The Last Kind Words, A Terrier Rand Mystery by Tom Piccirilli, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli

A Terrier Rand Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Bantam

Price: 99¢ (as of 09/14/2015 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

Raised in a clan of small-time thieves and grifters, Terrier Rand decided to cut free from them and go straight after his older brother, Collie, went on a killing spree that left an entire family and several others dead. Five years later, only days before his scheduled execution, Collie contacts Terry and asks him to return home. He claims he wasn't responsible for one of the murders — and insists that the real killer is still on the loose.

Uncertain whether his brother is telling the truth, and dogged by his own regrets, Terry is drawn back into the activities of his family: His father, Pinsch, who once made a living as a cat burglar but retired after the heartbreak caused by his two sons. His cardsharp uncles, Mal and Grey, who've recently incurred the anger of the local mob. His grandfather, Old Shep, who has Alzheimer's but is still a first-rate pickpocket. His teenage sister, Dale, who's flirting with the lure of the criminal world. And Kimmy, the fiancée he abandoned, who's now raising a child with his former best friend.

As Terry starts to investigate what really happened on the day of Collie's crime spree, will the truth he uncovers about their secrets tear the Rands apart?

— The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli

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Review: Scheduled To Die by Alan Cupp

A Mysterious Review of Scheduled To Die by Alan Cupp. A Carter Mays Mystery.

Review summary: This crime novel has an intriguing premise that immediately draws the reader in. The setup and early execution of it goes well, with the narrative moving along at a brisk pace. But about halfway through, there's a hint at where the story is going and how it will play out in the end, and it's not promising at all. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

Scheduled To Die
Alan Cupp
A Carter Mays Mystery
Henery Press (June 2015)

Publisher synopsis: Her prognosis didn't come from a medical professional, but rather the handsome, charming man she met while on a business trip. After an evening with charismatic stranger, Mike Sweeney, filled with potential and intrigue, things quickly deteriorate into the most frightening and traumatic experience of Dana's life.

Presented as an opportunity to be envied, Sweeney instructs Dana to spend the next year living life to the fullest, pursuing every extraordinary opportunity she ever dreamt about. When the year is up, Mike intends to reconvene for a romantic evening that will end with Dana's death. However, if Dana dares to contact law enforcement, her impending death will come much quicker and be far more brutal.

Paralyzed by fear of the seemingly ever-present Sweeney, Dana hires Carter to protect her and stop her psychopathic suitor.

A Thin Film of Lies, A Fran Anders Mystery by C. S. Lakin, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Thin Film of Lies by C. S. Lakin

A Fran Anders Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Ubiquitous Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 09/14/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Homicide detective Fran Anders's latest case throws her into the lives of Mike and Alisa Jepson, a couple whose marriage is disintegrating fast.

When leads coming into the precinct point at Mike Jepson as guilty of murder, Fran watches the damage wrought on this couple, yet is unable to ignore the incriminating evidence. When Mike ends up arrested and in jail, Alisa takes comfort in a friend — Dee Dee — who moves in with her but soon becomes her worst nightmare. Mike hires a PI who uncovers clues to who is setting Mike up, but Alisa is caught in a trap before Mike can protect her.

Although Fran reaches out to Alisa during her crisis of faith, she is unable to stop events from barreling toward a crash. Yet, despite the tragedies to follow, Fran sees how God has used the Jepsons' trials and pain to bring Alisa back into His arms, with hope that Mike might follow suit.

Fran is a dedicated, no-frills cop who takes her job seriously but with a wry sense of humor. She suffers from the unbearable heat, from unrelenting allergies, but does not suffer fools. As much as she wants to please her superiors, she knows her true boss is — God — and she answers first and foremost to his leading, which sometimes takes her beyond the call of duty, often to the ire of those around her. A middle-aged, divorced, single parent with two teens, Fran hopes someday to find a great man and remarry, but she's not holding her breath. Right now, she just wants to be a good cop and mother, and use her faith to help those she encounters in her line of work learn there's someone "up there" who truly cares for them.

