Cold City by F. Paul Wilson is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Cold City by F. Paul Wilson as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Friday, October 03, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.com.

Cold City by F. Paul Wilson

A Repairman Jack Prequel (1st in series)

Publisher: Tor Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 10/03/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).

    

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Repairman Jack: a self-styled "fix-it" man who is no stranger to the macabre or the supernatural, hired by victimized people who have no one else to turn to.

We join Jack a few months after his arrival in New York City. He doesn't own a gun yet, though he's already connected with Abe. Soon he'll meet Julio and the Mikulski brothers. He runs afoul of some Dominicans, winds up at the East Side Marriott the night Meir Kahane is shot, gets on the bad side of some Arabs, starts a hot affair, and disrupts the smuggling of preteen sex slaves. And that's just Book One.

— Cold City by F. Paul Wilson

Bodyguard of Lies by Bob Mayer is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Bodyguard of Lies by Bob Mayer as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Friday, October 03, 2014.

Bodyguard of Lies by Bob Mayer

The Cellar Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Cool Gus Publishing

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/03/2014 at 6:10 AM ET).

  

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Enter the Cellar, the most secret spy organization hiding deep within the United States …

Two women become inextricably involved in a dangerous web of lies, intrigue, and betrayal as they fight for their lives and the safety of their country. Neeley is the lover and protégé of Gant, a Cellar operative, and is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after Gant's death and unveil a mystery that Gant always held close to his chest. Hannah, a housewife, is equally lost after her husband simply disappears. They soon learn that the men in their lives shared a dangerous secret, one some very powerful people would shed blood to protect. Neeley and Hannah's chance meeting sets a decades-old plan into motion and puts their lives at risk.

They couldn't come from more different worlds, but as they try to escape the people who seem determined to kill them, Hannah and Neeley discover they have at least one thing in common: they've both been living a lie.

Crisscrossing the globe, the women find themselves in a deadly game of survival, one that they must win in order to keep the United States safe not only from vicious acts of terror, but from its own powers that be. And if they ever hope to uncover the truth about the lovers they thought they knew, Neeley and Hannah first must learn the truth about themselves. But when the Cellar is involved, there is no such thing as coincidence, and the truth is always protected by a bodyguard of lies.

— Bodyguard of Lies by Bob Mayer

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141003)

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

• The New Release is Dark Realm: Queen of Flames (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is Reincarnations: The Awakening, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug, just $2.99 through Sunday, October 05, 2014 only.

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

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The New Release is Dark Realm: Queen of Flames (Collector's Edition)

The evening started like any other in your village. But without warning, a group of mysterious figures arrives and reduces the town to flames and rubble. What are they … and who is controlling them? Your only way to find out is to flee the village and seek help from the Queen. But you'll have to lie low to avoid becoming another minion of the flame banshees. Use special abilities and power-ups to make your way through a mystical world in this thrilling Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure!

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: Save Northpearl from a deadly new threat in the bonus game; Unlock challenging time-based HOPs; Collectibles, achievements, advanced mini-games, and more; and an Available Strategy Guide.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Reincarnations: The Awakening

Jane is a professional copywriter who makes her living writing about makeup and fashion. A major magazine has given her a huge opportunity to write the article of her career on Reincarnation! Help her explore and experience her eclectic past lives and write her award-winning story. Go on an exciting adventure as you travel through time and space in this fantastic Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game.

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

Also available for this game:

• Get the Strategy Guide.
• Check out the Blog Walkthrough.

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The current Catch of the Week is Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug

Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale gets a reboot in this fourth game in the well-loved Dark Tales series. You and your detective companion Dupin have been summoned to the seashore to help William LeGrand discover the exact location of a treasure lost hundreds of years ago. But LeGrand isn't the only one with designs on the pirate booty … A masked villain tries to make off with the code, and a mysterious woman in a veil seems to be connected.

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

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: Virtue Falls by Christina Dodd

A Mysterious Review of Virtue Falls by Christina Dodd.

Review summary: This novel of suspense is a wonderful blend of mystery and romance. There is a lot of depth to the characters and the setting, so much so that one can readily imagine accompanying them on their quest to learn the truth, and even feeling the danger when the earthquake strikes and tsunami hits. Highly recommended. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Virtue Falls
Christina Dodd
St. Martin's Press (September 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Twenty-three years ago, in the isolated coastal town of Virtue Falls, Washington, four year old Elizabeth Banner witnessed her mother's brutal murder. Elizabeth's father was convicted of killing Misty and sentenced to prison. Elizabeth was sent to live with relatives, and grew from a solitary child to a beautiful woman with a cool scientific mind and an instinctive distrust of love.

Now Elizabeth is back in Virtue Falls, a geologist like her father, living cautiously, her life guided by logic and facts. But nothing can help her through the emotional chaos that follows the return of her ex-husband, Garik Jacobsen, an FBI agent on probation and tortured by the guilt of his past deeds. Nor can it help her deal with her father, now stricken with Alzheimer's and haunted by Misty's ghost.

When a massive earthquake reveals long-concealed secrets, Elizabeth soon discovers her father is innocent. Is the killer still at large, stalking ever closer to the one witness to Misty's murder? To Elizabeth herself?

Elizabeth and Garik investigate, stirring old dark and deadly resentments that could provoke another bloody murder — Elizabeth's own.

        

New This Week: Tarantula, A John Milton Action Thriller Novella by Mark Dawson

This is the author's second dip into the case files of John Milton; his first, 1000 Yards, is currently free  …

Tarantula by Mark Dawson

A John Milton Action Thriller Novella (2nd in series)

Publisher: Unputdownable

Price: $0.99 (as of 10/02/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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John Milton considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list.

Milton is sent to Italy to investigate the death of a colleague from Group 15, the secret assassination squad that liquidates those considered to be impediments to the furtherance of British interests.

Milton discovers that the agent was involved with the Camorra, the powerful Mafia clan that controls the territory from Naples to the tip of the Italian boot. He identifies the assassin as a man nicknamed Tarantula.

Now Tarantula, and his boss, are entries in Milton's ledger. And all debts need to be paid.

— Tarantula by Mark Dawson