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There are only three categories at present: Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, and — but of course — Mystery, Thriller, & Suspense. We took a look at this latter category and there are some really interesting books presented. Lots of new names, of course, but also authors familiar to us including Allan Leverone, William Bernhardt, Alan Orloff, and Patricia Gale.
Check it out and nominate the books you'd like to see published!
Monday, November 10, 2014
KindleScout: Nominate Your Favorite Book for Publication!
Fair Play, The All's Fair Series by Josh Lanyon, New This Week from Carina Press
Carina Press is a digital-first imprint from Harlequin, publishing books in an interesting and diverse selection of genres including contemporary romance, steampunk, gay/lesbian fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, and — but of course — mystery and suspense.
We've selected one of their recently published titles to feature here today …
Fair Play by Josh Lanyon
The All's Fair Series (2nd in series)
Publisher: Carina Press
Price: $4.99 (as of 11/10/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).
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Fifty years ago, Roland Mills belonged to a violent activist group. Now, someone is willing to kill to prevent him from publishing his memoirs.
When ex-FBI agent Elliot Mills is called out to examine the charred ruins of his childhood home, he quickly identifies the fire for what it is — arson. A knee injury may have forced Elliot out of the Bureau, but it's not going to stop him from bringing the man who wants his father dead to justice.
Agent Tucker Lance is still working to find the serial killer who's obsessed with Elliot and can't bear the thought of his lover putting himself in additional danger. Straightlaced Tucker has never agreed with radical Roland on much — "opposing political viewpoints" is an understatement — but they're united on this: Elliot needs to leave the case alone. Now.
Tucker would do nearly anything for the man he loves, but he won't be used to gain Elliot access to the FBI's resources. When the past comes back to play and everything both men had known to be true is questioned, their fragile relationship is left hanging in the balance.
— Fair Play by Josh Lanyon
Enter to Win — Endings & Beginnings by Raymond Benson
Omnimystery News invites you to Enter to Win a copy of Endings & Beginnings by Raymond Benson, courtesy of Oceanview Publishing.
One (1) winner will receive a copy of …
Title: Endings & Beginnings
Author: Raymond Benson
Series: A Black Stiletto Novel
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
Format: Hardcover
List Price: $26.95
Use the form below to submit your entry. One entry per person; US residents only. Entry period ends Monday, November 17, 2014. (If you cannot see the entry form, use this link.)
Synopsis: It's 1962. Judy Cooper, the Black Stiletto, is devastated at the betrayal by her nemesis and former lover, mobster Leo Kelly. Additionally, Leo and his psychotically dangerous sister, Christina, have set out to ruin the Stiletto's reputation in L.A. with a series of crimes that are made to appear as if the crime-fighter is responsible. The very pregnant Judy must fight back only with her wits and cunning-until disaster strikes and she is forced to flee to her old home town in Texas for the final showdown with destiny.
Meanwhile, in the present, the Alzheimer's that afflicts elderly Judy is in its last stage, but her son and granddaughter, Martin and Gina, must continue to protect her from the past's last remaining assault, culminating in a cathartic and explosive conclusion.
— Endings & Beginnings by Raymond Benson
Please Welcome Mystery Author Andrew Lanh
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We are delighted to welcome author Andrew Lanh to Omnimystery News.
Andrew Lanh is a pen name used by Ed Ifkovic, and his first novel written using it is also the first in a series, Caught Dead (Poisoned Pen Press; November 2014 hardcover, trade paperback, and ebook formats) introducing private investigator Rick Van Lam.
We asked Andrew to tell us more about the character, and he titles his guest post for us today, "The Story Behind the Mystery".
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Andrew Lanh (Ed Ifkovic)
The hit musical Miss Saigon introduced audiences to one of the nagging horrors of the Vietnamese War: those children born to Vietnamese women and fathered by American soldiers. These mixed-blood children, scorned by the Vietnamese themselves, came to be called bui doi, the children of the dust. My mystery Caught Dead deals with just such a young Amerasian — son of a Vietnamese mother, and an unknown American white father — who is now a Private Investigator working in Farmington, Connecticut.
Rick Van Lam, late-thirties, is an Americanized Amerasian, a former cop, a Columbia University graduate, whose roots in a different culture often define his American life. Caught in the middle of cultures, he is a child of the dust. A part-time teacher of Criminal Justice at a college in Farmington, he does routine fraud investigations for Hartford insurance companies.
