Mystery Godoku Puzzle for May 23, 2016

A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

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This week's letters and mystery clue:

D H I L N R T X Y

The second book in the Quadrail series by Timothy Zahn has this title, with "the" (9 letters).

We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

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Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Sunday, May 22, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 7:30 AM ET …

Dead in Bed by Bailey Simms

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Full Fathom Five

Kindle Daily Deal Price: 99¢

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Ashley Young is stuck in an unsatisfying marriage and a dead-end job. But when a sexually transmitted plague breaks out in her small town — one that slowly transforms everyone infected into crazed zombielike sex fiends — everything about her life changes.

Facing quarantine, National Guard barricades, the onset of winter, and a rapidly spreading, mysterious sex plague, Ashley and everyone else in her small Colorado town find their deepest feelings for one another surfacing … both amorously and violently.

When everyone in Ashley's life begins taking comfort in one another's arms, no one really knows who's infected and who's not. And because the disease perpetuates itself as an aphrodisiac, sex — the very thing that offers comfort — only contributes to spreading the plague.

In a crumbling world with little to lose, Ashley begins to discover a resilience she didn't know she possessed and a strength she's never had before. Her newly acquired agency may come at a price, however, when Ashley must ultimately choose between her own survival and saving the people she loves.

— Dead in Bed by Bailey Simms

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

A Robert Langdon Thriller

Publisher: Atria

Kobo Daily Deal Price: $1.99 (price-matched by Amazon)

  

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An ancient secret brotherhood … A devastating new weapon of destruction …

When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol — seared into the chest of a murdered physicist — he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati … the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy — the Catholic Church.

Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.

Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair … a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.

— Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Sunday, May 22, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 7:00 AM ET …

Getaway to Murder by Liz Turner

A Cozy Mystery in the Mountains

Publisher: Liz Turner

Price: FREE!

  

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Die Fasting by Jonathan Carriel

A Thomas Dordrecht Mystery

Publisher: Jonathan Carriel

Price: FREE!

  

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Great Mischief by Jonathan Carriel

A Thomas Dordrecht Mystery

Publisher: Jonathan Carriel

Price: FREE!

  

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If Two Are Dead by Jonathan Carriel

A Thomas Dordrecht Mystery

Publisher: Jonathan Carriel

Price: FREE!

  

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Seven Wakings by S. K. McCauley

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: WriterMotive

Price: FREE!

  

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Murder at the Lighthouse by Frances Evesham

An Exham on Sea Mystery

Publisher: Ainsley Associates

Price: FREE!

  

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Serious Crimes by Frank Tayell

The Strike a Match Series

Publisher: Frank Tayell

Price: FREE!

  

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Missing Girls by Larry Crane

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Breadalbane Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

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The Muralist, A Novel of Suspense by B. A. Shapiro, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Muralist by B. A. Shapiro

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 05/21/2016 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

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When Alizée Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends and fellow WPA painters, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner.

And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who, while working at Christie's auction house, uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt?

— The Muralist by B. A. Shapiro

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Cold Around the Heart, A Bonnie Parker Mystery by Michael Prescott, Now Available at a Special Price

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Cold Around the Heart by Michael Prescott

A Bonnie Parker Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Michael Prescott

Price: $2.99 (as of 05/21/2016 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

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Bonnie Parker is a small-town private detective on the Jersey shore who just happens to be named after America's most notorious female outlaw, the distaff half of Bonnie & Clyde. And though no one can prove it, she's an outlaw in her own right, willing to supplement her PI duties by acting as a professional assassin. For a price, and when circumstances warrant it, she'll take extreme measures to solve her clients' problems — permanently.

Bonnie is experienced and tough — but she's never gone up against a man like Pascal, a globetrotting hit man who has raised murder to the level of a fine art. During a turbulent summer night, while Bonnie struggles to untangle a web of deception that stretches to the jungles of South America, she and Pascal face off in a blistering battle for survival — a battle only one of them can win.

— Cold Around the Heart by Michael Prescott

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New This Week: Out of Sight, A Novel of Suspense by T. J. MacGregor

Omnimystery News is pleased to present a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers during May 2016 and priced $5.99 or less …

Out of Sight by T. J. MacGregor

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 05/21/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

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Winner of the 2003 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.

