New This Week: Love and Protect, A Heroes of Evers, Texas Novel of Romantic Suspense by Lori Ryan

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Love and Protect by Lori Ryan

A Heroes of Evers, Texas Novel of Romantic Suspense (1st in series)

Publisher: SilverHart Publishing

Price: $4.99 (as of 12/31/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

Laura Kensington is a desperate woman. She knows that if she doesn't flee, not only is her life in danger, so is the life of her unborn child. With everything to lose, she flees to Evers, Texas with a new identity, taking refuge on the ranch of Cade Bishop, a man who firmly believes in second chances. Drawn to Cade, Laura finds comfort in his passion and his love, yet she fears he sees her as merely another needy case.

But when her past resurfaces, bringing grave peril into her world once more, Cade is Laura's only hope. Relentless enemies, ones both anticipated and unexpected, are drawing closer by the day, ensnaring her in a deadly web of deception, betrayal, and murder. And her only chance to break free lies in Cade's powerful will, unrelenting protection, and loving heart.

— Love and Protect by Lori Ryan

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Dangerous Allies, A Ruby Danger Thriller by Rickie Blair, 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, Barkley Books …

Dangerous Allies by Rickie Blair

A Ruby Danger Thriller (1st in series)

Publisher: Barkley Books

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/31/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

Second honeymoons can be dangerous …

After a brush with tragedy, tabloid target Ruby Delaney is finally ready to put the parties, booze, and notorious paparazzi photos behind her. A cruise with her financier husband is the fresh start she needs. But their luxury liner has barely left port when she stumbles across evidence that her spouse is involved in a massive stock fraud linked to the ruthless Russian mob. She's stunned to discover he plans to disappear with millions and frame her for the crime.

Ruby stages a disappearing act of her own, but her impulsive action backfires when the mob becomes convinced she's vanished with their share of the take. In a frantic race for her life, Ruby leaves a trail of collateral damage. She doesn't know who to trust, and above all — how to get off a cruise ship, undetected, in the middle of the Caribbean.

— Dangerous Allies by Rickie Blair

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Thread and Gone by Lea Wait, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2015 …

Thread and Gone by Lea Wait, An Angie Curtis, Mainely Needlepoint Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

  

When a priceless antique is stolen, murder unravels the peaceful seaside town of Haven Harbor, Maine …

Angie Curtis is hosting the Mainely Needlepointers at a Fourth of July dinner in Haven Harbor, Maine, when seventeen-year-old Mary Clough and her fiancé stop in to ask about a piece of old needlepoint Mary's found in the attic of her old home. What is it? Is it valuable?

Excited, Angie and her friends suspect the needlework is medieval, and very valuable, so while they're checking it out, they entrust it to Angie's lawyer's safe. But when the lawyer is found dead, and her safe empty … murder unravels the town's holiday week.

How can links to the past do so much damage today? Angie is determined to find out — especially since the needlepoint disappeared on her watch.

— Thread and Gone by Lea Wait

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

Murder is Private, A Susan Wiles, Schoolhouse Mystery by Diane Weiner, Now Available at a Special Price

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Murder is Private by Diane Weiner

A Susan Wiles, Schoolhouse Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Cozy Cat Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/31/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

Eerie violin music, flashing lights, a battered security guard, a dead music teacher … .more than Susan Wiles bargained for when she flew to Florida to meet her newly found birth mother, Audrey Roberts, for the first time. Audrey is in charge of Hemingway High School for the Performing Arts, a tony private school in Banyan Beach, Florida. The bad publicity surrounding the school jeopardizes its existence when donors threaten to withhold funding, and parents begin withdrawing their students. Lucky for Audrey, Susan happens to be a retired music teacher … and an amateur sleuth extraordinaire.

Against the wishes of Susan's detective daughter who has accompanied her on the trip, Susan volunteers to substitute for the dead choral teacher, and uses her new position to work on solving the case.

— Murder is Private by Diane Weiner

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The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor, New in Bookstores during December 2015

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

The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor, a Pike Logan Mystery (9th in series)

Publisher: Dutton

 

For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce has worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around the globe. Created to deal with a terrorist threat that shuns the civilized rule of law, it abandoned the same, operating outside of the US Constitution. Though wildly successful, it was rooted in a fear that the cure could be worse than the disease.

And now that fear has come home.

A Special Forces soldier is killed on an operation in Afghanistan, and complicit in the attack is a government official of an allied nation. While the US administration wants to forget the casualty, one Taskforce member will not. When he sets out to avenge his brother's death, his actions threaten to not only expose the Taskforce's activities, but also destroy a web of alliances against a greater evil. Pike Logan understands the desire, but also the danger. Brought in to eliminate the risk, he's now forced to choose between his friend and the administration he's sworn to protect, while unbeknownst to either of them, the soldier's death is only the beginning …

— The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor

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

Murder Most Finicky by Liz Mugavero, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during December 2015 …

Murder Most Finicky by Liz Mugavero, A Kristan Connor, Pawsitively Organic Gourmet Pet Food Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Kensington

  

