A Bad Day for Sorry, A Stella Hardesty Mystery by Sophie Littlefield, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield

A Stella Hardesty Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 07/21/2015 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

Winner of the 2010 Anthony Award for Best First Novel.

Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later, she's so busy delivering home-style justice on her days off, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she barely has time to run her sewing shop in her rural Missouri hometown. Some men need more convincing than others, but it's usually nothing a little light bondage or old-fashioned whuppin' can't fix. Since Stella works outside of the law, she's free to do whatever it takes to get the job done — as long as she keeps her distance from the handsome devil of a local sheriff, Goat Jones.

When young mother Chrissy Shaw asks Stella for help with her no-good husband, Roy Dean, it looks like an easy case. Until Roy Dean disappears with Chrissy's two-year-old son, Tucker. Stella quickly learns that Roy Dean was involved with some very scary men, as she tries to sort out who's hiding information and who's merely trying to kill her. It's going to take a hell of a fight to get the little boy back home to his mama, but if anyone can do it, it's Stella Hardesty.

— A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield

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Review: No Place To Hide by Lynette Eason

A Mysterious Review of No Place To Hide by Lynette Eason. A "Hidden Identity" Mystery.

Review summary: This last in a trilogy of suspense novels is filled with elements of suspense and fear though the overall plot comes across as a little under-developed. Indeed, in the end this is far more of an engaging and enjoyable character-driven story than a plot-driven one. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

No Place To Hide
Lynette Eason
A "Hidden Identity" Mystery
Revell (May 2015)

Publisher synopsis: It's not every day you see your childhood friend and onetime crush on national news. Jackie Sellers just wishes it were under different circumstances. She can't believe that Ian Lockwood is wanted in connection with a terrorist plot, and she's determined to find him and help him clear his name.

Unfortunately, she's not the only one looking for him. The FBI wants him captured. The bad guys want him dead. Ian just wants to stay alive long enough to prove his innocence and prevent a catastrophe.

The Illusion of Murder, A Nellie Bly Mystery by Carol McCleary, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Illusion of Murder by Carol McCleary

A Nellie Bly Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Forge Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 07/21/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Nellie Bly — Victorian Age detective, reporter, and feminist — takes up a challenge by Jules Verne to beat the eighty days it took his fictional hero Phileas Fogg to race around the world. Nellie tackles the journey — alone, with a single change of clothes — against the wishes of her publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, who felt it was "too dangerous for a woman to attempt."

In her official account of the journey, Seventy-Two Days Around the World, Nellie leaves out one riveting event: a mysterious death. In the bustling harbor city of Port Said, she witnesses an event that makes her a target for a killer and involves her in international intrigue with the fate of nations at stake.

On board the ships that take Nellie from the Land of the Pharaohs to the exotic Orient and across the Pacific are the most famous magicians in the world … but a killer also stalks the decks. As magicians conjure the fantasy and a spiritualist raises the dead, Nellie wonders if Mr. Pulitzer had underestimated the danger.

— The Illusion of Murder by Carol McCleary

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New This Week: Dangerous Curves, A Rebecca Moore Mystery by Judith Skillings

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Dangerous Curves by Judith Skillings

A Rebecca Moore Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 07/21/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

This is a new ebook edition of a book first published in paperback by Avon in 2005.

Rebecca Moore thought she left violent death behind her, but the bodies keep mounting … and they're begging for justice …

Having abandoned her career as a Washington, D.C., reporter to run her late uncle's classic car restoration shop, Rebecca wants peace. Then the brutally stabbed corpse of a lovely dancer is discovered in the back seat of a vintage Bentley being towed by her ex-con workers — the cops' preferred suspects. When a second young dancer is pulled from the Potomac, Rebecca throws down her wrenches.

Ignoring the advice of her admiring lawyer, Joachim Delacroix, and the concerns of her erstwhile detective boyfriend, Mick Hagan, she goes undercover in a gentlemen's club. Embroiled in the tawdry world of flesh and fantasy, Rebecca tries to unravel the dark secrets that have killed too many women already — before she becomes the next victim.

