New Poster for Upcoming Fox Drama Backstrom, Premiering January 2015

A new poster — and not one of our favorites — for the upcoming drama Backstrom has been released by Fox (right; click for slightly larger image).

Rainn Wilson stars as Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom, a man with no filter. After a five-year banishment to the traffic division for offensive behavior, he has returned from disgrace to lead Portland's newly minted S.C.U. Tasked with navigating the city's most sensitive and serious cases, he must solve each crime as he tries, and fails, to change his own self-destructive behavior.

Based on a character created by Swedish criminologist and novelist Leif G. W. Persson and produced by the creator of Bones, Backstrom premieres on January 22nd, 2015 at 9 PM ET/PT. Watch the trailer for the series from the network's upfront presentation earlier this year, below.

Please Welcome Thriller Writer Howard Kaplan

with Howard Kaplan

We are delighted to welcome author Howard Kaplan to Omnimystery News today.

First published in 1977, Howard's suspense thriller The Damascus Cover has recently been re-released as a trade paperback and an ebook. It is also being adapted into a film, which is currently in production and will be released by Relativity Media in 2015.

We asked Howard to tell us a little more about the path his book took from publication to screenplay.

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Howard Kaplan

In 1977, The Damascus Cover rose on the Los Angeles Times best seller list for 3 months in hardcover. All then ten paperback reprint houses bid on the rights for the paperback version which went to Fawcett, the highest bidder at auction. The book was published separately in Great Britain by John le Carré's esteemed British publisher, Hodder and Stoughton. A Yugoslavian publisher bought the rights for translation into Serbo-Croation. Then came a sad note from my agent about their representative in Belgrade. When the galleys arrived there, the managing director read it himself as my New York agent presented the book as an important title and potential best seller. He enjoyed the book so much that he decided to market it himself. The first market proved successful, and he secured an offer from a publisher in Belgrade. Unfortunately, when the book was turned over to the central committee for authorization to translate it, the permission was denied, and all the remaining copies of the galleys still on submission elsewhere were confiscated by the government. The Damascus Cover was put on the official Eastern Europe blacklist. He wrote, "So we won't have a Yugoslav edition after all, and shall not be able to market the book in the other East European countries." I had mixed feelings, both disappointment and excitement that the novel was garnering so much attention.

Now, 37 years later, a film is currently shooting on location in Casablanca, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point and The Tudors), Abigail Spencer, (This is Where I Leave You and Rectify), Jurgen Prochnow (Das Boot and The Da Vinci Code) and Navid Negahban, who played Abu Nazir in Homeland. Some changes have been made due to the long passage of time but the director/screenwriter told me several times he found himself always returning to the spine of the novel as it worked so well. The film will be released in 2015.

With the film coming out, I decided to reissue The Damascus Cover as an ebook and paperback. It's been out of print all this time.

This fast-paced spy novel is full of plot twists, intrigue, a central love story, all set in Damascus. With both Syria and Israel so prominent the film producers see the novel and book as very timely. The story itself about can one use one of their own people without their knowledge, to reach the desired goal is timeless so it needed no update at all.

When I was a student on my junior year abroad in Jerusalem, I flew to Cyprus and got a new passport at the American Embassy in Nicosia. From there I flew to Beirut, where a Canadian Sergeant Major sitting beside me on the plane offered to procure me the best gold and the cleanest girls. I decided to pass on both. From there I took a shared taxi to Damascus. The idea for this novel, about an Israeli agent who works his way high up in the Syrian echelons was born when I visited Marjeh Square, where the actual Israeli spy, Eli Cohen was hanged after being uncovered in 1965. He had risen to be the highest advisor to the Syrian Minister of Defense.

The Los Angeles Times said about it: "In the best tradition of the new espionage novel. Kaplan's grasp of history and scene creates a genuine reality. He seems to know every back alley of Damascus and Cyprus." The American Library Association, in a starred review, said: "A mission inside Syria, a last love affair, and the unfolding of the plot within a plot are handled by the author with skill and a sure sense of the dramatic."

Overall, it feels like a miracle to have the book become alive again as a film and in print again after nearly four decades. I'll be on set the first week of February. So expect to see a bald, 64-year-old, gray bearded author sitting at a bar somewhere in the film.

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Howard Kaplan, a native of Los Angeles, has lived in Israel and traveled extensively through Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. At the age of 21, he had his own spy experience while attending school in Jerusalem, when he was sent on two missions into the Soviet Union to smuggle out a dissident’s manuscript on microfilm. His first trip was a success. On his second trip, however, he was arrested in Khartiv and interrogated for two days in the Ukraine and two days in Moscow, before being released. He holds a BA in Middle East History from UC Berkeley, an MA in the Philosophy of Education from UCLA, and is the author of four novels.

