I'm surprised this is still free, but since it is, updates go here. Quite a lot of actual backlist stuff, amidst the usual established author self-pubs. Lots of romance and suspense/crime thrillers for those who enjoy such and some promising-looking historicals.
Not sorted, I skipped most repeats. Enjoy.
Ellis Vidler re-offers his/her 2002 Overmountain small-pressed psychic vs serial killer suspense thriller which has a favourable Publisher's Weekly review. I think this is a repeat, but it's old enough that I don't have it in the auxiliary account, and we've gotten a bunch of new members since the New Year, so:
Haunting Refrain
Anthony Neil Smith returns with the 2009 Bleak House small-pressed sequel to his earlier freebied crime thriller Yellow Medicine. The Publisher's Weekly review warns that it is "violence-laden" but says that "fans of the darkest noir will be satisfied":
Hogdoggin' Incidentally, it turns out that
Yellow Medicine is being repeated if you missed it earlier.
Cynthia Thomason offers a 2006 Medallion Press historical romance:
Gabriel's Angel
Virginia Henley returns with a 1985 Avon looks-like-historical-romance (it says "rogue" and "orphanage" and while those presumably still exist in modern times, I don't think we get much contemporary fiction with them in it):
Wild Hearts
Ellora's Cave-published Valerie Douglas/V.J. Devereaux returns with a contemporary romantic suspense which looks like it should have more leprechauns on its very green cover:
Lucky Charm
Bell Bridge Books-published Deborah Grace Staley returns with another short tie-in romance to some series of hers:
The Trip (A Fast Break Romance)
Martha Powers' mother vs serial killer thriller was originally out from Oceanview in 2006, or so it implies in the Product Info where their name is entered (no linked paperback and I'm too lazy to dig):
Death Angel AS it turns out she offers another uncovering-the-mysterious-past-while-thwarting-a-killer thriller which was also Oceanviewed in 2008:
Conspiracy of Silence
Minor ISFDBed Chris Howard's sf thriller quotes praise in the blurb from Cory Doctorow whose name you all should know from DRM/eBook issues if not for his actual writing, so you may want to give a try if you trust his judgment to:
Nanowhere
Dorchester/Leisure-published mystery/crime writer Steven Torres returns with a short:
The Devil's Snare: A Comedy
Ann Macela offers a 2008 Medallion Press historically based digging-into-the-past mystery with strong romantic elements (the romance-outlet reviews quoted in the blurb emphasize that there's a dominant mystery/suspense portion, it looks like) for which she lists a stack of specific award nominations:
Windswept
Frank Tuttle who has a minor
ISFDB entry offers a supernatural short involving a riverboat which originally appeared in Weird Tales magazine in 2000 and was voted best story by the readers:
Passing the Narrows
Paul S. Kemp who writes Forgotten Realms and Star Wars tie-in novels (
ISFDB entry) reoffers his collection of shorts if you missed it earlier:
Ephemera: Dark Stories from the mind of Paul S. Kemp
UK writer Peter Michael Rosenberg returns with his 1994 Pocket-published literary suspense thriller with strong romantic elements which he says won a Betty Trask Award and quotes much praise from UK newspapers in the blurb:
Kissing Through a Pane of Glass
Andrew E. Kaufman says that he has written stories for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and is an Emmy-nominated writer/producer. There are a number of people with his name listed in IMDB and I'm not going to bother to dig further. He offers a self-pub "forensic paranormal mystery":
While the Savage Sleeps
Fellow MR member author Keta Diablo, who's had something out from Decadent Publishing, returns with another one of her paranormal historical romances:
Sojourn With A Stranger
Stephen L. Boehner seems to be another ex-Oceanview author offering his 2009 legal/psychological thriller centred around the child abuse cover-ups in the Roman Catholic Church:
The Purple Culture
Midnight Ink-published Deb Baker returns with another one of her cozy mysteries, which seems to have been 2006 Berkley-published (I had to dig through her paperback listings while looking at who'd published her earlier, which I had forgotten, since they're not linked up):
Dolled Up For Murder: A Gretchen Birch Murder Mystery
Berkley-published Michele Scott writing under her self-pub pen name A.K. Alexander offer a mother vs. serial killler thriller (2nd of the day!):
Mommy, May I?
Berkley-published fellow MR member author Paul Clayton returns with his historical drama:
White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Moroccan-born Israeli author Mois Benarroch offers a Jewish science fiction novella which he says was published in Hebrew and now translated, and that he has some local litfic prizes. A google search does bring up his name in conjunction with a number of litfic/poetry-looking sites/blogs:
Home
Fellow MR member author and Australian sf writer Simon Haynes seems to have made a slew of short stories
free to all via Smashwords (may be price-matched in certain regions/outlets).
Kelby Ouchley has some non-fiction nature/preservation books published by Louisiana State University and says he has a Louisiana Governor's Award for Conservationist of the Year. He offers an historical novel for which the blurb quotes praise from a local newspaper:
Iron Branch: A Civil War Tale of a Woman In-Between
This Mira-published M.J. Rose thing is a repeat, but a fun-looking one where her character psychoanalyzes the characters of other popular thriller writers (with their permission):
In Session: Dr. Morgan Snow with Steve Berry's Cotton Malone, Lee Child's Jack Reacher & Barry Eisler's John Rain
ETA: Minor ISFDBed Jordan Krall returns with another collection of his assorted weird psychological horror-ish shorts:
Unfruitful Works and Other Personal Horrors
ETA 2: Turns out that Peter Michael Rosenberg is offering a 2nd 1994 Simon & Schustered literary suspense thriller with strong romantic elements:
Touched by a God or Something
And there's another ex-Oceanview thing which is a repeat freebie; Alan Evans' western culture-clash coming of age literary fiction drama out in 2009 which I picked up at the beginning of this month but think forgot to include before it expired:
Spirit Horses