Pumpkins in Paradise by Kathi Daley is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Pumpkins in Paradise by Kathi Daley as today's third free mystery ebook (A Tj Jensen, Paradise Lake Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 29, 2013 at 7:30 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

For a summary of all of today's featured titles, plus any that may have appeared before and are repeat freebies, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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Pumpkins in Paradise
Kathi Daley
A Tj Jensen, Paradise Lake Mystery
Publisher: Kathi Daley

Between shopping for Halloween costumes, volunteering for the annual pumpkin festival, and coaching her girls to the state soccer finals, high school teacher Tj Jensen finds her good friend Zachary Collins dead in his favorite chair.

When the handsome new deputy closes the case without so much as a "why" or "how", Tj turns her attention from chili cook-offs and pumpkin carving to complex puzzles, prophetic riddles, and a decades' old secret she seemed destined to unravel.

  

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Who, What, Where, When, Die by Amanda M. Lee is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Who, What, Where, When, Die by Amanda M. Lee as today's second free mystery ebook (An Avery Shaw Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 29, 2013 at 7:20 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Who, What, Where, When, Die
Amanda M. Lee
An Avery Shaw Mystery
Publisher: Amanda M. Lee

Avery Shaw is having a bad week. First, she had to cover a story on a barricaded gunman who likes to dance naked in his window. Second, she's receiving death threats with her morning newspaper. Lastly, and most importantly, her mom keeps vetoing her outfit choices.

It's all in a day's work for this hardworking, if easily distracted, reporter.

Avery Shaw is hot on the trail of the story, even if it means tangling with her hot ex-boyfriend — the county sheriff — and the equally hot, if slightly shadier pawnshop owner down the street.

Getting the story is going to be totally worth it — that is if Avery can survive the week.

  

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Stump Speech Murder by Patricia Rockwell is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Stump Speech Murder by Patricia Rockwell as today's free mystery ebook (A Pamela Barnes, Acoustic Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 29, 2013 at 7:10 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Stump Speech Murder
Patricia Rockwell
A Pamela Barnes, Acoustic Mystery
Publisher: Cozy Cat Press

James Grant, a young politician with everything going for him, including the most recent polls, gives a rousing stump speech in a local park. His campaign for mayor against the entrenched incumbent looks unstoppable. That is, until the police discover him standing over his wife's dead body with the murder weapon in his hands. It certainly looks as if James is guilty.

But psychologist and acoustics expert Pamela Barnes has other ideas — and they include helping this young man prove his innocence and succeed in his bid for mayor. Can Pamela's knowledge of sound help her find the real killer and exonerate James? Or will this young politician's most recent stump speech be his last?

  

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Serpent by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Serpent by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, September 29, 2013.

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Serpent
Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos
A Kurt Austin Adventure Thriller
Pocket Books

When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria.

Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the Andrea Doria's silent steel hull — and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction.

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (130929)

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

• The New Release is Midnight Mysteries: Witches of Abraham (Collector's Edition).

• The current Catch of the Week is Clairvoyant: The Magician Mystery, just $2.99 through Sunday, September 29, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Three-Day Weekend Sale: 50% Off All Standard and Collector's Edition Games! Use coupon code BIG to get any Collector's Edition game for just $9.99; use coupon code FISH to get any Standard game for just $4.99. Offer valid through September 29th, 2013 only until 11:59 PM PT.

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

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Today's New Release is Midnight Mysteries: Witches of Abraham (Collector's Edition)

For the past few years, you've been writing bestselling novels based on the stories you've heard told by the ghosts who visit you at midnight. But tonight you have a special visitor, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States! He wants you to go back in time and find the treasure of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret Confederate order, before Lincoln's enemies do! Follow the clues, while learning trivia about famous people and places from the American Civil War in this fascinating 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: Bonus chapter featuring the infamous Jesse James; Collectibles that unlock an Unlimited Hidden-Object Puzzles mode; Interactive character bios and art gallery; and Screensavers and wallpapers.

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

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The current Catch of the Week is Clairvoyant: The Magician Mystery

Investigate the sudden and mysterious disappearance of a carnival magician! Use your clairvoyant instincts to lead you through a dark carnival atmosphere as you interview shady characters and play carnival games unraveling the truth behind the three-ring mystery in this colorful Hidden Object game!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game at the special price of $2.99 through Sunday, September 29, 2013.

A New MystereBook: Killer Image by Wendy Tyson

Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers …

Killer Image by Wendy Tyson introduces image consultant and amateur sleuth Allison Campbell. The author tells us that while some may expect this series to be a cozy, there are elements of a psychological thriller that give it an edge.

