Death by a Dark Horse by Susan Schreyer is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature one of today's Free MystereBooks …

Death by a Dark Horse by Susan Schreyer

A Thea Campbell Mystery

Publisher: Susan Schreyer

  

This title was listed for free as of January 12, 2015 at 7:10 AM ET.

Thea Campbell goes out for revenge when the one person who is simultaneously the most likely and least likely candidate for thief steals her horse. But Olympic hopeful Valerie Parsons is past caring about being arrested. She's dead.

At first Thea's horse is assumed to have killed the woman, but when the coroner determines it was a human hand and not a horse's hoof that ended Valerie's life Thea becomes a person of interest. Now intimidating people with little regard for due process are showing up on her doorstep looking to even the score. Toss in her wrecked love life, a sexy geology professor who stirs up more than dust, and an alleged psychic horse, and it soon becomes apparent that Thea's predictable life is now out of control.

As she takes charge of clearing herself of the murder she discovers the victim had a knack for making enemies — one of whom is Thea's ditsy sister. She pursues her investigation with more at stake than ever, and in a seedy biker bar comes face-to-tattoo with information that will lead the police to the real killer. She dutifully reports to the detective in charge.

But Thea is wrong. As close to dead wrong as she ever wishes to get.

— Death by a Dark Horse by Susan Schreyer

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White Gold by Rachel Amphlett is Today's First Featured Free MystereBook

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White Gold by Rachel Amphlett

A Dan Taylor Thriller

Publisher: Rachel Amphlett

  

This title was listed for free as of January 12, 2015 at 7:00 AM ET.

A conspiracy that will end alternative energy research … an organisation killing to protect its interests … and a bomb that will change the face of terrorism …

When Sarah Edgewater's ex-husband is murdered by a radical organisation hell-bent on protecting their assets, she turns to Dan Taylor — geologist, ex-soldier, and lost cause. Together, they must unravel the research notes that Sarah's ex-husband left behind to locate an explosive device that is circumnavigating the globe towards London — and time is running out.

From London to Brisbane and back via the Arctic Circle, Dan and Sarah aren't just chasing the truth — they're chasing a bomb that, if detonated, will change the future of alternative energy research and the centre of England's capital forever.

— White Gold by Rachel Amphlett

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Snow White Must Die, An Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff Mystery by Nele Neuhaus, is Today's Nook Daily Find

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus as today's Nook Daily Find. The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Monday, January 12, 2015, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus

An Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/12/2015 at 6:30 AM ET).

  

Though the fourth in the series, it is the first to be published in the US.

On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer.

On a September evening eleven years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls vanished from the village without a trace. In a trial based only on circumstantial evidence, twenty-year-old Tobias Sartorius, Rita Cramer's son, was sentenced to ten years in prison. Bodenstein and Kirchhoff discover that Tobias, after serving his sentence, has now returned to his home town. Did the attack on his mother have something to do with his return?

In the village, Pia and Oliver encounter a wall of silence. When another young girl disappears, the events of the past seem to be repeating themselves in a disastrous manner. The investigation turns into a race against time, because for the villagers it is soon clear who the perpetrator is — and this time they are determined to take matters into their own hands.

— Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus

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Review: Swann's Lake of Despair by Charles Salzberg

A Mysterious Review of Swann's Lake of Despair by Charles Salzberg. A Henry Swann Mystery.

Review summary: It's a little slow going at first, as each of three subplots requires its own setup and there is nothing to connect them. But it's quite intriguing as an end game is negotiated for all three. There's a nuanced complexity here that makes this all very appealing in the end. A solid mystery and one that is recommended. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Swann's Lake of Despair
Charles Salzberg
A Henry Swann Mystery
Five Star (October 2014)

Publisher synopsis: When rare photos, a scandalous diary, and a beautiful woman all go missing at once, the stage is set for three challenging cases for Henry Swann. It begins with an offer to partner up with his slovenly, unreliable frenemy, Goldblatt. The disbarred lawyer-turned-"facilitator" would provide the leads and muscle, while Swann would do all the fancy footwork. A lost diary by a free-loving Jazz Age flapper is worth enough to someone that Swann takes a beat down on an abandoned boardwalk. Pilfered photos of Marilyn Monroe propel him deep into the past of an alcoholic shutterbug, his wife; and he's hired to search for a lonely writer's runaway girlfriend. The cases converge and collide in a finale that lifts the curtain on crucial, deadly facts of life for everyone — including Swann himself.

    

New This Week: Double Duplicity, A Shandra Higheagle Mystery by Paty Jager

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Double Duplicity by Paty Jager

A Shandra Higheagle Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Windtree Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/11/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

On the eve of the biggest art event at Huckleberry Mountain Resort, potter Shandra Higheagle finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation. She's ruled out as a suspect, but now it's up to her to prove the friend she'd witnessed fleeing the scene was just as innocent. With help from her recently deceased Nez Perce grandmother, Shandra becomes more confused than ever, but just as determined to discover the truth.

