Nominees for the 2014 Lambda Literary Awards have been announced by the Lambda Literary Foundation for LGBT books published during 2014. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Monday, June 1st, 2015 in New York City.
The nominees for books in the mystery categories are …
Best Gay Mystery:
• A Gathering Storm by Jameson Currier (Chelsea Station Editions)
• Blackmail, My Love by Katie Gilmartin (Cleis Press)
• The Next by Rafe Haze (Wilde City Press)
• Fair Game by Josh Lanyon (Carina Press)
• Moon Over Tangier by Janice Law (Open Road)
• DeadFall by David Lennon (BlueSpike Publishing)
• Calvin's Head by David Swatling (Bold Strokes Books)
• From the Ashes by Marshall Thornton (MLR)
Best Lesbian Mystery:
• Done To Death by Charles Atkins (Severn House)
• Slash and Burn by Valerie Bronwen (Bold Strokes Books)
• The Old Deep and Dark by Ellen Hart (Minotaur Books)
• The Acquittal by Anne Laughline (Bold Strokes Books)
• UnCatholic Conduct by Stevie Mikayne (Bold Strokes Books)
Monday, March 09, 2015
Nominees for the 2014 Lambda Literary Awards Announced
Please Welcome Author S. W. Hubbard and The Mystery of Hoarding
with S. W. Hubbard
We are delighted to welcome author S. W. Hubbard to Omnimystery News.
Susan's second romantic thriller to feature estate sale agent Audrey Nealon is Treasure of Darkness (January 2015 trade paperback and ebook formats) and today she tells us more about "The Mystery of Hoarding".
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S. W. Hubbard
Have you ever watched Hoarders on TV?
My husband, a man who recycles Christmas cards before I'm done reading them, doesn't understand the appeal. But most of us experience a chilling shiver of recognition when we see the stories of people who can't let go … of anything. That's because we all have certain items we simply can't bear to part with, even if we know we'll never use them or look at them again. The 20-year-old party dress, the lopsided pottery vase, the tower of Tupperware, the shelves full of books — they represent memories gone by, good intentions run amok, commitments never fulfilled. When I watch Hoarders, the horror stories of people whose lives have been overrun by their stuff make me murmur, "at least I'm not that bad."
I often write to exorcise my own demons. And I suspected hoarding — a little or a lot — was a demon many of my readers might share. So, since hoarding is such a universal experience, I decided to turn it into the centerpiece of a mystery. Luckily, Audrey Nealon, heroine of my Palmyrton Estate Sale Mystery Series, was ready for the challenge, and Treasure of Darkness began to take shape. Audrey would have to search through a hoarder's house to find the one buried gem of treasure. And she would find much, much more than she bargained for.
Although my writing method often involves making stuff up, then backtracking to verify if I have my facts straight, in this case, I did some research on hoarding before I began writing. I discovered that true hoarding is a mental illness, closely related to obsessive-compulsive disorder. And, there are different types of hoarders. I decided to make Harold, the hoarder in my novel, a highly intelligent engineer who can see the usefulness of every conceivable item, from a broken washing machine agitator to a collection of stuffed owls. In Harold's fevered mind, everything has value and nothing can be discarded, only recycled or repurposed.
I worked hard to make Harold scary, infuriating and yet oddly sympathetic. He operates on a logic only he can understand, and that makes him unpredictable. Audrey and her assistant, Jill, want to believe that Harold is odd but harmless, but they're never entirely sure. So the hunt for treasure continues, and the clues to terrible secrets house's past are slowly revealed. The deeper Audrey digs, the more danger she finds herself in.
You can read the first chapter of Treasure of Darkness on my website.
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S.W. Hubbard is the author of the Audrey Nealon estate sale mysteries as well as three Police Chief Frank Bennett mystery novels set in the Adirondack Mountains. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and the anthologies Crimes by Moonlight, The Mystery Box, and Adirondack Mysteries. She lives in Morristown, NJ, where she teaches creative writing to enthusiastic teens and adults, and expository writing to reluctant college freshmen.
