The Doomsday Key by James Rollins is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Doomsday Key by James Rollins as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Sunday, March 02, 2014.

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

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The Doomsday Key
James Rollins
A SIGMA Force Thriller
HarperCollins

At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. The three murders on three continents bear a horrifying connection: all the victims are marked by a Druidic pagan cross burned into their flesh.

The bizarre murders thrust Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force into a race against time to solve a riddle going back centuries, to a ghastly crime against humanity hidden within a cryptic medieval codex. The first clue is discovered inside a mummified corpse buried in an English peat bog — a gruesome secret that threatens America and the world.

Aided by two women from his past — one his ex-lover, the other his new partner — Gray must piece together the horrifying truth. But the revelations come at a high cost, and to save the future, Gray will have to sacrifice one of the women at his side. That alone might not be enough, as the true path to salvation is revealed in a dark prophecy of doom.

    

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140302)

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

• The New Release is True Fear: Forsaken Souls (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is Silent Scream II: The Bride, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is Zodiac Prophecies: The Serpent Bearer, just $2.99 through Sunday, March 02, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — This weekend only: Buy One Collector's Edition Game and Get a Second for Just $1.99! Select two Collector's Edition games, use coupon code PLAY and the second game will be just $1.99. Use as many times as you'd like. Offer valid through March 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 True Fear: Forsaken Souls (Collector's Edition)

What if everything you knew about your life, everything your family ever told you, turned out to be a lie? A strange midnight visitor could change your life forever … Find out the truth about your past in this chillingly exciting Hidden Object Puzzle game! (Warning — True Fear: Forsaken Souls is an intense psychological thriller intended for mature audiences.)

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: Uncover more secrets in the bonus game; Downloadable soundtracks and screen-savers; Gorgeous 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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Today's Daily Deal is Silent Scream II: The Bride

Jessica would never imagine that her big day would turn out to be a nightmare; they had an accident and Jonathan McNealy, her husband, is missing. Things just got more and more bizarre when she encountered a mysterious girl who seemed to be leading her to Jonathan. Jessica had a feeling that the girl was connected to Jonathan. Did she cause the car accident in the first place? Return to the abandoned mansion and search for clues.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Sunday, March 02, 2014 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is Zodiac Prophecies: The Serpent Bearer

Born under the rare 13th zodiac sign, Ophiuchus, Amy had no idea she was destined to save a magical world. Having already trapped children of the other 12 zodiac signs, the Dark Lord now has his sights on conquering our world as well. Amy must gather her courage to free the children's souls and finally bring the Dark Lord's tyranny to an end.

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, March 02, 2014.

A New MystereBook: Amber Nine by John Gardner

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 February 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Amber Nine by John Gardner is the third Boysie Oakes spy thriller, first published in 1966. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

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Amber Nine by John Gardner
A Boysie Oakes Thriller
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Publication Date: February 28, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 03/01/14 05:30 PM ET)

Just when Boysie Oakes thinks he is out of the liquidating business, he finds himself on the sunny shores of Lake Maggiore. His task? To make sure that a Member of Parliament breathes his last breath.

But a straightforward mission start to go awry when his mark turns up dead without Boysie lifting a finger.

Who killed him? And why?

It is only when he is introduced to a sadistic finishing school, run by the mysterious and dangerous Doctor Klara Thirel, that the mystery starts to unravel.

Surrounded by troubled girls galore, including a certain Petronella Witching, Boysie is pulled into the biggest espionage foul-up of the century.

With the help of Petronella, as well as a handful of self-important, and at times incompetent secret agents, Boysie dives into the mysteries behind the dead Member of Parliament, the sexually charged finishing school, and — most of all — who and what is behind the top-secret Amber Nine.

  

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Review: Runner by Patrick Lee

A Mysterious Review of Runner by Patrick Lee. A Sam Dryden Thriller.

