Minotaur Mysteries: The Last Confession, A Michael Coletti Mystery by Solomon Jones

Minotaur Books, an imprint of Macmillan and a leading publisher of mystery and suspense books, currently has over 200 books available for $4.99 or less.

Today, we are pleased to feature one of these titles, The Last Confession by Solomon Jones, now just $2.99. (Price verified on June 01, 2014 as of 5:00 PM ET.)

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The Last Confession by Solomon Jones
A Michael Coletti Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books

Having come of age on the mob-controlled streets of 1960's South Philly, Detective Mike Coletti learned early to walk the fine line between cops and criminals. That skill served him well during his thirty-one years in homicide. But it never stopped the nightmares. The screams in the sanctuary still haunt him, the sound of the gunshots still torment him, and the truth of the Confessional Murders still speaks to him, if only in his dreams.

Now, on the eve of Coletti's retirement, the priest whom he arrested for the decade-old crime is about to be put to death, and in one final nightmare, Coletti clearly sees the truth. The priest is innocent, and it all comes to light when the real killer reemerges and embarks on a killing spree that turns Philadelphia upside down. To set things right and stop the execution of an innocent man, Coletti must catch a mysterious killer who now calls himself the Angel of Death.

As the chase winds through art galleries and gritty streets, ancient prophecies and holy ground, the game intensifies, cultures collide, and Philly's best detective is forced to face his nightmarish past — a past that could very well destroy him.

  

Design on a Crime, A Haley Farrell, Deadly Décor Mystery by Ginny Aiken, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Design on a Crime by Ginny Aiken, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Revelle.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $0.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (06/01/2014 at 4:30 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Design on a Crime by Ginny Aiken
A Haley Farrell, Deadly Décor Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Revelle

Haley Farrell is taking a chance on herself. After receiving her interior design certificate, she quits her job at the local furniture store and decides to open her own interior decorating business. But with all the advantages of her new career — meeting new people, and decorating new and old homes — comes a huge pitfall. Her new job allows her access into her clients' homes and their lives … but also their deaths.

When Haley's mentor, Marge Norwalk, is murdered, Haley becomes the prime suspect. Armed only with the confidence that Marge instilled in her, Haley sets out to find the real murderer. But as she sets forth, she has no idea what twists and turns will bring her face-to-face with her long-hidden past.

  

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Minotaur Mysteries: Murder on Nob Hill, A Sarah Woolson Mystery by Shirley Tallman

Minotaur Books, an imprint of Macmillan and a leading publisher of mystery and suspense books, currently has over 200 books available for $4.99 or less.

Today, we are pleased to feature one of these titles, Murder on Nob Hill by Shirley Tallman, now just $1.99. (Price verified on June 01, 2014 as of 4:00 PM ET.)

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Murder on Nob Hill by Shirley Tallman
A Sarah Woolson Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books

The year is 1880, the place San Francisco. Intelligent, outspoken Sarah Woolson is a young woman with a goal and the fortitude to achieve it. She has always dreamed of becoming a lawyer. The trouble is, everyone believes women belong in the home — that it is not only unnatural, but against God's will for them to seek a career.

When Sarah finagles an interview with one of the city's most prestigious law firms, no one thinks she has a prayer of being hired. Except Sarah. Using her brains and a little subterfuge, she not only manages to become the firm's newest (and only female) associate attorney, she also acquires her first client — a lovely young society matron suspected of brutally stabbing to death her wealthy but abusive husband. Sarah is sure of her client's innocence, but the revelation of the woman's secret lover may make that innocence impossible to prove.

When four more victims fall prey to the killer's knife, Sarah fears she has bitten off more than she can chew. Bucking her boorish employer and the judicial system, Sarah finds herself embroiled in shady legal maneuvers, a daring Chinatown raid, and a secret and very scandalous sex club.

  

Minotaur Mysteries: Liberation Movements, An Eastern European Thriller by Olen Steinhauer

Minotaur Books, an imprint of Macmillan and a leading publisher of mystery and suspense books, currently has over 200 books available for $4.99 or less.

Today, we are pleased to feature one of these titles, Liberation Movements by Olen Steinhauer, now just $1.99. (Price verified on June 01, 2014 as of 3:30 PM ET.)

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Liberation Movements by Olen Steinhauer
An Eastern European Thriller (4th in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books

The year is 1975, and one of the People's Militia homicide investigators is on a plane out of the capital, bound for Istanbul. The plane is hijacked by Armenian terrorists, but before the Turkish authorities can fulfill their demands, the plane explodes in midair.

