New This Week: Depths of Deception, A Novel of Psychological Suspense by Diane M. Dickson

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Depths of Deception by Diane M. Dickson

A Novel of Psychological Suspense

Publisher: The Book Folks

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/10/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

Jed is a young real estate agent who is under pressure to perform. Libby is a confident but strange girl who lives on the edges of society, working as a caretaker of a valuable property called The Willows.

With apparent serendipity they meet. Not only does Jed feel attracted to his quirky young friend, it turns out she might secure him a lucrative contract, managing the sale of the building.

Allured by the promise of a great deal and praise from his superiors, Jed turns a blind eye to certain irregularities that he cannot quite explain. The question is, by the time he realises not is all as it seems, will he be in too deep to surface?

— Depths of Deception by Diane M. Dickson

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Death by the Book, A Drew Farthering Mystery by Julianna Deering, 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, Bethany House …

Death by the Book by Julianna Deering

A Drew Farthering Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Bethany House

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/10/2016 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Drew Farthering wanted nothing more than to end the summer of 1932 with the announcement of his engagement. Instead, he finds himself caught up in another mysterious case when the family solicitor is found murdered, an antique hatpin with a cryptic message, Advice to Jack, piercing his chest.

Evidence of secret meetings and a young girl's tearful confession point to the victim's double life, but what does the solicitor's murder have to do with the murder of a physician on the local golf course? Nothing, it would seem — except for another puzzling note, affixed with a similar-looking bloodied hatpin.

Soon the police make an arrest in connection with the murders, but Drew isn't at all certain they have the right suspect in custody. And why does his investigation seem to be drawing him closer and closer to home?

— Death by the Book by Julianna Deering

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New This Week: Plateful of Murder, A Terrified Detective Mystery by Carole Fowkes

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Plateful of Murder by Carole Fowkes

A Terrified Detective Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Ink Lion Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/10/2016 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Claire DeNardo is scared of a lot of things. Ordinary objects like roller coasters and men's hairpieces make her knees knock loud enough to be a band's rhythm section. Unfortunately, the only job Claire can find is working for her Uncle Gino in his seedy detective agency. Until now, her cases have all be middle-aged men with trophy wives who needed watching. But when Gino retires and leaves her in charge, Claire gets swept up in a murder case despite her fears.

Both the client who hired her and the handsome police detective want her off the case. When the wrong person is charged, it's up to the terrified detective to summon all the courage she can to find the true killer.

— Plateful of Murder by Carole Fowkes

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Killer Run, A Tourist Trap Mystery by Lynn Cahoon, Now Available at a Special Price

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Killer Run by Lynn Cahoon

A Tourist Trap Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Lyrical Underground

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/10/2016 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Jill Gardner — owner of Coffee, Books, and More — has somehow been talked into sponsoring a 5k race along the beautiful California coast. The race is a fundraiser for the local preservation society — but not everyone is feeling so charitable …

The day of the race, everyone hits the ground running … until a local business owner stumbles over a very stationary body. The deceased is the vicious wife of the husband-and-wife team hired to promote the event — and the husband turns to Jill for help in clearing his name. But did he do it? Jill will have to be very careful, because this killer is ready to put her out of the running … forever!

— Killer Run by Lynn Cahoon

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New This Week: Don't Speak, A Jade Harrington Novel by J. L. Brown

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Don't Speak by J. L. Brown

A Jade Harrington Novel (1st in series)

Publisher: JAB Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/10/2016 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

The nursery rhyme was wrong. Words can hurt you …

Ambitious, twenty-something FBI Special Agent Jade Harrington cuts her vacation short to investigate the murder of a conservative radio personality only to discover that he may be the victim of a serial killer. Whitney Fairchild, the elegant and charismatic Democratic senator from Missouri, campaigns in a cutthroat race for president of the United States. Cole Brennan, the most popular conservative talk-show host in the nation, battles nightly to save his country and help the incumbent Republican president maintain his 'inner conservative' to win re-election.

The lives of Jade, Whitney, Cole, and the killer — who has an agenda of his own — are on a collision course. That course will not just impact them each in ways they could never have foreseen, but also the future of the United States of America.

— Don't Speak by J. L. Brown

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Superior Dilemma, A Lake Superior Mystery by Matthew Williams, Now Available at a Special Price

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Superior Dilemma by Matthew Williams

A Lake Superior Mystery

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/10/2016 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Earl Parsons is a champion musher with a notorious past; he left Apostle Bay as a pariah, and his return for a sled dog race opens both old and new wounds in the community. Ex FBI agent Steve Olsen is obsessed by the one case he couldn't close, spending his retirement stalking the prime suspect and seeking redemption.

