Wednesday, January 04, 2017

The Dangerous Ladies Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, New in Bookstores during January 2017

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during January 2017 is …

The Dangerous Ladies Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

The Dangerous Ladies Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, a Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Forge Books

The Dangerous Ladies Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, Amazon Kindle format

When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention.

The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel are not difficult: Wrixton, a wealthy banker, has met his extortionist's first demand, but the order to pay another $5,000 is too much to face. The banker's real problem is something he doesn't want to reveal. That was fine with the detective, and when he was informed that some private letters were involved and Wrixton absolutely needed them back, there was nothing more Quincannon needed in the way of background. As with so many of San Francisco's elite, the bedroom doors never seemed to stay shut.

That was the easy part; far more difficult was the matter of the dead courier, murdered most foully in a locked room within a locked room, creating a trail that will take John Quincannon through most of San Francisco's less savory places and end with a riverboat trip that is anything but a relaxing cruise.

The Dangerous Ladies Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for January 2017. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of January 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

Child's Play by Merry Jones, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017 …

Child's Play by Merry Jones

Child's Play by Merry Jones, An Elle Harrison Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Child's Play by Merry Jones, Amazon Kindle format

Since her husband's murder two years earlier, life hasn't been easy for Elle Harrison. Now, at the start of a new school year, the second grade teacher is determined to move on. She's selling her house and delving into new experiences — like learning trapeze …

Just before the first day of school, Elle learns that a former student, Ty Evans, has been released from juvenile detention where he served time for killing his abusive father. Within days of his release, Elle's school principal, who'd tormented Ty as a child, is brutally murdered. So is a teacher at the school. And Ty's former girlfriend. All the victims have links to Ty.

Ty's younger brother, Seth, is in Elle's class. When Seth shows up at school beaten and bruised, Elle reports the abuse, and authorities remove Seth and his older sister, Katie, from their home. Is Ty the abuser?

Ty seeks Elle out, confiding that she's the only adult he's ever trusted. She tries to be open-minded, even wonders if he's been wrongly condemned. But when she's assaulted in the night, she suspects that Ty is her attacker. Is he a serial killer? Is she his next intended victim?

Before Elle discovers the truth, she's caught in a deadly trap that challenges her deepest convictions about guilt and innocence, childhood and family. Pushed to her limits, she's forced to face her fears and apply new skills in a deadly fight to survive.

Child's Play by Merry Jones

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for January 2017. For new hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries where for a list of January 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

Hush Hush, A Tess Monaghan Mystery by Laura Lippman, Now Available at a Special Price

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Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, William Morrow …

Hush Hush by Laura Lippman

Hush Hush by Laura Lippman

A Tess Monaghan Mystery (12th in series)

Publisher: William Morrow

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/04/2017 at 1:00 PM ET).

Hush Hush by Laura Lippman, Amazon Kindle format

Tess Monaghan has encountered almost every possible criminal motive throughout her career: greed, revenge, jealousy, rage. But there are crimes that defy all attempts at understanding, where a search for motive seems pointless …

Melisandre Harris Dawes committed such a crime. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, she fled the country, leaving her two daughters with their father. Twelve years later, she's back in Baltimore, and Tess is asked to provide security detail while Melisandre films a documentary about her attempts to reconcile with her now teenaged children.

Tess, juggling work with caring for her demanding toddler, is uneasy about the case. Still, Melisandre's lawyer is family. And there is something about the woman herself — confident, beautiful, shrewdly intelligent — that draws Tess in. Is she a master manipulator or someone who was driven to temporary madness? Cold and calculating, or a mother concerned for her daughters' well being? Someone is leaving Melisandre enigmatic, threatening notes. Soon Tess, insecure about her parenting abilities and receiving cryptic messages of her own, isn't sure whether she should be protecting Melisandre from harm — or protecting everyone else from Melisandre.

When Melisandre becomes the prime suspect in a murder, Tess must uncover the truth. Doing so will mean confronting her deepest beliefs about what separates good parents from bad, madness from sanity, and what lengths even the most rational person will go to, to protect what they cherish most.

Hush Hush by Laura Lippman

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New This Week: No Living Soul, A Lexi Carmichael Mystery by Julie Moffett

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No Living Soul by Julie Moffett

No Living Soul by Julie Moffett

A Lexi Carmichael Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: Carina Press

Price: $4.99 (as of 01/04/2017 at 12:30 PM ET).

No Living Soul by Julie Moffett, Amazon Kindle format

See all nine mysteries in the Lexi Carmichael Series for $4.99 each on Kindle.

Although I never expected it, my work as a computer geek has me traveling around the world, solving mysteries and fighting bad guys. Sometimes with my friends, but always with trouble by my side. So you'd think by now, I would've expected to be plagued by danger when I headed to Egypt with my best friend, Elvis Zimmerman, and boyfriend, Slash, to help track down Elvis's missing and estranged father. Nope.

Genius runs in the family, and we quickly discovered Elvis's father is hot on the trail of an ancient and elusive artifact. One that people are willing to kill to find. Tombs, tablets, scarabs, and code come together as we follow a set of clues that has been waiting millennia to be discovered. Cracking code is my speciality, but I never expected to tackle one from fifteen hundred years before the advent of written language.

But the sands of time are running out. We are facing death as it was before the pyramids even existed. If the artifact falls into the wrong hands, we won't be able to rewrite history. So it's up to us to find and safeguard the secret to ensure no living soul ever encounters it … again.

No Living Soul by Julie Moffett

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Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Wednesday, January 04, 2017

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Wednesday, January 04, 2017 at 7:30 AM ET …

AT Last by John W. Mefford

AT Last by John W. Mefford

An Alex Troutt Thriller (6th in series)

Publisher: Sugar Hill Press

Kobo Daily Deal Price: 99¢ (price-matched by Amazon)

AT Last by John W. Mefford, Amazon Kindle formatAT Last by John W. Mefford, Kobo format

Thirty years after losing a parent to a hit-and-run drunk driver, FBI agent Alex Troutt finally confronts the killer — the same man who just murdered the Boston police chief.

And what Alex pulls from him shatters her core.

Armed with little more than hope and a shred of decades-old evidence, Alex chases a memory from her past, hoping that she'll find the mother she never really had. With her old buddy Archie on board — as much as ever can be — the hunt takes her deep into the foothills of West Virginia. A fanatical religious cult has created its own society. Clinging to a whisper of hope, Alex must out-think and out-duel everyone in her path to right a thirty-year wrong.

Will Alex's quest to find the truth destroy her life all over again?

AT Last by John W. Mefford

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Wednesday, January 04, 2017

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Wednesday, January 04, 2017 at 7:00 AM ET …

Liberation Day by Dustin Stevens

Liberation Day by Dustin Stevens

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Dustin Stevens

Price: FREE!

Liberation Day by Dustin Stevens, Amazon Kindle format

In For A Penny by Nancy Naigle

In For A Penny by Nancy Naigle

The Granny Series

Publisher: Crossroads Publishing

Price: FREE!

In For A Penny by Nancy Naigle, Amazon Kindle format

Under Pressure by Jack Parker

Under Pressure by Jack Parker

A Mystery Thriller

Publisher: Jack Parker

Price: FREE!

Under Pressure by Jack Parker, Amazon Kindle format

Do Not Call by Julian Folk

Do Not Call by Julian Folk

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Nocturne Books

Price: FREE!

Do Not Call by Julian Folk, Amazon Kindle format

The Blackmail Photos by Michael P. King

The Blackmail Photos by Michael P. King

A Traveling Man Thriller

Publisher: Blurred Lines Press

Price: FREE!

The Blackmail Photos by Michael P. King, Amazon Kindle format

In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis

In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis

A Golden Age Crime Novel

Publisher: Open Road

Price: FREE!