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Killer Image by Wendy Tyson
An Allison Campbell Mystery
Publisher: Henery Press
Publication Date: October 01, 2013

As Philadelphia's premier image consultant, Allison Campbell helps others reinvent themselves, but her most successful transformation was her own after a scandal nearly ruined her. Now she moves in a world of powerful executives, wealthy, eccentric ex-wives and twisted ethics.

When Allison's latest Main Line client, the fifteen-year-old Goth daughter of a White House hopeful, is accused of the ritualistic murder of a local divorce attorney, Allison fights to prove her client's innocence when no one else will. But unraveling the truth brings specters from her own past. And in a place where image is everything, the ability to distinguish what's real from the facade may be the only thing that keeps Allison alive.

  

Night of the Living Deb, A Debutante Dropout Mystery by Susan McBride, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Night of the Living Deb by Susan McBride, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $1.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (09/28/2013 at 4:00 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Night of the Living Deb by Susan McBride
A Debutante Dropout Mystery (4th in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

Renegade rich girl Andy Kendricks isn't the belle of any Dallas ball — and that's just the way the debutante dropout likes it! She's got a good life and a great man: her defense attorney boyfriend, Brian Malone. Brian's such a straight arrow that he had to be dragged kicking and screaming to a close friend's bachelor party at a sleazy local "gentleman's club".

So why is the groom-to-be saying that Brian left the bacchanal arm-in-arm with "the hottest body in the Lone Star State?" And what was that hot body doing stone-cold dead in the trunk of Brian's car? And where is Brian anyway? The cops are looking for Andy's allegedly unfaithful/possibly homicidal beau who hasn't been seen since the party. But Andy can't believe her upstanding lover is a murdering fool, and she's determined to prove it — though she might end up with a lot more broken than just her heart.

      

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A New MystereBook: Murder by Christmas by Suzanne Young

Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers …

Murder by Christmas by Suzanne Young is the fourth mystery in this series featuring Rhode Islander Edna Davies, an amateur herbalist.

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Murder by Christmas by Suzanne Young
An Edna Davies Mystery
Publisher: Sybown Press
Publication Date: September 02, 2013

Edna Davies is frantic. Attending to an invalid husband has put her behind schedule and now, with less than a week before Christmas and with family gathering for the first time in years, she hasn't even put up a tree.

As a winter storm descends on the town, the owner of a local cat shelter is found dead and Mary Osbourne disappears. Trying to juggle holiday plans with the search for her neighbor, Edna meets a killer and may miss Christmas.

  

Christmas Carol Murder by Leslie Meier, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Kensington, is Christmas Carol Murder by Leslie Meier.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for September 2013. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of September 2013 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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Christmas Carol Murder
Leslie Meier
Series: Lucy Stone (20th)

Lucy normally loves planning for the holidays, but this year, Tinker's Cove has fallen on hard times. With so many residents struggling, Christmas festivities are a luxury some can't afford. But the story's not so bleak at Downeast Mortgage, whose tightfisted owners, Jake Marlowe and Ben Scribner, are raking in profits from everyone's misfortune. Half the town is in their debt, so when the miserly Marlowe is murdered, the mourners are few and the suspects are many.

Scribner believes Marlowe's ghost has come to warn him of his own demise, and when he starts receiving death threats, Lucy wonders if there's more to the omen than the ravings of a bitter old pinchpenny. Can Lucy solve the case and deck the halls before the killer strikes again?

      

Telemystery: Murdoch Mysteries Airing on Ovation as The Artful Detective

Here's some news we missed from earlier this summer … and a hat tip to one of our readers for pointing it out to us! The Canadian crime drama Murdoch Mysteries is currently airing in the US on the cable network Ovation … but under a different title: The Artful Detective.

Yannick Bisson stars as Toronto police detective William Murdoch, based on a character created by crime novelist Maureen Jennings. Set at the turn of the 20th century, it features the use of many forensic techniques that are routine today but quite novel then for solving crimes.

For many years, the only way to see the series was to watch the DVDs (which is how we were introduced to it). Netflix picked up the series a few years ago, but now many cable viewers can watch it on Ovation. Indeed, looking at their schedule, there is a marathon of episodes airing today (until 10 PM ET).

For those who may not yet receive Ovation, visit our Murdoch Mysteries page on Telemystery for the season DVDs; the sixth season set is released on November 26th, 2013 and may be pre-ordered. The seventh season premieres on CBC in Canada this coming Monday, September 30th.

Watch a promo for the series, below.

