Review: Buffalo Jump Blues by Keith McCafferty

A Mysterious Review of Buffalo Jump Blues by Keith McCafferty. A Montana Fly Fishing Mystery.

Review summary: This is a solidly plotted and developed mystery. The cast of characters are approachable, likeable and believable in their respective roles. The circumstances surrounding the dead Indian is intriguing, the investigation seamlessly interwoven through the various subplots. A strong entry in this very entertaining series. (Click here for text of full review.)

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Buffalo Jump Blues
Keith McCafferty
A Montana Fly Fishing Mystery
Viking (June 2016)

Publisher synopsis: In the wake of Fourth of July fireworks in Montana's Madison Valley, Hyalite County sheriff Martha Ettinger and Deputy Sheriff Harold Little Feather investigate a horrific scene at the Palisades cliffs, where a herd of bison have fallen to their deaths. Victims of blind panic caused by the pyrotechnics, or a ritualistic hunting practice dating back thousands of years? The person who would know is beyond asking, an Indian man found dead among the bison, his leg pierced by an arrow.

Farther up the valley, fly fisherman, painter, and sometime private detective Sean Stranahan has been hired by the beautiful Ida Evening Star, a Chippewa Cree woman who moonlights as a mermaid at the Trout Tails Bar & Grill, to find her old flame, John Running Boy. The cases seem unrelated — until Sean's search leads him right to the brink of the buffalo jump.

Murder on the Rocks, A Mack's Bar Mystery by Allyson K. Abbott, Now Available at a Special Price

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Murder on the Rocks by Allyson K. Abbott

A Mack's Bar Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/09/2016 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Mack's Bar is one of those nice, friendly places where everybody knows your name. That's great when someone's buying you a round, but not so hot when you find yourself atop a list of murder suspects — with your fingerprints on the bloody knife!

Mackenzie "Mack" Dalton is a Milwaukee bar owner with a nose for trouble — literally. A neurological glitch has left her with extra perceptive senses. So when she stumbles upon a dead body in the alley behind the bar — the same spot where her own father was shot eight months earlier — she can tell right away there's something fishy in the air. The lead detective thinks there's a link between the two deaths, and he'll need Mack's help to sniff out the murderer amid the crowd of eccentric regulars.

But when all the evidence points to her as the most likely culprit, it could be an early last call for Mack — and celebratory cocktails for a killer.

— Murder on the Rocks by Allyson K. Abbott

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New This Week: Dead Justice, A Brian McDone Mystery by Ryan Casey

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Dead Justice by Ryan Casey

A Brian McDone Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: Higher Bank Books

Price: $3.99 (as of 08/09/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

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Detective Inspector Brian McDone has a secret, and it is tearing him apart …

A year has passed since the shocking conclusion of the Ritual case. Brian is constantly looking over his shoulder, living in fear of his actions catching up with him. But time has progressed, and it seems like recent history is dead and buried.

But the perils of police duty have no regard for Brian's personal troubles. A girl is found dead, her body floating in a water tank atop a seedy Preston hotel. The death is dismissed as suicide. A tragic accident.

But Brian has been on the job long enough to know when something isn't right. Especially when he discovers there's no way the girl got onto the hotel roof without special security codes.

As he digs deeper into the case despite a staggering lack of evidence, Brian grows more and more convinced that something much darker than suicide is at play. And that darkness might just swallow him and those he loves up completely …

— Dead Justice by Ryan Casey

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The Laughterhouse, The Christchurch Noir Crime Series by Paul Cleave, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Laughterhouse by Paul Cleave

The Christchurch Noir Crime Series

Publisher: Atria Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/09/2016 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene — ten-year-old Jessica found dead in "the Laughterhouse," an old abandoned slaughterhouse with the S painted over. The killer was found and arrested. Justice was served. Or was it?

Fifteen years later, a new killer arrives in Christchurch, and he has a list of people who were involved in Jessica's murder case, one of whom is the unfortunate Dr. Stanton, a man with three young girls. If Tate is going to help them, he has to find the connection between the killer, the Laughterhouse, and the city's suddenly growing murder rate. And he needs to figure it out fast, because Stanton and his daughters have been kidnapped, and the doctor is being forced to make an impossible decision: which one of his daughters is to die first.

— The Laughterhouse by Paul Cleave

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New This Week: A Chilling Conundrum, An East Pender Cozy Mystery by Leona Fox

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A Chilling Conundrum by Leona Fox

An East Pender Cozy Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: Leona Fox

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/09/2016 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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All is well in East Pender as the townsfolk gather to celebrate Kelly and Matthew's nuptials. When Ellen pitches in to sort out the couple's gifts, she discovers a note containing an unnerving riddle. It seems not everyone is excited about the marriage.

With the whole town invited to the festivities, there's no shortage of potential suspects, but soon it becomes quite clear that whoever the culprit is, they see nothing but a dark ending to this illusory love story.

