Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Wednesday, February 04, 2015 at 6:30 AM ET …

Caribbean Sunset with a Yellow Parrot by Andrea Frazer

The Belchester Chronicles

Publisher: Accent Press

Price: FREE!

  

The Case of the Jewel Covered Cat Statues by Cindy Vincent

A Buckley and Bogey Cat Detective Caper

Publisher: Whodunit Press

Price: FREE!

  

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New This Week: Ashes and Arsenic, A Preternatural Affairs Thriller by SM Reine

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Ashes and Arsenic by SM Reine

A Preternatural Affairs Thriller (6th in series)

Publisher: Red Iris Books

Price: $3.99 (as of 02/03/2015 at 7:30 PM ET).

  

Agent Cèsar Hawke is in his element when he's investigating magical crime. And with his boss out of town, Cèsar gets to pick which cases he works on. He's bent on doing nothing involving demons, zombies, or fallen angels this time. Instead, he's going to find the witch who used magic to rob a bank.

Easy stuff. Cèsar plans to catch the perp before his boss gets home. But when he digs into the robbery, he finds much more than missing money. He also finds a deadly turf battle between two covens and a trail of bloody violence. A trail that leads directly to his brother, Domingo Hawke.

Domingo wants Cèsar's help taking down his enemies. Forget that Cèsar works for the Office of Preternatural Affairs, forget allegiances, forget pesky "contracts" and "conduct." Domingo is calling in a favor and the Hawke family is too tight to refuse.

Blood is the most powerful ingredient in any witch's spell, after all …

— Ashes and Arsenic by SM Reine

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Murder Under Construction, A Two Sisters and a Journalist Mystery by Maddie Cochere, Now Available at a Special Price

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Murder Under Construction by Maddie Cochere

A Two Sisters and a Journalist Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Maddie Cochere

Price: $0.99 (as of 02/03/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Jo Ravens is thirty-two, divorced, and stuck in a rut. She wants two things in life — a new career as a private investigator and to lose the sixty pounds she packed on after her divorce.

When she crashes her nephew's bike in a construction site, she lands on a girl with a large knife in her chest. Jo enlists her sister Pepper and her journalist friend Jackie to help solve the girl's murder. Things become creepy for Jo when the girl appears to her in dreams and offers unusual clues to her death.

— Murder Under Construction by Maddie Cochere

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The Death of the Detective, A Crime Novel by Mark Smith, New This Week from Brash Books

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The Death of the Detective by Mark Smith

A Crime Novel

Publisher: Brash Books

Price: $4.99 (as of 02/03/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

First published in hardcover by Knopf in 1974. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

A killer calling himself The Deathmaker is on the loose, pursued by Arnold Magnuson, a grief-stricken detective on the verge of a mental breakdown.

Magnuson's dogged investigation to find the killer, and himself, takes him deep into urban Chicago, laying bare the corrupt city and its seething soul in all its macabre, heartbreaking, and violent complexity.

— The Death of the Detective by Mark Smith

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Frozen Stiff, A Mattie Winston Mystery by Annelise Ryan, Now Available at a Special Price

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Frozen Stiff by Annelise Ryan

A Mattie Winston Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 02/03/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Deputy coroner Mattie Winston knows everyone in the charmingly small town of Sorenson, Wisconsin — except the latest body discovered in a desolate field. If a woman this attractive had moved into town, the news would have surely hit the gossip mill in record time. So who was the murdered femme fatale? Whose knife was left planted in her chest? The mystery deepens when detective Steven Hurley takes one look at the body and turns as white as the newly fallen snow … and excuses himself from the case.

It'll take all of Mattie's forensic skills to unravel the increasingly bizarre clues and find the killer … before she herself becomes just another cold case in a frigid Midwest winter!

— Frozen Stiff by Annelise Ryan

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Moscow Rules, A Political Thriller by Robert Moss, New This Week from Endeavour Press

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Moscow Rules by Robert Moss

A Political Thriller

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 02/03/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Yuri Andropov is dead, and the shaky succession of Konstantin Chernenko leaves Russia in turmoil. Like many others Sasha Preobrazhensky has become disillusioned with Moscow. He learns that his WW II-hero father didn't die in action, but was murdered, by fledgling KGB thug Topchy, while trying to save a German child from Soviet rape. So Sasha vows revenge on the Soviet system, determined to destroy it from within.

Sasha joins the GRU and finds his first key ally in Captain Zaytsev, head of the GRU's special-forces training. After service in the Afghanistan invasion Sasha begins putting his coup into action …

Can Sasha undermine the Russian system from within? Or will someone else beat him to it … ?

