Glasgow, 1965. Headstrong teenager Jack Mackay cannot allow for even the possibility of a life of predictability and routine. The seventeen-year-old has just one destination on his mind — London — and successfully convinces his four friends, and fellow bandmates, to join him in abandoning their homes to pursue a goal of musical stardom.
Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life.
London, 2015. A man lies dead in a one-room flat. His killer looks on, remorseless. What started with five teenagers following a dream five decades before has been transformed over the intervening decades into a waking nightmare that might just consume them all.
New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2016 …
The White Worm by Sam Siciliano, A The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Mystery (4th in series)
Publisher: Titan Books
Sherlock Holmes and his cousin, Dr Henry Vernier, travel to Whitby, to investigate a curious case on behalf of a client. He has fallen in love, but a mysterious letter has warned him of the dangers of such a romance. The woman is said to be under a druidic curse, doomed to take the form of a gigantic snake. Locals speak of a green glow in the woods at night, and a white apparition amongst the trees.
Is there sorcery at work, or is a human hand behind the terrors of Diana's Grove?
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Reluctantly heading up the Indianapolis PD's Missing Persons Bureau, Lt. Leroy Powder investigates a series of unusual cases while training a female sergeant …
Indianapolis police lieutenant Leroy Powder's new job in Missing Persons calls for tact, sensitivity, and diplomacy: three traits no one would use to describe the lieutenant.
He also has to break in a new sergeant, Carollee Fleetwood. Taking a bullet for her partner in the line of duty made Fleetwood a hero. It also relegated her to a wheelchair. But this cop gives as good as she gets, and won't take any sass from her unconventional superior as, together, the two take on a series of very strange cases.
— Hard Line by Michael Z. Lewin
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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 February 2016 and priced $4.99 or less …
Arrogant and homophobic Tony T. Tunderew, author of a muckraking bestseller, hires Dick Hardesty to look into blackmail threats he's been receiving. When Tunderew and a male hustler die in a mysterious car crash, Dick's investigation reveals Tunderew was working on a new book exposing an evangelical husband-and-wife team and their religious-based community for troubled teens.
Is Tunderew's death "divine intervention," or something far more sinister?
— The Dirt Peddler by Dorien Grey
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We are delighted to welcome author Sean Lynch to Omnimystery News today.
February is Library Lovers Month, and we're teaming up with Sean to celebrate by featuring the first in his Farrell and Kearns series of thrillers, Wounded Prey (March 2015 trade paperback, audiobook and ebook formats); more information about the book can be found, below.
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Photo provided courtesy of Sean Lynch
Sean Lynch grew up in Iowa, holds a bachelor's degree in sociology, and served in the U.S. Army as an enlisted infantryman. He spent nearly three decades as a municipal police officer in the San Francisco Bay Area. During his career he's been a Motorcycle Officer, S.W.A.T. Officer, Sex Crimes Investigator, Firearms Instructor, and Homicide Detective.
A young girl is snatched from her rural Iowa school in broad daylight. The child is later found murdered, her body hanging from a tree.
When retired San Francisco Police Inspector Bob Farrell reads a newspaper account of the horrific crime, he realizes his worst nightmare has come true. The same remorseless predator a government agency stopped him from putting away twenty years before is once more on the loose.
Farrell enlists the aid of rookie Iowa deputy Kevin Kearns, who is tortured by his inability to prevent the kidnapping. As the murderer wreaks a trail of blood and destruction across North America, the duo sets out to track down their lethal prey.
But Farrell and Kearns aren't playing by the rules any more than the killer is, and soon the F.B.I. has them all in its sights …
It is always a pleasure to welcome back author Lauren Carr to Omnimystery News.
Lauren's 11th mystery in her popular Mac Faraday series is Cancelled Vows (Acorn Book Services; January 2016 trade paperback and ebook formats) and we asked her how she decides which characters live to see another chapter, as it were. She responded with an anecdotal story, which she titles, "So Many Murders, So Little Time".
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Photo provided courtesy of Lauren Carr
The other day, a friend called. I had barely gotten, "Hello," out before she asked me, "Do you think I kill too many people?"
Hmmm. I had to think about that one.
"I killed five people today and I'm about to kill two more," she explained. "Do you think that's too many?"
I had to ask. "Well, why did you kill them?"
