Memory's Hostage by Margaret Pinard is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Memory's Hostage by Margaret Pinard as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Suspense Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, October 30, 2013 at 7:40 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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Memory's Hostage
Margaret Pinard
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Taste Life Twice Publishing

In the England of 1883, the MacFarlane family has earned a reputation for being titans of the rail, coal, and textile industries. Elder brother Henry toes the line in all respects but younger brother Horace has allowed a shadow to fall on their spotless record with his dalliances with the ladies.

However, young Horace's escapades are shoved into the background when a much larger scandal lands on the MacFarlanes' doorstep, or in this case, their bathtub.

When a young woman is found with not a stitch of clothing nor a shred of memory in their house, the MacFarlanes must keep it secret while scouring their history and hers for any clues to why she was placed there.

With nothing to tell the police, the young woman is consigned to a private recovery until the mystery of her identity can be unraveled. Unfortunately, the police investigating her case run into multiple threads of blackmail, a secret agent of Her Majesty's Government, and an anarchist plot, all while trying to pierce the mystery. Can she trust the policeman on her case, Detective Barton? Or his superior officer, Sergeant Ragby? What about the MacFarlanes themselves, who seem to have something to hide …

Surrounded by people who may or may not be allies, she must find someone she can trust. Ultimately, she will have to choose whether to reinvent herself and move on or dive back into her past to find out who she is. With so many parties interested in her memory, the question becomes: What does she know?

  

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Chain of Souls by Jack Heath and John Thompson is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Chain of Souls by Jack Heath and John Thompson as today's third free mystery ebook (A Salem VI Novel; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, October 30, 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.

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Chain of Souls
Jack Heath and John Thompson
A Salem VI Novel
Publisher: Pressque Publishing

Weeks after Salem newspaper editor John Andrews avenges his wife's four-year-old cold case murder, he's thrust into the mayhem of another mystery.

The Coven, who's kept tight their secrets of power and blood-lust for centuries, is bent on silencing Andrews. Though his nightmares tell him otherwise, he's willing to keep things under wraps until there's proof — he's a newsman after all.

But when the Coven kidnaps his daughter, Andrews must further reveal Salem's murky past — his daughter's life depends on it. As the Coven's onslaught continues and the body's pile up, good souls and bad, Andrews learns that Salem isn't the only place controlled by the Coven. It's an international organization on a dark mission with an even darker past. And so begins the witch-hunt.

  

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Rise Headless and Ride by Richard Gleaves is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Rise Headless and Ride by Richard Gleaves as today's second free mystery ebook (A Jason Crane Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, October 30, 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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Rise Headless and Ride
Richard Gleaves
A Jason Crane Thriller
Publisher: Richard Gleaves

When Jason Crane's grandmother Eliza Merrick says she has a surprise, Jason always worries. The old lady loves cemeteries and genealogies, grave-rubbings and dusty libraries. This time, though, she's bought an ancient house on a hill above Sleepy Hollow.

Eliza has made some new friends in the town, including Hadewych Van Brunt, last descendant of Brom Bones of Irving's Legend. She and Hadewych have a Proposal for Jason, an adventure which will involve a tomb, an exhumation, and a treasure lost for over two hundred years …

This e-book includes the full text of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.

  

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Smoke and Mirrors by C. R. Harris is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Smoke and Mirrors by C. R. Harris as today's free mystery ebook (The Suspicious Deaths of the Bioweaponeers; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, October 30, 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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Smoke and Mirrors
C. R. Harris
The Suspicious Deaths of the Bioweaponeers
Publisher: Lennox Books

Being mugged by a spook, if you're a journalist, is a good sign your story is more about the sinister truth and less mad conspiracy. International journalist Chloe Moreau is drawn into the intelligence world where secret services collaborate as well as compete for information.

It isn't only her investigation that is worrying the intelligence community, her husband has links with an Al Qaeda money-laundering project.

Chloe needs information from MI5 and they need her help to bring down the terrorist plot.

Can Chloe get the proof she needs to publish her findings? And can MI5 prevent the imminent terrorist attack on England?

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (131030)

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

• The New Release is Paranormal State: Poison Spring.

• The current Catch of the Week is Grim Tales: The Wishes, just $2.99 through Sunday, November 03, 2013 only.

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

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Today's New Release is Paranormal State: Poison Spring

Iris Ramirez has called the team of supernatural investigators from A&E's hit TV show Paranormal State in a panic! Her job and life are being threatened by dark spirits who have taken over Poison Spring Park, a Civil War battleground and museum. Join the team of ghost-hunters and try to exorcise the ghosts before it's too late. Thrills abound as you race to solve a series of terrifying puzzles, investigate chilling hidden object scenes, and put together the pieces of who — or what — is behind it all! Only you can save Iris from the darkness falling upon the Park!

