Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Slow Burn, A Crime Novel by Terrence McCauley, 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, Polis Books …

Slow Burn by Terrence McCauley

Slow Burn by Terrence McCauley

A Crime Novel

Publisher: Polis Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 02/16/2016 at 1:00 PM ET).

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New York City — August 1932. Caught between the Great Depression and a massive heatwave, New York is a city on the edge. Businesses close up shop, breadlines grow longer and riots are almost a daily occurrence. But when corrupt NYPD Detective Charlie Doherty is assigned to investigate a dead body in a flophouse, he knows there's more here than meets the eye.

He quickly discovers that the girl's death is tied to one of the most powerful families in New York, and a kidnapping case that could tear the city apart. In a chase that takes Doherty from the mansions of Fifth Avenue, to the slums of the Lower East Side, all the way to City Hall itself, Doherty is in a race against time to find the people responsible for putting his city on a slow burn.

Slow Burn by Terrence McCauley

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New This Week: Digging Up the Dead, A Tosca Trevant Mystery by Jill Amadio

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Digging Up the Dead by Jill Amadio

Digging Up the Dead by Jill Amadio

A Tosca Trevant Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Mainly Murder Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 02/16/2016 at 12:30 PM ET).

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Murders, a mysterious gemstone, and lost manuscripts offer banished Brit journalist Tosca Trevant a chance to earn her way back to her beloved Cornwall and her job in London. The strange happenings at her California island home include a woman dropping dead practically at Tosca's feet, a famous author's works showing up under suspicious circumstances, and a creepy collector of rare musical instruments.

Helped by retired Secret Service Agent Thatch MacAuley and a few well-placed Cornish cuss words, Tosca digs deep to track down the killer.

Digging Up the Dead by Jill Amadio

See also the highly reviewed first mystery in this series, Digging Too Deep, for $2.99 on Kindle.

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Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Tuesday, February 16, 2016

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Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke

Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke

A Holland Family Novel

Publisher: Pocket Books

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

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Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer, former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland, is convinced of Lucas's innocence — but proving it means unearthing the truth from the seething mass of deceit and corruption that spreads like wildfire in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else's business.

Billy Bob's relationship with Lucas's family is not an easy one. Years back he was a close friend of Mrs. Smothers — too close, according to her husband. But when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighboring cell in the local lock-up, he himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death, and Billy Bob incurs enemies far more dangerous than any he faced as a Ranger.

Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke

Kill the Dead by Richard Kadrey

Kill the Dead by Richard Kadrey

A Sandman Slim Thriller (2nd in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

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Life's a bitch, then you die … if you're lucky

James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, crawled out of Hell, took bloody revenge for his girlfriend's murder, and saved the world along the way. After that, what do you do for an encore?

You take a lousy job tracking down monsters for money. It's a depressing gig, but it pays for your beer and cigarettes. In L.A., though, things can always get worse.

Like when Lucifer comes to town to supervise his movie biography and drafts Stark as his bodyguard. Sandman Slim has to swim with the human and inhuman sharks of L.A.'s underground power elite. That's before the murders start. And before he runs into the Czech porn star who isn't quite what she seems. Even before all those murdered people start coming back from the dead and join a zombie army that will change our world and Stark's forever.

Death bites. Life is worse. All things considered, Hell's not looking so bad.

Kill the Dead by Richard Kadrey

Dangerous Affairs by Diana Miller

Dangerous Affairs by Diana Miller

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Montlake Romance

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

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When soap opera star Abby Langford leaves Los Angeles for her Minnesota hometown, she's hoping to give her nine-year-old daughter the peaceful childhood she never knew. But instead of tranquility, Abby finds an old knife hidden behind a wall of her new house. Then the nightmares start: a blood-soaked victim and a killer's arm slicing through the air, again and again.

Abby wonders if she's having the nervous breakdown the tabloids claim she already had, especially when sexy, skeptical police chief Josh Kincaid questions her story. When menacing hate mail arrives, Josh's professional concern for Abby soon evolves into an intense attraction, and the feeling is mutual. But as Abby's visions grow more graphic and gripping, so does her fear.

