A trio of repeat KDP backlist freebies for today:
Wearing the Spider by Susan Schaab. Legal thriller, 2007 from small press Gallvant. Author bio says it was shortlisted for a Debut Dagger from the British Crime Writer's Association, among other newbie writer awards.
The Poisoned Rose &
The Bone Orchard by Daniel Judson. First two books in the Gin Palace Trilogy which is a detective uncovering police corruption thriller saga from the looks of it. 2002 from Bantam, blurb says 1st book was a 2002 Shamus Award winner.
Repeat established author self-pubs if you're interested: from Dave Zeltserman (Five Star-published Shamus & Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award winner), Mobashar Qureshi (Mercury Press-published), AK Waters & Armand Rosamilia (horror editor,
ISFDB entry).
Also, be sure to check out the Read an eBook deals & specials (
linkage to the collection thread).
Small press Central Avenue Publishing is planning on having their Thursday freebies be Mystery/Detective, and Canadian backlist republisher Bev Editions is giving away their entire back catalogue thus far on Smashwords, which includes several mystery/thriller titles (as well as some award-winning Canadian humorous literary fiction and history), including the late Lyn Hamilton's 1997 debut archaeological/antiquities murder mystery (non-cozy) which was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for best first crime novel in Canada (AEA is like our version of the Edgar awards).
I've read others in that series, and it's fairly good (I may be biased, since I happen to like archaeological/antiquities mysteries (non-cozy)). There's also some Cold War satire thrillers and something based upon the space shuttle, which were all previously published, if you're interested.