A High-End Finish by Kate Carlisle, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Shannon Hammer

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series titles, a mystery, thriller or suspense novel that introduces a recurring character (or characters) …

A High-End Finish by Kate Carlisle

A Shannon Hammer, Fixer-Upper Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Signet

  

What we know about the character: Shannon Hammer is a contractor in the seaside town of Lighthouse Cove in northern California. For more information about her first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

In the seaside town of Lighthouse Cove in northern California, everyone knows the best man for the job is actually a woman — contractor Shannon Hammer. But while Shannon can do wonders with a power drill and a little elbow grease, she's about to discover that some problems aren't so easily fixed …

Shannon's home-renovation and repair business is booming, but her love life needs work. On a blind date with real estate agent Jerry Saxton, she has to whip out a pair of pliers to keep Jerry from getting too hands on. Shannon is happy to put her rotten date behind her, but when Jerry's found dead in a run-down Victorian home that she's been hired to restore, the town's attractive new police chief suspects that her threats may have laid the foundation for murder.

Determined to clear her name, Shannon conducts her own investigation — with the help of her four best friends, her eccentric father, a nosy neighbor or two, and a handsome crime writer who's just moved to town. But as they get closer to prying out the murderer's identity, Shannon is viciously attacked. Now she'll have to nail down the truth — or end up in permanent foreclosure …

— A High-End Finish by Kate Carlisle

No Man Standing, A Munch Mancini Mystery by Barbara Seranella, Now Available at a Special Price

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No Man Standing by Barbara Seranella

A Munch Mancini Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Diversion Books

Price: $0.99 (as of 11/06/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Munch Mancini is on a mission to save an old friend, before her old life catches up to her …

Miranda "Munch" Mancini has transformed her life, from low-life junkie to high-class mechanic, respected businesswoman, and mother. But life hasn't been as forgiving for her old friend Ellen Summers. Munch and Ellen were an inseparable pair in their youth, but when Munch went straight, Ellen went to prison.

One day before she's to be released from prison, Ellen's mother and stepfather are murdered. When the killer threatens Ellen, she turns to Munch as the only person she can trust. While Munch questions some of her friend's story, the danger she is in proves to be all too real. Munch is determined to find the murderer and save her friend one last time — before the killer ends her crime solving days for good.

— No Man Standing by Barbara Seranella

The Chocolate Clown Corpse by JoAnna Carl, New in Bookstores during November 2014

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

The Chocolate Clown Corpse by JoAnna Carl, a Lee McKinney, Chocoholic Mystery (14th in series)

Publisher: NAL Hardcover

        

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for November 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of November 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

More about our featured title, below …

Everyone who knew the bozo wanted him dead. Odd, then, that a complete stranger was accused of bursting Moe Davidson's balloons. But it's been a month since the miserable shop owner of Clowning Around was killed, and everybody's moving on, including Lee Woodyard. Her chocolate shop, TenHuis Chocolade, is next door to Moe's shuttered tourist trap, and it's giving her delicious ideas to expand. But over whose dead body?

Moe's widow, Emma, and her two stepchildren list the property for sale, but when Lee tours the building, she finds Emma unconscious. Now Lee wonders whether Moe's real killer is still at large and is taking care of unfinished business. Unfortunately, since the town is celebrating Clown Week, there are so many potential suspects in grease paint and floppy shoes it's not even funny.

For Lee, protecting Emma, freeing an innocent man, and rolling out hundreds of her clown-themed chocolates is a pretty tall order. But so is staying alive long enough to find out which one of her neighbors is a killer in disguise.

— The Chocolate Clown Corpse by JoAnna Carl

No Mallets Intended by Victoria Hamilton, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during November 2014 …

No Mallets Intended by Victoria Hamilton

A Jaymie Leighton, Vintage Kitchen Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for November 2014. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of November 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

More about our featured title, below …

The Queensville Heritage Society is restoring the once-grand Dumpe Manor. While Dumpe relatives and society members use the occasion to dust off old grudges, Jaymie Leighton prefers to adorn the kitchen with authentic Depression Era furnishings. A collection of vintage wooden mallets found in the house is a perfect addition to her display, but one also offers a late-night intruder the perfect weapon to knock Jaymie unconscious before escaping.

Though the attack has everyone on edge, nothing is missing from the house. Perhaps it was merely a vagrant who thought the place was still abandoned. But when Dumpe Manor's resident historian is murdered with a mallet from the same collection, it's time for Jaymie to turn up the heat on the investigation before someone else becomes history.

— No Mallets Intended by Victoria Hamilton

The Fifth Assassin, A Culper Ring Series Thriller by Brad Meltzer, 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, Grand Central …

The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer

A Culper Ring Series Thriller (2nd in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/06/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination attempts on the President of the United States. Four have been successful.

But now, Beecher White discovers a killer in Washington, D.C., who's meticulously re-creating the crimes of these four men. Historians have branded them as four lone wolves. But what if they were wrong?

Beecher is about to discover the truth: that during the course of a hundred years, all four assassins were secretly working together. What was their purpose? For whom do they really work? And why are they planning to kill the current President?

Beecher's about to find out. And most terrifyingly, he's about to come face-to-face with the fifth assassin.

— The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer