Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Wednesday, March 04, 2015 at 7:30 AM ET …

Electing To Murder by Roger Stelljes

A Mac McRyan Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Roger Stelljes

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Hard To Come By by Laura Kaye

A Hard Ink Novel (3rd in series)

Publisher: Avon Books

Nook Daily Find Price: 99¢ (price-matched by Amazon)

  

Last Chants by Lia Matera

A Willa Jansson Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Kobo Daily Deal Price: 99¢ (price-matched by Amazon)

  

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Wednesday, March 04, 2015 at 6:30 AM ET …

Murder & Moonflowers by Leslie Leigh

A Melissa Michaels, Herbalist Mystery

Publisher: Leslie Leigh

Price: FREE!

  

On the Run by J. M. Parker

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: J. M. Parker

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: Deceptive Measures by Traci Hohenstein

A Mysterious Review of Deceptive Measures by Traci Hohenstein. A Rachel Scott Adventure.

Review summary: This is an exciting entry in this series, but it is far from perfect. The biggest problem is with the lead character, who is not all that likeable despite the heartbreak of the case she's investigating. The ambiguous ending implies more to come, but the resolution to the series story arc suggests otherwise. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Deceptive Measures
Traci Hohenstein
A Rachel Scott Adventure
Thomas & Mercer (February 2015)

Publisher synopsis: When professional missing-persons investigator Rachel Scott receives an anonymous tip that her own missing daughter, Mallory, is alive and living with a family in Atlanta, she wastes no time in pursuing the lead. When she arrives to find a house that has been hastily abandoned, she begins to suspect just how frighteningly organized the plot behind her daughter's kidnapping really is.

Meanwhile, back home in Miami, Rachel's colleague Stacy Case is investigating an illegal child-adoption ring that could be connected to Mallory's disappearance. But just as Stacy is on the verge of blowing the case wide open, she disappears. With Stacy missing and Rachel in Atlanta, Rachel's team at Florida Omni Search must hunt down the ringleaders before Mallory is gone for good.

    

New This Week: Ugly Young Thing, A Novel of Suspense by Jennifer Jaynes

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 March 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

Ugly Young Thing by Jennifer Jaynes

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $4.99 (as of 03/03/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

Sixteen-year-old Allie has already experienced a lifetime of horror, having lost her mother and serial killer brother to mental illness.

Returning to her childhood home in Louisiana, Allie ends up in foster care and is placed with Miss Bitty, an eccentric but kindly older woman who shows her a new direction and brighter future.

But Allie's new life takes a devastating turn when young women in the area start turning up dead, and she discovers someone lurking outside her bedroom. As Miss Bitty grows inexplicably distant, Allie begins to wonder if death has found her yet again … or if it never really left her at all.

— Ugly Young Thing by Jennifer Jaynes

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Nemesis, A Harry Hole Mystery by Jo Nesbø, Now Available at a Special Price

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Nemesis by Jo Nesbø

A Harry Hole Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 99¢ (as of 03/03/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Grainy closed-circuit television footage shows a man walking into an Oslo bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells the young woman to count to twenty-five. When the robber doesn't get his money in time, the cashier is executed, and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace. Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case.

While Hole's girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame decides to get in touch. Former girlfriend and struggling artist Anna Bethsen invites Hole to dinner, and he can't resist a visit. But the evening ends in an all too familiar way as Hole awakens with a thundering headache, a missing cell phone, and no memory of the past twelve hours. That same morning, Anna is found shot dead in her bed. Hole begins to receive threatening e-mails. Is someone trying to frame him for this unexplained death? Meanwhile, the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery.

As the death toll continues to mount, Hole becomes a prime suspect in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler's vigilante police force. Racing from the cool, autumnal streets of Oslo to the steaming villages of Brazil, Hole is determined to absolve himself of suspicion by uncovering all the information needed to crack both cases. But the ever-threatening Waaler is not finished with his old archenemy quite yet.

— Nemesis by Jo Nesbø

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New This Week: As White As Snow, The Snow White Trilogy by Salla Simukka

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 March 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

As White As Snow by Salla Simukka

The Snow White Trilogy (2nd in series)

Publisher: Skyscape

Price: $3.99 (as of 03/03/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

The heat of the summer sun bakes the streets of Prague, but Lumikki's heart is frozen solid …

Looking to escape the notoriety caused by the part she played in taking down Polar Bear's crime ring, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson escapes to Prague, where she hopes to find a few weeks of peace among the hordes of tourists. But not long after arriving, she's cornered by a skittish and strange young woman who claims to be her long-lost sister. The woman, Lenka, is obviously terrified, and even though Lumikki doesn't believe her story — although parts of it ring true — she can't just walk away.