The dog days of summer have arrived in the small town of Frog Ledge, Connecticut, and business is booming for Kristan "Stan" Connor. Her Pawsitively Organic pet food has even caught the attention of celebrity pastry chef Sheldon Allyn, who helps Stan open a fancy pet pastry shop in Frog Ledge. A partnership is born, and Sheldon invites Stan to Newport, Rhode Island, for an appreciation weekend he's hosting for all his independent chefs. But the gourmet getaway turns sour when one of the chefs turns up dead, and a second one goes missing …

As Stan tries to figure out who had a recipe for murder, the pool of suspects expands. And if she can't sniff out the culprit soon, this killer may just serve up a second helping of murder …

— Murder Most Finicky by Liz Mugavero

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

The Tree of Hands, A Novel of Suspense by Ruth Rendell, 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, Open Road …

The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell

A Novel of Suspense

Publisher: Open Road

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/31/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

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A young boy dies, another goes missing, and one mother's choice will forever alter many lives …

When Benet's young son dies on the operating table, she cannot be comforted — not even by her mother who cares for a young boy just about the same age. Meanwhile, another mother's son goes missing, and police circle around possible suspects in what must be murder. These three mothers — the schizophrenic Mopsa, upwardly mobile Benet, and gold-digging Carol — become forever entwined by death, delusion, kidnapping, and murder, and one woman's loss becomes another's gain.

— The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell

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Rushing To Die, A Sorority Sisters Mystery by Lindsay Emory, 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.

Omnimystery News is pleased to present you with one of this week's titles …

Rushing To Die by Lindsay Emory

A Sorority Sisters Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Witness Impulse

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/31/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

"We'll be sisters 'til we die … "

Three months into her tenure as the Sutton College Delta Beta chapter advisor, Margot Blythe has the sorority in tip-top shape, just in time for sorority rush. Snapping and stomping in perfect synchronization, everyone is hopeful that after this rush, Delta Beta's reputation as "the murder house" will be forgotten.

Until a body is found in the Delta Beta backyard. Again. The woman is found wearing a Delta Beta shirt, which is troublesome enough; even more distressing, no one in the chapter recognizes her. Unwilling to let a minor inconvenience like potential murder spoil the social calendar, Margot gladly hands off the investigation to local police cutie Ty Hatfield, while the Delta Beta girls throw themselves into rush preparations.

But when another body is found, with the terrifying possibility of more to come, Margot does the only thing a responsible advisor can do and demands that rush be canceled, making enemies in every house on sorority row. When the resulting furor starts to get dirty, it's up to Margot to uncover some nasty messes tucked away in the sorority closets — to save her sisters' reputations, and their lives.

— Rushing To Die by Lindsay Emory

See also the first mystery in this series, Sisterhood Is Deadly, for 99¢ on Kindle.

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Today's Selection of Daily Deals for Thursday, December 31, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of today's Daily Deals found on Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 7:30 AM ET …

Select books from Amazon's Editors' 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime is a Kindle Daily Deal. We're featuring two of the mystery titles from the list in this post.

The Long Gooodbye by Raymond Chandler

A Philip Marlowe Mystery

Publisher: Vintage Crime

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99

Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

— The Long Gooodbye by Raymond Chandler

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

The Todd Family Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Hachette Books

Kindle Daily Deal Price: $3.99

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war.

Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can — will she?

— Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Thursday, December 31, 2015

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 7:00 AM ET …

First Case by Roger Stelljes

A McRyan Mystery

Publisher: Roger Stelljes

Price: FREE!

  

Death and Deception by B. A. Steadman

A Detective Hellier Mystery

Publisher: Bloodhound Books

Price: FREE!

  

Hypoxia by Wolf White

A Thriller

Publisher: Wolf White

Price: FREE!

  

Ace Card by Greg Marion

The Black Vault Series

Publisher: Greg Marion

Price: FREE!

  

The False Faces by Louis Joseph Vance

A Lone Wolf Adventure

Publisher: Open Road

Price: FREE!

  

It's Bad Business by R. L. Cherry

A Morg Mahoney Mystery

Publisher: Wild Cherry Enterprises

Price: FREE!

  

Murder on the Moselle by Peter K. Tyson

The Dóra the Detective Trilogy

Publisher: Peter K. Tyson

Price: FREE!

  

The Reform by Almondie Shampine

The Modules Series

Publisher: Almondie Shampine

Price: FREE!

  

She Tried the Window by L. K. Scott

A Mystery Novel

Publisher: Oasis Creative

Price: FREE!

  

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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Skeleton Sea, The Forensic Geology Series by Toni Dwiggins, 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 author …

Skeleton Sea by Toni Dwiggins

The Forensic Geology Series (4th in series)

Publisher: Toni Dwiggins

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/30/2015 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

A mystery at sea plunges forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws into deadly waters …

When a boat is found deserted off the California coast, it looks to be a simple fishing accident. But there is nothing ordinary going on here. The geologists track the strange incident to an even stranger project. Someone with toxic skills is at work in this sea.

If the lethal project is completed, the outcome will be unstoppable.

