Dead of Night by Chris Collett, New in Bookstores during January 2015

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during January 2015 is …

Dead of Night by Chris Collett, a Tom Mariner Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Severn House

      

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18-year-old Grace Clifton vanishes on her way home from work in the centre of Birmingham late at night, the case is remarkable in that not a single witness comes forward. The more he has to deal with Grace's wealthy and overbearing father, Council Leader Bob Clifton, the more Tom Mariner is inclined to believe that Grace left of her own accord.

Then the package arrives. It contains Grace's clothes, neatly pressed and laundered. A second woman disappears. And a disturbing pattern begins to emerge.

Still adapting to a new investigation team and struggling to pull its members together, Detective Inspector Mariner is about to tackle one of his strangest, most challenging cases to date.

— Dead of Night by Chris Collett

Guardians of the Night by Alan Russell, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015 …

Guardians of the Night by Alan Russell

A Gideon and Sirius Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

  

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As the sole members of LAPD's Special Cases Unit, Detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd partner Sirius work investigations considered bizarre even by Los Angeles's standards. Yet their latest case is more than strange — it might be out of this world.

Ronald "Wrong" Pauley is a homeless man long fallen from grace. When Pauley's late-night drinking is interrupted by a detonation of light, he sees what he describes as a "being of light" in the alley below. Pauley tries to help, but ends up as a witness to what he believes is the murder of a fallen angel.

Gideon and Sirius are already in the midst of trying to determine the identity of the so-called "Reluctant Hero" who seemed to magically appear just moments after shots began ringing out at an elementary school. Braving gunfire, the hero tackled the shooter, and then disappeared.

Both cases defy easy answers, but when Pauley turns up dead, the detectives are left with two murders to solve and lots of questions. Gideon and Sirius — along with help from a newfound friend — investigate that thin line between the real and surreal to make sense of these possible crimes.

— Guardians of the Night by Alan Russell

The Blessing Way, A Joe Leaphorn, Navajo Mystery by Tony Hillerman, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman

A Joe Leaphorn, Navajo Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/01/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer.

There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.

— The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman

New This Week: Romeow and Juliet, A Whales and Tails Mystery by Kathi Daley

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Romeow and Juliet by Kathi Daley

A Whales and Tails Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Kathi Daley Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/01/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

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This first in a cozy mystery series is set on Madrona Island, a fictional island within the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State.

As a fourth generation islander Caitlin Hart is struggling to make her way as the economy and culture of the island evolves toward a tourism based industry. Cait lives in a cabin on her aunt's oceanfront estate where she helps her aunt run Harthaven Cat Sanctuary. When she isn't working with the cats, she helps best friend Tara, operate the coffee bar/bookstore/cat lounge they own, named Coffee Cat Books.

When Cait and her dog Max find the body of a member of the island council dead in the back room of the old fish cannery, she delves into the murder and finds herself with an unlikely sleuthing partner that might just lead to a relationship of a more personal kind.

Meanwhile, Romeo, as stray cat that followed Cait home, is causing all sorts of problems for Cait as, in spite of dire warnings from the neighbor next door, he refuses to stay away from her very expensive show cat, Juliet. Could Romeo really be trying to tell Cait something about the neighbor that she initially refuses to see?

— Romeow and Juliet by Kathi Daley

A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong is Today's Open Road Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong as today's Open Road Daily Deal.

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A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/01/2015 at 7:50 AM ET).

Winner of the 1957 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

  

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A longtime bachelor finally marries — only to learn the corrosive power of jealousy …

For fifty-five years, Kenneth Gibson has lived in backwaters. A former army clerk, he makes a quiet living teaching poetry to indifferent undergrads. His life is happily dull until the day he meets Rosemary, a damaged girl whose frailty compels Kenneth to try to make her well. They wed, and as Rosemary recovers from her depression, Gibson falls in love, transforming his world. But his wife will never love him.

She is smitten with their landlord, a dashing young chemical engineer named Paul. Gibson wants to let her go, but he cannot bear to be parted with the first love he has ever known. In Paul's house is a case of poison, and this love triangle can only end in death.

