One Garish Ghost & Blueberry Peach Jam, A Dead by the Numbers Mystery by Jennifer Fischetto, New This Week from Gemma Halliday

Gemma Halliday Publishing is a boutique publisher of light-hearted mystery, romantic suspense and romantic comedy novels, perfect for popping into your beach bag for a weekend away or cozying up beside a warm fire for a quiet night in.

We've selected one of their recently published titles to feature here today …

One Garish Ghost & Blueberry Peach Jam by Jennifer Fischetto

A Dead by the Numbers Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Presents

Price: $0.99 (as of 10/25/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Gianna Mancini has chatted with ghosts most of her life. It's never affected her much. Until now …

The latest ghost in Gianna's family-centric, boy-complicated, job-depleted world is Emma Tinsdale, a woman Gianna despises. Wanting Emma out of her apartment and her orbit, Gianna chooses to help her move on, but she doesn't expect to come across poisonous jam, a vengeful cop, or a group of friendly clowns.

When a relative is framed for Emma's death, Gianna must dig deeper and faster to find out what really happened that fatal night on the beach. With help from her sister, her cop brother, and her ex-boyfriend, Julian, she gets close to figuring out the truth. But when the killer closes in, Gianna better watch her step unless she wants to become the latest member of the dearly departed.

— One Garish Ghost & Blueberry Peach Jam by Jennifer Fischetto

Seventh Grave and No Body by Darynda Jones, New in Bookstores during October 2014

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

Seventh Grave and No Body by Darynda Jones, a Charlotte "Charley" Davidson Mystery (7th 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 October 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of October 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

More about our featured title, below …

Twelve. Twelve of the deadliest beasts ever forged in the fires of hell have escaped onto our plane, and they want nothing more than to rip out the jugular of Charley Davidson and serve her lifeless, mangled body to Satan for dinner. So there's that.

But Charley has more on her plate than a mob of testy hellhounds. For one thing, her father has disappeared, and the more she retraces his last steps, the more she learns he was conducting an investigation of his own, one that has Charley questioning everything she's ever known about him. Add to that an ex-BFF who is haunting her night and day, a rash of suicides that has authorities baffled, and a drop-dead sexy fiancé who has attracted the attentions of a local celebrity, and Charley is not having the best week of her life.

But all of that combined barely scratches the surface of her problems. Recent developments — and a few distressing prophesies — have forced her to become a responsible adult. Exactly the kind of adult she's never aspired to be. To conquer such a monumental task, she's decided to start small. Really small. She gets a pet. But how can she save the world against the forces of evil when she can't even keep a goldfish alive?

— Seventh Grave and No Body by Darynda Jones

Christmas at Thunder Horse Ranch by Elle James, New from Harlequin Intrigue in October 2014

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

Christmas at Thunder Horse Ranch by Elle James

Imprint: Intrigue

  

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

En route to investigate an illegal crossing, Border Patrol agent Dante Thunder Horse's helicopter goes down in a fiery blaze. He makes it out of the wreckage — just barely — and tackles his assailant to the ground. Paleontologist Emma Jennings is no killer — but she's now in the crosshairs of one. Sworn to protect the woman who saved him, Dante needs to find out who shot him down and why.

When Emma accompanies Dante back to his Badlands ranch, where a vengeful enemy threatens his family and their proud heritage, she's in even more danger … of falling for the brave Lakota pilot. But can there be a future with a man haunted by the past?

— Christmas at Thunder Horse Ranch by Elle James

Birdman, A Jack Caffrey Thriller by Mo Hayder, 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, Grove Press …

Birdman by Mo Hayder

A Jack Caffrey Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Grove Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/25/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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In his first case as lead investigator with London's crack murder squad, Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is called on to investigate the murder of a young woman whose body has been discovered near the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, south-east London.

Brutalized, mutilated beyond recognition, the victim is soon joined by four others discovered in the same area — all female and all ritualistically murdered. And when the post-mortem examination reveals a gruesome signature connecting the victims, Caffery realizes exactly what he's dealing with — a dangerous serial killer.

— Birdman by Mo Hayder

Winners of the Fall 2014 CWA Dagger Awards Announced

The winners of the Fall 2014 CWA Dagger Awards were announced last night by the Crime Writers' Assocation …

Gold Dagger (for Best Crime Novel):
• This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash (Doubleday)

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (for Best Thriller):
• An Officer and A Spy by Robert Harris (Random House)

John Creasey New Blood Dagger (for Best First Crime Novel):
• The Axeman's Jazz by Ray Celestin (Mantle)

Congratulations to the winners!