The TV Detective, A TV Detective Mystery by Simon Hall, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The TV Detective by Simon Hall, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Accent Press.

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 (12/27/2013 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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The TV Detective by Simon Hall
A TV Detective Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Accent Press

The TV Detective finds television reporter Dan Groves newly assigned to the crime beat, and in a state of angst about it. He needs a crash-course in police work; the solution is to shadow Detective Chief Inspector Adam Breen on a high-profile murder inquiry, which doesn't go down well with some members of the police force.

The victim is a notorious local businessman, Edward Bray, a man with so many enemies that one of the problems the inquiry faces is having a surplus of suspects. Bray is killed at a prearranged meeting, in a lay-by on a dark and storm-lashed night, by a blast through the heart from a shotgun. Adam investigates and uncovers a tantalising question, which seems to be at the heart of the case: why was the killing planned for a different day, but put off apparently because the weather was sunny?

Tensions abound between Dan and the police, and he comes close to being thrown off the case — until the detectives come to realise he might actually be helpful, in using the power of television to tempt the murderer into a trap.

  

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A Kindle Countdown Deal: Sinker by Rex Kusler

Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals, limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive books.

MystereBooks is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

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Sinker by Rex Kusler
A Las Vegas Mystery
Publisher: Rex Kusler
Price: $0.99 (as of 12/27/13 12:30 PM ET)

Former Las Vegas Homicide Detective Jim Snow has found himself in a tenuous position with his partner Alice James. She's the other half of their Private Eye firm James & James and she's back in her hometown tending to her sick mother and contemplating a career change.

This leaves Snow alone in Las Vegas to work his newest case involving the drowning of a former Deputy District Attorney on Lake Mead. But that's only half the job. He'll also have to find the victim's monkey that was with her in her boat that night — and babysit until he can find a primate shelter with a vacancy.

Snow struggles to uncover the events leading up to the drowning, dealing with a diverse assortment of suspects including the victim's twin sister, an ambulance-chasing estranged husband, an unscrupulous loan shark, and an ex-convict with a bad attitude.

Adding to Snow's frustration sifting through the clues, he'll have to work this case on his own — with a monkey riding shotgun instead of the brilliant Alice James.

  

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Deadly Treatment by Davide McLeod is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Deadly Treatment by Davide McLeod 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, December 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.

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Deadly Treatment
Davide McLeod
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Santel e-Publishing

How does a man, living on borrowed time, correct nearly a century of suppression, threats, litigation, treachery, and murder all having one sole aim: to ensure conventional medicine remains an extremely lucrative business?

Anthony Cain's cancer will kill him soon; he knows it and so does Elwood, the man contracted to find and bring him back — dead or alive. But before he dies, Cain is desperate to put an end to the unforgivable wrongs of the corporation he works for.

Across town, while it's true young Joshua Costello is no little angel; and it's also true he's given his mother, Erin, a fair share of problems recently; she knows her son is not just another runaway — despite what the LAPD think. She's sure there's something more sinister involved; and she's also sure there's only one man who can help to find him — Michael Malone.

  

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Cold as a Wedge by K. H. Miller is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Cold as a Wedge by K. H. Miller as today's third free mystery ebook (A J. D. Reiter Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 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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Cold as a Wedge
K. H. Miller
A J. D. Reiter Mystery
Publisher: K. H. Miller

When the body of a popular high school senior is discovered in a local creek, Detective J. D. Reiter and his partner Rick McKendrick waste no time in tracking down her killer.

The unusual homicide snares the attention of county reporter Kit Kelly, whose tenacious approach puts pressure on Southaven's finest to close the case — and for J.D. to close the deal with the fiery journalist. The long hours and a sudden salacious turn in the suspect pool consume J. D.'s thoughts, all while he contends with the emergence of unanticipated personal landmines.

  

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An Element of Time by BeBe Knight is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature An Element of Time by BeBe Knight as today's second free mystery ebook (The Eternal Flame Series; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 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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An Element of Time
BeBe Knight
The Eternal Flame Series
Publisher: Solstice Shadows Publishing

A vampire and a slayer walk into a bar … Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but for Veronica and Mackenzie, it's the beginning of the rest of their lives.

The world has seen its fair share of evil, but Veronica Chase had no idea such monsters truly existed. Werewolves, poltergeists, witches … even vampires. Ignorance was bliss. But her reality was crushed on that horrid day her family was taken away from her. Now, Veronica has devoted her entire life to hunting those very creatures, searching for the werewolf pack that murdered her parents in hopes of finding her abducted sister. Nothing will get in her way of settling the score for the hand she was unjustly dealt. That is until her newest assignment brings her to her knees.

