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And, of course, a bunch of US Kindle countdown deals from Endeavour Press - all at $0.99, before returning to $3.99. A few new ones (to me, at least) and some repeats.
A Turbulent Priest by JM Gregson is on countdown for about 4 more hours.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Turbulent-Prie...dp/B00OROA61I/
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After five weeks of dry weather, the fields and roads of Lancashire are suddenly flooded by heavy Bank Holiday rain.
Roads are blocked, streams become impassable, and debris that has lain stagnant in the summer weeks is uprooted.
Among that debris - a body.
Detective Inspector Peach, with the help of Detective Sergeant Lucy Blake, must solve a case that, had it not been for the freak weather, would have lain undiscovered for years.
The body is identified as Father John Bickerstaffe.
But who would want to kill a man of religion who was widely respected in the local community?
As DI Peach and DS Blake delve into the life of the Priest, they soon discover that he is not the only victim in this case...
When the Bishop Hogan summons them to reveal shocking details of the secret life of Father Bickerstaffe, they realise that he had a terrible secret.
A secret which caused not only his downfall, but also his death.
Recently disgraced, Father Bickerstaffe left a wealth of potential killers in his wake.
As the case unravels, and the potential suspects stretch from religion to politics, DI Peach and DS Blake must ask, how far would a parent go to protect, or to avenge, their child?
'A Turbulent Priest' is a gripping crime thriller by a master of the genre.
Praise for J M Gregson:
‘Begins with quiet observation before pouncing to murderous effect’ - Sunday Express
‘A chilling story that never flags from start to finish’ - Bolton Evening News
J M Gregson is a Lancastrian by birth and upbringing. He taught for twenty-seven years in schools, colleges and universities before taking early retirement to concentrate on full-time writing. He has written books on subjects as diverse as golf and Shakespeare.
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A Midwinter Murder by Peter Tonkin is on countdown for about 6 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Midwinter-Murd...dp/B00I8TEMYK/
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Christmas 1594.
Tom is called away from the dress rehearsal of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' to receive terrible news: his brother John has been found dead, frozen with terror in the branches of a tree.
Rumour has it that the Barguest, a mythical monstrous hound, is loose on the Scottish Borders . . .
Tom rides north to investigate – only to find himself embroiled in a dark, deadly political conspiracy, where even his swordsmanship and logic may not help him…
Can Tom solve the mystery of his brother’s death?
Or is there more than meets the eye to this Midwinter Murder?
‘A Midwinter Murder’ is the thrilling third instalment of Peter Tonkin’s ‘Master of Defence’ series, featuring Elizabethan sleuth and sword-master Tom Musgrave.
"The grimmer aspects of Elizabethan London come alive in Peter Tonkin's . . . Master of Defence series" Publishers Weekly
"Riveting tale full of fast action" Publishers Weekly on 'The Point of Death'.
Peter Tonkin was born in Northern Ireland, and was raised in the UK, Holland, Germany, and the Persian Gulf. He has written thirty novels including ‘The Point of Death’ and ‘The Coffin Ship’.
This book was originally published as 'The Hound of the Borders'.
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The Trumpet Shall Sound by Aline Templeton is a countdown deal for about 5 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Trumpet-Shall-...dp/B00JF2CX86/
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At the Ramillies Country House in Sussex, the Sixth Hartington Festival is taking place.
With peacocks strolling across the lawns to the sounds of classical music, Ramillies seems idyllic.
But then Eden Hartington, conductor, impresario, and founder of the Hartington Music Festival, is found dead.
No one seems to want to talk about what happened - except for Eden's daughter Anna, obsessive about her late father, who is determined to keep his memory alive.
Another death, that of Dominic Leigh, the gifted, wayward trumpet-player also threatens Anna’s beloved music festival.
Brilliant and charismatic, Dominic was the only thing that made Penny Beaumont feel alive. But with Dominic gone and her dependable marriage becoming suffocating, Penny feels the atmosphere at Ramillies is about to boil over.
When Anna announces that she is ready to sacrifice everything to keep the failing Festival going, including the career of Adam Beaumont, Penny's husband and the brilliant young conductor who has succeeded her father, there is no shortage of people who have a vested interest in stopping her.
