Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 7:30 AM ET …

Under Tower Peak by Bart Paul

A Western Thriller

Publisher: Arcade Publishing

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

After two tours as a sniper in Iraq, Tommy Smith has returned to his former life as a cowboy and wilderness guide in California's Sierra Nevada, hoping to reclaim the simplicity of his youth and heal the wounds the world can't see. When, high on a mountain pass, he and his partner find the wrecked plane of a billionaire adventurer who disappeared months earlier, a seemingly innocent act triggers a breathtaking cycle of violence that threatens Tommy's world.

Soon he is enmeshed in the struggle between the billionaire's trophy wife and wannabe drug lord son and their allies. Every effort to set things right draws him deeper into a bad situation and closer to needing those deadly skills that he had hoped to leave behind forever.

— Under Tower Peak by Bart Paul

The Ice Twins by S. K. Tremayne

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Nook Daily Find Price: $2.99

  

A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcroft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives.

But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken her identity — that she, in fact, is Lydia — their world comes crashing down once again.

As winter encroaches, Angus is forced to travel away from the island for work, Sarah is feeling isolated, and Kirstie (or is it Lydia?) is growing more disturbed. When a violent storm leaves Sarah and her daughter stranded, they are forced to confront what really happened on that fateful day.

— The Ice Twins by S. K. Tremayne

Stranded by Jeff Probst and Chris Tebbetts

A Middle Grade Adventure

Publisher: Blackstone Audio

Audible Daily Deal Price: 99¢

It was supposed to be a vacation — and a chance to get to know each other better. But when a massive storm sets in without warning, four kids are shipwrecked alone on a rocky jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific. No adults. No instructions. Nobody to rely on but themselves. Can they make it home alive?

A week ago, the biggest challenge Vanessa, Buzz, Carter, and Jane had was learning to live as a new blended family. Now the four siblings must find a way to work together if they're going to make it off the island. But first they've got to learn to survive one another.

— Stranded by Jeff Probst and Chris Tebbetts

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 7:00 AM ET …

Kidnapped by Steve Rollins

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Adventure Ink

Price: FREE!

  

The Adventures of Irene Adler by San Cassimally

The Irene Adler Trilogy

Publisher: San Cassimally

Price: FREE!

  

The Final Enemy by Alanna Knight

An Inspector Faro Mystery

Publisher: Alanna Knight

Price: FREE!

  

Aunt Bessie Believes by Diana Xarissa

An Isle of Man Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Diana Xarissa

Price: FREE!

  

Flashback by Kevin Mark Smith

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Prism Book Group

Price: FREE!

  

Rick Cantelli, P.I. by Bernard DeLeo

A Rick Cantelli, P.I. Mystery

Publisher: RJ Parker Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

His Kidnapper's Shoes by Maggie James

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Orelia Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Killer Summer! by Sara M. Barton

A Sampler of Seaside "Shorties"

Publisher: Sara M. Barton

Price: FREE!

  

Mystery of the Alligator Swamp by M. J. Cyrus

A YA Mystery Novel

Publisher: M. J. Cyrus

Price: FREE!

  

The Phony Farkleberry by Michael Scott Miller

The Twisted Oak Amateur Detectives

Publisher: Michael Scott Miller

Price: FREE!

  

For a summary of all of today's titles, plus any that may have been added since this post was created, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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Review: A Pattern of Lies by Charles Todd

A Mysterious Review of A Pattern of Lies by Charles Todd. A Bess Crawford Mystery.

Review summary: This is a fine example of the books in this terrific historical series. The characters are richly drawn, the storyline is straight-forward but intricately thought out, well-developed and nicely paced. The journey that the series character takes to determine what actually happened two years ago is a rewarding one. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

A Pattern of Lies
Charles Todd
A Bess Crawford Mystery
William Morrow (August 2015)

Publisher synopsis: An explosion and fire at the Ashton Gunpowder Mill in Kent has killed over a hundred men. It's called an appalling tragedy — until suspicion and rumor raise the specter of murder. While visiting the Ashton family, Bess Crawford finds herself caught up in a venomous show of hostility that doesn't stop with Philip Ashton's arrest. Indeed, someone is out for blood, and the household is all but under siege.

The only known witness to the tragedy is now at the Front in France. Bess is asked to find him. When she does, he refuses to tell her anything that will help the Ashtons. Realizing that he believes the tissue of lies that has nearly destroyed a family, Bess must convince him to tell her what really happened that terrible Sunday morning. But now someone else is also searching for this man.

To end the vicious persecution of the Ashtons, Bess must risk her own life to protect her reluctant witness from a clever killer intent on preventing either of them from ever reaching England.

Where the Memories Lie, A Psychological Thriller by Sibel Hodge, New This Week from Thomas & Mercer

Named for streets that flank its headquarters in Seattle, Thomas & Mercer — an imprint of Amazon Publishing — showcases first-rate fiction, from cozy mysteries to heart-stopping thrillers.

