The Forsaken by Ace Atkins, New in Bookstores during July 2014

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

The Forsaken by Ace Atkins

The Quinn Colson Series (4th)

Publisher: Putnam

        

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

More about our featured title, below …

Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a self-appointed posse, and lynched.

Now evidence has surfaced of his innocence, and county sheriff Quinn Colson sets out not only to identify the stranger's remains, but to charge those responsible for the lynching. As he starts to uncover old lies and dirty secrets, though, he runs up against fierce opposition from those with the most to lose — and they can play dirty themselves.

Soon Colson will find himself accused of terrible crimes, and the worst part is, the accusations just might stick. As the two investigations come to a head, it is anybody's guess who will prevail — or even come out of it alive.

— The Forsaken by Ace Atkins

Death, Taxes, and Silver Spurs by Diane Kelly, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2014 …

Death, Taxes, and Silver Spurs by Diane Kelly

The Tara Holloway Series (7th)

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

  

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

More about our featured title, below …

So maybe it goes without saying that IRS Special Agent Tara Holloway is star-struck? She's head over heels … in trouble.

Easy's getting harder every day for Tara. A tax-evading pet groomer managed to buzz off a big chunk of her hair … just in time for her date strictly-business meeting with country-music heartthrob Brazos Rivers. Of course Tara shouldn't care — she's devoted to Special Agent Nick Pratt, after all — but Rivers does know how to steal a woman's heart with a song …

Meanwhile, Tara's up to her fracking neck with another case: A natural-gas company with a money trail that is almost as suspicious as Brazos Rivers's tax return. Which is to say, he can't seem to cough up one. Tara figures the misdeeds of her celebrity crush must be an oversight. But will she dance to a different tune … when her tax-evading idol starts evading her, too?

— Death, Taxes, and Silver Spurs by Diane Kelly

Bark M for Murder, Four Short Stories by J. A. Jance, Virginia Lanier, Chassie West, and Lee Charles Kelley, 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 feature the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, William Morrow …

Bark M for Murder by J. A. Jance, Virginia Lanier, Chassie West, and Lee Charles Kelley

Four Short Stories

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $3.99 (as of 07/29/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Who let the dogs out?

Evildoers beware! Four of mystery fiction's top storytellers are setting the hounds on your trail -- in an incomparable quartet of crime stories with a canine edge.

Man's (and woman's) best friends take the lead in this phenomenal collection of tales tense and surprising, humorous and thrilling: J. A. Jance's spellbinding saga of a scam-busting septuagenarian and her two golden retrievers; Virginia Lanier's pureblood thriller featuring bloodhounds and bloody murder; Chassie West's suspenseful stunner about a life-saving German shepherd and a ghastly forgotten crime; and Lee Charles Kelley's edge-of-your-seat yarn that pits an ex-cop/kennel owner and a yappy toy poodle against a craven killer.

— Bark M for Murder by J. A. Jance, Virginia Lanier, Chassie West, and Lee Charles Kelley

Mad as Helen, A Helen Evans, River Road Mystery by Susan McBride, New This Week from Witness Impulse

Every week, Witness Impulse — an imprint of William Morrow — releases new suspense and thriller digital originals, typically priced at just $2.99 each.

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of this week's titles …

Mad as Helen by Susan McBride

A Helen Evans, River Road Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Witness Impulse

Price: $2.99 (as of 07/29/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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When tiny River Bend, Illinois, is hit by a string of burglaries even Sheriff Frank Biddle can't solve, the clients of LaVyrle's Cut 'n' Curl can hardly talk of anything but. There are no signs of forced entry and no fingerprints, and valuables are missing from secret hiding places, as if the thief knew what he wanted and just where to look.

Helen Evans wonders what the world has come to if even their once-quiet town isn't safe anymore. Then Grace Simpson, a big-city psychotherapist who had opened up shop in River Bend, is found dead on her bedroom floor, and Helen's granddaughter is caught with the murder weapon in hand.

Sure of the girl's innocence, Helen embarks on a little investigation of her own and turns up plenty of folks who aren't grieving a bit now that Grace is dead …

— Mad as Helen by Susan McBride

Telemystery: Midsomer Murders, New This Week on DVD

Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or Video-on-Demand, is profiling one series from our site being released this week.

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Midsomer Murders
Set Twenty-Four

The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham, the series stars Neil Dudgeon as the capable Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby, with Jason Hughes as his earnest, efficient protégé, Detective Sergeant Ben Jones.

Three feature-length episodes are included in this set:

"Written in the Stars" — The death of an amateur astronomer during a total eclipse of the sun shines light into some dark corners of the star-gazing community in Midsomer Stanton.

"The Sicilian Defence" — Star-crossed lovers and championship chess intersect as the detectives search for a killer who leaves a chess notation at the scene of the crime.

"Schooled in Murder" — A series of gruesome murders appears to be related to secret plans to modernize the dairy that produces the famous Midsomer Blue.

    

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Visit the Telemystery website to discover more television mystery series currently available on and coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or video on demand.