New This Week: The Careless Word, A Marc Craig Crime Novel by Catriona King

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 November 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

The Careless Word by Catriona King

A Marc Craig Crime Novel (8th in series)

Publisher: Crooked Cat Publishing

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/07/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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When something from Belfast's troubled past happens again in 2014, everyone fears the worst and Marc Craig's team is called.

They find a place of contemplation and a distant country linked in an unexpected way. One which no-one could have foretold.

The team also gains a new member, and in the background preparations continue for a momentous event, but everything depends on the case being solved first.

— The Careless Word by Catriona King

Azrael, A Clifford Driscoll Mystery by William L. DeAndrea, 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, Open Road …

Azrael by William L. DeAndrea

A Clifford Driscoll Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/07/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Allan Trotter goes head to head with the Angel of Death …

Allan Trotter's counter-espionage service began at birth: His father, the head of an ultra-secret intelligence wing of the US government, deliberately conceived him with a gorgeous Russian spy. Raised to navigate a crooked world, Trotter was immersed in deception, danger, and narrow escapes. He's a perfectly honed agent, but he desperately wants a normal life.

Trotter is pulled out of his life of seclusion, though, when the Russian spy outfit Cronus sends their Angel of Death, Azreal, to a sleepy town in Upstate New York to knock off innocent people. The aim? To scare back a stray agent: Petra Hudson, now the happy CEO of a media conglomerate worth billions, who has put her spying past behind her — or so she thinks. Ignorant of her mother's double life, Hudson's daughter, Regina, a newspaper editor, has unknowingly alerted the Agency. And since fighting Cronus is the one thing that can give Trotter's life meaning, when he learns that Regina — a kindred victim of the organization — is at risk, the stakes feel even more crucial.

— Azrael by William L. DeAndrea

Snow White Red-Handed by Maia Chance, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Ophelia Flax

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) …

Snow White Red-Handed by Maia Chance

A Ophelia Flax, Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

What we know about the character: Ophelia Flax is a variety hall actress in this fairy tale-based series set in the mid-1860s. For more information about her first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

Miss Ophelia Flax is a Victorian actress who knows all about making quick changes and even quicker exits. But to solve a fairy-tale crime in the haunted Black Forest, she'll need more than a bit of charm …

1867: After being fired from her latest variety hall engagement, Ophelia acts her way into a lady's maid position for a crass American millionaire. But when her new job whisks her off to a foreboding castle straight out of a Grimm tale, she begins to wonder if her fast-talking ways might have been too hasty. The vast grounds contain the suspected remains of Snow White's cottage, along with a disturbing dwarf skeleton. And when her millionaire boss turns up dead — poisoned by an apple — the fantastic setting turns into a once upon a crime scene.

To keep from rising to the top of the suspect list, Ophelia fights through a bramble of elegant lies, sinister folklore, and priceless treasure, with only a dashing but mysterious scholar as her ally. And as the clock ticks towards midnight, she'll have to break a cunning killer's spell before her own time runs out …

— Snow White Red-Handed by Maia Chance

November Hunt, A Mira James, Murder-by-Month Mystery by Jess Lourey, 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, Midnight Ink …

November Hunt by Jess Lourey

A Mira James, Murder-by-Month Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Midnight Ink

Price: $1.99 (as of 11/07/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

This title is one of over 60 mysteries and thrillers included in Amazon's The Big Deal for November 2014.

  

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November in Battle Lake, Minnesota, is cold enough to freeze the balls off a pool table. lt's also deer hunting season. When Tom Kicker is killed in a hunting accident, Mira James is hired to investigate — a job that brings her closer to a P.I. license.

Braving subzero temps and shrieking blizzards, Mira uncovers a decades-old scandal that has never quite died, unlike the cold stiffs who are piling up in the town morgue. As she pieces together the clues, Mira discovers that Battle Lake's good-old boys have been up to some bad business. But with threats and enemies around every icy corner, she may not live long enough to expose the truth.

— November Hunt by Jess Lourey

The Promise by Robert Crais, 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 Promise by Robert Crais, an Elvis Cole Mystery (13th in series)

Publisher: Putnam

        

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 …

When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case — until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and was being blackmailed to supply explosives components for a person or persons unknown.

Meanwhile, in another part of the city, LAPD officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, enter an abandoned building to locate an armed and dangerous thief, only to discover far more than they expected: The fugitive is dead, the building is filled with explosives, and Scott and Maggie are assaulted by a hidden man who escapes in the chaos, all as a bloodied Joe Pike watches from the shadows.

Soon, Scott and Maggie find themselves targeted by that man, and, as their case intertwines with Elvis and Joe's, joining forces to follow the trail of the missing woman as well. From inner-city drug traffickers to a shadowy group of Afghan war veterans with ties to a terrorist cell, the people they encounter on that trail add up to ever-increasing odds, and soon the four of them are fighting to find the woman not only before she is killed … but before the same fate happens to one of them.

— The Promise by Robert Crais