Review summary: This action thriller starts fast and maintains a high level of tension and suspense for quite some time. But the strong start gives way to a rather pedestrian finish with a few too many plot questions left resolved by the time the book comes to a close. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Runner
Patrick Lee
A Sam Dryden Thriller
Minotaur Books (February 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she's running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal — to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for as long as she can remember, has been kept in a secret prison by forces within the government. But she doesn't know much beyond her own name, Rachel. She only remembers the past two months of her life — and that she has a skill that makes her very dangerous to these men and the hidden men in charge.

Dryden, who lost his wife and young daughter in an accident five years ago, agrees to help her try to unravel her own past and make sense of it, to protect her from the people who are moving heaven and earth to find them both. Although Dryden is only one man, he's a man with the extraordinary skills and experience — as a Ranger, a Delta, and five years doing off-the-book black ops with an elite team. But, as he slowly begins to discover, the highly trained paramilitary forces on their heels is the only part of the danger they must face. Will Rachel's own unremembered past be the most deadly of them all?

        

A New MystereBook: Can You Picture This? by Jerilyn Dufresne

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 February 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Can You Picture This? by Jerilyn Dufresne is the third mystery to feature amateur sleuth Samantha "Sam" Darling.

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Can You Picture This? by Jerilyn Dufresne
A Sam Darling Mystery
Publisher: eFitzgerald Publishing
Publication Date: February 28, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 03/01/14 04:30 PM ET)

Richie Klingman, the only representative of the "paparazzi" in Quincy, chased Sam down with his camera in an attempt to grab a quick shot of the local celebrity sleuth. But when the flashbulb went off in her face, she went off on him — or on his bike — and down it went, Richie and all.

Turns out that one of the photos Richie took caught the precise moment of a murder on film. The next thing Sam knows, Richie himself has been stabbed and is in the hospital with a serious chest wound.

Sam is stumped. There are no suspects. Instead there are round-the-clock police protecting Sam and her kids, who are home from college for the summer. And there is round-the-clock involvement with her old high school beau George, whom Sam has finally forgiven for standing her up on prom night.

When at last a suspect emerges, Sam is confronted with her own mortality yet again.

  

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One Kill Away, An Allan Stanton Mystery by Alex MacLean, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature One Kill Away by Alex MacLean, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.

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 (03/01/2014 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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One Kill Away by Alex MacLean
An Allan Stanton Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Alex MacLean

Halifax homicide detective Allan Stanton has walked away from his job to reconnect with his young son … until a killer starts methodically carving his way through the city's underbelly. His ex-partner needs help, and Stanton reluctantly returns.

The killer is definitely working through a list of victims, and he's leaving cryptic clues at his grisly crime scenes. Are they there to confuse the police? Or is there something more to them? As Stanton unravels this shocking central mystery, he becomes the target of an unexpected enemy — those next on the killer's list.

  

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Keeping Mum by Alyse Carlson, New in Bookstores in March 2014

Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during March 2014 by Berkley Prime Crime, is Keeping Mum by Alyse Carlson.

For a list of more new paperback mysteries, thrillers, and novels of suspense published this month, visit our Mystery Bookshelf page for March 2014. For hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries for a selection of books published during March 2014.

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Keeping Mum
Alyse Carlson
Series: A Camellia Harris, Garden Society Mystery

Roanoke, Virginia, is home to some of the country's most exquisite gardens, and it's Camellia Harris's job to promote them. But when a political fundraiser turns deadly, everyone's a candidate for murder …

Cam and her best friend, Annie, are planning a gala for a local Senate candidate — a murder mystery themed silent auction where the guests bid on who will be the night's "victim". Coordinating a beautiful display of fall flowers and planning the perfect fake crime is hard enough, but with a guest list that is a "who's who" of the Roanoke elite, Cam has her hands full navigating the egos and grudges of her high society guests.

When local financial tycoon Derrick Windermere is found dead next to a shattered pot of chrysanthemums, the night's fun and games quickly turn serious. Half the guests had good reason to want Windermere dead, but only one is suspiciously missing in action — Annie's father. Now Cam will not only have to figure out which partygoer is a killer, but find her friend's father before all their reputations end up dragged through the mud …

        

Six Days of the Condor, A Suspense Thriller by James Grady, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Six Days of the Condor by James Grady, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Open Road.

