Free/Bargain Mystery/Suspense/Thriller in September 2013

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Added fun for the UK is that you can't download your file from the UK site (as you can for the US site) so if you wanted to read it on another e-reader you are stuck. Unless the book is available in the US and then you can access via your US account. I have a couple of books I can't keep in my Calibre library because of this. So now I check the availability on the US site before I buy.

True. You CAN use the Nook for Android app, download the content and then copy it from Android to your computer. It is indeed a pain in the ***.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Added fun for the UK is that you can't download your file from the UK site (as you can for the US site) so if you wanted to read it on another e-reader you are stuck. Unless the book is available in the US and then you can access via your US account. I have a couple of books I can't keep in my Calibre library because of this. So now I check the availability on the US site before I buy.

You can probably download them using the nook Study application.

[gabby98]

does the PC app not work for UK?

[Mort1997]

Originally Posted by gabby98

does the PC app not work for UK?

I have the nook for PC on my computer but the 2 books I am referring to (by Eileen Dewhurst) do not show up here. I have just tried the Nook study and I can't see them there either. Until I can find way round this, I will just check availability on the US site as after several experiences of losing bookshelves (BoB etc) I like a back up on my computer. Thanks for the suggestions

[Synamon]

Free novella at Amazon (US), Midnight in Death by J. D. Robb.

The number-one New York Times bestselling In Death series explodes with intrigue, passion, and suspense. Now, Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, propels you into the darkest night of Lieutenant Eve Dallas's life—when a killer comes to call...

Eve's name has made a Christmas list, but it's not for being naughty or nice. It's for putting a serial killer behind bars. Now the escaped madman has her in his sights. With her husband, Roarke, at her side, Eve must stop the man from exacting his bloody vengeance—or die trying...

[mXb]

Originally Posted by Synamon

Free novella at Amazon (US), Midnight in Death by J. D. Robb.

...free on iTunes

[ChandaK562]

Free on Amazon
She Overheard Murder by Jean Sheldon

http://www.amazon.com/Overheard-Murd...8482927&sr=1-1

On October 29, 1945, Nic Owen made her debut appearance as a radio detective on the new show, 'Inez Ingalls, Private Eye'. Her career began only a few weeks earlier when she was hired to read ad copy and work as an understudy. The murder of the shows star, Carolyn Park, propelled Nic to the lead role and a top spot on the list of suspects. Cecil Park, husband of the murdered woman, wants answers. As does Nora Hahn, Carolyn's 'special friend' for fourteen years.

'She Overheard Murder' introduces characters from the new Nic and Nora Mystery series—mysteries solved by lesbian amateur detectives in post-World War II Chicago.

I haven't read it yet, but it looks interesting to me.

[ChandaK562]

Free on Amazon

A Murder in Aushwitz by J.C. Stephenson

http://www.amazon.com/A-Murder-in-Au...157313011_f_14

An SS officer is found standing over the body of a comrade, a smoking pistol still in his hand, a murder in a place of murders. His pleas of innocence force a court martial and he knows that there is only one man in the camp capable of defending him; a Jewish prisoner called Manfred Meyer.

Manfred Meyer is forced to build a defence for him in his court martial. Drawing on his years of experience as a criminal lawyer in Berlin, Meyer must unravel the deceit and interpret the lies that infect the concentration camp and work to have him found not guilty.

Following Meyer and his family through their lives in Berlin, the Nazi rise to power and their inevitable arrest and incarceration in Auschwitz, Meyer will do almost anything to see his wife and children. Almost anything.

Can his abilities as a lawyer interpret the facts of this seemingly impossible case? As a Jew, should he even defend an SS officer? And is he actually guilty of this crime?

But the officer must be found innocent if Meyer is to see his family again.

This story follows Manfred Meyer, from his beginnings as a lawyer in 1930s Berlin after being taken under the wing of the city's most capable defence lawyer in the most prestigious law firm in Germany, Bauer & Bauer.

Meyer's confidence and experience build as his cases become more complex and more difficult to defend. His success is widespread and he, his wife Klara and their twin daughters live a comfortable life in the capital.

But Germany is changing. The Nazi Party has come to power and Meyer's Jewish heritage has become a crime. Life becomes more and more difficult until even in spite of Meyer's connections he is forced to leave his position as Bauer & Bauer's pre-eminent lawyer.

Then, one night, the inevitable knock at the door heralds the long train journey to the east and the death camps of Poland for Meyer, his wife and his children.

Split from his family on arrival, Meyer does what he can to survive in a place designed for death. He stays alive with help from the other inmates he has befriended, helping each other through the long days of hard labour, his only wish being that he could see his family again. A forlorn hope until circumstance throws a real chance his way.

[Fbone]

Deadly Aim by Patricia Rushford [Baker Group]. Free.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dead...=9781441239433

http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Angel-D...rds=deadly+aim

Angel Delaney puts up a tough front-as a female police officer she must. She works for peace in her coastal Oregon town, but loathes the means she must sometimes use to get it. So when her line of duty requires her to use deadly force against a twelve-year-old boy, Angel's world begins to crumble.

The community wants answers, and Angel is dismayed to find that the media portrays her as a racist, a rogue cop, and a menace. While she works to clear her name and her conscience, the investigation into her use of deadly force creates more questions than answers.

[ChandaK562]

Body Wave by R.V. Doon Free on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Text---Nu...8643898&sr=1-1

Reece Carson is trying to get her fledgling business, Text-A-Nurse, off to a successful start when her beloved aunt coughs up a deathbed confession. She admits to helping cover up the murder of a young girl in her youth. Reece promises to identify the dead girl and notify her family of the unmarked grave. After all, finding missing people or things has been her forte since grade school. As she approaches friends of her aunt to nail down the truth, she encounters a charismatic fireman, a temperamental policeman, and the return of her ex-best friend who served a prison stint for drug diversion.

But she doesn’t count on a wave of bodies to throw her off track or an incoming hurricane to conceal the killer’s escape.

To make matters worse, the man she’s falling in love with may be a murderer.

[mitford13]

Price drop to .99 on Amazon:

Shinju (Sano Ichiro) by Laura Joh Rowland

Seventeenth-century Tokyo is the setting for Rowland's debut novel, a murder mystery starring the Senior Police Commander in the district of Edo. Sano Ichiro, a samurai whose academic background puts him at odds with most of his peers, discovers two bodies in the Sumida River, a man and woman bound together in what appears to have been a shinju, or "double love suicide." The man is a peasant, the woman the high-born daughter of an important official. Told by his superior to close the case without an investigation, Sano, suspecting murder, determines to investigate on his own. He orders an illegal autopsy and learns that the victims did not drown but cannot make his discovery known. Amidst many tribulations, he uncovers a trail of corruption and intrigue that ultimately leads him to suspect a member of a royal family. Replete with convincing details, the setting's time and place provide lively and diverting passages; the plot, however, twists only occasionally before its fairly predictable, politically rooted resolution. Rowland crafts a competent mystery her first time out, shows sure command of her background material and demonstrates that she is a writer of depth and potential.

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by mitford13

Price drop to .99 on Amazon:

Shinju (Sano Ichiro) by Laura Joh Rowland

Seventeenth-century Tokyo is the setting for Rowland's debut novel, a murder mystery starring the Senior Police Commander in the district of Edo. Sano Ichiro, a samurai whose academic background puts him at odds with most of his peers, discovers two bodies in the Sumida River, a man and woman bound together in what appears to have been a shinju, or "double love suicide." The man is a peasant, the woman the high-born daughter of an important official. Told by his superior to close the case without an investigation, Sano, suspecting murder, determines to investigate on his own. He orders an illegal autopsy and learns that the victims did not drown but cannot make his discovery known. Amidst many tribulations, he uncovers a trail of corruption and intrigue that ultimately leads him to suspect a member of a royal family. Replete with convincing details, the setting's time and place provide lively and diverting passages; the plot, however, twists only occasionally before its fairly predictable, politically rooted resolution. Rowland crafts a competent mystery her first time out, shows sure command of her background material and demonstrates that she is a writer of depth and potential.

Thanks. Also available at amazon.ca
http://www.amazon.ca/Shinju-Sano-Ich.../dp/B006ATIAZM

[Terisa de morgan]

Cropped to Death by Christina Freeburn (Henery Press) [Price drop to 0.99]

Charming and suspenseful, this is the perfect mystery for crafters! After settling into a quiet life scrapbooking in her West Virginia hometown, Faith must race for answers when her friend is accused of murder. Will her search make her the next target?

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Amazon
Apple
Barnes and Noble

[BelleZora]

The Shape Shifter (Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee #18) by Tony Hillerman has dropped to $1.99 at both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

No price reduction at Amazon CA and UK.

[sufue]

Originally Posted by BelleZora

The Shape Shifter (Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee #18) by Tony Hillerman has dropped to $1.99 at both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

No price reduction at Amazon CA and UK.

This was the first e-book I ever bought/read...in old MS .lit format on my PDA. The start of an e-book addiction...