FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2015 - Page 17

ATDrake · 04-01-2015, 05:10 PM

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Swing Town Mysteries: Dorie Lennox Box Set by Lise McClendon (SYKM), a 3-in-1 omnibus edition of her eponymous 1930s/40s historical mystery series starring a PI in Missouri, comprising the first two novels which came out from St. Martin's Press' Minotaur imprint in 2001 & 2002, and a newly-written short story. We've previously received both novels separately several years ago, but the short is new.

A convincing re-creation of time, place, and a hard-nosed, emotionally scarred heroine

Dorie Lennox is a newly-minted private detective in Kansas City, Missouri, just as war breaks out in Europe in 1939. These two novels follow Dorie's adventures through the corrupt back alleys of the city, from jazz clubs to meatpacking plants, in her $25 Packard with bullet holes in the trunk. Dorie is damaged goods, a veteran of reform school and family tragedy, like many children of the Depression. Half the KC Police Department has been found dirty and fired. Dorie is eager, but green. Her boss, a Brit with ruined lungs, has no choice to send her out on the streets with her switchblade, tailing girlfriends and wayward daughters, trying to make the world safe again.

Free from the small press publisher via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Murder Mystery Book Club Volume One, a 5-in-1 omnibus edition of 1st-in-series novels by various Accent Press authors, including Lesley Cookman (SYKM), Andrea Frazer, Jean G. Goodhind, Caroline Dunford, & Dane McCaslin.

Something in the Blood – Book One in the Honey Driver Mysteries

Honey Driver runs a hotel in Bath. She also collects antique underwear. As her own boss, she's in charge one day and washing dishes the next, resisting her mother's match-making attempts and managing multiple responsibilities - mundane, safe, and unexciting.

Then one day things change. Honey lands the job of liaising with the police on behalf of Bath Hotels Association. No worries, she tells herself. Nothing will happen; then an American tourist goes missing and Honey is called in to help. Despite the on/off hostility of her police opposite number, D C I Steve Doherty, she sticks to the task. In the process Honey finds out that there's more to work than washing dishes, and more to murder than malice aforethought.

Murder in Steeple Martin – Book One in the Libby Sarjeant Murder Mysteries

Artist and ex-actress Libby Sarjeant is busy directing a play for the opening of a new theatre in her village when one of her cast is found murdered.

The play, written by her friend Peter, is based on real events in his family, which took place in the village during the last war. As the investigation into the murder begins to uncover a tangled web of relationships in the village, it seems that the events dramatised in the play still cast a long shadow…dark enough to inspire murder.

Libby s natural nosiness soon leads her into the thick of the investigation, but is she too close to Peter’s family to be able to recognise the murderer?

Strangeways to Oldham – Book One in the Belchester Chronicles

Lady Amanda Golightly of Belchester Towers is a person in complete contrast to the stereotypical image of one of her breeding. She is short, portly, and embarrassingly forthright. If she wasn’t calling a spade a shovel, it was only because she was calling it 'trumps'!

On a visit to a local nursing home where an old business partner of her father's is residing, she unexpectedly discovers a long-lost friend, Hugo Cholmondley-Crichton-Crump – and stumbles upon murder as well.

Installing Hugo in the more civilised and comfortable surroundings of Belchester Towers, the pair turn to sleuthing after Lady Amanda reports her appalling discovery to the local police inspector and is incensed when he treats her as a silly old biddy with an over-active imagination. Her outrage prompts her to teach the impertinent young whipper-snapper a lesson, and she and Hugo (Zimmer frame in tow) embark upon their first investigation, only for murder to become a distressingly frequent occurrence …

A Death in the Family – Book One of the Euphemia Martin Mysteries

In December 1909 the Very Rev Joshia Martins expires in a dish of mutton and onions leaving his family on the brink of destitution.

Abandoned by her noble grandfather, Joshia’s daughter, the eighteen year old Euphemia, takes it on herself to provide for her mother and little brother by entering service. She’s young, fit, intelligent, a little naive and assumes the life of a maid won’t be too demanding. However, on her first day at the unhappy home of Lord Stapleford she discovers a dead body.

