Where Are the Children?, A Novel of Suspense by Mary Higgins Clark, Now Available at a Special Price

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy. Today, we're pleased to feature the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Simon & Schuster …

Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/01/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

The author's debut novel, originally published in 1975.

  

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Nancy Harmon had been found guilty in a California court of murdering her two young children, but she was released from prison on a legal technicality. Deciding to make a fresh start, to change her identity, she left San Francisco and sought tranquillity on Cape Cod.

Seven years later, Nancy is remarried and has two small children: five-year-old Michael and three-year-old Missy. Finally she feels that she has been able to reclaim all that she had lost. Then the nightmare begins again.

One day a local Cape Cod paper runs an article about a famous California murder trial involving a mother accused of killing her two children. Along with the article is a photo of Nancy. On that same morning, Michael and Missy disappear. They had been playing in the yard, but when she looked for them, they were gone … all that remained was Missy's red mitten.

While Nancy becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of her children, no one in the small Cape Cod town is aware of a stranger in their midst — someone whose plans for revenge have been festering for seven long years.

— Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark

The Scent of Death by Betty Rowlands, New in Bookstores during August 2014

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during August 2014 is …

The Scent of Death by Betty Rowlands

The Sukey Reynolds Series (13th)

Publisher: Severn House

      

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

More about our featured title, below …

Lance Rainbird isn't one for social chit-chat, so when he fails to turn up for the evening programme of music after dinner at Justin Freeman's annual musical weekend at Dallington Manor Hotel, it invites remark but no real concern. It's a lovely evening; perhaps he stepped out for some air. But the truth of the matter is rather more serious: Lance is found in the lake, drowned.

Constable Sukey Reynolds and her colleague Detective Sergeant Vicky Armstrong are part of the police investigation, and at first all signs point to it being a terrible accident. But the doctor reveals Lance was hit on the head before he died. Could it be murder after all? Then there is another accident, and Sukey finds herself caught up in a complex investigation that grows more complicated — and deadly — with each passing day …

— The Scent of Death by Betty Rowlands

The Empty Quarter by David L. Robbins, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2014 …

The Empty Quarter by David L. Robbins

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

  

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for August 2014. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of August 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

More about our featured title, below …

Every member of the Special Ops US Air Force pararescue jumpers, the PJs, swears by the motto "That Others May Live". A top-secret mission to save a kidnapped Saudi princess will put that oath to the ultimate test.

With a force of armed men, a former mujahideen chases across the desert of Yemen to recover his Saudi wife, kidnapped by her powerful father, a prince of the Kingdom. The kidnapping turns violent, she is badly wounded, and the PJs are dropped into the vast sere badlands to rescue the princess and a young American diplomat swept up in the plot. The mission becomes a minute-by-minute race between the pursuing husband's band of tribal allies and the PJs rushing to the rescue, as the princess's life seeps away.

— The Empty Quarter by David L. Robbins

The Lions of Lucerne, A Scot Harvath Thriller by Brad Thor, Now Available at a Special Price

Omnimystery News is always searching for newly discounted mystery, suspense, thriller and crime novels for our readers to enjoy. Today, we're pleased to feature the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Atria Books …

The Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor

A Scot Harvath Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Atria Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 08/01/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has just become a nightmarish reality: thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States is kidnapped by one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East — the dreaded Fatah.

But one man, surviving agent and ex­Navy SEAL Scot Harvath, doesn't believe the Fatah is responsible for the attack. Driven by his professional code of duty and honor — and a solemn vow to avenge his fallen comrades — Scot creates his own rules to get some answers. But his search for the truth raises the blood pressure of his superiors … and casts his own life in mortal jeopardy. The deadly machinations have been set in motion by a shadowy coalition, comprising some of the highest-ranking officials in government and business — men who operate above the law, men who realize the threat Scot poses to their hidden agenda … men who will do anything to stop him.

Now framed for murder and on the run, Scot goes for broke and takes his own brand of justice to the unlikeliest place of all — the towering mountains of Switzerland. It is there that he finds an improbable ally in the beautiful Claudia Mueller of the Swiss Federal Attorney's Office. Together they must brave the subzero temperatures and sheer heights of treacherous Mount Pilatus — and enter the den of the most notorious team of professional killers the world has ever known.

— The Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor

New This Week: The Great Impersonation, A British Library Spy Classic by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Omnimystery News is pleased to present 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 August 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim

A British Library Spy Classic

Publisher: British Library Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 08/01/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

First published in 1935 by Hodden & Stoughton, this new edition includes an introduction by Tim Crook.

  

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East Africa, 1913. The disgraced English aristocrat Everard Dominey stumbles out of the bush, and comes face to face with his lookalike — the German Baron von Ragastein …

Months later, Dominey returns to London and resumes his glittering social life. But is it really Dominey who has come back — or a German secret agent seeking to infiltrate English high society?

As international tension mounts and the great powers of Europe move closer to war, Dominey finds himself entangled in a story of suspicion and intrigue. He must try to evade his insane and murderous wife as well as escape the attentions of the passionate Princess Eiderstrom — and will eventually uncover the secret of the ghost that haunts his ancestral home.

— The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim