Seven Cities of Greed by Jean Sheldon is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Seven Cities of Greed by Jean Sheldon as today's third free mystery ebook (An Adventure Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 29, 2014 at 7:00 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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Seven Cities of Greed
Jean Sheldon
An Adventure Thriller
Publisher: Jean Sheldon

When Jacqueline Tracey purchases a hand carved leather journal at a Chicago book auction, it promises an adventure in New Mexico for her and her friends. Instead, they are chased by a modern day Conquistador who will stop at nothing to have the book and the secrets it holds.

The journal describes an expedition in 1539 led by Franciscan Friar, Marcos De Niza on a search for the mythical Seven Cities of Gold. The author, Pedro, accompanies the Spaniards disguised as a priest, but his writings suggest he was far from a holy man.

As the middle age adventure-seekers follow ancient clues and maps to the Land of Enchantment, Samuel Barnes uses his wealth and influence to track them. Are they ready for a show down with the man who believes he is the Emperor of Cibola?

  

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Seven Falls by Greg Scowen is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Seven Falls by Greg Scowen as today's second free mystery ebook (A Thomas Holder Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 29, 2014 at 6:45 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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Seven Falls
Greg Scowen
A Thomas Holder Thriller
Publisher: Boxford Books

Detective Thomas Holder is obsessed with searching for his kidnapped daughter. His only clue is that her kidnapper was involved in a religious sect. When Jesse, a fifteen-year-old boy accused of murder escapes from an elusive cult high in the Swiss Alps, Holder decides to use him as a way to get inside the walls of the mysterious community.

Jesse is running for his life. Framed for the murder of his best friend, Jesse escapes into the alpine wilderness. Suffering a gunshot wound and a mind poisoned by years of misinformation, Jesse must learn to trust strangers as he tries to clear his name and find a freedom he has never known.

When Holder's and Jesse's paths cross, neither is prepared for the effect the pursuit of truth will have on their lives or the lives of those around them.

  

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Paid in Full by David Shaffer is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Paid in Full by David Shaffer as today's free mystery ebook (A Harry Caine Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 29, 2014 at 6:30 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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Paid in Full
David Shaffer
A Harry Caine Mystery
Publisher: Alabaster Book Publishing

Harry Caine is a licensed California private investigator that closed his one-man detective agency in Silicon Valley to try a new way of life in Washington, D.C. In a short time he becomes dissatisfied with his new job and builds a getaway boat, intending to sail away to the Caribbean Islands and never look back.

On the way south from Washington, D.C., a boating accident requires repairs, but Harry doesn't have enough money to pay the bill. A nefarious boat yard controller, exiled from his family's crime business in New Jersey, offers Harry a job delivering some boxes from Daytona Beach to a Silicon Valley scientist/inventor.

Harry discovers the contents of the boxes he has delivered and is hired to find the who's and why's of a counterfeiting scheme, stolen currency paper and two murders. He gets caught up in this compelling coast-to-coast mystery and finds himself back in the detective business.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140429)

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

• The New Release is Tales From The Dragon Mountain 2: The Lair.

• The current Catch of the Week is Mysteries of the Mind: Coma, just $2.99 through Sunday, May 04, 2014 only.

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

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The New Release today is Tales From The Dragon Mountain 2: The Lair

It has been years since brave Mina Lockheart defeated Lord Strix, but the spirits are restless and the dark shadows are rising once again! Lord Strix is back and breeding a new army to enslave all creatures from the Dragon Mountains! Now it's up to Mina and her best friend Malik to travel to distant parts of the world collecting clues that will lead them to a hidden wasteland — Lord Strix's lair. Discover new and exciting locations and meet unique characters to help you along your journey. But hurry! Lord Strix gets stronger by the minute!

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

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The current Catch of the Week is Mysteries of the Mind: Coma

Everyone deserves a second chance. You've been in an accident and are fighting your way out of a coma. Inside your mind, you must explore your deepest memories in order to right the past and set yourself free. First you'll go back to visit your mother, with whom you were estranged before she died. Now's your chance to uncover the mystery of your rift and show her what she meant to you. Explore nostalgic locations and meet other people from your past in this moving, dramatic hidden-object puzzle adventure game. There's also a guiding spirit whose true identity is yours to uncover. What happened all those years ago when your family was changed forever? The thing that really keeps you trapped might surprise you.

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, May 04, 2014.

Also available for this game:

• Get the Strategy Guide.
• Check out the Blog Walkthrough.
• For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition.

Review: A Few Drops of Blood by Jan Merete Weiss

A Mysterious Review of A Few Drops of Blood by Jan Merete Weiss. A Natalia Monte Mystery.

