Devil in the Wires, A Field Ops Novel by Tim Lees, 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, Harper Voyager Impulse …

Devil in the Wires by Tim Lees

A Field Ops Novel

Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/20/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

"It's a perfect circle, Chris. The god receives his audience, the grid receives the power — and we light up Chicago."

After the perilous retrieval of a long-dormant god from Iraq, Chris Copeland — professional god hunter and company troubleshooter — is about ready to quit his job. But his employers at the Registry have other plans … plans to build a power facility on the shores of Lake Michigan. Adam Shailer, a rising star at the Registry, thinks he can cage the god, drain its energy, and power the city.

It's Chris's job to make sure nothing goes wrong. And at first, everything seems fine. Great, even. But when ecstatic devotees start leaving human sacrifices on the beach near the god-house, it quickly becomes clear that the god is not as contained as the Registry would have everyone believe. The devil's in the wires, and there's no turning back now.

— Devil in the Wires by Tim Lees

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The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore, New in Bookstores during August 2016

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

The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore, Non-Series

Publisher: Random House

 

New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history — and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country?

The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society — the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. The task facing him is beyond daunting. Edison is a wily, dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposal — private spies, newspapers in his pocket, and the backing of J. P. Morgan himself. Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs. How will he do it?

In obsessive pursuit of victory, Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla, an eccentric, brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison, and with Agnes Huntington, a beautiful opera singer who proves to be a flawless performer on stage and off. As Paul takes greater and greater risks, he'll find that everyone in his path is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem.

— The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

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

Be on the Lookout: Bodyguard by Tyler Snell, New from Harlequin Intrigue in August 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title available this month from Harlequin, one of the world's leading publishers of books for women. For a complete list of titles published this month, see our New Harlequin Titles page.

Be on the Lookout: Bodyguard by Tyler Snell

Series: Orion Security

Imprint: Intrigue

  

Protecting a woman who claimed she didn't need a bodyguard made his final case the most interesting of his career …

Before he settles down behind the desk, Orion Security bodyguard Jonathan Carmichael has one last assignment. One that might prove to be more than he bargained for. Because Kate Spears is adamant she doesn't need his protection. And a woman who doesn't want a bodyguard could be difficult, dangerous — and terribly intriguing.

Kate is used to taking care of herself. Unfortunately, her most recent scientific discovery has made someone intent on taking her research and her life. Now only one man stands between her and death. And while Jonathan is more than capable of protecting her body, she fears he could be the one man to wreak havok on her very soul.

— Be on the Lookout: Bodyguard by Tyler Snell

Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood, A Deadwood Mystery by Ann Charles, 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 author …

Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood by Ann Charles

A Deadwood Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: Ann Charles

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/20/2016 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Meanwhile, back in Deadwood … the mystery and mayhem continue …

Between the butchered body parts, creepy killers, dogged detectives, ghoulish ghosts, and ever-present TV cameras, Violet Parker's purple boots are itching to skedaddle.

But there is no escaping another murder investigation or her new deadly reputation. Not even if both risk the lives of those she loves most.

— Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood by Ann Charles

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New This Week: Maggie Needs An Alibi, A Maggie Kelly Mystery by Kasey Michaels

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 August 2016 and priced $5.99 or less.

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Maggie Needs An Alibi by Kasey Michaels

A Maggie Kelly Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kasey Michaels

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/20/2016 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

See all six reissued titles in the Maggie Kelly Mystery Series for $5.99 or less each on Kindle.

This is a new ebook edition of a mystery first published in hardcover by Kensington in 2002.

Maggie Kelly, writing as Cleo Dooley (she thinks O's look good on a book cover), is the author of the best selling St. Just Mystery Series set in the English Regency Era. This should make her a happy woman, and it does, mostly. Professionally, she's a hit. Personally? No, not so much.

But never fear, a hero has come to rescue her from her dull, boring, and faintly neurotic existence. The only problem is that said hero is Alexandre Blake, Viscount St. Just, her fictional hero, in all his handsome, arrogant Regency-ness. He has popped out of her mind, out of her books, and has somehow landed in her New York apartment, along with his fictional sidekick, the adorable Sterling Balder.

Try explaining that one to your friends!

While juggling lies explaining her strange "houseguests," Maggie also finds herself the prime suspect in the murder of her publisher and former lover (just because she fed him mushrooms and he died of mushroom poisoning that same night — really, there such a thing as coincidence, right?).

But again, never fear, because her fictional hero is here, and he, amateur sleuth-master that he has been created to be, has promised to step in and save the day. Maggie's pretty much hoping he'll just learn to put the cap back on the toothpaste …

— Maggie Needs An Alibi by Kasey Michaels

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Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Saturday, August 20, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 7:30 AM ET …

Murder at Redwood Cove by Janet Finsilver

A Kelly Jackson Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Lyrical Underground

Kindle Daily Deal Price: 99¢

Bed, breakfast … and a body!

