New This Week: 15 Minutes, A Maizie Albright, Star Detective Mystery by Larissa Reinhart

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15 Minutes by Larissa Reinhart

A Maizie Albright, Star Detective Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Past Perfect Press

Edition(s): Print and eBook

eBook Price: $2.99 (as of 01/26/2017 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

When ex-teen star Maizie Albright returns to her Southern hometown of Black Pine, Georgia, she hoped to rid herself of Hollywood tabloid and reality show hell for a new career as a private investigator. Instead, Hollyweird follows her home. Maizie's costar crushing, but now for her gumshoe boss. Her stage-monster mother still demands screen time. Her latest rival wants her kicked off the set, preferably back to a California prison.

By entangling herself in a missing person's case, she must reprise her most famous role. The job will demand a performance of a lifetime. But this time, the stakes are real and may prove deadly.

— 15 Minutes by Larissa Reinhart

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Artifacts of Death, A Manny Rivera Mystery by Rich Curtin, Now Available at a Special Price

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Artifacts of Death by Rich Curtin

A Manny Rivera Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Monicello Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/26/2017 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

Events which took place in 1938 lead to the present-day killing of a ranch hand in the remote canyon country near Moab, Utah, a mecca for outdoor adventure seekers. The only clue besides a 9-mm slug in the victim's head is an ancient-Indian potsherd stuck into his chest.

Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera is assigned the case and judges that it's likely related to a drug deal gone bad. But he's actually up against an intelligent and cunning adversary driven by greed who's discovered a long-forgotten cave containing a collection of rare museum-quality Indian artifacts.

Local politicians and merchants are exerting strong pressure on the sheriff for a quick resolution to the case as the killing is threatening to disrupt the upcoming tourist season, Moab's sole source of economic activity. After all, who would want to explore the backcountry with a killer on the loose out there?

In the end, Rivera faces a moral crisis: Should he enforce the law or serve the cause of justice? And a woman learns the answer to a question that's been haunting her for seventy years.

— Artifacts of Death by Rich Curtin

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New This Week: Hollywood Deception, A Hollywood Headlines Mystery by Gemma Halliday and Anna Snow

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Hollywood Deception by Gemma Halliday and Anna Snow

A Hollywood Headlines Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

Edition(s): Print and eBook

eBook Price: $4.99 (as of 01/26/2017 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

See all four mysteries in the Hollywood Scandals Series for $4.99 or less each on Kindle.

Tabloid reporter Allie Quick thinks she has the hottest story in Hollywood when she lands an exclusive with the scandalous Bobby Baxter — host of the exposé TV show Bobby Tells All. But when Bobby turns up dead just hours before her interview, Allie wonders just whom he was planning to "tell all" about.

Between an angry fan, a crew full of disgruntled employees, an estranged wife, and a list of secrets about to be exposed there's no shortage of people who wouldn't mind seeing Bobby cancelled permanently. And Allie isn't the only one digging — her rival is hot on her tail, and her editor-in-chief and maybe-boyfriend, Felix Dunn, isn't playing favorites when it comes to headlines. With the help of her eclectic co-workers at the L.A. Informer and a teenaged hacker with a major crush, Allie vows to get to the truth about Bobby's death … before the killer gets to her.

— Hollywood Deception by Gemma Halliday and Anna Snow

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Cut Loose, A Dusty Deals Mystery by Rae Davies, Now Available at a Special Price

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Cut Loose by Rae Davies

A Dusty Deals Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Lead Dog Books

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/26/2017 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

No one's perfect.

At least that's what Lucy Mathews tells herself. Except faced with her boyfriend's rodeo queen ex-wife and perfectly trained Australian shepherd, she has to wonder if maybe this whole 'no one's perfect' thing was made up by someone like … Lucy.

Lucky for Lucy though, things are hopping around Helena. It's rodeo season, and she has a booth. It's a great opportunity to expand her clientele and maybe even snag a cash prize for Kiska as the world's first sheep herding malamute.

