FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[sufue]

US Kindle Daily Deal has three titles in the Tubby Dubonnet series by Tony Dunbar today (2/19) at $0.99 - the first, second and eighth. All have been freebies/on sale before.

Crooked Man, #1: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0081HNT7U

City of Beads, #2: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007Z5HC7W

Night Watchman, #8: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XTMHH16

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by sufue

US Kindle Daily Deal has three titles in the Tubby Dubonnet series by Tony Dunbar today (2/19) at $0.99 - the first, second and eighth. All have been freebies/on sale before.

Crooked Man, #1: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0081HNT7U

City of Beads, #2: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007Z5HC7W

Night Watchman, #8: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XTMHH16

Yes, the entire series gets rotated through as freebies on a regular basis. They're fun books. Recommended.

[disconnected]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

UK Daily Deal: Eight of the Agatha Raisin books by M C Beaton are on sale for £0.99 each.

(I have plenty of good mystery novels to read, so I'm resisting. But for UK Beaton fans, this is a splendid deal.)

Thanks for posting those. I already had most of the later books in the series in ebook form but not these early ones. I'm sort of obsessive about having complete sets so I'd eventually have bought them at full price.

I checked at Kobo UK and they're the same price so I bought them there. (I'm in the US and not brave enough to travel at Amazon).

[sufue]

Tough Cookie is the second in the Maggie Sullivan series by M. Ruth Myers. It has just recently dropped to $0.99 at Amaz US, no idea why or for how long. It seems to go on sale/free from time to time, usually not for very long.

link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009PQ40KG

Spoiler:

When Depression-era private investigator Maggie Sullivan is invited to dine with a millionaire, she doesn’t expect the first course to be a gun in her face. It draws her into a gold-plated web of theft, revenge, double crosses and murder.

A big-time swindle has made fools of some of the city’s wealthiest businessmen. The man behind it has vanished. When Maggie begins asking questions, he reappears – dead in the river. But she’s already learned too much. Someone’s out to silence her too.

Armed with her .38 and a nip of gin, Maggie closes in on a killer as a mobster offers a hint, a cop unsettles her with his chemistry, and a woman with deadly potential plays a game by her own rules.

Whether you favor hard-boiled or cozy, you'll add Maggie Sullivan to your list of favorite women sleuths.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by sufue

Tough Cookie is the second in the Maggie Sullivan series by M. Ruth Myers. It has just recently dropped to $0.99 at Amaz US, no idea why or for how long. It seems to go on sale/free from time to time, usually not for very long.

link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009PQ40KG

Thanks, sufue!

For those who might be interested, but would prefer to start the series at the beginning, the first book in the series, No Game for a Dame, is currently free. It appears to be a discount from the regular Kindle price, but I don't know for how long.

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Dame-Magg...dp/B0061063ZE/

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by cromag

Thanks, sufue!

For those who might be interested, but would prefer to start the series at the beginning, the first book in the series, No Game for a Dame, is currently free. It appears to be a discount from the regular Kindle price, but I don't know for how long.

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Dame-Magg...dp/B0061063ZE/

also FREE in UK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Dame-Ma...dp/B0061063ZE/

Where Tough Cookie is £0.99

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009PQ40KG/

[Lynx-lynx]

Free - Kobo AU (and probably Kobo in your country, too) two of the Agatha Raison ebooks:

Agatha Raison and the Christmas Crumble (No 67) - short story

Hell's Bells (No 68)

Widowed Mary Bolton, like Miss Jean Brodie, considers herself in her prime. Not satisfied with car boot sales, dances at the bowling club and reading to the elderly, she throws herself into bellringing with gusto - much to the annoyance of her neighbours.

But when the industrious Mary is found swinging from a bell rope, Jessica Brand - who only days before had threatened to strangle Mary with the very same rope - fears she will be accused. There's nothing left to do but call in private detective Agatha Raisin to untangle the web of sex, money, deceit ... and murder.

