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 April 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …
Return To Sender by Dick Cluster
An Alex Glauberman Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: booksBnimble
Price: 99¢ (as of 04/25/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).
This is a new ebook edition of a mystery first published by Dutton in 1988.
He went to the post office … and ended up in Berlin …
Meet reluctant detective Alex Glauberman — just a guy who fixes foreign cars, a 41-year-old divorced father with a brilliant British girl friend. But he's got a complication right now — he's trying to survive chemo. And then Gerald Meyer, a stranger he meets at the P.O., asks him to mail a package to Meyer's daughter. Easily done, but too late, Meyer changes his mind.
And turns up dead.
But now the package is gone, and clearly dangerous! Will Meyer's daughter be the next victim? Worse, is Alex about to be arrested for murder? Out of those fears is born Alex's career as an international detective — because the stranger's daughter lives in Berlin, and he doesn't know how to contact her.
Too intrigued to let it go (and also because he's a mensch) Alex sets off on an adventure that takes him to London and Berlin in the last years of the Wall, in a search for package, perpetrators, and to prove his own innocence.
Along the way he's plunged into the wreckage of Gerald Meyer's life, a wake that includes the daughter, half-German and half-Jewish, as well as an underworld network, unusual banking transactions, blackmail, shadowy neo-Nazis, and a city in which, as Meyer's daughter puts it, "Under all the showy stuff, Berliners are frightened of so many things." Police detectives in two countries don't make it any easier, but Alex learns to cope, trading bits of information while explaining his actions with metaphors such as the Yiddish meaning of his family name.
— Return To Sender by Dick Cluster
Repulse Monkey by Dick Cluster
An Alex Glauberman Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: booksBnimble
Price: 99¢ (as of 04/25/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).
This is a new ebook edition of a mystery first published by Dutton in 1989.
Really bad news — the baby-sitter could be a murderer!
A year following Boston-based auto mechanic Alex Glauberman's first brush with murder, mystery, and the life of an amateur detective, he's recovered from cancer and chemotherapy; he's studying tai chi for its pleasures and therapeutic effects; and he's getting on with his life. Then, in the space of a two-minute phone call, he's ensnared in another mystery.
His anniversary dinner with girlfriend Meredith comes to an abrupt halt when a quick check-in with the babysitter yields the news from Alex's sleepy nine-year-old that the babysitter has left: "She said it was an emergency. She said the emergency was that somebody was dead."
More worrisome still, the babysitter, college student Suzanne Lutrello, cannot be found, and then her ex-boyfriend is savagely killed.
Alex's newly minted private detective skills come quickly into play, but he soon discovers he isn't the only one looking for Suzanne. As he outruns her pursuers and their threats, he navigates the world of old Boston money to its intersection with small-town corruption, high-end prostitution, and drug-addiction recovery, in a life-or-death finish amid the stark white New England winter woods.
— Repulse Monkey by Dick Cluster
Obligations of the Bone by Dick Cluster
An Alex Glauberman Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: booksBnimble
Price: 99¢ (as of 04/25/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).
This is a new ebook edition of a mystery first published by St. Martin's Press in 1992.
When you lose what makes you who you are …
"Your bone-marrow," thinks Alex Glauberman, "is the place you store the stuff that makes you who you are." He is feeling queasy about the prospect of anyone living temporarily without it. This "anyone" is not him, not yet, but after a successful first bout with a lymphoma that he expects to come back, someday, for a rematch, he wants to know more about marrow transplant treatments, so he is pleased to be summoned for a consult by Dr. Jay Harrison, a pioneer in the field. What Harrison wants, though, is to hire to Alex as an investigator in something much less scientific — a blackmail letter that the doctor cannot understand.
It purports to be from someone in his past, someone Harrison remembers well. They met long ago, in the early 1970s, when Harrison was hitchhiking from a Vietnam War protest and Foster was an anti-war army deserter just returned from exile in France. They had shared some politics, some travel, and a little hashish, but what was any of that to threaten Harrison's position now?
Something is going on here, Alex tells himself, trying to mentally spread these disparate parts out before him just as he would in his day job of fixing Northern European cars. Some other shoe, his marrow tells him, is going to drop. Drop it does, and marrow is what it's about: Linda Dumars, one of Harrison's transplant patients is due to have her own marrow reinfused now that her days of intense treatment are over, but the marrow's been stolen.
A ransom note soon arrives and the clock ticks: each day without her marrow reduces Linda's chances of survival.
— Obligations of the Bone by Dick Cluster
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