— Skeleton Sea by Toni Dwiggins

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American Nightmares, The Stein & Candle Detective Agency by Michael Panush, Now Available at a Special Price

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American Nightmares by Michael Panush

The Stein & Candle Detective Agency (1st in series)

Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/30/2015 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

Morton Candle is a tough guy.

He grew up on the streets of Brooklyn, dodging from mobster-ruled neighborhoods to reform school before the army snapped him up and sent him to Europe to fight Hitler. That's where he met Weatherby Stein, the scion to one of the greatest occult families of Europe. Weatherby and his parents were being held prisoner by the Nazis, forced to use their supernatural knowledge to aid the Third Reich's war effort.

Morton Candle got Weatherby to safety, but the kid's parents didn't make it.

Now it's the 1950s.

Weatherby's a teenager, with his father's knowledge and a chip on his shoulder from the indignities of the modern world. Morton bumps into him again and they decide to go into the only business they can — paranormal private detectives.

This time, Weatherby and Mort have cases that will take them from a vampire's decaying mansion to the mob-controlled streets of Havana. They'll take on roadside attractions gone wrong, hordes of the living dead, and ride against the devil in a high speed car race to the death.

Between them, Weatherby and Mort have a small arsenal and a deep knowledge of matters arcane and bizarre. They'll need brains and brawn to survive in a world where horror, action and hardboiled noir come together in a cataclysmic mix.

— American Nightmares by Michael Panush

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New This Week: What the Dead Know, The Mindhunters Series by Kylie Brant

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What the Dead Know by Kylie Brant

The Mindhunters Series (8th in series)

Publisher: Cedar River Press

Price: $4.99 (as of 12/30/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

When Keira Saxon's father was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, she quit her job as a Chicago homicide detective to head home. But she hadn't been back on Michigan's Upper Peninsula long before Danny Saxon was dead, killed in a deadly bear attack. Keira bowed to public pressure and agreed to run in the special election to fill the rest of her father's term as sheriff. Although doubts about the circumstances of Danny's death lingered, doubts were all she had. Until she received a grisly delivery and learned that her father's death wasn't an accident at all.

Finn Carstens agrees to partner with Keira's department to solve the murder. When proof of a second victim comes to light, he realizes that the killer is engaging them in the deadliest of contests. Together they must unmask a man who lives — and kills — in the shadows. As they begin to discover his secrets they realize the chilling truth that only the killer's former victims knew: of all the predators lurking in the Michigan forests, man is the most lethal of all.

— What the Dead Know by Kylie Brant

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The Deathsniffer's Assistant, The Faraday Files by Kate McIntyre, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Deathsniffer's Assistant by Kate McIntyre

The Faraday Files (1st in series)

Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/30/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

After losing his parents in the Floating Castle Incident, the sensitive and mannered Chris Buckley has spent six years raising his magically talented little sister, Rosemary, on the savings that his once-wealthy family left behind. But that money is drying up, and Chris finds himself with no choice but to seek out work in Darrington City as it spirals into a depression. The only employer willing to consider his empty résumé is Olivia Faraday, the manic Deathsniffer. Olivia's special magical gift gives her a heightened intuition which makes her invaluable in hunting down murderers.

When a Duchess of the mysterious Old Blooded Nobility calls on Olivia to solve the mystery of her dead husband, Chris finds himself tangled in Olivia Faraday's daily life and unable to extract himself from the macabre questions of the investigation. His involvement grows more complicated as political forces in Darrington close around Rosemary, seeing her as a tool that can be used to end the depression at the cost of her freedom — or even her life. Chris must juggle the question of who killed Viktor val Daren with the responsibility of keeping Rosemary and her magic safe from those who would use her up and toss her aside. Worst of all, he begins to learn that the national disaster that took his parents' lives may not have been the accident it seemed.

— The Deathsniffer's Assistant by Kate McIntyre

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New This Week: Absolute Power, A Southern Justice Novel by Cayce Poponea

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Absolute Power by Cayce Poponea

A Southern Justice Novel (1st in series)

Publisher: Cayce Poponea

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/30/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

Dylan Morgan has it all; a prestigious career as a Detective for the city of Charleston, devilish good looks and a selection of girls whenever he chooses. Southern born and raised, he lives by the pearls his Granddaddy imparted to him. But when he questions his worth to the citizens of Charleston, his fears are realized when someone close to him is in danger. Does he follow the letter of the law as his position dictates, or does he follow his conscience, which will cause him to straddle a fine line? Can Dylan overcome the demons he creates for himself? Or will he toss everything away in a moment of reckoning?

Claire Stuart has fought hard her whole life not to fall into the same trap as her mother. She refuses to allow men to use her and toss her away. Needing to escape the hardship her family creates, she seeks education over acceptance and uproots herself from the backwoods of Kentucky to the charm of Charleston. She knows all about Dylan Morgan and his choice to bed every woman he comes across, yet she finds herself unable to listen to the warnings her mind and friends give her. Can Claire ignore Dylan's past and allow herself to let someone in? Someone who could shatter her very soul.

— Absolute Power by Cayce Poponea

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