Some Enchanted Éclair by Bailey Cates, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2014 …

Some Enchanted Éclair by Bailey Cates

The Katie Lightfoot, Magical Bakery Series (4th)

Publisher: Signet

  

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 …

Flour power …

When Hollywood invades Savannah's historic district to film a Revolutionary War movie, magical baker Katie Lightfoot, and her witches' coven, the Spellbook Club, take a break from casting spells for casting calls. One of the witches snags a part as an extra, while Katie's firefighter boyfriend, Declan, acts as on-set security. Katie and her aunt Lucy decide to stay out of the action, but after the movie's "fixer" fires the caterer, the Honeybee Bakery comes to the rescue, working their magic to keep the hungry crew happy.

But when someone fixes the fixer — permanently — and a spooky psychic predicts Katie will find the killer, the charming baker and her fellow conjurers step in to sift through the suspects … before someone else winds up on the cutting room floor …

— Some Enchanted Éclair by Bailey Cates

Gideon's Corpse, A Gideon Crew Novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, 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, Grand Central …

Gideon's Corpse by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

A Gideon Crew Novel (2nd in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $2.99 (as of 07/04/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.

A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before.

Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack.

Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, learns the end may be something worse — far worse — than mere Armageddon.

— Gideon's Corpse by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Sign Off, The Caught Dead in Wyoming Series by Patricia McLinn, 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, Bell Bridge Books …

Sign Off by Patricia McLinn

The Caught Dead in Wyoming Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Bell Bridge Books

Price: $0.99 (as of 07/04/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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The last time anyone in Cottonwood County, Wyoming saw Sheriff's Deputy Foster Redus, he was bloody, cussing, and driving his pimped-out pickup into the November darkness. A week before Christmas, rancher Thomas David Burrell was arrested for the assault and charged with the deputy's murder, since neither Redus nor his truck had been seen since the Monday after Thanksgiving.

The prosecutor later set Burrell free due to insufficient evidence, but with the whole county still suspecting him of the crime, his ex-wife refused to let their daughter visit him anymore.

"You've got to prove my Daddy didn't kill anybody," second grader Tamantha Burrell tells KWMT-TV's consumer affairs reporter, New York transplant Elizabeth Daniher.

"Now wait a minute …" the startled journalist begins.

"You're the 'Helping Out' lady," Tamantha insists. "You have to help me."

Until a few months ago, Elizabeth "E.M." Daniher investigated high crimes and national cases. Now, a messy divorce from her network-TV-exec husband, combined with her no-longer-quite-perky-enough sex appeal, has banished her to Wyoming, where she has to fulfill the remainder of her contract. She handles the "Helping Out" segment at Sherman, Wyoming's only news station. Her latest assignment: assisting an elderly woman who wants her faulty toaster replaced.

But Tamantha needs her, and so Elizabeth goes back on the crime beat, trying to unravel the mystery of the missing deputy and track down a killer who intends to make sure she doesn't live to go Live At Five with the scoop.

— Sign Off by Patricia McLinn

Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending July 04, 2014

A list of the top 15 Mystery Hardcover Bestsellers for the week ending July 4th, 2014 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

A new number one this week: The Silkworm, the second Cormoran Strike mystery by J. K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith.

One new title enters the list; position in [brackets].

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[8]: The City
Dean Koontz
— Non-Series

Here is the riveting, soul-stirring story of Jonah Kirk, son of an exceptional singer, grandson of a formidable "piano man", a musical prodigy beginning to explore his own gifts when he crosses a group of extremely dangerous people, with shattering consequences. Set in a more innocent time not so long ago, The City encompasses a lifetime but unfolds over three extraordinary, heart-racing years of tribulation and triumph, in which Jonah first grasps the electrifying power of music and art, of enduring friendship, of everyday heroes.

The unforgettable saga of a young man coming of age within a remarkable family, and a shimmering portrait of the world that shaped him, The City is a novel that speaks to everyone, a dazzling realization of the evergreen dreams we all share. Brilliantly illumined by magic dark and light, it's a place where enchantment and malice entwine, courage and honor are found in the most unexpected quarters, and the way forward lies buried deep inside the heart.

