Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Saturday, December 26, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 7:00 AM ET …

Strung Out To Die by Tonya Kappes

A Divorced Divas Mystery

Publisher: Tonya Kappes

Price: FREE!

  

Unfair Game by J. J. Adler

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: NomadMedia

Price: FREE!

  

Coconut Chronicles: Burglar by Cam Larson

An Almost Tropical Mystery

Publisher: EscapeInk.com

Price: FREE!

  

A Slow Death by James Craig

A Max Drescher Mystery

Publisher: Fahrenheit Press

Price: FREE!

  

Dark City by Bill Carson

A Nick Harland Crime Thriller

Publisher: Bill Carson

Price: FREE!

  

Checkered Crime by Tonya Kappes

A Laurel London Mystery

Publisher: Tonya Kappes

Price: FREE!

  

The Lobster Boy And The Fat Lady's Daughter by Charles Kriel

A Murder Mystery

Publisher: Fahrenheit Press

Price: FREE!

  

Accidental Killer by Tong Zhang

A Sarah White Mystery

Publisher: Tong Zhang

Price: FREE!

  

Mercy & Mayhem by Ava Mallory

A Mercy Mares Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Ava Mallory

Price: FREE!

  

A Dead Sister by Anna Celeste Burke

A Jessica Huntington, Desert Cities Mystery

Publisher: Anna Celeste Burke

Price: FREE!

  

Bolt-hole by A. J. Oates

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: A. J. Oates

Price: FREE!

  

Ice by Kevin Tinto

A Leah Andrews and Jack Hobson Thriller

Publisher: Three Dog Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

The Maestro's Final Concerto by Merri Ott

A Birch Vale College Mystery

Publisher: Merri Ott

Price: FREE!

  

Guided by Grace by Becky Durfee

A Hailey Newcomb Mystery

Publisher: Becky Durfee

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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Bitter Crossing, A Peyton Cote Novel by D. A. Keeley, Now Available at a Special Price

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Bitter Crossing by D. A. Keeley

A Peyton Cote Novel (1st in series)

Publisher: Midnight Ink

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/25/2015 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

Having spent the last seven years in Texas, Border Patrol Agent Peyton Cote is returning home to northern Maine, hoping it will be a safer environment for her young son.

But the criminal element has turned what was once a quiet corner of the country into an illicit trade route … and there's no telling what they'll do to protect their interests.

When Peyton finds a baby abandoned in a frozen field near the border, she's pulled into a deadly conspiracy that puts everything — her life, her career, her family — at risk.

— Bitter Crossing by D. A. Keeley

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Midnight Betrayal, A Novel of Romantic Suspense by Melinda Leigh, Now Available at a Special Price

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Midnight Betrayal by Melinda Leigh

A Novel of Romantic Suspense

Publisher: Montlake Romance

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/25/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Curator Dr. Louisa Hancock left behind Maine and her troubled past for Philadelphia and a job at a prominent museum. Just when it seems that Louisa's new life is safe from her dark secrets, the body of a museum intern is found — the victim of a brutal and baffling murder.

Louisa realizes this is no random crime. And when another intern goes missing, the abduction is linked to the only man who has ever tempted Louisa's heart — Conor Sullivan, the sexy owner of a Philly sports bar. Louisa's past has taught her to be wary, but her heart refuses to believe Conor is guilty.

Now Conor and Louisa must dodge a police investigation — and their growing desire — as they race to find the real killer before another girl turns up dead. But trusting Conor could be deadly, especially as the evidence against him mounts … and as a merciless killer targets Louisa as the next victim.

— Midnight Betrayal by Melinda Leigh

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New This Week: Framed, A Jarek Grayson Investigation by Boyd Craven

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Framed by Boyd Craven

A Jarek Grayson Investigation (2nd in series)

Publisher: Boyd Craven

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/25/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

Jarek Grayson is a different sort of private investigator. One with a touch of OCD, anxiety, and autism. Jarek isn't your normal hacker; he's also a millionaire, playboy, and PI.

