The Coffin Ship by Peter Tonkin is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Coffin Ship by Peter Tonkin as today's fifth free mystery ebook (A Suspense Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 02, 2014 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 Coffin Ship
Peter Tonkin
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Endeavour Press

The giant supertanker Prometheus, the largest ship on Earth, sits at anchor in the Persian Gulf. In her tanks are 250,000 tons of crude oil. Somewhere on board is a crew member determined that she never completes her voyage to Europe. Already, many of the ship's officers have been killed in a mysterious "accident".

The fate of Prometheus rests in the hands of Richard Mariner, the tanker's new captain. It is his responsibility to battle human treachery and the dangers of the open sea to bring Prometheus to safe harbour.

From the Persian Gulf to the storm-tossed Atlantic, Mariner and his crew must struggle against the elements while trying to uncover the elusive — and cunning — enemy in their midst.

Can Mariner solve the mystery on board and rescue the crew? Or is Prometheus doomed to become a coffin ship?

  

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Poisoned Arrows by Paul M. Berry is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Poisoned Arrows by Paul M. Berry as today's fourth free mystery ebook (The Golden Aces Trilogy; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 02, 2014 at 7:15 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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Poisoned Arrows
Paul M. Berry
The Golden Aces Trilogy
Publisher: Paul M. Berry

Rob Thomas has spent the last ten years trying to forget all the terrible things he's done. But when notorious gangster Stephen McSharry is released from prison, determined to reclaim his place at the pinnacle of the Liverpool underworld, Rob is forced to return to a life he's tried to bury, and kill one last time.

Caught between an ambitious brother and a cop determined to salvage a career making case, Rob finds himself thrust into the midst of a gang war that threatens to rip the entire city apart.

Drawn deeper and deeper into the chaos, they will each have to sacrifice the life they know to satisfy their ambition. But in a world where murder and betrayal are the only currency that count, it might not be enough to see them succeed, or even survive.

  

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Of a Feather by Ken Goldman is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Of a Feather by Ken Goldman as today's third 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, April 02, 2014 at 7:00 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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Of a Feather
Ken Goldman
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Horrific Tales Publishing

Socrates has a gift, a power even he doesn't fully understand.

But old Gert, who feeds the pigeons in Gustav's Park, understands. Pretty Jamie, who works at the Bird Emporium, understands. And the old Indian chief who wears a strange, two-sided bird mask, he understands too.

As does the ancient, angry spirit called the Thunderbird and about a million of Wellington County's feathered creatures.

They know what Socrates Singer really is.

And they know what he can do …

  

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Ms America and the Offing on Oahu by Diana Dempsey is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Ms America and the Offing on Oahu by Diana Dempsey as today's second free mystery ebook (A Beauty Queen Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 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.

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Ms America and the Offing on Oahu
Diana Dempsey
A Beauty Queen Mystery
Publisher: Bramerton Press

Ms Ohio Happy Pennington finds out it's not all sequins and silicone when she competes on Oahu for the Ms America crown — the first national title of her life.

When her fiercest competitor tumbles dead out of the isolation booth during the televised pageant finale, Honolulu PD gets to thinking Happy might have killed her.

What's the only thing a beauty queen worth her sash can do? Nab the real killer — even if that means tangling with snarky rival contestants, a local who claims to be Hawaiian royalty, a brooding helicopter pilot, and a pageant emcee hot enough to die for …

  

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Alive and Killing by Jeff Carson is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Alive and Killing by Jeff Carson as today's free mystery ebook (A David Wolf Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 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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Alive and Killing
Jeff Carson
A David Wolf Mystery
Publisher: Jeff Carson

Just for a day, Colorado cop David Wolf trades slogging through murky meltwaters and even murkier small-town politics for an overnight camping trip in the wilderness with his son.

But when a man with fresh burns turns up on their trail, falling from the heavy load in his backpack and running wild from something, Wolf suspects his father-son camping trip may have just taken a turn for the worse.

