Follow the Crow by B. B. Griffith is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

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Follow the Crow by B. B. Griffith

The Vanished Series

Publisher: Griffith Publishing

  

This title was listed for free as of January 15, 2015 at 7:10 AM ET.

Ben Dejooli is a Navajo cop who can't escape his past. Six years ago his little sister Ana vanished without a trace. His best friend saw what happened, but he refuses to speak of what he knows, and so was banished from the Navajo tribe. That was the day the crows started following Ben.

Caroline Adams is a nurse with a special talent: she sees things others can't see. She knows that Ben is more than he seems, and that the crows are trying to tell him something.

What the crows know will shed new light on the mystery of Ana's disappearance, and throw Ben and Caroline into a race against time to find out what happened before they end up vanishing just like she did.

— Follow the Crow by B. B. Griffith

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The Storm Slayer by Simon Largo is Today's First Featured Free MystereBook

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The Storm Slayer by Simon Largo

A Mason Trent Crime Thriller

Publisher: Bay Lake Media

  

This title was listed for free as of January 15, 2015 at 7:00 AM ET.

New York City is engulfed by a major storm front, during which a series of grisly slayings place its eight million inhabitants in fear, and on the edge, as they try to cope with the raging weather and gruesome crime spree, as the body count rises.

In the midst of the vortex of driving wind, rain and lightening bolts, a catastrophic event escalates out of control, and causes a major power cut, plunging Manhattan into darkness for 48 hours. The city's emergency services and besieged population are driven to saturation point, as they battle against mother nature and a psychotic killer on the loose.

One man emerges as an unlikely hero to save New York — Mason Trent — a seasoned NYPD homicide detective. Trent is determined to battle his own demons, ride out the storm and catch a dangerous killer.

— The Storm Slayer by Simon Largo

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The Cater Street Hangman, A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Mystery by Anne Perry, is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry as today's Kobo Daily Deal. The deal price of $3.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, January 15, 2015, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry

A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/15/2015 at 6:40 AM ET).

  

Panic and fear strike the Ellison household when one of their own falls prey to the Cater Street murderer. While Mrs. Ellison and her three daughters are out, their maid becomes the third victim of a killer who strangles young women with cheese wire, leaving their swollen-faced bodies on the dark streets of this genteel neighborhood.

Inspector Pitt, assigned to the case, must break through the walls of upper-class society to get at the truth. His in-depth investigation gradually peels away the proper veneer of the elite world, exposing secrets and desires until suspicion becomes more frightening than truth. Outspoken Charlotte Ellison, struggling to remain within the confining boundaries of Victorian manners, has no trouble expressing herself to the irritating policeman.

As their relationship shifts from antagonistic sparring to a romantic connection, the socially inappropriate pair must solve the mystery before the hangman strikes again.

— The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry

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Until the Debt Is Paid, A Novel of Suspense by Alexander Hartung, is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Until the Debt Is Paid by Alexander Hartung as today's Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, January 15, 2015.

Until the Debt Is Paid by Alexander Hartung

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: AmazonCrossing

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/15/2015 at 6:10 AM ET).

Berlin detective Jan Tommen expected to wake up with a hangover — not a murder charge. But a well-known judge has been brutally killed and hard evidence places Jan at the crime scene. When disturbing gaps in Jan's memory make finding an alibi impossible, the case against him looks open and shut.

Faced with life on the inside, Jan flees police custody to take refuge with an old friend deeply enmeshed in the capital's seedy underworld. Hampered by a citywide manhunt, Jan soon finds that investigating leads while eluding capture isn't easy. Before long, he's relying on a team of misfits for help, including an icy blonde medical examiner and a brilliant but reclusive computer whiz.

When a lucky break leads Jan to connect the murders to a heinous trafficking ring, the team risks it all to find answers. Meanwhile, the body count continues to rise and the police department starts to close in. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jan must identify the true killer — before his time finally runs out.

— Until the Debt Is Paid by Alexander Hartung

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Review: The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries by Otto Penzler, editor

A Mysterious Review of The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries by Otto Penzler, editor. A Short Story Collection.

Review summary: Sixty-eight superbly crafted stories are included in this collection, subtitled "the most complete collection of impossible crime stories ever assembled". Indeed it is! Though large and somewhat unwieldy to hold and read, this is a must have collection for all fans of mystery and crime fiction. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries
Otto Penzler, editor
A Short Story Collection
Vintage Crime (October 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form — a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth — this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances.

Among these pages you'll find stories with evocative titles like "The Flying Death", "The Man From Nowhere", "A Terribly Strange Bed", and "The Theft of the Bermuda Penny", not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Georges Simenon's Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op, and many more.

