No Fortunate Son by Brad Taylor, New in Bookstores during December 2014

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

No Fortunate Son by Brad Taylor, a Pike Logan Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Dutton

        

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More about our featured title, below …

When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter from Blaisdell Consulting — the umbrella cover company for their real employer, a top secret counterterrorist unit called the Taskforce — they expect orders for their next mission-impossible tasking. Instead, they learn that their latest actions have gotten them fired, despite having saved thousands of innocent lives.

Pike's shock and fury is redirected when their commander, Colonel Kurt Hale, asks him and Jennifer for help with a personal matter: His niece Kylie, an exchange student in England, has gone missing. Neither Pike nor Jennifer understands how critical her disappearance will become.

Meanwhile, all Taskforce teams have been redirected to a developing situation. A terrorist organization has targeted military relatives of key members of the US government, including the vice president's son. Their seizure of hostages was far-reaching and meticulously coordinated, and the full extent of the threat — and potential demands — has thrown the government into turmoil. They face a terrible choice: Cease counter-terrorist operations, or watch hostages die one by one. How much is a single life worth? Unless the Taskforce can decipher the web of lies devised by their enemies, the United States is about to find out.

— No Fortunate Son by Brad Taylor

The Inn by William Patterson, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2014 …

The Inn by William Patterson

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Pinnacle

  

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If you're lucky, they might let you leave …

The ramshackle B&B in western Massachusetts isn't just an inheritance — it seems like the best chance for Jack and Annabel Devlin to save their marriage and start over. But Annabel's first impressions of the remote inn don't ease her nerves. In fact, everything about the gloomy Victorian draws Annabel back into childhood nightmares …

Locals whisper about the Blue Boy Inn and its long history of murders and mysterious disappearances. Soon Annabel hears noises within the walls and glimpses something — some things — scurrying in the shadows. The locked attic, the bricked-up fireplace … for years they've helped keep a ravenous evil at bay. Now Jack and Annabel's arrival has stirred the house to life again. Debts must be paid, hungers will be satisfied, and one by one, Annabel's worst fears are about to come true …

— The Inn by William Patterson

A Great Deliverance, A Thomas Lynley/Barbara Havers Mystery by Elizabeth George, 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, Bantam …

A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

A Thomas Lynley/Barbara Havers Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Bantam

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/31/2014 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders.

Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry."

Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale's dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valley — and in their own lives as well.

— A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

The Queen's Mare, A Michael Rhineheart Mystery by John Birkett, New This Week from Witness Impulse

Every week, Witness Impulse — an imprint of William Morrow — releases new suspense and thriller digital originals, typically priced at just $2.99 each.

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of this week's titles …

The Queen's Mare by John Birkett

A Michael Rhineheart Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Witness Impulse

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/31/2014 at 12:30 PM ET).

First published in paperback by Avon in 1990. This is its first appearance as an ebook.

  

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All bets are off when it comes to kidnap, mayhem, and murder …

When the "Grand Dame of Kentucky Racing" enlists private eye Michael Rhineheart to deliver the ransom for a kidnapped broodmare and her foal, Rhineheart thinks it will be a speedy transaction.

But what should have been a simple mission turns into a deadly double-cross, and soon Rhineheart is on the hunt for the horses … and a ruthless killer.

— The Queen's Mare by John Birkett

A Death in the Loch by Caroline Dunford is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature …

A Death in the Loch by Caroline Dunford

A Euphemia Martins Mystery

Publisher: Accent Press

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

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More on today's free book, below.

During a Christmas party, Euphemia Martins — together with Bertram Stapleford and manservant Rory McLeod — is tasked by the slippery government agent Fitzroy with doing a little snooping at the Staplefords' Highland Lodge.

When Euphemia discovers the purposes of the charade for which she has been demoted back to a maid, she is furious. There are plans afoot — plans which involve signing the Official Secrets Act …

Meanwhile, Rory still isn't speaking to her and Bertram is more interested in growing his awful new beard. The arrival at the Lodge of four mysterious "Mr Smiths" — and some outrageous proposals for Scotland's future — raises tensions to boiling point, and that's not even mentioning the German spy lurking in the woods, or the accident with some hot soup …

But when the inevitable dead body turns up, they must all work together or find themselves jailed for murder.

— A Death in the Loch by Caroline Dunford