Death of a Liar, A Hamish Macbeth Mystery by M. C. Beaton, Now Available at a Special Price

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Death of a Liar by M. C. Beaton

A Hamish Macbeth Mystery (30th in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/15/2016 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder, he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie.

This time, though, she is telling the truth. Her body is found in her home and Hamish must sort through all of her lies to solve the crime.

— Death of a Liar by M. C. Beaton

Six books in the Hamish Macbeth Series, 25 to 30, are discounted to $1.99 each on Kindle!

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New This Week: Hear No Evil, Scott Drayco Mystery Stories by BV Lawson

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Hear No Evil by BV Lawson

Scott Drayco Mystery Stories

Publisher: Crimetime Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/15/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

See the two highly reviewed mysteries in the Scott Drayco Series for $2.99 on Kindle The 1st book in the series, Played To Death, is currently FREE!

Five tales featuring Scott Drayco, a man who had everything going for him: handsome, brilliant, and a talented classical pianist in the prime of his youth. After violence scarred him physically and emotionally, he turned to an FBI career before becoming a crime consultant, taking on cases other people often don't want to touch.

In HEAR NO EVIL, first published in Poison + Murder = Satisfaction, pianist Adina Dyson asks to meet Scott Drayco at a recital hall in the middle of a snowstorm, but the last thing he expects is for Adina to turn up dead.

In TER-LUCK-EN, when noted defense attorney Benny Baskin finds himself in jail on Thanksgiving Eve, Drayco has to try to save his bacon.

In THE LEAST OF THESE, first published in Plan B: Volume III, Drayco goes undercover at a French Embassy soiree in hopes of bringing closure to a motherless girl.

In WITH SWEET LAVENDER, first published in Over My Dead Body, Drayco discovers that love is not always a many-splendored thing.

In FM IS FOR MURDER, first published in Poison + Murder = Satisfaction (and honored by an American Independent Writers award), the shock-jock host of a morning radio program turns up murdered — but maybe the question is who *didn't* want him dead?

— Hear No Evil by BV Lawson

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The Sherlockian, A Novel of Suspense by Graham Moore, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Sherlockian by Graham Moore

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Twelve

Price: $3.99 (as of 08/15/2016 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the detective's next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off. London spiraled into mourning — crowds sported black armbands in grief — and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin.

Then in 1901, just as abruptly as Conan Doyle had "murdered" Holmes in "The Final Problem," he resurrected him. Though the writer kept detailed diaries of his days and work, Conan Doyle never explained this sudden change of heart. After his death, one of his journals from the interim period was discovered to be missing, and in the decades since, has never been found.

Or has it?

When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, The Baker Street Irregulars, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for the holy grail of Holmes-ophiles: the missing diary. But when the world's leading Doylean scholar is found murdered in his hotel room, it is Harold — using wisdom and methods gleaned from countless detective stories — who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.

— The Sherlockian by Graham Moore

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New This Week: California Bust, A Rip Lane Mystery by W. J. Costello

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California Bust by W. J. Costello

A Rip Lane Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: W. J. Costello

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/15/2016 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

See all three mysteries in the popular Rip Lane Series for $2.99 or less each on Kindle. The 1st book in the series, Missouri Loves Company, is currently FREE!

Former U.S. marshal Rip Lane is called out of retirement to hunt down gunmen who killed two marshals and stole a spying device. One of the murdered marshals is Rip's cousin.

When Rip infiltrates an outlaw motorcycle club he descends into an underworld of criminal psychopaths where he stops at nothing to avenge the death of his cousin.

— California Bust by W. J. Costello

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Ivory Ghosts, A Catherine Sohon, Elephant Mystery by Caitlin O'Connell, Now Available at a Special Price

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Ivory Ghosts by Caitlin O'Connell

A Catherine Sohon, Elephant Mystery

Publisher: Alibi

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/15/2016 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Still grieving over the tragic death of her fiancé, American wildlife biologist Catherine Sohon leaves South Africa and drives to a remote outpost in northeast Namibia, where she plans to face off against the shadowy forces of corruption and relentless human greed in the fight against elephant poaching. Undercover as a census pilot tracking the local elephant population, she'll really be collecting evidence on the ruthless ivory traffickers.