Two investigators — Gavra Noukas, a secret policeman, and Katja Drdova, a homicide detective — are assigned to the case. Both believe that Brano Sev, their enigmatic superior and himself a career secret policeman, is keeping them in the dark both about the details of the case and all its players and about the true motives of their investigation, but they can't figure out why. That is, until they learn that everything is connected to a seven-year-old murder, a seemingly insignificant murder that has had far-reaching consequences.

  

The Eye of God, A SIGMA Force Thriller by James Rollins, at a Special Price during June 2014

Every month Amazon releases a new selection of Kindle books priced $3.99 or less.

Today's featured title from the Mystery & Thrillers category is The Eye of God by James Rollins. This Kindle book was listed at $1.99 as of the date and time of this post, Sunday, June 01, 2014 at 3:00 PM ET, and should be available at this price through the end of the month.

More information about the book is below; if other vendors have priced-matched this title, links to their sites are also shown.

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The Eye of God by James Rollins
A SIGMA Force Thriller (9th in series)
Publisher: William Morrow

In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive search for its valuable cargo: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy — and a shocking image of the eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin.

At the Vatican, a package arrives containing two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA evidence reveals that both came from the same body: the long dead Mongol king Genghis Khan.

Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to discover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.

  

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All the Things You Are by Declan Hughes, New in Bookstores in June 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during June 2014 by Severn House, is All the Things You Are by Declan Hughes.

For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for June 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of June 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

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All the Things You Are
Declan Hughes

About to turn forty, her youthful dreams of becoming an actress abandoned, there's no doubt in her mind that suburban wife and mother-of-two Clare Taylor has settled. A wild week in Chicago may have shaken things up a bit, but as she turns her key in her Madison, Wisconsin home on the eve of Hallowe'en, she knows that what happened with her ex was nothing more than a distraction, that this is where her life is.

Except it's all gone. The furniture gone, the house stripped, her husband Danny, her daughters, all gone; no message; no note, nothing. Outside in the dark, searching for a sign, she steps in one: the eviscerated body of the family dog.

By dawn next morning, her supposedly mortgage-free home has been foreclosed against, one of Danny's childhood friends lies dead in her backyard, and Clare is caught up in a nightmare that began with her husband on Hallowe'en night, 1976. A nightmare that reaches its terrifying climax thirty-five years later.

      

Minotaur Mysteries: Shakespeare's Counselor, A Lily Bard Mystery by Charlaine Harris

Minotaur Books, an imprint of Macmillan and a leading publisher of mystery and suspense books, currently has over 200 books available for $4.99 or less.

Today, we are pleased to feature one of these titles, Shakespeare's Counselor by Charlaine Harris, now just $1.99. (Price verified on June 01, 2014 as of 2:00 PM ET.)

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Shakespeare's Counselor by Charlaine Harris
A Lily Bard Mystery (5th in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books

Cleaning woman and karate expert Lily Bard is a woman with a complicated past. Trying her best to cope with her terrifying memories and horrible nightmares, she decides to join a weekly group therapy session in her hometown of Shakespeare, Arkansas. At first, Lily can hardly believe the number of her fellow Shakespeareans that share her life experiences.

As it turns out, the group members' feelings aren't the only things that need sorting out — they assemble for a session and find a woman dead, killed in bone-chilling fashion and deliberately left on display to send a twisted message. Who would commit such horrendous crime, and who is the intended recipient of the message?

Before long, Lily becomes embroiled in this disturbing murder and its aftermath, one in which the brutal killer's motives are entirely unclear. The truth is, the situation has dredged up more than a few of her own terrible secrets, and she may not be able to rest until she can untangle the who and why of this terrible crime. But can she accomplish this before the killer strikes again, and before her nightmares send her over the edge?

  

New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense: Collateral Damage by Hannah Alexander

Every month Harlequin publishes several new novels of mystery and suspense. We are pleased to present in this post one of its new June, 2014 titles, published in the Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense series.

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Collateral Damage by Hannah Alexander
A Novel of Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense
Publication Date: June 01, 2014
List Price: $5.99 (ebook), $5.99 (paperback)

Was the explosion that took the lives of Sarah Russell's parents an act of murder? Her teenage daughter thinks so and is determined to seek answers in the sleepy small town where Sarah grew up. Sarah fears the teen will uncover a secret she's not ready to share: everyone, including Sarah's daughter, believes the girl is Sarah's kid sister. Even the child's father doesn't know the truth.

But as Sarah reunites with Nick Tyler to look into the mysterious deaths, she knows she'll have to tell him — and their daughter — the truth. Yet someone wants to ensure that no one uncovers any long-buried secrets.

  

A Pint of Murder, A Madoc and Janet Rhys Mystery by Charlotte MacLeod, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature A Pint of Murder by Charlotte MacLeod, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Open Road.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $2.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (06/01/2014 at 1:00 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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A Pint of Murder by Charlotte MacLeod
A Madoc and Janet Rhys Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Open Road

Originally published as written by Alisa Craig.

