New This Week: Sacrificial Offerings, A Leal and Hart Mystery by Michael A. Black

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 December 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

Sacrificial Offerings by Michael A. Black

A Leal and Hart Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/03/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

First published in hardcover by Five Star in 2012. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

  

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Things couldn't be worse for Sergeant Frank Leal. He's assigned a homicide at a seedy motel that suddenly develops into a heater. Leal's regular partner, Olivia Hart, is reassigned to the SWAT team. He's also saddled with a college intern tweeting his every move and Hart's replacement is a rubber-gun-squad candidate who has conversations with a hand-puppet named Oscar.

Hart's secretly assigned to an internal affairs investigation to determine which members of the SWAT team are stealing the money during drug raids. She's thrust into a non-stop series of dangerous raids that require all of her skills.

After a few more murders by a ruthless street gang, Leal wonders if they'll end up as sacrificial offerings in the escalating conflict.

— Sacrificial Offerings by Michael A. Black

Hercule Poirot's Christmas, A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie, Now Available at a Special Price

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Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/03/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered when the tyrannical Simeon Lee is found dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man.

— Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

Death With All the Trimmings by Lucy Burdette, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014 …

Death With All the Trimmings by Lucy Burdette

A Key West Food Critic Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Signet

  

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The only snow in Key West this Christmas is Hayley Snow, food critic for Key Zest magazine, who is not getting time off for the holiday … or time off from murder …

It may be Christmastime, but thoughts of peace on earth, good will toward men, don't seem to extend to the restaurant biz. Hayley has been assigned to interview Edel Waugh, chef/owner of Key West's hottest new restaurant. But off the record, Edel reveals someone's sabotaging her kitchen and asks Hayley to investigate.

Things heat up fast when the restaurant is set on fire — and a body is discovered in the charred wreckage. Is someone out to destroy the chef's business — or actually kill her? Amid holiday festivities like the lighted boat parade and visiting relatives who stir up mixed emotions, Hayley needs to smoke out an arsonist and a killer who may turn up the heat on her next …

— Death With All the Trimmings by Lucy Burdette

The Walnut Tree, A Bess Crawford, Holiday Mystery by Charles Todd, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Walnut Tree by Charles Todd

A Bess Crawford, Holiday Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/03/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Paris, 1914. Lady Elspeth Douglas is visiting friends when the shadow of war falls across Europe. As her French fiancé races to rejoin his unit, she tries to reach England, only to be trapped on the French coast amid refugees and wounded men. Elspeth pitches in to help wounded soldiers, getting closer and closer to the Front, soon finding herself in danger as enemy shells fall. Captain Peter Gilchrist comes to her rescue, pulling her away from the battle and to safety. But before they can properly say goodbye, they are separated.

In London, Elspeth is haunted by all she's witnessed, and she can't forget the gallant man who saved her. Without her guardian's consent, she trains as a nurse. She's determined to return to France to do her part, and to find the man she has no right to love. Then everything goes wrong. In this world of uncertainty, can love survive, or will Elspeth's troubled heart become another casualty of this terrible war?

— The Walnut Tree by Charles Todd

Crimson Angel by Barbara Hambly, New in Bookstores during December 2014

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

Crimson Angel by Barbara Hambly, a Benjamin January Mystery (13th in series)

Publisher: Severn House

      

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When Jefferson Vitrack — the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife — turns up on January's doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France's most profitable colony — until the blood-chilling repression practiced there by the whites upon their slaves triggered a savage rebellion. The world's only Black Republic still looks with murderous mistrust upon any strangers who might set foot there, and January is in no hurry to go.

But when Vitrack is murdered, and attempts are made on January's wife and himself, he understands that he has no choice. He must seek the treasure himself, to draw the unknown killers into the open, a bloody trail that leads first to Cuba, then to Haiti, and finally to the secret that lies buried with the accursed gold.

— Crimson Angel by Barbara Hambly