FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2015

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Thursday at Noon: A Mideast Political Thriller by William F. Brown (apparently not the playwright of the same name, complete with initial), an old-school historical-period-set espionage action/adventure thriller set in 1960s Egypt, originally out from St. Martin's Press in 1987.

Cairo, 1962, and the Middle East is about to go up in flames. Richard Thomson is already having a bad day when someone leaves a corpse lying on the rear steps of Thomson's hotel. Its head had been lopped off like a ripe melon, placed where it could look back down at its own body. A message? No doubt about it.

Thomson is a burned-out CIA agent who's been banished here to the dust bin on the Nile until the Agency could figure out an even worse place to dump him. The body belongs to Mahmoud Yussuf, a fat, petty thief and some-time spy, who is selling photographs of a long-abandoned RAF base out in the Egyptian desert. But what do the photos have to do with a dead Israeli Mossad agent, Nazi rocket scientists, the fanatical Moslem Brotherhood, an egotistical US Ambassador and Boston politician who is trying to cut his own deal with Nasser, and two missing Egyptian tank regiments? They might start the next Arab-Israeli War or stop it; but what can one thoroughly discredited, over-the-hill agent do about them?

Alone and on the run, no one believes Thomson's story -- not the CIA, the US Ambassador, and most assuredly not Captain Hassan Saleh, Chief of the Homicide Bureau of the Cairo Police. Saleh wants to hang Thomson for murder. Like Night of the Generals, this is a murder mystery wrapped inside a real-life, well-researched historic crisis. The slums of Cairo are a tinder box of discontent and the first faint whiffs of a military coup against the shaky, new government of Abdel Gamal Nasser are in the air. Tick Toc, Tick Toc!

In this CIA action adventure and suspense thriller, if Thomson doesn't solve the mystery, something is about to blow up in his face, at Noon on Thursday.

[Lynx-lynx]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

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

Lars Kepler - Joona linna
Jo Nesbo - Harry Hole
Camilla Lackberg - Patrick Hedstrom
Christobel Kent - Sandro Cellini
Dana Stabenow - Kate Shugak
Jason Webster - Chief Inspector Max Cámara
Sulari Gentill - Rowland Sinclair
Jacqueline Winspear - Maisie Dobbs
Donna Leon - Inspector Brunetti
Jill Downie - Moretti and Falla Mystery
Peter Twohig - The Kid
Robert Gott - Inspector Titus

and there will be plenty more - so please post your finds.

Originally Posted by Fbone

Joe Abercrombie is discountable (all titles and boxed sets).
Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series is also.

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Louise Penny - Inspector Gamache
Ann Cleeves - several series
Adrian Magson - several series
Robert Goddard - all his books?

and there will be plenty more - so please post your finds.

Two newly released books:
Donna Leon - Falling in Love (No 24, Brunetti series)
Lesley Thompson - Detective's Secret (No 3)
Jo Nesbo - Blood on Snow

Nearing the end of the Refer promo ....

[Fbone]

Breakfast at Madeline's by Matt Witten is FREE at Amazon. Signet 1999. GR 3.21. Reviews aren't stellar.

http://smile.amazon.com/Breakfast-Ma...t+Madeline%27s

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Breakfast at Madeline's by Matt Witten is FREE at Amazon. Signet 1999. GR 3.21. Reviews aren't stellar.

http://smile.amazon.com/Breakfast-Ma...t+Madeline%27s

Fifty-one (51) reviews averaging 4.5 stars.

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Fifty-one (51) reviews averaging 4.5 stars.

Goodreads average 3.21

[GA Russell]

The Poisoned Rose (Gin Palace #1) - free
http://www.amazon.com/Poisoned-Palac...dp/B007RGY33U/

Shamus Award Winner, 2002

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Poisoned Rose (Gin Palace #1) - free
http://www.amazon.com/Poisoned-Palac...dp/B007RGY33U/

Shamus Award Winner, 2002

I've read this book in the past, I thought it was fairly decent.

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via Smashwords, and thence price-matched in selection regional stores such as Kobo and Amazon (both currently available to Canadians) and wherever else this is getting distributed:

Shaded Light: The Case of the Tactless Trophy Wife by J. A. Menzies originally written under the pseudonym N. J. Lindquist (SYKM), 1st in her Manziuk & Ryan series of Toronto-set cozy-leaning police procedurals starring a Detective Inspector and his newly-promoted African-Canadian Detective partner, which the extended blurb indicates has a bunch of Agatha Christie references/homages in it, out from small press Murder Will Out Mysteries in 2004.

A muggy July weekend in Toronto. A house party with a disparate assortment of guests. A tired police inspector and his rookie partner. And murder.