Gina Holt's daughter disappeared fourteen years ago and is presumed dead. Friends can't understand why she's bent on helping the man who was responsible a second time.

And someone is booby-trapping community trails, endangering tourists and snowmobilers. Only a vigilante group that police loathe may have the manpower to prevent the next attack.

Reporter Vince Marshall is possibly the only one who can solve all these dilemmas, yet he's more concerned about his wife's mysterious illness than solving riddles of Apostle Bay's past.

— Superior Dilemma by Matthew Williams

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Foul Play by Elisabeth Rees, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in January 2016

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Foul Play by Elisabeth Rees

Series: Navy SEAL Defenders

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

After a failed attempt on her life, nurse Deborah Lewis knows her suspicions of foul play in the pediatric unit must be true. And her timely rescue by Cole Strachan — her ex-fiancé — allows her a second chance to prove it. The former navy SEAL who broke her heart is the last man she wants to see … but exactly the one she needs. Though Cole can't give her the future he once promised, he makes a new vow to help her uncover the truth and stop the culprits. And he has to keep this promise, because more than Deborah's heart is at stake — this time it's her life.

— Foul Play by Elisabeth Rees

Downward-Facing Death, A Matt Bolster, Yoga Mystery by Neal Pollack, Now Available at a Special Price

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Downward-Facing Death by Neal Pollack

A Matt Bolster, Yoga Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/10/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Blessed with uncanny deductive skills and a blasé disregard for authority, Matt Bolster was a rising LAPD homicide detective by the age of thirty-five. He was also overworked, divorced, near-alcoholic, and miserable. Then, to impress a girl, he agreed to try yoga. And with a single savasana, everything changed.

Now Bolster has traded his badge and gun for a scraggly beard and the life of an itinerant yoga teacher, dabbling in P.I. work to make rent. He mostly handles missing-persons cases, credit-card fraud — nothing too messy. But that's before Ajoy Chaterjee, the billionaire founder of one of the world's leading yoga-business empires, is found murdered inside his West L.A. flagship studio. Bolster knows the LAPD doesn't have a prayer of cracking the secrets of the yoga world. But he does, and he really needs the dough.

Of course, sticking to the principles of the yamas and niyamas during a murder investigation isn't easy, especially with so many hot women among the suspects. But personal ethics will be the least of Bolster's problems if the killer finds him first.

— Downward-Facing Death by Neal Pollack

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The Girls She Left Behind by Sarah Graves, New in Bookstores during January 2016

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during January 2016 is …

The Girls She Left Behind by Sarah Graves, a Lizzie Snow Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Bantam

 

For Lizzie Snow, the ice and snow of her first punishing North Woods winter are dreadful enough. But near the small town of Bearkill a stubborn forest fire now rages out of control, and as embers swirl dangerously in the smoke-filled air, a teenage girl with a history of running away has dropped out of sight again. The locals and the law both think Tara Wylie is up to her old tricks — until her mother receives a terrifying text message.

Equally disturbing: Henry Gemerle — a kidnapper and rapist who once held three girls prisoner for fifteen years — has escaped, and may be lurking in Bearkill. As the fire closes in, Lizzie teams up with her boss, Sheriff Cody Chevrier, and state cop Dylan Hudson to search for the missing girl and the wily fugitive. But they're blocked by Tara's mother, a frustrating teller of needless lies and keeper of dark, incomprehensible secrets.

Following a trail of grisly clues — a bloodstained motel room, a makeshift coffin in a shallow grave — Lizzie is drawn ever closer to the flames in her race to save an innocent and corner a monster. Someone else also wants to find Tara Wylie and Henry Gemerle, though, for reasons that have nothing to do with mercy or justice. And when they all meet, the inferno threatening Bearkill will pale in comparison to the hell that's about to break loose.

— The Girls She Left Behind by Sarah Graves

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Hunter Moon by Jenna Kernan, New from Harlequin Intrigue in January 2016

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Hunter Moon by Jenna Kernan

Series: Apache Protectors

Imprint: Intrigue

  

Clay Cosen wants nothing more than to put his dark past behind him, but his work impounding free-roaming cattle is creating new enemies. Rancher Isabel Nosie has her own reasons to mistrust him. She loved him once, and she's never forgiven him for her fiancé's death — a death she thinks Clay could have prevented. When someone starts killing her cattle, though, she has no choice but to turn to the best tracker on the reservation.

Soon, Izzie herself is in danger, and Clay's attempts to protect her and clear her name make him a target — and a suspect. Clay risks losing everything: the respect of his family and his tribe, and the woman he's never stopped loving.