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 Grim Tales: The Wishes

Be careful what you wish for! When her young son begins to wither and age before her eyes, your sister desperately requests your help. You arrive to discover that a deadly bargain has been made. You must set things right before your nephew pays the terrible price!

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, November 03, 2013.

Review: Behind the Shattered Glass by Tasha Alexander

A Mysterious Review of Behind the Shattered Glass by Tasha Alexander. A Lady Emily Mystery.

Review summary: This is a superb example of historical crime fiction. The body appears early and the suspense as to whodunit is maintained through to the very end. The occasional scene of humor helps keep the proceedings relatively light and entertaining for this very engaging investigative married duo. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Behind the Shattered Glass
Tasha Alexander
A Lady Emily Mystery
Minotaur Books (October 2013)

Publisher synopsis: Anglemore Park is the ancestral home of Lady Emily Hargreave's husband Colin. But the stately calm of country life is destroyed when their neighbor, the Marquess of Montagu, bursts through the French doors from the garden and falls down dead in front of the shocked gathering. But who has a motive for murdering the young aristocrat? The lovely cousin who was threatened by his engagement, the Oxford friend he falsely accused of cheating, the scheming vicar's daughter he shamelessly seduced or the relative no one knew existed who appears to claim the Montagu title? Who is the mysterious woman seen walking with him moments before he was brutally attacked?

The trail takes readers into the gilded world of a British manor house and below stairs to the servants who know all the secrets. One family's hidden past and a forbidden passion are the clues to a puzzle only Lady Emily can solve.

      

New Poster for HBO's True Detective

Yesterday we had a new trailer for HBO's upcoming series True Detective; today we have a new promotional poster (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "Man is the cruelest animal".

In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson) are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge in 2012 as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they'd left behind. In learning about each other and their killer, it becomes clear that darkness lives on both sides of the law.

True Detective premieres on HBO on January 12th, 2014.

Mystery and Suspense Films: R.I.P.D., New This Week on DVD

Checking through our list of films currently scheduled for release this week on DVD and/or Blu-ray disc, we are pleased to feature one that falls into the mystery, suspense, thriller, crime and/or adventure category …

R.I.P.D. starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds.

See also a list of current mystery and suspense DVD, Blu-ray, or VOD deals on Amazon.com.

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R.I.P.D. (2013)

Directed by Robert Schwentke from an original screenplay by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi and based on the Dark Horse Comic created by Peter M. Lenkov. Watch a trailer for the film below.

Film Synopsis (from the studio): Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds headline this supernatural action-adventure film as two cops dispatched by the Rest In Peace Department (R.I.P.D.) to protect and serve the living from increasingly destructive spirits hiding among the unsuspecting on Earth. When they uncover a plot that could end life as we know it, the new partners have to turn grudging respect into top-notch teamwork to restore the cosmic balance … or watch the tunnel to the afterlife begin sending angry souls the very wrong way.

Running time: 96 minutes Rating: Rated PG-13 for violence, sci-fi/fantasy action, some sensuality, and language including sex references.

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A New MystereBook: Frozen Assets by Traci Tyne Hilton

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 during October 2013 priced $3.99 or less …

Frozen Assets by Traci Tyne Hilton is the fourth mystery to feature Portland real estate agent Mitzy Neuhaus.

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Frozen Assets by Traci Tyne Hilton
A Mitzy Neuhaus Mystery
Publisher: Proverbs 31 House
Publication Date: October 28, 2013

When a local architect and notorious lothario gets himself impaled on a wrought iron fence it pretty much ruins Mitzy's Christmas.

With her client — the dead guy's most recent ex-wife — in crisis and the custom Tudor home now a murder house, Mitzy will need to work a lot of overtime to unload the unsellable property — and catch a killer.

  

Black Diamond Death, A Sloane Monroe Mystery by Cheryl Bradshaw, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Black Diamond Death by Cheryl Bradshaw, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Pixie Publishing.

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 (10/29/2013 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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Black Diamond Death by Cheryl Bradshaw
A Sloane Monroe Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Pixie Publishing

Sometimes accidents aren't what they seem …

On the slopes of Park City, Utah's newest ski resort a woman is found dead. At first glance, it has all the makings of an accident. The victim, Charlotte Halliwell, collided with a tree as she schussed her way to the bottom of the hill. But what if her death wasn't an accident at all — what if she was murdered?

When Audrey marches into Sloane's office with claims her sister's death was no accident Sloane is skeptical at first, but agrees to take the case. With little to go on, she questions the people in Charlotte's life and discovers Parker Stanton, a jilted ex-fiancé with plenty to hide, and as the son of a prominent businessman, he will go to any lengths to protect his secrets.

