Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Thursday, October 08, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Thursday, October 08, 2015 at 7:00 AM ET …

Death, Limes and Videotape by Summer Prescott

A Key West Culinary Mystery

Publisher: Maven Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Under the Street Lights by T. J. Wall and Matthew Landis

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: T. J. Wall and Matthew Landis

Price: FREE!

  

Never Bloodless by Steve Richer

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Steve Richer

Price: FREE!

  

The Greeks of Beaubien Street by Suzanne Jenkins

The Greektown Stories

Publisher: Jenkins Associates

Price: FREE!

  

Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She's Dead by Christiana Miller

A Toad Witch Mystery

Publisher: HekaRose Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Death by Inferior Design by Leslie Caine

A Domestic Bliss Mystery

Publisher: NYLA

Price: FREE!

  

A Wrong Way Home by Alice Orr

A Riverton Road Novel of Romantic Suspense

Publisher: Alice Orr

Price: FREE!

  

The Reprisal by Allen Mitchum

The Lethal Solutions Series

Publisher: Allen Mitchum

Price: FREE!

  

Murder With No Passion by Laura Burke

A Masson Murder Mystery

Publisher: Laura Burke

Price: FREE!

  

Second Chances by Jeffrey Schiller

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Story Merchant Books

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: Shakespeare No More by Tony Hays

A Mysterious Review of Shakespeare No More by Tony Hays. A Jacobean Mystery.

Review summary: The life and suspicious death of William Shakespeare make for a fine backstory to this police procedural-style investigation. There is a strong sense of time and place and the endless fascination as to whether or not Shakespeare was, indeed, the author of all the work credited to him adds to the intrigue. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Shakespeare No More
Tony Hays
A Jacobean Mystery
Perseverance Press (September 2015)

Publisher synopsis: It's April 1616, and William Shakespeare is mortally ill, felled, they say, by a fever. But when he calls his estranged friend Constable Simon Saddler to his bedside, Shakespeare tells him that his illness is no fever, but poison. When the poet dies just days later, Saddler feels compelled to investigate his old friend's death to discover, not just who murdered him, but how a man who was once as close as a brother was moved to cuckold Simon and split their friendship apart. The trail is long, but before it's over, Simon finds himself wrapped up in two murders, and a conspiracy that reaches to the king's own doorstep.

Invasion of Privacy, A Brody Taylor Thriller by Ian Sutherland, Now Available at a Special Price

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Invasion of Privacy by Ian Sutherland

A Brody Taylor Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Brookmans Books

Price: 99¢ (as of 10/07/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Following the brutal killing of a beautiful young cellist, talented Met Police detective Jenny Price leads the murder investigation team. Baffled by how the killer knew his victim's innermost desires, Jenny begins to run out of leads. Desperate, she reluctantly accepts the assistance of a witness who comes forward with a strange story about hacked webcams.

To retain his elite status in the global hacking community, Brody Taylor accepts a challenge against another hacker to break into a highly secure but highly illegal webcam streaming site. But as the competition intensifies, Brody discovers a serial killer is one of the site's voyeuristic customers using the webcams to target young women. Realising the police are unaware of the webcams, Brody decides to use them to help him win the challenge. But that means social engineering the attractive police detective leading the murder investigation.

As they begin to make progress, Jenny senses there is far more to Brody than meets the eye. Should she continue to rely on the charming but mysterious security consultant? And, as he gets closer to Jenny and more deeply embroiled in the investigation, should Brody forfeit the challenge and walk away from the hacking community forever, just to help Jenny track down the killer before he strikes again?

— Invasion of Privacy by Ian Sutherland

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New This Week: The Cat's Meow, A Jimmy Flannery Mystery by Robert Campbell

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The Cat's Meow by Robert Campbell

A Jimmy Flannery Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Ayeshire Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 10/07/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

This is a new ebook edition of a mystery first published in hardcover by Dutton in 1988.

Ignatius, Father Mulrooney's, has been found dead in the church and buried by the aging priest in the graveyard. Dead cats tell no tales, but the howls of Ignatius — according to the good father — startle him from a deep sleep the next night and send him to the church to investigate. On the sanctuary floor is a pentagon painted in blood and signs of a Black Mass. But all traces of the Satan worship vanish by the time he brings his housekeeper, Mrs. Thrimble, to witness the sacrilege. Can't Jimmy, with his growing reputation for investigation, take a look-see?