Somewhere in the shadows of Abby's memory lies the key to a very present danger. But she'll have to stay alive long enough to find it …

Dangerous Affairs by Diana Miller

Final Scream by Lisa Jackson

Final Scream by Lisa Jackson

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Zebra

Kobo Daily Deal Price: $1.99 (price-matched by Amazon)

Final Scream by Lisa Jackson, Amazon Kindle formatFinal Scream by Lisa Jackson, Kobo format

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As white-hot flames sear the dark night, a killer waits in the trees, watching the mill burn, listening for the screams — the only proof that justice has finally begun for the sins of long-ago.

For journalist Cassidy Buchanan, this inferno is a living nightmare: a reminder of the horrible, mysterious fire that destroyed her wealthy family seventeen years ago — and of Brig McKenzie, the handsome hellraiser accused of setting the blaze. That tragic crime has never been solved, and already the whispers have begun in Prosperity, Oregon: Another fire, more deaths, and one common denominator — Cassidy herself.

Cassidy came home to Prosperity to put the past behind her, but it seems the past isn't finished with Cassidy. Someone doesn't want her to uncover the chilling truth … someone who has killed before and will kill again … a cold-blooded psychopath who is only waiting to hear her …

Final Scream by Lisa Jackson

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 7:00 AM ET …

Sign Off by Patricia McLinn

Sign Off by Patricia McLinn

A Caught Dead in Wyoming Mystery

Publisher: Craig Place Books

Price: FREE!

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Credo's Hope by Alison Naomi Holt

Credo's Hope by Alison Naomi Holt

An Alex Wolfe Mystery

Publisher: Alison Naomi Holt

Price: FREE!

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A Body on the Beach by Cindy Newsom

A Body on the Beach by Cindy Newsom

A Cozy Animal Mystery

Publisher: Cindy Newsom

Price: FREE!

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A Circumstance of Blood by Jeannette Cooperman

A Circumstance of Blood by Jeannette Cooperman

A Murder Mystery

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: FREE!

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Killed by Chance by Pat Dennis

Killed by Chance by Pat Dennis

A Betty Chance Mystery

Publisher: Penury Press

Price: FREE!

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All the Shiny Things by Robin Mahle

All the Shiny Things by Robin Mahle

A Kate Reid Mystery

Publisher: HARP House Publishing

Price: FREE!

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Circled by Anne McAneny

Circled by Anne McAneny

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Farrington Press

Price: FREE!

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Skeletal by Katherine Hayton

Skeletal by Katherine Hayton

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Katherine Hayton

Price: FREE!

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Time To Kill by Roger Ormerod

Time To Kill by Roger Ormerod

A Crime Novel

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: FREE!

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Who Killed Blanche DuBois? by Carol Bugge

Who Killed Blanche DuBois? by Carol Bugge

A Claire Rawlings Mystery

Publisher: 26 West 26th Street Press

Price: FREE!

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Capital Crimes by Various Authors

Capital Crimes by Various Authors

A Short Story Collection

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: FREE!

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Monday, February 15, 2016

Girl in a Box, A Rei Shimura Mystery by Sujata Massey, 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, HarperCollins …

Girl in a Box by Sujata Massey

Girl in a Box by Sujata Massey

A Rei Shimura Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 99¢ (as of 02/15/2016 at 9:00 PM ET).

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Chronically underemployed Japanese-American sleuth Rei Shimura has taken a freelance gig with a Washington, D.C., alphabet agency that just might have ties to the CIA. Her mission, should she choose to accept it, is to go undercover as a clerk in a big Tokyo department store. It's a risky assignment, but it also gives Rei a store discount that allows her to freely indulge her shopaholic tendencies.

Meanwhile, she's listening in on private conversations, crashing a conference, and fending off the unwanted advances of a couple of the store's executives who seem fascinated by her navel ring. When her cover is blown, Rei is in big trouble. Suddenly she's neck-deep in something very nasty, and it will take all her resourcefulness and unorthodox methods to survive a determined killer.

Girl in a Box by Sujata Massey

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The Bone Yard, A Body Farm Mystery by Jefferson Bass, 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, HarperCollins …

The Bone Yard by Jefferson Bass

The Bone Yard by Jefferson Bass

A Body Farm Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $1.99 (as of 02/15/2016 at 8:00 PM ET).