If it weren't for the fact that she's replacing a dead man, Kelly Jackson would love her new job managing the Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast on the coast of Northern California. But Bob Phillips did plunge off the cliff to his death … and Kelly's starting to think it may not have been an accident. Bob's retired friends — The "Silver Sentinels" — are also on the case, especially when Kelly is attacked … and another body turns up.

Kelly has her hands full with overseeing the B&B's annual Taste of Chocolate and Wine Festival, but she's also closing in on the killer … who's ready to send Kelly on her own permanent vacation …

— Murder at Redwood Cove by Janet Finsilver

Time Patrol by Bob Mayer

The Nightstalkers Series (4th in series)

Publisher: 47North

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Hidden deep beneath the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the Time Patrol, a secret agency charged with protecting the world's timeline from the evil forces who wish to alter it. When the Patrol disappears without a trace, only twelve short hours are left before all life on Earth ceases to exist.

Enter: the Nightstalkers. Summoned to find the Time Patrol, the Nightstalkers' elite covert operatives begin to notice rifts in their own worlds. And when they realize one of their colleagues has vanished into thin air, the mission gets personal.

From battling krakens and Valkyries to breaching the mythical Bermuda Triangle, the Nightstalkers must risk everything to defeat the malicious forces manipulating time itself. But if they lose, it won't just mean the end of the world — it will mean the total destruction of the past, the present, and the future.

— Time Patrol by Bob Mayer

The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

Publisher: William Morrow

Nook Daily Find Price: $1.99 (price-matched by Amazon)

  

"I'm a dead woman, or I shall be soon … "

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified — but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.

Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim …

— The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Saturday, August 20, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 7:00 AM ET …

Crafting Disorder by ReGina Welling and Erin Lynn

A Ponderosa Pines Cozy Mystery

Publisher: ReGina Welling and Erin Lynn

Price: FREE!

  

Street Stalker by Rainy Kirkland

A Florida Heat Mystery

Publisher: Rainy Kirkland

Price: FREE!

  

The Gadwell Incident by Ridley Pearson

A Lock and Key Prequel

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: FREE!

  

Nobody Can Say It's You by Jeri Green

A Hadley Pell Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Jeri Green

Price: FREE!

  

Must Love Murder by Etta Faire

A Sketchy Matchmaker Mystery

Publisher: Etta Faire

Price: FREE!

  

Lethal Trade by Declan Conner

A Red Dog One Mission

Publisher: Scorpion eBooks

Price: FREE!

  

A Watery Grave by Veena Hudson

A Karen Street Mystery

Publisher: HJ Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Haunted Hardbodies by Julie Derek

A Celeste Jones Paranormal Mystery

Publisher: Adrenaline Books

Price: FREE!

  

Murder in Cedar Falls by M. L. Michaels

A Novel of Romantic Suspense

Publisher: M. L. Michaels

Price: FREE!

  

The Darwin Effect by Mark Lukens

A Science Fiction Thriller

Publisher: Mark Lukens

Price: FREE!

  

Reaction by Gerald M. Kilby

A Techno Crime Thriller

Publisher: Gerald M. Kilby

Price: FREE!

  

The Hackewr and the Secret of Red Lilght by Sanjib Sinha

A Computer Crime Novel

Publisher: Sanjib Sinha

Price: FREE!

  

The Witching on the Wall by Constance Barker

The Witchy Women of Coven Grove

Publisher: Barking Mad Books

Price: FREE!

  

Hardened by Steel by J. B. Havens

A Steel Corps Novel

Publisher: J. B. Havens

Price: FREE!

  

I Will Not Yield by William T. Hogan

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: William T. Hogan

Price: FREE!

  

Til Death Do Us Part by Leonard Petracci

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Leonard Petracci

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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Behind Closed Doors, A Novel of Suspense by Brian L. Porter, Now Available at a Special Price

Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals are limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive books.

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

Behind Closed Doors by Brian L. Porter

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Creativia

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/19/2016 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

In fog-shrouded Victorian London, a ruthless serial killer is on the loose …

The population of London is horrified by the murder spree conducted by Jack the Ripper. While Police Commissioner Charles Warren investigates the Ripper murders, another, less publicized killer is at large. Tucked away on the inner pages of the daily press, a few articles tell of the strange murders taking place on board the carriages of the much-heralded London Metropolitan Railway. Each murder takes place the day after the Ripper killings, as the murderer appears to be taking advantage of the lack of police resources to tackle two major investigations simultaneously.

Inspector Albert Norris is charged with bringing the railway killer to justice, but clues are few and the killer's motive unclear. He is forced to carry out his investigation 'quietly and without causing a public panic' as the authorities try to maintain confidence in the railway system's safety. The press knows even less, and Norris can count on little help from above as he attempts to solve the inexplicable series of murders.

— Behind Closed Doors by Brian L. Porter

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