Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141130)

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

• The New Release is Weird Park: The Final Show.

• The Daily Deal is Revived Legends: Road of the Kings, just $2.99 today only!

• Today's Special Deal — Fall Harvest Sale! All Games Are 60% Off this weekend only! Use coupon code FALL at check-out to purchase any Collector's Edition game for $7.99 or use coupon code HARVEST for Standard Edition games at just $3.99. Offer valid through November 30th, 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 is Weird Park: The Final Show

A young boy has stepped into a closet and disappeared. Cops and journalists have swarmed his home looking for answers but they can't see what lies behind the veil of reality — a bizarre alternate dimension created by a twisted imagination! Take the role of an investigative report and unlock the door to the other world. Save the child and bring an end to Mr. Dudley's reign of terror. Can you solve the puzzles he put in place to stop you from reaching the boy? Will you be able to cling to your sanity as you explore strange worlds that defy everything you have ever believed? Most importantly, the fate of Louis the Clown lies in your hands … what will you decide? The curtain closes on the Weird Park saga in this shocking third chapter in the hit series. Don't miss this stunning final installment in the Weird Park trilogy!

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Revived Legends: Road of the Kings

What started out as a normal day takes a turn for the fantastic when you drive into a strange fog bank. Inside, you learn that the fog is slowly blending our world with a magical realm. Soon both worlds will be destroyed, and you are the only one who can still save them! Now you must embark on a journey down the legendary Road of the Kings to confront the villain and his terrible fog. Explore enchanting locations, meet fantastic creatures, and solve perplexing puzzles as you become the hero of two worlds in this beautiful Hidden Object adventure!

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

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.

2014 James Patterson Bestsellers for $2.50-$3.75 on Kindle

Amazon has been discounting bestselling mysteries and thrillers published during 2014 this past week, and here are the James Patterson titles currently priced between $2.50 and $3.75 each as of the date and time of this post:

• Invisible (with David Ellis);
• NYPD Red 2 (with Marshall Karp);
• Burn (with Michael Ledwidge);
• Unlucky 13 (with Maxine Paetro);
• Private L.A. (with Mark Sullivan); and
• Private Down Under (with Michael White).

Prices have been fluctuating, so please confirm the price of the book before you 1-click purchase it. These are terrific deals on popular authors, so we encourage you to take advantage of them while they're available!

The Fox in the Forest, A Lambert and Hook Mystery by J. M. Gregson, New This Week from Endeavour Press

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.

We've selected one of their recently published mystery, suspense, thriller or crime titles to feature here today …

The Fox in the Forest by J. M. Gregson

A Lambert and Hook Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/29/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.

When the town vicar Peter Barton is found shot in the woods that lie between two peaceful villages on Christmas Eve, Superintendent Lambert and his CID team are called in to investigate. His estranged wife had herself gone missing in the days before her husband's death, busy with her lover. Could she be the killer Lambert is looking for? Or could it be the only man who seems to dislike the victim and owns a matching shotgun? Or the sweet local boy who travels through the woods every day?

Then a second victim is found, again in the woods, again with a shotgun: a man they had held for thirty six hours before. It seems that they have a serial killer on their hands, selecting victims at random, a killer who the papers are calling the "Fox".

With a long list of potential suspects and no real evidence, Lambert struggles to find his culprit. The rural community closes in upon itself, and with its own secrets, when another girl is attacked by the Fox and everyone seems to know the details of the two killings. Can Lambert and his team find a killer amongst the different townspeople with connections to the murders? More importantly, can they piece together the few clues they have to find the truth before another victim is found?

— The Fox in the Forest by J. M. Gregson

2014 Bestsellers for $3.75 on Kindle

Amazon has been discounting bestselling mysteries and thrillers published during 2014 this past week, and here are the titles currently priced $3.75 each as of the date and time of this post:

• Missing You by Harlan Coben;
• The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith;
• The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness;
• Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King;
• Festive in Death by J. D. Robb;
• Field of Prey by John Sandford; and
• Act of War by Brad Thor.

Prices have been fluctuating, so please confirm the price of the book before you 1-click purchase it. These are terrific deals on popular authors, so we encourage you to take advantage of them while they're available!

Body Market, A Ray Wilson Thriller by Andrew Leatham, New This Week from Endeavour Press

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.