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The onset of summer brings steamy weather to East Tennessee and the Body Farm, Dr. Bill Brockton's human-decomposition research facility at the University of Tennessee. But even Brockton is about to get more heat than he's bargained for when a former student asks him to help prove that her sister's death was not suicide, but murder.

Brockton's quick consulting trip takes a long, harrowing detour to the Florida panhandle and the ruins of the North Florida Boys' Reformatory, a notorious juvenile detention facility that met a fiery end more than forty years ago. Guided by the discovery of a diary kept by one of the school's young "students," he finds a cluster of shallow graves, all of them containing the bones of boys who met violent deaths. As Brockton and his team close in on the truth, they find skeletons in some surprisingly prominent closets … and they learn that the ghosts of the past pose perilous consequences in the present.

The Bone Yard by Jefferson Bass

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Review: The Rise of the Red Queen by Bourne Morris

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A Mysterious Review of The Rise of the Red Queen by Bourne Morris. A Red Solaris Mystery.

Review summary: The storyline in this book is interesting and well-developed and the college setting makes for a compelling backdrop. There's something about an academic environment that seems perfectly suited for a mystery. A top-flight cozy with likeable characters and a strong plot, a solid read overall. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Rise of the Red Queen Bourne Morris

The Rise of the Red Queen
Bourne Morris
A Red Solaris Mystery
Henery Press (December 2015)

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Publisher synopsis: A beautiful student is missing. Did she leave on impulse, or was it something more sinister? When the young woman's grandfather pleads for help, journalism dean Meredith "Red" Solaris agrees to help search for the student, but doesn't know she may have to risk everything to find her.

Worse yet, without solid evidence, Red and Detective Joe Morgan have little basis for investigation. Murky university politics — and Red's own struggle to keep her job — thwart efforts to find a girl held captive by a man willing to steal what he cannot win.

Gone in a Flash, An E. J. Pugh Mystery by Susan Rogers Cooper, Now Available at a Special Price

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Gone in a Flash by Susan Rogers Cooper

Gone in a Flash by Susan Rogers Cooper

An E. J. Pugh Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Severn House

Price: $2.99 (as of 02/15/2016 at 7:00 PM ET).

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After almost ruining her marriage to husband Willis months earlier because of her habit of involving herself in murder cases, E.J. Pugh is determined to stay out of drama and pay attention only to her husband, children and writing career. How hard can it be?

But through no fault of their own, E.J. and Willis are plunged into another crisis when someone chooses Willis' truck to hide a satchel. Finding the satchel with no ID inside, their foster daughter Alicia decides to make it her new backpack. When Alicia suddenly disappears, along with the satchel, E.J. and Willis are beside themselves. Why is the satchel important and, more importantly, where is Alicia? Can they find answers before it's too late?

Gone in a Flash by Susan Rogers Cooper

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New This Week: The Verdict, A Luke Gehrig Mystery by Nancy Baldock

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The Verdict by Nancy Baldock

The Verdict by Nancy Baldock

A Luke Gehrig Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Nancy Baldock

Price: $3.99 (as of 02/15/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

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Cielo Mar is a quaint little town tucked into the coastline of Central California. It is known for its moderate climate, its majestic beauty, and its friendly people. But recently, Cielo Mar has been sullied by the appearance of some very unsavory characters.

Detective Luke Gehrig gets suspicious when he meets a lovely lady at the flea market on the bluff. She requests his assistance in unraveling a mystery that was mentioned in her recently-deceased grandfather's journal. Her grandfather happens to be a well-known judge in the area; Judge Mooney.

Luke enlists the help of his friend McG and together they follow leads that take them into the dark world of crime. Bodies begin floating into the Cielo Mar harbor with similar injuries and the M. E. is having difficulty determining the cause of death.

In the end, Luke finds a connection between a photograph, a yacht moored in the harbor, and the involvement of four other judges who disagree with the outcome of some very specific, very sordid trials, and vow to take matters into their own hands. It seems that they found a way to change the verdict.

The Verdict by Nancy Baldock

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