Dying To Read by Lorena McCourtney is Today's First Featured Free MystereBook

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Dying To Read by Lorena McCourtney

A Cate Kincaid Mystery

Publisher: Revell

… as today's first free mystery ebook.

  

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Cate Kinkaid's life is … well, frankly it's floundering. Her social life, her career, her haircut — they're all a mess. Unemployed, she jumps at the chance to work for her PI uncle, even though she has no experience and no instincts. After all, she is just dabbling in the world of private investigating until she can find a "real" job.

All she has to do for her first assignment is determine that a particular woman lives at a particular address. Simple, right? But when she reaches the dark Victorian house, she runs into an hungry horde of gray-haired mystery readers and a dead body. This routine PI job is turning out to be anything but simple. Is Cate in over her head?

— Dying To Read by Lorena McCourtney

Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, December 25, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke

A Hannah Swensen Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/25/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).

    

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When the president of Hartland Flour chooses cozy Lake Eden, Minnesota, as the spot for their first annual Dessert Bake-Off, Hannah is thrilled to serve as the head judge. But when a fellow judge, Coach Boyd Watson, is found stone-cold dead, facedown in Hannah's celebrated strawberry shortcake, Lake Eden's sweet ride to fame turns very sour indeed.

Between perfecting her Cheddar Cheese Apple Pie and Chocolate Crunchies, Hannah's snooping into the coach's private life and not coming up short on suspects. And could Watson's harsh criticism during the judging have given one of the contestants a license to kill? The stakes are rising faster than dough, and Hannah will have to be very careful, because somebody is cooking up a recipe for murder … with Hannah landing on the "necessary ingredients" list.

— Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke

Joyland by Stephen King is Today's Nook Daily Find

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Joyland by Stephen King as today's Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, December 25, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

Joyland by Stephen King

A Crime Novel

Publisher: Hard Case Crime

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/25/2014 at 6:30 AM ET).

    

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Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, this is the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

— Joyland by Stephen King

11 Thrillers by David Baldacci and Sandra Brown is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature 11 Thrillers by David Baldacci and Sandra Brown as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99-$2.99 each is valid only for today, Thursday, December 25, 2014. We're highlighting one of the titles in this post.

King and Maxwell by David Baldacci

A Sean King and Michelle Maxwell Thriller (6th in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/25/2014 at 6:10 AM ET).

  

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It seems at first like a simple, tragic story. Tyler Wingo, a teenage boy, learns the awful news that his father, a soldier, was killed in action in Afghanistan. Then the extraordinary happens: Tyler receives a communication from his father … after his supposed death.

Tyler hires Sean and Michelle to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target?

Sean and Michelle soon realize that they've stumbled on to something bigger and more treacherous than anyone could have imagined. And as their hunt for the truth leads them relentlessly to the highest levels of power and to uncovering the most clandestine of secrets, Sean and Michelle are determined to help and protect Tyler — though they may pay for it with their lives.

— King and Maxwell by David Baldacci

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141225)

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

• The New Release is Christmas Eve: Midnight's Call.

• Today's Special Deal — Today only: All Standard Edition games are just $4.99 each each! Use coupon code YULETIDE at check-out and your standard PC or Mac game will be discounted. Use as many times as you'd like! Offer valid Thursday, December 25th, 2014 until 11:59 PM PT.

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

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The New Release is Christmas Eve: Midnight's Call

Snow Hill is a magical town that preserves the Spirit of Christmas for the whole world. But now an evil sorceress threatens to plunge Snow Hill into eternal darkness! Do you have what it takes to save Christmas?

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

Dead Ringer, 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 …

Dead Ringer by Roger Ormerod

A Crime Thriller

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/24/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Jerry Boyes used to be one of the most in-demand stuntmen in the business. That was, until a horrible car accident left him maimed and unable to work. So when ex-actor Stuart Tyson, for whom Jerry used to double, turns up with a job offer, Boyes jumps at the chance. It will be three thousand for just one week's work: all Jerry has to do is hand over half a million in ransom money to the kidnappers of Howard Maxwell, a multimillionaire businessman. Jerry must help Kathleen Maxwell, wife to the kidnapped millionaire, to collect the five hundred thousand.