— A Thin Film of Lies by C. S. Lakin

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New This Week: Landfall, The Forgotten Coast Florida Suspense Series by Dawn Lee McKenna

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Landfall by Dawn Lee McKenna

The Forgotten Coast Florida Suspense Series (4th in series)

Publisher: The Sweet Tea Press

Price: $4.99 (as of 09/14/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

As a hurricane gathers its power just off Apalachicola's shore, another storm comes to a head in Lt. Maggie Redmond's home.

Held prisoner by a man bent on avenging the death of a son, Maggie must find a way to save herself and her two children.

No one knows where they are. No one is coming to help. Maggie and her children will have to find a way to survive both the madness inside their home and the madness raging outside.

— Landfall by Dawn Lee McKenna

See all four books in the highly reviewed Forgotten Coast Florida Suspense Series for $4.99 or less each on Kindle.

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Moonlight Falls, A Dick Moonlight Mystery by Vincent Zandri, Now Available at a Special Price

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Moonlight Falls by Vincent Zandri

A Dick Moonlight Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Bear Media

Price: 99¢ (as of 09/14/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Albany, New York: Richard "Dick" Moonlight, former APD detective turned private investigator/massage therapist, believes he killed Scarlet Montana — his illicit lover and wife of his ex-boss, Chief of Detectives Jake Montana. Problem is, despite the blood on his hands, Moonlight doesn't remember what happened!

— Moonlight Falls by Vincent Zandri

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Payback, A Detective Thriller by Alex Zenon, 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 …

Payback by Alex Zenon

A Detective Thriller

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 09/14/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Larnaca, Cyprus. Tensions have reached boiling point in the normally peaceful coastal city. The Eurogroup bailout, and subsequent collapse of the Omega Bank, resulted in over half the population waking up to find their entire life savings had disappeared over night — university funds, pension pots, even the charity account of a young girl with a rare genetic disease. When high-profile city banker, Wolfgang Fleischer, is kidnapped in the dead of night — a severed finger the only evidence found at the scene — conspiracy theories are all anyone can talk about. The Cypriots, the Russians, the CIA — they all want payback for their stolen millions.

Spurred on by the prospect of a €1 million reward, Johnny Gregoriou starts asking his own questions. With the help of his childhood friend, Phats, Johnny deepens his investigations but it's not long before he realises that this is far more than a simple case of kidnap and ransom. His suspicions are confirmed when he finds himself the recipient of an ancient Cypriot death threat and things go from bad to worse when Johnny's teenage daughter, Georgia, is taken hostage.

Can Johnny track down the kidnappers and claim the reward? Or will the very thing he hopes will unite his family, destroy it beyond repair?

— Payback by Alex Zenon

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Wife of the Gods, A Darko Dawson Mystery by Kwei Quartey, Now Available at a Special Price

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Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey

A Darko Dawson Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Random House

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/14/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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Introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson: dedicated family man, rebel in the office, ace in the field — and one of the most appealing sleuths to come along in years. When we first meet Dawson, he's been ordered by his cantankerous boss to leave behind his loving wife and young son in Ghana's capital city to lead a murder investigation: In a shady grove outside the small town of Ketanu, a young woman — a promising medical student — has been found dead under suspicious circumstances.

Dawson is fluent in Ketanu's indigenous language, so he's the right man for the job, but the local police are less than thrilled with an outsider's interference. For Dawson, this sleepy corner of Ghana is rife with emotional land mines: an estranged relationship with the family he left behind twenty-five years earlier and the painful memory of his own mother's inexplicable disappearance.

Armed with remarkable insight and a healthy dose of skepticism, Dawson soon finds his cosmopolitan sensibilities clashing with age-old customs, including a disturbing practice in which teenage girls are offered to fetish priests as trokosi, or Wives of the Gods. Delving deeper into the student's haunting death, Dawson will uncover long-buried secrets that, to his surprise, hit much too close to home.

— Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey

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New This Week: Aim to Kill, A Novel of Suspense by Allison Brennan

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Aim to Kill by Allison Brennan

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Allison Brennan

Price: $3.99 (as of 09/14/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

When disgraced former cop Alexandra Morgan is shot saving the life of California's Lieutenant Governor, she doesn't expect to be caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy, an FBI sting, an old rivalry … and cold-blooded murder.

