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A very few (mostly repeat) Kindle Countdown deals:

Meltdown is the 7th in the Richard Mariner series by Peter Tonkin. It's at $0.99 for about 2 more days.
link: https://www.amazon.com/Meltdown-Pete.../dp/B01FFXVFUA

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‘Equals the best of James Clavell’ – Daily Telegraph

A mission to complete. A war to avert. A nation to save ...

It is spring in west Africa.

Richard Mariner of the Heritage-Mariner Shipping Company has delivered the great iceberg, codenamed Manhattan, to the drought-stricken country of Mau.

Now, with his associates in the United Nations, he stands ready to release the life-giving water it represents to the parched heartlands.

But disaster is always close at hand and the political situation threatens to ruin everything when a military coup sparks a bloody tribal war.

The diplomatic situation also becomes critical as war hungry neighbours, illicitly armed with the most advanced weapons, are tempted into the fray.

There are those who suspect that the gigantic ice-island has been contaminated with the top-secret results of a desperate gamble to avert total meltdown at Chernobyl.

Suspicion soon turns apparent friends into secret enemies who cannot let Mariner succeed, no matter what terrible price his failure might cost…

As the torrid heat of a tropical summer begins to build, Richard Mariner must carry out an epic experiment; one which will prevent Manhattan from melting, and thereby avert a massive social, moral and financial disaster.

But he only has sixty-six days in which to do it and time is quickly running out…

Meltdown is a thrilling adventure novel set on the perilous high seas.

A Tall Man in Ray-Bans is the first in the John Tall Wolf by Joseph Flynn, with ties (at least in later books) to Flynn's Jim McGill series. Flynn started out with a number of conventionally published titles, but is now into self-publishing via his own Stray Dog Press. I've read many of his books, both conventionally published and self-published, including this one, and have enjoyed them all regardless. Tall Man is at $0.99 for about 3 more days.
link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007FIQMHU/

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Out for a day’s adventure exploring the dry bed of Lake Travis in Austin, Texas, two young boys stumble upon a skeleton. It might be all that remains of a fugitive named Randy Bear Heart. Wanted for robbing three banks and killing three cops, Bear Heart was never brought to justice.

The FBI is called on to determine how the outlaw avoided arrest for twenty-five years and who put him in the lake wearing chains. The BIA — Bureau of Indian Affairs — gets the very same job. Special Agent John Tall Wolf is put on the case because one of the dead cops was a Native American who worked at the Mercy Ridge Reservation.

The FBI wants John to “coordinate all your efforts” through SAC Gilbert Melvin. John is having none of that, saying, “I’ll conduct my investigation as I see fit.” He doesn’t even get along with his own boss, Marlene Flower Moon, head of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services.

While interviewing John for his job, Marlene was amused by his assertiveness, and asked him, “What do you want, a license to take scalps?” John said, “Yeah, that’d be good.”

Three titles by Julie Smith:

Huckleberry Fiend is the second in the Paul Mcdonald series, at $0.99 for about 2 1/2 more days.
link: https://www.amazon.com/Huckleberry-F.../dp/B00D7O87U6

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“A deftly plotted mystery…a delightful book.”—San Antonio Express News
“A literary romp…a bright, light, cleverly written tale.” —Cincinnati Post
A RISIBLE TREAT FOR THE RIGOROUS BIBLIOPHILE
(AND ANYONE ELSE WHO LOVES A GOOD PUZZLE) …
The most priceless American manuscript in existence has unceremoniously dropped into Paul Mcdonald's hands--now what?

In between much-needed therapy sessions, Paul's neurotic friend Booker the burglar stole it from his dad’s girl friend’s roommate, and now wants sometime-sleuth Paul to find its rightful owner. Because he’s pretty sure the roommate's not it.

Paul is so awed he can hardly bring himself to touch it. It’s none other than the missing holograph of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. And Beverly the roommate's no librarian, she’s a flight attendant, so Booker suspects chicanery. He’s only too right: Beverly, it turns out, is dead. Murdered for the manuscript, if Paul’s guess is right.

He finds out it’s in high demand from a zany collection of collectors, Huckleberry Fiends of all stripes of crazy, every single one of them capable of murder. Suddenly he’s the protagonist of A Literary Nightmare, surrounded by Mysterious Strangers, playing out A Double-Barrelled Detective Story involving A Stolen White Elephant and pretty much Roughing It with the bullying Homicide Inspector Howard Blick.

