The Confession, A Novel of Suspense by Robert Whitlow, 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 Nelson …

The Confession by Robert Whitlow

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/27/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Assistant DA Holt Douglas has made a career of getting confessions from criminals. With a confession in hand, he knows a guilty plea is soon to follow.

In the midst of professional success, Holt is haunted by a secret — a lie he buried in the grave of his best friend. Holt's crime is hidden from all eyes — family, friends, police, and his soon-to-be fiancé. But the truth has a way of coming back to life. With obsessive prosecutorial zeal, Holt reopens a cold case involving the death of the town's wealthiest citizen. The man's death was ruled a suicide, but Holt suspects murder. Facing fierce opposition, he is determined to expose the killer. Holt slowly begins to unravel the facts. And comes face-to-face with his own guilty conscience.

With his job, his relationship with the woman he loves, and his future at risk, Holt skirts the boundary between truth and lies, confession and hypocrisy, redemption and ruin. Can he survive long enough to finally make the right choice?

— The Confession by Robert Whitlow

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New This Week: Free to Live, A Katie Freeman Mystery by Julie Mellon

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Free to Live by Julie Mellon

A Katie Freeman Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Julie Mellon

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/27/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

Special Agent Katie Freeman has a secret, one she has only shared with her partner, Michael Powell. While looking at the files of a cold case, Katie discovered a possible personal connection. Is her mother the woman who disappeared twenty-six years ago? And did she kill Katie's father?

If her mother is the missing woman, how will that affect Katie's career with the FBI? And, now that she has dragged her partner into this mess, will the calls come tumbling down on him, too? Adding to the stress is Katie's new relationship with a fellow FBI agent. She is keeping secrets from him that impedes their ability to move their relationship forward.

Can Katie resolve this situation before she loses everything she has worked for?

— Free to Live by Julie Mellon

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Chicago Blues, A Collection of Crime Stories About the Real Windy City by Libby Fischer Hellmann, editor, 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, The Red Herrings Press …

Chicago Blues by Libby Fischer Hellmann, editor

A Collection of Crime Stories About the Real Windy City

Publisher: The Red Herrings Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/27/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

This collection of dark stories from some of the best Chicago crime fiction authors captures the depths to which people sink when they have the Blues. The emptiness and pain caused by greed. The violence of revenge. And, occasionally, the bittersweet redemption that comes from a broken heart.

Whether it's the back alleys of Lower Wacker, the Blues clubs of yesteryear, or even the baseline at Wrigley Field, these stunning edgy tales of desperation, deceit, love gone bad, and revenge will haunt you like the riff of a Muddy Waters tune you can't get our of your head.

Read these stories and see why the heart of Chicago throbs to the beat of the Blues … and why the Blues are made for Chicago.

— Chicago Blues by Libby Fischer Hellmann, editor

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New This Week: Clean Exit, An Ajax Clean Thriller by J. Kent Holloway

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Clean Exit by J. Kent Holloway

An Ajax Clean Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: J. Kent Holloway

Price: $4.99 (as of 12/27/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Anton Jax — Ajax Clean, to those who know — is a professional cleaner. As in cleaner for the mob. Bloodstains on your shirt? No problem. Fingerprints and DNA evidence all over the crime scene, enough to put you away forever? For the right price, Clean will make it all go away.

But now someone wants to make Ajax Clean go away.

His instincts told him the job was too good to be true. He should have trusted them. Two dead bodies, trace evidence pointing to him everywhere, and those sirens he hears in the distance?

Yeah, coming for him.

On the run, Clean will have to take help where he can get it; from a half-crazed voodoo hitman, a retired homicide detective, and the beautiful young medical examiner Clean is desperately trying to protect. All he has to do now is survive long enough to clear his name, get some payback, and maybe, if he's lucky, make a clean exit.

— Clean Exit by J. Kent Holloway

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The Devil's Bed, A Novel of Suspense by William Kent Krueger, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Devil's Bed by William Kent Krueger

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Atria Books

Price: $2.49 (as of 12/27/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Locked in a tight battle for reelection, President Clay Dixon knows his best chance for victory is the popularity of his wife, Kate. But the disenchanted First Lady is about to desert him.

When an orchard accident seriously injures Kate's father, a retired senator and former vice president, she returns to the family farm in Minnesota to be at his side.

Assigned to protect her, Secret Service agent Bo Thorsen soon falls under Kate's spell. Bo suspects that the accident is part of a trap to lure the First Lady home, a trap set by a man named David Moses, an escaped mental patient who once loved Kate.

