Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Thursday, February 09, 2017

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Thursday, February 09, 2017 at 7:00 AM ET …

Thinning The Turkey Herd by Robert Campbell

A Jimmy Flannery Mystery

Publisher: Ayeshire Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Murder Mansion by M. K. Scott

A Painted Lady Inn Mystery

Publisher: Sleeping Dragon Press

Price: FREE!

  

Doppelganger Doozy by Gabriella Stone

A Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Gabriella Stone

Price: FREE!

  

Champagne Float by Nissa Alexandrov

The Champagne Mysteries

Publisher: Headwind Books

Price: FREE!

  

Winter Song by Susan C. Miller

The Seasons Pass Series

Publisher: Susan C. Miller

Price: FREE!

  

Toasted Coconut Murder by Susan Gillard

A Donut Hole Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Guardian Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

A Death in Greenwich by Juri Pill

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Juri Pill

Price: FREE!

  

Death Legacy by Jacqueline Seewald

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: The Novel Fox

Price: FREE!

  

Child of Hern by Chip Walker

A DCI Millard Mystery

Publisher: Good Man

Price: FREE!

  

Death Under the Fireworks by Nancy McGovern

A Murder in Milburn Mystery Novella

Publisher: Nancy McGovern

Price: FREE!

  

Murder in New York by Nancy McGovern

A Bluebell Knopps Witch Cozy Mystery

Publisher: Nancy McGovern

Price: FREE!

  

The Unfur-tunate Valentine's Scam by Alannah Rogers

A Beatrice Young, Cozy Cat Mystery

Publisher: Alannah Rogers

Price: FREE!

  

For a summary of all of today's titles, plus any that may have been added since this post was created, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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New This Week: Hacked Up, A Suspense Thriller by Ethan Stone

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 February 2017 and priced $5.99 or less.

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Hacked Up by Ethan Stone

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Stone Publishing

Edition(s): eBook only

eBook Price: $5.99 (as of 02/08/2017 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

Seattle is being plagued by a string of gruesome murders. For Detective Peter Tao, it's a career-making case, but he's struggling to find a lead. How is the killer choosing his victims? What is he trying to prove?

With a long list of suspects and nothing to connect them, Peter is more determined than ever to apprehend the murderer. Then Peter gets the one vital piece of evidence that ties everything together. Now he'll have to look beyond the obvious to identify the killer before anyone else is murdered.

— Hacked Up by Ethan Stone

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New This Week: City of Drowned Souls, The Elisenda Domènech Investigations by Chris Lloyd

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 February 2017 and priced $5.99 or less.

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City of Drowned Souls by Chris Lloyd

The Elisenda Domènech Investigations (3rd in series)

Publisher: Canelo

Edition(s): eBook only

eBook Price: $2.99 (as of 02/08/2017 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

When a child disappears, the clock starts ticking …

Detective Elisenda Domènech has had a tough few years. The loss of her daughter and a team member; the constant battles against colleagues and judges; the harrowing murder investigations … But it's about to get much worse.

When the son of a controversial local politician goes missing at election time, Elisenda is put on the case. They simply must solve it. Only the team also have to deal with a spate of horrifically violent break-ins. People are being brutalised in their own homes and the public demands answers.

Could there be a connection? Why is nobody giving a straight answer? And where is Elisenda's key informant, apparently vanished off the face of the earth? With the body count threatening to increase and her place in the force on the line, the waters are rising …

Be careful not to drown.

— City of Drowned Souls by Chris Lloyd

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New This Week: King Tide, A Miami Jones Florida Mystery by A. J. Stewart

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 February 2017 and priced $5.99 or less.

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King Tide by A. J. Stewart

A Miami Jones Florida Mystery

Publisher: Jacaranda Drive

Edition(s): eBook only

eBook Price: 99¢ (as of 02/08/2017 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

A hurricane is bearing down on the Florida coast. At one of Palm Beach's most prestigious hotels a guest dies. Was it an accident or murder?

Trapped by the storm, Miami Jones and his nemesis from the local police department must match wits in a search for the truth, before the rising water or something worse consumes them all.

— King Tide by A. J. Stewart

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Malicious by James Patterson and James O. Born, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2017

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2017 …

Malicious by James Patterson and James O. Born, Mitchum

Publisher: BookShots

  

Did my brother kill your husband?

Mitchum is back. His brother's been charged with murder. Nathaniel swears he didn't kill anyone, but word on the street is that he was involved with the victim's wife. Now, Navy SEAL dropout Mitchum will break every rule to expose the truth — even if it destroys the people he loves.

— Malicious by James Patterson and James O. Born

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

Echoes in Death by J. D. Robb, New in Bookstores during February 2017

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

Echoes in Death by J. D. Robb, an Eve Dallas Mystery (44th in series)

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

 

As NY Lt. Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband Roarke are driving home, a young woman — dazed, naked, and bloody — suddenly stumbles out in front of their car. Roarke slams on the brakes and Eve springs into action.

Daphne Strazza is rushed to the ER, but it's too late for her husband Dr. Anthony Strazza. A brilliant orthopedic surgeon, he now lies dead amid the wreckage of his obsessively organized town house, his three safes opened and emptied. Daphne would be a valuable witness, but in her terror and shock the only description of the perp she can offer is repeatedly calling him "the devil" …

While it emerges that Dr. Strazza was cold, controlling, and widely disliked, this is one case where the evidence doesn't point to the spouse. So Eve and her team must get started on the legwork, interviewing everyone from dinner-party guests to professional colleagues to caterers, in a desperate race to answer some crucial questions:

What does the devil look like? And where will he show up next?

— Echoes in Death by J. D. Robb

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

French Twist by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2017

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during February 2017 …

French Twist by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo, Luc Moncrief

Publisher: BookShots

  

Who is killing New York's most beautiful women?

Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detective Luc Moncrief and Detective Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving …

— French Twist by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo

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

New This Week: Swann's Lake of Despair, A Henry Swann Mystery by Charles Salzberg

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 February 2017 and priced $5.99 or less.

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Swann's Lake of Despair by Charles Salzberg

A Henry Swann Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Down & Out Books

Edition(s): Print and eBook

eBook Price: $5.99 (as of 02/08/2017 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

When rare photos‚ a scandalous diary‚ and a beautiful woman all go missing at once‚ the stage is set for three challenging cases for Henry Swann. It begins with an offer to partner up with his slovenly‚ unreliable frenemy‚ Goldblatt. The disbarred lawyer-turned-"facilitator" would provide the leads and muscle‚ while Swann would do all the fancy footwork. A lost diary by a free-loving Jazz Age flapper is worth enough to someone that Swann takes a beat down on an abandoned boardwalk. Pilfered photos of Marilyn Monroe propel him deep into the past of an alcoholic shutterbug‚ his wife; and he's hired to search for a lonely writer's runaway girlfriend.

The cases converge and collide in a finale that lifts the curtain on crucial‚ deadly facts of life for everyone — including Swann himself.

— Swann's Lake of Despair by Charles Salzberg

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An Interview with Tom Carter

We are delighted to welcome author Tom Carter back to Omnimystery News.

Yesterday we featured an excerpt from his new mystery Nashville: Music & Murder (Sing Before Dying; February 2017 trade paperback and ebook formats) and today we're pleased that he agreed to answer a few follow-up questions about the book.

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Omnimystery News: You could have chosen either a male or female lead for your murder mystery. Why did you go with a female?

Photo provided courtesy of
Tom Carter

Tom Carter: My lead character is a woman because I think women are more vulnerable to physical ambush. I also incorporated a woman because my protagonist was adapted from Nashville's celebrity women who were stalked, including Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette and Taylor Swift. I had no difficulty in finding the hostile voice of protagonist "Maci Willis." That too was rooted in truth, as women have been yelling at me for years. I think that readers always sympathize with a woman more than a man in life threatening situations. The protagonist in The Silence of the Lambs was female. So was the victim in Kiss the Girls. For that matter, King Kong hassled a woman decades ago.

OMN: Into which genre would you place your book?

TC: It a suspense/thriller novel.

OMN: What came first when writing this book: the character or the storyline?

TC: I started my novel with the storyline. If I put forth the plot, I could always make the protagonist reactionary. I made her respond to situations that resembled what I saw as a working newspaper police reporter.

OMN: Describe your writing environment for us.

TC: I have a conventional office whose main wall is mostly glass. At night, I close the blinds. I surround myself with the 18 books I've successfully written.

OMN: What are some of your outside interests?

TC: I read.

