Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Friday, September 18, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Friday, September 18, 2015 at 7:00 AM ET …

No One to Trust by Katie Reus

The Red Stone Security Series

Publisher: Katie Reus

Price: FREE!

  

Blood Sport by Michael Newton

A Special Agents Flynn and Tanner, FBI Mystery

Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Endless Evil by Amanda Feyerbend

An Alex Gray, Pruitt County Mystery

Publisher: Amanda Feyerbend

Price: FREE!

  

The Medium by C. J. Archer

An Emily Chambers, Spirit Medium Mystery

Publisher: C. J. Archer

Price: FREE!

  

The Queen's Cipher by David Taylor

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: David Taylor

Price: FREE!

  

I'm Kona Love You Forever by JoAnn Bassett

An Islands of Aloha Mystery

Publisher: Lokelani Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

The Star Agency by R. E. Weber

The Star Agency Chronicles

Publisher: R. E. Weber

Price: FREE!

  

The One About the Stolen Dog by Christopher Joyce

The Creatures of Chichester Early Chapter Mysteries

Publisher: Chichester Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

A Jewel in the Paw by Liz Pirkey

A Dingo the Detecting Dog Mystery for Kids

Publisher: Liz Pirkey

Price: FREE!

  

For a summary of all of today's titles, plus any that may have been added since this post was created, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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Review: The Search for Baby Ruby by Susan Shreve

A Mysterious Review of The Search for Baby Ruby by Susan Shreve. A Middle Grade Mystery.

Review summary: The premise of this mystery is so flawed it's hard to know where to start. Maybe the whole purpose of the story is to illustrate that families, even dysfunctional ones, come together in times of crisis, but there has to be a better way of getting this point across, especially in a book intended for middle grade readers. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Search for Baby Ruby
Susan Shreve
A Middle Grade Mystery
Scholastic (May 2015)

Publisher synopsis: It was just a few minutes. Stuck in a hotel room babysitting while the rest of her family celebrated downstairs in the hotel, Jess thought she'd try on her sister's wedding dress in the large bathroom while the baby slept. But when Jess opens the door again the baby is gone. Fighting guilt and terror, Jess and her kleptomaniac sister Teddy evade the swirl of police and hotel staff in their own desperate effort to get Baby Ruby back before it's too late.

Three Can Keep a Secret, A Joe Gunther Mystery by Archer Mayor, Now Available at a Special Price

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Three Can Keep a Secret by Archer Mayor

A Joe Gunther Mystery (24th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 09/16/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Joe Gunther and his team — the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) — are usually called in on major cases by local Vermont enforcement whenever they need expertise and back-up. But after the state is devastated by Hurricane Irene, the police from one end of the state are taxed to their limits, leaving Joe Gunther involved in an odd, seemingly unrelated series of cases. In the wake of the hurricane, a seventeen year old gravesite is exposed, revealing a coffin that had been filled with rocks instead of the expected remains.

At the same time, an old, retired state politician turns up dead at his high-end nursing home, in circumstances that leave investigators unsure that he wasn't murdered. And a patient who calls herself The Governor has walked away from a state mental facility during the post-hurricane flood. It turns out that she was indeed once "Governor for a Day," over forty years ago, but that she might have also been falsely committed and drugged to keep her from revealing something that she saw all those years ago. Amidst the turmoil and the disaster relief, it's up to Joe Gunther and his team to learn what really happened with the two corpses — one missing — and what secret "The Governor" might have still locked in her brain that links them all.

— Three Can Keep a Secret by Archer Mayor

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New This Week: A Blind Eye, An Adam Kaminski Mystery by Jane Gorman

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A Blind Eye by Jane Gorman

An Adam Kaminski Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Blue Eagle Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 09/17/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

It was a quiet death, a young woman falling into the frigid waters of Warsaw's Wisła River. The police accept it as suicide, the pressures of a political internship too much to handle. Her father knows it was murder. Philadelphia Detective Adam Kaminski, visiting Poland on an official delegation, gets drawn into the investigation over the objections of his superiors back home. For the dead girl was family, her father a cousin Adam had only just met, and Adam was raised to put family first.

He begins uncovering the clues that point to the killer, clues that lead him inexorably into an investigation of the close-knit community of Polish politics and the legacy of the Secret Police. But the past isn't always black and white, as Adam is forced to accept as he learns more about the killer and about his own family legacy. Murder can only beget murder, driven by even deeper secrets.

— A Blind Eye by Jane Gorman

Also new this week, the 2nd and 3rd books in the Adam Kaminski Mystery Series for $4.99 each on Kindle.

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Warm Bodies, The Warm Bodies Series by Isaac Marion, Now Available at a Special Price

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Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

The Warm Bodies Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Atria Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/16/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

R is having a no-life crisis — he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he'd rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization.