Euphemia’s innate sense of justice has her prying where no servant should look and uncovering some Stapleford secrets…

Becklaw’s Murder Mystery Tour

Josephine Anderson, youngest of the immense Anderson clan, has an itch to travel and to put some distance between herself and Piney Woods, Louisiana, and she is determined to scratch it with a stint as a travelling actor for a murder mystery dinner show. With Beatrice Becklaw in the pilot’s seat, the troupe of four amateur actors hit the circuit – and hit the end of the tour when a real dead body stops the show. Jo’s fondness for Miss Bea is the impetus to find out just who ruined the tour, and the person she least suspects is the one she needs to watch.

KyBunnies · 04-01-2015, 06:32 PM

Free at Amazon possibly at other retailers

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Spoiler:

GA Russell · 04-01-2015, 10:16 PM

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GA Russell · 04-03-2015, 11:44 PM

The Shroud Key (Chase Baker #1) - 99 cents
http://www.amazon.com/The-Shroud-Cha...dp/B00EZABN8E/

*****

The Golden Condor (Chase Baker #2) - 99 cents
http://www.amazon.com/Chase-Baker-Go...dp/B00NOHMQIU/

*****

The King's Spy (Thomas Hill #1) - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/The-Kings-Spy-...dp/B008R7GH6Y/

ATDrake · 04-04-2015, 01:37 PM

The Kobo Long Weekend sale in Canada has a quite a number of couponable bargain mystery/thrillers from imprints like Open Road's Mysterious Press, Kensington, ECW Press, etc. at the $1.99-$4.99 mark which also seem to mostly have their prices the same in the US as well (and probably matched in other stores as some of them are publisher multi-store promos, though Kobo does have some sale titles exclusive):

Save up to 70% on bestselling Mysteries & Thrillers! (filtered for couponability; there's also some non-further-discountable $4.99 sale titles from HarperCollins and the like by Peter Robinson, Steig Larsson, Jo Nesbø, Alexander McCall Smith, etc.)

There's some Ed Gorman, Stuart Kaminsky, Joanne Fluke, and Lisa Jackson, and several other well-established popular genre authors in there.

(ETA: UK store version of the sale doesn't have a dedicated genre page, but there are some couponable mystery/thriller authors at £0.98 including Laura Lippman, Michael Ridpath, Sam Eastland, Nele Neuhaus, and Stephen King)

I personally recommend:

@ $1.99, Old Bones by Aaron Elkins (SYKM, Wikipedia), the 1988 Edgar Award for Best Mystery-winning 4th in his Gideon Oliver series of forensic anthropology mysteries. This volume, which links a modern murder with some WWII ties, can be read standalone and is really quite good, with a nifty whodunnit. I really enjoyed this when I got it from Fictionwise a couple of years ago.
@ $4.99, The King of Shanghai (geo-restricted to Canada, they have a different non-couponable publisher in the US), 7th and latest in Ian Hamilton's (SYKM) Arthur Ellis & Barry Award-nominated Ava Lee investigative action mystery series starring a Chinese-Canadian lapsed Catholic lesbian forensic accountant. This is a fairly recent new release which I picked up during the winter holidays, so I'm surprised to see it marked down this far this soon, and was a good continuation of the series with important plot developments. However, you do need to read these in order and unfortunately the previous installments in the series are not being offered on sale this time around.

Not officially part of the Kobo sale, but as a regular rotating markdown by Soho Crime @ $1.99 each (couponable, price-matched in many of the standard Canada & US stores, may or may not also be discounted in other regions, etc.):

The Steam Pig by the late James McClure (SYKM, Wikipedia), a reprint of the vintage 1971 Gold Dagger Award-winning 1st in his Kramer & Zondi police procedural series starring an Afrikaner detective & a Bantu sergeant in Trekkersburg, South Africa.
Another Sun by Barry Award-finalist Timothy Williams (SYKM), 1st in his Anne Marie Laveaud series of police procedurals set in 80s/90s formerly-colonial Guadeloupe, starring the eponymous French-Algerian judge.
Murder in the Marais by Cara Black (SYKM), the Anthony Award-finalist 1st in her Aimee Leduc series starring a Parisian private investigator. This has previously been offered free a very long time ago back in 2009, so it's possible you may already have it, though IIRC the old freebies from Soho back when they were offering them, were in Topaz format at Amazon.
Random Violence by Jassy Mackenzie (SYKM), 1st in her Jade de Jong series starring a private investigator in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Also bargains from Simon & Schuster UK & Random House's Vintage Canada imprint (neither couponable):

