Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Thursday, February 04, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Thursday, February 04, 2016 at 7:00 AM ET …

Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely

A Blanche White Mystery

Publisher: Brash Books

Price: FREE!

  

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Precious by Zanna Mackenzie

An Amber Reed, Celebrity Crimes Investigation Agency Mystery

Publisher: Zanna Mackenzie

Price: FREE!

  

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The Middle Temple Murder by J. S. Fletcher

A Mystery Novel

Publisher: Open Road

Price: FREE!

  

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Sometimes the Bear Gets You by Daniel S. Dowell

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Daniel S. Dowell

Price: FREE!

  

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I'll Protect You by W. B. Garalt

The Clueless Resolutions Series

Publisher: W. B. Garalt

Price: FREE!

  

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True Deceit by A. J. Carella

The Blindsided Series

Publisher: A. J. Carella

Price: FREE!

  

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Glimpse by Steven Whibley

The Dean Curse Chronicles for Teens

Publisher: Steven Whibley

Price: FREE!

  

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Quentin James and the Undercover Agent by Simon Hartwell

A Quentin James Adventure for Kids

Publisher: Simon Hartwell

Price: FREE!

  

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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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One Hand Killing, An Alex Sullivan Mystery by Nancy O'Hara, Now Available at a Special Price

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One Hand Killing by Nancy O'Hara

An Alex Sullivan Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: NOH Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 02/03/2016 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

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Burned out from the gritty streets and depraved criminals she deals with daily, NYPD Detective Alex Sullivan escapes to the only place she can find any peace — a Zen Monastery in the Catskill Mountains.

But while there, the walls of this once peaceful sanctuary are breached by the horror of ritual murders and the slow acid drip of suspicion.

— One Hand Killing by Nancy O'Hara

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Review: Karma's a Killer by Tracy Weber

A Mysterious Review of Karma's a Killer by Tracy Weber. A Kate Davidson, Downward Dog Mystery.

Review summary: The murder mystery in this cozy is a very thin one, a sequence of improbable coincidences that are almost incidental to everything else that is going on in the book. On the plus side, the seamless introduction of yoga references provide a welcome, calming diversion from all the chaotic activity. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Karma's a Killer
Tracy Weber
A Kate Davidson, Downward Dog Mystery
Midnight Ink (January 2016)

Publisher synopsis: When Seattle yoga teacher Kate Davidson agrees to teach doga (yoga for dogs) at a fundraiser for a local animal shelter, she believes the only damage will be to her reputation. But a few downward-facing dogs are the least of Kate's problems when an animal rights protest at the event leads to a suspicious fire and a drowning.

The police arrest Dharma, a woman claiming to be Kate's estranged mother, and charge her with murder. To prove Dharma's innocence, Kate, her boyfriend Michael, and her German shepherd sidekick Bella dive deeply into the worlds of animal activism and organizational politics. As they investigate the dangerous obsessions that drive these groups, Kate and her sleuthing team discover that when it comes to murder, there's no place like hOMe.

The Fear In Her Eyes, A Crime Thriller by Grant McKenzie, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Fear In Her Eyes by Grant McKenzie

A Crime Thriller

Publisher: Polis Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 02/03/2016 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

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What if everything you believed about the worst event in your life was a lie?

Ian Quinn's day begins with an anonymous death threat, but that's not entirely unusual in his line of work as a court-ordered child protection officer. The frustrated parents of his clients often need someone to lash out at — and Ian makes sure that he is the easiest target.

But the threat is nothing compared to the envelope stuffed into his hand by a foul-smelling vagrant who mutters the cryptic message, "He says he's sorry" before scurrying away.

The envelope with his name scrawled across the front contains a lone visitor's pass to the Oregon State Penitentiary, and the accompanying message fills Ian's heart with both terror and revulsion.

The author of the note destroyed Ian's life. In the blink of an eye, this drunk-driving scum took the most precious thing in Ian's life. Worst of all, Ian had watched it happen. And now the bastard wants to see him.

The message is short. Only seven words. I was paid to kill your daughter.

— The Fear In Her Eyes by Grant McKenzie

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New This Week: Worst Laid Plans, A Maddox Storm Mystery by Claire Robyns

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Worst Laid Plans by Claire Robyns

A Maddox Storm Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Claire Robyns

Price: $2.99 (as of 02/03/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

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All Maddox Storm wanted was to come home and hide from the world in peaceful solitude for a few short weeks. Oh, and give her soon-to-be ex cheating scumbag husband a fat headache while she's at it. He hates all small towns, and Silver Firs in particular, with the kind of passion most men reserve for the bedroom.

