Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth by Tamar Myers is Today's First Featured Free MystereBook

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Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth by Tamar Myers

An Amish Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery

Publisher: NYLA

… as today's first free mystery ebook.

  

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When one of her more reclusive guests takes a tumble down the PennDutch's picturesquely steep staircase and breaks his neck, the timing couldn't be worse. It's the start of hunting season — and her inn is packed to capacity!

What at first seems to be a horrible accident (and insurance nightmare for Magdalena!) could turn out to be a much more sinister event; and when another mishap occurs, Magdalena is certain there is a killer in her group — and it's up to her to sniff out the culprit … before the world's most incompetent town sheriff throws her in jail!

— Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth by Tamar Myers

Night Heron by Adam Brookes is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Night Heron by Adam Brookes as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, December 23, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

Night Heron by Adam Brookes

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Redhook

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/23/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).

    

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A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China.

Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British; now Peanut must disappear on Beijing's surveillance-blanketed streets. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan, offering military secrets in return for extraction.

But the secrets prove more valuable than Peanut or Mangan could ever have known … and not only to the British.

— Night Heron by Adam Brookes

Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta is Today's Nook Daily Find

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta as today's Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, December 23, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Little, Brown

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/23/2014 at 6:30 AM ET).

    

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When fourteen-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare.

The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and the boy are Ethan and Allison Serbin, who run the wilderness survival program; Hannah Faber, who occupies a lonely fire lookout tower; and endless miles of desolate Montana mountains.

The clock is ticking, the mountains are burning, and those who wish Jace Wilson dead are no longer far behind.

— Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141223)

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

• The New Release is Christmas Stories: Hans Christian Andersen's Tin Soldier.

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

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The New Release is Christmas Stories: Hans Christian Andersen's Tin Soldier

Bundle up and prepare for an exciting adventure this holiday season! After receiving a desperate letter from your old nut-cracking friend, Albert, you rush to help him. When you arrive, you learn that the Rat King's evil wand has fallen into the hands of a vengeful baron, and now three innocent people — including Albert — have been turned into toys! Team up with the Nutcracker and your new friend, the Tin Soldier, to fight trolls and destroy the Baron's curse in this delightful 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

Farewell Gesture, A Crime Thriller by Roger Ormerod, 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 …

Farewell Gesture by Roger Ormerod

A Crime Thriller

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/22/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Paul Manson hadn't meant to kill his father. He'd just lost control. Now, back out in the world after four years in Gartree prison, Manson has information which could prevent a very different kind of crime — a cold-blooded, contract killing.

Tracking down the target, a young woman named Philomena Wise, he delays passing on his warning with fatal results: Philomena is found dead, strangled with her own scarf. Dismayed by his failure, Manson catches the first train to the scene of the crime. But what he finds only lands him in the middle of a tangled web of crossed wires, fake identities and mixed motives.

When another murder takes place a few days later, Manson realises he needs to find out what's going on, and not just for his own curiosity's sake: a convicted killer and a stranger in town, he's now the prime suspect for both killings.

— Farewell Gesture by Roger Ormerod

Sea of Shadows, A Techno-Thriller by Jeff Edwards, Now Available at a Special Price

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Sea of Shadows by Jeff Edwards

A Techno-Thriller

Publisher: Stealth Books

Price: $0.99 (as of 12/22/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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A minor accident at a German nuclear power plant, a Biological Warfare attack on the British Embassy in Washington, DC, and a secret arms deal combine to drive a trusted NATO Ally into an illegal alliance with a rogue Middle Eastern state. With the world hovering on the brink of war, a handful of U.S. Navy warships must track down and destroy a wolfpack of state-of-the-art submarines.

