A Crossworder's Delight by Nero Blanc is Today's Open Road Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature A Crossworder's Delight by Nero Blanc as today's Open Road Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, December 25, 2014.

A Crossworder's Delight by Nero Blanc

A Holiday Crossword Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/25/2014 at 7:50 AM ET).

  

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The Holiday Decoration Competition is in full swing at Newcastle's historic Paul Revere Inn. As the rivalry heats up, crossword editor Belle Graham unearths an abandoned treasure: a book of dessert recipes written in the form of crosswords handed down from mother to daughter.

While Belle is busy deciphering the ingredients for delectable dishes like "Holiday Slay Ride," another mystery is unraveling. A valuable Longfellow poem has been stolen from its place of honor on the wall of the inn's front parlor. Called in to investigate, Belle's PI husband, Rosco Polycrates, discovers he has a new partner in crime. Twelve-year-old E. T. Whitman, a bit of a wordsmith himself, has all sorts of theories about the theft. But the case is far from a piece of cake. And the search for the culprit brings the detecting trio closer to a truth that's been buried for decades.

— A Crossworder's Delight by Nero Blanc

Charity Begins with Murder by Annie McDowall is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

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Charity Begins with Murder by Annie McDowall

A Murder Mystery

Publisher: Annie McDowall

… as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

  

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South London, 2005, and Nikki Elliot has been spending the best part of a year living on the dole and developing a taste for daytime television. Finding her last boss's dead body had put her off having a job. But the government is cracking down on the unemployed, and Nikki's personal adviser at the Jobcentre has given her an ultimatum: go for the job at Action in Caring, a small charity, or lose your benefits.

Things start to go badly wrong from Nikki's first day when her new boss dies at the management committee meeting. Was it an accident, or had someone spiked the sandwiches? And just how true were the rumours that the finance manager had an unhealthy liking for young boys? Or were the only things being fiddled by Gordon Smedley Action in Caring's accounts?

When more people die, Nikki realises that something big is happening. And when she's beaten over the head outside the Bedford pub in Balham, she starts to feel scared. Working with Suresh Shah, former flatmate and now South London Press journalist, and with the help of a cast of characters including Felicity Balmforth, witchy yoga teacher; Dora Popp, who sees more than people think; and Maria de Souza, visionary leader of Young Futures , Nikki unravels the mystery and unmasks the person responsible for death, corruption, and dodgy dealings in south London.

— Charity Begins with Murder by Annie McDowall

Take Two and Call Me in the Morgue by D. W. Ulsterman is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

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Take Two and Call Me in the Morgue by D. W. Ulsterman

A Bennington P.I. Mystery

Publisher: D. W. Ulsterman

… as today's third free mystery ebook.

  

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Former D.C. politico turned private investigator Frank Bennington finds himself in a race to save the life of a friend. It is a case that opens doors some feel are better left closed, particularly those representing the interests of corporations and their government cohorts earning billions of dollars off of the sick and dying.

— Take Two and Call Me in the Morgue by D. W. Ulsterman

Tahoe Ghost Boat by Todd Borg is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

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Tahoe Ghost Boat by Todd Borg

An Owen McKenna Mystery

Publisher: Thriller Press

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

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Gertie O'Leary is a 15-year-old girl with a messy bird's nest of red hair, a serious softball pitch, and a dream to be a movie director. She also has a $2 million price on her head.

When a gang led by a killer the FBI calls Mikhailo the Monster takes Gertie as the centerpiece of an extortion plot, Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna gets involved in the case.

McKenna finds out that Gertie's stepfather has just died in what looks like a boating accident and that Gertie's mother cares more about not losing money to blackmail than saving her daughter.

As the unwanted child of divorced, self-focused parents, Gertie has no defenders. So McKenna appoints himself her savior. But McKenna is one man up against a small army of twisted murderers whose orders are to kill the girl …

— Tahoe Ghost Boat by Todd Borg

Dying To Read by Lorena McCourtney is Today's First Featured Free MystereBook

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Dying To Read by Lorena McCourtney

A Cate Kincaid Mystery

Publisher: Revell

… as today's first free mystery ebook.

  

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Cate Kinkaid's life is … well, frankly it's floundering. Her social life, her career, her haircut — they're all a mess. Unemployed, she jumps at the chance to work for her PI uncle, even though she has no experience and no instincts. After all, she is just dabbling in the world of private investigating until she can find a "real" job.

All she has to do for her first assignment is determine that a particular woman lives at a particular address. Simple, right? But when she reaches the dark Victorian house, she runs into an hungry horde of gray-haired mystery readers and a dead body. This routine PI job is turning out to be anything but simple. Is Cate in over her head?

— Dying To Read by Lorena McCourtney