Someone Always Knows by Marcia Muller, New in Bookstores during July 2016

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

Someone Always Knows by Marcia Muller, a Sharon McCone Mystery (31st in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

 

Finally settled into their new home after losing their house in a fire, and fully established in their new shared offices, private investigator Sharon McCone and her business partner husband Hy are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague Gage Renshaw — a shady troublemaker who they had presumed dead — reappears, and it's unclear what he wants from his prosperous former associate.

Meanwhile, Sharon has a new client with a desire to rid a derelict house he's just bought in the city's notorious Western Addition neighborhood from intruders, drug users, and thugs. However, the abandoned house holds its share of secrets, and soon Sharon is contending with more than a simple eyesore as she searches for the individual who is obsessed with destroying her life …

— Someone Always Knows by Marcia Muller

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for July 2016. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of July 2016 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

A Toxic Trousseau by Juliet Blackwell, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2016 …

A Toxic Trousseau by Juliet Blackwell, A Lily Ivory, Witchcraft Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: NAL

  

Witch and vintage boutique owner Lily Ivory cracks open a Pandora's box when she investigates some alarming apparel …

Even the most skilled sorceress can't ward off a lawsuit, and Lily is not at her enchanting best with her hands full as the temporary leader of San Francisco's magical community. So after her potbellied pig Oscar head-butts rival clothier Autumn Jennings, Lily tries to make peace without a costly personal injury case.

But any hope of a quiet resolution is shattered when Autumn turns up dead. As one of the prime suspects, Lily searches for a way to clear her name and discovers a cursed trousseau among Autumn's recently acquired inventory. Lily must deal with a mysterious dogwalker and spend the night in a haunted house as she delves into the trunk's treacherous past. She's got to figure out who wanted to harm Autumn fast, before the curse claims another victim …

— A Toxic Trousseau by Juliet Blackwell

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for July 2016. For new hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries where for a list of July 2016 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

The Christie Curse, A Book Collector Mystery by Victoria Abbott, 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, Berkley …

The Christie Curse by Victoria Abbott

A Book Collector Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Berkley

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/05/2016 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared — making headlines across the world — only to show up eleven days later at a spa under an assumed name. During those eleven days, did she have time to write a play?

Jordan Kelly needs a new job and a new place to live. She's back in Harrison Falls, New York, living with her not so law-abiding uncles, in debt thanks to a credit card — stealing ex and pending grad school loans.

Enter the perfect job, a research position that includes room and board, which will allow her to spend her days hunting down rare mysteries for an avid book collector. There's just one problem: her employer, Vera Van Alst — the most hated citizen of Harrison Falls.

Jordan's first assignment is to track down a rumored Agatha Christie play. It seems easy enough, but Jordan soon finds out that her predecessor was killed while looking for it, and there is still someone out there willing to murder to keep the play out of Vera's hands. Jordan's new job is good … but is it worth her life?

— The Christie Curse by Victoria Abbott

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New This Week: Hollow Bond, A Magnolia Parish Mystery by B. J. Bourg

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Hollow Bond by B. J. Bourg

A Magnolia Parish Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: B. J. Bourg

Price: $3.99 (as of 07/05/2016 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

See also the first mystery in this series, Hollow Crib, for $3.99 on Kindle.

Getting beaten to death is bad enough — but to be left naked and dead on the side of the road? That's just cruel.

Detective Brandon Berger is called to investigate the case, but it doesn't look good. Evidence is lacking and the victim's identity is unknown. Factor in a house fire and a missing baby, and things just got a whole lot worse.

A dark secret could tie everything together, but the truth can sometimes be deadly … and Brandon could end up like his victim.

— Hollow Bond by B. J. Bourg

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A Conversation with Novelist Gordon Chaplin

We are delighted to welcome author Gordon Chaplin to Omnimystery News today.

Gordon has a new cross-genre novel out this month, Paraíso (Arcade Publishing; July 2016 trade paperback and ebook formats), and we recently had the opportunity to spend some time talking about it with him.

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Omnimystery News: Tell us a little more about the central characters of Paraíso.

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Gordon Chaplin: The two protagonists are brother and sister. The brother is two years older but they were very close as children, growing up in Philadelphia. At the time of the story, they've been estranged for years but the brother hears his sister is in trouble in Mexico and, after 9/11, decides he must go help her. The estrangement was caused by their psychopathic mother. So I've taken a dysfunctional family dynamic and moved it to an exotic location … Mexico … a violent land where death is always in the background and nothing is exactly what it seems.

OMN: How hard was it to find the right voice for these characters?

