New This Week: Betrayal, A Tall Pines Mystery by Aaron Paul Lazar

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 …

Betrayal by Aaron Paul Lazar

A Tall Pines Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Aaron Paul Lazer

Price: $3.99 (as of 09/19/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Marcella Hollister realized a lifetime of hopes and dreams when she was given custody of a child. A cousin of her half-Seneca husband, Quinn, the baby's mother was murdered in a political plot — and Marcella, who's never been able to have children of her own, formed an instant bond with little Kimi.

Then a distant relative comes forward to claim Kimi — and Quinn, who Marcella thought understood her pain better than anyone, allows them to take the baby without a fight.

Confused and deeply wounded, Marcella takes off for Tall Pines, their secluded Adirondack cabin. She hopes the peace and natural beauty of the mountains will help clear her head and decide whether to forgive Quinn … or leave him.

But the situation at Tall Pines is anything but peaceful. Her high school lover, Sky, arrives to help out — and Marcella discovers her old feelings may not be as distant as she thought. Worse, a serial killer is stalking young women in the area. And when a teen girl whose mother works with Sky goes missing, Marcella and everyone she cares for wind up dead center in the killer's sights.

— Betrayal by Aaron Paul Lazar

Life Support, An Alexia Lindale Novel by Robert Whitlow, 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 Nelson …

Life Support by Robert Whitlow

An Alexia Lindale Novel (1st in series)

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/19/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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Alexia Lindale knows her new case is a matter of life and death. She doesn't have a clue what it will do to her heart … and soul …

Baxter Richardson survived a fall from a cliff while hiding in the mountains. Whether he'll make it through the next few weeks is unclear.

His survival depends on the machines that help him breathe. On the haunted, unstable wife who wants to pull the plug and hide her secrets. On the doting father who wants him alive for reasons of love and money. On the conflicting legal documents that send the fight to court.

And, on the music and prayers of an extraordinarily gifted pianist.

— Life Support by Robert Whitlow

Death Drops the Pilot, A Thomas Littlejohn Mystery by George Bellairs, New This Week from Endeavour Press

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 Drops the Pilot by George Bellairs

A Thomas Littlejohn Mystery

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 09/19/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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The last ferry, the Falbright Jenny, leaves from Elmer's Creek to Falbright across the River Hore. But the ferry is found nose-up on a sandbank. The pilot is missing from her bridge and is later found under Falbright pier, stabbed in his back. Scotland Yard is called in to investigate.

But Detective-Inspector Littlejohn and Sergeant Cromwell find the case a challenging one right from the start. From the seedy gentry to the local villagers, it becomes clear that someone is trying to cover their tracks. Who wanted to kill the pilot of the Falbright Jenny and why?

— Death Drops the Pilot by George Bellairs

The Hidden Light of Mexico City, A Political Thriller by Carmen Amato, 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 author …

The Hidden Light of Mexico City by Carmen Amato

A Political Thriller

Publisher: Carmen Amato

Price: $1.99 (as of 09/19/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Mexico City attorney Eddo Cortez Castillo's unexpected relationship with housemaid Luz de Maria Alba Mora becomes a dangerous vulnerability when he investigates links between the Minister for Public Security and Mexico's most elusive drug cartel leader. But what Eddo doesn't know is that Luz is trapped at the bottom of Mexico's ladder of inequality, where broken dreams and family poverty have brought her to the breaking point.

As presidential elections near, Eddo's investigation will uncover a political double-cross fueled by a trail of blood money and drug cartels. With the help of a secret police brotherhood, he'll follow the trail as it twists and turns through a maze of smuggling and money laundering right up to the Mexican border with the United States. There he'll find the beating heart of Mexico's drug culture, where violence buys loyalty, votes are for sale, the odds are against survival, and only a woman whose name means Light of Mary can guide him out.

Luz cannot help Eddo, however, until she finds the courage to confront the social structure she has lived with for so long in Mexico City and dispel the supposed inequality in their relationship. She'll fight a parallel battle of suspense and survival as a soldier in the war being waged in the kitchens of the elite of Mexico City; a silent class war with its own impact on the country. Immigration to the United States may be her best chance for a real life as an artist, but it comes with a higher price than she may be able to pay.

When the lives of Eddo and Luz converge, and the cartels discover his investigation, they will both have to find the courage to survive. If they do, the real battle will have just begun.

— The Hidden Light of Mexico City by Carmen Amato

The Sun Is God by Adrian McKinty, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2014 …

The Sun Is God by Adrian Mckinty

A Novel of Suspense

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 …

Colonial New Guinea — 1906: a small group of mostly German nudists live an extreme back-to-nature existence on the remote island of Kabakon. Eating only coconuts and bananas, they purport to worship the sun. One of their members — Max Lutzow — has recently died, allegedly from malaria. But an autopsy on his body in the nearby capital of Herbertshöhe raises suspicions about foul play.

Retired British military police officer Will Prior is recruited to investigate the circumstances of Lutzow's death. At first, the eccentric group seems friendly and willing to cooperate with the investigation. They all insist that Lutzow died of malaria. Despite lack of evidence for a murder, Prior is convinced that the group is hiding something.

Things come to a head during a late-night feast supposedly given as a send-off for the visitors before they return to Herbertshöhe. Prior fears that the intent of the "celebration" is not to fete the visitors but to make them the latest murder victims.

— The Sun Is God by Adrian McKinty