New This Week: The Reluctant Detective, A Faith Morgan Mystery by Martha Ockley

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 Reluctant Detective by Martha Ockley

A Faith Morgan Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Lion Fiction

Price: $0.99 (as of 10/17/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Arriving back in the region of her birth — Winchester in Hampshire — Faith Morgan, newly ordained priest in the Church of England, witnesses the dramatic death of a fellow priest during a communion service at a church in Little Worthy. He has been poisoned with a pesticide mixed with the communion wine.

One of the police officers who turns up at the scene is Ben Shorter, Faith's ex long-term boyfriend. They trained as police officers together, until Faith's vocation took a different turn. Her relationship with Ben changed too at this point as she became uneasy with his drive for convictions, seemingly at any cost — even that of the truth.

Most reluctantly Faith is drawn to dust down her detective skills, even as she picks her way through the delicate relationships of a church and village reeling from the death of a well-loved minister. Just what was the deceased's relationship with an attractive widow …?

— The Reluctant Detective by Martha Ockley

Profile of Evil, The Profile Series by Alexa Grace, 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, Golden Publishing …

Profile of Evil by Alexa Grace

The Profile Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Golden Publishing

Price: $0.99 (as of 10/17/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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A vicious serial killer … As the body count increases, Sheriff Brody Chase realizes there is a monster living in his county and using it as a dump site.

A missing girl … Alison is a lonely, abused and bullied thirteen-year-old who has no idea her online heart throb is a serial killer.

Time is running out … A life hangs in the balance, and the profiler and sheriff rush to stop the most terrifying killer of their careers.

— Profile of Evil by Alexa Grace

Murder in the Arts District by Greg Herren, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014 …

Murder in the Arts District by Greg Herren

A Chanse MacLeod Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Bold Strokes Books

  

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for October 2014. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of October 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

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When neither the cops nor their insurance company believes a wealthy gay couple's valuable art collection was stolen, they hire Chanse MacLeod to track down the thieves and the missing art. Chanse isn't entirely sure he believes the couple, either — especially when it turns out some of the art may have been forgeries.

The trail of the art leads him to a new gallery on Julia Street in the Arts District opened by a couple new to town that seem to have no past. When one of them turns up dead and the other vanishes, it's now up to Chanse to find not only the missing art, but a ruthless murderer who will kill anyone who gets in the way.

— Murder in the Arts District by Greg Herren

A Death in Vegas, A Novel of Suspense by Christopher Meeks, 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, White Whisker Books …

A Death in Vegas by Christopher Meeks

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: White Whisker Books

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/17/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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The president of a company that specializes in beneficial bugs for organic gardeners discovers a young woman dead in his Las Vegas hotel suite. She had worked as a sexy lady bug at his convention booth — and he had nothing to do with her death.

While that's being investigated, the FBI raids his booth on a money-laundering scam, which he knows nothing about either. Soon, the coroner doesn't have good news.

The police and FBI are against him — and his wife cannot be found. He flees to find answers and his wife.

— A Death in Vegas by Christopher Meeks

Deadline by John Sandford, New in Bookstores during October 2014

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

Deadline by John Sandford, a Virgil Flowers Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: Putnam

        

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 …

In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor.

Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is helping out a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to be turning into something much bigger and uglier — a team of dognappers supplying medical labs — when he gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A murdered body has been found — and the victim is a local reporter …

— Deadline by John Sandford