Lumikki quickly gets caught up in Lenka's sad and mysterious world, uncovering pieces of a mystery that take her from the belly of a poisonous cult to the highest echelons of corporate power. On the run for her life again, Lumikki must use all her wits to survive, but in the end, she just may discover she can't do it all alone.

— As White As Snow by Salla Simukka

See also the first book in this trilogy, As Red As Blood, now $2.00 for Kindle.

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The Death Artist, A Kate McKinnon Mystery by Jonathan Santlofer, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Death Artist by Jonathan Santlofer

A Kate McKinnon Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 99¢ (as of 03/03/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Murder is a fine art …

A killer is preying on New York's art community, creating gruesome depictions of famous paintings, using human flesh and blood as his media. Terror stalks this world of genius, greed, inspiration, and jealousy — a world Kate McKinnon knows all too well.

A former NYPD cop who traded in her badge for a Ph.D in art history, Kate can see the method behind the psychopath's madness — for the grisly slaughter of a former protégé is drawing her into the predator's path. And as each new murder exceeds the last in savagery, Kate is trapped in the twisted obsessions of the death artist, who plans to use her body, her blood, and her fear to create the ultimate masterpiece.

— The Death Artist by Jonathan Santlofer

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The Omega Connection, A Suspense Thriller by Allan Leverone, New This Week from Kindle Press

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The Omega Connection by Allan Leverone

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Kindle Press

Price: $3.49 (as of 03/03/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

When the top executives at a defense department contracting agency are brutally murdered, CIA Director Aaron Stallings unleashes his secret weapon on the case, beautiful Black Ops specialist Tracie Tanner. Join the most attractive and resourceful agent in the CIA's arsenal as she faces down the United States' most dangerous enemies …

With instructions to follow the evidence wherever it leads and stop the killers at any cost, Tanner finds herself operating alone and without backup, knowing if she's caught or killed, the CIA will cut her loose like she never existed.

— The Omega Connection by Allan Leverone

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A Biscuit, a Casket, A Kristan Connor, Pawsitively Organic Gourmet Pet Food Mystery by Liz Mugavero, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Biscuit, a Casket by Liz Mugavero

A Kristan Connor, Pawsitively Organic Gourmet Pet Food Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 03/03/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

The small town of Frog Ledge, Connecticut, has wholeheartedly embraced Kristan "Stan" Connor's new business — preparing quality organic treats for dogs and cats. On a healthy diet, the animals may live longer … but one local farmer won't be so lucky.

As Halloween approaches, Stan is asked to cater a doggie costume party hosted by the Happy Cow Dairy Farm. Part of a local co-op, Happy Cow specializes in organic dairy products, and farmers Hal and Emmalee Hoffman have started opening up the farm for parties, offering a "haunted" corn maze as an added attraction.

When Hal's lifeless body is found in the maze, the police at first suspect his wife, but Stan soon learns the dairy farmer had plenty of enemies — from bitter family members to shady business associates. If Stan can't extract a kernel of truth from the labyrinth of lies, she may be the next one to buy the farm …

— A Biscuit, a Casket by Liz Mugavero

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Assault and Pepper by Leslie Budewitz, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Pepper Reece

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) …

Assault and Pepper by Leslie Budewitz

A Pepper Reece, Spice Shop Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

What we know about the character: After leaving a dicey marriage and losing a beloved job in a corporate crash, Pepper Reece has found a new zest for life running a busy spice and tea shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market. For more information about her first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

Pepper Reece, the owner of the Seattle Spice Shop who thinks she can handle any kind of salty customer — until a murderer ends up in the mix …

Pepper Reece's aromatic creations are the talk of the town, and everyone stops by for a cup of her refreshing spice tea, even other shopkeepers and Market regulars. But when a panhandler named Doc shows up dead on the store's doorstep, a Seattle Spice Shop cup in his hand, the local gossip gets too hot for Pepper to handle — especially after the police arrest one of Pepper's staffers, Tory Finch, for murder.

Tory seems to know why she's a suspect, but she refuses to do anything to curry favor with the cops. Convinced her reticent employee is innocent, Pepper takes it on herself to sniff out some clues. Only, if she's not careful, Pepper's nosy ways might make her next on the killer's list …

— Assault and Pepper by Leslie Budewitz

Caught Dead Handed, A Lee Barrett, Witch City Mystery by Carol J. Perry, Now Available at a Special Price

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Caught Dead Handed by Carol J. Perry

A Lee Barrett, Witch City Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 03/03/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

She's not a psychic — she just plays one on TV …

Most folks associate the city of Salem, Massachusetts with witches, but for Lee Barrett, it's home. This October she's returned to her hometown — where her beloved Aunt Ibby still lives — to interview for a job as a reporter at WICH-TV. But the only opening is for a call-in psychic to host the late night horror movies. It seems the previous host, Ariel Constellation, never saw her own murder coming.

