FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2015

[Mort1997]

Free Today Amazon UK - Dangerous Pursuits (A Rose McQuinn Mystery No.2) by Alanna Knight

Rose McQuinn, out walking near her home on Arthur’s Seat comes across the body of a woman in the ruins of St Anthony’s Chapel but when she returns to the scene of the crime, neither body nor the local constable whom she alerted have both disappeared. No one believes her story, not even her lover Detective Sergeant Jack Macmerry of the Edinburgh City Police. But Rose is convinced that a murder has been committed and her ensuing investigation into the mystery soon turns into a game of deadly pursuit.


UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dangerous-Pu...362247031_f_70

US
http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Purs...362247031_f_70

[Fbone]

Dead Center (The Rookie Club #1) by Danielle Girard is FREE today. Signet 2006. GR 3.85

http://smile.amazon.com/Dead-Center-...Club+Book+1%29

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Dead Center (The Rookie Club #1) by Danielle Girard is FREE today. Signet 2006. GR 3.85

http://smile.amazon.com/Dead-Center-...Club+Book+1%29

Not free at Amazon UK

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Dead Center (The Rookie Club #1) by Danielle Girard is FREE today. Signet 2006. GR 3.85

http://smile.amazon.com/Dead-Center-...Club+Book+1%29

Silly me.* I just picked up this free book.

The book sounds interesting, but that cover is atrocious. Horrible. Horrible.

Thank you.


* = read the first review, titled 'Silly Me.' Very funny

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK (Endeavour press) - Flight of Death by Richard Hoyt

'When Private Eye John Denson is sent to the town of Sixkiller, Washington, it seems to be a straight-forward investigation.
The Harkenriders have been found with fifty marijuana plants on their property, and they claim they have no idea how they got there.
John’s attention is momentarily distracted from his investigation, however, when he meets the beautiful ornithologist Jenny MacIvar on his drive into Sixkiller.
She’s there to perform a controversial endangered owl count, one which sets out to prove that the surrounding forests should be protected from the logging which employs many of the locals.
Jenny’s also on the trail of an owl killer, determined to find out who wrung the endangered creature’s neck, and why.
John finds himself in the midst of a turf war between the loggers and the environmentalists, and things are rapidly getting nasty.
When Jenny’s body turns up in the river, a shotgun-hole through her chest, John suspects there’s more to her apparently senseless murder than meets the eye.
Could the Harkenrider case, the MacIvar murder and the strange killing of an endangered owl all somehow be linked?
And can John find out what – or who – is at the root of Sixkiller’s troubles before anyone else gets hurt?

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flight-Death...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Death-R...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Flight-Deat...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Flight-Death-Ri...ndeavour+press

[KentE]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free today on Amazon UK (Endeavour press) - Flight of Death by Richard Hoyt

Thanks Mort1997! I really enjoyed reading the Richard Hoyt books when they were originally published, and it will be a treat to have this available to read again. I didn't remember the title, but it appears to have been originally titled Whoo?. I looked for some Hoyt ebooks a couple of years ago, and found none, so I'm hoping this might indicate more becoming available. (The US Amazon site has a poor job of linking on Hoyt's books, with some failing to link to their master author page....)

KentE

[ClareK]

Some of Richard Hoyt's John Denson series are available to borrow online as pdf or epub at openlibrary.org.

[Mort1997]

Originally Posted by KentE

Thanks Mort1997! I really enjoyed reading the Richard Hoyt books when they were originally published, and it will be a treat to have this available to read again. I didn't remember the title, but it appears to have been originally titled Whoo?. I looked for some Hoyt ebooks a couple of years ago, and found none, so I'm hoping this might indicate more becoming available. (The US Amazon site has a poor job of linking on Hoyt's books, with some failing to link to their master author page....)

KentE

Glad to have helped. Endeavour press seemed to be republishing authors so keep an eye out for further Richard Hoyt books appearing, the titles may change from what you saw before (or so I found with the Liz Evans books I've been collecting to replace my paper copies). Endeavour press usually have a couple of titles free each week and are quite often in the countdown deal section.

[sufue]

Open Road just emailed me with info about three first-in-series mysteries on sale...no idea for how long. (Per eReaderIQ, all seem to have dropped around June 1, so possibly for the month of June ???)

The email indicates they are on sale at Amazon, BN and Apple. I checked Kobo US, and all seem to be on sale there too as well, although for more, but Open Road is usually couponable, so you might come out ahead there if you have a coupon.

Amazon US links/prices:

Lonely Hearts by John Harvey (Charlie Resnick series, #1) is $1.99
link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006ZE1I1K/

Spoiler:

Shirley Peters was murdered in her own home. A directionless young woman with a fondness for cheap red wine and a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, her death is just another in the files of the Nottingham detective’s bureau. The police round up her ex-lover without much fuss, and are preparing to try him when another body surfaces. The method, the target, and the extreme violence are all a match for the killing of Shirley Peters. Nottingham is facing a serial killer.

Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick is the first to see the connection. Both victims placed ads in a citywide Lonely Hearts column, and the rumpled detective suspects that their killer found them by preying on their isolation. He has little time to find the killer before more women die and Nottingham erupts into panic.

The 7th Victim by Alan Jacobson (Karen Vail series, #1) is $2.51.
link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KLOY3ZS/

Spoiler:

Karen Vail is no ordinary FBI agent. She’s a profiler, brought to life by national bestselling author Alan Jacobson’s seven years of unprecedented access to the FBI’s vaunted profiling unit. The Karen Vail Series has been raved about by reviewers, readers, law enforcement officers of all stripes, real FBI profilers . . . even one of the legendary founding fathers of the Behavioral Analysis Unit.

And it all started with The 7th Victim. With a dry sense of humor and a closet full of skeletons, Karen Vail leads the Dead Eyes Task Force in its search for a serial killer who is not only murdering young women but who has an intimate knowledge of their cases—and their plan for catching him.

When the task force is unable to decipher a string of cryptic clues left behind at the crime scenes, Vail leans on a controversial profile she has drawn up—which leads her to believe that the seventh victim holds the key to finding the killer. But there’s no way she could be prepared for what she discovers as the story builds to a powerful ending no reader will see coming.

Blockbuster author Nelson DeMille described FBI profiler Karen Vail as “tough, smart, funny, [and] very believable,” and literary icon Michael Connelly called her “my kind of hero.” Named one of the top five books of the year by Library Journal, The 7th Victim gets the critically acclaimed, bestselling Karen Vail Series off to a groundbreaking start.

Dead Man's Thoughts by Carolyn Wheat (Cass Jameson series, #1) is $2.83.
link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RWJPR2I/

Spoiler:

Cass Jameson feels at home in court. A Brooklyn legal-aid attorney, she defends prostitutes, drug dealers, and burglars, helping them navigate the tangled justice system one hearing at a time. After years of drudgery, she dreams of quitting her career in law to become a professional photographer—a dream she has discussed only with her boyfriend, fellow attorney Nathan Wasserstein. It is a dream they will never get to share.

One afternoon, Cass finds Nathan’s apartment unlocked. The kitchen has been ransacked, the living room trashed. And in the bedroom, she finds Nathan tied to his bed, savagely murdered. When the police investigation falters, Cass takes it on herself to find her lover’s killer—even if it means learning things about him that make her question everything.

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author('s republishing consortium) BooksBNimble via Kobo & Amazon:

Love Bites by screen actress (and voice of Catwoman on Batman: The Animated Series & DCAU spinoffs, which TBH, is the only place I've ever actually seen her work) Adrienne Barbeau (IMDB, Wikipedia), 2nd in her Vampyres of Hollywood series of humorous tinseltown paranormal police procedurals, originally out from Thomas Dunne in 2010, @ Amazon (KDP Select, so should be available worldwide for another day or so).

NOT YOUR MAMA’S POLICE PROCEDURAL--A COP STORY WITH BITE…AND ROMANCE!

Not to mention sharp, cutting wit. Detective Peter King and movie star Ovsanna Moore are the sexiest tongue-in-cheek crime-solving duo since MOONLIGHTING hit the air waves in the ‘80s. But they may remind you more of TRUE BLOOD’s Sookie and Eric than Maddie and David—because one of them’s a vampire. And like Sookie’s Bon Temps, their Los Angeles has its fair share of shapeshifting sometime-humans.

Ovsanna’s the successful owner of her own Hollywood film studio and the star of 17 blockbuster horror films, plus three, sadly, that went straight to video. But even vampires have bad days. Though never fat days or bad hair days—she looks pretty great for 450. And in those four and a half centuries she’s pretty much seen everything, formed an opinion about it, and developed the kind of worldly-wise wit Joan Rivers only dreams about.

Peter, on the other hand, is a Beverly Hills cop firmly rooted in human affairs, from the domestic issues of his lively Italian family to the romantic ones of his neighbor, snake dancer Suzie Q. Though Ovsanna’s had flings with everyone from Genghis Khan to Errol Flynn, Peter’s got what it takes to catch her eye and hold her interest. And he’s one hell of a detective. He's also a consummate master of spin, concealing what he knows about the world of vampires, werewolves, and shapeshifters while solving the crimes they commit.

These ones have been repeats from within the past year which have gone off KDP Select exclusive-ization and have since become available in other stores as introductory 1st-in-series freebies for a while now, so just the titles with brief descriptive linkage:

Samson's Deal by Shelley Singer (SYKM), 1st in her Vicente & Samson series of cozy-ish mysteries starring a Jewish ex-cop and his lesbian carpenter sidekick in Berkeley, California, originally out from St. Martin's Press in 1983 @ Kobo and thence price-matched in selected regions @ Amazon (new ASIN, I think, which now makes it a DRM-free version, available to Canadians).

