FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2015

[BelleZora]

The Pot Thief who Studied Billy the Kid (#6) by Michael Orenduff is on sale today for $1.99.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HO12CUO

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=ThN7AgAAQBAJ

[Wearever]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free on Amazon UK -The Weight of Evidence by Roger Ormerod

'Fred Wallach had been shut away in a bare shed. He had no means of escape. Yet by morning, he had disappeared. When the private detectives David Mallin and George Coe are hired to recover the missing builder, what initially appears as a harmless joke, played by Fred’s colleagues, turns out to be something far more elaborate than first thought. As they begin searching for clues to locate Wallach, Mallin and Coe quickly unveil some dark secrets about their victim. Wallach, a callous and devious man, was disliked by a wide range of people. With nothing about the disappearance making sense, the mystery of the vanishing man appears an impossible case to solve. When the missing person case becomes a murder investigation, Mallin and Coe find themselves under mounting pressure to deliver a resul.. '


UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Weight-Evide...ndeavour+press


US
http://www.amazon.com/Weight-Evidenc...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Weight-Evid...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Weight-Evidence...ndeavour+press

Thank you Mort ! I have been collecting the Roger Ormerod books, I've read a couple and liked them.

[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free megathread for this Tuesday's new Wildside Press freebie:

Seeds of Murder: A Captain North Tale by the late Van Wyck Mason, a vintage 1930s pulp intrigue thriller novel which kicked off the long-running series starring the eponymous U.S. Army Intelligence agent.

[badgoodDeb]

Both of the above two looked good to me, too!

[sufue]

And now the third in this series, Fool's Gold, is on US Kindle Countdown, at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days.

link: http://www.amazon.com/Fools-Gold-Lor...dp/B017BT9NSM/

Spoiler:

Spring, 1833.

More consuming than any mystery he has solved is Lord Ambrose’s ardor for down-on-her-luck governess Elisabeth Anstruther.

To have her hand would bring him untold joy.

But when the young lady refuses his proposal, Ambrose smarts from the pain — and has a strange feeling that something awful is soon to unfold.

Elisabeth has taken up a post as companion to nearby Lady Jesmond, but, within days of the girl’s arrival, Sir Antony Jesmond’s young doctor lies dead from poison.

It looks like a suicide, but the stopper to the bottle of poison has been painstakingly replaced on the night-stand — something a man in agony could not have done.

Elisabeth knows that the one person capable of solving this mystery is Ambrose. And soon, he too is embroiled in the sinister goings-on at Jesmond Place …

Will Lord Ambrose be able to solve the mystery?

Or will this case be his last?

Originally Posted by sufue

The Egyptian Coffin is the second in the Lord Ambrose Malfine series by Jane Jakeman. It's on US Kindle Countdown at $0.99 for about 3 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Egyptian-Coffi...dp/B016XWI2T4/

The first in the series, Let There Be Blood, was free a few days ago: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3207236
It's at $0.99 right now if you want to start with the first in the series.

[sufue]

The Harry Palmer Quartet is an omnibus of the first four Harry Palmer titles by Len Deighton. It's at $1.99 for an unknown amount of time at Amazon US.

Titles:

• The Ipcress File
• Horse Under Water
• Funeral in Berlin
• The Billion-Dollar Brain

link: http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Palmer-Q...dp/B00D0VYDCM/

Spoiler:

The first four ‘Secret Files’ from the master of fictional espionage, Len Deighton, containing the international exploits of Britain’s uber-cool sixties spy, Harry Palmer, together in one e-bundle for the first time.

When Len Deighton wrote THE IPCRESS FILE, HORSE UNDER WATER, FUNERAL IN BERLIN and BILLION-DOLLAR BRAIN he not only reinvented spy fiction, but he created a style icon and literary legend: ‘Harry Palmer’.

The nameless, working-class spy of the books was given a face and identity when he was played by Michael Caine in three classic films. Since then both the books and the character have become international icons.

Now it’s your chance to delve into the mysteries of the four ‘Secret Files’ as Harry Palmer investigates conspiracies, secret experiments and even a deadly virus, with all the cockiness and dry wit a reluctant spy can muster.

