New This Week: Pieces of Eight, A Decker P.I. Mystery by Bill Craig

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 …

Pieces of Eight by Bill Craig

A Decker P.I. Mystery

Publisher: Crossfire Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/21/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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Tom Collins and his wife Vicki were remodeling their house on Scorpion Cay when they found what looked like a map. Curious, Tom contacted his old friend Sam Decker and asked him to take them out on the boat. But other ears overheard the call and had a good idea what was going on. When Tom and his wife were run off the road and left for dead, Sam Decker got pissed.

Treasure maps in the Florida Keys are nothing unusual. But maps that somebody is willing to kill for are more unusual. As Decker and his friends begin the search for the treasure, a group of unsavory treasure hunters try to scare him off. But Sam Decker doesn't scare easy. Nor is he about to let anyone kill his friends for pieces of eight!

— Pieces of Eight by Bill Craig

Help for the Haunted, A Novel of Suspense by John Searles, Now Available at a Special Price

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Help for the Haunted by John Searles

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/21/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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Sylvie Mason's parents have an unusual occupation — helping "haunted souls" find peace. After receiving a strange phone call one winter's night, they leave the house and are later murdered in an old church in a horrifying act of violence.

A year later, Sylvie is living in the care of her older sister, who may be to blame for what happened to their parents. Now, the inquisitive teenager pursues the mystery, moving closer to the knowledge of what occurred that night — and to the truth about her family's past and the secrets that have haunted them for years.

— Help for the Haunted by John Searles

New This Week: Temporarily Employed, A Romantic Mystery by Vicki Batman

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 …

Temporarily Employed by Vicki Batman

A Romantic Mystery

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/21/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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New job. New romance. And murder …

Hattie Cook's dream job is down the toilet and her new SUV violated. Desperate for cash to cover the basic necessities of rent and food, she takes a temporary job at Buy-Rite insurance company where she uncovers an embezzling scam tied to the death of a former employee — the very one she replaced. The last thing she wants is to clash with By-the-Book Detective Wellborn, no matter how much he makes her heart pound.

Allan Charles Wellborn has secretly adored Hattie all his life. He evolved from a pocket protector-wearing geek to a handsome police detective. When the police determine there's more to the death of a former Buy Rite employee, he steps in to lead the investigation. Overly dedicated, always perfect, he puts his job first, even if doing so ultimately hurts the one he loves.

Can the killer be found before Hattie's time is up?

— Temporarily Employed by Vicki Batman

Dark Tort, A Goldy Schulz Mystery by Diane Mott Davidson, Now Available at a Special Price

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Dark Tort by Diane Mott Davidson

A Goldy Schulz Mystery (13th in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $2.99 (as of 10/21/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Caterer Goldy Schulz's lucrative new gig, preparing breakfasts and conference room snacks for a local law firm, is time-consuming, but she's enjoying it … until the night she arrives to find Dusty, the firm's paralegal, dead. The deceased also happened to be Goldy's friend and neighbor, and now Dusty's grieving mother is begging Goldy to find out who murdered her daughter.

Just because the police are on the case doesn't mean Goldy can't do a little snooping herself. While catering a party at the home of one of the firm's lawyers, she just happens to overhear an incriminating conversation. She also discovers a few tasty clues in the kitchen. Before long, Goldy finds herself knee-deep in suspects. But one of them is incredibly dangerous … and very liable to cook Goldy's goose.

— Dark Tort by Diane Mott Davidson

Black Sun Descending by Stephen Legault, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014 …

Black Sun Descending by Stephen Legault

A Silas Pearson, Red Rock Canyon Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: TouchWood Editions

  

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 …

Silas Pearson is plagued by nightmares. In them, his wife Penelope, who has now been missing for four years, shows him where murder victims are buried across the Colorado Plateau. One such dream leads him to the Atlas Mill tailings site, outside Moab, Utah. There, Silas discovers the corpse of anti-uranium-mining activist Jane Vaughn, who went missing from Flagstaff, Arizona, buried in radioactive waste.

Trying to connect the murder with the disappearance of his wife, who was friends with Vaughn, Silas travels across the Southwest to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. He confronts a host of suspects who wanted Jane Vaughn dead and who believed Penelope, too, was interfering with progress on the plateau.

All the while, Silas's nightmares, threaded with snatches of prose from the writings of Edward Abbey, seem to be leading him to some final confrontation — but with what?

— Black Sun Descending by Stephen Legault