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A bunch of US Kindle Countdown deals...almost all repeats...

Note that Endeavour Press (several of these) seems to have re-uploaded many of their titles, so if you've previously purchased them, it may not be obvious, so check carefully.

False Dawn is the third in the Jake Lassiter series by Paul Levine at $0.99 for about six more days
info in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=168616

Guilt Trip by Ben Rehder is the fourth in the Blanco County series at $0.99 for about 1 more day. All of these titles were on Countdown a while back at the same time - looks as if he might be cycling through them now, so if you want these but missed them before, you might keep an eye out.
link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005UZGH7U

Spoiler:

"This guy is the funniest, freshest voice in Texas mystery writing today. His work stands out like a DayGlo parka in deer season."
—Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lightning Thief

Guilt Trip:
Life in rural Blanco County, Texas, isn't what most folks would call exciting—and that suits game warden John Marlin just fine. He's happy to spend his days and nights protecting the local wildlife from poachers. But when the tequila-slamming, skirt-chasing treasurer of the local Rotary Club goes missing and his vehicle is found in the river the day after a flood, Marlin finds himself in charge of the search efforts. At nearly the same time, a nearby house explodes in a shower of drug paraphernalia, and an exotic car turns up stolen from the missing man's barn. Marlin and Sheriff Bobby Garza are soon overwhelmed, trying to figure out how everything connects together. It isn’t long before events begin to spiral out of control. Edgar Award-nominated author Ben Rehder keeps the plot moving and the laughs coming in another spectacularly funny crime novel straight out of the zaniest imagination in Texas.

The Mycroft Holmes Casebook by David Dickinson is at $0.99 for about six more days.
Info in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3098008

Death Before Facebook (previously published as New Orleans Beat) by Julie Smith is at $1.99 for about three more days. Smith's books tend to go free from time to time, so you'll have to decide whether to pay at this price.
link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008DP2B56

Spoiler:

Death Before Facebook, formerly entitled New Orleans Beat, is the FOURTH book in the Edgar Award-winning Skip Langdon series by Julie Smith.
Reader-friendly from log-on to log-off." -The Orlando Sentinel
"A peek into the sometimes dangerous world of the computer-obsessed, set in the sultry heat of New Orleans and tempered with just the right dose of Southern humor." —USA Today

MURDER MOST VIRAL!

It’s a chilly November in 1994, and thirty-one-year-old Geoff Kavanagh surreptitiously splits his time between science fiction novels and cyberspace in his parents’ dilapidated, overgrown, uptown New Orleans mansion. Until his mother finds him dead from a suspicious fall off a ladder. Maybe he should never have posted about seeing his father murdered … because way too many people on the TOWN, a pre-Facebook virtual community, knew things about his family he didn’t even suspect. Decades-old skeletons start falling out of closets after Geoff’s untimely death, thanks to New Orleans Detective Skip Langdon. Langdon finds Geoff’s gorgeous mom strangely uninterested in her son’s fatal fall, but Mom’s apparently the only one. It seems the post has gone viral. Suddenly all the TOWNSpeople have theories—and ambition as cyberdetectives. What’s a murderer to do but kill his way out?

Calling the windup “a virtuoso spin on Rashomon,” Kirkus noted that, along the way, “Smith worms her way deeply and painfully into her cast's layers and layers of past relations, getting deeper than ever into Skip as well.”

Written in the mid-90s, Death Before Facebook is a suspenseful online murder mystery blast from the past: THE NET meets Prime Suspect.

"If you haven't discovered Smith yet, now is the time to do so . . . Move over, Sara Paretsky." —KPFA-FM (Berkeley, CA)

“A poisonous bouquet from a still-rising star.” -Kirkus

The Book of the Dead is the third in the Augustus Maltravers series by Robert Richardson at $0.99 for about 2 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OHY7HU6

Spoiler:

Augustus Maltravers, full-time writer and part-time sleuth, is on his way to visit friends in Cumbria when his car breaks down a few miles from his destination.

Seeking help from nearby Carwelton Hall, he meets the Carringtons: Charles and his beautiful young wife Jennifer.

He is astounded to find that Charles owns a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but never published.

But Maltravers’ delight at this discovery is to be short-lived.

