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A Shroud for Delilah is the first is the Inspector David Webb series by Anthea Fraser. It's at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Shroud-Delilah...dp/B00P7SB2IE/

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Kate Romilly left her old life behind when she left her unfaithful husband.

Moving to the small town of Broadminster with her young son was a fresh start.

Closer to her best friend, with a good job, a new flat, it was a chance to start again.

But a killer is attacking divorcees...

At the scene of each crime, the name ‘Delilah’ is scrawled in lipstick on the victim’s mirror.

The danger is coming closer to home.

Kate starts receiving strange ‘gifts’, a dead pigeon, a dismembered moth - she fears she may be the next target

Chief Inspect Webb and Sergeant Jackson are in a race against time to unravel this seemingly impossible mystery and find the culprit before the next dead body found is Kate Romilly’s.

‘A Shroud for Delilah’ is a fast-paced crime novel featuring Anthea Fraser’s popular detective David Webb.

Praise for Anthea Fraser:

“A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read" - Booklist

“Ms Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall" - Sunday Times

'A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story' - Birmingham Post

'Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings' - Yorkshire Post

ANTHEA FRASER has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her other books include ‘Pretty Maids all in a Row’, ‘Eleven Who Went Up to Heaven’, The Ten Commandments’, ‘The Seven Stars’ and ‘One is One and All Alone’.

Presence of Mind is a non-series title by Anthea Fraser. It's at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Presence-Mind-...dp/B00QKEIQ56/

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Ann Tenby has always accepted her role as second best in her husband’s life.

Lance’s heart still belongs to his college sweetheart, dead these twenty years, and his love is now split between his career as an artist and Briony, Ann’s daughter from her first marriage.

Lance and Briony are inseparable, and Ann watches their relationship from the sidelines.

Briony starts to show an interest in Lance’s art, particularly Eternal Spring – the haunting painting that kick-started his brilliant career.

Briony can’t get enough of the painting, and sometimes spends hours gazing at it above the mantelpiece.

But there’s just something about it that Ann doesn’t like.

When Briony begins to have regular headaches and mysterious blackouts, Ann is naturally concerned.

But when Briony disappears for days and later has no memory of what happened, Ann suspects something might be seriously wrong with her daughter.

After exhausting every possibility with doctors, in desperation Ann turns to a psychiatrist. But he too is baffled by Briony’s strange symptoms.

As Briony’s condition worsens and puts a massive strain on Ann and Lance’s already fragile marriage, Ann must take matters into her own hands.

Will her daughter – and her marriage – get through this intact?

Or will Ann’s decision cost her everything she holds dear?

‘Presence of Mind’ is a haunting page-turner that delves into the darkest enigmas of psychiatry.

Praise for Anthea Fraser:

‘A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read’ – Booklist.

‘A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story’ - Birmingham Post.

‘Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings’ - Yorkshire Post.

ANTHEA FRASER has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her other books include ‘The Seven Stars’, ‘The Ten Commandments’ and ‘One is One and All Alone’.

Night and Silence is a non-series title by Aline Templeton. It's at $0.99 for about 4 1/2 more days before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Night-Silence-...dp/B00HR3I58M/

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When David Cordiner marries Tessa he feels his life is starting all over again.

He gets a transfer to a small police station in mid Wales, leaving behind the stresses of inner-London policing, his previous marriage, and the son who doesn't want to see him anymore.

Tessa, an artist, will be able to paint from the cosy little cottage they share in a Welsh village.

But the rural idyll of life in a remote Welsh valley soon turns sour for the Cordiners. For David, life in the local police force is deathly dull after the exhilaration of working for the Met. For Tessa, the hostility of the local community is a daily torment.

Then a young nurse is found dead at a nearby beauty spot, her corpse strewn with wild flowers in some sick and sinister private ceremony.

Caught up in the challenge of a murder investigation, David misses the signs that danger is stalking his wife in their secluded cottage.

Imprisoned by fear and isolation, Tessa's efforts to escape her situation expose her to even more deadly danger, for the roots of the tragedy stretch far back into the past ...

And David and Tessa will soon learn to fear both the night and the silence that comes with it.

'Night and Silence' is a gripping mystery that will keep readers hooked from the first page to the last.

`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 have been published in translation in several European countries as well as in the United States.

The Secret Houses is the second in the Secret Trilogy set by John Gardner. It's a repeat US Kindle Countdown deal, and is at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Houses-...dp/B00LJB84PC/

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John Gardner's The Secret Generations was acclaimed as one of the classic works of Cold War espionage fiction.

The Secret Houses is its explosive sequel.