After one hundred and eight years on earth, Mackenzie Jones thought he had seen it all. With the exception of daylight of course, but that's what comes with the territory being a vampire and all. Perpetually damned to live his life as a bartender in the shadows of the night, nothing has sparked his interest lately. Just once he wished something exciting would happen in his mundane life. Little did he know, his wish was about to come true. Walking through the door to his bar, and into his heart, Mackenzie allows love to take the wheel for the first time. There's just one slight problem. She's there to kill him.

  

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The Muse of Violence by Bruce Hartman is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Muse of Violence by Bruce Hartman as today's free mystery ebook (A Novel of Suspense; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, December 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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The Muse of Violence
Bruce Hartman
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Swallow Tail Press

A chilling series of deaths strikes a writers' group in New York, leaving the remaining members to face the suspicion — and finally the certainty — that one of them is a psychopathic killer. Is a sequel to Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" being played out in their lives?

Will Schaefer, a New Yorker transplanted from the Midwest, earns his living crafting press releases for a shady corporation. One night a week he hosts a writers' group in his apartment, to which the members — four women and two men besides himself — bring their stories and all the intense emotions that inspired them. Will is cast in the role of amateur therapist mediating among unreliable narrators, even as he falls in love with the elusive Sara. When one of the other women is brutally murdered, the group begins to turn on itself.

The person who reads is always the next to die. Will anyone survive the deadly critiques that are handed out in this group?

  

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Command Authority by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Command Authority by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Friday, December 27, 2013.

Note: The price has been matched by Amazon.com for today only.

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Command Authority
Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney
A Jack Ryan Thriller
Putnam

There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past.

The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan.

 

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The Secret Series Books by Pseudonymous Bosch is Today's Kindle Daily Deal for Kids

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Secret Series books by Pseudonymous Bosch as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal for Kids. We're highlighting the first in the series, The Name of this Book Is Secret, below.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Friday, December 27, 2013.

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The Name of this Book Is Secret
Pseudonymous Bosch
The Secret Series
Little, Brown

Warning: this description has not been authorized by Pseudonymous Bosch. As much as he'd love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain), he wouldn't want you to hear about his brave 11-year old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. Or about how a mysterious box of vials, the Symphony of Smells, sends them on the trail of a magician who has vanished under strange (and stinky) circumstances. And he certainly wouldn't want you to know about the hair-raising adventures that follow and the nefarious villains they face.

You see, not only is the name of this book secret, the story inside is, too. For it concerns a secret. A Big Secret.

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10 Novels by Dennis Lehane is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature 10 Novels by Dennis Lehane as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal We're highlighting his most recently published one, Live by Night, below.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Friday, December 27, 2013.

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Live by Night
Dennis Lehane
William Morrow

Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world.

Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw.

But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one — neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover — can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt.

Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba.

A riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spellbinding tour de force of betrayal and redemption, music and murder, that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin was cause for celebration and vice was a national virtue.

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Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending December 27, 2013

A list of the top 15 Mystery Hardcover Bestsellers for the week ending December 27th, 2013 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

Yet another quiet holiday week, with just a few minor order changes within the list; no change at the top, however: John Grisham's legal thriller Sycamore Row remains at number one.

No new titles enter the list this week.

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (131227)

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

• The New Release is Redemption Cemetery: Bitter Frost (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Haunted Halls: Revenge of Doctor Blackmore, just $2.99 through Sunday, December 29, 2013 only.

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

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The New Release today is Redemption Cemetery: Bitter Frost (Collector's Edition)

Your house is warm and ready for Christmas Eve when an unexpected visitor magically appears at your window. Your ancestor, the Owl Spirit, begs your help. You must stop the jealous and vindictive Wenonah, the Spirit of Cold, from destroying your ancestors. If she succeeds in her terrible plan, she'll make sure you'll never be born! A photo album is the key to stopping her, but can a mere mortal handle this ghostly task? Travel through time to save your grandparents from her bitter, icy grasp!

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: A bonus game to help Santa fulfill children's wishes; Re-playable videos and mini-games; Wallpapers and concept art; and An available Strategy Guide.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake

Uncover the evil legend that haunts a forgotten town! In 1973, something wicked took over the town of Bitterford, Maine, after an unsuspecting inmate unearthed a mysterious object from beneath the prison floor. Years later, Bitterford lies in ruin. You must join forces with psychic Cassandra Williams, played by award-winning actress Lea Thompson, to investigate the events that led to the town's destruction. Only you can expose the evil that lurks in the depths of Shadow Lake. But beware … what you discover may haunt you forever.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Friday, December 27, 2013 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Haunted Halls: Revenge of Doctor Blackmore

When you wake up in the lair of the notorious Dr. Blackmore, you know it's going to be a bad day. But to make matters worse, he's also holding your fiancé and a handful of other people hostage in various locations throughout the building. To save them all, you'll have to use your wits and your will to survive a series of nightmarish experiments Blackmore has concocted especially for you. Prepare for a mind-bending journey into the realm of the weird and brace yourself for the unexpected in this exciting Hidden Object adventure!

