Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 7:30 AM ET …

Five Minutes Alone by Paul Cleave

The Christchurch Noir Crime Series (9th in series)

Publisher: Atria Books

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Someone is helping rape victims exact revenge on their attackers, prompting an edge-of-your-seat, cat-and-mouse chase between old friends, detectives Theodore Tate and Carl Schroder.

Carl Schroder and Theodore Tate, labeled "The Coma Cops" by the media, are finally getting their lives back into shape. Tate has returned to the police force and is grateful to be back at home with his wife, Bridget. For Schroder, things are neither good nor bad. The bullet lodged in his head from a shooting six months ago hasn't killed him, but — almost as deadly — it's switched off his emotions.

When the body of a convicted rapist is found, obliterated by an oncoming train, Tate works the case, trying to determine if this is murder or suicide. The following night, two more rapists go missing. It's hard to investigate when everyone on the police force seems to be rooting for the killer.

There's a common plea detectives get from the loved ones of victims: When you find the man who did this, give me five minutes alone with him. And that's exactly what someone is doing. Someone is helping these victims get their five minutes alone. But when innocent people start to die, Tate and Schroder find themselves with different objectives, and soon they're battling something they never would've expected — each other.

— Five Minutes Alone by Paul Cleave

A Taste of Murder by Joanne Fluke, Lee Hollis, and Barbara Ross

Three Culinary Mysteries

Publisher: Kensington

Nook Daily Find Price: $2.99 (price-matched by Amazon)

  

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder: The First Hannah Swensen Mystery with Recipes!

A heroine with an insatiable appetite for solving crimes, Hannah's Swenson's popular Lake Eden, Minnesota, bakery, The Cookie Jar, becomes a site for murder. And her suddenly scandalous chocolate-chip crunchies top the list of suspects …

Death Of A Kitchen Diva: A Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery

Single mom Hayley Powell has received a plum assignment at Bar Harbor, Maine's, Island Times, to take over the food column. But when a rival is found face-down dead in a bowl of chowder, all signs point to Hayley …

Clammed Up: A Maine Clambake Mystery

Julia Snowden returned to Busman's Harbor, Maine, to rescue her family's struggling clambake business — not to solve crimes. But when a catered wedding becomes a deadly reception, Julia must put everything on the back burner to search for the killer …

— A Taste of Murder by Joanne Fluke, Lee Hollis, and Barbara Ross

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 6:30 AM ET …

Justice Overdue by Rayven T. Hill

A Jake & Annie Lincoln Thriller

Publisher: Ray of Joy Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Stalked by Lorraine Taylor

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Lorraine Taylor

Price: FREE!

  

The Page by M. Jonathan Lee

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Troubador

Price: FREE!

  

Prime Suspect by Liz Evans

A Grace Smith Mystery

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: FREE!

  

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The Hog Murders, A Niccolo Benedetti Mystery by William L. DeAndrea, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Hog Murders by William L. DeAndrea

A Niccolo Benedetti Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 04/20/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Winner of the 1980 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.

In the upstate New York town of Sparta, six people die in three weeks. At first the incidents seem accidental: A highway sign drops onto a car full of teenage girls, an old man falls down a set of stairs, and a boy is struck by a sheet of ice that had been building on his garage. But after each case a note turns up. Someone called "Hog" claims responsibility for each death, and taunts the police to catch him before he strikes again.

The deaths have everybody talking, and the local police department is eventually forced to share the case with famous Italian detective Niccolo Benedetti and his protégé, would-be cop turned private investigator Ron Gresham. A painter, ladies' man, and rule-bending genius, Benedetti views every case as a chance to probe the nature of evil. And with his "analyze and imagine" method, he'll pursue the killer both to stop him and to study him.

— The Hog Murders by William L. DeAndrea

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New This Week: Cisco Bandits, A Gwynn Reznick Mystery by Inge-Lise Goss

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Cisco Bandits by Inge-Lise Goss

A Gwynn Reznick Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Inge-Lise Goss

Price: 99¢ (as of 04/20/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Newly trained and ready to rock her first assignment, Gwynn Reznick is about to go undercover for the first time. She will investigate one of the highly private companies who call on Ruben Dordi's Investigation Group. Ruben is the boss — and he also happens to be Gwynn's boyfriend.

When Ruben gives Gwynn her assignment — to pose as an accountant for the Prudell Energy Company — Gwynn resists asking exactly what she's supposed to be investigating. She knows Ruben has his reasons — she's just not sure why they require her to go two months without even a hint as to why she's there.

