New This Week: Warped Ambition, A Jo Riskin Mystery by Debbie S. TenBrink

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Warped Ambition by Debbie S. TenBrink

A Jo Riskin Mystery (1st in series)

Publisher: Red Adept Publishing

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/28/2016 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

When the battered body of a teenage girl is found in a dumpster, Lieutenant Jo Riskin is called to take the case. Investigating with her partner, Detective Lynae Parker, Jo uncovers secrets, loyalties, and ambitions that give motives to a surprising number of suspects , including a boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.

While immersed in her current case, Jo is battling her own personal demons. After two years, she is still grieving over the loss of her husband, who was killed in the line of duty. New information that could help solve his murder, and let her move on with her life, is within her grasp.

Barricading her heart, Jo is determined to solve both cases and bring the killers to justice.

— Warped Ambition by Debbie S. TenBrink

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The Jazz Files, Poppy Denby Investigates by Fiona Veitch Smith, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Jazz Files by Fiona Veitch Smith

Poppy Denby Investigates

Publisher: Lion Fiction

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/28/2016 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

"It stands for Jazz Files," said Rollo. "It's what we call any story that has a whiff of high society scandal but can't yet be proven … you never know when a skeleton in the closet might prove useful."

1920 — Aspiring journalist Poppy Denby arrives in London to look after her ailing Aunt Dot, an infamous suffragette. Dot encourages Poppy to apply for a job at The Daily Globe, but on her first day a senior reporter is killed and Poppy is tasked with finishing his story. It involves the mysterious death of a suffragette seven years earlier, about which some powerful people would prefer that nothing be said … Through her friend Delilah Marconi, Poppy is introduced to the giddy world of London in the Roaring Twenties, with its flappers, jazz clubs, and romance. Will she make it as an investigative journalist, in this fast-paced new city? And will she be able to unearth the truth before more people die?

— The Jazz Files by Fiona Veitch Smith

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Murder on Edisto, The Edisto Island Mysteries by C. Hope Clark, Now Available at a Special Price

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Murder on Edisto by C. Hope Clark

The Edisto Island Mysteries (1st in series)

Publisher: Bell Bridge Books

Price: 99¢ (as of 12/28/2016 at 3:00 PM ET).

  

A big city detective. A lowcountry murder.

Peace, safety, a place to grieve and heal. After her husband is murdered by the Russian mob, Boston detective Callie Jean Morgan comes home to her family's cottage in South Carolina. There, she can keep their teenage son, Jeb, away from further threats.

But the day they arrive in Edisto Beach, Callie finds her childhood mentor and elderly neighbor murdered. Taunted by the killer, who repeatedly violates her home and threatens others in the community, Callie finds her new sanctuary has become her old nightmare. Despite warnings from the town's handsome police chief, Callie plunges back into detective work, pursuing a sinister stranger who may have ties to her past. He's turning a quiet paradise into a paranoid patch of sand where nobody's safe. She'll do whatever it takes to stop him.

— Murder on Edisto by C. Hope Clark

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The Cat Sitter and the Canary by Blaize and John Clement, New in Bookstores during December 2016

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during December 2016 is …

The Cat Sitter and the Canary by Blaize and John Clement, a Dixie Hemingway Mystery (11th in series)

Publisher: Minotaur Books

 

Dixie Hemingway finds a tall, handsome tourist loitering around the home of one of her long-time clients. He tells her he's just arrived from Scotland and that he's lost his glasses, which presumably explains why he can't find the house he rented for his seaside vacation. Dixie points him to the bungalow across the street (but not before rebuffing a few of the sexy Scotsman's passes) and then continues about her business.

She doesn't think about him again until she stumbles upon a dead body in her client's front hall — a man in a three-piece suit with jet-black hair, delicate wrists, and a small notecard stuck to his lapel with a pearl-tipped hat pin. Right away, Dixie puts on her sleuthing cap and starts looking for clues, but when she sees what's written on that card, she knows … this is going to be an adventure unlike any she's ever had before.

And if she's not careful, it just might be her last!

— The Cat Sitter and the Canary by Blaize and John Clement

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for December 2016. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of December 2016 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.

A Cooper and Fry Mystery Collection, The First Three Mysteries by Stephen Booth, Now Available at a Special Price

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A Cooper and Fry Mystery Collection by Stephen Booth

The First Three Mysteries

Publisher: Witness Impulse

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/28/2016 at 1:00 PM ET).

  

Black Dog: The search for beautiful, teenaged Laura Vernon is over when her body is found, mutilated, in the forest. Ben Cooper is on the case, and he's been paired with a new partner. Diane Fry is as tenacious as she is alluring. But the two must work together to apprehend a killer who is hiding in plain sight.

Dancing with the Virgins: As winter closes in on the moors, so does murder. The body of a young woman is found within a ring of ancient cairns and a second woman has been attacked, savagely wounded and severely traumatized … but alive. Cooper & Fry must unlock the memories trapped inside her mind before more blood is shed among the stones.

Blood on the Tongue: A New Year means new homicides to solve in the icy depths of a bitter January. A woman is found, dead, who seems to have curled up in the freezing snow and lain there until her heart stopped. Did she go willingly towards death or is there a more sinister explanation? Cooper & Fry are desperate to find the answers.

— A Cooper and Fry Mystery Collection by Stephen Booth

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New This Week: The Cliff-Top Killer, The Sydney Harbour Hospital Series by Chris Taylor

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The Cliff-Top Killer by Chris Taylor

The Sydney Harbour Hospital Series (8th in series)

Publisher: LCT Publications

Price: $5.99 (as of 12/28/2016 at 12:30 PM ET).

  

See all eight titles in the highly reviewed Sydney Harbour Hospital Series for $5.99 each on Kindle.

Midwife Shelby Gianopoulos is feeling desperate. Single and alone at twenty-seven, she has spent many a family gathering fending off the increasing concern from her well-meaning relatives. Now, there's another family wedding looming and Shelby's desperate to find a date. She can't bear the thought of being the brunt of more pitying looks and outright confrontations.

Doctor Samuel Munro is the perfect choice. Good-looking, young and single, he sets female hearts aflutter all over the Sydney Harbour Hospital. Though she barely knows him, Shelby is relieved when he agrees to accompany her to the wedding and pretend that they're in love. Little does she know they're not the only ones pretending …

Alexei Gianopoulos, a senior partner at Harton & Wentworth, is living a double life. When Shelby discovers her father's secret, he stuns her even more by telling her Shelby's mother knows all about it. Toss in the fact that Shelby's brother has just come out to her and it's little wonder her mind is in a spin.

And then she discovers other peculiarities — like a dead man's baseball cap in her father's den — and she can't help but wonder what other secrets her family have hidden so well …

— The Cliff-Top Killer by Chris Taylor

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Today's Selection of Free MystereBooks for Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Omnimystery News is pleased to feature a selection of Free MystereBooks found on Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 7:00 AM ET …

On Assignment by Christina A. Burke

A Queenie Baby Mystery

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

Price: FREE!

  

Trash, Treasures & Treachery by Charlotte Moore

A Kate & Kylie Mystery

Publisher: Charlotte Moore

Price: FREE!

  

Oppose Any Foe by Jack Mars

A Luke Stone Thriller

Publisher: Jack Mars

Price: FREE!

  

Body in the Warehouse by Stuart Safft

A Joe McFarland/Ginny Harris Mystery

Publisher: Stuart Safft

Price: FREE!

  

Dark Cover by Susan Vaughan

The DARK Files

Publisher: Gullwood Press

Price: FREE!

  

On the Chopping Block by Jenny Kales

A Callie's Kitchen Mystery

Publisher: Jenny Kales

Price: FREE!

  

Brain Seize by Carol Husa

A Suspense Thriller

Publisher: Carol Husa

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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Look Both Ways, A Witch City Mystery by Carol J. Perry, Now Available at a Special Price

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Look Both Ways by Carol J. Perry

A Witch City Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/27/2016 at 8:00 PM ET).

  

See all three mysteries in the Witch City Series for $3.99 or less each on Kindle.