So call it revenge, or call it poetic justice, but investing his savings in the town's founding inn seemed like the perfect plan for all her needs.

But everything goes out the window when Maddox finds her arch-nemesis dead as a doormat in the kitchen downstairs.

Before she knows it, she's embroiled in a murder investigation and tangling with the smoky-eyed detective on the case. Not that she doesn't trust him to do his job, but he may not be quite as motivated as she is to bring the guilty party to justice. After all, she's the one who unwittingly incriminated upstanding townsfolk and worse, she may be living under the same roof as a pair of unlikely murderers.

— Worst Laid Plans by Claire Robyns

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No One Lives Twice, A Lexi Carmichael Mystery by Julie Moffett, Now Available at a Special Price

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No One Lives Twice by Julie Moffett

A Lexi Carmichael Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Carina Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 02/03/2016 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

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I'm Lexi Carmichael, geek extraordinaire. I spend my days stopping computer hackers at the National Security Agency. My nights? Those I spend avoiding my mother and eating cereal for dinner. Even though I work for a top-secret agency, I've never been in an exciting car chase, sipped a stirred (not shaken) martini, or shot a poison dart from an umbrella.

Until today, that is, when two gun-toting thugs popped up in my life and my best friend disappeared. So, I've enlisted the help of the Zimmerman twins — the reclusive architects of America's most sensitive electronic networks — to help me navigate a bewildering maze of leads to find her.

Along the way, my path collides with a sexy government agent and a rich, handsome lawyer, both of whom seem to have the hots for me. Hacking, espionage, sexy spy-men — it's a geek girl's dream come true. If it weren't for those gun-toting thugs …

— No One Lives Twice by Julie Moffett

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New This Week: Guilt Trip, A Lauren Beck Crime Novel by Donna Huston Murray

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Guilt Trip by Donna Huston Murray

A Lauren Beck Crime Novel (2nd in series)

Publisher: Donna Huston Murray

Price: $3.99 (as of 02/03/2016 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Stockholders send you death threats, and your son-in-law/Chief Financial Officer just committed suicide. Now something is off about the blonde hanging onto the deceased's remaining brother. Allow her to attend the Caribbean funeral your daughter planned?

Friends close/enemies closer. A nod, and ex-cop Lauren Beck is in.

Big mistake.

— Guilt Trip by Donna Huston Murray

See also the first mystery in this series, What Doesn't Kill You, for $3.99 on Kindle.

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New Yorked, An Ash McKenna Mystery by Rob Hart, Now Available at a Special Price

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New Yorked by Rob Hart

An Ash McKenna Mystery

Publisher: Polis Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 02/03/2016 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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Ashley McKenna is a blunt instrument. Find someone, scare someone, carry something; point him at the job, he gets it done. He generally accepts money upon completion, though a bottle of whiskey works, too — he's comfortable working on a barter system. It's not the career he dreamed about (archeologist) but it keeps him comfortable in his ever-changing East Village neighborhood.

That's until Chell, the woman he loves, leaves him a voicemail looking for help — a voicemail he gets two hours after her body is found. Ash hunts for her killer with the grace of a wrecking ball, running afoul of a drag queen crime lord and stumbling into a hard-boiled role playing game that might be connected to a hipster turf war.

Along the way, he's forced to face the memories of his tumultuous relationship with Chell, his unresolved anger over his father's death, and the consequences of his own violent tendencies.

— New Yorked by Rob Hart

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New This Week: Locked In, A Noah Braddock Mystery by Jeff Shelby

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Locked In by Jeff Shelby

A Noah Braddock Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Mission Bay Publishing

Price: 99¢ (as of 02/03/2016 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Noah Braddock's past won't leave him alone …

After a self-imposed exile in Florida, Noah is back in San Diego, ready to face the fallout from the crime he committed. He doesn't want to go to jail, but he doesn't want to live his life as a fugitive, either.

When the district attorney offers him the chance to walk free, Noah listens. Her request is simple: investigate an assault on a local college campus, provide her with what he finds, and she'll assure that charges won't be brought against him. Noah reluctantly agrees, suspicious of both the deal and what he might find.

His suspicion turns out to be correct, as he's dropped into a case where people can't remember and don't want to share what they know. The more he digs, the more confusing it becomes.

And as the district attorney demands answers in exchange for his freedom, Noah realizes that the deal he's struck might be more than he bargained for.

— Locked In by Jeff Shelby

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Play Dead, An Andy Carpenter Mystery by David Rosenfelt, Now Available at a Special Price

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Play Dead by David Rosenfelt

An Andy Carpenter Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $1.99 (as of 02/03/2016 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Few can rival attorney Andy Carpenter's affection for golden retrievers, especially his own beloved Tara. After he astonishes a New Jersey courtroom by successfully appealing another golden's death sentence, Andy discovers that this gentle dog is a key witness to a murder that took place five years before.

