Sunday, August 30, 2015

The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny, New in Bookstores during August 2015

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

The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny, an Armand Gamache Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

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Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village.

But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true.

And so begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth. What they uncover deep in the forest sets off a sequence of events that leads to murder, leads to an old crime, leads to an old betrayal. Leads right to the door of an old poet.

And now it is now, writes Ruth Zardo. And the dark thing is here.

A monster once visited Three Pines. And put down deep roots. And now, Ruth knows, it is back.

Armand Gamache, the former head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, must face the possibility that, in not believing the boy, he himself played a terrible part in what happens next.

The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

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

The Grid by Harry Hunsicker, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2015 …

The Grid by Harry Hunsicker

The Grid by Harry Hunsicker, A Jon Cantrell Thriller (3rd in series)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

The Grid by Harry Hunsicker, Amazon Kindle format

A former federal law enforcement contractor with a somewhat spotty record, Jon Cantrell has seen — and done — just about everything. Now he's a sheriff, keeping the peace in small-town Texas. He thought that he'd finally settled into a quiet, less-complicated life — until his deputy gets himself murdered. Soon Cantrell's search for the killer points to an online-dating site designed for extramarital affairs and to a woman who may have been the unfortunate deputy's last date.

Meanwhile, someone is staging a series of seemingly random attacks on the regional power grid, and Cantrell is reluctantly pulled back into the federal fray when he accepts an off-the-books assignment to uncover the culprit. With the power company and the feds impatient for an arrest — and clues in his deputy's case pointing to something more sinister — Cantrell must run parallel, conflicting investigations. But will he find what he's looking for? Or is he about to take a fall?

The Grid by Harry Hunsicker

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for August 2015. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of August 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

Double for Death, A Tecumseh Fox Mystery by Rex Stout, 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, Book Revivals Press …

Double for Death by Rex Stout

Double for Death by Rex Stout

A Tecumseh Fox Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Book Revivals Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/30/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

Double for Death by Rex Stout, Amazon Kindle format

Tecumseh Fox thinks that he is seeing double when financier Ridley Thorpe is shot twice, two gorgeous suspects appear, two very good motives are revealed, and two murder weapons surface.

Double for Death by Rex Stout

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New This Week: The Skeleton in the Closet, A Southern Ghost Hunter Mystery by Angie Fox

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 August 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox

The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox

A Southern Ghost Hunter Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Angie Fox

Price: $4.99 (as of 08/30/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox, Amazon Kindle format

A haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe someone … even a dead someone … must have witnessed the crime.

Her ghostly sidekick Frankie warns her to stay out of it. The very alive, very handsome deputy sheriff, Ellis Wydell, inadvertently places her directly in the middle of it. And her ex-fiancé, Ellis's brother, is back with an agenda of his own.

Undaunted, Verity presses forward, uncovering scandalous secrets, long-forgotten ghosts, and a shocking trail of clues that places her directly in the path of a killer.

The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for August 31, 2015

Mystery Godoku

A new has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for August 31, 2015

This week's letters and mystery clue:

A E F H M N R S

Vacationing in Maine, Houston and Bouchard track a serial killer in this Vaughn Hardacker thriller, with The (9 letters).

We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.

Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.

Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!

Please Welcome Mystery Author Clea Simon

Omnimystery News: Guest Post by Clea Simon

We are delighted to welcome author Clea Simon to Omnimystery News today, courtesy of Great Escapes Book Tours, which is coordinating her current book tour. We encourage you to visit all of the participating host sites; you can find her schedule here.

Clea's ninth mystery to feature Harvard graduate student Dulcie Schwartz is Code Grey (Severn House; August 2015 hardcover and ebook formats) and we asked her to tell us more about the backstory to the book. She titles her guest post for us today, "Who Would Steal a Book?"

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Even today, as e-books flourish, paper books — "dead tree" books — hold a place in the hearts of readers. We trade paperbacks, check beloved volumes out of our local libraries, and sometimes even buy them, to support both the local bookstores and the big chains that make them available and the authors who produce them.

What we don't do, for the most part, is steal them. Still, book theft — particularly the theft of rare and valuable books — is a growing problem. It's serious enough that a recent conference at the British Library in London featured a talk titled, "The Written Heritage of Mankind in Peril: Theft, Retrieval, Sale and Restitution of Rare Books, Maps, and Manuscripts."

Now, I don't condone stealing books (or maps or manuscripts, for that matter). But I was intrigued by this talk because this crime is at the center of my new book. Code Grey is the ninth in a mystery series that features Dulcie Schwartz, a graduate student writing her dissertation about the Gothic novels of the late 18th Century. Along with cats (including a particular feline ghost, who makes Dulcie's life a bit Goth at times), Dulcie loves books — particularly old ones. And so when a gentle, if disturbed former scholar is found, unconscious, holding a valuable and long-missing rare volume, she finds herself with a lot of questions. Would her friend have stolen a book? Or was he injured protecting it? Whatever the answer, where has this particular book been for close to thirty years? Why has it surfaced now?

To research the possibilities, I — like Dulcie — did my research. I ended up reading a lot about the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. The name, I thought, sounded fake — like a cover for a ring of superheroes. I wasn't that far off. In its own way, the ILAB acts like a Justice League for the written word, tackling the plague of rare-book theft in the most bookish way possible — with information.

In short, the ILAB is seeking to combat book theft by running an international database of stolen books. While part of this is private, allowing member booksellers to check in and look up prospective purchases, some of it is open to the public.

Through this database, which was set up in 2010, libraries, rare book dealers, and private collectors can list works that have gone missing — and can check the provenance of pieces that come up for sale. The database assumes a certain amount of self-policing, and certainly shady deals will continue to be done. But thanks to the ILAB, they will be driven further into the shadow. No longer can a crooked clerk smuggle a valuable piece out of a Russian monastery and sell it to a legitimate bookstore in Vienna. Now when a missing monograph from a spectacular Italian theft surfaces in the estate of a reclusive collector, it can be returned to its rightful owner.

The database is only a start, and (as that talk noted) the theft of rare and valuable books is on the rise. But I found it encouraging to know that those who love books are uniting to protect them. I think Dulcie would agree.

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Clea Simon Book Tour

A former journalist and nonfiction author, Clea Simon lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her husband, the writer Jon Garelick, and their cat Musetta.

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

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Code Grey by Clea Simon

Code Grey by Clea Simon

A Dulcie Schwartz Feline Mystery

Publisher: Severn House

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Did a down on his luck former student steal a priceless book? Grad student and cat lover Dulcie Schwartz thinks not — and she sets out to prove it …

It's spring break, and Dulcie Schwartz has stayed behind in almost-deserted Cambridge, Massachusetts to concentrate on her thesis. But when a former student turned vagrant, Jeremy Mumbles, is found injured, with a valuable missing book clutched in his arms, Dulcie can't seem to let it go. What was he doing with the book? And why has it turned up after all these years?

With Jeremy now the prime suspect for a series of break-ins in the area, Dulcie is determined to clear the unfortunate former scholar's name. But when she finds a connection between the book he was carrying and her own research into an anonymous Gothic author, the search for clues takes on a new intensity — and a new menace.

Code Grey by Clea Simon

Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Sunday, August 30, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 7:30 AM ET …

There Goes the Bride by M. C. Beaton

Ten mysteries in the Agatha Raisin Series by M. C. Beaton for $2.99 each is a Kindle Daily Deal. We're featuring one of the books in this post.

There Goes the Bride by M. C. Beaton

An Agatha Raisin Mystery (20th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $2.99

There Goes the Bride by M. C. Beaton, Amazon Kindle format

Bossy, impulsive, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha Raisin is dreading the upcoming marriage of her ex-husband, James Lacey. Although she has set her sights on a handsome and beguiling new Frenchman, she can't quite stop obsessing about James.

Her best intentions to move on with her life are put on hold when James's young bride is shot to death just minutes before saying "I do," and Agatha is named the prime suspect. Agatha's sleuthing sidekick Toni stands ready to help find the real killer, but the case proves trickier than ever.

Will her name be cleared, or has the outrageous Agatha finally had her last romp?

There Goes the Bride by M. C. Beaton

A Case of Need by Michael Crichton

A Case of Need by Michael Crichton

The Med School Series

Publisher: Open Road

Nook Daily Find Price: $1.99 (price-matched by Amazon)

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In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall's teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode. Was it malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Or was Karen Randall murdered in cold blood?

The natural suspect is Arthur Lee, a brilliant surgeon and known abortionist, who has been carrying out the illegal procedure with the help of pathologist John Berry. After Karen dies, Lee is thrown in jail on a murder charge, and only Berry can prove his friend wasn't the one who wielded the scalpel. Behind this gruesome death, Berry will uncover a secret that would shock even the most hardened pathologist.

A Case of Need by Michael Crichton

The Intern's Handbook by Shane Kuhn

The Intern's Handbook by Shane Kuhn

A John Lago Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Kobo Daily Deal Price: $1.99 (price-matched by Amazon)

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John Lago is a very bad guy. But he's the very best at what he does. And what he does is infiltrate top-level companies and assassinate crooked executives while disguised as an intern.

Interns are invisible. That's the secret behind HR, Inc., the elite "placement agency" that doubles as a network of assassins for hire who take down high-profile targets that wouldn't be able to remember an intern's name if their lives depended on it.

