Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Friday, May 20, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Friday, May 20, 2016 at 7:30 AM ET …

The Comfort of Black by Carter Wilson

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Kindle Daily Deal Price: 99¢

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Though they seem to have everything, Hannah Parks has watched her husband, Dallin, become increasingly distant. Her hope is buoyed when the couple decides to start a family, but what Dallin reveals in his sleep one night rocks Hannah to her core. As she starts to investigate a much darker side of Dallin than she ever knew existed, Hannah peels away the layers of a diseased relationship closely tied to her own abusive past.

When Dallin attempts to have Hannah abducted, she is forced to run, doing so with the aid of a man named Black — an ex-con and expert at helping people disappear. Together they must keep Hannah safe from her husband's far-reaching grasp, all the while trying to solve the mystery behind Dallin's sudden violence. Does Hannah's dark family history hold the key to her survival?

— The Comfort of Black by Carter Wilson

The Golden Scales by Parker Bilal

A Makana Investigation (1st in series)

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Nook Daily Find Price: $1.99

  

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The ancient city of Cairo is a whirling mix of the old and the new, where fates collide and the super rich rub shoulders with the desperate and the dispossessed. It is a place where ambition and corruption go hand in hand, and where people can disappear in the blink of an eye.

Makana is a former police inspector who fled for his life from his native Sudan seven years ago. Down on his luck and haunted by the past, he lives on a rickety Nile houseboat. When the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi hires him to track down a missing person Makana is in no position to refuse him.

Hanafi, whose past is as shady as his fortune is glittering, is the owner of Cairo's star-studded football team. His most valuable player has just vanished and Adil Romario's disappearance threatens to bring down not only Hanafi's private empire, but the entire country. But why should the city's most powerful man hire its lowliest private detective?

Thrust into a dangerous and glittering world Makana's investigation leads him into the treacherous underbelly of his adopted country — where he encounters Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter — it becomes a trail that stirs up painful memories, leading him back into the sights of an old and dangerous enemy …

— The Golden Scales by Parker Bilal

The Drowned Boy by Karin Fossum

An Inspector Sejer Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kobo Daily Deal Price: $2.99 (price-matched by Amazon)

  

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Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son, Tommy, after finding him floating in their backyard pond. When Inspector Skarre arrives on the scene, Carmen reports that Tommy, a healthy toddler with Down syndrome, wandered into the garden while Nicolai was working in the basement and she was cleaning the house. Skarre senses something is off with Carmen's story and consults his trusted colleague, the famed Inspector Sejer. An autopsy reveals Tommy's lungs to be full of soap.

When Sejer and Skarre revisit the couple, Carmen, an epileptic, changes her story, confessing that she'd been knocked unconscious by a seizure while bathing Tommy. When she came to, she found him drowned in the tub and, horrified and frightened, threw him into the pond.

But Skarre and Sejer's doubt is not appeased and the case is reopened. What more could Carmen be hiding? And what lengths will she take to cover her guilt? As Carmen's own family starts to doubt her, Skarre and Sejer work to find the truth.

— The Drowned Boy by Karin Fossum

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