The Man Who Understood Cats by Michael Allen Dymmoch is Today's First Featured Free MystereBook

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The Man Who Understood Cats by Michael Allen Dymmoch

A Caleb and Thinnes Mystery

Publisher: Diversion Books

… as today's first free mystery ebook.

  

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Two unlikely partners join forces to solve a murder disguised as suicide and catch a killer ready to strike again …

Gold Coast psychiatrist Jack Caleb is wealthy, cultured, and gay. When one of his clients is found dead in a locked apartment — apparently from a self-inflicted wound — burned-out Chicago detective John Thinnes doesn't believe it was suicide. And Caleb is inclined to agree.

But Thinnes regards a shrink who makes house calls suspicious and starts his murder investigation with the doctor himself. An attack on Caleb that's made to look like an accidental drug overdose starts to change the detective's mind.

Soon, the two men find themselves a whirlwind of theft, scandal, and blackmail. Forced into an unlikely partnership, they'll have to confront not only a killer, but hard truths within themselves that will change them forever.

— The Man Who Understood Cats by Michael Allen Dymmoch

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, January 07, 2015, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/07/2015 at 6:40 AM ET).

    

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Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and motivated by greed.

Her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, and then, ever so slowly, she will poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. What she has not counted on, though, is that Truitt — a passionate man with his own dark secrets — has plans of his own for his new wife.

Isolated on a remote estate and imprisoned by relentless snow, the story of Ralph and Catherine unfolds in unimaginable ways.

— A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Gold Digger by Frances Fyfield is Today's Nook Daily Find

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Gold Digger by Frances Fyfield as today's Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $0.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, January 07, 2015.

Gold Digger by Frances Fyfield

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Witness Impulse

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/07/2015 at 6:30 AM ET).

  

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In a rambling old mansion by the sea, Thomas Porteous lies dying. His much younger wife Di, soon to be his sole heir, knows that her in-laws will soon descend on their home to lay claim to an inheritance.

Members of the Porteous family, including a pair of poisonous daughters, believe that they alone are entitled to the dead man's wealth. They all regard Di as a gold-digging interloper — all except Thomas's adoring grandson, who is torn between his loyalty to his parents and the intriguing widow.

As tensions rise like a tide, lethal secrets surface — secrets that expose Di's shocking past. To survive, she must now discover the weaknesses of her enemies. With the help of an unlikely collection of loners and eccentrics, she sets a trap to expose their evil greed. And on the night they are lured to the house, Di will be ready.

— Gold Digger by Frances Fyfield

Over 30 Popular Mysteries and Thrillers is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Over 30 Popular Mysteries and Thrillers as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Wednesday, January 07, 2015. We're highlighting one of the titles in this post.

No Cure for Death by Max Allan Collins

A Mallory Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/07/2015 at 6:10 AM ET).

  

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What kind of drama could happen in a small-town Iowa bus station? If you're a guy like Mallory, it's the kind that involves sidestepping trouble between a pretty, frightened blonde and a pretty frightening, two-fisted, one-eyed goon. With the help of a handy Pepsi bottle, Mallory saves the lady from the menacing lout, shares a heartfelt moment, and sees her safely off, wistfully wondering if they'll ever meet again. End of story? Not a chance.

Even though it's Mallory's best buddy, John, who's visiting on leave from combat in Vietnam, it's Mallory who has a nasty flashback — when that same sweet blonde drops back into his life after losing hers. But how did she go from a bus out of town to a car at the bottom of a cliff? Why is her "accident" a dead ringer for the one that killed a scandal-scarred senator? And is local lawman Sheriff Brennan helping to hush things up?

The questions are good ones, and Mallory wants answers — bad. But if he crosses the wrong people, things could get ugly …

— No Cure for Death by Max Allan Collins

Review: The Catch by Taylor Stevens

A Mysterious Review of The Catch by Taylor Stevens.

Review summary: There is a nice balance of action and intrigue in this thriller, and the pacing throughout is nearly ideal. The uncertainty of what might happen next makes for an intense and exciting journey. New readers to the series will likely be going back to earlier books to learn more about this most remarkable lead character. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Catch
Taylor Stevens
Crown (July 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and information hunter, has a reputation for getting things done — often dangerous and not quite legal things.

The adrenaline-fueled work has left her with blood on her hands and a soul stained with guilt. Having borne the burden of one death too many, Munroe has fled to Djibouti, Africa. There, where her only responsibility is greasing the wheels of commerce for a small maritime security company, she finds stillness — until her boss pressures her to join his team as an armed transit guard on a ship bound for Kenya.

Days into the voyage, Munroe discovers the security contract is merely cover for a gunrunning operation of which she wants no part. The ship is invaded off the Somali coast and in a moment of impulse while fighting her way out, she drags the unconscious captain with her. But nothing about the hijacking is what it seems.

The pirates were never after the ship; they'd come for the captain. In chasing him, they make their one mistake: targeting Munroe raises the killer's instinct she's tried so hard to bury. Wounded and on the run, Vanessa Michael Munroe will use the life of her catch as bait and bartering chip to manipulate every player with a stake in the ship's outcome, and find a way to wash her conscience clean.