For more information about the author, please visit her website at SWHubbard.net and her author page on Goodreads, or find her on Facebook and Twitter.
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Treasure of Darkness
S. W. Hubbard
A Palmyrton Estate Sale Mystery
What lies buried in a hoarder's house — precious treasure or ghastly secrets?
One moment of misguided generosity throws estate sale organizer Audrey Nealon's life into turmoil. She loses a client's money, cripples her budding romance, and witnesses a murder.
Strapped for cash, she accepts a questionable project: clearing out the home of a mentally ill hoarder who may have hidden valuable Civil War letters. What really lies at the bottom of twenty years' worth of collected buttons and antique dolls and stuffed owls and atlases? As Audrey digs through the hoarder's obsessions, she unleashes a vengeful response from all sides — the hoarder's angry neighbors, his alienated family, and the police. The house has destroyed lives in the past.
Will Audrey and those she loves — her friends, her father, and even her dog — be its next victims? As the final twist reveals, secrets can remain buried, but they never disappear.
Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Monday, March 09, 2015
Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Monday, March 09, 2015 at 7:30 AM ET …
Guidebook To Murder by Lynn Cahoon
A Jill Gardner, Tourist Trap Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Kensington
Kindle Daily Deal Price: 99¢
The Tenth Justice by Brad Meltzer
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: HarperCollins
Nook Daily Find Price: $1.99 (price-matched by Amazon)
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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Monday, March 09, 2015
Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Monday, March 09, 2015 at 6:30 AM ET …
Angels Mark by Natalie Buske Thomas
A Serena Wilcox Mystery
Publisher: Independent Spirit
Price: FREE!
The Card Counter by James Kipling
A Crime Novel
Publisher: Gobal Village
Price: FREE!
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Sunday, March 08, 2015
New This Week: Steeled for Murder, A Jesse Damon Crime Novel by KM Rockwood
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 …
Steeled for Murder by KM Rockwood
A Jesse Damon Crime Novel (1st in series)
Publisher: Wildside Press
Price: $2.99 (as of 03/08/2015 at 7:30 PM ET).
— Steeled for Murder by KM Rockwood
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New This Week: Midnight Mass — The Crime, An Amos Freeman Thriller by Andrew Delaphaine
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 …
Midnight Mass — The Crime by Andrew Delaphaine
An Amos Freeman Thriller (1st in series)
Publisher: Gramercy Park Press
Price: 99¢ (as of 03/08/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).
It's Christmas Eve in New York and some men in hooded monks' robes and plastic masks of the face of Jesus Christ have just pulled off a spectacular robbery of the historic church downtown where George Washington worshipped, getting away with tens of millions of dollars in jewelry and cash and also killing fifteen of the congregation.
The first detective on the scene, quite by accident, is Lieutenant Amos Freeman, on his way home to Brooklyn after buying presents for the wife he no longer loves, and after stopping by his favorite haunt, Big Dot's Jungle Bar, for a few drinks (or as Big Dot often says, "a few too many").
With a half bottle of George Dickel under his belt, Freeman stumbles onto the scene at Broadway and Wall, but always a pro, she snaps into high gear, quickly assuming command of a chaotic situation, and in the process, making a big impression on a furious Mayor Frederick Lindstadt, who had been mocked and humiliated by the robbers for being not only short and bald, but helpless while among the well-heeled social elite in the Trinity congregation.
When the TV crews bear down and police brass arrive to take charge, Amos Freeman, not a big fan of police department politics, melts into the background.
— Midnight Mass — The Crime by Andrew Delaphaine
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Nocturne for a Widow, A Sybil Ingram Mystery by Amanda DeWees, 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 author …
Nocturne for a Widow by Amanda DeWees
A Sybil Ingram Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Amanda DeWees
Price: $2.99 (as of 03/08/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).
