A few US Kindle Countdown deals - several repeats and a couple I haven't seen before. And, as always, check Endeavour Press titles - they like to create new listings for updated titles (or at least, I presume they are updated titles!) rather than updating the existing listings, and so it may not show up if you already bought an earlier version.
Amber Nine is the third in the Boysie Oakes series by John Gardner. It's at $0.99 for about 1 1/2 more days.
link:
http://www.amazon.com/Amber-Nine-Joh...dp/B01417E15C/
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Just when Boysie Oakes thinks he is out of the liquidating business, he finds himself on the sunny shores of Lake Maggiore. His task? To make sure that a Member of Parliament breathes his last breath.
But a straightforward mission start to go awry when his mark turns up dead without Boysie lifting a finger.
Who killed him? And why?
It is only when he is introduced to a sadistic finishing school, run by the mysterious and dangerous Doctor Klara Thirel, that the mystery starts to unravel.
Surrounded by troubled girls galore, including a certain Petronella Witching, Boysie is pulled into the biggest espionage foul-up of the century.
With the help of Petronella, as well as a handful of self-important, and at times incompetent secret agents, Boysie dives into the mysteries behind the dead Member of Parliament, the sexually charged finishing school, and – most of all – who and what is behind the top-secret Amber Nine.
‘Amber Nine’ is the third in the series of highly acclaimed comic novels featuring the cowardly secret agent, Boysie Oakes. It is perfect for fans of classic British spy fiction, including Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, and Desmond Bagley.
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.
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The Hard Detective is the first in HRF Keating's lesser known Harriet Martens series. It's at $0.99 for about 1 1/2 more days. Info in this previous post:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3152015
Rx Alibi is the third in the Pharmacy series by Renee B. Horowitz. It's at $0.99 for about 2 1/4 more days.
link:
http://www.amazon.com/Alibi-Pharmacy.../dp/B0047T7DZA
The Dying Light is the fifth in the Sister Agnes series by Alison Joseph. It's at $0.99 for about 6 1/4 more days.
link:
http://www.amazon.com/Dying-Light-Si...dp/B014HI5RXU/
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Young and fiercely independent, Sister Agnes Bourdillon has an iron resolve. But her strength is pushed to its limit by her secondment to Silworth, a South London women’s prison.
As Agnes attempts to negotiate the network of bullies and victims, loyalties and hatreds, prisoners and jailers, she is fascinated by the often violent histories that lie behind each woman.
When the father of Cally Fisher, one of the most turbulent inmates, is shot dead, the chief suspect Cally’s boyfriend. The more Agnes discovers about his death, the more she is forced to confront the traumas which tainted her own early life.
It is not long before Agnes finds that she too has become entangled in a dark world that stretches further than the prison walls …
Superbly paced and stylistically assured, The Dying Heart [sic] is a crime thriller which penetrates to the very heart of urban existence.
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Death in the Coverts appears to be a non-series title by Roderic Jeffries. It's at $0.99 for about 2 1/2 more days.
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http://www.amazon.com/Death-Coverts-...dp/B013TATZOE/
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The wealthy Decker family have lived at Hurstley Place for hundreds of years.
The traditional pheasant shoot is still an annual event, although it is now financed and enjoyed by members of a syndicate.
Bill Rafferty, one of the syndicate members, desperately wants to be invited to dinner by the Deckers and accepted into their social circle.
He is disliked and sneered upon by the Deckers – but this turns far more sinister when Rafferty is found shot dead in the forest.
It is assumed he accidentally shot himself because of his clumsiness with a rifle – but when DI Doherty arrives on the scene he suspects foul play.
With the news that Rafferty had been blackmailing the Hecker estate, and rumours that his wife was having an affair, it seems the killing may have had a motive.
When a second person is shot dead in the woods, murder is beyond doubt.
Police think they’ve found the culprit – but have they captured an innocent man while the real killer gets his hands closer to the estate?
Death in the Coverts is a classic mystery story from a master story-teller.
Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926 and went to sea in 1943. Six years later he left that trade to become a lawyer. He again changed profession to become a writer. Since 1951, he has written over one hundred and sixty novels under his own name and several other pseudonyms. He began his career by writing books featuring his father’s character, Blackshirt, a popular detective whose adventures have appeared in print for many decades. In time Jeffries branched out and began to write a variety of mystery novels under his own name and several pen names, including Peter Alding and Jeffrey Ashford.
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