Their enemy is skilled in deception, and incredibly lethal. Out-gunned, out-maneuvered, and out-thought, the U.S. Navy crews must throw the rulebook out the window, and become every bit as devious and deadly as their enemy. If they fail, the consequences are unthinkable …

— Sea of Shadows by Jeff Edwards

New This Week: The Hedge Extreme, A Suspense Thriller by Steven Briggs

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 Hedge Extreme by Steven Briggs

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Ring of Fire Publishing

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/22/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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The good life — expensive cars, an island mansion, a beautiful wife — Cassius Cartwright, former Hedge Fund Manager of the Year had it all. But in a matter of months, the Great Recession brought Cassius to his knees. Broke, with angry clients and the S.E.C. after him, Cassius needed money, fast.

And then he encounters two associates from his past, two cocaine traffickers with a million in cash and no way to get it to their Colombian connection. It's the perfect crime, if he can pull it off. But nobody just lets a million dollars walk, so with federal agents and Colombian terrorists in pursuit, Cassius plans the ultimate high-risk gamble, truly a hedge extreme.

— The Hedge Extreme by Steven Briggs

Hunter, An Alex Morgan, Interpol Spy Thriller by Chris Allen, 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, Momentum …

Hunter by Chris Allen

An Alex Morgan, Interpol Spy Thriller (2nd in series)

Publisher: Momentum

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/22/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Alex Morgan — policeman, soldier and spy for Intrepid, the black-ops division of Interpol — is on the hunt for Serbian war criminals. But these guys were never going to let it be easy.

An assassination attempt is made on the presiding judge of the international criminal tribunal. Days later, the judge's daughter, the famous and beautiful classical pianist Charlotte Rose, vanishes.

The girl is not just a pretty face. She's the goddaughter of Intrepid's veteran commander, General Davenport. It's up to Morgan and the team to track the kidnappers before the very fabric of international justice is picked apart.

— Hunter by Chris Allen

Camping Chaos by Franklin W. Dixon, a New The Hardy Boys: Secret Files Mystery for Junior Sleuths

Omnimystery News is pleased to present in this post a new First Clues: Mysteries for Kids series title published this month …

Camping Chaos by Franklin W. Dixon

Series: The Hardy Boys: Secret Files

Publisher: Aladdin

Format(s): Paperback, eBook

Recommended for Junior Sleuths, Ages 7 to 9

  

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Frank and Joe are excited to go camping with their friends in Bayport State Park for the annual "Fun With Camping" event. They are ready for hiking, bonfires, and s'mores — and especially for the tent decorating competition, which the boys are determined to win.

But just a few nights into the trip, decorations start to go missing. First Frank and Joe hear strange noises outside their tent. Then they see a set of unique footprints at the campsite.

It seems like someone — or something — is out to sabotage the decorating contest. Can Joe and Frank figure out who the campsite culprit could be?

— Camping Chaos by Franklin W. Dixon

Serial Date, A Leine Basso Thriller by D.V. Berkom, 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, Duct Tape Press …

Serial Date by D.V. Berkom

A Leine Basso Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Duct Tape Press

Price: $0.99 (as of 12/22/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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A retired assassin. A serial killer with a social agenda.

Determined to leave her old life behind, retired assassin Leine Basso accepts a job working security at one of television's most popular reality shows, Serial Date. When a contestant is found dead in the prop closet, it appears the killer is one of the "bachelors" on the show — an ex-con billed as a serial killer — but the detective in charge of the case isn't so sure.

When Leine's estranged daughter is abducted by a man claiming to be the real killer, she's forced to rely on old skills to find her, and must come to terms with who she really is. She soon realizes the murderer may be a grisly remnant from her past and she'll need to use all of her cunning to stop him … and rescue her daughter.

— Serial Date by D.V. Berkom

The Cruiser by David Poyer, 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 Cruiser by David Poyer, a Dan Lenson Mystery (14th in series)

Publisher: St. Martin's 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 …

Newly-promoted to Captain, Dan Lenson's first glimpse of his command is of a ship literally high and dry. The USS Savo Island, which carries a classified, never-before-deployed missile defense system, has run aground on an exposed sandbar off Naples. Captain Lenson has to relieve the ship's disgraced skipper and deploy on a secret mission — Operation Stellar Shield — which will take his ship and crew into the dangerous waters bordering the Middle East.

