The Storm Slayer by Simon Largo is Today's First Featured Free MystereBook

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature one of today's Free MystereBooks …

The Storm Slayer by Simon Largo

A Mason Trent Crime Thriller

Publisher: Bay Lake Media

  

This title was listed for free as of January 15, 2015 at 7:00 AM ET.

New York City is engulfed by a major storm front, during which a series of grisly slayings place its eight million inhabitants in fear, and on the edge, as they try to cope with the raging weather and gruesome crime spree, as the body count rises.

In the midst of the vortex of driving wind, rain and lightening bolts, a catastrophic event escalates out of control, and causes a major power cut, plunging Manhattan into darkness for 48 hours. The city's emergency services and besieged population are driven to saturation point, as they battle against mother nature and a psychotic killer on the loose.

One man emerges as an unlikely hero to save New York — Mason Trent — a seasoned NYPD homicide detective. Trent is determined to battle his own demons, ride out the storm and catch a dangerous killer.

— The Storm Slayer by Simon Largo

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The Cater Street Hangman, A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Mystery by Anne Perry, is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry as today's Kobo Daily Deal. The deal price of $3.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, January 15, 2015, and has been price-matched by Amazon.

The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry

A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/15/2015 at 6:40 AM ET).

  

Panic and fear strike the Ellison household when one of their own falls prey to the Cater Street murderer. While Mrs. Ellison and her three daughters are out, their maid becomes the third victim of a killer who strangles young women with cheese wire, leaving their swollen-faced bodies on the dark streets of this genteel neighborhood.

Inspector Pitt, assigned to the case, must break through the walls of upper-class society to get at the truth. His in-depth investigation gradually peels away the proper veneer of the elite world, exposing secrets and desires until suspicion becomes more frightening than truth. Outspoken Charlotte Ellison, struggling to remain within the confining boundaries of Victorian manners, has no trouble expressing herself to the irritating policeman.

As their relationship shifts from antagonistic sparring to a romantic connection, the socially inappropriate pair must solve the mystery before the hangman strikes again.

— The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry

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Until the Debt Is Paid, A Novel of Suspense by Alexander Hartung, is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature Until the Debt Is Paid by Alexander Hartung as today's Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, January 15, 2015.

Until the Debt Is Paid by Alexander Hartung

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: AmazonCrossing

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/15/2015 at 6:10 AM ET).

Berlin detective Jan Tommen expected to wake up with a hangover — not a murder charge. But a well-known judge has been brutally killed and hard evidence places Jan at the crime scene. When disturbing gaps in Jan's memory make finding an alibi impossible, the case against him looks open and shut.

Faced with life on the inside, Jan flees police custody to take refuge with an old friend deeply enmeshed in the capital's seedy underworld. Hampered by a citywide manhunt, Jan soon finds that investigating leads while eluding capture isn't easy. Before long, he's relying on a team of misfits for help, including an icy blonde medical examiner and a brilliant but reclusive computer whiz.

When a lucky break leads Jan to connect the murders to a heinous trafficking ring, the team risks it all to find answers. Meanwhile, the body count continues to rise and the police department starts to close in. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jan must identify the true killer — before his time finally runs out.

— Until the Debt Is Paid by Alexander Hartung

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Review: The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries by Otto Penzler, editor

A Mysterious Review of The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries by Otto Penzler, editor. A Short Story Collection.

Review summary: Sixty-eight superbly crafted stories are included in this collection, subtitled "the most complete collection of impossible crime stories ever assembled". Indeed it is! Though large and somewhat unwieldy to hold and read, this is a must have collection for all fans of mystery and crime fiction. (Click here for text of full review.)

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The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries
Otto Penzler, editor
A Short Story Collection
Vintage Crime (October 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form — a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth — this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances.

Among these pages you'll find stories with evocative titles like "The Flying Death", "The Man From Nowhere", "A Terribly Strange Bed", and "The Theft of the Bermuda Penny", not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Georges Simenon's Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op, and many more.

        

New This Week: Wrong Orbits, A Crime Noir by Ed Lynskey

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 …

Wrong Orbits by Ed Lynskey

A Crime Noir

Publisher: ECL Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/14/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Loomis McTeague has good reasons to fear his safe, little world in suburbia is skidding into a wrong orbit. His best friend Stu O'Fryer is involved in a disgusting criminal enterprise. Loomis suspects his wife Enola Jo is cheating on him. His new co-worker Zoey, actually a con artist, is blackmailing his with the compromising photos taken during their tryst. Loomis does his best to hold things together.

But nothing he tries seems to work out. He finds a resolution of a sort but at what cost?

— Wrong Orbits by Ed Lynskey

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