Except Kiska can't herd, Lucy loses her wallet, and oh yeah … there's that dead rodeo queen Lucy just stumbled over.

Good thing her boyfriend's a detective. Except that's not going so well either. A new detective is in town, and he's convinced Lucy's involved in the rodeo queen's murder. Her boyfriend is no help at all and worse he's spending a little too much time with his ex-wife.

Lucy finds herself out of money, out of love, and maybe this time, out of luck.

— Cut Loose by Rae Davies

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New This Week: Ready to Fumble, A Worst Detective Ever Mystery by Christy Barritt

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Ready to Fumble by Christy Barritt

A Worst Detective Ever Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: River Heights

Edition(s): Print and eBook

eBook Price: $2.99 (as of 01/26/2017 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

I'm not really a private detective. I just play one on TV.

Joey Darling, better known to the world as Raven Remington, detective extraordinaire, is trying to separate herself from her invincible alter ego. She played the spunky character for five years on the hit TV show Relentless, which catapulted her to fame and into the role of Hollywood's sweetheart.

When her marriage falls apart, her finances dwindle to nothing, and her father disappears, Joey finds herself on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, trying to piece her life back together away from the limelight. A woman finds Raven — er, Joey — and insists on hiring her fictional counterpart to find a missing boyfriend. When someone begins staging crime scenes to match an episode of Relentless, Joey has no choice but to get involved.

Joey's bumbling sleuthing abilities have her butting heads with Detective Jackson Sullivan and kindling sparks with thrill-seeking neighbor Zane Oakley. Can Joey channel her inner Raven and unearth whodunit before she ends up totally done in? And where is her father anyway? Can she handle fame, or is disappearing into obscurity the wiser option?

— Ready to Fumble by Christy Barritt

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A Man Overboard, A Mystery Thriller by Shawn Hopkins, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Man Overboard by Shawn Hopkins

A Mystery Thriller

Publisher: Shawn Hopkins

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/26/2017 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

When Jack's mother-in-law sends him and Stacey on a two-week cruise, they're determined to make the most of it, to forget about the cancer and its cold grip on their future.

Planning to revisit the earlier days of their marriage, and the unbridled romance that defined it, they'll lose themselves in paradise while building the resolve needed to endure the coming hell.

At least that was his plan …

Instead, he'll be cast into an ocean of deceit and dark conspiracy that will leave him questioning all he holds dear in this world, putting to the test just how much a man's love can truly endure.

— A Man Overboard by Shawn Hopkins

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Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea by Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017 …

Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea by Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks, Short Story Collection

Publisher: Down & Out Books

  

Hardboiled. Softboiled. Noir. East Coast. West Coast. And all points in between. Whatever you call them, gumshoe, shamus, Pinkerton, detective, private eye, P.I., shadow, tail, investigator, and wherever you need them, from East to West, North to South. They're all here.

From the hard pavement of Brooklyn, New York, to the mean dusty streets of Carson City. Down to sultry New Orleans and the freak show that's Venice, CA. From the flim-flammers of Waco, Texas to DC, Las Vegas to San Berdoo and LA. And from Iowa City to San Diego and small town North Carolina — not to mention the low-life drug dealers in a little place called King's Quarter, Maine. No one is safe in this impressive collection featuring fifteen original private eye stories. Crime fiction connoisseurs will visit one major crime scene after another with some of today's best-of-the-best crime writers serving as tour guides. Poisoned-pen masters like: J.L Abramo, Eric Beetner, Michael Bracken, Meredith Cole, Matt Coyle, Thomas Donahue, John Floyd, Gay Toltl Kinman, Terrill Lee Lankford, Janice Law, Paul D. Marks, Andrew McAleer, O'Neil De Noux, Robert J. Randisi, and Art Taylor.

