Winners of the 2014 Derringer Awards Announced

The winners of the 2014 Derringer Awards have been announced by the Short Mystery Fiction Society as determined by a vote of the group's members.

The winners are …

Best Flash (up to 1000 words): "Luck is What You Make" by Stephen D. Rogers (Crime Factory, May 2013);

Best Short Story (1001 to 4000 words): "The Present" by Robert Lopresti (The Strand Magazine, February-May 2013);

Best Long Story (4001 to 8000 words): "Give Me a Dollar" by Ray Daniel (Best New England Crime Stories 2014: Stone Cold, Level Best Books, September 2013); and

Best Novelette (8000 to 20,000 words): "The Goddaughter's Revenge" by Melodie Campbell (Orca Rapid Reads, October 2013).

(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare for alerting us to this news.)

Please Welcome Back Author Jayne-Marie Barker

with Jayne-Marie Barker

We are delighted to welcome back author Jayne-Marie Barker to Omnimystery News.

Jayne-Marie visited with us last week to discuss her new thriller is The Dancer's Ghost (Austin Macauley Publishers; October 2013 trade paperback format) and we asked her to tell us a little more about the backstory to her books. Her guest post for us today is titled, "Forward Thinking — Where Will Your Writing Take You?".

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Jayne-Marie Barker

It's not an easy question is it — where will you be in five years time? People are always asking, especially when the subject of careers crops up. Have you ever been asked the question and stared, blankly, lost for words? When it comes to life in general I definitely have proffered the odd blank look in my time; but when it comes to writing I have always had a solid plan.

It's one thing to know what you want, but navigating the path to get there is quite another. Just how far forward do you need to plan, and how do you even start? These are a few of the questions I put down on paper some years back, and struggled through muddled thoughts until I came to a conclusion. Someone told me to work backwards, so I tried it.

I knew I wanted to be a published author, a name reasonably well known, or at least recognised. It seemed too far a leap from the starting line so I broke the plan down into segments.

To work backwards from being published I had to attract a publisher. I read articles about publisher submissions, how to write them, what to include in the cover letter, how to write a synopsis, how to target the correct publishing houses for the appropriate genre … the reading list is actually endless. At some point you have to stop, summarise what you've learnt and get on with it.

To move backwards again from there I needed a polished novel to submit. Again, research told me how to polish my work to publisher standard and I won't proceed to bore you with what you probably already know on that score. That bought me to where I stood at that time, with a novel, a submission plan and a prayer.

Now I'm a big believer in hard work and effort and, personally, I think that most of us have to work doubly hard to achieve anything at all. There is precious little for free. However, having that said, when you want to get published it doesn't hurt to cross your fingers and pray for a bit of good fortune. Like most things in life success is 99% hard slog and 1% good luck. The same principle can be said about careers, whether you want to fly for the Red Arrows or make the top ten best sellers list. Just figure out the path a bit at a time.

When people realise I have written a whole book they mostly look astounded and say something like "I don't think I'd even know where to begin", but of course they are thinking about the overall thing — a sizeable target indeed. If you break it down, start with yes I'm going to write a book, I'm going to plot out my main events and I'm going to decide in which chapter these events fall, then you begin to create a path on the page. When you're writing that bit just think about that bit, don't worry about the rest of the book. Gradually you build and build and eventually you realise that you're almost finished with the first draft. Hey presto, a complete novel. So it's a bit scratchy here and there and it needs a spell check, but it's done.

Go back to your master plan and tick off the first few stages, move on. It's all about determination. Just keep going, keep learning and keep writing. Never give up.

My current phrase is to build my online profile so if you're reading this blog then thank you, thank you, thank you, because it all helps towards a name in fiction. I'm not quite there yet with the recognisable name target, but I'm on track so watch this space.

So, the next time someone asks you where you're going to be in five years, look them in the eye, smile (it throws people off balance, great fun I always find) and say in a confident voice "I'm going to be a published author by then", then walk away before they can ask you another equally awkward question!