But before she even reaches her destination, Catherine stumbles onto a scene of horrifying carnage: three people shot dead in their car, and a fourth nearby — with his brain removed. The slaughter appears to be the handiwork of a Zambian smuggler known as "the witchdoctor," a figure reviled by activists and poachers alike. Forced to play nice with local officials, Catherine finds herself drawn to the prickly but charismatic Jon Baggs, head of the Ministry of Conservation, whose blustery exterior belies his deep investment in the poaching wars.

Torn between her developing feelings and her unofficial investigation, she takes to the air, only to be grounded by a vicious turf war between competing factions of a black-market operation that reaches far beyond the borders of Africa. With the mortality rate — both human and animal — skyrocketing, Catherine races to intercept a valuable shipment. Now she's flying blind, and a cunning killer is on the move.

— Ivory Ghosts by Caitlin O'Connell

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New This Week: Justice in Savannah, A Made in Savannah Cozy Mystery by Hope Callaghan

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Justice in Savannah by Hope Callaghan

A Made in Savannah Cozy Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Hope Callaghan

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/15/2016 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

See all three mysteries in the highly reviewed Made in Savannah Cozy Series for $3.99 or less each on Kindle.

Carlita and Mercedes Garlucci have settled into their new life in Savannah and are eager to get their rental units occupied as well as their other businesses up and running, but the local permit officials are dragging their feet with delay after delay.

When Mercedes decides to help move things along by organizing a protest for justice in front of the local government offices, things go from bad to worse as one by one, all of the protesters become targets of vandals.

After the vandals ramp up the attacks, the mother and daughter duo vow to fight back despite having their hands full with an obnoxious tenant who could quite possibly cause Carlita to commit a crime of her own!

Will they discover who's behind the attacks and stop them before someone gets hurt or will their dreams in Savannah become the stuff nightmares are made of?

— Justice in Savannah by Hope Callaghan

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The Interrogation, A Novel of Suspense by Thomas H. Cook, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Interrogation by Thomas H. Cook

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Bantam

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/15/2016 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Albert Jay Smalls sits in an interrogation room accused of an unspeakable crime. The police have no witnesses, no physical evidence, but they are certain he is hiding the truth. With less than twelve hours before he must be released, Smalls will be put through one final interrogation.

It is a search that leads into the shadowed recesses of one man's shattered mind — and to the devastating secrets buried in a desolate seaside town. It is a quest that takes three desperate cops down a dark, twisting road as they race against the clock to find out what really happened one rainy autumn afternoon in 1952.

The answers will be more shocking than anyone can imagine, blurring the boundaries between pursuers and prey, between the innocent and the guilty, between the truth that sets us free and the tragedies that haunt us to the grave.

— The Interrogation by Thomas H. Cook

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The Cat, The Collector and the Killer by Leann Sweeney, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2016 …

The Cat, The Collector and the Killer by Leann Sweeney, A Jillian Hart, Cats in Trouble Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: NAL

  

Jillian Hart and police chief Tom Stewart are enjoying peaceful, newly wedded bliss in Mercy, South Carolina, until a woman is found wandering the streets one night. She's in her night clothes, disoriented, and carrying a kitten in a tote bag. A search of the woman's house reveals many more cats, a maze of cardboard boxes — and a dead man.

Although the evidence suggests the frail woman is the killer, Jillian doesn't believe she's capable of such a crime. The dead man had many enemies in town, which means finding the real murderer may prove to be its own cat and mouse game …

— The Cat, The Collector and the Killer by Leann Sweeney

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Grey Mask, A Miss Silver Mystery by Patricia Wentworth, Now Available at a Special Price

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Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth

A Miss Silver Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/15/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, the hardy young man returns to the manor of his birth, where generations of Morays have lived and died. Strangely, he finds the house unlocked, and sees a light on in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping, he learns of a conspiracy to commit a fearsome crime.

Never one for the heroic, Charles's first instinct is to let the police settle it. But then he hears her voice. Margaret, his long lost love, is part of the gang. To unravel their diabolical plot, he contacts Miss Silver, a onetime governess who applies her reason to solve crimes and face the dangers of London's underworld.

— Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth

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Thrill Kill by Brian Thiem, New in Bookstores during August 2016

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

Thrill Kill by Brian Thiem, a Matt Sinclair Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books

 

Cops in Oakland seldom meet people whose lives are going well. That's certainly the case when homicide sergeant Matt Sinclair recognizes the dead woman hanging from a tree as a teenage runaway named Dawn he arrested ten years before. And as Sinclair and his partner, Cathy Braddock, soon learn, many of Dawn's clients, not to mention the local and federal officials who protect them, will go to any length to keep the police from digging too deep into her past.

Then the killer goes public, and Sinclair and Braddock must race to uncover the secrets Dawn was killed to protect before the killer unleashes a major attack on a scale the city has never seen before.

— Thrill Kill by Brian Thiem

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Telemystery: Once Upon a Time (Season 5), New This Week on DVD

Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or Video-on-Demand, is profiling one series from our site which have releases this week.

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Once Upon a Time

Season Five

    

Darkness and Light. One conceals, the other reveals, but each is infinitely seductive. Prepare for the ultimate battle between these epic opposing forces in the fifth season of this ABC drama. 

When the Savior becomes the "Dark Swan," the lines between good and evil blur as Emma begins to relish the intoxicating taste of absolute power. Terrified she'll succumb, Emma and Hook visit Camelot to find the one person who may be able to aid them: Merlin. Unfortunately, King Arthur proves treacherous, and when he joins forces with a vengeful Zelena, Emma and Hook's hopes are shattered. Now Emma and her entire Storybrooke family must embark on a chilling descent to the Underworld of Hades, where they'll try to rescue Hook from a fate worse than death … with "help" from Rumplestiltskin. But will any of them survive the journey?

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The Ninja's Daughter by Susan Spann, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2016 …

The Ninja's Daughter by Susan Spann, A Hiro Hattori, Shinobi Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Seventh Street Books

  

Autumn, 1565: When an actor's daughter is murdered on the banks of Kyoto's Kamo River, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo are the victim's only hope for justice.

As political tensions rise in the wake of the shogun's recent death, and rival warlords threaten war, the Kyoto police forbid an investigation of the killing, to keep the peace — but Hiro has a personal connection to the girl, and must avenge her. The secret investigation leads Hiro and Father Mateo deep into the exclusive world of Kyoto's theater guilds, where they quickly learn that nothing, and no one, is as it seems. With only a mysterious golden coin to guide them, the investigators uncover a forbidden love affair, a missing mask, and a dangerous link to corruption within the Kyoto police department that leaves Hiro and Father Mateo running for their lives.

— The Ninja's Daughter by Susan Spann

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Simmer Down, The Gourmet Girl Mysteries by Jessica Conant-Park and Susan Conant, Now Available at a Special Price

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Simmer Down by Jessica Conant-Park and Susan Conant

The Gourmet Girl Mysteries (2nd in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/15/2016 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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After months between gigs, Chloe Carter's dishy boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, has just landed his dream job: executive chef at Simmer, Boston's soon-to-be hottest new restaurant. As Josh preps for a New Year's Eve grand opening, Chloe, on winter break from grad school, hooks him up with Food for Thought, an annual charity fundraiser. It seems like a win-win — Simmer will give the dining public a tantalizing taste of things to come, and Josh will showcase his culinary talents — until murder makes a late addition to the menu.

It's not the kind of publicity Chloe was looking for. Now wealthy club owner Oliver Kipper is dead, bludgeoned to death. The murder weapon is a state-of-the-art professional-grade food processor that, unfortunately, belongs to Josh. By opening night, the list of suspects, including Josh's ex-girlfriends, is almost as long as the line to get into Simmer. Suddenly, Chloe's risking her life to unmask a killer in a town where murder is becoming an acquired taste.

— Simmer Down by Jessica Conant-Park and Susan Conant

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New This Week: Snake Island, A Tyler Mackenzie Mystery by Marilinne Cooper

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Snake Island by Marilinne Cooper

A Tyler Mackenzie Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: Marilinne Cooper

Price: $5.99 (as of 08/15/2016 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

See all six mysteries in the Tyler Mackenzie Series for $5.99 or less each on Kindle.

