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A bunch of new (at least to me) US Kindle Countdown deals and one repeat one:
Death and the Cornish Fiddler is the 11th in Deryn Lake's John Rawlings series. It's at $0.99 for about 4 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Death-Cornish-...dp/B017J3UETM/
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Spring 1767.
A welcome sense of recovery sweeps over the recently widowed John Rawlings and his young daughter, Rose.
Deciding on one last adventure before they return back to their home in London, the Rawlings, accompanied by John’s old flame, the delectable Elizabeth di Lorenzi, travel to Cornwall to see the famous Helstone Floral Dance.
But when they stop at an inn on the way to the festival, a child disappears in strange circumstances.
No sooner has John started investigating the case than a beautiful courtesan is found murdered at the inn.
Rawlings finds himself once again immersed in mystery and intrigue.
A suspicious blind musician is never far away from the festivities, but soon enough everyone becomes a suspect and each person has a motive.
It’s becoming more and more urgent for John to find the culprit – his daughter’s life could depend on it…
Steeped in rich historical detail and full of colourful characters, witchcraft, intrigue and suspense, this latest mystery featuring the dashing John Rawlings makes for compulsive reading.
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Prospect of Death is the second in the Joanna McKenzie series by Margaret Duffy. It's at $0.99 for about 4 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Prospect-Death...dp/B017J3UMBM/
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Burns Night.
A night for drunken Scottish revelry and merry-making that turns into a nightmare when Chief Inspector James Carrick is found unconscious at the wheel of his crashed car.
He had arranged to stay at a hotel that night and cannot explain why he was driving, or remember what happened that night.
His reputation and his career are on the line.
While he fights tooth and nail to clear his name, the Bath police get to grips with the mystery of the battered corpse of a local TV producer discovered floating in the Avon.
As the investigation continues, clue after confusing clue turns up, leading the police and Carrick down a dark path of intrigue.
Seemingly innocent neighbours all turn against each other and ordinary folk, it turns out, keep many skeletons in their closets – but who is the culprit, and what is his link with Carrick?
Joanna MacKenzie, desperately in love with him, is determined to try and clear his name.
But in her pursuit for the truth, she may discover things about Carrick that she would rather never have known…
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Hard Aground is a non-series title by James W. Hall. It's at $0.99 for about 2 1/2 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Aground-J...dp/B00752STYA/
Red Sky At Night is the 6th in the Thorn series by James W. Hall. Some of the earlier books in the series have been free/sale before, but I, at least, haven't seen this one on sale before. It's at $0.99 for about 2 1/2 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Red-Sky-Night-...dp/B00AN6V62M/
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It was truly a crime against innocents. Eleven dolphins, part of an experiment in healing, are found slaughtered in their saltwater tanks. When Thorn investigates, he triggers a vicious attack that leaves him paralyzed from the waist down, plagued by unrelenting pain. Now Thorn, a Florida renegade who has lived a life of fierce freedom, is starting over in a wheelchair, bitter enough to drive his lover away, desperate enough to seek miracles on the fringes of medical science--where his childhood friend, now a doctor, is doing
cutting-edge research in a quest for the ultimate painkiller.
Bean Wilson was once destined for greatness. Then came the war in Vietnam, a debilitating injury, and a simmering rage. Now Bean is running a pain-relief clinic in Key West, assisted by a beautiful six-foot-tall island girl named Pepper Tremaine, who chews hot chilies like gum and carries a scalpel in her blouse. Under the guise of a respectable research facility, Bean and Pepper are using human beings as lab rats, then feeding the bodies of their failures to the shark-churned sea. Within hours of entering the clinic, Thorn can sense the danger. But when he begins to make the bizarre connection between eleven dead dolphins and Bean's clinic, the stakes are raised. Because Dr. Bean Wilson, a man who knows exactly how an amputated limb can scream with real, unbearable agony, may be on the brink of the most dangerous discovery of all: a cure for human pain. And in a climax that explodes with the kind of secrets that can turn friends into enemies and lovers into strangers, Red Sky At Night races toward a harrowing showdown between Thorn, imprisoned in a wheelchair, and a mad, ruthless doctor who will stop at nothing to cure his own twisted pain.
A full-throttle thriller of unparalleled suspense, Red Sky At Night is also a powerful human drama. For here are the hurts that afflict the body, mind, and spirit. And here is the wounded love between old friends and rivals: the twisted love between the beautiful, rough-hewn Pepper Tremaine and the doctor she worships, and, ultimately, the love risked between Thorn, caught in his bitterness and his rage, and a good woman willing to stay with him to the end.
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Last Mass is the first (and only, so far) title in the Ginevra Casabuoni series by C.G. Griffin. This looks self-pubbed (Reyna's Press???) but I have personally read and liked it via KU, and so when I saw it listed on Countdown at $0.99 for about 1 3/4 more days, I thought I'd add it on here (and I bought it too).
link: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Mass-Gine...dp/B0147RH81U/
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In the summer of 1462, the city of Florence is preparing to celebrate the feast of San Giovanni Batista, and the only hope of solving a murder rests in the unlikely but capable hands of a Renaissance housewife.
Ginevra Casabuoni, is aware that no one in Santa Fiammetta parish was happy with Jacopo Sapone, not after what he did at the last Mass in their beloved neighborhood church. When he turns up dead, most of the local people are happy believe that someone has taken divine retribution into their own hands. Official suspicion, however, lights on Ginevra’s husband, Francesco. With the able assistance of her mother-in-law, the formidable Monna Veronica, Ginevra sets out to clear her husband’s name, find a killer, and prepare for an impending holiday dinner.
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The President's Henchman is the first in the Jim McGill series (series is part trad published, part semi-self-pub by Flynn's own Stray Dog press - I've read and liked all of the books in this series) by Joseph Flynn. If you want to try the series, here's the first one - it's a repeat deal at $0.99 for about 4 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Presidents-Hen...dp/B00DPYK8KK/
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