Free (Amazon) Assorted Titles May 27th listed separately

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Not much is eye-catching in the free Amazon for at least today pile. Numerous repeats. I'll post what I can find.

Loco Moco (A Darby Stansfield Thriller) by Ty Hutchinson. Self published but if you grabbed the first two in the series you might as well complete the set.
http://www.amazon.com/Loco-Darby-Sta...8143847&sr=1-1

The world’s only consultant to the criminal underworld has just experienced his closest brush with death yet, and wonders if it’s time to quit the biz.

In need of some serious soul searching, Darby Stansfield and his girlfriend, Izzy Weber, set off for a summer surfing adventure in Hawaii. But what the land of Aloha offers instead, is the same temptations he’s eager to escape—one in particular, the North Beach Boys. Hoping to resist the lure of the local gang, Darby focuses on improving his relationship with Izzy. All is fun in the sun until their beach house is broken into.

From there, the mysterious threats begin to escalate, forcing Darby and Izzy to hire a local private detective. Between the PI working the case and the security improvements made around their place, the ideal summer appears to be back on track. Wrong.

What they don’t realize is that a stranger is watching them and someone is going to die.

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Today's all 5-star rated title. Glowing reviews. Author claims to have researched extensively. Fiction with non-fiction mixed in.
The Last Jump: A Novel of World War II by John E. Nevola.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Jump-...8144386&sr=1-1

The Last Jump is a war story, a mystery, a love tale, and a tribute to the people who won World War II. Fact and fiction intermix seamlessly to unravel a secret passionately guarded by four aging soldiers. The reader is transported back in time to an imperfect America, with all is incredible virtues and vexing shortcomings, struggling with racial and gender issues while fighting for its very survival. It was a time when Americans stood shoulder to shoulder to free the world from tyranny. It celebrates the spirit and courage of ordinary citizens pitted against the militaristic regimes of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. It was a time when the sons of presidents and senators served, fought, suffered and died alongside average Americans and famous celebrities.

J.P. Kilroy, a middle-aged divorced journalist, regrets ignoring his mother's deathbed request. Even her last letter, which told of the existence of a mysterious family secret, did not motivate him to reconcile with the father who left them 30 years ago. When he receives an invitation from the White House to attend a Medal of Honor awards ceremony for African-Americans, he also discovers his estranged father recently passed away.
Was the secret now lost forever?

Kilroy also discovers that four aging veterans, the only links to the past, not only know the secret but swore an oath never to reveal it. They are the free-spirited Sky Johnson, a rough and tumble paratrooper, Frank West, the studious company commander, Harley Tidrick, Omaha Beach veteran and cousin of his father's best wartime buddy, and Lincoln Abraham, the only living black honoree at the ceremony.

With the aid of Cynthia Powers, an alluring Army press liaison, Kilroy accepts the challenge to cajole the veterans into revealing the mystery. Their conversations take him back in time to a country in grave danger but a country as united as never before or since. But the old warriors stubbornly resist until the last one passes on and Kilroy's hopes are dashed. But one reaches from beyond the grave to identify the only other person who has the answer and Kilroy races death to reach her. And a shocking conclusion awaits him, if only he can get there in time!

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Visions Of Ransom Lake by Marcia Lynn McClure. Historical romance originally published in 2002.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Visions-Ra...8145382&sr=1-1

Youthful beauty, naïve innocence, a romantic imagination thirsting for adventure-an apt description of Vaden Valmont, who would soon find the adventure and mystery she had always longed to experience-in the form of a man.

A somber recluse, Ransom Lake descended from his solitary concealment in the mountains, wholly disinterested in people and their trivial affairs. And somehow, young Vaden managed to be ever in his way-either by accident or because of her own unique ability to stumble into a quandary.

Yet the enigmatic Ransom Lake would involuntarily become Vaden's unwitting tutor. Through him, she would experience joy and passion the like even Vaden had never imagined. Yes, Vaden Valmont stepped innocently, yet irrevocably, into love with the secretive, seemingly callous man-Ransom Lake.

But there were other life's lessons Ransom Lake would inadvertently convey to her as well. The darker side of life-despair, guilt, heartache. Would Ransom Lake be the means of Vaden's dreams come true? Or the cause of her complete desolation?

