Palmetto Poison, A Carolina Slade Mystery by C. Hope Clark, Now Available at a Special Price

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Palmetto Poison by C. Hope Clark

A Carolina Slade Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Bell Bridge Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/01/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Are peanuts capable of murder? Carolina Slade will bust this shell game …

Big money, big politics, crime, greed, and big farming — Slade, an agriculture department investigator in the steamy state of South Carolina, once again finds herself planted in a dangerous mystery. Her assignment? Find out if there's a sinister connection between the drug-dealing arrest of wealthy peanut farmer Lamar Wheeler and the gruesome death of Lamar's teenage son in a car wreck. Especially since the dead teen is Governor Dick Wheeler's nephew.

Of course, the governor's people practically sky-write STAY AWAY FROM THE FIRST FAMILY over the Palmetto state's capitol dome in Columbia, which doesn't make Slade's job easier. Couldn't she simply back off from what appears to be a tragic and ugly — but private — family matter?

Not with hot-tempered DEA agent Pamela Largo on the case. Ex-wife to Senior Special Agent Wayne Largo, Slade's romantic interest, Pamela's hell-bent on using Lamar Wheeler's situation to re-open a cold case involving an Atlanta drug lord and Wayne's long lost sister, Kay.

Soon Slade's shoveling shooflies uphill against Pamela's obsessions, the drug lord's vendettas, the Governor's secrets, and the bizarre realization that those secrets involve peanuts.

— Palmetto Poison by C. Hope Clark

Dead of Night by Chris Collett, New in Bookstores during January 2015

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during January 2015 is …

Dead of Night by Chris Collett, a Tom Mariner Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Severn House

      

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for January 2015. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of January 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

More about our featured title, below …

18-year-old Grace Clifton vanishes on her way home from work in the centre of Birmingham late at night, the case is remarkable in that not a single witness comes forward. The more he has to deal with Grace's wealthy and overbearing father, Council Leader Bob Clifton, the more Tom Mariner is inclined to believe that Grace left of her own accord.

Then the package arrives. It contains Grace's clothes, neatly pressed and laundered. A second woman disappears. And a disturbing pattern begins to emerge.

Still adapting to a new investigation team and struggling to pull its members together, Detective Inspector Mariner is about to tackle one of his strangest, most challenging cases to date.

— Dead of Night by Chris Collett

Guardians of the Night by Alan Russell, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015 …

Guardians of the Night by Alan Russell

A Gideon and Sirius Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

  

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As the sole members of LAPD's Special Cases Unit, Detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd partner Sirius work investigations considered bizarre even by Los Angeles's standards. Yet their latest case is more than strange — it might be out of this world.

Ronald "Wrong" Pauley is a homeless man long fallen from grace. When Pauley's late-night drinking is interrupted by a detonation of light, he sees what he describes as a "being of light" in the alley below. Pauley tries to help, but ends up as a witness to what he believes is the murder of a fallen angel.

Gideon and Sirius are already in the midst of trying to determine the identity of the so-called "Reluctant Hero" who seemed to magically appear just moments after shots began ringing out at an elementary school. Braving gunfire, the hero tackled the shooter, and then disappeared.

Both cases defy easy answers, but when Pauley turns up dead, the detectives are left with two murders to solve and lots of questions. Gideon and Sirius — along with help from a newfound friend — investigate that thin line between the real and surreal to make sense of these possible crimes.

— Guardians of the Night by Alan Russell

The Blessing Way, A Joe Leaphorn, Navajo Mystery by Tony Hillerman, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman

A Joe Leaphorn, Navajo Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/01/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer.

There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.

— The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman

New This Week: Romeow and Juliet, A Whales and Tails Mystery by Kathi Daley

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 January 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

Romeow and Juliet by Kathi Daley

A Whales and Tails Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kathi Daley Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/01/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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This first in a cozy mystery series is set on Madrona Island, a fictional island within the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State.

As a fourth generation islander Caitlin Hart is struggling to make her way as the economy and culture of the island evolves toward a tourism based industry. Cait lives in a cabin on her aunt's oceanfront estate where she helps her aunt run Harthaven Cat Sanctuary. When she isn't working with the cats, she helps best friend Tara, operate the coffee bar/bookstore/cat lounge they own, named Coffee Cat Books.

When Cait and her dog Max find the body of a member of the island council dead in the back room of the old fish cannery, she delves into the murder and finds herself with an unlikely sleuthing partner that might just lead to a relationship of a more personal kind.

Meanwhile, Romeo, as stray cat that followed Cait home, is causing all sorts of problems for Cait as, in spite of dire warnings from the neighbor next door, he refuses to stay away from her very expensive show cat, Juliet. Could Romeo really be trying to tell Cait something about the neighbor that she initially refuses to see?

— Romeow and Juliet by Kathi Daley