The Wayward Pines Trilogy by Blake Crouch is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Wayward Pines Trilogy by Blake Crouch as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 each is valid only for today, Friday, January 02, 2015. We're highlighting the first book in the trilogy in this post.

Pines by Blake Crouch

The Wayward Pines Trilogy (1st in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/02/2015 at 6:10 AM ET).

Developed into a television mystery event, premiering on Fox on May 14th, 2015.

  

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Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels … off.

As the days pass, Ethan's investigation into the disappearance of his colleagues turns up more questions than answers. Why can't he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn't anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what is the purpose of the electrified fences surrounding the town? Are they meant to keep the residents in? Or something else out?

Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan further from the world he thought he knew, from the man he thought he was, until he must face a horrifying fact — he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive.

— Pines by Blake Crouch

New This Week: Two Birds with One Stone, A Marsden-Lacey Mystery by Sigrid Vansandt

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Two Birds with One Stone by Sigrid Vansandt

A Marsden-Lacey Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Sigrid Vansandt

Price: $3.99 (as of 01/01/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

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It's a beautiful summer and the busy village of Marsden-Lacey, England, has murder on its mind. Someone just whacked everyone's least favorite villager, Sir Carstons, on his villainous head. That's when American expats, paralegal Martha Littleword and book expert Helen Ryes, find themselves knee-deep in Yorkshire murder. Spirited empty-nesters, they throw their newbie detective hats into the ring, only to discover that a murder mystery can quickly turn from adventurous lark into personal peril.

With a dash of Southern charm and humor, and the help of a few quirky villagers, the girls just might survive. They'll also have to figure out how to handle the local catch-of-the-day, Piers Cousins, and the cantankerous Chief of Police, DCI Johns. Will they or won't they? If they do, they might solve a murder, or two, along with a hundred-year-old mystery involving a Brontë sister and a famous piece of English history.

— Two Birds with One Stone by Sigrid Vansandt

Death of a Gossip, A Hamish Macbeth Mystery by M. C. Beaton, Now Available at a Special Price

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Death of a Gossip by M. C. Beaton

A Hamish Macbeth Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Grand Central

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/01/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

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When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joined the fishing class, she wasted no time in ruffling the feathers — or was it the fins? — of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue and unladylike manner was Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet not even Hamish thought someone would permanently silence Lady Jane's shrills — until her strangled body is fished out of the river.

Now with the help of the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Hamish must angle through the choppy waters of the tattler's life to find the murderer. But with a school of suspects who aren't ready to talk and dead women telling no tales, Hamish may be in over his head, for he knows that secrets are dangerous, knowledge is power, and killers usually do strike again.

— Death of a Gossip by M. C. Beaton

New This Week: Bulldog, A Dev Haskell, PI Mystery by Mike Faricy

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Bulldog by Mike Faricy

A Dev Haskell, PI Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: Credit River Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/01/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

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When corner cutting, back slapping Dev Haskell loses his friend Dermot Gallagher in what appears to be a random shooting he takes it personal. But the more he learns, the more questions seem to go unanswered. His old nemesis, local crimelord, Tubby Gustafson seems to be involved or is he? Then there's "Fat Freddy" Zimmerman, a criminal of underachieving and dubious reputation if ever there was one. Swindle Lawless enters, stripping up a storm under her new stage name, "Cougar." Jackie Van Dorn, Tubby's attorney adds a special brand of polished sleaze to the entire affair.

And, just when you think things couldn't possibly get any worse, Tubby's psychopathic enforcer, Bulldog shows up and seems to have more than a passing interest in Dermot's death. Dev ends up with only one option, the question is: Will he take it?

