New This Week: Comatoast, A Val Valentyn Mystery by Judith Jackson

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 …

Comatoast by Judith Jackson

A Val Valentyn Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Judith Jackson

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/19/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Things are looking up for Val Valentyn. After their great success stumbling on to the identity of the real killer of Val's boss, she and her friends, Julie and Rose, have opened their own private detective agency. And after only six weeks in business they're starting to make a name for themselves. There is that minor problem of the client who says she is going to sue, but you can't please everyone.

So, when a woman asks them to find her mother's killer, they're not about to let the fact that they know almost nothing about solving a murder stop them from taking the case. Seriously, how hard can it be?

— Comatoast by Judith Jackson

Classified as Murder, A Cat in the Stacks Mystery by Miranda James, 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, Berkley …

Classified as Murder by Miranda James

A Cat in the Stacks Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Berkley

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/19/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Aging eccentric James Delacorte asks Charlie the librarian to do an inventory of his rare book collection-but the job goes from tedious to terrifying when James turns up dead.

Relying on his cat Diesel to paw around for clues, Charlie has to catch the killer before another victim checks out.

— Classified as Murder by Miranda James

New This Week: Burglar, An Almost Tropical Mystery by Cam Larson

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 …

Burglar by Cam Larson

An Almost Tropical Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Cam Larson

Price: $0.99 (as of 12/19/2014 at 3:30 PM ET).

  

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In the quaint little beach town named Coconut Grove, all was going so well. Sam McNeil, 30 and perpetually single, finally has a girl friend and a nice relaxing life near the beach. His good neighbor Walter, 50 and widowed, is finally dating again, too. Life doesn't get much better than this.

But suddenly, this quiet little neighborhood is plagued with burglaries and some strange goings-on.

Walter suggests they do a stake out. What?! It's the last thing on Sam's mind, but Walter won't let it go. Hiding in the dark like a couple of rookies, they catch the burglar in action — they've solved the case. But have they? Within minutes, the suspect is dead and Sam and Walter need to figure out what to do next and who or what killed the burglar, without being implicated in the whole mess.

And when the burglaries haven't stopped, Sam and Walter slip into the night and concoct a plan that involves a little breaking and entering themselves, another stake out, and a foot race to justice.

— Burglar by Cam Larson

Justice for Sara, A Novel of Suspense by Erica Spindler, Now Available at a Special Price

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Justice for Sara by Erica Spindler

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/19/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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When seventeen-year-old Katherine McCall awakened one morning to find her beloved sister, Sara, brutally murdered, her whole life changed in the blink of an eye. Kat was named the prime suspect and, on a string of circumstantial evidence, charged and tried. While the jury found her innocent, not everyone else agreed, and her only choice was to go into hiding. But she carried a dark secret with her, one that made her worry she might actually have had something to do with Sara's death …

Now, years later, Kat is still haunted by her sister's unsolved murder and continues to receive chilling anonymous letters, but she has tried to move on with her life. Until, on the tenth anniversary of Sara's death, she receives a letter that makes the past impossible to ignore: "What about justice for Sara?" What about justice for Sara? And for herself? Kat realizes that going back to Liberty, Louisiana, might be the only way to move forward and find some peace. And there's a killer out there who was never caught.

But the town she's come back to is hardly different from the one she left. The secrets and suspicions still run deep. Kat has an ally in Detective Luke Tanner, son of the former Liberty police chief, but he may be her only one. With plenty of enemies, no one to trust and a killer determined to keep a dark secret buried, Kat must decide if justice is worth fighting — and dying — for.

— Justice for Sara by Erica Spindler

You Know Who Killed Me by Loren D. Estleman, New in Bookstores during December 2014

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

You Know Who Killed Me by Loren D. Estleman, an Amos Walker Mystery (24th in series)

Publisher: Forge Books

        

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

More about our featured title, below …

Amos Walker is at low ebb. Just released from a rehab clinic, the Detroit private detective has to marshal his energies to help solve a murder in Iroquois Heights, his least favorite town.

The area is flooded with billboards rented by the widow of Donald Gates, an ordinary suburbanite found shot to death in his basement on New Year's Eve: "YOU KNOW WHO KILLED ME!" they read, above the number of the sheriff's tip line. Complicating matters is a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer, offered by an anonymous donor through the dead man's place of worship.

Initially hired by the sheriff's department to run down anonymous tips, Walker investigates further. The trail leads to former fellow employee Yuri Yako, a Ukrainian mobster, relocated to the area through the U.S. Marshals' Witness Protection Program.

Shadowed by government operatives, at odds with the sheriff, and struggling with his addiction, Walker soldiers on, in spite of bodies piling up and the fact that almost everyone involved with the case is lying to him.

— You Know Who Killed Me by Loren D. Estleman