But it's not as easy as it sounds: Howard Maxwell may have been rich in capital assets, but he has almost no cash. As Jerry agrees to help the distraught wife, he cannot help feeling that things are not what they seem. In a bid to clear his name he investigates the situation himself and becomes entangled in a long standing rivalry which is escalating to deadly levels.

A rich man has plenty of enemies, and when a murder occurs, the case is thrown wide open.

— Dead Ringer by Roger Ormerod

New This Week: For Old Crime's Sake, A Chase Charley Mystery by Rose Pressey

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 …

For Old Crime's Sake by Rose Pressey

A Chase Charley Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Rose Pressey

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/24/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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TV investigative reporter Chase Charley is tired of probing small assignments. A routine investigation leads to something major when she stumbles on what she believes is murder. Rival reporter Bill Dangerfield is interested in the case too. Chase doesn't need him getting in the way of her solving this mystery.

Marc Marquez the rookie police officer offers to help Chase, but she doesn't know how deep the New Orleans Police force are involved in the criminal activity. Chase is positive she witnessed a cop disposing of a corpse.

Voodoo, suspense, dirty secrets, and the temptation of two gorgeous men won't stop Chase from scooping this hot report.

— For Old Crime's Sake by Rose Pressey

Stolen, A Lucy Kincaid Mystery by Allison Brennan, 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, Minotaur Books …

Stolen by Allison Brennan

A Lucy Kincaid Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/24/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Nothing is more important to private investigator Sean Rogan than his relationship with FBI trainee Lucy Kincaid. But when his past catches up with him, Sean faces an ultimatum: clear his name and help the FBI take down a rogue agent, or go to prison and lose everything he holds dear. With only Agent Noah Armstrong as his back-up and forced to keep Lucy in the dark, Sean steps back into his old world. But the longer he's undercover, the more dangerous the game becomes. More than Sean's future with Lucy is at stake — so is his life.

Lucy can't imagine Sean would keep secrets from her — until an FBI agent casts doubt about who he really is … and who he used to be. Why did Sean quit his job with his brother and move to New York? Why hasn't he told her anything about his new job? With more questions than answers, Lucy doesn't know who to believe or who she can trust. All she knows is that Sean is in grave danger, and this time, it's personal.

— Stolen by Allison Brennan

The Mystery of the Suspicious Spices by Harper Paris, a New Greetings from Somewhere Mystery for New Sleuths

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

The Mystery of the Suspicious Spices by Harper Paris

Series: Greetings from Somewhere

Publisher: Little Simon

Format(s): Hardcover, Paperback, eBook

Recommended for New Sleuths, Ages 4 to 6

  

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Ethan and Ella venture into the bustling markets of Mumbai, India, where there are tons of beautiful sights and smells — from silky fabrics to bread being baked to jars of spices. When one of the spice sellers starts getting complaints about his saffron, he is beside himself. His spices have always been known to be the purest in the market. Ethan and Ella are on the case — and they soon discover that someone has been meddling with the spices!

— The Mystery of the Suspicious Spices by Harper Paris

Chasing Can Be Murder, A Kat McKinley Mystery by June Whyte, 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, Untreed Reads …

Chasing Can Be Murder by June Whyte

A Kat McKinley Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Untreed Reads

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/24/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Professional greyhound trainer Kat McKinley is a soft touch. When she's talked into having sex with a guy who's just not her type, a romp so pathetic it registers minus ten on a sex-to-die-for scale, she decides to end the relationship. When Kat wakes the next morning to find Mr Wham-Bam sprawled beside her, a knife embedded in his left nipple, she wishes she'd ended the relationship sooner.

After that wake-up call, Kat figures life can't nose-dive any lower. But with a killer out to get her, the police suspecting her of murder, a misbehaving greyhound, a complicated love triangle and a vicious kidnapper who threatens to cut out a child's tongue if her dog, Big Mistake wins his next race, maybe it can …

— Chasing Can Be Murder by June Whyte

Deeds of Darkness by Edward Marston, New in Bookstores during December 2014

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

Deeds of Darkness by Edward Marston, a Harvey Marmion, Home Front Detective Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Allison & Busby

        

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 …

In June 1916, a young woman is found dead in a cinema. Harvey Marmion and Joe Keedy are assigned the task of finding the killer who fled in the dark. Before long, two more victims, of striking similarity but differing backgrounds, are found dead around the city.

