Tuesday, December 29, 2015

A Dangerous Place, A Maisie Dobbs Mystery by Jacqueline Winspear, 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, HarperCollins …

A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear

A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear

A Maisie Dobbs Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/29/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear, Amazon Kindle format

Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability — and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England: her aging father, Frankie Dobbs, is not getting any younger.

On a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn't ready to return. Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, "You will be alone in a most dangerous place," she disembarks in Gibraltar. Though she is on her own, Maisie is far from alone: the British garrison town is teeming with refugees fleeing a brutal civil war across the border in Spain.

And the danger is very real. Days after Maisie's arrival, a photographer and member of Gibraltar's Sephardic Jewish community, Sebastian Babayoff, is murdered, and Maisie becomes entangled in the case, drawing the attention of the British Secret Service. Under the suspicious eye of a British agent, Maisie is pulled deeper into political intrigue on "the Rock" — arguably Britain's most important strategic territory — and renews an uneasy acquaintance in the process. At a crossroads between her past and her future, Maisie must choose a direction, knowing that England is, for her, an equally dangerous place, but in quite a different way.

A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear

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Danger Cove Mysteries Boxed Set, Books 1-3 by Elizabeth Ashby, Christina A. Burke, Sibel Hodge, and Jennifer Fischetto, New This Week from Gemma Halliday

Gemma Halliday Publishing is a boutique publisher of light-hearted mystery, romantic suspense and romantic comedy novels, perfect for popping into your beach bag for a weekend away or cozying up beside a warm fire for a quiet night in.

We've selected one of their recently published titles to feature here today …

Danger Cove Mysteries Boxed Set by Elizabeth Ashby, Christina A. Burke, Sibel Hodge, and Jennifer Fischetto

Danger Cove Mysteries Boxed Set by Elizabeth Ashby, Christina A. Burke, Sibel Hodge, and Jennifer Fischetto

Books 1-3

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/29/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

Danger Cove Mysteries Boxed Set by Elizabeth Ashby, Christina A. Burke, Sibel Hodge, and Jennifer Fischetto, Amazon Kindle format

From the deadly little town of Danger Cove, comes the first three full-length, internationally bestselling cozy mystery novels in the Danger Cove Mysteries series! This boxed set includes:

Secret of the Painted Lady
A Danger Cove Renovation Mystery

Alex Jordan is the owner of Finials and Facades Renovation and Restoration Services, making her able to pursue her love of restoring Victorian-style homes in the town of Danger Cove. But her recent acquisition of the stately Marlton House has led to a showdown with town real estate mogul, and now she has needs to restore the old house and flip it for a profit as quickly as possible. But Alex gets more than she bargained for when a Hawaiian shirt-clad tourist with a bullet in his head turns up in the home's bathtub. Pairing up with the unlikely partner of the town florist, George Fontaine, Alex vows to solve the murder. As she worries over deadlines, Alex stumbles across another body on the cliffs of Danger Cove. However, this "body" is a super-sexy man with amnesia … or so he says. Throw in a stash of stolen diamonds, a matchmaking grandmother, a foulmouthed parrot, and a mysterious killer with Alex in his sights, and Alex is in a race against time to salvage the job, solve the murder, and save her own life.

Murder and Mai Tais
A Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery

Hope Foster's motto is to let fate lead you — which it did in her case right to the quiet town of Danger Cove. But when the owner of the Smugglers' Tavern, where Hope tends bar, is murdered, suddenly fate puts Hope squarely in the role of "prime suspect" in her employer's murder. Not only is she the last one to see him alive, but a new will also reveals that her employer left his whole estate to Hope instead of his ungrateful daughter Elise and nephew Carter. With the local police convinced Hope is a manipulative "Black Widow" killer, Hope's peaceful life in Danger Cove is about to turn into a white water ride. Along with a sexy underwater archaeologist from England, in town searching for a lost shipwreck, an international yoga guru, and a reformed alcoholic patron, Hope sets out to prove her innocence. But can Team Hope catch the real killer before she trades in her bartending apron for an orange prison jumpsuit?

