Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Sunday, June 12, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 7:00 AM ET …

Moriarty Meets His Match by Anna Castle

A Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mystery

Publisher: Anna Castle

Price: FREE!

  

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A Pie To Die For by Stacey Alabaster

A Bakery Detectives Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Fairfield Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

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Shooter by Dahlia West

The Burnout Series

Publisher: Dahlia West

Price: FREE!

  

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Running Before The Midnight Bell by Jonathan Broughton

A Crime Thriller

Publisher: Jonathan Broughton

Price: FREE!

  

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Fellow of the Craft by Jason E. Dzembo

A Patrick Brady Mystery

Publisher: Hoodwinked Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

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Devil's Due by Andrew Warren

A Thomas Caine Thriller

Publisher: Andrew Warren

Price: FREE!

  

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Harlequin by Stewart Giles

A Jason Smith Mystery

Publisher: Stewart Giles

Price: FREE!

  

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Positively Murder by Netta Newbound

An Adam Stanley Thriller

Publisher: Junction Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

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Over Time by Brian Hill and Dee Power

A Financial Thriller

Publisher: Javelina House Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

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False Flag by Jay Tinsiano

A Frank Bowen Thriller

Publisher: Jay Tinsiano

Price: FREE!

  

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The Missing Chalice by Carl Nattrass

The Towpath Mysteries Series

Publisher: Carl Nattrass

Price: FREE!

  

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The Joker by Edgar Wallace

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Edgar Wallace

Price: FREE!

  

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White Face by Edgar Wallace

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Edgar Wallace

Price: FREE!

  

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City Chronicles 2 by J. Jackson

Intrigue and Crime Stories

Publisher: J. Jackson

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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The Names of Our Tears, An Amish-Country Mystery by P. L. Gaus, Now Available at a Special Price

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy.

Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Plume …

The Names of Our Tears by P. L. Gaus

An Amish-Country Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: Plume

Price: $2.99 (as of 06/11/2016 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

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Ruth Zook returns home to Holmes County, Ohio, carrying a heavy suitcase and a heavier heart. Coerced into becoming a drug mule, Ruth retaliates by destroying her illicit burden and pays for it with her life. When Fannie Helmuth confesses that she was similarly coerced, Sheriff Bruce Robertson realizes that the drug dealers' operation reaches all the way to Florida's Pinecraft Amish community. He immediately moves the investigation South, where more innocent lives are in jeopardy.

— The Names of Our Tears by P. L. Gaus

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Remains of Innocence, A Joanna Brady Mystery by J. A. Jance, Now Available at a Special Price

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Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, William Morrow …

Remains of Innocence by J. A. Jance

A Joanna Brady Mystery (16th in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 06/11/2016 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

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An old woman, a hoarder, is dying of emphysema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In cleaning out her house, her daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred dollar bills hidden in the tall stacks of books and magazines that crowd every corner.

Tracing the money's origins will take Liza on a journey that will end in Cochise County, where Sheriff Joanna Brady is embroiled in a personal mystery of her own. A man she considers a family friend is found dead at the bottom of a hole in a limestone cavern near Bisbee. And now there is the mystery of Liza and the money. Are the two disparate cases connected? It's up to Joanna to find out.

— Remains of Innocence by J. A. Jance

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New This Week: A Rather Peculiar Death, A Seacoast Cozy Mystery by Laura Pauling

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 June 2016 and priced $5.99 or less …

A Rather Peculiar Death by Laura Pauling

A Seacoast Cozy Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Redpoint Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 06/11/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

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Devon Despicable is about to enjoy his cup of tea with freshly squeezed lemon juice when he discovers a body in the art gallery. A treasure hunter.

Treasure hunters, hungry and tingling with treasure lust, flood Devon's small coastal town. Along with them, arrives Penelope Piccadilly, a strong, intimidating adversary, determined to find the lost pirate treasure. Devon can't escape the lure of treasure, even if it doesn't exist. And it doesn't exist — right?

Investigating this new murder brings Devon and Francesca to the haunting reality of a killer among them, and the fact that maybe, just maybe, the pirate treasure is more than a myth. They must sneak, steal and lie to discover the truth. After stumbling upon a hidden clue in a long-lost painting, they might know where to find the treasure.

When the killer strikes again, Devon and Fran use the lure of the treasure to set a trap.

— A Rather Peculiar Death by Laura Pauling

See also the first mystery in this series, A Highly Suspicious Death, for $2.99 on Kindle

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The Silent Oligarch, A Ben Webster Novel of Corporate Espionage by Christopher Morgan Jones, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Silent Oligarch by Christopher Morgan Jones

A Ben Webster Novel of Corporate Espionage (1st in series)

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: $3.99 (as of 06/11/2016 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

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Behind the imposing splendor of the Kremlin rises a run-down office building, home to the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources. A nondescript bureaucrat in a drab government agency, Konstanin Malin secretly controls a vast business that dominates the nation's oil industry, making him one of the most feared and wealthy men in Russia. Over the years Malin has siphoned billions from the state and poured them into his private empire, hiding what he owns offshore.