@ $1.99, City of Fiends by Michael Jecks (SYKM, Wikipedia), 31st in his long-running highly popular Knights Templar series of medieval murder mysteries starring an ex-Crusader returned to England, and his bailiff buddy. You probably don't need to read these in order, as the ones I tried from a previous sale which were mid-series seemed perfectly readable standalone, though YMMV.
@ $4.99, John Cardinal Mysteries 3-Book Bundle by Giles Blunt (SYKM, Wikipedia), an omnibus of #1-3 in his police procedural thriller series starring the titular Detective set in the fictional town of Algonquin Bay in northern Ontario. The 2nd novel was the 2004 Arthur Ellis Award-winner for Best Mystery, and all the books included have been finalists for some combination of the Ellis, Anthony, Macavity, Hammett, and Silver Dagger Awards, according to SYKM.

ETA: in the UK, on sale for £0.99 from Simon & Schuster UK (not couponable):

Squire Throwleigh's Heir by Michael Jecks, 7th in his Knights Templar series. This has previously been discounted to $1.99 in Canada late last year, so if you travel, you might have picked it up back then. This, incidentally, is the one that I bought and tried, and liked well enough that I'm considering any other reasonably similar Jecks books to be auto-buys at the same $2 mark on sale.

mitford13 · 04-04-2015, 05:08 PM

@ATDrake, thank you so much for mentioning the Blunt bundle - his ebook availability has always been erratic in the U.S., not to mention at a reasonable price. $4.99 for three is a steal.

On my Canadian sidetrip, I also picked up Margaret Sweatman's Mr. Jones - Canadian 50's era cold war spy saga that looks interesting IMO.
$4.99 and couponable.
Thanks again!

GA Russell · 04-04-2015, 06:53 PM

The Mugger (87th Precinct) - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mugger-87t...dp/B00558UVQ0/

*****

No Man's Land - free
http://www.amazon.com/No-Mans-Land-R...dp/B00K5ODR7Y/

(#2 Best Seller in Australia.)

Synamon · 04-05-2015, 08:57 PM

Thanks to both ATDrake and mitford, Giles Blunt is a Canadian mystery writer I've never heard of, I'll give him a try.

My library even has all his books, but that 3 book bundle price is low enough that I bought it anyway. It's priced matched at Amazon for Canadians btw.

Onemack · 04-06-2015, 12:42 AM

[Giles Blunt is a Canadian mystery writer I've never heard of[/QUOTE]

He is a terrific author, unfortunately his books are almost impossible to buy as ebooks in Australia. The hardcover versions are not particularly readily available either. What you usually get is a message saying "not available in your country" The result of publishers cartels I think!

Little.Egret · 04-06-2015, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Onemack

[Giles Blunt is a Canadian mystery writer I've never heard of [...]

He is a terrific author, unfortunately his books are almost impossible to buy as ebooks in Australia. The hardcover versions are not particularly readily available either. What you usually get is a message saying "not available in your country" The result of publishers cartels I think!

Since he is translated into both French and German he looks like a valuable property and may have reserved the Australian e-rights to make a sale to an Australian publisher easier.

Lynx-lynx · 04-06-2015, 05:40 PM

Giles Blunt ebooks are available in Kobo Aus and NZ, and are discountable. However only the first 4 in the series appear.

Lynx-lynx · 04-06-2015, 05:43 PM

Using the Kobo 'Refer' promo (see Discount thread) here's another authors/series under NZD$2 per ebook:

Fred Vargas - Commissaire Adamsberg

Onemack · 04-07-2015, 01:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

However only the first 4 in the series appear.

Having read the first four in hardcopy some years ago this only leaves nine I cannot obtain,

Mort1997 · 04-07-2015, 06:34 AM

itisbomb · 04-07-2015, 10:27 AM

The Detachment (John Rain)
by Barry Eisler

is $1.99 at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Detachment-Joh...rds=Detachment

Below is the blurb:
John Rain is back. And “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond” (San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy.

When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott “Hort” Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, Rain can’t resist the offer: a multi-million dollar payday for the “natural causes” demise of three ultra-high-profile targets who are dangerously close to launching a coup in America.