Detective Ryan Greer prides himself on solving crimes and refuses to ignore a single clue, including Shandra Higheagle's visions. While Shandra is hesitant to trust her dreams, Ryan believes in them and believes in her.

Can the pair uncover enough clues for Ryan to make an arrest before one of them becomes the next victim?

— Double Duplicity by Paty Jager

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New This Week: Tanzi's Game, A Vince Tanzi Mystery by C. I. Dennis

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Tanzi's Game by C. I. Dennis

A Vince Tanzi Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: C. I. Dennis

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/11/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

Ex-deputy and former private investigator Vince Tanzi is a family man now, and there is no longer any room for staking out motels and chasing after bad guys. Not with a nine-month-old kid in the back seat. Vince has reluctantly retired to focus on child rearing, recovering from a near-fatal injury, and the occasional knitting project. That is, until his best friend's mother vanishes without explanation.

This third adventure takes him to southernmost Florida and closer to the Equator when the trail leads offshore. He is up against the Pimentel family, formerly of the Hialeah numbers racket, but now respectable citizens. Sort of. He is also up against his own personal issues, including a tenuous marriage and some unwelcome distractions.

— Tanzi's Game by C. I. Dennis

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Two Bennett Sisters Mysteries by Lise McClendon, 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, Thalia Press …

Blackbird Fly by Lise McClendon

A Bennett Sisters Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Thalia Press

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/11/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

A house in France connects three women together — the woman who owns the house, the woman who lives in the house, and the woman who died there sixty years before. Merle Bennett inherits the house of her late husband, in a small village in the Dordogne. But when she arrives a deranged squatter won't let her inside.

Secrets from the post-war period, when southwest France was left to wither by Nazi occupation, and secrets of a newer kind, occupy what should be a fine French summer for Merle. With her teenage son in tow, a sexy roofer in her kitchen, and a nasty discovery in the pissoir, there is plenty to keep her mind off her endless to-do list. A story of murder, self-discovery, and family, deep in the heart of France.

— Blackbird Fly by Lise McClendon

The Girl in the Empty Dress by Lise McClendon

A Bennett Sisters Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Thalia Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/11/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Truffles, wine, romance, and intrigue in the heart of France …

Merle Bennett is turning fifty, and her four sisters are helping her celebrate by going to France on a walking tour of the Dordogne. But one sister invites along a law colleague whose annoying ways upset what Merle had hoped would be just 'wine, women, and walking.' When Gillian Sargent, the sixth wheel, finds an injured dog beside the road the idyllic summer vacation takes a dark and dangerous turn. Why is the dog special? Who is after her? And what will they do to get the dog back?

All five Bennett sisters are lawyers. One is writing a blog about their trip, baring family details. As the intrigue heats up, one of Merle's boyfriends shows up from New York while her French boyfriend arrives unexpectedly. The delicate karma of sisterhood is rife with bickering, tears, and French law as the questions about Gillian Sargent pile up. Who exactly is she? What is she hiding? And where the hell has she gone with the dog?

— The Girl in the Empty Dress by Lise McClendon

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Infiltration by Janie Crouch, New from Harlequin Intrigue in January 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title from Harlequin, published this month …

Infiltration by Janie Crouch

Series: Omega Sector

Imprint: Intrigue

  

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

She never expected to see her old flame again. Or be kidnapped by him …

The wrong place at the wrong time — that's the only way Sophia Reardon could explain her predicament. She wasn't even an FBI field agent and now she was being taken hostage. By her ex-boyfriend Cameron Branson. The moment Sophia walked into his undercover operation, Cameron warned her that his "employers" would want to break her. So keeping her by his side, pretending not to have feelings for her, was the best way to maintain his role in the dangerous organization, and the only way to keep them both safe. Because if they got their hands on her, she could expose him and his secrets. And then they'd no longer have any reason to keep her around …

— Infiltration by Janie Crouch

Available to Pre-Order on DVD and Blu-ray: Grantchester Season One

Scheduled for release on Tuesday, April 07, 2015 and available to pre-order …

Grantchester

Season One

  

It's 1953 and Sidney Chambers (James Norton) is vicar of Grantchester, a village just outside Cambridge, England. Sidney's is a quiet life. He tends to his flock, keeps up with his jazz collection, and does his best to contain his passion for beautiful heiress Amanda Kendall.

But when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances, Sidney quickly finds that people confide things in a parish priest that they would never tell police. Pushed into the dangerous world of lies, betrayal, and murder, Sidney joins forces with the overworked and weary Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green, Wire in the Blood, Reckless). The cleric and cop bond over their war service, their love of a good pub, and their competitive instincts.

It's the start of a beautiful friendship that will take Sidney and Geordie through a series of challenging cases, revealing the dark side of early 1950s England — jealousy, prejudice, class conflict, and plain old passion.

Can you still see the best in people when the world of murder asks you to see the worst?

This 6-episode crime drama is based on the popular mysteries by James Runcie, and has been renewed for a second season.