The man who has done the hiding is Richard Lock, a diffident English lawyer whose life in Moscow is falling apart: criss-crossing the world administering his master's affairs, he has seen his relationships with his estranged family and highly practical mistress slowly deteriorating. Lock is bound to Malin by marriage, complacency, greed, and most of all by a complex lie that neither can escape. But slowly, Lock is beginning to realise that the lie will not always hold.

Once an idealistic young journalist, Benjamin Webster now works as an investigator at a London corporate intelligence firm, a mercenary spy for the rich and powerful. Webster's cynicism and anger were born when he witnessed a colleague murdered in Russia for asking too many tough questions; now, ten years later, he may finally be able to avenge her unsolved murder. Hired by a client to ruin Malin, he discovers that this shadowy figure may have arranged his friend's gruesome death — to hide a terrible secret buried at the heart of his criminal empire.

Soon Webster realizes that Lock is Malin's great weakness; and when he starts to apply pressure, Lock's fragile world begins to crack. His colleagues begin dying mysteriously, his relationship with Malin turns ominously ice-cold. The police begin asking questions, the newspapers smell blood in the water, and Webster's investigators close in on the truth. Suddenly Lock is running for his life — though from Malin or Webster, the law or his own past, he couldn't say.

— The Silent Oligarch by Christopher Morgan Jones

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New This Week: The Cat Came Back, A 9 Lives Cozy Mystery by Louise Clark

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 June 2016 and priced $5.99 or less …

The Cat Came Back by Louise Clark

A 9 Lives Cozy Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Louise Clark

Price: $3.99 (as of 06/11/2016 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Stormy the Cat, rescued by journalist Quinn Armstrong, is not what he seems …

Young mother Christy Jamieson just learned her husband, Frank, embezzled his trust fund, sold their Vancouver mansion, and ran off with a socialite. Worse, Frank's trustees are telling Christy to let them handle it. But they aren't doing anything, and Frank's enemies are coming after her and her daughter.

Desperate to find Frank and fend off his enemies, Christy asks Quinn for help. His price: the dirt on Frank. But the closer Christy and Quinn get to the dangerous truth, the more convinced they become that only the one who knows where Frank is at, is Stormy the Cat.

— The Cat Came Back by Louise Clark

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The Boy in the Snow, An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery by M. J. McGrath, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Boy in the Snow by M. J. McGrath

An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: $3.99 (as of 06/11/2016 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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Edie Kiglatuk, the half-Inuit and half-outsider heroine, prepares to help her ex-husband, Sammy, in his bid to win Alaska's world-famous Iditarod. But the race turns grim when she stumbles upon body of an infant — its tiny corpse covered in mysterious ceremonial markings — on land belonging to the Old Believers, an exiled Russian Orthodox sect.

Meanwhile, it's election time and the lead candidate for governor of Alaska, Anchorage mayor Chuck Hillingberg, desperately wants to keep Edie's discovery out of the press. As Sammy mushes his team across frozen wilderness, Edie begins an investigation that leads into a murky world of corrupt politics, religious intolerance, greed, and sex trafficking. But just as she begins to get some answers, Edie finds herself threatened by a painful secret from her past.

— The Boy in the Snow by M. J. McGrath

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New This Week: Late Checkout, A Kenny Murrain Mystery by Alex Walters

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Late Checkout by Alex Walters

A Kenny Murrain Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Alex Walters

Price: $2.99 (as of 06/11/2016 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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DCI Kenny Murrain sees, hears and feels things that others do not. It's a gift but also a curse. When he wakes to the phantom sound of screaming he knows a murder has been committed but not where or why. Then a woman's body is found in a Stockport hotel room. It's a murder that seems both frenzied and carefully planned, the scene expertly cleansed of any evidence.

Over the following days, more bodies are discovered, first in an upmarket spa on the Pennine moors, then in a run-down budget hotel on the outskirts of Manchester. The same frenzied attacks, the same meticulous planning. The same killer. The victims all have links to one man, a police colleague with a dark past. But Murrain discovers a more unexpected connection — with Marie Donovan, a former undercover officer now part of Murrain's own team.

As the killer closes in on a fourth victim, Murrain knows that time is running out. But the outcome will be more unexpected and more terrifying than even he can imagine …

— Late Checkout by Alex Walters

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Iron River, A Charlie Hood Thriller by T. Jefferson Parker, Now Available at a Special Price

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Iron River by T. Jefferson Parker

A Charlie Hood Thriller (3rd in series)

Publisher: NAL

Price: $3.99 (as of 06/11/2016 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Along the U.S./Mexico border, a man named Finnegan wakes up in the border-town of Buenavista after a hit and run-eerily aware of events he should know nothing about, $90,000 richer, and with Charlie Hood's name and address in his wallet.

