New This Week: Older Than Goodbye, A Judd Wheeler Mystery by Richard Helms

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 …

Older Than Goodbye by Richard Helms

A Judd Wheeler Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Five Star

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/27/2014 at 3:30 PM ET).

  

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Being police chief in tiny Prosperity, North Carolina, typically meant that Judd Wheeler mostly handed out traffic tickets and quelled the occasional domestic dispute. Being shot during a routine investigation changed all that.

Within weeks of Wheeler's return to the job, a banker and his wife disappear, and the most hated man in town is brutally murdered. Compounding his troubles is the return of Wheeler's best childhood friend Sean "Shug" Burch, an ex-convict turned celebrity country-blues singer whom Wheeler helped put in prison for rape almost thirty years earlier, and who may be seeking revenge.

Formerly a bucolic country paradise, Prosperity has become a hotbed of crime, and only Chief Judd Wheeler — with the assistance of an unexpected ally — can bring it back to order.

— Older Than Goodbye by Richard Helms

The Travel Writer, A Jacob Smalls, Travel Writer Mystery by Jeff Soloway, 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, Alibi …

The Travel Writer by Jeff Soloway

A Jacob Smalls, Travel Writer Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Alibi

Price: $0.99 (as of 10/27/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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At a posh South American resort tucked into the lush jungles of the Andes, an American journalist has gone missing, leaving the hotel's PR agent, Pilar Rojas, with an international incident on her hands. Which is why she offers her ex-lover, travel writer Jacob Smalls, an all-expenses-paid trip to the resort in exchange for a puff piece extolling its virtues — and some behind-the-scenes digging into the disappearance. Intrigued by the prospect of winning Pilar back — and eager, as always, for freebies — Jacob hops the first flight to La Paz, Bolivia.

Although he hasn't seen Pilar in years, Jacob finds her just as intoxicating as he did when they were together. But from the moment he hits the city's cobbled streets, Jacob attracts all the wrong kinds of attention. Political flunkies and goons of all stripes try to scare him off the trail, while the missing woman's not-quite boyfriend insists on shadowing Jacob's every move. And amid ancient Incan hillside terraces, a world-class hotel conceals a secret that may kill.

— The Travel Writer by Jeff Soloway

Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas by Stephanie Barron, New in Bookstores during October 2014

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

Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas by Stephanie Barron, a Jane Austen Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Soho Crime

        

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 …

Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood: Mansfield Park is selling nicely; Napoleon has been banished to Elba; British forces have seized Washington, DC; and on Christmas Eve, John Quincy Adams signs the Treaty of Ghent, which will end a war nobody in England really wanted.

Jane, however, discovers holiday cheer is fleeting. One of the Yuletide revelers dies in a tragic accident, which Jane immediately views with suspicion. If the accident was in fact murder, the killer is one of Jane's fellow snow-bound guests. With clues scattered amidst cleverly crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlor games, and old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, whom can Jane trust to help her discover the truth and stop the killer from striking again?

— Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas by Stephanie Barron

Telemystery: Vera, New This Week on DVD

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 one series from our site being released this week.

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Vera
Set Four

Brenda Blethyn returns as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope, whose offbeat manner and frumpy appearance belie a knack for catching killers. Stanhope is ably assisted by Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth (David Leon), her colleague, confidante, and surrogate son. Ashworth tries to balance his family responsibilities with the demands of working for a boss who seems to have little else in her life but the job.

In this season, Stanhope and Ashworth take on four new cases on their Northumberland beat — the stabbing of a senior citizen aboard a rush-hour train, the brutal murder of a young professional at a beach resort, the shooting of a loner out on the moors, and the drowning of a respected businessman.

Based in part on books by crime novelist Ann Cleeves, this atmospheric drama delivers compelling characters, superb performances, and suspenseful mysteries.

  

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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.

New This Week: The Whispers, The Whispers Series by Lisa Unger

Lisa Unger begins a trilogy of e-novellas today centered on a psychic medium and the strange secrets she begins to uncover. The second in the series is published next month with the third and final entry in early January 2015.

The Whispers by Lisa Unger

The Whispers Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Pocket Star

Price: $0.99 (as of 10/27/2014 at 1:30 PM ET).

  

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It's a day like any other for Eloise Montgomery — until tragedy strikes. While she is recovering from a horrible accident that takes the lives of her husband and oldest daughter, and as she works to help her younger daughter move forward, Eloise experiences her first psychic vision. Though she struggles to understand her newfound gifts, Eloise finds a way use them to save lost women and girls — for whom her help may be the only way out …

— The Whispers by Lisa Unger