Sunday, January 25, 2015

Baby Brother Blues by Trudi Baldwin is Today's First Featured Free MystereBook

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

Baby Brother Blues by Trudi Baldwin

Baby Brother Blues by Trudi Baldwin

A Sammy Dick, PI Mystery

Publisher: Trudi Baldwin

Baby Brother Blues by Trudi Baldwin, Amazon Kindle format

This title was listed for free as of January 25, 2015 at 7:00 AM ET.

Keep me from murdering my wife …

With these ominous words, Samantha Dick's fledgling investigation business, The Dick Agency, hurtles headlong into its first lucrative assignment. Referred by her dad's old childhood chum, an international entrepreneur with a murky past, Sammy struts naively into the dark heart of Swann Diamonds in the biggest undercover assignment of her young career. Wearing wardrobe choices ranging from short, shorter, to postage stamp, Sammy poses as a "performance consultant" determined to find and stop the profit leak, who just might be her client's chillingly beautiful wife, Mai.

Propelled by bravado, intuition and blind luck, Sammy and her genius hacker cousin, Geo, soon find themselves in way over their heads, and they're beginning to suspect that's why they were hired in the first place ─ to fail! Spurred on to greater efforts, Sammy and Geo navigate through the rarefied lives of the superrich and a parade of seedy characters. Startling links to the Chinese Triad begin to emerge, with repercussions so deep even Sammy's Phoenix Police Force dad and her almost-boyfriend Detective Montaigne, AKA Mountain, may not be able to save them now.

The question is … will Sammy and Geo live long enough to earn their first big paycheck?

Baby Brother Blues by Trudi Baldwin

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Saturday, January 24, 2015

Review: The White Magic Five & Dime by Steve Hockensmith and Lisa Falco

Mysterious Reviews: Reviews of New Mysteries, Novels of Suspense, and Thrillers

A Mysterious Review of The White Magic Five & Dime by Steve Hockensmith and Lisa Falco. An Alanis McLachlan, Tarot Mystery.

Review summary: This is a very enjoyable mystery, one that hooks the reader from the beginning and slowly but surely reels them in. The murder plot is handled competently, though the resolution doesn't come as much of a surprise. It's the journey there that makes it worthwhile. Overall, an entertaining start to this series. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating: 4 of 5 stars

The White Magic Five & Dime Steve Hockensmith and Lisa Falco

The White Magic Five & Dime
Steve Hockensmith and Lisa Falco
An Alanis McLachlan, Tarot Mystery
Midnight Ink (July 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Much to Alanis McLachlan's surprise, her estranged con-woman mother has left her an inheritance: The White Magic Five & Dime, a shop in tiny Berdache, Arizona. Reluctantly traveling to Berdache to claim her new property, Alanis decides to stay and pick up her mother's tarot business in an attempt to find out how she died.

With help from a hunky cop and her mother's live-in teenage apprentice, Alanis begins faking her way through tarot readings in order to win the confidence of her mother's clients. But the more she uses the tarot deck, the more Alanis begins to find real meaning in the cards … and the secrets surrounding her mother's demise.

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New This Week: Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse, A Gabe Tremont Mystery by Mike Befeler

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 …

Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse by Mike Befeler

Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse by Mike Befeler

A Gabe Tremont Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Five Star

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/24/2015 at 7:30 PM ET).

Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse by Mike Befeler, Amazon Kindle format

When a staged murder at a mystery dinner playhouse turns into a real poisoning death, recently retired detective Gabe Tremont is called back to solve the crime and discovers the playhouse director, the cast and a spy from a competing theater all have reasons to want the murdered man dead.

Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse by Mike Befeler

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Four Mysteries in the Hitwoman Series by JB Lynn, 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 author …

The Hitwoman and the Family Jewels by JB Lynn

The Hitwoman and the Family Jewels by JB Lynn

Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman (4th in series)

Publisher: JB Lynn

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/24/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

The Hitwoman and the Family Jewels by JB Lynn, Amazon Kindle format

How do you say "no" to a mob boss?

When bumbling hitwoman Maggie Lee is asked by her mob boss employer to kill a cop, she wants to say no. When her sexy murder mentor, Patrick Mulligan tells her the cop in question is a guy she once dated, she REALLY wants to refuse. But when her former date, Paul Kowalski tries to kill her, she changes her tune to "Hell, yes!"