We've selected one of their recently published mystery, suspense, thriller or crime titles to feature here today …

Body Market by Andrew Leatham

A Ray Wilson Thriller

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/29/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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The North sea, many miles from the coast of Rotterdam. Mia, a beautiful medical student from Damascus, flings herself from the helm of a ferry. For £15,000, she had been promised a new life in England, a new job and more money than she could ever dream of. In reality, her destination had been the strip-clubs and brothels of England's seedy criminal underworld. Mia is one of hundreds of young girls lured into the snare of a complex network of criminal activity. The NCA have called it Hydra: a name taken from Ancient mythology. A beast with many heads. The Hydra network spreads across Europe and the Middle East, supplying Class A and B drugs as well as firearms. For a high price, to match high demand, they also import women. To take down this national network, the NCA must send someone in undercover.

Ray Wilson, Chief Constable of the West Yorkshire Police, must gain the trust of Mike Pilling and his gang members, in order to collect incriminating evidence. But there are complications. Hydra is protected by an old trick: the honey trap. Politicians, police officers and members of the press have been bought and blackmailed at the highest level using incriminating photographs. In order to protect Wilson and the operation, this mission must be kept off the records. An accidental leak would cost him his life.

Can this by-the-book Detective work off the radar to incriminate, and destroy, the Hydra's international domination? With no protocol to protect him, Wilson is on his own.

— Body Market by Andrew Leatham

The Book of Killowen, A Nora Gavin Mystery by Erin Hart, Now Available at a Special Price

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy. Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Scribner …

The Book of Killowen by Erin Hart

A Nora Gavin Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Scribner

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/29/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.

After a year away from working in the field, archaeologist Cormac Maguire and pathologist Nora Gavin are back in the bogs, investigating a ninth-century body found buried in the trunk of a car. They discover that the ancient corpse is not alone — pinned beneath it is the body of Benedict Kavanagh, missing for mere months and familiar to television viewers as a philosopher who enjoyed destroying his opponents in debate. Both men were viciously murdered, but centuries apart — so how did they end up buried together in the bog?

While on the case, Cormac and Nora lodge at Killowen, a nearby artists' colony, organic farm, and sanctuary for eccentric souls. Digging deeper into the older crime, they become entangled in high-stakes intrigue encompassing Kavanagh's death while surrounded by suspects in his ghastly murder. It seems that everyone at Killowen has some secret to protect.

— The Book of Killowen by Erin Hart

Deadly Obsession by Maggie Shayne, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014 …

Deadly Obsession by Maggie Shayne

A Brown and De Luca Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: Harlequin MIRA

  

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for November 2014. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of November 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

More about our featured title, below …

A cold-blooded killer with a burning obsession …

Rachel de Luca has a bad feeling about the new woman in Detective Mason Brown's life, the nurse taking care of him after he's injured in the line of duty. She'd like to think it's just jealousy, but intuition tells her it's something more, maybe something dangerous.

Mason knows Rachel's wary of commitment, and asking her to stay when he's in this condition would be the worst thing for their relationship. Then they receive chilling news that drives everything else from their minds.

Mason's psychotic sister-in-law has escaped from custody, putting her sons — the nephews he's raising — in the crosshairs. When his house is burned to the ground, he and Rachel are relieved that there are no bodies in the smoldering rubble, but now his nephews are missing and the clock is ticking.

As Mason and Rachel try to find the boys, she senses a new and unexpected danger stalking them. Soon, everyone close to Mason is in deadly peril — Rachel more than anyone …

— Deadly Obsession by Maggie Shayne

2014 Bestsellers for $3.50 on Kindle

Amazon has been discounting bestselling mysteries and thrillers published during 2014 this past week, and here are the titles currently priced $3.50 each as of the date and time of this post:

• Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich; and
• Killer by Jonathan Kellerman.

Prices have been fluctuating, so please confirm the price of the book before you 1-click purchase it. These are terrific deals on popular authors, so we encourage you to take advantage of them while they're available!

Betrayed by Lisa Scottoline, New in Bookstores during November 2014

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during November 2014 is …

Betrayed by Lisa Scottoline, a Rosato and Associates Mystery (13th in series)

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

        

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

More about our featured title, below …

Judy Carrier has always championed the underdog, so when Iris, the housekeeper and best friend of Judy's beloved Aunt Barb, is found dead of an apparent heart attack, Judy begins to suspect foul play. The circumstances of the death leave Judy with more questions than answers, and never before has murder struck so close to home.

