Shadowline Drift by Alexes Razevich is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

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Shadowline Drift by Alexes Razevich

A Metaphysical Thriller

Publisher: Razor Street Publishing

… as today's fifth free mystery ebook.

  

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Jake Kendrick is a brilliant negotiator, even though — or maybe because — he's only three and a half feet tall. When a substance is discovered which holds the promise to end world hunger, Jake seems the perfect person to secure the rights from the Amazonian chief who claims to hold the only supply.

In the rainforest, reality and illusion collide. The chief is not what he seems, nor is the substance. Blocking Jake's escape to warn civilization are a mysterious group of indigenous people who may or may not exist; a dangerous teenage sorceress; a beautiful anthropologist — and madness.

— Shadowline Drift by Alexes Razevich

A Cup of Murder by Cam Larson is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

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A Cup of Murder by Cam Larson

A Roasted Love Cozy Mystery

Publisher: EscapeInk.com

… as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

  

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It's been a rough week for Laila Rook, the barista at Roasted Love, a community favorite indie coffeehouse that serves coffee in ceramic cups and features art from local artists on the walls. A new upscale chain coffeehouse, Sunrise, opened across the street, and Laila's customers are leaving. The owner of Sunrise, Michael Simms, wants to put Roasted Love out of business and enjoys letting them know with his rudeness and his mean Doberman. Jacob Weaver, the owner of Roasted Love, won't back down, and he's not being too quiet about it, either.

When the owner of Sunrise is found murdered, Jacob is naturally the prime suspect. Laila has to decide if Jacob could be guilty and figure out how to save Roasted Love from closing — not to mention balance a cute paramedic and an orphaned Doberman.

Between Jacob's mood swings and things not adding up, the clock is ticking on the future of Roasted Love.

— A Cup of Murder by Cam Larson

End Result by M. A. Comley is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

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End Result by M. A. Comley

A Hero Series Novel

Publisher: M. A. Comley

… as today's third free mystery ebook.

  

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Before DI Hero Nelson has the chance to get used to his new role as a father to brand-new twins, a murder investigation steals his attention. When a second victim is discovered on his patch, Hero has his eye on a single perpetrator for both murders — but the suspect has a solid alibi for both crimes.

Hero continues his investigation until he obtains a surprising end result.

— End Result by M. A. Comley

Code Name: Daedalus by Shane O'Brien MacDonald is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

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Code Name: Daedalus by Shane O'Brien MacDonald

A Kiki Claymore Mystery

Publisher: Ankerville Street Productions

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

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Daedalus. A top-secret drone program. Completely self-sufficient, it has been hijacked by a group of terrorists. They want to turn it into a flying nuclear bomb — aiming it right at New York City. Their leader? The most recent ex-boyfriend of a young woman named Kiki Claymore.

She's the latest recruit of Task Force Ten — an ultra secret group of NATO secret agents. Her mission: find her former lover and stop him at all costs. The only problem? None of her fellow spies trust her. Is she on a mission to stop the man who broke her heart? Or will she betray her NATO colleagues to keep her love alive?

From faking her way through the red light district of Barcelona to a deadly shootout at mission control in Cape Canaveral — Kiki Claymore is on assignment to stop the only man she's ever loved. Before he unleashes a holocaust that will kill millions.

— Code Name: Daedalus by Shane O'Brien MacDonald

Depth of Field by Audrey Claire is Today's First Featured Free MystereBook

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Depth of Field by Audrey Claire

A Makayla Rose Mystery

Publisher: Audrey Claire

… as today's first free mystery ebook.

  

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Makayla Rose has moved to Briney Creek from New York. She's decided after working as a forensic photographer for the NYPD and loving a man who ended up causing her to be suspected of murder, she needed a drastic change …

Makayla opens her little photography studio right on Main Street and is happily shooting scenes of festivals, family annual photos, and some business promotional arrangements. She's even getting her own glamour shot together so she can create an online profile for a dating site. Unfortunately, the pain and fear of the past comes flooding back when she arrives at her shop to find the body of the local loan officer.

Now Makayla has to figure out who in her idyllic new town is a murderer and if her photos, found dumped all over the body, hold the clue.

— Depth of Field by Audrey Claire

Chosen To Die by Lisa Jackson is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Chosen To Die by Lisa Jackson as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, December 27, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

Chosen To Die by Lisa Jackson

A Regan Pescoli and Selena Alvarez Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Zebra Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/27/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).

    

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Detective Regan Pescoli has worked the "Star Crossed Killer" case for months, never imagining she'd be captured by the madman she's been hunting. Regan knows exactly what he's capable of — and avoiding the same fate will take every drop of her courage and cunning.