Vivacious actress Sybil Ingram looks forward to a life of security when she leaves the theater in 1873 to marry a wealthy American. But when he dies suddenly on their wedding night, she finds herself a penniless widow. Her only legacy is Brooke House, a Gothic revival manor in the Hudson River Valley. However, the eerie mansion comes with two tenants. One is a hostile ghost. The second, and far worse, is former violinist Roderick Brooke — the most insolent, dangerous, maddeningly gorgeous man Sybil has ever met.
As she and Roderick engage in a battle of wills — and wits — she finds herself increasingly drawn to him despite her growing suspicion of a connection between him and the spirit that haunts Brooke House. But soon a greater threat arises: the mysterious queen of local society, Mrs. Lavinia Dove. For reasons that Sybil can't imagine, Mrs. Dove is determined to have Brooke House and Roderick for herself … if necessary, by deadly means.
— Nocturne for a Widow by Amanda DeWees
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Manhattan Revenge, A Specialists Series Thriller by John Cutter, 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 …
Manhattan Revenge by John Cutter
A Specialists Series Thriller (2nd in series)
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Price: $3.99 (as of 03/08/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).
New York. Jack Sullivan is called to a burglary, where he finds an old friend, Malta, hiding with a broken arm. His attackers called themselves the Meat Hooks — and their home base, a virtual fortress in New York's sex-and-drugs Lower East Side depths, was called the Meat Locker. Here young girls and boys were held captive to satisfy the unholy lusts of the rich, the powerful and the famous, drugged with heroin, protected by corrupt police, and controlled by a man with roots in Hitler's Third Reich. This was the kind of enemy that Jack Sullivan, The Specialist, would wipe out for nothing. So he jumped at the chance to wage a one-man war, a war he was determined to win no matter how many different ways he had to kill …
On his journey, he meets Bonnie, a beautiful and intelligent woman who can match his own mysterious ways of living, disappearing in a heartbeat and leaving him wanting more. Worse, when the Meat Hooks realise he's after them, they make their own plans to take him out …
Will Sullivan be able to track down their location in time? Can he avoid being captured and killed by some of New York's most dangerous criminals? And will he ever see Bonnie again?
— Manhattan Revenge by John Cutter
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Death Pays a Visit, A Myrtle Clover Mystery by Elizabeth Spann Craig, 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 author …
Death Pays a Visit by Elizabeth Spann Craig
A Myrtle Clover Mystery (7th in series)
Publisher: Elizabeth Spann Craig
Price: 99¢ (as of 03/08/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).
When psychic (and hubcap retailer) Wanda Alewine pays a late-night visit to Myrtle Clover, she urges the octogenarian sleuth to head straight to Greener Pastures Retirement Home. But Wanda doesn't want Myrtle to consider the Home's dubious amenities — she wants Myrtle to prevent a murder seen in a vision.
Reluctant Myrtle investigates with sidekick Miles, who seems a lot more interested in Greener Pastures than she is. As the duo digs, they uncover more than just Sudoku and Scrabble — they discover a sinister undercurrent … with murder as its outcome.
— Death Pays a Visit by Elizabeth Spann Craig
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New This Week: A Match To Die For, A Comedic Mystery by Ellen Mathews
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 …
A Match To Die For by Ellen Mathews
A Comedic Mystery
Publisher: Mysterious Lady Press
Price: $2.99 (as of 03/08/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).
Chloe Love has quit her job as a probation officer and funded the startup of a Marina del Rey, California matchmaking business, By Invitation Only, with the limited proceeds from her mother's estate. Unfortunately, dear old mom has left a ticking bomb in the form of $35,000 in back taxes, and now the IRS wants to collect.
A client willing to pay big bucks for her services offers Chloe a way out of her financial troubles, but there's a catch. Alexis used to be Alex. While Chloe's never worked with a transsexual before, she manages to find a candidate for the leggy-blonde research physicist. everyone's happy, until the candidate turns up dead in Alxis' bed, strangled.
Now the police suspect Alexis of murder, but Chloe isn't so sure. Her investigation leads her into a dangerous world where jihadists and counterterrorism agents vie for a new generation of nuclear weapons and no one can be trusted. As the murders pile up, Chloe has to wonder if an IRS payment plan would have been a better solution for her money woes.