Rick is surrounded by friends like a landlady who used to be a Rockette and an old detective who acts as his mentor. His sidekick is a pure-blood Vietnamese young man who helps Rick rediscover his Vietnamese roots but who also serves as a companion for his investigations. I have worked to develop the growing Vietnamese community of Connecticut into the fabric of the book, as well as Rick's own memory of his Buddhist childhood. These characters — his close family — support but also hinder him as he investigates what, indeed, turns out to be a bizarre murder.
In Caught Dead two beautiful Vietnamese twins, distant cousins to the mother of Rick's sidekick Hank, have remained close despite two very different marriages. The younger married a Vietnamese grocer and lives a modest, quiet life. The older married a rich white man and lives in an upper-crust world far removed from Hartford's Little Saigon where both women grew up. During a hot summer, with Hank on break from the Connecticut State Police Academy, the younger sister is found murdered in a grimy, gang-invested neighborhood. Why was she even there? "She wouldn't ever be caught dead there," her sister tells Rick.
Rick is asked to look into the case, but there seems to be no solution. Then, to everyone's horror, the rich sister is found murdered on the same street corner in the same neighborhood. Two sisters dead, and Rick and Hank are stumped. As the investigation continues, ably assisted by Rick's ex-wife Liz who finds herself playing a pivotal role in the case, the two men find themselves deeply involved in a mysterious world of hidden ethnic tension and sinister criminal activity — and all of it somehow tied to seemingly disparate worlds: the carefully guarded exclusive white suburbs and the impoverished nearby ghetto.
In order to solve the murder of the two beautiful sisters — and to bring closure to the grieving Vietnamese families, including Hank's — Rick has to search in his own buried Vietnamese past for the perspective that will help him find a murderer.
Rick talks about himself in this excerpt from the book …
MY NAME IS RICK VAN LAM. MY REAL FIRST NAME IS VIET. MOST Americans can't pronounce the distinct monosyllabic Vietnamese inflections. No matter. In Vietnam I was Lam Van Viet. In America, resting in a foster home in the Bronx for a month, I was Viet Van Lam, and then I allowed myself to become Rick Van Lam at the insistence of Father He from Catholic Charities, my English-speaking conduit to my new American culture. I didn't mind — I was thirteen and I wanted to become American.
I'm that curious breed produced by the Vietnamese Conflict — I'm Amerasian, one of the so-called children of the dust, the dirty secret, the bui doi. I have no idea who my mother was, except that she was a Vietnamese woman who, in the final days of the war, carried a child by a white American soldier, also nameless and now forgotten. Left at an orphanage when I was around five, I have trouble remembering my mother, but sometimes I recall her holding me tight. I remember her story of the baby boy attacking the clay demon. That's an important story I hold in my heart. So I grew up, hated by most Vietnamese — "Your mother was a whore, your father a pig" — as I struggled through childhood in a Catholic orphanage. I was hated by white people, too. Dust boys, that's what they call us. But it also explains why I have those violet-blue eyes encased in sleepy slanted sockets, my tall lanky body, and the bone structure of an All-American soldier, probably some milk-fed boy from Des Moines or — I don't know, maybe Pensicola. God knows. I never will.
One document I own suggests that my real last name is indeed Lam, which, like Nguyen, is as commonplace as Smith or Jones or Garcia in America. And supposedly the Van and the Viet are real. But there's no mother to guide me, as they say. And for a long time in America — sometimes even now — I looked at older white men and thought, Hey, is that you, Daddy? What did you do in the war?
Sometimes I find myself still doing that.
I was a bright child, alert, the darling of the severe, unyielding nuns, a cute little bugger who played every manipulative game because I wanted to survive. I knew the odds were stacked against me. I'd sneak out of the home at night, maneuvering my way through cluttered, hostile Saigon streets, hiding in the shadows of walls plastered with posters of benevolent Uncle Ho, the header who saved us from America. Those days I was always hungry. Soon I wormed my way into America. Being half-white was a liability in the best of worlds, but it also afforded me guilt-laced entry into the country of my father. So at thirteen I was sponsored to America by the good Catholics, who found me a permanent home in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, where I excelled in school — of course — making my adopted parents, Jesse and Connie Greeley, inordinately proud, but not currying much favor with the less-bright natural siblings, Judith and Harry, who still don't speak to me to this day. Jesse Greeley was a lawyer, and that was to be my career. Full National Merit Scholar to Columbia College, Phi Beta Kappa, American success story, until my senior year when bouts of depression kept me in bed.