[sufue]

Now at $2.99: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N81I6TU

Originally Posted by sufue

And also this one from Witness Impulse:

The Cooper and Fry Mystery Collection #1 by Stephen Booth contains:

• Black Dog
• Dancing with the Virgins
• Blood on the Tongue

At $3.99 for three titles, it's not as much of a bargain as the McBride one, but still pretty good. However, the first title was briefly free not too long ago, and the third title was $0.99 for a while, so check carefully if this makes sense for you. Each of these three titles is "normally" $2.99 each.

I'm happy to see that "#1" in the title - maybe WI (part of HarperCollins) will start issuing more of these reasonably priced collections of backlist titles.

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Cooper-Fry-Mys...dp/B00N81I6TU/
Kobo US: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eb...y-collection-1

[sufue]

A bunch of new (at least to me) US Kindle Countdown deals and one repeat one:

Death and the Cornish Fiddler is the 11th in Deryn Lake's John Rawlings series. It's at $0.99 for about 4 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Death-Cornish-...dp/B017J3UETM/

Spoiler:

Spring 1767.

A welcome sense of recovery sweeps over the recently widowed John Rawlings and his young daughter, Rose.

Deciding on one last adventure before they return back to their home in London, the Rawlings, accompanied by John’s old flame, the delectable Elizabeth di Lorenzi, travel to Cornwall to see the famous Helstone Floral Dance.

But when they stop at an inn on the way to the festival, a child disappears in strange circumstances.

No sooner has John started investigating the case than a beautiful courtesan is found murdered at the inn.

Rawlings finds himself once again immersed in mystery and intrigue.

A suspicious blind musician is never far away from the festivities, but soon enough everyone becomes a suspect and each person has a motive.

It’s becoming more and more urgent for John to find the culprit – his daughter’s life could depend on it…

Steeped in rich historical detail and full of colourful characters, witchcraft, intrigue and suspense, this latest mystery featuring the dashing John Rawlings makes for compulsive reading.

Prospect of Death is the second in the Joanna McKenzie series by Margaret Duffy. It's at $0.99 for about 4 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Prospect-Death...dp/B017J3UMBM/

Spoiler:

Burns Night.

A night for drunken Scottish revelry and merry-making that turns into a nightmare when Chief Inspector James Carrick is found unconscious at the wheel of his crashed car.

He had arranged to stay at a hotel that night and cannot explain why he was driving, or remember what happened that night.

His reputation and his career are on the line.

While he fights tooth and nail to clear his name, the Bath police get to grips with the mystery of the battered corpse of a local TV producer discovered floating in the Avon.

As the investigation continues, clue after confusing clue turns up, leading the police and Carrick down a dark path of intrigue.

Seemingly innocent neighbours all turn against each other and ordinary folk, it turns out, keep many skeletons in their closets – but who is the culprit, and what is his link with Carrick?

Joanna MacKenzie, desperately in love with him, is determined to try and clear his name.

But in her pursuit for the truth, she may discover things about Carrick that she would rather never have known…

Hard Aground is a non-series title by James W. Hall. It's at $0.99 for about 2 1/2 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Aground-J...dp/B00752STYA/

Spoiler:

Buried treasure. 450 years ago a treasure ship went down. In Miami, the heat hasn't let up yet...Hap Tyler windsurfs on Biscayne bay, hears voices, seduces young women, and lives on the edge of history in his family's old-money mansion amid Miami's pastel glitz. But while Hap stumbles around in the shadow of his more successful older brother, Daniel, a tangled web of deception and greed is being spun around him --a web that leads Daniel to his death.

Trying to solve his brother's murder, Hap collides with a 450-year-old secret: the disappearance of $400 million in a sunken Spanish plunder. Daniel's upscale girlfriend is close to digging up the treasure, an avaricious senator has already tasted it, and a stone-cold killer will stop at nothing to bring it home. The century-old city of Miami is a town that murder built. One of its darkest secrets and greatest treasures is about to be exposed.