At the ripe old age of almost twenty-five, John Lago is already New York City's most successful hit man. He's also an intern at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, clocking eighty hours a week getting coffee, answering phones, and doing all the grunt work actual employees are too lazy to do. He was hired to assassinate one of the firm's heavily guarded partners. His internship provides the perfect cover, enabling him to gather intel and gain access to pull off a clean, untraceable hit.

John's final assignment pits him against the toughest — and sexiest — adversary he's ever faced: Alice, an FBI agent assigned to take down the same law partner he's been assigned to kill.

The Intern's Handbook by Shane Kuhn

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Sunday, August 30, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 6:30 AM ET …

Out of Practice Aphrodite by S. E. Babin

Out of Practice Aphrodite by S. E. Babin

The Naughty Goddess Chronicles

Publisher: S. E. Babin

Price: FREE!

Out of Practice Aphrodite by S. E. Babin, Amazon Kindle format

Dead Ringer by Michelle Ann Hollstein

Dead Ringer by Michelle Ann Hollstein

An Aggie Underhill Mystery

Publisher: Michelle Ann Hollstein

Price: FREE!

Dead Ringer by Michelle Ann Hollstein, Amazon Kindle format

Cold Hearts & Candy Floss by Fran Hiatt

Cold Hearts & Candy Floss by Fran Hiatt

A Rob Trond Mystery

Publisher: Fran Hiatt

Price: FREE!

Cold Hearts & Candy Floss by Fran Hiatt, Amazon Kindle format

Faithfully by Howard Mellowes

Faithfully by Howard Mellowes

A Chase & Halshaw Mystery

Publisher: Discursive Tales

Price: FREE!

Faithfully by Howard Mellowes, Amazon Kindle format

Under the Sheets by Shirley Hailstock

Under the Sheets by Shirley Hailstock

The Capitol Chronicles

Publisher: Shirley Hailstock

Price: FREE!

Under the Sheets by Shirley Hailstock, Amazon Kindle format

Ice Cream You Scream by Constance Barker

Ice Cream You Scream by Constance Barker

A Caesars Creek Mystery Novella

Publisher: Constance Barker

Price: FREE!

Ice Cream You Scream by Constance Barker, Amazon Kindle format

For a summary of all of today's titles, plus any that may have been added since this post was created, visit our Free MystereBooks page. This page is updated daily, typically by 8 AM ET.

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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Exhibit No. Thirteen, A Courtroom Drama by Roderic Jeffries, New This Week from Endeavour Press

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.

We've selected one of their recently published mystery, suspense, thriller or crime titles to feature here today …

Exhibit No. Thirteen by Roderic Jeffries

Exhibit No. Thirteen by Roderic Jeffries

A Courtroom Drama

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 08/29/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

Exhibit No. Thirteen by Roderic Jeffries, Amazon Kindle format

When a body of young girl is found raped and murdered in a wood in Kent, Detective Sergeant Rusk must interview the few men in the area with a history of sexual offences. Among them he finds Kremayne, a name he remembers from his school days. Back then, Kremayne had left little impression on him. Is it any wonder? Rusk was popular and athletic; Kremayne was awkward, an outcast.

Rusk can't help but feel a sting of jealousy when Kremayne turns out to be wealthy and happily married. The allegations against him, Kremayne insists, were brought on by an hysterical individual out to ruin him. Only when Rusk gets close to Kremayne's wife Anne, does he suspect that there is more to their cozy life than meets the eye. Beneath the surface, how happy is their marriage? How twisted is Kremayne? Or has Rusk compromised himself with Anne to the point that now the best result would be to find Kremayne guilty?

Exhibit No. Thirteen by Roderic Jeffries

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To Murder a Saint, A Saints Mystery Novella by Nicole Loughan, Now Available at a Special Price

Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals are limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive books.

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

To Murder a Saint by Nicole Loughan

To Murder a Saint by Nicole Loughan

A Saints Mystery Novella (1st in series)

Publisher: Little Spot for Stories

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/29/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

To Murder a Saint by Nicole Loughan, Amazon Kindle format

"The ground is too wet. If you bury the dead here they can come back."

Her father always warned her that the bayou was a mysterious and dangerous place. She never suspected that the greatest danger of her life was lurking in New York City.

Before their bags are unpacked, one of two Cajun girls in fresh from Louisiana is found savagely murdered in New York. All of the clues point to a wild animal, a perplexing development for a third floor apartment.

To Murder a Saint by Nicole Loughan

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The Dying Light, A Sister Agnes Mystery by Alison Joseph, New This Week from Endeavour Press

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.