Unfortunately his instincts are spot on, and Wolf is forced into action with the last person he wants by his side in a deadly battle — his only son.

When news of their disturbing episode travels through the valleys, local FBI agents want to take over Wolf's investigation, hoping to halt murder and corruption originating 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan. Wolf ignores the FBI's order to stand down, even if the case involves a matter of national security. Not when his son's safety is at stake.

  

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The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, April 02, 2014.

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

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The Devil's Punchbowl
Greg Iles
A Penn Cage Thriller
Scribner

As a prosecuting attorney in Houston, Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown — Natchez, Mississippi — that Penn will face his most dangerous threat. Urged by old friends to try to restore this fading jewel of the Old South, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in its quest for new jobs and fresh money, Natchez, like other Mississippi towns, has turned to casino gambling, and now five fantastical steamboats float on the river beside the old slave market at Natchez like props from Gone With the Wind.

But one boat isn't like the others.

Rumor has it that the Magnolia Queen has found a way to pull the big players from Las Vegas to its Mississippi backwater. And with them — on sleek private jets that slip in and out of town like whispers in the night — come pro football players, rap stars, and international gamblers, all sharing an unquenchable taste for one thing: blood sport — and the dark vices that go with it. When a childhood friend of Penn's who brings him evidence of these crimes is brutally murdered, the full weight of Penn's failure to protect his city hits home.

So begins his quest to find the men responsible. But it's a hunt he begins alone, for the local authorities have been corrupted by the money and power of his hidden enemy. With his family's lives at stake, Penn realizes his only allies in his one-man war are those bound to him by blood or honor. Together they must defeat a sophisticated killer who has an almost preternatural ability to anticipate — and counter — their every move. Ultimately, victory will depend on a bold stroke that will leave one of Penn's allies dead — and Natchez changed forever.

    

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The Haunting Season by Michelle Muto is Today's Teen Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Haunting Season by Michelle Muto as today's Teen Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, April 02, 2014.

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The Haunting Season
Michelle Muto
A Supernatural Thriller for Teens
Skyscape

Siler House has stood silent beneath Savannah's moss-draped oaks for decades. Notoriously haunted, it has remained empty until college-bound Jess Perry and three of her peers gather to take part in a month-long study on the paranormal. Able to talk to ghosts, Jess quickly bonds with her fellow test subjects, who have their own "gifts". One is possessed. Another just wants to forget. The third is a guy who knows how to turn up the August heat, not to mention Jess's heart rate … when he's not resurrecting the dead.

The study soon turns into something far more sinister when they discover that Siler House and the dark forces within are determined to keep them forever. To escape, Jess and the others must open themselves up to the true horror of Siler House and channel the very evil that seeks to hold them in.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140402)

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

• Our Featured Title is Sinking Island.

• The current Catch of the Week is Botanica: Into the Unknown, just $2.99 through Sunday, April 07, 2014 only.

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

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Our Featured Title today is Sinking Island

A billionaire has been murdered on a tropical island, and it's up to Detective Jack Norm to crack the case! Walter Jones had planned on opening up a resort for the rich and famous, but was killed before his dream could be achieved. Interview the ten people on Sinking Island to get valuable clues. This Adventure game will require you to use all your wits to solve the mystery and find the murderer! Warning: Explicit Language.

Also available for this game:

• Get the Strategy Guide

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The current Catch of the Week is Botanica: Into the Unknown

You are Dr. Ellie Wright, a botanist stranded on a strange planet called Botanica. Full of curious creatures and exotic landscapes, Botanica is like nothing you've ever seen! Test your wits as you navigate through lush forests, steampunk villages, and more. But danger lurks at every corner; make both friends and enemies as you try to outsmart the cunning Queen Kassandra. Can you survive Botanica and find your way back home?

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, April 07, 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.

A New MystereBook: The Carrier by Preston Lang

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 March 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

The Carrier by Preston Lang is the author's debut crime comedy.