Andy pushes the boundaries of the law even further as he struggles to free an innocent man by convincing an incredulous jury to take canine testimony seriously. It will take all the tricks Andy's fertile mind can conceive to get to the bottom of a remarkable chain of impersonations and murder, and save a dog's life — and his own — in the process.

— Play Dead by David Rosenfelt

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Murder on Wheels by Lynn Cahoon, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2016 …

Murder on Wheels by Lynn Cahoon, A Jill Gardner, Tourist Trap Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: Lyrical Underground

  

The food truck craze has reached the charming coastal town of South Cove, California, but before Jill Gardner — owner of Coffee, Books, and More — can sample the eats, she has to shift gears and put the brakes on a killer …

Now that Kacey Austin has got her new gluten-free dessert truck up and running, there's no curbing her enthusiasm — not even when someone vandalizes the vehicle and steals her recipes. But when Kacey turns up dead on the beach and Jill's best friend Sadie becomes the prime suspect, Jill needs to step on it to serve the real killer some just desserts.

— Murder on Wheels by Lynn Cahoon

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for February 2016. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of February 2016 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

Depraved Heart, A Kay Scarpetta Mystery by Patricia Cornwell, Now Available at a Special Price

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Depraved Heart by Patricia Cornwell

A Kay Scarpetta Mystery (23rd in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $3.99 (as of 02/03/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago.

As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip and then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, worried, and not knowing where to turn. She doesn't know whom she can tell — not her FBI husband Benton Wesley or her investigative partner Pete Marino. Not even Lucy.

The diabolical presence behind what unfolds seems obvious — but strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly that's the message they send when they raid Lucy's estate and begin building a case that could send her to prison for the rest of her life.

— Depraved Heart by Patricia Cornwell

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Breakdown by Jonathan Kellerman, New in Bookstores during February 2016

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during February 2016 is …

Breakdown by Jonathan Kellerman, an Alex Delaware Mystery (31st in series)

Publisher: Ballantine

 

Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware meets beautiful and emotionally fragile TV actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son, Ovid. Years later, Alex is unexpectedly reunited with Zelda when she is involuntarily committed after a bizarre psychotic episode. Shortly after Zelda's release, an already sad situation turns tragic when she is discovered dead on the grounds of a palatial Bel Air estate. Having experienced more than enough of L.A.'s dark side to recognize the scent of evil, Alex turns to his friend LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis for help in finding out who ended Zelda's broken life.

At the same time, Alex is caught up in another quest: the search for Zelda's missing son. And when other victims vanish from the same upscale neighborhood, worry turns to terror.

As Alex struggles to piece together the brief rise and steep fall of a gorgeous, talented actress, he and Milo unveil shattered dreams, the corruption of a family, and a grotesque betrayal of innocence. With each devastating revelation and damning clue, Alex's brilliant mind is challenged as never before — and his determination grows to see a killer caged and the truth set free.

— Breakdown by Jonathan Kellerman

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Off the Books by Lucy Arlington, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2016 …

Off the Books by Lucy Arlington, A Lila Wilkins, Novel Idea Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

Lila is showcasing some of her biggest authors at a bridal expo. But when the joyous event turns deadly, she'll have to figure out who penned the perfect crime …

The Novel Idea Literary Agency has planned a wedding-themed week for Inspiration Valley, celebrating not only North Carolina's best vendors but also some of the agency's most popular bridal books. The fact that Lila can use the event to plan her own impending nuptials is just the icing on the cake.

But wedding bells turn to warning bells when Lila finds a dead man facedown in the frosting. Soon it's discovered that the victim was connected to several Novel Idea authors, all of whom quickly become suspects in the case. It's up to Lila and her fellow agents to find the real killer before one of their clients winds up scribbling stories from behind bars …

— Off the Books by Lucy Arlington

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Murder on Ice, A Reid Bennett Mystery by Ted Wood, Now Available at a Special Price

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Murder on Ice by Ted Wood

A Reid Bennett Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 02/03/2016 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Reid Bennett, the newest addition to the Murphy's Harbour, Ontario, police department, has embarked on his second case. During the Ice Festival, there is a sudden blackout and the Queen of the Ice Festival disappears; in fact she has been kidnapped!

Members of a feminist anti-pageant group are suspected, but Reid suspects something fishy. He must expose the organizer of the kidnapping — and try not to get himself killed.

— Murder on Ice by Ted Wood

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