In the words of my adopted father: "What the hell's your problem all of a sudden?" I'd been a model teenager.
I never knew how to answer him. I still don't, to this day. I see my parents whenever I can, though they still look at me with the same pitying expression they wore when I stepped out of Brother He's limping station wagon onto their suburban lawn. They never lost that expression. There I was, poor boy, frightened, trembling, in a Salvation Army sweater, in baggy jeans with frayed cuffs, carrying a battered GI Joe toy I got at a Goodwill toy bin. Half-eaten Oreos in a Catholic Charities tote bag. Thirteen years old, with a war toy. Years later, with B.A. from Columbia College in hand, they hugged me like the orphan I was — barefoot boy with cheek.
How was I to tell these wonderful people, my deliverers into a safe America, that I would wake in the night in a cold sweat, hungry for something besides law and money, hungry instead for quiet and order. I wanted something to stop the shaking, the nighttime sweats. Sometimes I still get them. I wake up feeling lost and homeless. I'm drifting in space, no rock to cling to. Helpless, screaming.
In my senior year, riding the IRT subway from 116th Street down to Times Square, I saw an ad for a master's program in Criminal Justice at John Jay College. At that moment a transit cop was shoving a homeless black man into a sitting position across from me, shaking him out of a sleep, kicking him, and it seemed the only route to go for me. I wanted the front lines, not the three-piece suit world of the corporate courtroom. I wanted my blood to boil. Fire in the belly, fury in the marrow.
"What?" I can still hear Liz's precise intonation — clipped, a tinge of hysteria. I'd been dating Liz Sanburn throughout my senior year. A psychology major from a Riverdale family of psychiatrists and tax attorneys, she acted as though I'd slapped her in the face. Our romance had been magical. Madcap, stupid, filled with laughter, a little bit taboo, but it had become serious in the last spring semester. Suddenly we were talking about marriage because we were both drunk with each other. I couldn't believe there could be anyone else for me. We'd see each other in the stacks at Butler Library and burst out laughing, out of control. But when she fought me on my going into police work — I wanted the master's and then the police academy — something started to die in me. Stupidly, we married anyway, hoping the marriage certificate and the settled life in Manhattan would jumpstart our love again. It didn't. And the more I withdrew, the more Liz — so aware of my distance, my moods, my running away — tightened her hold.
We stayed together for three years, she getting a psych master's at Hunter while I became a foot patrolman in Chelsea. She cried every night. I never wanted to go home. My brief stint on the force was a blur, a kind of manic, headlong assault on crime and injustice. One day, collaring some piece of trash who'd just beat up an old woman for her purse and a few bucks, I found myself up against a .22 pressed into my neck. I flipped out, overreacting, fighting the scumbag. He fired, grazing my left shoulder — I still have a jagged, lighting-bolt scar — as I tried to wrestle the gun from him. He was stronger than he looked, a wiry drugged-out maniac who fought for his life. As did I. I won, getting out my revolver and blowing him away.
But something happened to me as I stood over him, my body virtually connected with his, pumping lead into him. My head became light and airy, echoey, and I found myself staring into the man's face, and I kept yelling, Take that, take that take that you fucking bastard, until I was pulled off him by my partner. Years later, when I dreamed about it, things got mixed up. In those feverish awakenings, I found myself yelling: take that, father, take that, father, take that, father. Over and over. The day the little Vietnamese boy struck back at his white daddy. Today on Dr. Phil.
Months of police-mandated therapy and my own mournful introspection compelled me to leave the force. Frankly, I was happy to go. But when I did, I realized I had to clear up a number of nagging lies, and one was my sputtering marriage. I needed a fresh start, so I asked for a divorce. Liz knew it was coming.
An old police friend had connections in Farmington where the College was initiating a new degree in Criminal Justice. He got me the job, I made the move out of the city, I connected with a private investigator named Jimmy Gadowicz because I still wanted to be active in the profession — out there in the field — and that's how I ended up where I am. Jimmy took care of me, maneuvering me through the medieval criminal justice red tape of Connecticut. Proudly he gave me tours of places like the Connecticut State Police Forensic Crime Lab in Meriden. The Connecticut Police Academy. He has buddies everywhere. Everyone likes him. He took care of me.
Now, years later, Connecticut — this town, Farmington, so far from Manhattan and the frantic life I led there — is the only home I want. Quiet, quiet. I teach undemanding kids — a little too pampered, a little too dumb — at the small liberal arts college that struggles to stay afloat. I do knee-jerk fraud investigations and slimy divorce investigations with Jimmy. Quiet. Life hums along, the heartbeat of the dead.