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Venetian Mask by Michaela Thompson is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

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Venetian Mask by Michaela Thompson

An International Thriller

Publisher: booksbnimble

… as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of July 04, 2014 at 7:15 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of the purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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The surreal splendor of Venice glitters and mesmerizes as six so-called friends who, it turns out, barely know each other meet at Carnival to play a malignant game that quickly turns murderous. Sally, the "Tallahassee lassie" spurned by the rest as a virtual hayseed, is swept up by a mysterious count, attending masked balls, operas, and Carnival revels even as she mourns her marriage and dodges a deadly pursuer. "Things should happen at Carnival," says her unlikely protector, who resembles Harlequin in more than his costume. "If they go on just the same, there's no reason for Carnival at all." There's absolutely no chance of that in this psychological tour de force of surging identities wrestling to emerge in people forced by violence to confront their inner Harlequins and Medusas.

The characters change costumes, alter egos, sex partners (and preferences), and most of all, their stories while Carnival swirls around them, each more desperate by the hour to solve the murder, commit another, save a career, escape a past … whatever it is that Carnival, as much a character as the humans, seems to command them to do. The guignol grows ever grander, the danger more heightened as the clock ticks toward midnight on Fat Tuesday and Sally finds she has more enemies than she thought.

— Venetian Mask by Michaela Thompson

Fresh Doubt by Eva Hudson is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Fresh Doubt by Eva Hudson

An Ingrid Skyberg, FBI Thriller

Publisher: Eva Hudson

… as today's third free mystery ebook.

  

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Brilliant American psychology student Madison Faber is in police custody — a potential murder suspect. Two hours ago she found her roommate lying in a pool of blood.

Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg is assigned to investigate the case on behalf of the US embassy. Tasked with supporting a terrified Madison Faber and uncovering the truth behind her friend's death, Ingrid quickly discovers a sinister extremist group operating out of Faber's London college.

Up against the obstructive attitude of the Metropolitan Police and defying the wishes of the embassy, Ingrid must navigate through a minefield of fear and mistrust to discover the killer's true identity. But in order to ensure justice is served, she is forced to operate so far beyond the law that she may never get back again.

— Fresh Doubt by Eva Hudson

Lazar's Intrigue by Kevin Sterling is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

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Lazar's Intrigue by Kevin Sterling

A Jack Lazar Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Kevin Sterling

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

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Jack Lazar is thrown into realms of danger and intrigue from the very start as he witnesses the shooting of a beautiful woman in the midst of a raging storm and races to save her life. Little did he know that he had thrust himself into the middle of a corrupt DEA investigation.

To make matters worse, Jack was just blackmailed into leaving his lucrative job by one of the firm's senior partners, and now he discovers the event is somehow connected to the DEA's case. How is that possible? But the DEA won't tell Jack anything, so he sets off on his own mission to solve the mystery, and every step digs him deeper into trouble. A Beretta 9-millimeter and classroom martial arts skills don't exactly qualify someone to be a covert agent, and Jack finds out the hard way.

Then there's Sarina, the exotic DEA agent Jack rescued, who gets a little out of hand when it comes to sex, and Jack is immediately hooked as any red-blooded male would be. But Sarina has a knack for disregarding orders and creating havoc, so it doesn't take long after they join forces that people want to kill them both.

— Lazar's Intrigue by Kevin Sterling

The Grove by Sharon Smith is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

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The Grove by Sharon Smith

An Alex Ramphardt Crime Thriller

Publisher: S-Co Publications

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

This title was listed for free as of July 04, 2014 at 6:30 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of the purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Partying is murder. It all happens at the Grove.

When everyone's favorite barmaid at the Grove finds one of the patrons brutally murdered in her car's trunk, this fun-loving vamp will be exposed for what she really is.

In the meantime, a brutal serial killer, imprisoned for his sadistic crimes committed against the elite woman of society, thickly plots his freedom from prison and multiple life sentences.

Will their worlds collide, or will they resume … at the Grove?

— The Grove by Sharon Smith

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140704)

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

• The New Release is Hidden Expedition: The Crown of Solomon (Collector's Edition).

• The Daily Deal is Agatha Christie — Death on the Nile, just $2.99 today only!

• The current Catch of the Week is The Beast of Lycan Isle, just $2.99 through Sunday, July 06, 2014 only.

