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And finally, a bunch of single US Kindle Countdown titles by various Endeavor Press authors (some are repeat Countdown deals):
Dying to Know is the first (and only, so far, I think) title in Alison Joseph's Detective Inspector Berenice Killick series. Joseph is also the author of the Sister Agnes Bourdillon series. It is $0.99 for about 1 3/4 more days before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Detective-Insp.../dp/B00LOTV49M
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A man’s body washes up on the beach.
It looks as if he threw himself from a lighthouse - but was it suicide, or something more sinister?
Detective Inspector Berenice Killick is used to dealing with minor complaints like parking tickets and lost property, so when she is offered the case she jumps at the chance.
She soon discovers that the dead man was Murdo Macguire, a physicist, and that he and his colleagues were carrying out top secret work on particle collisions.
When more of the scientists are found dead, in the same place and manner as Macguire, it looks like someone has a vendetta against the project.
But what were the scientists working on?
And will someone kill to find out - or to prevent the science being revealed?
As she delves deeper into the mystery, Berenice must fight to get her voice heard in a police department run by men - and she must learn to trust her instincts if she is to have any chance of solving the case.
What is it that the murderer is Dying to Know?
Berenice must find out before it is too late...
"I found this book riveting - I really liked the mix of science and thriller and found it really hard to put down." Peter James
Praise for Alison Joseph's Books:
'Fascinating and complicated...' Val McDermid
'A rich, multi-layered novel that's more than just a crime novel.' Belfast Telegraph
'Instilled with an urgent sense of the complexities of urban existence.' Birmingham Post.
Alison Joseph is a London-based crime writer and radio dramatist. She is the author of the series of novels featuring Sister Agnes, a contemporary detective nun based in South London, and has written numerous plays for radio, including the adaptations of Simenon's Inspector Maigret series broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She is currently chair of the Crime Writers Association.
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Sue for Mercy is a non-series title by Veronica Heley, who is also the author of the Ellie Quicke and Bea Abbott series. It is $0.99 for about 18 more hours before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Sue-Mercy-Vero.../dp/B00Q8LG4K0
Last Act of All is a non-series title by Aline Templeton, who is also the author of the Marjory Fleming series. It is $0.99 for about 18 more hours before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Act-All-A.../dp/B00J9DX0YC
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Ugly, remote and inbred, the village of Radnesfield in the Fens has lived with its secrets for centuries.
Inevitably, its inhabitants greet the intrusion of television soap star Neville Fielding and his wife Helena with deep suspicion.
But no one anticipates the storm that will cause havoc in this small, rural community.
Driven by Neville's brutal philandering, Helena divorces him and remarries into one of Radnesfield’s oldest families.
When Neville is murdered she is caught out in a string of lies and confesses to the killing.
But Detective Sergeant Frances Howarth is haunted by a nagging fear for Helena's own safety.
With her release from prison the storm breaks, and Radnesfield’s diseased heart is shockingly exposed…
And 'The Last Act of All' is more shocking than anyone could have imagined.
'The Last Act of All' is a compelling crime thriller that will keep readers hooked from the first page to the last.
Praise for Aline Templeton:
`Templeton's a considerable writer, both intelligent and intuitive' Literary Review
'Atmospheric eeriness . . . [and a] much-too-real feel' Oxford Times
'A creepy combination of detective and gothic' Sunday Post, Dundee
'A tense and atmospheric thriller, which builds up to a crescendo of superb suspense . . . An engrossing tale of tragedy' Bolton Evening News
Aline Templeton lives in Edinburgh with her husband, in a house with a balcony built by an astronomer to observe the stars over the beautiful city skyline. She has worked in education and broadcasting and has written numerous articles and stories for newspapers and magazines. Her books include ‘Shades of Death’, ‘Night and Silence’ and ‘Past Praying For’.
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40 Days 40 Nights is the second title in the Sgt Major Crane series by Wendy Cartmell. It is $0.99 for about 18 more hours before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/40-Days-Nights.../dp/B00L5LC7DG
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For those who enjoy the books of Sharon Bolton, Elizabeth Haynes, Rachel Abbott, and Val McDermid, 40 Days 40 Nights is a taut psychological crime thriller. The Sgt Major Crane crime novels are suspense thrillers, dark, disturbing, police procedural, murder mysteries.
What could be simpler than keeping Team GB safe as they make their final preparations for the Olympic Games? But when the body of a soldier is discovered and supplies start disappearing from the garrison, Sgt Major Crane knows that something sinister is afoot. As a faceless evil infiltrates the Army barracks, Crane sets out to investigate. But what is the connection between these seemingly unrelated events? Can Crane find the source of the looming threat? And can he do it before his 40 days and 40 nights are up?
Read 40 Days 40 Nights if you enjoy police and detective mysteries, crime fiction British, crime mystery and suspense, thriller detective series, contemporary fiction, literary fiction psychological, literary fiction mystery thriller and suspense.
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Blackstone and the Heart of Darkness is the sixth title in the Blackstone series by Sally Spencer. It is $0.99 for about 18 more hours before going up to $3.99. According to the SYKM website, Sally Spencer is a pen name for Alan Rustage, who wrote several mystery series under that pen name, and also the Inspector Paco Ruiz series using the pen name of James García Woods.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Blackstone-Hea.../dp/B00PB72XJ8
And last that I found, whew (!), Amber Nine is the third in the Boysie Oakes series by John Gardner, which series is recommended by GA Russell in this post upthread. It is $0.99 for about 18 more hours before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Amber-Nine-Joh.../dp/B00LFXXJUE
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Just when Boysie Oakes thinks he is out of the liquidating business, he finds himself on the sunny shores of Lake Maggiore. His task? To make sure that a Member of Parliament breathes his last breath.
But a straightforward mission start to go awry when his mark turns up dead without Boysie lifting a finger.
Who killed him? And why?
It is only when he is introduced to a sadistic finishing school, run by the mysterious and dangerous Doctor Klara Thirel, that the mystery starts to unravel.
Surrounded by troubled girls galore, including a certain Petronella Witching, Boysie is pulled into the biggest espionage foul-up of the century.
With the help of Petronella, as well as a handful of self-important, and at times incompetent secret agents, Boysie dives into the mysteries behind the dead Member of Parliament, the sexually charged finishing school, and – most of all – who and what is behind the top-secret Amber Nine.
‘Amber Nine’ is the third in the series of highly acclaimed comic novels featuring the cowardly secret agent, Boysie Oakes. It is perfect for fans of classic British spy fiction, including Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, and Desmond Bagley.
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.
'Cool polished story-telling with all the sexy sidelines in the best James Bond tradition' Evening Standard
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Last edited by sufue; 01-18-2015 at 09:50 AM.
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