— Moscow Rules by Robert Moss

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Dark Places, A Claire Morgan Mystery by Linda Ladd, Now Available at a Special Price

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Dark Places by Linda Ladd

A Claire Morgan Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Pinnacle Books

Price: $0.99 (as of 02/03/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Missouri detective Claire Morgan is eager to get back to work after recuperating from injuries sustained on her last job. But the missing persons case that welcomes her home in the dead of winter soon turns more twisted and treacherous than Lake of the Ozarks' icy mountain roads …

The woman's body is found suspended from a tree overlooking a local school. She is bleeding from the head, still alive — but not for long. Someone wanted Professor Simone Classon to suffer as much as possible before she died, making sure the victim had a perfect view of her colleagues and students on the campus below as she succumbed to the slow-working poison in her veins …

Frigid temperatures and punishing snows only make the investigation more difficult. And then the death threats begin — unnerving incidents orchestrated to send Claire a deadly message. Now, as she edges closer to the truth, Claire risks becoming entangled in a maniac's web — and the stuff of her own worst nightmares …

— Dark Places by Linda Ladd

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Deadly in High Heels, A Maddie Springer, High Heels Mystery by Gemma Halliday, New This Week from Gemma Halliday

Gemma Halliday Publishing is a boutique publisher of light-hearted mystery, romantic suspense and romantic comedy novels, perfect for popping into your beach bag for a weekend away or cozying up beside a warm fire for a quiet night in.

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Deadly in High Heels by Gemma Halliday

A Maddie Springer, High Heels Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

Price: $4.99 (as of 02/03/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

When fashion designer Maddie Springer is invited to help style contestants in the Hawaiian Paradise Beauty Pageant, she jumps at the chance! The fantastic publicity coupled with a weeklong vacation with her best friends Marco and Dana, is a win-win. But trouble follows her to paradise when one of the beauty queens winds up dead. Is it a case of a personal grudge, a jealous contestant … or a jealous lover?

Between a pageant director on his way out, a soap star dazzling his way in, a violent anti-fashion protester, and a whole pageant full of competitive beauty queens, Maddie has her hands full sorting through suspects! Luckily for Maddie — or unluckily? — her wacky cast of friends and family, including LAPD Detective Jack Ramirez, are there to help her wade through motives more plentiful than pineapples at a luau.

With the televised crowning approaching, the danger escalating, and a killer on the loose, this is one beauty pageant that's about to turn ugly.

— Deadly in High Heels by Gemma Halliday

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The Judas Strain, A SIGMA Force Thriller by James Rollins, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Judas Strain by James Rollins

A SIGMA Force Thriller (4th in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $3.99 (as of 02/03/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind — a disease that's unknown, unstoppable … and deadly. But it is merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis — operatives of SIGMA Force — search for answers to the bizarre affliction. But there are others with far less altruistic intentions. In a savage and sudden coup, terrorists hijack the vessel, turning a mercy ship into a floating bio-weapons lab.

A world away, SIGMA's Commander Gray Pierce thwarts the murderous schemes of a beautiful would-be killer who holds the first clue to the discovery of a possible cure. Pierce joins forces with the woman who wanted him dead, and together they embark upon an astonishing quest following the trail of the most fabled explorer in history: Marco Polo. But time is an enemy as a worldwide pandemic grows rapidly out of control. As a relentless madman dogs their every step, Gray and his unlikely ally are being pulled into an astonishing mystery buried deep in antiquity and in humanity's genetic code. And as the seconds tick closer to doomsday, Gray Pierce will realize he can truly trust no one, for any one of them could be … a Judas.

— The Judas Strain by James Rollins

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Mrs. Jeffries and the One Who Got Away by Emily Brightwell, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2015 …

Mrs. Jeffries and the One Who Got Away by Emily Brightwell, A Mrs. Jeffries Mystery (33rd in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

Old sins cast long shadows …

Normally dead bodies in a graveyard are buried — but not this one. When a woman is found strangled in a North London cemetery with an old newspaper clipping clutched in her hand, Inspector Witherspoon is surprised to find that he and the victim have crossed paths before.

Alice Robinson was a respectable widow who ran a quiet Islington lodging house. None of her lodgers have any apparent motive to murder their landlady. But nagging suspicions are lodging in the Inspector's mind — only he knows that "Alice Robinson" is not her real name. Now he'll need the help of Mrs. Jeffries to revisit an old case that has haunted him for years and to get the real story.