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Born in May 1981, Jayne-Marie Barker grew up in Suffolk where my family remain and whom she visits every month. Following the achievement of my OCR RSA Diploma in Administrative and Secretarial Procedures in the summer of 1999, she moved to Hertfordshire to pursue her career. She currently works as Personal Assistant to the CEO and board directors for Europe's leading tyre company.

Aside from writing, her other great love in life is dance; she belongs to an excellent school. Her passion for dance is such that she has passed exams in Ballroom, Latin, Salsa and Argentine Tango, and can now proudly call herself an amateur member of the IDTA.

For more information about the author and her work, please visit her website at JayneMarieBarker.com or find her on Facebook and Twitter.

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The Dancer's Ghost
Jayne-Marie Barker
A Novel of Suspense

Where we come from can change everything …

When a baby is snatched the famous parents keep the tragedy secret, but this doesn't prevent Joyce Capelli from searching, attracting trouble at every turn. An anonymous writer claims to know everything, but it will cost Joyce more than she realises. When a shot is fired all she finds is an open window, and a room of photographs.

In the modern day Rebecca Houseman finds herself widowed, suffering persistent dreams, and threatened. What she doesn't know is why. When the unconventional DCI Allen says her husband's apparent natural causes was in fact murder, she wonders what he was trying to tell her in his final breath.

A stranger is watching the Houseman family, an unsettling familiarity that could change everything. As the attempts grow increasingly deadly, the inspector strives to solve the case, but can he crack the mystery before the assassin finds Rebecca?

Meanwhile, in the 1960s, Joyce's delight at finding her baby is tragically short lived. What could ink Rebecca Houseman and the young dancer's missing baby all those years ago?

    

Murder on the Mind by L. L. Bartlett is Today's Sixth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder on the Mind by L. L. Bartlett as today's sixth free mystery ebook (A Jeff Resnick Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 02, 2014 at 7:45 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Murder on the Mind
L. L. Bartlett
A Jeff Resnick Mystery
Publisher: Polaris Press

After a brutal mugging in Manhattan leaves him with a broken arm and fractured skull, Jeff Resnick reluctantly agrees to recover at the home of his estranged half brother, Richard. At first, Jeff believes his graphic nightmares of a slaughtered buck are just the workings of his traumatized mind. But when a local banker is found in the same condition, Jeff believes the attack has left him with a sixth sense — an ability to witness murder before it happens. Piecing together clues he saw in his visions, Jeff attempts to solve the crime. His brother Richard is skeptical, but unsettling developments begin to forge a tentative bond. Soon, things that couldn't be explained by premonition come to light, and Jeff finds himself probing into dangerous secrets that touch his own traumatic past in wintry Buffalo — and the killer is ready to eliminate Jeff's visions permanently.

  

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The Coffin Ship by Peter Tonkin is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Coffin Ship by Peter Tonkin as today's fifth free mystery ebook (A Suspense Thriller; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 02, 2014 at 7:30 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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The Coffin Ship
Peter Tonkin
A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Endeavour Press

The giant supertanker Prometheus, the largest ship on Earth, sits at anchor in the Persian Gulf. In her tanks are 250,000 tons of crude oil. Somewhere on board is a crew member determined that she never completes her voyage to Europe. Already, many of the ship's officers have been killed in a mysterious "accident".

The fate of Prometheus rests in the hands of Richard Mariner, the tanker's new captain. It is his responsibility to battle human treachery and the dangers of the open sea to bring Prometheus to safe harbour.

From the Persian Gulf to the storm-tossed Atlantic, Mariner and his crew must struggle against the elements while trying to uncover the elusive — and cunning — enemy in their midst.

Can Mariner solve the mystery on board and rescue the crew? Or is Prometheus doomed to become a coffin ship?