— Dangerous Curves by Judith Skillings

See also the first mystery in this series, Dead End, for $3.99 on Kindle.

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Something Borrowed, Someone Dead, An Agatha Raisin Mystery by M. C. Beaton, Now Available at a Special Price

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Something Borrowed, Someone Dead by M. C. Beaton

An Agatha Raisin Mystery (24th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 07/21/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Gloria French was a jolly widow with dyed blonde hair, a raucous laugh and rosy cheeks. When she first moved from London to the charming Cotswolds hills, she was heartily welcomed. She seemed a do-gooder par excellence, raising funds for the church and caring for the elderly. But she had a nasty habit of borrowing things and not giving them back, just small things, a teapot here, a set of silverware there. So it's quite the shock when she is found dead, murdered by a poisoned bottle of elderberry wine. Afraid the murder will be a blight on the small town, Parish councillor, Jerry Tarrant, hires private detective Agatha Raisin to track down the murderer.

But the village is secretive and the residents resent Agatha's investigation. Of course that doesn't stop the ever-persistent Agatha from investigating and sticking her nose where no one wants it — especially as the suspect list grows. And, as if it isn't enough that Agatha's ex has reentered the picture, the murderer is now targeting Agatha!

— Something Borrowed, Someone Dead by M. C. Beaton

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New This Week: Upholding the Paw, A Megan Luz, Paw Enforcement Novella by Diane Kelly

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Upholding the Paw by Diane Kelly

A Megan Luz, Paw Enforcement Novella

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/21/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

It's just another typical day for Fort Worth Police Officer Megan Luz and her K-9 partner Brigit-until three unknown men set out on a city-wide crime spree. After setting a fire to distract law enforcement, the armed criminals hold up a bank and steal a city bus. And that's just for starters. Megan and Brigit put their noses to the ground and the chase is on.

But hard as the K-9 team tries to put the clues together and track the men, the offenders stay a step ahead of them, racking up charges and victims. Will this K-9 team be able to stop the bad guys before their trail runs cold?

— Upholding the Paw by Diane Kelly

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Designated Daughters, A Deborah Knott Mystery by Margaret Maron, Now Available at a Special Price

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Designated Daughters by Margaret Maron

A Deborah Knott Mystery (19th in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $2.99 (as of 07/21/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

When Judge Deborah Knott is summoned to her ailing Aunt Rachel's bedside, she assumes the worst. Thankfully when she arrives at the hospice center she learns that Rachel hasn't passed; in fact, the dying woman is awake. Surrounded by her children, her extended family, and what seems like half of Colleton County, a semi-conscious Rachel breaks weeks of pained silence with snippets of stories as randomly pieced together as a well-worn patchwork quilt. But the Knott family's joy quickly gives way to shock: less than an hour later, Aunt Rachel is found dead in her bed, smothered with a pillow.

Who would kill a woman on her deathbed? Was it an act of mercy, or murder? As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, investigate they cross paths with an unlikely set of suspects: Rachel's longtime minister; her neighbor, the respected local doctor; the friendly single father who often sought her advice; and perhaps the most puzzling party of all, the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers that Rachel's own daughter belongs to.

Soon Deborah and Dwight realize that the key to solving this case is hidden in Rachel's mysterious final words. Her mixed-up memories harbored a dark secret — a secret that someone close to them is determined to bury forever.

— Designated Daughters by Margaret Maron

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Yeager's Law, A Suspense Thriller by Scott Bell, New This Week from Red Adept Publishing

Red Adept Publishing is a small independent publisher of print and ebooks in all genres … unlocking new worlds.

In this post, we've selected one of their recently published mystery, romantic suspense, or thriller titles to feature here today …

Yeager's Law by Scott Bell

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Red Adept Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 07/21/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

Abel Yeager is dead broke, down on his luck, and suffering from a serious case of what-the-hell-does-it-matter. His transition from active Marine to stateside long-haul trucker hit a wicked speed bump when his rig was involved in a wreck that claimed the life of a pregnant woman and laid him up for several months.

