Free (Kindle UK) The Last Straw [Microbiologist Murder Mystery Police Procedural]

[ATDrake]

The Last Straw by former Manchester and Toronto-resident writer Paul Gitsham, himself also a former biologist, is the 1st in his DCI Warren Jones series of police procedurals starring the eponymous Middlesbury cop, this installment a write-what-you-know mystery where the newly-appointed Detective Chief Inspector must investigate the killing of a brilliant but abrasive professor whose potentially-lucrative pioneering microbiology work obscures the seemingly personal motives for his murder, free courtesy of publisher Harlequin UK's Carina UK imprint, which for inexplicable reasons disavows any relationship whatsoever to the mothership's Carina Press imprint. You'd think they'd at least cross-promote.

This has technically been previously offered free, but apparently not deliberately, as it that happened in a large batch of glitch freebies, so it's nice to see this one become an official offering.

Currently free @ Amazon UK. Price-drop-check linkage for B&N UK, iTunes UK, and Kobo, where Carina UK books usually eventually go free as well. May or may not already be free at Google Play UK.

Unlikely to cross the pond in any direction, as we've a pretty low transmigration rate for HarperCollins (who now owns Harlequin) UK freebies to begin with.

And this has been the (late!) selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.

Because it's got a bit of science in it. And from someone who should actually know what he's talking about when he uses it.

Enjoy!

Description
When Professor Alan Tunbridge is discovered in his office with his throat slashed, the suspects start queuing up. The brilliant but unpleasant microbiologist had a genius for making enemies.

For Warren Jones, newly appointed Detective Chief Inspector to the Middlesbury force, a high-profile murder is the ideal opportunity. He’s determined to run a thorough and professional investigation but political pressure to resolve the case quickly and tensions in the office and at home make life anything but easy.

Everything seems to point to one vengeful man but the financial potential of the professor’s pioneering research takes the inquiry in an intriguing and, for Jones and his team, dangerous direction.

[ATDrake]

Now dropped to free @ B&N UK & Kobo UK. Linkage in OP.