New This Week: In a Bind, A California Corwin, P. I. Mystery by D. D. VanDyke

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 November 2014 and priced $4.99 or less …

In a Bind by D. D. VanDyke

A California Corwin, P. I. Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Reaper Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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When a blackmailed drag queen walks into Cal Corwin's P. I. agency, she quickly throws herself into the investigation, but with each new clue she finds the case gets murkier, its web of lies more tangled.

When murder rears its ugly head, it becomes clear more is at stake than money, and Cal must watch her own back even as she tries to find the culprit.

— In a Bind by D. D. VanDyke

Snow White Must Die, An Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff Mystery by Nele Neuhaus, 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 publisher, Minotaur Books …

Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus

An Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer.

On a September evening eleven years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls vanished from the village without a trace. In a trial based only on circumstantial evidence, twenty-year-old Tobias Sartorius, Rita Cramer's son, was sentenced to ten years in prison. Bodenstein and Kirchhoff discover that Tobias, after serving his sentence, has now returned to his home town. Did the attack on his mother have something to do with his return?

In the village, Pia and Oliver encounter a wall of silence. When another young girl disappears, the events of the past seem to be repeating themselves in a disastrous manner. The investigation turns into a race against time, because for the villagers it is soon clear who the perpetrator is — and this time they are determined to take matters into their own hands.

— Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus

Serpents Rising by David A. Poulsen, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Adam Cullen and Mike Cobb

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series titles, a mystery, thriller or suspense novel that introduces a recurring character (or characters) …

Serpents Rising by David A. Poulsen

An Adam Cullen and Mike Cobb Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Dundurn

  

What we know about the characters: Ex-cop Mike Cobb is a private detective; Adam Cullen is a crime writing journalist. For more information about their first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

In 2005, journalist Adam Cullen's wife, Donna, is killed by an arsonist. In desperation after police, fire department, and insurance investigators all give up trying to find the culprit, Cullen hires private detective Mike Cobb, but he, too, is stymied. Seven years later, Cobb re-enters Cullen's life. A search for a crack-addicted teenage runaway is tangled up with Calgary's most ruthless criminal organization — and a possible lead on Donna's killer.

The parallel investigations take the two onto Calgary's meanest streets, populated by a vicious biker gang, a silky-smooth pedophile, and an assortment of people who aren't at all what they seem.

As they weave their way through long-buried secrets, Cullen and Cobb will come face-to-face with a cruelty they could never have expected … and a killer about to strike again.

— Serpents Rising by David A. Poulsen

You Should Have Known, A Literary Mystery by Jean Hanff Korelitz, 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 publisher, Grand Central …

You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz

A Literary Mystery

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $3.99 (as of 11/24/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son, Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of the forthcoming You Should Have Known, a book in which she castigates women for not valuing their intuition and calls upon them to pay attention to their first impressions of men.

But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

— You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Fear City by F. Paul Wilson, New in Bookstores during November 2014

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during November 2014 is …

Fear City by F. Paul Wilson, a Repairman Jack, Early Years Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Tor Books

        

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for November 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of November 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

More about our featured title, below …

Centered around an obscure group of malcontents intent on creating a terrible explosion in New York City in 1993, the final stages of young Jack becoming Repairman Jack are revealed.

It is a dark and terrible story, full of plots and needless mayhem, with secret agents, a freelance torturer, a secret society as old as human history, love, death, and a very bleak triumph. Jack threads his way through this intricate maze, as people he loves are stripped away from him in a way that presages the later epic series of novels.

— Fear City by F. Paul Wilson