexpected turn. Suddenly nobody is above suspicion. Carol must challenge both her friendship and the facts, and the only thing she knows for certain is that the killer is still out there. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she's in.

— Shadow of Doubt by Nancy Cole Silverman