A seemingly uneventful father/son beach-camping vacation on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra spins alarmingly out of control when Tyler Mackenzie's sixteen-year-old son, Tucker, goes missing after being last seen with Chloe, a winsome young woman, at a weekly conga drum performance in a local bar. Supported by a group of colorful campground cohorts, Tyler teams up with the girl's unconventional mother, Elle, in a search for their teenage children.

Soon he is not only seduced by her steamy sexuality but is sucked into an adventure much more complex than he ever envisioned, involving two dead men, a lot of Caribbean island hopping, a host of suspicious characters and several serpentine plot twists.

— Snake Island by Marilinne Cooper

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Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Monday, August 15, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Monday, August 15, 2016 at 7:30 AM ET …

You Can't Escape by Nancy Bush

The Rafferty Family Series

Publisher: Zebra

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

The branding iron glows in the moonlight as he presses the searing metal into his victim's flesh. She must wear the devil's sign, just like the others. He knows the curse that afflicts them — and he'll make sure they carry it to their graves …

When investigative reporter Jay "Dance" Danziger is nearly killed in a bomb blast, journalist Jordanna Winters senses a career-making story. Together they can find out who's responsible. But as their investigation uncovers a string of unsolved murders, each body branded in the same way, Jordanna realizes that Dance isn't the only one in danger.

Small towns can hold big, dark secrets. Deep in Jordanna's troubled past is the key to a killer's terrifying mission — to purge the guilty one by one, burning their flesh to free their souls. And her turn is coming, as he prepares to make his mark once more …

— You Can't Escape by Nancy Bush

Darknet by Matthew Mather

A Technothriller

Publisher: Matthew Mather

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Jake O'Connell leaves a life of crime and swears he'll never return, but his new life as a stock broker is ripped away when his childhood friend Sean Womack is murdered. Thousands of miles away in Hong Kong, data scientist Jin Huang finds a list of wealthy dead people in a massive banking conspiracy. Problem is, some of the people don't stay dead. As Jin begins her investigation, she's petrified to discover her own name on the growing list of dead-but-alive.

On the run, Jake O'Connell and Jin Huang race across continents to uncover a dark secret spreading like a cancer into the world. Why was Sean killed, and how is the list of wealthy dead connected? Are some of them really coming back to life? But all this becomes irrelevant when Jake's wife and daughter are attacked …

— Darknet by Matthew Mather

A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton

A Lacey Flint Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Nook Daily Find Price: $2.99 (price-matched by Amazon)

  

Lacey Flint has been living in a houseboat on the River Thames, and she's becoming a part of London's weird and wonderful riverboat community. Against her friends' better judgment, she's taken up swimming in the Thames, and she feels closer than ever to Detective Mark Joesbury, despite his involvement in a complicated undercover case. For the first time in her life, as she recovers from the trauma of the last few months, Lacey begins to feel almost happy.

Then, at dawn one hot summer morning while swimming down the river, Lacey finds the body of a shrouded young woman in the water. She assumes it was chance — after all, she's recently joined the marine policing unit, and she knows how many dead bodies are pulled out of the river every year, most the result of tragic accidents. But further investigation leads her policing team to suspect the woman's body was deliberately left for Lacey to find. Lacey's no longer a homicide detective, but as she begins to notice someone keeping a strangely close eye on her, she's inexorably drawn into the investigation.

— A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton

You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Little, Brown

Kobo Daily Deal Price: $2.99 (price-matched by Amazon)

  

How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated coach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful, compete. For the Knoxes there are no limits — until a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community and everything they have worked so hard for is suddenly at risk.

As rumors swirl among the other parents, Katie tries frantically to hold her family together while also finding herself irresistibly drawn to the crime itself. What she uncovers — about her daughter's fears, her own marriage, and herself — forces Katie to consider whether there's any price she isn't willing to pay to achieve Devon's dream.

— You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott

The Chopin Manuscript by Various Authors

A Serial Thriller

Publisher: Audible Studios

Audible Daily Deal Price: $2.95

Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans.

As he races from Poland to America to uncover the mystery of the manuscript, Middleton will be accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins. But the greatest threat will come from a shadowy figure out of his past: the man known only as Faust.

— The Chopin Manuscript by Various Authors

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