The Floating City, A Nicholas Linnear Thriller by Eric Van Lustbader, Now Available at a Special Price

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Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Gallery Books …

The Floating City by Eric Van Lustbader

A Nicholas Linnear Thriller (5th in series)

Publisher: Gallery Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 05/10/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

This title is one of over 100 mysteries and thrillers included in Amazon's The Big Deal for May 2015. Promotion ends May 24th, 2015.

A ruthless American killing machine named Rock rules over a secret, blood-soaked empire of riches and murder: Floating City. At his command is the Torch — the tool of ultimate evil that one man can destroy: Nicholas Linnear. But only when he faces the harrowing truth about the Yakuza — the Japanese criminal underworld he despises — and about Koei, the woman he loved as no other, will he find the inner strength to annihilate Floating City and honor his family's debt to the dead of the Yakuza, the Kaisho.

While half a world away, his longtime friend and ex-NYPD detective Lew Croaker hunts the Kaisho's would-be assassins, Linnear infiltrates a vast web of terror, crossing the line that divides good from evil, sensuality from death, and love from betrayal.

— The Floating City by Eric Van Lustbader

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New This Week: Sire and Damn, A Holly Winter Mystery by Susan Conant

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Sire and Damn by Susan Conant

A Holly Winter Mystery (20th in series)

Publisher: Susan Conant

Price: $3.99 (as of 05/10/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

It's a hot August in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Holly's unexpectedly pregnant friend Rita is about to marry the pretentious Quinn Youngman. As Rita's and Quinn's variously and hilariously eccentric, hostile, duplicitous, kleptomaniacal, and pistol-packing relatives gather for the wedding, deceit is ubiquitous.

Fibbing, cheating, and pilfering are one thing. Killing is another! Even a burglar deserves to live, doesn't he? But how can Holly tell truth from lies when no one's word is good? No human word, that is. Dogs don't lie, especially Holly's own bold and fearless Rowdy and psychiatric service dog Izzy.

— Sire and Damn by Susan Conant

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for May 11, 2015

A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

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This week's letters and mystery clue:

A D E G L N R S T

Brian McGrory's 4th Jack Flynn thriller has this title (9 letters).

We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!

Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Sunday, May 10, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 7:30 AM ET …

Over 50 Top-Rated Reads by Bestselling Authors for $2.99 or Less Each is today's Kindle Daily Deal. Choose from titles by John Grisham (the Theodore Boone series), L. J. Sellers (Detective Jackson), Robert Crais (Elvis Cole), Jack Coughlin (Kyle Swanson), and many more. We're featuring the first in series title by Spencer Quinn in this post.

Dog On It by Spencer Quinn

A Chet and Bernie Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Atria Books

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator, and Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator, are quick to take a new case involving a frantic mother searching for her teenage daughter. This well-behaved and gifted student may or may not have been kidnapped, but she has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters.

With Chet's highly trained nose leading the way, their hunt for clues takes them into the desert to biker bars and other exotic locales — until the bad guys try to turn the tables and the resourceful duo lands in the paws of peril.

— Dog On It by Spencer Quinn

Unspoken by Lisa Jackson

A Novel of Romantic Suspense

Publisher: Zebra

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

The envelope delivered to Shelby Cole's Seattle home contains no return address, just a photograph of a little girl. Shelby knows at once that this is the daughter she was told died at birth. And in that moment, Shelby knows something else: she needs to go back to Bad Luck, Texas.

She's not the only one coming home. A long-ago killing is in the news again following recanted testimony. A violent nightmare from Shelby's past has been set free. And she can't shake a suspicion that someone is baiting her, luring her back here for their own ends.

Shelby's search for answers is met with stonewalling and hostility. Her only ally is a figure from her past — someone she has every reason not to trust. And in the midst of dark family revelations she uncovers a terrifying scheme of revenge. Because some secrets, once spoken, can never be forgotten — or forgiven …

— Unspoken by Lisa Jackson

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

An Artemis Fowl Adventure (1st in series)

Publisher: Hyperion

Kobo Daily Deal Price: $1.99 (price-matched by Amazon)

  

Twelve-year-old Artemis is a millionaire, a genius — and above all, a criminal mastermind. But Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit.

