A New MystereBook: Bait & Switch by Jerusha Jones

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 January 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Bait & Switch by Jerusha Jones is the first in a new series by the author of the Imogen Museum mysteries.

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Bait & Switch by Jerusha Jones
A Mayfield Mystery
Publisher: Jerusha Jones
Publication Date: January 31, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 02/02/14 12:30 PM ET)

When Nora Sheldon's husband is kidnapped while they're on their honeymoon, all her hopes and plans tumble into a nightmare. Then the FBI comes knocking. Turns out Nora doesn't know her husband as well as she thought she did, and the feds are equally anxious about Skip's fate.

Is Skip Sheldon a con man or some kind of Robin Hood or simply misunderstood? And if he really loved her, why did he drag her into this mess?

She'd interrogate and then throttle him herself (and save his kidnappers the trouble) if she could — but she's not so sure he's still alive to bear the brunt of her worry.

Nora and her stalwart executive assistant, Clarice, seek refuge on one of Skip's properties — an abandoned poor farm on the edge of the Dark Divide in Washington State — to wait for a ransom call and entertain obnoxious FBI agents.

Can Nora wriggle through the maze of Skip's accounts and questionable acquaintances before she falls under suspicion herself? And for what crimes, exactly? She wishes she knew.

  

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Telemystery: Cinemax Renews Banshee for a Third Season

Cinemax has renewed its crime drama Banshee for a third season.

Antony Starr stars as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who tracks down Carrie Hopewell (Ivana Milicevic), his former lover and partner in crime, who has reinvented herself as the wife of the Banshee, PA prosecutor. In Banshee, Hood assumes the identity of the town's sheriff and continues his criminal activities, even as he's hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier.

Banshee is currently airing its second season at 10 PM (ET/PT) on Fridays.

Bad Guys by Anthony Bruno is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bad Guys by Anthony Bruno as today's second free mystery ebook (A Gibbons and Tozzi Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, February 02, 2014 at 6:45 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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Bad Guys
Anthony Bruno
A Gibbons and Tozzi Mystery
Publisher: Diversion Books

FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons are odd-couple partners and dedicated mob-busters.

Hot-headed Tozzi goes renegade, and Gibbons is pulled out of retirement to stop him. Together they uncover a secret crime family headed by Richie Varga, a convicted mobster pulling the strings from the safety of the witness protection program.

When Tozzi gets involved with Varga's sexy ex, the fur really starts to fly.

  

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Suspicious Minds by Paul Bishop is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Suspicious Minds by Paul Bishop as today's free mystery ebook (A Cole Ramsey Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, February 02, 2014 at 6:30 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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Suspicious Minds
Paul Bishop
A Cole Ramsey Mystery
Publisher: Paul Bishop

1977, the one and only king of rock-n-roll, Elvis Presley, is taken from the world far too soon, but the legend will never die.

1996, Elvis impersonator Cole Ramsey, a young man with enough voice and a style to take him to the top, receives a very odd phone call from an Icon dead for almost twenty years … Cole has heard all the Elvis conspiracy rumors, but … it couldn't be …

Before he knows it, however, Cole's life is turned upside down. He's on the run and up to his ears in Elvises … are they all impersonators or is one of them hiding from deadly suspicious minds …

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140202)

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

• The New Release is Fatal Passion: Art Prison (Collector's Edition).

• The current Catch of the Week is Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden, just $2.99 through Sunday, February 02, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — Groundhog Weekend Sale!: All Collector's Edition games are just $8.99! Use coupon code SHADOW at check-out to purchase any Collector's Edition game for just $8.99. Offer valid through February 2nd, 2014 only until 11:59 PM PT.

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

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The New Release today is Fatal Passion: Art Prison (Collector's Edition)

One man's art is another man's prison. An eccentric artist's creations have sprung to life, and they're terrorizing a small town. And it just happens to be the day the love of his life marries another man. Can you beat the painted traps and find the missing bride and groom in this exciting new hidden-object adventure story?

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: More secrets to uncover in the bonus game; Achievements and replayable mini-games; Collectable birds throughout the game; Soundtracks, wallpapers, and concept art; and an Integrated Strategy Guide.

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 Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden

Find your missing fiancé in the deepest parts of the ocean! Discover and investigate a forgotten underwater city that hides many spine-chilling secrets and supernatural forces which still lurk in every corner of this mysterious world. Face an ancient evil that is hiding in the deepest chambers of the once idyllic city of Eden. Hold your breath and dive into this breathtaking underwater 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, February 02, 2014.

Review: Morning Glory by Sarah Jio

A Mysterious Review of Morning Glory by Sarah Jio. A Novel of Suspense.

Review summary: The narrative of this exceptional novel alternates between two women, fifty years apart, whose individual experiences are both sad but surprisingly endearing. The beautifully rendered setting provides the perfect backdrop for the storylines. This is a wonderful book, both as a mystery and as a one of promise and hope. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Morning Glory
Sarah Jio
A Novel of Suspense
Plume (November 2013)

Publisher synopsis: Fleeing an East Coast life marred by tragedy, Ada Santorini takes up residence on houseboat number seven on Boat Street. She discovers a trunk left behind by Penny Wentworth, a young newlywed who lived on the boat half a century earlier. Ada longs to know her predecessor;s fate, but little suspects that Penny's mysterious past and her own clouded future are destined to converge.