COAST TO COAST: PRIVATE EYES FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA features suspense stories ranging from hardboiled to psychological to thrillers. And while these stories differ in locale, climate, mood and tone, they all resonate with the dark underbelly of crime.

— Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea by Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks

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Follow the Dotted Line, An Andrea Bravos Mystery by Nancy Hersage, Now Available at a Special Price

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Follow the Dotted Line by Nancy Hersage

An Andrea Bravos Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kindle Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/26/2017 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Andrea Bravos is dazed and amazed when a Styrofoam burger box with her ex's ashes arrives in the mail. Her adventure to find out what happened will upset officials of several small countries, insult the founders of three major religions, give her four adult children acid reflux, and lead her to assault with a deadly golf club.

In the process, she will joyfully drag along her soft-spoken but fearsome accountant, while trying to fend off her mooch of a nephew. It's a convoluted and quixotic caper, but it all comes together in the end — even the avocados, World War II spy, IRS agent, palm reader, and deadly spider.

Move over Marple and Plum, here comes Andy!

— Follow the Dotted Line by Nancy Hersage

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Unpunished by Lisa Black, New in Bookstores during January 2017

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during January 2017 is …

Unpunished by Lisa Black, a Maggie Gardiner and Jack Renner Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

 

It begins with the kind of bizarre death that makes headlines — literally. A copy editor at the Cleveland Herald is found hanging above the grinding wheels of the newspaper assembly line, a wide strap wrapped around his throat. Forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner has her suspicions about this apparent suicide inside the tsunami of tensions that is the news industry today — and when the evidence suggests murder, Maggie has no choice but to place her trust in the one person she doesn't trust at all …

Jack Renner is a killer with a conscience, a vigilante with his own code of honor. In the past, Jack has used his skills and connections as a homicide detective to take the law into his own hands, all in the name of justice. He has only one problem: Maggie knows his secret. She insists he enforce the law, not subvert it. But when more newspaper employees are slain, Jack may be the only person who can help Maggie unmask the killer — even if Jack is still checking names off his own private murder list.

— Unpunished by Lisa Black

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No Safe Place by Matt Hilton, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017 …

No Safe Place by Matt Hilton, A Joe Hunter Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Down & Out Books

  

Who does Andrew Clayton turn to for help when his wife has been murdered, his child is in danger, and the police think he is responsible?

Despite his mistrust of Clayton, Joe Hunter accepts the job of protecting young Cole. But who is he protecting the boy from? And why?

It's clear Clayton knows more about his wife's killer, but he isn't saying. And when his silence places Cole in the killer's sights there's … No Safe Place.

— No Safe Place by Matt Hilton

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Death in Shanghai, An Inspector Danilov Historical Thriller by M. J. Lee, Now Available at a Special Price

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Death in Shanghai by M. J. Lee

An Inspector Danilov Historical Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Carina

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/26/2017 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Shanghai, 1928. The body of a blonde is washed up on the Beach of Dead Babies, in the heart of the smog-filled city. Seemingly a suicide, a closer inspection reveals a darker motive: the corpse has been weighed down, it's lower half mutilated … and the Chinese character for 'justice' carved into the chest.

The moment Inspector Danilov lays eyes on the dismembered body, he realises that he has an exceptional case on his hands. And when the first body is followed by another, and another, each displaying a new, bloody message, he has no option but face the truth. He is dealing with the worst kind of criminal; someone determined, twisted … and vengeful.

Someone who must be caught … .whatever the cost.

— Death in Shanghai by M. J. Lee

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New This Week: Masked to Death, A Faith Hunter Scrap This Mystery by Christina Freeburn

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Masked to Death by Christina Freeburn

A Faith Hunter Scrap This Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Henery Press

Edition(s): Print and eBook

eBook Price: $4.99 (as of 01/26/2017 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

See all five mysteries in the popular Faith Hunter Scrap This Series for $4.99 or less each on Kindle.