As a climate of war builds between Israel and Iraq, with threats of nuclear and chemical weapons, Dan has to rally Savo Island's demoralized crew, confront a mysterious death on board ship, while learning to operate a complex missile system that has not been battle tested. But when the conflict reaches a climax, Dan is forced to make a decision that may cost hundreds of thousands of innocent lives — or may save them, but at the cost of his ship and his career.

— The Cruiser by David Poyer

The Brewer of Preston by Andrea Camilleri, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014 …

The Brewer of Preston by Andrea Camilleri

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Penguin Books

  

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 …

1870s Sicily. Much to the displeasure of Vigàta's stubborn populace, the town has just been unified under the Kingdom of Italy. They're now in the hands of a new government they don't understand, and they definitely don't like. Eugenio Bortuzzi has been named Prefect for Vigàta, a regional representative from the Italian government to oversee the town. But the rowdy and unruly Sicilians don't care much for this rather pompous mainlander nor the mediocre opera he's hell-bent on producing in their new municipal theater. The Brewer of Preston, it's called, and the Vigàtese are revving up to wreak havoc on the performance's opening night. 

— The Brewer of Preston by Andrea Camilleri

The Shortest Day, A Homer Kelly Mystery by Jane Langdon, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Shortest Day by Jane Langdon

A Homer Kelly Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Mysterious Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/22/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Homer investigates the violent deaths of a beautiful stage manager's admirers …

Each year, the beautiful Sarah Bailey marks the winter solstice by organizing a pageant of drama and song for the citizens of Harvard University. Last year, the star of the show was Henry Shady, an Appalachian folk singer whose homespun charm won the eye of every young woman in Cambridge. On the eve of this year's Revels, the singer is struck down in the street by an SUV driven by Sarah's husband. The police dismiss it as a freak accident, but Mary Kelly, who witnessed the singer's death, is not so sure.

Her husband, Harvard professor and sometime sleuth Homer, dismisses her suspicion. But when more of the revelers suffer untimely deaths, Homer sees a pattern. Winter has gripped Cambridge, and Sarah's husband may have been seized with murderous jealousy.

— The Shortest Day by Jane Langdon

New This Week: Cole Shoot, A Cole Sage Mystery by Michael Maxwell

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 …

Cole Shoot by Michael Maxwell

A Cole Sage Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Michael Maxwell

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/22/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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Where does justice end and vengeance begin?

Once again, Cole Sage wanders into foreign territory. The world of the Tongs and San Francisco street gangs is indeed foreign turf. Seeking answers that will bring justice for the murder of his friend, Cole unknowingly endangers the life of his intern and protégé.

Believing the aphorism that "it is never a good idea to bring a knife to a gun fight", Cole enlists the help of gang members to bring truth and justice to the streets of his newly adopted city. This strategy brings conflict and turmoil to Cole's soul but seems the best solution for the challenges being faced.

— Cole Shoot by Michael Maxwell

Enter to Win — Lethal Code, a Technothriller by Thomas Waite

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Title: Lethal Code
Author: Thomas Waite
Series: A Lana Elkins Thriller
Publisher: 47North
Format: Trade Paperback
List Price: $14.95

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Synopsis: America's worst nightmare has come true: a "cyber — Pearl Harbor" attack by unknown terrorists has crippled the nation's power grid — and brought the land of the free to its knees. As widespread panic and violence ravage the country, its ruthless captors issue their ultimatums … and vow an apocalyptic reckoning.

A defenseless nation scrambles to fight an invisible invasion. Chief among America's last line of defense is Lana Elkins, head of a major cyber-security company — and former top NSA operative — who returns to her roots to spearhead the Agency's frantic efforts to combat the enemy's onslaught on its own terms. While she and her superiors take action to infiltrate a terrorist hotbed overseas, much closer to home ruthless jihadists with a nuclear bomb hijack a busload of schoolchildren — including Lana's daughter — and race toward a rendezvous with Armageddon in America's greatest city.

— Lethal Code by Thomas Waite