But the opposition on this job is going to be too much for even Rain to pull it off alone. He’ll need a detachment of other deniable irregulars: his partner, the former Marine sniper, Dox. Ben Treven, a covert operator with ambivalent motives and conflicted loyalties. And Larison, a man with a hair trigger and a secret he’ll kill to protect.

From the shadowy backstreets of Tokyo and Vienna, to the deceptive glitz and glamour of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and finally to a Washington, D.C. in a permanent state of war, these four lone wolf killers will have to survive presidential hit teams, secret CIA prisons, and a national security state as obsessed with guarding its own secrets as it is with invading the privacy of the populace.

But first, they’ll have to survive each other.

The Detachment is what fans of Eisler, “one of the most talented and literary writers in the thriller genre” (Chicago Sun-Times), have been waiting for: the worlds of the award-winning Rain series, and of the bestselling Fault Line and Inside Out, colliding in one explosive thriller as real as today’s headlines and as frightening as tomorrow’s.

04-01-2015, 06:32 PM	#242
KyBunnies Book & Bunny Crazy Posts: 1,291 Karma: 6468095 Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: USA Device: K3 (x2), Fire HD 7-inch (x2), Fire HDX 8.9, Acer Android Tablet	Free at Amazon possibly at other retailers The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie Spoiler: The debut of Agatha Christie and her remarkable Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot Invalided home from the Western Front, Arthur Hastings arrives at Styles Court anticipating a relaxing sojourn in the English countryside. It turns out to be anything but. Late one night, Hastings is summoned to the locked bedroom door of Emily Inglethorp, mistress of the manor. A terrible commotion is happening inside, and by the time her family forces the door open it is too late—Emily is in the final, violent throes of strychnine poisoning and nothing can save her. As fate would have it, Belgium’s most celebrated detective, a refugee from the war, resides in the neighboring village. Hercule Poirot may look, in the words of Hastings, like a “quaint dandyfied little man,” but he possesses one of the finest minds in Europe and an extraordinary flair for solving the most baffling of cases. Half a dozen people—including Alfred, Emily’s much younger second husband; her slacker stepsons, John and Lawrence; and Mary, her beautiful but bored daughter-in-law—had the means and the motive to poison Emily. While Hastings and the rest of Styles Court rush to judgment, Poirot painstakingly sifts through the clues and considers each of the suspects in turn. The answer at which he arrives will shock them all. Agatha Christie wrote The Mysterious Affair at Styles because her sister wagered that she could not plot a mystery. Not only did Christie win that bet, she created one of the greatest detectives in all of literature and established herself as the undisputed Queen of Crime. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

04-01-2015, 10:16 PM	#243
GA Russell Ticats win 4th straight Posts: 7,693 Karma: 31487351 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC Device: Paperwhite, Kindles 10 & 4 and jetBook Lite	deleted Last edited by GA Russell; 04-04-2015 at 02:09 PM.