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of their new titles …

Where the Memories Lie by Sibel Hodge

A Psychological Thriller

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $4.99 (as of 09/22/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

Chilling family secrets, obsession and decades-old lies. How well do we really know the ones we love?

Twenty-five years ago Katie ran away from home and never came back. But now she's suddenly reappeared in her best friend Olivia's life — in the form of a chilling confession. Olivia's father-in-law, wracked with guilt, says he murdered her all those years ago. Tom suffers from Alzheimer's and his story is riddled with error and confusion. Except for one terrifying certainty: he knows where the body is buried.

As Olivia and the police piece together the evidence, they are left with one critical question. They have a crime, they have a confession, and now they have a body — but can any of it be trusted?

— Where the Memories Lie by Sibel Hodge

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Destined for Trouble, A Jules Cannon Mystery by Claudia Lefeve, 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, Thomas & Mercer …

Destined for Trouble by Claudia Lefeve

A Jules Cannon Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/22/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

After getting dumped by her boyfriend, FBI crime analyst Jules Cannon flees to her hometown of Trouble Island, Texas, to nurse her wounds. All she wants to do is unwind, forget about her failed relationship, and work on her tan.

But when the owner of the local crab shack is murdered at Jules's welcome-home party, she is forced to scrap her rest-and-relaxation plans. Now her best friend, Abby Lee, is the prime suspect, and her high school sweetheart, Deputy Chief Justin Harper, is working the case. Even though Jules knows she shouldn't, she just can't keep herself from getting involved in the investigation — and entangled with handsome Assistant District Attorney Hartley Crawford. While an old flame threatens to rekindle and a new one sparks, Jules must find a killer and prove her friend's innocence. But will she put two and two together before trouble catches up with her?

— Destined for Trouble by Claudia Lefeve

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Choker, A Michael Angel Mystery by Roger Silverwood, 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 …

Choker by Roger Silverwood

A Michael Angel Mystery

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 09/22/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Detective Inspector Michael Angel is faced with the gruesome murder of Yvette Millhouse in the South Yorkshire town of Bromersley. The beautiful wife of Sir Charles Millhouse, the local MP, is found naked and choked to death in a reservoir. Her clothes and an antique pearl collar she usually wore are missing, as is a hearthrug which has strangely disappeared from their family home. The MP is apprehensive when questioned about the disappearance of his young French wife … and when the body is found his gruff son becomes equally defensive. There are now few staff in Sir Millhouse's mansion, a shadow of the estate it once was since his first wife also died. An eerie atmosphere pervades the sprawling, largely empty home and its vast surveillance system. Angel knows there are secrets to be uncovered and digs deeper to unveil the truth.

Meanwhile, another body is discovered and the modus operandi repeated. A strange and unidentified foreign visitor shows up unexpectedly. Can Angel persuade them to talk? The death toll threatens to rise and the Bromersley residents are in danger.

With little forensic evidence and no obvious motive or suspect can Michael Angel's guile be enough to reveal the identity of the choker?

— Choker by Roger Silverwood

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A Cruise to Die For, An Alix London Mystery by Charlotte and Aaron Elkins, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Cruise to Die For by Charlotte and Aaron Elkins

An Alix London Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/22/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

This should be the cushiest job Alix London's ever had …

Surrounded by art and wealth and the sun-drenched Greek isles, she's aboard a sumptuous mega-yacht with no responsibilities save the occasional lecture to the guests of her temporary employer, Panos Papadakis, one of the world's richest men. But there's a catch: Papadakis has long been suspected of being at the center of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme and Alix is actually there as an undercover operative of FBI special agent Ted Ellesworth, a member of the Bureau's Art Crime Team. They hope Alix can gather the inside information they need to finally put the cagey Papadakis away.

Alix's exposure to the enormous wealth of high-end collectors and the shadier aspects of the art trade — the avarice, naked greed, and ingenious scams — somehow brings her closer to her charming, "reformed" rogue of a father, and helps crystalize in her own mind just where she fits into the mix.

Moguls, murders, a forged Manet, and the Albanian mafia all play a role and send this pleasure cruise into brutally dangerous waters.

— A Cruise to Die For by Charlotte and Aaron Elkins

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New This Week: Cook's Big Day, An Angie Amalfi Mystery by Joanne Pence

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 September 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

Cook's Big Day by Joanne Pence

An Angie Amalfi Mystery (16th in series)

Publisher: Quail Hill Publishing

Price: $4.99 (as of 09/22/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

Angie Amalfi's wedding — her Big Day — is on the verge of becoming her Big Mess. She had planned every detail of the day with the utmost care, wanting everything to be perfect. But now people across the city are literally dying to put the wedding on hold. A crazed killer here, a bumped off bride there. In her mind, nothing less than a criminal conspiracy must be at work to keep her wedding from being where and when she wants it.