When the shooter gets away after Alex pursues him, she gives her statement to the police, but is skeptical that LG Travis Hart was the actual target. The lead detective — Alex's ex-boyfriend — doesn't buy her theory, but is willing to look into it. That satisfies her until District Attorney Matt Elliott shows up at her house and asks Alex to once again go undercover to stop a growing criminal enterprise that he claims is funding Hart's campaign for Governor.

Alex is no stranger to working undercover — she'd been undercover for the FBI when her partner shot and nearly killed her eight months ago. To protect the investigation and the FBI's informants, she left the force under a cloud of distrust and suspicion. But this time, she's going in without back-up and without a badge. And this time, the shooter will aim to kill …

— Aim to Kill by Allison Brennan

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Pawing Through the Past, A Mrs. Murphy Mystery by Rita Mae Brown, Now Available at a Special Price

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Pawing Through the Past by Rita Mae Brown

A Mrs. Murphy Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: Bantam

Price: 99¢ (as of 09/14/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Each member of the class of 1980 has received the letter. Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, who is on the organizing committee for Crozet High's twentieth reunion, decides to take it as a compliment. Others think it's a joke.

But Mrs. Murphy senses trouble. And the sly tiger cat is soon proven right … when the class womanizer turns up dead with a bullet between his eyes. Then another note followed by another murder makes it clear that someone has waited twenty years to take revenge.

While Harry tries to piece together the puzzle, it's up to Mrs. Murphy and her animal pals to sniff out the truth. And there isn't much time. Mrs. Murphy is the first to realize that Harry has been chosen Most Likely to Die, and if she doesn't hurry, Crozet High's twentieth reunion could be Harry's last.

— Pawing Through the Past by Rita Mae Brown

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Straight Up by James Lear, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2015 …

Straight Up by James Lear, A Dan Stagg Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Cleis Press

  

Who is trying to kill the members of an elite special ops team that worked off the radar in Iraq in the '90s? It's up to Dan Stagg to track down the survivors — the men with whom he stormed an undefended surveillance station, killing everyone inside. And now, many years later, the team is being targeted in what seems like a series of unrelated attacks.

Dan teams up with his old comrade Al Benson, once a rising star of the USMC, now a respectable married civilian with a few secrets to hide. As they dig deeper into the secrets of the past, Dan discovers that Benson's looking for more than just answers. An explosive affair threatens everyone's future, and connects Dan to a past he thought he'd left behind.

— Straight Up by James Lear

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Crash and Burn, A Moreno & Hart Mystery by Allison Brennan and Laura Griffin, Now Available at a Special Price

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Crash and Burn by Allison Brennan and Laura Griffin

A Moreno & Hart Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Socal Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/14/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Three years ago LAPD Detective Scarlet Moreno and rookie cop Krista Hart were nearly killed during a botched sting operation. Now, they're best friends and partners in the Orange County private investigation firm of Moreno & Hart. But their routine assignments are anything but safe …

Scarlet Moreno has her hands full with a cheating spouse case when the bartender at her favorite pub becomes a murder suspect. Worse, the detective in charge of the investigation threatens to arrest Scarlet for obstruction — even when she tries to give him valuable information. Scarlet risks her PI license and her life to find out the truth, absolve her friend, and track down a killer — with or without the help of the arrogant, mysterious Detective Alex Bishop.

Krista Hart is burned out on catching deadbeat dads and philandering husbands when a big-time criminal defense attorney hires her for a choice assignment: find the sole witness to murder the day before the trial. The case could be a boon for Moreno & Hart, but the witness is in hiding, someone is following Krista, and her own client is withholding information. The last person she wants help from is sexy investigator R.J. Flynn, but he claims he's willing to share intel — for a price. If she can solve this case, it'll elevate Moreno & Hart above being divorce voyeurs, but first she has to survive, with her life and heart intact.

— Crash and Burn by Allison Brennan and Laura Griffin

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The Scam by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, New in Bookstores during September 2015

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

The Scam by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, a Nicolas Fox and Kate O'Hare Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Bantam

    

Nicolas Fox is a charming con man and master thief on the run. Kate O'Hare is the FBI agent who is hot on his trail. At least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, Fox and O'Hare are secretly working together to bring down super-criminals the law can't touch. Criminals like brutal casino magnate Evan Trace.