  

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Poisoned Arrows by Paul M. Berry is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Poisoned Arrows by Paul M. Berry as today's fourth free mystery ebook (The Golden Aces Trilogy; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 02, 2014 at 7:15 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Poisoned Arrows
Paul M. Berry
The Golden Aces Trilogy
Publisher: Paul M. Berry

Rob Thomas has spent the last ten years trying to forget all the terrible things he's done. But when notorious gangster Stephen McSharry is released from prison, determined to reclaim his place at the pinnacle of the Liverpool underworld, Rob is forced to return to a life he's tried to bury, and kill one last time.

Caught between an ambitious brother and a cop determined to salvage a career making case, Rob finds himself thrust into the midst of a gang war that threatens to rip the entire city apart.

Drawn deeper and deeper into the chaos, they will each have to sacrifice the life they know to satisfy their ambition. But in a world where murder and betrayal are the only currency that count, it might not be enough to see them succeed, or even survive.

  

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Of a Feather by Ken Goldman is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Of a Feather by Ken Goldman as today's third free mystery ebook (A Novel of Suspense; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 02, 2014 at 7:00 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Of a Feather
Ken Goldman
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Horrific Tales Publishing

Socrates has a gift, a power even he doesn't fully understand.

But old Gert, who feeds the pigeons in Gustav's Park, understands. Pretty Jamie, who works at the Bird Emporium, understands. And the old Indian chief who wears a strange, two-sided bird mask, he understands too.

As does the ancient, angry spirit called the Thunderbird and about a million of Wellington County's feathered creatures.

They know what Socrates Singer really is.

And they know what he can do …

  

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Ms America and the Offing on Oahu by Diana Dempsey is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Ms America and the Offing on Oahu by Diana Dempsey as today's second free mystery ebook (A Beauty Queen Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 02, 2014 at 6:45 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Ms America and the Offing on Oahu
Diana Dempsey
A Beauty Queen Mystery
Publisher: Bramerton Press

Ms Ohio Happy Pennington finds out it's not all sequins and silicone when she competes on Oahu for the Ms America crown — the first national title of her life.

When her fiercest competitor tumbles dead out of the isolation booth during the televised pageant finale, Honolulu PD gets to thinking Happy might have killed her.

What's the only thing a beauty queen worth her sash can do? Nab the real killer — even if that means tangling with snarky rival contestants, a local who claims to be Hawaiian royalty, a brooding helicopter pilot, and a pageant emcee hot enough to die for …

  

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Alive and Killing by Jeff Carson is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Alive and Killing by Jeff Carson as today's free mystery ebook (A David Wolf Mystery; Kindle format only).

This title was listed for free as of the date and time of this post, April 02, 2014 at 6:30 AM ET. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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Alive and Killing
Jeff Carson
A David Wolf Mystery
Publisher: Jeff Carson

Just for a day, Colorado cop David Wolf trades slogging through murky meltwaters and even murkier small-town politics for an overnight camping trip in the wilderness with his son.

But when a man with fresh burns turns up on their trail, falling from the heavy load in his backpack and running wild from something, Wolf suspects his father-son camping trip may have just taken a turn for the worse.

Unfortunately his instincts are spot on, and Wolf is forced into action with the last person he wants by his side in a deadly battle — his only son.

When news of their disturbing episode travels through the valleys, local FBI agents want to take over Wolf's investigation, hoping to halt murder and corruption originating 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan. Wolf ignores the FBI's order to stand down, even if the case involves a matter of national security. Not when his son's safety is at stake.

  

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The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles is Today's Kobo Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles as today's Kobo Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, April 02, 2014.

Note: The price has been matched by Amazon.com for today only.

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The Devil's Punchbowl
Greg Iles
A Penn Cage Thriller
Scribner

As a prosecuting attorney in Houston, Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown — Natchez, Mississippi — that Penn will face his most dangerous threat. Urged by old friends to try to restore this fading jewel of the Old South, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in its quest for new jobs and fresh money, Natchez, like other Mississippi towns, has turned to casino gambling, and now five fantastical steamboats float on the river beside the old slave market at Natchez like props from Gone With the Wind.

But one boat isn't like the others.

Rumor has it that the Magnolia Queen has found a way to pull the big players from Las Vegas to its Mississippi backwater. And with them — on sleek private jets that slip in and out of town like whispers in the night — come pro football players, rap stars, and international gamblers, all sharing an unquenchable taste for one thing: blood sport — and the dark vices that go with it. When a childhood friend of Penn's who brings him evidence of these crimes is brutally murdered, the full weight of Penn's failure to protect his city hits home.

So begins his quest to find the men responsible. But it's a hunt he begins alone, for the local authorities have been corrupted by the money and power of his hidden enemy. With his family's lives at stake, Penn realizes his only allies in his one-man war are those bound to him by blood or honor. Together they must defeat a sophisticated killer who has an almost preternatural ability to anticipate — and counter — their every move. Ultimately, victory will depend on a bold stroke that will leave one of Penn's allies dead — and Natchez changed forever.

    

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The Haunting Season by Michelle Muto is Today's Teen Kindle Daily Deal

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Haunting Season by Michelle Muto as today's Teen Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Wednesday, April 02, 2014.

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The Haunting Season
Michelle Muto
A Supernatural Thriller for Teens
Skyscape

Siler House has stood silent beneath Savannah's moss-draped oaks for decades. Notoriously haunted, it has remained empty until college-bound Jess Perry and three of her peers gather to take part in a month-long study on the paranormal. Able to talk to ghosts, Jess quickly bonds with her fellow test subjects, who have their own "gifts". One is possessed. Another just wants to forget. The third is a guy who knows how to turn up the August heat, not to mention Jess's heart rate … when he's not resurrecting the dead.

The study soon turns into something far more sinister when they discover that Siler House and the dark forces within are determined to keep them forever. To escape, Jess and the others must open themselves up to the true horror of Siler House and channel the very evil that seeks to hold them in.

  

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Today's Mystery and Suspense Update from Big Fish Games (140402)

Here is today's mystery and suspense update from Big Fish Games …

• Our Featured Title is Sinking Island.

• The current Catch of the Week is Botanica: Into the Unknown, just $2.99 through Sunday, April 07, 2014 only.

Visit the Omnimystery Entertainment Network for more games of mystery and suspense!

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Our Featured Title today is Sinking Island

A billionaire has been murdered on a tropical island, and it's up to Detective Jack Norm to crack the case! Walter Jones had planned on opening up a resort for the rich and famous, but was killed before his dream could be achieved. Interview the ten people on Sinking Island to get valuable clues. This Adventure game will require you to use all your wits to solve the mystery and find the murderer! Warning: Explicit Language.

Also available for this game:

• Get the Strategy Guide

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The current Catch of the Week is Botanica: Into the Unknown

You are Dr. Ellie Wright, a botanist stranded on a strange planet called Botanica. Full of curious creatures and exotic landscapes, Botanica is like nothing you've ever seen! Test your wits as you navigate through lush forests, steampunk villages, and more. But danger lurks at every corner; make both friends and enemies as you try to outsmart the cunning Queen Kassandra. Can you survive Botanica and find your way back home?

A sample version is available to download and play for free for one hour. You can purchase this game at the special price of $2.99 through Sunday, April 07, 2014.

Also available for this game:

• Get the Strategy Guide.
• Check out the Blog Walkthrough.
• For a more in-depth experience, see the Collector's Edition.

A New MystereBook: The Carrier by Preston Lang

Here is 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 March 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

The Carrier by Preston Lang is the author's debut crime comedy.

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The Carrier by Preston Lang
A Crime Comedy
Publisher: 280 Steps
Publication Date: March 30, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 04/01/14 05:30 PM ET)

It's a bad idea for a drug courier to pick up strange women in roadside bars. Cyril learns this lesson when the girl he brings back to his motel room points a gun at him.

But Willow isn't the only one after the goods that Cyril's been hired to pick up. A fast talking sex-offender and his oversized neighbor are also on the trail, as is Cyril's sinister brother, Duane.