A Caribbean cruise is the perfect setting for a Roget wedding, and Faith meeting Ted's family. She also hopes the vacation gets their stalled romance moving, but it doesn't take long for that dream to capsize. Ted's daughter hates her. The ex-wife is adored. Odessa Roget is surly. And the banned father of a groom, John Roget, requests Faith's assistance in bringing down a jewel theft ring masterminded by his ex-wife.

Having had a man she loved accuse her of a crime, Faith won't let Odessa travel down the same path and agrees to help. Faith sets her course on uncovering the true criminals — which might be a groom's best friend. The romantic week turns disastrous as a wedding is interrupted, suspicious deaths point to murders, and Ted's daughter schemes to reunite her parents. Instead of diamonds being a girl's best friend, Faith finds they're cruising toward Davy Jones' Locker.

— Masked to Death by Christina Freeburn

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Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Thursday, January 26, 2017

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The Crescent Spy by Michael Wallace

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing

Kindle Daily Deal Price: 99¢

Writing under a man's name, Josephine Breaux is the finest reporter at Washington's Morning Clarion. Using her wit and charm, she never fails to get the scoop on the latest Union and Confederate activities. But when a rival paper reveals her true identity, accusations of treason fly. Despite her claims of loyalty to the Union, she is arrested as a spy and traitor.

To Josephine's surprise, she's whisked away to the White House, where she learns that President Lincoln himself wishes to use her cunning and skill for a secret mission in New Orleans that could hasten the end of the war. For Josephine, though, this mission threatens to open old wounds and expose dangerous secrets. In the middle of the most violent conflict the country has ever seen, can one woman overcome the treacherous secrets of her past in order to secure her nation's future?

— The Crescent Spy by Michael Wallace

Tortures of the Damned by Hunter Shea

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Pinnacle

Kindle Daily Deal Price: 99¢

First, the electricity goes — plunging the east coast in darkness after a devastating nuclear attack. Millions panic. Millions die. They are the lucky ones.

Next, the chemical weapons take effect — killing or contaminating everything alive. Except a handful of survivors in a bomb shelter. They are the damned.

Then, the real nightmare begins. Hordes of rats force two terrified families out of their shelter — and into the savage streets of an apocalytic wasteland. They are not alone. Vicious, chemical-crazed animals hunt in packs. Dogs tear flesh, cats draw blood, horses crush bone. Roaming gangs of the sick and dying are barely recognizable as human. These are the times that try men's souls. These are the tortures that tear families apart. This is hell on earth. The rules are simple: Kill or die.

— Tortures of the Damned by Hunter Shea

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Thursday, January 26, 2017

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 7:00 AM ET …

Passion Fruit Punch Murder by Susan Gillard

A Donut Hole Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Guardian Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Cat's Paw by Chandler Steele

A Veritas Novel of Romantic Suspense

Publisher: Steele Romance

Price: FREE!

  

Retirement Plan by B. J. Green

A Nick Benton Mystery

Publisher: B. J. Green

Price: FREE!

  

When the Tik-Tik Sings by Doug Lamoreux

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Creativia

Price: FREE!

  

Deadly Deceit by Karen Randau

A Rim Country Mystery

Publisher: Short on Time Books

Price: FREE!

  

Death Management by Edwin Dasso

The Jack Bass, Black Cloud Chronicles

Publisher: Edwin Dasso

Price: FREE!

  

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A Slow Death, A Max Drescher Mystery by James Craig, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Slow Death by James Craig

A Max Drescher Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Fahrenheit Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/25/2017 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

The Wall has fallen and Berlin is a magnet for criminals and protestors from all over Germany and the rest of Europe.

When a seemingly ordinary family are slaughtered in their home, Kriminalinspektor Max Drescher finds himself up against a ruthless Mafia clan trying to establish its operations in the newly reunited city.

Max has problems of his own but knowing this could be his last case, the veteran detective will stop at nothing to get a result.

— A Slow Death by James Craig

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