The Lonely Silver Rain, A Travis McGee Mystery by John D. Macdonald, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Lonely Silver Rain by John D. Macdonald

A Travis McGee Mystery (21st in series)

Publisher: Random House

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/04/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Searching for a wealthy friend's yacht, Travis McGee puts himself square in the center of the international cocaine trade, and finds himself the target of some of the most ruthless villains he's ever met. Contemplating his own mortality for the first time, Travis McGee discovers amid all the danger the astonishing surprise behind the cat-shaped pipe cleaners someone is leaving at his door.

— The Lonely Silver Rain by John D. Macdonald

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New This Week: Asking for Murder, An Advice Column Mystery by Roberta Isleib

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 October 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

Asking for Murder by Roberta Isleib

An Advice Column Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Stone Road Books

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/04/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

This is a new ebook edition of a novel first published in paperback by Berkley in 2008.

When Dr. Rebecca Butterman's friend and fellow therapist Annabelle Hart is found beaten and left for dead, Rebecca is determined to find the truth. Although she's a psychologist and an advice columnist, no one seems to want her help. Not Detective Meigs, who thinks the crime was either a relationship gone sour, or a botched robbery. And not Annabelle's sister, who makes it clear Rebecca isn't welcome in family matters.

While tending to Annabelle's patients as well as her own, and sorting out cryptic messages left in a sand tray, and pushing back on the moody detective who doesn't want an amateur sleuth trying to solve his mystery, Dr. Butterman must use all her psychological skills before the killer strikes again.

— Asking for Murder by Roberta Isleib

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Well-Offed in Vermont, A Pret' Near Perfect Mystery by Amy Patricia Meade, Now Available at a Special Price

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Well-Offed in Vermont by Amy Patricia Meade

A Pret' Near Perfect Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Midnight Ink

Price: $3.82 (as of 10/04/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

In bucolic small-town Vermont, tapestries expert Stella Thornton Buckley feels out of her element — and not just because she's fresh from Manhattan. Mere hours after moving to maple syrup country, she and her husband, Nick, find a dead man, Allen Weston, in a well on their property. The police investigation forces the couple out of their lovely vintage farmhouse and — since the motels are packed with leafpeepers — into a less than luxurious deer camp. Instead of mourning the loss of electricity and running water, Stella and Nick drive their Smart car all over the Vermont hamlet to question the quirky locals about Weston, a shrewd businessman who rubbed a lot of folks the wrong way.

Stella and Nick may never shed their flatlander reputation in this close-knit community, but can they get enough information from the taciturn townspeople to help Sheriff Mills solve the murder and sew up the investigation?

— Well-Offed in Vermont by Amy Patricia Meade

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Whistler's Lane, A Novel of Suspense by Anthea Fraser, 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 …

Whistler's Lane by Anthea Fraser

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/04/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

1974. Whistler's Lane is haunted. When a gypsy tells Sophie Woodburn her future, she doesn't believe a word of it. The woman predicts dark strangers and violent death in her path. She warns Sophie "The time wheel spins — your past is tomorrow, your future yesterday … beware of yesterday". Sophie and her boyfriend, Jake Petersen, laugh off the incident. But magical things are stirring, and dark forces are threatening to emerge from the shadows of the past …

When Sophie's aunt, Beryl Latimer, falls near her house, breaking her ankle, on the mysterious road of Whistler's Lane, Sophie goes to aid her recovery. But something is drawing her to this mystical place, something more than her aunt, a connection to the past Sophie doesn't yet understand …

When staying in the village of Pendlemere, Sophie learns of the bloody history of Whistler's Lane, how Richard Whitaker and Lizzie Earnshaw, mercurial lovers, met their untimely deaths there and started a chain of violent murders. Some say that Richard can be seen, ghost form, riding down Whistler's Lane, in dark winter nights …

Fainting dizzy spells and violent dreams torture Sophie as she tries to piece together the puzzle of the past, learning about the scandal of the murdered wife of Ben Starling, the handsome but dark and brooding farmer who lives nearby. Though he was acquitted of his wife Dinah's murder, the rest of the village believe he is guilty and continue to give him a wide berth. Sophie is drawn to Ben, but something tells her he cannot be trusted.

As her powers grow stronger, and the past threatens to overtake the present, will Sophie be able to cope with the murderous path of Whistler's Lane?

