Death Deserved by L. J. Sellers, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2016 …

Death Deserved by L. J. Sellers, A Wade Jackson Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

  

Detective Wade Jackson is in for a shock when he's summoned to the police chief's office — his sergeant has been poisoned, and Jackson's been tapped to lead the investigation.

But before the Eugene Violent Crimes unit has a chance to respond, two people are gunned down at a licensed marijuana nursery. Jackson and his colleague Detective Lara Evans are on the case — but there are more suspects than evidence, and the crime is baffling.

Soon, more people are hospitalized, and when Evans discovers a link between the poisonings and edible pot, she and Jackson suspect that the product tampering and shootings are connected.

As the task force investigates new leads, it's clear that the detectives are on a dangerous trail, one that forces them to question everyone — even their own team. But they'll have to uncover the truth fast … before the next victim falls prey.

— Death Deserved by L. J. Sellers

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.

Hostile Takeover, A John Lago Thriller by Shane Kuhn, Now Available at a Special Price

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Hostile Takeover by Shane Kuhn

A John Lago Thriller (2nd in series)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/21/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

At the end of the first book in this series, John tracks down his nemesis Alice but instead of putting a bullet in her head, he puts a ring on her finger and marries her. Together, they execute a hostile takeover of Human Resources, Inc., the "placement agency" that trains young assassins to infiltrate corporations disguised as interns and knock off high profile targets. As HR's former top operatives, they are successful until conflicting management styles cause an ugly breakup that locks John out of the bedroom and the boardroom.

Then Alice takes on a new HR target, and John is forced to return to the office battlefield in a role he swore he would never play again: the intern. What starts out as a deadly showdown turns into the two of them fighting side by side to save HR, Inc. — and their marriage.

— Hostile Takeover by Shane Kuhn

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Fall from Grace by Tim Weaver, New in Bookstores during July 2016

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

Fall from Grace by Tim Weaver, a David Raker Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Viking

 

After decades of service, Leonard Franks has stepped down from the Metropolitan Police as a high-ranking detective in the Homicide and Serious Crime Command. He and his wife, Ellie, have retired to a farmhouse in the seclusion of the English countryside, far from the clamor of London. Everything goes just as they've imagined, until the night Leonard leaves the house to fetch firewood — and never returns.

With the police investigation at a dead end nine months later, Leonard's daughter, a detective herself, turns in desperation to David Raker, a missing persons investigator with a gift for finding the lost. But nothing can prepare Raker for what he's about to find — or for the devastating secret behind this disappearance. And by the time he realizes what it is, and how deep the lies go, he finds himself in serious danger — along with everyone he cares about.

— Fall from Grace by Tim Weaver

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.

Forgotten Secrets by Robin Perini, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during July 2016 …

Forgotten Secrets by Robin Perini, A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Montlake Romance

  

At age ten, Riley Lambert watched helplessly as her sister was abducted from her bedroom. Fifteen years later, she's channeled the pain of her past into a career as an FBI profiler. Riley devotes her life to bringing violent criminals to justice … and secretly uses government resources to search for her sister, who was never found.

When Riley gets a call from the only man who's ever swept her off her feet with a killer two-step and dangerous smile — ex-Navy SEAL Thayne Blackwood of Singing River, Wyoming — it stirs up dark memories. Thayne's sister, Cheyenne, has been kidnapped. There are no leads, and the only witness is the victim's Alzheimer's-afflicted grandmother.

Desperate to find Cheyenne, Thayne needs Riley's expertise. With time running short, they delve into dangerous small-town secrets while fighting against an increasingly ruthless adversary. But when her past and his present collide in a shocking revelation, can they overcome the secrets that have kept them apart?

— Forgotten Secrets by Robin Perini

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.

A Gilded Grave, A Newport Gilded Age Mystery by Shelley Freydont, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Gilded Grave by Shelley Freydont

A Newport Gilded Age Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Berkley

Price: $1.99 (as of 07/21/2016 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

In 1895, the height of the Gilded Age, the social elite spend their summers in Newport, Rhode Island. Within the walls of their fabulous "cottages," competition for superiority is ruthless … and so are the players …

During her first Newport season, Deanna Randolph attends a ball given in honor of Lord David Manchester, a Barbadian sugar magnate, and his sister, Madeline. The Manchesters are an immediate success — along with their exotic manservant and his fortune-telling talents.