We've selected one of their recently published mystery, suspense, thriller or crime titles to feature here today …

The Dying Light by Alison Joseph

The Dying Light by Alison Joseph

A Sister Agnes Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: $3.99 (as of 08/29/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

The Dying Light by Alison Joseph, Amazon Kindle format

Young and fiercely independent, Sister Agnes Bourdillon has an iron resolve. But her strength is pushed to its limit by her secondment to Silworth, a South London women's prison. As Agnes attempts to negotiate the network of bullies and victims, loyalties and hatreds, prisoners and jailers, she is fascinated by the often violent histories that lie behind each woman.

When the father of Cally Fisher, one of the most turbulent inmates, is shot dead, the chief suspect Cally's boyfriend. The more Agnes discovers about his death, the more she is forced to confront the traumas which tainted her own early life. It is not long before Agnes finds that she too has become entangled in a dark world that stretches further than the prison walls …

The Dying Light by Alison Joseph

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Cold Blue, A Jonathan Thorpe Mystery by Gary Neece, 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, Perthshire Press …

Cold Blue by Gary Neece

Cold Blue by Gary Neece

A Jonathan Thorpe Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Perthshire Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/29/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

Cold Blue by Gary Neece, Amazon Kindle format

Tulsa Police Department Sergeant Jonathan Thorpe finds his wife and young daughter slain in their home. Frustrated by the department's failure to solve the crime, Thorpe conducts his own covert investigation.

A brutal interrogation leads to a shocking revelation that requires Thorpe to mete out a very personal form of justice. A lone man against a rogue group, Thorpe sets off a controversy that brings the FBI into the midst of the city's police department. And the FBI's beautiful Ambretta Collins seems to have zeroed in on him as the prime suspect.

Still, Thorpe fights on. But is he really alone?

Cold Blue by Gary Neece

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New This Week: Secrets in the Grave, A Serenity's Plain Secrets Mystery by Karen Hopkins

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 August 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

Secrets in the Grave by Karen Hopkins

Secrets in the Grave by Karen Hopkins

A Serenity's Plain Secrets Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Karen Hopkins

Price: $3.99 (as of 08/29/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

Secrets in the Grave by Karen Hopkins, Amazon Kindle format

Some Amish communities aren't so cozy …

Just when Sheriff Serenity Adams thinks life is getting back to normal, the death of a young, pregnant Amish woman rocks the community. Is it circumstance … or murder? It's up to Serenity and her ex-Amish boyfriend, Daniel Bachman, to discover the truth about the new shaman-type medicine man who's brought his dark secrets to Blood Rock.

But Serenity has secrets of her own, and if she and Daniel don't work it out, the reappearance of a woman from his past could threaten to ruin their relationship.

The deeper Serenity delves into the magical world of Amish herbal medicine, the phenomenon of laying of the hands and other cultural healing oddities, the more she wonders if miracles are real. What she witnesses with her own eyes may be too fantastical for her to believe.

Secrets in the Grave by Karen Hopkins

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A Pitch for Justice, A Legal Thriller by Harold Kasselman, Now Available at a Special Price

Amazon Kindle Countdown Deals are limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive books.

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of today's titles … but take advantage of this deal now as the price will go up to its digital list price soon! (See the countdown clock on the book product page to see how much time remains on this deal.)

A Pitch for Justice by Harold Kasselman

A Pitch for Justice by Harold Kasselman

A Legal Thriller

Publisher: Harold Kasselman

Price: 99¢ (as of 08/29/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

A Pitch for Justice by Harold Kasselman, Amazon Kindle format

Have you ever watched a baseball game where tempers escalated and you feared that retaliation by one side could result in an incident with serious injury?

What would happen in today's society if a player were critically injured in such a circumstance? What if the unthinkable occured and the player died? Is it just a tragic part of the game? Or could it actually be murder?

It is up to veteran prosecutor Jaime Brooks to investigate the matter and handle the prosecution. What began as a feud between two teams ends in a shocking criminal case and ensuing trial when the pitcher is investigated for murder.

Brooks must confront a possible criminal conspiracy among team members, an uncompromising widow bent on avenging her husband's death, corruption in the grand jury, and a national debate over the inherent risks of baseball and the accountability of its players. Should the pitch and its result be handled by the baseball commissioner, or is it a crime to be prosecuted in the courts?

A Pitch for Justice by Harold Kasselman

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Slaughter by John Lutz, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during August 2015 …

Slaughter by John Lutz

Slaughter by John Lutz, A Frank Quinn Mystery (10th in series)

Publisher: Pinnacle

Slaughter by John Lutz, Amazon Kindle format

A beautiful jogger, drained of blood, dismembered, then meticulously reassembled on the grass in Central Park. Subway derailments, plummeting elevators, collapsing construction cranes, apartment explosions — all creating a bloody, senseless puzzle.

Detective Frank Quinn knows that even while the slayer is taunting the cops and the public, he's also screaming to be caught. But Quinn will have to risk everything he holds precious to bring in this killer …

Slaughter by John Lutz

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for August 2015. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of August 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.

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