Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (131128)

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

• Our Featured Title is Paranormal Crime Investigations: Brotherhood of the Crescent Snake.

• The Daily Deal is Web of Deceit: Black Widow, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Awakening: The Skyward Castle, just $2.99 through Sunday, December 01, 2013 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Thanksgiving Sale: All Standard Edition games are just $4.99! Use coupon code GOBBLE at check-out to purchase any Standard Edition PC or Mac game for just $4.99. Offer valid November 28th, 2013 only until 11:59 PM PT.

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

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Our Featured Title today is Paranormal Crime Investigations: Brotherhood of the Crescent Snake

Use your Paranormal Crime Investigation skills to solve a string of bizarre murders plaguing the city of New Orleans and stop an ancient magical cult from summoning their monstrous snake god. Called in by Louisiana's PCI central command to investigate a murder using dark magic rituals, you quickly discover the strange and worrying recent happenings in the city are all connected to a strange and ancient cult, the Brotherhood of the Crescent Snake.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Web of Deceit: Black Widow

You're drawn into a web of deceit when your train stops in Andville, where the Black Widow lies in wait. Follow a trail of clues and dead husbands as you explore this once picturesque town now at the mercy of the Black Widow and her mechanical minions. What drives her lust for revenge? Where is the root of her strange power? Uncover the bizarre history — and mystery — of this little town. And track down the Black Widow in time to foil her devious plot for revenge!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Thursday, November 28, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Awakening: The Skyward Castle

This is the tale of young Princess Sophia, who awakens from a magical century-long slumber into a land threatened by an ancient evil. Braving the dangers of an unfamiliar world, Princess Sophia has travelled far to discover the fate of her exiled kingdom. Having no magic of her own in a land built with living magic, she must overcome the many foes, perils and obstacles with her wit, skill and allies. Can Princess Sophia lift the curse that plagues her people? Find out in this epic conclusion!

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, December 01, 2013.

A New MystereBook: Door To Door by P. J. Sheehan

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 November 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

Door To Door by P. J. Sheehan is the first in a series of mysteries featuring Barry Soldat, accidental and reluctant detective.

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Door To Door by P. J. Sheehan
A Barry Soldat Murder Mystery
Publisher: P. J. Sheehan
Publication Date: November 25, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 11/27/13 04:30 PM ET)

Barry Soldat just wants to make it from Tuesday to Wednesday without getting into trouble. But trouble is everywhere. He gets fired. His girl friend dumps him. Three punks try to beat him up.

Meanwhile, five people have been killed with the same gun — a homeless man, three women, and a priest. The priest was his ex-wife's nephew, and she asks Barry to gather her nephew's personal effects. A small favor, she calls it, but somehow it looks like trouble.

Barry's not a hero. He's a decent guy trying to help, but no one wants to cooperate. Monsignor Murray won't tell him the whole story. Lieutenant Reille challenges him. A shadowy businessman tells him to leave town.

He needs a break. Saturday night, trying to relax at Maxi's Bar, Barry suddenly realizes who the killer is.

And that's when his troubles really begin.

  

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Random, A Crime Thriller by Craig Robertson, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Random by Craig Robertson, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Simon & Schuster.

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 (11/27/2013 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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Random by Craig Robertson
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings; no kind of pattern or motive; an entirely different method of murder each time, and nothing that connects the victims except for the fact that the little fingers of their right hands have been severed.

If DS Rachel Narey could only work out the key to the seemingly random murders, how and why the killer selects his victims, she would be well on her way to catching him. But as the police, the press and a threatening figure from Glasgow's underworld begin to close in on The Cutter, his carefully-laid plans threaten to unravel — with horrifying consequences.

  

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A New MystereBook: The Executive Graveyard by Shaye Mann

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 November 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

The Executive Graveyard by Shaye Mann is, according to the author, "based on my personal experience at the park and figments of my wild imagination."

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The Executive Graveyard by Shaye Mann
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Shaye Mann
Publication Date: November 26, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 11/27/13 03:30 PM ET)

Deep in the canyons of Southern Utah lies nature's deadliest predator: man. The location is Zion National Park, host to three million tourists each year. But unfortunately, not all of them make it out alive.

Nick Perrone is a successful executive whose wife is seven months pregnant with a child he never wanted. Wyatt Orr is a struggling Homicide Detective who joined the force after failing to save his father from an armed burglar.

