A Penny for the Hangman, A Novel of Suspense by Tom Savage, New This Week from Alibi

Alibi is a digital-only imprint of Random House dedicated to publishing mystery and thriller books.

We've selected one of their recently published titles to feature here today …

A Penny for the Hangman by Tom Savage

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Alibi

Price: $2.99 (as of 10/07/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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An ambitious reporter is beckoned to an island paradise for the story of a lifetime. But this scoop might just be the death of her …

Fifty years ago, on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, two teenagers born to privilege were convicted of slaughtering their parents in cold blood. Today the men are free and a Hollywood movie has been made about the murders. For Karen Tyler, an eager New York journalist, the case is irresistible. She has been invited to the Virgin Islands for an interview that's too good to pass up … and sounds too good to be true.

Karen packs her bikini and her digital recorder and follows an ingeniously designed trail that leads her to a wealthy, mysterious figure. The man claims to be one of the notorious boys, but Karen soon learns that all is not as it seems. On this isolated utopia of sun and surf, a young reporter far from home fights for the truth — and for her life. Because the shocking secret behind the infamous atrocities has remained hidden all these years. And the killing isn't over yet.

— A Penny for the Hangman by Tom Savage

Star Island, A Skink Novel by Carl Hiaasen, 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, Vintage …

Star Island by Carl Hiaasen

A Skink Novel (6th in series)

Publisher: Vintage

Price: $3.00 (as of 10/07/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen — and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.

Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her "undercover stunt double," Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too "indisposed" — meaning wasted — to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott.

Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers (über — stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker — wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry's public — and from Cherry herself.

The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink — the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp — and now he's heading for Miami to find her …

Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry's motley posse does?

— Star Island by Carl Hiaasen

Off Kilter by Hannah Reed, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Eden Elliott

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series titles, a mystery, thriller or suspense novel that introduces a recurring character (or characters) …

Off Kilter by Hannah Reed

An Eden Elliott, Scottish Highlands Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

What we know about the character: After the recent death of her mother and the dissolution of her marriage, thirty-something Eden Elliott is seriously in need of a fresh start. At the urging of her best friend, bestselling author Ami Pederson, Eden decides to embark on an open-ended trip to the picturesque village of Glenkillen in the Scottish Highlands, to do some hands-on research for a book of her own. For more information about her first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

Someone's been kilt …

Almost as soon as Eden arrives in the quaint town of Glenkillen, she gets caught up in a very real drama …

The town's sheep shearer is found murdered — clipped with his own shears — and the locals suspect Vicki MacBride, an outsider whose father's recent death left her the surprise heir to his lucrative sheep farm. Eden refuses to believe the affable heiress is a murderer, but can she prove that someone is out to frame her new friend before she finds herself on the receiving end of more shear terror?

— Off Kilter by Hannah Reed

Chasing Tomorrow by Tilly Bagshawe, New in Bookstores during October 2014

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

Chasing Tomorrow by Tilly Bagshawe, a "Sidney Sheldon" Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

        

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

More about our featured title, below …

Tracy Whitney never thought she wanted to settle down. With her suave and handsome partner, Jeff Stevens, she'd been responsible for some of the world's most astounding heists, relishing the danger and intensity of life on the wild side. But there is still one thing missing from Tracy's perfect life: a baby.

At first "going straight" feels like a new adventure. But as the months pass and Tracy's longed for pregnancy doesn't happen, she finds herself yearning for the adrenaline rush of the old days. When a mysterious and beautiful stranger enters their lives, Tracy and Jeff's once unbreakable partnership is suddenly blown wide open. Jeff wakes one morning to find Tracy gone, vanished without a trace.

For more than a decade, a broken Jeff struggles to carry on knowing Tracy is out there somewhere. But the rest of the world believes Tracy Whitney is dead … until a series of murders leads a tenacious French detective to her doorstep. Eleven victims, in ten different cities, over nine years — all of the cities where Tracy pulled off some of her most brilliant capers. Someone is targeting her, manipulating a series of disturbing events and raising terrifying ghosts she thought were dead and buried.

Once again, this clever woman finds herself out on the edge, playing the odds in a desperate game of roulette. But this time, she's got everything to lose — including the man she cannot forget.

Tomorrow has come at last. But it isn't the future Tracy bargained for …

— Chasing Tomorrow by Tilly Bagshawe

Telemystery News: NBC Developing Tim Hallinan's Junior Bender Mysteries for Television

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that NBC has given a script commitment to develop the Junior Bender series of comedic crime novels by Timothy Hallinan for television.

Introduced in the 2010, Junior Bender is a high-end thief. He's also the go-to guy in Los Angeles when criminals who can't — or won't — go to the police and need something investigated. Read more about the first book in the series, Crashed, below.

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Junior Bender is a Los Angeles burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses when he was fourteen years old, he's never once been caught. But now, after twenty-two years of an exemplary career, Junior has been blackmailed by Trey Annunziato, one of the most powerful crime bosses in LA, into acting as a private investigator on the set of Trey's porn movie venture, which someone keeps sabotaging. The star Trey has lined up to do all that's unwholesome on camera is Thistle Downing, America's beloved child star, who now lives alone in a drug-induced stupor, destitute and uninsurable. Her starring role will be the scandalous fall-from-grace gossip of rubber-neckers across the country. No wonder Trey needs help keeping the production on track.

Junior knows what that he should do — get Thistle out and find her help — but doing the right thing will land him on the wrong side of LA's scariest mob boss. With the help of his precocious twelve-year-old daughter, Rina, and his criminal sidekick, Louie the Lost (an ex-getaway driver), Junior has to figure out a miracle solution.

Read our review of Crashed on Mysterious Reviews.