Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141017)

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

• The New Release is Riddles of Fate: Memento Mori (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is Legacy: Witch Island, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Dark Canvas: A Brush With Death, just $2.99 through Sunday, October 19, 2014 only.

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The New Release is Riddles of Fate: Memento Mori (Collector's Edition)

You must have left quite an impression on Death the last time you saw him, because he's come back to seek your help with a very important case. Several dangerous criminals have dared to run from him, and as long as they remain alive … the entire world is in danger! You must hurry to catch them before time itself crumbles. Travel the globe, gather evidence, and unlock the secrets of Death's most powerful tools in this death-defying Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game!

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: Go back in time and find out how the eternal struggle began; Collectibles, morphing objects, and a secret room; Soundtrack, concept art, wallpapers, and more; and a Comprehensive 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 Legacy: Witch Island

An ordinary hot air balloon ride turns extraordinary when you accidentally wind up on a mysterious island. When it is revealed that this mystical land is ruled by an evil witch, you begin to realize that your arrival is not a coincidence, and the loyal people of the island are depending on you to break the witch's spell. Explore the mysterious forest, rocky mountains, dark caves and high altitude lakes as you make your way through the picturesque sceneries of the land towards the witch's castle. Can you destroy the witch's curse and reveal the secrets of the ancient prophecy?

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

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The current Catch of the Week is Dark Canvas: A Brush With Death

Uncover the mystery behind an artist's deadly talent! Your daughter, Angie, was traveling through Europe when she vanished without a trace. Her last letter urged you to come to a remote island town in Italy, where she had stumbled upon a dark secret. When you arrive, you learn that there has been a series of tragic deaths in town, accompanied by sightings of a legendary spirit called the Silhouette. With no way of knowing who would be next, citizens turned to Virgil, a local artist who could famously predict the future through his paintings. Now you must seek out Virgil and his mysterious paintings before you and your daughter become the next victims of his deadly predictions!

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.

New This Week: Shadows in the Fog, A Sam Slater Mystery by Greg Messel

Omnimystery News is pleased to present 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 October 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

Shadows in the Fog by Greg Messel

A Sam Slater Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 10/16/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Private Eye Sam Slater is hired to perform what he thinks is a routine two-day job as a favor for a friend. However, it all goes terribly wrong when a young San Francisco policeman is gunned down while sitting in a parked car with Sam.

Amelia, Sam's wife, has resigned as a TWA stewardess and is now his full time partner in the private eye business. Sam and Amelia inadvertently come in conflict with the San Francisco mob boss after helping a crusading newspaper reporter who is working to expose corruption in Chinatown. Now a mysterious dark car follows the Slaters every where they go. Sam and Amelia discover a hidden world of corrupt cops, gambling parlors, brothels and human trafficking exists right under their noses.

At the same time, a rising California politician hires Sam and Amelia to find his daughter who disappeared without a trace three years earlier. The search is prompted by the sudden appearance of a letter from the woman, who was presumed dead.

As Sam and Amelia pursue these cases, they discover that all the clues lead them back to Chinatown. The Slaters want to avoid taking on the San Francisco crime lords head-on. However, when Amelia is kidnapped in an alley during the Chinese New Year's celebration, Sam plunges himself into danger desperately searching Chinatown to find her before it's too late.

— Shadows in the Fog by Greg Messel

The Boston Breakout by Roy MacGregor, a New Screech Owls Mystery for Apprentice Sleuths

Omnimystery News is pleased to present in this post a new First Clues: Mysteries for Kids series title published this month …

The Boston Breakout by Roy MacGregor

Series: Screech Owls

Publisher: Tundra Books

Format(s): Paperback, eBook

Recommended for Apprentice Sleuths, Ages 13 and older

  

For more information about the book, see a synopsis, below.

The Screech Owls are in Boston for the Paul Revere Peewee Invitational. Nish decides to drop out of school. If it worked for Ben Franklin, it will work for him. Sarah becomes increasingly concerned about Samantha's attraction to a group of protesters demanding that the New England Aquarium "Free the Penguins."

When the girls learn that the protesters have far more in mind than speeches and waving placards, the Owls have to act fast to save the lives of thousands of sea creatures.

— The Boston Breakout by Roy MacGregor

New This Week: The Blood That Stains Your Hands, A Thomas Hutton Police Thriller by Douglas Lindsay

Omnimystery News is pleased to present 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 October 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

The Blood That Stains Your Hands by Douglas Lindsay

A Thomas Hutton Police Thriller (3rd in series)

Publisher: Blasted Heath

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/16/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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A young girl stands at a window in the middle of the night, looking across the street at a man with a Bible. A stained-glass Jesus in blue looks down on the lost church. A woman hangs by the neck from a bridge in the public park, angel's wings on her back. A teenage boy lies in a bath, the water turned blood red. Four church congregations have been told to unite, with unholy consequences.

One by one the victims fall, as DS Hutton and DCI Taylor are drawn into the troubled and duplicitous world of the Christian Church, as its numbers fall and members fight over the scraps of diminishing power.

And for Hutton, at last, it seems there may be the chance to receive absolution for past sins.

— The Blood That Stains Your Hands by Douglas Lindsay

Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan, New in Bookstores during October 2014

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during October 2014 is …

Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan, a Jane Ryland Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Forge Books

        

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

More about our featured title, below …

The story opens with tragedy: a middle-class family evicted from their suburban home. In digging up the facts on this heartbreaking story — and on other foreclosures — reporter Ryland soon learns the truth behind a big-bucks scheme and the surprising players who will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep their goal a secret. Turns out, there's more than one way to rob a bank.

Boston police detective Jake Brogan has a liar on his hands. A man has just confessed to the famous twenty-year-old Lilac Sunday killing, and while Jake's colleagues take him at his word, Jake is not so sure. But he has personal reasons for hoping they've finally solved the cold case.

Financial manipulation, the terror of foreclosures, the power of numbers, the primal need for home and family and love. What happens when what you believe is true turns out to be a lie?

— Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan