Amazon has been discounting bestselling mysteries and thrillers published during 2014 this past week, and here are the titles currently priced $3.25 each as of the date and time of this post:
• Mean Streak by Sandra Brown;
• Personal by Lee Child;
• I've Got You Under My Skin by Mary Higgins Clark;
• Gray Mountain by John Grisham; and
• Deadline by John Sandford.
Prices have been fluctuating, so please confirm the price of the book before you 1-click purchase it. These are terrific deals on popular authors, so we encourage you to take advantage of them while they're available!
Saturday, November 29, 2014
2014 Bestsellers for $3.25 on Kindle
Hazardous Homecoming by Dana Mentink, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in November 2014
Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title from Harlequin, published this month …
For more information about the book, see a synopsis, below.
Ruby Hudson finds new evidence that could shed light on her childhood friend's disappearance. But she'll have to fight for her life to keep it out of the wrong person's hands. Cooper Stokes' brother is still the prime suspect, and as the cold case heats up, so do Ruby's forgotten feelings for Cooper. Ruby wants justice for her friend. Cooper wants to prove his brother's innocence. Despite being on opposite sides, they find themselves drawn to one another. But the deeper they dig into decades-old secrets, the closer they come to having to make a choice between family and love.
— Hazardous Homecoming by Dana Mentink
Jerusalem Inn, A Richard Jury Mystery by Martha Grimes, 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, Scribner …
Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes
A Richard Jury Mystery (5th in series)
Publisher: Scribner
Price: $1.99 (as of 11/29/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).
Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.
Five Days Before Christmas: On his way to a brief holiday (he thinks) Jury meets a woman he could fall in love with. He meets her in a snow-covered graveyard — not, he thinks, the best way to begin an attachment.
Four Days Before Christmas: Jury meets Father Rourke, who draws for him the semiotic square — "a structure that might simplify thought," says the priest, but Jury's thoughts need more than symbols.
Three Days Before Christmas: Melrose Plant, Jury's aristocratic and unofficial assistant, arrives at Spinney Abbey, now home to a well-known critic. Among the assembled snowbound guests he meets — Lady Assington, Beatrice Sleight, and the painter Edward Parmenger. When they all assemble in the dining room, Lady Assington announces, "I think we should have a murder."
— Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes
New This Week: Taking the Rap, A Ryan Doherty Mystery by Jennifer Moss
Omnimystery News is pleased to present a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers during November 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …
Taking the Rap by Jennifer Moss
A Ryan Doherty Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Black Opal Books
Price: $3.99 (as of 11/29/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).
Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.
When rapper Terrico James claimed to be "mightier than Jesus," nobody took him seriously … until someone did. Terrico's dead body ends up nailed to a cross and Chicago Detective Ryan Doherty is on the case. Was it a fringe religious sect making a statement? Or Terrico's protégé, Mandy Ross, a petulant pop star who sheds hearts like glitter in her path? With the help of his partner, Matt Di Santo, and the spirit of his dead partner, Jon, Ryan fights his way through cultural divides to find the murderer.
Catharine Lulling is ready to venture outside of her estate for her first real date with Ryan. But even her special abilities can't save her when she reveals a secret she's been hiding from him — one that could destroy their relationship for good.
— Taking the Rap by Jennifer Moss
2014 Bestsellers Now Priced for $2.50 on Kindle
Amazon has been discounting bestselling mysteries and thrillers published during 2014 this past week, and here are the titles currently priced $2.50 each as of the date and time of this post:
• The Target by David Baldacci; and
• Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner.
Prices have been fluctuating, so please confirm the price of the book before you 1-click purchase it. These are terrific deals on popular authors, so we encourage you to take advantage of them while they're available!
Please Welcome Mystery Author Marty Wingate
with Marty Wingate
We are delighted to welcome author Marty Wingate to Omnimystery News.
Marty's second mystery in her Potting Shed series is The Red Book of Primrose House (Alibi; November 2014 ebook formats) and we asked her to tell us a little more about it, which is the subject of her guest post for us today.
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Marty Wingate
Pru Parke, American gardener in England, has landed the job of her dreams in the second of my Potting Shed mysteries. She is now the head gardener of a historic landscape, one that she must restore in only a few months, because her employers plan to open it to the public for one day, when potentially hundreds of visitors will pass judgment on what she's done. While juggling her responsibilities and managing the uncertainties of her own life she — wouldn't you know it — discovers a dead body. So not so much dream as nightmare, as it turns out.