Back at work but deeply in debt, Yeager meets bookstore owner Charlie Buchanan in St. Louis and jumps at the chance to haul a load of remainder books to Austin for her. On the way south, a crew of truck thieves tracks his every move. But none of them know what Charlie's ex has smuggled inside the book pallets, who he stole it from, or how far the owner will go to get it back. Charlie's the first person Yeager has cared about in a long time, but as their bond deepens, so does the danger they're in.

With enemy forces closing in, Yeager battles greed, corruption, and his own fatalism in a bid to hold true to Yeager's First Law: come home at the end of the day.

— Yeager's Law by Scott Bell

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Slipknot, A Jane Bunker Mystery by Linda Greenlaw, Now Available at a Special Price

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Slipknot by Linda Greenlaw

A Jane Bunker Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Hachette Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/21/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

When marine investigator Jane Bunker moves back to the sleepy Maine fishing community where she was born, it's to escape the seamy crime scenes and unsavory characters that crossed her path in Miami. Surely whatever crimes are committed in touristy, idyllic Green Haven won't involve anything as nasty as what she saw in Florida. It's a bit of a shock, then, when Nick Dow, the town drunk, turns up dead, and it's not the simple accident that everyone assumes it to be. Jane soon discovers that Dow wasn't even a drunk — it was all an act. But why? And what does it have to do with a heated town hall meeting about fishing rights and paternity suits? The more Jane digs, the more confused she gets. Only two things are certain: Nothing is what it seems; and the whole town is in each other's business. But it's not until Jane impulsively hops on a boat with the killer — a boat that suddenly heads out to sea — that things become downright dangerous …

— Slipknot by Linda Greenlaw

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Rainy Day Women by Kay Kendall, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2015 …

Rainy Day Women by Kay Kendall, An Austin Starr Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Stairway Press

  

In 1969, during the week of the Manson murders and Woodstock, the intrepid amateur sleuth, infant in tow, flies across the continent to support a friend suspected of murdering women's liberation activists in Seattle and Vancouver.

Then her former CIA trainer warns that an old enemy has contracted a hit on her. Her anxious husband demands that she give up her quest and fly back to him. How much should Austin risk when tracking the killer puts her and her baby's life in danger?

— Rainy Day Women by Kay Kendall

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The Haunted Homecoming, A Calamity Jayne Mystery by Kathleen Bacus, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Haunted Homecoming by Kathleen Bacus

A Calamity Jayne Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/21/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

What do you call a blonde skeleton in the closet? Last year's hide-'n'-seek champ.

It's autumn in the heartland, where football rules, homecoming royalty reigns, and full moons don't just refer to a passing high school varsity bus. But this year, Tressa Jayne Turner isn't just enjoying the candy corn, popcorn balls and caramel apples. This reporter is on a mission to sniff out a serious story that will impress not only her skeptical family and friends, but also her boss at the Grandville Gazette.

And it turns out "Calamity Jayne" is in luck! Eccentric and reclusive bestselling writer, Elizabeth Courtney Howard is coming to little ol' Grandville to conduct some family business and finish her latest book. So, what's stopping Tressa from scoring this journalistic coup? A blackmailing, six-foot-two-inch homecoming queen candidate with all the charm of Frankenstein in taffeta, a rival reporter out to scoop the competition, a séance-hosting grandmother, and the sexy Ranger Rick Townsend who could tempt a nun to rethink her vows. Suddenly Tressa better watch her step, as her exposé uncovers skeletons in everyone's closets and a haunted house that's too creepy for comfort.

— The Haunted Homecoming by Kathleen Bacus

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Naked Greed by Stuart Woods, New in Bookstores during July 2015

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

Naked Greed by Stuart Woods, a Stone Barrington Mystery (34th in series)

Publisher: Putnam

    

Stone Barrington isn't one to turn away in the face of danger, so when he witnesses a tricky situation underway, he jumps in to lend a hand. He never expected, though, that this favor would lead to a mutually beneficial business deal with a prominent gentleman who requires the ever-discreet services of Woodman & Weld.