But things change quickly when Gwynn witnesses the death of a Prudell employee. It's made to look like an accident, but when Gwynn learns that another employee died just before she arrived, it seems like a little too much of a coincidence.

When the CFO tells Gwynn about missing project files and data that just doesn't add up, Gwynn finds herself suddenly in over her head. Will she be able to maintain her cover, follow Ruben's orders, and get to the bottom of the mystery? Or will the killers get to Gwynn before she cracks the case?

— Cisco Bandits by Inge-Lise Goss

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The Trap, A Jamie Dallas Thriller by L. J. Sellers, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Trap by L. J. Sellers

A Jamie Dallas Thriller (3rd in series)

Publisher: Spellbinder Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 04/20/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

While skydiving with an adventure group, FBI Agent Jamie Dallas overhears plans to carry out criminal acts against a politician. Believing the group may have already committed murder, the bureau sends Dallas to infiltrate the activists. But to worm her way inside the tight-knit clan, Dallas makes dangerous compromises and starts to sympathize with their cause. She ends up so deep undercover she can't make contact with the bureau.

Across town, a Washington DC detective investigates a death that looks like a simple "hooker homicide." But as Detective Larson peels away the layers, she uncovers something far more sinister, something deeply connected to a high-profile judge's death.

Meanwhile, working against her own conscience, Agent Dallas struggles to gather evidence and push the activist group toward the major takedown the FBI has orchestrated. But inside the group's safe house, another imposter lurks, and when the real motive surfaces, Dallas is caught in a cunning trap that will make her both a victim and a killer.

Can the law enforcement players come together in time to help Dallas, or is she on her own — to live or die — depending only on her wits and timing?

— The Trap by L. J. Sellers

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New This Week: Dead Arm, A Ben Barklee Mystery by G. W. Kennedy

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Dead Arm by G. W. Kennedy

A Ben Barklee Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Sarah Book Publishing

Price: $3.99 (as of 04/20/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

As a favor to a faculty colleague, college English professor and part-time PI Ben Barklee investigates an odd situation. His client's Indian-born wife has hired a detective to check out their daughter's fiancé, a minor-league ballplayer. The marriage detective has spotted "motorcycle hooligans" at the young man's apartment. The investigation leads Barklee, a former pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, to relive his own baseball career.

The seemingly straightforward case morphs into a web of disappearances, big-money drug-dealing, and crooked cops — all orchestrated by Chicago outlaw bikers ready to kill anyone in their way. To solve the case, and save himself and his growing family, Barklee must enter the bikers' deadly netherworld. Getting out alive means calling upon every weapon at hand. This unlikely arsenal includes Barklee's knowledge of Dickens and dormant baseball skills, along with talk radio and true-crime TV.

— Dead Arm by G. W. Kennedy

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The First Patient, A Medical Thriller by Michael Palmer, Now Available at a Special Price

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The First Patient by Michael Palmer

A Medical Thriller

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 04/20/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States. One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter presidential election campaign, Marine One lands on Gabe's Wyoming ranch, and President Stoddard delivers a disturbing revelation and a startling request. His personal physician has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, and he desperately needs Gabe to take the man's place. Despite serious misgivings, Gabe agrees to come to Washington. It is not until he is ensconced in the White House medical office that Gabe realizes there is strong evidence that the President is going insane.

Facing a crisis of conscience — as President Stoddard's physician, he has the power to invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment to transfer presidential power to the Vice President — Gabe uncovers increasing evidence that his friend's condition may not be due to natural causes. Who? Why? And how? The President's life is at stake.

A small-town doctor suddenly finds himself in the most powerful position on earth, and the safety of the world is in jeopardy. Gabe Singleton must find the answers, and the clock is ticking …

— The First Patient by Michael Palmer

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Saving Cecil by Lee Mims, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during April 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during April 2015 …

Saving Cecil by Lee Mims, A Cleo Cooper Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Midnight Ink

  

When Cleo Cooper is hired to be the on-site geologist for a fracking operation on a North Carolina family farm, the last thing she expects is to stumble across a dead body. But while she's out exploring the wooded trails around the farm, Cleo finds a murdered man with an arrow sticking out of his back. To make matters worse, Sheriff Stuckey — with whom she has a bad past — shows up and is adamant that Cleo had something to do with the man's death. Suspicious that the sheriff is purposefully trying to pin the murder on her, Cleo decides to find the real killer on her own.

But as Cleo's past starts to jeopardize her present, and danger lurks around every turn, she has to act quickly. Will she get to the bottom of the murder before it's too late?