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 29, 2013.

The Blond Leading the Blond, An Ellery Tinsdale and Samantha Greene Mystery by Jayne Ormerod, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Blond Leading the Blond by Jayne Ormerod, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Thomas & Mercer.

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 (12/26/2013 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 Blond Leading the Blond by Jayne Ormerod
An Ellery Tinsdale and Samantha Greene Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Ellery Tinsdale's father never talked about his childhood, never once mentioned what happened to his family, and never ever gave any indication there existed a lakefront resort in central Ohio founded by his ancestors. Curious upon receiving notice of the death of an aunt she hadn't known existed, Ellery travels to Braddocks Beach in hopes of learning a bit about her heritage. There she finds she is to inherit the family house, the family jewels, the family real estate holdings, the family bank accounts, and, much to her dismay, the family role of Queen Bee. Ellery also finds herself accused of Aunt Izzy's murder.

Samantha Greene is the lifelong friend and neighbor of Isabel Tinsdale, as well as the self-appointed purveyor of Braddocks Beach history. The recent discovery of a surviving member of Braddocks Beach's "royal family" sets the town abuzz with anticipation of Ellery's arrival. But Sam soon learns that Ellery is the only person to ever flunk out of Madame Rowena's School of Etiquette and has much to learn about making appearances, leading charity drives, heading up committees, and setting fashion trends. But first and foremost is the business of clearing the Tinsdale name of murder.

What do a third-grade science teacher and a small-town socialite know about tracking killers? It's what they don't know that may hurt them.

  

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The Red Pole of Macau by Ian Hamilton, New in Bookstores This Month

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this month by Picador, is The Red Pole of Macau by Ian Hamilton.

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

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The Red Pole of Macau
Ian Hamilton
Series: Ava Lee (4th)

Family ties are stressed to the limit when intrepid forensic accountant Ava Lee must rescue her half brother, Michael, and his business partner, Simon, from a disastrous multimillion-dollar real-estate deal in Macau. When the developers turn out to be gangsters, Michael and Simon are threatened with bankruptcy and much worse. Ava struggles to salvage the deal and her family's money, but then Simon is kidnapped, and the rules of the game abruptly change.

Determined to keep her mentor, Uncle, out of the affair, Ava is forced to turn to a former client, the cunning and seductive May Ling Wong, for help. With time running out, Ava must use all her skills to outwit the gangsters, rescue Simon, and save her family's future.

    

Deadly Sanctuary, A Kendall O'Dell Mystery by Sylvia Nobel, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Deadly Sanctuary by Sylvia Nobel, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Nite Owl Books.

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 (12/26/2013 at 2:00 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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Deadly Sanctuary by Sylvia Nobel
A Kendall O'Dell Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Nite Owl Books

Beautiful, strong-willed reporter, Kendall O’Dell, is drawn into an evil web of conspiracy beyond anything she could have ever imagined when she accepts a position at a small newspaper in isolated Castle Valley, Arizona. Her assignment: Find out why her predecessor mysteriously vanished while working on a story concerning the unsolved deaths of two teenage girls.

Why is the sheriff so hostile to her inquiries? Why is the woman operating the local shelter for homeless girls so secretive? And how is attractive rancher Bradley Talverson involved?

  

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A New MystereBook: The Debt Conspiracy by Chris Lewis and Will Lewis

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 December 2013 priced $4.99 or less …

The Debt Conspiracy by Chris Lewis and Will Lewis is the first in a new series, introducing special operations agent Lance West.

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The Debt Conspiracy by Chris Lewis and Will Lewis
A Lance West Thriller
Publisher: Audiblescripts
Publication Date: December 25, 2013
Price: $2.99 (as of 12/26/13 01:30 PM ET)

The Black Team, an elite special ops team commissioned - off the books - by a United States Senator, eliminates threats to the country in ways that no official government agency can. When newest member Lance West accompanies his partner on a secret mission to Tokyo to gather intel on powerful Hong Kong mafia boss Fen Tsung, the situation deteriorates. Tsung kills West’s partner and frames him for the murder.

West is forced to evade mobsters, police, even his own team as he fights to survive long enough to get revenge for his partner’s murder and clear his name. His investigation takes him from Tokyo to Hong Kong in pursuit of Tsung and his boss, Qing Xu. But as Lance embarks on the most dangerous mission of his life, he discovers the stakes are even higher than he could have imagined when he uncovers a plot to destroy the U.S. economy.

  

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