But in the ruthless corporate world no good deed goes unpunished, and Stone soon finds himself the target of a ragtag group of criminal toughs who don't appreciate his interference in their dealings. From the isolated landscape of Maine to the white sand beaches of Key West, the trail of deception, theft, and murder will lead to a perilous confrontation.

— Naked Greed by Stuart Woods

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Pizza 911 by Donald J. Hauka, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2015 …

Pizza 911 by Donald J. Hauka, A Hakeen Jinnah Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Dundurn

  

The Tribune's editor-in-chief can kiss Hakeem Jinnah's ass goodbye! His bags are packed and he's off to Africa as king of his own Burger Palace. That is, until a charred, dismembered body is discovered in a pizza oven. The lure of one last front-page byline is too much for Jinnah to resist … even if it turns out to be his own obituary.

Now the perpetually puffing, politically incorrect Jinnah is on the trail of a vicious killer in a chase that takes him from Vancouver to Tanzania. Negotiating a deadly labyrinth of deceit, betrayal, and long-kept secrets, the neurotic newsman has to use his entire reporting repertoire — and then some — to get to the truth. Bikers, drugs lords, shadowy assassins, and a mysterious, beautiful woman are all pieces in a complex puzzle that Jinnah must put together before it's too late for him, his family, and even his newspaper.

— Pizza 911 by Donald J. Hauka

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Murder Tightly Knit, An Amish Village Mystery by Vannetta Chapman, Now Available at a Special Price

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Murder Tightly Knit by Vannetta Chapman

An Amish Village Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Zondervan

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/21/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

In a town where Amish and Englisch Mingle every day, a grisly murder leads to mutual suspicion. Can Amber and Hannah find the killer before fear unravels the community … and before he strikes again?

Even before she heard of Owen Esch's death, Hannah Troyer knew something was amiss at The Cat's Meow yarn shop. The store has been closing at odd times, the ever-dependable Mary isn't always at her post … and an Englisch man has been loitering around back.

Now, as leaves of brown, gold, and orange blanket Middlebury, Indiana, Owen lies dead on the Pumpkinvine Trail. The only clues to the murderer's identity point in two very different directions — one of them leading right to The Cat's Meow.

The police call in a federal investigator, but Hannah and village manager Amber Bowman are in no mood to wait for them to figure out what they already know — that no one from the Amish Village killed Owen Esch.

Amber and Hannah need to work quickly to solve the murder mystery and bring harmony back to the Amish community.

— Murder Tightly Knit by Vannetta Chapman

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Stand Down, A J. P. Beaumont Novella by J. A. Jance, New This Week from Witness Impulse

Every week, Witness Impulse — an imprint of William Morrow — releases new suspense and thriller digital originals, typically priced at just $2.99 each.

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of this week's titles …

Stand Down by J. A. Jance

A J. P. Beaumont Novella

Publisher: Witness Impulse

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/21/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

Life has shifted for J. P. Beaumont. After a tragic accident that devastated — and ultimately disbanded — his Special Homicide Investigaton Team, he accepts that he has left homicide detection behind at this point, but he has a lot of unanticipated free time on his hands. He's keeping busy with renovations on the new house that he and his wife, Mel Soames, the newly appointed chief of police in Bellingham, Washington, have bought. But new fixtures and paint palettes can occupy only so much of Beau's daily life, and Mel is encouraging him to return to where he is needed: investigating crimes.

In the meantime, she is struggling to gain control of her new situation, cast into a department where some are welcoming — and some are not. It's been a few months, and the tension in the police department is rising, but Beau realizes Mel has to tackle things in her own way, so he refrains from advising. But when Beau shows up one afternoon to survey the construction at their new house and finds Mel's car there but no sign of her, his investigative instincts kick in. Suddenly he's back in the game — except this time, his heart is on the line as well as his professional dignity.

— Stand Down by J. A. Jance

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