The Tourist, A Milo Weaver Mystery by Olen Steinhauer, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Minotaur Books.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (12/21/2013 at 1:00 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
A Milo Weaver Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books

Milo Weaver used to be a "tourist" for the CIA — an undercover agent with no home, no identity — but he's since retired from the field to become a middle-level manager at the CIA's New York headquarters. He's acquired a wife, a daughter, and a brownstone in Brooklyn, and he's tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind.

However, when the arrest of a long-sought-after assassin sets off an investigation into one of Milo's oldest colleagues and exposes new layers of intrigue in his old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out who's holding the strings once and for all.

      

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A New MystereBook: Cyanide Perfume by Jeff Sherratt

Here is 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 December 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

Cyanide Perfume by Jeff Sherratt is the fourth mystery to feature ex-cop turned defense lawyer Jimmy O'Brien.

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Cyanide Perfume by Jeff Sherratt
A Jimmy O'Brien Mystery
Publisher: Innova Press
Publication Date: December 19, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 12/21/13 12:30 PM ET)

Attorney Jimmy O'Brien faces a wild ride of twists and turns when he is retained by a beautiful ex-hooker, Laura Woods. She is accused of murdering her rich, meat-packer husband, Arnie Rosenthal. He left Laura with an insurance policy that promised her luxury for the rest of her life. But now Laura's accused of planting a bullet in his skull.

Jimmy and his investigator, Sol Silverman, delve into Laura's case and immediately find themselves immersed in dirty politics, murder, and prison schemes.

  

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Steel Joe by S. A. Ferkey is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Steel Joe by S. A. Ferkey as today's fifth free mystery ebook (A Supernatural Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 21, 2013 at 7:50 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Steel Joe
S. A. Ferkey
A Supernatural Thriller
Publisher: S. A. Ferkey

Jesse Tolley has been frozen within the womb of a coulee for more than a century, but today he's going to rewrite history. Or die trying.

A hundred years ago, Owen Dervin wanted something he couldn't have — Jesse Tolley's woman. So he framed Jesse for a robbery and murder he didn't commit, then shot him in the back and left him for dead.

But today, a freak accident has resurrected Jesse from the dead. He breathes his first breath in over a century only to discover that his beloved wife, Emily, has passed from this world, and his land is in the hands of strangers.

That's not all that's changed. History has branded Jesse Tolley a thief and murderer, and his sole descendant, Rachil Andrizzi, has changed her name to forever disassociate herself from her infamous great-grandfather.

Jesse's shock is compounded when he walks into town and finds himself in the middle of the city's annual celebration to honor its most famous citizen, the hero, Owen Dervin.

Jesse will die a happy man if he can clear his name, but the odds are woefully stacked against him. His body has been ravaged by time, gunshot wounds, and innumerable traumas. And now the mayor, the entire police force of Lupine, Wisconsin, and the FBI are gunning for him.

Can Jesse show Rachil, aka Melinda Tolley, that a man's name should be a testament to how he lived his life, not how someone else says he lived it — before time runs out?

Jesse's first day in the 21st century could well be his last in this action adventure thriller about one man trying to do the right thing against all odds.

  

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Island Life by Michael W. Sherer is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Island Life by Michael W. Sherer as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Novel of Suspense; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 21, 2013 at 7:40 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Island Life
Michael W. Sherer
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Michael W. Sherer

How do you live without someone who's been part of your life for twenty years?

Jack Holm begins to find out when his wife doesn't return to their suburban Seattle home after shopping one day. Her absence is not unusual given her flight attendant's job, and it's a respite from recent marital discord, so Jack feels relief not worry. But when a day goes by with no word, then another, Jack, his teenage daughter and ten-year-old son do worry. After three days, Jack reports her missing.

Suddenly, Jack is swept up in a terrifying conflagration of events that threaten to tear his world apart. The police suspect him of foul play. Children and Family Services suspects him of abuse. And someone is spying on his kids.

