Minus all the wonderful prose and research, I found a couple of titles today that may be of interest (and are not likely to stay free long):
Frosty The Hitman, Jon F. Merz -- free short story, DRM-free download for either your Kindle or nook/EPUB ereader or as a PDF to read on your computer. This is the same author (and same series) as the still free
Dead Drop: A Lawson Vampire Bonus Story.
Robert W. Walker has
seven books free on Kindle today. His author bio mentions over 40 published books and I've managed to pick up 10 of them this week (to go with the ones I already had).
J.R. Rain has
five books free today on Kindle, including
Elvis Has Not Left the Building, the first in his Elvis Mystery series.
Scott Nicholson has another pair of free titles for you today:
October Girls (An urban fantasy / paranormal romance) and
The Harvest.
RIPTIDE fits into Paul Levine's Jake Lassiter series (it was written first, apparently, but was published much later and looks to be about the fifth in chronology, with a previous publication title of Slashback). Levine is a winner of the John D. MacDonald fiction award and has been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he wrote more than 20 episodes of the CBS military drama "JAG." It looks like the series is very reasonably priced right now, at $2.99/title.
Night Corridor, by award-winning author Joan Hall Hovey, has managed to get some very good reviews.
A few others that had interesting reviews:
Stay Tuned, by Lauren Clark
Thicker Than Water (Blood Brothers), by Greg Sisco
Rex Rising (Elei's Chronicles), by Chrystalla Thoma (also, the short story
Hera)
Six Moon Summer (Seasons of the Moon), by SM Reine
On Berryhill Road, by Tommie Lyn
Borrowed Time, by CJ Lyons (several titles published via Penguin and co-authored with Erin Brockovich)
It's A Dog's Life (A DI Lorne Simpkins novellette), by Mel Comley