[murg]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Free - Kobo AU (and probably Kobo in your country, too) two of the Agatha Raison ebooks:

Agatha Raison and the Christmas Crumble (No 67) - short story

Hell's Bells (No 68)

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-ca/eb...tmas-crumble-1

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-ca/eb...hell-s-bells-1

[Lynx-lynx]

Oh yeah, I forgot the links!

[sufue]

Partners in Crime seems to go on US Kindle Countdown once a year or so. It's on US Kindle Countdown again just now, at $1.99 for about 1 3/4 more days before going up to $3.99.

It's a "box set" of five legal thrillers, mostly "first in series":

Rebecca Forster: Hostile Witness
Paul Levine: To Speak for the Dead
Scott Pratt: An Innocent Client
Sheldon Siegel: Special Circumstances
Pamela Samuels Young: Buying Time

Full info, including blurbs, in this old post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=2850727

Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K15GBL6

[sufue]

A Species of Revenge is the ninth in the Gil Mayo series by Marjorie Eccles. It's on US Kindle Countdown at $0.99 for about 1 1/2 more days before going to $3.99.

link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0155QLL7O

Spoiler:

At first, the discovery of an unidentified body barely impacts on the quiet community of Ellington Close in the country town of Lavistock

It is down to Detective Inspector Abigail Moon to find the identity of the murdered man, and figure out what he was doing there.

The case seems a dead end until, just when the trail is starting to go cold, another murder much closer to home turns the eye of suspicion on the residents of Ellington Close.

As DI Moon and Superintendent Gil Mayo investigate the the people living in this small community, they find that more one person is keeping secrets…

As Mayo and Moon search for the answers, they quickly realize that the two murders are inextricably connected.

Can they uncover the unknown terror that is lurking in the shadows of the quiet backwater town in time?

Or will this Species of Revenge strike again?

Species of Revenge is an expertly plotted crime thriller that is perfect for fans of Nikki French and Ian Rankin.

Praise for Majorie Eccles

‘Eccles produces smoothly flowing prose and an atmospheric setting’ - Publishers Weekly

‘Superior police procedural’ - Sunday Telegraph

"It all makes for lively entertainment, enhanced by the author's forthright style, some resonant characters, a subdued village ambiance, and a puzzle neatly deconstructed but with minimum help from Lavenstock's likeable police team." - Kirkus Reviews

Marjorie Eccles lived for many years in the Midlands, where her crime novels are set. An Accidental Shroud and A Death of Distinction also feature Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo.

[Little.Egret]

The Screaming Gull by Angus MacVicar

Endeavour Books - Best seller thriller reprint (1945)

Scotland, the 1930's. William Dunbar lives his life without confidence and in the shadow of his sisters. Charles Merriman, a Secret Service agent, is pushed into the harbour slip. He cannot swim.
Instinctively Dunbar saves Merriman.
But that is the trigger for a chain of events that pull him deeper into the conspiracy of `The Screaming Gull'.
Sent by Merriman to deliver a message to Sir David MacLaren, Dunbar finds himself embroiled in a murder investigation. Merriman's murder.
Teaming up with MacLaren's daughter, Maureen, and a young runaway, Peter, Dunbar must trust in his own instincts and strength to prove his innocence.
And expose the conspiracy threatening to destroy his country.

The Fear at Rockbridge Hall by Tim Heath

1890, England and Mr Manverham, owner of Rockbridge Hall, a large Nottinghamshire estate, is chairman of one of London's most influential banks.
Despite having a mansion in London's Belgravia, it is easier for him to guard his assets in Rockbridge, and so the Hall has been practically turned into a vault.