I wanted nothing to do with murder.
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Andrew Lanh is the pen name of Ed Ifkovic, who taught literature and creative writing at a community college in Connecticut for over three decades, and now devotes himself to writing fiction. A longtime devotee of mystery novels, he fondly recalls his boyhood discovery of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason series in a family bookcase, and his immediate obsession with the whodunit world.
You can find Ed on Facebook.
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Caught Dead
Andrew Lanh
A Rick Van Lam Mystery
One of the beautiful Le sisters is dead.
Hartford, Connecticut's small Vietnamese community is stunned. Mary Le Vu, wife of a poor grocery-store owner, is gunned down in a drive-by. Her twin sister insists dutiful Mary "wouldn't be caught dead" in that drug-infested zone. The police rule it an unlucky accident. Skeptics hire private eye Rick Van Lam to get to the truth.
Amerasian Rick — his father an unknown US soldier — is one of the Bui Doi, children of the dust, so often rejected by Vietnamese culture. But his young sidekick, Hank Nguyen, a pureblood Vietnamese, can help Rick navigate the closed world of Little Saigon. Surrounded by close friends — a former-Rockette landlady, his crusty mentor, and his ex-wife Liz — Rick immerses himself in a world that rejects him, but now needs his help. Especially when a second murder strikes in Little Saigon.
Rick and Hank delve into the families of the Le sisters, one poor, one very rich, and uncover a world of explosive ethnic tension and sinister criminal activity ranging from Hartford's exclusive white suburbs to the impoverished inner city. To solve the murders — and bring closure to Mary's grieving circle — Rick looks to long-buried memories of his Buddhist childhood for the wisdom that will lead him to a murderer.
The Key by Patricia Wentworth is Today's Open Road Daily Deal
Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Key by Patricia Wentworth as today's Open Road Daily Deal.
The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Monday, November 10, 2014.
The Key by Patricia Wentworth
A Miss Silver Mystery (8th in series)
Publisher: Open Road
Price: $1.99 (as of 11/10/2014 at 7:50 AM ET).
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The murder of a government scientist demands the attention of Miss Silver …
Michael Harsch's life has never been easy. A German Jew, he fled his country when Hitler came to power, escaping the concentration camps by the skin of his teeth. His wife and daughter were not so lucky, and he vowed revenge on the Fuhrer through science. He set to work on a marvelous new explosive that, in the hands of the British army, could silence the German guns forever. But on the eve of his great triumph, the scientist is struck down.
The government asks Miss Silver, the dowdy detective, to help solve the murder and recover the valuable explosive. Was Harsch killed by a half-mad opponent to the war effort, or was it one of Hitler's undercover agents who pulled the trigger?
— The Key by Patricia Wentworth
Today Only! A Certified Refurbished Kindle Paperwhite is just $79!
Today Only! You can purchase a Certified Refurbished Kindle Paperwhite for just $79!
A Certified Refurbished Kindle Paperwhite is a pre-owned Kindle Paperwhite that has been refurbished, tested, and certified to look and work like new. It includes a full one-year limited warranty, just like a brand-new Kindle Paperwhite.
This deal is valid today, Monday November 10th, 2014 only until 11:59 PM PST.
The Obituary Society by Jessica L. Randall is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …
The Obituary Society by Jessica L. Randall
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Jessica L. Randall
… as today's second free mystery ebook.
This title was listed for free as of November 10, 2014 at 7:10 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.
For a summary of all of today's featured titles, plus any that may have appeared before and are repeat freebies, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.
More on today's free book, below.
When Lila Moore inherits her grandfather's house, she finds herself in a small Midwestern town where margarine is never an acceptable substitution for butter, a coveted family recipe can serve as currency, and the friend who will take your darkest secrets to the grave will still never give you the secret to her prize-winning begonias.
Lila is charmed by the people of Auburn, from the blue-eyed lawyer with the southern drawl to the little old lady who unceasingly tries to set Lila up with her grandson. But when strange things begin to happen, Lila realizes some of her new friends are guarding a secret like its a precious family heirloom. It's a dangerous secret, and it has come back to haunt them. Lila is caught in the middle, and her life may depend on uncovering it. But even if she can, can she stay in Auburn when not everyone is what they seem, and even the house wants her gone?