Red Sky At Night is the 6th in the Thorn series by James W. Hall. Some of the earlier books in the series have been free/sale before, but I, at least, haven't seen this one on sale before. It's at $0.99 for about 2 1/2 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Red-Sky-Night-...dp/B00AN6V62M/

Spoiler:

It was truly a crime against innocents. Eleven dolphins, part of an experiment in healing, are found slaughtered in their saltwater tanks. When Thorn investigates, he triggers a vicious attack that leaves him paralyzed from the waist down, plagued by unrelenting pain. Now Thorn, a Florida renegade who has lived a life of fierce freedom, is starting over in a wheelchair, bitter enough to drive his lover away, desperate enough to seek miracles on the fringes of medical science--where his childhood friend, now a doctor, is doing
cutting-edge research in a quest for the ultimate painkiller.

Bean Wilson was once destined for greatness. Then came the war in Vietnam, a debilitating injury, and a simmering rage. Now Bean is running a pain-relief clinic in Key West, assisted by a beautiful six-foot-tall island girl named Pepper Tremaine, who chews hot chilies like gum and carries a scalpel in her blouse. Under the guise of a respectable research facility, Bean and Pepper are using human beings as lab rats, then feeding the bodies of their failures to the shark-churned sea. Within hours of entering the clinic, Thorn can sense the danger. But when he begins to make the bizarre connection between eleven dead dolphins and Bean's clinic, the stakes are raised. Because Dr. Bean Wilson, a man who knows exactly how an amputated limb can scream with real, unbearable agony, may be on the brink of the most dangerous discovery of all: a cure for human pain. And in a climax that explodes with the kind of secrets that can turn friends into enemies and lovers into strangers, Red Sky At Night races toward a harrowing showdown between Thorn, imprisoned in a wheelchair, and a mad, ruthless doctor who will stop at nothing to cure his own twisted pain.

A full-throttle thriller of unparalleled suspense, Red Sky At Night is also a powerful human drama. For here are the hurts that afflict the body, mind, and spirit. And here is the wounded love between old friends and rivals: the twisted love between the beautiful, rough-hewn Pepper Tremaine and the doctor she worships, and, ultimately, the love risked between Thorn, caught in his bitterness and his rage, and a good woman willing to stay with him to the end.

Last Mass is the first (and only, so far) title in the Ginevra Casabuoni series by C.G. Griffin. This looks self-pubbed (Reyna's Press???) but I have personally read and liked it via KU, and so when I saw it listed on Countdown at $0.99 for about 1 3/4 more days, I thought I'd add it on here (and I bought it too).
link: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Mass-Gine...dp/B0147RH81U/

Spoiler:

In the summer of 1462, the city of Florence is preparing to celebrate the feast of San Giovanni Batista, and the only hope of solving a murder rests in the unlikely but capable hands of a Renaissance housewife.

Ginevra Casabuoni, is aware that no one in Santa Fiammetta parish was happy with Jacopo Sapone, not after what he did at the last Mass in their beloved neighborhood church. When he turns up dead, most of the local people are happy believe that someone has taken divine retribution into their own hands. Official suspicion, however, lights on Ginevra’s husband, Francesco. With the able assistance of her mother-in-law, the formidable Monna Veronica, Ginevra sets out to clear her husband’s name, find a killer, and prepare for an impending holiday dinner.

The President's Henchman is the first in the Jim McGill series (series is part trad published, part semi-self-pub by Flynn's own Stray Dog press - I've read and liked all of the books in this series) by Joseph Flynn. If you want to try the series, here's the first one - it's a repeat deal at $0.99 for about 4 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Presidents-Hen...dp/B00DPYK8KK/

Spoiler:

According to the polls, it's only a matter of time — and not that long a time — before the United States elects its first female president. Which will make her husband — what?
Well, if he's the ex-cop who solved the murder of the president's first husband and brought the killers to justice … and if he's not the kind of guy to stand on formality … and if he doesn't want to be the head of the FBI … and if he takes out a license and becomes the first private eye to live in the White House …
That would make him The President's Henchman.
Jim McGill's first case is to find out who is stalking a member of the White House press corps, before that stalker turns the tables on McGill and maybe even threatens the president herself. He also has to be a shadow advisor to a young Air Force investigator who is looking into a he-said she-said charge of adultery leveled against a female colonel working at the Pentagon, a case with the potential to derail the new president's administration before it has a chance to begin.

