Friday, September 12, 2014

Death Speaks Softly, A David Webb Mystery by Anthea Fraser, New This Week from Endeavour Press

Death Speaks Softly by Anthea Fraser

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.

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

Death Speaks Softly by Anthea Fraser

A David Webb Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 09/12/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

First published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1987, this is its first appearance as an ebook.

Death Speaks Softly by Anthea Fraser, Amazon Kindle format

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There were plenty of men, both tutors and post-graduates, who'd been attracted to Arlette Picard. But when the young French girl disappears from Broadshire University, it sparks one of Chief Inspector Webb's most complex investigations. She was a vivacious young woman, carefree and loved by many — or was she? Was her disappearance been caused by jealousy? It is not just her disappearance that makes Webb uneasy …

On the fringe of his enquires is Professor Warwick, a man whose brilliance teetered on the brink of madness. And the arrival of the girl's parents from France soon leads to a further tragedy, which Webb is helpless to prevent …

Death Speaks Softly by Anthea Fraser

Agnes Barton In Tawas Box Set 2, An Agnes Barton, Senior Sleuth Mystery Collection by Madison Johns, Now Available at a Special Price

Agnes Barton In Tawas Box Set 2 by Madison Johns

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, Outrageous Books …

Agnes Barton In Tawas Box Set 2 by Madison Johns

An Agnes Barton, Senior Sleuth Mystery Collection

Publisher: Outrageous Books

Price: $0.99 (as of 09/12/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

Agnes Barton In Tawas Box Set 2 by Madison Johns, Amazon Kindle format

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This set includes the 4th through 6th titles in this mystery series …

Trouble in Tawas: Agnes Barton has been waiting years for this day. She's always told Sheriff Peterson he would rue the day when his re-election time came around and now — it's finally here. What will Agnes do? Will she cause conflict or support the other candidate?

When the sheriff's father Hal goes missing, Agnes and Eleanor Mason are on a mission to find him, leading them to the Soaring Eagle Casino. But when they haul him home it's only to find that his companion, Raul Perez, is dead at the bottom of the stairs. When the cops show up it doesn't look good for Hal who is in possession of the dead man's credit card. With Hal now as a suspect, and Sheriff Peterson off the case, the sheriff hires Agnes and Eleanor to clear his father's name.

Will Agnes be able to clear Hal's name in time to save Peterson from failure at the polls or is this case too bizarre as a tenant claims aliens are involved?

Treasure in Tawas: The last thing Agnes Barton expected was to be slapped in cuffs alongside her best friend, and fellow-sleuthing buddy, Eleanor Mason. All they had wanted to do was to verify if a painting at the Butler Mansion had indeed been stolen. How were they to know that they had tripped off a silent alarm — or that Agnes' nemesis Mildred Winfree's body would be discovered when the cops showed up? It didn't help that they had entered the mansion illegally — using a key Agnes had pilfered from her daughter Martha who was working as a real estate agent to sell the old place.

Word has it that a treasure map was hidden in the back of a painting at the Butler Mansion, and it was just too juicy a story not to investigate. So here Agnes and Eleanor sat in jail as prime suspects as they were brought in for questioning.

The tabloid, Tall Tales, printed a treasure map in its most recent addition, and soon, East Tawas becomes a point of interest as treasure hunters began tearing up the town looking for treasure. Agnes and Eleanor join in the foray, but she wondered just who was behind this tall tale, and what did it have to do with Mildred's murder?

Bigfoot and Tawas: Agnes and Eleanor embark on their most challenging case to date, finding Bigfoot!

Agnes isn't sure what to say when Billy Matlin, hires her to find Bigfoot, and it doesn't help that Eleanor is hiding in the car. Who is she to say that Bigfoot isn't real, and lord knows she sure could use a paying gig. Armed with a baggie full of brown hair, Agnes and Eleanor march into the sheriff's department, but Sheriff Peterson is reluctant to test the hair. Outright refusing to use county resources for a DNA analysis.

Before long, the Department of Natural Resources and the United States Fish and Game Service also both refuse to test the hair. Suggesting that the only way they would investigate is if an endangered species is involved. Never one to be told no, Agnes does the only thing she thinks will get them to change their minds by planting evidence in the form of a road killed Bald Eagle on Billy's property.