Agatha Treadway has done her own preserving ever since the day her husband was done in by a can of supermarket tomatoes. And after four vigilant decades canning everything from peaches to spinach, it is her own green beans that kill her. Inspecting the fatal jar, Janet Wadman finds it has been tampered with, so that toxic botulism was allowed to seep in. But before she can tell the town doctor that Mrs. Treadway was murdered, the doctor joins the widow in untimely death.

To investigate, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police sends Madoc Rhys, a Mountie who doesn't look the part. Masquerading as a relative, this squat Welshman helps Janet dig into the town's dark side. And what they find is a deadly secret that proves even more poisonous than botulism.

  

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A New MystereBook: Under an English Heaven by Alice K. Boatwright

Here is 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 May 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

Under an English Heaven by Alice K. Boatwright is the first in a new series introducing amateur sleuth Ellie Kent.

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Under an English Heaven by Alice K. Boatwright
An Ellie Kent Mystery
Publisher: Cozy Cat Press
Publication Date: May 30, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 06/01/14 12:30 PM ET)

When Ellie Kent moves to an English village with her new husband Graham, she fears the villagers will always see her at that young American who snared their attractive vicar during his sabbatical in California. But this challenge is nothing compared to what happens when she stumbles across a body in the churchyard.

The villagers insist they don't know the murdered man, so suspicion mounts that the killer must be the incomer — the vicar's new wife. As evidence piles up against her, Ellie tries to stay one step ahead of the police to unravel a decades-old literary mystery and love story. Will others die before she can solve it? And what will be left of her new life and marriage, even if she succeeds?

  

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Minotaur Mysteries: Borderlands, A Benedict Devlin Mystery by Brian McGilloway

Minotaur Books, an imprint of Macmillan and a leading publisher of mystery and suspense books, currently has over 200 books available for $4.99 or less.

Today, we are pleased to feature one of these titles, Borderlands by Brian McGilloway, now just $2.99. (Price verified on June 01, 2014 as of 12:00 PM ET.)

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Borderlands by Brian McGilloway
A Benedict Devlin Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books

Winter 2002. The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone-Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the Borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation. The only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl's finger and an old photograph, left where she died.

While Devlin searches for the girl's killer, her father has his own ideas about who is responsible — and his own ideas about how to make them pay. Meanwhile, Devlin becomes reacquainted with an old flame eager to rekindle their affair.

Then another teenager is murdered, and Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings and the disappearance of a prostitute twenty-five years earlier — a case in which he fears one of his own colleagues is implicated. As a thickening snow storm blurs the border between North and South, Devlin finds the distinction between right and wrong, vengeance and justice, and even police officer and criminal becoming equally unclear.

  

Authors on Tour: FaceOff, an Anthology edited by David Baldacci

FaceOff
by David Baldacci, editor

We are delighted to welcome the authors of the anthology FaceOff (Simon & Schuster; June 2014 hardcover, audiobook and ebook formats) to Omnimystery News today.

The concept was inspired: Get together a group of A-list authors — members of the International Thriller Writers association — and pair them into 11 "teams". Ask each team to write a short story starring the writers' main characters, and have those characters interact in head-to-head and collaborative ways.

Legal-thriller novelist John Lescroart of Davis was teamed with T. Jefferson Parker of Los Angeles for "Silent Hunt", featuring their respective protagonists Wyatt Hunt and Joe Trona. The novelists met in 2009 when Lescroart contributed a tale to Hook, Line and Sinister, an anthology of mystery stories involving angling. (Parker was the editor.)

The Sacramento Bee checked in with the authors about their assignment and contribution.

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What was it like to collaborate with another author?

"Jeff is truly my favorite thriller writer, so it was a total blast," Lescroart said. "We had gone fishing together in Baja (in 2011), so we had something in common besides writing. I called Jeff and said, 'Why don't we start this (short story project) by going down to Cabo for big game fish on light tackle?' Down there, we agreed to put (our main characters) where we were, and the story just fell together. We talked about it maybe twice, then sat down and started writing and trading pages back and forth until we had enough to make the story."

Answering that same question, Parker said, "I know John well, but this was the first time I'd done (a collaboration). It turned out to be a very cool and rewarding experience, like having a conversation with a part of yourself you didn't quite know. We didn't have a master plan, it was sort of improvisational. I would finish my section and pass it to John, and later see his take on what I had written and what he had added to it, then I work on it and pass it back to him."

One more question: Who is the better writer?

Lescroart: "Jeff is. One of the great things about the project was getting to work with him."

Parker: "John is way better."

"Silent Hunt" is set in Baja California, where Lescroart's Hunt, a private investigator from San Francisco, meets Parker's Trona, a deputy for the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Each man is headed there on a fishing vacation, and a chance encounter at Los Angeles International Airport brings them together.

Since they're both staying at the same fishing lodge near a Mexican village, they decide to buddy-up and fish together. Soon, a group of heavies from the Zetas drug cartel threatens the anglers' fishing guide, his family and their village. Hunt and Trona come to their rescue with a devilishly clever play that takes everyone out of harm's way — except for the Zetas.

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FaceOff
David Baldacci, editor
A Short Story Anthology

In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers have paired their series characters — such as Harry Bosch, Jack Reacher, and Lincoln Rhyme — in an eleven-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW). All of the contributors to FaceOff are ITW members and the stories feature these dynamic duos:

• Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch in "Red Eye" by Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly;
• John Rebus vs. Roy Grace in "In the Nick of Time" by Ian Rankin and Peter James;
• Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast in "Gaslighted" by R.L. Stine, Douglas Preston, and Lincoln Child;
• Malachai Samuels vs. D.D. Warren in "The Laughing Buddha" by M.J. Rose and Lisa Gardner;
• Paul Madriani vs. Alexandra Cooper in "Surfing the Panther" by Steve Martini and Linda Fairstein;
• Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport in "Rhymes With Prey" by Jeffery Deaver and John Sandford;
• Michael Quinn vs. Repairman Jack in "Infernal Night" by Heather Graham and F. Paul Wilson;
• Sean Reilly vs. Glen Garber in "Pit Stop" by Raymond Khoury and Linwood Barclay;
• Wyatt Hunt vs. Joe Trona in "Silent Hunt" by John Lescroart and T. Jefferson Parker;
• Cotton Malone vs. Gray Pierce in "The Devil's Bones" by Steve Berry and James Rollins;
• Jack Reacher vs. Nick Heller in "Good and Valuable Consideration" by Lee Child and Joseph Finder.

        

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Deadly Illusions by Chester D. Campbell is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Deadly Illusions by Chester D. Campbell as today's third free mystery ebook (A Greg McKenzie Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, June 01, 2014 at 7:00 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Deadly Illusions
Chester D. Campbell
A Greg McKenzie Mystery
Publisher: Durban House

Molly Saint hires new PIs Greg and Jill McKenzie to check into her husband's background, then disappears. It starts them on a tangled trail of deceit.

Complicating matters further, Greg gets drawn into a troubling police investigation stemming from the assassinatiion of the Federal Reserve Board chairman at a Nashville hotel. The case resurrects old problems with a Murder Squad detective and his colleagues among Nashville's finest.

The deeper the McKenzies dig, the more deadly illusions they face. After threats, break-ins and another murder, the charade ends in a shocking showdown.

  

This is a repeat freebie, last featured on this site on December 26, 2012.

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Bad Way Out by C. Hoyt Caldwell is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Bad Way Out by C. Hoyt Caldwell as today's second free mystery ebook (A Suspense Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, June 01, 2014 at 6:45 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Bad Way Out
C. Hoyt Caldwell
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: C. Hoyt Caldwell

E.R. Percy's whiskey making days are turned upside down by the sudden appearance of a giant naked man, an unsavory job offer from a drug dealer, and a sultry local girl hell-bent on making it as difficult as possible for him to keep his vows to his wife.

He wants nothing more than to sell his illegal wares and be left alone. Unfortunately, the whiskey man is about to come to terms with the only way for that to happen: the bad way out.

  

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Jaspar's War by Cym Lowell is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Jaspar's War by Cym Lowell as today's free mystery ebook (A Political Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, June 01, 2014 at 6:30 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Jaspar's War
Cym Lowell
A Political Thriller
Publisher: Rosemary Beach Press

Greenwich, Connecticut socialite Jaspar Moran has it all — a magnificent estate, two beautiful children and a loving husband, Trevor, serving as the Secretary of the Treasury. Protected, admired and living in the lap of luxury, Jaspar is reeling from the news that his government jet has crashed just as her children vanish without a trace.

An ominous message warns her to keep silent about her husband's role in the President's economic plan. Or else.

Determined to save her children, she'll go to hell and back, form alliances with assassins, traitors and Mafioso, and commit unspeakable acts — if that's what it takes. With alarms sounding around the world, hunted from all sides, and unsure of who to trust, she finds herself depending on a mysterious figure without an identity.

Jaspar journeys from the Australian outback to the palazzos of Rome, the Monte Carlo Grand Prix, and to the magnificence of the Vatican, in her quest. Can she rescue her children before the plot to crash the global economy is unleashed?

  

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