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Old 02-04-2012, 01:40 PM   #1
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Exclamation Free (Kindle KDP) In the Company of Ghosts by Stephen A. Hunt [Paranormal Mystery]

HarperCollins-published author Stephen A. Hunt (Wikipedia entry) is Guest of Honour at some sf/fantasy convention this weekend, and accordingly his recently published paranormal government agency crossover fantasy/mystery/thriller novella is being offered free as promotional tie in.

For those not interested in paranormal government agency crossover fantasy/mystery/thriller novellas, there's also some decent-quality backlist and established author self-pub romance and crime novels, and some literary fiction in the slushpile.

In the Company of Ghosts by Stephen A. Hunt is 1st in what's either the eponymous series or the "Agatha Witchley Mystery" series depending on whether you consult the Amazon listing or look at the actual cover, released just last year.

Hunt, who normally writes more in the way of space opera and steampunk fantasy, also offers some of his older sf backlist via KDP at reasonably low prices.

This will be free (with DRM) through the weekend, @ Amazon main UK DE ES FR IT

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Because sometimes, insanity and genius are indistinguishable...

Agatha Witchley used to be a spy in the Cold War, but now she's locked up in the UK's premier maximum-security mental institution. She believes that the ghosts of the celebrity dead visit her padded cell and whisper the world's secrets in her ears. Which is a big problem for the British government, because she's the only one who can help them when an American billionaire is murdered in London in one of the strangest killings yet.

The Home Secretary needs the case locked down and solved before the entrepreneur’s death becomes public knowledge and economic chaos ensures.

The woman he has in mind for the job might be paranoid, she might be lethal, she might half-insane and drawing a pension, but it's amazing how you can forgive that in a genius when it's a genius's help you need.

Yes, the security forces need Agatha Witchley again. It's just the ghosts of Churchill, Elvis and Groucho Marx they could do without.


If you are interested in sf or know someone who is, don't forget to pick up Piers Anthony's Bio of a Space Tyrant, which arcadata kindly alerted us to, and if you want to get the sequels which are on special sale for 99 cents for a limited time using her affiliate shopping link, here's the relevant post in her thread.

She's also got a good deal for Ruth Downie's 3rd Gaius Petreius Ruso murder mystery about 5-6 posts upthread, which has a medical doctor in Roman Britain as the amateur sleuth. I've read the entire series and recommend it, and you may already have the 1st in series, Medicus, which was promo-freebied a couple of times early last year.

Previously-featured Michael Hogan, who has had specialty books on Latin American politics and culture small-pressed, offers his memoir of growing up in the 50s and 60s: Newport: A Writer's Beginnings Apparently he met US presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy and went on a road trip to see poet Robert Frost.

Charles Horn says he is an Emmy-nominated writer who writes for the popular Robot Chicken show. I'm not going to bother to google, but here's his collection of sketch comedy: That's Just Wrong!

Previously-featured Kensington-published Charlie Carillo offers a literary fiction drama of greed and betrayal: Found Money

Greg Stanton hosts a jazz program on a local radio station in Pennsylvania and offers a general fiction novel set in his hometown: Welcome to Scranton

Ken McCoy offers his debut crime novel, published by UK house Allison & Busby in 2004: Mad Carew

Previously-featured Colin Falconer offers a self-pub sequel to his 1994-Hodder Stoughton-published Asia-set generational drug smuggling thriller series, this volume taking place in 1990s Hong Kong: The Eye of the Tiger (Opium)

Canadian mystery writer Mobashar Qureshi returns with a novel-length supernatural detective thriller: The Paperboys Club

Allan Leverone, who had a recent release from Medallion Press who've been giving us freebies, offers a serial killer thriller: The Lonely Mile

Seth Harwood has a novel recently out from Adams Media's crime imprint Tyrus. He offers an action/adventure-looking mystery/thriller starring a former actor, whose previous adventure has been picked up for republication by Three Rivers Press: This Is Life - a Jack Palms Novel (Jack Palms Crime)

L.J. Washburn's 1920s Hollywood-set cowboy detective mysteries were paperbacked by Tor in the late 80s (and apparently s/he sometimes co-writes with previously-featured James Reasoner). On offer is a bundle of 2 previously-printed shorts about said cowboy detective, including one that was from a zombie anthology: HALLAM (Lucas Hallam Mysteries)

Previously-featured small-press-published crime writer Anthony Neil Smith (who sometimes collaborates with Tyrus-published Victor Gischler) offers a mystery/thriller: Yellow Medicine

