Fatal Brushstroke, An Aurora Anderson Mystery by Sybil Johnson, New This Week from Henery Press

Henery Press — the place to be for mystery — publishes books in the mystery/suspense genre focused on engaging stories with sharp twists and lively characters.

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

Fatal Brushstroke by Sybil Johnson

An Aurora Anderson Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Henery Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 08/28/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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A dead body in her garden and a homicide detective on her doorstep …

Computer programmer and tole-painting enthusiast Aurora (Rory) Anderson doesn't envision finding either when she steps outside to investigate the frenzied yipping coming from her own backyard. After all, she lives in Vista Beach, a quiet California beach community where violent crime is rare and murder even rarer.

Suspicion falls on Rory when the body buried in her flowerbed turns out to be someone she knows — her tole painting teacher, Hester Bouquet. Just two weekends before, Rory attended one of Hester's weekend painting seminars, an unpleasant experience she vowed never to repeat. As evidence piles up against Rory, she embarks on a quest to identify the killer and clear her name. Can Rory unearth the truth before she encounters her own brush with death?

— Fatal Brushstroke by Sybil Johnson

Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason, New in Bookstores during August 2014

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

Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason

A Reykjavik Murder Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

        

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 …

A young woman disappears from the frozen fjords of Iceland. In her wake, this woman has left a tempest of lies, betrayal and revenge.

Decades later, somewhere in the same wilderness, Detective Erlendur is on the hunt. He is looking for the missing woman but also for his long-lost brother, whose disappearance in a snowstorm when they were children has coloured his entire life. Slowly, the past begins to surrender its secrets.

But as Erlendur uncovers a story about the limits of human endurance, he realizes that many people would prefer their crimes to stay buried.

— Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason

The Ghost of Christmas Past, A Honey Driver Mystery by Jean G. Goodhind, New This Week from Accent Press

Accent Press is a dynamic publishing company, and produces a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles.

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

The Ghost of Christmas Past by Jean G. Goodhind

A Honey Driver Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: Accent Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 08/28/2014 at 1:30 PM ET).

  

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It's a Dickensian Christmas in Bath; frost lies thick on the ground and white mist drifts through the narrow alleys.

The Green River Hotel is hosting the very last office Christmas party of the season. The employees of the firm arrive and seem shell shocked that their miserly employer, frequently referred to as Scrooge, has paid for everything. How come the change of heart? They never get the chance to ask because old "Scrooge" doesn't turn up for the party. A deadly deed has been done, and it's up to Honey Driver and her darling DCI Doherty to solve the Christmas caper.

— The Ghost of Christmas Past by Jean G. Goodhind

Undercover in High Heels, A Maddie Springer, High Heels Mystery by Gemma Halliday, 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 present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Gemma Halliday …

Undercover in High Heels by Gemma Halliday

A Maddie Springer, High Heels Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Gemma Halliday

Price: $0.99 (as of 08/28/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Secret affairs, hunky gardeners, and housewives desperate enough to bare it all … welcome to Magnolia Lane, TV's hottest new prime time show. A place where L.A. shoe designer Maddie Springer should be in fashion heaven. That is until the body of a rising young starlet is found dead on the show's set.

Now it's up to Maddie to sift through a leading lady with a secret, an actor on the verge of a nervous breakdown, a sexy cyber scandal, and one tabloid reporter who'll stop at nothing to get the story of the century. Not to mention Maddie's hot-cold relationship with the case's familiar lead detective, Jack Ramirez.

In a world where secrets, lies, and deception can earn you an Oscar, Maddie plays the role of a lifetime to catch Hollywood's hottest killer. But if she doesn't watch her step, Maddie's fifteen minutes of fame just may be her last.

— Undercover in High Heels by Gemma Halliday

New This Week: Deadfall, A Ryan Moar Mystery by Michael D. Hartley

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 …

Deadfall by Michael D. Hartley

A Ryan Moar Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Abbott Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 08/28/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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A giant, ancient statue of Buddha is blown to pieces in Afghanistan, and there is one man to blame: terrorist Habib Khadr. Following this magnificent display of his power, Habib is quiet for decades until he surfaces again in Mexico. He has successfully evaded Interpol, and he now plans to cross the Sierra Madre Plateau into America.

Habib leaves a trail of murders in his wake, but he arrives in North Dakota, where he is reunited with his notoriously powerful wife. Together, they form a plot to rescue their son from Americanization and destroy Mount Rushmore. Meanwhile, private investigators — and spouses — Ryan Moar and Joanne Sutter have their own problems.

They investigate a young man named Moe Fouzi, who is about to marry an American heiress, although his intentions are not clear. Moe is not who he appears to be, and their investigation soon takes the detectives into the bloody path of Habib Khadr. Now, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Ryan and Joanne must fight to save America's most prized monument and their own lives.

— Deadfall by Michael D. Hartley