Brush With Death, A Gray Whale Inn Mystery by Karen MacInerney, Now Available at a Special Price

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Brush With Death by Karen MacInerney

A Gray Whale Inn Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Midnight Ink

Price: $1.99 (as of 02/15/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

For Natalie Barnes, the flurry of trendy artists setting up shop on Cranberry Island promises to be the perfect recipe for relaxing and enjoying the holiday season. But Natalie's good luck is turning out to be a stroke of misfortune for her niece, Gwen. The local gallery's new owner hates Gwen's paintings, and her mentor Fernand is too distracted by a competing artist to help Gwen improve her style.

When Natalie finds Fernand dead, seemingly the victim of suicide, she can't believe someone who had so much joy and success in his life would kill himself. Finding clues at Fernand's home that support her suspicion of murder, Natalie's hunt for answers places her next on the killer's list. Will she be able to solve this murder masterpiece before it's too late?

— Brush With Death by Karen MacInerney

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New This Week: Double Trouble, A Dev Haskell, PI Mystery by Mike Faricy

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Double Trouble by Mike Faricy

A Dev Haskell, PI Mystery (10th in series)

Publisher: Credit River Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 02/15/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

Work is slow for Private Investigator, Dev Haskell so he agrees to make collection calls to octogenarians past due on their coffin payments. He barely lasts the morning before he quits. On his way out the door Dev recommends "reformed" criminal Tommy Flaherty for the job. Since no good deed goes unpunished, that turns out to be a very big mistake and Dev finds himself taken for the ultimate ride.

At the same time, Dev attempts to investigate online tampering with an "Escort" website. Unfortunately, there's a lot more than pictures of gorgeous women being exchanged and the last people willing to help seems to be Dev's client Ashley and her thug boyfriend, Tony.

— Double Trouble by Mike Faricy

See all the books in the Dev Haskell mystery series for $2.99 each on Kindle. The short mystery Twinkle Toes is currently free, and there is also a boxed set of the first three books for $4.99.

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for February 16, 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 H K L O R U

Lori Rader-Day's 2014 thriller set in a Chicago college has this title, with "The" (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!

Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Sunday, February 15, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 7:30 AM ET …

I'll Be Seeing You by Mary Higgins Clark

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Three Books in the Finishing School Series by Gail Carriger

Publisher: Little, Brown

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99 each

We're featuring the first book in this series in this post.

Nowhere To Run by Nancy Bush

The Nowhere Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Zebra Books

Kobo Daily Deal Price: $1.99 (price-matched by Amazon)

  

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Sunday, February 15, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 6:30 AM ET …

An Involuntary Spy by Kenneth Eade

A Spy Thriller

Publisher: Times Square Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Steamroll by Tom Ingram

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: LTI Books

Price: FREE!

  

The Hitchcock Murders by Gavin Collinson

A Crime Thriller

Publisher: Cutting Edge Crime

Price: FREE!

  

For a summary of all of today's titles, plus any that may have been added since this post was created, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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Review: Cookie's Case by Andy Siegel

A Mysterious Review of Cookie's Case by Andy Siegel. A Tug Wyler Mystery.

Review summary: The eclectic cast of characters make for a very entertaining read. There isn't much of a typical mystery plot here, no murders, kidnappings, felonies, or any other serious crimes, but the storylines are interesting and well told. Overall, a nice break from the routine in this often humorous, enjoyable tale. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Cookie's Case
Andy Siegel
A Tug Wyler Mystery
Open Road (February 2015)

Publisher synopsis: Cookie, an angel in stiletto heels, is by far the most popular performer at Jingles Dance Bonanza. To her devoted audience, she's a friend, therapist, and shoulder to cry on, all rolled into one. While meeting an old pal at the club, Tug doesn't expect to pick up a new client but quickly realizes the gallant Cookie — dancing in a neck brace, each leg kick potentially her last — is in need of a committed champion.

Righting wrongs is never a simple task for Tug, a sharp-witted and unorthodox trial lawyer who repeatedly finds himself in the middle of unusual cases and causes. But that doesn't stop him from trying. Believing that Cookie is the victim of a spine surgeon with a sloppy touch, Tug takes her case. But as he seeks both medical remedy and a fair shake for Cookie, he realizes — a tad too late — that sinister sights are now trained on him.

