New This Week: Checkered Thief, A Laurel London Mystery by Tonya Kappes

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 May 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

Checkered Thief by Tonya Kappes

A Laurel London Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Tonya Kappes

Price: $3.99 (as of 05/26/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

Brassy, sassy southern babe Laurel London is back!

Once again, the entire Laurel London crew is in action, including Trixie Turner, and trying to figure out who is the mastermind behind the Glitz and Glam casino heist.

The heist king blackmails Laurel into believing Laurel's long time best friend, Derek Smitherman, will be on the other end of the vigilante gun if she doesn't help in stealing the money using her history of petty crime.

Cursed with a disastrous new task of putting her amateur sleuth skills to work and an increasing sense that it's really time to get a new job, Laurel spirals and tumbles through with all the wisecracks and pace her fans have come to expect.

— Checkered Thief by Tonya Kappes

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Review: The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook, edited by Kate White

A Mysterious Review of The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook by Kate White, editor.

Review summary: For those readers that consider the culinary arts to be part and parcel of a mystery, this is an essential addition to their bookshelves. For everyone else, it's still a solid cookbook of "wickedly good recipes" that will serve the reader well, whether for everyday meals, family gatherings or holiday parties. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook
Kate White, editor
Quirk Books (March 2015)

Publisher synopsis: Hard-boiled breakfasts, thrilling entrees, cozy desserts, and more — this illustrated cookbook features more than 100 recipes from legendary mystery authors. Whether you're planning a sinister dinner party or whipping up some comfort food perfect for a day of writing, you'll find plenty to savor in this cunning collection. Full-color photography is featured throughout, along with mischievous sidebars revealing the links between food and foul play.

New This Week: Cold Fire, A Suspense Thriller by Dustin Stevens

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Cold Fire by Dustin Stevens

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Price: $3.99 (as of 05/26/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

This is a new ebook edition of mystery first published in August 2014.

As a DEA agent, Jeremiah "Hawk" Tate was one of the best at taking down drug traffickers. Then the cartels struck back — and destroyed everything he held dear.

Five years later, Hawk has retreated from society and is living a quiet life as a Montana wilderness guide. He's done with the DEA, done with the criminals, and done with the pain left over from his past. But his past isn't done with him.

When a mysterious woman offers him an enormous amount of money to find her lost brother, Hawk knows he should walk away, but, with a flash of gunfire, he gets pulled back in. Surrounded by old enemies and allies, he must face off with a new player planning to flood the market with a lethal drug. This may be the chance for revenge Hawk never thought he'd get.

— Cold Fire by Dustin Stevens

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Fly Me to the Morgue, A Rat Pack Mystery by Robert J. Randisi, Now Available at a Special Price

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Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Severn House …

Fly Me to the Morgue by Robert J. Randisi

A Rat Pack Mystery (6th in series)

Publisher: Severn House

Price: $3.99 (as of 05/26/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

Bing Crosby wants to buy a horse to indulge his other passion — when he' not plasying golf with Bob Hope, that is. But when his trainer fails to show up in Vegas, and when he finds the horse's owner dead, problems begin to mount up. Time for Eddie G and Jerry to come to the rescue, urged on by Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, in town to watch the start of Frank Junior's career.

But soon the body count — and temperature — starts to rise …

— Fly Me to the Morgue by Robert J. Randisi

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New This Week: Mangrove Bayou, A Troy Adam, Mangrove Bayou Mystery by Stephen Morrill

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Mangrove Bayou by Stephen Morrill

A Troy Adam, Mangrove Bayou Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Untreed Reads

Price: $4.99 (as of 05/26/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

Troy Adam, mixed-race, ex-Army, and northern-born, is fired from his job as a Tampa cop. Looking for work, Adam finds himself in Mangrove Bayou, a small gulf coast Florida town located south of Naples and in the midst of the Ten Thousand Islands/Everglades National Park region. In short order he's hired, on probation, as Mangrove Bayou's new police chief. Not much of an accomplishment, as there weren't any other serious candidates, but Adam intends to show his worth.

No sooner does he arrive than a prominent citizen is found dead. Although the medical examiner rules the case an accident, Troy believes all signs point to murder. The town council doubts that Adam or his small department can handle the case, but Adam is determined to prove them wrong. As a hurricane arrives, Adam and his team are up to their elbows in storms and suspects, assisted (or hindered) by a collection of residents who redefine the term eclectic.

— Mangrove Bayou by Stephen Morrill

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Angel of Darkness, A Dead Detective Mystery by Katy Munger, Now Available at a Special Price

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Angel of Darkness by Katy Munger

A Dead Detective Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Severn House

Price: $3.99 (as of 05/26/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Kevin Fahey was a second-rate cop and a lousy father. Following his untimely death, he roams the streets, a lost soul. He feels at home at the Holloway Institute, whose troubled patients also live in their own worlds, so when a girl is found murdered close by — seemingly by a convicted serial killer locked up inside the Institute — he decides to conduct a shadowy investigation.