In Salem, Massachusetts, there are secret everywhere — even in the furniture …

When Lee Barrett spots the same style oak bureau she once had as a child on the WICH-TV show, Shopping Salem, she rushes to the antiques shop and buys the piece. Just like the beloved bureau she lost in a fire, this one has secret compartments. It also comes with an intriguing history — it was purchased in an estate sale from a home where a famous local murder took place.

The day after the bureau is delivered, Lee returns to the antiques shop and finds the owner dead. The police suspect the shop owner's unscrupulous business partner, but Lee wonders if the murder is connected to her new furniture. At least part of the answer may be revealed through a mirror in the bureau, tarnished and blackened, allowing Lee to tap into her psychic visions. Using this bureau of investigation, Lee may be able to furnish her policeman beau with the evidence needed to catch the killer — before the next one to be shut up is her …

— Look Both Ways by Carol J. Perry

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Death by Tea, A Bookstore Café Mystery by Alex Erickson, 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, Kensington …

Death by Tea by Alex Erickson

A Bookstore Café Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Kensington

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/27/2016 at 7:00 PM ET).

  

See all four mysteries in the Bookstore Café Series for $5.99 or less each on Kindle.

Mystery lovers have descended on Pine Hills for this year's book club competition, to be held at Krissy Hancock's bookstore café. But the killer in their midst seems determined to outwit all the armchair sleuths — and send Krissy to the remainder bin forever …

Just before two dueling book clubs are set to square off at Death by Coffee, one of the competitors turns up dead — bludgeoned with the silver teapot that was to serve as the prize. Suspicion immediately falls on Krissy, who was seen skulking around town in dark clothes on the night of the murder.

To clear her name and find the real killer, Krissy turns to an old flame, Officer Paul Dalton. But even Paul can't ignore the trail of evidence that seems to point in her direction. And with Krissy's personal nemesis, Officer John Buchannan, working overtime to pin the murder on her, it will take an amazing feat of detective work to close the book for good on an elusive killer …

— Death by Tea by Alex Erickson

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New This Week: We Have Lost the Pelicans, The We Have Lost Series by Paul Mathews

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We Have Lost the Pelicans by Paul Mathews

The We Have Lost Series (2nd in series)

Publisher: Paul Mathews

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/27/2016 at 6:30 PM ET).

  

See also the first mystery in this series, We Have Lost the President, for $2.99 on Kindle.

London, 2044. The St James' Park pelicans have gone missing — the day before the president unveils the British Republic's new pelican flag. At the same time, British intelligence uncovers coded messages about possible anti-Government activity. Who are the bird-nappers and what do they want? And who is behind the secret messages? Agent Howie Pond — licence to lunch — reluctantly agrees to try and find out.

Howie's fiancée Britt has a secret mission of her own — to identify the mysterious owner of Windsor Castle. And to add to the chaos, Howie and Britt are supposed to be getting married tomorrow …

— We Have Lost the Pelicans by Paul Mathews

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Breaking Cover, A Tony Wolf and Tim Buckthorn Thriller by J. D. Rhoades, Now Available at a Special Price

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Breaking Cover by J. D. Rhoades

A Tony Wolf and Tim Buckthorn Thriller

Publisher: Polis Books

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/27/2016 at 6:00 PM ET).

  

He was the most talented undercover agent in FBI history, until he dropped completely off the grid, and hasn't been heard from in years. Did he go native, or was he discovered and killed? When Tony Wolf is finally driven out into the open, torn from deep cover during the rescue of two kidnapped children, he becomes the number one target of both the vicious biker gang he double-crossed and a massive Federal manhunt.

But Tony's tired of being the hunted, and as both the gang and a traitorous FBI agent converge on a small southern town, they're all about to learn a hard lesson: When the Wolf breaks cover, he doesn't always run away.

Sometimes he comes straight at your throat.

— Breaking Cover by J. D. Rhoades

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New This Week: Death Drinks Darjeeling, A Helen and Martha Cozy Mystery by Sigrid Vansandt

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Death Drinks Darjeeling by Sigrid Vansandt

A Helen and Martha Cozy Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Sigrid Vansandt

Price: $3.99 (as of 12/27/2016 at 5:30 PM ET).