Evan Trace is running a money-laundering operation through his casino in Macau. Some of his best customers are mobsters, dictators, and global terrorists. Nick and Kate will have to go deep undercover as high-stakes gamblers, wagering millions of dollars — and their lives — in an attempt to topple Trace's empire.

It's a scam that will take Fox and O'Hare from the Las Vegas strip, to the sun-soaked beaches of Oahu's North Shore, and into the dark back alleys of Macau. Their only backup — a self-absorbed actor, a Somali pirate, and Kate's father, an ex-soldier who believes a rocket launcher is the best way to solve every problem. What could possibly go wrong?

— The Scam by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

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Hiding Places by Erin Healy, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2015 …

Hiding Places by Erin Healy, A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

  

The Harrison lodge is full of hiding places where young Kate can discover all the secrets no one wants her to know …

Eleven-year-old Kate keeps her knowledge to herself — one sister's stash of marijuana, the other's petty cash pilfering, her grandfather's contraband candy bars. She protects her mother and Gran, too, screening out critical comments from the hotel suggestions box. But suddenly the stakes are raised; her grandfather's best friend is murdered the day after Kate heard the two men arguing.

At the same time, far from the quiet mountain resort, a homeless man sees a robbery gone wrong … a gang member seeks revenge for the death of his son … and a boy chooses the worst time to wield spray paint on a store window. In a strange and spiraling sequence of events, their disparate worlds collide at Harrison Lodge.

Kate offers shelter to one of them, unaware of the terrible consequences to the family she loves. But people can hide in all kinds of ways, sometimes even in plain sight … and some secrets are just waiting to be exposed.

— Hiding Places by Erin Healy

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Better Off Undead, A Jace Valchek, Bloodhound Files Mystery by D. D. Barant, Now Available at a Special Price

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Better Off Undead by D. D. Barant

A Jace Valchek, Bloodhound Files Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 09/14/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Dark magic, unknown enemies, monsters of every stripe--FBI profiler Jace Valchek has seen it all. In this bizarre parallel universe, shape-shifting werewolves and blood-thirsty vampires don't even warrant a raised eyebrow. That is, until Jace has to face what life might look like as one of them …

It starts off as just another run-of-the-mill assignment: to track down the rogue don of a mafia werewolf family before he upsets the delicate balance of the underworld. But Jace wasn't counting on being bitten … and soon she's fighting the growing wolf inside her with a startling antidote — vampirism.

Stopping a bloody gangland war won't be easy when Jace is feeling some new, and very inhuman, desires …

— Better Off Undead by D. D. Barant

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Mystic Mayhem, A Mystic Isle Mystery by Sally J. Smith and Jean Steffens, New This Week from Gemma Halliday

Gemma Halliday Publishing is a boutique publisher of light-hearted mystery, romantic suspense and romantic comedy novels, perfect for popping into your beach bag for a weekend away or cozying up beside a warm fire for a quiet night in.

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Mystic Mayhem by Sally J. Smith and Jean Steffens

A Mystic Isle Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

Price: 99¢ (as of 09/14/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

Melanie Hamilton is not your average artist. She brings home the bacon by inking tattoos at New Orleans's Mansion at Mystic Isle, a resort in the middle of the bayou that caters to fans of the peculiar and paranormal, but her true passion comes alive when she volunteers restoring Katrina-ravaged landmarks. Between her day job, her restoration work, and selling her paintings in Jackson Square, Mel's life is more hectic than Bourbon Street on Fat Tuesday. But when a guest of the resort, a millionaire's widow, is poisoned, and Melanie's close friend is arrested for the murder, things go from hectic to downright dangerous.

Mel joins forces with the resort's delish manager, Jack Stockton, to prove her friend's innocence. Soon they find themselves dealing with séances, secret passages, the ghost of the millionaire himself, gators, swamp rats, and a sinister killer who proves that not everything is what it seems in the Louisiana bayou.

Come on along, and get your creep on.

— Mystic Mayhem by Sally J. Smith and Jean Steffens

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