Matters of cats meowing from beyond the grave and old boneyards aside, Flannery doesn't consider either problem a matter of life and death … until he stumbles upon a corpse. That makes it murder. Someone has killed poor old Father Mulrooney, and Flannery suspects the motive lies in the world of the living , where passions run deep and politics lie at the bottom of land deals, buried secrets, and sudden death.

While former choir boy Flannery heads to the Catholic boys' school next to St. Pat's — that being the likeliest source of ghostly cats and devilish doings — his former ward boss "Chips" Devlin figures Jim's the one to revive some of Chicago's Irish political clout and squelch the gas station deal. Devlin's sainted grandmother lies in that graveyard, and he'd prefer her bones rest in peace, not make way for premium no-lead.

— The Cat's Meow by Robert Campbell

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The Chemistry of Death, A Joe Tesla Mystery by Rebecca Cantrell, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Chemistry of Death by Rebecca Cantrell

A Joe Tesla Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Rebecca Cantrell

Price: 99¢ (as of 10/07/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me … or can they?

Tortured genius Joe Tesla is on the trail of a sadistic serial killer who charms his victims into the bowels of the Manhattan subway system — and who holds the keys to Joe's crippling condition. Can Joe stop the murderous rampage of this silver-tongued killer, or will he become the next victim?

— The Chemistry of Death by Rebecca Cantrell

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New This Week: Long Haul, A Crime Novel by A. I. Bezzerides

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Long Haul by A. I. Bezzerides

A Crime Novel

Publisher: 280 Steps

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/07/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Originally published in 1938 and turned into the Raoul Walsh film They Drive By Night (1940) starring Humphrey Bogart and George Raft.

Struggling trucker brothers Nick and Paul Benay — hauling their produce loads between Los Angeles and San Francisco — are driving day and night, fighting fatigue and the fear of falling asleep at the wheel with endless doses of black coffee and facing the dangers of the California highway.

— Long Haul by A. I. Bezzerides

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The Spirit is Willing, A Ophelia Wylde, Occult Mystery by Max Mccoy, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Spirit is Willing by Max Mccoy

A Ophelia Wylde, Occult Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/07/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

In the Old West, murder is a way of life. But psychic detective Ophelia Wylde is dealing out her own brand of justice by talking to the victims … after they're dead …

It's one of the strangest trials in Colorado history. A "spirit photographer" is accused of fraud, and Ophelia Wylde agrees to examine the man's ghostly portraits and testify in court. In a sealed room, she is presented with five photographs. Four are obvious fakes. But one photo — featuring a powerful politician, Jackson Miles, with a sorrowful ghost in chains behind his shoulder — is the real McCoy.

When Ophelia makes contact, the spirit is in such agony that she's unable to learn anything but his name: Angus Wright. Intrigued, Ophelia sets out to learn more about the wronged Mr. Wright and discovers he was murdered nearly twenty years ago during the Gold Rush. The politician is somehow involved, and Ophelia has to watch her step. Because the living are much more dangerous than the dead …

— The Spirit is Willing by Max Mccoy

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New This Week: Brighter Than the Sun, A Reyes Alexander Farrow Story by Darynda Jones

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Brighter Than the Sun by Darynda Jones

A Reyes Alexander Farrow Story

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/07/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

All his life, Reyes Alexander Farrow has suffered the torments of the damned. Only one thing has given him hope: the woman who radiates a light that no mortals can see; a light that only the departed can see …

Told from his point of view, this story chronicles the first time Reyes ever encountered Charley Davidson, and how their relationship has been the one thing that can either save him or doom him.

— Brighter Than the Sun by Darynda Jones

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A Virtuous Death, A Violet Harper, Lady of Ashes Mystery by Christine Trent, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Virtuous Death by Christine Trent

A Violet Harper, Lady of Ashes Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $2.99 (as of 10/07/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Queen Victoria, still mourning her long-dead husband Prince Albert, has found solace in John Brown, an enigmatic palace servant who dabbles in the occult and keeps the grieving queen entertained with his tarot card readings. Undertaker Violet Harper is invited to attend one of Mr. Brown's infamous readings, during which he implies that Buckingham Palace will soon be shrouded in death's dark veil. Well acquainted with death, Violet shrugs him off as a charlatan — until his sinister divinations begin to prove true …