Brenda Hampton, who has had a few paperbacks from small press Urban Books (who've also published another previously-included author) offers what looks like a family drama about a boy turning to a life of crime: No Justice No Peace

Mainly Murder Press appears to be a recent small specialty imprint with more than one author in their stable. They paperbacked Michele Drier's mystery thriller involving an amateur sleuth tracking down Nazi Loot in 2011, and the author now offers the Kindle version free if you want to try: Edited for Death

Infinity Publishing has a mixed selection of paperbacks which make it look like it might be one of those glorified self-pub vanity imprints. But in 2009, they paperbacked Bob Frey's police procedural starring a gay detective, and he's been using "Van Fleet" for his paperbacks since, so you may want to give a try to: The DVD Murders (The Frank Callahan Mystery Series)

Brenda Hiatt offers a 2001 Avon-paperbacked historical romance: Rogue's Honor (The Saint of Seven Dials)

Previously-featured Cheryl Bolen offers her 2002-Zebra published 1st in Brides of Bath historical romance series: The Bride Wore Blue This may be a repeat.

Baen-published Harlequin Silhoutte Bombshell author Doranna Durgin repeats her action adventure romance which was yanked from publication due to said HSB line cancellation: Making the Rules

Mills & Boon-published Saskia Walker offers a contemporary erotic romance which comes with a content warning: Play For Today

Zebra-published Nancy Bush offers a contemporary romance: The Princess and the Pauper

Harlequin-published Carol Grace offers a cowboy romance: Welcome to Paradise

Harlequin Intrigue-published Julie Miller offers a romance about a teacher who discovers a hidden warrior while on a field trip. May be a romantic suspense: Shadow of the Hawk (LadyTech)

Blair Bancroft is currently published by Ellora's Cave's non-erotic Blush line. She offers a romantic action/adventure maybe-suspense: Orange Blossoms & Mayhem (Fantascapes)

Christine Pope has had something paperbacked by small specialty romance imprint Pink Petal Books. She offers two stories, based on the Snow Queen fairy tale and the Phantom of the Opera, respectively: Linkage to pull both up

Previously-featured Ellora's Cave-published Canadian Jade Buchanan offers an m/m erotic short: The Handyman

Previously-featured David Bain whose ISFDB entry you can look up yourself if you really want to see it again offers an sf short story: Finding Tim

Previously-featured-with-ISFDB-entry Aaron Polson returns with tale about a new kid in town who's just moved into a haunted house: The House Eaters

Richard Thomas who has some minor ISFDB credits offers a "neo-noir thriller" that was released by newbie small specialty imprint which appears to be setting itself up into the business of deluxe limited edition hardcovers: Transubstantiate

Bruce Memblatt, who has a few short stories published (ISFDB entries) offers one of said stories, which appears to be horror: The Return

Adam P. Lewis, who has had a few short stories published (ISFDB entry) also offers a horror tale: Bigfoot Road Show

Lee Allen Howard who's had one story anthologized (ISFDB entry) offers another story, which appears to be horror: Mama Said

Kenneth W. Cain has had a few minor ISFDB credits. He offers: These Old Tales Volume Two (A Collection of Short Stories, Poetry, and Flash Fiction)

Previously-featured probably-self-pub Canadian Cindy Bouchard offers another volume in her BC-set historical family saga if you've been following it: Our Lady of the Snows 1910 (Princes of the North)

I thought this was going to be some sort of philosophic autobiographical life-experience meditation that people like to give convoluted names to, but no, it's a thoroughly cracktastic-looking fantasy-ish novel, so: Confessions of a Gourmand, or How to Cook a Dragon

And just because we don't usually get this much serendipity in unusually-themed historical freebies, three books by authors with otherwise unknown credentials set in or involving archaeological expeditions to Ancient Egypt, ranging from children's to YA/grown-up, whose prose seemed okay when I skimmed the samples: Bug Eyes and the Sacred Scrolls: A Sir Frederick Stone Mystery (The Labyrinthian Cycle), The Warriors of Amun, Servant of the Gods As James Bond writer Ian Fleming puts it: "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is conspiracy/enemy action." (that last bit changes depending on who does the quoting)

Happy reading, if indeed you spot something you think you might like.

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Old 02-04-2012, 02:24 PM   #2
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Looks like around 20 more added.

I'm now over 900 archived books.

You'll be the very first person to know when I reach 1,000 archived books.



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