I love writing this series, which began with The Garden Plot, because it combines my interests in gardening, travel, and England. And I love my protagonist, a middle-aged woman from Dallas who takes a chance on a new life — she's got a lot of nerve, taking such a leap at her age. But although Pru's friends all thought she was crazy to move to another country, she didn't think so, because she has ties to England — her mother was from a village in Hampshire. She embraces her new country and
In a series, Pru's personal story can be an overarching arc. While each book deals with particular issues and particular murders, Pru is on her own path. Desperate for family ties to her adopted country, she embraces new friends, always thinking the best of people without quite knowing all the facts. Gullible, she admits, putting a name to her own tiny character flaw that can so easily get her into trouble; she's just like Pollyanna, her friends used to say. While trying to solve a murder, she finds her way to some sort of family and — a real surprise for her — love.
Back to that dreaded garden open day. In England, the National Gardens Scheme organizes open days for both great houses and small private gardens throughout the country; all money raised — including for tea and cake — going to charity. These special days are published yearly in the eponymous Yellow Book; on almost every day throughout spring and summer, you can see signs along the roads and country lanes: "Garden Open." These are lovely days out — a chance for gardeners to not just peer over the fence at another's property, but walk right in, judging whether the plantings and design are really worth it or not. The fact that Primrose House is based on a design by 19th-century landscaper Humphry Repton and Pru is attempting to recreate it using Repton's own Red Book which detailed his design, only adds to the pressure on her.
And you thought gardening such a mild profession. Not so — especially not in England. Gardens open through the NGS must be vetted. That's right, first someone comes through and decides if your garden is actually worthy of being open. And so, the bar is set high for any open garden.
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Marty Wingate
Pru's employers don't bother with the usual channel of opening their garden, instead they cavalierly go about plans, expecting Pru to work miracles with a small crew while she sticks her nose the murder investigation and ends up with an irritating inspector breathing down her neck.
I prefer to do my research firsthand, and love to attend garden open days. My husband and I stayed in a bed-and-breakfast in Tunbridge Wells for The Red Book of Primrose House — not far from the fictitious Primrose House, which is set near the real Bells Yew Green. I like to feel a part of the landscape, if you will, before I feel comfortable enough to write a description that will make my readers feel at home there, too. The pubs may be part of my imagination, but those English ales are real!
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Marty Wingate is a regular contributor to Country Gardens as well as other magazines. She also leads gardening tours throughout England, Scotland, Ireland, France, and North America.
For more information about the author, please visit her website at MartyWingate.com and her author page on Goodreads, or find her on Facebook and Twitter.
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The Red Book of Primrose House
Marty Wingate
A Potting Shed Mystery
Texas transplant Pru Parke's restoration of a historic landscape in England is uprooted by an ax murderer …
Pru Parke has her dream job: head gardener at an eighteenth-century manor house in Sussex. The landscape for Primrose House was laid out in 1806 by renowned designer Humphry Repton in one of his meticulously illustrated Red Books, and the new owners want Pru to restore the estate to its former glory — quickly, as they're planning to showcase it in less than a year at a summer party.
But life gets in the way of the best laid plans: When not being happily distracted by the romantic attentions of the handsome Inspector Christopher Pearse, Pru is digging into the mystery of her own British roots. Still, she manages to make considerable progress on the vast grounds — until vandals wreak havoc on each of her projects. Then, to her horror, one of her workers is found murdered among the yews. The police have a suspect, but Pru is certain they're wrong. Once again, Pru finds herself entangled in a thicket of evil intentions — and her, without a hatchet.
Black Knights Inc. Boxed Set by Julie Ann Walker is Today's Kobo Daily Deal
Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Black Knights Inc. Boxed Set by Julie Ann Walker as today's Kobo Daily Deal.
The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, November 29, 2014, and has been price-matched by Amazon.
Black Knights Inc. Boxed Set by Julie Ann Walker
Three Novels of Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Price: $1.99 (as of 11/29/2014 at 6:40 AM ET).
Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.
Behind the facade of their tricked-out motorcycle shop is a covert team comprised of the most elite ex-military specialists.
About the Books in This Boxed Set:
1. Hell on Wheels
Ex — Marine Nate Weller is an expert at keeping his cool, which is how he keeps his feelings for Ali Morgan in check. Sweet, sexy Ali is his best friend's sister … and totally off limits. Ali's never seen anything sexier than Nate straddling his custom Harley — or the flash in his eyes when she tells him she's in trouble. With Nate, her life is in his capable hands — but her heart is another story.