— Mrs. Jeffries and the One Who Got Away by Emily Brightwell

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Two Mysteries in the Blossom Valley Series by Staci McLaughlin

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All Natural Murder by Staci McLaughlin

A Dana Lewis, Blossom Valley Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $2.99 (as of 02/03/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Greetings from Blossom Valley, CA, home of the O'Connell Organic Farm and Spa, where the best in healthy living is sometimes spoiled by untimely murder …

As Dana Lewis settles into a quiet life of tofu this and tofu that, murder á la carte is the last thing she wants on her plate. But when she learns about the death of Monster Truck driver Bobby Joe Jones, frequent philanderer and boyfriend to Dana's sister, Ashlee, she has no choice but to wipe up the mess. Especially when witnesses last saw Ashlee angrily up in Bobby Joe's grill at the fairgrounds. With dizzying speed, Dana's life skids out of control. What else can she do but go into overdrive to save Ashlee's soy bacon, and stop a deadly killer in his tracks …

— All Natural Murder by Staci McLaughlin

Green Living Can Be Deadly by Staci McLaughlin

A Dana Lewis, Blossom Valley Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $2.99 (as of 02/03/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Thinking green comes with the territory at the O'Connell Organic Farm and Spa in Blossom Valley, CA. But could a festival be taking things too far, especially when it leads to a fresh case of murder?

When Dana Lewis organizes her Green Living Festival, complete with free range fauna and tempting delicacies of tofu and tempeh, she hopes to inspire Blossom Valley into reducing their carbon footprint. But for some participants, saving the planet should have come second to saving their skin, like green energy guru Wendy Stevens, just found dead in her Invisible Prints booth. Now Dana needs to work fast to stop a killer from turning her big event into the next great environmental disaster …

— Green Living Can Be Deadly by Staci McLaughlin

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Death of a Liar by M. C. Beaton, New in Bookstores during February 2015

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during February 2015 is …

Death of a Liar by M. C. Beaton, a Hamish Macbeth Mystery (31st in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

    

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose.

But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder, he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie. This time, though, she is telling the truth. Her body is found in her home and Hamish must sort through all of her lies to solve the crime.

— Death of a Liar by M. C. Beaton

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for February 2015. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of February 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

Blanche Among the Talented Tenth, A Blanche White Mystery by Barbara Neely, New This Week from Brash Books

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Blanche Among the Talented Tenth by Barbara Neely

A Blanche White Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Brash Books

Price: $4.99 (as of 02/03/2015 at 2:00 PM ET).

  

First published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press in 1994. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

When Blanche White moved north to Boston, she believed it would be a better place to raise her kids, especially after she got them into an elite private school. But now her children are becoming elitist and judgmental, acquiring more attitude than education. So when she and her kids are invited to Amber Cove, an exclusive resort in Maine for wealthy blacks, Blanche jumps at the chance to see how the other half lives and maybe stop her kids turning into people she doesn't want to know.

When one of the guests kills himself, and another is electrocuted in her bathtub, Blanche becomes an accidental detective once again, using her sharp wit and keen social insight to peel back some disturbing color and class distinctions within the black community that may have driven someone to murder.

— Blanche Among the Talented Tenth by Barbara Neely

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Played by the Book by Lucy Arlington, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2015 …

Played by the Book by Lucy Arlington, A Lila Watkins, Novel Idea Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

Lila Wilkins, literary agent and "murder magnet," is planning a book signing garden party. But things aren't coming up roses when she has to weed out a dangerous killer …

The owner of the Novel Idea Literary Agency is thrilled when former local boy and popular television show host Damian York returns to Inspiration Valley, North Carolina, to launch his new gardening book. But Lila is less than excited about the hubbub when she sees her mounting to-do list. Between planning York's gala and sprucing up her yard for another event, she's spread too thin — especially after she finds a skull buried in her flowerbeds.

As Lila's macabre discovery leads to other secrets hidden in Inspiration Valley's past, a member of the local garden club is found slumped over her prize roses — murdered. Now it's up to Lila to dig through old mysteries and new clues to unearth a murderer before someone else is found pushing up daisies …

— Played by the Book by Lucy Arlington

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The Arnifour Affair, A Colin Pendragon Mystery by Gregory Harris, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Arnifour Affair by Gregory Harris

A Colin Pendragon Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $2.99 (as of 02/03/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

When a carriage bearing the Arnifour family crest — a vulture devouring a slaughtered lamb — arrives at the Kensington home of Colin Pendragon, it is an ominous beginning to a perplexing new case. Lady Arnifour's husband has been beaten to death and her niece, Elsbeth, left in a coma. Is the motive passion, revenge, or something even more sinister? Police suspicions have fallen on the groundskeeper and his son, yet the Earl's widow is convinced of their innocence.

Even as Colin and his partner Ethan Pruitt delve into the muddy history of the Arnifour family, a young street urchin begs their help in finding his missing sister. Ethan, regrettably familiar with London's underbelly, urges caution, yet Colin's interest is piqued. And in a search that wends from the squalid opium dens of the East End to the salons of Embassy Row, the truth about these seemingly disparate cases will prove disquieting, dangerous, and profoundly unexpected …

— The Arnifour Affair by Gregory Harris

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