— Hunter Moon by Jenna Kernan

Shoes to Die For, A Jaine Austen Mystery by Laura Levine, Now Available at a Special Price

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Shoes to Die For by Laura Levine

A Jaine Austen Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/10/2016 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

If clothes make the man, then what do Jaine Austen's elastic-waist pants and T-shirts make her? A fashion nightmare, according to her neighbor, Lance. She doesn't expect Lance — who works in the designer shoe department at Nieman Marcus — to understand … which is how she ends up visiting his favorite boutique, Passions. While the couture is definitely not for Jaine, the staff's gossip is. Tiny orange-haired clerk Becky starts complaining about her co-worker Giselle — a.k.a. "Frenchie" — a brittle blonde who, when she's not making fun of customers behind their backs, adds extra-marital notches to her Chanel belt. Though Jaine doesn't land a new look, she does land a new job when Passions' owner gives her a chance to write their new magazine ads.

But when Jaine arrives the next morning to pitch her ideas, she finds Frenchie pitched over, stabbed in the neck by one of her own stilettos. Now all Jaine has to do is figure out who hated Frenchie the most, in a case of death by designer knock-off …

— Shoes to Die For by Laura Levine

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New This Week: Death By Trombone, A Pismawallops PTA Mystery by Rebecca M. Douglass

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Death By Trombone by Rebecca M. Douglass

A Pismawallops PTA Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Rebecca M. Douglass

Price: $4.49 (as of 01/10/2016 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

JJ MacGregor's very bad day has just gotten a lot worse …

JJ thought starting the day without coffee was a disaster, but now there's a dead musician behind the Pismawallops High School gym. His trombone is missing, and something about the scene is off key. JJ and Police Chief Ron Karlson are determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, but will they be able to work harmoniously or will discord ruin the investigation?

With the music teacher as the prime suspect, JJ could be left to conduct the band, and then Graduation might truly end in a death by trombone, or at least the murder of Pomp and Circumstance!

— Death By Trombone by Rebecca M. Douglass

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for January 11, 2016

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:

D E G N O P R U W

The 15th Daisy Dalrymple mystery by Carola Dunn involves this kind of plot in its title (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, January 10, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 7:30 AM ET …

Brother by Ania Ahlborn

A Novel of Terror

Publisher: Gallery Books

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it's served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don't knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing as to what's buried in the Morrows' backyard.

But nineteen-year-old Michael Morrow isn't like the rest of his family. He doesn't take pleasure in the screams that echo through the trees. Michael pines for normalcy, and he's sure that someday he'll see the world beyond West Virginia. When he meets Alice, a pretty girl working at a record shop in the small nearby town of Dahlia, he's immediately smitten. For a moment, he nearly forgets about the monster he's become. But his brother, Rebel, is all too eager to remind Michael of his place …

— Brother by Ania Ahlborn

Syndrome E by Franck Thilliez

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Blackstone Audio

Audible Daily Deal Price: $4.95

Lucie Henebelle, single mother and beleaguered detective, has just about enough on her plate when she receives a panicked phone call from an ex-lover who has developed a rare disorder after watching an obscure film from the 1950s. With help from the brooding Inspector Franck Sharko, who is exploring the movie's connection to five unearthed corpses at a construction site, Lucie begins to strip away the layers of what may be the most disturbing film ever made.

With more lives on the line, Sharko and Lucie struggle to solve this terrifying mystery before it's too late.

— Syndrome E by Franck Thilliez

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Sunday, January 10, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 7:00 AM ET …

A Charming Wish by Tonya Kappes

A Magical Cures Mystery

Publisher: Tonya Kappes

Price: FREE!

  

On the Edge of Dangerous Things by S. Snyder-Carroll

The Dangerous Things Trilogy

Publisher: S. Snyder-Carroll

Price: FREE!

  

Hand of Fate by James Kipling

The Kismet Trilogy

Publisher: James Kipling

Price: FREE!

  

Two Jakes by Lawrence De Maria

Two Complete Jake Scarne Thrillers

Publisher: St. Austin's Press

Price: FREE!

  

Forever April by Mac Fletcher

The King's Way Series

Publisher: Mac Fletcher

Price: FREE!

  

Mind Games by T. J. Moore

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: T. J. Moore

Price: FREE!

  

Queen of Hearts by Greg Marion

The Black Vault Series

Publisher: Greg Marion

Price: FREE!

  

Finding 52 by Len Norman

A Short Story Collection

Publisher: Sag-a-Bay Square 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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