Review summary: This is a carefully crafted if also quite complicated mystery, one that can be very hard to follow along at times. Set in contemporary Naples, the cast of characters is large and diverse, and there is a sense that even when all is said and done, and the case is officially closed, neither is really true. And maybe that's the way it should be. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

A Few Drops of Blood
Jan Merete Weiss
A Natalia Monte Mystery
Soho Crime (April 2014)

Publisher synopsis: When the bodies of two men are found, shockingly posed, in the garden of an elderly countess, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case. Soon she finds herself shuttling between Naples’ decadent art galleries and violent criminal underworld.

If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime, Natalia must deal with not only her own complicated past and allegiances, but also those of the city as a whole.

      

The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink, A Perry Mason Novel by Erle Stanley Gardner: Amazon's The Big Deal Promotion

Every so often Amazon releases a new selection of Kindle books priced up to 85% off as part of The Big Deal Promotion.

Today's featured mystery, suspense, or thriller title is The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink by Erle Stanley Gardner. This Kindle book was listed at $0.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, April 28, 2014 at 4:30 PM ET, and should be available at this price through Sunday, May 11, 2014.

More information about the book is below; if other vendors have priced-matched this title, links to their sites are also shown.

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The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink by Erle Stanley Gardner
A Perry Mason Novel
Publisher: Della Street Press

A waitress in a favorite restaurant of Mason's runs out in the middle of the lunch rush, leaving behind her pricey mink coat. But this is only the first question in a cop-killer case that traps Mason's client with both an impossible story and the murder weapon.

With Perry as a prime suspect with a blazing gunpowder trail that leads straight to the heart of the police department …

  

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Monument to Murder, A Capital Crimes Novel by Margaret Truman, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Monument to Murder by Margaret Truman, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Forge 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 (04/28/2014 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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Monument to Murder by Margaret Truman
A Capital Crimes Novel (25th in series)
Publisher: Forge Books

Times are tough in Savannah for former cop and current PI Robert Brixton, so when he agrees to take on a 20 year-old murder case, he figures he's got nothing to lose. It's not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannah's power elite, and right into the lap of a secret government organization that's been offing "troublesome" politicians for decades. The cold case heats up when he joins forces with former attorneys Mackensie and Annabel Lee Smith to investigate the organization and the murders they committed in the name of patriotism.

With what he knows, Brixton can bring down Washington D.C.'s leading social hostess, if not the administration itself. But can he outwit an organization that is hell-bent on keeping its secrets — secrets that go all the way back to the assassinations of Jack and Bobby Kennedy?

  

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The Corpse with the Emerald Thumb by Cathy Ace, New in Bookstores in April 2014

Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during April 2014 by TouchWood Editions, is The Corpse with the Emerald Thumb by Cathy Ace.

For a list of more new paperback mysteries, thrillers, and novels of suspense published this month, visit our Mystery Bookshelf page for April 2014. For hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries for a selection of books published during April 2014.

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The Corpse with the Emerald Thumb
Cathy Ace
Series: A Cait Morgan Mystery

Criminologist and foodie Cait Morgan was looking forward to her dream vacation in Mexico with her boyfriend Bud Anderson. She wasn’t anticipating a fresh corpse on the floor of a local florist’s shop, and she definitely wasn’t expecting Bud to become the prime suspect.

With Bud’s freedom, and maybe even his life, at stake, Cait has to fight the clock to work out which member of the small community living in the seemingly idyllic municipality of Punta de las Rocas might have killed the locally respected florist, and why. Needing to investigate under the watchful gaze of the local police, Cait has to keep her relationship with Bud a secret, and she soon discovers she’s not the only one with something to hide. Peeling back layers of deceit to reveal even more puzzles, Cait struggles with a creeping sense of unreality, desperate to save Bud … and, ultimately, herself.

        

Open Road Mysteries for $1.99: A Case of Need, A Suspense Thriller by Michael Crichton writing as Jeffery Hudson

Open Road has discounted 25 titles to just $1.99 as part of their Mystery Deals promotion to celebrate the Edgar Awards.

Titles include winners, nominees, books by Grand Masters and those receiving special Edgars, and we are pleased to feature one of them, below.

(Price verified on April 28, 2014 as of 3:00 PM ET.)

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A Case of Need by Michael Crichton writing as Jeffery Hudson
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Open Road

Winner of the 1969 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall’s teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode. Was it malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Or was Karen Randall murdered in cold blood?

The natural suspect is Arthur Lee, a brilliant surgeon and known abortionist, who has been carrying out the illegal procedure with the help of pathologist John Berry. After Karen dies, Lee is thrown in jail on a murder charge, and only Berry can prove his friend wasn’t the one who wielded the scalpel. Behind this gruesome death, Berry will uncover a secret that would shock even the most hardened pathologist.

