Prosecco Pink, A Franki Amato Mystery by Traci Andrighetti, New This Week from Gemma Halliday

Gemma Halliday Publishing is a boutique publisher of light-hearted mystery, romantic suspense and romantic comedy novels, perfect for popping into your beach bag for a weekend away or cozying up beside a warm fire for a quiet night in.

We've selected one of their recently published titles to feature here today …

Prosecco Pink by Traci Andrighetti

A Franki Amato Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Presents

Price: $0.99 (as of 10/31/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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For Franki Amato, life in New Orleans is anything but "The Big Easy." When she met handsome bank executive Bradley Hartmann, she knew she'd finally found a man she could trust. But she can't say the same for his sexy new secretary, who is about as trustworthy as Mata Hari and every bit as seductive. Meanwhile, Franki's best friend and employer, Veronica Maggio, has named her the lead investigator in the murder of a gorgeous cosmetics CEO who was found lying dead in the master bedroom of a historic plantation home.

Now the pressure is on Franki to figure out what a bottle of pink lip gloss and the legend of a pink diamond have to do with the bizarre killing. The problem is that the plantation is notorious for being haunted, and Franki is less than enthusiastic about the prospect of meeting a ghost. Adding to her stress, her Sicilian grandma is up to her usual meddling antics — this time planning Franki's engagement to Bradley before he's even considered popping the question. As Bradley grows distant and plantation employees begin dropping like Southern belles during a sweltering summer, Franki turns to a psychic with a phobia of ghosts to solve the mysterious murders and her own relationship fears.

— Prosecco Pink by Traci Andrighetti

New This Week: Lost, A Novel of Suspense by Richard Barre

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 …

Lost by Richard Barre

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Down & Out Books

Price: $4.99 (as of 10/31/2014 at 3:30 PM ET).

  

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Who hasn't dreamed it? Lost in today's siren-scream world, coming apart at the seams, the chance to ditch the pressure and find … yourself.

For the fragmenting Metcalfs — long-adrift Ben, world-class sailor Kate, coming-of-age Shay — a friend's sailboat, warm breezes, and tropical waters is a dream come true.

Until the nightmare finds them …

— Lost by Richard Barre

The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café by Alexander McCall Smith, New in Bookstores during October 2014

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

The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café by Alexander McCall Smith, a Precious Ramotswe, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Mystery (15th in series)

Publisher: Pantheon

        

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 …

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency often helps people find things they have lost. But they have never had to help a client find herself — until now …

A kindhearted brother and sister have taken in a woman known only as "Mrs." — a woman with no memory of her name or of how she came to Botswana. And so it's up to Precious Ramotswe and her new co-director, Grace Makutsi, to discover the woman's identity.

Meanwhile, motherhood proves to be no obstacle to Mma Makutsi's professional success. As she settles into her role as partner at the agency, she also launches a new enterprise of her own: the Handsome Man's De Luxe Café, a restaurant for Gaborone's most fashionable diners. But even Miss 97 Per Cent isn't fully prepared for the temperamental chefs, drunken waiters, and other challenges that come with running one's own business. Help may come from an unexpected source, if only Mma Makutsi can swallow her pride and ask.

And next door to the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni is all too familiar with the difficult decisions of business owners. He is finally forced to make a tough choice, one that will bring major changes to both Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors and the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency — and that will require all of Mma Ramotswe's finesse and patience to sort out.

With sympathy and indefatigable good humor, Mma Ramotswe and her friends see one another through these major changes and discover along the way what true friendship really means.

— The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café by Alexander McCall Smith

A Special Halloween Flow Chart from Minotaur Books

Today is, of course, Halloween and Minotaur Books has produced a themed flowchart to help you select one (or more) of its mystery and suspense titles. (Click on the image, below, for a larger version.)

We've enjoyed many of these books ourselves, and you really can't go wrong with any of them. So have fun finding the perfect mystery for you!

And Happy Halloween!

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Treacherous Tart by Ellie Grant, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2014 …

Treacherous Tart by Ellie Grant

A Maggie Grady, Pie in the Sky Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Pocket 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 …

A modern-day Lothario is shot dead, and it's up to Maggie to clear her aunt and partner-in-pie from the suspect list …

It's Christmastime at Pie in the Sky, Aunt Clara's pie shop, and she has a new beau, Donald Wickerson, who loves her Marvelous Mince Pies.

Unfortunately, it seems that this holiday, Donald might only be interested in Aunt Clara for her money. Ryan and Maggie research his background and find he's had several wives who met with unfortunate "accidents" that left him wealthier. Now they have to convince Aunt Clara that her boyfriend is after more than just her pie recipes.

When Donald stumbles into Pie in the Sky and dies after being shot, Aunt Clara is devastated — and also a suspect, since everyone in Durham knows about Donald from Ryan's newspaper article. Now Maggie and Ryan will have to prove that someone else in the long list of people he'd wronged finally got the courage to end his life.

— Treacherous Tart by Ellie Grant