New This Week: A Masquerade of Saints, The Saints Mystery Series by Nicole Loughan

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 September 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

A Masquerade of Saints by Nicole Loughan

The Saints Mystery Series (3rd in series)

Publisher: Nicole Loughan

Price: $2.99 (as of 09/03/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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New Orleans' favorite Saint goes on the run at Mardi-Gras …

Small-town Cajun Fanchon is surprised by an invitation to join New Orleans high society for the biggest celebration of the year. Her brush with the good-life is short lived when she finds herself accused of murder.

While in the hot seat, she is tasked with clearing her name and figuring out who has her in their cross-hairs. She might just get a taste of good-life if she can solve this mystery.

— A Masquerade of Saints by Nicole Loughan

The Red Dahlia, An Anna Travis Mystery by Lynda La Plante, 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, Touchstone …

The Red Dahlia by Lynda La Plante

An Anna Travis Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Touchstone

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/03/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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When the body of a young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames, even the police are shocked by the brutality of her murder: horrifically mutilated, severed in half, and drained of blood, her corpse is an obvious mirror image of the famous Black Dahlia murder in 1940s Los Angeles.

Now Detective Inspector Anna Travis must race against time to catch this copycat killer. She turns to her mentor, the brilliant and volatile Detective Chief Inspector James Langton, but the frictions of their romantic relationship are complicating the case. And then a second girl is found …

— The Red Dahlia by Lynda La Plante

Disappearance at Hangman's Bluff by J. E. Thompson, a New Felony Bay Mystery

Omnimystery News is pleased to present in this post a new First Clues: Mysteries for Kids series title published this month …

Disappearance at Hangman's Bluff by J. E. Thompson

Series: Felony Bay

Publisher: Walden Pond Press

Format(s): Hardcover, eBook

Recommended for Cadet Sleuths, Ages 10 to 12

  

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

Just in case your memory's as short as a South Carolina snowstorm, I'm Abbey Force, and my best friend, Bee, and I spent the last few months solving this crazy mystery involving robbery, betrayal, and a lost chest of Spanish gold. We also managed to clear my dad of the crimes everyone thought he committed (even though he still hadn't woken up from his coma). Not too shabby for a summer vacation.

Now school's about to begin again, but that isn't even close to the most distressing thing happening around here. First, my dad woke up, which is great, but he somehow got it into his head that he needs to start taking cases again. Then me and Bee saw something simply awful: our neighbor's dog, Yemassee, getting kidnapped by a couple of rough-looking fellas with guns. And as if that weren't enough, we just found out that someone Daddy sued years ago is back in town, making shady business deals again.

I don't know what all of this means, not yet. But I do know that if you try to mess with my dad, my friends, or my friends' dogs, you've got trouble on your hands. Trouble that goes by the name of Force.

— Disappearance at Hangman's Bluff by J. E. Thompson

Die a Little, A Novel of Suspense by Megan Abbott, 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, Simon & Schuster …

Die a Little by Megan Abbott

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/03/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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This ingenious twist on a classic noir tale tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, a junior investigator with the district attorney's office …

Lora's comfortable, suburban life is jarringly disrupted when Bill falls in love with a mysterious young woman named Alice Steele, a Hollywood wardrobe assistant with a murky past.

Made sisters by marriage but not by choice, the bond between Lora and Alice is marred by envy and mistrust. Spurred on by inconsistencies in Alice's personal history and possibly jealous of Alice's hold on her brother, Lora finds herself lured into the dark alleys and mean streets of seamy Los Angeles. Assuming the role of amateur detective, she uncovers a shadowy world of drugs, prostitution, and ultimately, murder.

Lora's fascination with Alice's "sins" increases in direct proportion to the escalation of her own relationship with Mike Standish, a charmingly amoral press agent who appears to know more about his old friend Alice than he reveals. The deeper Lora digs to uncover Alice's secrets, the more her own life begins to resemble Alice's sinister past — and present.

— Die a Little by Megan Abbott

Murder in Time by Veronica Heley, New in Bookstores during September 2014

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

Murder in Time by Veronica Heley

An Ellie Quicke Mystery (15th in series)

Publisher: Severn House

      

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

More about our featured title, below …

Ellie opens the door to a man who is a stranger but instantly recognisable as the father of her housekeeper's brilliant but difficult young son. Mikey had been conceived at a party during which his mother Vera, a schoolgirl, had been drugged and raped. Abdi hadn't wanted anything further to do with her — then. Twelve years later he is a high-flying consultant whose wife cannot have children, and he aims to pay off Vera and adopt Mikey: a suggestion that does not go down well.

Ellie discovers that Vera still thinks fondly of her then boyfriend, even though he had also rejected her after that fatal night. But was that because he had fallen out of love with her, or because his father had been murdered that same weekend? Could the two events have been connected? And what part had Vera's closest friends and her family played in the tragedy?

Uncovering betrayals between friends and discovering the greed and jealousies behind past events only makes it more difficult for Vera and Mikey to decide on their future …

— Murder in Time by Veronica Heley