— A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong

Shadow Sins by Derek Fee is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

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Shadow Sins by Derek Fee

An Ian Wilson Mystery

Publisher: Derek Fee

… as today's second free mystery ebook.

  

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A priest in stabbed and set on fire in a small church outside Belfast. DCI Ian Wilson and his colleagues in the Belfast Murder Squad suspect a sectarian motive. Whilst investigating this gruesome murder Wilson finds himself trapped in a labyrinth of lies and deceit. The Catholic Church and his own hierarchy conspire to impede his investigation at every turn. But Wilson has other problems. An internal investigation threatens to put his career as a PSNI officer at risk.

Another priest is murdered, seemingly without motive, and it looks like Wilson is dealing with the work of a psychopathic serial killer who is working to a plan. Wilson needs all his focus to find him before he completes it.

— Shadow Sins by Derek Fee

Winter Prey by T. M. Simmons is Today's First Featured Free MystereBook

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Winter Prey by T. M. Simmons

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: T. M. Simmons

… as today's first free mystery ebook.

  

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Terrified she will harm her newly-adopted daughter in the throes of a PTSD flashback, Kymbria James travels to the far Northwood of Minnesota to work with a Native American healer. The windigo of tribal lore had awakened just days before Kymbria's arrival, perhaps drawn early into this forty-year cycle by the connection between them. All too soon Kymbria will uncover the reality of the fabled monster's existence and their shared past, risking all she gained in her fight to overcome her downslide into mental instability.

Silas McCoy is well aware of the new cycle of awakening. Indeed, he is in the Northwood at the agreement of Keoman Thunderwood, the Ojibway healer seeking to confront this cannibal windigo. The day he came home to his mountain cabin to find his wife and son taken by a different windigo, he vowed to find a way to eradicate the supposedly unstoppable monsters. Nothing but his own death will halt his quest for vengeance.

As the monster captures one after another tribal member and drags each off to its lair, Kymbria is finally forced into Silas's quest to learn how to destroy it. Even when she learns the truth her mother has kept hidden for forty years, she has no choice other than to continue. Somehow, even without Silas's assistance, she must confront both her emotional situation and the monster … if she can find the courage to do so.

— Winter Prey by T. M. Simmons

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is Today's Teen Kindle Daily Deal

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games Trilogy (1st in series)

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/01/2015 at 6:20 AM ET).

  

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In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender.

But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

— The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

New This Week: Death is Long Overdue, A Phee Jefferson Mystery by Amy Lilly

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Death is Long Overdue by Amy Lilly

A Phee Jefferson Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Amy Lilly

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/31/2014 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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When your time's up in Miller's Cove, there's no chance to renew …

Antique-loving librarian Ophelia "Phee" Jefferson is perfectly content managing the small library in Miller's Cove. It's a peaceful village where her greatest annoyances are unreturned library books and the fact that handsome deputy sheriff Clint Mason doesn't seem to notice her. When Phee discovers Huey Long's naked, dead body, her humdrum life is rewritten.

As bodies start stacking up, they all seem to have one thing in common — Phee. Will Phee's transition from mild-mannered librarian to amateur detective help book the murderer? Or has Phee's time come due?

— Death is Long Overdue by Amy Lilly

Alone, A D. D. Warren Mystery by Lisa Gardner, Now Available at a Special Price

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Alone by Lisa Gardner

A D. D. Warren Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Bantam

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/31/2014 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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Alone … Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man's finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react … and forever pay the consequences.

Alone … that's where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son's death … and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital.

Alone … a madman survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he'd done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous … and filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance. What brings them together is a moment of violence — but what connects them is a passion far deeper and much more dangerous. For a killer is loose who's woven such an intricate web of evil that no one is above suspicion, no one is beyond harm, and no one will see death coming until it has them cornered, helpless, and alone.

