Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen, New in Bookstores during August 2014

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

Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen

The Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, Royal Spyness Series (8th)

Publisher: Berkley Hardcover

        

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 …

My mother, the glamorous and much-married actress, is hearing wedding bells once again — which is why she must hop across the pond for a quickie divorce in Reno. To offer my moral support, and since all expenses are paid by her new hubby-to-be, Max, I agree to make the voyage with her.

Crossing the Atlantic, with adventure in the air and wealthy men aboard, Mother all but forgets about Max and matrimony — especially when movie mogul Cy Goldman insists on casting her in his next picture.

Meanwhile, I find myself caught up in the secret investigation of a suspected jewel thief. Lucky for me, the lead investigator happens to be my dashing beau, Darcy!

Mother's movie and Darcy's larceny lead everyone to Cy's Hollywood home, where the likes of Charlie Chaplin are hanging about and there's enough romantic intrigue to fill a double feature. But we hardly get a chance to work out the sleeping arrangements before Cy turns up dead — as if there wasn't enough drama already …

— Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen

Evidence of Passion by Cynthia Eden, New from Harlequin Intrigue in August 2014

Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title from Harlequin, published this month …

Evidence of Passion by Cynthia Eden

Series: Shadow Agents

Imprint: Intrigue

  

For more information about the book, see a synopsis, below.

Friends become endangered lovers …

Trusting the wrong man had almost cost EOD agent Rachel Mancini her life. Now, years later, the killer's back to make the hit he missed. But he won't succeed while Rachel's gorgeous partner, Dylan Foxx, is on the case. He's been the sexy ex-lawyer's friend for years and will do anything to keep her safe. And though it could prove fatal, he wants her in his arms … and his bed.

But first he has to stop the madman obsessed with Rachel. Ex-SEAL Dylan has the skills and determination to meet every danger the twisted assassin can unleash. A relationship has never had a place in his life … until he senses Rachel wants him as badly as he wants her.

— Evidence of Passion by Cynthia Eden

Mystery Godoku Puzzle for August 04, 2014

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:

B D I L N O P S T

Nancy Bush's 2010 psychological thriller is subtitled "You'll never see it coming …" (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!

New This Week: The Coercion Key, A Marc Craig Crime Novel by Catriona King

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 Coercion Key by Catriona King

A Marc Craig Crime Novel (7th in series)

Publisher: Crooked Cat Publishing

Price: $3.99 (as of 08/03/2014 at 12:00 PM ET).

  

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Belfast's Suicide …

When a series of suicides occurs within a short period of time, and every one is committed by a person with everything to live for, Marc Craig's suspicions begin to rise.

On investigating, Craig's team enters a world that links cyber reality with real lives, where respectable façades unravel to reveal hidden identities.

— The Coercion Key by Catriona King

Please Welcome Mystery Author Joan Del Monte

with Joan Del Monte

We are delighted to welcome mystery author Joan Del Monte to Omnimystery News.

Joan's fourth novel is Murder Redrum (February 2014 trade paperback and ebook formats) and today she tells us about the time period of the storyline, 1923.

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Joan Del Monte

Well, so I've been learning about 1923.

Did you know men's pants did not have zippers on their flies in 1923? Zippers were just appearing. The cutting edge crowd had them; young and fashionable men. But they were in the minority.

Real men, by God, wore buttons!

When I decided to set my fourth mystery, Murder Redrum, in 1923, I knew I'd have to make changes from modern life. No computers, cell phones, TV, and a population staggered by the deadliest flu the word has known. From spring 1918 into l9l9 the Spanish flu pandemic killed over 50 million people worldwide. The American government insisted on trying to keep up public morale, so it kept releasing statements that the flu was over. But the flu came in three waves, the third being the most deadly.

The poor, left to their own solutions, had all kinds of ways to protect themselves. Word spread that the only cure was garlic worn in a linen bag around the neck. Or sugar cubes soaked in turpentine. To walk into a New York tenement was to be knocked back three feet by the reek.

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Joan Del Monte has taught courses in antiques at UCLA extension and the California State College system; lectured on antiques on radio and wrote a bibliography of small antiques for the Los Angeles Public Library.

Joan has also taught a course in writing the mystery novel at Santa Monica College, which she called "A Guide to the Pitfalls, From Someone Who Has Fallen Into Most of Them". She has a B.S. from Columbia University and an M.A. from U.C.L.A. She is a frequent public speaker on her books and the writer’s life.

For more information about the author, please visit her website at JoanDelMonte.com or find her on Facebook.

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Murder Redrum
Joan Del Monte
A Palindrome Mystery

High in his outrageous apartment over a brewery, a stock market genius plots four simultaneous bank robberies at one intersection. The police receive four alarms and ignore them thinking it has to be an error. The genius codes his plans with palindromes to hide them.

In 1923, the abrasive dry laws only add more confusion to an already addled, overworked police department riven with the politically ambitious and inept criminal investigation department. Consequently, the solution of the crimes falls to a retired forensics cop, who is now a Chinese restaurant chef, and his protégé, who has family problems of his own with the dry laws. The robbers’ escape seems inconceivable plus they have hostages. Only one thing is for sure: They aren’t stopping for anything.