Business has been booming, and when Skye comes to Jarek for a favor, little does he know what the repercussions of that favor will cost. His IT person and co-hacker had former ties to the hacktivist group known as Anonymous. A ghost from the past pops up making demands of her, and Jarek. To give into the blackmail would be almost as disastrous as having his past exposed to the public.

Jo, Jarek and Skye race to track down the mysterious hacker only known as Mephisto; Johanna and Jarek try to avoid the mutual attraction they both feel and have felt since they were in elementary school together … and of course, there's the snark.

— Framed by Boyd Craven

See also the first book in this series, Kidnapped, which is currently FREE for Kindle!

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Tradition of Deceit, A Chloe Ellefson Mystery by Kathleen Ernst, Now Available at a Special Price

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Tradition of Deceit by Kathleen Ernst

A Chloe Ellefson Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Midnight Ink

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/25/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Curator and occasional sleuth Chloe Ellefson is off to Minneapolis to help her friend Ariel with a monumental task. Ariel must write a proposal for a controversial and expensive restoration project: convert an abandoned flour mill, currently used as shelter by homeless people, into a museum. When a dead body is found stuffed into a grain chute, Chloe's attention turns from milling to murder.

Back in Milwaukee, Chloe's love interest Roelke has been slammed with the news that a fellow officer was shot and killed while on duty. Sifting through clues from both past and present, Chloe and Roelke discover dangerous secrets that put their lives — and their trust in each other — at risk.

— Tradition of Deceit by Kathleen Ernst

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New This Week: Death of a Brooklyn Landlord, A Lorraine McDuffy Mystery by Susan Russo Anderson

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Death of a Brooklyn Landlord by Susan Russo Anderson

A Lorraine McDuffy Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Susan Russo Anderson

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/25/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Nati's missing. Did she jump?

When newly widowed Lorraine McDuffy gets a call in the middle of the night, it's not the ghost of her dead husband on the line, but the trembling voice of an old flame, Frank Rizzo, a local butcher. He's found the battered body of rent-gouging Brooklyn landlord Viktor Charnov. Felled by blunt trauma to the back of his head, the victim lies in the fetal position in the back of Frank's shop, a pork chop clenched between his teeth. The distraught butcher asks Lorraine to investigate.

As the story moves through the entangled web left behind by the landlord's evil dealings, Lorraine searches for Viktor's estranged wife as well as a missing teen with ties to the landlord, believed to have jumped in despair from the Brooklyn Bridge two months earlier. Along the way, Lorraine spars with Detective First Grade Jane Templeton and cares for the victim's ten-year-old son, baseball-loving Joey Charnov, while she searches for his mother. And despite her guilt, Lorraine and Frank deepen their relationship in fits and starts.

— Death of a Brooklyn Landlord by Susan Russo Anderson

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Hijacked, The Appalachian Foothills Series by Leslie Lynch, Now Available at a Special Price

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Hijacked by Leslie Lynch

The Appalachian Foothills Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Leslie Lynch

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/25/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Pilot Lannis Parker's carefully constructed, sterile life is upended when her small plane is hijacked before dawn on a wintry Louisville morning. Her captor does more than force her to fly him to the Appalachian wilderness, though. He resurrects memories she's tried to bury, memories of a brutal attack she'd survived four years earlier, an attack she didn't report and tries to pretend didn't happen.

Wounded, and losing strength by the minute, Ben Martin knows he has no choice but to commandeer a plane before he's set upon by a ruthless band of drug dealers intent on wiping him out, along with the information he's acquired. He's horrified to discover the pilot is a woman — but once his plan is launched, there's no turning back.

During a week in the wilderness, Lannis learns her hijacker is fair and honorable, compassionate and insightful — strange attributes for a criminal. And when he discovers her secret, he vows to be the friend she desperately needs but refuses to accept.

Will she come to terms with her past? And will he be part of her future?