She then went on to explain that the main honcho was caught by the mad scientist in the act of going back on their deal with the lovely blonde who he had abducted from the airport. Then there was the private eye who saw too much. And then there was the hooker who he poisoned as a human Guinea pig to see how their secret potent would work. It was a complete failure because the hooker spontaneously combust — causing a fire in the game room which wasn't supposed to happen.
"Now I'm about to gun down the two gunmen they hired to replace to two killed in the buffalo stampede," she said.
"Do you really have to kill those two gunmen?" I asked. "If you feel like you're killing too many people, maybe you should spare them."
"No, they have to die," she said. "But I decided to let the cab driver live."
"That's good," I said. "Who's going to kill the hit men?"
"Johnny," she said. "Right after he cleans up the mess in the study from killing Adrian. Is it just me, or am I killing too many people?"
I had to scratch my head and think. "Not when you compare these killing to those two motorcycle gangs you gunned down last year."
I heard a sigh of relief from the phone. "That's right. There were at least fifty people in that gang and I didn't let even one of them live. Thank you so much, Lauren. Gotta run. Frank's home and I have to fix dinner."
As I hung up the phone it occurred to me that my phone lines are probably being taped by the NSA if, for nothing else, entertainment value.
P.S., Two hours later, my friend emailed to tell me that during dinner she decided to allow the two gunmen to live for another three chapters.
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Lauren Carr is a popular speaker who has made appearances at schools, youth groups, and on author panels at conventions. She also passes on what she has learned in her years of writing and publishing by conducting workshops and teaching in community education classes.
The owner of Acorn Book Services, Lauren is also a publishing manager, consultant, editor, cover and layout designer, and marketing agent for independent authors. This year, several books, over a variety of genre, written by independent authors will be released through the management of Acorn Book Services, which is currently accepting submissions. Visit the Acorn Book Services website for more information.
Lauren lives with her husband, son, and three dogs on a mountain in Harpers Ferry, WV.
Police Chief David O'Callaghan and Chelsea Adams' wedding day is fast approaching. Unfortunately, at the last minute, David discovers that there is one small problem to be taken care of before he can walk down the aisle — divorce his first wife!
Lauren Carr takes fans of the Mac Faraday mysteries to the Big Apple in this nail biting adventure. In Cancelled Vows, David, Mac, and Gnarly, too, rush to New York City to dissolve David's marriage to an old girlfriend — and he's got five days to get it done. When murder throws up a road block, it is up to David's best man, Mac Faraday, and Gnarly, K9-in-waiting, to sort through the clues to get David to the church in time!
It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival-until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime.
Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree. Here monstrous creatures from folklore are real, and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds. Tan-Tan must reach into the heart of myth and become the Robber Queen herself. For only the Robber Queen's legendary powers can save her life … and set her free.
It's fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide. But the gunshot victim is less gruesome than what they find in his lap: a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women — one per year, for seven years. And when the suicide victim is identified as a former suspect in one of the murders, the news turns Elvis Cole's world upside down.
Three years earlier Lionel Byrd was brought to trial for the murder of a female prostitute named Yvonne Bennett. A taped confession coerced by the police inspired a prominent defense attorney to take Byrd's case, and Elvis Cole was hired to investigate. It was Cole's eleventh-hour discovery of an exculpatory videotape that allowed Lionel Byrd to walk free. Elvis was hailed as a hero.
But the discovery of the death album in Byrd's lap now brands Elvis as an unwitting accomplice to murder. Captured in photographs that could only have been taken by the murderer, Yvonne Bennett was the fifth of the seven victims — two more young women were murdered after Lionel Byrd walked free. So Elvis can't help but wonder — did he, Elvis Cole, cost two more young women their lives?
Shut out of the investigation by a special LAPD task force determined to close the case, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike desperately fight to uncover the truth about Lionel Byrd and his nightmare album of death — a truth hidden by lies, politics, and corruption in a world where nothing is what it seems to be.
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Now working on her sabbatical, Grace becomes a kind of technical advisor to a local theatrical production of a play called The Vampyre, a really awful play based on a snippet of story by Lord Byron.
Right on schedule mysterious accidents begin to plague the players, and it's only a matter of time before one of the cast falls victim.
— Verse of the Vampyre by Diana Killian
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