Death in Bagheria, A Serafina Florio Mystery by Susan Russo Anderson, Now Available at a Special Price

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Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

Death in Bagheria by Susan Russo Anderson

A Serafina Florio Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Conca d'Oro Publishing

Price: $0.99 (as of 10/12/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Sicily, March 1870. When a headstrong aristocrat commissions Serafina to find her mother's poisoner, the midwife turned sleuth travels to a windswept villa on Sicily's gold coast where she begins her investigation of the baroness's death. There, she meets with the irascible baron and his huge staff of servants. Adding to her peril are the ruthless attempts to foil her success by her arch enemy, Don Tigro, the local mafia capo.

Yet Serafina is unflagging in her determination to unmask the killer, despite mortal danger, the pleas of her children for her speedy return, and a longing to resume her broiling new romance with Loffredo, the lusty count of Oltramari. With the help of her friend, Rosa, two daring servants, and an unexpected visitor, she uncovers ugly entanglements that portend dire misfortune for the baroness's heirs. Will Serafina catch the killer before his henchman throws her to her death?

— Death in Bagheria by Susan Russo Anderson

Ghost Wanted by Carolyn Hart, New in Bookstores during October 2014

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

Ghost Wanted by Carolyn Hart, a Bailey Ruth Raeburn Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Berkley Hardcover

        

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 …

Bailey Ruth's supervisor, Wiggins, is worried about a dear old friend. The ghost of elegant Lorraine Marlow haunts Adelaide's college library. Known as the Lady of the Roses, she plays matchmaker, using the fragrant flowers to pair up students. But someone's making mischief after hours, leaving roses strewn about the library, destroying a gargoyle, and stealing a valuable book. Concerned with Lorraine's reputation among the living, Wiggins dispatches the irrepressible redhead Bailey Ruth to investigate.

Soon after her arrival, trouble begins to stack up. A campus security guard is shot by an intruder, and Bailey Ruth uncovers a catalog of evidence blaming a student for the crimes. As a ghost, she may not be all there, but even Bailey Ruth can decipher that something isn't adding up. So with police preparing to make an arrest, the spirited detective must race against the clock to find the real culprit, because when justice is overdue, it takes more than death to stop Bailey Ruth Raeburn …

— Ghost Wanted by Carolyn Hart

Keeping Watch by Jane M. Choate, New from Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense in October 2014

Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title from Harlequin, published this month …

Keeping Watch by Jane M. Choate

Imprint: Love Inspired Suspense

  

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

Despite the threats against her life, Danielle Barclay thinks having a bodyguard is unnecessary. Or at least that's what she tells herself before meeting Jake Rabb. A former Delta Force soldier, Jake is used to rope-lining from helicopters into enemy territory — not following around a senator's daughter. The lovely deputy district attorney is as strong-willed as she is brave, especially when the escalating danger assures Jake that her stalker means business. As the attacks become personal, Danielle finally puts her trust — and her feelings — on the line with her defender. But how will Jake protect her if the stalker is closer than they think?

— Keeping Watch by Jane M. Choate

Flower Net, A Red Princess Mystery by Lisa See, 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, Random House …

Flower Net by Lisa See

A Red Princess Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Random House

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/12/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping's reign, the U.S. ambassador's son is found dead — his body entombed in a frozen lake. Around the same time, aboard a ship adrift off the coast of Southern California, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Stark makes a startling discovery: the corpse of a Red Prince, a scion of China's political elite.

The Chinese and American governments suspect that the deaths are connected and, in an unprecedented move, they join forces to see justice done. In Beijing, David teams up with the unorthodox police detective Liu Hulan. In an investigation that brings them to every corner of China and sparks an intense attraction between the two, David and Hulan discover a web linking human trafficking to the drug trade to governmental treachery — a web reaching from the Forbidden City to the heart of Los Angeles and, like the wide flower net used by Chinese fishermen, threatening to ensnare all within its reach.

— Flower Net by Lisa See

New This Week: The Pier, A Sophie Lee and Ellen Harper Short Story Mystery by Rick Murcer

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 October 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

The Pier by Rick Murcer

A Sophie Lee and Ellen Harper Short Story Mystery

Publisher: Murcer Press

Price: $0.99 (as of 10/12/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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Special Agent Sophie Lee reluctantly takes over an FBI profiling workshop when Manny Williams, her long time partner and profiler elite, is suddenly called away from the conference in Chicago. During the Q& A after the presentation, she meets Ellen Harper, the CPD's finest CSI and they hit it off.

Then Ellen receives a call and the conference becomes a memory as the two unlikely partners are drawn into one of the most bizarre double murders in recent Chicago history … and this killer isn't done as Sophie and Ellen soon discover. Death stalks even them. Not everyone will see a new sunrise over Lake Michigan, will they?

— The Pier by Rick Murcer