Death by Scones
A Danger Cove Bakery

Riley Spencer is officially the new owner of the Cinnamon Sugar Bakery in the small town of Danger Cove. She's excited about the grand re-opening, but when she learns a hoax letter went out to the residents of Danger Cove informing them of free baked goods, she panics and does the only thing she can — quickly sets out plates of muffins, cupcakes, and cookie bars. Crisis seems to be averted … until the body of local recluse Nathan Dearborn is found in the bakery bathroom. The cause of death: peanut allergy. Riley's certain not a single item made with nuts left her kitchen, but no one believes her, least of all the police. To save her bakery and her reputation, Riley is determined to figure out who brought in the fatal pastry. With support from her best friend, Tara, and her long-time crush, Jared, Riley discovers secrets from Nathan's past that make her question if his death was truly an accident or something more sinister. With suspects galore, the police breathing down her neck, a love life in turmoil, and a bonanza of baked goods, Riley has her work cut out for her catching a killer … before he strikes again!

Danger Cove Mysteries Boxed Set by Elizabeth Ashby, Christina A. Burke, Sibel Hodge, and Jennifer Fischetto

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A Conversation with Mystery Author Triss Stein

Omnimystery News: Author Interview with Triss Stein

We are delighted to welcome author Triss Stein to Omnimystery News today.

Triss's third mystery to feature amateur sleuth Erica Donato is Brooklyn Secrets (Poisoned Pen Press; December 2015 hardcover, trade paperback and ebook formats) and we recently had the opportunity to spend some time with her talking about the series.

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Omnimystery News: Into which genre would you put the books in this series?

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Triss Stein: My goal is to write mysteries set in Brooklyn neighborhoods, halfway between too cozy and too hard-boiled, a domestic style background that includes real emotions and real conflicts.

I made up a category: Urban Cozy. Or, Soft-Boiled. I thought there was something missing from the mystery world, something about ordinary life in a city setting. The usual urban landscape, those mean streets, does not have a home for characters (or readers!) who are not Philip Marlowe. Or Harry Bosch. Or Matt Scudder. Who do not even know anyone like Matt Scudder.

That would be me, and my friends and millions of other readers who live rather ordinary lives but do it in a big (bad?) city like New York. The life I see around me is mostly about work and family and home, neighborhood issues, schools. Sound familiar? Not very different from the traditional mystery setting of a smaller community. And anyone who believes there is not enough drama there to sustain a mystery series is not paying attention. Kill over real estate? Art? Reputation? Winning and losing? In a New York minute.

OMN: How much of your own personal or professional experience have you included in your books?

TS: I have lived in Brooklyn for many decades now. Long ago I worked for the public library system. They liked to move us around and what I observed was that the different neighborhoods were a lot like small towns. Each one had its own atmosphere, history, quirks, and fears. My settings are real and the plots are often inspired by real incidents, adapted to suit my own purposes. I've never deliberately based a character on someone I know, but some of Erica comes from a few real Brooklyn girls I have known who, like Erica, have traveled a long way from their roots. And some of her is me, too.

Because I wanted to write about being a mother, she is one. Because I wanted to write about Brooklyn's varied, fascinating and often mythologized past, she is a historian whose work takes her into some dark stories, both old and new.

OMN: How do you go about researching the plot points of your stories?

TS: I love to do research. I did it in the business world for many years, but now I get to follow my own quirky interests in the odd corners of history. Much more fun. The challenge is knowing when to stop and write a story with a plot, using the history to support the story not the other way around.

Each book has been a little different, but for Brooklyn Secrets and the work-in-progress I went old school and walked myself into the Brooklyn history room at the Brooklyn Public Library's central building (a system separate from NYPL) At this point, I am looking for the sources that will be most useful for my criminal pursuits. I ask for the clipping files too, and walk through the news of the decades, just looking for what pops out at me. Then, I hop on Internet used book sites, such as ABE, and see if I can order up some of the books. Usually they are "used" books, not "antique" books, and are priced accordingly, often for less than the mailing costs. For Brooklyn Secrets, I ended up with, among others, an academic study of girls growing up in Brownsville, a naive but thorough early history from 1969, and a volume from the photographic series, Images of America, calledNew York City Gangland. Those mug shots were most inspiring! Now I have them handy to peruse, refer to, write in. Lots of Post-Its will be sacrificed to the cause.