— Whistler's Lane by Anthea Fraser

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The Bone Factory, A Novel of Suspense by Nate Kenyon, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Bone Factory by Nate Kenyon

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: 47North

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/04/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

David Pierce has moved with his wife and daughter to accept a job with a recently reopened hydropower plant in Quebec. But the owners of the mysterious plant are hiding a deadly secret, and David's little girl has begun to have terrifying premonitions of blood and death.

— The Bone Factory by Nate Kenyon

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New This Week: For Reasons Unknown, A Matilda Darke Mystery by Michael Wood

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For Reasons Unknown by Michael Wood

A Matilda Darke Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Rapid Reads

Price: $4.99 (as of 10/04/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former self, she is tasked with re-opening a cold case: the terrifyingly brutal murders of Miranda and Stefan Harkness. The only witness was their eleven-year-old son, Jonathan, who was too deeply traumatized to speak a word.

Then a dead body is discovered, and the investigation leads back to Matilda's case. Suddenly the past and present converge, and it seems a killer may have come back for more …

— For Reasons Unknown by Michael Wood

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Blood & Ink, A Novel of Suspense by Randall Silvis, Now Available at a Special Price

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Blood & Ink by Randall Silvis

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Kindle Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/04/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Meet Nick, an unhappy middle-aged New York City wise guy and erstwhile film critic looking for love and a new career. To leave his old life behind, Nick makes his boss an offer that he can't refuse: the meal of a lifetime in return for quitting the business — no strings (or bullets) attached.

But Nick's foolproof plan for leaving the family business begins to unravel when his boss's wild dietary preferences prove more challenging than he'd anticipated. Throw in a dehydrated monkey, homicidal jungle foliage, a squeamish pulp-violence film director, and a love-interest leading her own confounding double-life, and Nick's easy stroll into the sunset seems more like a jog through a minefield.

— Blood & Ink by Randall Silvis

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The Rebel by Adrienne Giordano, New from Harlequin Intrigue in October 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 …

The Rebel by Adrienne Giordano

Imprint: Intrigue

  

Bad to the bone … in all the right ways …

A brilliant civil lawyer, David Hennings has always been the outsider — at odds with his wealthy family, shunning relationships, defying convention as a sexy leather-jacketed biker. Which is why sculptor Amanda LeBlanc agrees to his request to reconstruct a skull from a cold case murder. The instant heat between them is scorching.

But once Amanda takes the job and gets too close to the rebellious attorney, her carefully balanced life is upended by a series of methodical attacks. Someone doesn't want her to finish the job. Now David will risk everything not to lose the woman he unknowingly put in jeopardy.

— The Rebel by Adrienne Giordano

To the Manor Dead, A Janet's Planet Mystery by Sebastian Stuart, Now Available at a Special Price

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To the Manor Dead by Sebastian Stuart

A Janet's Planet Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Midnight Ink

Price: $3.82 (as of 10/04/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

After a messy divorce and fifteen years of listening to sob stories, former New York City psychotherapist Janet Petrocelli is burnt out. Leaving behind life as a stressed shrink, Janet has opened a used-stuff shop in the quirky Hudson River Valley town of Sawyersville.

Unfortunately, Janet is a magnet for nut jobs. In this case, it's the Livingstons, an aristocratic family gone to seed in a disturbingly seedy way. Daphne, the clan's not-so-grande dame, offers her prized heirlooms to Janet for a hasty sale, but the deal ends abruptly when she turns up dead. Soon, Janet gets pulled into a tangled web of lust, insanity, avarice, and murder. Did a greedy developer kill off the biggest obstacle to his high-rise condo development? Or was it a family affair of the vengeful — and very twisted — variety?

Despite her resolve to steer clear of the murky depths of degeneracy and deceit, Janet becomes obsessed with finding justice for the dead … if the killer doesn't find her first.

— To the Manor Dead by Sebastian Stuart

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Invasion by Jay Bonansinga, New in Bookstores during October 2015

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

Invasion by Jay Bonansinga, a The Walking Dead Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

    

Underground, in the labyrinth of ancient tunnels and mine shafts, Lilly Caul and her motley crew of senior citizens, misfits, and children struggle to build a new life. But a secret ambition still burns in Lilly's heart and soul. She wants her beloved town of Woodbury back from the plague of walkers, and now the only thing that stands in her way currently roams the wasted backwaters of Georgia …

Way out in the hinterlands, amidst the rising tide of walkers that seem to be pushing in from all directions, the psychotic Reverend Jeremiah Garlitz rebuilds his army of followers with a diabolical secret weapon. He has designs on the destruction of Lilly and her crew — the very people who vanquished his cultish church — and now, for the first time, he has the means to bring a special brand of hell down upon the tunnel dwellers.