2. In Rides Trouble
Trouble tends to find Becky Reichert. Like the day ex-SEAL Frank Knight showed up, wanting to use her shop as a cover for his special ops team. Becky prides herself on being able to weld and shoot just as well as the big boys. But while munitions and mayhem are Frank's way of life, the last thing he needs is Becky in the way. Yet it's just his luck when she ends up in a hostage situation. Come hell or high water, he will get her back …
3. Rev It Up
Ex-SEAL Jake "the Snake" Sommers was known for striking quickly, quietly, and lethally. That's also how he broke Michelle Carter's heart. It was the only way to keep her safe-from himself. Four years later, Jake wants another chance, but Michelle has never forgiven him. But when her brother ticks off a mobster, she must do the unimaginable: place her life in Jake's hands. And once she does, he'll never let her go …
— Black Knights Inc. Boxed Set by Julie Ann Walker
Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141129)
Here is today's mystery and suspense update from Big Fish Games …
• The New Release is Silent Nights: Children's Orchestra.
• The Daily Deal is Myths of the World: Stolen Spring, just $2.99 today only!
• Today's Special Deal — Fall Harvest Sale! All Games Are 60% Off this weekend only! Use coupon code FALL at check-out to purchase any Collector's Edition game for $7.99 or use coupon code HARVEST for Standard Edition games at just $3.99. Offer valid through November 30th, 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 is Silent Nights: Children's Orchestra
You rose from the ashes of a family tragedy to become a famous French soprano. Now your daughters are following in your musical footsteps, and you couldn't be more proud. But on the night of a prestigious concert in Italy, a fire breaks out, and a mysterious masked man leads your children away! Follow a trail of secrets and deception to find the masked man and save your daughters before they fall victim to a dangerous experiment. You'll need all your talent to decipher clues and solve complex puzzles in this exciting 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 Myths of the World: Stolen Spring
The rich folklore continues with this exciting tale set in an old Slavic land. As Child of Spring, can you save the world from eternal winter? A cruel and cold Goddess of Winter has hijacked springtime, and her victim has called on you for help. You'll be surprised by what you, a lowly peasant, can do in the face of evil — and what cute little furry friends you'll meet along the way.
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.
Friday, November 28, 2014
The Lily-White Boys, A David Webb Mystery by Anthea Fraser, New This Week from Endeavour Press
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.
We've selected one of their recently published mystery, suspense, thriller or crime titles to feature here today …
The Lily-White Boys by Anthea Fraser
A David Webb Mystery (9th in series)
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Price: $3.99 (as of 11/28/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).
Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.
When a disreputable-looking van is dumped outside her house, Monica Tovey is unnerved. As its gruesome contents are revealed, a frightening chain of events is set in motion which seems to threaten her life …
DCI Webb is tasked with investigating a murder. But he encounters only burglary, football hooligans, low-flying aircraft and mysterious phone calls. Can he unscramble the clues to find the murderer and the truth about his two renowned victims?
His inquiries take him from humble cottages to sumptuous houses as he seeks to dig beneath the evasions, hesitations and denials with which his questions are met. Can he find the killer amongst the web of deceit and shifty lives of the locals? By the time he has the answer, Monica's life and those of her family and friends have been turned upside down, never again to be the same. And at the root of it all lie the two they called The Lily-White Boys …
— The Lily-White Boys by Anthea Fraser
Long Gone Man, A Singer Brown Mystery by Phyllis Smallman, 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 author …
Long Gone Man by Phyllis Smallman
A Singer Brown Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Phyllis Smallman
Price: $0.99 (as of 11/28/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).
Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.
In a thick fog, a ferry docks on Glenphiddie Island and disgorges Singer Brown's decrepit van. The homeless singer is there to exact revenge on the man who destroyed her life but someone has already killed Johnny Vibes. And now the murderer is coming after Singer.
Each of the former members of the band, Vortex, are hiding sins both old and new, secrets worth killing for, but Singer has one ally. Or does she? Johnny Vibes' wife has as much to lose as Singer if she doesn't agree to give Singer an alibi but that doesn't mean Lauren didn't kill her husband.
— Long Gone Man by Phyllis Smallman
New This Week: The Tomb of the Honey Bee, A Posie Parker Mystery by L. B. Hathaway
Omnimystery News is pleased to present a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers during November 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …
The Tomb of the Honey Bee by L. B. Hathaway
A Posie Parker Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Whitehaven Man Press
Price: $2.99 (as of 11/28/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).
Important Note: Price(s) verified as of the date and time shown. Price(s) are subject to change at any time. Please confirm the price of the book before purchasing it.
