A Puzzle in a Pear Tree, A Puzzle Lady Mystery by Parnell Hall, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Puzzle in a Pear Tree by Parnell Hall

A Puzzle Lady Mystery

Publisher: Bantam

Price: 99¢ (as of 11/07/2016 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Tis the season to be jolly, but Cora Felton, shanghaied into "The Twelve Days of Christmas" as a most reluctant maid-a-milking, has every right to feel like a grinch. When someone steals the partridge from the pear tree and replaces it with a cryptic puzzle she has no hope of solving, it's almost more than the Puzzle Lady can bear. But then smug crossword creator Harvey Beerbaum solves the acrostic, and it turns out to be a poem promising the death of an actress. This is more like it! Could the threat be aimed at Cora and her thespian debut? Or at Sherry, one of the ladies-dancing? Or at Sherry's nemesis, the pageant's predatory lead, Becky Baldwin?

Cora and Sherry barely have time for a mystery, what with trimming Christmas trees and buying Christmas presents, but rehearsals go on, under police protection — until a killer strikes elsewhere in a most unexpected manner.Ordinarily Cora Felton would be delighted to have two murders to solve. But this time she finds herself vying with a visiting Scotland Yard inspector who appears to have an all-too-personal stake in solving the crimes. Cora does too when her own niece becomes a prime suspect and the murderer strikes again.

Is someone trying to shut down the Christmas pageant? Cora would be only too happy if that were the case, but she fears the secrets lie deeper. Now she is interviewing witnesses, breaking into motel rooms, finding evidence, planting evidence, and having a merry old time. In fact, she would be perfectly happy — if this wasn't turning out to be a Christmas to die for!

— A Puzzle in a Pear Tree by Parnell Hall

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City of Strangers by Louise Millar, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2016 …

City of Strangers by Louise Millar, A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Atria

  

When Grace and her childhood sweetheart Mac come home from their honeymoon in Thailand, they're shocked to find a dead body beside their pile of unopened wedding presents. The police are unable to ID the man, so it is assumed that he was a burglar who died from natural causes. Little do they know that evidence for a rather different story is hidden right beneath their apartment …

Three months later, Grace finds a card that, in place of well wishes, bears the message: "That man was Lucian Grabole." A newspaper reporter fearing for her job, Grace lands on an idea that could answer some questions, and save her career as well. She'll pitch a story to her boss called "Who was the man in my kitchen?"

Soon Grace is trekking across Europe, talking to strangers and piecing together clues as she tries to unravel the mystery of who Lucian Grabole was, and why he met such a macabre end. Suddenly, with two more deaths linked to the case, it becomes clear that Grabole most certainly did not die a natural death. And the answer to the mystery of who the killer is, and why, lies back in Grace's apartment …

— City of Strangers by Louise Millar

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Bone Harvest, A Claire Watkins Mystery by Mary Logue, Now Available at a Special Price

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Bone Harvest by Mary Logue

A Claire Watkins Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/07/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

The unsolved murders at a remote Wisconsin farmhouse half a century ago have receded into time. But one deranged man will do anything to make sure that all of Pepin County remembers that bloody day …

When a quantity of dangerous pesticides is stolen from the local co-op, Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins is called in to investigate. The thief has left one bizarre clue: the finger bone of a child long dead.

The pesticides soon reappear with devastating effect — in flowerbeds, in animal feed, and in a fatal concoction at a Fourth of July picnic. Each time, a tiny human bone is left at the scene. With the help of Harold Peabody, the quirky, aging editor of the Durand Daily, Claire unravels the secrets of the past, leading her to a pair of young lovers, a man enraged over his mother's death, an obsessive recluse, and the deputy who first discovered the corpses of the Schuler family Claire desperately races against time to find the madman before he uses the lethal pesticide again. But he won't be stopped. Not until he gets what he wants.

— Bone Harvest by Mary Logue

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The Champagne Conspiracy by Ellen Crosby, New in Bookstores during November 2016

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

The Champagne Conspiracy by Ellen Crosby, a Lucie Montgomery, Wine Country Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

 

Winter has come to the Montgomery Estate Vineyard in Atoka, Virginia. Lucie Montgomery and winemaker Quinn Santori have decided to make champagne, a first for the vineyard.

