Dark Ritual by Patricia Scott is Today's First Featured Free MystereBook

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Dark Ritual by Patricia Scott

A Murder Mystery

Publisher: Endeavour Press

  

This title was listed for free as of January 27, 2015 at 7:00 AM ET.

Murder arrives in a small English village when the naked body of an investigative journalist, Sandra Peterson, is found stabbed to death in a crop circle. The graphic way her body has been mutilated, and the attempt to set fire to her remains, lead to a disturbing suggestion. Have the old beliefs of human sacrifice and pagan worship returned to the quiet English countryside? DCI Fowler and DC Peale are called in to investigate.

It soon becomes clear that Sandra had links to quite a few of the men in the village. And before they know it, nearly everyone they come across seems to be a suspect. Was this a random murder to re-invoke an ancient Pagan ritual? Or is it a cover up for something even more sinister … ?

Fowler and Peale need to find before someone else falls victim to this dark ritual …

— Dark Ritual by Patricia Scott

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The Janus Reprisal, A Covert One Thriller by Jamie Freveletti, is Today's Nook Daily Find

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Janus Reprisal by Jamie Freveletti as today's Nook Daily Find. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, January 27, 2015.

The Janus Reprisal by Jamie Freveletti

A Covert One Thriller (9th in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/27/2015 at 6:30 AM ET).

  

With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the president was forced to establish his own clandestine group — Covert-One. It is activated only as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out …

It begins with a terrorist attack. Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is attending a conference in The Hague on infectious diseases, together with leading scientists and political figures from around the world. Without warning, the conference hotel is consumed in a bloodbath. Smith is caught in the crossfire and barely escapes … but not before discovering a picture of himself and two other targets in the pocket of one of the shooters.

But the hotel is not the only location under attack in The Hague. Bombs are going off at the train station, the airport, and the International Criminal Court, where Pakistani warlord Oman Dattar is being held while he's tried for crimes against humanity. In the resulting chaos, the prisoner escapes.

Dattar nurses a special hatred for the United States and its allies. With his freedom, and access to a mysterious new weapon, Dattar puts in motion a murderous, ambitious plot to exact his revenge and bring down the West once and for all — unless Covert-One can stop him.

— The Janus Reprisal by Jamie Freveletti

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The Vines, A Novel of Gothic Horror by Christopher Rice, is Today's Gothic Horror Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Vines by Christopher Rice as today's Gothic Horror Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, January 27, 2015.

The Vines by Christopher Rice

A Novel of Gothic Horror

Publisher: 47North

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/27/2015 at 6:20 AM ET).

The dark history of Spring House, a beautifully restored plantation mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, has long been forgotten. But something sinister lurks beneath the soil of the old estate …

After heiress and current owner Caitlin Chaisson is witness to her husband's stunning betrayal at her birthday party, she tries to take her own life in the mansion's cherished gazebo. Instead, the blood she spills awakens dark forces in the ground below. Chaos ensues and by morning her husband has vanished without a trace and his mistress has gone mad.

Nova, daughter to Spring House's groundskeeper, has always suspected that something malevolent haunts the old place, and in the aftermath of the birthday party she enlists Caitlin's estranged best friend, Blake, to help her get to the bottom of it. The pair soon realizes that the vengeance enacted by this sinister and otherworldly force comes at a terrible price.

— The Vines by Christopher Rice

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Dangerous Affairs, A Novel of Romantic Suspense by Diana Miller, is Today's Romantic Suspense Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Dangerous Affairs by Diana Miller as today's Romantic Suspense Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, January 27, 2015.

Dangerous Affairs by Diana Miller

A Novel of Romantic Suspense

Publisher: Montlake Romance

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/27/2015 at 6:10 AM ET).

When soap opera star Abby Langford leaves Los Angeles for her Minnesota hometown, she's hoping to give her nine-year-old daughter the peaceful childhood she never knew. But instead of tranquility, Abby finds an old knife hidden behind a wall of her new house. Then the nightmares start: a blood-soaked victim and a killer's arm slicing through the air, again and again.

Abby wonders if she's having the nervous breakdown the tabloids claim she already had, especially when sexy, skeptical police chief Josh Kincaid questions her story. When menacing hate mail arrives, Josh's professional concern for Abby soon evolves into an intense attraction, and the feeling is mutual. But as Abby's visions grow more graphic and gripping, so does her fear.

Somewhere in the shadows of Abby's memory lies the key to a very present danger. But she'll have to stay alive long enough to find it …

— Dangerous Affairs by Diana Miller

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New This Week: Midnight Reckoning, A Fortress Security Novel by Rebecca Deel

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Midnight Reckoning by Rebecca Deel

A Fortress Security Novel (2nd in series)

Publisher: Rebecca Deel

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 7:30 PM ET).