When Posie is asked to find a world-famous explorer who has gone missing, she finds herself in murky waters yet again: an aristocratic family torn apart by hatred, a bizarre murder at an English country house, and a cryptic clue left behind by the explorer which is sweet as honey, but deadlier than poison.
In a case where simply everyone has a motive for wanting the explorer dead, Posie's investigation starts off in the English Cotswolds, takes her through the glamorous South of France, on to the mysterious island of Ortigia in Italy, and then into the Tombs of the Pharaohs in Egypt. But is she being followed by a cold-blooded killer? And where has Len, her almost-boyfriend, disappeared to?
— The Tomb of the Honey Bee by L. B. Hathaway
The Killer Inside Me, A Suspense Thriller by Jim Thompson, 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, Mulholland Books …
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Price: $1.99 (as of 11/28/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).
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Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers — the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between — as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless, he's the kind of officer you're happy to have keeping your streets safe. The sort of man you might even wish your daughter would end up with someday.
But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. An urge that has already claimed multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing construction worker fell to his death on the job in what was anything but an accident. A murder that Lou is determined to avenge — and if innocent people have to die in the process, well, that's perfectly all right with him.
— The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Death Comes to London by Catherine Lloyd, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014
New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014 …
Death Comes to London by Catherine Lloyd
A Lucy Harrington, Kurland St. Mary Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Kensington
To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for November 2014. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of November 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.
More about our featured title, below …
A season in London promises a welcome change of pace for two friends from the village of Kurland St. Mary — until murder makes a debut …
With the reluctant blessings of their father, the rector of Kurland St. Mary, Lucy Harrington and her sister Anna leave home for a social season in London. At the same time, Lucy's special friend Major Robert Kurland is summoned to the city to accept a baronetcy for his wartime heroism.
Amidst the dizzying whirl of balls and formal dinners, the focus shifts from mixing and matchmaking to murder when the dowager Countess of Broughton, the mother of an old army friend of Robert, drops dead. When it's revealed she's been poisoned, Robert's former betrothed, Miss Chingford, is accused, and she in turn points a finger at Anna. To protect her sister, Lucy enlists Robert's aid in drawing out the true culprit.
But with suspects ranging from resentful rivals and embittered family members to the toast of the ton, it will take all their sleuthing skills to unmask the poisoner before more trouble is stirred up …
— Death Comes to London by Catherine Lloyd
Soul of the Fire by Eliot Pattison, New in Bookstores during November 2014
Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during November 2014 is …
Soul of the Fire by Eliot Pattison, a Shan Tao Yun Mystery (8th in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for November 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of November 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
More about our featured title, below …
When Shan Tao Yun and his old friend Lokesh are abruptly dragged away by Public Security, he is convinced that their secret, often illegal, support of struggling Tibetans has brought their final ruin. But his fear turns to confusion as he discovers he has been chosen to fill a vacancy on a special international commission investigating Tibetan suicides. Soon he finds that his predecessor was murdered, and when a monk sets himself on fire in front of the commissioners he realizes that the Commission is being used as a tool to whitewash Tibet's self-immolation protests as acts of crime and terrorism.
Shan faces an impossible dilemma when the Public Security officer who runs the Commission, Major Ren, orders the imprisoned Lokesh beaten to coerce Shan into following Beijing's script for the Commission. He has no choice but to become part of the hated machine that is devouring Tibet, but when he discovers that the most recent immolation was actually another murder, he realizes the Commission itself is riddled with crime and intrigue.
Everywhere he turns, Shan finds new secrets that seem to lead to the last agonizing chapter of his life. Shan must make a final desperate effort to uncover the Commission's terrible secrets whose painful truth could change Shan's life — and possibly that of many Tibetans — forever.
— Soul of the Fire by Eliot Pattison
Threatcon Delta by Andrew Britton, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014
New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014 …
To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for November 2014. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of November 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.
More about our featured title, below …
Ryan Kealey has no doubt that the forces seeking to tip this teetering world into chaos are just getting better. Better equipped, better organized, and, most terrifying of all, more patient. And despite all the ELINT, the all-seeingelectronic intelligence gathered at Langley, nothing stops a devastating attack from ripping through the heart of San Antonio, Texas.
Wrenched from retirement to work the Texas tragedy, Kealey learns of a far greater threat in the Middle East. A radical terrorist group claims possession of a powerful ancient relic, the Staff of Moses, which they will use to unleash plagues across the globe. To avert unimaginable devastation, lone-wolf Kealey, armed with little more than intuition, must prevent , a disaster of biblical proportions that may well be inevitable.
— Threatcon Delta by Andrew Britton
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