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Mad Money by Linda L. Richards (SYKM), 1st in her Madeline Carter mystery/thriller series starring a New York stockbroker turned L. A. day trader, originally out from Harlequin's Mira imprint in 2004. This was an Arthur Ellis Award finalist for Best First Novel, according to SYKM.

When her best friend is killed in front of her at the New York City brokerage where they both work, Madeline Carter quits her job and aims for a safer life on the warm coast. But life has a way of interrupting the best laid plans and it isn’t long before Madeline’s quiet new life of day trading in the Malibu hills is interrupted by kidnapping, murder and a run-in with a corporate psychopath.

Free again from the author('s publishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Magic Mirror by Michaela Thompson originally written under the pseudonym Mickey Friedman (SYKM), 1st in her Georgia Lee Maxwell mystery series starring a Florida expat magazine columnist in Paris, originally out from Penguin in 1988.

SACRE BLEU! THEY KILLED A MAN FOR A MIRROR!

Florida transplant Georgia Lee Maxwell doesn't take to Paris at first, despite the fact that she's at least leaving a no-good man and a hated job as a society editor. Now she's a Paris correspondent, thank you very much—a dream come true for any journalist.

There's just a slight down side—she arrives in freezing rain, gets caught in a traffic jam caused by a bomb scare, and hates her apartment; but the real Bonjour is finding herself face down on a museum floor during a robbery. "Killed for a boring story!" she thinks. But as it happens, she isn't the one who dies. Three terrifying masked gunmen shoot the unfortunate security guard.

They could have stolen all the treasures of Monte Cristo's cave, so to speak, but it turns out they've made off with only a mirror. True, it once belonged to the French seer Nostradamus, but it may be the museum's least valuable item.

Does it have some prophetic ability? Does someone know something the gendarmes don't? Here's what Georgia Lee knows: If she finds out first, she's a journalistic hero. If she doesn't, she's dead.

X-link to the Horror megathread, where self-publishing champion J. A. Konrath aka Jack Kilborn is offering a bunch of new and repeat items, among them a few things in his Disney Hyperion-published Jack Daniels police procedural mystery series (and a self-pub future-set sci-fi police procedural starring one of Jack Daniels' descendants).

[GA Russell]

Breakfast at Madeline's (Jacob Burns #1) - free
http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Made...dp/B00AFLQK1M/

(Possibly self-published. A former #1 on Amazon's Mystery sales chart.)

*****

Try Try Again - free
http://www.amazon.com/Try-Again-Tere...dp/B00RLR7PU8/

(All 13 reviews give it five stars.)

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Breakfast at Madeline's (Jacob Burns #1) - free
http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Made...dp/B00AFLQK1M/

(Possibly self-published. A former #1 on Amazon's Mystery sales chart.)

Please look at the "Product Details" section of the Amazon page for the book before posting a link. In this case we have:

File Size: 594 KB
Print Length: 256 pages
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00AFLQK1M
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
Not Enabled
Word Wise: Not Enabled
Lending: Not Enabled

"Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc." and the lack of a "Publisher" field tell us that it's self-published.

Please do not post recommendations for self-published books in this thread unless it is on the basis of your personal recommendation.

Thanks.

[BearMountainBooks]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Please look at the "Product Details" section of the Amazon page for the book before posting a link. In this case we have:



"Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc." and the lack of a "Publisher" field tell us that it's self-published.

Please do not post recommendations for self-published books in this thread unless it is on the basis of your personal recommendation.

Thanks.

I looked at it yesterday and in the blurb it does say something about being originally published by Signet if I recall correctly. So I think it's a backlist probably brought back from the author--with quite possibly one of the worst covers I've ever seen. The guy is dead (coffee cup spilled, but his leg still posed as though just reclining? Who falls dead with their leg that way? And the lady in the shot calmly drinking her espresso? Never mind the lack of...oh never mind.)

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks

I looked at it yesterday and in the blurb it does say something about being originally published by Signet if I recall correctly.

Thank you for the additional information. In that case it's fine.

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Breakfast at Madeline's (Jacob Burns #1) - free
http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Made...dp/B00AFLQK1M/

(Possibly self-published. A former #1 on Amazon's Mystery sales chart.)

*****

Try Try Again - free
http://www.amazon.com/Try-Again-Tere...dp/B00RLR7PU8/

(All 13 reviews give it five stars.)

thanks

[murg]

Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks

The guy is dead (coffee cup spilled, but his leg still posed as though just reclining? Who falls dead with their leg that way?

Yup, the guy should be taken out back and shot.

[GA Russell]

Shelter from the Storm (Tubby Dubonnet #4) - free
http://www.amazon.com/Shelter-Storm-...dp/B00EFIOGW6/