Free (Kindle KDP) Skin Deep by Timothy Hallinan [Ex-Professor-PI Mystery/Thriller]

[ATDrake]

A modest slew of things from the KDP slushpile over the past couple of days; not really Relevant To My Interests but sufficient enough non-repeats that other people will probably find something they will like, especially for the series books they may have been collecting.

Once again, the feature title is by default, though I'm wondering if we eventually get the rest of the series free or not, sufficient to make 5 default features.

Skin Deep by Edgar-nominated Timothy Hallinan is 3rd in his ex-Professor-turned-PI Simeon Grist mystery series, this installment originally out from Dutton in 1991.

We've previously gotten #1, #2, and #6 free, for those of you keeping track.

Free with DRM for who knows how long @ Amazon main UK DE ES FR IT

Description
For a fee so big he can't turn it down, Grist is hired to watchdog the kind of guy he'd usually prefer to throw through the nearest window. Toby Vane is the golden boy of prime-time TV, whose gee-whiz smile and chiseled features mask a dark secret that would take the shine off for his millions of adoring female fans: every now and then he beats up a woman, and almost any woman will do.

When some of the women around Toby begin to turn up dead, Simeon has to figure out whether he's protecting a murderer – or whether one of Toby's multitude of enemies wants to put him away forever. And when Simeon meets the beautiful Nana, the whole situation becomes very personal, very fast.

Here's the rest of the past couple of days worth of the slushpile which was reasonably worth looking at and is still free. Mostly mystery/thriller and romance.

Nothing I'd consider imporant has expired, though hopefully if you liked those Robert Appleton sci-fi romances, you had enough initiative on your own to go pick up parts 2 & 3 when they went temporarily free yesterday.

Janet Dawson returns with a 1993-Fawcett installment in her Jeri Howard mysteries: Till The Old Men Die

Jeanne Savery offers a 1997 Zebra-published time-travel historical romance: A Timeless Love

Dorchester-published Steven Torres returns with the 1st volume of collections of his mystery/crime shorts, for which we previously received the 2nd free: Killing Ways: Stories

Adams Media-published Michael Lister returns with an FDLE agent (whatever that is) vs ritual killer arsonist thriller: Burnt Offerings

Mundania Press-published Krista D. Ball offers some sort of First Nations werewolf fantasy set in Alberta, Canada: Harvest Moon

Jove-published Paul Bishop offers a new collection of his short stories, which are mainly mystery/crime and have been previously published (some nominated for year's best prizes): Running Wylde

MIRA-published Linda L. Richards returns with a short revenge thriller story: Hitting Back Apparently, she has yanked everything from elsewhere to go KDP Select exclusive.

Fellow MR member author Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson return with a 1997-Avalon tourist murder mystery/psychological thriller: Nightmare in Morocco

Hodder Headline-published Harriet Smart, who apparently has also decided to yank almost everything from elsewhere to go KDP Select exclusive, returns with an historical Regency romantic comedy: Reckless Griselda

Helen Husher had a number of specialty press travelogue/nature books published in the 90s-2000s and returns with several more of them in slightly revised edition: Linkage for the lot

Ballantine-published newly-joined fellow MR member author Jeffrey Marks returns with a 2001-Delphi biography of a mysterious pseudonymous 1940s crime writer: Who Was That Lady? Craig Rice: Queen of the Screwball Mystery

Avalon-published Mona Ingram returns with another BC-set romantic suspense: Then Came Love

ISFDBed UK writer Kim Cowie returns with a collection of newly-written sf/fantasy short stories: The Latvia Station

Adams Media-published Reed Farrel Coleman and Craig McDonald contribute to the following: Crimespree Magazine #45 Jan/Feb

Bell Bridge Books-published Alicia Rasley returns with the self-explanatory: The Wilder Heart, a Regency Novella (Regency Escapes)

Well, this looks interesting, a quickie sample skim shows reasonably decent prose, and the author says it was a finalist for two particular awards from the Military Writers Society of America and fun fact: "french letters" are an old school euphemism for condoms, so I hereby include Jack Woodville London's probably self-pub WWII homefront domestic drama: French Letters Virginia's War

Backlist book and published story collection repeats by fellow MR member author Keith Brooke, Nicola Furlong, Lee Killough, newly-joined fellow MR member author Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Gina Cresse, Brenna Lyons, Anthony Neil Smith, Catherine Czerkawska, fellow MR member author Libby Fischer Hellman, Ruth Nestvold, Caroline Fyffe, Stephen R. Bown (history essays, recommended). Established author repeats by Robert W. Walker, Tracie McBride, David Bischoff, Kim Wright, Suzanne Tyrpak.

New stuff + repeats from small presses Blasted Heath (true crime), Decadent Publishing LLC, (mostly romance) and Books We Love/BWLPP (mostly romance), Dark Continents Publishing (fantasy/horror), Imajin (romance, fantasy, suspense).

And just because they are not yanking their stuff for KDP Select (or at least putting it back afterwards), I will give a minor linkage boost to the following writers who have newly made stuff free to all via Smashwords before I add it to the dedicated Smashwords & elsewhere backlist freebie thread:

• Mercury Press-published previously title-featured Canadian mystery writer Mobashar Qureshi, who has 3 short stories as samples from his collection
• ISFDBed William King, who offers a Conan-esque fantasy novella and a newly freebied novel which is tagged with "Warhammer", though it may or may not actually have been published as a tie-in to the popular RPG

Happy reading, if you manage to spot something you think you might like.

ETA: Tony Dunbar offers the 1st in his 1994 Putnam-published comedic foodie lawyer-as-amateur-sleuth New Orleans murder mysteries: Crooked Man (The Tubby Dubonnet Series)

Arinn Dembo offers a short which the blurb says won 1st prize for "Best Fantastic Erotica" in a Circlet Press contest and has a favourable comment from Publisher's Weekly: Monsoon

[Synamon]

Thanks. I've been collecting Timothy Hallinan's freebies and it's the 2nd in Janet Dawson's series (1 and 3 were previously freebied). Paul Bishop also caught my eye when he put up the first 3 of his Croaker series for free earlier this year, so I grabbed his short story collection.

[murraypaul]

The Tony Dunbar is no longer free.

[ATDrake]

The Tony Dunbar is still saying $0.00 for me in Canada when I go to and CTRL-R reload the page to bypass the cache. If it's not showing free for you in a different region, then it's not KDP Select and thus pricematched from elsewhere, though not from any of the usual outlets which I just checked.