Free/Bargain Suspense/Mystery/Thriller April 2013

[bookratt]

FREE again Amazon US and UK

Originally Posted by NightBird

Free True Crime: A Mother's Trial by Nancy Wright. Published by Random House in 1984. UK

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon - A Sporting Murder (Greg McKenzie Mysteries) by Chester D Campbell
'Christmas week takes on a deadly flavor when PI Greg
McKenzie and his wife and partner, Jill, take on an investigation involving
rumored shady dealings in a business group's plan to bring a National
Basketball Association team to Nashville. Their client is a fan group of the
local NHL hockey team who feel the fan base
of their beloved Predators will be fatally diluted. When Greg goes to meet an
informant who promises information that will "blow your mind," he finds the
young man shot dead.'

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sporting-Mur...=I1M9DA19BI46H

US
http://www.amazon.com/Sporting-Murde...ester+campbell

[BelleZora]

Free today from Amazon: The Ambassador's Wife by Jake Needham. First published by Marshall Cavendish (Singapore, 2011). US UK

"THE AMBASSADOR'S WIFE is another terrific book from a terrific writer. In the genre of crime fiction set in Asia, Jake Needham is in a class of his own." --The Bangkok Post

[koland]

Closure: An eShort Story by John Lescroart, M. J. Rose [Simon and Schuster (pre-order)]

From two bestselling masters of suspense, a gripping, erotic story about a female assassin whose unsettling past comes back to haunt her

Beautiful twenty-something Lucy Delray has spent two months in therapy when she says to her psychologist, "When I destroy someone...I don't feel anything." An avenging angel who lures men into her bed and then kills them, she qualifies this shocking confession: "I only kill men who deserve it. Who have done the unforgivable. Who need to be punished." But when Lucy lures an influential man from her childhood back into her life-a painter she befriended when she was only seven years old-the charming temptress may be committing the ultimate crime: letting a long-buried secret interfere with the job at hand

http://www.amazon.com/Closure-An-eSh...dp/B00C8UHUZI/

[NightBird]

Pitch Dark by Steven Sidor is $2.28 from Macmillan.

It’s Christmas Eve, and Vera Coffey is on the run. She doesn't know the men who are after her. She has never seen them before, but she has seen the horrors they visit on people who don’t give them what they want. Vera has something they want badly. She’d give it up if it weren’t the only thing keeping her alive.

The Larkins have known the toll violence takes on a family ever since they were trapped in a madman’s shooting rampage. They've been coping with the trauma for nearly twenty years. Now, on a cold and lonely winter morning, Vera collapses at their roadside motel. And she’s brought something with her. Together they'll have to make one last stand against an evil that has followed them further than anyone could've imagined.

With a thriller so fast-paced that it’s impossible to let go and an ominous sense that everything is destined to go wrong, Pitch Dark is an intense read from a master of suspense.

[NightBird]

Another bargain thriller from Larry Bond's backlist: Cauldron for $.99. Originally published by Warner Books in 1993.

In late 1997, world order has been destabilized by recession and extreme nationalism. France and Germany unite to form the " European Confederation." EurCon's attempt to Eastern Europe under its control meets with resistance, particularly from Poland, and soon the U.S. and Britain are pulled into the struggle. The war and its build-up are reported by various observers: the senior CIA field man in Moscow, the private advisor to the U.S. president, a French intelligence agent, a Hungarian police commander, a Russian intelligence man, a CIA economist and officers of the American, German and Polish armed forces. The nonstop action includes massive air, naval and land battles with first-line equipment.

[caleb72]

I guess this is the thread for this one. The Kindle Daily Deal today in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.

This is one of my favourite books so take this also as a recommendation.

$1.99 for a limited time only in Amazon (US). Not sure about other stores.

Amazon (US): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...d_i=1000677541

[koland]

Short Sentence: 10 stories of dastardly deeds by Parker Bilal, Conor Fitzgerald, Thomas Mogford, James Runcie, Anne Zouroudi
Bloomsbury

From Obsession and Payback to Secrets and Lies, Deception and Bad Judgement, these thrilling tales will shock and surprise you with their cunning. Short Sentence was launched in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing, in association with the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook. Following a short story written by one of Bloomsbury’s brilliant crime authors, competitors were challenged to take up the same theme and write of a dastardly deed using 1000 words or less. This is Bloomsbury’s collection of the winning entries in parallel with the five brilliant authors, Parker Bilal, Conor Fitzgerald, Anne Zouroudi, Thomas Mogford and James Runcie.

http://www.amazon.com/Short-Sentence...dp/B00BS7PNYM/

(very short stories, as only 44 pages total)

[NightBird]

Free short stories from BTAP: Beat to a Pulp: Superhero.