04-04-2015, 01:37 PM	#245
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	The Kobo Long Weekend sale in Canada has a quite a number of couponable bargain mystery/thrillers from imprints like Open Road's Mysterious Press, Kensington, ECW Press, etc. at the $1.99-$4.99 mark which also seem to mostly have their prices the same in the US as well (and probably matched in other stores as some of them are publisher multi-store promos, though Kobo does have some sale titles exclusive): Save up to 70% on bestselling Mysteries & Thrillers! (filtered for couponability; there's also some non-further-discountable $4.99 sale titles from HarperCollins and the like by Peter Robinson, Steig Larsson, Jo Nesbø, Alexander McCall Smith, etc.) There's some Ed Gorman, Stuart Kaminsky, Joanne Fluke, and Lisa Jackson, and several other well-established popular genre authors in there. (ETA: UK store version of the sale doesn't have a dedicated genre page, but there are some couponable mystery/thriller authors at £0.98 including Laura Lippman, Michael Ridpath, Sam Eastland, Nele Neuhaus, and Stephen King) I personally recommend: @ $1.99, Old Bones by Aaron Elkins (SYKM, Wikipedia), the 1988 Edgar Award for Best Mystery-winning 4th in his Gideon Oliver series of forensic anthropology mysteries. This volume, which links a modern murder with some WWII ties, can be read standalone and is really quite good, with a nifty whodunnit. I really enjoyed this when I got it from Fictionwise a couple of years ago. @ $4.99, The King of Shanghai (geo-restricted to Canada, they have a different non-couponable publisher in the US), 7th and latest in Ian Hamilton's (SYKM) Arthur Ellis & Barry Award-nominated Ava Lee investigative action mystery series starring a Chinese-Canadian lapsed Catholic lesbian forensic accountant. This is a fairly recent new release which I picked up during the winter holidays, so I'm surprised to see it marked down this far this soon, and was a good continuation of the series with important plot developments. However, you do need to read these in order and unfortunately the previous installments in the series are not being offered on sale this time around. Not officially part of the Kobo sale, but as a regular rotating markdown by Soho Crime @ $1.99 each (couponable, price-matched in many of the standard Canada & US stores, may or may not also be discounted in other regions, etc.): The Steam Pig by the late James McClure (SYKM, Wikipedia), a reprint of the vintage 1971 Gold Dagger Award-winning 1st in his Kramer & Zondi police procedural series starring an Afrikaner detective & a Bantu sergeant in Trekkersburg, South Africa. Another Sun by Barry Award-finalist Timothy Williams (SYKM), 1st in his Anne Marie Laveaud series of police procedurals set in 80s/90s formerly-colonial Guadeloupe, starring the eponymous French-Algerian judge. Murder in the Marais by Cara Black (SYKM), the Anthony Award-finalist 1st in her Aimee Leduc series starring a Parisian private investigator. This has previously been offered free a very long time ago back in 2009, so it's possible you may already have it, though IIRC the old freebies from Soho back when they were offering them, were in Topaz format at Amazon. Random Violence by Jassy Mackenzie (SYKM), 1st in her Jade de Jong series starring a private investigator in Johannesburg, South Africa. Also bargains from Simon & Schuster UK & Random House's Vintage Canada imprint (neither couponable): @ $1.99, City of Fiends by Michael Jecks (SYKM, Wikipedia), 31st in his long-running highly popular Knights Templar series of medieval murder mysteries starring an ex-Crusader returned to England, and his bailiff buddy. You probably don't need to read these in order, as the ones I tried from a previous sale which were mid-series seemed perfectly readable standalone, though YMMV. @ $4.99, John Cardinal Mysteries 3-Book Bundle by Giles Blunt (SYKM, Wikipedia), an omnibus of #1-3 in his police procedural thriller series starring the titular Detective set in the fictional town of Algonquin Bay in northern Ontario. The 2nd novel was the 2004 Arthur Ellis Award-winner for Best Mystery, and all the books included have been finalists for some combination of the Ellis, Anthony, Macavity, Hammett, and Silver Dagger Awards, according to SYKM. ETA: in the UK, on sale for £0.99 from Simon & Schuster UK (not couponable): Squire Throwleigh's Heir by Michael Jecks, 7th in his Knights Templar series. This has previously been discounted to $1.99 in Canada late last year, so if you travel, you might have picked it up back then. This, incidentally, is the one that I bought and tried, and liked well enough that I'm considering any other reasonably similar Jecks books to be auto-buys at the same $2 mark on sale. Last edited by ATDrake; 04-04-2015 at 08:07 PM.

04-04-2015, 05:08 PM	#246
mitford13 Guru Posts: 685 Karma: 6495650 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Arlington, VA Device: iPad Air2, Fire HD10, Paperwhite, Kobo App	@ATDrake, thank you so much for mentioning the Blunt bundle - his ebook availability has always been erratic in the U.S., not to mention at a reasonable price. $4.99 for three is a steal. On my Canadian sidetrip, I also picked up Margaret Sweatman's Mr. Jones - Canadian 50's era cold war spy saga that looks interesting IMO. $4.99 and couponable. Thanks again! Last edited by mitford13; 04-04-2015 at 05:21 PM.