Maggie and Patrick grow closer as they scramble to figure out what it is that Kowalski is looking for and what it has to do with her prison escapee father. Maggie's search is hampered by the presence of US Marshals hunting her father and her crazier-than-usual family.

Along with her snarky talking lizard, grammatically-challenged Doberman, and a pissy cat, she races to solve the mystery and protect her family. But nothing in Maggie's life ever goes as planned …

The Hitwoman and the Family Jewels by JB Lynn

The Hitwoman and the Neurotic Witness by JB Lynn

The Hitwoman and the Neurotic Witness by JB Lynn

Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman (5th in series)

Publisher: JB Lynn

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/24/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

The Hitwoman and the Neurotic Witness by JB Lynn, Amazon Kindle format

When her apartment building is blown to smithereens, bumbling hitwoman Maggie Lee is forced to move back into the Bed & Breakfast she grew up in …

Living with her three meddling aunts is bad enough, but it just so happens that the B&B is also occupied by a U.S. Marshal, an FBI agent, her old friend Zeke who's on a mysterious mission, and a woman who claims she can see dead people. These aren't the kinds of roomies Maggie wants to spend time with, considering that in order to pay for her niece's medical care she supplements her income by killing people.

Maggie avoids arrest and deals with a crazier-than-usual home life while trying to track down exactly who is blowing up the holdings of various crime families. To make matters worse, she's walking a precarious tightrope between keeping her mobster bosses happy and protecting her murder mentor (and almost lover) Patrick Mulligan.

Aided by the warped predictions of her semi-psychic friend, her sarcastic, demanding, talking lizard and an always ravenous, dyslexic Doberman, Maggie juggles keeping secrets, unraveling riddles and protecting those she loves. Can she do it all? Or will she suffer yet another unspeakable loss?

The Hitwoman and the Neurotic Witness by JB Lynn

The Hitwoman Hunts a Ghost by JB Lynn

The Hitwoman Hunts a Ghost by JB Lynn

Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman (6th in series)

Publisher: JB Lynn

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/24/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

The Hitwoman Hunts a Ghost by JB Lynn, Amazon Kindle format

Bumbling hitwoman Maggie Lee has discovered the sister she thought was dead might be alive. She's desperate to find her, but all of her bosses are making unreasonable demands. Demands she can't afford not to meet.

Once again, Delveccio, the chocolate pudding loving mob boss, needs someone whacked. Her obnoxious boss at her day job insists she intervene on his behalf with her semi-psychic friend, Armani. And the mysterious organization with the power to put her almost-lover Patrick behind bars has saddled her with an annoying new partner and sent her on a mission that has gone to the dogs.

With the clock ticking, Maggie (along with her snarky lizard, dyslexic Doberman and Southern belle cat) does her best to pull off every job without winding up in jail or dead … but is her best good enough?

The Hitwoman Hunts a Ghost by JB Lynn

The Hitwoman and the 7 Cops by JB Lynn

The Hitwoman and the 7 Cops by JB Lynn

Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman (7th in series)

Publisher: JB Lynn

Price: $0.99 (as of 01/24/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

The Hitwoman and the 7 Cops by JB Lynn, Amazon Kindle format

All reluctant hitwoman Maggie Lee really wants is to have a calm, normal life.

She doesn't want to go around killing people for money. She doesn't want her sister to be terrified of her ex-pimp. She doesn't want her Dad to disappear from the Witness Protection program.

But Maggie rarely gets what she wants. Instead, she finds herself trying to keep everyone out of trouble.

With the help of her ragtag team of supporters: her semi-psychic friend, a handsome, charming con man, her almost-lover cop/hitman mentor, her curious Southern Belle cat, her haughty lizard, and her sweet, but dumb Doberman, Maggie does her best to stay a step ahead of Law Enforcement, while helping those she loves.

​But will Maggie end up being the one who needs to be saved?

The Hitwoman and the 7 Cops by JB Lynn

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New This Week: Fatal Feast, A Merlin Mystery by Jay Ruud

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 …

Fatal Feast by Jay Ruud

Fatal Feast by Jay Ruud

A Merlin Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Five Star

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/24/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

Fatal Feast by Jay Ruud, Amazon Kindle format

When an Irish knight dies mysteriously at a banquet she is hosting, Queen Guenivere is charged with murder and faces death at the stake if found guilty. Her loyal page, Gildas, rushes to the woods to track down Merlin and convince him to take up the investigation and save the queen.

Fatal Feast by Jay Ruud

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