FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2014

[pdurrant]

UK Only (I think)

Sainsbury Ebooks have Dissolution by C J Sansom for £0.99. And another 10% off this weekend with code OCTOBER10.


Ah - just checked Amazon. They have Dissolution for £0.59!

It's a really good historical murder mystery.

It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church. The country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. And under the orders of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent throughout the country to investigate the monasteries. There can only be one outcome: dissolution.

But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. Cromwell's Commissioner, Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. His horrific murder is accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege.

Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell to uncover the truth behind the dark happenings at Scarnsea. But investigation soon forces Shardlake to question everything that he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes . . .

[GeoffR]

Kobo and Amazon in New Zealand have Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series (except the latest one) for $NZ 2.99 (~ $US 2.35) each. Kobo NZ, Amazon.

Most of them are also at UK retailers for £1.49.

[Lynx-lynx]

Free on Kobo Aus and Amazon Aus:
Blindsighted: (Grant County series 1)
Karin Slaughter

blurb:

The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously raped, Sibyl has been cut: two deep knife wounds form a lethal cross over her stomach. But it's only once Sara starts to perform the post-mortem that the full extent of the killer's brutality becomes clear.

Police chief Jeffrey Tolliver - Sara's ex-husband - is in charge of the investigation, and when a second victim is found, crucified, only a few days later, both Jeffrey and Sara have to face the fact that Sibyl's murder wasn't a one-off attack. What they're dealing with is a seasoned sexual predator. A violent serial killer...

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Little Boy Dead by Marshall Thornton, a prequel story to his Boystown/Nick Nowak mysteries starring the eponymous gay ex-cop turned PI. Thornton's Nowak novels have been published by LGBT specialty publishers MLR Press (who used to give us monthly freebies for a while) and Dreamspinner Press (who still do the occasional giveaways), and his bio-blurb says that they've specifically been finalists for the Lambda Award in the Gay Mystery category.

A former Chicago police officer turned private investigator, Nick Nowak is haunted by a traumatic break-up and his abrupt departure from the department after being gay-bashed. In this Boystown prequel, it’s fall 1979 and Nick has just received his P.I. license but has no clients. Short on funds, he takes a temporary job as a driver for Film Fest Chicago. In a very short time, Nick deals with stalking fans, a crowd of protesters, and a critic’s stolen wallet that leads to murder.

[melmac]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

Kobo and Amazon in New Zealand have Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series (except the latest one) for $NZ 2.99 (~ $US 2.35) each. Kobo NZ, Amazon.

Most of them are also at UK retailers for £1.49.

Thank you I picked up 2, they are couponable in the Kobo New Zealand store but not the UK.

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Free on Kobo Aus and Amazon Aus:
Blindsighted: (Grant County series 1)
Karin Slaughter

blurb:

Thanks...picked this up as well

[Lynx-lynx]

Amazon Aus has David Hewson's

Native Rites
$1.03

blurb:

An early rural English Gothic chiller from the author of the Nic Costa series and the forthcoming books of the hit Danish TV series The Killing, newly revised in July 2012.

Alison Fenway is an American newly moved to rural Kent with her English husband, living in a remote picture postcard village with a cricket pitch, a vibrant, insular local community... and many hidden local customs.

Michaelmas comes and with it the annual bonfire ceremony. Drunk, Alison thinks she sees something sinister -- a body in the flames. But the next day the seemingly-innocent locals laugh at her faint memories. As her husband Miles commutes to the City, Alison finds herself drawn into the village community, both embraced and resented by its different elements.

And over the coming year, as it divides into the ancient festivals, she begins to see behind the facade of Beulah, into the dark heart of an English countryside with a bloody and vengeful history that's about to swamp her.

Amazon UK £1.02
Amazon CA $0.99
Amazon US $0.90

Not sure that Kobo stocks this ebook.

[Froide]

Today's Open Road Media freebie, finally!

The Complete Short Stories
by
Edgar Allan Poe

BN.com

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[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Carribean Moon by Rick Murcer, 1st in his Manny Williams series of murder mystery/thrillers, this one originally out from small press Ridan Publishing (who used to handle Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria Chronicles books before he was scooped by one of the Hachette imprints) in 2011.

Small-town detective/workaholic, Manny Williams, is thrilled with the prospect of finally taking the long-awaited vacation he had promised his wife, Louise.

The couple’s exotic getaway begins in sunny San Juan, Puerto Rico, by attending the June wedding of a fellow Lansing police officer, followed with an incredible week-long Southern Caribbean cruise on the glamorous Ocean Duchess. Tropical paradise appears to be a perfect recipe for desperately needed R and R...until the first dead body.

A bizarre, seemingly random murder in their posh San Juan Hotel, and the heinous cruise ship deaths of two of Lansing’s law enforcement family, brings Manny, and his unique skills, out of cruise mode and head-long into the FBI-led investigation. Manny soon discovers that in this killer’s twisted perception nothing is off limits, prompting a race against time that could cost him everything.

Free again from small press startup republisher Story Merchant via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Hooligans by the late William Diehl (SYKM, Wikipedia), a cops vs organized crime thriller originally out from Villard Books in 1984.

Jake Kilmer is a cop for the Feds. His specialty is a branch of the Mafia known as the Cincinnati Triad. He's pursued them for years, and now they've set up shop in Dunetown, Georgia. This time, they will not escape the Hooligans, a tough squad of ex-cops that Jake has organized. This time, he'll settle the score once and for all....

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon (linkage for the lot; several repeats, but IIRC we haven't gotten the 3rd Jeremiah book before):

Legacy of the Lake by Michael A. Smith, a mystery/crime thriller originally out from Avon in 1980.

Jack Olsen, a down-on-his luck former cop, seeks inner healing at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. Out fishing one day, he witnesses a deliberate collision that leaves one man dead. Hired by the elderly victim's companion to investigate the so-called accident, Jack discovers another world beneath the surface of paradise---one characterized by organized crime, political corruption, drugs and gambling. Working with Kate Carter, the new love of his life, Jack follows a money trail littered with greed, obsession and hate. With one final throw of the dice, it appears he's turned up snake eyes.

Secrets, a mystery/suspense thriller originally out from St. Martin's Press in 1980.

Frank Montgomery and his family love their life in the placid suburb of Lake View. Members of the seven households on Horseshoe Drive form an extended family. Like any family, they occasionally play practical jokes on each other. But the harmless pranks suddenly turn ugly, even obscene. Feelings become heated, alliances form, fingers are pointed--until a brutal murder ends the life of the prime suspect. Frank digs deep into his neighbors' lives and discovers that motives for the murder abound. Secrets reveals a dark side of suburbia. It's enough to make you wonder about your neighbors. Who are they really? What are they up to? Are you watching them? Are they watching you?

Jeremiah: Terrorist Prophet, New America, & The Inheritors, #1-3 of the Jeremiah Trilogy of sfnal political terrorism what-if thrillers envisioning a US where religious extremism took hold, originally out from Tor/Forge in 1990 & 2000.

In this first book of a trilogy, Jeremiah, who claims to be a modern-day religious prophet, begins killing the "evil ones"--pedophiles, bullies and rapists, prison inmates, stock market manipulators and crooked politicians. At the same time, he progressively publishes on the Internet a new book of the Christian Bible revealed to him by God. It demands strict adherence to God's commandments: "Obey or die!" is the general rule. Jeremiah urges his followers to create a "New America" in the Dakotas, where believers will implement God's revised plan for mankind.

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Jeremiah, a self-styled, modern-day prophet, inspires millions of his followers to move to New America, a utopian colony centered in South Dakota and surrounding states. They buy land, establish businesses, create new cities and take over the machinery of government--including the National Guard and State Police. With financing from abroad, Jeremiah's mercenary army seizes a fleet of stealth bombers and occupies a nuclear power plant near Washington, D.C. Jeremiah's demand that the federal government recognize New American as an independent state creates a military and constitutional crisis. The forces that oppose Jeremiah include his old nemesis, former FBI agent Steve Wallace, and his wife, Laura Delaney, an ex-television journalist who is the object of Jeremiah's obsession.

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Jeremiah the Terrorist Prophet has developed a genetically engineered, virulent variation of the flu virus, and found the perfect delivery vehicle--the hundreds of millions of migratory birds that circle the globe each year. His followers, including dissident military units and sympathizers from all around the world, have received a vaccine and stand ready to reestablish Eden after the "earthly garden" is weeded. God ordained the apocalypse in his Revelation to Jeremiah. The Prophet tries to recruit his two adult sons to the effort, but they have strong ties to the terrorist's archenemies, Steve Wallace and Laura Delaney. The action is fast and furious in this conclusion to the Jeremiah Trilogy, a ripped-from-the-headlines look at all aspects of terrorism in our time.