But as he pieces the clues together, he fears the answers may tip his troubled teenage son over the edge …

— Angel of Darkness by Katy Munger

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The Mummy Mystery by Martin Widmark, a New Whodunit Detective Agency Mystery for Junior Sleuths

Omnimystery News is pleased to present in this post a new First Clues: Mysteries for Kids series title published this month …

The Mummy Mystery by Martin Widmark

Series: Whodunit Detective Agency

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook

Recommended for Junior Sleuths, Ages 7 to 9

  

What's going on at the art museum in Pleasant Valley? Did the Egyptian mummy really come to life after 3,000 years?

The terrified night watchman claims that he saw the mummy walking around the museum. The very same night, the most valuable painting in the museum was cut out of its frame.

Once again, young detectives Jerry and Maya are called in by the chief of police to get to the bottom of the strange and spooky events.

— The Mummy Mystery by Martin Widmark

The Dead Hand of History, A Monika Paniatowski Mystery by Sally Spencer, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Dead Hand of History by Sally Spencer

A Monika Paniatowski Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Severn House

Price: $3.99 (as of 05/26/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

It will be no easy task to fill DCI Charlie Woodend's shoes, the newly-promoted Monika Paniatowski tells herself, but, given a little time, she thinks she can grow into them. Yet, with the discovery of a severed hand, time is the one thing she does not have.

When her colleagues prove untrustworthy, the urge to call Woodend for help becomes almost irresistible …

— The Dead Hand of History by Sally Spencer

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Bone to Be Wild by Carolyn Haines, New in Bookstores during May 2015

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

Bone to Be Wild by Carolyn Haines, a Sarah Booth Delaney, Southern Belle Mystery (15th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

    

Sarah Booth Delaney is heartbroken: her fiancé Graf Milieu has decided to move to Hollywood permanently, leaving their relationship in shambles. Sarah Booth has a perfect distraction, however, in the form of the Black and Orange Halloween ball her best friends are throwing in New Orleans. Sarah Booth plans to dance the night away to the swinging tunes of her old flame Scott Hampton's blues band.

But just as the party gets going, Scott receives a mysterious message that threatens his life and the lives of his bandmates. Sarah Booth knows that a new case is just what she needs to take her mind off her failed relationship with Graf, and she's ready to help Scott investigate. And then the message turns from threat to reality when the bartender from Scott's club is gunned down in a drive-by. Enlisting Sheriff Coleman Peters and the rest of her friends from Zinnia, Mississippi, Sarah Booth is caught in a race against the clock as she tries to stop a killer from striking again.

— Bone to Be Wild by Carolyn Haines

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for May 2015. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of May 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

Death by Coffee by Alex Erickson, a New 1st in Series Mystery Introducing Krissy Hancock and her best friend Vicki

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

Death by Coffee by Alex Erickson

Series: A Bookstore Café Mystery

Publisher: Kensington

  

What we know about the characters: When Krissy and Vicki decide to open a bookstore café in their new town of Pine Hills, they decide to call it "Death by Coffee" after Krissy's father's most famous mystery novel. Little do they know how well the name fits. More about their first murder …

On their very first day of business, Brendon Lawyer huffily takes his coffee … to the grave. It seems he had a severe allergy to peanuts … but how could there have been nuts in his coffee? And who stole his emergency allergy medication?

Fortunately, Krissy's love of puzzles and mysteries leads her not only to Officer Paul Dalton, but also to many of her new neighbors, who aren't terribly upset that the book is closed on Brendon. But one of them is a killer, and Krissy needs to read between the lies if she wants to save her new store — and live to see how this story ends …

— Death by Coffee by Alex Erickson

Silence, A Karl Werthen, Viennese Mystery by J. Sydney Jones, Now Available at a Special Price

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Silence by J. Sydney Jones

A Karl Werthen, Viennese Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Severn House

Price: $3.99 (as of 05/26/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Vienna, 1900. Lawyer Karl Werthen is puzzling over the suicide of a local councilman when he is assigned by Karl Wittgenstein, a powerful industrialist with many enemies, to find his recently missing son, Hans. Werthen quickly discovers that the young man appears to be alive and well in another country.

But when a friend of Hans — a journalist who wrote a number of articles claiming the councilman who committed suicide was corrupt — is found dead, also from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Werthen fears that sinister forces are at work …

— Silence by J. Sydney Jones

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The Virus, A Suspense Thriller by Stanley Johnson, New This Week from Witness Impulse

Every week, Witness Impulse — an imprint of William Morrow — releases new suspense and thriller digital originals, typically priced at just $2.99 each.

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The Virus by Stanley Johnson

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Witness Impulse

Price: $2.99 (as of 05/26/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

How do you stop an invisible killer?

When a young woman in New York City dies mysteriously after a trip to Brussels, top epidemiologist Lowell Kaplan identifies the cause of death as the Marburg Virus — a fatal strain that has surfaced only once before in history.

Determined to trace the source of the disease, Kaplan follows a trail of intrigue from the labs of Germany to the jungles of Central Africa.

With danger nipping at his heels, and the secrets of the virus's origin kept deliberately under wraps, Kaplan must go to unimaginable lengths to stop a deadly scheme.

— The Virus by Stanley Johnson

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