A camping trip seems like the perfect opportunity for these estranged friends to reconnect — and what better place than Zion? But after a heated argument, Wyatt backs out, leaving Nick to go alone.

Now Nick is missing and the authorities suspect he staged his own disappearance.

But Wyatt doesn't believe it, and finds himself en route to Utah fighting old and new demons. When he discovers Nick has been kidnapped, the pieces of an incomprehensible puzzle of human depravity and corporate greed begin falling into place. With every twist raising the stakes, it becomes a furious race against the clock. Something sinister hides behind those canyon walls, and if Wyatt can't uncover it in time, he, Nick, his wife and their unborn child will be forced to pay the ultimate price.

  

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Heart of the Assassin, The Assassin Trilogy by Robert Ferrigno, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Heart of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Scribner.

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 (11/27/2013 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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Heart of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno
The Assassin Trilogy (3rd in series)
Publisher: Scribner

The year is 2045 and a warrior battles to save America from an Islamic mastermind …

Time is running out for the Islamic Republic and the Bible Belt, the two warring nations that arose when the former United States split apart after an economic collapse left tens of millions unemployed and desperate for leadership. Weakened by their endless conflict, both countries are now threatened by the expansionist dreams of the Aztlán Empire (formerly known as Mexico) to the south, which has steadily encroached deep into the regions once called California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Riven by intellectual and social decay, both the Islamic Republic and the Belt are at the brink of collapse.

The only solution is to reunite the countries and regain America's former power and global standing. And there's only one man who can do it: Rakkim Epps, genetically enhanced shadow warrior and hero of the two previous books in Robert Ferrigno's astonishing Assassin Trilogy.

Time is also running out for Epps's archenemy, the Old One, the sly, immensely rich Muslim fanatic who seeks to create one world under his domination. Now more than one hundred and fifty years old, he is dying and unhappily knows it. His solution is to reunite the Islamic Republic and the Bible Belt his way, and his plan involves his voluptuous but deadly daughter, Baby, and none other than Rakkim himself. The Old One is aided by his sadistic, carbon-skinned enforcer, Gravenholtz, whom Rakkim failed to kill in an earlier encounter and who now wishes to kill Rakkim and those he loves.

Meanwhile, there is a rumor of a discovery of a sacred relic in the contaminated ruins of Washington, D.C., a radiation zone peopled by diseased zombies and daring treasure hunters. It is into this deadly wasteland that Rakkim must secretly travel and retrieve the icon if he is to defeat Gravenholtz, Baby, and the Old One, and have even a chance to unite the two halves of America.

  

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The Missing Dough by Chris Cavender, New in Bookstores This Week

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this month by Kensington, is The Missing Dough by Chris Cavender.

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

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The Missing Dough
Chris Cavender
Series: Eleanor Swift, Pizza Lovers (6th)

The only thing Eleanor Swift loves more then A Slice of Delight — her Timber Ridge, North Carolina pizzeria — is her sister Maddy. So when Maddy's cheating ex-husband Grant shows up with some pie-in-the-sky idea to win Maddy back, Eleanor is happy to see her sister swiftly show him the door. But they both know Grant isn't done yet.

Especially when he picks a fight with Maddy's fiancée Bob in front of the whole town at the annual Founder's Day Festival. Naturally, when Grant is later found stabbed in the heart with a barbeque skewer, Bob is featured on the police chief's menu as Suspect #1. And when it turns out that Maddy stands to gain a different kind of dough — and lots of it — from Grant exiting this world, she and Eleanor know it's up to them to cook up an investigation to find the real killer.

Was it that female singer at the festival who wanted a word with the recently deceased? Or maybe Grant's haughty sister, who's colder then a day-old pizza? Or Grant's "business partner", who seemingly had the opportunity, means, and motive to mortally skewer Maddy's ex-husband? Only one thing is for sure: Eleanor and Maddy need to turn up the heat and deliver this killer … or their next scrumptious pizza may be their last!

      

A New MystereBook: The Confetti Killer by Chris Myers

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 November 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

The Confetti Killer by Chris Myers is the first mystery/thriller in this series featuring true crime writer Kylie Watts.