Two families - the Railtons in Britain and the Farthings in America - are at the heart of a titanic political struggle, their fates intertwined in the secret world of Intelligence by blood, love, loyalty and betrayal.

The British Secret Intelligence Service and the American Office of Strategic Services are locked in a desperate struggle to destroy the war machine that threatens the future of the world - and once again the Railtons and the Farthings are drawn into the secret struggle.

Both families are intimately concerned in the fate of the Tarot resistance network, operated by Caspar Railton under the nose of the ruthless SS officer Hans-Dieter Klaubert, known as the Devil of Orléans. Caspar has recruited his nieces Caroline and Jo-Jo as undercover agents in France, and their disappearance coincided with the break-up of Tarot.

The truth about Tarot and the fate of Caroline and Jo-Jo is at the heart of this enthralling installment of an Intelligence saga that has been hailed on both sides of the Atlantic as a classic of espionage fiction.

‘Faultless construction and a good deal of narrative pace combine to make this a thoroughly enjoyable read’ – Books

‘A complex but sophisticated and rewarding sequel to The Secret Generations… a third Railton/Farthing saga seems assured and is welcome’ – Kirkus Reviews

‘An exciting spy story’ – Yorkshire Post

‘The suspense is well-portrayed both in the accounts of World War II and in the subsequent cold-war exploits’ – Booklist

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.

More Deaths Than One is the fourth in the Inspector Gil Mayo series by Marjorie Eccles. It's a repeat US Kindle Countdown deal, and is at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/More-Deaths-Th...dp/B00LU0UNBA/

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When Rupert Fleming’s death is presented as a suicide, Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo is immediately suspicious.

A freelance journalist, his corpse was found in his Porsche.

But his briefcase and portable typewriter had been taken.

The post-mortem examination reveals that Fleming had been drugged.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, this was no suicide.

Delving deeper into Fleming's life, Detective Inspector Mayo grows increasingly puzzled.

The dead man lived several separate lives: he had one wife in town and another in the country, yet still found time to frequent the town's amateur theatre—a hotbed of jealousies and intrigues where nothing is quite what it seems.

Methodically unravelling the tangled threads of Fleming's flamboyant and deceitful life, Mayo discovers that the lives of some people closely connected with him were touched by the murdered man.

What does the sister of the woman he loves know about Fleming? And what about the policewoman involved with the theatrical troupe?

Before Mayo can sort out the pieces of this intricate puzzle, the murderer strikes again, and Mayo realizes he must act swiftly before someone he cares about becomes the killer's next victim…

‘More Deaths than One’ is an expertly-plotted crime thriller that will keep readers gripped from the first page to the final twist.

Praise for Marjorie Eccles:

"This low-key murder mystery catches the flavor of life in a modern English small town...Eccles writes a pleasant and at times acerbically observant mystery." — Publishers Weekly

"...just enough chintz/old school ties/village fetes/ English eccentricities to entertain die-hard cozy readers." —Kirkus Reviews

"Pace and plot remain steadily engaging...A tidy package."—Library Journal

MARJORIE ECCLES lived for many years in the Midlands, where her crime novels are set. Her novels include ‘An Accidental Shroud’, ‘Killing Me Softly’, ‘A Death of Distinction’ and ‘A Species of Revenge’.

An Accidental Shroud is the seventh (according to the SYKM website) or eighth (according to the blurb) in the Inspector Gil Mayo by Marjorie Eccles. It's at $0.99 for about 4 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Shr...dp/B00LU0UO0K/

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When the body of local jeweller Nigel Fontenoy is discovered at the back entrance of a grimy pub Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo and Detective Inspector Abigail Moon believe it is an easy case.

His body was taken there in a truck belonging to his cousin's building site.

Surely he must be murderer?

After all, Fontenoy's cousin, Jake Wilding, was heavily in debt to the dead man and cannot account satisfactorily for his whereabouts on the night of the murder.

But it turns out the case is not what it seems.

Wilding finally names his alibi — his ex-wife who abandoned him and their baby son — and claims that Fontenoy was pressurizing him to act as a go-between with her for possession of some unnamed object... or information.

In her attempts to unravel the increasingly tangled web of family relationships, Abigail Moon comes to realize that in this mystery, as soon as one thing is gained, another is lost — including a priceless art treasure.

'An Accidental Shroud' is an expertly plotted detective mystery that is perfect for fans of Peter James and Ian Rankin.

Praise for Majorie Eccles:

‘Eccles produces smoothly flowing prose and an atmospheric setting’ - Publishers Weekly

‘A tidy plot’ - Mail on Sunday

‘Superior police procedural’ - Sunday Telegraph

MARJORIE ECCLES lived for many years in the Midlands, where her crime novels are set. ‘An Accidental Shroud’ is her eighth crime novel to feature Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo.