Now a single dad, Jack tries to help his kids deal with their mother's disappearance, but when he's arrested on suspicion of murder, he stands to lose it all. The state and his mother-in-law want to take away his kids. The police want him in jail. Abandoned by friends and family, Jack has nowhere to turn, and the mounting evidence begins to make him think he might actually be a killer.

But mysterious phone calls and a CD containing child pornography that turns up in his wife's belongings convince him otherwise. He quickly realizes the only way to stay ahead of the law and prevent his children from being put in foster care is to find out what happened to his wife. With new-found courage from a woman who believes in his innocence and the help of another outcast, Jack pursues a shadowy Japanese Yakuza crime boss from Seattle to Las Vegas and back, putting himself and all the people he loves in mortal danger.

  

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Blood Séance by Ian Henry is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Blood Séance by Ian Henry as today's third free mystery ebook (A Suspense Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 21, 2013 at 7:30 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Blood Séance
Ian Henry
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Ian Henry

When Glen Kellerman and his family escape the shallow luxury of Beverly Hills and move into a gorgeous old Spanish-style mansion in the Pacific Palisades, they have no idea they've just bought a piece of forgotten Hollywood folklore, once owned by a forties-era B-movie actress.

But when their idyllic little reality shatters, they begin a downward spiral that leads them straight into a dire confrontation with the dark forces still lingering in their beautiful mansion by the seaside. Glen must struggle to keep everything he knows and loves from coming apart at the seams, and his quest to find answers brings him face to face with the horrific fate that befell a beautiful young Scream Queen from a bygone era.

  

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Final Epidemic by Earl Merkel is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Final Epidemic by Earl Merkel as today's second free mystery ebook (A Beck Casey Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 21, 2013 at 7:20 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Final Epidemic
Earl Merkel
A Beck Casey Thriller
Publisher: Diversion Books

An invisible killer has returned. The last time it raged, upward of forty million died — in a matter of months. Now it is back, released to prey on an unsuspecting, unprotected world.

The first case appears on a flawless spring morning, initially diagnosed as a common cold — perhaps, a mild flu.

Then the deaths begin.

New York and Florida are quarantined. International travel is halted. A Japanese doomsday cult commits mass suicide, its final mision completed.

Beck Casey, an expert on biological warfare, is called back to his former CIA post to unravel the twisted case … and to discover if a vaccine exists. But Casey's potential allies to save the future are the worst enemies from his past.

  

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Inn Keeping with Murder by Lynn Bohart is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Inn Keeping with Murder by Lynn Bohart as today's free mystery ebook (An Old Maids of Mercer Island Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 21, 2013 at 7:10 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Inn Keeping with Murder
Lynn Bohart
An Old Maids of Mercer Island Mystery
Publisher: Little Dog Press

When seventy-three year old Martha Denton drops dead into her peach cobbler at the St. Claire Inn no one is surprised. After all, Martha had a heart condition. But when her death is ruled a murder, the inn's owner, Julia Applegate, becomes the prime suspect.

Julia recruits her "sixty-something" group of friends to launch their own investigation. Together with the inn's resident ghosts, including Julia's recently deceased mother who has learned to use a cell phone, they go after the truth.

Add to that a talking parrot who likes to quote old movies, a Harlequin Great Dane, two miniature Dachshunds, a very handsome detective (or two), and get ready for a romp down mystery lane!

  

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Evil, Inc. by Glenn Kaplan is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Evil, Inc. by Glenn Kaplan as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, December 21, 2013.

Note: The price has been matched by Amazon.com for today only.

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Evil, Inc.
Glenn Kaplan
Forge Books

Ken Olson thought he had it all — a loving wife, a beautiful baby, and a career on the fast track. But soon after his big promotion, his whole world is shattered by a monstrous crime. A crime committed by the CEO of his own company. A crime his company will cover up at any cost.

Stripped of everything but his passion to bring the CEO to justice, Olson uncovers the dark and dangerous world behind the corporate jets and executive mansions — the private armies of mercenary killers who do the corporation’s dirtiest work under the guise of "plausible deniability", the offshore banking havens with their clandestine black-hole accounts, and the relentless greed of the lucky few at the top.

