Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141020)

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

• The New Release is Forgotten Kingdoms: Dream of Ruin.

• The current Catch of the Week is Death Pages: Ghost Library, just $2.99 through Sunday, October 26, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — It is Bonus Punch Monday! Receive a BONUS PUNCH with every game purchase, only on Mondays.

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

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The New Release is Forgotten Kingdoms: Dream of Ruin

You're an Ambassador from a distant kingdom, carrying a prince's marriage proposal to the lovely Princess Selene. But Selene has been having recurring nightmares that her kingdom will be destroyed if she marries. She refuses her heart's desire … and a mysterious spell suddenly sinks her into a deadly reverie. The heartsick Queen binds your life to Selene's — if you don't save her, you'll die, too! Can you find a cure in time — or will both your lives be forfeit to Selene's visions? Find out as you travel through distant lands in this exciting 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
• For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition

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The current Catch of the Week is Death Pages: Ghost Library

You come to the city library to investigate the case of three teenagers gone missing. It turns out that the former owner of the library, the Alchemist, kidnapped the souls of three readers and planted them in the book "Romeo and Juliet". They are to live the lives of the main heroes but you can stop the tragic ending! Wander the gloomy halls of the library, travel to the medieval streets of Verona, discover the Alchemist's insidious plan and save the children!

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.
• For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition.

Review: The Stone Wife by Peter Lovesey

A Mysterious Review of The Stone Wife by Peter Lovesey. A Peter Diamond Mystery.

Review summary: With a plot replete with unexpected twists and turns, a cast of characters which are brilliantly drawn, and an interesting backstory to the murder investigation, this entertaining police procedural-style mystery is another example of why this series is so popular with readers. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Stone Wife
Peter Lovesey
A Peter Diamond Mystery
Soho Crime (September 2014)

Publisher synopsis: At a Bath auction house, a large slab of carved stone is up for sale. At the height of what turns into very competitive bidding, there is a hold-up attempt by three masked robbers. They shoot and kill the highest bidder, a professor who has recognized the female figure carved in the stone as Chaucer's Wife of Bath. The masked would-be thieves flee, leaving the stone behind.

Peter Diamond and his team are assigned to investigate, and the stone is moved into Diamond's office so he can research its origins. The carving causes such difficulties that he starts to think it has jinxed him. Meanwhile, as Diamond's leads take him to Chaucer's house in Somerset, his intrepid colleague Ingeborg goes undercover to try to track down the source of the handgun used in the murder.

        

The Forgotten Girl by David Bell, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014 …

The Forgotten Girl by David Bell

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: NAL Trade

  

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for October 2014. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of October 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

More about our featured title, below …

The past has arrived uninvited at Jason Danvers's door … and it's his younger sister, Hayden, a former addict who severed all contact with her family as her life spiraled out of control. Now she's clean and sober but in need of a desperate favor — she asks Jason and his wife to take care of her teenage daughter for forty-eight hours while she handles some business in town.

But Hayden never returns.

And her disappearance brings up more unresolved problems from Jason's past, including the abrupt departure of his best friend on their high school graduation night twenty-seven years earlier. When a body is discovered in the woods, the mysteries of his sister's life — and possible death — deepen. And one by one these events will shatter every expectation Jason has ever had about families, about the awful truths that bind them and the secrets that should be taken to the grave.

— The Forgotten Girl by David Bell

The Counterfeit Heiress by Tasha Alexander, New in Bookstores during October 2014

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

The Counterfeit Heiress by Tasha Alexander, a Lady Emily Ashton Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur 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 …

After an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of one of the guests, a sometime actress trying to pass herself off as the mysterious heiress and world traveler Estella Lamar. Each small discovery, however, leads to more questions. Was the intended victim Miss Lamar or the imposter? And who would want either of them dead?

As Emily and Colin try to make sense of all this, a larger puzzle begins to emerge: No one has actually seen Estella Lamar in years, since her only contact has been through letters and the occasional blurry news photograph. Is she even alive? Emily and Colin's investigation of this double mystery takes them from London to Paris, where, along with their friend Cécile, they must scour the darkest corners of the city in search of the truth.

— The Counterfeit Heiress by Tasha Alexander

Tundra Threat by Sarah Varland, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in October 2014

Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title from Harlequin, published this month …

Tundra Threat by Sarah Varland

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

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

Two murdered men are the last thing wildlife trooper McKenna Clark expected to find in the stark Alaskan wilderness. As the only law enforcement in the area, the responsibility for the case rests on her shoulders — along with the danger. Hunting guide and pilot Will Harrison wants to ease the load, but McKenna balks at the thought of letting him close enough to break her heart again. When McKenna's investigations put her in harm's way, Will must race against the clock to save his second chance at love from becoming the killer's final victim.

— Tundra Threat by Sarah Varland