In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis, Amazon Kindle format

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Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Unlucky, A Cozy Mystery by Jana DeLeon, Now Available at a Special Price

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Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the author …

Unlucky by Jana DeLeon

Unlucky by Jana DeLeon

A Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Jana DeLeon

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/03/2017 at 8:00 PM ET).

Unlucky by Jana DeLeon, Amazon Kindle format

Mallory Devereaux is known throughout the town of Royal Flush, Louisiana as a walking disaster and her luck just got worse. She needs to raise ten-thousand dollars in one week to keep the IRS from seizing her adopted father's business where she works as the demolition foreman.

When the opportunity to cool cards at her uncle's casino comes up, Mallory hopes her luck is changing. But when she realizes her uncle has assembled a tournament of criminals, she wonders what she's stepped in the middle of.

Unlucky by Jana DeLeon

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State of Fear, A Technothriller by Michael Crichton, Now Available at a Special Price

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State of Fear by Michael Crichton

State of Fear by Michael Crichton

A Technothriller

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/03/2017 at 7:00 PM ET).

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When a group of eco-terrorists engage in a global conspiracy to generate weather-related natural disasters, its up to environmental lawyer Peter Evans and his team to uncover the subterfuge.

State of Fear by Michael Crichton

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New This Week: The Devil's Brew, A Hilary Manningham-Butler Mystery by Jack Treby

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The Devil's Brew by Jack Treby

The Devil's Brew by Jack Treby

A Hilary Manningham-Butler Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Carter & Allan

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/03/2017 at 6:30 PM ET).

The Devil's Brew by Jack Treby, Amazon Kindle format

See all three mysteries in the Hilary Manningham-Butler Series for $2.99 each on Kindle.

"Your predecessor was sitting in that chair when he shot himself. You can still see the blood stains on the wall behind you."

Central America, 1931. Hilary Manningham-Butler is settling into her new job as passport control officer at the British legation in Guatemala City. Her predecessor Giles Markham is dead, having embezzled a large sum of money from the office's visa receipts and then taken his own life. Freddie Reeves, a friend at the legation, believes there is more to his death than suicide.

The weekend before he died, Markham spent some time at a remote coffee plantation in the north central highlands. Freddie knows the owner of the plantation and invites Hilary to accompany him there for the weekend, in the hope that she might be able to discover the truth. Hilary has no intention of getting involved, but when a house guest dies in suspicious circumstances it soon becomes clear that she will not be given the choice.

The Devil's Brew by Jack Treby

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A Death in the Family, A Euphemia Martins Mystery by Caroline Dunford, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Death in the Family by Caroline Dunford

A Death in the Family by Caroline Dunford

A Euphemia Martins Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Accent Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/03/2017 at 6:00 PM ET).

A Death in the Family by Caroline Dunford, Amazon Kindle format

In December 1909 the Very Rev Joshia Martins expires in a dish of mutton and onions leaving his family on the brink of destitution. Abandoned by her noble grandfather, Joshia's daughter, the eighteen year old Euphemia, takes it on herself to provide for her mother and little brother by entering service. She's young, fit, intelligent, a little naive and assumes the life of a maid won't be too demanding.

However, on her first day at the unhappy home of Lord Stapleford she discovers a dead body. Euphemia's innate sense of justice has her prying where no servant should look and uncovering some Stapleford secrets …

A Death in the Family by Caroline Dunford

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New This Week: Devil's Spring, The Bittersweet Hollow Series by Aaron Paul Lazar

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Devil's Spring by Aaron Paul Lazar

Devil's Spring by Aaron Paul Lazar

The Bittersweet Hollow Series (3rd in series)

Publisher: Aaron Paul Lazar

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/03/2017 at 5:30 PM ET).

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See all three titles in the Bittersweet Hollow Series for $2.99 or less each on Kindle. The 1st book in the series, Devil's Lake, is currently FREE!

How far would you go for your family?

