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A few more US Kindle Countdown deals:

In Good Faith by Scott Pratt is the 2nd in Pratt's Joe Dillard series. It's at $0.99 for about 1 1/2 more days before going up to $1.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Faith-Joe.../dp/B00A1AXDIA

Spoiler:

A family of four is slaughtered in rural Tennessee.

Two weeks later, a retired high school principal and his wife are brutally slain.

Two Satan-worshipping teens stand accused.

It’s up to prosecutor Joe Dillard to convict them. A former defense attorney who spent way too much time defending people he knew were guilty, Joe is determined to win this case to atone for his past. But an evil young woman named Natasha is responsible for the slayings and Joe knows it. Natasha is walking around free because the two boys who have been arrested are too terrified to implicate her. Now Joe must risk everything -- including his family's safety and his own life -- to bring an evil murderer to justice.

"This book was so intense it was scary." -- M. Cottrill, Dallas, Tex.

"The book ends up moving along like a thriller should; at breakneck speed." -- N. Bilmes, Vernon, Conn.

"This author is a must read if you love attorney and courtroom thrillers." -- Kenneth J. George, Detroit, Mich.

"Better than the old Grisham." -- Tompat, Melbourne, Fla.

The Next President is a non-series title by Joseph Flynn. It's at $1.99 for about 4 1/3 more days before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Next-President.../dp/B004IEAATA

Spoiler:

J.D. Cade came home to southern Illinois from Vietnam and thought he’d never have to kill again. He was wrong. Someone starts blackmailing him. Not only does this new anonymous enemy know J.D.’s darkest secrets, he also implicates J.D.’s son in a death that could reignite a blood feud.

The blackmailer wants J.D. to use his deadly skills to assassinate Senator Franklin Delano Rawley — the first African-American with a chance to become president of the United States.

In order to save his son, spare Rawley and emerge alive, J.D. must somehow find out who is behind a conspiracy that could change the fate of a nation.

(First published in June, 2000 — eight years before the election of Barack Obama. Also published before the first season of "24.")

Traitor's Exit is the 6th in the Boysie Oakes series by John Gardner. It's on repeat Countdown at $0.99 for about 3 1/3 more days before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Exit-.../dp/B00KXFDA3Q

Spoiler:

Rex Upsdale is a spent, washed-out spy writer.

His trade has worn him down to the bone, and he sits alone, rejected and punch-drunk and full of self-pity. Reality and fiction have become mixed in his mind.

In increasing financial trouble, he is offered some semblance of security if he will take on just one journalistic assignment behind the Iron Curtain.

All that’s required is an interview with Kit Styles, the most notorious of all defectors from West to East.

But it’s not as straightforward as he thinks.

He hasn’t reckoned with the eternally incompetent and feckless Boysie Oakes; his puppet master, Mostyn; a neatly curved companion, Miss Hester Havisham; exploits, escapes and escapades in a tank and a helicopter and an outrageous group calling themselves the International Travelling Circus.

And if he is not careful, the Traitor's Exit might also be his own.

John Gardner, whose Boysie Oakes has become required reading for spy lovers since he first appeared in ‘The Liquidator’, has written a tale that’s part satire, part farce, always zany and certainly not for those who take their spy fiction too seriously.

'Cool polished story-telling with all the sexy sidelines in the best James Bond tradition' Evening Standard

Before coming an author of fiction in the early 1960’s John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer and a journalist. In all Gardner has fifty-four novels to his credit, including Maestro, which was the New York Times book of the year. He was also invited by Ian Fleming’s literary copyright holders to write a series of continuation James Bond novels, which proved to be so successful that instead of the contracted three books he went on to publish some fourteen titles, including Licence Renewed and Icebreaker. Having lived in the Republic of Ireland, the United States and the UK, John Gardner sadly died in August of 2007 having just completed his third novel in the Moriarty trilogy, Conan Doyle’s eponymous villain of the Sherlock Holmes series.

The Tortured Detective by Peter Irwin is a repeat Kindle US Countdown deal at $0.99 for about 3 1/3 more days before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Tortured-Detec.../dp/B00L5C644S

Spoiler:

1942. Paris is a city under occupation.

Detective Inspector Lafarge, a former prisoner of war, is sent to investigate the murder of the beautiful young film actress Marguerite Suchet.

The man who has called upon him is the Vichy chief of police René Bousquet - who Lafarge despises.

The chief suspect is a lawyer and avowed anti-Nazi, Pierre-Yves de Chastelain.

But is he only being targeted because of his run-ins with the law before the war broke out?

Lafarge quickly discovers that both Bousquet and an Abwehr officer who was the lover of the film star are equally suspect.

Have they found an easy suspect to become the fall guy?

And are they manipulating Lafarge, and the law, to cover their own tracks?

As Lafarge becomes increasingly repelled by his colleagues’ behaviour towards all those who oppose the Nazis, he must question the allegiances and loyalty of everyone around him...and ultimately his own as well.

‘The Tortured Detective’ is an exciting historical thriller set amidst the complex divided loyalties of France during World War II.

'A brilliant detective story that captures the tensions of the era.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of 'Trade Off.'

Pirate Irwin is a journalist and author based in Paris. As a sports journalist he has covered nearly every single major world sporting event reporting from four Football World Cups to four Olympic Games. His first novel was 'The Twisted Patriot' which was nominated for the Amazon debut novel award, the Breakthrough award.