Olson's struggle pits him against a host of deadly rivals — the most brutal killer in the international private military underworld, the network anchorwoman with a beautiful face and not a hint of conscience, the aristocrat who pulls the strings of power and never dirties his hands, the hot young actress who makes sex a tool of deception, and, of course, his own chief executive, a bloodthirsty psychopath who has hijacked the corner office.

 

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Dexter, The Complete Series is Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day

Our featured Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day for December 21st, 2013, is Dexter: The Complete Series on DVD and Blu-ray Disc — save up to 61%!

Based on a character created by crime novelist Jeff Lindsay, Michael C. Hall stars as Dexter Morgan, a man who leads a double life as an incredibly likeable forensics expert for the Miami Police Department and as an emotionless vigilante serial killer. Taught by his foster father to harness his lust for blood and killing, Dexter lives by his own strict moral code — he only kills murderers who can't otherwise be brought to justice. Dexter is a killer who grapples with fitting into society while, at the same time, he struggles with his inability to feel emotion. The irony of Dexter's life is that he works closely as a blood splatter analyst with the very people who hunt his kind — the police homicide department.

Own it all: 8 seasons, an exclusive art book and a bonus disc of killer special features … in a collectible slide box inspired by the one Dexter himself uses on the show to catalog his kills.

Save up to 61% on these extraordinary sets, December 21st, 2013 only. Click on the image, below, to visit the product detail page on Amazon.com.

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (131221)

Here is today's mystery and suspense update from Big Fish Games …

• The New Release is Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival.

• The Daily Deal is Weird Park: Scary Tales, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is The Great Unknown: Houdini's Castle, just $2.99 through Sunday, December 22, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Winter Sale!: $8.99 for any Collector's Edition game! Use coupon code FROST at check-out to purchase any Collector's Edition game for just $8.99. Offer valid through December 22nd, 2013 only until 11:59 PM PT.

Visit the Omnimystery Entertainment Network for more games of mystery and suspense!

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The New Release today is Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival

Madame Fate returns … from the dead! This is Fate's Carnival as you've never seen it before, with old acts like Amazing Larry and Marlena Mermaid in the most harrowing predicaments! Can you stop fate before it's too late? Or will the creepy carnival curse stop you?

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour.

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Today's Daily Deal is Weird Park: Scary Tales

Louis the Clown and Mr. Dudley are back in an all-new adventure that will take you through the dark corners of history's most famous fairytales to rescue children trapped in a frightening netherworld! Louis is up to his old tricks as he casts each child in the role of a legendary fairytale character and then creates the visually stunning but twialay out. Use your skills and intellect to find hidden objects and solve puzzles as you make your way through the stories of Cinderella, Peter Pan, Aladdin and more! With its spellbinding story, extraordinary atmosphere and stunning cinematics, this is an instant hidden object classic!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Saturday, December 21, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is The Great Unknown: Houdini's Castle

Your honeymoon is cut short when your plane crashes on an uncharted island. You awake to discover a madman has kidnapped your husband. To get him back, you'll have to use all your wits to pass his sinister tests and solve the mysteries of Houdini's castle. Along the way, you'll uncover Houdini's secret past and learn about the brilliant apprentice who changed his life. Can you expose Houdini's greatest trick to save your husband and escape the island? Take the challenge in this thrilling Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game at the special price of $2.99 through Sunday, December 22, 2013.

Review: The Raven's Eye by Barry Maitland

A Mysterious Review of The Raven's Eye by Barry Maitland. A Brock and Kolla Mystery.

Review summary: This is a multi-layered crime novel, centered primarily on DI Kathy Kolla while DCI Brock deals with the new commander and all the politics that accompany any change in leadership. The multiple storylines are interesting in and of themselves, but how they are interwoven makes for an exceptionally satisfying mystery. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Raven's Eye
Barry Maitland
A Brock and Kolla Mystery
Minotaur Books (October 2011)

Publisher synopsis: DI Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard is called in as a matter of course by the local Paddington police when a woman turns up dead in what appears to be an accident. On her houseboat, Vicky Hawks is found by one of her neighbors having apparently succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning due to improper ventilation of the narrowboat's heating system. But while the cause of death seems apparent and there's no reason for Kolla to think otherwise, something about this death still bothers her.