— Alone by Lisa Gardner

New This Week: Dead, Sometimes, A Jason Callahan, Psychic Detective Mystery by Patricia Lee Macomber

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Dead, Sometimes by Patricia Lee Macomber

A Jason Callahan, Psychic Detective Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/31/2014 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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Chloe Marsh is found dead at the scene of an accident and pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Half an hour later, as she is being taken to the morgue, Chloe suddenly sits up. But this isn't the first time Chloe has died and it certainly won't be the last.

Enter Trina and Jason. They've worked on cases together before but nothing like this. Investigator Jason Callahan doesn't believe for a minute that Chloe has special powers, but psychic Trina Dane does, and she thinks she knows why. But what of the other people across the country who have had the same experiences? How did they really die? And how did one boy (and Chloe) manage to survive? Only Trina and Jason can find the answers, but they must do so before Chloe runs out of lives.

— Dead, Sometimes by Patricia Lee Macomber

Darkly Dreaming Dexter, A Dexter Morgan Thriller by Jeff Lindsay, Now Available at a Special Price

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Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

A Dexter Morgan Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Vintage

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/31/2014 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. He's handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He's a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect position to identify his victims.

But when a series of brutal murders bearing a striking similarity to his own style start turning up, Dexter is caught between being flattered and being frightened — of himself or some other fiend.

— Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

Murder at the Book Group by Maggie King, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Hazel Rose

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Murder at the Book Group by Maggie King

A Hazel Rose, Book Group Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Pocket Books

  

What we know about the character: Hazel Rose is the charter member of her local book group. For more information about her first murder, see a synopsis of the book, below.

Hazel Rose never dreamed that the murder mystery book group she and her friend Carlene started would stage a real murder.

Nevertheless, the normally composed Carlene is unusually angry and rattled one night during a book group discussion and dies after drinking cyanide-spiked tea. Despite a suicide note, Hazel is skeptical; Carlene never seemed suicidal — she was busy making plans for her future. Incidentally, Carlene was married to Hazel's ex-husband, and Hazel has always suspected there might be something more to her past than she let on.

How much does anyone really know about Carlene Arness? And did she die by her own hand or someone else's? Hazel begins a search for the truth that produces no shortage of motives, as she unearths the past that Carlene took great pains to hide. And most of those motives belong to the members of her very own book group …

— Murder at the Book Group by Maggie King

Dead Until Dark, A Sookie Stackhouse, Southern Vampire Mystery by Charlaine Harris, Now Available at a Special Price

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Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

A Sookie Stackhouse, Southern Vampire Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Ace

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/31/2014 at 3:00 PM ET).

Winner of the 2002 Anthony Award for Best Paperback.

  

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Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much. Not because she's not pretty. She is. It's just that, well, Sookie has this sort of "disability." She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill. He's tall, dark, handsome — and Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting for all her life …

But Bill has a disability of his own: He's a vampire with a bad reputation. He hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, all suspected of — big surprise — murder. And when one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's next …

— Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

No Fortunate Son by Brad Taylor, New in Bookstores during December 2014

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

No Fortunate Son by Brad Taylor, a Pike Logan Mystery (7th in series)

Publisher: Dutton

        

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When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter from Blaisdell Consulting — the umbrella cover company for their real employer, a top secret counterterrorist unit called the Taskforce — they expect orders for their next mission-impossible tasking. Instead, they learn that their latest actions have gotten them fired, despite having saved thousands of innocent lives.

Pike's shock and fury is redirected when their commander, Colonel Kurt Hale, asks him and Jennifer for help with a personal matter: His niece Kylie, an exchange student in England, has gone missing. Neither Pike nor Jennifer understands how critical her disappearance will become.

Meanwhile, all Taskforce teams have been redirected to a developing situation. A terrorist organization has targeted military relatives of key members of the US government, including the vice president's son. Their seizure of hostages was far-reaching and meticulously coordinated, and the full extent of the threat — and potential demands — has thrown the government into turmoil. They face a terrible choice: Cease counter-terrorist operations, or watch hostages die one by one. How much is a single life worth? Unless the Taskforce can decipher the web of lies devised by their enemies, the United States is about to find out.

— No Fortunate Son by Brad Taylor