Violet wonders if something foul is in the cards when the aristocratic young friends of the queen's daughter begin to die under mysterious circumstances. Her suspicions only grow when one of London's "moralists," a group bent on repealing the law that forces prostitutes into hospitals, suffers a similar fate. The deaths merely buttress the queen's enthusiasm for Mr. Brown's ominous talents, and, concerned by the fortuneteller's influence, Violet races against time to unearth the truth before the killer strikes again. But as she closes in on a murderer with an unearthly motive, Violet realizes she may be digging her own grave …

— A Virtuous Death by Christine Trent

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The Guise of Another by Allen Eskens, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2015 …

The Guise of Another by Allen Eskens, A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Seventh Street Books

  

Who was James Putnam? Answering that question may mean salvation for Alexander Rupert, a Minnesota detective whose life is in a serious downward spiral. A Medal of Valor winner, Alexander is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. He's been reassigned to the Frauds Unit, where he is shunned by his fellow detectives, and he fears his status-seeking wife may be having an affair. When he happens across a complex case of identity theft, Alexander sees an opportunity to rehabilitate his tattered reputation.

But the case explodes into far more than he could have expected, putting him in the path of trained assassin Drago Basta, a veteran of the Balkan wars who has been searching for "James Putnam" for years. As his life spins out of control, Alexander's last hope may be his older brother, Max, a fellow police detective who steps in to try to save his brother from the carnage his investigation has let loose.

— The Guise of Another by Allen Eskens

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

Doggie Day Care Murder, A Melanie Travis Mystery by Laurien Berenson, Now Available at a Special Price

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Doggie Day Care Murder by Laurien Berenson

A Melanie Travis Mystery (15th in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/07/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Melanie Travis thought her sleuthing days were behind her. She has a new baby to take care of — not to mention five Standard Poodles. These days, the closest Melanie gets to detective work is scoping out the scene at the local doggie day center for her friend Alice Brickman.

As Melanie learns, it's a dog's life at the Pine Ridge Canine Care Center — and life is good. Everyone seems blissfully happy. Everyone canine, that is, as Melanie soon discovers there are some simmering resentments among the Pine Ridge staff. And when Steve Pine, the center's charming, good-looking co-owner, is found shot to death on the floor of his office, there's no shortage of suspects.

With the police at a loss for leads, it's now up to Melanie to go undercover and sniff out a killer whose secrets lie buried in a dog's paradise that's proving to be anything but …

— Doggie Day Care Murder by Laurien Berenson

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Ghost to the Rescue by Carolyn Hart, New in Bookstores during October 2015

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

Ghost to the Rescue by Carolyn Hart, a Bailey Ruth Raeburn Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: Berkley

    

When you wish upon a star, you get … Bailey Ruth? You do if you're a little girl whose mom needs help and you touch the soft heart of Supervisor Wiggins at Heaven's Department of Good Intentions. Granted it's not the usual task of an emissary, but then again Bailey Ruth is not your usual emissary. So Wiggins dispatches the spunky spirit to her old hometown of Adelaide, Oklahoma, to help a single mother and struggling writer find some creative solutions to her problems.

Deidre Davenport is just about broke, trying to support her two children, and has her hopes pinned on getting a faculty job with the Goddard College English department. Jay Knox, who is in charge of the writer's conference she's participating in, will decide who gets the job, but he's more interested in her body than her body of work.

Not long after his advances are rejected, Knox turns up dead — and Deirdre's fingerprints are found on the murder weapon. Bailey Ruth knows Deirdre is innocent, and that the professor's lewd behavior is bound to have rubbed others the wrong way. Now she must find out who really knocked off Knox … if Deirdre and her family are ever going to have a happy ending.

— Ghost to the Rescue by Carolyn Hart

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

A Gala Event by Sheila Connolly, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2015 …

A Gala Event by Sheila Connolly, A Meg Corey, Orchard Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

The fall harvest may be just about over, but orchard owner Meg Corey is busier than ever planning her wedding to Seth Chapin. Who knew picking apples would be less work than picking out rings and a dress? And even though the happy couple has invited most of Granford, Massachusetts, to the ceremony, they might have to make room for one more guest …

Ex-con Aaron Eastman has unexpectedly reappeared in his hometown, searching for answers to the tragic fire in his family's past that put him behind bars twenty-five years ago. Moved by his sincerity, Meg vows to do everything she can to help him solve the cold case. As she cobbles together the clues, it becomes increasingly clear that Aaron may have been considered the bad seed of the family, but someone else was one bad apple …

— A Gala Event by Sheila Connolly

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