Financial struggles have forced Grace Rockwell, along with her husband and their baby daughter, back to the family homestead. Luckily, the move to the Morgan Horse Farm isn't all bad. Her sister Portia is there with her toddler son, and Grace soon finds a way to improve their finances — by entering riding competitions with her family's gorgeous horses.

But the homecoming takes a horrific turn when the babies are abducted, sending both new mothers on a frantic search with few leads.

Lollie Belvedere didn't plan to kill her husband. Nor did she know her adopted children would turn out to be kidnapping victims. But something in her snaps the day she's forced to return the babies to their mothers — and now she'll do whatever it takes to get them back.

Devil's Spring by Aaron Paul Lazar

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Absolute Liability, A Southern Fraud Thriller by J. W. Becton, Now Available at a Special Price

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Absolute Liability by J. W. Becton

Absolute Liability by J. W. Becton

A Southern Fraud Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Whiteley Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/03/2017 at 5:00 PM ET).

Absolute Liability by J. W. Becton, Amazon Kindle format

A woman was abducted in her place. Now, time is running out for Julia Jackson to save herself from the same fate …

A woman is taken at gunpoint from a downtown office building, and the police believe the victim is Special Agent Julia Jackson. Only it isn't true.

Now, with the help of her new partner Mark Vincent, state fraud investigator Julia Jackson must find justice for the woman who was taken in her place.

As Vincent and Julia begin to unravel the multimillion-dollar scam that led to the abduction, they encounter several quirky suspects, one of whom will go to desperate lengths to hide a deadly secret.

Things only become more dangerous as bodies begin accumulating around town, and Julia must uncover the truth before the abductor comes to rectify his mistake.

Absolute Liability by J. W. Becton

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New This Week: Psychic Games, A Linked Inc. Mystery by Kate Allenton

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Psychic Games by Kate Allenton

Psychic Games by Kate Allenton

A Linked Inc. Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Coastal Escape Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/03/2017 at 4:30 PM ET).

Psychic Games by Kate Allenton, Amazon Kindle format

See all four titles in the Linked Inc. Series for $2.99 or less each on Kindle.

Psychic medium and amateur spy Grace Thatcher thinks she's pulling one over on the elusive Sam Stone when she joins his dating agency to learn his corporate secrets, and to assuage her curiosity about the existence of her perfect man — whom she's decided doesn't exist.

Sam Stone knows a fraud when he sees one, and Grace Thatcher is a fraud. His background check only confirms his suspicions. When her meddling sisters insist the contract be voided before the fun even begins, he reluctantly agrees, even though she's the perfect candidate to take as his date to his brother's wedding.

Still, talking her into going with him to the wedding is easy. She's a pro at keeping up the charade around his family and friends. The entire week should be a piece of cake, but he quickly learns that nothing is ever what it seems when a Thatcher is involved.

When dangers from his past resurface, dealing with a disastrous wedding, a guest-terrorizing ghost, and Grace's meddling aunt are the least of his worries. He needs to survive long enough to make her realize that he's found her perfect man; him.

Psychic Games by Kate Allenton

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A Deadly Obsession, A Riverton Novel of Romantic Suspense by Melanie James, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Deadly Obsession by Melanie James

A Deadly Obsession by Melanie James

A Riverton Novel of Romantic Suspense (2nd in series)

Publisher: Book Boutiques

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/03/2017 at 4:00 PM ET).

A Deadly Obsession by Melanie James, Amazon Kindle format

Redemption, justice, and vengeance, how far will someone go to protect the ones they love?

Jake never wanted the life he was born into. He worked hard to keep his past a secret from everyone, including the love of his life. When an unknown force comes after the woman he loves, he may have to give everything to protect her … including his life.

There is a fine line between right and wrong and how much someone is willing to risk for love!

A Deadly Obsession by Melanie James

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Fudge and Jury by Ellie Alexander, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017 …

Fudge and Jury by Ellie Alexander

Fudge and Jury by Ellie Alexander, A Bakeshop Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Fudge and Jury by Ellie Alexander, Amazon Kindle format

Welcome to Torte — a friendly, small-town family bakery where the pastries are delicious … and, now, suspicious …

It's almost spring in Ashland, Oregon, and the town is preparing for the Shakespeare and the annual Chocolate Festival. Business is cookin' at Torte, and the store is expanding as Jules' team whips up crèpes filled with mascarpone cheese and dark chocolate. Torte stands a chance of being this year's confectionery belle of the ball! Life couldn't be sweeter — unless murder taints the batter.

Evan Rowe, of Confections Couture, makes a chocolate fountain that would put Willy Wonka to shame, and his truffles are to die for — literally? Yes, the world-renowned chocolatier has just turned up dead … right after sampling a slice of Jules' decadent four-layer chocolate cake. Now all eyes are on Jules as she tries to find the mysterious ingredient in her own recipe. Can she sift out the truth before another contestant bites the buttercream?

Fudge and Jury by Ellie Alexander

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Murder on the Orient (SS), An Agatha Christie Book Club Mystery by C. A. Larmer, Now Available at a Special Price

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Murder on the Orient (SS) by C. A. Larmer

Murder on the Orient (SS) by C. A. Larmer

An Agatha Christie Book Club Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Larmer Media

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/03/2017 at 3:00 PM ET).

Murder on the Orient (SS) by C. A. Larmer, Amazon Kindle format

When the Agatha Christie Book Club takes a short cruise on a replica steamship, the SS Orient — a real ship that once sailed between London and the colonies — they expect little more than a glamorous voyage back in time. What they get has eerie echoes of the original Orient Express, including a passenger dead in their bed, a threatening note and more clues than you can poke a blood-soaked dagger at.

When a second passenger vanishes overboard in the dead of night soon after, the team suspect they have a madman on their hands and abandon their shuffleboard to investigate.

The problem is, just like Hercule Poirot, they have very little time, no CCTV, and enough red herrings to fill a seafood buffet. It doesn't help that the entire ship is rallying behind the leading suspect Captain Van Tussi, a man with friends in high places who may — or may not — be taking everyone for a ride.

Murder on the Orient (SS) by C. A. Larmer

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The Return of the Raven Mocker by Donis Casey, New in Bookstores during January 2017

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during January 2017 is …

The Return of the Raven Mocker by Donis Casey

The Return of the Raven Mocker by Donis Casey, an Alafair Tucker Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

The Return of the Raven Mocker by Donis Casey, Amazon Kindle format

World War I is raging in Europe, but as the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918 sweeps like a wildfire through Boynton, Oklahoma, Alafair Tucker is fighting her own war. Her daughter, Alice, and son-in-law, Walter Kelley, have both come down with the flu, and Alafair has moved into town to care for them after quarantining her young children at their sister's farm. Boynton as a whole isolates itself like an old English plague village, discouraging anyone from coming into town and the residents from traveling outside. A new doctor applies science to treating the stricken, but Alafair applies all she knows about hygiene, nutrition, and old and trusted country remedies. Unable to aid her sons and sons-inlaw fighting overseas, this is danger she can combat.

One autumn afternoon, screams coming from next door alert Alafair that Alice's neighbor, Nola Thomason, and her son Lewis have suddenly and unexpectedly succumbed. Yet there is something about the way the pair died that causes Alafair to suspect their deaths were due to poison rather than to influenza. The epidemic is so overwhelming that it is many days before the only doctor left in town can confirm Alafair's suspicions; neither Nola nor Lewis died of the flu. The only witness to their deaths, twelve-year-old Dorothy Thomason, a special friend of Alafair's daughter, Sophronia, is so traumatized that she is rendered mute. Were Nola and her son murdered, and if so, why?

The usual motives for murder are greed, or jealousy, or hatred. Or could it be, as Alafair fears, that the Raven Mocker, the most dreaded of the Cherokee wizards or witches, the evil spirit who takes to the air in a fiery shape to rob the old, the sick, and the dying of their lives, is hunting victims and bringing misery to the innocent?