GC: One of my lead characters is female, but strangely enough I found I had no trouble writing from her point of view. It seemed to come very naturally. I had never tried this before and was frankly amazed at how well it worked out.

OMN: Into which genre would you place this book?

GC: My novel is definitely a cross over, half literary in the sense that it deals with intensely personal issues, and half thriller. I realize that successful marketing needs convenient categories and I'm sorry that mine doesn't fit completely into any one of them. But that's how it goes. For better or worse I can't write for the market. I do hope and pray that readers will buy it anyway. You don't write in a vacuum.

OMN: When starting a new project, which comes first: the storyline or the characters?

GC: For me, the storyline flows out of the characters.

OMN: Tell us a little more about your writing process.

GC: I have to let the story develop as I write. I've tried outlines and synopses, but always end up throwing them away after the story takes over. Writing to me is like building a brick wall: you have to lay the first course of bricks in order to have somewhere to put the second.

OMN: How true are you to the setting of the story?

GC: In this novel, I'm writing about a real place but a different time. My fictional town is the place I've lived in for thirty years, off and on, but the way it was when I first arrived. It was much more interesting back then.

OMN: What is the best advice you've received as an author?

GC: I think Faulkner said it best: "I only write when I'm inspired. Fortunately I'm inspired every morning at nine o'clock." In other words, there's no such thing as spontaneous inspiration, just the inflexible routine of sitting down each day in front of an empty page and staying there until it's filled.

OMN: What kinds of books did you read when you were young?

GC: My father was English and loved the old English adventure books by H. Ryder Haggard (She, etc.) He used to read me those, H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, etc.), and the ghost stories of Algernon Blackwood, which fascinated and terrified me.

OMN: Have any specific authors influenced how and what you write today?

GC: My favorite authors and books combine a love of nature with a style that speaks to me. Namely Peter Matthiessen, Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, Rick Bass, and in a different category completely, the great Robert Stone. His style and subject matter is so compelling to me it's as if he were whispering in my ear. Among younger writers, I love Karen Russell the best.

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A former journalist for Newsweek, the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Post, Gordon Chaplin has worked on sea conservation with the group Niparaja and since 2003 has been a research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York City and Hebron, New York.

For more information about the author, please visit his website at GordonChaplin.com and his author page on Goodreads, or find him on Facebook and Twitter.

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Paraíso by Gordon Chaplin

A genre-bending story about love, sibling relationships, and the dark side of paradise

Publisher: Arcade Publishing

Peter and Wendy — their mother chose the names — felt as close as twins, despite their difference in age. As teens, they fled their wealthy Philadelphia home in the family station wagon and headed for Mexico, only to be discovered sleeping in the car on the banks of the Mississippi, in Huck Finn country. Now, many years later, estranged by an apparent betrayal as profound as their family's dysfunction, the two live separate lives, Peter as an editor in New York, Wendy as an edgy sports photographer with a taste for risk. With a new book out and an invitation to Los Cabos, she drives the Mercedes inherited from their father to Baja California, finally completing the trip begun twenty years earlier.

But when the engine fails near a small town named Paraíso — Paradise — she lingers, exploring its underside in an affair with a dangerous man and, all too suddenly, becoming witness to a vicious crime. Meanwhile, in New York, Peter can't help but think of Wendy. When, from his apartment in lower Manhattan, he watches the Twin Towers fall on a beautiful September day, he knows it's time to leave his comfortable life, go find Wendy, and make peace with his long-lost sister.

— Paraíso by Gordon Chaplin

Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Tuesday, July 05, 2016 at 7:30 AM ET …

The Mentor by Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli

An Eric Shaw Mystery

Publisher: AmazonCrossing

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

As Scotland Yard chief forensics detective Eric Shaw works a case with some resemblance to a crime he investigated twenty years earlier, he is convinced it is just a coincidence. But when more deaths occur in a style similar to those killings from the past, Shaw suspects that he has a serial killer on his hands — one who is pursuing a personal, cold-blooded vendetta.

Working closely with his protégée, Detective Miriam Leroux, Shaw analyzes the crimes down to the finest detail. He finds himself increasingly drawn to the lab, where criminologist Adele Pennington, a beautiful, enigmatic woman more than two decades his junior, proves distracting. Determined to maintain his professionalism despite the attraction, Shaw struggles to keep her at arm's length. Yet Pennington's unique insight proves critical, and as the investigation develops, so does their personal connection. With a killer on the loose, Shaw must follow a winding, blood-soaked trail that will take him in an unexpected and terrifying direction.