But then Gino Tomassi, Quinn's uncle, turns up on their doorstep one afternoon, demanding help in solving the mystery of what happened to Zara Tomassi, the first wife of his grandfather, who died in a San Francisco hotel in 1923 under suspicious circumstances. And it seems there's no coincidence that her death came the day after President Warren Harding passed away in that same hotel. Gino needs answers before his blackmailer takes him for all he's worth — or exposes an explosive family secret.

Lucie searches for what happened almost a hundred years ago as she delves into Prohibition-era Washington, D.C. — a town of bootlegging and duplicity, jazz clubs and speakeasies. But then the investigation turns deadly, threatening Lucie, her relationship with Quinn, and the vineyard, as they realize someone is still out there nearly a century later who will go to any lengths to keep the truth about Zara's death a buried secret.

— The Champagne Conspiracy by Ellen Crosby

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Hooking for Trouble by Betty Hechtman, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2016 …

Hooking for Trouble by Betty Hechtman, A Molly Pink, Crochet Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

Molly Pink can't help seeing a pattern of trouble …

The Tarzana Hookers' Yarn University has been a big success, and the classes have drawn in a slew of new crochet devotees. A less welcome arrival is the boxy monstrosity in the yard behind Molly's house. She hasn't met her new neighbors, but when she sees a couple struggling on the balcony and later spies what looks like someone lying on the ground, Molly wastes no time calling in her ex, homicide detective Barry Greenberg.

To Molly's shock, Barry reports that nothing is amiss with her neighbors and asks her to lay off with the amateur detecting. Molly knows she wasn't just seeing things, but with no body to prove her case she'll have to unravel the evidence on her own — because someone in Tarzana is tangled up in murder …

— Hooking for Trouble by Betty Hechtman

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All the Dead Lie Down, A Novel of Suspense by Mary Willis Walker, Now Available at a Special Price

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All the Dead Lie Down by Mary Willis Walker

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Bantam

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/07/2016 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

When crime reporter Molly Cates's father died more than twenty-five years ago, the case was ruled a suicide, and Molly's efforts to prove otherwise led to nothing but anguish and the breakup of her family.

But now new information has come her way and she reopens the investigation — and a rush of old wounds — with a vengeance. Soon the personal becomes dangerously political as Molly's search for the truth leads her from the stately halls of Texas government to the mean streets of Austin's down-and-out — and ultimately to a moral dilemma she never could have anticipated.

— All the Dead Lie Down by Mary Willis Walker

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New This Week: Sanford Hospital, The Berkley Street Series by Ron Ripley

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Sanford Hospital by Ron Ripley

The Berkley Street Series (4th in series)

Publisher: ScareStreet.com

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/07/2016 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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Sanford Hospital. A Victorianesque monstrosity with creeping ivy and the infamous Ward E, home of the soon-to-be-dead. This is where ghost hunter, Shane Ryan, ends up for his burn treatments. Courtesy of the Veterans Administration system, the ex-marine is cut off from his private doctors and thrust into the arms of a hospital with one special nurse from hell; Nurse Ruth Williamson, who is as dead as they come.

The Nurse is a whole new breed of undead. She has a cadre of helpers who are loyal to the grave. Her twisted sense of mercy is death to the dying … and the living if they get in her way. And Shane Ryan is in her way.

Gathering his new friends and a few ghostly comrades, Shane takes up arms against the unholy regiment to fight the good fight. He can't allow the Nurse to continue her killing spree. She is not God and her legacy of death must be stopped. Although she has a few more tricks up her sleeve, Shane's mission is clear. The Nurse must die. And stay dead. Once and for all.

— Sanford Hospital by Ron Ripley

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Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Monday, November 07, 2016

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War Dogs by Greg Bear

The War Dogs Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Orbit

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $2.99

They made their presence on Earth known thirteen years ago.

Providing technology and scientific insights far beyond what mankind was capable of. They became indispensable advisors and promised even more gifts that we just couldn't pass up. We called them Gurus.

It took them a while to drop the other shoe. You can see why, looking back.

It was a very big shoe, completely slathered in crap.