And then he meets a girl.

First as his captive, then his reluctant house guest, Julie is a blast of living color in R's gray landscape, and something inside him begins to bloom. He doesn't want to eat this girl — although she looks delicious — he wants to protect her. But their unlikely bond will cause ripples they can't imagine, and their hopeless world won't change without a fight.

— Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

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Sherlock Holmes and the Long Acre Vampire, A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche by Val Andrews, 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 …

Sherlock Holmes and the Long Acre Vampire by Val Andrews

A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 09/17/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

London, 1899. Three bodies have been found along Long Acre road, drained of blood and with two puncture marks on their necks. Nearby, at the Lyceum theatre, the famous actor/manager Sir Henry Irving has adapted Bram Stoker's novel Dracula for the stage and is playing the Count himself. The play receives praise, as all that is associated with Sir Henry is wont to do; at least, until the connections between then play's subject matter and the bodies found in the proximity of the theatre are brought to light. The box office for the play suffers a blow as Irving is being implicated by association; he must therefore try to prove his innocence, or risk the future of the play, so he turns to Sherlock Holmes for help in the matter. The play moves from London to Brighton, in an attempt to save the box office, but intrigue seems to follow Irving wherever he goes. The famous duo, aided by Inspector Lestrade, must find the culprit before another body appears.

As Holmes and Watson get tangled up in this bizarre case, it soon becomes clear that nothing is as it seems. They quickly find themselves immersed in a world of duplicity, forgery and insanity, where acting is the name of the game. Will they solve the mystery before it's too late? Or will more suffer at the hands of this mysterious killer?

— Sherlock Holmes and the Long Acre Vampire by Val Andrews

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Stonebrook Cottage, The Carriage House Series by Carla Neggers, Now Available at a Special Price

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Stonebrook Cottage by Carla Neggers

The Carriage House Series (3rd in series)

Publisher: Harlequin MIRA

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/16/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

To put her life back in perspective, Kara Galway has moved home to Texas after years in New England. The up-and-coming defense attorney intends to concentrate on her career and spend time with her Texas Ranger brother. But fate has something else in store.

While Kara is devastated to learn her former mentor, Connecticut governor Mike Parisi, has died suddenly, she's pleased for her best friend, Allyson Stockwell, the new governor. Then Allyson's children show up at Kara's Texas home. They are terrified — and hiding something. Afraid for themselves and their mother, they are certain the circumstances of Mike's death are suspicious.

Kara must return with the children to Allyson's home, Stonebrook Cottage, to unravel what exactly is going on. Are the children really in danger? What secret is Allyson hiding? And then there's Sam Temple, the Texas Ranger Kara has fallen head over heels in love with. Sam has followed her to Connecticut and has no intention of leaving without her. Kara must uncover the truth if she is going to protect the people she loves.

— Stonebrook Cottage by Carla Neggers

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New This Week: Hip-Deep In Alligators, A Jimmy Flannery Mystery by Robert Campbell

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Hip-Deep In Alligators by Robert Campbell

A Jimmy Flannery Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Ayeshire Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 09/17/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

This is a new ebook edition of a mystery first published in hardcover by Dutton in 1987.

Lots of strange things get washed up in Chicago's sewers, and even tough Irishman Jimmy Flannery feels jumpy when he is sent to to inspect old tunnels. He keeps thinking about those stories of kids flushing down baby alligators that grow up into the big man-eating monsters alive down in the dark. And it doesn't calm Flannery's nerves when he stumbles onto a body. Or rather two halves of a body.

Now, reporting the corpse to the cops would have ended the incident for anybody else. But Jimmy Flannery doesn't turn his back on trouble on his turf. He tracks it down. And when he finds the dead man really had been chewed in half by a huge crocodile — he knows his trouble has murder written all over it.

For at the bottom of this smelly situation is the stink of political corruption and big-time crime. There is something rotten in Chicago! And whether the decay is spreading from downtown in City Hall or underground in the sewers, Jimmy Flannery uses all his street smarts and exploits all his power connections — to say nothing of risking his life — to find out the who, what, and why of so fishy a murder.

— Hip-Deep In Alligators by Robert Campbell

See all three recently reissued titles in the Jimmy Flannery Mystery Series for $2.99 each on Kindle.

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This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It, A John Dies at the End Novel by David Wong, Now Available at a Special Price

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This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It by David Wong

A John Dies at the End Novel (2nd in series)

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 09/16/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

WARNING: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.

You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection — the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the "cure" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like.

You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You can't see it, because it decides what you see. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed. So what happens when your family, friends and neighbors get mind-controlling skull spiders? We're all about to find out.