Just as Sloane feels she's close to solving the case she stumbles on another dead body and is forced to re-examine the clues from the beginning, but she must tread lightly. With the killer aware that Sloane will stop at nothing to find him, her life is in danger and her every move is being tracked. Will Sloane uncover the truth before he strikes again?

      

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Telemystery: Fox Options Swedish Conspiracy Thriller De redan döda by Robert Karjel

20th Century Fox Television has optioned the Swedish conspiracy thriller De redan döda ("The Already Dead") by Robert Karjel to adapt as a television drama.

First published in 2010, the storyline opens at a desolate beach resort hotel in Thailand just after the tsunami of 2005, where a group of people have taken refuge, each with their own reasons for remaining missing.

The narrative then switches to the interrogation of a Swede in the custody of the FBI on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. The agent assigned to question him, also a Swede, begins to suspect that for unknown reasons the FBI may be as interested in him as they are in the man they have in custody.

HarperCollins has acquired the US publication rights to the book, though no date has been announced for its release.

The Murder at the Vicarage, A Miss Marple Mystery by Agatha Christie, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, William Morrow.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (10/29/2013 at 3:00 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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The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
A Miss Marple Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: William Morrow

The murder of Colonel Protheroe — shot through the head — is a shock to everyone in St Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one. Now even the vicar, who had declared that killing the detested Protheroe would be "doing the world at large a favour," is a suspect — the Colonel has been dispatched in the clergyman's study, no less. But the picturesque English village of St Mary Mead is overpopulated with suspects. There is of course the faithless Mrs Protheroe; and there is of course her young lover — an artist, to boot.

Perhaps more surprising than the revelation of the murderer is the detective who will crack the case: "a white-haired old lady with a gentle, appealing manner."

      

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A Catered Christmas Cookie Exchange by Isis Crawford, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Kensington, is A Catered Christmas Cookie Exchange by Isis Crawford.

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

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A Catered Christmas Cookie Exchange
Isis Crawford
Series: Mystery with Recipes (9th)

Bernie and Libby Simmons, caterers extraordinaire, are hosting a televised cookie contest just in time for Christmas, but unfriendly rivalries cook up a cutthroat competition …

The snow is falling and there's a wreath on every door in tiny Longely, New York, and that can only mean one thing: The feisty members of the Christmas Cookie Club Exchange are busy perfecting their recipes once again. And with the Baking for Life cookie contest on the line, the stakes are higher — and deadlier — than ever.

Millie Piedmont is certain that Millie's Majestic Meltaways will win the competition — and when she dies in a suspicious car accident en route to the show, Bernie and Libby wonder if a rival club member may have felt the same way. Millie's niece enlists the sleuthing sisters to help her find some answers. Did someone run Millie off the road? And who stole the cookies from her car?

The members of the Cookie Club appear to be grieving the loss of their friend, but Bernie and Libby start digging and are shocked to uncover a soap opera of sinister secrets and clandestine affairs. Perhaps all the back-biting, gossip, and petty jealousy were just the right ingredients to whip up a half-baked murder.

Between Christmastime catering and catching a killer, Bernie and Libby may have bitten off more than they can chew. But they'll stop at nothing to get to the truth, because no holiday treat is sweeter than justice.

      

Telemystery: Netflix To Stream Entire Series of Dexter

Netflix has announced that it has reached a deal with CBS to stream all 8 seasons of Dexter to its members in the US.

"We're thrilled to have Dexter, one of Showtime's highest rated shows on Netflix, and so quickly after it completed its record-breaking run," said Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer for Netflix. "This is one of the great serialized dramas of the past decade and we know our members will enjoy discovering or reliving the twisted world of Dexter Morgan anywhere and anytime they want."

The first four seasons of the series, based on a character created by Jeff Lindsay, will be available to watch beginning on — appropriately enough — Halloween, October 31st, 2013; seasons five through eight will begin on January 1st, 2014.

Amazon Introduces Kindle MatchBook Program

Amazon introduces Kindle MatchBook today.

For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases from Amazon.com now allow you to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free.

Look for Kindle MatchBook on print and Kindle book detail pages of qualifying titles. You can also see more of them here; there are currently (as of the date and time of this post) over 74,000 titles listed including over 7600 Mystery, Thriller and Suspense books.

If you have purchased a print book from Amazon anytime in the past, we encourage you to check whether or not you can purchase a Kindle edition at a discount. And remember you don't need a Kindle to read a Kindle book: Read the Kindle edition on any Kindle device or on your PC, Mac, iPad, Android tablet, and mobile phone with a free Kindle Reading App.