They had been hounded by mortal enemies from sun to sun, planet to planet, and were now stretched thin — and they needed our help.

And so our first bill came due. Skyrines like me were volunteered to pay the price. As always.

These enemies were already inside our solar system and were moving to establish a beachhead, but not on Earth.

On Mars.

— War Dogs by Greg Bear

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Monday, November 07, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Monday, November 07, 2016 at 7:00 AM ET …

First Came a Murder by John Creasey

A Department Z Mystery

Publisher: Ipso Books

Price: FREE!

  

Somebody Killed the Cart Girl by Judy Moore

A Mystery Thriller

Publisher: Books To Go Now

Price: FREE!

  

The Applicant by Anthony Steyning

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: FREE!

  

Murder for Rent by Gary Campana

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Gary Campana

Price: FREE!

  

Invisible by Bruce A. Bracken

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Coventry House Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

A School Inspector Calls by Rosie Cavendish

A Miss Clover Lightfoot Mystery

Publisher: Rosie Cavendish

Price: FREE!

  

Don't Remember by Rich Silvers

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Conure Press

Price: FREE!

  

Serenity by Craig A. Hart

A Shelby Alexander Thriller

Publisher: Craig A. Hart

Price: FREE!

  

Murder at the Open by Angus MacVicar

A Samuel McLintock Mystery

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: FREE!

  

A Subtle Agency by Graeme Rodaughan

The Metaframe War Series

Publisher: System Zero Productions

Price: FREE!

  

Jeremy's Secrets by J. J. MacLeod

A Harry & Company Mystery

Publisher: J. J. MacLeod

Price: FREE!

  

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Beverly Barton Bundle, Three Novels of Suspense by Beverly Barton, Now Available at a Special Price

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Beverly Barton Bundle by Beverly Barton

Three Novels of Suspense

Publisher: Zebra

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/06/2016 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

Dead by Midnight … The last sounds Dean Wilson hears are a clock striking twelve and a killer's taunting words. And his death is just the first. One by one, victims are stalked and shot at close range. Only the killer knows their sins, and who will be the next to die at midnight …

In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it's a joke. Then she gets a second note. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high-school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he's drawn into a case that's terrifyingly personal.

Dead by Morning … He begins his work just before dawn, wielding a knife with the precision of a surgeon. Cunning and meticulous, he's always in control. Mercy is not an option …

Maleah Purdue is tough, outspoken, and completely dedicated to her work at the Powell Security Agency. But her fearless exterior shatters when a madman begins killing her colleagues one by one, mimicking a notorious serial killer already behind bars. Working alongside top profiler Derek Lawrence, Maleah will do anything to find the murderer, even if it means playing a psychopath's twisted mind games.

No one connected to the Agency is safe. No one is beyond suspicion. For as Maleah and Derek piece together the clues, they uncover a chilling legacy of lies and brutal vengeance-and a killer who has been hiding in plain sight all along …

Dead by Nightfall … Malcolm York is a sadistic monster, guilty of unspeakable crimes. And with his endless wealth he's funded a series of depraved hunts. The few who survived can never forget. They can only be thankful the terror is over. Until rumors start swirling …

Griffin Powell knows the twisted depths of York's madness. He's also sure that York is dead. But then Griff's wife, Nicole, disappears and the phone calls begin — that familiar voice taunting him, promising to destroy everything Griff loves.

Using all the resources of the Powell Agency, Griff searches for Nic, aware that every step propels him further into a madman's web. Because the only way to keep Nic safe is to join one last perverse game where winner kills all, and the loser is dead by nightfall …

— Beverly Barton Bundle by Beverly Barton

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The Fourth Rule of Ten, A Tenzing Norbu Mystery by Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsay, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Fourth Rule of Ten by Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsay

A Tenzing Norbu Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Hay House

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/06/2016 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Let go of expectations … they always lead to suffering — The Fourth Rule of Ten.

Ex — Buddhist monk, former LAPD detective, and current private investigator Tenzing "Ten" Norbu knows Bill Bohannon as many things: loving husband, devoted father, police administrator, former partner, and best friend. But then an uninvited guest from Bill's past upends the Bohannons' Fourth of July barbecue, revealing in levelheaded Bill the most unexpected behavior — behavior that awkwardly drops Ten in the middle of a crumbling marriage.