Just stay calm, and remember that telling you about the spider situation is not the same as having caused it. I'm just the messenger. Even if I did sort of cause it.

Either way, I won't hold it against you if you're upset. I know that's just the spider talking.

— This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It by David Wong

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The Father by Tom O. Keenan, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2015 …

The Father by Tom O. Keenan, A Sean Rooney Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: McNidder & Grace

  

Mental illness, alcohol abuse, and the tedium of pursuing typical killers, leave Sean Rooney a pathetic man, a failed forensic profiler, a bit of a loser and definitely retired.

DCI Jacqueline Kaminski has other ideas. Faced with a multiple murder — and some headless corpses — she needs Rooney back on the case.

— The Father by Tom O. Keenan

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for September 2015. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of September 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

Death Nell, A Noshes Up North Mystery by Mary Grace Murphy, Now Available at a Special Price

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Death Nell by Mary Grace Murphy

A Noshes Up North Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Mary Grace Murphy

Price: 99¢ (as of 09/16/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Nell Bailey has always suspected food would be the death of her, but never did she consider her relationship with tempting treats would cause her to be a target for murder …

After writing an extremely negative review of "Sam's Slam" and posting it on her blog "Noshes Up North," a follower takes issue with her comments and won't let it go. The cyber bullying continues culminating in a gruesome murder.

A fellow foodie, coincidentally also named Nell, has been slain in a most heinous manner. Could it be a case of mistaken identity and she was the intended victim?

As Nell wonders how to deal with the situation, her lifetime battle with weight and self image give her no relief. She finds herself relying on her group of good friends for advice and support. Then she gets help from an unexpected source — Sam, the owner of the restaurant she had torn to shreds in her review.

As sparks start to ignite between them, a chilling question rears its ugly head in the back of Nell's mind. Could Sam possibly be the killer? And does he want her dead?

— Death Nell by Mary Grace Murphy

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Come Hell or Highball by Maia Chance, New in Bookstores during September 2015

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

Come Hell or Highball by Maia Chance, a Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

    

30-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective novels, and chocolate layer cake, until, her husband dies suddenly, leaving her his fortune … or so Lola thought. As it turns out, all she inherits from Alfie is a big pile of debt. Pretty soon, Lola and her stalwart Swedish cook, Berta, are reduced to hiding out in the secret love nest Alfie kept in New York City.

But when rent comes due, Lola and Berta have no choice but to accept an offer made by one of Alfie's girls-on-the-side: in exchange for a handsome sum of money, the girl wants Lola to retrieve a mysterious reel of film for her. It sounds like an easy enough way to earn the rent money. But Lola and Berta realize they're in way over their heads when, before they can retrieve it, the man currently in possession of the film reel is murdered, and the reel disappears. On a quest to retrieve the reel and solve the murder before the killer comes after them next, Lola and Berta find themselves navigating one wacky situation after another in high style and low company.

— Come Hell or Highball by Maia Chance

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

Her Final Breath by Robert Dugoni, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2015 …

Her Final Breath by Robert Dugoni, A Tracy Crosswhite Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

  

Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police force after the sensational retrial of her sister's killer. Still scarred from that ordeal, Tracy is pulled into an investigation that threatens to end her career, if not her life.

A serial killer known as the Cowboy is killing young women in cheap motels in North Seattle. Even after a stalker leaves a menacing message for Crosswhite, suggesting the killer or a copycat could be targeting her personally, she is charged with bringing the murderer to justice. With clues scarce and more victims dying, Tracy realizes the key to solving the murders may lie in a decade-old homicide investigation that others, including her captain, Johnny Nolasco, would prefer to keep buried. With the Cowboy on the hunt, can Tracy find the evidence to stop him, or will she become his next victim?

— Her Final Breath by Robert Dugoni

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for September 2015. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of September 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

The Cabin, The Carriage House Series by Carla Neggers, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Cabin by Carla Neggers

The Carriage House Series (2nd in series)

Publisher: Harlequin MIRA

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/16/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Texas Ranger Jack Galway knows his wife Susanna loves him, so when their marriage hits a rough patch, he supports her decision to take their two teenaged daughters to Boston for a break. But when a few weeks turns into several months, Jack heads to Boston to get his family back.

Packing up the girls and her grandmother, Susanna heads to her cabin in the Adirondacks, trying to escape her fears, her secrets and even the man she loves. Little does she know she's being followed, not just by her husband but by a murderer …

Ex-convict Alice Parker left a mess back in Texas, and she'll never forgive Jack Galway for killing her dream of becoming a Texas Ranger herself. Obsessed with revenge, she's got her sights set on Jack's family.

Trapped in the mountains, Jack and Susanna must find strength in each other if they hope to keep their family together and escape the cabin alive.

— The Cabin by Carla Neggers

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