East Tawas is not only overrun with Bigfoot sightings, but it would seem just about everyone they question claims to have seen something mysterious in the woods. When big game hunters roll into town, and with the DNR and U.S. Fish and Game fighting over the brown hair, not to mention a reality show offering up a ten million dollar prize to whoever finds Bigfoot, it's up to Agnes and Eleanor to find out the truth, which is further complicated when Billy Matlin mysteriously disappears.

Agnes Barton In Tawas Box Set 2 by Madison Johns

The Kiss Goodbye by Wendelin Van Draanen, a New Sammy Keyes Mystery for Cadet Sleuths, Ages 10 to 12

The Kiss Goodbye by Wendelin Van Draanen

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

The Kiss Goodbye by Wendelin Van Draanen

Series: Sammy Keyes

Publisher: Knopf

Format(s): Hardcover, eBook

Recommended for Cadet Sleuths, Ages 10 to 12

The Kiss Goodbye by Wendelin Van Draanen, Amazon Kindle format

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

Sammy doesn't go looking for trouble, but she seems to find it everywhere. She's forever sniffing out clues and chasing down bad guys — and driving her friends a little nuts. She's gone up against thieves and counterfeiters and gangsters and blackmailers and murderers, and always stayed one step ahead.

Until now.

Last night, one of the bad guys caught up.

Last night, someone followed Sammy up the fire escape and pushed her from the third story.

Now she's in the hospital, out cold. And her friends are left with the questions Sammy's always been so good at answering: Why? How? But most of all … WHO?

The Kiss Goodbye by Wendelin Van Draanen

New This Week: Destined for Trouble, A Jules Cannon Mystery by Claudia Lefeve

Destined for Trouble by Claudia Lefeve

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 …

Destined for Trouble by Claudia Lefeve

A Jules Cannon Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Claudia Lefeve

Price: $2.99 (as of 09/12/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

Destined for Trouble by Claudia Lefeve, Amazon Kindle format

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Recently dumped by her boyfriend of two years, FBI crime analyst Jules Cannon decides to take a much needed vacation and heads to her hometown of Trouble Island, Texas. All Jules wants to do is relax, forget about her failed relationship, and work on her tan.

Her anticipated beach vacation turns out to be anything but, as her mildly eccentric aunt manipulates Jules into working at her clothing boutique, her former high school sweetheart hints at the possibility of rekindling old flames, and if things couldn't get any worse, when a local restaurant owner is found murdered and her best friend becomes the prime suspect, the only thing Jules is destined for is trouble.

Destined for Trouble by Claudia Lefeve

Murder 101 by Faye Kellerman, New in Bookstores during September 2014

Murder 101 by Faye Kellerman

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

Murder 101 by Faye Kellerman

A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Mystery (22nd in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

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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 …

As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now he and his spirited wife, Rina Lazarus, are ready to enjoy the quiet beauty of upstate New York, where they can be closer to their four adult children, grandchildren, and their foster son, Gabe.

But working for the Greenbury Police Department isn't as fulfilling as Decker hoped. While Rina has adapted beautifully to their new surroundings, Decker is underwhelmed and frustrated by his new partner, Tyler McAdams, a former Harvard student and young buck with a bad attitude. Just when he thinks he's made a mistake, Decker is called to an actual crime — a possible break-in at the local cemetery.

The call seems like a false alarm until it's discovered that a mausoleum's stunning Tiffany panels have been replaced by forgeries. Soon the case escalates into murder: a co-ed at an exclusive consortium of liberal-arts colleges is brutally slaughtered. Poking into the hallowed halls of academia to find a killer, Decker and McAdams are drawn deep into a web of nasty secrets, cold-case crimes, international intrigue, and ruthless people who kill for sport.

Suddenly Decker's job is anything but boring, and the case might be too much to handle for a sleepy town that hasn't seen a murder for nearly a quarter century. Decker will need to use every bit of his keen mind, his thirty years of experience as a homicide cop, and much-appreciated help from family and old friends to stop a callous killer and uncover a cabal so bizarre that it defies logic.

Murder 101 by Faye Kellerman

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