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The Confetti Killer by Chris Myers
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Books on the Edge
Publication Date: November 26, 2013
Price: $3.99 (as of 11/27/13 01:30 PM ET)

Haunted by the past, driven by dark desires …

In the 1980s, the Confetti Killer terrorized Chicago, leaving a trail of blood and glitter. Fifty years after the infamous unsolved slayings, a copycat killer thrusts Kylie Watts' upcoming book into the limelight. Normally, she holes up in her Virginia home and writes true crime, using her dreams of the past to solve cold cases. She hopes to put the original Confetti Killer nightmares to rest by cracking the fifty-year-old mystery.

Detective Egan forces Kylie out of seclusion and into the current day investigation. Her intimate knowledge of the cold case and uncanny insight into the Confetti Killer's mind arouse his suspicions. His penchant for blondes and addiction to the powerful narcotic Tranquility cloud his judgment. While chasing the killer, her seductive powers lure him into her bleak world of pain and deception.

  

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Dead I Well May Be, A Michael Forsythe Thriller by Adrian McKinty, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dead I Well May Be by Adrian McKinty, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Scribner.

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 (11/27/2013 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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Dead I Well May Be by Adrian McKinty
A Michael Forsythe Thriller (1st in series)
Publisher: Scribner

"I didn't want to go to America, I didn't want to work for Darkey White. I had my reasons. But I went."

So admits Michael Forsythe, an illegal immigrant escaping the Troubles in Belfast.

But young Michael is strong and fearless and clever — just the fellow to be tapped by Darkey, a crime boss, to join a gang of Irish thugs struggling against the rising Dominican powers in Harlem and the Bronx. The time is pre-Giuliani New York, when crack rules the city, squatters live furtively in ruined buildings, and hundreds are murdered each month. Michael and his lads tumble through the streets, shaking down victims, drinking hard, and fighting for turf, block by bloody block.

Dodgy and observant, not to mention handy with a pistol, Michael is soon anointed by Darkey as his rising star. Meanwhile Michael has very inadvisably seduced Darkey's girl, Bridget — saucy, fickle, and irresistible. Michael worries that he's being followed, that his affair with Bridget will be revealed. He's right to be anxious; when Darkey discovers the affair, he plans a very hard fall for young Michael, a gambit devilish in its guile, murderous in its intent.

But Darkey fails to account for Michael's toughness and ingenuity or the possibility that he might wreak terrible vengeance upon those who would betray him.

  

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A New MystereBook: Bookscout by John Dunning

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 November 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

Bookscout by John Dunning was first published as a chapbook for five regional book fairs in 1998. Five hundred copies each were issued in Minneapolis, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Boston and Washington, with the designation on the back panel of the dust jacket.

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Bookscout by John Dunning
A Short Story
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Publication Date: November 26, 2013
Price: $1.99 (as of 11/27/13 12:30 PM ET)

For a rare book, a desperate buyer turns to violence …

Six days a week, Joel Beer hunts for books in Denver. He stalks them in bookstores and thrift stores, at yard sales and estate sales, his eyes scanning spines quickly and ruthlessly, searching for the $0.25 gem that he can resell for $250. If he were the only scout in town, he might be able to make a living, but there are close to a dozen full-timers now — including his archrival, Popeye Lamonica — and Joel is having trouble paying his rent.

Facing eviction, Joel and his partner — a slow-witted vagrant named Lacy — go on the hunt. They are about to give up when they find an estate sale offering a $0.50 copy of Walter Behr’s Something for Nothing that is worth $500. But Popeye sees it, too. To make this treasure his, Joel will do whatever it takes — even if it means sacrificing his career.

  

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Telemystery: CBS Developing Doc Ford, based on a Randy Wayne White Series Character

CBS is developing a crime drama based on Randy Wayne White's series character Marion "Doc" Ford.

Titled Doc Ford, Chris Gerolmo is writing the script that is centered on the ex-NSA agent, who now lives on the gulf coast of Florida working as a marine biologist.

White's long-running series began in 1990 with the publication of Sanibel Flats. The most recent book, Night Moves, the 20th in the series, was published earlier this year. With lots of fine material to work from, and the right casting, this could be a stellar drama for CBS.

Sole Witness by Jenn Black is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Sole Witness by Jenn Black as today's fourth free mystery ebook (A Novel of Romantic Suspense; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, November 27, 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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Sole Witness
Jenn Black
A Novel of Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Jenn Black

Detective Davis Hamilton is struggling to balance his career and his personal life. The high profile murder case couldn't have come across his desk at a worse time &mdasah; his partner is so pregnant she's about to pop, and the sole witness is not only a suspect herself … she's Lori Summers, famous for surfing killer waves in equally killer designer bikinis, and known deep in his heart as the one who got away.