But on the nearby cliffs, a young maid lies dead — and suspicion falls on Joseph Ballard, a member of one of the town's most prestigious families.

Joe humiliated Deanna when he rebuffed an engagement to her, but while he may be a cad, she knows he isn't a killer. Now the reluctant allies must navigate a world of parties, tennis matches, and séances to find the real murderer. But a misstep among the glittering upper classes could leave them exposed to something far more dangerous than malicious gossip …

— A Gilded Grave by Shelley Freydont

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Strawberry Tartlets and a Dead Starlet, A Poppy Peters Mystery by A. Gardner, New This Week from Gemma Halliday Publishing

Gemma Halliday Publishing is a boutique publisher of light-hearted mystery, romantic suspense and romantic comedy novels, perfect for popping into your beach bag for a weekend away or cozying up beside a warm fire for a quiet night in.

We've selected one of their recently published titles to feature here today.

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Strawberry Tartlets and a Dead Starlet by A. Gardner

A Poppy Peters Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

Price: 99¢ (as of 07/21/2016 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

See all four mysteries in the popular Poppy Peters Series for $4.99 or less each on Kindle.

Poppy Peters, sometimes-sleuth and recent pastry school graduate, is soaking up the southern sun as the new official pastry chef of Magnolia Harbor Inn and Spa. But the sunny tourist town of Gator Bay is anything but pleasant when a country music star turns up dead in one of the hotel rooms … after eating one of Poppy's pastries!

Ready to do anything to prove her tasty strawberry tartlets aren't to blame, Poppy's search for the killer takes her everywhere from a local fish n' fry to an abandoned gator farm. With the help of her kitchen mate Bree, an old flame, and a not-so-sweet cat named Muffin, Poppy finds herself wrapped up in a hurricane of clues.

But which ones lead to the killer? Poppy must solve the riddle quickly or else she too might be fed a bite of a deadly dessert.

— Strawberry Tartlets and a Dead Starlet by A. Gardner

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Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Thursday, July 21, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 7:30 AM ET …

Two mysteries in the Bell Elkins series by Julia Keller for $2.99 each is a Kindle Daily Deal. We're featuring the first in the series in this post.

A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller

A Bell Elkins Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $2.99

What's happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas of the country just like Acker's Gap? Or were Dean Streeter, Shorty McClurg, and Lee Rader targeted somehow?

One of the witnesses to the brutal incident was Carla Elkins, teenaged daughter of Bell Elkins, the prosecuting attorney for Raythune County, WV. Carla was shocked and horrified by what she saw, but after a few days, she begins to recover enough to believe that she might be uniquely placed to help her mother do her job.

After all, what better way to repair their fragile, damaged relationship? But could Carla also end up doing more harm than good — in fact, putting her own life in danger?

— A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller

Three mysteries in the Gaius Petreius Ruso series by Ruth Downie for $1.99 each is a Kindle Daily Deal. We're featuring the first in the series in this post.

Medicus by Ruth Downie

A Gaius Petreius Ruso Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Divorced and down on his luck, Gaius Petreius Ruso has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. In a moment of weakness, after a straight thirtysix-hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to compassion and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner.

Now he has a new problem: a slave who won't talk and can't cook, and drags trouble in her wake. Before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar. Now Ruso must summon all his forensic knowledge to find a killer who may be after him next.

— Medicus by Ruth Downie

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Thursday, July 21, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 7:00 AM ET …

Hold Me, Babe by O'Neil De Noux

A Lucien Caye Mystery

Publisher: Big Kiss Productions

Price: FREE!

  

Pistachio Lemon Glazed Murder by Susan Gillard

A Donut Hole Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Susan Gillard

Price: FREE!

  

Killerwatt by Sharon Woods Hopkins

A Rhetta McCarter Mystery

Publisher: Deadly Writes Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Death at a Diner by Nancy McGovern

A Murder in Milburn Mystery

Publisher: Nancy McGovern

Price: FREE!

  

Payback by T. S. Worthington

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Make Profits Easy

Price: FREE!

  

Just the Way You Are by Christina Dodd

A Lost Hearts Novel of Romantic Suspense

Publisher: Christina Dodd

Price: FREE!

  

Copacabana by John Minx

The Series of Tropical Crime Noir: Rio de Janeiro

Publisher: 40º Books

Price: FREE!

  

Execution is Everything by Nick Warren

A Jon Kaine Short Thriller

Publisher: Stories That Mean Business

Price: FREE!

  

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Shadow, A SEALs of Honor Novel of Romantic Suspense by Dale Mayer, 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, Valley Publishing …

Shadow by Dale Mayer

A SEALs of Honor Novel of Romantic Suspense (5th in series)

Publisher: Valley Publishing

Price: 99¢ (as of 07/20/2016 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

Shadow's life has been an uphill struggle. No wonder he's so damn good at dealing with the hard, the difficult, and the dangerous …

Shadow's all about being a SEAL. The one world he's comfortable in. He knows what he can do, when to do it, and how to do it … until he sets off on a mission to rescue Arianna and her family, and his world goes from controlled action to chaos. Who knew women like her existed?

Arianna struggles to deal with the foreign world she's been plunged into. Kidnappings, beatings, threats. SEALs. The only good thing is the darkest, most dangerous-looking saviour she's ever met. And he doesn't know what to do with her.

Well, she has a good idea, but will they get that chance? Not if the kidnappers have anything to say about it.

Arianna has been marked for extinction, and it's up to Shadow to save her … before it's too late and he loses something he had no idea he wanted in the first place … but now he can't live without.

— Shadow by Dale Mayer

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Review: The Devil's Cold Dish by Eleanor Kuhns

A Mysterious Review of The Devil's Cold Dish by Eleanor Kuhns. A Will Rees Mystery.

Review summary: Though the murder mystery plot is well-executed it suffers primarily from an otherwise intelligent, rational series lead turned into an emotional, irrational bumbling fool. Some of the hallmarks of what has made this outstanding series so enjoyable to date are present here but this latest entry simply doesn't measure up. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Devil's Cold Dish
Eleanor Kuhns
A Will Rees Mystery
Minotaur Books (June 2016)

Publisher synopsis: Will Rees is back home on his farm in 1796 Maine with his teenage son, his pregnant wife, their five adopted children, and endless farm work under the blistering summer sun. But for all that, Rees is happy to have returned to Dugard, Maine, the town where he was born and raised, and where he's always felt at home.

Until now.

When a man is found dead — murdered — after getting into a public dispute with Rees, Rees starts to realize someone is intentionally trying to pin the murder on him. Then, his farm is attacked, his wife is accused of witchcraft, and a second body is found that points to the Rees family. Rees can feel the town of Dugard turning against him, and he knows that he and his family won't be safe there unless he can find the murderer and reveal the truth … before the murderer gets to him first.

Haunted Destiny, A Krewe of Hunters Novel by Heather Graham, 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, MIRA …

Haunted Destiny by Heather Graham

A Krewe of Hunters Novel

Publisher: MIRA

Price: 99¢ (as of 07/20/2016 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Between the evil and the deep blue sea …

A historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic American Line's Destiny, sets sail from the Port of New Orleans — with a killer on board. He's known as the Archangel Killer because of the way he displays his victims in churches. And how he places a different saint's medallion on each body. No one knows exactly who he is or why he's doing this.

Jackson Crow — head of the FBI's Krewe of Hunters, a special unit of paranormal investigators — is assigned to the case, along with local agent Jude McCoy. Then Alexi Cromwell, who works in the ship's piano bar, is drawn into the situation when a victim's ghost appears to her — and to Jude. She and Jude share an attraction, and not just because of their mutual talent.

