New This Week: Tried & True, A Mayfield Cozy Mystery by Jerusha Jones

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Tried & True by Jerusha Jones

A Mayfield Cozy Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Jerusha Jones

Price: $3.99 (as of 08/22/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

Summoned to a conference with a loathsome biker gang president, Nora learns her phantom money-laundering husband is striking fear into the hearts (and guts) of his former clients. Can she capitalize on their trepidation without getting sucked into the criminal network's implosion or facing retaliation herself for the ambitious plans Skip still has up his sleeve?

And what about gangster Numero Uno, the reclusive big cheese at the top of the West Coast's organized crime pyramid? Can Nora lure him into the crossfire and rub out the aristocratic thug who is so carefully concealed behind his army of accountants and knee-bashers?

Nora's only goal is to secure tranquility for Walt and the foster boys in residence on the Mayfield poor farm. But what will it take to earn her own freedom?

— Tried & True by Jerusha Jones

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Cold Winter Nights, A Lake George Mystery by Anne White, Now Available at a Special Price

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Cold Winter Nights by Anne White

A Lake George Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Hilliard & Harris

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/22/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Loren Graham, the mayor of Emerald Point — a picturesque little town on the shore of Lake George in upstate New York — is anticipating a wonderful Holiday season.

The town was ready. Sparkling new decorations hung on posts and wires throughout the Main Street business district. A sound system was rigged to play holiday songs and announce special sales throughout the shopping season. Special shopping nights and extended hours were scheduled to encourage the local residents to buy their holiday gifts in Emerald Point instead of dashing off to the malls in Queensbury and Albany. And, best of all, the final gift to the community was to be a grand Holiday concert downtown the week before Christmas.

Everything had been planned down to the last detail to make this Holiday Season the best one ever, but then someone else planned a different event that didn't add to the festivities. The shocking murder of a local woman — a respected nurse — in her own home.

— Cold Winter Nights by Anne White

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Person of Interest by Debby Giusti, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in August 2015

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Person of Interest by Debby Giusti

Series: Military Investigations

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

Military Investigations: Serving their country and solving crimes …

While babysitting a young servicewoman's infant, Natalie Frazier hears a murder in the neighboring army duplex. Convinced her former commander is behind the crime, the ex-soldier bolts with the baby. But who will believe her story? Army investigator Everett Kohl deals only with the facts, but this time his gut instincts can't be denied. Is the attractive Natalie a cunning killer, as his ranking officers believe, or an innocent victim? Ordered to bring her in, Everett has a decision to make. Helping her could cost him his job … but not protecting Natalie and the baby could get all of them killed …

— Person of Interest by Debby Giusti

Last Words by Michael Koryta, New in Bookstores during August 2015

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

Last Words by Michael Koryta, A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Little, Brown

    

Markus Novak just wants to come home. An investigator for a Florida-based Death Row defense firm, Novak's life derailed when his wife, Lauren, was killed in the midst of a case the two were working together. Two years later, her murderer is still at large, and Novak's attempts to learn the truth about her death through less-than-legal means and jailhouse bargaining have put his job on the line. Now he's been all but banished, sent to Garrison, Indiana to assess a cold case that he's certain his boss has no intention of taking.

As Novak knows all too well, some crimes never do get solved. But it's not often that the man who many believe got away with murder is the one calling for the case to be reopened. Ten years ago, a teenaged girl disappeared inside an elaborate cave system beneath rural farmland. Days later, Ridley Barnes emerged carrying Sarah Martin's lifeless body. Barnes has claimed all along that he has no memory of exactly where — or how — he found Sarah. His memory of whether she was dead or alive at the time is equally foggy. Tired of living under a cloud of suspicion, he says he wants answers — even if they mean he'll end up in the electric chair.

But what's he really up to? And Novak knows why he's so unhappy to be in Garrison — but why are the locals so hostile towards him? The answers lie in the fiendish brain of a dangerous man, the real identity of a mysterious woman, and deep beneath them all, in the network of ancient, stony passages that hold secrets deadlier than he can imagine. Soon Novak is made painfully aware that if he has any chance of returning to the life and career he left behind in Florida, he'll need to find the truth in Garrison first.

— Last Words by Michael Koryta

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

Operation Homecoming by Justine Davis, New from Harlequin Romantic Suspense in August 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title available this month from Harlequin, one of the world's leading publishers of books for women …

Operation Homecoming by Justine Davis

Series: Cutter's Code

Imprint: Romantic Suspense

  

A hero with a secret returns home … and goes into rescuer mode …

AWOL in times of family tragedy, Walker Cole doesn't expect a warm welcome home. Nor does he expect to see Amy­­ Clark — his sister's nerdy friend who had a mad teen crush on him — now a smart, sexy woman.

Though Walker knows he's caused Amy pain and hatred, his own pain is worse. He can never tell the truth about his hellish years away. But when Amy's paralegal work endangers her, Walker jumps at the chance to guard her irresistible body and prove himself worthy of trust and forgiveness. Even Cutter, the Foxworth dog with a nose for trouble, has his back when trouble explodes!