After awhile, themes emerge and important or charming or illuminating details are noted. Of course I do online research too, spot-checking facts and — as one does on the 'Net- pursuing threads down unexpected path, well past the point of common sense. It's a lovely way to procrastinate. For Brooklyn Secrets, I stumbled across an interview with the grandson of a famous Mob leader. He talked about his grandpa's favorite film depictions of himself! Now that was a very odd disconnect between his mind and what most people call "reality". And right there, in that gap, is where a story starts. Did I jump on that article? With a thank you to the Writing Goddess? You will find him, transformed by my imagination, in the pages of Brooklyn Secrets.

OMN: How true are you to the actual settings?

TS: My whole series is set in a very real place, Brooklyn, NY, big enough to be its own city (it would be the 4th largest in the US) and yet, a collection of extremely diverse neighborhoods. All of the books are inspired by both the current life in a neighborhood and the history behind it. So, yes, a real place and the foundation of the series. Erica is who she is because she grew up in Brooklyn, and the crimes that take place come from the place that they happen. Brooklyn Bones, the first in the series, was easy. I just looked outside my front door. Park Slope, where I live, is a lively and beautiful corner of Brooklyn which has gone through a couple of decades of steady gentrification, for good or ill. However, it was not always the center of chic it has become (Seriously! They think this in Paris!) And I was here just as it was changing. It was not hard to find a story from that darker time.

Brooklyn Graves was directly inspired by a place, beautiful and historic Green-Wood Cemetery, and a series of news stories about priceless stained glass windows being stolen from now neglected, but once affluent, churches and mausoleums. I think any mystery writer, especially one of with a taste for history, would clip those articles and save them. And ponder. It also includes some scenes in a neighborhood that changed greatly with a flood of Russian immigration, and some of the tensions that go with that.

Brooklyn Secrets takes place in Brownsville, one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city, and with one of the highest crime rates. I worked there many years ago, but the challenges were to make sure my knowledge was current and to write about such a complex place with fairness and accuracy.

OMN: What is the best advice you've received as an author?

TS: I've seen this attributed to a few people, but William Faulkner seems the likeliest: I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately, I become inspired every morning at 9:00. That kind of says it all. The most important piece of advice can be summarized in the least elegant way: BICHOK. Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard. There is only one way books get written, and that is not by daydreaming about them. musing, researching, outlining, or — the fatal trap — wasting time on digital media. They get written by putting words on paper (or screen, of course). You cannot revise or improve what you have not written. Blunt but true. Any number of writers has said this in any number of ways: Philip Pullman says, "Plumbers don't get plumbers block." He goes on to say, "Putting it another way: a professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are." Barbara Kingsolver says, "Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done."

Finally, because I learn what I think by writing it, I live by E.L. Doctorow's "Writing a book is like taking a long car trip at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you can make the whole journey that way."

OMN: What kinds of books did you read when you were young?

TS: I sometimes think I am the only woman mystery writer who was not a Nancy Drew fan. That might be an embarrassing confession. Before I read Nancy Drew, I had read greater books, notably Little Women, and I didn't become interested in mysteries until I was old enough for Agatha Christie. What I did like was books about little girls like me who lived a long time ago. Very much a bookworm, I not only read all of Alcott I could get my hands on, but all of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, all of the Betsy-Tacy books, plus books about colonial girls, Quaker girls, Biblical girls, Highland rebellion girls and some wonderful non-fiction books about history provided by a librarian aunt. There are two themes here: series about girls who grew up to become writers (at least 3!), and books about history. It’s not an accident that I write mysteries now with a history background.

OMN: What's next for you?

TS: The next book will be set against the background of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A true engine of victory during World War ii — it employed 70,000 workers at it’s peak and the battleship Missouri was built there — it suffered a long, slow death and then an interesting current revival. In a story that involves patriotism, unions, the Department of Defense, corruption, local politics, valuable property and idealism, there is lots of room for conflict and drama of all kinds. Erica witnesses a murder, discovers some family connections and uncovers a tragic mid-century love story, too.

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Triss Stein is a small-town girl who has spent most of her adult life living and working in New York City. This gives her the useful double vision of a stranger and a resident which she uses to write mysteries about Brooklyn, her ever-fascinating, ever-changing, ever-challenging adopted home.

For more information about the author, please visit her website at TrissStein.com or find her on Facebook.