  

Natchez Burning by Greg Iles, New in Bookstores in April 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during April 2014 by William Morrow, is Natchez Burning by Greg Iles.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for April 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of April 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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Natchez Burning
Greg Iles
Series: Penn Cage (4th)

Growing up in the rural Southern hamlet of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned everything he knows about honor and duty from his father, Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor and pillar of the community is accused of murdering Violet Turner, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s. A fighter who has always stood for justice, Penn is determined to save his father, even though Tom, stubbornly evoking doctor-patient privilege, refuses to speak up in his own defense.

The quest for answers sends Penn deep into the past — into the heart of a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the Double Eagles, a vicious KKK crew headed by one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the state. With the aid of a local friend and reporter privy to some of Natchez's oldest and deadliest secrets, Penn follows a bloody trail that stretches back forty years, to one undeniable fact: no one — black or white, young or old, brave or not — is ever truly safe.

With everything on the line, including his own life, Penn must decide how far he will go to protect those he loves … and see justice done, once and for all.

        

The German Money, A Novel of Suspense by Lev Raphael: Amazon's The Big Deal Promotion

Every so often Amazon releases a new selection of Kindle books priced up to 85% off as part of The Big Deal Promotion.

Today's featured mystery, suspense, or thriller title is The German Money by Lev Raphael. This Kindle book was listed at $3.99 as of the date and time of this post, Monday, April 28, 2014 at 2:00 PM ET, and should be available at this price through Sunday, May 11, 2014.

More information about the book is below; if other vendors have priced-matched this title, links to their sites are also shown.

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The German Money by Lev Raphael
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Leapfrog Press

Paul has spent his life running — from New York, the city of his birth; from his beautiful beshert; from contact with his own siblings; but mostly from his mother, a Holocaust survivor of inexplicable coldness. Upon her mysterious death, the children face shocking questions.

What caused her to die? Why did she divide their inheritance so that Paul, the least favorite son, was singled out to receive the most, the dreaded "German money", a bequest of a million dollars accrued from German reparations to survivors … a gift as cynical as it is generous?

  

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Final Dictation, A Crime Thriller by L. M. Vincent, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Final Dictation by L. M. Vincent, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $1.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (04/28/2014 at 1:30 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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Final Dictation by L. M. Vincent
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: L. M. Vincent

Radiologist and former college basketball star Townsend Reeves doesn’t think twice about making an on-call switch with colleague Barry Zimmerman so he can attend a Missouri Wildcats basketball game; that is, not until Zimmerman is found bludgeoned to death in the X-ray reading room of St. Michael’s Hospital.

Despite his unraveling marriage and career, Dr. Reeves is determined to help Homicide Lieutenant Anthony Mauro solve the case, entangling himself in a deadly game involving bad medicine, good basketball, and murder.

  

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The Rope, An Anna Pigeon Mystery by Nevada Barr, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Rope by Nevada Barr, 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 (04/28/2014 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 Rope by Nevada Barr
An Anna Pigeon Mystery (17th in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books

In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna goes hiking into the park never to return. Her co-workers think she’s simply moved on—her cabin is cleaned out and her things gone. But Anna herself wakes up, trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies and no clear memory of how she found herself in this situation.

As she slowly pieces together her memory, it soon becomes clear that someone has trapped her there, in an inescapable prison, and no one knows that she is even missing. Plunged into a landscape and a plot she is unfit and untrained to handle, Anna Pigeon must muster the courage, determination and will to live that she didn’t even know she still possessed to survive, outwit and triumph.

  

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A New MystereBook: Act of Betrayal by Edna Buchanan

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 April 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Act of Betrayal by Edna Buchanan is the fourth mystery to feature Miami police beat reporter Britt Montero. It was originally published in hardcover by Hyperion in 1997; this is its first appearance as an ebook.

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Act of Betrayal by Edna Buchanan
A Britt Montero Mystery
Publisher: Diversion Books
Publication Date: April 27, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 04/28/14 12:30 PM ET)

When Miami crime reporter Britt Montero reports a missing teenager, she discovers that the case may be related to a string of unsolved disappearances. As Britt delves into the baffling case, an old mystery opens new wounds: she unexpectedly meets two men who knew her deceased father. Through them, Britt learns that he left a diary identifying the man who betrayed him. But the diary isn’t easily possessed; anyone who finds it seems to be marked for murder.

At the height of a terrifying category five hurricane, Britt needs to face the man who betrayed her father in order to uncover more than one truth, but will her hunger for justice turn her into the next victim?

  

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