Black Out, A Frederick Troy Thriller by John Lawton, 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, Grove Press …

Black Out by John Lawton

A Frederick Troy Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Grove Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 10/29/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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London, 1944. While the Luftwaffe makes its final assault on the already battered British capital, Londoners rush through the streets, seeking underground shelter in the midst of the city's black out. When the panic subsides, other things begin to surface along with London's war-worn citizens. A severed arm is discovered by a group of children playing at an East End bomb site, and when Scotland Yard's Dective Sergeant Frederick Troy arrives at the scene, it becomes apparent that the dismembered body is not the work of a V-1 rocket.

After Troy manages to link the severed arm to the disappearance of a refugee scientist form Nazi Germany, America's newest intelligence agency, the OSS, decides to get involved. The son of a titled Russian émigré, Troy is forced to leave the London he knows and enter a corrupt world of bloody consequences, stateless refugees, and mysterious women as he unearths a chain of secrets leading straight to the Allied high command.

— Black Out by John Lawton

New This Week: The Lemur's Cry, A Hannah Lilly, Zoo Mystery by Linda Lombardi

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 Lemur's Cry by Linda Lombardi

A Hannah Lilly, Zoo Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Wombatarama

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/29/2014 at 3:30 PM ET).

  

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Even for zookeepers, some animals are more equal than others. Don't get Hannah started on pandas — all the attention they get makes the Small Mammals staff feel a little second-class.

But sometimes playing favorites can be a deadly game: After a lemur falls ill and dies, the lemur-feeding study being conducted by Marshall, the zoo nutritionist, comes to an abrupt end when he's found bludgeoned to death in the halls of the Small Mammal House. Did the lemur's keeper kill Marshall in revenge, believing he accidentally poisoned her favorite animal?

At a place like the zoo, that motive seems plausible, till a second lemur gets sick in the same way. And when it's suggested that something might have been deliberately added to medication that Hannah administered herself, now it's personal, and she's determined to figure out who's to blame.

— The Lemur's Cry by Linda Lombardi

Be Buried in the Rain, A Novel of Suspense by Barbara Michaels, 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, HarperCollins …

Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $3.99 (as of 10/29/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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There are terrible secrets from generations past buried at Maidenwood …

Medical student Julie Newcomb has returned to her family's decaying plantation — the site of so many painful childhood memories — to tend to her tyrannical grandmother, felled by a stroke. The fire of malevolence still burns in the cruel, despotic matriarch's eyes — yet, for Julie, a faint spark of redemption and second chances flickers in this hated, haunted place.

But her hope — and her life — are seriously threatened by a nightmare reborn … and by the grim discovery on the lonely road to Maidenwood of the earth-browned skeletons of a mother and child.

— Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels

Ho-Ho-Homicide by Kaitlyn Dunnett, New in Bookstores during October 2014

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

Ho-Ho-Homicide by Kaitlyn Dunnett, a Liss MacCrimmon Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: Kensington

        

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 …

Business is booming at the Scottish Emporium in Moosetookalook, Maine, and Liss MacCrimmon Ruskin couldn't be happier — or busier. A romantic getaway at a rustic Christmas tree farm is just what she needs. But the property's mysterious past has her feeling less than merry …

Liss is surprised when an old friend from high school asks her to spend a week at the Christmas tree farm she recently inherited from a great-uncle. Realizing it would be the perfect chance for her and her husband Dan to get away from work, Liss happily accepts the offer and packs her bags for the tiny town of New Boston.

Upon their arrival, Liss and Dan are greeted by a ramshackle farmhouse and unfriendly townsfolk. It's hardly the idyllic vacation locale they'd hoped for, especially when needling neighbors start raising questions about the farm's dark history. Who was the man whose body was found neatly netted in a shipment of Scotch pine? Why did the owner vanish into thin air? And why are the trees growing so close together, forming a maze more twisted than a Celtic knot?

The rumors pile up faster than snowdrifts in a blizzard, and as Liss starts un-wrapping the truth, she discovers something even more scandalous than murder hiding beneath the town's humdrum façade. When a series of "accidents" strikes the farm, she'll have to spring into action faster than a Highland Fling to find the killer who's been lurking among the pines — before she ends up in a pine box herself …

— Ho-Ho-Homicide by Kaitlyn Dunnett

A Virtuous Death by Christine Trent, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014 …

A Virtuous Death by Christine Trent

A Violet Harper Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

  

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 …

Queen Victoria, still mourning her long-dead husband Prince Albert, has found solace in John Brown, an enigmatic palace servant who dabbles in the occult and keeps the grieving queen entertained with his tarot card readings. Undertaker Violet Harper is invited to attend one of Mr. Brown's infamous readings, during which he implies that Buckingham Palace will soon be shrouded in death's dark veil. Well acquainted with death, Violet shrugs him off as a charlatan — until his sinister divinations begin to prove true …

Violet wonders if something foul is in the cards when the aristocratic young friends of the queen's daughter begin to die under mysterious circumstances. Her suspicions only grow when one of London's "moralists," a group bent on repealing the law that forces prostitutes into hospitals, suffers a similar fate. The deaths merely buttress the queen's enthusiasm for Mr. Brown's ominous talents, and, concerned by the fortuneteller's influence, Violet races against time to unearth the truth before the killer strikes again. But as she closes in on a murderer with an unearthly motive, Violet realizes she may be digging her own grave …

— A Virtuous Death by Christine Trent