— The Obituary Society by Jessica L. Randall
The Wellington Bureau by Daphne Coleridge is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …
The Wellington Bureau by Daphne Coleridge
A Quartermain Mystery
Publisher: Daphne Coleridge
… as today's free mystery ebook.
This title was listed for free as of November 10, 2014 at 7:00 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.
For a summary of all of today's featured titles, plus any that may have appeared before and are repeat freebies, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.
More on today's free book, below.
Anna, Lady Quartermain, is a grieving widow at twenty-five. In an attempt to restart her life she sets up the Wellington Bureau, an investigation agency, without any serious expectation of it being a success.
But her first, seemingly trivial, case escalates into murder, and Anna finds her life in danger as the only one with evidence of who the murderer is.
— The Wellington Bureau by Daphne Coleridge
Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon is Today's Nook Daily Find
Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon as today's Nook Daily Find.
The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Monday, November 10, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.
Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon
The Alien Trilogy (1st in series)
Publisher: Titan Books
Price: $2.99 (as of 11/10/2014 at 6:30 AM ET).
A terrifying new adventure that bridges the gap between the films Alien and Aliens.
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As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then on planet LV178, he and his fellow miners discovered a storm-scoured, sand-blasted hell — and trimonite, the hardest material known to man.
When a shuttle crashes into the mining ship Marion, the miners learn that ther was more than timonite deep in the caverns. There was evil, hibernating — and waiting for suitable prey.
Hoop and his associates uncover a next of Xenomorphs, and hell takes on new meaning. Quickly they discover that their only hope lies with the unlikeliest of saviours …
Ellen Ripley, the last human survivor of the salvage ship Nostromo.
— Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon
50 Mysteries and Thrillers is Today's Kindle Daily Deal
Omnimystery News is pleased to feature 50 Mysteries and Thrillers as today's Kindle Daily Deal.
The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Monday, November 10, 2014. Author featured include J. Gregory Smith, Clyde Phillips, Ed McBain, and Dan Greenburg. We're highlighting one of the titles in this post.
Fall from Grace by Clyde Phillips
A Jane Candiotti Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Price: $1.99 (as of 11/10/2014 at 6:10 AM ET).
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Veteran San Francisco homicide detective Jane Candiotti never had a problem drawing the line between her personal and professional lives — until the night she meets David Perry after his socialite wife, Jenna, is brutally murdered. The facts are damning: the Perrys were embroiled in a bitter divorce and now David stands to inherit millions in the wake of Jenna's death. But Jane's instincts tell her there's more to this case than just greed and love gone sour.
To uncover the truth, she must dig into the sordid secrets of the city's most powerful families, a quest that will draw her inextricably closer to David and his teenage daughter … and to the cold-blooded killer who's stalking their every move. But when the case takes a shocking turn, it's not just Jane's reputation that's hanging in the balance — it's her life.
— Fall from Grace by Clyde Phillips
Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141110)
Here is today's mystery and suspense update from Big Fish Games …
• The New Release is Riddles of Fate: Memento Mori.
• The Daily Deal is Cursed Memories: The Secret of Agony Creek, just $2.99 today only!
• The current Catch of the Week is Maestro: Music from the Void, just $2.99 through Sunday, November 16, 2014 only.
• Today's Special Deal — It is Bonus Punch Monday! Receive a BONUS PUNCH with every game purchase, only on Mondays.
Visit the Omnimystery Entertainment Network for more games of mystery and suspense!
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The New Release is Riddles of Fate: Memento Mori
You must have left quite an impression on Death the last time you saw him, because he's come back to seek your help with a very important case. Several dangerous criminals have dared to run from him, and as long as they remain alive … the entire world is in danger! You must hurry to catch them before time itself crumbles. Travel the globe, gather evidence, and unlock the secrets of Death's most powerful tools in this death-defying Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game!
A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. Also available for 
Also available for this game:
- Get the Strategy Guide
- Check out the Blog Walkthrough
- For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition
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Today's Daily Deal is Cursed Memories: The Secret of Agony Creek
After waking up chained to the floor of a disgusting cabin, you must discover the Secret of Agony Creek and escape before it's too late! Avoid a dangerous police officer, a mysterious phantom, and many more dangers in this incredible Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game! Figure out why the town was evacuated and learn about the founder's shady past!
A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. Also available for
Also available for this game:
- Get the Strategy Guide.
- Check out the Blog Walkthrough.
- For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition.
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The current Catch of the Week is Maestro: Music from the Void
The Maestro's back in this exciting encore to Notes of Life! Eerie music fills the air in Vienna, where shadows terrorize people in the streets. Two musical prodigies have gone missing. Can you save them without striking a single false note?