— The Mentor by Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Mulholland Books

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.

Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future.

Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.

At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of the shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing into another time after each murder, untraceable-until one of his victims survives.

Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the ex-homicide reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on the impossible truth …

— The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark

A Rachel Knight Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Mulholland Books

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Los Angeles D.A. Rachel Knight is a tenacious, wise-cracking, and fiercely intelligent prosecutor in the city's most elite division. When her colleague, Jake, is found dead at a grisly crime scene, Rachel is shaken to the core. She must take over his toughest case: the assault of a young woman from a prominent family.

But she can't stop herself from digging deeper into Jake's death, a decision that exposes a world of power and violence and will have her risking her reputation — and her life — to find the truth.

— Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark

Inspector of the Dead by David Morrell

A Thomas and Emily De Quincey Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Mulholland Books

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters. Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible daughter, Emily, and their Scotland Yard companions, Ryan and Becker, De Quincey finds himself confronted by an adversary who threatens the heart of the nation.

This killer targets members of the upper echelons of British society, leaving with each corpse the name of someone who previously attempted to kill Queen Victoria. The evidence indicates that the ultimate victim will be Victoria herself.

— Inspector of the Dead by David Morrell

The Killing Kind by Chris Holm

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Mulholland Books

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Michael Hendricks kills people for money. That aside, he's not so bad a guy …

Once a covert operative for a false-flag unit of the US military, Hendricks was presumed dead after a mission in Afghanistan went sideways. He left behind his old life — and beloved fiancée — and set out on a path of redemption … or perhaps one of willful self-destruction.

Now Hendricks makes his living as a hitman entrepreneur of sorts — he only hits other hitmen. For ten times the price on your head, he'll make sure whoever's coming to kill you winds up in the ground instead. Not a bad way for a guy with his skill-set to make a living — but a great way to make himself a target.

— The Killing Kind by Chris Holm

The Night Charter by Sam Hawken

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Mulholland Books

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Exactly one year ago, Camaro Espinoza killed five bad men in New York City and fled town. Now she's keeping a low profile in Miami, running night charter catch-and-release fishing trips off the coast. It's a simple life for a former combat medic. But it wasn't easy to come by. Camaro plans to do everything she can to hold onto it.

— The Night Charter by Sam Hawken

Kingdom Come by Jane Jensen

An Elizabeth Harris Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Blackstone Audio

Audible Daily Deal Price: $2.95

Amish country in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has always been a place of quiet beauty — until a shocking murder shatters the peace, and leaves a troubled detective picking up the pieces …

After her husband is murdered, Detective Elizabeth Harris turns in her NYPD badge and moves back home, hoping that a quiet life in remote Pennsylvania Dutch country will help her overcome the dark memories of her ten years in New York. But when a beautiful, scantily clad "English" girl is found dead in the barn of a prominent Amish family, Elizabeth knows that she's uncovered an evil that could shake the community to its core.

Elizabeth's boss is convinced this was the work of an "English," as outsiders are called in Lancaster County. But Elizabeth isn't so sure. All she's missing is an actual lead — until another body is found: this time, a missing Amish girl. Now Elizabeth must track down a killer with deep ties to a community that always protects its own — no matter how deadly the cost …

— Kingdom Come by Jane Jensen

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Tuesday, July 05, 2016 at 7:00 AM ET …

The Boat House Secret by Debra Burroughs

A Jenessa Jones Mystery

Publisher: Lake House Books

Price: FREE!

  

Mistaken by W. G. Spencer

A Novel of Romantic Suspense

Publisher: W. G. Spencer

Price: FREE!

  

Gossip To Kill For by Gillian Larkin

A Pearl and Derek Mystery Short

Publisher: Gillian Larkin

Price: FREE!

  

Desecration by J. F. Penn

The London Psychic Series

Publisher: J. F. Penn

Price: FREE!

  

Cobalt City Burndown by Milt Raymond

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Nexus Books

Price: FREE!

  

No Man's Land by Raymond Hardie

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Endeavour 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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Whatever It Takes, A Trust No One Novel by Dixie Lee Brown, 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 Impulse …

Whatever It Takes by Dixie Lee Brown

A Trust No One Novel (4th in series)

Publisher: Avon Impulse

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/04/2016 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

Assassin Alex Morgan will do anything to save an innocent life — especially if it means rescuing a child from a hell like the one she endured.

But going undercover as husband and wife, with none other than the disarmingly sexy Detective Nate Sanders, may be a little more togetherness than she can handle. She's used to working alone, and no man is going to change that — not even a man who makes her heart pound and her defenses crumble with just a touch.