A shocking murder takes place and Carwelton Hall’s most valuable possession disappears….

The police believe they have their killer but Maltravers isn’t so sure.

After reading ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Attwater Firewitch’ he finds some surprising parallels to what is going on around him.

Taking his lead from Conan Doyle, he does some investigating of his own…

Is Maltraver’s imagination getting the better of him?

Or will Holmes’ fictional investigations help him track down the killer?

‘The Book of the Dead’ is the third in the series of Augustus Maltravers detective stories, following on from ‘An Act of Evil’ and ‘Skeleton Key’. "An Act of Evil", won the John Creasey Award for the best first crime novel.

Death in Room Five by George Bellairs is at $0.99 for about two more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Death-Chief-In...dp/B00WA407ZM/

Spoiler:

When a group from the small English town of Bolchester make an excursion to Cannes, little do they expect it to end so dramatically – with the disastrous murder of one of their party, the domineering Alderman William Dawson.

Suddenly the holidaymakers find themselves murder suspects.

But, with so many grudges borne against Dawson, it becomes impossible to work out who might have been responsible for his death.

Was the fact that he had been a traitor in the maquis - the French resistance - during the war a factor?

And was his death connected to the subsequent killing of the crooked barkeeper Sammy?

When Scotland Yard call in Chief Inspector Littlejohn in to investigate, rudely interrupting his holiday in the Riviera, he comes up against a trying, taxing and peculiar case.

'Death In Room Five' is a classic detective mystery by one of the masters of the genre.

'Bellairs is up there with the greats of English crime fiction. Every fan of the genre should read him.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of 'The Lunar Code'.

George Bellairs was the nom de plume of Harold Blundell (1902-1985), a crime writer and bank manager born in Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire, who settled in the Isle of Man on retirement. He wrote more than 50 books, most featuring the detective Inspector Littlejohn. He also wrote four novels under the alternative pseudonym Hilary Landon.

Sherlock Holmes and the Holborn Emporium by Val Andrews is at $0.99 for about five more days.
Info in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3117262

Island in Waiting by Anthea Fraser is at $0.99 for about five more days.
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3055874

Dead Centre is the seventh in the Ernest Best by Joan Lock. It's at $0.99 for about five more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016OMM0AK

Spoiler:

1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.

Trafalgar Square. London.

Unrest has been building for days, the unemployed gathering daily to protest and nightly to sleep.

The police are exhausted by extra duty; blamed for failing to do more to prevent the disorder, they grow increasingly bitter about the protesters’ accusations of brutality.

When a prominent member of one of the new socialist organisations is found dead at the foot of Nelson’s Column, it only adds more fuel to the protesters’ fire.

DI Best and Constable Roberts must juggle competing priorities as they search for the killer and attempt to manage the Trafalgar Square situation.

To make matters worse, Best catches a glimpse of Stark, a man guilty of murder in Whitechapel — the only witness to the crime is Florence Bagnall, Roberts’s fiancé.

As tensions rise and time begins to run out, Best realises that something terrible is about to happen…and that he may be powerless to stop it.

Killing Me Softly by Marjorie Eccles is the tenth in the Gil Mayo series at $0.99 for about six more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Me-Sof...dp/B00UX96Q6A/

Spoiler:

Detective Sergeant Gil Mayo has a problem on his hands.

Even quiet community of Lavenstock isn't immune from the threat of drugs and his team are getting nowhere in combating the town’s problem.

But their inquiries take a drastic turn when a member of a well-known and respected family is killed.

As both Mayo and DI Abigail Moon plunge into the investigation of this murder, and as more and more of the unsavoury details of the victim's private life are revealed, it becomes not simply a question of who had a motive to kill him, but who didn't.

Things become more and more complicated as Abigail’s personal life begins to interfere with the murder investigation as a man from her past becomes involved in the case.

As Mayo and Abigail start to uncover the truth, it becomes clear the murder was not an end, but a beginning - the first link in a chain that will lead to more deaths...

'Killing Me Softly' is an expertly-plotted crime thriller that will keep readers gripped from the first page to the final twist.

Bury Him Darkly is the second title in the Philipa Lowe/Oliver Simpson series by Roger Ormerod. It's on countdown at $0.99 for about 2 more days.
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