Free/Bargain Cozy Mystery - April 2014

[peachiekene]

A thread for April.

We point out free and bargain Cozy Mystery titles to each other. Please do a search before posting to avoid duplicates.
If you are posting something that is self-published, please indicate that it is. If you've read it (or something else by the author), feel free to tell us why we should grab it!

Be aware that many freebies are only free for a day, so grab them fast!

[peachiekene]

Bargain

Forget Me Knot (A Quilting Mystery) by Mary Marks

Welcome to San Fernando Valley, California, where Martha Rose and her coterie of quilters are enjoying life on the good side of retirement—until murder pulls a stitch out of their plans…

Martha and her besties Lucy and Birdie are set to expand their Quilty Tuesdays by inviting newcomer Claire Terry into their group. Though at forty Claire’s a tad younger than their average age, her crafty reputation could perk up their patchwork proceedings, especially as they prepare for the fancy quilt show coming to town. But when they arrive at Claire’s home and find her dead inside the front door, and her exquisite, prize-winning quilts soon missing, Martha is not one to leave a mystery unraveled. Especially if she wants to stop a killer from establishing a deadly pattern…

AmazonUS -$1.99
AmazonCA - $1.85
AmazonUK - £0.74

B&N - $1.99
iBooks - $1.99

Kobo - $6.29, but couponable. If you get your hands on a 75% off code, it'll be less than $1.99

[pendragginp]

Thanks much. I looked at the sample and it was pretty cute so I got it.

[jersysman]

That's a strange price for Kobo given the prices at the other sites even if it is couponable.

[dreams]

A freebie from my September 2012 list is free again at amazon us.
Mass Market Paperback was by Publisher: Fawcett, Published: September 23, 1992

Tourist Trap by Julie Smith (Rebecca Schwartz Mystery #3 : A Humorous San Francisco Cozy) (The Rebecca Schwartz Series)

Publication Date: August 15, 2012
The THIRD book in Edgar-winner Julie Smith's Rebecca Schwartz series.

"Warmth, wit and local color in a fast-moving story ... Smith's best work so far." -Kirkus

So what’s a nice Jewish girl doing at an Easter sunrise service?

Lawyer Rebecca Schwartz would pick the one with the body nailed to the landmark cross! Coincidence? Not so much. She's there because her boy friend's covering the service for the San Francisco Chronicle. The body's there because someone's making a statement he doesn't want the press to miss.

Next: mass shellfish poisoning at Pier 39. A very different kind of serial killer is operating here—one who seems to have a grudge against the whole city.

And this is a very different kind of serial killer tale—a funny one. (If your don't count the murders, or course.) Rebecca's warm and witty, never takes herself too seriously, and on one occasion offers closing testimony with green hair. A highly embarrassing moment, but the bright chartreuse is all in the service of making her case.

No way does she believe her client would nail somebody—especially to a cross. And the things she has to do to prove it are hilarious and often unorthodox, yet always professional. Sometimes hyper-professional--the average lawyer simply can’t be bothered spraying herself with Thunderbird to fit in with her witnesses!

A wild ride through Baghdad by the Bay…and a great courtroom drama.