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Brooklyn Secrets by Triss Stein

Brooklyn Secrets by Triss Stein

An Erica Donato Mystery

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

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Erica Donato, Brooklyn girl, urban history grad student, and single mom, is researching the 1930s when Brownsville was the home of the notorious organized criminals the newspapers called Murder Inc. She quickly learns that even in rapidly changing Brooklyn, Brownsville remains much as it was. It is still poor, it is still tough, and it still breeds fighters and gangs.

Doing field research, Erica stops in at the landmark local library and meets Savanna, a young woman who is the pride of her mother and her bosses, and is headed for an elite college and a future. A few days later, she is found beaten and left for dead. Her anguished mother is everywhere, insisting someone knows something. After a massive, angry demonstration, a young girlfriend of Savanna's is found dead too. Is there a connection? Did perfect Savanna have a few secrets?

Erica is curious. But she's focused on the 1930s and has located a few women who are happy to share memories. Two are childhood friends who disagree on much, but guard secrets too — ones kept for a lifetime. Never one to resist looking deeper than her research requires, Erica keeps encountering an apparent derelict white man, a vengeful rejected girlfriend, the role of boxing as a way out of poverty, and fading evidence of long-ago crimes.

Brooklyn Secrets by Triss Stein

Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 7:30 AM ET …

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: William Morrow

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $4.99

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter, Amazon Kindle format

Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.

More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss — a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed.

The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago … and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it.

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

Smoke by Catherine McKenzie

Smoke by Catherine McKenzie

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Smoke by Catherine McKenzie, Amazon Kindle format

After a decadelong career combating wildfires, Elizabeth has traded in her former life for a quieter one with her husband. Now she works as the local arson investigator in a beautiful, quaint town in the Rockies. But that tranquil life vanishes when she and her husband agree to divorce and a fire in nearby Cooper Basin begins to spread rapidly. For Elizabeth, containing a raging wildfire is easier than accepting that her marriage has failed.

For Elizabeth's ex-friend Mindy, who feels disconnected from her husband and teenage children, the fire represents a chance to find a new purpose: helping a man who has lost his home to the blaze. But her faith is shattered by a shocking accusation.

As the encroaching inferno threatens the town's residents, Elizabeth and Mindy must discover what will be lost in the fire, and what will be saved.

Smoke by Catherine McKenzie

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 7:00 AM ET …

Just Different Devils by Jinx Schwartz

Just Different Devils by Jinx Schwartz

A Hetta Coffey Mystery

Publisher: Jinx Schwartz

Price: FREE!

Just Different Devils by Jinx Schwartz, Amazon Kindle format

The Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Ian Charnock

The Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Ian Charnock

A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: FREE!

The Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Ian Charnock, Amazon Kindle format

Witch Is When It All Began by Adele Abbott

Witch Is When It All Began by Adele Abbott

A Witch P.I. Mystery

Publisher: Implode Publishing

Price: FREE!

Witch Is When It All Began by Adele Abbott, Amazon Kindle format

The Georgie B. Goode Cozy Mystery Series Boxed Set by Marg McAlister

The Georgie B. Goode Cozy Mystery Series Boxed Set by Marg McAlister

Books 1-3

Publisher: Marg McAlister

Price: FREE!

The Georgie B. Goode Cozy Mystery Series Boxed Set by Marg McAlister, Amazon Kindle format

Ill-Fame by Erik Rivenes

Ill-Fame by Erik Rivenes

A Detective Harm Queen Novel

Publisher: Trampoose Press

Price: FREE!

Ill-Fame by Erik Rivenes, Amazon Kindle format

Dangerous Perceptions by Stuart Murray

Dangerous Perceptions by Stuart Murray

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Stuart Murray

Price: FREE!

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Cauldron of the Lost Ancestors by Tom Bane

Cauldron of the Lost Ancestors by Tom Bane

A Suzy da Silva Mystery

Publisher: Tom Bane

Price: FREE!

Cauldron of the Lost Ancestors by Tom Bane, Amazon Kindle format

A Vintage To Die For by J. M. Harvey

A Vintage To Die For by J. M. Harvey

A Violet Vineyard Murder Mystery

Publisher: J. M. Harvey

Price: FREE!

A Vintage To Die For by J. M. Harvey, Amazon Kindle format

Worse than Death by Jean Bedford

Worse than Death by Jean Bedford

An Anna Southwood Mystery

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: FREE!

Worse than Death by Jean Bedford, Amazon Kindle format

No Easy Way Out by Paul Bennett

No Easy Way Out by Paul Bennett

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Price: FREE!