Willow and Cyril soon form an uneasy alliance based on necessity, lust, and the desire for a quick payday. But with so many dangerous players giving chase, will they nab their package?

  

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On Thin Ice, A Novel of Romantic Suspense by Anne Stuart, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature On Thin Ice by Anne Stuart, now available at a special price, courtesy of the author.

The ebook format of this title was priced at $1.99 from the listed vendors (below) as of the date and time of this post (04/01/2014 at 5:00 PM ET). Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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On Thin Ice by Anne Stuart
A Novel of Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Anne Stuart

Elizabeth Pennington has come to the war-torn South American country of Callivera to volunteer at a tiny mission. Kidnapped by the local rebels who are more interested in ransom than politics, she ends up at their camp in the Andes where she meets Finn MacGowan, member of the infamous Committee, a covert organization dedicated to destroying terrorism.

MacGowan has been held hostage for almost three years, and he's chosen the night she arrives as the night he plans to escape. When he does, she follows him, heading down the steep mountainous terrain with another hostage, the teenage son of a Hollywood millionaire. Rebels, soldiers, traitors and near-drowning follows them on their journey.

As they travel from the mountain fortress to a transatlantic freighter, an old cafe in Spain ending in a shootout at a farmhouse in France, MacGowan reluctantly falls in love, and Beth learns that the cynical, dangerous soldier-of-fortune might be worth saving after all.

  

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A New MystereBook: A Death in the Pavilion by Caroline Dunford

Here is 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 March 2014 priced $4.99 or less …

A Death in the Pavilion by Caroline Dunford is the fifth historical mystery with Euphemia Martins, who is also featured in a Christmas novella published late last year.

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A Death in the Pavilion by Caroline Dunford
A Euphemia Martins Mystery
Publisher: Accent Press
Publication Date: March 30, 2014
Price: $2.99 (as of 04/01/14 04:30 PM ET)

Euphemia Martins, the estranged granddaughter of an Earl, entered service incognito with the Stapleford family to save her family from destitution and from that moment on she acquired the bothersome reputation of finding dead bodies.

Now promoted to the role of paid companion to the deplorable Richenda Stapleford she is staying at the country estate of Hans Muller upon whom Richenda has matrimonial designs. Mere weeks after their arrival Richenda's twin brother, Richard, dispatches a servant bearing news of shocking accusations concerning Muller.

Euphemia finds herself unravelling an old murder with Richenda as her unlikely ally but delving into the past sets off a dangerous series of events in the present and it's not long before Richenda, her step-brother Bertram and Euphemia find themselves in dire peril (again!).

Could it be that Hans Muller is not the charming man he appears but capable of the most terrible crimes? As usual it is up to Euphemia to solve the mystery using her quick wits and her unswerving sense of justice.

  

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A Kindle Mystery for $1.99: Superior Deception, A Vince Marshall Mystery by Matthew Williams

Amazon is offering 80 Kindle Books for $1.99 has part of a promotion that extends until April 16th, 2014.

Most of these 80 books are mystery, thriller or suspense titles, and we are pleased to feature one of them, below.

(Price verified on April 01, 2014 as of 4:00 PM ET.)

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Superior Deception by Matthew Williams
A Vince Marshall Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Small-town reporter Vince Marshall has a plan to be a better dad wean himself from his cell phone and a 24/7 work mentality and spend more time with his toddler. But when his daughter discovers the local judge swinging from a noose at the playground and Vince's friend becomes a murder suspect, that plan unravels. With toddler in tow, Vince knocks heads with a coworker out for his beat and a mayor with questionable motives while chasing clues left by a senile grave robber.

Meanwhile, arson, vandalism, domestic violence, and a contested election have the normally staid residents of Apostle Bay, a quaint harbor town on the southern shore of Lake Superior, at odds. Add Vince's wife Deb to the mix, leading a contentious protest at City Hall, and Vince finds his life once again out of control. Restoring order and saving his friend will require following a trail of deception to the solution of a 150-year-old mystery.