In the meantime, Judy's own life roils with emotional and professional upheaval. She doesn't play well with her boss, Bennie Rosato, which jeopardizes her making partner at the firm. Not only that, her best friend Mary DiNunzio is planning a wedding, leaving Judy feeling left behind, as well as newly unhappy in her relationship with her live-in boyfriend Frank.

Judy sets her own drama aside and begins an investigation of Iris's murder, then discovers a shocking truth that confounds her expectations and leads her in a completely different direction. She finds herself plunged into a shadowy world of people who are so desperate that they cannot go to the police, and where others are so ruthless that they prey on vulnerability. Judy finds strength within herself to try to get justice for Iris and her aunt — but it comes at a terrible price.

— Betrayed by Lisa Scottoline

2014 Bestsellers for $3.25 on Kindle

Amazon has been discounting bestselling mysteries and thrillers published during 2014 this past week, and here are the titles currently priced $3.25 each as of the date and time of this post:

• Mean Streak by Sandra Brown;
• Personal by Lee Child;
• I've Got You Under My Skin by Mary Higgins Clark;
• Gray Mountain by John Grisham; and
• Deadline by John Sandford.

Prices have been fluctuating, so please confirm the price of the book before you 1-click purchase it. These are terrific deals on popular authors, so we encourage you to take advantage of them while they're available!

Hazardous Homecoming by Dana Mentink, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in November 2014

Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title from Harlequin, published this month …

Hazardous Homecoming by Dana Mentink

Series: Wings of Danger

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

For more information about the book, see a synopsis, below.

Ruby Hudson finds new evidence that could shed light on her childhood friend's disappearance. But she'll have to fight for her life to keep it out of the wrong person's hands. Cooper Stokes' brother is still the prime suspect, and as the cold case heats up, so do Ruby's forgotten feelings for Cooper. Ruby wants justice for her friend. Cooper wants to prove his brother's innocence. Despite being on opposite sides, they find themselves drawn to one another. But the deeper they dig into decades-old secrets, the closer they come to having to make a choice between family and love.

— Hazardous Homecoming by Dana Mentink

Jerusalem Inn, A Richard Jury Mystery by Martha Grimes, Now Available at a Special Price

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy. Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Scribner …

Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes

A Richard Jury Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Scribner

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/29/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Five Days Before Christmas: On his way to a brief holiday (he thinks) Jury meets a woman he could fall in love with. He meets her in a snow-covered graveyard — not, he thinks, the best way to begin an attachment.

Four Days Before Christmas: Jury meets Father Rourke, who draws for him the semiotic square — "a structure that might simplify thought," says the priest, but Jury's thoughts need more than symbols.

Three Days Before Christmas: Melrose Plant, Jury's aristocratic and unofficial assistant, arrives at Spinney Abbey, now home to a well-known critic. Among the assembled snowbound guests he meets — Lady Assington, Beatrice Sleight, and the painter Edward Parmenger. When they all assemble in the dining room, Lady Assington announces, "I think we should have a murder."

— Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes

New This Week: Taking the Rap, A Ryan Doherty Mystery by Jennifer Moss

Omnimystery News is pleased to present 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 November 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

Taking the Rap by Jennifer Moss

A Ryan Doherty Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Black Opal Books

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/29/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.

When rapper Terrico James claimed to be "mightier than Jesus," nobody took him seriously … until someone did. Terrico's dead body ends up nailed to a cross and Chicago Detective Ryan Doherty is on the case. Was it a fringe religious sect making a statement? Or Terrico's protégé, Mandy Ross, a petulant pop star who sheds hearts like glitter in her path? With the help of his partner, Matt Di Santo, and the spirit of his dead partner, Jon, Ryan fights his way through cultural divides to find the murderer.

Catharine Lulling is ready to venture outside of her estate for her first real date with Ryan. But even her special abilities can't save her when she reveals a secret she's been hiding from him — one that could destroy their relationship for good.

— Taking the Rap by Jennifer Moss

2014 Bestsellers Now Priced for $2.50 on Kindle

Amazon has been discounting bestselling mysteries and thrillers published during 2014 this past week, and here are the titles currently priced $2.50 each as of the date and time of this post:

• The Target by David Baldacci; and
• Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner.

Prices have been fluctuating, so please confirm the price of the book before you 1-click purchase it. These are terrific deals on popular authors, so we encourage you to take advantage of them while they're available!