— Saving Cecil by Lee Mims

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Carnival, A St-Cyr and Kohler Mystery by J. Robert Janes, Now Available at a Special Price

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Carnival by J. Robert Janes

A St-Cyr and Kohler Mystery (15th in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $2.99 (as of 04/20/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Amid the ruins of an abandoned Alsatian carnival, St-Cyr and Kohler investigate a pair of suspicious suicides …

During the Great War, Hermann Kohler and Jean-Louis St-Cyr fought in Alsace on opposite sides of the barbed wire. Two decades later, they return as partners: a Gestapo officer and a French cop investigating everyday crimes in a world gone mad with war. In February 1943, Alsace is unrecognizable — an occupied country where speaking French is all it takes to lose one's freedom. St-Cyr and Kohler have been summoned to a POW camp where soldiers and résistants manufacture textiles on the grounds of a deserted carnival. Where industry and warfare overlap, they will find a conspiracy worthy of the most twisted house of mirrors.

Two prisoners of this garish, decrepit circus have killed themselves, and the jailers must at least make a show of finding out why. Although the trenches of the Great War are long gone, St-Cyr and Kohler find that in Alsace, the fires of battle smolder still.

— Carnival by J. Robert Janes

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Memory Man by David Baldacci, New in Bookstores during April 2015

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

Memory Man by David Baldacci, an Amos Decker Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

    

Amos Decker's life changed forever — twice.

The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect — he can never forget anything.

The second time was at home nearly two decades later. Now a police detective, Decker returned from a stakeout one evening and entered a nightmare — his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law had been murdered.

His family destroyed, their killer's identity as mysterious as the motive behind the crime, and unable to forget a single detail from that horrible night, Decker finds his world collapsing around him. He leaves the police force, loses his home, and winds up on the street, taking piecemeal jobs as a private investigator when he can.

But over a year later, a man turns himself in to the police and confesses to the murders. At the same time a horrific event nearly brings Burlington to its knees, and Decker is called back in to help with this investigation. Decker also seizes his chance to learn what really happened to his family that night. To uncover the stunning truth, he must use his remarkable gifts and confront the burdens that go along with them. He must endure the memories he would much rather forget. And he may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.

— Memory Man by David Baldacci

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Innocent Damage by Robert K. Lewis, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during April 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during April 2015 …

Innocent Damage by Robert K. Lewis, A Mark Mallen Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Midnight Ink

  

Crooked cops and child porn take Mallen into the belly of the beast …

The three-year-old daughter of Mallen's friend from his heroin days has been kidnapped. And when a kid goes missing from San Francisco's Tenderloin District, there's not much chance that she's going to be found … but that won't stop Mallen from doing everything he can to save her.

When his first lead takes him to a murdered snitch with a stash of child porn, Mallen knows he's on the right track. Now the only thing that can shake him off the trail are the two SFPD detectives who are wrapped up in the case in a way that raises Mallen's suspicion. But with his partner, Gato, off to Las Vegas to find his sister, it's up to Mallen alone to uncover the truth.

— Innocent Damage by Robert K. Lewis

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Five O'Clock Lightning, A Novel About Baseball, Politics, and Murder by William L. DeAndrea, Now Available at a Special Price

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Five O'Clock Lightning by William L. DeAndrea

A Novel About Baseball, Politics, and Murder

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 04/20/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

A onetime baseball catcher confronts the murder of a McCarthyist politician at Yankee Stadium …

In 1953 America, McCarthyism is everywhere. Congressman Rex Harwood Simmons is among the leaders who single-mindedly hunt down suspected Communists; he even claims that Communism has infiltrated America's favorite pastime. But while watching a Yankee game one afternoon, he becomes a target. As the crowd cheers for a homerun, Simmons is shot dead in his seat.

The task of solving the crime falls to onetime ballplayer and Korean War veteran Russ Garrett, who collaborates with "Vicious Aloysius" Murphy, a Bronx homicide detective. The investigation won't be easy, since there are plenty of people with a motive to plug Simmons. Several clues point to a blacklisted intellectual — but he was driven to suicide years ago. And as Garrett hunts for the killer, a new conspiracy comes to light: a plot to murder Yankee star Mickey Mantle.

— Five O'Clock Lightning by William L. DeAndrea

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A Dangerous Leap, The Gulf Coast Rescue Series by Sharon Calvin, New This Week from Carina Press

Carina Press is a digital-first imprint from Harlequin, publishing books in an interesting and diverse selection of genres including contemporary romance, steampunk, gay/lesbian fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, and — but of course — mystery and suspense.