Meanwhile, miles from home, Marmion's son, Paul, prepares for life on the front line as he marches towards the Battle of the Somme.

— Deeds of Darkness by Edward Marston

New This Week: Blood Border, A Carl Pappas, Radio Detective Mystery by M. H. Vesseur

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 …

Blood Border by M. H. Vesseur

A Carl Pappas, Radio Detective Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Vibes

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/24/2014 at 2:00 PM ET).

  

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The inhumanity of human trafficking is forcing the radio detective to make a stand. So in the midst of politics and public outrage, Carl Pappas and his team — producer Hitomi Sakamoto and sound engineer Don Wozniak — infiltrate in the trafficking cartel of a man known as The Clown.

But there is nothing funny about it, for the radio detective soon finds himself in the lion's den, a place crowded with former narcotics traffickers and their violent ways. Will they be able to do something about the screaming injustice of immigration or will they become prey themselves?

— Blood Border by M. H. Vesseur

Vanished by Elizabeth Heiter, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014 …

Vanished by Elizabeth Heiter

A Profiler Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Mira 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 …

Sometimes, the past can haunt you … Sometimes, the past is best forgotten …

Eighteen years ago, FBI profiler Evelyn Baine's best friend, Cassie Byers, disappeared, the third in a series of unsolved abductions. Only a macabre nursery rhyme was left at the scene, a nursery rhyme that claimed Evelyn was also an intended victim. Now, after all these years of silence, another girl has gone missing in South Carolina, and the Nursery Rhyme Killer is taking credit. But is Cassie's abductor really back, or is there a copycat at work?

Evelyn has waited eighteen years for a chance to investigate, but when she returns to Rose Bay, she finds a dark side to the seemingly idyllic town. As the place erupts in violence and the kidnapper strikes again, Evelyn knows this is her last chance. If she doesn't figure out what happened to Cassie eighteen years ago, it may be Evelyn's turn to vanish without a trace.

— Vanished by Elizabeth Heiter

Runner, A Jane Whitefield Mystery by Thomas Perry, Now Available at a Special Price

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Runner by Thomas Perry

A Jane Whitefield Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: Mariner Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/24/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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For more than a decade, Jane Whitefield pursued her unusual profession: "I'm a guide … I show people how to go from places where somebody is trying to kill them to other places where nobody is." Then she promised her husband she would never work again, and settled in to live a happy, quiet life as Jane McKinnon, the wife of a surgeon in Amherst, New York. But when a bomb goes off in the middle of a hospital fundraiser, Jane finds herself face to face with the cause of the explosion: a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of guns-for-hire.

That night, regardless of what she wants or the vow she's made to her husband, Jane must come back to transform one more victim into a runner. Her quest for safety sets in motion a mission that may be as much of a rescue operation as it is a chance for revenge …

— Runner by Thomas Perry

New This Week: Kissing in Action, A Lexi Graves Mystery by Camilla Chafer

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Kissing in Action by Camilla Chafer

A Lexi Graves Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Audacious

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/24/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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When Lexi gets her latest gig, tracking down a blackmailer guilty of extorting thousands of dollars from the country's hottest girl band, it's practically a dream come true. However, rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous doesn't turn out to be as much fun as she hoped. Instead of four cool, young women with a squeaky clean image, who are eager to aid in her investigation, Lexi must deal with incessant squabbling and fighting from a band who will do just about anything to hinder her search for the truth. Before she even gets started, disaster strikes: one member of the band is found dead with a knife in her back. Has the blackmailer graduated to murder?

Now, with one member dead, and another the chief suspect, Lexi must unveil the secrets the band is hiding from their adoring fans. As the truth slowly unfolds, and the press and paparazzi descend on Montgomery, Lexi must find the culprit and fast, before disaster strikes again.

Along with the band's serious problems, (as if she didn't already have enough to contend with), Lexi's personal life also takes a puzzling turn. Her boyfriend-slash-boss and her best friend suddenly start behaving very strangely around her. Lexi, however, is bound and determined to find out what's going on with the two most important people in her life while solving the trickiest investigation of her career.

— Kissing in Action by Camilla Chafer