— Hijacked by Leslie Lynch

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New This Week: Poison in the Pastry, A Holly Hart Cozy Mystery by Laura Pauling

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Poison in the Pastry by Laura Pauling

A Holly Hart Cozy Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Redpoint Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/25/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

Three famous mystery authors visit Holly's town. One of them never leaves. Is it murder?

While sleuthing, Holly juggles her relationship with Trent and good old-fashioned blackmail. Millicent dug into Holly's past and has a long list of demands. Holly worries her past will be exposed and her cover blown. She gives in to Millicent's random demands, even heading undercover on a rogue investigation. But then, Millicent goes too far and demands Holly break up with Trent.

More secrets simmer beneath the surface than just the authors' pen names. When Millicent lands in jail, Holly faces the moral decision of helping her frenemy or celebrating.

Behind it all, someone's playing twisted games.

— Poison in the Pastry by Laura Pauling

See all five mysteries in the Holly Hart Cozy Series, plus the series prequel, for $2.99 or less each on Kindle.

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A Case of Sour Grapes, A Cass Elliot Crime Novel by Gay-Lynn Woods, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Case of Sour Grapes by Gay-Lynn Woods

A Cass Elliot Crime Novel (3rd in series)

Publisher: Dead Head Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/25/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Wine, women, and song. What could possibly go wrong?

Meet Maxine Leverman, lover of expensive shoes, beautiful handbags, and her lingerie wearing ex-husband's hush money. When she pleads her way into a job at family run Lost and Found Investigations, Maxine's only goal is to gain the concealed carry license and PI skills she needs to find the man who attacked her, and then kill him. (Or maybe just put him in jail, that decision can wait.)

But when she secretly takes a missing husband case on her first day at the agency, she stumbles into a high-stakes game of blackmail and murder. Maxine must unravel the links between a forgotten folk punk band, an international drug cartel, and the tangled history of the missing husband to keep the women in his life alive.

— A Case of Sour Grapes by Gay-Lynn Woods

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On Thin Icing by Ellie Alexander, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2015 …

On Thin Icing by Ellie Alexander, A Juliet Capshaw, Bakeshop Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

  

Welcome to Torte-a small-town family bakeshop where the treats are killer good …

It's the dead of winter in the sleepy town of Ashland, which means no tourists-and fewer customers-for Jules Capshaw and her bakery. But when she's asked to cater an off-season retreat for the directors of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, business starts heating up … until Jules finds a dead body in the freezer.

Someone at the retreat has apparently iced the bartender, a well-known flirt with a legendary temper-that is, before a killer beat him to the punch. Then, from out of nowhere, Jules's own ex-husband shows up at the shop-and soon becomes a suspect. With accusations piling up higher than the snow-and thicker than a chocolate mousse cake-Jules has to think outside the (recipe) box to find the real culprit … and make sure he gets his just desserts.

— On Thin Icing by Ellie Alexander

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

Murder by the Minutes, A Piper O'Donnell, Social Lite Mystery by Jennifer Vido, Now Available at a Special Price

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Murder by the Minutes by Jennifer Vido

A Piper O'Donnell, Social Lite Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Cozy Cat Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/25/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Never judge a book by its cover unless Piper O'Donnell is prominently on display. Woodlawn, Ohio's newest library board of trustee member is busily securing her social status by organizing the library's premiere event of the season — — the Booklovers' Ball. Unfortunately, Piper's dreamy vision of pink panache vanishes into thin air when she stumbles over a dead body in the library director's office. Forget the evites and the party favors. The list of possible suspects could fill a bestseller, and they include Piper's own sister who was spotted at the scene of the crime. There's also a charismatic minister thought to be short on offerings for his ambitious mega church. And rumors are circulating that the library director himself and his ditzy assistant may also be cooking the books.

With help from her handsome fiancé Rusty O'Brien, Piper puts her sleuthing skills to work to investigate the complicated crime. The minutes are ticking down for Woodlawn's top party planner. Will Piper be able to uncover the mysterious killer who is intent on ruining her lavish affair — — and can she do it before the next board meeting?

