And a couple of other Soho Crime titles at these price points ($1.99) and couponable with that same coupon (sale50):
Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackmann (first in Ellie Cooper series). Not nominated for any awards, but the second in the series,
Hour of the Rat, was a finalist for the 2014 Left Coast Crime Calamari Award.
link (Kobo US):
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/eb...-paper-tiger-1
The Ghosts of Belfast (apa
The Twelve) by Stuart Neville is the first in the Jack Lennon series, and it was nominated for a bunch of awards.
link (Kobo US):
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/eb...sts-of-belfast
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“The best first novel I’ve read in years...It’s a flat-out terror trip.”—James Ellroy
“Not only one of the finest thriller debuts of the last ten years, but also one of the best Irish novels, in any genre, of recent times.”—John Connolly
“The Ghosts of Belfast is the book when the world finally sits up and goes WOW, the Irish really have taken over the world of crime writing. Stuart Neville is Ireland’s answer to Henning Mankell.”—Ken Bruen
“Sure to garner attention and stir lively pub discussions.”—Library Journal
“Neville’s debut novel is tragic, violent, exciting, plausible, and compelling. . . . The Ghosts of Belfast is dark, powerful, insightful, and hard to put down.”—Booklist
“Neville’s debut is as unrelenting as Fegan’s ghosts, pulling no punches as it describes the brutality of Ireland’s 'troubles' and the crime that has followed, as violent men find new outlets for their skills. Sharp prose places readers in this pitiless place and holds them there. Harsh and unrelenting crime fiction, masterfully done.”—Kirkus
“[Stuart] Neville has the talent to believably blend the tropes of the crime novel and those of a horror, in the process creating a page-turning thriller akin to a collaboration between John Connolly and Stephen King. . . [The Ghosts of Belfast] is a superb thriller, and one of the first great post-Troubles novels to emerge from Northern Ireland.”—Sunday Independent (Ireland)
Fegan has been a “hard man,” an IRA killer in northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted day and night by twelve ghosts: a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC constable, and seven other of his innocent victims. In order to appease them, he’s going to have to kill the men who gave him orders.
As he’s working his way down the list he encounters a woman who may offer him redemption; she has borne a child to an RUC officer and is an outsider too. Now he has given Fate—and his quarry—a hostage. Is this Fegan’s ultimate mistake?
Stuart Neville is a partner in a multimedia design business based in Armagh, northern Ireland. This novel, also known as The Twelve in the UK and Ireland, is the first in a series.
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Some high quality award-nominated Soho Press bargains which you might wish to use that 50% off unlimited Kobo coupon on before it expires later today (prices likely matched elsewhere, but cheapest @ Kobo with couponage):
@ $1.99 - Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery by James R. Benn (SYKM, Wikipedia) the 1st in his long-running historical mystery series starring a Boston cop turned aide and undercover spy/murder solver in Europe for his uncle-by-marriage General Eisenhower, with cases based on actual historical incidents (with notes in the back). This has previously been offered free in the past, a long time ago, and I've since read all the novels in the series and very much enjoyed them, so this is highly recommended if you're interested in nicely-researched military mysteries set in this era. Two novels in the series have been award finalists, according to SYKM.
- Wyatt by Australian author Garry Disher (SYKM, Wikipedia), 7th in the eponymous series which seems to be a crime/suspense thing starring a thief in Melbourne. This one won the 2011 Ned Kelly Award, according to SYKM.
@ $2.99
- Outsider in Amsterdam by the late Dutch author Janwillem van de Wetering (SYKM, Wikipedia), 1st in his long-running Amsterdam Cops series starring Exactly What It Says In The Series Title of vintage cases, this installment originally out in 1975. One of the series was an Anthony Award finalist, according to SYKM.
- The Last Detective by British author Peter Lovesey (SYKM, Wikipedia), 1st in his long-running Peter Diamond series of contemporary detective mysteries starring a policeman in Bath, England. This one was the 1992 Anthony Award winner for Best Mystery, according to SYKM.
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