      

Ghost in Trouble, A Bailey Ruth Raeburn Mystery by Carolyn Hart, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Ghost in Trouble by Carolyn Hart, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (02/01/2014 at 5:30 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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Ghost in Trouble by Carolyn Hart
A Bailey Ruth Raeburn Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

When Bailey Ruth Raeburn passed over into the great beyond, she was delighted to discover her sleuthing days would last an eternity. Joining Heaven's Department of Good Intentions, she uses her unique advantages as a ghost — sometimes you see her, sometimes you don't — to help those in need and ensure the wicked get their just deserts.

However, on this latest mission, Bailey Ruth finds it more difficult than ever to keep up with her boss Wiggins's rules for good spirit deportment. Not only is the woman she is supposed to save determined to thwart Bailey Ruth's good intentions at every turn, she just so happens to be one of Bailey Ruth's oldest enemies. Not that that should matter to one of Heaven's best and brightest emissaries, but still, there is only so much a person can put up with — living or dead.

But solving Bailey Ruth's toughest case yet means managing a recalcitrant charge, a fraudulent medium, a mother's heartbreak, old passions and new, and a telltale rawhide dog bone. Heaven help her!

        

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Trojan Gold, A Vicky Bliss Mystery by Elizabeth Peters, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Trojan Gold by Elizabeth Peters, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (02/01/2014 at 5:00 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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Trojan Gold by Elizabeth Peters
A Vicky Bliss Mystery (4th in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

A picture is worth a thousand words …

But the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. A quick glance at the blood-stained envelope is all the proof she needs that something is horribly wrong.

The picture itself is familiar: a woman adorned in the gold of Troy. Yet this isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann — no, this picture is contemporary. The gold, as Vicky and her fellow academics know, disappeared at the end of World War II.

Now this circle of experts is gathered for a festive Bavarian Christmas. All of them — including the mysterious John Smythe and a very determined killer …

        

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Bad Boy, An Alan Banks Mystery by Peter Robinson, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bad Boy by Peter Robinson, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (02/01/2014 at 4:30 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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Bad Boy by Peter Robinson
An Alan Banks Mystery (19th in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins

A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But since Banks is away on holiday, his partner, Annie Cabbot, steps in. The woman tells Annie that she's found a loaded gun hidden in the bedroom of her daughter, Erin — a punishable offense under English law. When an armed response team breaks into the house to retrieve the weapon, the seemingly straightforward procedure quickly spirals out of control.

But trouble is only beginning for Annie, the Eastvale force, and Banks, and this time, the fallout may finally do the iconoclastic inspector in. For it turns out that Erin's best friend and roommate is none other than Tracy Banks, the DCI's daughter, who was last seen racing off to warn the owner of the gun, a very bad boy indeed.

Thrust into a complicated and dangerous case intertwining the personal and the professional as never before, Annie and Banks — a bit of a bad boy himself — must risk everything to outsmart a smooth and devious psychopath. Both Annie and Banks understand that it's not just his career hanging in the balance, it's also his daughter's life.

        

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Outlaw Mountain, A Joanna Brady Mystery by J. A. Jance, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Outlaw Mountain by J. A. Jance, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, William Morrow.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (02/01/2014 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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Outlaw Mountain by J. A. Jance
A Joanna Brady Mystery (7th in series)
Publisher: William Morrow

Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border, but Sheriff Brady isn't about to let it go at that. Alice was something of a free spirit, with a penchant for Scotch, the glitter of Las Vegas, and a romance with a man twenty years her junior. Her hot-tempered daughter Susan suspects Mom's boyfriend — her former handyman who moved in instead of moving on when he finished his handy work. Now Susan's furious at her brother Clete, the do-nothing mayor of Tombstone, blaming him for not protecting their inheritance by breaking up their mother's winter romance.

Yet all is not as it appears to be, and Joanna is forced to put her personal life on hold to dig deeper into Alice's death, the lives of her greedy offspring, and the identity of her mysterious gentleman friend. And as the investigation gets sidetracked by ugly local land disputes, it takes some troublesome twists and turns, until Sheriff Brady finds herself wading through a murky morass of graft and corruption that may have given someone reason to kill — and kill again.

        

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By a Spider's Thread, A Tess Monaghan Mystery by Laura Lippman, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, William Morrow.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $3.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (02/01/2014 at 3:30 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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By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman
A Tess Monaghan Mystery (8th in series)
Publisher: William Morrow

Mark Rubin claims he and his beautiful wife had a flawless, happy marriage. Yet one day, without warning, Natalie gathered up their children and vanished. The police can't do anything because all the evidence indicates she left willingly. So the successful Baltimore furrier turns to private investigator Tess Monaghan.

Tess doesn't know quite what to make of her client, a wealthy Orthodox Jew who refuses to shake her hand and doles out vitally important information in grudging dribs and drabs. But the deeper she digs, the more Tess suspects that the motive behind Natalie's reckless flight lies somewhere in the gap between what Rubin will not say and what he refuses to believe. An intricate web of betrayal and vengeance is already beginning to unravel, as memory begets rage, and rage leads to desperation — and murder. And suddenly the lives of three innocent children are dangling by the slenderest of threads.

        

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Open Road's Featured Genre This Month: Legal Thrillers

Open Road Integrated Media is celebrating February by featuring a number of its legal thrillers and offering discounted prices on many of these.

Over the next couple of days we'll be highlighting some of these books in separate posts. In the meantime, click on the image below to be taken to Open Road's Legal Thriller page on Amazon.com.

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