  

Her sister was a world-class jewel thief. But she crossed the wrong person and now Sophie's baby may pay the price …

Sophie Valero has spent her life living down her last name. In a family of murderers, thieves, and con artists, she's the black sheep. As the owner of a legitimate business, the toughest challenge she faces is helping customers find the right herbal supplements to enhance their health. But when she's attacked in her home, Sophie is given 72 hours to find what her sister stole. The price of failure? Her son's life. Since the retired cat burglar can't go to the local police, she turns to the one man who might help her. If he can forget she's a Valero.

Secret Service Agent Micah Winter stopped for a cup of coffee and left with a bullet in his leg. The gangbanger who shot him left in a body bag. Now Micah is home on medical leave with a contract on his head. The last thing he wants is to protect a beautiful jewel thief. Yet within minutes of seeing Sophie again, he has no choice but to offer his protection.

Micah and Sophie team up to locate the items her sister stole while staying one step ahead of the gang determined to kill Micah and the local law committed to pinning jewel thefts on Sophie. Micah vows to neutralize the threats to Sophie because the federal agent has fallen hard for his cat burglar. But the deadline is hours away and a killer is closer than he thinks.

— Midnight Reckoning by Rebecca Deel

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Nominees for the 2015 Lefty Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2015 Lefty Awards have been announced by organizers of Left Coast Crime "Crimelandia". The awards will be voted on at the convention and the winners presented at the Awards Banquet on Saturday, March 14th, 2015, at the Doubletree by Hilton Portland.

The nominees are …

The Lefty (for best humorous mystery):

• The Good, the Bad, and the Emus by Donna Andrews (Minotaur Books)
• Herbie's Game by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)
• January Thaw by Jess Lourey (Midnight Ink)
• Dying for a Dude by Cindy Sample (Cindy Sample Books)
• Suede to Rest by Diane Vallere (Berkley Prime Crime)

The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award:

• Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen (Berkley Prime Crime)
• From the Charred Remains by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur Books)
• A Deadly Measure of Brimstone by Catriona McPherson (Minotaur Books)
• City of Ghosts by Kelli Stanley (Minotaur Books)
• Cup of Blood by Jeri Westerson (Old London Press)

The Rose (for best mystery novel set in the Left Coast Crime region):

• One Kick by Chelsea Cain (Simon & Schuster)
• Glass Houses by Terri Nolan (Midnight Ink)
• Pirate Vishnu by Gigi Pandian (Henery Press)
• Deadly Bonds by L. J. Sellers (Thomas & Mercer)
• Plaster City by Johnny Shaw (Thomas & Mercer)

The Rosebud (for best first mystery novel set anywhere in the world):

• Kilmoon by Lisa Alber (Muskrat Press)
• Ice Shear by M. P. Cooley (William Morrow)
• The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (Seventh Street Books)
• The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street Books)
• Mistress of Fortune by Holly West (Carina Press)

New This Week: Cherringham Cozy Crime Series, Episodes 4-6 by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards

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Cherringham Cozy Crime Series by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards

Episodes 4-6

Publisher: Bastei Entertainment

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries.

In this compilation of episodes 4 — 6, Jack and Sarah get caught up in a mysterious treasure hunt. They tease out the truth behind the town puppeteer's death, and they're threatened by the ancient curse of a local farm.

"Cherringham" is serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a new mystery thriller released each month. Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly — but with a spot of tea — it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Each of the 12 self-contained episodes is a quick read for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa.

— Cherringham Cozy Crime Series by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards

See also the first compilation in this series, Cherringham Cozy Crime Series Episodes 1-3, for $3.99 on Kindle.

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Fog Warning, A Suspense Thriller Novella by Edward Lorn, Now Available at a Special Price

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Fog Warning by Edward Lorn

A Suspense Thriller Novella

Publisher: Edward Lorn

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

"Tick, tock, tickety, tock. Time's slipping away, Doc … "

Emergency Room Physician Brent Cummings is harboring secrets he'd rather leave in the shadows of his past. But, when he finds a dead woman in a foggy park, all his skeletons come tumbling out of the closet.

In a deadly race against time, Brent attempts to alter the future so that he might finally let go of the past.

Will he heed the warning in the fog, or will fate prove more dependable than the good doctor?

— Fog Warning by Edward Lorn

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The Corpse That Walked, Murder on Nantucket Island by Roy Winsor, 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 Corpse That Walked by Roy Winsor

Murder on Nantucket Island …

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

When Steve Barnes embarked on a relaxing holiday to Nantucket Island the last thing he expected was to become ensnared in a frightening and puzzling murder mystery. His host and the former professor-come-sleuth Dr Ira Cobb was enlisted by the Chief of Police to use his research skills to crack the most incredible phenomenon yet — a corpse that walked. Together, Barnes and Cobb surreptitiously investigate the private lives of the Nantucket Islanders and attempt to untangle the web of lies, adultery and jealousies behind the peaceful façade of golf and local community life.

But with violence spreading and the murder count climbing, the two acting-detectives begin to despair of their few clues and seeming lack of progress. Will Dr. Cobb's merciless instinct track down the murderer?

