Free/Bargain Suspense/Mystery/Thriller March 2013

[BelleZora]

Originally Posted by Loosheesh

Amazon US link for Where's Billie?

Thanks! I corrected the original link.

[BelleZora]

Free today from Amazon courtesy of Stackpole Books: Faded Coat of Blue by Owen Parry, a historical thriller and mystery set during the civil war, originally published in 1999 by William Morrow & Company. Excellent reviews from Publisher's Weekly and Booklist. High ratings at Goodreads.
UK

Abel Jones, a Welsh immigrant and Union army enlistee, investigates the death of Anthony Fowler, a young volunteer captain whose murder is blamed on the Confederates. Jones pursues the blood of the battlefield through the intrigues of Washington, D.C., where evil and good intertwine in this Owen Parry novel of the Civil War.

[BelleZora]

AnemicOak just reported Faded Coat of Blue in the Stackpole thread, along with the second book in the Abel Jones historical mystery series which is also free today. Shadows of Glory (Abel Jones #2)

UK link for Shadows of Glory (Abel Jones #2).

[HarryT]

Thanks - those two books look interesting.

[Skydog]

Thanks very much, BelleZora.

[koland]

Death Will Save Your Life (A Bruce Kohler Mystery)

This novella is the fourth in the Bruce Kohler mystery series by Agatha- and Derringer- Award nominee Elizabeth Zelvin. (About 100 pages.)

Recovering alcoholic Bruce Kohler and his good friends Jimmy and Barbara decide to escape the big city for a wellness and couples workshop outside of Sedona. The joint is called The Aquarius, a New Age community the locals have taken to calling The Woo-Woo Farm. But the serene retreat has much more in store than yoga mats, didgeridoos, ecstatic dancing and aboriginal tracking.

During an early morning hike, the trio encounters America’s bestselling relationship guru, Melvin Markowitz, posed for meditation and strangled to death with a luggage strap. The race is on for the three friends to find the murderer. Bruce falls for the victim's widow, Jimmy longs for the city, and Barbara minds everybody's business as usual.

But when Melvin's baby sister's volatile husband "Madhouse" is also found dead, it seems everyone at the Woo-Woo Farm is suddenly in danger from more than just a handful of holistic loonies...

Readers will laugh and cry and fall in love with Bruce’s smart mouth and heart of gold, Barbara’s comical efforts to fight her addiction to helping (she knows she's co-dependent), and Jimmy’s solid sweetness and cyberspace wizardry.

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Kohler-M...dp/B00AFEGB1I/

[koland]

Poppin' A Cold One, by Rick Koster, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher eKensington.

Finn Coffee's scored the perfect job, in the perfect town, with the perfect girlfriend, and the perfect boss. What could go wrong?

Funny you should ask……

From golf balls to corpses, Finn Coffee likes things to go neatly underground. When he lands a job after graduating from mortuary school with a prestigious funeral home in the glittery casino town of Treasure Coast, Mississippi, the perfect setup turns sour once Finn discovers his co-worker Brad Sheepcake has been making movies on the side—starring attractive ingénues with a singular talent: they’re dead. Brad’s sideline—necro-porn—is so successful, a ruthless crime syndicate muscles in on the action. Problem is, there aren’t enough pretty girls dying fast enough to meet the demand. To speed up the process, hotties in Treasure Coast start disappearing — including a New Orleans heiress. Enter Crescent City PI Kip Quigley, hired to find the girl. Kip might look like a grown-up Hardy Boy, but he was fired from the NOLA police department for excessive violence and he’s lost patience with a stupid world. During his investigation, he befriends Finn. And when the mobsters kidnap Finn’s girlfriend, Polly Whitlock, to ensure he keeps his mouth shut, Kip must widen his scope to take on the entire Dixie Mafia and a lunatic former Southern rock musician. Otherwise, Polly might well become the the star of the mob’s next film — The Naked and the Dead.