Dead Sober by Elizabeth Zelvin (SYKM), 1st in her Bruce Kohler series of humorous mysteries starring the eponymous recovering alcoholic in Manhattan, originally out under the title Death Will Get You Sober from Minotaur in 2008, @ Kobo & thence price-matched in selected regions @ Amazon (available to Canadians).

Crooked Man by Tony Dunbar (SYKM), 1st in his Edgar Award-nominated Tubby Dubonnet series of humorous murder mysteries starring the eponymous foodie lawyer in New Orleans, originally out from Putnam in 1994 @ Kobo & thence price-matched in selected regions @ Amazon (available to Canadians).

Louisiana Hotshot by Edgar Award-winner Julie Smith (SYKM, Wikipedia), 1st in her Talba Wallis series of humorous PI procedurals starring an African-American poet and computer whiz in New Orleans, originally out from Tor's Forge imprint in 2001 @ Kobo & thence price-matched in selected regions @ Amazon (available to Canadians).

Just a reminder that if you happen to enjoy any of these and wish to read more, now that BBN's catalogue has started filtering back into non-Amazon venues, they're couponable @ Kobo (and mostly, but not all, DRM-free), and there are currently two of Julie Smith's backlist titles on sale for just 99 cents each (at least one of them has previously been recently free within the past 2 years, IIRC).

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ $2.99 CAD from Random House Canada for today only (Jun 24th) @ Kobo Canada (not couponable) and price-matched in other Canadian stores:

Cockroaches by Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø (SYKM, Wikipedia), 2nd in his popular Harry Hole series starring the eponymous intrepid alcoholic Oslo-based Inspector in an overseas adventure taking place in Bangkok. I've read this and liked it (and in fact bought a copy the last time it was on special), and it's an okay installment in the series, but nowhere near as good as the actual cases that take place in Norway.

This is the Kobo Daily Deal for Canada (a repeat), and gives an extra $2, just for today, off the current sale price of $4.99 that it's been at for the past couple of weeks. ETA: I should note that Nesbø's books usually cost $9.99-$12.99 CAD regularly, although there are money-saving omnibuses available (this 2nd is not included in either of them).

Description
The thrilling sequel to Jo Nesbo's debut novel, The Bat, The Cockroaches sees Harry Hole sent to Bangkok to investigate the murder of the Norwegian ambassador.

Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. But it's work, not pleasure. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and no witnesses have come forward. The ambassador had close ties to the Norwegian prime minister, and to avoid a scandal Harry is sent there to hush up the case. But he quickly discovers that there is much more going on behind the scenes and very few people willing to talk. When Harry lays hands on some CCTV footage that will help him unravel what happened that night, things only get more complicated. The man who gave him the tape goes missing, and Harry realises that failing to solve a murder case is by no means the only danger in Bangkok.

[Little.Egret]

Free

An Orkney Murder (A Rose McQuinn Mystery No.3) (Rose McQuinn series) - by Alanna Knight

A Murderer in the family?
That is the terrifying prospect facing Rose Faro McQuinn, Victorian Lady Detective when archaeologists dig up the preserved corpse of the Maid of Norway, a 13th century princess to find that the body is of a local woman, a member of Rose's family, presumed drowned but brutally murdered and thrown into the peat bog.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00557MJPM/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00557MJPM/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00557MJPM/

[Wearever]

Thanks Little.Egret & Mort1997, for the Rose Mcquinn Mysteries, by Alanna Knight.

[GA Russell]

Dialogues of a Crime - free
http://www.amazon.com/Dialogues-Crim...dp/B00E63HDCK/

[ATDrake]

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

Venetian Mask by Michaela Thompson (SYKM), her standalone contemporary vacationing-couples-games-turn-deadly murder mystery set in Venice during Carnival, originally out from Penguin in 1988 under her Mickey Friedman pseudonym.

This was a 1988 Macavity Award finalist for Best Novel, according to SYKM.

MURDER AT CARNIVAL IN THE FLOATING CITY

The surreal splendor of Venice glitters and mesmerizes as six so-called friends who, it turns out, barely know each other meet at Carnival to play a malignant game that quickly turns murderous. Sally, the “Tallahassee lassie” spurned by the rest as a virtual hayseed, is swept up by a mysterious count, attending masked balls, operas, and Carnival revels even as she mourns her marriage and dodges a deadly pursuer. “Things should happen at Carnival,” says her unlikely protector, who resembles Harlequin in more than his costume. “If they go on just the same, there’s no reason for Carnival at all.” There’s absolutely no chance of that in this psychological tour de force of surging identities wrestling to emerge in people forced by violence to confront their inner Harlequins and Medusas.

The characters change costumes, alter egos, sex partners (and preferences), and most of all, their stories while Carnival swirls around them, each more desperate by the hour to solve the murder, commit another, save a career, escape a past…whatever it is that Carnival, as much a character as the humans, seems to command them to do. The guignol grows ever grander, the danger more heightened as the clock ticks toward midnight on Fat Tuesday and Sally finds she has more enemies than she thought.