What makes a superhero? Someone with special powers ... Ordinary people doing good deeds ... Anyone with sophisticated technological gadgets and incredible agility? Superheroes can spring up from the most unexpected people in the most unusual places, and BEAT to a PULP: Superhero has gathered some of the best hardboiled and noir crime stories with a superhero bend. Billy Mitchell, the six-year-old "Red Avenger" in Kevin Burton Smith's tale, has an innocence and a special something that draws us to want to don a mask and tie a towel around our necks. Steve Weddle dissects the reality of a world in which super-powered "others" walk in the midst of normal people who tend to quote only parts of the Bible. And James Reasoner's story is set in a time not usually associated with superheroes -- the American Revolution -- yet Patrick Mainwaring finds the classic essence of a superhero. Other top contributors include Jake Hinkson, Garnett Elliott, Liam Jose, Sandra Seamans, Jerry Bloomfield, Thomas Pluck, Keith Rawson, Court Merrigan, Benoit Lelievre, and Chad Eagleton. If you like the work of Frank Miller or the recent Dark Knight films directed by Christopher Nolan, then you'll enjoy the grit of these thirteen tales in BEAT to a PULP: Superhero.

[sunnysmiles]

Not free at Uk only for prime members.

[NightBird]

Random Violence by Jassy Mackenzie is down from $9.99 to $3.69 from Soho. This is the first book in her Jade de Jong series set in South Africa.

In Johannesburg prosperous whites live in gated communities; when they exit their cars to open the gates, car-jackings are common. But seldom is the victim killed, much less shot twice, like Annette Botha. Piet Botha, the husband of the wealthy woman, is the primary suspect in his wife's murder.

P.I. Jade de Jong fled South Africa ten years ago after her father was killed. Now back in town, she offers to help her father's former assistant, Superintendent David Patel, with his investigation of this case. Under apartheid, Patel, of Indian descent, could never have attained his present position. But he is feeling pressure from his "old line" boss with respect to this investigation and fears lingering prejudice is at work.

As Jade probes into this and other recent car-jacking cases, a pattern begins to emerge, a pattern that goes back to her father's murder and that involves a vast and intricate series of crimes for profit.

[NightBird]

Free from Crossroad Press: Sweetie's Diamonds by Raymond Benson.

FROM THE ESSENTIAL RAYMOND BENSON COLLECTION

WINNER OF THE 2006 "BEST THRILLER" AWARD (THE LOVEY) AT THE LOVE IS MURDER CONFERENCE FOR AUTHORS AND READERS!

From the internationally-acclaimed former author of continuation James Bond novels and other works of suspense comes a new and exciting thriller.

Diane Boston lives with her Marfan syndrome-afflicted 13-year-old son in a suburb of Chicago and teaches social studies at the high school, with the students even voting her Teacher of the Year. But she has some dark secrets. Her ex-husband Greg always suspected that Diane kept things from him, but he has no idea just how right he is. When Diane's son, David, finds a box of unmarked videotapes and watches one of them out of curiosity, he discovers that it's a hardcore adult movie from the late 1970s. The star, Lucy Luv, was an actress that mysteriously disappeared in 1980. Some suspected she'd been murdered. David recognizes the actress as his mother. Then, somehow, the news of Diane's involvement in the adult film business hits the streets and causes chaos at her school and at home. It also attracts the attention of the West Coast porn czar who has ties with organized crime. Apparently when Lucy Luv disappeared, she took a cache of stolen diamonds with her. This is the catalyst for a non-stop roller-coaster ride of suspense and mystery that involves the dark side of the adult film industry, the mob, kidnapping, and murder.

and

The Hanged Man by T.J. MacGregor.

In a quiet home in the Fort Lauderdale suburbs, a woman psychically witnesses a murder. In a posh estate, a few miles away, a man lies dead. The only clues are a collection of Tarot cards sent to the victim's home and a nuisance call from a Fort Lauderdale woman who claims to have had a vision of the killing. For Detective Wayne Sheppard, the killing of famous criminologist Andrew Steele and the disappearance of his beautiful wife is about to test everything he has ever believed and everything he knows about logic, police work, and scientific truth.

[NightBird]

Another freebie from Barry Eisler's backlist: A Clean Kill in Tokyo (previously published as Rain Fall).

Name: John Rain.
Vocation: Assassin.
Specialty: Natural Causes.
Base of operations: Tokyo.
Availability: Worldwide.

Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn't care about why...

Until he gets involved with Midori Kawamura, a beautiful jazz pianist--and the daughter of his latest kill.

Includes a note from the author introducing the new edition. This is book #1 in the John Rain assassin series, though each entry is written as a standalone and you can read them in any order you like.

Get the audio for $1.99 from Audible.

[Synamon]

Originally Posted by NightBird

Another freebie from Barry Eisler's backlist: A Clean Kill in Tokyo (previously published as Rain Fall).



Get the audio for $1.99 from Audible.

Thanks very much! This audiobook was already on my wishlist at Audible, now I can pick it up for $1.99.

[NightBird]

YW, Synamon.