• Today's Special Deal — 4th of July Sale: All games are Two for the Price of One! Use coupon code STARS for Collector's Edition games and use coupon code STRIPES for Standard games. Offer valid through July 6th, 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 today is Hidden Expedition: The Crown of Solomon (Collector's Edition)

The expedition continues! Track down the fragments of King Solomon's crown and foil a madman's plot in this exciting follow-up to the bestselling series! You've stopped the Robideaux family from stealing the Hope Diamond and using its shards for their own twisted ends. But before Robideaux's cargo can make it safely back to the museum where it belongs, a criminal has stolen a valuable artifact. It's a piece of King Solomon's crown, long broken apart, its fragments scattered across the globe. Can you pick up the pieces in time?

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: Track down H.E.L.P.'s history in the bonus game; Collect nearly 50 crowns throughout the game; Find morphing objects and earn special achievements; Soundtracks, wallpapers, screensavers, and concept art; and Try the available Strategy Guide.

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

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Today's Daily Deal is Agatha Christie — Death on the Nile

Hercule Poirot investigates a thrilling murder mystery and must find hidden clues, interrogate suspects, and much more. Uncover clues and evidence directly tied to the story. When you have enough evidence, question the passengers in the salong and discover the identity of the real murderer!

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game today only — Friday, July 04, 2014 — for $2.99.

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The current Catch of the Week is The Beast of Lycan Isle

Luna has been summoned by Tara, her best friend, to an ancient village on a remote island. Tara needs Luna's expertise on a newly unearthed artifact that might prove the existence of the legendary cult of the Madra Alta or Wolf Man. But when she arrives the locals are acting very strangely, her friend has disappeared, and terrible clues reveal a situation beyond her worst nightmare. She must rely on her fearless wit and trusted allies to find her friend. She must dig deep into the instincts and courage of her own inner animal to defeat the Wolf King himself.

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game at the special price of $2.99 through Sunday, July 06, 2014.

Also available for this game:

• Get the Strategy Guide.
• For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition.

New from Amnon Kabatchnik: Blood on the Stage, 480 B.C. to 1600 A.D.: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem

Last year we were thrilled to welcome Amnon Kabatchnik to Omnimystery News, when he told us more about his "Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection" series, the 4th volume of which had just been published.

Today we're pleased to announce that a "prequel" is now available, examining over 50 plays from ancient Greece, ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, and Elizabethean England, in …

Blood on the Stage, 480 B.C. to 1600 A.D.: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem by Amnon Kabatchnik

An Annotated Repertoire

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

  

More about this book, below …

As any theater lover knows, depicting acts of wrong-doing is not a recent phenomenon. The stark, violent plays of Seneca in ancient Rome were followed by liturgical dramas of the Dark Ages that drew on both the Old and New Testaments. The golden age of Elizabethan drama boasted masterful plays drenched with treachery, bloodshed, and horror.

Beginning with masterpieces like Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, Oedipus the King by Sophocles, and Medea by Euripides, this volume spans centuries of equally compelling dramas such as The Haunted House (200 B.C.), Phaedra (c. 60 A.D.), and The Killing of Abel (mid-15th century). Later works include Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, as well as several plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, notably The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and Hamlet.

The plays in this book are arranged in chronological order and include plot synopses, biographical sketches of playwrights and actors, details about productions, and critical reception, if available. From the killing of Abel by his brother Cain to Hamlet’s revenge of his father’s murder, this volume provides a critical overview of some of the most significant dramatizations of criminal behavior.

— Blood on the Stage, 480 B.C. to 1600 A.D.: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem by Amnon Kabatchnik

Dead Guy's Stuff, A Jane Wheel Mystery by Sharon Fiffer, 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, Minotaur Books …

Dead Guy's Stuff by Sharon Fiffer

A Jane Wheel Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/03/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Antique "picker" Jane Wheel is making a career out of going through old stuff; it seems she can't get enough of the piles of vintage clothing, kitchen utensils, Bakelite buttons and post cards she finds at estate sales across the Chicago area. What this saloon keepers' daughter loves, though, is not the items themselves but the stories they tell about the lives of their owners.

So needless to say Jane's delighted when a Saturday morning estate sale turns up a serendipitous find: a whole room packed full of 1950's saloon ephemera. As luck would have it, she's been planning to redecorate her parents' pub, still run and recently purchased outright by her folks. Piles of Bakelite darts and dice, countless advertisements from long-defunct liquor suppliers, and, most exciting of all, a bunch of old bar games, employed by untold patrons intent on whiling away the tedious moments in between the sips of so long ago. She makes a deal to buy the whole room, and can't wait to get the stuff back to her hometown.