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK -The Shopkeeper (A Steve Dancy Tale Book 1) by James D Best


Steve Dancy tales. Honest Westerns. Filled with dishonest characters.

In 1879, Steve Dancy sells his New York shop and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. Though he's not looking for trouble, Dancy's infatuation with another man's wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron. Infuriated by the outrages of two hired thugs, the shopkeeper kills both men in an impulsive street fight. Dancy believes this barbarian act has closed the episode. He is wrong. He has interfered with Washburn's ambitions, and this is something the mining tycoon will not allow. Pinkertons, hired assassins, and aggrieved bystanders escalate the feud until it pulls in all the moneyed interests and power brokers in Nevada.

Is a New York City shopkeeper tough enough to survive the Wild West?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...eries_rw_dp_sw

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free on Amazon UK -The Shopkeeper (A Steve Dancy Tale Book 1) by James D Best


Steve Dancy tales. Honest Westerns. Filled with dishonest characters.

In 1879, Steve Dancy sells his New York shop and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. Though he's not looking for trouble, Dancy's infatuation with another man's wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron. Infuriated by the outrages of two hired thugs, the shopkeeper kills both men in an impulsive street fight. Dancy believes this barbarian act has closed the episode. He is wrong. He has interfered with Washburn's ambitions, and this is something the mining tycoon will not allow. Pinkertons, hired assassins, and aggrieved bystanders escalate the feud until it pulls in all the moneyed interests and power brokers in Nevada.

Is a New York City shopkeeper tough enough to survive the Wild West?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...eries_rw_dp_sw

Also free across the pond, at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...w?tag=mr061-21.

[Fbone]

A Paper Mask by John Collee is FREE today only at Kobo. Penguin 1988. GR 4.26

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/a-paper-mask

[phloxy]

C. Hope Clark's Murder on Edisto is featured again for December by Amazon (and therefore B&N) in a monthly holiday special. $1.99

A big city detective. A lowcountry murder.

Peace, safety, a place to grieve and heal. After her husband is murdered by the Russian mob, Boston detective Callie Jean Morgan comes home to her family's cottage in South Carolina. There, she can keep their teenage son, Jeb, away from further threats.

But the day they arrive in Edisto Beach, Callie finds her childhood mentor and elderly neighbor murdered. Taunted by the killer, who repeatedly violates her home and threatens others in the community, Callie finds her new sanctuary has become her old nightmare. Despite warnings from the town's handsome police chief, Callie plunges back into detective work, pursuing a sinister stranger who may have ties to her past. He's turning a quiet paradise into a paranoid patch of sand where nobody's safe. She'll do whatever it takes to stop him.

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK -Murder for Miss Emily by JF Straker

Repeat from April

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Miss-...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Murder-Miss-Em...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Murder-Miss...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Murder-Miss-Emi...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK -The Madeiran Double Cross by Sally Spencer

'London bank robber Frank Mason has never pulled off his own crime job without the help of his mastermind wife Elsie. Trapped in a loveless marriage, a loveless affair with his mistress Linda, and with the pressure of Elsie's gangster father looming over him, Frank needs a miracle to maintain his reputation in the criminal underworld. But luckily Frank has The Plan: a full-blown, international crime caper. Frank and his band of eccentric miscreants, including the demanding Linda and his right hand man and protégé Tony Horton, are off to Madeira to pull off an almost impossible bank job. Little does Frank know, however, that members of his team are planning a double cross, and with Chief Superintendent Gower closing in, the team unravelling, and Elsie becoming more and more suspicious, Frank's plan is fast becoming a disaster. Can Frank pull off his scheme before it's too late?
Or will the Madeiran plan fall foul at the feet of the Double Cross?'


UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Madeiran-Dou...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Madeiran-Doubl...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Madeiran-Do...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Madeiran-Double...ndeavour+press

[Fbone]

Hail Storme: A Wyatt Storme Thriller (Wyatt Storme Mystery #1) by W.L. Ripley is FREE today. Little, Brown 1993. GR 4.19

http://smile.amazon.com/Hail-Storme-...by+W.L.+Ripley