Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Thursday, January 05, 2017

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Thursday, January 05, 2017 at 7:00 AM ET …

The Cairo Vendetta by Ernest Dempsey

A Sean Wyatt Thriller

Publisher: Enclave Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Smothered in Lies by Holly Plum

A Mexican Café Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Holly Plum

Price: FREE!

  

USA, Inc. by Larry Kahaner

A Mike Wardman Novel

Publisher: Bay City Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

The Holiday Homicides by William Barrons

The San Diego Homicide Detail Series

Publisher: iCrew Digital Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Touching Death by Becky Johnson

A Rachel Angeletti Mystery

Publisher: Becky Johnson

Price: FREE!

  

Christmas Donut Murder by Susan Gillard

A Donut Hole Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Guardian Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

The Devil's Bed by Doug Lamoreux

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Creativia

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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The Trouble With Charlie, An Elle Harrison Thriller by Merry Jones, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Trouble With Charlie by Merry Jones

An Elle Harrison Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/04/2017 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

Elle finds the body of her soon-to-be-ex husband Charlie on her sofa, stabbed to death with her kitchen knife. Elle's close friends stand by her through the difficult funeral, but Elle alone must face the loss of the man she'd loved. Except that the loss is not total — Charlie is still around. Elle feels his presence, smells his after shave. Hears him accuse her of killing him. And even though she doesn't believe in ghosts, she argues with him, asserting her innocence.

Oddly, Elle has a gap in her memory; she can't account for her activity during the time of his murder. As she tries to clear herself by finding out how Charlie died, she discovers that she had plenty of reason to kill him. Charlie had secrets. Infidelity. Unsavory business associates. Involvement with an international organization of sex abusers. The more she learns, the more danger she faces.

As unscrupulous people begin to fear she'll expose them, Elle races against time to avoid arrest, fight off attackers, solve the murder, and make peace with Charlie's spirit.

— The Trouble With Charlie by Merry Jones

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A Mansion, A Drag Queen, and A New Job, A Deanna Oscar Paranormal Mystery by C. C. Dragon , Now Available at a Special Price

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A Mansion, A Drag Queen, and A New Job by C. C. Dragon

A Deanna Oscar Paranormal Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: C. C. Dragon

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/04/2017 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Psychic medium Deanna Oscar wants to be a normal psychology professor at a nice college. The universe has other ideas. When the grandmother she never knew dies and leaves her everything, Deanna enters a different world. In New Orleans anything goes and her psychic powers aren't a secret. She doesn't plan on staying but a psychic vision puts her on the trail of a killer.

Deanna can't turn her back on the future victims and becomes immersed in her grandmother's world. She isn't sure how to manage the mansion and fortune she inherited or the people who came with it. An ex-priest, a Latina drag queen and a socialite beauty queen are the living entourage. Add in a houseful of ghosts and haunted objects and Deanna needs a little help. In over her head, she struggles to catch a killer who is out to get her as well.

— A Mansion, A Drag Queen, and A New Job by C. C. Dragon

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New This Week: Witch Slapped, A Beechwood Harbor Magic Mystery by Danielle Garrett

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Witch Slapped by Danielle Garrett

A Beechwood Harbor Magic Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Danielle Garrett

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/04/2017 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

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Holly's got a big problem … And this time, there's no dead body involved. At least, not yet.

Her boyfriend's parents are coming into town for the Yule Feast and they're staying at the Beechwood Manor — for an entire week!

With a paranormal meet-the-parents on the horizon, the last thing she needs is to stumble into yet another murder investigation, but when she becomes a key witness, there's no way of avoiding it. Especially not if vampires are involved and her human partner-in-sleuthing is racing right into their path.

Holly has to stop a ring of power-hungry vampires, charm a pair of uptight shifters, and keep herself out of supernatural prison. Piece of cake, right?