The clock is ticking …

— The Corpse That Walked by Roy Winsor

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The Dark Root, A Joe Gunther Mystery by Archer Mayor, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Dark Root by Archer Mayor

A Joe Gunther Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: MarchMedia

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

A brutal home invasion shocks Brattleboro's small Asian community, but no one's talking. Undeterred, Joe Gunther digs deeper and discovers a cross-border smuggling route carrying drugs, contraband, and illegal aliens into and out of Canada.

Operating below the radar for years, competition between underworld rivals is bringing it into the light with deadly consequences. International jurisdiction is a complicated thing, and Gunther will have to collaborate with the FBI, the Border Patrol and the Mounties in the pursuit of justice.

— The Dark Root by Archer Mayor

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New This Week: Wanted Sam Bass, A Great Western Detective League Case by Paul Colt

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Wanted Sam Bass by Paul Colt

A Great Western Detective League Case (1st in series)

Publisher: Five Star

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

The Pinkerton Detective Agency had a competitor. Who knew?

Sam Bass launches his outlaw career in 1877 with high stakes stage and train robberies. Wells Fargo and Union Pacific want Bass and his gang. Crafty bounty hunter Briscoe Cane takes the case for the league. Pinkerton assigns agent Beau Longstreet. While Cane dogs the gang's trail, Longstreet entertains ladies with information on Bass.

With a hefty stack of reward money at stake, Cane and Longstreet match wits to bring down Bass in a winner-take-all race to a bloody showdown in a dusty Texas town.

— Wanted Sam Bass by Paul Colt

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Murder Dives the Bahamas, A Cinnamon Greene Adventure Mystery by Bonnie J. Cardone, Now Available at a Special Price

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Murder Dives the Bahamas by Bonnie J. Cardone

A Cinnamon Greene Adventure Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Sea Scenes

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

A famous underwater photographer's abrasive arrogance quickly makes him a pariah to everyone on a week-long boat trip in the Bahamas to snorkel with spotted dolphins and scuba dive on fish filled reefs. When Tom Tiburon goes missing far from shore, however, passengers and boat crew launch a frantic search to find him, even as a hurricane bears down on them. Once Tom's body is found, the boat heads for its home port of Miami.

When it arrives there, another passenger is dead. As they return to their small town on the California coast, part-time forensic photographer Cinnamon Greene and her boyfriend Danny are inextricably involved in sorting through shifting alliances, half truths and outright lies to find out who did what to who and why.

— Murder Dives the Bahamas by Bonnie J. Cardone

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Full Tilt by Rick Mofina, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015 …

Full Tilt by Rick Mofina, A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Mira Books

  

Deep in the woods of upstate New York a woman flees a blazing barn. She is burned beyond recognition, and her dying words point police to a labyrinth of "confinement rooms" — rooms designed to hold human beings captive — where they make other chilling discoveries.

In Manhattan, Kate Page, a single mom and reporter with a newswire service, receives a heart-stopping call from a detective on the case. A guardian angel charm found at the scene fits the description of the one belonging to Kate's sister, Vanessa, who washed away after a car crash in a mountain river twenty years ago.

Kate has spent much of her life searching for the truth behind her little sister's disappearance. Now, a manhunt for a killer who's kept a collection of victims prisoner for years without detection becomes her final chance to either mourn Vanessa's death — or save her life.

— Full Tilt by Rick Mofina

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for January 2015. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of January 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

A Certain Justice, An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery by P. D. James, 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, Ballantine …

A Certain Justice by P. D. James

An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery (10th in series)

Publisher: Ballantine

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed — and she does.

But now murder is in the air. The next victim will be Aldridge herself, stabbed to death at her desk in her Chambers in the Middle Temple, a bloodstained wig on her head. Enter Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team, whose struggle to investigate and understand the shocking events cannot halt the spiral into more horrors, more murders …

— A Certain Justice by P. D. James

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Dead Red by Tim O'Mara, New in Bookstores during January 2015

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

Dead Red by Tim O'Mara, a Raymond Donne Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

    

New York City school teacher Raymond Donne had no idea how bad his night was going to get when he picked up the phone. Ricky Torres, his old friend from his days as a cop, needs Ray's help, and he needs it right now in the middle of the night. Ricky picks Ray up in the taxi he has been driving since returning from serving as a Marine in Iraq, but before Ricky can tell Ray what's going on the windows of the taxi explode under a hail of bullets killing Ricky and knocking Ray unconscious as he dives to pull Ricky out of harm's way.

Ray would've done anything to help Ricky out while he was alive. Now that he's dead, he'll go to the same lengths to find out who did it and why. All he has to go on is that Ricky was working with Jack Knight, another ex-cop turned PI. They were investigating the disappearance of a PR giant's daughter who had ties to the same Brooklyn streets that all three of them used to work. Is that what got Ricky killed or was he into something even more dangerous? Was there anything that Ray could've done for him while he was alive? Is there anything he can do for him now?

— Dead Red by Tim O'Mara

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.