It’s truly, A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage….no, not a marriage, a manuscript! But Paul does have his eye on tough and savvy Sardis Kincannon…

The liberally-sprinkled Mark Twain quotes and references make this witty yarn a treat for the literary-minded, and better yet, the twisty plot will satisfy the pickiest mystery fiend.

Fans of mysteries about books will especially like it--Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr series, John Dunning's Cliff Janeway books, the Death on Demand books by Carloyn Hart, and Joan Hess's Claire Malloy series.

Kindness of Strangers is the sixth in the Skip Langdon series, at $0.99 for about 1 1/2 more days
link: https://www.amazon.com/Kindness-Stra.../dp/B008I7SGOY

Spoiler:

"A breathless thriller " -Los Angeles Times
A MADMAN, A COP OBSESSED, AND A WILDLY INAPPROPRIATE LOVE AFFAIR…
Kindness of Strangers is the SIXTH book in the Edgar Award-winning Skip Langdon mystery series by Julie Smith.
“ like a good Grisham: taut, fast, and thrilling. But with a lot more heart and soul.” -The Clarion-Ledger

Politics makes the strangest bedfellows of all and in New Orleans, a psychopath’s running for mayor. Not just the usual harmless megalomaniac—a murderer and a monster. His supporters and a good proportion of would-be voters think he’s just a kindly preacher-man and handily crucify anyone who says otherwise. Enter Detective Skip Langdon, who met the Rev. Errol Jacomine on a case, finds him pretty much the personification of evil, and can point to a pile of corpses to prove it.

But Langdon’s fresh out of street cred. On administrative leave after shooting someone, she’s become the Cassandra of the police department—everything she says gets put down to paranoia. So finding the proof to discredit Jacomine becomes her obsession until he kidnaps a couple of kids she cares about—and then it turns into a mission from hell.

Langdon has to bull her way through a hurricane to find the small army of Jacomine’s thugs who’ve got 15-year-old Sheila, the closest thing she has to a niece, and Sheila’s friend, who’s having the mother of inappropriate love affairs—with someone dangerously close to Jacomine.

“As usual, Smith serves up a gritty, gripping story along with a big helping of action and a pinch of humor, all appropriately seasoned by the wonderfully steamy steaminess of New Orleans.” -Booklist

House of Blues is the fifth in the Skip Langdon series. It's at $0.99 for about 1/2 a day more.
link: https://www.amazon.com/House-Blues-A.../dp/B008NOY09W

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House of Blues is the FIFTH book in the Edgar Award-winning Skip Langdon Series by Julie Smith.
"One of the best of the Skip Langdon series" -St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"...two-fisted action, tender romance, and nail-biting suspense..." -The Jackson Clarion Ledger
DISTURBING FAMILY SECRETS, A CURIOUS KIDNAPPING, AND COLD-BLOODED MURDER HAUNT THIS GRITTY AND MYSTERIOUS SOUTHERN DRAMA.

Sugar Hebert arrives home from a ten-minute errand to find her husband shot to death and the rest of her family missing—including her daughter Reed, heir apparent to the Hebert restaurant dynasty, and Reed's eleven-month-old daughter.

Detective Skip Langdon’s hunt for a murderer and the missing Hebert heirs embraces worlds within worlds—splendid but dangerous Garden District digs, Faubourg Marigny drug dens, broken-down projects, lowdown bars, an elegant hangout for crooked politicos, and a dealer’s crib masquerading as a sultan’s palace, harem and all. A palm reader warns Langdon of danger, but it comes when she's least prepared for it. Before long, the mob’s involved (maybe there’s a reason Hebert’s Restaurant won the lucrative casino contract), and so are family secrets so ugly they’d make Tennessee Williams wince. Everyone has them—the Heberts, the mob princess, even the crooked cop.

And Langdon finds she should have listened to the damned palm reader.

"The real star of this superb effort is New Orleans, which has never seemed more dangerous or alluring—or less easy." -Publishers Weekly

"Smith brings the city strikingly alive." -Boston Sunday Globe

“...proves once again that Julie smith is one of our most talented mystery writers and that Skip Langdon is one of the most engaging modern detectives to have appeared on the American scene in the last two decades." -The Clarion Ledger