— Witch Slapped by Danielle Garrett

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The Last Judgment, The Chambers of Justice Series by Craig Parshall, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Last Judgment by Craig Parshall

The Chambers of Justice Series (5th in series)

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/04/2017 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

As a happily married husband and proud father of a nine — year — old son, the last thing attorney Will Chambers wants on his hands is a religious apocalypse.

Will defends a Christian convert from Islam against charges of causing a religious riot. When the attorney next hears from his client, Gilead Amahn, the self — styled prophet is under arrest. The top of Jerusalem's Temple Mount has been bombed into rubble, and Amahn is accused of having incited — by his fiery street preaching — a terrorist cult to do it.

Now the lawyer must uncover both the evidence and the key truth about his client's "mission." And further, Will must also make a final judgment about his role as a husband, a father … and a man.

— The Last Judgment by Craig Parshall

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New This Week: Constable in Disguise, A Constable Nick Mystery by Nicholas Rhea

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Constable in Disguise by Nicholas Rhea

A Constable Nick Mystery (10th in series)

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/04/2017 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Even the quietest place needs careful policing …

As part of his training, young Constable Nick is appointed as Aide to CID, better known as the 'Constable in Disguise.' Joining the criminal investigation department, he soon learns about the work of the men and women in plain clothes and discovers more than he bargained for when he finds himself staking out a house under suspicion of being used as a brothel …

Constable Nick realises that even in the quest, there is much that goes on beneath the surface.

Meanwhile, his sergeant has an unusual method of getting two burglary suspects to confess: by challenging them to a snooker match. Constable Nick soon finds himself embroiled in a series of unusual and interesting investigations in his new-found position and can't help wondering whether it was his Sherlockian skills that played their part …

— Constable in Disguise by Nicholas Rhea

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Hey Big Spender, A Tahoe Tessie Mystery by Gemma Halliday and T. Sue Versteeg, Now Available at a Special Price

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Hey Big Spender by Gemma Halliday and T. Sue Versteeg

A Tahoe Tessie Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/04/2017 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

When Tessie King inherited the Royal Palace Hotel, Lake Tahoe's biggest resort, she inherited a cranky board of directors along with it. A board that is demanding higher revenues, or Tessie's out. Faced with the possibility of losing her father's legacy, Tessie turns to her staff to help her come up with a plan: film the season finale of Battle Buffet, the hottest cooking competition show on TV, at the resort. It's a scheme sure to bring in the big bucks.

But is also brings big trouble. When one of the casino's wealthiest clients is found dead on the gaming floor, and the killer comes up incognito on the security footage, everyone is a suspect — from the television crew to the blue haired retirees at the slots. Tessie teams up with her stepmother-turned-BFF and her snowboarding teenage crush in a race against the clock to repair the casino's reputation, dodge mob accusations from the hot FBI agent on the case, and track down a killer before any more of her big spenders end up sleeping with the fishes.

— Hey Big Spender by Gemma Halliday and T. Sue Versteeg

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New This Week: Covert Network, A Jake Adams, International Espionage Thriller by Trevor Scott

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Covert Network by Trevor Scott

A Jake Adams, International Espionage Thriller (14th in series)

Publisher: Trevor Scott

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/04/2017 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Jake Adams, morose and distraught, has isolated himself on the frigid island of Iceland during the heart of the Aurora Borealis. Again, he considers retiring and drifting into an alcoholic coma. But then he is summoned back to work for Spanish billionaire and benefactor, Carlos Gomez.

Jake doesn't hesitate to help. Young women are disappearing in South America, and Jake now understands how that would impact him if his daughter had been taken. With the help of his old friends, Jake heads to Argentina to take up the search. Jake quickly discovers this case is more than the simple abduction of young women. A shadowy cabal of criminals has built a covert network of corruption that will make the Panama Papers look like the ramblings of a child.

Can Jake and friends unravel this sophisticated network and save the girls? Can he also save himself in the process?

— Covert Network by Trevor Scott

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In Praise of the Bees, A Mystery Novel by Kristin Gleeson, Now Available at a Special Price

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In Praise of the Bees by Kristin Gleeson

A Mystery Novel

Publisher: A Tig Beag Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/04/2017 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Ireland 590 A.D.

