The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014 …

The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

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 October 2014. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of October 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

More about our featured title, below …

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same.

Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran — and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

As Joe writes about Carl's life, especially Carl's valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. Joe, along with his skeptical female neighbor, throws himself into uncovering the truth, but he is hamstrung in his efforts by having to deal with his dangerously dysfunctional mother, the guilt of leaving his autistic brother vulnerable, and a haunting childhood memory.

Thread by thread, Joe unravels the tapestry of Carl's conviction. But as he and Lila dig deeper into the circumstances of the crime, the stakes grow higher. Will Joe discover the truth before it's too late to escape the fallout?

— The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

New This Week: Blond Cargo, A Jack Bertolino Thriller by John Lansing

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 …

Blond Cargo by John Lansing

A Jack Bertolino Thriller (2nd in series)

Publisher: Gallery Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/20/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Jack Bertolino's son, Chris, was the victim of a brutal murder attempt and Vincent Cardona, a mafia boss, provided information that helped Jack take down the perpetrator of the crime. Jack accepted the favor knowing there'd be blowback.

Now the mobster's daughter has gone missing and Cardona turned in his chit. Jack discovers that the young, blond, mafia princess has been kidnapped and imprisoned while rich, politically connected men negotiate her value as a sex slave.

— Blond Cargo by John Lansing

Reign of Evil by Weston Ochse, New in Bookstores during October 2014

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

Reign of Evil by Weston Ochse, a SEAL Team 666 Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

        

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 …

Legend holds that when Britain is in its darkest hour, King Arthur will return to save the country, if not the world. That legend is dead wrong.

When a Grove of Druids sacrifice the lives of a group of innocents, including the fiancée of a member of SEAL Team 666, the ancient king is brought back from the dead and sets his sight on subjugating humanity and cleansing his land of all who are not true Britons. Because of political sensitivities, Triple 6 is ordered to stand down, but that order is ignored by one of them seeking his own vengeance.

Now, the members of America's elite supernatural-hunting team must decide what is more important: their orders or their loyalty to their own team member.

— Reign of Evil by Weston Ochse

Telemystery: Two Seasons of Silent Witness, New on DVD This Week

Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or Video-on-Demand, is profiling two seasons of a long-running series from our site being released this week.

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Silent Witness
Series One

In the first season of this long-running hit BBC crime thriller, first broadcast in 1996, forensic pathologist Dr. Samantha Ryan (Amanda Burton) helps solve murder cases with harrowing evidence that speaks louder than words. Her all-embracing, passionate notion of justice quite often does not accord with the police's objective of getting a conviction. While Cambridge police detectives interview witnesses who may or may not tell the truth, "Sam" extracts revealing truths from calcified bones, decomposed and charred bodies, tell-tale bruises and overlooked fingerprints. This can lead to trouble, both in her personal and professional lives, but to Sam, each dead body deserves nothing but the truth.

Brace yourself for twists and turns in four gripping episodes: the suspicious drowning of a six-year-old girl, the apparently ritual killing of a young man, a death in police custody, and the fiery murder of a refugee's business partner.

The most recent season of the series, its 17th, aired earlier this year and its DVD is also released this week (see next entry).

  

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Silent Witness
Series Seventeen

Prepare for gruesome crime scenes and intricate plot twists in the most recent season of this popular and long-running BBC crime thriller. Emilia Fox returns as forensic pathologist Dr. Nikki Alexander in five more chilling episodes.

What’s the missing link between a poisoned autistic boy and a soccer celebrity caught on a sex tape?  If a framed ex-soldier didn’t kill two gay boys, who did?  How to explain the buried remains of a lap dancer in rural Scotland and the body of a recently pregnant Northern Irish teenager, found in a suitcase?  Things get personal for Jack when his brother becomes a suspect.

Despite media pressure, police friction, death threats and romantic distractions, Nikki and the rest of the Lyell Centre team continue on an unwavering and hugely satisfying quest for the truth.

  

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Visit the Telemystery website to discover more television mystery series currently available on and coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or video on demand.

The Acquittal by Anne Laughlin, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014 …

The Acquittal by Anne Laughlin

A Novel of Suspense

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.

More about our featured title, below …

Ex-Chicago cop and new PI Josie Harper has been hired by an outside group to clear the name of publisher Lauren Wade, recently acquitted of the murder of her lover. That means finding the real killer, a task made more difficult by Lauren's unwillingness to cooperate and a large family problem — Lauren's parents have been kidnapped for a ransom she can no longer pay. Josie has a big challenge of her own: how to redeem herself after losing her job as a detective. When Josie and Lauren join forces to rescue the parents, they discover they make a great team, in more ways than one.

Will Josie's troubled past come back to haunt her? And who did kill Lauren's lover?

— The Acquittal by Anne Laughlin