Ambitious scientist George Nash and Luis Manteles, an Ecuadoran shaman, have finally created the technology to make humans and objects invisible, but their project gets out of hand when an experiment with Tyler and Logan Griffin, their first ever human test subjects, goes awry. Three years later, Logan, who escaped shortly after becoming invisible, sneaks into Nash's Florida compound to free her husband, whom Nash has confined in a glass house. With the help of her visible roommate, Logan shuts down the computer system at the same time that the Townsends, a family of three, wander into the test site. Consequently, the Townsends, along with a super intelligent Labrador retriever, turn invisible.

Now targets of an effort by the National Security Bureau (NSB) to capture them, family and dog are forced on the run. After numerous close calls, a killing and a miraculous healing, all characters converge in a heady conclusion that hinges on Nash. Will he end the project or hand the Griffins, the Townsends and his life's work over to the NSB?

— Out of Sight by T. J. MacGregor

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Day of the Dead, The University Mystery Series by Brenda Donelan, Now Available at a Special Price

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Day of the Dead by Brenda Donelan

The University Mystery Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Brenda Donelan

Price: $2.99 (as of 05/21/2016 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

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When a college professor is found dead on campus, rumors and innuendo begin to swirl at Midwestern State University. The police department and the university are mysteriously secretive about the professor's background and the ongoing investigation.

Marlee McCabe, a professor of Criminology, is unwittingly pulled into the investigation leading her to question the integrity of the police department and her university. Despite warnings, Marlee uncovers information on the professor's death, making her the next target of someone who has nothing left to lose.

— Day of the Dead by Brenda Donelan

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New This Week: Mexico Fever, A Bill Travis Mystery by George Wier

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Mexico Fever by George Wier

A Bill Travis Mystery (12th in series)

Publisher: Flagstone Books

Price: $3.99 (as of 05/21/2016 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Former Governor, Dick Sawyer, may be dying, but he has one final mission for Bill Travis. Bill has to fly to Piste, Mexico, to find a missing Walt Cannon, friend and retired Texas Ranger who disappeared while on the trail of a man named Sunlight, a ruthless killer, drug lord, revolutionary and cult leader. Sunlight wants to return Mexico to the rule of the ancient Maya, but between the jungle and the ancient ruins of a civilization long dead is the most dangerous animal of all — the Mexican Army.

With the help of a Mexican police captain, a little girl, and an ornery donkey, Bill Travis must go toe-to-toe with his most dangerous enemy yet in order to save a friend.

— Mexico Fever by George Wier

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The Violin Man's Legacy, A Jack Calder Crime Novel by Seumas Gallacher, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Violin Man's Legacy by Seumas Gallacher

A Jack Calder Crime Novel (1st in series)

Publisher: Seumas Gallacher

Price: $1.99 (as of 05/21/2016 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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Jack Calder is an ex-SAS soldier working with former colleagues at ISP, a specialist security firm. He is sent to investigate a murderous diamond heist in Holland, but swiftly learns that there is a very strong Far East connection. He then travels to Hong Kong where he meets the glamorous chief of ISP's local bureau, May-Ling.

Together they begin to unravel a complex web of corruption. The twin spiders at the centre of this web are the Chan brothers, leaders of one of Hong Kong's most ruthless and powerful triad gangs.

The trail of death and mayhem coils across Europe, Hong Kong and South America until all the scores are settled.

— The Violin Man's Legacy by Seumas Gallacher

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New This Week: Come About for Murder, A Joe Silva,, Mellingham Mystery by Susan Oleksiw

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Come About for Murder by Susan Oleksiw

A Joe Silva,, Mellingham Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Hale Street Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 05/21/2016 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Deb Connolly drowns after falling overboard on an afternoon sail and her husband commits suicide two days later. Annie Beckwith is distraught over the loss of her sister and her sister's husband, and tries to get on with her life. Chief Joe Silva and the other authorities don't doubt the report of Deb's sailing partner, Cecily Harris, a woman known to be afraid of the water and unfamiliar with sailing. But a sharp eye at the marina where the sailboat has been dry-docked discovers evidence of tampering with a key piece of equipment, and the accidental death no longer seems so obvious.

In the idyllic setting of Mellingham, Annie Beckwith decides to get to know her sister's neighbors better in the hope of learning something that will help her understand Deb's death. Chief Silva wants to know who tampered with the sailboat and why.

Mellingham is beautiful in the summer and this year Joe's stepson, Philip, wants to learn to sail. Joe rents a small boat and teaches the boy how to sail and the rules of the water. Philip is a natural on the water, and this turns out to be a very good thing when he finds himself sailing for his life.

