New This Week: Checkered Past, A Laurel London Mystery by Tonya Kappes

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 …

Checkered Past by Tonya Kappes

A Laurel London Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Tonya Kappes

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

  

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Laurel London is one tough cookie …

Convict Willie Ray Bowman escapes from prison just days away from his date with "Old Sparky", the Kentucky state federal prison electric chair. Laurel hasn't seen Willie Ray since the day he left her picking up the pieces of her broken heart in Walnut Grove, Kentucky.

Can Laurel put her bitter, angry, feelings aside and help Willie Ray prove his innocence before the FBI find him?

— Checkered Past by Tonya Kappes

Circle of Bones, A Caribbean Thriller by Christine Kling, 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, Thomas & Mercer …

Circle of Bones by Christine Kling

A Caribbean Thriller

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

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

  

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When Maggie Riley sets sail for the Caribbean, all she wants is a little R&R before starting a work assignment in Dominica.

The last thing Maggie expects is to rescue Cole Thatcher, a sexy — but possibly nuts — conspiracy-spouting archaeologist found swimming nude off the island of Guadeloupe. It turns out Cole is searching for the wreckage of a vanished World War II submarine, claiming it holds millions in gold coins and classified documents from a powerful inner circle of the secret society Skull and Bones.

Maggie has enough skeletons to deal with. But when she learns her own past may intersect this inner circle of Bonesmen, she realizes Cole might not be so crazy after all — and joining him in the search for the sub may be her only course to uncover a hidden truth.

— Circle of Bones by Christine Kling

The Wedding Soup Murder by Rosie Genova, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2014 …

The Wedding Soup Murder by Rosie Genova

A Victoria Rienzi, Italian Kitchen Mystery (2nd)

Publisher: Signet

  

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.

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Victoria Rienzi came home to the Jersey Shore to write a new book, learn the family restaurant business, and practice the fine art of Italian cooking. But when delicious dishes are paired with murder, Vic has a little too much on her plate …

When Vic asked her nonna for more responsibility in the kitchen, she didn't mean forming a thousand tiny meatballs by hand for the family's famous wedding soup. The dish is to be served at the reception for a close family friend at the exclusive Belmont Country Club. And once there Vic has to deal with a demanding bridezilla and clashes in the kitchen — between the staff and servers, between two egocentric head chefs, and between the country club president and … well … everyone.

The wedding comes off without a hitch — until the body of the club's president is found on the beach below a high seawall. Now Vic will need to use her noodle to find out who pushed whom too far … before she's the one who lands in the soup!

— The Wedding Soup Murder by Rosie Genova

Sleight of Hand, A Dana Cutler Thriller by Phillip Margolin, 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, Harper …

Sleight of Hand by Phillip Margolin

A Dana Cutler Thriller (4th in series)

Publisher: Harper

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

  

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Private investigator Dana Cutler must take down a cunning psychopath before he can pull off the perfect crime …

Charles Benedict — charismatic criminal defense lawyer, amateur illusionist, and professional hit man — has performed his greatest sleight of hand yet: framing a millionaire for the murder of his much younger wife.

When Horace Blair married Carrie, the prosecutor in his DUI trial, he made her sign a prenuptial agreement guaranteeing her twenty million dollars if she remained faithful for the first ten years of marriage. Just one week before their tenth anniversary, Carrie disappears, and Horace is charged with her murder. Desperate to clear his name, the millionaire hires D.C.'s most ruthless defense lawyer — Charles Benedict.

P.I. Dana Cutler is in the Pacific Northwest on the trail of a stolen relic dating from the Ottoman Empire. Hitting a dead end sends her back to Virginia perplexed and disappointed — and straight into the case of Horace and Carrie Blair.

Now Dana must conjure a few tricks of her own to expose Benedict's plot, before he can work his deadly magic on her …

— Sleight of Hand by Phillip Margolin

Personal by Lee Child, New in Bookstores during September 2014

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

Personal by Lee Child

A Jack Reacher Thriller (19th in series)

Publisher: Delacorte Press

        

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 …

Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott — an American marksman gone bad — is one of them. And after fifteen years in prison, he's out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G-8 summit packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin.

If anyone can stop Kott, it's the man who beat him before: Reacher. And though he'd rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with Casey Nice, a rookie analyst who keeps her cool with Zoloft. But they're facing a rough road, full of ruthless mobsters, Serbian thugs, close calls, double-crosses — and no backup if they're caught. All the while Reacher can't stop thinking about the woman he once failed to save. But he won't let that that happen again. Not this time. Not Nice.

Reacher never gets too close. But now a killer is making it personal.

— Personal by Lee Child