There are many suspects, but one by one they're ruled out … Or are they? In the end, Jude and Alexi have to rely on each other to catch the killer and escape his evil plans for Alexi.

— Haunted Destiny by Heather Graham

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New This Week: Bronx Justice, A Jaywalker Case by Joseph Teller

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 July 2016 and priced $5.99 or less.

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Bronx Justice by Joseph Teller

A Jaywalker Case (2nd in series)

Publisher: MIRA

Price: $5.99 (as of 07/20/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

See more titles in the Jaywalker Series for $5.99 or less each on Kindle.

This is a new ebook edition of a mystery first published in paperback by MIRA in 2009.

It's the kind of case no one but Jaywalker would take. A young black man from the worst section of the Bronx is accused of raping five women. Five white women. The first four victims have positively identified him, and the fifth is on the verge of doing the same. It's open and shut. But not for Jaywalker.

In his effort to make sure justice is done, even — no, especially — for someone who's never really had a shot, he starts looking deeply into character: the defendant's, the victims' — and society's. What he learns will not only change one man's life, it will haunt Jaywalker forever.

— Bronx Justice by Joseph Teller

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212, An Ellie Hatcher Mystery by Alafair Burke, Now Available at a Special Price

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212 by Alafair Burke

An Ellie Hatcher Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Harper

Price: 99¢ (as of 07/20/2016 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Read our review of 212 by Alafair Burke on Mysterious Reviews.

When New York University sophomore Megan Gunther finds personal threats posted to a website specializing in campus gossip, she's taken aback by their menacing tone. Someone knows her daily routine down to the minute and is watching her — but thanks to the anonymity provided by the Internet, the police tell her there's nothing they can do. Her friends are sure it's someone's idea of a joke, but when Megan is murdered in a vicious attack, NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher is convinced that the online threats are more than just empty words.

With smooth, straight-talking partner J. J. Rogan at her side, Ellie tries to identify Megan's enemies, but she begins to wonder if the coed's murder was more than just the culmination of a cyber obsession. And when Megan's roommate suddenly disappears, Ellie and J. J. know they have to find her before another young woman dies.

— 212 by Alafair Burke

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New This Week: Get Off at Babylon, A Stone Angel Mystery by Marvin H. Albert

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Get Off at Babylon by Marvin H. Albert

A Stone Angel Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Wildside Press

Price: $4.99 (as of 07/20/2016 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

See all three mysteries in the Stone Angel Series for $4.99 each on Kindle.

Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic — though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasure in a fine wine … and a good gun. His French name is Pierre-Ange, and it suits him. In English, it means Stone Angel.

Minding his own business at a favorite Nice creperie, Pete notices a teenage girl hurrying by — with a desperate look on her face. Moments later, two cops arrive, a young actor named Bruno Ravic bursts from a nearby doorway, shots are fired, and Pete's most dangerous case to date begins! The girl is Odile Garnier, and her father (former Grand Prix champ Egon Mulhausser) hires Pete to find her. But what is the connection between Odile and Bruno, who is murdered just a few days later? And why do so many clues seem to lead to the Cannes Film Festival … and to a certain director? Pete Sawyer must go underground — literally — to save lives and solve this sensational mystery!

— Get Off at Babylon by Marvin H. Albert

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Never Tell a Lie, A Novel of Suspense by Hallie Ephron, Now Available at a Special Price

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Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 99¢ (as of 07/20/2016 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

It all started with the yard sale …

Eight months pregnant and nervous about the future, Ivy Rose doesn't recognize the woman approaching her and husband David as they attempt to rid themselves of the decades-worth of junk cluttering up their suburban home. The woman says she's Melinda White — their former high school classmate, now pregnant also — and asks if she might revisit the old Victorian house she recalls playing in as a child. David takes her inside. But Melinda never comes out.

With her husband a suspect in the bizarre disappearance and probable murder of the near-stranger he claims not to remember, Ivy must now dive into a deadly whirlpool of deceit, betrayal, and terrifying alternate histories in pursuit of a shocking truth — a truth that could destroy everything …

— Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron

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