These aren't the fairies of the bedtime stories — they're dangerous!

— Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Sunday, May 10, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 6:30 AM ET …

Undercover: The Secret of Luck by James Kipling

The Private Investigators Series

Publisher: Global Village Publications

Price: FREE!

  

Bombshell by Mike Faricy

A Dev Haskell, PI Mystery

Publisher: Mike Faricy

Price: FREE!

  

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Telemystery News: New, Renewed, and Canceled at CBS

May is upfronts month for network television — and yesterday we reported on what's new, renewed, and canceled at ABC.

In this post, we'll focus our attention on what's happening at CBS.

New for the 2015/2016 Season:

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders — FBI agents help American citizens who find themselves in trouble abroad. Heading the operation is Jack Garrett (Gary Sinese), a 20-year veteran of the Bureau, who is currently in charge of the FBI's top team for handling cases involving Americans abroad. A back-door pilot aired on February 8th as an episode of Criminal Minds.

Limitless — After Brian Sinclair (Jake McDorman) discovers the power of the mysterious drug NZT, he is coerced into using his newfound drug-enhanced abilities to solve weekly cases for the FBI. Based on the 2011 film of the same title, which starred Bradley Cooper.

Rush Hour — A by-the-book Hong Kong police officer (Jon Foo) is assigned to a case in Los Angeles, where he's forced to work with a cocky black LAPD officer (Justin Hires) who has no interest in a partner. Based on the film of the same title, which starred Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.

Zoo — An adaptation of James Patterson's thriller that will air this Summer.

CBS hasn't yet officially announced for most of its series which will be renewed, but here's our best guess based on what we've heard:

Blue Bloods (almost certain to be renewed for a 6th season).
Criminal Minds (likely to be renewed for an 11th season).
CSI (looks iffy for a 16th season).
CSI: Cyber (looks iffy for a 2nd season).
Elementary (almost certain to be renewed for a 4th season).
Hawaii Five-0 (almost certain to be renewed for a 6th season).
NCIS: Los Angeles (likely to be renewed for a 7th season).
NCIS: New Orleans (2nd season).
Person of Interest (almost certain to be renewed for a 5th season).
Scorpion (2nd season).

Canceled (and likely to be Canceled):

Battle Creek (after 1 season).
The Mentalist (after 7 seasons).
NCIS (not official, but almost certain to be canceled after 12 seasons).
Unforgettable (after 3 seasons, but will return on A&E).

New This Week: The Quantico Connection, A Romeo Moore Thriller by Steve Rollins

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The Quantico Connection by Steve Rollins

A Romeo Moore Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Adventure Ink

Price: 99¢ (as of 05/09/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

Outsmarting the crime syndicate is a risky business, but Romeo Moore is determined that Marcel "Moses" Brown will answer to the racketeering, conspiracy and assault charges against him — even if they can't prosecute him for the drug trafficking and murders that he's masterminded.

In Quantico, Virginia, Romeo Moore threatens to deport criminal Rory "Rufus" Colton back to Jamaica — where he will have no protection from the mob — if he doesn't become an informant. In the choice between deportation and protective custody, Rufus agrees to turn on the mob on one condition: the FBI must save the life of his brother, Kenneth Colton, who is the bookkeeper for the don — and who would be a valuable witness in the FBI's case against Brown.

But Rufus is a danger to himself and to everyone around him. He's a man who knows too much — including people's real identities — and Romeo has to keep him alive.

Meanwhile, in Jamaica, West Kingston is a war zone. When a travel advisory is issued on the island because of a heated gunfire exchange, the don tells Ken to get a million dollars in cash ready for a pick-up.

When Romeo Moore has to provide protection for Rufus, this puts him in the line of fire with the Jamaican mob. Can he keep Rufus safe and rescue Ken so they can both testify … and without getting himself killed?

— The Quantico Connection by Steve Rollins

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The Courier, A Ryan Kealey Mystery by Andrew Britton, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Courier by Andrew Britton

A Ryan Kealey Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Pinnacle

Price: $2.99 (as of 05/09/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

This title is one of over 100 mysteries and thrillers included in Amazon's The Big Deal for May 2015. Promotion ends May 24th, 2015.

Ryan Kealey now knows he'll never really put the game behind him. He's seen too much, and the instinct is too deeply hardwired. But the game itself has changed. Between tense interagency "cooperation" that gums the works, and an overreliance on data-crunching and wiz-kid tech, today's US intelligence service has lost a step to its ever-bolder, viciously adaptable global enemies. And thanks to an incredible discovery in the Arctic, those enemies now have a nuke — capable of unleashing unthinkable terror.

To hunt down the devastating package before it can be used, Kealey forms an unlikely partnership with the young Farsi-speaking nuclear physicist Rayhan Jafari. But once on the ground, with technology and their by-the-numbers command failing them, they're on their own — trusting only their guts and each other — to conduct the dirty business of combating horrific destruction.

— The Courier by Andrew Britton

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Going Viral, A Medical Thriller by Andrew Puckett, New This Week from Endeavour Press

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.

We've selected one of their recently published mystery, suspense, thriller or crime titles to feature here today …

Going Viral by Andrew Puckett

A Medical Thriller

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 05/09/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

A threatening letter sent to the Prime Minister puts the British people in grave danger. The terrorist group John Amend-all are demanding that the government increases its aid to Africa, or they will release a deadly smallpox virus provoking a national epidemic. The Smallpox Containment and Reaction Unit (SCRUB) operation is launched.

Dr. Herry Smith is called away from his day job as Medical Director of Public Health to help. Teaming up with Detective Inspector Rebecca Hale, the pair combine their medical and investigative skills in a bid to crack down on the culprits. But time quickly starts to run out, and before they know it hospitals start to fill with victims of the deadly virus.

Can the SCRUB team track down the terrorists? Will they be able to stop the spread of the virus? Or will the attack spiral out of control?

— Going Viral by Andrew Puckett

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On Tour, A Queenie Baby Mystery by Christina A. Burke, Now Available at a Special Price

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On Tour by Christina A. Burke

A Queenie Baby Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

Price: 99¢ (as of 05/09/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

For temp-turned-rock-star Diana Hudson touring with a Pirate Rock band has been a whirlwind. The Pirate-Heads' Bash in Key West is the last stop on their tour, and she's ready to hang up her sword and play house in Annapolis, Maryland with her uber-sexy boyfriend, Mark Greene. But her plans hit a sour note when Diana receives sinister scrapbook pages depicting her demise.

A series of near-miss accidents and a meeting with an old enemy confirm she's on borrowed time. Hunted by a hitman known only as The Spider, Diana and Mark embark on a madcap adventure to outwit the unseen predator. Instead of rest and relaxation after the long tour, Diana finds herself battling pirates at sea, dodging explosions, and hiding out with The Grands.

Will Diana uncover the identity of the hitman before he finds her? Or has she already been snared in The Spider's sinuous web?

— On Tour by Christina A. Burke

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Hail Storme, A Wyatt Storme Thriller by W. L. Ripley, New This Week from Brash Books

Brash Books publishes innovative thrillers and novels of suspense from well-established authors and new voices in crime fiction.

We've selected one of their recently published titles to feature here today …

Hail Storme by W. L. Ripley

A Wyatt Storme Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Brash Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 05/09/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

This is a new ebook edition of a thriller published in hardcover as Dreamsicle by Little, Brown in 1993.

Vietnam vet and former pro football player Wyatt Storme is bow-hunting in Missouri when he stumbles upon a hidden field of marijuana … and is attacked by a vicious dog and shot at by a sniper. He reports violent incident confidentially to the local Sheriff … who is murdered the next day.

Storme believes there's a connection and starts asking questions, unraveling a deadly conspiracy of corruption, drug-trafficking and organized crime … and making himself someone that just about everybody wants dead.

— Hail Storme by W. L. Ripley

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Body Movers, A Body Movers Mystery by Stephanie Bond, Now Available at a Special Price

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Body Movers by Stephanie Bond

A Body Movers Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Harlequin MIRA

Price: $1.99 (as of 05/09/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

So Carlotta Wren's life hasn't turned out as she'd planned. She didn't plan for her parents to skip bail for a white-collar crime, leaving her to raise her brother. She didn't plan on having the silver spoon ripped from her mouth and forgoing college to work retail. She didn't plan on her blue-blood fiancé dumping her. And she didn't plan on still being single ten years later, working at Neiman Marcus, with no idea where her fugitive parents are. But she's coping. Until —

— her lovable brother is arrested, and the hunky cop decides to reopen her parents' case.

— her brother becomes a body mover for the morgue, and his sexy boss gets Carlotta involved.

— her former fiancé's wife (a good customer) is murdered, fingering Carlotta.

With three men in her life, Carlotta has added motivation to help bag a murderer to keep her own well-dressed body from being next on the list!

— Body Movers by Stephanie Bond

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Protecting His Brother's Bride by Jan Schliesman, New from Harlequin Romantic Suspense in May 2015

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 …

Protecting His Brother's Bride by Jan Schliesman

Imprint: Romantic Suspense

  

An unlikely partnership shrouded in secrets … family secrets too shocking to reveal …

Framed for embezzling, investigator Kira Kincaid will go to any lengths to clear her name — even team up with Dalton Matthews, her estranged … now deceased … husband's brother. But the reclusive mogul isn't what she expected — he's the quintessential alpha male who evokes an unwelcome yearning. And now, thanks to his involvement with Kira, a target to those trying to kill her.

Dalton is determined to protect the headstrong widow, even as he plans to walk away once she's safe. If only her green-eyed gaze didn't melt all of his emotional defenses. But when their mission exposes an earth-shattering family secret from both their pasts, Dalton must choose between his brother's betrayal and the one woman he should deny.

— Protecting His Brother's Bride by Jan Schliesman

Can't Keep a Brunette Down, A Gilda Wright Mystery by Diane Bator, Now Available at a Special Price

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Can't Keep a Brunette Down by Diane Bator

A Gilda Wright Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

Price: 99¢ (as of 05/09/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Gilda Wright thinks she's landed a dream job managing a karate school. Sure, her boss, Sensei Mick Williams, is almost as demanding as he is sexy, but Gilda is inspired by the strength of people around her and hopes to absorb some of that into her own life. But when Gilda finds the body of one of the instructors, laying in the dojo with a sword through his chest, suddenly Gilda must find her own inner strength and fast!

The police see everyone as a suspect, including her boss, and it's up to Gilda to find out what really happened. She follows the clues of the missing scroll of the Four Possessions of the Samurai down a deadly path, filled with lies, deceit, and poisoned ninja stars! If she doesn't watch her step, she just may become the killer's next sparring partner.

— Can't Keep a Brunette Down by Diane Bator

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Rock with Wings by Anne Hillerman, New in Bookstores during May 2015

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during May 2015 is …

Rock with Wings by Anne Hillerman, a Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mystery (20th in series)

Publisher: Harper

    

Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them — one near Shiprock, and the other at iconic Monument Valley.

Chee follows a series of seemingly random and cryptic clues that lead to a missing woman, a coldblooded thug, and a mysterious mound of dirt and rocks that could be a gravesite. Bernie has her hands full managing the fallout from a drug bust gone wrong, uncovering the origins of a fire in the middle of nowhere, and looking into an ambitious solar energy development with long-ranging consequences for Navajo land.

Under the guidance of their mentor, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, Bernie and Chee will navigate unexpected obstacles and confront the greatest challenge yet to their skills, commitment, and courage.

— Rock with Wings by Anne Hillerman

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for May 2015. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of May 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

Trail of Evidence by Lynette Eason, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in May 2015

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 …

Trail of Evidence by Lynette Eason

Series: Capital K-9 Unit

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

Why is a dead woman's phone — evidence in a murder investigation — in Jonas Parker's son's bedroom? Dangerous thugs are after that phone and his terrified teenager, so the single father turns to Capitol K-9 Unit officer Brooke Clark. Years ago, Brooke broke Jonas's heart without explanation. But he has to trust her and her highly-trained golden retriever to keep his son safe. When the boy goes missing, Jonas and Brooke must make peace with their past to find the teen — before increasingly desperate criminals get to him first.

— Trail of Evidence by Lynette Eason

16 Albert Campion Mysteries by Margery Allingham, Now Available at a Special Price

Amazon's The Big Deal is a collection of Kindle books priced up to 85% off. We're pleased to feature the following book selected from the Mystery, Thriller & Suspense category in today's post. The Big Deal promotion ends May 24th, 2015.

Death of a Ghost by Margery Allingham

An Albert Campion Mystery

Publisher: PFD Books

Price: 99¢ (as of 05/09/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

This title is one of 16 Albert Campion mysteries featured in this month's The Big Deal.

John Sebastian Lafcadio, R. A., "probably the greatest painter since Rembrandt" (according to himself), is dead. But his influence is not.

He wanted lasting fame and he left instructions to his wife, Belle, for one painting to be exhibited every year after his death. Eight years later, in Little Venice, a select group of friends and family gather to view the eighth painting. They are treated instead to a murder. The lights go down, and a young man is stabbed to death.

Albert Campion is one of the guests, and in his deceptively calm way he gets to work on the baffling case, with its long — suspiciously long — line-up of possible killers. Soon Campion finds himself having to face his dearest enemy …

— Death of a Ghost by Margery Allingham

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New This Week: Deadly Interest, An Alex St. James Mystery by Julie Hyzy

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Deadly Interest by Julie Hyzy

An Alex St. James Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 05/09/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

This is a new ebook edition of a mystery published in hardcover by Five Star in 2006.

Reeling from a public humiliation by her former lover, Alex St. James returns home to find that her elderly neighbor has been murdered. Alex also discovers that the spunky old lady had been secretly looking into her bank's lending practices. Drawn into the murder investigation, Alex uses her connections at Midwest Focus News Magazine to help the police find the killer but, before long, finds herself being stalked by a vicious ex-con. Even after suffering a brutal attack, Alex refuses to back off, and she subsequently uncovers a shocking secret that had been buried long ago.

Alex is juggling several personal matters as well: an extended visit from her handicapped sister; and love-life issues involving two attractive men, one of whom may just have the power to mend Alex's bruised ego.

After a key player in the investigation is found murdered, Alex is determined to untangle the web of lies spun by those around her, and is soon poised to expose the truth. That is, until she finds herself alone with the killer, a formidable foe with a Deadly Interest in her future.

— Deadly Interest by Julie Hyzy

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Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Saturday, May 09, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Saturday, May 09, 2015 at 7:30 AM ET …

Laos File by Dale A. Dye

A Shake Davis Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Warriors Publishing Group

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

The death of a salty old senior noncommissioned officer who ran special operations in Vietnam leads Marine Gunner Shake Davis on a shocking and potentially lethal quest to find out what happened to hundreds of American POWs.

— Laos File by Dale A. Dye

Sweet and Deadly by Charlaine Harris

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency

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

  

This is the author's first book, originally published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 1981.

Newspaper reporter Catherine Linton ignored her investigative instincts when her parents died in a mysterious car crash six months ago — grief obscuring the warning signs that something was amiss. But when she discovers the beaten body of her father's nurse on Linton property, Catherine quickly realizes her parents' death was no accident.

Though the sleepy Southern town that Catherine's family has called home for generations still prickles with racial tension and decades-old classism, Catherine never expected that Lowfield, Mississippi could harbor a murderer. Now, it seems everyone has a terrible secret. But how many people in Lowfield would kill to keep them hidden?

Catherine finds herself both the sheriff's lead suspect and the killer's next target. With the help of her handsome editor, Randall, and her quirky fellow reporter, Tom, Catherine must untangle the dark roots of the murders and stop the killer who wears a neighbor's face.

— Sweet and Deadly by Charlaine Harris

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