— Operation Homecoming by Justine Davis

Flamenco, Flan, and Fatalities, A Happy Hoofers Mystery by Mary McHugh, Now Available at a Special Price

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Flamenco, Flan, and Fatalities by Mary McHugh

A Happy Hoofers Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/22/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Murder is nothing to tap at …

The high-kicking Happy Hoofers — Tina, Janice, Pat, Mary Louise, and Gini — have been booked to flaunt their fabulous flamenco footwork on a luxury train ride through northern Spain. But when a blowhard talk show host is found deader than four-day-old flan — with Gini as suspect numero uno — the feisty friends waste no time stepping into their sleuthing shoes to protect one of their own.

The dynamite dancers will have to step up their game before a clever killer brings the curtain down on one of them … for good!

— Flamenco, Flan, and Fatalities by Mary McHugh

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New This Week: They Tell Me You Are Wicked, A Duncan Cochrane Thriller by David Hagerty

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They Tell Me You Are Wicked by David Hagerty

A Duncan Cochrane Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Evolved Publishing

Price: $4.99 (as of 08/22/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

Duncan Cochrane is set on being the next governor of Illinois, until his daughter is murdered six weeks before the election. Then the candidate can only focus on finding her killer.

As the police investigation follows a trio of unlikely leads, Duncan realizes that his best shot at justice is the bully pulpit of the campaign trail, so he returns to the race and makes crime fighting his mantra.

Soon he discovers that his own ambitions may have caused her death, yet by then he knows that he must win the election or risk political and personal failure.

— They Tell Me You Are Wicked by David Hagerty

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Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Saturday, August 22, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 7:30 AM ET …

Fatal Scandal by Marie Force

The Fatal Series (8th in series)

Publisher: Carina Press

Kindle Daily Deal Price: 99¢

As a new year dawns in the capital city, dual scandals rock the Metropolitan Police Department — and Lieutenant Sam Holland is right in the middle of them. Chief Farnsworth is catching heat for the way he handled a recent homicide investigation, and Detective Gonzales is accused of failing to disclose an earlier connection to the judge who decided his custody hearing.

When Gonzo's fight for his child turns deadly and he has a shaky alibi, Sam must defend two of her closest colleagues. All while her husband, Vice President Nick Cappuano, settles into his new office at the White House.

Nick begins to wonder if the president is using him for a political boost, and his worries mount over a complication in the plans to adopt Scotty at a time when Sam is being put through the wringer by the always-rabid DC press corps. As the evidence against Gonzo piles up, Sam suspects someone is gunning for her — and her team.

— Fatal Scandal by Marie Force

The first five books in the Kathleen Turner series by Tiffany Snow for $1.99 each is a Kindle Daily Deal. We're featuring the first in the series in this post.

No Turning Back by Tiffany Snow

A Kathleen Turner Novel of Romantic Suspense (1st in series)

Publisher: Montlake Romance

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Being a bartender by night and law firm runner by day helps make ends meet for Kathleen Turner. Mostly. Being 23 and single in Indianapolis wasn't exactly a thrilling adventure, but then again, that's not what Kathleen wanted. At least, not until she met Blane Kirk.

Navy SEAL turned high-profile attorney, Blane is everything a woman could want. The only problem? He's her boss.

Blane is known for playing the field and the last thing Kathleen needs or wants is to get involved with him. But when her friend is murdered and it seems Kathleen will be next, she may not have a choice.

Now Blane is the only thing standing between her and people who want her dead, including assassin-for-hire Kade Dennon. Beautiful but deadly, he'll kill anyone who gets in his way, even the woman who makes him question everything he's become.

The deeper she sinks into the web of lies and murder, the more Kathleen realizes she can trust no one if she's going to survive. No one is innocent. Not even Blane.

— No Turning Back by Tiffany Snow

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Saturday, August 22, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 6:30 AM ET …

Shattered Palms by Toby Neal

A Lei Crime Novel

Publisher: Toby Neal

Price: FREE!

  

Hit the Road Jack by Willow Rose

A Jack Ryder Mystery

Publisher: Willow Rose

Price: FREE!

  

Gene Search by Kathleen Steed

A Collin Carter Mystery

Publisher: Kathleen Steed

Price: FREE!

  

Goody One Shoe by Julie Frayn

A Mystery Novel

Publisher: Julie Frayn

Price: FREE!

  

Murder on Moon Street by B. K. Crawford

A J. J. Houston Mystery

Publisher: Mind Key Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Lethal Disposal by Kasia Radzka

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Kasia Radzka

Price: FREE!

  

The Mystery of the Haunted Hotel by Tommy Davey

A Cora Flash Mystery for Kids

Publisher: Brown PAW Press

Price: FREE!

  

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The Embroidered Corpse, A Belinda Lawrence Mystery by Brian Kavanagh, 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 …

The Embroidered Corpse by Brian Kavanagh

A Belinda Lawrence Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 08/21/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

In a quiet English village two bodies are discovered. Both murdered. But it is the manner of the death that most startles amateur detective Belinda Lawrence. They were both slain in a way that perfectly replicates the death a medieval English king. But why?

