New from Endeavour Press: Stranglehold by J. M. Gregson

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 …

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Stranglehold by J. M. Gregson
A Lambert and Hook Mystery
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Publication Date: April 23, 2014
Price: $3.99 (as of 04/24/14 4:30 PM ET)

A young girl is found murdered in a deserted house. She has lain dead for two days, and there are few clues at the scene of the crime to identify her killer. When there is a second murder in the same small community, it becomes obvious that the hunt is for a serial killer, who is certain to kill again. The way the bodies are laid out suggests not only a warped mind — but someone determined to taunt the police.

In the quiet country town of Oldford, a whole community is struck with terror as it waits for the nocturnal killer to strike again. With several suspects, but no motive for the killings, the investigation requires all Superintendent John Lambert insight and expertise.

Can he solve the mystery before another innocent girl is murdered? Or will more victims fall prey to the killer’s deadly stranglehold?

  

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The Blackwoods Farm Enquiry by Ann Purser, New in Bookstores in April 2014

Today's featured paperback original mystery title, scheduled to be published during April 2014 by Berkley, is The Blackwoods Farm Enquiry by Ann Purser.

For a list of more new paperback mysteries, thrillers, and novels of suspense published this month, visit our Mystery Bookshelf page for April 2014. For hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries for a selection of books published during April 2014.

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The Blackwoods Farm Enquiry
Ann Purser
Series: An Ivy Beasley Mystery

Retiree Ivy Beasley, a college student? Interested in penning her memoirs, Ivy decides to take a creative writing course. But it's hard to find time to put pen to paper when this current chapter is so full of lies, jealousy and murder …

Rumors are flying around the village of Barrington about Mrs. Winchen Blatch, a reclusive widow living alone in her old farmhouse. In the past few weeks, the widow claims she has been tormented by ghostly visitations, so she hires Ivy and her fellow investigators at Enquire Within to get to the bottom of the mystery. Ivy's new classes are very close to the widow's farmhouse, perfect for combining studying and snooping …

With each new clue — a dark chamber, a smoking cigar and an amorous lodger — it becomes harder to separate fact from fiction. And when the ghost is revealed to be flesh and blood, the lonely widow may be in more trouble than Ivy and her team can handle.

        

Open Road Mysteries for $1.99: Slow Motion Riot, A Crime Thriller by Peter Blauner

Open Road has discounted 25 titles to just $1.99 as part of their Mystery Deals promotion to celebrate the Edgar Awards.

Titles include winners, nominees, books by Grand Masters and those receiving special Edgars, and we are pleased to feature one of them, below.

(Price verified on April 24, 2014 as of 3:00 PM ET.)

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Slow Motion Riot by Peter Blauner
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Open Road

Winner of the 1992 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.

As a probation officer in a city plagued by drugs, murders, and corruption, Steven Baum supervises marginal criminals—not dangerous enough for prison, but too damaged to go totally free. He watches them, keeps them in line, and once in a long while, helps one improve his life. The job is a vicious grind, but Steven is good at it, and he is about to be rewarded with a transfer to active duty. But first he has to deal with Darryl King.

A small-time dealer with big aspirations, Darryl is the kind of thug who makes probation officers want to quit. Although the boy terrifies him, Steven holds out hope for helping him turn his life around. What he doesn’t know is that Darryl is a cop-killer—and his troubles have only just begun.

  

Ruin Falls by Jenny Milchman, New in Bookstores in April 2014

Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during April 2014 by Ballantine Books, is Ruin Falls by Jenny Milchman.

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

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Ruin Falls
Jenny Milchman

Liz Daniels has every reason to be happy about setting off on a rare family vacation, leaving behind her remote home in the Adirondack Mountains for a while. Instead, she feels uneasy. Her children, eight-year-old Reid and six-year-old Ally, have met their paternal grandparents only a handful of times. But Liz's husband, Paul, has decided that, despite a strained relationship with his mother and father, they should visit the farm in western New York where he spent his childhood.

On their way to the farm, the family stops at a hotel for the night. In the morning, when Liz goes to check on her sleeping children, all her anxiety comes roaring back: Ally and Reed are nowhere to be found. Blind panic slides into ice-cold terror as the hours tick by without anyone finding a trace of the kids. Soon, Paul and Liz are being interviewed by police, an Amber Alert is issued, and detectives are called in.

Frantic worry and helplessness threaten to overtake Liz's mind — but in a sudden, gut-wrenching instant she realizes that it was no stranger who slipped into the hotel room that night. Someone she trusted completely has betrayed her. Though she knows that Ally and Reid are safe, Liz will stop at nothing to find them and get them back. From her guarded in-laws' unwelcoming farmhouse to the deep woods of her own hometown, Liz follows the threads of a terrible secret to uncover a hidden world created from dreams and haunted by nightmares.

        

Telemystery: Longmire Season 3 To Premiere June 2nd

A&E has announced that the third season of Longmire, based on a character created by Craig Johnson, will premiere on June 2nd, 2014 at 10 PM ET/PT. Robert Taylor stars as the charismatic Walt Longmire, sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming.

Here's more from the network press release: "Walt finds himself reeling from a series of devastating traumas. His best friend, Henry Standing Bear (Lou Diamond Phillips), is going to prison on murder charges. Deputy Branch Connally (Bailey Chase) has been shot by a mysterious 'white warrior', and Vic Moretti (Katee Sackhoff) is unsure if she has shaken a stalker from her past. Walt is forced to shoulder all of these burdens and try to find a way to set the world right again but one person knows he can't do this alone — his daughter, Cady (Cassidy Freeman). She will fight in court to try and clear Henry's name while Walt continues to unravel the dark, mysterious secrets of Absaroka County. The deeper Walt digs into all these mysteries, the closer he'll get to uncovering the real bloody hand behind his wife's murder."

And in the season premiere, "Walt will deal with the aftermath of Henry's arrest and Branch's shooting — though the latter mystery is complicated by Branch's insistence that his assailant was someone known to be already dead."