Meanwhile when tracking the flow of illegal guns into Mexico, Hood's team accidentally kills the son of Benjamin Armenta, head of the Gulf Cartel and one of the most violent men in the world. Now, Hood must work to grasp the enigmatic forces fighting for control of Buenavista- forces that circle back to Finnegan, and to Armenta's unstoppable plan for brutal vengeance.

— Iron River by T. Jefferson Parker

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A SEAL To Save Her by Karen Anders, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in June 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.

A SEAL To Save Her by Karen Anders

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

When her big-city dreams come crashing down, Gemma Phillips returns to her small hometown — and finds herself the target of a violent stalker. And her attacker may be linked to the robbery she witnessed years ago … a case reopened after the police discovered a body, supporting her claims of overhearing a murder. Now there's only one man who can save her: lawman Matt O'Dell. For Matt, solving this decades-old mystery will finally allow him to distance himself from his father's criminal past. But Matt's drive to close the case soon turns personal. He needs to guard his reputation … but first, he must protect the woman he's just discovered he loves.

— A SEAL To Save Her by Karen Anders

India Black and the Widow of Windsor, A Madam of Espionage Mystery by Carol K. Carr, Now Available at a Special Price

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India Black and the Widow of Windsor by Carol K. Carr

A Madam of Espionage Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Berkley

Price: $3.99 (as of 06/11/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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When Queen Victoria attends a séance, the spirit of her departed husband, Prince Albert, insists she spend Christmas at their Scottish home in Balmoral. Prime Minister Disraeli suspects the Scottish nationalists plan to assassinate the Queen-and sends the ever resourceful India and the handsome British spy, French, to the Scottish highlands.

French will take the high road, looking for a traitor among the guests-and India will take the low road, disguised as a servant in case an assassin is hiding among the household staff. India is certain that someone at Balmoral is determined to make this Her Majesty's last Christmas …

— India Black and the Widow of Windsor by Carol K. Carr

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Duty and Honor by Grant Blackwood, New in Bookstores during June 2016

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

Duty and Honor by Grant Blackwood, a Jack Ryan Jr. Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Putnam

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Even though he's on forced leave from the clandestine intelligence group known as The Campus, Jack Ryan, Jr., still finds himself caught in the crosshairs after an attempt on his life is thwarted when he turns the tables on his would-be dispatcher. Convinced that the attack is linked to his recent covert actions with the convalescing Iranian national Ysabel Kashini, Jack sets out to find out who wants him dead, and why.

Using clues found on the now dead assassin, Jack pursues the investigation, following a growing trail of corpses to the European Union's premier private security firm, Rostock Security Group, and its founder, Jürgen Rostock — a former general in the German Special Forces Command. Rostock is world-renowned as a philanthropist and human rights advocate. But Jack knows him from a Campus mission revolving around a company linked to RSG — a mission that has put him on Rostock's lethal radar.

Without any Campus resources, Jack launches his own shadow campaign to uncover the truth about Rostock and a long-running false-flag war of terror that has claimed thousands of lives. Yet all of that bloodshed is but a precursor to a coming catastrophic event that will solidify Rostock's place among the global powers. An event that Jack must stop at any cost.

— Duty and Honor by Grant Blackwood

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for June 2016. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of June 2016 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

Nominees for the 2016 Shamus Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2016 Shamus Awards honoring work featuring private investigators were announced earlier this week by the The Private Eye Writers of America recognizing excellence in Canadian crime writing.

And they are …

Best Hardcover PI Novel:
• The Promise by Robert Crais (Putnam)
• Dance of the Bones by J. A. Jance (William Morrow)
• Gumshoe by Robert Leininger (Oceanview Publishing)
• Brush Back by Sara Paretsky (Putnam)
• Brutality by Ingrid Thoft (Putnam)

Best First PI Novel:
• The Red Storm by Grant Bywaters (Minotaur Books)
• Night Tremors by Matt Coyle (Oceanview Publishing)
• Trouble in Rooster Paradise by T. W. Emory (Coffeetown Press)
• Depth by Lev AC Rosen (Regan Arts)
• The Do-Right by Lisa Sandlin (Cinco Puntos Press)

Best Paperback Original PI Novel:
• Circling the Runway by J. L. Abramo (Down & Out Books)
• Split to Splinters by Max Everhart (Camel Press)
• The Man in the Window by Dana King (Independent)
• The Long Cold by O'Neil De Noux (Big Kiss Productions)
• Red Desert by Clive Rosengren (Moonshine Cove Publishing)

Best PI Short Story:
• "The Runaway Girl from Portland, Oregon" by C. B. Forrest (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine)
• "The Sleep of Death" by David Edgerley Gates (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine)
• "The Dead Client" by Parnell Hall (Dark City Lights)
• "The Dead Detective" by Robert S. Levinson (Coast To Coast)
• "The Continental Opposite" by Evan Lewis (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine)