Free/Bargain Mystery/Suspense/Thriller December 2013

[koland]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

My Fictionwise copies transferred over to Barnes & Noble, and I've re-downloaded from there. I think most of the problems have been fixed - I haven't noticed any errors recently.

None of my books transferred, despite repeated attempts on my end.

[Lynx-lynx]

Anemic Oak Just curious - have you signed out of your US account?

(Pardon me if you already have ....)

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Anemic Oak Just curious - have you signed out of your US account?

(Pardon me if you already have ....)

Not on the US site. I'm signed into the new account on the UK site and have K4PC installed and registered to that account on a separate user account on my PC. All of that seems fine, it shows up in MYK and everything, just doesn't give the option to buy a book. Wondering if there is a country setting somewhere else on the website that I'm missing.

EDIT: Signed out on the US site just in case, but still no dice.

EDIT: I haven't done a CC yet as I wanted to just try buying a free book first to make sure everything worked okay and was going to do a giftcard if it did.

[Fbone]

Did you clear cookies and cache?

[kg3]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Not on the US site. I'm signed into the new account on the UK site and have K4PC installed and registered to that account on a separate user account on my PC. All of that seems fine, it shows up in MYK and everything, just doesn't give the option to buy a book. Wondering if there is a country setting somewhere else on the website that I'm missing.

EDIT: Signed out on the US site just in case, but still no dice.

That's strange. I don't know if it makes any difference, but I have no payment method/information set up in my Amazon.co.uk account, I just use gift cards (see previous post). I have a London address and phone number in the account and one-click turned off, I'm not using a VPN.

You can sign into Amazon.co.uk with your Amazon.com U.S. info. in order to buy the gift cards, did you by chance sign into Amazon.co.uk that way? I can be signed into both my Amazon.co.uk account and my Amazon.com accounts simultaneously in different tabs in the same browser, so I don't think you would have to log out of Amazon.com U.S. Maybe look around all the settings in the Amazon.co.uk account and make sure the new email you are using in it is correct (and not your U.S. account info. by mistake). Maybe you have used that email address on a U.S. Amazon account some time in the past and forgot? Is it a brand new email address you are using? Maybe you could try again with another brand new email address and try some of the above? You may then need to uninstall and reinstall K4PC once you get an account working correctly. I hope some part of this helps!

[kg3]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Not on the US site. I'm signed into the new account on the UK site and have K4PC installed and registered to that account on a separate user account on my PC. All of that seems fine, it shows up in MYK and everything, just doesn't give the option to buy a book. Wondering if there is a country setting somewhere else on the website that I'm missing.

EDIT: Signed out on the US site just in case, but still no dice.

EDIT: I haven't done a CC yet as I wanted to just try buying a free book first to make sure everything worked okay and was going to do a giftcard if it did.

Another possibility, if everything else has failed, is using a VPN set to the UK before setting up a fresh account with the pointers I mentioned before. I'm not sure if I used a VPN originally when I set up the account (I think I may have, as an added precaution), but maybe they check your IP just at the time of creating the account? They probably don't, but I'm not sure, it can't hurt. I do know that I never have to use a VPN now, I just log in.

[Purple Lady]

Is setting up a UK account if you also have a US account against Amazon terms? I'd hate to get my US account closed because of this.

[HarryT]

There are way too many to list, but there are dozens and dozens of crime novels in the Amazon UK "12 Days of Kindle" sale which runs until 5th Jan. Most cost 99p, some a little more, but all seem to be £1.99 or less.

[Lynx-lynx]

Aus Kobo has got William Boyd's

Restless
$3.99 and discountable (bookriot50 works if you can't get a better code from the Discounts thread)

It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother.

But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help.

The 2 part telemovie of the adaptation of this book will be screened on SBS30 starting this Sunday 29 December at 8.30pm.

[melmac]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Aus Kobo has got William Boyd's

The 2 part telemovie of the adaptation of this book will be screened on SBS30 starting this Sunday 29 December at 8.30pm.

Merry Xmas Lynx thanks for that little extra info I haven't got around to reading the book even though it's been in my library for ages so I'll set the telemovie to record

[pdurrant]

Amazon UK has many books on special offer for the "Twelve Days of Christmas", but I'd like to mention especially that an omnibus of the first three Inspector Morse books by Colin Dexter is currently available for £1.49!

[rguion]

10 Books by Dennis Lehane, featuring some of his mysteries and crime fiction, Shutter Island, Live By Night.

Kindle Daily Deal: 10 books by Dennis Lehane.

[Lynx-lynx]

Originally Posted by melmac

Merry Xmas Lynx thanks for that little extra info I haven't got around to reading the book even though it's been in my library for ages so I'll set the telemovie to record

And a Happy New Year on the way to you Melmac

Another interesting program to watch/tape is Ian Rankin's

Doors Open
too much in Aus - but in Kobo India it's an excellent 307.49 rupees (approx AUD5.37) and discountable (bookriot50 works)

For the right man, all doors are open... Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul.

He is looking for something to liven up the days and perhaps give new meaning to his existence. A chance encounter at an art auction offers him the opportunity to do just that as he settles on a plot to commit a 'perfect crime'.

He intends to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital - the National Gallery of Scotland. So, together with two close friends from the art world, he devises a plan to a lift some of the most valuable artwork around.

But of course, the real trick is to rob the place for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was ever committed.

But soon after he enters the dark waters of the criminal underworld he realises that it's very easy to drown...

ABC21 is showing the telemovie adaptation of the book this Sunday (29 Dec) at 8.25pm.

NB: Of course one would need to be spending one's holidays in India or perhaps Norfolk Island or Hong Kong to take advantage of the book at the bargain price.

Edit
Bookriot50 only works on the new Kobo checkout (such as India out of the 3 mentioned)

[sufue]

There are several mysteries in the US Amazon Local 100 books for $0.99 deal, mentioned in this thread, including all four Oliver Pötzsch/Hangman’s Daughter books, a couple of Ed McBain/Matthew Hope books (Snow White and Rose Red and Mary, Mary) and some mysteries from Amazon’s in-house Thomas & Mercer publishing arm - depending on whether you call that self-pubbed or not. YMMV...the Thomas & Mercer ones I noticed included mysteries by Kay Finch, Diane Sawyer, Marty Ambrose and Carol Costa. I didn’t look exhaustively, so there are probably some others too.

[Synamon]

Thanks, I snagged one of the Matthew Hope books.