Can Ellen crack the case before it's too late?

— A Chilling Conundrum by Leona Fox

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Code Name: Princess, The Code Name Series by Christina Skye, Now Available at a Special Price

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Code Name: Princess by Christina Skye

The Code Name Series (2nd in series)

Publisher: Dell

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/09/2016 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Jess Mulcahey's life gets complicated in a hurray when she finds herself babysitting a top-secret koala bear.

As Jess's world gets tossed into the whirlwind of Navy SEALS and ransom deadlines, her best hope may be to hang on for the ride.

— Code Name: Princess by Christina Skye

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New This Week: Granny Pins a Pilferer, A Fuchsia Minnesota Mystery by Julie Seedorf

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Granny Pins a Pilferer by Julie Seedorf

A Fuchsia Minnesota Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Cozy Cat Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 08/09/2016 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Granny is at it again!

When Granny accompanies her friend Mavis to the Next To The Last Resting Place nursing home to visit Mavis' sister, Beulah, both women are shocked to find the new resident dead. Granny, being the amateur detective she is, suspects foul play, and soon she and her entire family concoct a plan to investigate possible shady doings at the nursing home. Granny will enter the home incognito and attempt to determine how Beulah met her suspicious demise.

All this happens while Granny's new husband Silas is entangled in his own dangerous mess. Someone has just blown up his house and Silas (a former detective) is out to discover the culprit, even as he worries about Granny's safety in the home.

As more nursing home residents fall victim to a strange and sudden "memory loss virus," Granny engages the aid of her friends to get to the bottom of what turns out to be a very complex and complicated plot.

— Granny Pins a Pilferer by Julie Seedorf

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The Gone Dead Train, A Mystery Novel by Lisa Turner, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Gone Dead Train by Lisa Turner

A Mystery Novel

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/09/2016 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Recovering from the aftermath of a case that left his partner dead, Billy is back in Memphis and drawn into an ever-widening murder mystery that focuses on a disgraced major league baseball player, two legendary blues musicians on the lam, a straight-arrow cop tortured by her guilty conscience, and two iconic civil rights warriors with secrets so dark they'll shock the nation.

Detective Billy Able is at a crossroads. His previous case left him questioning everything he believes about his abilities as a cop and a friend, yet he's unable to turn off instincts he's honed after a decade on the force.

After he stops a crime from being committed, he finds himself embroiled in an even bigger scandal — a murder connected to a series of crimes dating back to the civil rights movement. Billy investigates and uncovers secrets so layered he can barely keep the truth from the lies. And Frankie Malone, the female cop on the case, is hiding something big, but is it connected to the investigation? With the help of a Santerián priest, Billy's search for the truth leads him deep into the underbelly of Memphis' past. But will he make it out alive?

— The Gone Dead Train by Lisa Turner

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The Darkness Knows by Cheryl Honigford, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2016 …

The Darkness Knows by Cheryl Honigford, A Viv and Charlie Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark

  

Bright lights. Big city. Brutal murder.

Chicago, 1938. Late one night before the ten o'clock show, the body of a prominent radio actress is found in the station's lounge. All the evidence points to murder — and one young, up-and-coming radio actress, Vivian Witchell, as the next victim.

But Vivian isn't the type to leave her fate in the hands of others — she's used to stealing the show. Alongside charming private detective Charlie Haverman, Vivian is thrust into a world of clues and motives, suspects and secrets. And with so much on the line, Vivian finds her detective work doesn't end when the on-air light goes out …

— The Darkness Knows by Cheryl Honigford

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Secret Ministry, A Johnny Fedora Espionage Assignment by Desmond Cory, Now Available at a Special Price

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Secret Ministry by Desmond Cory

A Johnny Fedora Espionage Assignment (1st in series)

Publisher: Desmond Cory

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/09/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Germany is defeated but a select group of Hitler's henchmen continue to kill and maim.

Their hideout: London.

Fedora's assignment: Destroy them!

— Secret Ministry by Desmond Cory

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Smooth Operator by Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall, New in Bookstores during August 2016

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Smooth Operator by Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall, a Teddy Fay Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Putnam

 

When President Kate Lee calls Stone Barrington to Washington on an urgent matter, it's soon clear that a potentially disastrous situation requires the kind of help more delicate than even he can provide … and he knows just the right man for the job. Teddy Fay: ex-CIA, master of disguise, and a gentleman not known for abiding by legal niceties in the pursuit of his own brand of justice.

— Smooth Operator by Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall

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Clock and Dagger by Julianne Holmes, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2016 …

Clock and Dagger by Julianne Holmes, A Ruth Clagan, Clock Shop Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

Ruth has three days to pull off four events — including the grand reopening of Cog & Sprocket, the clock shop she inherited from her grandfather — so she doesn't have time for Beckett Green's nonsense. The competitive owner of a new bookstore, Green seems determined to put other businesses out of business by also carrying their specialty items. He's trying to steal Ruth's new watchmaker, Mark Pine, not to mention block her plans to renovate the town clock tower.