— Bulldog by Mike Faricy

The Dead Shall Not Rest, A Thomas Silkstone Mystery by Tessa Harris, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Dead Shall Not Rest by Tessa Harris

A Thomas Silkstone Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $2.99 (as of 01/01/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

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It is not just the living who are prey to London's criminals and cutpurses. Corpses, too, are fair game — dug up from fresh graves and sold to unscrupulous men of science. Dr. Thomas Silkstone abhors such methods, but his leading rival, Dr. John Hunter, has learned of the imminent death of eight-foot-tall Charles Byrne, known as the "Irish Giant," and will go to any lengths to obtain the body for his research.

Thomas intends to see that Byrne is allowed to rest in peace. Yet his efforts are complicated by concern for his betrothed, Lady Lydia Farrell, who breaks off their engagement without explanation. When Dr. Hunter is implicated in the horrific murder of a young castrato, Thomas must determine how far the increasingly erratic surgeon will go in the name of knowledge. For as Thomas knows too well, the blackest hearts sometimes go undetected — and even an unblemished façade can hide terrifying secrets …

— The Dead Shall Not Rest by Tessa Harris

The Fourth Rule of Ten by Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsay, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015 …

The Fourth Rule of Ten by Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsay

A Tenzing Norbu Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Hay House Inc.

  

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Ex-Buddhist monk, former LAPD detective, and current private investigator Tenzing "Ten" Norbu knows Bill Bohannon as many things: loving husband, devoted father, police administrator, former partner, and best friend. But then an uninvited guest from Bill's past upends the Bohannons' Fourth of July barbecue, revealing in levelheaded Bill the most unexpected behavior — behavior that awkwardly drops Ten in the middle of a crumbling marriage.

Ten makes an unexpected move of his own when he agrees to pro bono work for a convicted felon. But it was dope slinger Godfrey Chambers Ten had repeatedly busted during his days on the force, not the reformed and rechristened G-Force who is now asking for Ten's help in claiming money left to him by a kind-hearted benefactor — and contested by the benefactor's self-serving family.

Soon Ten's investigations lead him down the darkest corridors of the Internet and halfway around the globe to Sarajevo as he navigates the seedy worlds of human trafficking and personal regret. As his cases intertwine, Ten will rely on the wisdom of the Buddha and his own network of relationships — with super hacker Mike, outrageously idiosyncratic assistant Kim, old monastery friends Yeshe and Lopsang, Serbian cabbie and former policija Petar, and, of course, feline rock Tank — to solve the puzzle ­and keep free of his own tangled past. Especially when an old flame returns.

— The Fourth Rule of Ten by Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsay

Palmetto Poison, A Carolina Slade Mystery by C. Hope Clark, Now Available at a Special Price

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Palmetto Poison by C. Hope Clark

A Carolina Slade Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Bell Bridge Books

Price: $1.99 (as of 01/01/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

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Are peanuts capable of murder? Carolina Slade will bust this shell game …

Big money, big politics, crime, greed, and big farming — Slade, an agriculture department investigator in the steamy state of South Carolina, once again finds herself planted in a dangerous mystery. Her assignment? Find out if there's a sinister connection between the drug-dealing arrest of wealthy peanut farmer Lamar Wheeler and the gruesome death of Lamar's teenage son in a car wreck. Especially since the dead teen is Governor Dick Wheeler's nephew.

Of course, the governor's people practically sky-write STAY AWAY FROM THE FIRST FAMILY over the Palmetto state's capitol dome in Columbia, which doesn't make Slade's job easier. Couldn't she simply back off from what appears to be a tragic and ugly — but private — family matter?

Not with hot-tempered DEA agent Pamela Largo on the case. Ex-wife to Senior Special Agent Wayne Largo, Slade's romantic interest, Pamela's hell-bent on using Lamar Wheeler's situation to re-open a cold case involving an Atlanta drug lord and Wayne's long lost sister, Kay.

Soon Slade's shoveling shooflies uphill against Pamela's obsessions, the drug lord's vendettas, the Governor's secrets, and the bizarre realization that those secrets involve peanuts.

— Palmetto Poison by C. Hope Clark

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.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, January 01, 2015.

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

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins as today's Teen Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Thursday, January 01, 2015.

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