Four Nicholas Colt Thrillers by Jude Hardin is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Four Nicholas Colt Thrillers by Jude Hardin as today's Kindle Daily Deal. We're highlighting the most recent in the series, Blood Tattoo, below.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Monday, March 03, 2014.

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Blood Tattoo
Jude Hardin
A Nicholas Colt Thriller
Thomas & Mercer

After last year's harrowing experience with a gruesome serial killer in Key West, rock-star-turned-PI Nicholas Colt has decided to hang up his investigator hat and settle into a nice quiet life of teaching guitar and spending time with his family. Or so he thinks …

Unfortunately, everything changes when an undercover Department of Defense investigator named Diana Dawkins comes crashing into his life. Diana tells Colt he has been recruited into The Circle, a super-secret organization — a mystery even to the CIA and the Secret Service — charged with protecting the country from terrorists at any cost. The only evidence of his involvement is a tiny spot — a "blood tattoo" on his left foot, invisible to the naked eye — that marks all members of The Circle. Diana needs Colt's help, and she's willing to pay him well for it.

Suddenly, Colt finds himself a key player in an elaborate effort to defend the president of the United States against an assassination attempt. His hush-hush missions for Diana and The Circle are becoming increasingly surreal — and deadly. Colt realizes he could lose everything, even the wife he loves. Will he be able to stop the terrorists in time? And at what cost?

  

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for March 03, 2014

A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

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This week's letters and mystery clue:

A C E J K N O S T

Steven Savile and Steve Lockley co-author a series of thrillers featuring this character (9 letters).

We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140303)

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

• The New Release is Fatal Passion: Art Prison.

• The current Catch of the Week is Web of Deceit: Black Widow, just $2.99 through Sunday, March 09, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — It is Bonus Punch Monday! Receive a BONUS PUNCH with every game purchase, only on Mondays.

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

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?

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

Also available for this game:

• Get the Strategy Guide
• Check out the Blog Walkthrough
• For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition

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The current Catch of the Week 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 at the special price of $2.99 through Sunday, March 09, 2014.

Also available for this game:

• Get the Strategy Guide.
• Check out the Blog Walkthrough.
• For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition.

Review: Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley

A Mysterious Review of Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley.

Review summary: The characters and setting are the hallmarks of this crime novel, which has more comic elements than criminal ones. Fast-reading and entertaining, this stand-alone depicts life in an otherwise quiet small town where the most unexpected can, and usually does, happen. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Cold Storage, Alaska
John Straley
Soho Crime (February 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the town is withering.

Clive "The Milkman" McCahon returns to his tiny Alaska hometown after a seven-year jail stint for dealing coke. He has a lot to make up to his younger brother, Miles, who has dutifully been taking care of their ailing mother. But Clive doesn't realize the trouble he's bringing home. His vengeful old business partner is hot on his heels, a stick-in-the-mud State Trooper is dying to bust Clive for narcotics, and, to complicate everything, Clive might be going insane — lately, he's been hearing animals talking to him. Will his arrival in Cold Storage be a breath of fresh air for the sleepy, depopulated town? Or will Clive's arrival turn the whole place upside down?

        

The Flower Master, A Rei Shimura Mystery by Sujata Massey, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Flower Master by Sujata Massey, 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 (03/02/2014 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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The Flower Master by Sujata Massey
A Rei Shimura Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Sujata Massey

Winner of the 2000 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel.

Rei Shimura, a California girl living in Tokyo, has an antiques business that's only slightly more successful than her love life. When her aunt enrolls her in the Kayama School of Ikebana to learn how to arrange flowers, disaster strikes. A mean teacher is found with scissors in her neck, and Takeo Kayama, the sexy billionaire heir to the school, considers Rei's aunt the main suspect.

Rei strives to prove her aunt's innocence but becomes enmeshed in a web of upper-class ladies, edgy environmental protesters, and young immigrants trying to make it in one of the world's most exciting and expensive cities. As danger rises, clues are sent to Rei in haiku poems that hint her family played a role in an old Kayama School tragedy that threatens not just her romantic future with Takeo — but her own life.

  

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A New MystereBook: A Burning Desire by J. R. Lindermuth

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 …

A Burning Desire by J. R. Lindermuth is the sixth mystery in this series, in which the past comes back to haunt former police chief Daniel "Sticks" Hetrick and his protégé, Officer Flora Vastine as an outbreak of arson shakes residents of rural Swatara Creek, Pennsylvania.

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A Burning Desire by J. R. Lindermuth
A Daniel "Sticks" Hetrick Murder Mystery
Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press
Publication Date: February 28, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 03/02/14 04:30 PM ET)

At first, the minor nature of the fires inclines authorities to see them as pranks, possibly the work of juveniles. Then, tension increases in the wake of a murder at the site of one fire and an increase in the value of targets.

Hetrick and Flora must confront troubling, dangerous people from the past, and errors in judgment add to their jeopardy.

  

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Lifetime Loser, A Prairie Winds Golf Course Mystery by James Ross, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Lifetime Loser by James Ross, 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 (03/02/2014 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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Lifetime Loser by James Ross
A Prairie Winds Golf Course Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Xlibris

After running a worn-out golf course on the east side of St. Louis for fifteen years J.W. Schroeder (J Dub) learns that his partner had been skimming profits the entire time. But even worse, J Dub discovers that he was an unknowing participant in a decades-old swindle and a victim of fraud.