A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. Also available for
Also available for this game:
- Get the Strategy Guide.
- Check out the Blog Walkthrough.
- For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition.
Sunday, November 09, 2014
This Week Only! The Complete Inspector Lynley Mysteries on DVD for 60% Off!
Decidedly uppercrust detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Sergeant Barbara Havers must endure a marriage made at police headquarters in ther long-running Masterpiece Mystery! series Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
Lynley is suave, sophisticated, and the eighth Earl of Asherton. Havers is rumpled, resentful, and working class — with an inborn dislike of the highborn. Despite their differences, the sleuths evolve into a potent team, employing their cunning, intuition, and street smarts to unravel some of the most heinous — and suspenseful — crimes.
Based on the popular crime novels by Elizabeth George, and starring Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small, this set includes all 23 Inspector Lynley mysteries and is priced this week (through Saturday, November 15th, 2014) at 60% off!
Wildcat Wine, A Lilly Cleary Mystery by Claire Matturro, 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, HarperCollins …
Wildcat Wine by Claire Matturro
A Lilly Cleary Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Price: $3.79 (as of 11/09/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).
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It's hard being Lillian Belle Rosemary Cleary. And if I didn't know that already, Bonita, my legal secretary supreme and secondary therapist, kept reminding me.
"Carita," she said, shaking her head and handing me the pink highlighter at my hyperventilated request so that I could mark another obscure legal point I needed to memorize for my upcoming appellate argument. "You make this so much more difficult than it needs to be."
So spank me, I'm a lawyer and complicating things at a high hourly rate is my specialty.
Sometimes being a lawyer sucks. That's what Lilly Cleary thinks. Lilly is tough-as-nails attorney who works for a big firm in Sarasota, Florida, and an obsessive-compulsive health nut who has a bad habit of tripping over dead bodies. This time out she's got her hands full with a psychic client and a Nazi-next-door neighbor, when an obnoxious partner in her firm is murdered.
Somehow Lilly gets dragged into investigating and encounters a world-class assortment of weirdo suspects, all of whom have good reason to want to knock the guy off.
— Wildcat Wine by Claire Matturro
Caught Dead by Andrew Lanh, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Rick Van Lam
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) …
What we know about the character: Rick Van Lam is a private investigator in Connecticut. For more information about his first investigation, see a synopsis of the book, below.
One of the beautiful Le sisters is dead …
Hartford, Connecticut's small Vietnamese community is stunned. Mary Le Vu, wife of a poor grocery-store owner, is gunned down in a drive-by. Her twin sister insists dutiful Mary "wouldn't be caught dead" in that drug-infested zone. The police rule it an unlucky accident. Skeptics hire private eye Rick Van Lam to get to the truth.
Amerasian Rick — his father an unknown US soldier — is one of the Bui Doi, children of the dust, so often rejected by Vietnamese culture. But his young sidekick, Hank Nguyen, a pureblood Vietnamese, can help Rick navigate the closed world of Little Saigon. Surrounded by close friends — a former-Rockette landlady, his crusty mentor, and his ex-wife Liz — Rick immerses himself in a world that rejects him, but now needs his help. Especially when a second murder strikes in Little Saigon.
Rick and Hank delve into the families of the Le sisters, one poor, one very rich, and uncover a world of explosive ethnic tension and sinister criminal activity ranging from Hartford's exclusive white suburbs to the impoverished inner city. To solve the murders — and bring closure to Mary's grieving circle — Rick looks to long-buried memories of his Buddhist childhood for the wisdom that will lead him to a murderer.
— Caught Dead by Andrew Lanh
Site Unseen, An Emma Fielding Mystery by Dana Cameron, 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, HarperCollins …
Site Unseen by Dana Cameron
An Emma Fielding Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Price: $3.79 (as of 11/09/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).
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Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding finds things that have been lost for hundreds of years — and she's very, very good at it. A soon-to-be-tenured professor, she has recently unearthed evidence of a seventeenth-century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years. But the dead body that accompanies it has embroiled Emma and her students in a different kind of exploration.
With her reputation suddenly in jeopardy — due to the ruthless machinations of a disgruntled rival — and a second suspicious death, heartbreakingly close to home, Emma must unearth a killer among the relics. But that means digging deep to get to dark secrets buried in the heart of the archaeological community — which, in turn, could bury Emma Fielding.
— Site Unseen by Dana Cameron