Doing the Devil's Work by Bill Loehfelm, New in Bookstores during January 2015

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during January 2015 is …

Doing the Devil's Work by Bill Loehfelm, a Maureen Coughlin Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

        

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for January 2015. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of January 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

More about our featured title, below …

Maureen Coughlin is a bona fide New Orleans cop now, and, with her training days behind her, she likes to think she's getting the lay of the land. Then a mysterious corpse leads to more questions than answers, and a late-night traffic stop goes very wrong.

The fallout leaves Maureen contending with troubled friends, fraying loyalties, cop-hating enemies old and new, and an elusive, spectral, and murderous new nemesis — and all the while navigating the twists and turns of a city and a police department infected with dysfunction and corruption.

— Doing the Devil's Work by Bill Loehfelm

Countdown to Danger by Hannah Alexander and Jill Elizabeth Nelson, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in January 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title from Harlequin, published this month …

Countdown to Danger by Hannah Alexander and Jill Elizabeth Nelson

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

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

Danger rings in the New Year in these two suspenseful novellas …

Alive After New Year by Hannah Alexander: An anonymous note demands millions of dollars — and in return, Lynley Marshall can keep her life. Lynley turns to new police chief John Russell for protection. The handsome widower promises to keep her safe. But time is running out as the clock ticks closer to midnight — and to the deadline for the culprit's demands.

New Year's Target by Jill Elizabeth Nelson: When a sniper shoots at Cassidy Ferris on a ski slope, the wounded police detective is shocked by her rescuer's identity — her childhood nemesis, Tim Halstead. And as the threats escalate, they must join forces to uncover why a killer has targeted them both.

— Countdown to Danger by Hannah Alexander and Jill Elizabeth Nelson

The Pardon, A Jack Swyteck Legal Thriller by James Grippando, Now Available at a Special Price

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Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins …

The Pardon by James Grippando

A Jack Swyteck Legal Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/11/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney has spent years rebelling against his father, Harry, now Florida's governor. Their estrangement seems complete when Harry allows one of Jack's clients — a man Jack believes is innocent — to die in the electric chair.

But when a psychopath bent on serving his own twisted version of justice places both Jack and Harry in extreme jeopardy, the two have nowhere to turn but to each other. Together they must find a way to overcome their cunning tormentor's manipulation … even as the stakes are being raised to far more perilous heights.

— The Pardon by James Grippando

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New This Week: The Necklace Affair and Other Stories, A Captain Lacey, Regency Mystery Short Story Collection by Ashley Gardner

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The Necklace Affair and Other Stories by Ashley Gardner

A Captain Lacey, Regency Mystery Short Story Collection

Publisher: JA / AG Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/11/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

This collection brings together three short mysteries in the Captain Lacey series: "The Necklace Affair" (novella); and "The Gentleman's Walking Stick" and "The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald" (short stories).

In "The Necklace Affair", Captain Lacey agrees to help a society matron discover what has become of her expensive diamond necklace and to clear her maid, who has been arrested for its theft. Lady Clifford declares that the rival for her husband's affections has stolen the necklace, but Lacey soon realizes that the problem is not so simple. He quickly becomes enmeshed in scandal and past secrets, and recruits Grenville and Lady Breckenridge to assist him. As he investigates, he finds himself competing with the underworld criminal, James Denis, for the necklace's retrieval.

In "The Gentleman's Walking Stick", Captain Lacey is asked to retrieve a walking stick, which embroils him in an affair of theft, deception, and betrayal.

In "The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald", Lacey hunts for a missing young woman, learning more about a family's sordid secrets than he wanted to know.

Events in these stories occur between the end of The Sudbury School Murders and the beginning of A Body in Berkeley Square.

— The Necklace Affair and Other Stories by Ashley Gardner

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for January 12, 2015

A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

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This week's letters and mystery clue:

A B C E K L O R S

A flower of this color is the title of Kris Thompson's 2014 mystery thriller (9 letters).

We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!

Death on Dangar Island by G. P. Field is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature one of today's Free MystereBooks …

Death on Dangar Island by G. P. Field

A Murder Mystery.

Publisher: G. P. Field

  

This title was listed for free as of January 11, 2015 at 7:20 AM ET.

Professor Israel Wren doesn't think Roxanne Duncan died of snakebite on Dangar Island — no matter what anybody says. And he's right …

Hardboiled DI Scott McKinnon takes an instant dislike to the fastidious Israel and his conspiracy theories and looks ready to sign the case off as an accident.

Driven by his sense of justice and the demon that visits him in his sleep, Israel launches his own investigation into Roxanne's death, dragging along his Aussie mate Gary, who was hoping this island holiday might have been more fishing and cricket than secrets and intrigue.

Can the professor prove Roxanne's death was no accident? Will he and Gary be able to corner the killer before more people die? Join them on an island full of suspicious locals, teenage goths and deadly serpents — an island named Dangar.

— Death on Dangar Island by G. P. Field

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