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Deadly Policy, A Silver Sleuths Mystery by Mitzi Kelly, Now at a Special Price

Amazon has discounted over 200 of its imprint titles to just 99 cents, including 34 books published by Thomas & Mercer. One of these books is featured, below.

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Deadly Policy by Mitzi Kelly
A Silver Sleuths Mystery
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

When a sudden rash of stolen cars brings Millie Morrow's daughter under suspicion for conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, Millie convinces her two best friends, Trish Anderson and Edna Radcliff, to help her find out who is trying to frame Michelle. Knowing the odds are zero that they will be able to discover who the thugs are, Trish and Edna nevertheless go through the motion of investigating, hoping Millie will feel productive in helping her daughter while the police do the real detective work.

But the situation becomes much more serious when a body is found in front of the insurance office Michelle works for. And even though the evidence pointing to an inside job is purely circumstantial, it could still destroy Michelle, something the ladies are determined is not going to happen. They're going to have to work fast to present a different theory for the police to consider though, since Millie has once again alienated Henry Espinoza, the chief of police. And she's alienated someone else, too, if the suspicious incidents suddenly plaguing her are anything to go by.

Keeping Millie out of trouble while attempting to clear her daughter's name will take every ounce of skill … or luck … the amateur sleuths possess.

  

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Louisiana Longshot, A Miss Fortune Mystery by Jana DeLeon, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Louisiana Longshot by Jana DeLeon, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Jana DeLeon.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (09/28/2013 at 1:00 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Louisiana Longshot by Jana DeLeon
A Miss Fortune Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Jana DeLeon

It was a hell of a longshot …

CIA assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever — in Sinful, Louisiana.

With a leak at the CIA and a price on her head by one of the world's largest arms dealers, Fortune has to go off grid, but she never expected to be this far out of her element. Posing as a former beauty queen turned librarian in a small, bayou town seems worse than death to Fortune, but she's determined to fly below the radar until her boss finds the leak and puts the arms dealer out of play.

Unfortunately, she hasn't even unpacked a suitcase before her newly-inherited dog digs up a human bone in her backyard. Thrust into the middle of a bayou murder mystery, Fortune teams up with a couple of seemingly-sweet old ladies whose looks completely belie their hold on the town. To top things off, the handsome local deputy is asking her too many questions. If she's not careful, this investigation may blow her cover and get her killed.

Armed with her considerable skills and a group of old ladies referred to by locals as The Geritol Mafia, Fortune has no choice but to solve the murder … before it's too late.

    

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A New MystereBook: Dusted by Holly Jacobs

Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers …

Dusted by Holly Jacobs is the second mystery in this series featuring Quincy Mac, who has got herself in another mess … a mess that's going to take a maid extraordinaire to clean up!

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Dusted by Holly Jacobs
A Maid in LA Mystery
Publisher: Holly Jacobs
Publication Date: September 08, 2013

When the dust settles … someone's in trouble!

Quincy's taking classes on writing detective novels, taking care of her boys, wearing a pumpkin orange maid of honor dress for Tiny's wedding, and oh…she's got another case.

Someone stole Mac'Cleaner clients' artwork, and Quincy's employee is under suspicion.

  

Telemystery: CBS Renews Unforgettable for a 3rd Season

CBS has renewed its summer crime drama Unforgettable for a third season.

The series, starring Poppy Montgomery as a former police detective with a rare condition that makes her memory flawless in terms of details … except those that would help her solve her sister's murder, was first canceled by the network after its first season in 2012 but brought back as a summer series this year.

Keep up to date on the status of your favorite mystery and suspense television with our Telemystery Scoresheet. We've updated it with today's news.

First To Find by Morgan C. Talbot is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature First To Find by Morgan C. Talbot as today's second free mystery ebook (A Caching Out Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, September 28, 2013 at 7:20 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

For a summary of all of today's featured titles, plus any that may have appeared before and are repeat freebies, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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First To Find
Morgan C. Talbot
A Caching Out Mystery
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing

Death is the hardest puzzle to solve …

Margarita Williams escaped death at a young age, but its shadow has followed her all her life. Now, amidst the chaos of a new Australian roommate and mysterious, menacing neighbors, Death has set the puzzlemaker a puzzle of her own. Someone is killing her fellow geocachers, one by one.

Supersmeller Bindi Ryan left Australia to marry a man who abandoned her the minute her plane landed in Oregon. When thieves steal a local sculpture and a teenage friend is blamed, Bindi and her nose must prove him innocent and find the real culprits. But are she and Margarita working on two mysteries, or one?

If they can't solve the final puzzle, the killer will strike one final, deadly blow.

  

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