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Repeats from Abingdon Press

http://www.amazon.com/Texans-Promise...8145548&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Blame-It-The-M...8145606&sr=1-1

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Some comic relief.

Dumb White Husband vs. The Grocery Store (A Short Story) by Benjamin Wallace
http://www.amazon.com/White-Husband-...8146113&sr=1-1

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Michael Parker is once again offering two of his mystery thrillers. Link is to his author's page.

http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Parker...sort=pricerank

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Lawyer Kill (Nick Teffinger Thriller) by R.J. Jagger. Several positive reviews from Kirkus, LJ, Booklist and Konrath. Previous titles published by Pegasus Books. Might be worth a sample.
http://www.amazon.com/Lawyer-Kill-Te...8147014&sr=1-1

When a young associate attorney at a prominent law firm is brutally murdered, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds himself swept into the exotic world of Pantage Phair, a beautiful young attorney suffering from memory loss who is desperately trying to piece her past together only to find that the deeper she digs the more she may be the very killer that Teffinger is closing in on.

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Edit:Just noticed this is a repeat from arcadata's thread.

Unfaithful Wives by Orrie Hitt. Mystery by one the masters of sleazy 50s pulp. Originally published by Beacon Press in 1956.
http://www.amazon.com/Unfaithful-Wiv...8148497&sr=1-1

One slut deserves another

While her husband was away, Rita Sharpe would play. Sometimes with her stupid, but strong gardener. More often with slick Norman Williams. Yet she was no worse than bosomy Sandra Thomas! Sandra slyly cheated with practically every man who came along…not excepting Rita’s own rugged spouse….

His name was Fred, and he was perfectly willing to make the most of a wife—anybody’s wife. He could not foresee that thanks to smooth Norman, the cozy situation would explode into a frenzy of hate and wild brutality. In the end Fred was forced to deny both Rita and Sandra—and gamble his life on the sinful need of still another unfaithful woman!

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Anarchy Books is offering 3 free titles for two days.

Serial Killers Incorporated by Andy Remic. Mystery/thriller. Other titles published by Orbit and Angry Robot.
http://www.amazon.com/Serial-Killers...148996&sr=1-10

Meet Callaghan, a hard-drinking, drug-fuelled, womanising no-good son-of-a-*****. He's the amoral hardcore photographer for Black & White, the tabloid rag that tells it as it is. Or at least, how it should be.

Callaghan's in way too deep with Mia, his Mexican stripper girlfriend... and even deeper with Sophie, estranged wife to Vladimir "Vodka" Katchevsy, infamous Romanian gun-runner and self-eulogising expert at human problem solving. People start to die. And Callaghan's caught in the middle. A situation even his Porsche GT3, Canary Wharf Penthouse suite and corrupt politician contacts can't solve.

At the nadir of his downward spiral, Callaghan is approached by a man: a serial killer who brings him a very unique and dangerous proposition...

Dark Asylum by Matthew Cowden. Horror.
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Asylum-eb...8149454&sr=1-1

All families have secrets. Some are just far darker than others.
Pennsylvania, 1895. Evil and madness hide within the walls of the Gaskell’s gothic, country mansion, and some believe ghosts roam the halls to torture the living. Emily Radcliffe, the Gaskell’s governess, has her own dark past, one she has been hiding from under the shelter of this sinister home.

A blood thirsty killer escapes from a nearby mental hospital, leaving a trail of carnage and cat-and-mouse games through the streets of Allegheny City, and giving the police the impression that the Gaskell family may be his eventual target. Mystery, madness and carnage gradually surround Emily as she becomes trapped in this dark world of secrets and sin.

Dark Asylum is a tale of the late Edgar Gaskell, a man who is the key to unlocking the horrifying secrets of a tortured family and horrors beyond imagination... Only read Dark Asylum if you wish to suffer...

New York Nights by Eric Brown. Sci-fi adventure. Originally published by Gollancz.
http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Night...8149582&sr=1-3

New York 2040 is a city of the lost. So,a good place to work in Missing Persons. But business is not so good that Hal Halliday can forget his sister, burned alive when she was a child. Now, only VR offers the chance to bring her back. The future may yet allow Hal to live in the past – if he can survive his next job…

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Hmmm. There was more today than I thought at first glance.

Latest issue of Schlock webzine.
http://www.amazon.com/Schlock-Webzin...8150130&sr=1-6