Because poppin’ a cold one ain’t always about beer…

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008H6GIE6/
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/popp...=9781601830265

[koland]

Dial C for Chihuahua, the first novel in the Barking Detective Mysteries series by Waverly Curtis, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and Sony, courtesy of publisher Kensington Books. The next in the series, Chihuahua Confidential, can now be pre-ordered.

"I am Pepe. But you can call me el Jefe."

Pepe may have soft white fur, big brown eyes, and mucho attitude--but he's no furry fashion fad. Pepe can talk--even if his new owner, Geri Sullivan, seems to be the only person who can understand him.

When Geri takes on her first assignment for a quirky investigator named Jimmy G and stumbles over a Seattle millionaire's corpse, Pepe proves to be worth his weight in liver treats. Suspicion falls on the not-so-grieving widow, who wants to finance a reality TV show, Dancing With Dogs.

Normally, Pepe wouldn't be caught muerte in a sparkly costume. However, he has to sniff out the real killer and keep Geri safe. Lesser dogs might flinch. But Pepe isn't the kind to turn tail and run. . .

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007XIC0KA
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dial...=9780758279675
https://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/wa...00000000779147

[libellus]

I received an email today from Soho Press with 2 ebooks on sale for $299 or less on all platforms for the month of March, Stuart Neville's The Ghosts of Belfast and Timothy Hallinan's Crashed:

http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=...5&e=b9c952449b

Links should be active within this link...

[Apache]

I hope you meant $2.99.
Apache

[libellus]

Um, yeah. Definitely meant $2.99. Another reason punctuation is so important...

[Mort1997]

Smoky Mountain Tracks (Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries) by Donna Ball
'As a native of the small town of Hansonville, North Carolina,and a wilderness rescue worker, Raine Stockton knows the Smoky Mountains as well as anyone could, but she gave up her Search and Rescue work after a tragic loss. Now she reluctantly returns to active duty to help find a young child who has been kidnapped and taken deep into the forest. But as Raine's young golden retriever, Cisco, picks up the trail, his enthusiasm fails to make up for his lack of experience, and their first foray into the forest results in disaster...and the discover of the kidnapper-- shot dead. '

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mountain-Tra...73798&sr=1-172

US
http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Track...rds=donna+ball

Devils Among Us by Chastity Harris
'Sharp-tongued Richmond City Police Detective Devin Dushane is on a never ending quest for redemption from the tragic nightmares of her youth. Pushing away her loved ones and pushing the boundaries of her job finds her temporarily suspended after a risky sting operation goes very wrong. With time on her hands, Devin travels to the small Virginia town where her alcoholic father grew up. And where the unsolved murder of his sister thirty-five years earlier, set into motion the unraveling of Devin’s family before she was even born. If Devin can ever hope to heal her broken family and her broken soul she must uncover the secrets locked away in this sleepy community, and find the devil that has risen among them. '

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-Among...74013&sr=1-218
US
http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Among-U...hastity+harris

[Mort1997]

Free today Ashes to Ashes (a Peter Brichter mystery) - Mary Monica Pulver
'A body is found in “Crazy Dave” Wagner’s appliance store after the store is destroyed by a fire. Detective Peter Brichter is called in because local organized crime is thought to be involved. Brichter consults arson investigator Captain Isaac (Zak) Kader, and other officers in the police department, but no matter how many suspects they interview, they seem no closer to solving the case. Meanwhile, at home, Kori Brichter struggles with the right timing to tell Peter that she’s pregnant, after they agreed they would not have children. '

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ashes-Peter-...I2K8QCA06ZUDQC

US
http://www.amazon.com/Ashes-Peter-Br...ca+mary+pulver

[BelleZora]

Free today from Amazon courtesy of Telemachus Press: Mandarin Yellow (Socrates Cheng Mysteries by Stephen M. Roth.
UK

[BelleZora]

Repeat freebie (US only): The Blue Hour by T. Jefferson Parker, a three-time Edgar Award winner. Formerly published by Hyperion and HarperCollins.