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Author Tom Carter has collaborated to write the autobiographies of more country music stars than any other writer in the world. Carter co-wrote with Reba McEntire, Glen Campbell, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Ronnie Milsap, LeAnn Rimes, Jason Aldean and Ralph Emery. Including hard back and paperback editions, Carter's co-written memoirs have been listed seven times on The New York Times and twice on the USA Today best-sellers list. Now, for the first time, Carter has written a fictional murder mystery set on Nashville's Music Row, home to celebrities and their recorded music.

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Nashville: Music & Murder by Tom Carter

A Murder Mystery

Publisher: Sing Before Dying

As a teenager, Maci Willis fled the poverty and sexual abuse of her Louisiana childhood with the hope of finding a new life as a Nashville recording star or greasy spoon waitress. Despite the odds, the former fate unfolded, and Maci recorded hit songs for two decades while indulging a pampered lifestyle void of risks and regrets.

But all of that changed during one fateful performance.

While Maci sang a fourth encore to a crowd of 18,000, the music was shattered by a gunshot fired by an obsessed fan. She emerged triumphant from the attempt on her life — only to face another attempt shortly afterwards. Was it a coincidence? Or was something more sinister at work?

— Nashville: Music & Murder by Tom Carter

Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Wednesday, February 08, 2017 at 7:30 AM ET …

The Girl at Rosewood Hall by Annis Bell

A Lady Jane Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: AmazonCrossing

Kindle Daily Deal Price: 99¢

On his death bed, Lord Pembroke took great care to try to ensure the future of his beautiful, unconventional niece, Lady Jane. Her debutante ball would feature the most eligible bachelors of London society. But when the night of the dance arrives, things do not go as planned.

To escape the superficial drama of the party, Jane seeks refuge in the garden of Rosewood Hall, where she discovers a gravely injured girl. With her last breath, the child beseeches Jane to find another girl, Mary, and to save her from the same fate she has suffered. Lady Jane vows to fulfill this final wish, a promise that will entangle her in a dangerous intrigue and take her from the safety of home to the hard streets of London. With the faded inscription in a tattered novel as her only physical clue, Jane sets out to investigate the region's orphanages and infiltrate London's most elegant homes. Can she save young Mary from a swiftly approaching doom?

— The Girl at Rosewood Hall by Annis Bell

Project Anastasis by Jacques Vandroux

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: AmazonCrossing

Kindle Daily Deal Price: 99¢

As a former soldier, private investigator Jean Legarec is used to high stakes and sharpshooters. But he doesn't realize what he's getting into when he agrees to investigate the disappearance of six-year-old Alexandre, the grandson of a highly influential French politician.

For a million euros, Legarec launches a dangerous search that will dig deep into some of the darkest corners of European history. With the help of the boy's beautiful aunt, Béatrice, he uncovers evidence of a modern-day terrorist plot rooted in a long-buried enterprise of the Third Reich. From Paris to Malta to the Vosges forest, a cast of witnesses — including a death camp survivor and former mercenaries — help Legarec piece together a terrifying truth.

Yet even then, the PI worries that his own dark past and his undeniable attraction to Béatrice might be clouding the investigation. Can he put the personal aside in order to do his job? And can he free an innocent child from a web of absolute evil?

— Project Anastasis by Jacques Vandroux

Fatal Conceit by Robert K. Tanenbaum

A Butch Karp Mystery (26th in series)

Publisher: Gallery Books

Nook Daily Find Price: $1.99

  

A CIA chief dies under suspicious circumstances before he can testify about a controversial government cover-up involving a terrorist attack on the US mission in Chechnya. Butch Karp is on the case in this exciting installment to Robert K. Tanenbaum's bestselling series.

When the CIA director is murdered, Butch Karp finds himself battling a heavyweight opponent: the US government. The national presidential election campaign's foreign policy mantra has been that the terrorists are on the run and Bin Laden is dead. There are rumors that the CIA chief was going to deviate from the administration version of events, and that the government may have had something to do with his death. Can Karp expose the cover-up and find the Chechnyan separatists who aided the Americans at the mission and who have firsthand knowledge of the terrorist attack? Karp must also find his missing daughter, who has been taken hostage by the terrorists.

After the New York grand jury indicts the national presidential campaign chairman and the NSA spymaster for the murder of the CIA chief, Karp engages in an unforgettable courtroom confrontation with the defendants who have the full weight of the US administration, a hostile judge, and a compliant media supporting them. These sinister forces will stop at nothing to prevent Karp from bringing out the truth, even if they have to resort to murder.

— Fatal Conceit by Robert K. Tanenbaum

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