Meanwhile, her boss, DCI Brock, is wrestling with harsh budget cuts and a new Commander who is determined to make fundamental changes to the system — including limiting resources devoted to investigations. Struggling against the limitations imposed by the new order at Scotland Yard, Brock and Kolla find themselves pulling at the loose strings in the death of Vicky Hawks, trying to find out who she really was, what she was up to, and how her death might be related to another earlier tragic accidental death.

      

Telemystery: ABC Orders Two Pilots for Serial Murder Mystery Dramas

ABC has ordered pilots for two serial murder mystery dramas.

First is one that we reported on last August when it the project was in the early stages of development: How To Get Away With Murder from Shonda Rhimes's Shondaland. The premise is a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor become involved in a murder plot that will rock the entire university and change the course of their lives. Peter Nowalk will write the script.

Second is Sea of Fire, adapted from the Dutch thriller Vuurzee, which we first reported about in Fall 2012 but did not get past the script stage. Vuurzee, which ran for two seasons in The Netherlands, is set in the fictional resort community of Boedzand and centers around the disappearance of a teenaged girl, an event that polarizes the town. Jenna Bans will write the screenplay for the pilot.

A New MystereBook: The Talionis Treatment by Aaron Fernandez

Here is 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 December 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

The Talionis Treatment by Aaron Fernandez is the first in a new series set in the future and using anthromorphic animals as characters in lieu of humans.

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The Talionis Treatment by Aaron Fernandez
The Agency Series
Publisher: Aaron Fernandez
Publication Date: December 19, 2013
Price: $0.99 (as of 12/20/13 04:30 PM ET)

Facing a lull in cases, Sergei visits his recuperating father, only to receive a call for his assistance from a childhood acquaintance, Dana. Her brother has gone missing during a seemingly normal business trip. The trail leads him to an unlikely assistant, and down a road of complicity and far-reaching means he'd never had cause to consider in any prior assignment.

Even worse, the threat posed to Sergei and those around him is not limited to the life of the case. There is no rest for the wicked, and if Sergei wants to see justice done, there can't be any for him either.

  

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The Concrete River, A Jack Liffey Mystery by John Shannon, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Concrete River by John Shannon, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, MP Publishing.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (12/20/2013 at 4:00 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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The Concrete River by John Shannon
A Jack Liffey Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: MP Publishing

Jack Liffey lost his job, and then his wife and daughter.

All he had left was his ability to track down missing children, so he set up as a detective specializing in kidnappings.

A woman from Mexico shows up with only a few words of English, and when he sets off to find her daughter in the frightening urban nightmare of L.A., he is sucked into a violent world of developers and local politicos. Liffey soon discovers that nothing is what it seems … before long his search becomes a fight for redemption and for life itself in a world gone mad around him.

  

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A New MystereBook: Too Quiet in Brooklyn by Susan Russo Anderson

Here is 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 December 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

Too Quiet in Brooklyn by Susan Russo Anderson is the first in a new series by the author of the Serafina Florio mysteries.

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Too Quiet in Brooklyn by Susan Russo Anderson
A Fina Fitzgibbons Mystery
Publisher: Susan Russo Anderson
Publication Date: December 18, 2013
Price: $0.99 (as of 12/20/13 03:30 PM ET)

Twenty-two-year-old Fina Fitzgibbons stumbles upon a throttled woman in the heart of Brooklyn Heights and discovers that the dead woman's four-year-old grandson is also missing. She begins a wild hunt for the strangler-kidnapper, Ralph.

During the chase, she resists falling in love with her boyfriend, Denny, an NYPD patrol officer, steps on the toes of Detective First Grade Jane Templeton, and uncovers secrets about her own past.

In the end, Ralph has a deadly surprise for Fina.

  

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