Free/Bargain Suspense/Mystery/Thriller May 2013

[koland]

Originally Posted by bfisher

Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher #1 "Cocaine Blues" is available at amazon.ca for CDN$ 0.98
http://www.amazon.ca/Cocaine-Blues-P.../dp/B006WBRL7Q

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006WBRL7Q

Free in the US store. First three in series on sale in UK store (today only):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?&hidden-k...3Adigital-text

first and third have companion audiobooks for $2.99

[koland]

Free:

Glass House by Christine Wiltz [ Premier Digital Publishing ]

A novel inspired by the true story of a lone policeman who was killed at the edge of one of the most dangerous housing projects in New Orleans.

Thea Tamborella returns to New Orleans after a ten-year absence to find the city of her birth changed, still a place of deep contradictions, a sensuous blend of religion, tradition, bonhomie, and decadence, but now caught in a web of fear caused by bad economic times, crime, and racial unrest.

Burgess Monroe is the drug kingpin of the Convent Street Housing Project. He’s always known he would die young, and now he wants to use his wealth to do something for the poor people of the project where he grew up.

Delzora Monroe, Burgess’s mother, works as a housekeeper in the mansion on Convent Street that Thea inherits from her aunt. Zora loves her son, but she knows that he has used his life to do evil, and she mistrusts his motives. She fears the repercussions when an attraction develops between Thea and Burgess.

The violence that results from the death of the lone cop has the city in the grips of fear. On both sides of Convent Street, the rich and the poor, that violence is about to be played out…

http://www.amazon.com/Glass-House-ebook/dp/B007NNGNXK/

[NightBird]

Some Reed Farrel Coleman books for $1.99 each from Tyrus Books. From his Moe Prager series:

#2. Redemption Street

Walking the Perfect Square introduced Moe Prager - retired New York City cop-turned-wine shop owner - to much acclaim and an enthusiastic readership. Still possessed of his vintage police savvy, and perhaps the only Jewish licensed PI in the five boroughs, Moe wonders if he’s really meant to be a merchant and not a cop. Redemption Street finds him in 1981, lured into the mystery of a 1966 hotel fire - one that killed seventeen people, including his first love - by a long-grieving brother and Moe’s own restless determination to set things right.

Reed Farrel Coleman’s crisp, page-turning narrative has Moe trudging through his childhood summer vacation stomping grounds, the now-decaying Catskill resort scene. The borscht belt’s near-forgotten landscape of scarred lives, ambitious politicians, and corrupt cops is the minefield Moe must brave to find the truth. Was the fire really sparked by a negligent smoker or was it murder? Will the long dead keep their secrets or divulge their stories? And will what Moe uncovers lead him down another blind alley or into the bright light of Redemption Street?

#3. The James Deans

Still reeling from his wife's recent miscarriage, Moe Prager is bullied into taking the case of an up-and-coming politico whose career has stalled over the suspicious disappearance of a young woman. It's been almost two years since Moira Heaton, State Senator Steven Brightman's intern, vanished on Thanksgiving Eve 1981. In spite of Brightman's best efforts to clear his name, he has been tried and convicted in the press. As a reluctant Moe peels away the layers of the case, he discovers the tragic circumstances of Moira Heaton's disappearance are buried deep in the past and that there is another more heinous crime at the heart of it all. Will the ugly truth set Brightman free or will it bury all the players beneath the crumbling artiface of corruption, murder, and hate?

#4. Soul Patch

Ex-NYPD cop turned P.I. and entrepreneur, Moe Prager is faced with a gut-wrenching case. The apparent suicide of his old friend and NYPD Chief of Detectives, Larry McDonald, forces Moe back onto the decaying Coney Island streets he patrolled when he was in uniform. But now, beneath the boardwalk and behind the rusted and crumbling rides of the midway, he finds a trail of death, betrayal, and corruption reaching back to 1972. As Faulkner once said, ''The past is never dead. It isn’t even past.'' So it goes for Moe Prager in Soul Patch.

#5 Empty Ever After

There are no second acts for the dead . . . or are there?
For over twenty years, retired NYPD officer and PI Moe Prager, has been haunted by the secret that would eventually destroy his family. Now, two years after the fallout from the truth, more than secrets are haunting the Prager family. Moe Prager follows a trail of graverobbers from cemetery to cemetery, from ashes to ashes and back again in order to finally solve the enigma of his dead brother-in-law Patrick. He plunges deeper into the dark recesses of his past than ever before, revisiting all of his old cases, in order to uncover the twisted alchemy of vengeance and resurrection. Will Moe, at last, put his past to rest? Will he find the man who belongs in that vacant grave or will it remain empty, empty ever after?

