The Fairyland Murders by J. A. Kazimer, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Blue Reynolds

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series titles, a mystery, thriller or suspense novel that introduces a recurring character (or characters) …

The Fairyland Murders by J. A. Kazimer

A Deadly Ever After Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kensington

  

What we know about the character: Blue Reynolds is a private investigator in New Never City. For more information about his first case, see a synopsis of the book, below.

Not all endings are happy …

Blue Reynolds knows the darker side of New Never City — the side that's hopped-up on fairy dust and doesn't care if your house gets blown down. Rent's due and his PI business is all but make believe. But even Blue shudders at having to chase after Isabella Davis, a freckle-nosed redhead five feet tall on her tip-toes … if you don't count the pretty pink wings.

Izzy is tough, and sneaky, and not too thrilled with the idea of being the new tooth fairy. The last six have been most gruesomely extracted. But Blue has a feeling that whoever is killing the tooth fairies is worse than your standard big bad psycho. The fairy council is hiding something. The Shadows are moving out into the light. And Blue is saddled with a shocking power that could take out half of New Never City …

— The Fairyland Murders by J. A. Kazimer

Cypress Grove, A John Turner Mystery by James Sallis, Now Available at a Special Price

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Cypress Grove by James Sallis

A John Turner Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Walker Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/18/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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The small town where Turner has moved is one of America's lost places, halfway between Memphis and forever. That makes it a perfect hideaway: a place where a man can bury the past and escape the pain of human contact, where you are left alone unless you want company, where conversation only happens when there's something to say, where you can sit and watch an owl fly silently across the face of the moon. And where Turner hopes to forget that he has been a cop, a psychotherapist, and, always, an ex-con.

There is no major crime to speak of until Sheriff Lonnie Bates arrives on Turner's porch with a bottle of Wild Turkey and a problem: The body of a drifter has been found — brutally and ritualistically — murdered and Bates and his deputy need help from someone with big-city experience who appreciates the delicacy of investigating people in a small town. Thrust back into the middle of what he left behind, Turner slowly becomes reacquainted not only with the darkness he had fled, but with the unsuspected kindness of others.

— Cypress Grove by James Sallis

Perfect Sins by Jo Bannister, New in Bookstores during December 2014

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

Perfect Sins by Jo Bannister, A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Minotaur Books

        

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

More about our featured title, below …

Four years ago, Gabriel Ash was working with the British government investigating hijackings in Somalia. But when his wife and sons disappeared, presumably taken — and probably killed — by pirates, his life fell apart. He has sudden reason to hope when a senior policeman suggests that his sons might still be alive — until that policeman is murdered. Still, there seems to be some link to a local operation, and Ash, no longer a government agent, is determined to find it.

Meanwhile, his friend Hazel Best has been having a tough time of her own. A police constable whose last case ended with her shooting someone dead, she is just beginning to regain her balance. Hazel and Ash are both beginning to take more of an interest in the outside world, when a neighboring archaeologist decides to dig up a curious mound of earth near the ice house on his land. It might be a burial mound, he thinks. It is, but not the ancient one he expects; it holds the bones of a little boy from perhaps thirty years ago, carefully laid to rest with twentieth-century toys. As Hazel is slowly drawn back into police work, Ash finds himself under threat from someone who must think his investigation into his family's disappearance is finally getting somewhere …

— Perfect Sins by Jo Bannister

City of Lost Girls, An Ed Loy Mystery by Declan Hughes, Now Available at a Special Price

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City of Lost Girls by Declan Hughes

An Ed Loy Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/18/2014 at 2:00 PM ET).

Also available for 99¢ to $3.99: the 2nd through 4th mysteries in this series, The Color of Blood, The Price of Blood, and All the Dead Voices.

  

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Dublin PI Ed Loy tackles a case that takes him back to Los Angeles — his home of twenty years — and a past he'd rather forget …

Ed Loy has laid his ghosts to rest. He's been back in his hometown of Dublin for several years, his work is wearing but steady, and he's in his first loving relationship since the death of his daughter caused the ruin of his marriage six years ago. But when two girls go missing from a Dublin film set, Loy knows his past has caught up with him.

Loy's longtime friend, film director Jack Donovan, is shooting his next movie, an Irish historical epic. Donovan and his three right-hand men — together, the Gang of Four — have made numerous movies together spanning several decades, but the new film is primed to be their masterpiece. Production grinds to a halt, though, when not one but two female cast members fail to show up to work. Chances are they're party girls sleeping off a late night, but the circumstances feel familiar to Loy. A little too familiar. Twenty years ago, three girls disappeared from a movie Donovan was shooting in Malibu and their bodies were never found. Today, Loy has a sinking feeling in his heart: Those girls are gone.

Knowing that one of the film crew — maybe even Jack Donovan himself — is responsible for the girls' disappearances, Loy races to uncover the truth before a third girl goes missing. And in order to find answers, he must return to L.A. and delve deep into his past. But while he's so far from home, a cunning killer seizes the chance to strike at what's closest to Ed Loy's heart.

— City of Lost Girls by Declan Hughes

UnCatholic Conduct by Stevie Mikayne, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014 …

UnCatholic Conduct by Stevie Mikayne

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Bold Strokes Books

  

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

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Private investigator Jil Kidd is finding life too damn complicated at the moment. The P.I. firm belonging to her mentor, Padraig, is in a financial mess, and to help him, she must take this latest assignment — which couldn't be more offensive. When Jil is sent to St. Marguerite's Catholic School to investigate teachers breaking their contracts of Catholic conduct, her investigation takes a dramatic turn after a student winds up dead on campus. To further complicate matters, circumstances keep throwing her together with the hot blond principal, Jessica Blake, at the center of her investigation.

Decades-old secrets run deep through the veins of this traditional school, and Jil has to find answers to some chilling questions — like what really happened to those two boys in the old gym forty years ago — before another student pays the ultimate price.

Difficult, when all she can think about is getting Jessica into bed.

— UnCatholic Conduct by Stevie Mikayne