The Gourmet Detective by Peter King is Today's Open Road Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Gourmet Detective by Peter King as today's Open Road Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, August 25, 2014.

The Gourmet Detective by Peter King

A Raymond Lefebvre, Gourmet Detective Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/25/2014 at 7:50 AM ET).

  

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Within the inner circle of haute cuisine, a detective witnesses a delectable murder …

They call him the gourmet detective; the only thing sharper than his mind is his palate. When chefs need a rare ingredient, an ancient wine, or simply a new idea to gain that extra Michelin-star boost, they come to the detective's cozy London office and plead for his help. For top-notch cooking, he is always happy to lend his taste buds to the cause.

Now Raymond Lefebvre, executive chef at one of London's finest French restaurants, has asked for the detective's help with a bit of kitchen espionage. Lefebvre's crosstown rival is winning international accolades cooking a dish called Oiseau Royal, and Lefebvre wants the recipe. Getting it takes the detective deep into the Circle of Careme, where the most elite chefs in Britain gather to swap recipes, techniques, and gossip. But when the chefs of Careme start to die, the detective starts to salivate. There is no finer appetizer than murder.

— The Gourmet Detective by Peter King

Death Turns a Trick by Julie Smith is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

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Death Turns a Trick by Julie Smith

A Rebecca Schwartz Mystery

Publisher: booksBnimble

… as today's third free mystery ebook. This is a repeat freebie that was last featured on our site on June 12, 2013.

  

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Rebecca Schwartz, nice Jewish lawyer with a few too many fantasies, is happily playing the piano in a whorehouse when she suddenly finds herself assigned to make sure a near-naked state senator escapes a police raid. That dirty job done, a lovely evening turns even more delightful when she's picked up by the cops and spends the next two hours at the Hall of Justice. Could this day get any worse? Of course! Guess who arrives home to find a dead hooker on her living room floor?

Handsome Parker Phillips, Rebecca's new beau and the most attractive man she's met in ages, is arrested for the murder. (Worse, she suspects he might actually have done it.)

On the plus side, another very attractive man is following the case — reporter Rob Burns of the San Francisco Chronicle, a possible ally. And there are other possibilities.

— Death Turns a Trick by Julie Smith

Night of Shadows by Marilyn Haddrill and Doris Holmes is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

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Night of Shadows by Marilyn Haddrill and Doris Holmes

A Novel of Romantic Suspense

Publisher: Sagecrest Publishing

… as today's second free mystery ebook. This is a repeat freebie that was last featured on our site on November 11, 2012.

  

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Her sister, Joan, has been missing for more than a week and this time Melinda Bailey is really worried. True, her sister has always been a bit impulsive and flighty, but it is not like her to go off without a suitcase, without even a word to her husband, Preston. When Melinda wants to come out to New Mexico to help search for her, Preston says no. And that makes Melinda worry even more. Could he be involved in Joan's disappearance?

Ignoring his protests, Melinda hops the next flight out of Atlanta, then rents a truck to drive out to Sacramento Ranch. Bad weather makes her lose her way, though, and she nearly drowns in the flood waters. She owes her life to Mac McClure, Joan's brother-in-law, who pulls her to safety. After a rocky start, they become friends … with potential. But can she trust him? Melinda is certain that Joan did not walk off on her own. Something scandalous is casting a shadow over the ranch. Can she unravel the plot in time to save her sister — and herself?

— Night of Shadows by Marilyn Haddrill and Doris Holmes

Jazz Funeral by Julie Smith is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

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Jazz Funeral by Julie Smith

A Skip Langdon Mystery

Publisher: booksBnimble

… as today's free mystery ebook. This is a repeat freebie that was last featured on our site on December 13, 2012.

  

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Everybody loved easygoing Ham Brocato, producer of the successful New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival; even so, he ends up stabbed to death in his kitchen on the eve of the fest. Spunky New Orleans Homicide Detective Skip Langdon acquires a ready-made suspect list from the victim's live-in lover, feisty and swiftly rising star Ti-Belle Thiebaud, and sets out to solve the murder. To complicate the case, the victim's sixteen-year-old aspiring blues musician sister has disappeared, and Skip suspects that if the young woman isn't herself the murderer, she's in mortal danger from the person who is.

Skip doesn't miss much as she probes the victim's tangled relationships, including Ariel Bruge, Ham's assistant, apparently a woman scorned; his father George, enmeshed with family members in a bitter disagreement over the family's lucrative Po' Boy chain; and Patty, the distraught stepmother.

With her long-distance love, Steve Steinman, and her quirky landlord, Jimmy Dee, to assist her, Skip trails an elusive killer through a sweltering early summer in the steamy Big Easy, a lively blend of both big city and gossipy small town, in a tale of southern kinships gone awry.

— Jazz Funeral by Julie Smith

Crash by Lisa McMann is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Crash by Lisa McMann as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, August 25, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.com.

Crash by Lisa McMann

A Visions Novel (1st in series)

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/25/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).

    

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Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like pizza most of the time and drives their double-meatball-shaped food truck to school. It's not a recipe for popularity, but she can handle that.

What she can't handle is the recurring vision that haunts her. Over and over, Jules sees a careening truck hit a building and explode … and nine body bags in the snow.

The vision is everywhere — on billboards, television screens, windows — and she's the only one who sees it. And the more she sees it, the more she sees. The vision is giving her clues, and soon Jules knows what she has to do. Because now she can see the face in one of the body bags, and it's someone she knows. Someone she has been in love with for as long as she can remember.

Jules has to act — and act fast — to keep her vision from becoming reality.

— Crash by Lisa McMann