Free again from the small press republishing startup @ Amazon:

The Hunt (aka 27) by the late William Diehl, whose credentials are in the post directly above, a WWII-prologue suspense/action thriller originally out from Villard in 1990.

As the world trembles with the approach of World War II, a woman dies at the hands of Hitler's henchmen. Her murder forever changes her lover, Francis Scott Keegan, a relentless anti-Nazi mercenary, who becomes locked in a desperate cat-and-mouse game with the Third Reich's perfect spy, a man of a thousand faces. In an arena that encompasses presidents and gangsters, spies and sirens, the deadly present and the dark past, Keegan pursues his elusive quarry into the cutting edge of world events—and into the secret inner workings of a terrifying mission known only as "27."

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ $1.99 in multiple venues in Canada & US and possibly elsewhere (linking to Kobo since it's couponable there):

Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery by James R. Benn (SYKM, Wikipedia), 1st in the eponymous series of WWII mystery/action thrillers starring an Eisenhower-related Boston cop turned undercover US Army operative who solves murders in between taking part in top secret military missions (or maybe the causality's the other way around, since his cases are kind of linked), out from Soho Press.

This has been a freebie in the past, but in case you missed it, it's going pretty cheap now (the rest of the series is $10+ a pop). I've personally read this one and rather liked it (and they actually got the bits of Norwegian they used more-or-less right), enough to pick up the sequels when there were good deep-discount coupons available.

What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he’d barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight—and perhaps die—for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose headquarters are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz. And Uncle Ike wants Billy to be his personal investigator.

Billy is dispatched to the seat of the Norwegian government in exile. Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned, but it is feared that there is a German spy amongst the Norwegians.

Billy doubts his own abilities, with good reason. A theft and two murders test his investigative powers, but Billy proves to be a better detective than he or anyone else expected.

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Cry for Kit by Veronica Heley

'Kit Jeffries has been living a life of luxury in America. But she never forgot about her lover, and the son they shared, back in England.
After she comes home, some of her old friends are happy to see her.
But others are angry she has returned.
Then, one night, Kit is attacked.
She is robbed of her charm bracelet, but even more importantly, her famous femme fatale charm is taken too.
But who is the one causing the most damage?
Kit or her attacker?
Bewildered and unhappy, she finds herself fighting not only for her own life, but also for the lives of those she loves the most… '

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cry-Kit-Vero...ndeavour+press


US
http://www.amazon.com/Cry-Kit-Veroni...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Cry-Kit-Ver...ndeavour+press


Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Cry-Kit-Veronic...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - The Wayward Husband (The Hester Lynton Mysteries - Casebook Three) by Tony Evans


'The Victorian detective Hester Lynton and her sharp-minded assistant Ivy Jessop are back for another series of dazzling adventures.

In her latest baffling case, a complex and unusual tale involving a certain Mrs Bramming leads Hester and Ivy into the most dangerous case of their career.

Meanwhile, when a famous writer loses a valuable manuscript, and enlists Hester's help to find it, an eminent doctor appears to be involved in the inexplicable events.

But how?

And why?

Some mysteries are baffling even to Victorian London's greatest detective.

Join Hester and Ivy as they travel throughout the country chasing adventure and solving mysteries. This casebook promises twists and turns with a pair of lady sleuths with sharp wits and Holmesian intelligence.'


UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wayward-Husb...ndeavour+press


US
http://www.amazon.com/Wayward-Husban...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Wayward-Hus...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Wayward-Husband...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Kill Order by Charlie Flowers

'Rizwan Sabir is back.
And this time the battle is personal.
An ex al-Qaeda jihadi, Riz is now a fixer for a shadowy branch of the Ministry of Defence. He has teamed up professionally and romantically with Holly "Bang-Bang" Kirpachi - a hard-bitten girl gang leader.
Their marriage was set to be the social event of the season.
Until the wedding celebrations were interrupted by a series of murders in the East End of London.
Someone is copying Jack the Ripper with a new spate of gruesome killings in Whitechapel.
Riz and Bang-Bang are assigned to the case - but this is no easy mystery to crack.
Can they catch the killer before he strikes again?

Or are there other, darker forces at work? '


UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kill-Order-R...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Order-Riz...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Kill-Order-...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Kill-Order-Riz-...ndeavour+press