But although Bo and Moses don't realize it, they're caught in a larger web of deadly intrigue spun by a shadowy, seemingly insignificant bureaucratic department within the federal government itself. Racing to find answers before an assassin's bullet kills Kate, Bo comes to understand that when you lie down with the Devil, there's hell to pay.

— The Devil's Bed by William Kent Krueger

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New This Week: False Start, A Novel of Suspense by Christopher Grant

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False Start by Christopher Grant

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Christopher Grant

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/27/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

Nigel Greer is one of the sexiest men in Miami. With a lucrative career as the doorman to the hottest nightclub in South Beach, a loving marriage to a beautiful and ambitious architect, and a plucky young daughter who adores him, Nigel has what most would describe as the perfect life. Without warning, his life unravels when his daughter falls gravely ill.

Nigel's wife, Naomi, has secrets from her past that put her marriage and her daughter's life at risk. An ex-boyfriend, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Adrian Bentley, may be in a position to help the family. As Nigel's nemesis, his assistance comes with conditions. Everyone has something to lose. Tensions rise, tempers flare, and agendas clash as time runs out to save a life, a marriage, and an athlete's career.

— False Start by Christopher Grant

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The Crittendon Files Trilogy, Three Novels of Suspense by Creston Mapes, 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, David C. Cook …

The Crittendon Files Trilogy by Creston Mapes

Three Novels of Suspense

Publisher: David C. Cook

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/27/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Fear Has a Name — When a stalker targets his wife, journalist Jack Crittendon races to uncover who the stalker is and what his connection is with his wife's past. Meanwhile, Jack investigates the explosive case of a missing pastor whose apparent suicide may be much more than it seems. Could the two cases possibly be linked?

Poison Town — People are dying. Rumors are swirling. Some say chemicals from a local plant are causing the crippling cancer, yet nothing at the plant appears amiss. But when reporter Jack Crittendon's long-time mechanic falls ill and he investigates, Jack becomes engulfed in a smokescreen of lies, setups, greed, and scandal. The deeper Jack digs, the more toxic the corruption he uncovers — endangering himself and those he loves.

Sky Zone — When former reporter Jack Crittendon reports for work at a rally for a controversial presidential candidate at Festival Arena, he expects a mindless night on the job. But when Homeland Security picks up intel about a terrorist threat, Jack and his survivalist pal Shakespeare are thrust into a life-or-death battle to save their own lives — and the lives of thousands of innocent people.

— The Crittendon Files Trilogy by Creston Mapes

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Deadly Christmas Secrets by Shirlee McCoy, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in December 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. For a complete list of titles published this month, see our New Harlequin Titles page.

Deadly Christmas Secrets by Shirlee McCoy

Series: Mission: Rescue

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

When new evidence surfaces that Harper Shelby's niece is possibly alive, Harper doesn't expect it to endanger her life. For her protection, she has to put her much-guarded trust in Logan Fitzgerald, the man who unknowingly led a killer to her doorstep. Hired to track Harper down, security and rescue expert Logan doesn't like that he's been used to find a woman who someone apparently wants dead. Now he won't leave Harper's side until he can guarantee her safety and untangle the truth from the lies regarding her sister's and niece's murders. The closer they get to finding answers, the more intent the killer becomes on making sure that there won't be a family reunion — or happily-ever-after — for Harper this Christmas.

— Deadly Christmas Secrets by Shirlee McCoy

Disclaimer, A Novel of Psychological Suspense by Renée Knight, Now Available at a Special Price

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy.

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

Disclaimer by Renée Knight

A Novel of Psychological Suspense

Publisher: Harper

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/27/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Finding a mysterious novel at her bedside plunges documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft into a living nightmare. Though ostensibly fiction, The Perfect Stranger recreates in vivid, unmistakable detail the terrible day she became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other person knew — and that person is dead.

Now that the past is catching up with her, Catherine's world is falling apart. Her only hope is to confront what really happened on that awful day … even if the shocking truth might destroy her.

— Disclaimer by Renée Knight

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Forty Thieves by Thomas Perry, New in Bookstores during December 2015

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

Forty Thieves by Thomas Perry, A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Mysterious Press

 

Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both retirees of the LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a handgun, the two couples have little in common — until they are both hired to do damage control on the same murder case.