        

New This Week: Wrong Orbits, A Crime Noir by Ed Lynskey

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 January 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

Wrong Orbits by Ed Lynskey

A Crime Noir

Publisher: ECL Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/14/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Loomis McTeague has good reasons to fear his safe, little world in suburbia is skidding into a wrong orbit. His best friend Stu O'Fryer is involved in a disgusting criminal enterprise. Loomis suspects his wife Enola Jo is cheating on him. His new co-worker Zoey, actually a con artist, is blackmailing his with the compromising photos taken during their tryst. Loomis does his best to hold things together.

But nothing he tries seems to work out. He finds a resolution of a sort but at what cost?

— Wrong Orbits by Ed Lynskey

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Home Through the Dark, A Novel of Suspense by Anthea Fraser, Now Available at a Special Price

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Home Through the Dark by Anthea Fraser

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/14/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Virginia Clements was looking for a fresh start. Leaving her actor husband, after discovering his infidelity, she travelled under the assumed name of Ginnie Durrell. When her car crashes in the coastal town of Westhampton, she decides that this is as good a place as any to begin anew.

Her love of the stage draws her to a troupe of actors. But they have more on their minds than just acting. Each cast member has a strange interest in her past life; some know her real name, others start asking questions …

When Ginnie accidentally intercepts a phone call demanding a large sum of money to be dropped off in payment for a suspicious act, a trail of unsettling clues begins. Silent, anonymous phone calls, doorbells ringing in the night, footsteps in the dark, and a figure on her balcony. What are the actors of The Little Theatre trying to hide? Who is disrupting the peace she had so desperately hoped to find? What deadly secrets lie in this sleepy seaside town?

For Ginnie, who had wished for a new life, this is just the beginning …

— Home Through the Dark by Anthea Fraser

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New This Week: Overkill, A Belinda and Bennett Mystery by Amy Saunders

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Overkill by Amy Saunders

A Belinda and Bennett Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Amy Saunders

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/14/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

Summer in Portside: The beach! The gelato! The murder …

Belinda's peace from scandal and her grandmother is short-lived when a painting — and then a body — wash up on her favorite beach. As she and Bennett team with Det. Jonas Parker to figure out how the two connect, a possible art forgery comes to light — and another victim.

Belinda continues to grow into her new role as a part-time amateur detective, swimming through suspects and broken connections, while Bennett starts to rebuild his life, and Jonas breaks free from work to pursue a potential new romance.

With the heat of summer upon them, the future is more unpredictable than ever.

— Overkill by Amy Saunders

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Mysteries, Novels of Suspense, and Thrillers Discounted to $1.99 Courtesy of William Morrow

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 one of over 40 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers currently available at a special discounted price of $1.99, courtesy of the publisher, William Morrow. Please note that this selection of titles changes frequently, and the featured book below may no longer be available at this price.

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

A Miss Marple Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/14/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

The murder of Colonel Protheroe — shot through the head — is a shock to everyone in St Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one. Now even the vicar, who had declared that killing the detested Protheroe would be "doing the world at large a favour," is a suspect — the Colonel has been dispatched in the clergyman's study, no less. But the picturesque English village of St Mary Mead is overpopulated with suspects. There is of course the faithless Mrs Protheroe; and there is of course her young lover — an artist, to boot.

Perhaps more surprising than the revelation of the murderer is the detective who will crack the case: "a white-haired old lady with a gentle, appealing manner." Miss Jane Marple has arrived on the scene …

— The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

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A Killer Retreat by Tracy Weber, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015 …

A Killer Retreat by Tracy Weber, A Kate Davidson, Downward Dog Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Midnight Ink

  

When Kate Davidson gets an offer to teach yoga classes at the Elysian Springs resort, she jumps at the opportunity — even if it means enduring the wedding ceremony of the center's two caretakers. But avoiding the M-word turns out to be the least of Kate's problems when a wedding guest is found floating face-down in the resort's hot tub, shortly after a loud, public fight with Kate.

The police pick Kate as their number-one suspect, so she teams up with her boyfriend Michael, best friend Rene, and German shepherd sidekick Bella to find the real killer. They must solve the crime before the police arrest Kate, or her next gig may last a lifetime — behind bars.

— A Killer Retreat by Tracy Weber

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The Sword of God, A John Milton Thriller by Mark Dawson, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Sword of God by Mark Dawson

A John Milton Thriller (5th in series)

Publisher: Unputdownable

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/14/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

A man called Milton walks into town …

On the run from his own demons, John Milton treks through the Michigan wilderness into the town of Truth. He's not looking for trouble, but trouble's looking for him. He finds himself up against a small-town cop who has no idea with whom he is dealing, and no idea how dangerous he is.