— A Match To Die For by Ellen Mathews
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Pirate Vishnu, A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery by Gigi Pandian, 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, Henery Press …
Pirate Vishnu by Gigi Pandian
A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Henery Press
Price: 99¢ (as of 03/08/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).
1906. Shortly before the Great San Francisco Earthquake, Pirate Vishnu strikes the San Francisco Bay. An ancestor of Jaya's who came to the U.S. from India draws a treasure map …
Present Day. Over a century later, the cryptic treasure map remains undeciphered. From San Francisco to the southern tip of India, Jaya pieces together her ancestor's secrets, maneuvers a complicated love life she didn't count on, and puts herself in the path of a killer to restore a revered treasure.
— Pirate Vishnu by Gigi Pandian
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Seduced by the Sniper by Elizabeth Heiter, New from Harlequin Intrigue in March 2015
Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title from Harlequin, published this month …
For more information about the book, see a synopsis, below.
Zeroed in on one woman …
In a twenty-four-hour period, FBI negotiator Chelsie Russell's life changed. She was a promising negotiator for the Bureau, but then she failed to talk down a crazed gunman. A year later the killer has escaped, and sniper Scott Delacorte has stepped up to protect Chelsie. Scott is the FBI's most infamous playboy — and the guy Chelsie had a one-night fling with just before the shooting. She'd dismissed him as the love 'em and leave 'em type, but now he stands between her and a killer. When the investigation takes an unexpected turn, powerful people become desperate to keep Scott and Chelsie silent — dead silent. Chelsie knows it's time to put aside their past and trust this man who has the power to break her heart. Again.
— Seduced by the Sniper by Elizabeth Heiter
Parallax View, A Tracie Tanner Thriller by Allan Leverone, 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, Rock Bottom Books …
Parallax View by Allan Leverone
A Tracie Tanner Thriller (1st in series)
Publisher: Rock Bottom Books
Price: 99¢ (as of 03/08/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).
It's spring, 1987, late in the Cold War, and CIA clandestine operations agent Tracie Tanner is tasked with what should be a relatively simple mission: deliver a secret communique from Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
After smuggling the document out of East Germany, Tracie believes she is in the clear. She's wrong. A shadowy cabal is work, people who will stop at nothing to prevent the explosive information contained in the letter from reaching the White House.
Soon, Tanner is knee-deep in airplane crashes and murder, paired up with a young Maine air traffic controller and on the run for their lives, unsure who she can trust at CIA, but committed to completing her mission, no matter the cost …
— Parallax View by Allan Leverone
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Aftershock by Philip Donlay, New in Bookstores during March 2015
Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during March 2015 is …
Aftershock by Philip Donlay, a Donovan Nash Mystery (5th in series)
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
The flames of Donovan Nash's worst nightmare are fanned to life when Stephanie VanGelder, one of those closest to him, is kidnapped in the volcanic powder keg of a lawless Guatemala. With help from his inner circle that includes his estranged wife, Dr. Lauren McKenna, Donovan races headlong into the world of corruption and deception. Battling the kidnappers, as well as the deadly gas and lava from the impending eruption of a volcano, Donovan only has one chance to save Stephanie.
Amid earthquakes, volcanic ash, and lava from the eruption, the rescue goes horribly wrong, and Donovan is forced to find a way for everyone, including a mysterious woman who holds the secrets to his past, to escape one of the most powerful forces on earth. In the face of impending death, Donovan must garner the courage to endure a shocking revelation he's sought for decades — a truth that will change him forever.
— Aftershock by Philip Donlay
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.
Telemystery: New Poster, Trailer for Game of Thrones Season 5
The fifth season of Game of Thrones premieres April 12th, and we have the latest promotional poster for it (right; click for larger image). A previously released trailer from HBO for the season is below.
Based on the novels in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the storyline in this fifth season is taken from the fourth and fifth books in the series, A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons.