No Easy Way Out by Paul Bennett, Amazon Kindle format

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Monday, December 28, 2015

Bloody Mary, A Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery by J. A. Konrath, Now Available at a Special Price

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

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Bloody Mary by J. A. Konrath

Bloody Mary by J. A. Konrath

A Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: J. A. Konrath

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/28/2015 at 8:00 PM ET).

Bloody Mary by J. A. Konrath, Amazon Kindle format

Start with a tough but vulnerable Chicago cop. Add a hyperactive cat, an ailing mother, a jealous boyfriend, a high-maintenance ex-husband, and a partner in the throes of a mid-life crisis.

Stir in a psychopath littering the city with body parts. Mix with equal parts humor and suspense, and enjoy Bloody Mary — the second novel in the funny, frightening world of Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels.

Join Jack as she struggles to repair her train wreck of a personal life while tracking down and convicting one of the scariest serial killers in recent memory — a killer for whom getting caught is only the beginning …

Bloody Mary by J. A. Konrath

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An Order of Coffee and Tears, A Novel of Suspense by B. A. Spangler, Now Available at a Special Price

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An Order of Coffee and Tears by B. A. Spangler

An Order of Coffee and Tears by B. A. Spangler

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: B. A. Spangler

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/28/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

An Order of Coffee and Tears by B. A. Spangler, Amazon Kindle format

Angela's Diner has the reputation of a safe haven where patrons find a moment of peace as they linger over coffee and tears. For one young runaway, Angela's is more than a place to tell your tale — it's a place where with the magic of chicken and waffles, and a little bit of trust, may just save your life.

Gabriella Santiago used to be a typical teenager who enjoyed the usual teenage things. That is until a single day ended who she was and within hours she ran from home, never to look back.

Only when Gabby is cold, hungry and at her lowest, does she find Angela's Diner. Gabby embraces her new life and the family she has found in the midst of strangers and obscurity.

Acceptance is what she craves, but before long, Gabby realizes she's not the only one in the diner with something to hide. Her new family has a secret too, and some secrets refuse to stay buried.

An Order of Coffee and Tears by B. A. Spangler

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New This Week: Waking Up in Vegas, A Kat Parker Mystery by K. L. Phelps

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 December 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

Waking Up in Vegas by K. L. Phelps

Waking Up in Vegas by K. L. Phelps

A Kat Parker Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: K. L. Phelps

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/28/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

Waking Up in Vegas by K. L. Phelps, Amazon Kindle format

Kat has never been a morning person, but waking up in a Vegas hospital to discover she's been married, widowed, and pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building along with a gorgeous amnesic vampire with the unlikely name of Jonny B. Good pretty much cements her hatred of mornings. In fact, having no memory of any of these events almost seems like a blessing.

While waiting to be cleared for possible involvement in the destruction of the hotel she'd been pulled from, Kat agrees to try to use her newly discovered psychic ability to help hunky detective Damian Johnson look into the mysterious events surrounding his comatose ex-partner.

With lycan youths turning up dead, terrifying visions from Damian's coma-stricken partner, horrific creatures attempting to grab her in the night, and dealing with Jonny's bizarre obsession with the Food Network, Kat just hopes she survives long enough to say goodbye to Las Vegas.

Waking Up in Vegas by K. L. Phelps

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Hard Crime, A Sci-Fi Crime Noir by Sam Best, Now Available at a Special Price

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Hard Crime by Sam Best

Hard Crime by Sam Best

A Sci-Fi Crime Noir

Publisher: Sam Best

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/28/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

Hard Crime by Sam Best, Amazon Kindle format

Capital City is teeming with death. Under the neon glow downtown, a body turns up every single night …

On the second anniversary of his wife's unsolved murder, Detective Jack Rose is once again cast into the deep end of a grisly homicide investigation. But this isn't a shooting or poisoning or any of the other preferred ways to kill someone from a distance. This is a hard crime, the up-close kind, the kind that rarely shows its ugly face — even on an island busting at the seams with 3 million people.

The victim was a resident of Capital Heights, a building with a reputation among parolees as a cheap place to live. They say you can even stay for free, if you're willing to do a few favors …

In a city monitored by countless surveillance cameras and remote-operated patrol cars, Jack thinks a cop should be able to catch a break. He's wrong. With no clues, no witnesses, and a growing list of suspects, he must rely on instinct to catch a killer before another victim is found on the rain-washed streets of Capital City.