But Rockbridge is a small, close-knit community, and everyone knows everyone else's business.
And so there is no way of keeping it secret when Manverham installs his third safe in his mansion - to hold top-secret private papers.
He needs to be able to trust his servants to help guard Rockbridge, but they have secrets of their own.
As Manverham desperately tries to keep his papers safe, shady pasts threaten to come to light, and the safety of the family itself is at stake.
At the heart of it all is Miss Maitheson, a young governess whose diary threatens to expose everything.
What is Miss Maitheson hiding?
Can the family really trust her?
Or are they right to feel fear at Rockbridge Hall?

See all Endeavour freebies


http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...sher=endeavour

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...sher=endeavour
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...sher=endeavour

[sufue]

City of Dreams is the second book in Anton Gill's Huy the Scribe series. It's one of the three "more-traditionally" published books in this series, from back in the 1990's. (There are also three more recent "continuation titles" - info in this recent post if you want it.)

City of Dreams is a repeat US Kindle Countdown at $0.99 for about 4 1/2 more days before going up to $3.99. The entire series seems to rotate through Countdown/free, so if you want them and are patient you can probably pick them all up on sale.

link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0117RH3TK

Spoiler:

Egypt, the 18th Dynasty.

Huy was a scribe during Akhenten’s reign before being forced to quit his profession and become the world’s first private eye.

He needs to work discreetly to avoid attracting attention of the secret police. But working with a low profile could be tricky, because his latest case has every indication of becoming a huge, high profile one.

Someone in ancient Thebes is killing young wealthy girls, quickly, efficiently and silently.

So much so that without Huy the Scribe’s natural forensic talent, no one would realise that they had even been murdered.

Together with the policeman Merymose, Huy begins to search for the murderer, realising the serial killer must be a person of terrifying power and influence…

Can he find the killer without attracting too much attention to himself?

‘City of Dreams’ is a gripping Egyptian thriller from master of the genre Anton Gill.

Praise for Anton Gill:

‘Brilliantly researched history blending with a tense thriller to rank with the best of them.’ Reinhard Hesse

‘All you’ve ever wanted to know about sex in ancient Egypt…including a tour of the best brothels, plus tips on how to do it,…Exotic, erotic and highly recommended, like Gill’s first Egyptian mystery, City of the Horizon.’ Literary Review

‘Anton Gill supplies enough tension and breadth of description to keep one wanting to know the answer…and he is very readable.’ Times Literary Supplement

Anton Gill, only child of an English mother and a German father, worked for the English Stage Company, the Arts Council and the BBC before becoming a full-time writer in 1984. He has published over twenty books, mainly in the field of contemporary history, including The Journey Back from Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors (winner of the H. H. Wingate Award), A Dance between Flames: Berlin between the Wars; and An Honourable Defeat: A History of the German Resistance to Hitler.

[Fbone]

The Dangerous Edge of Things: A Tai Randolph Mystery (Tai Randolph Series Book 1) by Tina Whittle is FREE today. Poison Pen Pres 2011. GR 3.70

http://smile.amazon.com/Dangerous-Ed...ndolph+Mystery

[Little.Egret]

Endeavour Press

Blockbuster by Stephen Barlay

Follow Bucken, a policeman with panache, as he traces a dastardly plot to destroy the Essex coastline.
As some of those closest to Bucken are picked off one by one - the reliable Lad, the refugee, hot-dog selling, chess-playing Professor, even a murder attempt on Bucken's daredevil girlfriend, Maxine - it becomes clear that this plot is not just the project of the devious but feeble-minded Cutter-Smith, who dreams of glory for himself and his one-legged wife, Winnie.
An evil mastermind must be behind it all. But who is this man? Will Bucken discover him in time and foil his gruesome machinations?

Stephen Barlay was an acclaimed writer and journalist. Born Istvàn Bokor, Barlay worked as a radio journalist in Hungary, before fleeing to England in 1956. His other books include Aircrash Detective, Fire, Double Cross, Sex Slavery and That Thin Red Line.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B3BJL7M/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01B3BJL7M/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01B3BJL7M/