The previous spring, after days of torrential rain, a body was recovered from one of the city's overwhelmed storm sewers. The victim was identified as James Ballantine, a middle-aged African-American who worked as a research scientist for a prestigious company and was well liked by his colleagues. But two bullets to the back of the head looked like nothing if not foul play. Now, with the case turning cold, Ballantine's former employers bring in the Abels to succeed where the police have failed, while the Hoyts' mysterious contractors want to make sure that the facts about Ballantine's death stay hidden. As the book races toward a high-octane climax, the Abels must fend for their own lives as they circle ever closer to the truth.

— Forty Thieves by Thomas Perry

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

Kansas City Confessions by Julie Miller, New from Harlequin Intrigue in December 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. For a complete list of titles published this month, see our New Harlequin Titles page.

Kansas City Confessions by Julie Miller

Series: The Precinct: Cold Case

Imprint: Intrigue

  

Keeping secrets close … and an enemy closer …

His protection instincts on high alert, KCPD detective Trent Dixon knew something was wrong with Katie Rinaldi. The special investigator had obviously uncovered a dangerous piece of evidence while looking into a cold case. So dangerous, in fact, that the single mother's life was now in jeopardy. But as much as Trent told himself he was keeping tabs on Katie and her young son as part of his job, he couldn't ignore the very real feelings he had for her. Still, as a professional, he was bound to the badge and would give Katie all the security she deserved. And not give in to the attraction he was having trouble containing …

— Kansas City Confessions by Julie Miller

The Ian Rutledge Starter E-Book Bundle, Four Mysteries by Charles Todd, Now Available at a Special Price

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy.

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

The Ian Rutledge Starter E-Book Bundle by Charles Todd

Four Mysteries

Publisher: Avon

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/27/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Set in England in 1919, each story features war-damaged Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge in mysteries brilliantly evoking post-World War I Great Britain and introduces readers to one of crime fiction's most compelling protagonists.

A Test of Wills — It is 1919, and the War to End All Wars has been won. But for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, recently returned from the battlefields of France, there is no peace. Suffering from shell shock, Rutledge plunges into his work to save his sanity. But his first assignment is a case certain to spell both personal and professional disaster.

A Long Shadow — A story that immerses readers in the sights and sounds of post-war Great Britain, as the damaged policeman pursues answers to a constable's slaying and the three-year-old mystery of a young girl's disappearance in a tiny Northamptonshire village.

A False Mirror — A love triangle turned deadly sends Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge to a small town simmering with secrets.

A Pale Horse — A body found in the ruins of an ancient abbey sends Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge off to find a killer.

— The Ian Rutledge Starter E-Book Bundle by Charles Todd

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New This Week: Can't Dance Forever, A Wolf Mallory Mystery by Jon Dalton

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Can't Dance Forever by Jon Dalton

A Wolf Mallory Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Jon Dalton

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/27/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

After a string of brutally gruesome murders shocks the normally sedate Porto Cielo area, Wolf Mallory is dragged into the search for a missing teen boy who's a suspected witness to a related crime.

A boy who is also the nephew of an assistant public defender, who now refuses to talk.

But when the violence touches those closest to Wolf, it becomes personal. He must call upon his secret past in order to see justice done. Can he find the mysterious Mr. Cold and bring an end to the killing spree before it's too late for the people he loves?

— Can't Dance Forever by Jon Dalton

See also the highly reviewed first mystery in this series, Dancing on a Tightrope, for $2.99 on Kindle.

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for December 28, 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 D E H I K N R T

This Jake and Laura mystery by Michael Murphy has wings here (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 Free MystereBooks for Sunday, December 27, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Sunday, December 27, 2015 at 7:00 AM ET …

Splitsville.com by Tonya Kappes

An Olivia Davis Paranormal Mystery

Publisher: Tonya Kappes

Price: FREE!

  

Hidden Moon Bay by Vickie McKeehan

A Pelican Pointe Novel

Publisher: Beachdevils Press

Price: FREE!

  

Near Death by Richard C. Hale

A Jake Townsend Thriller

Publisher: Three Thirty A.M. Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Tarot Card Killer by Greg Strandberg

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Greg Strandberg

Price: FREE!

  

Shop and Let Die by Kelly McClymer

A Secret Shopper Mom Mystery

Publisher: Kelly McClymer

Price: FREE!

  

Lethal Vision by Thomas Holt

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Thomas Holt

Price: FREE!

  

Meanwhile Back at the Morgue by Michael Avallone

An Ed Noon Mystery

Publisher: Story Merchant Books

Price: FREE!

  

White Cloud Retreat by Dianne Harman

A Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Dianne Harman

Price: FREE!

  

Mystery of the Missing Tooth by Mia Woolfe

A Shirley Lock Mystery for Kids

Publisher: Guardian Tree Press

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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