Ruth is already all wound up when she's alarmed to discover Mark's dead body. As the denizens of Orchard each chime in as to who they think the murderer is, Ruth needs to watch her back as she investigates on her own. Despite the danger, Ruth won't stop until the killer is behind bars and serving time …

— Clock and Dagger by Julianne Holmes

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Eggs in a Casket, A Cackleberry Club Mystery by Laura Childs, Now Available at a Special Price

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Eggs in a Casket by Laura Childs

A Cackleberry Club Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Berkley

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/09/2016 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Petra, Suzanne, and Toni may have lost their husbands, but they've found new life operating the Cackleberry Club café. It's where the locals head for an amazing breakfast, the good company of friends, and a puzzling mystery or two …

Suzanne and Toni are off to Memorial Cemetery to help prepare for its 150th anniversary celebration. The ladies expect to find the historical society's tent, but instead they discover the body of ex-prison warden Lester Drummond lying facedown in a freshly dug grave. Now, with the town peppered with suspects and the local authorities in over their heads, it's up to the Cackleberry Club to unscramble the clues and sniff out a bad egg.

— Eggs in a Casket by Laura Childs

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New This Week: The Prison Guard's Son, A Finn Harding Mystery by Trace Conger

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The Prison Guard's Son by Trace Conger

A Finn Harding Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Black Mill Books

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/09/2016 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

See all three mysteries in the highly reviewed Mr. Finn Series for $4.99 or less each on Kindle.

Search for monsters long enough and you might become one …

Thirty years ago Jacob Vance and Raymond Turner committed a gruesome crime that shocked a small West Virginia town. Only nine years old themselves, they kidnapped and murdered four-year-old Josh Baker.

The two boys were quickly arrested, tried and convicted, but were released after serving only eight years in a juvenile detention facility. Because of the heinousness of their crime and the town's thirst for retribution, the government gave Vance and Turner new identities and relocated them to parts unknown.

Now, the victim's father has hired Finn Harding to find his son's killers so he can levy the justice that was denied so long ago. Along the way, Finn clashes with a tenacious US Marshal determined to protect the killers' new identities and crosses paths with an infamous triggerman hired to do what the courts didn't.

What begins as a typical job for Finn quickly spirals into a moral struggle between revenge and forgiveness as he learns details about the lives Vance and Turner have been living.

As he fights with his conscience, Finn learns that monsters truly exist, you can't hide from your past, and some cases should stay buried.

— The Prison Guard's Son by Trace Conger

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Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Tuesday, August 09, 2016 at 7:30 AM ET …

Brighton Belle by Sara Sheridan

A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $2.99

In post-World War II England, former Secret Service operative Mirabelle Bevan becomes embroiled in a new kind of intrigue …

1951: In the popular seaside town of Brighton, it's time for Mirabelle Bevan to move beyond her tumultuous wartime years and start anew. Accepting a job at a debt collection agency seems a step toward a more tranquil life.

But as she follows up on a routine loan to Romana Laszlo, a pregnant Hungarian refugee who's recently come off the train from London, Mirabelle's instincts for spotting deception are stirred when the woman is reported dead, along with her unborn child.

After encountering a social-climbing doctor with a sudden influx of wealth and Romana's sister, who seems far from bereaved and doesn't sound Hungarian, Mirabelle decides to dig deeper into the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death. Aided by her feisty sidekick — a fellow office worker named Vesta Churchill ("no relation to Winston," as she explains) — Mirabelle unravels a web of evil that stretches from the Brighton beachfront to the darkest corners of Europe. Putting her own life at risk, she must navigate a lethal labyrinth of lies and danger to expose the truth.

— Brighton Belle by Sara Sheridan

The Woodcutter by Kate Danley

A Fantasy Novel of Suspense

Publisher: 47North

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Deep within the Wood, a young woman lies dead. Not a mark on her body. No trace of her murderer. Only her chipped glass slippers hint at her identity.

The Woodcutter, keeper of the peace between the Twelve Kingdoms of Man and the Realm of the Faerie, must find the maiden's killer before others share her fate. Guided by the wind and aided by three charmed axes won from the River God, the Woodcutter begins his hunt, searching for clues in the whispering dominions of the enchanted unknown.

But quickly he finds that one murdered maiden is not the only nefarious mystery afoot: one of Odin's hellhounds has escaped, a sinister mansion appears where it shouldn't, a pixie dust drug trade runs rampant, and more young girls go missing. Looming in the shadows is the malevolent, power-hungry queen, and she will stop at nothing to destroy the Twelve Kingdoms and annihilate the Royal Fae … unless the Woodcutter can outmaneuver her and save the gentle souls of the Wood.

— The Woodcutter by Kate Danley

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