  

See all four mysteries in the Helen and Martha Cozy Series for $3.99 each on Kindle.

Martha and Helen are having a spring to die for!

Helen's ex-husband, George, has arrived to stir up trouble, and Martha gets sentenced to anger management classes for her illicit gun wielding issues. Sounds like a pair of good reasons to get out of town, so when they're invited to Germany to be guests on the beloved talk show, "Get Going with Gotts," they happily accept.

Is stardom in their future? The girls hotly disagree, but when they get a call from a retired librarian who saw them on TV and is in desperate need of their help, Helen and Martha buck-up, kiss-up, and bring their A-game to retrieve a DaVinci masterpiece.

Hopefully the girls will solve the mystery and make it home in time for a much-anticipated wedding … Helen's!

— Death Drinks Darjeeling by Sigrid Vansandt

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The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Series by Lilian Jackson Braun, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

The Cat Who Series (1st in series)

Publisher: Jove

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/27/2016 at 5:00 PM ET).

  

See all twenty-nine mysteries in the long-running Cat Who Series for $7.99 or less each on Kindle.

The world of modern art is a mystery to many. But for Jim Qwilleran, it turns into a mystery of another sort when his assignment to the art beat for The Daily Fluxion leads down the path to murder. A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalized paintings, a fatal fall from a scaffolding — this is not at all what Qwilleran expects when he turns his reportorial talents to art.

But Qwilleran and his newly found partner, Koko the brilliant Siamese, are back in their element — sniffing out clues and confounding criminals intent on mayhem and murder.

— The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

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New This Week: The Tarkington Treasure, A Charlotte Ross Mystery by Evelyn Cullet

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The Tarkington Treasure by Evelyn Cullet

A Charlotte Ross Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Evelyn Cullet

Price: $2.99 (as of 12/27/2016 at 4:30 PM ET).

  

See all four mysteries in the Charlotte Ross Series for $2.99 or less each on Kindle.

A spooky old house, rumors of a hidden Civil War treasure, a neighbor's murder, and an ex-fiancé falling unconscious at her feet — Charlotte Ross has her hands full when she's invited to stay at her friend, Jane Marshall's home while her apartment is being renovated …

Jane and her new fiancé have sold everything to move to the large estate she'd just inherited near the small town in Illinois, where she grew up. She's always loved the house, but the cost of living in, and fixing up, a deteriorating old mansion is more than both their incomes combined. If she can't come up with the money for the next property tax payment, she'll be forced to give it up.

Charlotte is intent on winning back her ex, but her efforts are stymied when he's suspected of Jane's neighbor's murder.

The two couples soon discover the rambling old house holds more than one secret when they join forces to find the real killer — and the elusive, Tarkington treasure.

— The Tarkington Treasure by Evelyn Cullet

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The Chalon Heads, A Brock and Kolla Mystery by Barry Maitland, Now Available at a Special Price

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The Chalon Heads by Barry Maitland

A Brock and Kolla Mystery (4th in series)

Publisher: Arcade Publishing

Price: $1.99 (as of 12/27/2016 at 4:00 PM ET).

  

David Brock and Kathy Kolla are summoned to Cabot's, a venerable dealer in rare stamps on the Strand, and at first they expect a simple case of theft and a pleasant digression from the usual sort of murderous wrongdoing they encounter in the Serious Crime Branch of Scotland Yard. But the case they confront is twistier and far more unsettling than they could have imagined.

An unsavory figure from Brock's past, slippery East-Ender Sammy Starling, aka Sammy China, is in deep trouble and asking for Brock's help. It seems Sammy's young wife has been kidnapped; but the strange part is that the ransom notes are decorated with rare and valuable Chalon Head stamps of the young Queen Victoria — to whom Sammy's wife bears an uncanny resemblance. Sammy is convinced a corrupt cop he once helped put in jail is behind the kidnapping. But Sammy has made a living from fraud and deceit: why should Brock and Kolla trust anything he says?

— The Chalon Heads by Barry Maitland

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