The controlling partner, Lewferd E. Zerrmann, aligns himself with a dishonest attorney, a deceitful accountant and a corrupt politician to derail a government investigation and an IRS audit. He survives title improprieties and outlasts an overzealous U. S. Attorney. No one seems to be able to penetrate the isolated walls of Lew's fortress until J Dub steps up and risks it all to fight for what is his.

Who said real life was anything like "the gentleman's game?"

  

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Dead Between the Lines by Denise Swanson, New in Bookstores in March 2014

Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during March 2014 by Signet, is Dead Between the Lines by Denise Swanson.

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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Dead Between the Lines
Denise Swanson
Series: A Dev Sinclair, Devereaux's Dime Store Mystery

Opening an old-fashioned five-and-dime shop in her small Missouri hometown has been a great change for Devereaux "Dev" Sinclair. But when she hosts a reading group there, she learns that bad writing can mean life or death …

To keep her new business in the black, Dev opens up her shop to local clubs. But in the first meeting of the Stepping Out Book Club, the speaker storms out after members attack his poetry's sexism and scorn for small towns. Later that night, the poet's body is found outside Dev's store.

Dev can't afford for the murder to close her down, so she does a little stepping out of her own to investigate, with help from her two sexy suitors, Dr. Noah Underwood and Deputy U.S. Marshal Jake Del Vecchio. But when the killer threatens Dev, they will have to use every trick in the book to solve the case before she becomes the final chapter in this murder mystery.

        

The Jarvis File, A Mark Harrow Mystery by Robert J. Roy, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Jarvis File by Robert J. Roy, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.

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 (03/02/2014 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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The Jarvis File by Robert J. Roy
A Mark Harrow Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Bob Roy

Private investigator Mark Harrow, just home from his honeymoon, receives only the second call of his short career to investigate a gruesome murder. The solicitation comes from a prominent attorney, Edmond Jarvis, whose wife has been shot and killed. Harrow immediately suspects a measure of insincerity from his new client, but takes on the case anyway. Before he can gain a foothold into the investigation, his client is discovered bludgeoned to death. With his client deceased there is little point in continuing the investigation. Then, a Jarvis relative convinces Harrow to carry on.

What ensues is a whirlwind adventure into intrigue that involves forming an alliance with Israel's Mossad and uncovering a conspiracy on the part of a powerful US Senator — as well as Edmond Jarvis — to secretly fund terrorists. Clever investigating and a good deal of luck lead Harrow to a surprising conclusion and an unexpected perpetrator.

  

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City of Darkness and Light by Rhys Bowen, New in Bookstores in March 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during March 2014 by Minotaur Books, is City of Darkness and Light by Rhys Bowen.

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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City of Darkness and Light
Rhys Bowen
Series: Molly Murphy (13th)

Molly and Daniel Sullivan are settling happily into the new routines of parenthood, but their domestic bliss is shattered the night a gang retaliates against Daniel for making a big arrest. Daniel wants his family safely out of New York City as soon as possible. In shock and grieving, but knowing she needs to protect their infant son Liam, Molly agrees to take him on the long journey to Paris to stay with her friends Sid and Gus, who are studying art in the City of Light.

But upon arriving in Paris, nothing goes as planned. Sid and Gus seem to have vanished into thin air, and Molly's search to figure out what happened to them will lead her through all levels of Parisian society, from extravagant salons to the dingy cafes where starving artists linger over coffee and loud philosophical debates. And when in the course of her search she stumbles across a dead body, Molly, on her own in a foreign country, starts to wonder if she and Liam might be in even more danger in Paris than they had been at home.

        

The Bait, A Christie Opara Mystery by Dorothy Uhnak, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak, 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 (03/02/2014 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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The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak
A Christie Opara Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Open Road

Winner of the 1969 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.

It begins when New York Police Department Detective Second-Grade Christie Opara arrests a man on the subway for indecent exposure. Within hours, Murray Rogoff, a burly giant, his crazed stare concealed behind thick glasses, is out on bail.

Soon after, the body of a young dancer is found stashed behind the stairway of a Bronx apartment building. The girl was brutally raped and strangled, and a clue links her with two previous murders. The killer takes a signature trophy: a hacked-off lock of the victim's hair. A few days later, Christie starts to get strange, late-night phone calls. Although Rogoff never spoke when he was in lock-up, the detective's instincts tell her that Rogoff's the serial killer they're hunting. With the reluctant approval of her boss, Assistant District Attorney Casey Reardon, Christie prepares to become the bait of a deadly psychopath.

        

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New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense: Dark Tide by Susan Sleeman

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 Love Inspired Suspense series.

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Dark Tide by Susan Sleeman
The Justice Agency
Publisher: Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense
List Price: $5.99 (ebook), $5.99 (paperback)

Gina Evans knows her brother was murdered — even if the police won't believe her. After catching a quick glimpse of the evidence her brother had gathered, the same criminals are after her and her baby niece. And Gina's only hope is the man she left behind. Despite the painful memories, private investigator Derrick Justice won't fail Gina and her baby.

Yet now, the woman he never stopped loving and the baby he's come to adore are in a killer's crosshairs. But can Derrick trap the cold-blooded murderer before he strikes again?