        

New This Week: Courir de Mardi Gras, A Mardi Gras Novel by Lynn Shurr

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 February 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

Courir de Mardi Gras by Lynn Shurr

A Mardi Gras Novel (2nd in series)

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Price: $4.99 (as of 02/14/2015 at 7:30 PM ET).

  

Anything can happen on a Mardi Gras day in the countryside. Fleeing an obsessive boyfriend, Suzanne Hudson arrives in tiny Port Jefferson, Louisiana, to inventory the antiques of an antebellum home. Full of moonlight and magnolia dreams, she soon finds her job boring and the master of the manor, George St. Julien, dull and awkward. Everything changes during the Mardi Gras ride when Suzanne is playfully abducted by a masked man on a white horse and the famous Magnolia Hill silver disappears shortly thereafter.

Determined to discover the romantic rider's identity and solve the mystery of the lost silver, Suzanne unearths small town secrets that might be better left alone and finds her life in jeopardy. Will her masked rider come to her rescue?

— Courir de Mardi Gras by Lynn Shurr

See also the first book in this series, Mardi Gras Madness, for $5.99 on Kindle.

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Why Shoot a Butler?, A Country House Mystery by Georgette Heyer, 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, Sourcebooks Landmark …

Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer

A Country House Mystery

Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark

Price: $1.99 (as of 02/14/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Every family has secrets, but the Fountains' are turning deadly …

On a dark night, along a lonely country road, barrister Frank Amberley stops to help a young lady in distress and discovers a sports car with a corpse behind the wheel. The girl protests her innocence, and Amberley believes her?at least until he gets drawn into the mystery and the clues incriminating Shirley Brown begin to add up?

In an English country-house murder mystery with a twist, it's the butler who's the victim, every clue complicates the puzzle, and the bumbling police are well-meaning but completely baffled. Fortunately, in ferreting out a desperate killer, amateur sleuth Amberley is as brilliant as he is arrogant, but this time he's not sure he wants to know the truth?

— Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer

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New This Week: The Guilty, A Jack Marconi Mystery by Vincent Zandri

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The Guilty by Vincent Zandri

A Jack Marconi Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Bear Media

Price: $2.99 (as of 02/14/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

Jack Marconi finds himself investigating a local restaurateur who's not only obsessed with the sexy, dark romance novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, he's accused of attempting to murder his school teacher girlfriend.

As the now brain-damaged young woman begins recalling events of that fateful winter night when she was allegedly pushed down the stairs of a West Albany mansion, she becomes the target of the angry foodie/sex-obsessed boyfriend once again. Only this time, he's cooking up a plot to keep her silenced forever.

— The Guilty by Vincent Zandri

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Murder's Last Resort, A Maya French Mystery by Marta Chausee, 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, Oak Tree Press …

Murder's Last Resort by Marta Chausee

A Maya French Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Oak Tree Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 02/14/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Amateur detective Maya French is challenged to find and stop a sophisticated murderer, who has infiltrated and is disrupting the Sapphire Hotels and Resorts Awards Conference.

— Murder's Last Resort by Marta Chausee

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The Eye of Ra, A Novel of Suspense by Michael Asher, 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 Eye of Ra by Michael Asher

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 02/14/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Julian Cranwell, obsessed by his search for a legendary lost city, has disappeared in Cairo. His colleague, Omar Ross, a maverick archaeologist, sets out to find out what could have happened to him when he discovers a panicked voice-mail from Julian. Someone is coming for him, he says, someone after the "Akhnaton ushabtis" …

He immediately flies to Cairo and finds the body of his friend. He starts talking to Julian's friends and family, including his friend Kolpos and his gorgeous Greek assistant, Elena. It turns out Julian was referring to the ancient tomb of Akhnaton, almost a myth to the world. But Julian had found some long lost artefacts and taken it to expert Robert Rabjohn who confirms that they are the real thing.