Regan Pescoli is unlike any woman Nate Santana has met before. But now she's missing, and Nate knows something is dangerously wrong. The only person who can help him find her is Detective Selena Alvarez, Regan's partner. As Nate and Selena dig deeper into the Star-Crossed Killer case and the body count rises, the truth about Regan's disappearance becomes chillingly clear.

In the desolate Montana woods, evil is lurking. And with time running out, the only way to save Regan will be to get inside a killer's twisted mind and unravel a shocking message that is being revealed, one body at a time …

— Chosen To Die by Lisa Jackson

Natchez Burning by Greg Iles is Today's Nook Daily Find

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Natchez Burning by Greg Iles as today's Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, December 27, 2014.

Natchez Burning by Greg Iles

A Penn Cage Novel (4th in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/27/2014 at 6:30 AM ET).

  

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Growing up in the rural Southern hamlet of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned everything he knows about honor and duty from his father, Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor and pillar of the community is accused of murdering Violet Turner, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s. A fighter who has always stood for justice, Penn is determined to save his father, even though Tom, stubbornly evoking doctor-patient privilege, refuses to speak up in his own defense.

The quest for answers sends Penn deep into the past — into the heart of a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the Double Eagles, a vicious KKK crew headed by one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the state. With the aid of a local friend and reporter privy to some of Natchez's oldest and deadliest secrets, Penn follows a bloody trail that stretches back forty years, to one undeniable fact: no one — black or white, young or old, brave or not — is ever truly safe.

With everything on the line, including his own life, Penn must decide how far he will go to protect those he loves … and see justice done, once and for all.

— Natchez Burning by Greg Iles

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141227)

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

• The New Release is Surface: Game of Gods.

• The Daily Deal is Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival, just $2.99 today only!

• Today's Special Deal — This weekend only: All Games Are 60% Off! Use coupon code SNOW at check-out to purchase any Collector's Edition game for $7.99 or use coupon code FLAKE for Standard Edition games at just $3.99. Offer valid through December 28th, 2014 only 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 Surface: Game of Gods

When your friends, Jim, Kevin, and Maggie, invite you to participate in a paid research study, you jump at the chance. But things take a bizarre turn when you arrive to discover that Jim and Kevin are missing, and Maggie has just been abducted by a horrific figure! A strange game is spread out on the table, and every move could mean certain death. But you have no choice — you'll have to play to save your friends' lives … and your own. Can you make it to the end of the Game? Roll the dice and find out in the thrilling 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 Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival

Madame Fate returns … from the dead! This is Fate's Carnival as you've never seen it before, with old acts like Amazing Larry and Marlena Mermaid in the most harrowing predicaments! Can you stop fate before it's too late? Or will the creepy carnival curse stop you?

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.

Crazy in Paradise, A Paradise Florida Keys Mystery by Deborah Brown, Now Available at a Special Price

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Crazy in Paradise by Deborah Brown

A Paradise Florida Keys Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Paradise Books

Price: $0.99 (as of 12/26/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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Dying in the middle of the summer in the Florida Keys is sweaty business …

Welcome to Tarpon Cove. Madison Westin has inherited her aunt's beachfront motel in the Florida Keys. Trouble is she's also inherited a slew of colorful tenant's — drunks, ex-cons, and fugitives.

Only one problem: First, she has to wrestle control from a conniving lawyer and shady motel manager. With the help of her new best friend, whose motto is never leave home without your Glock, they dive into a world of blackmail, murder, and drugs.

— Crazy in Paradise by Deborah Brown

The Defendants, A Thaddeus Murfee, Legal Thriller by John Ellsworth, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Defendants by John Ellsworth

A Thaddeus Murfee, Legal Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Subjudica House

Price: $0.99 (as of 12/26/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Thaddeus Murfee is twenty-five, single, a lawyer of eighteen months, and completely unprepared for the murder case that walks in. While Ermeline was passed out, her date carved his name in her breasts. Heavy, thick letters: V-I-C-T-O-R.

The guilty party is found murdered. Or was he guilty? Ermeline is arrested because she had motive and opportunity. She hires Thaddeus, who makes his debut defending his first murder case in this courtroom drama.

— The Defendants by John Ellsworth

The Pearl Earring by Suzanne Weyn, a New Haunted Museum Adventure for Cadet Sleuths

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

The Pearl Earring by Suzanne Weyn

Series: Haunted Museum

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Format(s): Paperback, eBook

Recommended for Cadet Sleuths, Ages 10 to 12

  

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

When Lily accidentally touches a painting at The Haunted Museum, she's pulled into a dangerous fight for her life!