There appears to be no motive for so elaborate a crime. But after she stumbles across a mysterious ancient tapestry, Belinda Lawrence and her associate Hazel Whitby are drawn into a terrifying conspiracy involving a bizarre religious cult, an enigmatic academic, a group of secretive monks — and a mystery that dates back nearly a thousand years old. And it soon becomes apparent that the embroidered corpse will not be the last dead body — Belinda's own life is at stake.

— The Embroidered Corpse by Brian Kavanagh

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Secret Agent Gadget Battle, A Nick and Tesla Adventure by Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith, Now Available at a Special Price

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Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Quirk Books …

Secret Agent Gadget Battle by Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith

A Nick and Tesla Adventure (3rd in series)

Publisher: Quirk Books

Price: $3.03 (as of 08/21/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

After foiling a gang of kidnappers and fending off an army of robots, 11-year-old siblings Nick and Tesla Holt could use a little rest! But as their third mystery opens, they discover there's a spy in their midst, searching for secrets in the home of their beloved (and slightly crazy) Uncle Newt. Is it the new laboratory assistant? The exterminator? The housekeepers? Or someone completely unexpected?

To expose the mystery agent, Nick and Tesla must engineer all kinds of outrageous contraptions, from code wheels and fingerprint powder to spy cameras and burglar detectors. Best of all, instructions are included throughout the story, so you can build the projects, too!

— Secret Agent Gadget Battle by Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith

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Deadly Prospects, A Novel of Suspense by Clio Gray, New This Week from Endeavour Press

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Deadly Prospects by Clio Gray

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 08/21/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

1869, Strontian, Scotland.

Strontian, a village on Ardnamurchan Peninsula, is inhabited by mining folk and crofters, eking out a living from the unforgiving land and turning a blind eye to the smugglers who plague the coast. A bag of bones is pulled out of the water. The assistant to the Gustav Wengler, eccentric owner of the lead mines, is brutally murdered. What is the connection? And what do either have to do with the sundial in Ockle churchyard and the collection of monuments on Wengler's island known locally as the White Cathedral?

Strangers come to Strontian — Sholto McKay and Brogar Finn of the Pan-European Mining Company — in pursuit of a potentially valuable mineral from the Strontian mines and begin their own investigations, unaware their discoveries will tear more than one life apart.

— Deadly Prospects by Clio Gray

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Hunter, A Dylan Hunter Justice Thriller by Robert Bidinotto, Now Available at a Special Price

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Hunter by Robert Bidinotto

A Dylan Hunter Justice Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Avenger Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/21/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Two people, passionately in love. But each hides a deadly secret.

He is a crusading vigilante, on a violent quest for justice. She is tracking this unknown assassin, sworn to stop him. Neither realizes the truth about the other.

And neither knows that a terrifying predator is hunting them both …

— Hunter by Robert Bidinotto

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New This Week: Killer City, A Jack Calder Crime Novel by Seumas Gallacher

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Killer City by Seumas Gallacher

A Jack Calder Crime Novel (4th in series)

Publisher: Crooked Cat Publishing

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/21/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

The discovery of a woman's mutilated torso in a rubbish bin in the north of England sparks a twisting series of events for Jack Calder, a former SAS officer, and his colleagues at their specialist security firm, International Security Partners (ISP).

Jack's offer to help an old buddy's son escape a framed murder charge, leads ISP from Manchester and London, across Europe into Lithuania and the mountains of Tajikistan hunting down the peddlers of illicit synthetic drugs, murder, and prostitution rings.

Corruption at the highest levels in European police forces and political hierarchies call for the ISP's black ops skills to combat the growing global menace of drugs on city streets.

— Killer City by Seumas Gallacher

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The Deadliest Lie, A Liriam bat Isaac Mystery by June Trop, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Deadliest Lie by June Trop

A Liriam bat Isaac Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Bell Bridge Books

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/21/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

She's a brilliant alchemist — with a talent for solving mysteries …

Miriam bat Isaac is a budding scholar in first-century CE Alexandria, though her dreams seem doomed. Who in her household or among her father's Shabbat guests stole the scrolls containing the Alchemical League's valuable formulas? Perhaps the thief was even her frantic father, on the cusp of financial ruin, eager for Miriam to end her dalliance with a handsome jeweler and marry into an honorable and wealthy family. Or her rebellious brother, intent on raising money to travel to Capua so he can enroll in the Roman Empire's most renowned gladiator school. Or her faint-hearted fiancé, who begrudges her preoccupation with alchemy and yearns for their forthcoming marriage? And how did the thief manage to steal them?

Miriam is not only faced with a baffling puzzle, but, to recover the scrolls, she must stalk the culprit through the sinister alleys of Alexandria's claustrophobic underbelly. The Romans who keep a harsh watch over her Jewish community are trouble enough.

— The Deadliest Lie by June Trop

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