We've selected one of their recently published titles to feature here today …

A Dangerous Leap by Sharon Calvin

The Gulf Coast Rescue Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Carina Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 04/20/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

Raised by navy parents, Kelly Bishop learned how to pack light and say goodbye at an early age. She's earned her Coast Guard rescue swimmer stripes in some of the toughest waters out there, outperforming men along the way. Now she's ready for a new start in Florida, eager to prove herself as the best of the best.

What she isn't ready for is the spark between her and fellow Coastie Ian Razzamenti.

Ian knows what he wants and he knows how to get it. And what he's always wanted is a stay-at-home wife — someone who can take care of their children while he's out on missions. The attraction he feels for Kelly is intense, but is it worth giving up his big-family dreams?

Life-or-death situations leave little time for distraction — or doubt. When a tropical storm becomes a hurricane and a dangerous enemy reveals himself, their air station springs into action, and Kelly and Ian may not have the chance to decide whether they want to take the leap …

— A Dangerous Leap by Sharon Calvin

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Please Welcome Historical Mystery Author Susanna Calkins

We are delighted to welcome author Susanna Calkins to Omnimystery News.

Susanna's third mystery featuring Lucy Campion and set in 17th century England is The Masque of a Murderer (Minotaur Books; April 2015 hardcover and ebook formats) and we asked her where she gets the ideas for her plotlines. Her guest post for us today is titled, "The Questions That Inspire My Novels".

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Photo provided courtesy of
Susanna Calkins;
Photo credit Lisa Bagadia

When I write my historical mysteries, I find that I am first inspired by evocative questions, around which I will form the entire novel. For example, in my first novel, A Murder at Rosamund's Gate, I had come across a number of 17th century murder ballads that repeated the same tale again and again: a young woman, found stabbed or strangled in a secluded field with a signed note in her pocket, purported to be from her murderer. I had so many questions — who was this woman? Did she truly know the person who killed her? Was the man arrested for the crime the real killer, or had he been framed for the crime? So in my book, a servant is murdered, and the brother of my heroine Lucy Campion is accused of killing her and faces hanging for the crime.

In From the Charred Remains, another set of questions emerged. What if, at the moment that the Great Fire of 1666 rages through London, a man is murdered? But instead of the corpse being consumed by the flames, it is spared, allowing the murder to be discovered? So in this novel, Lucy is tasked with helping clear away the rubble after the Fire, and is on hand when a body is discovered in the barrel outside an old tavern. The only clue about who the man is comes from a pouch full of odd items — the winnings of the last card game ever played at the tavern — that ultimately will determine both the identify of the victim and his murderer.

And in my current novel, The Masque of a Murderer, I wondered about the problem of 17th century identify theft. After the plague and Great Fire, the social ties and physical evidence associated with people's identities (wills, titles, leases, guild records) were largely destroyed, and it was not so hard for individuals to assume the identity and property of someone else. In my novel, a man is deliberately pushed in front of a cart and horse, and consequently is dying a long drawn-out death (morbid, I know!). Lucy, now a printer's apprentice, has been called to the man's bedside to record his last dying words. The man tells her that he was murdered, and that he suspects his murderer is close by, and may wish to kill another person that Lucy loves.

So by trying to answer questions like these, I am able to write my stories.

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Susanna Calkins has been intrigued by murder ever since she first stumbled across murder ballads while working on her PhD in history. The idea that people used to sing about murder and other strange tales became the premise of her historical mysteries featuring Lucy Campion. Set in 17th century England, her novels have been short-listed for the Macavity, the Lovey, and the Bruce Alexander Historical Mystery Award.

For more information about the author, please visit her website at SusannaCalkins.com and her author page on Goodreads, or find her on Facebook and Twitter.

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The Masque of a Murderer by Susanna Calkins

A Lucy Campion Mystery

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Lucy Campion, formerly a ladies' maid in the local magistrate's household, has now found gainful employment as a printer's apprentice. On a freezing winter afternoon in 1667, she accompanies the magistrate's daughter, Sarah, to the home of a severely injured Quaker man to record his dying words, a common practice of the time. The man, having been trampled by a horse and cart the night before, only has a few hours left to live. Lucy scribbles down the Quaker man's last utterances, but she's unprepared for what he reveals to her — that someone deliberately pushed him into the path of the horse, because of a secret he had recently uncovered.

Fearful that Sarah might be traveling in the company of a murderer, Lucy feels compelled to seek the truth, with the help of the magistrate's son, Adam, and the local constable. But delving into the dead man's background might prove more dangerous than any of them had imagined.

— The Masque of a Murderer by Susanna Calkins

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