Then she is shot and Adam is arrested for her murder.
Penny Beaumont is desperate to prove her husband's innocence.
But has her obsession with his genius blinded her to other, darker sides of his complex character?
'The Trumpet Shall Sound' is a brilliantly plotted mystery story that will keep readers gripped 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’, ‘Last Act of All’ and ‘Past Praying For’.
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Dying to Meet You by Patricia Scott is on countdown for about 5 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Dying-Meet-You...dp/B00JF97PFU/
The Crucible is a Richard Hannay pastiche by Matt Lynn, on countdown for about 6 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Crucible-New-R...dp/B00PIW3ACU/
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The year is 1923.
Sir Richard Hannay witnesses a murder on the ski slopes of Switzerland, but the local police seem intent on ignoring the crime.
The fiancée of the murdered man tracks Hannay down bearing a ring engraved with mysterious runes, left to her by her dead fiancé. She begs him to help find the killer.
Hannay is sent undercover on a mission to Europe to uncover the meaning of the ring.
It soon emerges that a plot with terrible consequences is being hatched.
The murder was just one piece of the puzzle, and Hannay suspects that his old nemesis, Otto von Schwabing, is pulling the strings behind the scenes.
As he gets closer to unravelling the mystery, he finds himself in mortal peril.
All around him, political unrest boils just beneath the surface as post-WWI Germany struggles to deal with its new, crushing poverty.
An enigmatic, dangerous leader is gaining traction in the south of Germany.
Will Hannay crack the code before the conspirators seize power?
Or will a bloody coup plunge Europe into another war?
‘The Crucible’ is a brilliant new Richard Hannay thriller, bringing the hero of ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ back to life in a new adventure.
Matt Lynn’s thrillers have been widely praised:
'A near-perfect thriller...he wraps a big idea inside an all action plot' - Sunday Express.
'A rattling yarn in the best traditions of the classic thriller.' - The Times.
'Brilliant, realistic and riveting; blistering front-line action' - Chris Ryan
'This is a fast-paced and well-told tale of derring-do that guarantees entertainment.' - City AM
Matt Lynn is a writer and journalist.
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Child's Play by Alison Taylor is on countdown for about 5 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Childs-Play-Al...dp/B00JQ65SSI/
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Surrounded by dense, dark woodland, the Hermitage is an exclusive school for girls.
One balmy summer's night, Sukie Melville leaves her room and vanishes into the woods.
The following day her body is pulled from the waters of the Menai Strait.
When Superintendent Michael McKenna and his team move in to investigate the death, the school's charismatic headmistress insists it was suicide - but McKenna isn't so sure.
With the truth inextricably bound up in the secrets and lies of the young girls, the investigation soon proves to be as labyrinthine as the woods surrounding the school.
Scratching the glossy surface, McKenna uncovers a dark and dangerous ethos underpinning the school.
Nothing in that hotbed of passionate, brooding resentments is what it seems, and no one can be trusted...
Praise for Alison Taylor:
‘A complex, intelligent, absorbing story...Unusually for a detective story, it is the characterisation and the writing, even more than the plot, that hold the attention’ - Guardian
‘A haunting and intricately plotted novel’ - The Times
‘A novelist of great ability and rare power...This is a well-crafted, elegantly written and beautifully placed novel with amplitude and rich characterisation’ - Highbury & Islington Express
‘Taylor skilfully creates the claustrophobic atmosphere of a place where everyone seems to be hiding a secret and in which the police team, led as usual by Detectivc Supt. McKenna, struggle to elicit the truth’ - Sunday Telegraph
‘A compelling tale of a murder investigation...stays in your mind long after you’ve finished the book’ - She
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 other books include ‘The House of Women’ and ‘Unsafe Convictions’.
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Gone Feral by Gwen Moffat is on countdown for about 5 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Gone-Feral-Gwe...dp/B00JP8NL9U/
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Sophie Daynes cherishes The Boathouse, inherited from her family and situated in remote, beautiful Cumbria.