When Ross finds strange connections between the deaths of Julian, Tutankhamen, Howard Carter and Orde Wingate, all years apart, he becomes concerned for his own safety. Julian's body goes missing and then a strange message is found which says "Let the Eye of Ra descend", referring to the ancient God Ra who sent his Eye to slay all the human beings …

Every contact and every informant he speaks to disappears. How long will it be before the culprits catch up with him too? Threatened, almost friendless, Ross turns for help to his mother's people, the Bedouin Hawazim tribe. It is only with their help, that he can solve the mystery of The Eye of Ra …

— The Eye of Ra by Michael Asher

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Disorganized Crime, A Kat Makris Mystery by Alex A. King, Now Available at a Special Price

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Disorganized Crime by Alex A. King

A Kat Makris Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Citizen A. Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 02/14/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Kat Makris was just a kid when her father spun wild and gruesome bedtime stories about Baboulas, the Greek boogeyman, a fearsome creature with a penchant for stealing gold and clashing with the gods.

Now Kat is twenty-eight, single, an only child halfway to orphaned, and her father's weirdo fairy tales lie crumpled at the bottom of her childhood closet, in the house where she still lives. But when her father is abducted by men with crooked noses, she discovers his old stories were true — true crime, that is. What does Kat know about crime? Nothing, that's what. Her only transgression, to date, is underage drinking. Even her driving record is pristine.

Her couch-to-cubicle existence shattered by his kidnapping — and the discovery of his secret and deadly past as a mobster for the Greek mafia — Kat is determined to find her father, even if it means forming an unholy and felonious alliance with Greece's boogeyman …

— Disorganized Crime by Alex A. King

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New This Week: Murder at Green Meadows, An Angie Walker Cozy Mystery by Jessica Woodridge

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Murder at Green Meadows by Jessica Woodridge

An Angie Walker Cozy Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Jessica Woodridge

Price: 99¢ (as of 02/14/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

Angie Walker is a few days from fulfilling a life-long dream of being her own boss. Soon, she and her best friend will open a treasure/antique business on the Florida east coast. But as a reporter for the Tequesta Sun, she has one last assignment — interview former boss Frederick Canterly about his five-decade career as publisher of the Madera Beach Tribune. The interview should be a piece of cake but her former boss very inconveniently drops dead. Police believe he's been poisoned and detectives find an incriminating vial in Angie's purse. Now instead of opening the door to her business dream, she may open the door to a prison nightmare.

With the help of long-time friend and reporter Harry Landon, she begins a desperate search for the shrewd killer who framed her. But Canterly made enemies during his time in Madera Beach. Many people hated him, with good reason. Even Landon had an opportunity and a very good motive to kill the Madera Beach Publisher.

While keeping her eye on her good friend Harry, Angie will have to shift through the evidence and find the ruthless murderer. But in doing so, she will also become a target. Unless she is careful, intelligent and ruthless, Canterly will not be the only murder victim in this small tightly-knit community.

— Murder at Green Meadows by Jessica Woodridge

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Come the Shadows, A Campbell Creek Mystery by Wendy L. Young, Now Available at a Special Price

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Come the Shadows by Wendy L. Young

A Campbell Creek Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Wendy L. Young

Price: 99¢ (as of 02/14/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Officer Will Harmon lives a comfortable life in Campbell Creek, North Carolina, where there hasn't been a murder in seventeen years. When bones are discovered in the old bread factory his life is disrupted but the body only the beginning.

Surprising threats are coming and he will do whatever it takes to protect the life he loves …

— Come the Shadows by Wendy L. Young

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Taken by the Con by C. J. Miller, New from Harlequin Romantic Suspense in February 2015

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

Taken by the Con by C. J. Miller

Imprint: Romantic Suspense

  

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

A sexy scammer is determined to steal an FBI agent's heart …

Her new partner in crime-fighting makes Lucia Huntington uncomfortably hot. To catch an embezzler, the beautiful FBI agent must work with ex-con Cash Stone … although they couldn't be more different. Career-driven Lucia lives by the rules, while devilishly charming Cash gleefully bends them.

Unbeknownst to Lucia, Cash once did wrong for the right reason — his ailing son. Now he claims he's working for the FBI to go on the straight and narrow. But as the case turns dangerous with deadly attacks, Lucia questions her trust in Cash. He's reliable and protective, making her yearn for the passionate bond that's always eluded her. But is their entire relationship one big con?

— Taken by the Con by C. J. Miller