New This Week: Blood Money, A Continental Op Detective Thriller by Dashiell Hammett

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 …

Blood Money by Dashiell Hammett

A Continental Op Detective Thriller

Publisher: NightHawk Books

Price: $2.95 (as of 12/27/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

First published in two parts in Black Mask magazine in 1927 as The Big Knockover and $106,000 Blood Money.

  

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A massive robbery of two adjacent San Francisco banks, involving dozens of colorful gangsters, is followed by the king-pin's deadly dispatch of many of the same participants in the robbery.

Later, the detective attempts to locate and bring-to-justice the plot mastermind and recover the large reward.

— Blood Money by Dashiell Hammett

The Mansfield Rescue by Beth Cornelison, New from Harlequin Romantic Suspense in December 2014

Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title from Harlequin, published this month …

The Mansfield Rescue by Beth Cornelison

Series: The Mansfield Brothers

Imprint: Romantic Suspense

  

For more information about the book, see a synopsis, below.

A single father discovers the price of revenge and the power of love …

After his wife's murder, Grant Mansfield vowed to stay true to her memory and to protect their children. But fate has other plans. His temporary house guest, injured smoke jumper Amy Robinson, has him burning with a white-hot attraction, and the single dad's nightmare comes true when his older daughter is kidnapped.

Grant is just the man the adventurous Amy never knew she needed, his children the family she never knew she wanted. Before she can rescue his lonely heart, the handsome widower must become a hero. Only Grant can rescue his little girl. But time is running out …

— The Mansfield Rescue by Beth Cornelison

Kill 'Em with Cayenne by Gail Oust, New in Bookstores during December 2014

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

Kill 'Em with Cayenne by Gail Oust, a Piper Prescott, Spice Shop Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Minotaur 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 …

Spices are flying off the shelves of Spice It Up!, and Piper Prescott couldn't be happier. It's that time of year again — time for the annual Brandywine Creek Barbecue Festival. Soon contestants and BBQ aficionados from all over the Southeast will converge on the town. Many of Brandywine Creek's citizens plan to participate in the week-long festivities and are busily concocting savory rubs and sassy sauces. Among the locals vying for the grand prize are Becca Dapkins and Maybelle Humphries. The women have been arch enemies ever since Buzz Oliver dumped Maybelle after a thirteen-year courtship and started seeing Becca.

When Becca's body is found near one of the festival booths, bludgeoned by a brisket, Maybelle becomes one of Chief Wyatt McBride's top suspects. Determined to help clear her friend's name, Piper begins her own investigation, much to McBride's consternation. As the festival draws closer, will Piper and Reba Mae be able to find the real killer and clear Maybelle's name? Will Piper make it to the annual shag contest with Doug Winters, the mild-mannered vet she's been seeing? And, who will win the BBQ cook-off?

— Kill 'Em with Cayenne by Gail Oust

Deliverance at Cardwell Ranch by B. J. Daniels, New from Harlequin Intrigue in December 2014

Omnimystery News is pleased to introduce a new mystery, suspense, or thriller title from Harlequin, published this month …

Deliverance at Cardwell Ranch by B. J. Daniels

Series: Cardwell Cousins

Imprint: Intrigue

  

For more information about the book, see a synopsis, below.

A woman on the run … and the lawman sworn to keep her safe …

When deputy sheriff Austin Cardwell rescues a woman in the worst blizzard in years, it's only the beginning. The dark-haired beauty has no memory of who she is and who — or what — she was fleeing. But she's terrified of the stranger who shows up at the hospital, claiming to be her husband.

Convinced that the mystery woman is in grave danger, Austin refuses to let her out of his sight. As desire builds between them, she seems ready to trust him. From Cardwell Ranch to the snowy wilds of Idaho, Austin vows to uncover her identity … before her past destroys any hope of a future.

— Deliverance at Cardwell Ranch by B. J. Daniels

New This Week: Head Case, A Psychological Thriller by Jay Bonansinga

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 …

Head Case by Jay Bonansinga

A Psychological Thriller

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/27/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

First published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster in 1998. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

  

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The man in the emergency room had run out onto a highway and gotten hit by a truck. Now he can't remember anything. But all hell breaks loose when a visitor claiming to be his brother shows up at the hospital. Shots are fired and John Doe again manages to escape.

Now his days are nightmares and his nights are filled with hideous flashbacks of his past. Out of desperation, John finds an ally in his search for his identity and what they learn terrifies them both!

— Head Case by Jay Bonansinga