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ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: Swing Town Mysteries: Dorie Lennox Box Set by Lise McClendon (SYKM), a 3-in-1 omnibus edition of her eponymous 1930s/40s historical mystery series starring a PI in Missouri, comprising the first two novels which came out from St. Martin's Press' Minotaur imprint in 2001 & 2002, and a newly-written short story. We've previously received both novels separately several years ago, but the short is new. A convincing re-creation of time, place, and a hard-nosed, emotionally scarred heroine Dorie Lennox is a newly-minted private detective in Kansas City, Missouri, just as war breaks out in Europe in 1939. These two novels follow Dorie's adventures through the corrupt back alleys of the city, from jazz clubs to meatpacking plants, in her $25 Packard with bullet holes in the trunk. Dorie is damaged goods, a veteran of reform school and family tragedy, like many children of the Depression. Half the KC Police Department has been found dirty and fired. Dorie is eager, but green. Her boss, a Brit with ruined lungs, has no choice to send her out on the streets with her switchblade, tailing girlfriends and wayward daughters, trying to make the world safe again. Free from the small press publisher via KDP Select @ Amazon: Murder Mystery Book Club Volume One, a 5-in-1 omnibus edition of 1st-in-series novels by various Accent Press authors, including Lesley Cookman (SYKM), Andrea Frazer, Jean G. Goodhind, Caroline Dunford, & Dane McCaslin. Something in the Blood – Book One in the Honey Driver Mysteries Honey Driver runs a hotel in Bath. She also collects antique underwear. As her own boss, she's in charge one day and washing dishes the next, resisting her mother's match-making attempts and managing multiple responsibilities - mundane, safe, and unexciting. Then one day things change. Honey lands the job of liaising with the police on behalf of Bath Hotels Association. No worries, she tells herself. Nothing will happen; then an American tourist goes missing and Honey is called in to help. Despite the on/off hostility of her police opposite number, D C I Steve Doherty, she sticks to the task. In the process Honey finds out that there's more to work than washing dishes, and more to murder than malice aforethought. Murder in Steeple Martin – Book One in the Libby Sarjeant Murder Mysteries Artist and ex-actress Libby Sarjeant is busy directing a play for the opening of a new theatre in her village when one of her cast is found murdered. The play, written by her friend Peter, is based on real events in his family, which took place in the village during the last war. As the investigation into the murder begins to uncover a tangled web of relationships in the village, it seems that the events dramatised in the play still cast a long shadow…dark enough to inspire murder. Libby s natural nosiness soon leads her into the thick of the investigation, but is she too close to Peter’s family to be able to recognise the murderer? Strangeways to Oldham – Book One in the Belchester Chronicles Lady Amanda Golightly of Belchester Towers is a person in complete contrast to the stereotypical image of one of her breeding. She is short, portly, and embarrassingly forthright. If she wasn’t calling a spade a shovel, it was only because she was calling it 'trumps'! On a visit to a local nursing home where an old business partner of her father's is residing, she unexpectedly discovers a long-lost friend, Hugo Cholmondley-Crichton-Crump – and stumbles upon murder as well. Installing Hugo in the more civilised and comfortable surroundings of Belchester Towers, the pair turn to sleuthing after Lady Amanda reports her appalling discovery to the local police inspector and is incensed when he treats her as a silly old biddy with an over-active imagination. Her outrage prompts her to teach the impertinent young whipper-snapper a lesson, and she and Hugo (Zimmer frame in tow) embark upon their first investigation, only for murder to become a distressingly frequent occurrence … A Death in the Family – Book One of the Euphemia Martin Mysteries In December 1909 the Very Rev Joshia Martins expires in a dish of mutton and onions leaving his family on the brink of destitution. Abandoned by her noble grandfather, Joshia’s daughter, the eighteen year old Euphemia, takes it on herself to provide for her mother and little brother by entering service. She’s young, fit, intelligent, a little naive and assumes the life of a maid won’t be too demanding. However, on her first day at the unhappy home of Lord Stapleford she discovers a dead body. Euphemia’s innate sense of justice has her prying where no servant should look and uncovering some Stapleford secrets… Becklaw’s Murder Mystery Tour Josephine Anderson, youngest of the immense Anderson clan, has an itch to travel and to put some distance between herself and Piney Woods, Louisiana, and she is determined to scratch it with a stint as a travelling actor for a murder mystery dinner show. With Beatrice Becklaw in the pilot’s seat, the troupe of four amateur actors hit the circuit – and hit the end of the tour when a real dead body stops the show. Jo’s fondness for Miss Bea is the impetus to find out just who ruined the tour, and the person she least suspects is the one she needs to watch.

04-03-2015, 11:44 PM	#244
GA Russell Ticats win 4th straight Posts: 7,693 Karma: 31487351 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC Device: Paperwhite, Kindles 10 & 4 and jetBook Lite	The Shroud Key (Chase Baker #1) - 99 cents http://www.amazon.com/The-Shroud-Cha...dp/B00EZABN8E/ *** The Golden Condor (Chase Baker #2) - 99 cents http://www.amazon.com/Chase-Baker-Go...dp/B00NOHMQIU/ *** The King's Spy (Thomas Hill #1) - $1.99 http://www.amazon.com/The-Kings-Spy-...dp/B008R7GH6Y/

04-04-2015, 06:53 PM	#247
GA Russell Ticats win 4th straight Posts: 7,693 Karma: 31487351 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC Device: Paperwhite, Kindles 10 & 4 and jetBook Lite	The Mugger (87th Precinct) - $1.99 http://www.amazon.com/The-Mugger-87t...dp/B00558UVQ0/ ***** No Man's Land - free http://www.amazon.com/No-Mans-Land-R...dp/B00K5ODR7Y/ (#2 Best Seller in Australia.)

04-05-2015, 08:57 PM	#248
Synamon Lunatic Posts: 1,691 Karma: 4386372 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Land of the Loonie Device: Kindle Paperwhite and Keyboard, Kobo Aura, iPad mini, iPod Touch	Thanks to both ATDrake and mitford, Giles Blunt is a Canadian mystery writer I've never heard of, I'll give him a try. My library even has all his books, but that 3 book bundle price is low enough that I bought it anyway. It's priced matched at Amazon for Canadians btw.

04-06-2015, 12:42 AM	#249
Onemack Groupie Posts: 181 Karma: 1160 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Tasmania Device: Kindle P/W, Kobo Aura, Kobo Libre 2, Boyue likebook P10	[Giles Blunt is a Canadian mystery writer I've never heard of[/QUOTE] He is a terrific author, unfortunately his books are almost impossible to buy as ebooks in Australia. The hardcover versions are not particularly readily available either. What you usually get is a message saying "not available in your country" The result of publishers cartels I think!

04-06-2015, 05:40 PM	#251
Lynx-lynx Treachery of images ... Posts: 4,122 Karma: 93720365 Join Date: May 2012 Location: Australia Device: Sony 650, Kobo Glo, H2O, Aura One, Forma, Libra 2, Libra Colour	Giles Blunt ebooks are available in Kobo Aus and NZ, and are discountable. However only the first 4 in the series appear.

04-06-2015, 05:43 PM	#252
Lynx-lynx Treachery of images ... Posts: 4,122 Karma: 93720365 Join Date: May 2012 Location: Australia Device: Sony 650, Kobo Glo, H2O, Aura One, Forma, Libra 2, Libra Colour	Using the Kobo 'Refer' promo (see Discount thread) here's another authors/series under NZD$2 per ebook: Fred Vargas - Commissaire Adamsberg

04-07-2015, 06:34 AM	#254
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04-07-2015, 10:27 AM	#255
itisbomb Evangelist Posts: 400 Karma: 1997754 Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Third planet from the sun Device: PaperWhite 4	The Detachment (John Rain) by Barry Eisler is $1.99 at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Detachment-Joh...rds=Detachment Below is the blurb: John Rain is back. And “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond” (San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy. When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott “Hort” Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, Rain can’t resist the offer: a multi-million dollar payday for the “natural causes” demise of three ultra-high-profile targets who are dangerously close to launching a coup in America. But the opposition on this job is going to be too much for even Rain to pull it off alone. He’ll need a detachment of other deniable irregulars: his partner, the former Marine sniper, Dox. Ben Treven, a covert operator with ambivalent motives and conflicted loyalties. And Larison, a man with a hair trigger and a secret he’ll kill to protect. From the shadowy backstreets of Tokyo and Vienna, to the deceptive glitz and glamour of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and finally to a Washington, D.C. in a permanent state of war, these four lone wolf killers will have to survive presidential hit teams, secret CIA prisons, and a national security state as obsessed with guarding its own secrets as it is with invading the privacy of the populace. But first, they’ll have to survive each other. The Detachment is what fans of Eisler, “one of the most talented and literary writers in the thriller genre” (Chicago Sun-Times), have been waiting for: the worlds of the award-winning Rain series, and of the bestselling Fault Line and Inside Out, colliding in one explosive thriller as real as today’s headlines and as frightening as tomorrow’s.

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