The Rest Is Silence by James R. Benn, New in Bookstores during September 2014

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

The Rest Is Silence by James R. Benn

A Billy Boyle, World War II Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: Soho Crime

        

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 …

When an unidentified corpse washes ashore at Slapton Sands on England's southern coast, US Army Captain Billy Boyle and his partner, Lieutenant Piotr "Kaz" Kazimierz, are assigned to investigate. The Devonshire beach is the home to Operation Tiger, the top-secret rehearsal for the approaching D-Day invasion of Normandy, and the area is restricted; no one seems to know where the corpse could have come from. Luckily, Billy and Kaz have a comfortable place to lay their heads at the end of the day: Kaz's old school chum David lives close by and has agreed to host the two men during their investigation. Glad for a distraction from his duties, Billy settles into life at David's family's fancy manor, Ashcroft, and makes it his mission to get to know its intriguing cast of characters.

Just when Billy and Kaz begin to wrap up their case, they find themselves with not one soggy corpse on their hands but hundreds following a terrible tragedy during the D-Day rehearsal. To complicate things, life at Ashcroft has been getting tense: secret agendas, buried histories, and family grudges abound. Then one of the men meets a sudden demise. Was it a heart attack? Or something more sinister?

— The Rest Is Silence by James R. Benn

The Button Man by Mark Pryor, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2014 …

The Button Man by Mark Pryor

A Hugo Marston Mystery Prequel (4th)

Publisher: Seventh Street Books

  

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

More about our featured title, below …

In this prequel, former FBI profiler Hugo Marston has just become head of security at the US Embassy in London. He's asked to protect a famous movie-star couple, Dayton Harper and Ginny Ferro, who, while filming a movie in rural England, killed a local man in a hit and run.

The task turns from routine to disastrous almost immediately. Before Hugo even meets them, he finds out that Ferro has disappeared, and her body has been found hanging from an oak tree in a London cemetery. Hours later a distraught Harper gives Hugo the slip, and Hugo has no idea where he's run off to.

Taking cues from a secretive young lady named Merlyn, and with a Member of Parliament along for the chase, Hugo's search leads to a quaint English village. There, instead of finding Harper, more bodies turn up. Teaming with local detectives and then venturing dangerously out on his own, Hugo struggles to find connections between the victims. Is this the work of a serial killer — or something else entirely? Knowing he's being tailed, the killer prepares for the final, public act of his murderous plan, and Hugo arrives just in time to play his part.

— The Button Man by Mark Pryor

Odd Thomas, An Odd Thomas Novel by Dean Koontz, 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, Bantam …

Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

An Odd Thomas Novel (1st in series)

Publisher: Bantam

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/08/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

This novel was adapted for a film of the same title released earlier this year and starring Anton Yelchin as Odd Thomas.

  

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"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate with Odd Thomas, a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant.

Sometimes the silent souls who seek out Odd want justice. Occasionally their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime. But this time it's different.

A stranger comes to Pico Mundo, accompanied by a horde of hyena-like shades who herald an imminent catastrophe. Aided by his soul mate, Stormy Llewellyn, and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Odd will race against time to thwart the gathering evil.

— Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

The Kaiser's Gold, An Eden House Mystery by Bill Kitson, 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 Kaiser's Gold by Bill Kitson

An Eden House Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Accent Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 09/08/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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"Babes in the wood, babes in the wood, who will be next to be covered in blood?" For generations, the children of Rowandale have recited that grim rhyme. Now those sinister words are becoming a stark reality …

The last of the influential Latimer family has died and the estate is in dispute. Racehorse trainer Barbara Lewis stands to inherit the prized Latimer racing stables, but not everyone's happy about that …

When Barbara's friend Eve Samuels goes to visit her, an intruder is discovered in the stables. The seemingly trivial incident sparks a spiralling chain of intrigue, violence, and murder. Barbara's ex-husband is found stabbed to death and she is chief suspect — along with a mysterious man who has recently been seen in the area. The local detectives are so inept that Eve and her boyfriend, Adam Bailey, investigate. Are the murders random acts of a deranged psychopath, or are more sinister forces at work?

— The Kaiser's Gold by Bill Kitson

Book Blast: Two Track Presius Mysteries by E. E. Giorgi

with E. E. Giorgi

We are delighted to welcome to Omnimystery News novelist E. E. Giorgi and the two books in her mystery series featuring Detective Track Presius.

E. E. introduced the character in Chimeras (Quemazon Publishing; April 2014 trade paperback and ebook formats) and this month the sequel is published, Mosaics (Quemazon Publishing; September 2014 trade paperback and ebook formats).

More about these two titles and their most unusual series lead character, below.

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Chimeras
E. E. Giorgi
A Track Presius Mystery

Haunted by the girl he couldn't save in his youth, and the murder he committed to avenge her, Detective Track Presius has a unique gift: the vision and sense of smell of a predator.

When a series of apparently unrelated murders reel him into the depths of genetic research, Track feels more than a call to duty. Children are dying, children who, like himself, could have been healthy, and yet something, at some point, went terribly wrong.

For Track, saving the innocent becomes a quest for redemption. The only way he can come to terms with his dark past is to understand his true nature.

  

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Mosaics
E. E. Giorgi
A Track Presius Mystery

Dubbed the Byzantine Strangler because of the mysterious mosaic tiles he leaves at the crime scene, a new serial killer is stalking the streets of Los Angeles. Racing to decipher the code encrypted in the tiles before the killer strikes again, Detective Track Presius faces a new challenge: the "awakened" genes that make his vision and olfactory sense so sharp are now taking a toll on his life.

When a new set of tiles appears in his own backyard, Track makes a chilling realization: those very same genes that are threatening his life are drawing the Byzantine Strangler closer and closer. The line between hunter and hunted has suddenly blurred.

Will Track be the next piece of the mosaic puzzle?

  

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E. E. Giorgi

E.E. Giorgi is a scientist, a writer, and a photographer. She spends her days analyzing genetic data, her evenings chasing sunsets, and her nights pretending she's somebody else. On her blog, E.E. discusses science for the inquiring mind, especially the kind that sparks fantastic premises and engaging stories.

For more information about the author, please visit her on Facebook and Twitter.