A woman is found by a track, nearly dead from appalling wounds and remembers nothing. Her terror and her injuries are so great that she is given sanctuary in Mother Gobnait's unusual community of nuns, while all around her a war is being waged in which she is a pawn. The women name her Aine.

Disturbing fragments of Áine's memory begin to surface, and in desperation she asks to remain in the safety of the community, but is it really safe for her anywhere?

It is only after events take another terrible turn that Áine is forced to discover who she really is and make life-changing choices — but will they prove to be her undoing?

— In Praise of the Bees by Kristin Gleeson

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Midnight Obsession by Melinda Leigh, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017 …

Midnight Obsession by Melinda Leigh, A Midnight Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Montlake Romance

  

Louisa Hancock thought she was safe … but there's a new killer in town …

When a mysterious package lands on Louisa Hancock's doorstep, the Philadelphia museum curator can hardly anticipate the nightmare that's about to envelop her. The package is addressed to her father — an expert in Viking culture — and inside is a ninth-century sword, a chilling thank-you note, and photos of two dead bodies in a tableau evoking a Nordic funeral. The gruesome images match a recent crime scene. But before the police can investigate the killer's connection to Louisa's father, Ward Hancock vanishes.

Sports bar owner Conor Sullivan wants nothing more than to spend his life with Louisa. Devoted and protective, he refuses to leave her side after her father's disappearance. When a troubled young boxer he's been coaching is suspected of the murders, Conor is pulled in even deeper. Desperate, Louisa and Conor take it upon themselves to find her father, but soon another ritualistic slaying makes it clear there's a Viking-obsessed serial killer on the loose. And he has a new target: Louisa.

— Midnight Obsession by Melinda Leigh

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for January 2017. For new hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries where for a list of January 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

Corus and the Case of the Chaos, A Detective Mystery by Mark Hazard, Now Available at a Special Price

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Corus and the Case of the Chaos by Mark Hazard

A Detective Mystery

Publisher: Mark Hazard

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/04/2017 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Chief Detective Corus was the brilliant ace investigator of the King County Sheriff's Department in Washington State. His ability to solve cases straddled the border between genius and second sight. He'd won every commendation his department offered, and his peers either cherished his ability or hated him for his success. But Chief Detective Corus, with his iron will and laser wits, was never moved by any of that, as long as he had a case to solve.

Then his dog died.

A good cop unhinged by the nihilistic significance of an old dog's departure must now struggle to piece his worldview back together in time to solve the murders he let slip through his fingers during his season of failure. He begins with the murder of an entire family at a ski resort. With every clue gone cold can Corus re-establish order in his world, despite hateful co-workers, corrupt officials and murderous villains? Or is the crushing chaos destined to overwhelm him?

— Corus and the Case of the Chaos by Mark Hazard

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The Dangerous Ladies Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, New in Bookstores during January 2017

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during January 2017 is …

The Dangerous Ladies Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, a Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Forge Books

 

When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention.

The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel are not difficult: Wrixton, a wealthy banker, has met his extortionist's first demand, but the order to pay another $5,000 is too much to face. The banker's real problem is something he doesn't want to reveal. That was fine with the detective, and when he was informed that some private letters were involved and Wrixton absolutely needed them back, there was nothing more Quincannon needed in the way of background. As with so many of San Francisco's elite, the bedroom doors never seemed to stay shut.

That was the easy part; far more difficult was the matter of the dead courier, murdered most foully in a locked room within a locked room, creating a trail that will take John Quincannon through most of San Francisco's less savory places and end with a riverboat trip that is anything but a relaxing cruise.

— The Dangerous Ladies Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for January 2017. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of January 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

Child's Play by Merry Jones, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017 …

Child's Play by Merry Jones, An Elle Harrison Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

  

Since her husband's murder two years earlier, life hasn't been easy for Elle Harrison. Now, at the start of a new school year, the second grade teacher is determined to move on. She's selling her house and delving into new experiences — like learning trapeze …

Just before the first day of school, Elle learns that a former student, Ty Evans, has been released from juvenile detention where he served time for killing his abusive father. Within days of his release, Elle's school principal, who'd tormented Ty as a child, is brutally murdered. So is a teacher at the school. And Ty's former girlfriend. All the victims have links to Ty.

Ty's younger brother, Seth, is in Elle's class. When Seth shows up at school beaten and bruised, Elle reports the abuse, and authorities remove Seth and his older sister, Katie, from their home. Is Ty the abuser?

Ty seeks Elle out, confiding that she's the only adult he's ever trusted. She tries to be open-minded, even wonders if he's been wrongly condemned. But when she's assaulted in the night, she suspects that Ty is her attacker. Is he a serial killer? Is she his next intended victim?

Before Elle discovers the truth, she's caught in a deadly trap that challenges her deepest convictions about guilt and innocence, childhood and family. Pushed to her limits, she's forced to face her fears and apply new skills in a deadly fight to survive.

— Child's Play by Merry Jones

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for January 2017. For new hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries where for a list of January 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

Hush Hush, A Tess Monaghan Mystery by Laura Lippman, Now Available at a Special Price

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Hush Hush by Laura Lippman

A Tess Monaghan Mystery (12th in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/04/2017 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Tess Monaghan has encountered almost every possible criminal motive throughout her career: greed, revenge, jealousy, rage. But there are crimes that defy all attempts at understanding, where a search for motive seems pointless …

Melisandre Harris Dawes committed such a crime. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, she fled the country, leaving her two daughters with their father. Twelve years later, she's back in Baltimore, and Tess is asked to provide security detail while Melisandre films a documentary about her attempts to reconcile with her now teenaged children.

Tess, juggling work with caring for her demanding toddler, is uneasy about the case. Still, Melisandre's lawyer is family. And there is something about the woman herself — confident, beautiful, shrewdly intelligent — that draws Tess in. Is she a master manipulator or someone who was driven to temporary madness? Cold and calculating, or a mother concerned for her daughters' well being? Someone is leaving Melisandre enigmatic, threatening notes. Soon Tess, insecure about her parenting abilities and receiving cryptic messages of her own, isn't sure whether she should be protecting Melisandre from harm — or protecting everyone else from Melisandre.

When Melisandre becomes the prime suspect in a murder, Tess must uncover the truth. Doing so will mean confronting her deepest beliefs about what separates good parents from bad, madness from sanity, and what lengths even the most rational person will go to, to protect what they cherish most.

— Hush Hush by Laura Lippman

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New This Week: No Living Soul, A Lexi Carmichael Mystery by Julie Moffett

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No Living Soul by Julie Moffett

A Lexi Carmichael Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: Carina Press

Price: $4.99 (as of 01/04/2017 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

See all nine mysteries in the Lexi Carmichael Series for $4.99 each on Kindle.

Although I never expected it, my work as a computer geek has me traveling around the world, solving mysteries and fighting bad guys. Sometimes with my friends, but always with trouble by my side. So you'd think by now, I would've expected to be plagued by danger when I headed to Egypt with my best friend, Elvis Zimmerman, and boyfriend, Slash, to help track down Elvis's missing and estranged father. Nope.

Genius runs in the family, and we quickly discovered Elvis's father is hot on the trail of an ancient and elusive artifact. One that people are willing to kill to find. Tombs, tablets, scarabs, and code come together as we follow a set of clues that has been waiting millennia to be discovered. Cracking code is my speciality, but I never expected to tackle one from fifteen hundred years before the advent of written language.

But the sands of time are running out. We are facing death as it was before the pyramids even existed. If the artifact falls into the wrong hands, we won't be able to rewrite history. So it's up to us to find and safeguard the secret to ensure no living soul ever encounters it … again.

— No Living Soul by Julie Moffett

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