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 (03/01/2014 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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Six Days of the Condor by James Grady
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Open Road

The novel that inspired the Robert Redford film Three Days of the Condor.

Sandwiches save Ronald Malcolm's life. On the day that gunmen pay a visit to the American Literary Historical Society, he's out at lunch. The Society is actually a backwater of the Central Intelligence Agency, where Malcolm and a few other bookworms comb mystery novels for clues that might unlock real life diplomatic questions. One of his colleagues has learned something he wasn't meant to know. A sinister conspiracy has penetrated the CIA, and the gunmen are its representatives. They massacre the office, and only learn later of Malcolm — a loose end that needs to be dealt with.

Malcolm — codename Condor — calls his handlers at the Agency, hoping for a safe haven, instead drawing another attempt on his life. With no one left to trust he goes on the run. But like it or not, Malcolm is the only person who can root out the corruption at the highest levels of the CIA.

        

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Murder in Pigalle by Cara Black, New in Bookstores in March 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during March 2014 by Soho Crime, is Murder in Pigalle by Cara Black.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for March 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of March 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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Murder in Pigalle
Cara Black
Series: Aimée Leduc (14th)

June, 1998: Paris's sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans riot in anticipation of the World Cup. Private Investigator Aimée Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle — she's five months' pregnant and has the baby's wellbeing to think about now.

But then disaster strikes close to home. A serial rapist has been terrorizing Paris's Pigalle neighborhood, following teenage girls home and attacking them in their own houses. It is sad and frightening but has nothing to do with Aimée — until Zazie, the 13-year-old daughter of the proprietor of Aimée's favorite café, disappears. The police aren't mobilizing quickly enough, and when Zazie's desperate parents approach Aimée for help, she knows she couldn't say no even if she wanted to.

        

A Kindle Countdown Deal: Winner Take All by Barry Eisler

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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Winner Take All by Barry Eisler
A John Rain Thriller
Publisher: Barry Eisler
Price: $0.99 (as of 03/01/14 02:00 PM ET)

John Rain has disappeared to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies encircling him in Japan. But the CIA isn't willing to lose its premier "natural causes" contract killer, and they force Rain to take on a high-risk assignment: eliminate a ruthless arms dealer operating in Southeast Asia.

The upside? Financial, of course, along with the ongoing chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain will have to survive the downside: a second assassin zeroing in on the target; the target's consort, an alluring and dangerous woman with an agenda of her own; the possibility that the entire mission is nothing but an elaborate setup. From the gorgeous beaches of Rio to the glitzy casinos of Macau to the gritty back streets of Hong Kong and Kowloon, Rain becomes a reluctant player in an international game far deadlier and more insidious than any he has encountered before.

  

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New from Harlequin Intrigue: The Secret of Cherokee Cove by Paula Graves

Every month Harlequin publishes several new novels of mystery and suspense. We are pleased to present in this post one of its new March, 2014 titles, published in the Harlequin Intrigue series.

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The Secret of Cherokee Cove by Paula Graves
A Bitterwood P.D. Novel
Publisher: Harlequin Intrigue
List Price: $4.99 (ebook), $5.50 (paperback)

A near-fatal accident unearths old family secrets …

Detective Walker Nix knew there was more to the Bitterwood police chief's "accident" and that someone wanted his boss dead. But when the victim's sister, U.S. marshal Dana Massey, insisted on becoming involved, Nix had a hunch his case — and his heart — was in for a heap of trouble.

With decades-old secrets — including a missing secret baby — being uncovered, it soon became apparent that Dana's family was at the center of the mystery. As Nix helped Dana solve this cold case, he found himself opening up more than he'd ever dared. Yet when it was over, she'd be leaving. Unless Detective Tall, Dark and Handsome took the scariest step of all …