The House of Women is the third in the Chief Inspector Michael McKenna series by Alison Taylor. It's a repeat US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about 5 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/House-Women-Al...dp/B00IE69N6Y/

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Lonely, ageing and chronically ill, Ned Jones is found dead on sweltering summer afternoon in his rooms.

Everyone assumes he died of natural causes.

But after the post-mortem suggests otherwise, Detective Chief Inspector Michael McKenna and his team become involved.

In search of Ned's killer, McKenna visits the house of Edith Harris, where Ned lodged.

But fragile, neurotic Edith and her three enigmatic daughters – Annie, Mina and Phoebe – spring one surprise after another on McKenna.

Slowly, McKenna begins to unravel a story of scholarship and greed, deceit and twisted loyalties, where the sins of the past, as well as the present, are avenged on innocent and guilty alike…

'The House of Women' is a mesmerising crime thriller that is perfect for fans of Nicci French, Aline Templeton and Elizabeth George.

Praise for Alison Taylor

‘With her third novel, The House of Women, Alison Taylor confirms her place among the new stars of British crimewriting. A far from straightforward investigation into a suspicious death reveals a history of obsession and long-held hatred, with an intriguing cast of characters, which again includes the compassionate and personable DCI Michael McKenna . . . a complex and challenging book.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Careful, complex, intelligent . . . unusually for a detective story, it is the characterisation and the writing, even more than the plot, that hold the attention’ Guardian

‘This slow-paced thriller set in Wales turns the screw tightly on its characters. A murder investigation draws DCI McKenna into close contact with the victim’s family . . . Deep in the Bala hills a crumbling farmhouse yields up its secrets’ Mail on Sunday

‘With this dark and involving tale, Taylor stands up to be counted alongside the best of British crime writers today’ Ideal Home

‘Eerie and unforgettable’ Prima

‘Definitely an author to watch’ Yorkshire Post

‘Billed as a crime novel, Alison Taylor’s The House of Women is all that and more . . . McKenna’s quest for the truth is just one strand in Taylor’s narrative, which is also rich with the detail of an historical Welsh landscape and the world of letters . . . A novel teeming with intelligence’ Image

‘If you love Minette Walters, check out Taylor. She shows scary insight into human frailty in this gripping story’ Peterborough Evening Telegraph

‘Taylor unravels a tale of stupidity, greed, deceit, twisted loyalties and past sins which keeps the reader gripped until the end’ Newcastle Evening Chronicle

Alison Taylor has lived in North Wales for many years. She held senior childcare posts with the former Gwynedd County Council. She has been instrumental in exposing institutional child abuse, and in 1996 won the Campaign for Freedom of Information Award in this area. Her interests include classical and baroque music, art and writing.

Cold Black is a thriller-ish looking title by Alex Shaw. It's at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Black-Ale...dp/B00M4YR648/

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In Britain, MI6 operative Aidan Snow witnesses a ruthless murder.

Paddy Fox, a jaded ex-SAS soldier, foils the kidnap of a member of the Saudi Royal Family.

Russia is making offers - and demands - to Ukraine that cannot be refused.

In Saudi Arabia an al-Qaeda terror cell prepares for a mission.

How are all these events connected? And what is Cold Black?

Aidan Snow must fit the pieces of the puzzle together before it's too late...

Cold Black is a contemporary thriller, perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Chris Ryan and Tom Clancy.

Praise for Alex Shaw:

‘He won’t be stopped now. The book will become popular among Kyiv’s expats; some of them will even recognize themselves.’ - Kyiv Post

'A perfect blend of spy fiction and political thriller' - Matt Lynn, author of Search.

Alex Shaw spent the second half of the 1990s in Kyiv, Ukraine, teaching and running his own business consultancy before being head-hunted for a division of Siemens. The next few years saw him doing business for the company across the former USSR, the Middle East, and Africa.
He is a member of the International Thriller Writers organisation, the Crime Writers Association and is the author of the Aidan Snow SAS thrillers

Alex, his wife and their two sons divide their time between homes in Kyiv, Ukraine and Worthing, England. Alex can be contacted via his website www.alexshaw.com or follow him on twitter: @alexshawhetman

Ripped by Frederic Lindsay is a non-series title. It's at $0.99 for about 2 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Ripped-Frederi...dp/B00DM8QM7M/

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Jack the Ripper.

One of the most notorious serial killers of all time.

And one who has been copied many times.

But in the Scottish town of Moirhill, a killer is stalking a different prey.

Men are now the targets and not women.