The final confrontation between these two human factions unleashes an unthinkable weapon — forged from the monstrous hordes of undead, perfected by a madman, and soaked in the blood of innocents.

— Invasion by Jay Bonansinga

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The Marshal's Runaway Witness by Diane Burke, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in October 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 …

The Marshal's Runaway Witness by Diane Burke

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

Angelina Baroni was about to testify against her mafia kingpin father until she received a threat to her life — despite the protection of US Marshal Dylan McKnight. Deciding she's safer on her own, she leaves witness protection and goes into hiding. Three years later, the duty-dedicated marshal is the last man she expects to see when she wakes up in a hospital after someone attempts to kill her. Dylan knows he can't afford to trust Angelina. Still, he'll do whatever it takes to keep her safe from the mobsters on her trail. But Dylan has only a few days to accomplish his most difficult mission: defuse Angelina's doubts about testifying and win her heart before their time runs out.

— The Marshal's Runaway Witness by Diane Burke

Night River, A Novel of Suspense by Hugh MacMullan, Now Available at a Special Price

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Night River by Hugh MacMullan

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Kindle Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/04/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

The moon shines on a big blue-collar river while men blow things up for money, good cops toil alongside the corrupt, newspapers refuse to retract lies, human resource departments rule firms with arcane bureaucracy, and twin sisters just might be true opposites. Behold Ryan O'Brian: naively anticipating a rewarding post-Marine Corps career when civilian life pokes him in the eye and transforms him into a person of unpremeditated action.

— Night River by Hugh MacMullan

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Kill the Shill, The Shill Trilogy by John Shepphird, New This Week from Down and Out Books

Down & Out Books is noir … is the private eye … is hard-boiled.

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Kill the Shill by John Shepphird

The Shill Trilogy (2nd in series)

Publisher: Down & Out Books

Price: $4.99 (as of 10/04/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

Her role in the con game was to be the shill before the scam exploded in bloody violence. Discarded, sacrificed like a pawn, Jane's left holding the bag.

The swindlers left a murderous trail and millions of dollars are missing. The problem; Jane knows too much. She's a liability they can't afford to keep around.

But the con artists underestimated Jane. They miscalculated her tenacity and will-to-survive. Not one to be crossed, her plan is to use their own weapon, the "art of deception," against them.

Facing insurmountable odds Jane sets out to settle the score with fierce determination, and a few tricks up her sleeve.

— Kill the Shill by John Shepphird

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for October 05, 2015

A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

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This week's letters and mystery clue:

A E H M N R T U Y

She is a homicide investigator, who solves crimes with Pastor Luke Bowers in a series by James Lilliefors (9 letters).

We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!

Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Sunday, October 04, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Sunday, October 04, 2015 at 7:30 AM ET …

The first five mysteries in the Serge Storms Series by Tim Dorsey for $1.99 each is a Kindle Daily Deal. We're featuring the first in the series in this post.

Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey

A Serge Storms Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partner Coleman loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with rich dead men's money.

On the other hand, there's Sean and David, who love fishing and are kind to animals — and who are about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen insurance money. Serge wants the suitcase. Sharon wants the suitcase. Coleman wants more drugs … and the suitcase. In the meantime, there's murder by gun, Space Shuttle, Barbie doll, and Levi's 501s.

— Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey

The first five romantic thrillers in the Aegis Series by Elisabeth Naughton for $1.99 each is a Kindle Daily Deal. We're featuring the first in the series in this post.

Extreme Measures by Elisabeth Naughton

The Aegis Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Montlake Romance

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Being prepared for any scenario is the trademark of any good CIA operative, and Eve Wolfe is one of the best. But when her latest mission literally explodes in her face, she wakes up labeled a traitor and — even more surprising — in the custody of elite Aegis Security operative and ex-lover Zane Archer. Although she still secretly has feelings for Zane, he's now demanding the one thing that she can't give him: the truth.

When he caught her breaking the rules years ago, Zane let Eve walk away without an explanation. Now someone has not only sabotaged Aegis but also turned an American city into a war zone, and all signs point to Eve. Zane needs answers that can come only from Eve's still-tempting lips, and he finally has the elusive operative right where he wants her — at his mercy.

— Extreme Measures by Elisabeth Naughton

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