But Milton is double crossed and badly injured. Unarmed and alone, he flees into the remote Porcupine Mountains with a posse on his tail. His enemies thought they could hunt him down. That was a mistake and, where Milton is concerned, one mistake is all you get.

— The Sword of God by Mark Dawson

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The Witch Hunter's Tale by Sam Thomas, New in Bookstores during January 2015

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

The Witch Hunter's Tale by Sam Thomas, a Bridget Hodgson Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

    

Winter has come to the city of York, and with it the threat of witchcraft. As women and children sicken and die, midwife Bridget Hodgson is pulled against her will into a full-scale witch-hunt that threatens to devour all in its path, guilty and innocent alike.

Bridget — accompanied once again by her deputy Martha Hawkins and her nephew Will Hodgson — finds herself playing a lethal game of cat and mouse against the most dangerous men in York, as well as her sworn enemy Rebecca Hooke. As the trials begin, and the noose begins to tighten around her neck, Bridget must answer the question: How far will she go to protect the people she loves?

— The Witch Hunter's Tale by Sam Thomas

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Snoop to Nuts by Elizabeth Lee, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015 …

Snoop to Nuts by Elizabeth Lee, A Lindy Blanchard, Nut House Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

Lindy Blanchard's family pecan farm is known county-wide, but it's the goodies her grandmother sells at their store, the Nut House, that really bring in the crowds — until someone turns one of her tasty treats deadly …

The "Most Original Pecan Treat" contest at the Ag Fair is the talk of Riverville, Texas, especially when it's clear that Miss Amelia Blanchard's Heavenly Texas Pecan Caviar will take home a blue ribbon. Which is why everyone is amazed when her dish doesn't even place — and even more shocked when one of the judges, Pastor Jenkins, keels over dead, right after taking a second taste of Miss Amelia's food.

No one in town truly believes that Amelia would even hurt a fly, but all the evidence points to poor Pastor Jenkins' death being caused by poison in the caviar. Now, unless Lindy figures out who wanted to frame Amelia for murder, her meemaw may have baked her last famous pecan pie …

— Snoop to Nuts by Elizabeth Lee

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Mysteries, Novels of Suspense, and Thrillers Discounted to $1.99 Courtesy of HarperCollins

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The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/14/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope just off the parade grounds. An apparent suicide is not unheard of in a harsh regimen like West Point's, but the next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has stolen into the room where the body lay and removed the heart.

At a loss for answers and desperate to avoid any negative publicity, the Academy calls on the services of a local civilian, Augustus Landor, a former police detective who acquired some renown during his years in New York City before retiring to the Hudson Highlands for his health. Now a widower, and restless in his seclusion, Landor agrees to take on the case. As he questions the dead man's acquaintances, he finds an eager assistant in a moody, intriguing young cadet with a penchant for drink, two volumes of poetry to his name, and a murky past that changes from telling to telling. The cadet's name? Edgar Allan Poe.

Impressed with Poe's astute powers of observation, Landor is convinced that the poet may prove useful — if he can stay sober long enough to put his keen reasoning skills to the task. Working in close contact, the two men — separated by years but alike in intelligence — develop a surprisingly deep rapport as their investigation takes them into a hidden world of secret societies, ritual sacrifices, and more bodies. Soon, however, the macabre murders and Landor's own buried secrets threaten to tear the two men and their newly formed friendship apart.

— The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard

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New This Week: The Trouble with St. John, A Samantha Stone Mystery by Katie Bloomstrom

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The Trouble with St. John by Katie Bloomstrom

A Samantha Stone Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: RKB Legacy

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/14/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

"After all that work and sleuthing and investment in my great detective notebook, I had nothing. In fact, the only successful thing I've done since stepping foot on this island was successfully believe all the lies everyone told me. Oh, I've also successfully been kidnapped, successfully almost drowned, and successfully eaten more Xanax than I've ever eaten before in my life. And in two days I'm supposed to just leave and pretend none of this ever happened. If I can even leave after being framed for murder."

When shy, medium-looking Samantha Stone winds up on the romantic tropical island of St. John after getting dumped at the altar, she's faced with two options: (1) sit in her sweaty villa and cry over her un-marriage to her idiot ex-fiancé while watching Love Actually on repeat and mass-eating Oreos and Xanax, or (2) pursue a hot vacation sexcapade with the gorgeous travel god she meets at baggage claim. Really, what's a girl to do?

But, after losing both her super spendy non-diamond engagement ring and her mysterious tropical island fling candidate in the same drunken night, Sam quickly learns that St. John isn't quite what she bargained for. In fact, she'll be lucky if she can make it back home alive.

— The Trouble with St. John by Katie Bloomstrom

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