Please Welcome Mystery Author Marty Wingate

with Marty Wingate

We are delighted to welcome author Marty Wingate to Omnimystery News.

Marty's second mystery in her Potting Shed series is The Red Book of Primrose House (Alibi; November 2014 ebook formats) and we asked her to tell us a little more about it, which is the subject of her guest post for us today.

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Marty Wingate

Pru Parke, American gardener in England, has landed the job of her dreams in the second of my Potting Shed mysteries. She is now the head gardener of a historic landscape, one that she must restore in only a few months, because her employers plan to open it to the public for one day, when potentially hundreds of visitors will pass judgment on what she's done. While juggling her responsibilities and managing the uncertainties of her own life she — wouldn't you know it — discovers a dead body. So not so much dream as nightmare, as it turns out.

I love writing this series, which began with The Garden Plot, because it combines my interests in gardening, travel, and England. And I love my protagonist, a middle-aged woman from Dallas who takes a chance on a new life — she's got a lot of nerve, taking such a leap at her age. But although Pru's friends all thought she was crazy to move to another country, she didn't think so, because she has ties to England — her mother was from a village in Hampshire. She embraces her new country and

In a series, Pru's personal story can be an overarching arc. While each book deals with particular issues and particular murders, Pru is on her own path. Desperate for family ties to her adopted country, she embraces new friends, always thinking the best of people without quite knowing all the facts. Gullible, she admits, putting a name to her own tiny character flaw that can so easily get her into trouble; she's just like Pollyanna, her friends used to say. While trying to solve a murder, she finds her way to some sort of family and — a real surprise for her — love.

Back to that dreaded garden open day. In England, the National Gardens Scheme organizes open days for both great houses and small private gardens throughout the country; all money raised — including for tea and cake — going to charity. These special days are published yearly in the eponymous Yellow Book; on almost every day throughout spring and summer, you can see signs along the roads and country lanes: "Garden Open." These are lovely days out — a chance for gardeners to not just peer over the fence at another's property, but walk right in, judging whether the plantings and design are really worth it or not. The fact that Primrose House is based on a design by 19th-century landscaper Humphry Repton and Pru is attempting to recreate it using Repton's own Red Book which detailed his design, only adds to the pressure on her.

And you thought gardening such a mild profession. Not so — especially not in England. Gardens open through the NGS must be vetted. That's right, first someone comes through and decides if your garden is actually worthy of being open. And so, the bar is set high for any open garden.

Photo provided courtesy of
Marty Wingate

Pru's employers don't bother with the usual channel of opening their garden, instead they cavalierly go about plans, expecting Pru to work miracles with a small crew while she sticks her nose the murder investigation and ends up with an irritating inspector breathing down her neck.

I prefer to do my research firsthand, and love to attend garden open days. My husband and I stayed in a bed-and-breakfast in Tunbridge Wells for The Red Book of Primrose House — not far from the fictitious Primrose House, which is set near the real Bells Yew Green. I like to feel a part of the landscape, if you will, before I feel comfortable enough to write a description that will make my readers feel at home there, too. The pubs may be part of my imagination, but those English ales are real!

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Marty Wingate is a regular contributor to Country Gardens as well as other magazines. She also leads gardening tours throughout England, Scotland, Ireland, France, and North America.

For more information about the author, please visit her website at MartyWingate.com and her author page on Goodreads, or find her on Facebook and Twitter.

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The Red Book of Primrose House
Marty Wingate
A Potting Shed Mystery

Texas transplant Pru Parke's restoration of a historic landscape in England is uprooted by an ax murderer …

Pru Parke has her dream job: head gardener at an eighteenth-century manor house in Sussex. The landscape for Primrose House was laid out in 1806 by renowned designer Humphry Repton in one of his meticulously illustrated Red Books, and the new owners want Pru to restore the estate to its former glory — quickly, as they're planning to showcase it in less than a year at a summer party.

But life gets in the way of the best laid plans: When not being happily distracted by the romantic attentions of the handsome Inspector Christopher Pearse, Pru is digging into the mystery of her own British roots. Still, she manages to make considerable progress on the vast grounds — until vandals wreak havoc on each of her projects. Then, to her horror, one of her workers is found murdered among the yews. The police have a suspect, but Pru is certain they're wrong. Once again, Pru finds herself entangled in a thicket of evil intentions — and her, without a hatchet.