But her boorish, layabout husband, in his forties and obsessed with his young mistress, is only interested in its cash value – and how best to get his hands on it.
With both temperatures and passions rising in the height of a searing hot summer, greed, gossip, and mystery combine to make this a volatile visit they won’t forget.
Is the suspicious man living in the woods nearby really a villain on the run?
And who are the shadowy figures ‘stalking’ Sophie from the lake edge?
When the pleasure steamer churns up more than mud, and a grisly package is discovered washed up on the shore, the lives of all connected with the Boathouse are changed dramatically and irrevocably…
Praise for Gwen Moffat:
‘One of the crime shelf's defter hands.’ Guardian
‘Gwen Moffat creates vivid characters and not only manages a fast-moving, well-patterned plot, but also shows an aptitude for brilliant atmospheric set pieces.’ Daily Mail
Gwen Moffat’s main interests are wilderness areas and the genesis of murder, and all her books have featured one or the other. Moffat has written six travel books and twenty-six novels, including ‘Dying for Love’ and ‘Private Sins’.
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Private Sins by Gwen Moffat is on countdown for about 5 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Private-Sins-G...dp/B00JEXXBYQ/
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In the foothills of the Rockies, Miss Pink is visiting her friend Sophie Hamilton.
But despite the summer sunshine, there is a shadow over the gathering.
Rich, autocratic, Charlie Gunn delights in playing cruel jokes on his guests - and watching the victims, which include his sister-in-law Sophie, squirm.
When Charlie Gunn disappears from his remote hunting cabin, Miss Pink is drawn into a volatile situation.
Charlie's end was a violent one.
And the police, their suspicions aroused by by his multi-million dollar will, are not satisfied that his death was the result of a fall from a horse.
The family is tight-lipped, guarding its scandals. Until a blackmailer starts to make demands and suspicions grow that Charlie's death could have been murder.
With a wife who was martyr to his excesses and with a mystery surrounding his granddaughter’s disappearance ten years earlier, the family are all under suspicion.
As a prime suspect is taken out of the river, Miss Pink braves rattlesnakes and subsidence to follow the blood trail to an abandoned copper mine.
At the site of Charlie's hunting cabin, his last and very private joke backfires in a delayed and terrible climax…
'Private Sins' is a tense crime mystery that is perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson.
'One of the crime shelf's defter hands.' - Guardian
'Gwen Moffat creates vivid characters and not only manages a fast-moving, well-patterned plot, but also shows an aptitude for brilliant atmospheric set pieces.' - Daily Mail
Gwen Moffat’s main interests are wilderness areas and the genesis of murder, and all her books have featured one or the other. Moffat has written six travel books and twenty-six novels, including ‘Dying For Love’.
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The Nine Bright Shiners by Anthea Fraser is on countdown for about 5 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Nine-Bright-Sh...dp/B00R4PG0IK/
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Jan Coverdale's problems began when the police found a body dressed in tramp's clothing, with incongruous green sequins on his lapel.
He looked like her half-brother Edward, whose wallet was in his pocket.
But hadn't Edward and his wife flown to Peru?
As DCI Webb begins his investigations into this strange case, it is thrown wide open.
The true identity of the victim was Guy Marriott, an investigative journalist looking into a story about some mysterious and fraudulent drawings.
But why was the body dressed so shabbily and what was the meaning of those nine sequins?
What did Guy Marriott know that was dangerous enough to get him killed?
Webb widens the net of his search. But after spending the day in London, Jan and her family return to find their house broken into.
The housekeeper is dead and she begins to fear for their lives...
Edward may be missing, but his wallet links him intrinsically to the scene of the crime. Could he be the culprit?
And could the descendants of some suspicious old explorers, Langley, Peel and Cody, be suspects? They are all bound by and old expedition in Peru and the missing jewels that haven't been seen since, worth thousands...
DCI Webb decides it’s time to track down Edward Langley in Peru to solve the mystery and find his killer before it is too late.
‘The Nine Bright Shiners’ is a fast-paced crime thriller, from a master of the genre.
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. She is the author of 'Six Proud Walkers', 'Symbols at Your Door' and 'The Macbeth Prophecy'.
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