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The Carrier by Preston Lang
A Crime Comedy
Publisher: 280 Steps
Publication Date: March 30, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 04/01/14 05:30 PM ET)

It's a bad idea for a drug courier to pick up strange women in roadside bars. Cyril learns this lesson when the girl he brings back to his motel room points a gun at him.

But Willow isn't the only one after the goods that Cyril's been hired to pick up. A fast talking sex-offender and his oversized neighbor are also on the trail, as is Cyril's sinister brother, Duane.

Willow and Cyril soon form an uneasy alliance based on necessity, lust, and the desire for a quick payday. But with so many dangerous players giving chase, will they nab their package?

  

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On Thin Ice, A Novel of Romantic Suspense by Anne Stuart, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature On Thin Ice by Anne Stuart, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.

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 (04/01/2014 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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On Thin Ice by Anne Stuart
A Novel of Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Anne Stuart

Elizabeth Pennington has come to the war-torn South American country of Callivera to volunteer at a tiny mission. Kidnapped by the local rebels who are more interested in ransom than politics, she ends up at their camp in the Andes where she meets Finn MacGowan, member of the infamous Committee, a covert organization dedicated to destroying terrorism.

MacGowan has been held hostage for almost three years, and he's chosen the night she arrives as the night he plans to escape. When he does, she follows him, heading down the steep mountainous terrain with another hostage, the teenage son of a Hollywood millionaire. Rebels, soldiers, traitors and near-drowning follows them on their journey.

As they travel from the mountain fortress to a transatlantic freighter, an old cafe in Spain ending in a shootout at a farmhouse in France, MacGowan reluctantly falls in love, and Beth learns that the cynical, dangerous soldier-of-fortune might be worth saving after all.

  

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A New MystereBook: A Death in the Pavilion by Caroline Dunford

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 March 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

A Death in the Pavilion by Caroline Dunford is the fifth historical mystery with Euphemia Martins, who is also featured in a Christmas novella published late last year.

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A Death in the Pavilion by Caroline Dunford
A Euphemia Martins Mystery
Publisher: Accent Press
Publication Date: March 30, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 04/01/14 04:30 PM ET)

Euphemia Martins, the estranged granddaughter of an Earl, entered service incognito with the Stapleford family to save her family from destitution and from that moment on she acquired the bothersome reputation of finding dead bodies.

Now promoted to the role of paid companion to the deplorable Richenda Stapleford she is staying at the country estate of Hans Muller upon whom Richenda has matrimonial designs. Mere weeks after their arrival Richenda's twin brother, Richard, dispatches a servant bearing news of shocking accusations concerning Muller.

Euphemia finds herself unravelling an old murder with Richenda as her unlikely ally but delving into the past sets off a dangerous series of events in the present and it's not long before Richenda, her step-brother Bertram and Euphemia find themselves in dire peril (again!).

Could it be that Hans Muller is not the charming man he appears but capable of the most terrible crimes? As usual it is up to Euphemia to solve the mystery using her quick wits and her unswerving sense of justice.

  

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A Kindle Mystery for $1.99: Superior Deception, A Vince Marshall Mystery by Matthew Williams

Amazon is offering 80 Kindle Books for $1.99 has part of a promotion that extends until April 16th, 2014.

Most of these 80 books are mystery, thriller or suspense titles, and we are pleased to feature one of them, below.

(Price verified on April 01, 2014 as of 4:00 PM ET.)

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Superior Deception by Matthew Williams
A Vince Marshall Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Small-town reporter Vince Marshall has a plan to be a better dad wean himself from his cell phone and a 24/7 work mentality and spend more time with his toddler. But when his daughter discovers the local judge swinging from a noose at the playground and Vince's friend becomes a murder suspect, that plan unravels. With toddler in tow, Vince knocks heads with a coworker out for his beat and a mayor with questionable motives while chasing clues left by a senile grave robber.

Meanwhile, arson, vandalism, domestic violence, and a contested election have the normally staid residents of Apostle Bay, a quaint harbor town on the southern shore of Lake Superior, at odds. Add Vince's wife Deb to the mix, leading a contentious protest at City Hall, and Vince finds his life once again out of control. Restoring order and saving his friend will require following a trail of deception to the solution of a 150-year-old mystery.