Plus standalone Gun Church

Once a literary wunderkind, author Kip Weiler now teaches creative writing at Brixton County Community College—a third-rate school in a rural mining town. But when he saves his class from a potential bloodbath, he is initiated by two of his students into a cult-like group that worships the essential nature of handguns, and rekindles his long-absent creative spark.

But as Weiler's involvement with the cult deepens and the end of his novel is in sight, the lines between art and life blur until they become unrecognizable. In this church, there's no need for red wine or wafers. In Gun Church, the blood and bodies are for real.

[NightBird]

Rick Mofina $2.99 each from Mira:

The Burning Edge.

Lisa Palmer has barely recovered from the sudden death of her husband when she is drawn into a new nightmare. On her way home from upstate New York, Lisa stops at a service center minutes before an armored car heist. Four men are executed before her eyes—one, an off-duty FBI agent she tried to help. Now Lisa is the FBI's secret witness and the key to finding the fugitive killers.

FBI agent Frank Morrow leads the investigation of the high-profile case. Hiding a very personal secret, Frank knows this assignment will be like no other he's ever faced...and it could be his last.

Pressured to land an exclusive, journalist Jack Gannon chases the elusive thread of an anonymous tipster. With every instinct telling Jack the story is within his grasp, he risks everything to reveal the chilling truth...before the cold-blooded killers can take the next step in their vengeful mission.

They Disappeared

A loving family, fracturing under pressure…

Jeff Griffin, a mechanic, and his wife, Sarah, travel from Montana to Manhattan to give their nine-year-old son, Cole, his dream vacation as they secretly face the heart-wrenching turmoil that has them teetering on divorce.

In the wake of their heartbreak, a mother and son disappear…

While sightseeing near Times Square, Jeff steps into a store to buy batteries for their camera—but upon returning to the street he finds that Sarah and Cole have vanished.

A frantic father searches for clues as time ticks down…

Battling his anguish and police suspicions, Jeff fights to rescue Sarah and Cole. He knows now that the love he and Sarah have is worth saving. But he could lose the chance to tell her amid growing fears that they have become entangled in an unfolding plot that could have global consequences.

In Desperation

Eleven-year-old Tilly Martin is dragged from her suburban bedroom. Her mother, Cora, pleads for mercy but the kidnappers are clear: if they don't get their $5 million back in five days, Tilly dies. If anyone contacts police, Tilly dies.
Journalist Jack Gannon's estranged sister, Cora, disappeared without a trace decades ago. Now she is frantically reaching out to him for help. Cora tells him about the shameful mistakes she's made—but she guards the one secret that may be keeping her daughter alive.

A twenty-year-old assassin, haunted by the faces of the people he's executed, seeks absolution as he sets out to commit his last murders as a hired killer.

In the U.S. and Mexico, police and the press go flat out on Tilly's case. But as Gannon digs deeper into his anguished sister's past, the hours tick down on his niece's life and he faces losing a fragment of his rediscovered family forever.

[NightBird]

Jack and the Beanstalk by Ed McBain from his Matthew Hope series is $2.99.

Jack McKinney is a bright-eyed twenty-year-old in the business of buying a snapbean farm with forty grand in cash, and attorney Matthew Hope assists with the deal—until Jack’s found dead in his condo, stabbed fourteen times.

The backwoods seller wants his forty grand pronto, but nobody can find the cash. And when Matthew pays a visit to the McKinney ranch, he gets more than he bargained for. Jack’s mother, Veronica, is a woman who looks half her years, with cool gray eyes to match her ambivalent attitude toward her son’s death. The only thing more dangerous than Veronica is daughter Sunny, the mirror image of her mother and a girl who can hold her liquor. Everyone seems to have a theory about the missing money, but Matthew’s the only one who can get to the bottom of the bum deal.

The fourth installment of Ed McBain’s Matthew Hope Mysteries, Jack and the Beanstalk delivers our lawyer into a world of seedy folks, sour deals, and a family gone afoul.

Prime Suspect by Lynda LaPlante is $1.99 from HarperCollins. Originally published in 1991 by Severn House.

An international bestseller, Lynda La Plante’s thrilling detective novel Prime Suspect introduced readers around the world to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, a gritty investigator locked in a tooth-and-nail struggle to claim the authority, acceptance, and respect she deserves from Scotland Yard's chauvinist detective squad—even as she desperately tracks the maniac now running loose in the streets of London. Fans of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone books and the work of Kathy Reichs or Karin Slaughter will be immediately drawn to La Plante’s Jane Tennison, the remarkable, no-nonsense police woman who laid the groundwork for all the rest who followed.