Lori Summers decided the day Davis Hamilton dumped her for a society wife, that she didn't need a man in order to be somebody. She lived up her daredevil career with glamorous international photo shoots until tragedy brought her back to her home town to face the past and re-think the future. Stumbling over a dead rap star wasn't supposed to be part of that equation, and neither was running from a killer … right into the arms of the last man on earth she'd dare to trust.

  

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The Liquidator by John Gardner is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Liquidator by John Gardner as today's third free mystery ebook (A Boysie Oakes Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, November 27, 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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The Liquidator
John Gardner
A Boysie Oakes Thriller
Publisher: Endeavour Press

Paris, 1944. As the city is liberated, Sergeant Boysie Oaks kills two Germans attempting to assassinate an Intelligence Corps officer named Mostyn.

Two decades later, the suave, sadistic Mostyn has become the Second-in-Command of British Special Security. He recruits the man he believes is a master assassin — Boysie Oakes — to quietly murder potential security risks.

He is "The Liquidator".

But is Boysie the right man for the job? He is preparing to take Mostyn's secretary to the Cote D'Azur for a weekend of romance.

Yet what starts as a few days of seduction in the Mediterranean sun turns into a nightmare for Boysie as he becomes more and more embroiled in Operation Coronet. Captured, the tables are turned, and the assassin becomes the target. Boysie Oakes will need all his wits to stay alive.

  

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Thirty Four Minutes Dead by Steve Hammond Kaye is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Thirty Four Minutes Dead by Steve Hammond Kaye as today's second free mystery ebook (A Techno-Suspense Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, November 27, 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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Thirty Four Minutes Dead
Steve Hammond Kaye
A Techno-Suspense Thriller
Publisher:

The Memory-Camera Project — a new, terrifying dawn for mankind …

What if you could read the minds of political leaders during Peace Summits? What if you could see and hear what the murder victim saw? What if you could judge evil acts without the need for DNA or any other detective work?

Gregory Vain, a pioneering neurosurgeon attempts revolutionary explorations on the human brain of the recently deceased. The genius of Vain is recognised by powerful security organisations in Britain and the United States, funded by secret organisations they initiate.

The scientific ability to unlock the frozen images within the minds of the dead and to read the living, thinking brain has far reaching consequences. Access to these image-vaults are stored and replayed. The murder victims' slayer can then be identified in the last moments stationed within the cortex, this can frame the guilt and evil of the killer and bring them to swift justice — in an ideal world. The MC-Project, invisible to the wider world until global revelations takes the human race onto a macabre new journey …

  

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Wanted by Nick Stephenson is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Wanted by Nick Stephenson as today's free mystery ebook (A Leopold Blake Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, November 27, 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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Wanted
Nick Stephenson
A Leopold Blake Mystery
Publisher: W. J. Books

Nowhere to hide …

What should have been a relaxing vacation in Paris turns into another unwinnable situation for expert criminology consultant Leopold Blake. Caught in the cross hairs of a ruthless assassin and on the run from the police for a murder he didn't commit, Blake and his team must fight to clear his name before it's too late.

As enemies close in from all sides, Blake is about to learn who he can trust — and who is determined to destroy him — as The City of Light becomes a new hunting ground.

  

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Equations of Life by Simon Morden is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Equations of Life by Simon Morden as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, November 27, 2013.

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Equations of Life
Simon Morden
A Samuil Petrovitch Sci-Fi Thriller
Orbit

Winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award

Samuil Petrovitch is a survivor. He survived the nuclear fallout in St. Petersburg and hid in the London Metrozone — the last city in England. He's lived this long because he's a man of rules and logic. For example, getting involved = a bad idea.

But when he stumbles into a kidnapping in progress, he acts without even thinking. Before he can stop himself, he's saved the daughter of the most dangerous man in London. And clearly saving the girl = getting involved.

Now, the equation of Petrovitch's life is looking increasingly complex. Russian mobsters + Yakuza + something called the New Machine Jihad = one dead Petrovitch.

But Petrovitch has a plan — he always has a plan — he's just not sure it's a good one.

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