For more information about the author, please find him on Facebook and Twitter.

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The Damascus Cover
Howard Kaplan
The Jerusalem Spy Series

In a last ditch effort to revive his career, washed out agent Ari Ben-Sion accepts a mission he never would have 30 years ago, to smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto. Or so he thinks.

In Damascus, a beautiful American photographer, Kim, seems to be falling in love with Ari, but she is asking too many questions. His communication equipment disappears. His contact never shows up. The operation is only hours away and everything seems awry. Desperate to succeed, Ari might risk everything. Even his life.

        

Spy for a Troubled King by Dan McClure is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Spy for a Troubled King by Dan McClure

The Adventures of Grant Scotland

Publisher: Dan McClure

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

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Among the ashes of the mighty Aelfan Empire, the House of Gregyan seeks to forge a new kingdom — one where both Huthan and Aelfan alike can prosper. But old prejudices and old traditions and an exiled enemy threaten the peace.

Caught between compassion for his home and allegiance to his fallen empire, Grant Scotland finds himself trapped in the turbulent machinations of enemies and friends. As he works to uncover old mysteries about his past and new threats to his future, he moves perilously close to revealing his identity and losing everything.

— Spy for a Troubled King by Dan McClure

Murder Will Out by Alison Joseph is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

Murder Will Out by Alison Joseph

An Agatha Christie Mystery

Publisher: Endeavour Press

… as today's free mystery ebook.

  

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Death stalks the vicarage …

1923. The Great War is over, but the ghosts of the dead still linger. Agatha Christie was one of the lucky ones — her husband returned from the conflict — and for her, and her local neighbours, life has resumed. Agatha is beginning to gain some notoriety for her crime writing and she is busy working on her latest novel. But then her neighbour tells her there has been a real "murder at the vicarage" — a young man, Cecil Coates, has been poisoned, and due to Christie's expertise in the crime genre, the neighbourhood wants her to investigate.

At first Agatha is reluctant to get involved. After all, she is a writer, not a detective. But then Robert Sayer, godson of her neighbour, and one of the main suspects in the case, appeals to her directly for help, and she finds herself being drawn in …

What secrets and lies are lying beneath the village's tranquil exterior? Can Agatha Christie use her imagination to draw the murderer out?

— Murder Will Out by Alison Joseph

The Farm by Tom Rob Smith is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Farm by Tom Rob Smith as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Friday, December 19, 2014.

The Farm by Tom Rob Smith

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/19/2014 at 6:10 AM ET).

  

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Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden. But with a single phone call, everything changes.

Your mother … she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things — terrible, terrible things. She's had a psychotic breakdown, and been committed to a mental hospital.

Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad … I need the police … Meet me at Heathrow.

Caught between his parents, and unsure of who to believe or trust, Daniel becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury as she tells him an urgent tale of secrets, of lies, of a crime and a conspiracy that implicates his own father.

— The Farm by Tom Rob Smith

Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (141219)

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

• The New Release is Haunted Hotel: Death Sentence (Collector's Edition).

• The current Catch of the Week is European Mystery: Scent of Desire, just $2.99 through Sunday, December 21, 2014 only.

Visit the Omnimystery Entertainment Network for more games of mystery and suspense!

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The New Release is Haunted Hotel: Death Sentence (Collector's Edition)

Together you and your friend James have solved all kinds of supernatural mysteries together, but this case may be his last. Late one evening, you receive a letter written in James's own handwriting, claiming that he has died and that the Holy Mountain Hotel holds the answers. Racing off to the hotel, you discover it's completely abandoned. But is it really? You'll have to dig deep to uncover the murderer responsible for taking justice into his own hands! Can you save James and escape with your lives, or will The Holy Mountain Hotel become your early grave?

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version, including: Experience the director’s alternate ending; Collectible antiques and character dolls; Help a shipwrecked girl in the thrilling bonus epilogue; and Screensaver, Concept Art, Wallpapers, and Soundtrack.

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

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The current Catch of the Week is European Mystery: Scent of Desire

Stop a maniac's murderous trail of fragrance and deception! You've barely settled into your retirement in the peaceful French countryside, when you receive an urgent request from Paris. Young women are disappearing in broad daylight, the authorities are baffled, and the person responsible is still on the loose! How could any able-bodied detective refuse such a case? Stay on scent of the murderer in this intriguing Hidden-Object Puzzle Adventure game.

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

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.

The Damascus Cover, A Jerusalem Spy Thriller by Howard Kaplan, 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 …

The Damascus Cover by Howard Kaplan

A Jerusalem Spy Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Howard Kaplan

Price: $0.99 (as of 12/18/2014 at 6:00 PM ET).