Ten makes an unexpected move of his own when he agrees to pro bono work for a convicted felon. But it was dope slinger Godfrey Chambers Ten had repeatedly busted during his days on the force, not the reformed and rechristened G-Force who is now asking for Ten's help in claiming money left to him by a kind-hearted benefactor — and contested by the benefactor's self-serving family.

Soon Ten's investigations lead him down the darkest corridors of the Internet and halfway around the globe to Sarajevo as he navigates the seedy worlds of human trafficking and personal regret. As his cases intertwine, Ten will rely on the wisdom of the Buddha and his own network of relationships — with super hacker Mike, outrageously idiosyncratic assistant Kim, old monastery friends Yeshe and Lopsang, Serbian cabbie and former policija Petar, and, of course, feline rock Tank — to solve the puzzle ­and keep free of his own tangled past. Especially when an old flame returns.

— The Fourth Rule of Ten by Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsay

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New This Week: Murder in the Village, A Diane Dimbleby Cozy Mystery by Penelope Sotheby

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Murder in the Village by Penelope Sotheby

A Diane Dimbleby Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Jonmac Limited

Price: 99¢ (as of 11/06/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

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The retired teacher-turned-author knew the baking competition this year was especially fierce, but would one of the participants really kill to win? It appears so. Just as the reigning champion is celebrating a record-breaking victory, she collapses. Diane finds clues and suspects galore in her quaint, picturesque town, but another contestant is murdered in the meantime. It turns out the victims had a dark secret they were hiding, and Diane and Inspector Crothers believe someone familiar — someone from the village — is responsible for their deaths.

Apple Mews is supposed to be peaceful. You should be able to trust your neighbors. Diane is tasked with her most personal case to date and it looks like timing is running out to save the next victims.

— Murder in the Village by Penelope Sotheby

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Never Send Flowers, A James Bond Thriller by John Gardner, Now Available at a Special Price

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Never Send Flowers by John Gardner

A James Bond Thriller

Publisher: Ian Fleming Publications

Price: $1.89 (as of 11/06/2016 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

In different corners of the world four high-profile figures are assassinated in less than a week. Nobody links the deaths but one thing is certain: each of them has been stalked, sought out and killed with care and preparation. Then a sinister connection is established: a single, blood-tipped rose is sent to each funeral and an unremarkable female agent is murdered in Switzerland.

When MI5 come to MI6 to ask for help M brings in his best. At first, a weekend abroad seems tempting to James Bond: especially when he's paired with Flicka von Grusse, a gorgeous Swiss intelligence officer. But this is a perilous assignment that starts with the mysterious actor David Dragonpol and leads them to Athens, Milan and on to EuroDisney … and an explosive climax.

— Never Send Flowers by John Gardner

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New This Week: On the Wrong Track, A Holmes on the Range Mystery by Steve Hockensmith

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On the Wrong Track by Steve Hockensmith

A Holmes on the Range Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Steve Hockensmith

Price: $4.99 (as of 11/06/2016 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

This is a new ebook edition of a mystery first published in hardcover by Minotaur Books in 2007.

Sherlock Holmes-worshiping cowpokes Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer are back in another Old West adventure. This time they sign on as guards for the hated Southern Pacific Railroad — and quickly find themselves heading full-steam toward disaster! They've barely left the station when the train they're on is robbed and the baggage man loses his head … literally. Also on board for the wild ride: a drunken Pinkerton, a mysterious beauty, a secretive Chinese doctor and a deadly swamp adder with a taste for cowboys.

Will Big Red and Old Red make it to the end of the line alive? Not if the bad guys get their way!

— On the Wrong Track by Steve Hockensmith

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The Ritual Bath, A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Mystery by Fate Kellerman, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Ritual Bath by Fate Kellerman

A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/06/2016 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.

The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only one in the sheltered community willing to speak of this unspeakable violation. As Rina tries to steer Decker through the maze of religious laws the two grow closer. But before they get to the bottom of this horrendous crime, revelations come to light that are so shocking that they threaten to come between the hard-nosed cop and the deeply religious woman with whom he has become irrevocably linked.

— The Ritual Bath by Fate Kellerman

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