[BelleZora]

Just received notification that a book on my watch list dropped to .99: Rosary Murders: The Father Koesler Mysteries: Book 1 by William Kienzle.

Amazon Canada

It is still £3.79 in the UK.

This is an excellent, suspenseful mystery that I am looking forward to reading again.

[koland]

Another free from Padwolf Publishing (scifi/thriller so cross-posted)

Anywhere But Here by Edward J. McFadden III

What would you do if your son and his dog disappeared into a rip in space-time? Would you risk everything and follow? One father did. Join Willie in his race across time and space to save his son. Along the way he finds he may be the only one who can also save the universe. The only things standing in his way are the causality cops, a hoard of zombies, a cosmic junkyard, Blue Heaven, and the Intron. The fabric that holds reality together is able to tear apart, destroy the very sequence of time. If one desperate father can't stop it, all that ever was or will be shall be lost. Willie quickly finds himself wishing he was anywhere but here.

http://www.amazon.com/Anywhere-But-H.../dp/B00C5TU8TW

[Critteranne]

Originally Posted by BelleZora

This is an excellent, suspenseful mystery that I am looking forward to reading again.

The Rosary Murders is so good that I saw that it was available as an eBook, bought it when it was at its regular price so that I could read it again some day.

But luckily, it wasn't all that expensive to begin with.

[pdurrant]

The Amazon UK Daily Deal for Sunday 12 May 2013 is the first four "Lovejoy" books by Jonathan Gash.

First book's blurb:
"Every antique dealer is a bit of a detective, following clues to find the trophies that pay the rent, but when Lovejoy takes on the job of tracking down a pair of duelling pistols so rare that he's not even sure actually exist, he needs all the instincts of a detective to pick his way through an unsolved crime."

UK Daily Deal

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by koland

Another free from Padwolf Publishing (scifi/thriller so cross-posted)

Anywhere But Here by Edward J. McFadden III

Also at Amazon UK.

[NightBird]

Free Be Mine by Rick Mofina.

A personal message written in human blood is left for crime reporter Molly Wilson at the murder scene of her boyfriend, San Francisco Homicide Inspector, Cliff Hooper.

The horrific death of a revered cop shocks the San Francisco Police Department's Homicide Detail. Shaken to the core, his grieving fellow detectives go flat out to find his killer under the glare of the city's news media.

Be Mine is a study in psychological suspense that takes the reader on an unrelenting nail-biting journey into the darkest regions of a tormented human heart.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by NightBird

Free Be Mine by Rick Mofina.

Also at Amazon UK.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by NightBird

Free Be Mine by Rick Mofina.

A personal message written in human blood is left for crime reporter Molly Wilson at the murder scene of her boyfriend, San Francisco Homicide Inspector, Cliff Hooper.

The horrific death of a revered cop shocks the San Francisco Police Department's Homicide Detail. Shaken to the core, his grieving fellow detectives go flat out to find his killer under the glare of the city's news media.

Be Mine is a study in psychological suspense that takes the reader on an unrelenting nail-biting journey into the darkest regions of a tormented human heart.

Obviously, the teaser above is all wrong and really quite boring. Here's how it should read:

A personal message written in chocolate is left for crime reporter Molly Wilson at the murder scene of her boyfriend, San Francisco Chocolate Inspector, Cliff Hooper.

The horrific death by chocolate of a revered fat cop shocks the San Francisco Police Department's Chocolate Detail. Shaken to the core, his grieving fellow detectives go flat on their stomachs and try to eat the rest of the chocolate.

Be Mine is a study in a psychological eating disorder that takes the reader on an unrelenting gut-bending journey into the darkest regions of a chocolate factory.

We really can't have authors writing their own copy. I hope this helps.



Dr. Drib

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The Amazon UK Daily Deal for Sunday 12 May 2013 is the first four "Lovejoy" books by Jonathan Gash.

First book's blurb:
"Every antique dealer is a bit of a detective, following clues to find the trophies that pay the rent, but when Lovejoy takes on the job of tracking down a pair of duelling pistols so rare that he's not even sure actually exist, he needs all the instincts of a detective to pick his way through an unsolved crime."

UK Daily Deal

Bought them. Very good news - this is a series I've been waiting for in ebook format for a long time.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The Amazon UK Daily Deal for Sunday 12 May 2013 is the first four "Lovejoy" books by Jonathan Gash.

First book's blurb:
"Every antique dealer is a bit of a detective, following clues to find the trophies that pay the rent, but when Lovejoy takes on the job of tracking down a pair of duelling pistols so rare that he's not even sure actually exist, he needs all the instincts of a detective to pick his way through an unsolved crime."

UK Daily Deal

Thank you.
I picked them up too. they are almost $8.00 in the US.
Apache