— Come About for Murder by Susan Oleksiw

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Unfinished Business, A Munch Mancini Mystery by Barbara Seranella, Now Available at a Special Price

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Unfinished Business by Barbara Seranella

A Munch Mancini Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Diversion Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 05/21/2016 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Munch Mancini is forced to go on the offensive when a predator's threat strikes close to home …

After leaving life on the street behind, Miranda "Munch" Mancini finally feels she has her life in order. As a mechanic to the elite of Los Angeles, a beloved mom, and a fledgling business owner, with the handsome Garrett Dimond at her side to complete the perfect picture. But the assault of a client and the murder of another put Munch on edge.

When the killer targets Munch and her daughter, it sends her over. Munch will have to team up with an adversary from her past to find the killer, before he finds her.

— Unfinished Business by Barbara Seranella

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The Marshal's Justice by Delores Fossen, New from Harlequin Intrigue in May 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title available this month from Harlequin, one of the world's leading publishers of books for women. For a complete list of titles published this month, see our New Harlequin Titles page.

The Marshal's Justice by Delores Fossen

Series: Appaloosa Pass Ranch

Imprint: Intrigue

  

A Texas lawman will move heaven and earth to keep his former lover and their infant daughter safe …

A shoot-out on the banks of Appaloosa Creek is the last place marshal Chase Crockett expects to find his ex-lover. Former criminal informant April Landis is supposed to be in WITSEC awaiting the birth of their child. But the desperate woman caught in the cross fire isn't pregnant.

Telling Chase he was a father — two months early — wasn't an option with murderous thugs targeting April and their infant daughter. Despite the violence that divides them, her only prayer is to trust the Texas lawman sworn to protect his family. Until desire ambushes them again, leaving April and Chase at the mercy of a past with no promise of a future.

— The Marshal's Justice by Delores Fossen

Passenger 19, A Jammer Davis Thriller by Ward Larsen, Now Available at a Special Price

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Passenger 19 by Ward Larsen

A Jammer Davis Thriller (3rd in series)

Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Price: 99¢ (as of 05/21/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Jammer Davis has spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he has seen … but for one terrible detail — his young daughter, who was enroute to a semester abroad in South America, is listed on the passenger manifest.

A distraught Davis rushes to Bogotá and bulls his way into the inquiry. When the wreckage is located, it becomes clear the crash was unsurvivable. As the investigation gains momentum, the facts go astray. Two pilots had been shot before the crash, along with one passenger. The possibility of a hijacking looms large as the search begins to focus on two passengers who boarded the plane, yet their remains cannot be found.

Davis uncovers an even more sinister plot behind the entire disaster — one that goes to the highest levels of the United States government. But how could it possibly involve his daughter?

— Passenger 19 by Ward Larsen

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The Singer from Memphis by Gary Corby, New in Bookstores during May 2016

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

The Singer from Memphis by Gary Corby, a Nicolaos, Ancient Greece Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: Soho Crime

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Nicolaos, the only private investigator in ancient Athens, discovers that helping an author with his book research can be very dangerous. The would-be author Herodotus has hired Nico and his priestess wife, Diotima, to accompany him to Egypt to research that ancient country's history.

Unfortunately, Egypt happens to be in the throes of a rebellion against its overlords, the Persian Empire. Pirates infest the sea route. Three different armies roam the Egyptian countryside. The river is full of crocodiles. Everywhere Nico turns, there's a secret agent ready to kill him, and he can't find a decent cup of wine anywhere. A simple historical investigation turns into a dangerous adventure of international espionage.

— The Singer from Memphis by Gary Corby

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Truth and Consequences by Lenora Worth, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in May 2016

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Truth and Consequences by Lenora Worth

Series: Roookie K-9 Unit

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

Honoring a promise to a fallen comrade, former army medic David Evans heads to Arizona to check up on the soldier's sister. But as his train pulls into Desert Valley, David witnesses a drug run gone wrong and narrowly avoids the bullets flying his way. And when the police show up, he discovers the investigating officer is the woman he's supposed to look after. With a fiercely protective K-9 partner and a new badge, Whitney Godwin insists she can take care of herself and her infant daughter. But the criminals want both David and Whitney permanently silenced, so David will stop at nothing to protect the family he yearns to join.

— Truth and Consequences by Lenora Worth