The more she learns about the history of the portraits she'd been mesmerized by, the more she finds about the artist who painted them and the girls in the paintings. All the girls seem to have disappeared — but where? Tears on the portraits, dreams about the girls in the pictures — what could it mean? And what happens to Lily if her portrait is painted?

— The Pearl Earring by Suzanne Weyn

A False Dawn, A Sean O'Brien Mystery by Tom Lowe, Now Available at a Special Price

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A False Dawn by Tom Lowe

A Sean O'Brien Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kingsbridge

Price: $0.99 (as of 12/26/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Before the death of his wife, Sean O'Brien makes a promise to her that he has no plans to break until he starts building a new life in an old cabin on a remote stretch of a tropical river in the heart of Florida. It's there that he discovers an injured young woman who whispers a cryptic message into his ear.

As she fights for her life, Sean makes a promise to her, but to fulfill it he'll have to end the vow he made to his dead wife, and he'll have to face a criminal mind that has a tap root into his previous life. For O'Brien to begin to live a new life, he must revisit the past where a brilliant criminal mind lies waiting to write a dark future.

— A False Dawn by Tom Lowe

A Nip of Murder by Carol Miller, New in Bookstores during December 2014

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

A Nip of Murder by Carol Miller, a Daisy Hale McGovern Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

        

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 …

As Daisy McGovern knows all too well, it isn't easy being a young, small-town waitress at a local diner in Virginia. It becomes even harder as she's trying to stitch her life back together and salvage her job by converting the diner into a bakery. She's preoccupied with snickerdoodles and cinnamon buns, trying to feed a group of geocachers in town, when a mysterious robbery occurs in the back room and one of the thieves ends up dead with a chef's knife in his chest. With the sheriff out of town, Daisy, distrustful of the cop left in charge, takes it upon herself to follow up on clues and find out who the robber was and why he was there. While she's investigating, she meets a handsome geocacher and is commissioned to bake a cake for the unlikely wedding of one of the Balsam boys, at the same time trying to avoid the charms of his moonshine-brewing brother.

When a second murder occurs, Daisy finds herself in a twisted game of cat and mouse that takes her from secretive nip joints overflowing with moonshine to weathered Appalachian mountaintops overflowing with history and guns. She must figure out who is the murderer and how her bakery is involved before she becomes the next victim.

— A Nip of Murder by Carol Miller

Wedding Cake by Josi S. Kilpack, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014 …

Wedding Cake by Josi S. Kilpack

A Sadie Hoffmiller Mystery (12th in series)

Publisher: Shadow Mountain

  

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 …

"Didn't I tell you you'd never be free of me?"

When Sadie Hoffmiller receives a threatening, anonymous text message just days before her wedding, she's determined not to let it interfere with the celebration she has carefully planned for months. But when the threat changes from a distant fear to a frightening reality, Sadie realizes just how much she's underestimated the situation.

Desperate to put an end to the game she's been forced to play, Sadie, her fiancé, Pete, and her children pull out all the stops — resolved to stop running and see justice done. What they don't know, however, is just how far Sadie's nemesis is willing to go and just how many people may be hurt in the process.

There's no turning back for anyone in this riveting conclusion to the twelve-volume series, and the question becomes whether or not Sadie will have a future left when the game finally comes to an end.

— Wedding Cake by Josi S. Kilpack

Snow Cone, The Case Files of Icarus Investigations by Daniel Ganninger, Now Available at a Special Price

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Snow Cone by Daniel Ganninger

The Case Files of Icarus Investigations (3rd in series)

Publisher: Daniel Ganninger

Price: $0.99 (as of 12/26/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Murphy and Galveston have become too well known, a detriment in their line of work. They decide to move their detective business from San Diego to Nashville to start fresh, and it's not long before they're offered a new case, an easy case, and an easy payday — or so it seemed.

Joseph Stanwick, a geology professor at Vanderbilt, has a problem. His life's work researching the ice flows in Greenland has been jeopardized by the appearance of unknown gunmen. Stanwick wants to know why, and Galveston and Murphy are glad to help. But the quest to find out why the professor can't continue his research quickly spirals out of control. Stanwick found something he wasn't supposed to, and the gunmen want to make sure he doesn't intefere again.

What is happening on the ice? Is it just a company exploring for mineral deposits, or are they searching for something that was hidden in the ice years ago? The detectives are pulled further into the fray when they're fingered for a murder back in the States. The only way out is to solve the case using their quick wits and unconventional tactics. Who has implicated them in a crime they didn't commit, and what new, secret organization could be planning a terrorist attack on a nuclear scale? They can only rely on each other and their fellow Icarus Investigation crew members, because during Operation Snow Cone, no one else can be trusted.

— Snow Cone by Daniel Ganninger