  

A New Faith Flores, Science Mystery: Death Spiral by Janie Chodosh

We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new First Clues: Mysteries for Kids books: Death Spiral by Janie Chodosh, a Faith Flores, Science Mystery.

For more information about the book, which is recommended for readers aged 13 and older, see a synopsis, below.

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Death Spiral by Janie Chodosh
Series: Faith Flores, Science
Publisher: The Poisoned Pencil
Format(s): Paperback

When loner Faith Flores finds her mother dead of an apparent overdose, she refuses to believe that's the case. Sure, her mom made some bad decisions, but leaving her daughter would never be one of them. Unfortunately, the cops are all too eager to close the case and move on, sending a distraught and unsatisfied Faith to live with her Aunt T in the suburbs of Philadelphia. But a note from Melinda, her mom's junkie friend, prompts Faith to begin digging, igniting her passion in science and her need for answers.

Faith soon discovers Melinda and her mother had participated in an experimental clinical trial to treat heroin addiction. Then Melinda also turns up dead from an apparent overdose. Now Faith is pulling out all the stops in her search for truth, cutting school, lying to her aunt, her best friend, even the police. The only person she can't lie to is new boy Jesse, whose brutal honesty is a welcome respite from the mountain of misinformation uncovered by her investigation. Faith's investigation takes her through the myriad back alleys and laboratories of Philly, all the way to one of the most powerful scientists in town.

But when the medical examiner's body is found in the Schuylkill River, Faith realizes if she doesn't find who's behind the sinister science and its cover-up, she could be next.

    

Open Road Mysteries for $1.99: Deadline, A Novel of Suspense by John Dunning

Open Road has discounted 25 titles to just $1.99 as part of their Mystery Deals promotion to celebrate the Edgar Awards.

Titles include winners, nominees, books by Grand Masters and those receiving special Edgars, and we are pleased to feature one of them, below.

(Price verified on April 01, 2014 as of 3:00 PM ET.)

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Deadline by John Dunning
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Open Road

During his first day at a new job, a veteran journalist is drawn into a strange closed society …

After years of churning out copy as a newspaper reporter, Dalton Walker still can't resist a fire. When a circus tent goes up in smoke, seventeen are killed, and one body in particular draws his attention: a little girl, charred beyond recognition. The adult that brought her there must have survived, but no one comes forward to claim the body. Why? It is a strange case, and the more Walker digs, the stranger it becomes.

At the same time, his new editor hands him a fluff piece — a profile of something New York City has never seen before: an Amish Rockette. As Walker investigates how a girl who was taught that dancing is a sin could have found her way to Radio City Music Hall, he begins to suspect that her apparent fear of reporters is more than just shyness. Danger surrounds the dancer, who is learning that life on the kickline can be just as perilous as a circus-tent fire.

  

Aloha Betrayed by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, New in Bookstores in April 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during April 2014 by NAL Hardcover, is Aloha Betrayed by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain.

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

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Aloha Betrayed
Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain
Series: Murder, She Wrote (41st)

Jessica is on the Hawaiian island of Maui, giving a lecture at Maui College on community involvement in police investigations — a subject she knows well. Her co-lecturer is legendary retired detective Mike Kane, a behemoth of a man who shares his love of Hawaiian lore, legends and culture with Jessica.

Sadly, all the talking stops when the body of a colleague is found at the rocky foot of a cliff.

Mala Kapule was a botanist and popular professor at the school, known for her activism and efforts on behalf of the volcanic crater Haleakala. The high altitude crater is already the site of an observatory, but plans to place the world's largest solar telescope there split the locals, with Mala fiercely arguing to preserve the delicate ecology of the area. Was someone trying to muffle the protestors? Or was Mala's killer making a more personal statement?

Now, it's up to Jessica, along with Mike, to uncover who was driven to silence the scientist … and betray the true meaning of Aloha.