The Return of the Raven Mocker by Donis Casey

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for January 2017. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of January 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

Pop Goes the Murder by Kristi Abbott, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2017 …

Pop Goes the Murder by Kristi Abbott

Pop Goes the Murder by Kristi Abbott, A Popcorn Shop Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Berkley

Pop Goes the Murder by Kristi Abbott, Amazon Kindle format

Despite Rebecca Anderson's best efforts to distance herself from her ex-husband, the guy keeps popping up. When Antoine offers to feature her breakfast bars and popcorn fudge on his popular cooking show, she suspects he's once again trying to butter her up — but the TV exposure for her gourmet popcorn shop, POPS, is too good to turn down.

Things take a shocking turn when the crew comes to Grand Lake to film in her shop, and Rebecca discovers Antoine's assistant electrocuted in a hotel bathtub. Now the police want Antoine to come clean. Her ex may be a pain, but he's no killer. So Rebecca decides to bag the real culprit. If she isn't careful, however, she may be the next one getting burned.

Pop Goes the Murder by Kristi Abbott

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for January 2017. For new hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries where for a list of January 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

Stairway to the Bottom, A Mick Murphy, Key West Mystery by Michael Haskins, Now Available at a Special Price

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Stairway to the Bottom by Michael Haskins

Stairway to the Bottom by Michael Haskins

A Mick Murphy, Key West Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Fenian Bastard Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 01/03/2017 at 1:00 PM ET).

Stairway to the Bottom by Michael Haskins, Amazon Kindle format

After finding the murdered female killer from the Cold War time, Mick Murphy faces off with a hit man for Whitey Bulger who has escaped from witness protection to collect Bulger's hidden millions. At the same time, retired Cold War agents come to Key West looking for someone that walked off with more than $20 million in diamonds and they think the missing hit man is their guy. Murphy thinks the situation is funny as he meets and talks to the agents, but dislikes the hit man even though Padre Thomas has given him absolution.

It's not long before his buddy Norm shows up with CIA agents looking for the diamonds. They are soon followed by the British, French, Israeli and Russian spy agencies. Everyone assumes Murphy can lead them to the Cold War agent, while Murphy tries helplessly to explain the man they are looking for is a Boston gangster. On the water, snorkeling a t the reef with Tita, Norm and a female CIA agent everything in Murphy's world begins to unravel.

As both those looking for the hit man and those looking for the diamonds collide, Murphy's world changes forever.

Stairway to the Bottom by Michael Haskins

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New This Week: Hollywood Quest, A Hollywood Alphabet Series Thriller by M. Z. Kelly

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 2017 and priced $5.99 or less.

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Hollywood Quest by M. Z. Kelly

Hollywood Quest by M. Z. Kelly

A Hollywood Alphabet Series Thriller (17th in series)

Publisher: Kingston Roads Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/03/2017 at 12:30 PM ET).

Hollywood Quest by M. Z. Kelly, Amazon Kindle format

See all seventeen thrillers in the popular Hollywood Alphabet Series for $3.99 each on Kindle. The 1st book in the series, Hollywood Assassin, is currently FREE!

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers simple — Dr. Seuss … Or, maybe not …

When LAPD Detective Kate Sexton and her canine partner Bernie are reassigned to the department's Cold Case Unit she thinks life will be dull. Think again. Kate is teamed with her former long-time partner Charlie Winkler as she tries to solve one of the most shocking crimes of the decade. What follows is a deadly game of murder and betrayal that leads Kate and Charlie to the power brokers of a multinational corporation who will stop at nothing to further their own corrupt interests.

Things become even more complicated when Kate's best friends Natalie and Mo get involved, they offer their insight into a sex trafficking case, at the same time they try and help find Kate's long-lost biological father.

Hollywood Quest by M. Z. Kelly

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