Hard Crime by Sam Best

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New This Week: Hilo, Goodbye, An Islands of Aloha Mystery by JoAnn Bassett

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 December 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

Hilo, Goodbye by JoAnn Bassett

Hilo, Goodbye by JoAnn Bassett

An Islands of Aloha Mystery (8th in series)

Publisher: Lokelani Publishing

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/28/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

Hilo, Goodbye by JoAnn Bassett, Amazon Kindle format

Pali Moon is on her way to becoming "wedding planner to the stars" when she's plucked from obscurity to coordinate the much-ballyhooed wedding of Rebecca Montrose, last year's "runaway bride" and this year's new reality show sensation. A week before the nuptials, Rebecca (who now goes by the much hipper sounding, Becca) decides she wants to go to Hilo for one last hurrah. The entire cast and crew pack up, but before a single frame is shot, a body shows up in a nearby Hilo park.

Alas, Pali's got troubles of her own. What's next for her and former fiancé, Hatch Decker? And what about that crazy name of hers? Is she ever going to reveal it to anyone except her closest friends?

Hilo, Goodbye by JoAnn Bassett

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The Sage Wind Blows Cold, A Mac Crow Thriller by Clint Hollingsworth, 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, Icicle Ridge Graphics …

The Sage Wind Blows Cold by Clint Hollingsworth

The Sage Wind Blows Cold by Clint Hollingsworth

A Mac Crow Thriller

Publisher: Icicle Ridge Graphics

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/28/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).

The Sage Wind Blows Cold by Clint Hollingsworth, Amazon Kindle format

Bagging a killer should have been the end of it, but it was only the beginning …

Young tracker Mackenzie Crow, working at his uncle's bounty hunting business, is ambivalent when an old flame pleads for help. His intuition tells him to scram and not look back, but Mac's conscience won't allow him to say 'no' to finding a lost child in the woods. Not sure where he stands with Kailee, Mac soon finds out: she is married to his old rival and she has kept this from him in order to solicit his expertise.

Once in the woods with the Search and Rescue team, Mac comes into his element and within a short time has found the child's trail. He also finds something completely unexpected: a strange set of tracks following the girl. It's clearly the day for unwanted surprises.

Deep in the woods, desperately following the trail, Mac comes upon an SAR volunteer face down in the forest with an arrow in his back. Little does Mac know, this is just the beginning of his problems.

Before this is through, he will be hunted by a psychopath and cadre of foreign mercenaries, all wanting to remove him from the land of the living.

The Sage Wind Blows Cold by Clint Hollingsworth

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New This Week: Kill Jessica White, The Contract Series by Remington Kane

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 December 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …

Kill Jessica White by Remington Kane

Kill Jessica White by Remington Kane

The Contract Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Remington Kane

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/28/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

Kill Jessica White by Remington Kane, Amazon Kindle format

After Jessica's husband learns that a relentless hit man named Tanner was offered the contract to kill his wife, he goes in search of Tanner, which leads to a showdown between the two deadly men.

Kill Jessica White by Remington Kane

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Inside Room 913, A Novel of Suspense by Bruce A. Borders, 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, Borders Publishing …

Inside Room 913 by Bruce A. Borders

Inside Room 913 by Bruce A. Borders

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Borders Publishing

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/28/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

Inside Room 913 by Bruce A. Borders, Amazon Kindle format

Parkview Manor has a secret, and eighteen-year-old Cynthia is curious!

When Cynthia Holt takes a job at a former sanitarium, now operating as an assisted living center that doubles as a hotel, she instantly discovers something more is occurring than simply providing the elderly with housing and care. Something very strange is going on behind the locked door of Room 913!

After she is repeatedly warned to stay away from the room and to not discuss it or the occupant with her co-workers, she is even more intrigued, and suspicious! Letting her curious nature guide her, she immediately begins asking questions. When she finds that Room 913 has been closed off; locked and sealed for 40 years, her curiosity turns to concern. Though rumors abound, no one seems inclined to talk about it.

Not giving up so easily, Cynthia persists in her pursuit of solving the mystery, investigating the rumors until she learns the truth of what is inside the forbidden room — or does she?

Inside Room 913 by Bruce A. Borders

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