Nate has dodged more than a few bullets over the years, but fighting his attraction for Alex may be the bullet that does him in. Still, Nate's determined to help her find the missing kid. There's no doubt in his mind that they're walking straight into danger, but Nate's willing to face anything if it means protecting Alex. She might have been on her own once, but Nate has one more mission: to stay by her side — forever.

— Whatever It Takes by Dixie Lee Brown

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Left Turn at Paradise, A Rare Book Mystery by Thomas Shawver, 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, Alibi …

Left Turn at Paradise by Thomas Shawver

A Rare Book Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Alibi

Price: 99¢ (as of 07/04/2016 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Michael Bevan is barely scraping by with his used bookstore and rare book collection when he discovers a timeworn journal that may change everything. Dating back to 1768, the tattered diary appears to be a chronicle kept during the first of legendary seafarer Captain James Cook's three epic voyages through the Pacific islands. If it's as valuable as Mike thinks it is, its sale may just bring enough to keep his faltering used bookstore afloat for another year.

Then he meets a pair of London dealers with startling news: Adrian Hart and Penelope Wilkes claim to possess the journal of Cook's second voyage. Is it possible a third diary exists? One which might detail Cook's explosive final voyage — and his death at the hands of native Hawaiians? Together, all three would be the holy grail of Pacific exploration. But before Mike can act, the two journals are stolen.

Chasing them down will sweep Michael, Adrian, and Penelope across the globe — past a dead body or two — and into a very sinister slice of paradise. High in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, in a remote and secretive Maori compound, a secret rests in the hands in of a man daring enough to rewrite history … and desperate enough to kill.

— Left Turn at Paradise by Thomas Shawver

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New This Week: Dream Catcher, The Dream Series by Sandra E. Grayson

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Dream Catcher by Sandra E. Grayson

The Dream Series

Publisher: Sandra E. Grayson

Price: $3.99 (as of 07/04/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

Dani Deleon has a problem. With a single touch, she can see people's nightmares. When she starts to see the nightmares of a sadistic serial killer known as The Maestro … everyone around her becomes a possible suspect.

With the help of Detective Jax Michaels, will Dani be able to stop this symphony of murder? Or will this unlikely duo fall victim to the very madman they're chasing?

— Dream Catcher by Sandra E. Grayson

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Westin's Chase, A Titan Novel of Romantic Suspense by Cristin Harber, 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, Mill Creek Press …

Westin's Chase by Cristin Harber

A Titan Novel of Romantic Suspense (3rd in series)

Publisher: Mill Creek Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 07/04/2016 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Jared Westin knows his reputation and likes it. He gets the job done. No emotion. No baggage. That's why his elite ops company, The Titan Group, is better than the best. They complete projects classified as mission impossible. And then, in walks a woman as tough as she is sexy. His counterpart in every way, should he choose to admit it.

Ousted undercover ATF agent Lilly Chase only answers to "Sugar." Jared is the only man who can see past her leather-and-lipstick demeanor, and that revelation is terrifying. She was fired for helping Titan on a questionable arrest she should've ignored, then partnered with Jared's rival on an assignment in Afghanistan. Distance and danger do nothing to change her feelings. When she's left on the side of a mountain to die, an unexpected ally comes forward, and might open her heart.

Saving Sugar isn't a normal rescue operation. It pits Titan against its rival, Jared against his nemesis. Chasing Sugar's heart isn't a simple task, either. She fights him, fights them, always ready to run. When she becomes a pawn in a game of collateral damage, Jared must risk his life to save her — the woman whose bravado and surprising sweetness has given him the one thing he never had. Love.

— Westin's Chase by Cristin Harber

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New This Week: The Devil Laughs, A Robin Carruthers Mystery by Anne Barton

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The Devil Laughs by Anne Barton

A Robin Carruthers Mystery

Publisher: Carrick Publishing

Price: $4.99 (as of 07/04/2016 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

The congregation of St. Matthews Anglican Church is rocked by the actions of a small group who want to get rid of the Rector, The Reverend Douglas Forsythe. But when a troublesome woman who was thought to be the leader of this group is murdered, the problems don't go away; instead they get worse.

Robin Carruthers, church member and owner of Red Robin Flying School, heads another group trying to identify the leader of the antagonists and save the Rector's reputation. As church treasurer, she also discovers that church funds are disappearing. She has her hands full trying to solve several mysteries in the church, but is not sure she wants to know who killed the troublesome woman. It might be someone she knows and likes.

— The Devil Laughs by Anne Barton

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