Angie's fiancé, San Francisco Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith, the entire SFPD Homicide Squad, her friends and family all jump into the fray to help save her wedding plans. But as dangers and catastrophes grow faster than yeast-overloaded bread dough, Angie can't help but wonder if her Big Day will turn into her Biggest Disaster ever.

— Cook's Big Day by Joanne Pence

See more titles in the Angie Amalfi Mystery Series including two Christmas novellas.

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Chump Change, A Leo Waterman Mystery by G. M. Ford, Now Available at a Special Price

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Chump Change by G. M. Ford

A Leo Waterman Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/22/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Sometimes it's the things you don't do that come back to haunt you, just as surely as some questions are best left unanswered …

When "Leo" is the last word a stranger speaks, the Seattle private eye launches himself into a search for answers. Not only does the dead man have a connection to Leo's past, but he was also worth millions — and some very dangerous people know it.

Before long, Leo is caught between warring factions in a high-stakes game of mayhem and murder, and his search for answers becomes a quest for justice. Turns out, finding the truth is far more painful than Leo ever imagined, and the price for uncovering it just might be his life.

— Chump Change by G. M. Ford

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The Silent Dead by Claire Mcgowan, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2015 …

The Silent Dead by Claire Mcgowan, A Paula Maguire Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Headline

  

Victim: Male. Mid-thirties. 5'7".
Cause of death: Hanging. Initial impression — murder.
ID: Mickey Doyle. Suspected terrorist and member of the Mayday Five.

The officers at the crime scene know exactly who the victim is.

Doyle was one of five suspected bombers who caused the deaths of sixteen people.

The remaining four are also missing and when a second body is found, decapitated, it's clear they are being killed by the same methods their victims suffered.

Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire is assigned the case but she is up against the clock — both personally and professionally.

With moral boundaries blurred between victim and perpetrator, will be Paula be able to find those responsible? After all, even killers deserve justice, don't they?

— The Silent Dead by Claire Mcgowan

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for September 2015. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of September 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

The Merlot Murders, A Lucie Montgomery, Wine Country Mystery by Ellen Crosby, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Merlot Murders by Ellen Crosby

A Lucie Montgomery, Wine Country Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Scribner

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/22/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

A phone call at two thirty in the morning is never good news. Lucie Montgomery's semiestranged brother, Eli, calls her in France to tell her their father, Leland, has been killed in a hunting accident on the family's five-hundred-acre Virginia vineyard just as the fall harvest is about to begin. By the time he calls, Eli has already made funeral arrangements with what Lucie argues is indecent haste.

It is an emotional trip home — the first since an automobile accident two years ago, which left Lucie disabled and dependent on a cane. Her family's once elegant home and winery are now shabby and run-down, thanks to her father's penchant for fringy business deals. Eli, also cash-strapped and desperate to support his new wife's extravagant lifestyle, has already convinced their rebellious younger sister, Mia, to sell the debt-ridden estate and reap the profits from the valuable land it sits on, overruling Lucie's protests.

On the eve of the funeral Lucie's godfather, Fitz, a partner in the family business, tells her Leland's death was no accident. Whoever killed him was motivated by the potential sale of the vineyard. It is the last conversation she will have with Fitz. Now the lone holdout preventing the vineyard sale, Lucie realizes she's next in line for another "accident." With her greedy brother, hell-raising sister, and a seemingly cut-rate vintner hired by Leland just before he died, all the suspects are disturbingly close to home. Unsure whom she can trust, Lucie must uncover the truth about the deaths of her father and godfather — and oversee a successful harvest to save the vineyard she loves.

— The Merlot Murders by Ellen Crosby

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Those We Left Behind by Stuart Neville, New in Bookstores during September 2015

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

Those We Left Behind by Stuart Neville, a Serena Flanagan Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Soho Crime

    

Ciaran Devine, who made Belfast headlines seven years ago as the "schoolboy killer," is about to walk free. At the age of twelve, he confessed to the brutal murder of his foster father; his testimony mitigated the sentence of his older brother, Thomas, who was also found at the crime scene, covered in blood. But DCI Serena Flanagan, the only officer who could convince a young, frightened Ciaran to speak, has silently harbored doubts about his confession all this time.

Ciaran's release means several things: a long-anticipated reunion with Thomas, who still wields a dangerous influence over his younger brother; the call-to-action of a man bent on revenge for his father's death; and major trouble for Ciaran's assigned probation officer. Meanwhile, Serena Flanagan has just returned to the force from her battle with breast cancer, only to endure the pitying looks of her coworkers and a mountain of open case files. She will soon discover that even closed cases can unleash terror on the streets of Belfast.

— Those We Left Behind by Stuart Neville

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