Currently in development as a major motion picture. Read more about the backstory to how this novel became a film tomorrow when Howard Kaplan is our guest.

  

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In a last ditch effort to revive his career, washed out agent Ari Ben-Sion accepts a mission he never would have 30 years ago, to smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto. Or so he thinks.

In Damascus, a beautiful American photographer, Kim, seems to be falling in love with Ari, but she is asking too many questions. His communication equipment disappears. His contact never shows up. The operation is only hours away and everything seems awry. Desperate to succeed, Ari might risk everything. Even his life.

— The Damascus Cover by Howard Kaplan

Sherlock Holmes and the Morphine Gambit, A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche by Jason Cooke, 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 …

Sherlock Holmes and the Morphine Gambit by Jason Cooke

A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/18/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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The year is 1912. Sherlock Holmes is called out of retirement by brother Mycroft, acting on behalf of the British Government, to investigate a break-in at the Norfolk home of a wealthy German financier, Sir Edward Muster. Holmes is soon at work dismantling a German spy ring, but the investigation is quickly clouded by his suspicions concerning Mycroft's pivotal role in those events.

What agenda is Mycroft pursuing? What is the truth behind the loss of the fishing vessels the Misty Jane and the Yarmouth Adventuress in the North Sea? And why is the Royal Navy seemingly operating incognito along the Norfolk coast?

Before long a number of very different events come together to reveal a dangerous conspiracy. As the story unfolds against the background of an International Opium Conference, Holmes and Watson find themselves embroiled in espionage and arms smuggling in the tense period leading up to the First World War.

— Sherlock Holmes and the Morphine Gambit by Jason Cooke

No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk, A Magdalena Yoder, Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery by Tamar Myers, 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, NYLA …

No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk by Tamar Myers

A Magdalena Yoder, Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: NYLA

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/18/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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Magdalena Yoder, Amish-Mennonite proprietor of the Pennsylvania Dutch Inn, travels to Farmersburg, Ohio for the funeral of her second cousin (twice removed) who had the unfortunate luck of drowning in a vat of milk … and, as Magdalena knows, Amish men just don't go swimming in milk in the middle of February. Something's definitely rotten in Farmersburg …

When another relative is found belly up, Magdalena puts her (impressive, but attractive nonetheless, thank you very much) nose to the scent and discovers that a vicious cheese rivalry may be the cause of all this mayhem!

In between keeping tabs on her saucy sister, Susannah, avoiding her sardine-loving host and spending time with her new boyfriend, Aaron Miller (a.k.a. Pooky Bear), Magdalena must find the killer … before more Yoders bite the dust!

— No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk by Tamar Myers

New This Week: Murder by Gravity, A Theo and Tony Abernathy Mystery by Barbara Graham

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 December 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

Murder by Gravity by Barbara Graham

A Theo and Tony Abernathy Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: Five Star

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/18/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Snow before Halloween shocks the residents of tiny Park County, Tennessee. While dealing with a multitude of minor issues, Sheriff Tony Abernathy is contacted by a charter pilot who claims his passenger jumped, without a parachute, into the most remote spot in the county. After riding mules into the wilderness to collect the body, Tony and his deputy must travel to North Carolina, in a blizzard, to notify the widow. Problems multiply. Tony's wife, Theo, is shocked to see a woman at the grocery store with a knife embedded in her back. Then a priceless quilt is stolen.

As the sheriff, Tony hates Halloween. Even so, he never expected a valuable coffin, and the body inside, to go missing.

— Murder by Gravity by Barbara Graham

Forty Days Without Shadow, An Arctic Thriller by Olivier Truc, 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, Grand Central …

Forty Days Without Shadow by Olivier Truc

An Arctic Thriller

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/18/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Tomorrow, the sun will rise for the first time in 40 days. Thirty minutes of daylight will herald the end of the polar night in Kautokeino, a small village in northern Norway, home to the indigenous Sami people.

But in the last hours of darkness, a precious artifact is stolen: an ancient Sami drum. The most important piece in the museum's collection, it was due to go on tour with a UN exhibition in a few short weeks.

Hours later, a man is murdered. Mattis, one of the last Sami reindeer herders, is found dead in his gumpy.

Are the two crimes connected? In a town fraught with tension — between the indigenous Samis fighting to keep their culture alive, the ultra-Lutheran Scandinavian colonists concerned with propagati-ng their own religion, and the greedy geologists eager to mine the region's ore deposits — it falls to two local police officers to solve the crimes. Klemet Nango, an experienced Sami officer, and Nina Nansen, his much younger partner from the south of Norway, must find the perpetrators before it's too late …

— Forty Days Without Shadow by Olivier Truc

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