Lee reluctantly takes the job, but when she starts seeing real events in the obsidian ball she's using as a prop, she wonders if she might really have psychic abilities. To make things even spookier, it's starting to look like Ariel may have been an actual practicing witch — especially when O'Ryan, the cat Lee and Aunt Ibby inherited from her, exhibits some strange powers of his own. With Halloween fast approaching, Lee must focus on unmasking a killer — or her career as a psychic may be very short lived …

— Caught Dead Handed by Carol J. Perry

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Murder on the Champ de Mars by Cara Black, New in Bookstores during March 2015

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

Murder on the Champ de Mars by Cara Black, an Aimée Leduc Mystery (15th in series)

Publisher: Soho Crime

    

Paris, April 1999: Aimée Leduc has her work cut out for her — running her detective agency and fighting off sleep deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bébé. The last thing she has time for now is to take on a personal investigation for a poor manouche (Gypsy) boy. But he insists his dying mother has an important secret she needs to tell Aimée, something to do with Aimée's father's unsolved murder a decade ago. How can she say no?

The dying woman's secret is even more dangerous than her son realized. When Aimée arrives at the hospital, the boy's mother has disappeared. She was far too sick to leave on her own — she must have been abducted. What does she know that's so important it's worth killing for? And will Aimée be able to find her before it's too late and the medication keeping her alive runs out?

— Murder on the Champ de Mars by Cara Black

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

Ladle to the Grave by Connie Archer, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during March 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during March 2015 …

Ladle to the Grave by Connie Archer, A Lucky Jamieson, Soup Lovers Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

By the Spoonful is Snowflake, Vermont's most popular soup shop, but owner Lucky Jamieson doesn't have any time to enjoy her success — she's too busy trying to keep a lid on false accusations against her loved ones …

It's almost May, and some of the local ladies have organized a pagan celebration in the woods to welcome spring. But the evening goes terribly wrong when one of the attendees winds up dead, apparently poisoned by an herbal concoction prepared by Lucky's grandfather, Jack.

Lucky's sure her grandfather could not have made such a tragic mistake. But before she can clear him of suspicion, her best friend, Sophie, is diverted from planning her wedding to By the Spoonful chef Sage DuBois when she finds a dead man floating in the creek on her property. Now it's up to Lucky to get both Sophie and Jack out of hot water before a killer stirs up more trouble …

— Ladle to the Grave by Connie Archer

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

Handbags and Homicide, A Haley Randolph Mystery by Dorothy Howell, Now Available at a Special Price

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Handbags and Homicide by Dorothy Howell

A Haley Randolph Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 03/03/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Haley Randolph is always ready to go to any lengths to get the latest Louis Vuitton. Unfortunately for Haley, her life goes from glam to grim when her passion for fashion outlasts her credit cards, and she's forced to work at Holt's — a mid-market department store. Looking for a bit of shopping inspiration, Haley sneaks into the stock room to get a first glimpse of Holt's one-of-a-kind selection of handbag styles. But instead of the newest Vuitton, Haley discovers her boss is the ultimate fashion victim.

According to the security tapes, Haley was the only person in the stockroom before, during, and after the murder. With everyone in the store eyeing her like last season's Marc Jacobs, Haley turns to the hunky Ty Cameron, who heads up the store's loss prevention unit, to help her investigate the murder. Now her knowledge of hot trends will take her from the sales floor to the boardroom to the gritty streets of L.A.'s Garment District as she searches for a killer with impeccable fashion taste …

— Handbags and Homicide by Dorothy Howell

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The Game Master, A Novel of Suspense by William Bernhardt, New This Week from Kindle Press

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The Game Master by William Bernhardt

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Kindle Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 03/03/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

It's not whether you live or die, it's how you play the game …

While in Vegas for the American Poker Grand Slam, BB Thomas — the Game Master — is suddenly arrested by the FBI and taken to a top-secret laboratory. A scientist has been murdered in a bizarre manner, and BB's daughter has been kidnapped. Reluctantly joining forces with his ex-wife, Linden, BB plunges into a labyrinthine mystery incorporating the world's oldest and best-known games and taking them to Paris, Dubai, Pyongyang, and Alexandria.

Pursued by a relentless FBI agent and an unknown assailant who wants him stopped at any cost, BB races to uncover an insidious plot involving secret societies, ancient cover-ups, and savage vengeance. Someone is playing a deadly game, and the object is the destruction of every government on the face of the earth — no matter how many people die in the process.

— The Game Master by William Bernhardt

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