The dates of the murders parallel those of Jack the Ripper’s murders, and as the days move towards that of his final crime, Detective Murray Wilson races to catch the killer before it is too late.

But as he is sucked into a world of politics, sex and murder Wilson starts to
realise the murderer might be closer to home than he suspected.

And it is not just 'Jack The Ripper's' past that is about to catch up with him.

Frederic Lindsay's book is a gripping crime thriller that uses the Ripper murders to create a chilling and unnerving study of the nature of evil.

'Ripped' is perfect for readers of Patricia Cornwell and Ian Rankin.

Frederic Lindsay was one of the most widely praised crime authors of the last two decades.

'Intelligent, entertaining, gripping and well-written.' - Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday.

'Lindsay can chill your soul' - Sarah Dunant, The Listener.

'Lindsay has used a genre often concerned with entertainment only to write a write a profoundly serious novel, as Chandler and Ross Macdonald did in California half a century ago.' - Alan Massie, The Scotsman.

'An intriguing and intelligent thriller' - Sunday Telegraph.

Frederic Lindsay was a novelist living in Edinburgh. His books include 'When The Stranger Came' and the Inspector Jim Meldrum series.

A Shot at Nothing is the third in the Philipa Lowe/Oliver Simpson series by Roger Ormerod. It's a repeat US Kindle Countdown deal, and is at $0.99 for about 6 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Shot-at-Nothin...dp/B00MI6BNAK/

Spoiler:

Philipa Lowe is looking for a new house.

But her friend Oliver does not approve, particularly of the one she most wants to see.

In spite of his reluctance, she goes ahead, and on first sight of it she is full of enthusiasm.

True, it is too big for her, true that she could barely afford it, but at once she falls in love with it.

Oliver's reluctance is soon explained, as this was the house where a murder took place.

Six years before, Clare Steadman was committed to prison for the murder of her husband.

Yet Philipa is not discouraged She is intrigued. When she discovers that Oliver himself was intimately involved in the case, she is fascinated.

It is when Oliver declares that he believes Clare to have been innocent that Philipa interests herself in the evidence — but then the facts come to light, and her innocence seems undeniable.

For how could Clare, with the gun room doors locked against her, and the French window jammed by her own efforts with a shotgun, have reached her husband, in order to make use of the second barrel?

And at what was the third shot fired? At nothing?

Philipa is determined to find out...even if it means risking her own life.

'A Shot at Nothing’ is a chilling mystery story that is perfect for fans of Nikki French and Peter Robinson.

Praise for Roger Ormerod:

‘The story gallops along with an irresistible momentum...always fascinating...the shape is near perfect. The characterisation is splendid, the situations dramatic and compelling, the style economic and energetic. What more can a book offer, or a reader ask?’ - Reginald Hill

"Eclectic, underrated Ormerod can be relied upon to come up with the startling goods" Sunday Times

"I am glad to announce that the detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod's skillful hands " The Spectator,

"Fast-moving, with well-orchestrated jiggery-pokery; not unlike an early Dick Francis in tone and method” Times Literary Supplement

Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was a prolific writer of ingenious and densely plotted crime novels - some 35 in all - which were published in the UK and the USA. He lived in Wolverhampton and amongst other things worked as a civil servant and as a Social Security inspector – backgrounds which he made full use of in his fiction, as he did with his hobbies of painting and photography.

Blue Heat is another thriller-ish looking title. It's by John Bray and is at $0.99 for about 2 and 1/2 more days before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Heat-John...dp/B00ARBRQ3G/

Spoiler:

Dante Falconieri lives in the shadows, a man tasked with the dirtiest job in the police.

Trapping fellow cops on the take from crime lords.

Dante is the guardian who guards the guardians.

But who guards Dante?

Over the years he has grown cynical and disillusioned.

His careers has stalled, and he desperately want to get back to the narcotics stings that made him the best undercover man of the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency.

After years of busting fellow cops, he trusts nobody. His colleagues, his bosses, and their bosses in City Hall.

Everyone is corrupted.

Except Dante.

Until now.

His trophy girlfriend is demanding far more than he can afford on a cop's pay.

Is his devotion to justice about to crack? Can the guardian of the guardians be temped to cross the line...and join forces with the men he has spent his life trying to put behind bars?

'Blue Heat' is a hard-as-nails thriller written with the insider knowledge of an author who spent 17 years in the NYPD. It is brilliantly authentic and breathlessly exciting - a must read for fans of James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Vince Flynn.

'A exciting, full-throttle thriller. I loved it' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of 'Trade-Off'.

John Bray is a 17-year NYPD veteran, who retired as a lieutenant attorney prosecutor and took early retirement to become a crime lawyer before becoming a full-time author.