As she's cataloging her find, however, Jane makes a gruesome discovery. Packed between the glassware and bowling trophies and old photographs she's already fallen in love with, she uncovers one highly personal, unusual and creepy collectible that she is sure the saloon keeper would have preferred to have kept to himself. It sure sparks her curiosity about the saloon owners, and when Jane gets curious nothing's going to stop her. Employing her friends Detective Bruce Oh and fellow junkhound Tim Lowry, as well as her erstwhile husband Charley, Jane sets out to lay bare the secrets of long ago, secrets that even people close to her would rather be kept quiet forever.

— Dead Guy's Stuff by Sharon Fiffer

Paris by Carina Axelsson, a New Model Undercover Mystery

Omnimystery News is pleased to present in this post a new First Clues: Mysteries for Kids series title published this month …

Paris by Carina Axelsson

Series: Model Undercover

Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

Format(s): Paperback, eBook

Age Range: Cadet Sleuths, Ages 10 to 12

  

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

Who knew modeling could be such a dangerous game?

Axelle Anderson doesn't care about fashion, in spite of her pushy fashionista aunt, Venetia. All Axelle wants to do in life is solve mysteries. But when top fashion designer Belle La Lune goes missing and Aunt Venetia becomes a prime suspect, Axelle must go undercover as a model to bring the truth into the spotlight.

— Paris by Carina Axelsson

Murder in the Ballpark, A Nero Wolfe Mystery by Robert Goldsborough, 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, Open Road …

Murder in the Ballpark by Robert Goldsborough

A Nero Wolfe Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/03/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Wolfe earns a big league call-up after a senator gets taken out at the ball game …

Archie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. The national anthem is just winding down when Panzer spies a notable in the box seats: state senator Orson Milbank, a silver-haired scoundrel with enemies in every corner of upstate New York. In the fourth inning, a monstrous line drive brings every fan in the grandstand to his feet — every fan save for one silver-haired senator, who has been shot dead by a sniper in the upper deck.

Archie's employer — the rotund genius Nero Wolfe — has no interest in investigating the stadium slaying, but Archie is swayed by the senator's suspiciously lovely widow. Her husband was mired hip-deep in corruption, and sorting out who killed him will be a task far less pleasant than an afternoon at the ball park.

— Murder in the Ballpark by Robert Goldsborough

Fatal Fortune by Victoria Laurie, New in Bookstores during July 2014

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

Fatal Fortune by Victoria Laurie

The Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye Series (12th)

Publisher: NAL Hardcover

        

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 …

When police show Abby surveillance video of her best friend and business partner, Candice Fusco, shooting a man in cold blood, she can't believe her eyes. And when the cops tell her they think the victim has ties to the Mob — and perhaps Candice does too — she can't believe her ears. Surely there is a logical explanation. But Candice is nowhere to be found.

Abby decides the only way to find out the truth is to go to Vegas herself — which may be the biggest gamble of her life. Once in town she begins to uncover a rigged game of dirty double-dealing where the stakes are no less than life and death. And if she's not careful, Abby can forget about ever leaving Las Vegas … alive.

— Fatal Fortune by Victoria Laurie

Tailing a Tabby by Laurie Cass, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2014 …

Tailing a Tabby by Laurie Cass

The Minne Hamilton, Bookmobile Cat Series (2nd)

Publisher: Signet

  

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 …

In the bookmobile, librarian Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, roll out great summer reads to folks all over the lake town of Chilson, Michigan. And when real-life drama turns deadly, Minnie makes sure justice is never overdue …

The bookmobile is making its usual rounds when Minnie and Eddie are flagged down by a woman in distress. The woman's husband, a famous artist, needs emergency medical care. After getting him into the bookmobile, Minnie races the man to the hospital in time … but his bad luck has only just begun.

After disappearing from the hospital, the artist is discovered slumped over the body of a murdered woman. Minnie knows that her new friend didn't commit the crime, but the evidence paints an unflattering picture. Now this librarian and her furry friend have to put the investigation in high gear and catch the real killer before someone else checks out.

— Tailing a Tabby by Laurie Cass