— Murder by the Minutes by Jennifer Vido

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The Man on the Washing Machine by Susan Cox, New in Bookstores during December 2015

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

The Man on the Washing Machine by Susan Cox, a Theophania Bogart Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

 

When former party girl and society photographer Theophania Bogart flees to San Francisco to escape a high-profile family tragedy, a series of murders drags her unwillingly out of hiding. In no time at all she discovers she's been providing cover for a sophisticated smuggling operation, she starts to fall for an untrustworthy stranger, and she's knocked out, tied up and imprisoned. The police are sure she's lying. The smugglers are sure she knows too much. Her friends? They aren't sure what to believe.

The body count is rising and Theo struggles to find the killer before she's the next victim or her new life is exposed as an elaborate fraud. But the more deeply entangled she becomes, the more her investigation is complicated by her best friend, who is one of her prime suspects; her young protégé, who may or may not have a juvie record; her stern and unyielding grandfather, who exposes an unexpected soft center; and the man on her washing machine, who isn't quite what he appears, either.

— The Man on the Washing Machine by Susan Cox

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

Murdock Rocks Sedona by Robert J. Ray, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2015 …

Murdock Rocks Sedona by Robert J. Ray, A Matt Murdock Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Camel Press

  

Wealthy investors in Sedona, Arizona, are dropping like flies — more accurately, lead weights. They are falling down staircases and off mountainsides, decks, and hiking trails. With so many similar "accidents," the victims had to have been pushed. Other than their wealth and weakness for beautiful young women, what the falling men had in common was a financial interest in Sedona Landing, a historic hotel in Oak Creek Village. They also shared a long history with the chief investor, billionaire Axel Ackerman.

Fearing that he too will plunge to his death, Ackerman hires Matt Murdock and Helene Steinbeck to investigate. During his climb to the top of the heap, Ackerman crushed scores of rivals and broke many hearts. The culling of his "Crew" of investors is clearly personal. So who among this crowded field of enemies would orchestrate such a byzantine scheme of revenge?

To keep their client safe, Matt and Helene will have to be on their best game. Too bad their last case in Taos took such a heavy toll, particularly on Helene, and caused a rift in their fragile bond.

— Murdock Rocks Sedona by Robert J. Ray

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

The Secret Adversary, A Tommy and Tuppence Adventure by Agatha Christie, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

A Tommy and Tuppence Adventure (1st in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/25/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Tommy and Tuppence are young, in love … and flat broke. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd. — "willing to do anything, go anywhere." But they get more than they bargained for when their first assignment for the sinister Mr. Whittington draws them into a diabolical conspiracy.

It isn't long before they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever could have imagined — a danger that could put an abrupt end to their business … and their lives.

— The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

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New This Week: Dead Wake, The Forgotten Coast Florida Suspense Series by Dawn Lee McKenna

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Dead Wake by Dawn Lee McKenna

The Forgotten Coast Florida Suspense Series (5th in series)

Publisher: The Sweet Tea Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/25/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

DIY has a sinister component in historic Apalachicola, Florida …

When the local florists find a dead guy in their wall, it opens up a decades-old missing persons case. It also opens up a Pandora's box of secrets — secrets that might have ramifications for Sheriff's Office investigator Maggie Redmond.

Maggie and Sheriff Wyatt Hamilton learn that local kingpin Bennett Boudreaux was the primary suspect in the disappearance of Holden Crawford almost forty years ago, but he had an alibi. The problem is, no one knows what that alibi was. The former sheriff won't tell, and even Boudreaux himself refuses to say.

When a photograph of Maggie's own father becomes an important part of the case evidence, learning Boudreaux's secret becomes even more crucial.

When is going to jail for a murder you didn't commit preferable to revealing the proof of your innocence? Who is Boudreaux really shielding?

It might be the same person Maggie wants to protect.

— Dead Wake by Dawn Lee McKenna

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